Frannie, here is a link for two crustless pumpkin pies. They are both from the Barbo Recipe Site. Are you all sick of me talking about all the great recipes there? I'm not sure which one I'm going to make yet!

http://www.barbosdietkitchen.com/archive.pl?read=11848

Vickie: You will succeed!! From seeing your chick icon, way to go on your 10 Lbs loss!! Keep up the good work!!

This weekend is going so- so..am eating 50% good- 50% non core..I am doing my best and won't give up! I will make it and win this battle!! I am ready to change my lifestyle once and for all.

Happy Halloween everyone!! Be careful with candies and no binges..those are addictive and stay strong for those who have trick or treaters. I don't have anymore in my neighborhood..so no candies in this household..Thank God!!

Stay strong everyone!!

Liliann

Thanks Vicki for the recipe link. I will do that in a minute! I love new recipes!!

Keep plugging along Lillian......you can do it!

Have had about 40 little goblins tonight........ready for 60 so we will see what happens!

Have a great beginning of the new week everybody!

Good Monday Morning All! Board is VERY quiet today. Hope it's just that you're all tired from Halloween and not much into chatting. If it's because you ate a little too much candy....not to worry. Start over today on Core and forget about yesterday! I didn't have any candy yesterday but it was a HUGE effort not to and I'm feeling a bit deprived. It'll haunt me (pun intended!) for a couple of days just like it always does when I don't eat something I really want. I'm determined not to give in. I'm on my way to the treadmill but just wanted to stop in before I went.

My weigh in is Thursday and so far no loss on the scale. I know, I know...stay off the scale but I can't help myself!

I have had a very busy weekend, so have not had time to post anything. I have somehow managed to stay out of the halloween candy, and have done very well eating the right things, but because so much has been going on, I have not been eating enough! There has been about 4 days where I only ate one meal!! I know that is BAD! I missed my weigh in last week, but the home scale is showing a 4 pound weight loss since my last WI. I am hoping to keep it off until Thursday.

Good Luck Everyone!

hi Frannie,
I'm Canadian too and like you, I found Thanksgiving to be quite easy on Core. There are so many things you CAN eat that you think a lot less about what you cannot. I'm not much for pie at the best of times so that was easy to pass up.

I have not been doing well with keeping to my core foods so my goal is today to eat 100% core. I know if I have one successful day it will be easier to have another.

PS I never put anything in mashed potatoes except fat free milk,salt and pepper. They come out fine and people can add butter or gravy at the table if they want. I do not use chicken broth because we always have vegetarians at the table so I try to make potatoes and stuffing in a way that they can eat it.

I've been having a bad 3 days. Not eating much in volume but definitely not Core! I'm up about 4 lbs. So, I'm trying again today to start fresh. I seem to have lost my momentum, and just when people were starting to notice I'd lost weight!

I'm trying to decide about Thanksgiving menu. Do you think I should fix my regular really yummy dishes (green bean casserole and yam casserole) for everyone else and green beans and a sweet potato for me or make everyone go Core? How are you all handling this?

Hello ladies - well the trip to see my husband was great. We did a lot of walking, went to Mt. Vernon and a couple malls. Of course I overate a little but don't feel too much of a change. I skipped weigh in this week but will be going on Saturday so I have 4 days to push myself. I got my Slim in Six videos in the mail when I was gone so I'll be popping them in the DVD twice a day for the next few days, not to mention I'm going to Orlando next Friday with 6 of my girlfriends.....

Here's the receipe for the eggplant casserole if anyone wanted it:

Cheesy Eggplant Bake

1 eggplant
5-6 large mushrooms
1/2 onion
1 green bell pepper
1 can of diced tomatoes
1 can of tomato sauce(I used Hunt's)
1 tub of fat free ricotta cheese
2 cups of fat free shredded mozzerella
2 tbsp of garlic(I like lots of garlic)
1 tsp of oregano
1 tsp of basil
1 tsp of thyme
1 tsp of parsley
1 tsp of crushed red pepper flakes

Peel eggplant and cut into twelve slices. Put on a cookie sheet and spray with pam(olive oil flavored). Broil for 2 minutes. Flip over and sprinkle with a little parmesan cheese. Broil for two more minutes.

In a saute pan, saute bell pepper,shrooms,onion and garlic. Next add tomatoes and tomato sauce and spices. Simmer for about 5 minutes.

In a casserole dish layer six slices of eggplant. Then top with ricotta, then sauce mixture, then remaining eggplant. Top with cheese. Cover dish with foil and bake at 375 for 30 minutes.
YUMMY and CHEESY!

Enjoy and have a great week ladies!

Thanks for the Eggplant Recipe!! It sounds awesome! I will definately have to try making it one night this week. For breakfast this morning I made a shake. I was really wanting some halloween candy, so I tried to think of something sweet but CORE I could have instead. So I made a SF FF pudding shake using 2 cups of skim milk, 1 pkg SF FF vanilla pudding mix, and I added a banana and some fresh pineapple. It is pretty good. My youngest two children like it as well..... I came so close to eating candy yesterday! I had it in my hand fingering it......contemplating. " HOw bad could this one little piece hurt, anyway?" But I finally managed to put it down by asking myself "What do you want to weigh? 130 or 230? Do I want to get there in one year or two years? (My goal is try to average 2 pounds a week. I figure if there are 52 weeks in a year, and I can lose 2 each week then that would be 104 pounds in a year) It helps me get through the tough times... for now anyways, hopefully this strategy will help for awhile.
Before I used to always think what is one more day....and then eat whatever it was that was calling to me. Right now focusing on just 2 pounds a week helps. I REALLY want to reach my goal weight by this time next year! I do not want to live one more minute being fat!! I think turning 30 last week hit me kinda hard. I feel like I have been wasting some of the best years of my life because I have been fat since I was 20. I was always too ashamed to really enjoy myself, or do much. I won't go to a beach, a water park, or even the lake with my kids, because I will not get into a bathing suit in public. I always thought I would be a cool mom, riding bikes with the kids, going skating with the kids, etc. But I am always too worried about what people are thinking or what I must look like to even try to do anything that might draw more attention to myself. This will be my last year that I hang my head in shame. By the time I turn 31 I plan on being close to my goal weight, and I plan on going out with my husband, holding my head high, and having a WONDERFUL time!! And when we go on vacation next year, (we are planning on going to Florida to Disney Land...or is it World??) I will hit the beach in my bathing suit and play in the water with my children!!!!!!

If I can just stay focused on 2 pounds each week....

I am hoping at my weigh in on Thursday my weight will still be off I have lost and I can change my signature. I am not changing it until I get my official weigh in at WW.

I hope everyone has an OP week!! Good luck, and be strong!!

Phewwww Halloweén is OVER!!!!! Yea!!!!! I too wanted chocolate chocolate chocolate. And I gave in a couple of times. Couldn't help it. Not sure what the scale will say tomorrow night. Drinking lots of water today. Already went on 1 walk and will probably go out again tonight around 8.

I think if you are having a hard time deciding what to serve at Turkey Day you should write down what you would like to serve and add up the points. Sometimes once on paper and you actually see the points......you will go.....oh, green beans on their own would be better! Just a little hint our leader gave us. But of course, if you have the 35 points to use then I think on this special occasion you could spoil yourself. It is a tough decision but we have to be proactive about it and not reactive.

Larraine......glad you had a good visit with hubby. And have fun in Orlando! Walkk walk walk!!!

I am going away for the weekend again! I can't wait. I weigh in and then straight to London I go. I will paint all weekend. Not a lot of time to think about food. Except I am subject to their menu. Hopefully, the hotel will serve a variety of salads, soups etc to choose from. I am taking my ff yogurt and fruit for breakfast. This much I can keep cold in a cooler. Then at night we will be eating out.....but I should be ok. Order chicken right!!! Yummy!!!! Cateyes, I will remember your line.......do I want to weigh 230 or 130......that is a good one to make you stop and think. And that is all you need, that minute to think of the end results!!!!!!!!

Everyone have a good rest of the week!

Cheers,

Hi Ladies,

Just a quick note to let you know I enjoy reading your posts. Lorraine, I, too, have been having a problem sticking to my CORE program. I worked at the polls yesterday and it really was a very long day and impossible to drink my water. I am planning on weighing in at WW on Monday--even if I have gained weight. I seem to go through these periods of time where I am really struggling to stick to my program. Hopefully this time will pass soon. I try to stay very busy--but even then I still have a problem.

I really appreciate being a part of this "wonderful" group.

Take care,
Nita

I am not going to fix a lot of fattening dishes for Thanksgiving. I figure my family doesn't need it any more than I do. We can eat good and still eat healthy. If no one objects, I am going to start a Thanksgiving menu thread so everyone can share ideas, recipes and maybe we can come up with a menu that is, if not totally Core, weight watcher friendly enough for us to stay on program for the week.

I haven't posted in a while but I have lost 1lb. last week. That was encouragement to keep going.

Look forward to everyone's ideas on the Thanksgiving menu.

Hi All! Glad everyone seems to be drifting back. I missed everyone. I get such inspiration from you all.

I've been struggling this week but not because of Halloween. I have no candy in the house. I've just been a little blue...didn't feel like planning or cooking which is essential for me and for this program. We went out to eat alot and I stayed on program. I have, however, eaten just about all of my WPA's and I'm dreading my weigh in tonight. No change in chick for me this week! I'll be deliriously happy to stay the same or lose a bit.

Janette, I LOVE your idea about the thanksgiving recipe thread. I will defintely participate and would really appreciate some ideas from others.

Good afternoon everyone. I have been swamped at work and so on, so have not been able to post or reply this week. I did an early weigh-in today and I was down .4. Trying not to be bummed again, b/c I was no angel this weekend. I went walking twice this week and I know that I have to be better than that. I do need to get that boost in and make that a consistent part of my life. This is the first time that I have been conscious about my food and not worked out. That needs to change.

Anyway, tried to do the SBD/Core concept this week, but I have to maintain the truth that I can not do low-carb. I must have fiber from whole grains, etc., b/c I have been feeling poopy since Sunday. Also, the loss over the 4 days was not significant enough to maintain the low carb thing; therefore, I am doing CORE at 100%.

My projection of 10 lbs. a month has been derailed, I am 1.4 away from that goal and it was supposed to be hit last week. I will implement workouts and see what happens then. Not officially panicking yet.

Good luck to everyone on their weigh-ins! Have a good week.