That sounds like a lovely lunch with your husband, guacamole, and maybe the day as a whole is a win due to working out, skipping dessert, vegetarian choices, and having a nice, light dinner! That's alot of good choices! Onward!

Great job with the muffins Susan! I do the same with chickpeas or cannellini beans in the tabbouleh. Yum!

Hello, gals! I'm in the midst of medical ****...I mean tests and appointments related to my high blood pressure. Had an echo-cardiogram today, and I hope that my heart is still in good shape after many years of hypertension. Anyhoo...weighed in at 172, so I guess the damage control I did with my food choices and light dinner offset the more calorie/salt laden fare of lunch yesterday. I didn't go to the gym today - I guess I was feeling overwhelmed from the test (going to doctors and hospitals gives me anxiety) and I also pulled a back muscle at the gym yesterday. Hopefully, I will get there tomorrow, although it's another busy day. Blood work for me (I'm being stuck like a pin cushion these past few weeks) and appointment for one of my kids. Anyway, I'm going to try to stick with a low cal diet to offset no gym burn off - I'm at around 1100 and I've already had dinner. Might have some fruit or something to get over 1200. Have a great night!

Yikes, Guac! Hope the blood pressure cooperates. Hope you have a nice peaceful weekend full of long walks and fine weather, too.

I'm ready for spring. I've been sticking to plan anyway (c25k zombie reboot mwf, dumbells and sit-ups and the like t-th, walkies on the weekend) but it is oh so much easier when the weather is inviting. Also, strawberries. Can't wait!

It's about 10 degrees Fahrenheit here, so no walks for me until maybe..April? Until then, the gym will have to do.

Brrrrr! How do you stand it, Guac? I see the wisdom in tredmilling it in such a climate!

Sport hols are over and the kids are back at school next week. Yay! I'm going to buy some 3k dumbbells and take them to work for after lunch. I already have a yoga mat there. I'm so determined to see results!

Ride that momentum magic susan! You can do it!

I will, Guac. At the mo, I've encountered a wee hiccup. We were all set to do our c25k when it started snowing buckets. I have run in some pretty miserable weather, but slippery I don't do. An injury means missing more than just one day.

I'm off to buy weights to take to my studio now. Have an energetic and fun weekend, everyone!

Snowing here today too! Just in time for Valentine's Day! Hubby bought me my favorite candy - chocolate caramel pecan turtles! So far, only my kids have had any! Yeah me!

That's tough! Well done you!

I was supposed to jog with DD today, but it was pouring rain and she bailed on me. I was going to at least go for a walk but chickened out. So, an okay weekend eating-wise, but not so good exercise-wise. :\

It is going to be high 70s here today, I feel guilty after reading about the weather in your locales. Also, I got a major dolphin show this morning. They are mating, bow-chikka-wow-wowwwww....

Mrs. Snark - must be cool to live near dolphins!

I went to the gym, made a morrocan vegetable stew yesterday, and a mushroom barley soup today. I'm also making fish and a bunch of dairy foods for the family, but not for me (I might have some fish). I'm getting the hang of cooking for others and having a different healthier option for myself - of course anyone is welcome to have the food I'm eating too.

Yeah, the double cooking... I could leave DH and the offspring to fend for themselves, but I fear the results wouldn't be very pretty.

Things are a bit rough right now. I sometimes ask myself how they can be this rough when they are essentially all #firstworldproblems, and yet, they are. Middlekid is so fed up with school that she literally refused to get out of bed this morning. It's a long story-but!

I stayed on plan (if I can call it that) and exercised and all... I am determined not to have a repeat of the last time one of my kids had a crisis and I gained twenty pounds. It is so important to me to kick this cycle of stuffing my face every time things get hard!

Oh, and Snarkles, where do you live? I'm coming over. 70s! Bliss indeed!

I live on the water on the east coast of Florida. It is REALLY, REALLY nice here about 2 weeks out of the year -- mild, sunny, dry-ish, gorgeous. The rest of the time it is glaringly bright, brutally humid, and hot as balls with more lightning strikes and shark bites than anywhere else in the US. We also have the kind of citizens who throw alligators into drive-thru windows. Yay Florida!

I hate cooking, but I do alot of double cooking since I am vegan and my husband is super, super not vegan. Mostly I do the cooking for him, and then for myself I eat sandwiches and soups and super quick stuff. Anything vegan that can be prepared in under 3 minutes is my kinda meal.

I am working on a backyard landscaping project today. Shovels, and spades, and rakes AHOY!

How is everybody? Hanging in?

I am hanging in there. Had a stressful doctor's appointment today - was all prepared to have a very uncomfortable procedure, but then the doctor told me she wanted to run more tests first to see if it needs to be done. For some reason I feel sure it will need to be done, and now I have to be nervous and psych myself up for it all over again. Ugh.

Anyway, I am trying to stick to a mostly vegan diet too. So far I have fish once a week and chicken breast once or twice a week. I might cut those out, not sure. For now, they are an easy source of protein. But, I've been making vegetable soups and stews and snacking on veggie finger foods like baby carrots, cucumber slices, zucchini slices, etc. I have some kind of natural hot cereal and fruit for breakfast. I've cut out caffeine and just drink hot water in its place. We shall see...

I'm sorry for the doctor/procedure stress Guacamole. <<<<hugs>>>> I have white coat syndrome -- I'd be chewing my fingers off in your position, so I empathize greatly.