I want to join this chat, too!
I'm still having a hard time figuring out all my caloric intake since I make a lot of my food, like from recipes. But I do have the better homes and gardens cook book and for each recipe it has a breakdown of how many calories are in each recipe. A few of my other cookbooks do, too, so that's helped.
I am trying to eat between 1400-1600 calories each day. I just found fitday.com so I'm hoping that will help me keep better track! Good luck ladies, not that you need it!

Welcome Carcar. You sure can join in the chat. I use fitday for my calorie counting and have most of my recipes entered so it makes it easier the longer I use it.

I did get the dishes done last night. Didn't take as long as it might have sounded in my last post. Once I cleared out the dishwasher it took less than 10 minutes to get all the dirty dishes put in. I'm familiar with the flylady but I'd rather have Tinky come do the dishes. My goodness, it's about 8:15 pm and I have everything cleaned up in the kitchen but I only got the bed made about an hour ago. But to my credit I did change one of the beds in the basement earlier this morning so I can't have everything done on time every day. We have 5 bedrooms if you count the 2 in the basement. I usually only do one bed a day (mine) but the basement is for company (family mostly) and I hadn't changed and made up the one downstairs since we had company a couple of weeks ago.

I'm doing pretty good this week. I did have a feeding frenzy on Saturday night which left me feeling awful by Sunday morning. I can't eat greasy food late at night. I could when I was younger. Had a stomach like a cast iron pot. But since Saturday night I've been on plan. I'm not always an emotional over eater. Sometimes I overeat because I just plain love the taste of the food that I'm devouring. Sheesh, now I'm hungry again just thinking about tasty food.

Gotta go and finish my run. It got cut off half way through. I was too tired to finish but I've had supper and I feel a bit more energized. I should have done it this morning but circumstances prevented that this morning.

Catch you all later.

PS: Where's my head today? Forgot to tell you all how great you're doing. Lots of fat coming off. Yeah!!! We're getting smaller!

Hi everyone!

My new job has been keeping me so busy, I've hardly had time to check my e-mail let alone post. I need to come back and read more, but I just wanted to let you know I'm still here.

Tinky is doing the dishes? Woo hoo! What time will you be here?

Zenor's alive! Hi there! I hope that your new job is going well.

Retire, I think that all fried food is laced with food-crack. Seriously. Last time I noshed on Long John's, the next day I was craving it like I haven't craved something since I quit smoking in '94. There is something seriously evil going on there... Besides the fat and calories, that is.

Welcome, Carcar!

Doing well, today. I still have a few hundred calories I need to get in. I am waaay too low. Just over 900. I think a yoghurt and some popcorn should take care of it.

Welcome, Carcar!

Rain Dancer- that sounds soooo yummy.

Today is the third day in a row that I have woken up and got on the treadmill. Go me! Even if I don't loose any pounds this week, I will in fact hit a mini goal of working out 6 days out of 7.
I have got to eat right the rest of the week. Yesterday we had a party at work and there went the calorie intake. I eneded up eating 3 hoagie halfs and a piece of birthday cake. The sale didtn move either way today but thats probably because I was on calories Monday and hit the treadmill mon and tuesday. I am getting promoted today at work to assistant office manager of our corporate office and my FI offered to take me out to dinner. I had to decline. Maybe Sunday night I will do it if I stay on point for the rest of the week. Drinking lotts of water today!
Hope everyone has a great day! I will check back later!

OH! I have a question, how many post do I have to post before they let me put a ticker on my siggy???

Retiredone I grew up with a wood stove for heat. They can be tricky but my Dad was really good with it and our house well insulated so rarely did it get to cold, sometimes to hot but it was nice because you could run around in shorts. Many a happy memory of going to to play or haul wood and then come in and stand in front of the wood stove but nothing I would want to continue to do as an adult. DH wants an everything type burner but he is never around to feed it, only me.

Welcome Annie! Look forward to getting to know you.

Shannon, you should have almost enough posts now. Keep checking the User CP under edit signature. If that's there you can add your ticker.

GrammyL, our's is a wood furnace so the blower is well regulated but my DH likes to fill the fire box up to the very top and then try and get in a few more pieces of wood for good measure. We literally roast when he puts in the fire. If I'm home all day by myself I never have it that hot.

Have a good on plan day everyone. I'm up, exercised, showered, dined and have half the dishes done!

Welcome Bev.

Rain ~ Everyone has their own tolerance on liquids just like on calories. I do go to the bathroom a LOT! When we get to a store the first thing I say is I have to go to the bathroom and DH's response is always "That doesn't surprise me" LOL! I do it because the program I am following requires a 100 oz a day and its a good way to keep my kidneys and bladder flushed. I used to get UTI's all the time and then the kidney stones I only had once. I have been drinking this water for at least 4 years and I haven't had a UTI since. It also helps take away the urge to drink any calories because I am always floating in liquid.

Welcome Mermaid!

Rain ~ Great loss!

Retiredone ~ As long as I eat on my program I am always fine but that is a low fat diet so when I eat something to greasy, what out and my tummy hurts so bad. I used to have heart burn all the time, now I rarely get it and even then its when I break my diet.

Welcome Carcar!

Tinky ~ Keep up the good work girl. That treadmill won't know what hit it.

Shannon ~ Wow, you are putting the miles on also. It all should balance out on the calories since you are working out more and if you watch what you eat the rest of the week.

Well I have to go fix a grant and I will talk to you all tomorrow.

Shannon you are not weird at all. Me, I rarely eat bread at all. When I order a burger, usually turkey, I tell them put the veggies on it and leave the bun and sauces off. They always look at me oddly but that is how I eat it. Bread and I have a love affair. I love to eat it and it loves to stick on my belly. LOL!

Tinky ~ Hope your enjoying that treadmill. We named them Smokey and the Bandit. LOL! Mine of course is Smokey and DD's is Bandit because he is a busy stinker. Finally this weekend hers figured out how to get up to the water bottle. Now he goes up and down all the tubes. I was starting to worry but every time I put him up there he was to worried about how to get down that he didn't even drink. Finally thrust and the smell of water trained him.

Welcome to the newbies,

I know what everyone means about the wood stoves. I grew up with wood heat, and we now have a wood stove to help with the cost of heating, but man sometimes it does get quite hot in here. But, to be honest there is nothing warmer than wood heat on a really cold, and blustery winter day.

GrammyL, I know just what you mean about eating greasy food, and not staying on plan. My tummy hurts so much, and I get bad heart burn, with acid reflux in the middle of the night. I never had heart burn or acid reflux until I was about 40, and that is when I became excessively over weight.

Wilma

Man I am super tired these days with the new job, but I wanted to check back in. I like the new job and it seems to be going well. I'm just not quite used to having to wake up so early. My body will adjust eventually.

One thing that sucks though, is there is all kinds of junk at work. The kicker, I'm in charge of purchasing it (with work funds of course...) So, I'm on a mission to health up everyone. Lol. We'll see how that goes.

I'm finally back in maintenance mode, but it's still a struggle to stay where I am.

Well, I should go. I go to bed at 9pm now, sigh... Although all this talk of wood stoves makes me want to curl up under my down comforter!

Wilma ~ I had it really bad, heart burn and acid reflux but refused to go to the doc, just took DH's stuff. By the way I was 55 lbs heavier also and that way for a long time. Then I discovered the program I am currently on and between drinking all this water and not eating greasy food, eating several small meals, and lost weight, I no longer get it unless I break the program. I used to think it was spicy food that caused it but I can really heat some hot stuff now and it doesn't cause any problems except the next day. LOL!

Tinky probably better your girl is a prissy because dogs just like humans can share bugs. My neighbor just got a pug/pom mix. He is so cute. Pure white, long fur, short snout and blue eyes. My concern is he drags his back legs a lot instead of using them. I know dogs do odd things but that is really strange to me.

Zenor you go on making them healthier snacks. They may not thank you at first but in the end they will. Do it gradually and they might not even notice. Good job on being back at maintenance. I know I will struggle the rest of my life, no getting out of it. Its either follow what I am doing now or it will come right back.

Well TOM is all messed up. 2 months of spotting none stop, during that time two TOMs that were heavy and then last week I should have had one but nothing. Now, stopped spotting, feel like my abs are puffy. So either I am getting ready to have a TOM or maybe, just maybe, its finally over.

Have to get going for now and I will talk to you all later. Have a wonderful day!

Hey everyone! Day 4 of the treadmill! Good thing because I ate terrible all week....I mean all week! Getting on the treadmill has to be first and most important to me. Now if I can just figure out time to get some strenght training it, I would be that much better off! I weight in tomorrow, not sure if there will be a loss but if anything, I am learning how to maintain