Hi ladies! Another slow day here at the office, but at least I am on the clock and getting paid! I don't like being this slow, hopefully I'll find some patients to scan.

So cold here!! Had trouble keeping warm during the night. It is supposed to warm up today, but it is still only 6 degrees above zero right now.

Did 3 miles, 45 min. exercise this morning.

Barb-Keep your weights in your backpack so you won't forget them!!
I'd like to hear more about your "light alfredo sauce in a jar"!! Would like to try that sometime if it is available here.

Ange-Uranium mine?? Hope you took your lead underwear with you...sorry, radiation humor. Dinner party sounds fun!! What are you making?

Mirj-Enjoy your weekend.....and the rain...and any subsequent snuggling that might lead to. I may have to call about that DVR today...

Kitteh-How dare you try to type while that poor little cat is trying to lick your fingers!! I'd be ashamed... Would love to see a pic of your baby sometime. Enjoy the gym!

Hope you all have a great day/night!!

Wow, many days I miss posts then think they are new the next day only to learn they are from the day before, we are busy hear and that is great.

Annie – good to hear you made it to work, I hope the weather gets better from here. How is the whole meds thing going?

Mirg – it is awesome you are doing well after your first marriage, I just don’t like being mad is all, when I use to get TOM I could almost track it like clockwork so I would be careful what I did on the days I was susceptible to being mad, makes me feel out of control.

Kitttie, I love the Journaling idea, I have done lots in the past but now do it in spurts, thanks for the reminder!

Fruit Lady, thank you, and it is great to take inventory of ourselves and go from there I believe we can learn a lot from it, hope your day goes well and you can find some peace.

Ang – I’ll go for the diced carrots and I would love to sit outside and eat them.

Petra – hang in there and it is great you have a supportive husband.

Boy it sure is a big job to learn to eat right and then to do it!!!
Stayed on plan yesterday even though I thought about food all afternoon and evening – yay, got an emotional letter from my DIL and she is currently separated from my son, this is the big emotional thing in my life right now cause they have a beautiful 1 ½ year old son. They always had such an emotional up and down relationship and have split in the past so this is no surprise. On the plus side I did not want to binge after reading it. I love her like my daughter and feel so bad she is hurting and in the grand scheme of things not binging over this seems so trivial, but even the immediate temptation to binge was not even there. I really believe I am making progress. Life can hurt so much I am so tired of the hurt but such is life. On plan today and had an amazing breakfast of 2 pieces of whole grain egg white French toast with half a tsp of real maple syrup for 200 calories. Boy it was good!

Hi Ashley-So glad you are able to deal with the family issues without using food as comfort. You are doing great!! Hopefully my meds are evening things out for me. I wil weigh tomorrow and evaluate.

The knee pain I was having the other day was better yesterday/this morning, even during the tap-outs/lunges on the DVD....BUT, I am now having a different pain behind my left kneecap (chondromalacia, I've had it before in both knees). I think it might be time for a doctor visit. I may wait...not sure.

We got about 6" of snow, which is not the most I every remember getting but very close! Hubby had to work overtime last night which worked in his favor to some extent because if he had left work on time he would have been stuck in traffic for two hours. {one co-worker left two hours ahead of Hubby and got home 45min later than he did}. In other words it was a big mess! The sun is shining and the snow seems to be melting off the streets and sidewalks. Bible study {and my much needed haircut} were cancelled today, so today has been a lazy day for me!

I did do 40min of LB exercises today, and plan on an additional 30min on the TM tonight.

Ashley, good job on not binging Your French toast sounds very good.

Annie, Yay that you got to work and aren't using your vacation days but sorry its so slow. Mixed blessing there.

tough afternoon, by mind is telling me to eat and just enjoy it to get my emotions off the family issues. I dont want to and i wanted to weigh in tomorrow so that is keeping me going cause if I binge then I will not weigh in and I have not done it for a while. An hour to go left at work, I CAN work thru this i did yesterday and I will feel amazing tomorrow for staying on plan, yay.

PP-Good job on the exercise!!

Ashley-Best of luck tomorrow at weigh in!!

Boy, am I in a horrible grumpy, pouty mood. Think it's just PMS...TOM is supposed to be tomorrow. Not doing anything tonight. May even have a hot chocolate laced w/ amaretto!! (No, I don't drink very often. Usually nothing more than Bud Light...and that just every few weeks.) I had a healthy supper of tuna w/ celery and vinegar (weird, I know, but very good and light), baked sweet potato w/ ICBINB spray and salt and pepper, and some yellow cherry tomatoes sprinkled w/ salt. Oh, I had 6 Ritz crackers, too. I think I had too much salt...my tongue is burning like when things are too salty. Not sure if I want to weigh tomorrow w/ this PMS raging, but will do it anyway.

Also grumpy because I haven't seen fiance in almost 3 weeks and I doubt I will see him for Valentine's Day. I went ahead and mailed his Valentine card just in case I don't get to see him. Sigh....things will be better, I know. It's just so easy to wallow in my silly misery sometimes.

Oh....and I get to go to the dentist tomorrow, too. Bleh. I hate the dentist. Am going to have to have a bridge prep done (two teeth crowned and prepped to attach the bridge. Read: grinding....shiver.....). Wonder if it is going to hurt afterward?? I'm happy to be getting the work done, but not happy about the process. Will also get my partial plate tomorrow to replace a few other teeth I have lost over the years. Worried I won't be able to chew well for a few days. Also not happy to be spending twice what I could buy some new furniture for.

Okay....done b*tchin' for the evening. Sorry to unload.

Annie-it's Ragu. Light parmesan alfredo. 70 cal for 1/4 cup. Not anything spectacular, but quick in a pinch and edible. And prolly a lot better calorie bargain than a cream sauce I'd make from scratch with butter and heavy cream and grated cheese and...YIKES!
Ashley-good job on coping with your dear DIL and son troubles. Just make sure she knows you are in her corner and the baby's too. I am in the same boat with eating right lately. Just can't seem to get it quite righ way too many days, but at least we haven't given up, so there's still hope for us both. Hugs!

Everyone else-I will catch up to you next time or the time after or at least sometime soon.

We had Subway for lunch. A footlong. I had part at lunch and part later, but that's still right at the limit if I skip the pasta and sauce for dinner. I'll have the meatballs only, maybe with mustard instead of sauce, and I have some uncooked whole wheat spaghetti I can fix for Robert. And a ton of coffee or iced tea maybe. I should make some good earth tea. tastews sweet and spicy, but has no sugar. I've been drinking more soda than usual, diet so not a calorie issue but I'm wondering if it's giving me cravings for sweet junk food. Hmmm. Think I will try a few days without and see what hppens. Should go make a whole pitcher of iced tea.

Have a great night.
Barb

mirj, angelskeep, & Ashley- Thank you, I wish I could find a job to get out of the house. I tried for so long, then I gave up.

It's been so cold for the past 3 nights. Single digits & tonight 6 degrees. No snow in the forecast, calling for temps in the 40's & 50's starting Friday. I'm going for my walks for sure. So sick of the exercise bike, I ride it every morning just to get some exercise in for the day. Not my favorite thing to do, but it works when the weather is brutal. Rode today for 30min vigorously, went 7.5mi. I also twist my body and move my arms while riding for extra burn. At least it's an all over workout for 30min. straight. Ate a huge breakfast, there were hardly any calories left to cover my lunch or dinner. So i ended up going over by 90 cal. I gotta stop that! Now that I know why I overeat, I'm not getting cravings or the feeling that I have to eat when I'm not hungry. Let's see how long it will last! Long enough to lose some weight, I hope.

Have a great night all!

Did 30min of intervals on the TM! Now I'm tired!

Friday! Cook Day! Just popping in the say hi! My youngest (19) was in a great mood last night so we went out for sushi and then I bought her tons of luxury skin care products and now she feels good about herself. I bought myself a mask that the lady at the makeup counter said I could leave on, not wash off, and now my skin feels great!

Shabbat's coming up, gotta start baking the challah and I'm going to make Greek chicken breasts for tonight (which one of you gave me that idea?).

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone, see you on the other side!

Hi everyone! Saw 151 on the scale this morning, so I'll take it. Still think I have PMS. I REALLY want to see the 140s, I am getting tired of being stuck here. Honestly thought I would be to goal WAY before now.

Dentist later today (ugh) and then going to take it easy the rest of the evening....rent a movie with the boys?? I have a coupon for a free rental.

Mirj-Enjoy your day/evening. Shopping with your daughter sounds fun.

Frutilady-You are such an inspiration with your exercise!!

PP-Good job getting those endorphins flowing!!

I'm thinking of making some chocolate covered strawberries this weekend as a Valentine's Day treat for my boys. If I can find some at the store, I think we may do it tomorrow night.

Have a good day everyone.

ETA: 5 miles, 65 min. exercise this morning.

Hi, everyone.

Down half a pound, yay! My jeans feel looser in the hips, double yay! Exercised well yesterday, and again this morning. Went out to lunch yesterday and ate more than I should have, of food I shouldn't be eating. Well, I ate reasonably the rest of the day.

Ashley--Glad to hear the cravings are down.

Lunchtime. Got to eat ('cause I'm hungry, not for the wrong reasons ).

afternoon, busy at work today not time to catch up, ate without restraint at dinner last night...... so i did not wiegh in :P, on the bright side if there is one it was just one meal, I did not want my day to be controlled by the number, ate to many hershy kisses at work this a.m. but still went out and had a major workout at lunch which is good cause if I eat too much in the morning sometimes I skip my workout which makes things even worse.

Annie- Thanks! Your great with your exercising too, enjoy the movie.

I'm gonna be by myself all night, hubby's at work, daughters at a friends. Gets lonely after a while, I like being alone for the first couple of hours. At least the sun is out today, but it's still cold, so I rode the bike for 30min & went 7.5mi. after breakfast. Always ride after breakfast, your metabolism raises 15% more if you exercise after eating a meal. It really works for me. When your over 40, you need that extra boost.
This is the third day of eating clean, lost 3.5lbs. Wow, processed food( no matter what kind)stops my weight loss or makes me gain. Probably all those chemicals it has in it. As soon as I stop eating it, I lose weight. Seems i can eat more calories if the food isn't processed, it does nothing to me. That means I can eat fruit all day & not gain! Calories will total 1290 today, only 20 over my limit. I'm running out of fruit, can't go to the farmer's market tomorrow, no money. I'm depressed about that, I look forward to it & i don't know what I'll be eating for the next week if I don't have fruit. Well, have to start cleaning now.

Have a great weekend!

Good morning. I hope you are enjoying your Saturday.

Ate well yesterday, even though some chips were calling my name. They healthy chips, relatively speaking, but I will be glad to finish the package (slowly, please), so I don't hear them calling my name anymore. Down another half a pound.

I need to get myself out the door and to the gym this morning before I get started on the rest of my day. Been paying bills this a.m. Blaagh.

Fruitlady--I hear you about the processed foods. Something in them, added sugar, maybe, or the extra salt, or various chemicals--don't know, but it's harder to lose with processed foods. I wish we had a bit more fruit variety in winter--local apples and imported oranges and bananas are my mainstay right now. Plus dried fruit, which is okay though not as good as fresh. I love it when the seasonal fruit comes in--strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries (picked wild, yum), cherries, and later we'll get pears, apples, apricots, peaches, nectarines and other delights grown in WA, some in Western WA, more in Eastern WA. Oh, man, I'm making myself sooo hungry.

Better go exercise--that will dull the hunger for a while. Have a good day.