[Ms Perception]

Sandye-I actually bought the diced ones too and didn't even put them in the blender. When I made the sauce, I noticed it's similar in consistancy to my normal homemade sauce, so it should be fine. I did LOVE the smell of the sauce. I've been making lasagna on a regular basis (every couple months) for years with many variations (I have a yummy mexican one, too), and this looks fairly similar in prep time, so I should be okay there.

Tummy-They're talking flurries or a light snow here tomorrow. I promptly went on ebay to look for running tights to wear under my pants! Any suggestions? I'm definitely buying some tomorrow because there isn't a big warm-up in sight (I think it's supposed to get up to high of 50F late next week, but we'll see). The mornings are so chilly and dark. I should find my little ipod shuffle and listen to some tunes, but I have no idea where it ended up in the move!

Anyway, congrats to you who are seeing nice losses! I am so excited to see you girls doing well!! Keep up the good choices and active living! I'm OP today and getting no love from the scale, so I'm gonna just keep on keeping on. Making the yummy butternut squash lasagna tomorrow and have all the weekend meals planned so I don't stray. Weight loss and I have not been friends mid-month lately, so we'll see if we can't make ammends and turn that trend around. Even if not, I'm really PLANNING to avoid major slip-ups and not let the scale discourage me. Tonight we were hungry for ice cream, so i went to the store and bought some Weight Watchers ice cream bars. Yay! I didn't buy the pint of Ben & Jerry's Chubby Hubby....sure, I looked at it, but I BOUGHT the WW bars. There's a NSV! Here's hoping for more healthy choices this weekend!!

[ruth135]

Hey girls
Just checking in tonight. Things still seem to be at a standstill, the scale goes down then back up,then back down. I did pretty well yesterday and today. Although I did have a doughnut today. DH had a pot luck at work and someone gave him some krispy kremes which he brought home along with a bunch of the pot luck food. I ate pretty good except the doughtnut but I feel like I did well since I only ate one, lol. I do have a weakness for doughnuts but I rarely eat them.

Sandye hehe..cultured veges are kinda like saurkraut but not exactly. I make them for health reasons and think of them as medicine and an easy way to get some veges in every day with our meals. I haven't made any for awhile. I made these with cabbage, carrots, daikon radishes, beets, scallions, fresh ginger and garlic, real sea salt, and a little red chili pepper. I shred it up fine with my food processor, pound it with a meat hammer to bring out the juices, pack it into jars, and let it sit on the counter for a few days to culture. They are great for the immune system, bowels, and anyone that has a problem with yeast in the body. I make my yogurt with our fresh goat milk in a yogurt maker which is easier than trying to incubate it in jars. What about you and all that baking, lol, my dh would love it if I would bake more often. I am trying to get back into making bread, tonight I'm planning on getting some pancake (whole grain) batter ready for tomorrow. My son is always asking for pancakes but I never make them. I went to Whole Foods the other day (I love that store!) and got some more wheat berries so I can grind it into flour with my vitamix. Anyway, I better shut up, I could talk all day about health foods, lol. I just wish I had the willpower to not eat anything else but the good foods.

Have a great weekend girls!

[Tummy Girl]

Just a quickie, going to watch some tv with dh...

MsP - I have Nike DriFit for my base layer and it is fantastic. My outer layer was partly frozen from sweating but the base layer was dry. I didn't realize it until I got home, now that's some mositure wicking! It's also uber warm, my skin was a bit red last week b/c I wasn't wearing the tights but today in the wind and the cold I was toasty. Enjoy your snow, it looks like Christmas here tonight, big flakes and all. A bit early but what can you do.

[iDream]

Good morning girls! Just a quick fly by post before I workout (Kenpo today--should be interesting! ). I'll be back later for personals in a bit! Hope everyone slept well!!!

[Tummy Girl]

Morning Ladies,

Meowmix - You're doing so fantastic! And we're only day 10.

Shasha - Are you almost done phase 1 now? It seems like a long time already but it's two weeks if I remember correctly. Hope you're weekend goes great.

Cle - Sandye is the recipe queen, lol, I think like 5 of us have made her lasagna recipe now, it's marvelous!

MsP - Glad you enjoyed your day off, they are just delightful to stay home and bum around doing all the odds and ends. Hope you enjoy your lasagna, it's a new favorite over here.

Sandye - Yes, I can say it's rather not my thing either, this cold running stuff. The road was still fairly gravelly yesterday and not too snowy but that's history now, it's been snowing for two days straight. I'm just hoping I can still breath through the cold air, but there's a lot of great helpful info out there so I'm reading up LOL, yup that's the pose, it burns like nothing I've felt before and then you fall over! It's like insult to injury gotta love it. So how's Auntie Sandye today? And wow your mom is out rockin the strippers in Vegas? Cool, lol. Hope you enjoyed your Kenpo this morning!

Jellofer - Your welcome

Kim - Yup it's here alright, but it is early for us this year. We usually get first snow fall end of October/beginning November. I can't tell you how many halloween costumes got ruined by my mother making me stick my snow suit under it. I love the snow just not the cold so it's a hit a miss some days. When it gets to -45 with the wind and your skin freezes in 3 minutes and your ears turn black, that's nasty but fortunately we only get that a few weeks a year. I bet vermont must be beautiful in the winter, I've only ever seen pictures.

Nella - Hope home date night went great last night. My step father has a lifethreatening fish allergy and we have to be very careful with restaurants too, some ppl just aren't as careful when it's not for them. Enjoy your weekend

Butterfly Diva - Ohhh I look forward to the creativity! Great job making it last though, that's fantastic!

Inthemidst - You can do it, you can do it!

NSM - How nice, you guys get to celebrate in a new house. Or are you doing family stuff this weekend? And wow, that's a lot of stairs, feel the burn.

Ruth - Congrats on eating well, I've never had a krispy kreme but I've heard stories about them, lol. My weight is doing the same thing, and it's driving me batty too

Well I woke up a bit sniffly this morning but nothing terrible, it kind of gets better the longer the days goes on so it appears immune system is still fighting the good fight.

Since as many of you know I'm sort of displaced over here in Alberta and we have no family here but the nice thing about dh's work is you kind of have ready made family since everyone's displaced right along with you. So we're been invited to Thanksgiving at a cooworkers place. That should be entertaining and bless dh's heart he even told them I'm a vegitarian ahead of time so I won't have to on Monday. He even offered to bring a dish over so that I'd for sure have something safe to eat. And all this without me even knowing. He just came home all proud of himself, lol. It's great though, I'm bringing a grain salad so at least I won't starve.

Scale it starting to make me batty. Or moreso my body I guess, it's boucing all over the place and for the last two days I've felt super bloated too which is really odd for this time of the month. But then again I did miss TOM last month and who knows how that's going to turn out, my hormones may very well be wacked right out. I've been hanging out within the same two pounds for 10 days, ugh. Oh well off to get something done. TTFN

[jessicado22]

Hiya ladies. Have been MIA for the past few days, sorry. The ex was down since Wed for meetings in the same town where we live, so he pretty much hung out here spending as much time with DD as possible when he wasn't in his meetings. It went good for the most part, except I am so focused on setting boundaries that I am probably being a total beaaatch. I just don't want him to get the wrong idea by us spending time together, or by having the relationship move to fast. I meant it when I said there was no chance of us getting back together until at least June. I know he understands that, but when he tries to hug me or wants to cuddle, etc I just get all rigid and overanalyze everything.
Anyways, we had a family night on Thurs night and we all went out to eat and to the movies. I limited my calories earlier in the day so I could splurge a little at dinner and have some popcorn at the movies. I did really well for dinner and ordered a salad with the ff dressing on the side, and I only ate less than 1 of those awesome dinner rolls with probably 1tbs of the honey butter. The ex ordered some of those texas eggroll thingies, which I love....and then I splurged and ate 2 of those which I am sure are like 200-300 calories a freakin piece. Should have stopped there but DD didn't finish her mac n cheese so I helped her finish eating that too. Ugh. When we went to the movies we got popcorn with butter, and I only ate a little layer off the top of the bag....it actually didn't even taste that good to me anymore! Way too oily. Still probably overall I probably ate about 1800 calories which wasn't too bad for a splurge day, even if they weren't all the best calories! I was feeling pretty good about my decisions until I stepped on the scale the next morning and it was up 3 pounds. Then I was just pissy I was back over 250 again. It took me so long to lose those last few pounds to finally get under 250 and I went and put them back on. I tried telling myself it was just sodium, water weight, blah blah blah.....but still all day I just wanted to hide under a sweatshirt and feel crummy. Yesterday for breakfast the ex went to my favorite bfast place in town---this awesome bagel shop that makes the most wonderful bagels. We always used to go and get a few bagels each, and each of those 2 bagels would be LOADED with cream cheese. And then I would get a chai shake too. I really wanted to go....but I was good and stayed home and had a healthy bfast and stayed POP the rest of the day. I am glad i did, because the scale was at least back down to 249 today.

Even if my diet hasn't been perfect, I have at least been working my buns out lately---have put in 1 1/2 hrs each day at the gym for the past 3 days and finished week 4 of C25K. Well, hate to post and run, but I have to get to the gym early in the morning today as it is Sat and the childwatch is only open until 11:30 on Saturdays. Will try to get back on later and post personals everyone-hope you all are doing great!

[ButterflyDiva]

Well dinner last night was very yummy. Turkey meatloaf muffin with brown rice and carrots glazed in maple syrup. I was able to do a little shopping this morning so I have enough to last the next few days until I can do some major shopping later on.

Today's menu
B- honey nut cheerios
S- white cheddar cheez-its
L left over meatloaf muffin and brown rice
S- orange and mixed veggies
D- steak with baked potato with melted shredded cheese and teriyaki veggies
S- homemade fruit and pudding pie (1 slice)

Right now I'm half way through my 8 glasses for today.

[SkinnyLynnie]

Hi, I'm not sure at all how an online community works, which makes the fact that I work for a software company really ironic! So, I'm a woman on a mission since August 30, with nearly 10 pounds down, and 31 more pounds to go. I had great success with WW before I had 2 babies in a row. Now, it's time to get in bikini shape by May. My goals for October:
Weight Loss: 7.4 lbs. (1 pound less than September)
Exercise: 4 times per week
Points: Stay within WW points, now adjusted to not include nursing points
Community/Accountability: Make friends along the way.

Here we go!

[Imdedicated]

Hey SkinnyLynnie! Welcome!
I'm pretty new too and these are some awesome ladies!

Well I shopped today for the party...tried to get most things out of the way.....I'm exhausted...beat...ready for bed! Hope you all had a great day!
Have a good night sunshynes!

[iDream]

Good morning girls!!!!

Cle~ hope you got most of what you need for the party and that you got a well deserved great night sleep!!

Jellofer~ Still giggle every time I see your avatar!! Here's to post TOM swooshes!! They're the best!

shasha~ well hun, I hope you never do get to 140! at 6'1" that's pretty dang boney if you ask me! Hope you're having a superfantabulous weekend with your friend!!!

KimL~ I have a Polar F4 and I like it well enough. It's not super uber fancy or anything (there's no GPS locating stuff or anything) but it does what I need it to do. One thing I can tell ya, if you're looking for one, make sure you get one with a chest strap! I had a HRM watch without the strap and it was awful! You had to stop exercising to take your HR and it took so long that by the time you got a readout, your HR had dropped a ton! I'd definitely recommend mine, especially if you don't want to spend a ton. They're about $75 now as they're on clearance.

Nella~ hope your date night was fun! Could be that you bounced back up from water retention--those muscles can hold onto water when they're repairing themselves. Just keep doing what you're doing--you'll see a drop soon!

ButterflyDiva~ 2 weeks between grocery store runs?!?! I can barely make it 2 days!!! Of course my kids go through milk and cereal lightning fast!!! Oh, and then there's the 6-8 eggs (whites only) that hubby and I go through each day (that's combined, not by ourselves ). Hope you're having a great weekend!! Meatloaf muffins! I almost tried those when I made my stuffed turkey meatloaf--went with mini meatloaves instead--kind of like hamburger patties...I'm going to have to try the muffins next time.

ITM~ Oh girl I hear ya!!! I'm still fighting to get last weekend's weight off!!! It still blows my mind how one weekend of bad eating can translate into such a huge gain!!! But, I'm back on track and don't have any plans of doing that again anytime soon!!! Stay on track hun and if you need a you give me a shout k?

NSM~ Hey hun! Great to see you! 3 levels huh? Jeepers! I think my knees would hate me! But yay for built in exercise!! Sounds like things are coming along! I hope the rest of the unpacking goes well! I'd like to think that one of these days I'll be totally unpacked too!

MsP~ yeah, isn't that sauce just heavenly to smell? See, I hadn't ever made a lasagna before so the prep time took me by surprise. I mean, it didn't sound like it would take that long to prep but boy was I wrong! Hope you enjoy it! Oooh, Ben & Jerry's...we used to hang out quite often back in the day! They were my 'Other Men' Great job going for the WW bars instead! Hope they were yummy!!!

Ruth~ well ya learn something new every day! I hear ya on having the willpower! It's a tough battle for sure! I really should look into making my own yogurt! We eat a ton in this house! It'd be nice to know exactly what is in it and of course if we could save some $$ in the process, that's would be nice as well! We don't have a whole foods anywhere near us, and when I did have one near me (back in CA) I was not interested in a healthier lifestyle...sigh...dang timing!!!

Tummy~ I'm coming for a visit!! Big fluffy snowflakes already? Ahhh, that sounds beautiful!! Of course, I can imagine how quickly that beauty can fade after a solid month of it huh? We haven't had super snowy Winters since we've been here so I'm still all delighted and amazed at the snow when it comes. It never fails though, if someone finds out I'm from CA, they instantly say, "Oh you must HATE the Winters here!!!" and I always shoot back, "Nope! I love 'em!!" then they look at me like I've got 3 heads! Even funnier to me is that when people here hear 'California' they instantly think sunshine and beaches--there are mountains in CA too and it snows quite a lot there as well. Anyway...I hear ya on feeling bloated! At first I thought is was from all the weekend madness, but it kept going on and on! I'm finally feeling less like the Michelin Man today! Hope you have fun at your friend's house today!! Happy Thanksgiving to you!!

Jessica~ whew! Congrats on getting that scale back down! And bravo to you for all the hard work you're doing in the gym!!! We have one of those bagel places here too--I swear it's horribly addicting! They have these Asiago cheese bagels--Mmmm and with sun dried tomato cream cheese...OMG! But the best one--and I apologize in advance if I make you hungry--is this apple pie type thing...it's this crazy yummy cinnamony bagel heaped with sliced baked apples and this insanely good topping...ACK!!! It's the devil in bagel form I tell you!!! And here's something crazy--when i ran my 5K, they sponsored it! There were tons of bagels for the racers to eat afterwards! *gulp* It took every ounce of strength not to dive head first into the bagel boxes!! I grabbed on of those cheese ones and gave it to hubby--but I stayed strong! (until that night of course ) Anyway, enough of that! Hope you're having a great weekend hun!

SkinnyLynnie~ You've found the right place if you want to make friends and be held accountable! We're nice as can be but still dish out the :buttkick: if need be! Jump right in and congrats on the great job so far!!


Ahhh, well let's see...

We started on the basement yesterday! We only got a table moved upstairs, but it's a start! Plus, hubby started making shelves to organize everything--and that's what really makes me happy! He's going to go get the plywood this morning and assemble them today and by the end of the day we'll have stuff more organized than it is right now! (notice I didn't say 'organized' or 'clean' or 'tidy'? I don't want to set my expectations too high ya know )

We're planning on hitting the apple orchard today too--I'm completely out of apples! I can't have that!

I was supposed to do a photo shoot for a girl I met a couple of weeks ago--she has an adorable 18 mo old dd and wants her pics taken. However, I had to lend my camera batteries to my friend last night (as I was supposed to help her shoot pics for her HS reunion--but her batteries were dead so I just left mine with her and went home) so I don't have a way to take pics. Plus, the girl didn't contact me to let me know if we were definitely doing it today or not so I kind of figured it wasn't a done deal. This is my first time ever taking pics of someone else's kid and I'm so rusty I don't even know how they'd turn out...anyway, all that to say, I don't think I'll be shooting pics today.

Did my stretching today, ahhh, so nice!!! I'm glad I have a day off though--my cold is still here and settled right in the middle of my throat. I feel okay, but if I start coughing...ouch! It hurts!!!! So lots and lots of water, maybe some green tea and cough drops will be on the menu today!

Well ladies, I'll shut up now. I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend! Happy Thanksgiving to all our girls up North!!! Have a great and don't forget to...

Drink Your Water!!!

[Tummy Girl]

Morning Ladies,

Jessicado - Way to go on setting boundaries first of all, that's always difficult especially considering the situation. They should have a sodium monster icon, lol, but congrats on making it back down to 249 in fast form I might add.

Butterfly - Oh I loved those turkey meatloaves, I've made a version of those, the dd really liked them too and great for lunches on the go.

Cle - Hope you enjoyed shopping for the party. Always so much fun doing that surprise party stuff. I think those of us that go out of our way to do nice things for others always get so much in return just with that delightful feeling of making others happy, especially mom.

SkinnyLynnie - Welcome to the board All the threads work a bit differently but here we try to check in as often as our lives allow, some more than others and that's just fine. Some post personals and others don't, what ever fits your time, personality and needs. If you're having a rough day, a great day, whatever, just coming and checking in can turn your day around or your success can help someone else do the same. So look forward to getting to know you and congrats on your 10lbs already.

Sandye - Truth be told when I think of California, I think of concrete, then hot dryness. I love the four distinct seasons we have here, I could due with less cold of a winter for sure but I've had the opportunity to go to flordia for christmas and it was weird and not in a good way. My winter involves snowmen, skiing and blizzards and that's how I like it. But especially with kids, I bet they must love it, I know our dd woke up everyday asking for snow and now she's out there everyday playing in it. Woohoo on that basement, that will make so much difference you might be 50% organized just yet. The bloat is feeling a bit better today but just not back to myself yet, hopefully tomorrow, just in time for the big dinner, lol, then I can complain next week about the same thing.

Feeling a bit better today, I've kind of been in a super funk since Wednesday, sort of PMSy like but not sure if that's what is with my messed up cycle b/c I just was PMSy a week and a bit ago. Just haven't felt terribly motivated to do anything exercise related and even when I'm done not all jazzed about it either. Makes for a long week and food urges have been worse too, still managing fine but it's been more work and once again, long week It feels like trudging through really deep snow. Today is feeling better so far, and I took Thursday off exercise with my cold coming and was supposed to do yoga today to make up for it but I'm in the mood for something a little more intense so I'm going to do a HIIT session and see how that goes. So in summary hormones suck but I'm a tad bit more determined than they are so I win.

[jellofer2]

Good morning everyone!!! Welcome to all of you newbies!!! This place is awesome!!!!

So I am watching chicago marathon coverage and crying. (Keep in mind TOM is here) I am bloated, craving carbs and emotional. But, I am so proud of these people. They are showing some great background stories about tragedy and triumph. 45,000 people. How awesome. I have been in the city for the marathon when my husband ran in 2001. So proud. Such an awesome sight to see. Maybe next year will be my year........

[Late to the game]

HELLO CHICKIES!! I am at the airport in Las Vegas. I've been here since Thursday, and although I brought my workout clothes, I did not work out I am so afraid to see what Darth has to say tomorrow! I will attempt to do personals laler. Ta!

[Bigmid]

Hello again,
I'm back from my conference and it was very good and lots of new info. I called the store when I got back and the lab is still standing so all good there too. I gained at Whistler on the last couple days, I was so good and avoided all desserts for the first 2 days and then gave in for the last 2. But I was good and only had 1 each day.
When I weighed in when I got back I was up 2.2lbs but this morning for weigh in I actually lost that and more for a total loss for the week of 1.4lbs

It was not to fun coming home to the snow here in Calgary though ugh I'm just not ready yet. I can take the cold but the idiots behind the wheel are another thing.

I went to my brothers today to celebrate Thanksgiving and I did well with the eating but I did bring home a small piece of pecan/pumpkin pie for later. I told myself it was okay and tomorrow I have to decide if I want anything (to go out) for my birthday. I really want to go to the cheesecake for...you guessed it cheesecake but luckily for me I have to do laundry tomorrow and I may just be to lazy to do both

Well that's about it for now I still haven't caught up on all the posts yet so no personals. Sorry about that. I hope you all have a great day and Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canadians.

[jessicado22]

Welll---so much for getting back to do persona;s. DD poured water on my mouse and killed it so it is back to the ipod until I go get another mouse. Not much new here. Weighed in for the new week at a little under 249. Would have liked a little more loss but oh well!