Featherweights Planning & Chat for May 28 - June 2
 

Good Morning! A new week! A brand new server! What's happening along your path to slender fitness this week?

Morning Whittlin .... at my height ... tall and willowy is out of the question, but slender fitness I can do ;)

There are some numbers that just have a ring of success about them and "I lost 25 lbs" is one of them. Congratulations! That is an applaudable success.

Oh I wish you could buy blueberries for strawberry prices! That'd be wonderful!

well I haven't posted in these threads in a bit. I am down another pound I was at 133 for 3 days and it is TOM. I am plesently surprised I hope this means good news next week also. I have giving up calorie counting and trying it on my own , this is scary but so far so good. I hope to be transition to maintenence soon I am still 6 pounds off I thonk so i think now is a good time to start to see if I can do it.

whittlin congrats on 25 pounds lost:cheers: heres to them staying lost :p

:woohoo: Whitllin :bravo: on the 25 down!!!

I had a weird weekend ... I was hit by a speeding teenager in a rush to get to a party ... No one was hurt, it could have been much MUCH worse.... This happened on Friday night so Saturday I was in a bit of a daze, Sunday was better but I was still not myself... Today, I'm ok :D ...
The stress of the accident actually stopped me from eating... This is the very first time this happens... So I was down a pound this morning :D ....

Other than that, it's SOSO... After this weekend SOSO is a good thang!

Hi there, ladies. Am I a featherweight?? I still would like to lose about 11 pounds or so. I can't wait to do it! If I can just lose 1 pound this week I will be psyched!

Congratulations to all you "Big Losers" out there :cheer2:

Five days off work, and I'm worn out :faint: Went to the race track a couple of times, didn't feel to well a couple of days. Cleaned my house from top to bottom and I'm just being lazy today :p

My eating has been hit and miss all weekend long. Eat a good meal, eat a bad meal, eat a good meal, eat a bad . . .well you know. Well one more bad meal tonight as we are eating at our friends and she is cooking Italian. I love Italian :o

Tomorrow I really have to get back on track. A new month is coming up and I need a fresh start. This month was pretty much of a wash. I didn't really gain but I didn't really lose either :frypan:

Here's hoping we all have a great month of June!

Good afternoon featherweights!!!

Saturday was hectic but it all turned out beautiful! I am actually very proud of myself. I really hate speaking in front of crowds, but for some reason, it didn't phase me this time! Last year I got this weird sing-song way of speaking when I read my script, but this year, I did a bit more ad libbing and it really was better. I wasn't nearly as nervous! Everyone commented on how much better I did. Check out my profile picture--it's DS and DD at the dinner that night. DS was so proud to wear a suit! DD got her hair and makeup done professionally for the evening. She looked very nice on stage when it was her turn in the fashion show.

Yesterday we went to see Pirates of the Caribbean #3. Good, but not nearly as good as #'s 1 and 2. Today I did my shopping and errands and cleaned my desk at home. It's needed a good cleaning for months!! I guess I really hate filing and putting things away and since I have a cabinet where I can close it all up, I just let the mess accumulate!!! It looks so much better. DH is "twiddling" today. He's gone around the house and tightened things that are loose, changed lightbulbs, put new weather stripping in where needed.

Everyone have a wonderful week!

ARRRGGGHH!!! and I mean it !
 

The next two weeks will be crazy time for me due to my municipal government's interference in the way I try to do my job. I will try to follow the posts but I don't think I'll be on the board much. My path to slender fitness is going to be meandering to say the least. I will also have to wimp out of the swimsuit challenge, which I initiated :o :o

:bravo: Whittlin. Amazing!

Have a terrific week everyone else! Kick those lbs. fat little *sses!

The distincly uncool (this week) Dagmar

So somehow yesterday I managed to drop another 2 lbs, putting me at my goal weight this morning. I'm sure the scale will go back up and I'd really like my evening weight to be at my goal, but it was still great to see that number on the scale! :goodscale

OMG, whittlin, the favas are a ton of work. First you have to get the beans out of their pods, then you have to boil them all, rinse them in cold water, and pop the inner beans out of their shells. I think it took me well over an hour to get them all shelled last night. :faint: And we ended up with 4 cups of fava beans! So, SusanB, I guess my path to slender fitness this week is going to include a lot of fava beans (hmmm, I need a dancing fava bean smilie). They are also a problem to use because one cup of favas is close to 200 calories.

We plant a lot of favas over the winter because if you cut them down before they fruit, they add nitrogren back to the soil, which is really good for whatever you plant there in the summer. So most of the favas we plant never end up fruiting, but somehow my SO convinced me to let an entire row fruit. We are definitely not doing that next year! :no: Half a row at the absolute most!

Congrats on the 25 lbs lost, whittlin! :broc: :bunny2:

alinnell - I'm glad to hear your event went well! Your daughter and son both look gorgeous! How exciting for both of them.

Ilene - sorry to hear about your accident but I'm glad no one was hurt. Thank God for seat belts and air bags. I hope your car survived with as minimal damage.

Hey everyone!

Whittlin CONGRATULATIONS on your 25lbs GONE!!! WOOT WOOT!!!

My weekend went pretty well. I worked, saw a couple movies (Shrek the 3rd and Pirates of the Caribean 3).

However, this past month has been very un-progressive. So I'm trying to get motivated. This week I'm starting a detox. And also taking official measurements and a weigh in on June first. This will be the first time I'll have weighed in since January!!!! I'm scared. I hope it's all good though. :D

Anyway, talk to yah all later.

Ilene Glad all is OK with the accident, hopefully the car suffered no serious damages either.

Tracy Yep, you're in the right place - :welcome3: and look forward to seeing more of your posts here.

Whittline Congrats on your 25 pounds down, wow - we're around the same place, let's keep it up over the summer.

Allison, agreed that POTC 3 isn't as good as 1 (I haven't watched 2, but can guess the events given what goes on in 3), but it wasn't bad, nonetheless.

Mudpie, hopefully your next two weeks won't be too icky, and I'm sure that even though you may have less time to focus on eating well & exercising that you'll make the most healthful choices possible - heck, even a mini-maintenance would be great during this period and remind yourself that you're only 11 pounds away from GOAL!!! :D

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This weekend has gone well more or less, my high school friend from the AirForce is taking a vacation from duty (going on a one-year tour to Korea in mid-June) so I've been out and about quite a bit. We had Korean BBQ on Friday night and Japanese BBQ today for lunch, and I cooked her a healthy dinner Satuday night (Salmon cakes, brussel sprouts with pancetta, orzo pasta - with lemon sorbet & strawberries for dessert). Even with all the eating I've been staying on plan (budgeting lighter eats for my other meals/snacks) so I'm glad, my only wicked indulgence being a chocolate-dipped canoli at a bakery.

Oh yea, we've also been exercising together (did a 10K yesterday, a 50-minute interval & circuit training today) and it definitely felt good that I'm keeping up and holding my own against someone from the military, though she is just recently fully recovered from tendonitis and so has been taking it easy with the cardio the last month.

Also had a burst of energy today, so I got in an extra 4-mile run on top of my hour long workout. :broc: Felt good, though I did tired out later in the day and took a 2-hour long siesta :D

And of course, looking forward to the 4-day work week, even though I'll be working some weekend events.

hey all, I think I am back for a while. It was a nice break but time to start counting again.

Morning!
My strides toward slender fitness were around a coupla blocks this morning.
I'm off to work, have a good day!

Hi all! I'm back from a fun weekend. We went to a car show near Valdosta, GA and then to Jekyll Island to the beach. I had wanted to go to JI for awhile. it was very pretty. Lots of exercise with walking and biking also...so so on the eating part, calories probably evened out. Unfortunately, i am at a new personal high weight of 155.4 (I have no idea how this is happening!). :( My previous high weight was 154. I'm trying not to let it get me down though.:( :(

Ilene: I'm glad you're okay! That had to be scarey. My daughter gets her temps in a few months.....maybe they should raise the legal driving age to 18 :D or 25! :D