Not as much sodium as soya sauce! OMG 920MG per TBPS!

I just went for lunch, we went for sushi. I love sushi and things alike and I think I did very well.

I had:

gomae (Spinach with sesame)
grilled tuna
and one roll! (salmon and cucumber)

WOOOO :) Usually I would pick much unhealthier options! :)

Yay, everyone is back. We're only missing enygirl and Jen now. I have to admit the reason I stopped posting is because it didn't seem like anyone was around. I did join the TBL challenge, but I don't know anyone there so I feel to shy to post. Dang I'm glad to see ya'll

As for new names what about Keepin it Straight in 2008, Great in 2008, Slimming it Down Sisters, or Talk of the Scale. Can you tell I'm bored?

WOW those are all great! :carrot:

I feel really depressed right now, like I just want to go home cry and then and sleep forever. I really hate feeling like this, in fact, I hardly ever feel THIS depressed. There is just too much crap right now. :( I still feel good about eating right today but at the same time I feel like it doesn't even matter any more, like nothing matters. What's wrong with me :(

Tomorrow is weigh in day, not looking forward to upping my ticker by over 10 pounds, probably almost 15!

Hi everyone! Ive had a pretty good day. Havent exercised yet, but im still sore from yesterday. Im almost done with my water, which is good, but I feel like im turning into a fish! Ive been drinking so much water! I actually start feeling sick if I dont have any water. My food choices have been great! Im still under my points, I saved some so I can have a little treat later. Tonight is our PTA meeting at school, and one of the mothers always brings in homemade treats, but she makes them LOWFAT ! Shes wonderful!

Its getting kinda creepy here. Im in Oregon, where NOTHING happens, weather wise... Well yesterday at the coast (which is about 2 hrs away from me) there was a 6.5 earthquake (luckily in the sea, about 100 miles out) ..which was weird cuz we dont get earthquakes...(no tsunami either) but today, about 50 miles from me, there was a flippin TORNADO!!! We DONT get tornados here! What will happen next?

Ok gotta go to my PTA meeting..

Have a great night ladies!

Randee - we are thinking of going to the Oregon Coast in March.. so hopefully all that stuff is DONE by the time we go!! Yah thats pretty crazy .. this weather stuff just baffles me! We've had a really mild/snowy winter.. sounds weird right? But it'll snow and be melted in a few hours and then it'll POUR for days! Glad we live ON the mountain and not at the bottom of it!

Rosario - work is good, still getting some nice free stuff, heh. I am starting to get greedy though! I want SO much and yet still can't afford to buy it myself. Did you watch Newport Harbor at all? OMG, love that show, and SO happy they did a "home for the holiday's" update!

Courtnie - this is my pep talk.. you cannot.. CANNOT focus or even THINK about your weight gain! It happened, it's done, and now you just have to get it off. Stop thinking about it!!! You gotta think positive, its the only way you are going to get outta this alive! You know what you want to do, it's not going to come off as fast, but you can do it in a way where you are eating MORE! Also, more veggies - I've been focusing on more veggies and have been impressed with the results. K.. all done!

hsmom - great names... start a thread! :)

-Aimee

Courtnie- (((hugs))) Sorry I forgot how to get the little icon faces and things. You do deserve your best and sometimes life makes it hard. Vent away if you feel like if maybe getting it off your chest will help. Let me know if I can do anything to help out. Don't worry about this weigh in. It's a new starting place so you'll know where you are. Glad you liked the names.

Purplecrush- It sounds like you've had a great day. Way to go. Keep up the good work.

The dr. went up on my thyroid meds and referred me to a GI. The GI now has be scheduled for an outpatient procedure. I'm down 1 pound at weigh in. Now, my total loss is 25.6#. So I recieved a charm for my 10% keychain, another 5# star, and a 25 # magnet.

Which name do we want?

I really think that "Keepin it straight in 2008 " is really catchy! Whatever you guys want.

Aimee- Oregon coast is beautiful. Mind you though, its not like Cali, where the water is warm and you can play in it...our water is FREEZING lol and you can get into it to your ankles and its too cold so you get out! Most likely you wont see girls in bikinis and men in shorts..pretty much everyone is in capris and a windbreaker LOL

Sorry, I am not depressed about the weight gain. I mean I guess I am, but hardly! I am just depressed about everything else, the weight gain is the farthest from my mind right now.

I am feeling a bit better now, I had a veggie/pasta dinner and a weight watchers chocolate cake for dessert and still stayed within calories (hoping my calculations from lunch were correct) - My mom had a really bad day too, I tried to talk her into going out for dinner witch would of been a disastar! But I had a big cry on the phone with her, then another big cry when karden got home - and I had a bath and snuggle with my puppy.

Just the quick version of why I feel like crap:
My boss is quiting, I love her bits and I think my job is going to go to the ****. I am not worrid about losing my job, just about me giving up and quitting. There is so much more to then that but it is long and boring.

Also, my mom helped my Grandma move into a 24 hour care nursing home today. She just couldnt look after her anymore. Last August she fell and fractured a vertebra - everyone said she would get better then the vertebra disintegrated and all the bone fragments were floating around in her spine... while still are - and there is nothing they can do for her :( they thought there was, but now they can't do it (got that news yesterday) - so my Grandma who was perfectly healthy until she fell may spend the rest of her life in a nursing home :(

Anyway, thats just the brief nots. blah.

I agree that Keepin it Straight in 2008 is really catchy but kinda like Slimming it Down Sisters better. Most of us have been chatting for well over a year now (almost two some of us!) and I feel like some of you are almost sisters!

Courtney ~ *hugs* I'm trying to get into sushi cause one of my BFFs LOVES sushi but so far, I only really like the ones made with cream cheese (don't know names).

Randee ~ Global warming! Screwing up everything.

HS ~ WTG!

Hi Aimee and Ro!

What about 'Slim Down Sisters: Keeping It Straight in '08'?

Good morning Ladies!

Shari, I like it! Is that okay with everyone else? If there's no objects I'll start the thread.

Courtnie- more (((hugs))) It's hard when loved ones are placed in nursing homes due to circumstances we can't help. I know the drs report didn't make things any better. Did you feel better after a good cry? It sucks not having control over our circumstances in life. I'm sorry your having to go thur such a hard time right now. As for the boss thing maybe the new boss will grow on you. Changes aren't fun especially when they are being stack directly one on top of another. (Going thur this myself.) It will get better hang in there. Remember we're here for you if you need to talk or borrow a shoulder.

Oh Shari I like that one too!

Courtnie- sorry about your grandma! Its hard I know. Im a caregiver, so I deal with families that bring in their loved ones, and its always so hard on them, It practically makes me cry to see people so hurt. It will get better!

Shari - that sounds great.

Thanks everyone. I feel better today but I am still having a hard time. Grandma will be okay and my Mom thinks she will be happier where she is. We are going to try and go visit her tonight. She moved into my basement suite so I could keep her company and then not even a month later she fell.

And this thing with my boss leaving. No one really understands - not that I can expect them too because they are not in my place, but it is hard for me to try and get the message across.

This company I work for is a big company. Probably the biggest where I live for the job I do. This was/is my dream job. Before I even went to collage I tried to work here, sent them emails asking them what I needed to know to work here. And then when I started school I found out my now boss took the same program and was a department head here, so I was so excited. And then right after school finished there was an add in the paper for here for the work I did, and I got the job!

So here is my boss, lets call her Stacy - she is amazing. So she runs us. There are lots of departments in the company and because we are the content department we do work for ALL of them. So if advertising needs an add we do, if support finds a problem we fix it, if programming needs a page we make it, etc. So our boss would get all the requests, decided what needed to be done and who should do it.

Well now we don't have a boss, we don't have someone to stand up for us. There are not going to replace her simply because they can not. She has been here for 5 and a half years, there is NO ONE that knows what she does and no one they can hire. So it is just us two left to fend for ourself.

What is going to happen? All the departments are going to get everything they want. She was the only person who could and would stand up for what she thought wasn't right. There are jobs that people wanted done and she refused to do them. So now that she is gone, everyone is going to be asking for what they want and we are going to have to do it.

There is no one to stand up for us. We are going to be blamed for everything because we are the only people with out a manger.

It's going to go for the ****. I am trying to think positive but it is not working. My co-worker is seriously thinking about leaving, he was already going to leave in May/June but is thinking of doing it sooner.

So here I am working for my dream company in my dream job and it is all going to be taken away. My dream job is going to turn into my worst nightmare. Like how do you deal with that? I went to school FOR this job.

If I lose this job I go back to working at taco time. Maybe not exactly, there are other companies but I probably need to move, and it wont be my dream job because most companies require working for clients. We are one of the few who don't have clients.

Sorry that was long, but I really need to vent.

Overall I feel better today though, much better. I am taking some St. Johns Wart and Vitiam B. My mom and I talked about me maybe going to the doctor to get some anti-depressants.

BUT IT IS FRIDAY! YAY! I just hope I can stay on track today and this weekend.

Hope everyone is having a good Friday.

Courtnie- Gee, I'm sorry your work situation will turn so sour after she leaves. If doesn't make sense why they wouldn't replace her ya'll need a buffer for the bull cr@p. I hope your mom and you have a nice visit with your grandma. I am glad your feeling better today.

Where's most of you Ladies at today? I hope your having a good day.

Well, dh is home and want to go take son to see the Grave Digger. Hopefully, its still there the tickets are already sold out.

I am trying to figure out if I ate too much today. I am confused by this, nutritional info says:

CHICKEN SPRING ROLLS (2 PIECES) - 460 cals

Now, the appy is 2 spring rolls cut in half, is 2 pieces two half or the whole appy? the rest of the appy menu gives you the calorie information for the whole appy?

Like the perogie one says 7 pieces, and there are 7 perogies in the appy.

What do you guys think?

Courtnie- Base on the perogies (sushi?) I would count it 460. Dont' know if it right or not though.

Ds is the happiest little boy around. He got his picture taken with Randy (the driver) and a card picture that he got signed by him. He was talk 90 miles a minute about when he saw him last time. lol He also got a headphone set from the radio station that was one per family. So dd got to pick out where we ate. She looked like she's was feeling left out. She got to do the same things except the radio, but it wasn't that great for her.

So 460 for the whole thing? That is what I am thinking, I doubt that half of the appy had 32 grams of protien alone!

Pergoies are little potato things, SOOO GOOD! OMG

What is grave danger?

Courtnie ~ :hug:

HS ~ That's monster truck, right?

Courtnie-Yeah. I would count the whole thing as 460. Wow, it's got a lot of protein. Shari's right it's a Monster Truck. How did your visit with your grandmother go?

Well, I'm suposse to be meeting my brother's girlfriend to pick up my niece in less than 30 minutes and I haven't left the house yet. So I'll have to cbl. I hope everyone has a great day.

I figured it was something like that, haha. Monster trucks haha - don't think they have anything like that around here.

I didn't go visit my Grandma last night because my mom and my sister didnt feel like it, guess my sister had to go to a movie with a friend and it would be too rushed, I am sure we will go today!

I didn't eat the whole appy, only half - so I only went over calories by like 60 or so, woo! hard to know for sure because I pulled all the skin off the chicken and they give you the calories with the skin, but I know its at least 100 less.

So Friday night was good, I just have to be good today and tomorrow! I have the worst craving for french toast, and we need to do a HUGE HUGE grocery shop today - today is gonna be so expensive ;(

Happy Saturday everyone!

Hey all! Sorry no posting from me yesterday, but when I got home from work there was a huge power outage, and the power JUST came back on! SO happy to have some heat in here :) It was cold!

Courtnie - I hope that work situation works itself out! Its really hard to have big changes in work, especially when you spend a LOT of time there - you want it to be a welcoming, comfortable place to be. Sorry to hear about your Grandma. How did the WI go?

hsmom - I too hadn't heard of Grave Digger - my neighbour takes her kids to monster trucks so I bet they know all about it! Sounds like a fun time for your son!

Shari - good name! I love sushi, but it definitely took time for me to figure out what stuff I like! I figured out that I just can't do the raw fish thing, so that definitely limits me! I really do love me some Japanese food!

I was doing realllllly well this week, and then last night with no power we had to have fast food. ugh. I haven't figured out the calories yet, but it's not going to be so good. I am hoping for less than 1,000 calories (in one meal?? SO bad!!), we'll see. I weigh in on Monday, so I better get better here.. I am hoping to hit the halfway mark of my January goal.. which would be a 4 pound loss. Fingers crossed :)

-Aimee

*fingers crossed* Aimee! I know sometimes fast food isn't too bad, as long as you don't eat too many fries!

WI went good, sorry I forgot to report, started this weekend off at 178.something and weight in at 173.6 - up 13.something since I last recorded a WI (probably in October) but it is okay, two months and hopefully it will all be gone!

So I went and visited my grandma, the home sure is nice and she seemed really happy! Lately she has seemed depressed but she seems to really like it there, it is only her third night, but still!

We did LOTS of shopping today, got lots of food - not all healthy, but mostly low in calorie! lol When I was at Costco I found this "Walk at Home" kit! It has this 5 mile walk video with Leslie Sansone, 2 2pound hand weight, firming belt and walking belt! I have another video by her (walk away the pounds) and its fun, only done it a few times but I look forward to trying this new one! It was only $20 too! I also bought a box of special K (the chocolate one, LOL) and got a free step counter in the box! :)

So far I have managed to eat pretty good. Not super healthy but within my calories! this is a HUGE this for me, I haven't had a good weekend in a year! I am feeling pretty good, I have been taking St. Johns Wart and Vitiam B though to help with the depression and stress.

Gals, I've taken the liberty of starting our thread. So go post!

Slim Down Sistas: Keeping it Straight in '08

Aimee- No power, uggh! As for the fast food you could be suprised. My weight loss was stalling well I ate 2 slicesof pizza and sweated it till weigh in. I loss good that week. I haven't done it since thought. Don't want to push my luck.

Courtnie- I'm glad the visit with your grandma went well. I've looked at the Walk at home 5 mile one time before but didn't get it. The only reason I didn't get it was b/c I have 1 and 3 mile one I tried at the beginning and I couldn't keep up. I'll have to try it again now that I weigh less to see how I do.

Sorry, I wasn't around much today. I was out getting some aps. I got in 13.70 miles done on the bike, played basketball with dd for around 2 hours, and walked about 4 1/2 miles. I also took a nap since I was to tired to cook dinner after all that.

If you did see it, I started the new thread as Slim Down Sisters: Keeping It Straight in 08. Come on down! I wonder why the faces and things don't show besided this post but it did for starting the other one.