THE Heather-YUM! That sounds so good!

Tofutti is definitely something to be used in moderation.

So I found out that we may be meeting a friend for lunch today. I don't know where we'll be eating, but wherever it is, I will try to get something healthy, or just eat half of something.

Ok, what do you all eat for breakfast? I'm trying to find a healthy breakfast that I can stand to eat every morning. I don't like cereal, I get bored by oatmeal. What I really like is toast and earth balance, but I'm trying to get off my bread kick. Any ideas would be appreciated!

Have fun today! I'm wishing we could all be at the beach with Heather!

I had a multi grain pancake with peanut butter and a banana

I LOVE Sprouted Grain bread toast (so much better for you than regular bread!) with Splenda sweetened Jam. Dickinson's makes an amazing Apricot. Steel cut oats cooked with chopped up raisins, apples and cinnamon is also pretty durn good. There is Silk Soy yogurt too.

Hey all

Thought for today...

some vegans/vegetarians don't get enough vitamin D since it is found in: milk, fortified cereals, eggs, tuna, & fish liver oils so make sure you let your body be exposed to the sun rays, your body converts a cholesterol compound in the skin to vitamin D, so aim for three 15-minute sessions of sun exposure a week.

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

Ok another week past =] A lot of us were dealing with TOM and didn't post weights this week sooo I didn't postour weigh in... This week we're not weighing in on Friday since Sept 30th falls on Tuesday, and that is our mini goal date. SO NEXT WEIGH IN IS: TUESDAY SEPT 30th
Good luck everyone!!

Our first week's happy goal: Listen to great music and dance or sway to the beat.

Second week happy goal: No stress!

OUR NEW Third week happy goal: LOVING YOURSELF JUST THE WAY YOU ARE!! 12 things that are perfect about YOU:

1. Your checkered past. A little wild phase keeps you from having a checkered future.
2. The way you walk—it’s unique and it gets you where you’re going.
3. Your car singing voice.
4. Any funny physical quirk your sister has too. It's all part of the bond you share.
5. How your hair parts. Don't fight Mother Nature.
6. Your smile.
7. Your collarbone.
8. Your homegrown accent. Unless you're up for an Oscar, don't you dare change it.
9. Your silly sense of humor (now the only trick is finding someone else who shares it).
10. Your uncool favorite drink.
11. Your gut instincts.
12. Any body part that’s really strong —whether or not it jiggles a little.

jillnicole-I love your list! We (especially women) need to appreciate what they have instead of wasting energy on the things they don't. I just recently started appreciating my body more and the quirky things that make me ME! It only took 41 years!!

Anyway, this weekend was a bit rough as far as food/exercise goes. My neck has been bothering me for a while, and now the pain has moved down to my shoulders. I have had headaches for the last several days and I can barely move my head. So I was not able to exercise and we just ate too much food.

My mom is a massage therapist and I'm going over to her house later to see if she can help me.

I hope you all are doing better than me!! I should be back into it by tomorrow.

Have a great day, everyone!

I love the list too. The answers could be wildly different, and probably for lots of us most of them are not what might be considered ideal. But they are so perfectly imperfect. That kind of perfect would be boring. Great list, and great reminder.

In other news, I think I finally broke my little plateau! 158 on Saturday, 157, Sunday, and 156 today. I know that rate won't keep up but I think I'm clearly past that 158-159 sticking point!

I just hope I'm not in for a 3 week plateau every month now!

Darby my necks been killing me to!! Actually I need to make a massage appt for this weekend!! That's great your moms a massage therapist. Hope you're feeling better soon!

Julie YAYYYYY breaking the plateau!! You go girl I'm so excited for you. I feel like I'm in one myself, but it's interesting how I don't feel quilty since I know I'm eating healthy and doing my best. So as long as I don't gain I'm ok for right now... it is always better for the lbs to fall off though lol

I'm glad you guys like the list. I was reading GLAMOUR magazine this morning and read that... it made me feel good... and anything that makes me smile, I like to pass on to my team!

I only changed one!

It was frustrating, to be sure. But I was quite surprised that it felt kinda good. It felt *healthy.* Because I figured I was stalling out due to my body finally realizing that I was dieting and losing a lot. So the metabolism went down. It felt healthy to feed my body enough that it thought everything was cool again. My calories (on this diet) have always been a little lower than I felt great about, but I got used to it. Then with the change to vegetarian, they dropped more, unintentionally. Which worried me, but I didn't really have a quick fix. But now I'm eating more (good) fat and carbs and enjoying it, and feeling more full.

My FAVORITE 'healthy snack' is half of a wheat tortilla with 2 tbsp peanut butter and a lil squirt of honey (which could be subs. with agave nectar for vegans who don't eat honey)

Helps squish in some good calories, and soooo delicious!

I do that with tortillas, peanut butter, and honey, too! My little daughter came up with the idea of adding a banana to it -- it's good!

lol the "recipe" i found actually had bananas as the last food but I didn't have any!! how funny

My weight keeps dropping too, I'm pretty pleased.

One thing i don't like, I have been pretty sedentary for the last few months and when I exercise my heart beats like a rabbit with only a little exertion. I guess I am pretty deconditioned (out of shape!). Has anyone else had issues with a fast heart rate when they get back into exercise? Walking is fine (about 120) but going as slow as the elliptical will go has me over 160 in no time.

KIERR... Yeah you are doing great with your weight!!
Since moving to South Carolina (end of may) I definitlely fell off the exercise wagon! Then I started walking around our big block every other day trying to working up 2 or 3 times around, and added Turbo Jam.. which is fun but I was still on the Learners Video before I left to COlorado (2 weeks after getting TurboJam) so then being gone for 2 weeks did nothing. Since I've been back I've done 1 lap around the big block.. and I swear I feel like I'm 80. It's crazy lol

SO I TOTALLY FEEL YA!! But I have faith is all of us!! Week by week you should add a little more and soon we will be dancing all night long