Here we go again troops let's share the love and support and drop the weight, and get healthy...remember despite below "0" weather lately; our bikinis are waiting for us

Right now, that would be an UGGGGLY sight. LOL....

Checking in...off to enjoy the rest of my weekend.


Tiff

Hey girls,

ok miss tiff,
thats like..umm...i think....4 posts yet, and you havent said hello to me????!?!?!?!!? what gives baby?

so anyways.......have i ever mentioned that chinese food is my weakness???? well, just for the record, it is...and i went out with my mom for chinese just now, and umm.yep...two plates later! but.....people have commented the last couple weeks that i have been "looking good lately" yessssssssss............

well, anyways......sorry i dont have anything good to say......oh yeah, ross and me....are done. well, i dont know, things are just, theres tooo much going on for both of us right now. well, anywyas.... i should go.

see you all later
luv
kayla

Hey all,

Busy weekend...made a good pasta recipe off one of the fit diet sites....7 WW pts. and even the kids liked it! That doesn't happen often....

Kayla: that "boyfriend thing" must be going round at this time of year...we have a little of that at my house too. Just hang in there, hon, when the weather gets better, everybody starts feeling better and it passes over.... It sounds like Ross was a friend first, so maybe he will be a friend lastly too. So Glad you are getting noticed for all that hard work with your wt. loss...you deserve those compliments so say "thank you!" and remember to smile sweetly!

DNW: Sorry you have been under the weather...I get those SI too! Awful things, they are! Thanks for fixing us up and getting us ready for another month, despite your yucky head, sarge.

Tired and need to get ready for bed. Hope everyone has a great week!

"Bright"

Hi Everyone! Geez, it's seems like I've been away forever.

Tiffany - Congratulations on your marriage, I hope you two will be very happy. It's good to see you back!

I spent most of the weekend glued to the TV watching the latest on the shuttle. I agree with you Brighterdays, it must be a horrible way to go and to think they were only 16 minutes away from landing.

Don't have much to report, I've been doing OK. Bouncing around doing good some days and not so good others. One nice thing is we've had good weather lately but that will all change with the approaching front. Does anybody know if the groundhog saw his shadow or not?

I saw my best friend for the 1st time in about a month yesterday and boy is she looking good. Still trying to convince me to go Atkins and I have to admit it's tempting seeing how much she has lost. Alas, I would NEVER stick to it and don't see any reason to bother with it. She was telling me she saw a program that rated diet plans and the Zone came out #1. The people in the test lost more weight and were able to stay on it easier than the others including Atkins. Interesting, I might have to check it out since it seems to be a much more balanced plan. Anyone know anything about it?

Guess I'd better go get ready for work, another Manic Monday. Why do the weekends go by so quickly?

LJ

Good Morning Chickies!
DH at work, kids shipped off on the bus. Sometimes Monday can be a good thing.
I did ok with food this weekend. Not great, just ok. My "obstacles" are kicking my butt. Obstacles being DH and the kids. They kick and scream about the healthy food. Anyone else have this problem? I could fix them their food, and me my food...but in the long run...they need to eat healthy too. And to be honest, I'm not up to fixing double the food. Do we have a SCREAMING smilie?! It took me almost a year to get the crew to quit complaining about the switch from 2% to 1%milk...I try to sneak in skim now and then...not pretty. Sometimes I pour skim milk in the 1% container.
Does anyone have any great advice on this obstacle?

DNW, hope you are feeling better today. Bikini, in my dreams!

Screw the "obstacle crew". I buy the food, I fix the food. They can eat what I buy/fix or they can not eat. Like it or lump it!

But, DH works so hard...he wants to eat the way I've cooked in the past. He deserves to eat what he wants...one of the reasons I stay at home....to have a supper ready when he gets home...a supper he deams edible. The man wants ice cream in the freezer and fried potatoes on Sunday morning. But, these things are bad for his health too...he just wont face it. He's been thin all his life. ugh.

*voices arguing in my head*

Real quick today. Boss is already screaming at people. Mondays!

Huntress, yes that little rodent in western PA saw his shadow. 6 more weeks of winter weather. Blah.

Bright, I NEED that pasta recipe!!! Please?

Tiff, your "punishment" for being away so long is to post longer posts. Yeah, yeah, I know you're newly wed and all but, well, WE come first. Just kiddin' girlie, but I missed ya.

Gotta go. Told you it'd be quick. Boss is lurking around the corner. More later....

Good Morning Ladies! Well I spent most of the weekend watching TV. How sad that so many lives lost in an instant. I know that they knew the risk but do you ever really think that it's going to happen. My heart goes out to the families.

Tig, any way to motify some of the favorite recipes? Might start with one fav dish and everything else be healthy and slowly sneak in the good stuff. I do that with DH, he hates celery and chuncky tomatoes.....so I just puree them and he never knows the difference. (what he can't see he doesn't complain about)

60 degrees here today but very rainy looking. Supposed to get colder and rain today.

Kayla, don't dispair, guys come and go but true friends are your foundation. Pop in whenever you can. Still moving?

Don't really have much going on... such a boring life. Oh well you guys have a happy Monday, if that's possible.

Can't type or spell

Happy Monday, everyone!

I had a lousy cold/flu thing that dragged me down last week, so not being at work on Friday I didn't post... but DH and I stayed in this weekend and I'm feeling very determined to get back into the WL groove. Too much laying around this weekend - I feel like that big caterpillar in the Bug's Life movie this morning.

So sorry I was missing. I feel like Huntress said - like I've been gone forever. It's been 3 days! But maybe my attitude was missing a bit before that, what with being ill. At any rate, like DNW said, our bikinis are coming for us! LOL. Time to quit fooling around. I make excuses for myself when I don't feel good.

Reading all your comments on the astronauts got me on a tangent... I'd been glued to the TV this weekend, too. This morning I noticed the news was ONLY about the shuttle (with a quick break for weather)... And something gelled in my mind this morning that made me feel better (or not). Anyway, they interviewed one of the families of one of the 7 (I think it was McCool's) and they showed an image of him smiling, in a jumpsuit, holding up a poster-map of the globe titled "WORLD HUNGER" with different colors (I imagine representing where hunger was worst?).

And I thought, Wow these 7 people who so tragically died were really pretty lucky! Seven elite hand-picked individuals, in the peak of physical condition, highly trained, highly dedicated, each fully willing to sacrifice themselves for their cause... seven noble people that it's hard to us to imagine losing but who were fully prepared for that eventuality - gone in an instant... While there are millions of wretched people who will die miserably in 2003- in abject poverty from something as basic and preventable as hunger. It's scary and sad to think about it, but then again I felt like it was a message that he would have wanted to get across?

So I flicked off the TV and walked away from the media maelstrom... Feeling suddenly as though striving to be a better person myself is more important than making myself late for work mourning 7 strangers who had the privilege to die not senselessly, but for something they wholly believed in.

We're all so fortunate to be people in a position to make changes! Instead of being completely controlled by circumstances dictated merely by place and timing of birth.

Cafe, with an odd 3 cents to contribute this morning. Please roll down and pretend I didn't say that if I offended you in any way.

Cafe, wow.

I just popped in here quick to see if anyone posted and read what you wrote. What a wonderful post. What a thought-provoking post!

Again I'll say it...

Wow.

Cafe, you brought up an interesting point. If we'd all take the money we spend on extra food that makes us anguish over our weight and donated it to a food bank instead, we could be doing something to alleviate hunger instead of increasing our girth.

Tiger: If you prepare it they will eat it...also remind your husband that thin men die everyday of heart attacks. Weight is not always a factor...the cholesterol can be huge and the body can be quite small....I have an 80 lb. 5' friend to prove that; she is on Lipitor because they can't control her cholesterol.

Cafe: Thank you for your thought provoking message on the astronauts. Also with the media you are so right. I have had the Burger King commercial Latin theme song rolling around in my head for 4 days and I don't even eat them anymore. It is driving me mad. The only explanation is I have heard it so much it has yet to leave my subconcious. And this really pisses me off. Renting space in my head, when you have not been invited. The point is food commercials are very cleverly planned to make us want their food, whether we want it or not.

Also I noticed that as tragic as this accident was we do not need, for our mental health, to have this run 24/7. 9/11 proved that we can only take so much tragedy...in the NY metro area new anti-depressant prescriptions written by doctors skyrocketed for the 4 months after this horrible event. I was included in that number and I am now off anti-depressants.

It is sad that TV stations think more about ratings then the good mental health of their veiwers.

Quilter: Great idea about food banks and the extra money we could send them with the food we don't eat.

Semo: 60 degrees is not boing...it's heaven!!

Kayla: Sorry about Ryan but there are so many more great romances to follow and you seem to have your head on straight...the next one is always better!! I too adore chinese food, especially hot and sour soup...yum.

Huntress: Zone is simply several small meals a day with equal parts of carbs and protein, with a little fat added in....some poeple I know did very well on this but it's not a lot of calories...the book should be in the library by now if you don't want to buy it.

brighter: Thanks for the kind words and what receipe did you make?

tiffany: Thanks for your reply and tell us more, more, more...we can't live on a line or two a day...no fair!!

Hey guys......

thanks everyone, yeah i dont know, im not too worried about the relationship thing, to everything its time i suppose. oh, but for the record DNW.....Ryan is my best friend, Ross was my boyfriend...but...yeah...

and good ol ryan! right there when i needed him. I luv that boy. I cried and he just listened, and then i went up and stayed with him and went to University with him thursday and Friday......

so yeah, umm.....about moving, its all up in the air right now, i dont know if i want to or not, im just trying to think that....either way....if we go, if we stay,....ill be ok.....so..im not worrying about it.

Today was a new semester for us! and i have the EASIEST semester....my only hard course is Math, and i have the best teacher and its one of my fav classes, so its not so bad!!!

anyways...how is everyone else????

Cafe,
Awesome point....its true...have you ever also noticed, that in the bible, in revelations, the perfect number is 7.......and 7 astronauts died, 7 teenagers were killed in an avalanche in Canada the other day as well.........I think the big guy up stairs might be trying to tell us something!!!!

SEMO, HI!!!
everyone else, HAVE A TERRIFFIC DAY!

well anyways...im off to...watch Boston Public!
luv ya'll!

luv
Kayla

OH! another thing,

I am taking my Phys ed, for high schoo, by correspondance, so i have to record, and do 75 hours of physical activity! so what a perfect way to keep going eh? if its for school and marks and stuff, ill definatly stick with it!!! anyways......any suggestions on fun things to do for like, an hour at a time that i could use???