Happy Valentines Day!!!

I was tickled to see that this morning I'm back down to 224.5 which is only .5 higher than my low last week. I know part of it was my bad eating, but most of it apparently was water retention. I visited the bathroom much more often yesterday than usual!

Monet- would love to be able to spend more time in my warm bed! We have a week off next week for Winter Break and I will be doing that some mornings for sure! dh says we are going to keep an eye on the weather and if extreme north Georgia or North Carolina has any snow, that one day we will head north and play! He works in Ellijay and says we may end up playing in the Pepsi parking lot!

Hope everyone has a great day!

Good morning ladies. I totally blew it yesterday with my starchy carbs after I tried so hard not to go over 3. By the time I got home from work yesterday I was starving...I didn't have enough veggies at lunch...so I munched away on triscuits while dinner cooked. Doesn't help that TOM is right around the corner and I'm craving salty stuff anyway. After dinner we went to TCBY and I got some No Sugar Added frozen yogurt with NSA hot fudge. It was to die for.

I'm back on track today. I borrowed mom's blender so that I can have my protien smoothies for breakfast, so I had one of those this morning. Snack will be a hard boiled egg. Lunch will be a salad from Quiznos, probably the black and bleu without the bleu cheese crumbles (yuck!) and maybe an apple if I'm still hungry. Snack in afternoon will be apple or egg. I have no idea what I'm doing for dinner...most likely it will be chicken.

Quick question - can you fry chicken as long as it's breaded with WW flour and fried in a healthy oil (canola)?

oops I posted my reply on the exercise board. But just wanted to wish everyone a HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!!!!!!

I went with several ladies frm work Fri to Tenn. shopping and literally we shopped till we dropped. There they go 8-10 in. snow, then come home to NC in my area and had none!!!!!!!!! My daughters were mad I got to see snow and they haven't seen any all winter yet.

Hope everyone is good.

Talk later off to work, huhcrystal

Monet: Glad to hear that I can do that. I use the boneless and skinless breasts...I never have liked skin. I've also done the baked fried chicken before...I just wanted to make sure that it would be okay. I'll have to look for that cookbook.

Hugcrystal: Where in TN did you go shopping? Pigeon Forge?

quick question to the masses...

I've been on a real green tea kick lately. Like, 2-3 cups a day for the last month and a half. I found a Lipton version that is honey flavored...but with not natural honey, so it's not real honey.

Anyhow...I've noticed a decrease in aches and pains in the morning when I get up, slowly but surely, I've been feeling great! I had a slight cold last week, but I'm really thinking that between the green tea and the Zicam Cold Remedy I took, it staved off a full-fledged cold even. Anyone think I'm nuts? My husband calls me a hippy because I usually light some incense (that I got on Venice Beach when we went to california...) at the same time I'm having my green tea. Next thing you know, I'll be wearing flowers in my hair and smoking funny stuff, he says.

BUT, all kidding aside...I'm thinking the anti oxidants in the green tea has been having a rather positive impact on my body. What do you guys think?

TECH: I agree totally. I am a firm believer in herbal remedies. I think a lot of the benefits of green tea being touted by the media are a bunch of hooey, but it DOES have benefits, especially when you are patient and give it a month or more to work. Many herbal remedies are like that...for instance black cohash for menopause, and saw palmetto for prostate. The German commission on herbal medicine has solid proof for many herbal remedies.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!










OF COURSE, THIS IS SUGAR FREE CHOCOLATE!!

Pretty good VD here! I made ww spagetti with ground turkey, a large salad, and garlic bread made with leftovers I made in the breadmaker this past weekend. I had a half a slice of bread so thin you could almost see through it. The kids got candy at school and from friends so of course I had a couple of "kisses", but dh and I have a small box to share together. Actually it has a "funky" taste to me, so not too hard to pass on! I think I will be able to pass on all of it tomorrow and get on with it!

Hope everyone had a good VD. I got a lovely box of chocolates from a vendor and after being so bad over the weekend, I was able to pass it on to a young man I work with without sampling even one piece and it didn't bother me. I also got a nice tulip arrangement from my boss.

Howdy everyone,

Sorry about no in depth posts have just been in and out helping out my mom feeding her crew. They are building a house and we are helping so as soon as we drop off my oldest Danielle at school we head for moms. And by the time we get home I have just been to tired to get on here. I am still on track but have been fighting 2 lbs that I either lose or gain in a week. Its been this way for a week. But I have noticed the inches going away in my bras and my clothes. I would like those 2 lbs gone permently. I am eating to much bread this weekend. Am going to cut back like I was before. And only have oatmeal in the mornings for the week and have a slice or 2 of starch on the weekend. Only if those 2 lbs leave and take 3 more with the. I did get some of the Uncle Sams cereal and noticed its better than before. Had to force myself to eat it before...lol

Menu for the day was:

Breakfast-Oatmeal with blueberries, 2 eggs, 3 slices turkey bacon
Snack-1/2 apple

Lunch-one grilled porkchop, 1/2 cup dry beans cooked of course, 1 cup greenbeans
Snack-sugarfree ice cream about 1/3 cup

Supper-chicken with onion rings and a small salad

Happy Valentines Day everyone!!!

Hubby had a beautiful card for me this morning and also bought me a satillite radio for my car.

Bob-So glad Kates doing better have been fast reading post so I saw that a couple of days ago and said a prayer for you two.

Techwife-I love green tea with sugar free honey its great!!

Monet-Hi to you!!!!

Still don't have the energy to post to everyone but I just wanted to drop by and say hello to everyone and Dripping!!!!!

Well gotta run will try to get on tomorrow nite and post a little more.