Tara - I noticed you checked out the QUOTES page. Glad you like it and I hope you get something out of them. I get them in my email every morning and afternoon. I haven't read one yet that I didn't like. Hope you feel better soon......drink lots of water and pick up some Progresso chicken with rice or noodles soup.......I LOVE that stuff when I'm not feeling well.

Julie - Hi....NOPE!!! No snow here. It's actually been pretty nice after alot of rain and some nights dipping to the low 30's. Wow.....2 WW mtgs. in a row....I guess you really DO love your job. Wish I had you around here. I've got alot of "dud spuds" for leaders and get more support from right here on the NIGHT OWLS and the chat room. Hope you had a good day too.

Candice - Well, well, well. You ARE human after all. I was beginning to wonder about you. Not going off program ever and maintaining for so long.....you're my idol. Anyway, I get alot of night cravings and tea and toast are my "comfort" food. Alot less calories than most other things I could reach for ..... plus it takes time to prepare and sometimes I find myself just having the tea. Works for me and I guess we all have our own little "tricks" to beat those "urges". I like what you and Julie do......I too have one day a week ... sometimes not that often....but I do have a day where I pretty much go "all out" ........say, if I'm at Cracker Barrel or the Flashback Diner (an old...and old-fashioned diner that makes the BEST breakfasts). And all for only $1.99

Well, gotta go.......I'm going to stick the meatloaf in the oven.....run to the barn and feed-up....then it's back home and go over Billy's spelling words AGAIN!!!! He didn't want to do them twice and I don't want him to not want to do them or have to fight with him so he promised we would do them again tonight. He had hockey last night and baseball starts for us soon too so I should be missing during the day for a while......I'll still pop my fat head in here in the pm though. Stay well and be good everyone. I miss you missing owls.

I'm going to stop off at 7-11 and get some coffee. I'm feeling kind of "poopey" right now.

Hi again!

Called the doctors office and they put me on a different antibiotic for another 10 days. Fun! I took 1 pill tonite and my headache is alot better already. Works for me! I just hope this pill kicks this infections butt! I don't like it hanging around - it hurts!

PJ - I love that progresso soup - but actually my new favorite is the Healthy Choice ones. They are really good!! And have 1/2 the sodium that progresso has. Just a tip

Gotta run - its time to relax and get to bed. Busy day at work tomorrow - I have a United Way luncheon to go to also - our governor is the key speaker. Should be interesting.

Tara

Ok....I have figured out that the longer I am up the more I eat or want and I guess that is ok cause your body burns more awake than alseep! I finally got to sleep at 9:30 this morning and slept untill the thermal gas man woke me up!!!!!!!! (The LP tank is right outside our window, so no gals I am not having a fling, no such luck! That would be about 3 pm. So if I am not awake I am not eating and if I am wake for more than a day then I want everything to eat! Right now I am back on track and have 10 points left so hopefully tonight they will get banked unless I can't fall asleep again! I know I can only bank 5 aday so I will jsut have to eat he other five


PJ..I love tea and toast in the evening, has to be caffine free though! Sometimes I spinkle a little cinnamon sugar on it!

Julie, I wondered if you took a day off or not, people have been telling me too but I don't want to lose control or anything like that! I went into this knowing it was a lifetime change and I am ok with that cause I am so much more aware of what I eat before I eat it ......not after! I love pizza and eat the WW ones all the time but like Pizza Hut once in awhile, I could freeze that other pizza and might do that! I just read on a site that house cleaning burns a lot more than just walking so when I am gardening or cleaning I must be burning alot! Sounds like you love your job, How much did you lose on WW??????????

Hi Tara, glad you are finally getting some relief, being sick is no fun!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Well.....no cookies tonight but got into my sons frito's..they were good and 8 pts...too many for a snack but they were a treat! Istill have 6 left so I am ok!


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HI there and TGIF

PJ: To bad that you have "dud spuds" (that is cute) for leaders. I'm the kind of leader that believes that there is to much serious stuff out there that we have to deal with on a daily basis so I make my meetings light and fun. Although we have fun, I always make sure to get the point across. I'm glad that you can get the support you need from here and the chat room.

Tara: Hope you are feeling better and I love those Progresso soups myself!

Candice: I never took a day off from program until I knew that I could handle getting right back on the next day and continue until the following Thurs. It took a few years but now I don't have a problem with that. What you could do is try it and see if it works. Just keep in mind that you don't have to go nutsy and eat everything just because you are not counting or journaling

I lost about 75 pounds by myself but could not lose anymore. I was so upset with myself, hated myself, didn't like the way I looked, was tired all the time, didn't look good, had an awful attitude (need I say more)....last but not least, I was giving up and gaining back pounds until I went to my first WW meeting and learned that I wasn't eating right and that was my whole problem. So the actual weight loss with WW was 15 long, hard, pain in my butt pounds. I was an awful member, questioned everything

What WW has done for me in not only the weight loss but it is the first time in my life that I have been able to maintain that stuff off. Have I mentioned since 1993! That is why I say I'M MAINTAINING 90 POUNDS OFF AND VERY HAPPY ABOUT IT

Everyone have a great day.

Julie

Hey Owls...

I am still around but more in "lurk" mode lately. Thank you Julie and Candice and PJ for keeping the owls going!! and you too Tara. I will be back with you all full force soon. Maybe time will be on my side tomorrow..

until then...
emmy

HI Emmy.........


Julie love your story..I too hit a plateau on my own and ordered the at home program to see if it would help and it it did!

I made a recipe for choc. chip cookies tonight iusuing applesauce, pretty good, 2 pts a cookie. I have had several though!LOL Still points left so doing ok..................Thanks good ness for 0 points foods!

Hi everyone,

I just can't believe it. It is Jan. and we are having a thaw!!! We have no snow at all, you can see the grass. Actually I don't mind that much that we don't have snow but I feel sorry for all those people that bought new snowmobiles and can't use them. My daughter Meghan is going crazy, she has a snowmobile and can't use it. Oh well, next year at this time she will have her drivers license......need I say more.

Candice: Is there anyway you can share that cookie recipe. It sounds good and I would also like to pass it on to my members.

Have a good on points day everyone.

Julie

Puffed Up Chocalte Chip Cookies 3 dozen 2pts per cookie


1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ tsp baking powder
¾ tsp salt
½ cup applesauce
1 cup packed brown sugar
¼ cup butter, softened
1tbsp vanilla extract
1 large egg
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
cooking spray


1. Preheat oven to 375.
2. Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife.
Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl; stir well with a
whisk.
3. Spoon applesauce into a fine sieve over a bowl; let stand 15 minutes.
Discard liquid. Scrape drained applesauce into a large bowl. Add sugar
and butter; beat with a mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy
(about 2 minutes). Beat in vanilla and egg. Add flour mixture; beat at
low speed until well-blended. Fold in chips.
4. Drop by level tablespoons 2 inches apart onto baking sheets coated
with cooking spray.( I used parchment paper, it worked better for me) Bake at 375 for 10 minutes or until almost set. Cool
on pan 2 to 3 minutes or until firm. Remove cookies from pan; cool on
wire racks. (I don't use the wire racks either)

Per Serving (1 cookie): 78 calories, 2.9g fat, .8g protein, 12.8g
carbohydrate, 10mg cholesterol, 87mg sodium

The cookies will be soft and chewy with a crisp outside. The batter will look like brownie mix, thinner than regular cookie dough but it will bake ok. That is why I like the parchment paper, they don't spread too thin this way. They freeze well too!

Julie......when I was mixing up this dough I told my Dh that I didn't think it looked thick enough to stay in cookie form but it did. He liked them and he is my tester for things! They will not be like regular choc chip with all the fat but they are still very good and very sweet. They will get made in my house again!

Thank you so much Candice for printing that cookie recipe. I made a copy of it and I will certainly make them. I also bring a recipe with me every week to my WW meetings to share with the members. You can be this will be the one for this week.

I'm on rescue squad call today so I have to stay close to home so I think that I will work on my WW meeting for the week, (haven't really even looked at it yet) and just relax and hope for no calls.

Have a wonderful day.

Julie

To make sure ya'll know that it is Suzanne's Birthday. There is a thread under Forum Announcements to wish her a happy day. Sorry to be so late but I just found it myself.

Take care all! See you soon!

emmy

Hi Owls,

Sorry to be a stranger. Always something with me. I am still having problems with my neck/back from the wreck and my ankle from where I fell on the snow. I go tomorrow for my first trigger point therapy session. Keep your fingers crossed for me that it helps.

I hope you are all doing well. I hope to be able to read back a little and catch up but you were on my mind today and I wanted to say hello.

Take care
Miss you all
Setina

Good morning everyone,

Hope you all had a great weekend. Thank goodness it was quiet with the rescue squad.

Setina: I will be thinking of you today. Hope that your therapy session goes well. You will have to come back and let us know.

I'm off to do some laundry before I go to work at the flower shop and then I still have my WW meeting tonight.

See ya

Ok gals my Dh is complaining that his clothes arre too tight and he would like to lsoe a few pounds but he won't do WW with me and I can't control what he eats throughout the day so I had him cut out his orange juce (he needs for potassium) and repalce it with v-8, he won't eat an orange and I had him eat only a half a banana and cereal at breakfast. Do you think this will drop a few pounds??? Any suggestiojns would be appreciated.

I swept out the garage today and picked up some trash that blew into our yard, had the dog with me and she got all tangled up in the plum trees sniffing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I did good eating today..no sweets yet and points banked Walked the treamill too!


Julie, how often are you on call for the squad???????

PJ..you must be working on selling your house! Hope you are feeling ok!

Setina...good to see you, hope the pressure point treatment works!


The road I walk on.............