Hi everyone. This has been a chatty thread today :)
Heh, my overeating involved GS cookies, yup. I was eating them fast and furious when I remembered my no GS pledge. Yesterday I took our last box (I was involved in the eating of the first 4 boxes) to work and left it there at the end of the day- unopened by me.
They really are gross and I did say that while they kept popping, ok I kept popping them, into my mouth.

Language- I went to a jewish day school as a girl so I can eavesdrop on hebrew conversations but not really participate. French and spanish in high school. My spanish is adequate for what I do. I call it vaginal spanish ;) you all know I am a midwife, right? My spanish accent and vocab are ok but my grammar is horrible. I would love to do rosetta stone or some other program and get much better.

Pop yesterday, scale to 126. Today, not pop but calories within maintenance. Nice chicken veg thing in crockpot, so there is healthy food for tomorrow.

Love the chat!
Until tomorrow...:)

Originally Posted by paperclippy:
Pat, are Russian and Japanese common in Alaska because of proximity? I studied Japanese in college and absolutely loved it. In high school I took Latin, but in retrospect I ought to have taken Spanish.

Yes. There is actually a sizeable Japanese community in Anchorage, along with Koreans and Samoans! Fair number of Russians as well. It took 2 years of Latin in HS, and 2 years of French, then 2 years of Spanish in college. It's the Spanish I've used the most. :)

And I have not bought - or eaten - a single GS cookie! I'm a coward though, when I see those little girls pushing their crack, er cookies, at the grocery store I go in the other door....

Originally Posted by WardHog:
I successfully avoided them, too. I was with my daughter at Kroger, and I saw the GS outside. I explained that we weren't going to buy any cookies, so when they asked us, just say, "No, thank you." So the GS yell out to us, "Do you want to buy any cookies?" And my daughter yells back, "MY MOM WON'T LET ME!!!" :cool:

I know, what is with the grocery store ambushes this year? I implement my gym training as I dodge, roll, and sprint through the grocery store doors as fast as I can, and if pressed, yell "Sorry I gave up sweets for Lent!" every time I go through the grocery store doors. Not that I'm Catholic, therefore don't observe Lent (sorry Catholics, I mean no disrespect). Is that wrong of me? How come I try to be scrupulously honest in every aspect of my life except for the lies I tell to avoid off-plan foods and alcohol? :angel: Does that say more about me or societal expectations?

Today's gym plan: back/deadlift training, HIIT or steady state cardio. Sat: Benchpress training w/ trainer Tim, whichever cardio I didn't do today, abs somewhere in there. I'm thinking of a long bike ride if the weather is nice and some yoga downloads if I can get them to work on my computer for the weekend. No social events! Whew I'm ready for a break.

KC: Vaginal Spanish :rofl: I had forgotten you are a midwife.

Megan: that grocery store routine of yours comes under 'informal exercise' in my book. Gets the heartrate up more than you'd think!

All going well here. It's a busy and good kind of day. Hope yours is going well and on-planly.

I bought and helped consume 4 boxes of GS cookies. I had one (1!!!) Think Mint! It's the caramel ones and the shortbread that do me in.

Well, it appears that the swelling in my leg was the cause of yesterday's scale disaster. I lost 2.5 pounds yesterday without doing anything different. My leg was so swollen and sore yesterday I went home early and laid in bed with my leg up on several pillows and watched Ellen and the news. I think that really helped. My knee pain is really a lot better today. I have to be careful in how I move it and it is a bit sore to the touch (from where it hit the tile) but it is definitely on the mend.

I managed to avoid the GS cookies this year. So far, at least. DH made sure not to buy any at his office, and I have a rule that I will not buy GS cookies from adults, only from little girls. The only time we actually came upon girls "boothing" (i.e. selling cookies at a booth) we were on a bike ride and wouldn't have been able to carry any home.

Bad case of the munchies again yesterday. DH and I were both starving when we got home -- so much so that he actually had me drive because he was feeling woozy from low blood sugar. I had a reasonable snack, made an OP dinner, ate 1 serving, then had another small snack, then a bowl of shredded wheat. :o I guess I won't hit 4 days under 139 this week because today was 139.2.

Oh gosh, Allison. Lucky today isn't an Uffizi day!

Jessica - those bad munchies. If I ever think of Shr Wht in the evenings, it's not good. Strictly a morning food for me.

Sausages for tea. High in meat, grilled so not so fatty, loved by 9.75 yos at the end of the week. I said this was going to be a 'just get through it' week, and we have, with a few nice surprises on the way.

Megan, on Lent: after multiple days of way too many sweets and garbage foods I told my kids we are giving up all sweets for Lent. (News to them as we are not Catholic) they asked. How long that would be and when I said forty days they went into panic ;)

Allison, yay on scale niceness :)

Silver, glad your week went well and my 8.5 year old waaay agrees with your 9.75 year old.

Jessica, I hear pms in your munchies

Ok girls, let's tackle the weekend..... go us! :):):)

Ward, are you in the classroom daily?

kitty, I just volunteer one day a week. It exhausts me. I have no idea how teachers do it day in and day out.

I am thinking of changing my goal weight. I have started to get some, "Don't lose any more weight" comments. Also, even my smallest clothes fit. Maybe it's the NRLW, I don't know, but I think I might try to maintain here for a while (around 129).

Bumpity bump bump...

I had a POP weekend full of :strong::exercise:, :carrot::broc::cb:, and no :jeno: or :cookie:. Sunday was a rest day and today I think it will be HIIT running and probably legs. I finished all my perishable things with grain in them so I'm starting the grain-free experiment. I did make sure to take my measurements as well as weigh last week, so I can see the difference in a month.

Ward, NRLW does build some great muscle! Getting back into my smaller clothes is my ultimate goal, too, the number on the scale is secondary.

Jessica, sometimes you just need to eat!

How was everyone's weekend?

Okay, Megan! I'm going grain free with you! I had a couple of grain free days last week but then I didn't this weekend and I feel like I have a hangover today.....what is up with that?

Kitty, I speak vaginal Spanish too! Of course, the language of childbirth supercedes all other languages anyhow!

Hi guys :wave:

I am definitely going pastry-free. I had a small bit yesterday: 1/2 beef turnover and I threw away half the pastry. I had indigestion in the night! No good. I'll be watching the grain-free experiment with interest.

Thinks: I actually eat very little. A few Shredded Wheat or porage in the morning. A Dr Karg crispbread with my dinner. Nothing with my tea or my two snacks.

I am a grain-aholic. Oatmeal or raisin bran for breakfast, and lunch and dinner pretty much always involve pasta, rice, or tortillas (today it is tortillas). Speaking of tortillas, I needed 15 to make chilaquiles last week, and I bought a big stack of them, thinking there were like 30 in the stack. There were 80. :o So I'm spending my week making all sorts of tortilla casseroles and tacos to use them all up! Last night I made enchiladas. Nom nom nom.

I honestly don't think I could handle not having grains for breakfast. What would I eat? I don't really care for eggs (unless they are on toast, in a breakfast burrito, or on tortillas in huevos rancheros), and I hate cooking in the morning. I suppose it would be yogurt. I'm laughing because I'm imagining myself eating yogurt for three days and being so sick of it I would refuse to ever eat yogurt again (the same would happen with eggs, I'm sure). Yet for some reason eating the exact same bowl of oatmeal or raisin bran day after day, year after year is no problem. Weird how the mind/body works.

In any case I wish you guys well with the grain-free experiment!

I had some great workouts this weekend. A good jog/strength session Saturday morning and a good swim yesterday. Tonight will be a run. Well, hopefully - they SAID it wouldn't rain anymore, but the sky is looking dark and ominous at the moment. Scale isn't budging, but I feel fine and my skinny clothes are still fitting okay.

Hey Jessica, I just read your posts in NRLW forum :) Neat.
Ward, I had that experience last week when I accompanied my kindergarten age son and his class. We walked to and then toured a local supermarket for a "store unit" the class is doing. To be honest, I was hoping the teacher did not expect the joining parents to return to the classroom. She did not and I was shamefully pleased!
Midwife, Slver and Megan, the no grains thing works well for me. (I should remember that a bit more often) One strong recommendation I have is to get yourself some shiritake noodles (whole foods or asian market), fettuchine shape is best, IMHO. They need a collander and really good rinsing but make a great stand in for real noodles. Also, you can load them up with melted moz. cheese and favorite sauce and sprinkle parmesan. SO good. And totally reasonable calories b/c the shiritaki have forty cal. for the whole bag!!!

OK, work to do... have a great day :)

Kitty, I have heard of shiratake noodles but have never tried them since I heard one person say they tasted really bad. :lol:

I'm hungry. I took a Hershey's nugget from my coworker's candy dish but I did not eat it. I realized there was only 10 more minutes until leaving for home, and I can totally be hungry for 10 more minutes and save myself 50 calories.

The enchiladas I cooked last night were really yummy, but not particularly low-cal (despite all the extra veggies I added and that I didn't use much cheese), so I cut my 9x13 pan full into 12 servings (each approx 330 cals, which is reasonable). The problem is that 1/12 of a 9x13 pan is not that much food! I brought extra fruit to make up for having a small square for lunch today, but I'm still extra hungry.

Still dark and gloomy outside. Not sure if my run is going to happen tonight or not. Tomorrow is supposed to be 59 and sunny though so it would be a much better day for running.