We got 4" of fresh snow overnight. I've been out shoveling so that "you-know-who" can go out and do her duties. DH is out plowing so I thought I would help him out a bit. I just know he'll redo what I did
ledom, in yesterday's USA Today, they had a few "must read" diet books, and Bill Phillips was among them. What a wonderful gift, leaving all her negatives to the school. It will be a very interesting undertaking for you and your students. Everything will come together fine. I hope you will be able to send photos like you did last year of both shows if at all possible. I so enjoyed those photos last year.
judi, it looks like Estaban and your DH are great pals. He'll be a lot of company for your DH on his trip. I agree with you 100% that Boston's are fine beasts. I also love hearing Estaban, Marley, Beatrice, & Baby stories. That's great you started going back to mass. I haven't been to mass, except for Christmas and Easter, in about 24 yrs. I would like to get back into the habit of going, but it's difficult to start. It seems that all of the scandal re: the church was in our area, NH & Mass. I am doing WW with more protein than is called for, I limit carbs, also I eat some fat which is frowned upon.
It looks like we were posting at the same time again. We've got to stop meeting like this! On some posts I've read on other threads, some people go to WW just to get weighed, and follow some other eating plan. I'm not doing WW by the book, but going to the meetings and getting weighed each week makes me stick to whatever I'm doing. If you can afford the expense, it may be worth a try. I know that this time of year they usually offer some really good deals. Sometimes they waive their joining fee, and you just pay the meeting fee. If a center near you is doing that, you could go to a few meetings to see if it's going to work for you.
All day yesterday I thought no one was posting, only to discover everyone posted lots! My message alert that send me e-mails when someone posts isn't working. Wonder whats up?
Anyway, glad to hear everyone is doing well. Cheryl, I have some books so that I can look up other exercises and I will but one question first. Do you not want to do lunges or squats for some reason, or are you just looking for variety?
I told you D has taken up cooking. Well, taken it up in a big way. I know exactly what I'll be eating on free day. She made ziti w/ meatballs and pineapple ricotta pie last night. I just have to wait until tomorrow to sample it.
Today we are going to spend our last day off going to Little Rock to shop and see a movie. We are going to see Far From Heaven and I am looking forward to going to the health food store. Someone over at Lean and Strong suggested buying steelcut oats from the bulk bins. I have been spending close to $7 a can for it. I can't wait to check that out. I'll also run through my favorite clothing store and see if they have any good sales.
Hope everyone has a good day.
Oh, to answer your freeday question judi. I am like a kid in a candy store. I don't have near the control or discipline I'd like to have. I know it is slowing me down in a way. On the other hand I think it is also keeping me honest. Maybe someday I'll stop feeling the need to eat so much on those days. I always feel horrible afterwards and am so happy to be back to good eating. It's a paradox.
I want some exercises to do in addition to lunges and squats to make up the 2 exercises for each major muscle group he lists in the book. The only thing I have against lunges and squats is that they're HARD!! And I'm hoping that'll go away with time
I'd just like to put off spending the $$ on the gym for as long as possible.
Hope that the three of y'all have a wonderful week-end!! This is my last week-end of "Freedom" before BfL, although I'm looking at it more as my last week-end of being miserable from overeating and mistreating my body.
We got another inch of snow overnight. They said we souldn't see any snow for the next 5 days. I'll get back to you on that one.
I had a dentist appt. this morning to get a tooth prepped for a crown. It was a little hairy driving, but managed to get there and back all in one piece. When I got home the town had been by winging and there was a huge pile of snow blocking the end of our street. I saw a pile of snow not too high, so that I was able to drive over it, into a neighbor's driveway, then I was able to make a turn into our road.
ledom, the ziti & meatballs sound delicious. I can just taste it now. That's one of my favorite meals. Enjoy the ziti and the pie. The pie also sounds good too. Have a great time shopping for bargains and hope you enjoy the movie.
Cheryl, have a great weekend of freedom before you start BFL. Will you be eating food that's not on your diet?
Alice you got more SNOW!!!! You have my utmost driving sympathy. What is happening to the weather system. We are still snowless here but I am NOT complaining. I notice how much brighter it is now that the days are getting longer.
Have a nice trip Ledom. I have a can of steel cut oats. I should open them. I have turned into a cereal eater, next to salmon and tuna it stays with me the longest.
Don't you love Sat. mornings w/ the whole weekend stretching out in front of you?
Alice, I can't believe the snow. How much have you had this winter? I am hoping for a snow or two - hopefully about 2 weeks after school starts, and enough for classes to be canceled. It is always so nice to have a breather after you are really ensconced in the semester and that seems to happen most winters. But then of course it needs to melt right away.
judi, hope you and Marley are enjoying your solitude.
Cheryl, you are about to embark on the most life changing and life affirming experience w/ BFL. That probably sounds overly enthusiastic, but you'll know what I mean once you get going. Here are a couple of web sites that will help you w/ those leg exercises http://www.stumptuous.com/weights.html and http://www.abcbodybuilding.com/ pull down the exercise menu in the abc site. I do my workouts at home and love it that way. It is so convenient and really saves me a lot of time. Do you have any home equipment? I have dumbells up to 25 lbs., after I realized how far I wanted to take this I bought a new bench at Hibbet's and an olympic bar and plates from this great place in Little Rock called Fitness Tech. Do you get down to L.R. much, if so you might want to check them out. Before I bought my bench though I had a really ancient and simple one from Wal Mart that I was able to utilize just fine. If you want to go that route you can probably pick up used equipment at a fraction of the cost for new. I'm always finding equipment at yard sales and such.
Have you exercised much in the past? I acutally have, I had been doing squats and lunges via Firm videos for a couple years previous to undertaking this and so I had improved my performance of the exercises quite a bit from the very beginning efforts. I'd say, start where you are and you'll be surprised at how quickly you'll improve. I remember my first lunges had very little depth to them. That's ok. Also, just getting through my first bfl workout was very difficult. It was amazing how quickly I got into the swing of things though.
One more thing, you may already be checking out the bfl thread here, but the gals over there are great at answering any question you might have.
Well, I'll sign off for now. Ya'll have a great weekend.
One more thing Cheryl. If I were you I'd go over to l&s and look through the recipes. Find the ones that look good to you and copy and paste into a new document and print them off. I did that right away and actually made myself a cookbook in this way. Spend tomorrow cooking up a few things that look good to you so you won't even have to think about where you will be getting your food next week because it'll be in your fridge. My faves are the banana bread mini loaves (I mupltiply the recipe times 4 so they last all week and they are my mid-morning meal), and Page's chili, I double that recipe. Buy yourself a bunch of eggs and low fat cottage cheese and some sweet potatoes and old fashioned, or better yet, steel cut oats and you'll be set. I make enough oatmeal for one week too. I cut up an apple in mine when I cook it, and then just dip out a fist size serving and zap in the microwave for 2 min. Making the food easy to access is key in my opinion. Good luck!
AHHHH, you've got to love Saturdays. You are right ledom, the weekend is stretching out in front of us.
DH was on the road yesterday and by the time he got home the town had been by to clean up the snow they had left in front of peoples driveways and our street.
ledom, from the 2 good sized storms, and the annoying little storms, I think we have possibly 2 or more feet of snow. I will glaldly send some of our snow down to you if you really want it I have heard on the local news that some of the cities are trucking their snow to other areas.
judi, are you and Marley enjoying your time alone? I bet Marley is happy he's an "only child" again. DH & I keep in touch with the breeder we bought Lacee from. Yesterday he sent some photos via e mail of the whole clan. Lacee's mother, father, grandmother, and sister. They all are larger than Miz Lacee with shorter legs, larger heads, and more squat in body composition. Lacee has long legs, a small head, and her body is longer and leaner. I honestly think her mother sneaked out one night and mated with the Greyhound down the street I can see Lacee in her sister's face, but that's where the resemblence ends.
Cheryl, hope you're having a good weekend preparing to start your BFL. Let us know how it's going. Ledom gave you some really good advise.
It is back to the salt mines for me today. Ah well, it'll be good to have structure again. Set my alarm for 4:30 this a.m. - I only hit snooze twice and my workout for today is done. My oats are cooking and I probably have time for a quick shower if I don't dawdle here too long.
The best news, I did find steel cut oats in bulk at the health food store. Compare $7.00 for a 1 lb. can to .99 per lb. in bulk.
Hope everyone has a good week. It got cold here, but no snow so far.
Glad you girls enjoyed your weekend. I spent mine reading. I have gotten someone to clean tomorrow
My D and I went out for lunch two days in a row. Catholic lessons start tomorrow for her and I am going to go with
Alice, Bentley is a smaller Boston but he has gotten quite stocky.
Marley IS liking to be an only child again (I miss the cat), he is bounding about and tossing around his toys.
Your exercise program sounds great Ledom, you must be doing untold good for your body. I saw the Gazelle yesterday on tv Alice. It looks HARD!! Is it?
Doing ok diet wise, having a hard time drinking all the water and still stalled on the exercise.
I hope you all had a good weekend. We didn't get anymore snow, but it sure has gotten a lot colder. It's supposed to get below 0 tonight. BRRRRRRR!
ledom, it must feel good to you being back into your exercise routine again. That's a good deal with the steel cut oats.
judi, no, the gazelle isn't difficult at all, you just stand on it and move your legs back and forth, just like you're walking, only there isn't any jarring of your legs. I've been getting used to it and I find that my stride is a lot longer than when I first started. This week I'm going to try 2-10 min. workouts instead of the 1. I don't think I could do a continuous 20 or 30 min. workout, as I get bored very easily, even watching TV while I'm on it. That's why I can't do the treadmill. Good luck to your D with her classes. That's good you're going with her.
Day 1 is over and I am already exhausted. It'll take me a week or two to get my sea legs I guess. D got moved into the new dorm and happy w/ roomate, etc.
Not too much to report here, I'm just going to be really busy for the next few days.
Sorry I've been a no-show lately! Busy, busy, busy! My last "week-end of freedom" was pretty good. My BF and I went to Memphis with his cousin & cousin's wife to eat out. They let me choose the eats since my birthday is today. I chose Red Lobster and almost made myself sick w/the all-you-can-eat shrimp--yum! As good as the food was, though, I don't think I'll miss it too much on BfL. Especially with the free day.
My first day on the Body for Life program went well. My arms are sore, though, and I didn't even use weights over 5 lbs. I'm so weak--I hope that changes!!
My mom took me grocery shopping Saturday to help me buy some the things I needed for this diet. She really wanted me to join Weight Watchers, even offered to pay. But then, for some reason, just out of the blue she said, "You know, if you want to do this 'weight-lifting thing' go ahead and try it for a week or two and we'll use the $ for WW to buy you some food today."
She doesn't think that I'll be able to hang with BfL. Sigh.
Yesterday I ate well all day. For breakfast I had 6 mini muffins made from the pumpkin muffin recipe on the BfL thread. 2nd meal was a meal replacement bar. 3rd meal was chicken breast w/brown rice. 4th meal was cottage cheese (no carb--didn't do well there, I guess). 5th meal was more of the chicken w/brown rice and some green beans. For my 6th meal I tried mixing the cottage cheese with yogurt, like suggested. Yuck. I'd much rather have the cottage cheese by itself and the yogurt by itself than mix the two together. I think that's called learning
Anyway, I guess I've rambled long enough. Ledom, thanks for the advice. I haven't had time to check out those web sites yet, but I'm getting there.
Alice, hope your snow goes away soon. We're supposed to be getting some. I heard our local weatherman say this morning that we're supposed to get snow and then 5 degree weather. Of course, in Arkansas, it could be 5 degrees one day and 50 the next.
Judi, hope your 1st class with your D goes well today. I know that you cherish the time you get to spend with her, especially doing that. I feel like families that go to church together share a stronger bond in other areas. JMO.
ledom, glad your D is happy with her new roomate. Once you get back in the swing of things, it will go better for you. Did you do any weight lifting while inbetween challenges?
Cheryl, glad that your BFL is going well for you. I'm sure your mother will come around when she sees how well you are doing. I don't think our snow will be going anywhere anytime soon. We'll probably still have spots of snow in May. Stay warm in the frigid temps.
judi, how did your D's first class go? Hope everything went well.
Good morning,
What a wonderful gift, leaving all her negatives to the school. It will be a very interesting undertaking for you and your students. Everything will come together fine. I hope you will be able to send photos like you did last year of both shows if at all possible. I so enjoyed those photos last year.
On some posts I've read on other threads, some people go to WW just to get weighed, and follow some other eating plan. I'm not doing WW by the book, but going to the meetings and getting weighed each week makes me stick to whatever I'm doing. If you can afford the expense, it may be worth a try. I know that this time of year they usually offer some really good deals. Sometimes they waive their joining fee, and you just pay the meeting fee. If a center near you is doing that, you could go to a few meetings to see if it's going to work for you.
Good morning,
I saw a pile of snow not too high, so that I was able to drive over it, into a neighbor's driveway, then I was able to make a turn into our road. 
That's one of my favorite meals. Enjoy the ziti and the pie. The pie also sounds good too. Have a great time shopping for bargains and hope you enjoy the movie.
I have heard on the local news that some of the cities are trucking their snow to other areas.
It is so cold.....
