Just checking in for a moment. I like to come here and read. Heading to the gym later. I did make it last night for an upper body workout after we walked the dog for 35 minutes. I did the this morning 30 minutes.

Rosemary, Lady you are an inspiration. 20 years is awesome. What kind of cancer did you have? Sorry if you said before, chemo brain you know. King Cakes are yucky. Just keep telling yourself. Just picture that cake sitting on your thighs.

SMW, good luck on your walk at the mall. I hope your left your purse at home. That's the only way I could walk at the mall. No primary here until May.

Have a great SB evening all.

Mercee, thanks, I pray for many more too.

Ray, We were posting at the same time. I'm moving the scale up 2 lbs. it will only go -1 the other direction. Nice try though. Soak in a hot tub, that may help the soreness. Good job exercising.

Hey, guys. This is just a hello!!

B: steel cut oats with lite butter, splenda, cinnamon, and strawberry polaners
s: orange
L: Toni's stew and 2 ry krisp sesame crackers with 1 T natural peanut butter
s: SF pudding
D: salad with romaine, 3 oz chicken, 1 oz gorgonzola, 2T olive lemon vinaigrette
s: ???

tomorrow is my 30th birthday and i'm eating cake and ice cream! i am overly excited about this, but i haven't had any sugar (to my knowledge) since january 2nd. i ordered this awesome looking chocolate torte cake and we're having mint chocolate chip ice cream to go with it. i think i will plan to "cheat" once a month and then when i'm maintaining (if that ever happens) it'll be once per week. i just refuse to give up ice cream permanently, as it is the best food ever created.

Hello everybody - just popping in for a quick hello. Haven't had a chance to check in today until right now. Bkfast this morning was a piece of skinless smoked sausage and a diet dr pepper. Lunch was roasted chicken breast, cabbage and purple hull peas. I wasn't hungry at supper. Ate a few bites of chicken breasts that I had put in the crock pot this morning, then tried a few bites of meatloaf, but didn't really want either.

Y'all have a very pleasant evening.

Hey Everyone..Just checking in. I went out to lunch with my cousin today. For the most part i did alright. I got the salad for an app, cheeseburger no bread for lunch. I did eat 4 french fries though. And for dessert i got a mini shooter straw cheesecake. It was seriously 4 bites. I had a muffin for dinner, and nuts for snack. Before that my day was perfect. So not too bad, but i could have done better. Ah well--Just make it up tomorrow teaching both classes and taking 1.

Solly- I love that scale idea..set it to goal and call it a day. I bought a new one last night and it made me 2 pounds less than my old one. I though..well YAY I'll just keep buying new scales Actually the weight q is a good one. 98% of my gym goings are classes. I do cardio classes, 30/30 classes, interval weight classes, heavy weights, dance, boot camp. I change it up constantly. If it were up to me and a treadmill or elliptical machine id be fat forever. The cardio and lower/upper switch sounds the best to me. Your body needs to rest from strength training for 24 hours at least unless your doing heavy/light alternations. meaning mon (heavy) tue (light) and still it shouldn't be no more than 3x a week. 4 Max. Cardio is fine everyday. I do one heavy weight class and 2 light weight classes a week. Every now and then I can squish in the 2nd heavy weight class. Then about 50-70 min of cardio 5/6x a week. I tend to overdo it though. I admit that. Luckily My best friend is a trainer/aerobics instructor. He will make me stop if im overdoing it. I always know my form is correct too--he isn't shy about calling me out in the class. Not always a good thing to have. HAHA Also Congrats on your 4 yr anniversary. That's amazing!!

Monet- . HAHA Im glad your etsay is doing great. Im happy to add to your rocking sales when ever your ready!! I do the no dinner thing and try to weight in too. Why does it gain ove r night but not lose. So not fair.

Chr-I like the idea of planned cheats. Im cheating on Vday. And funny I was talking about planning a cheat day every month or so because like you said some things are just to good to give up completely. Having the cheat planned makes you feel less like a failure. or at least it does for me. Although funny you mention ice cream. That is my fav thing in the world. Edys makes a no sugar added, slow churned (so its low in fat also) mint choc chip..they make a bunch of flavors and I have some the other night. It was awesome..Not sure why--but some things we are better off not knowing. HAHA

Everyone else--Have a wonderful evening..Im off to bed!!

Good morning ladies. Boy am I I was exhausted last ngiht so I went to bed around 9:45. Woke up at 12:15 with the otrnado sirens going off. We watched a little of the weather and then got DD and head downstairs to wait it out. Went back to bed a little after 1:00. everyone else is sound asleep, but me. I layed there until 3:30. Now I can hardly keep my eyes open and I have a busy day ahead. Needless to say, I skipped the this morning. Tonight was going to be my night off from the gym, we will wait and see. DD is home sick with something in her chest. Just hoping she keeps it to herself.


Chrgrl, I hope you enjoy your cake and ice cream. We need to learn how to handle days like this as it is not realistic that we will never eat sugar again. It purpose is to learn how to handle it and jump back on track. I love ice cream too, and I find some of the no sugar added ones are rather tasty. So you don't have to live w/o it.

Sparkle, I hate when nothing is what you want. I ususally find something and just eat it to be eating.

Gymrat, Thanks for the tips. I don't overdo, that's for sure. What's Vday?

Toni, where are you? I hope you did not have the storms we have had. Is your roof till on?

Bob, OK that's it, I'm sending Monet after you.

heart, I was just thinking about you this morning.

Morning all!!

Well I had a good evening and went to bed about 10:30 . I woke up at 12:26 and couldn't go back to sleep until about 2:00 then I woke up again at 3:40 so I am tired today. I worked out last night and Monday this week I increased my time. I am really enjoying the I was hoping this would help me sleep better but so far it hasn't.

Solly - we need to exchange numbers so we can talk when we are up:. I hope you get a good nights sleep tonight.

Monet - I hope you feel better and I pray this is the one for Tom also.

Chrgrl - I hope you have a wonderful birthday.

Everyone have a great day!! I'll check in later.

Hiya Fokes,

The day is off to a great start. Always a good thing. taught my sports class and took the fitness boot camp. That was fun. Went by fast because everything was in one min intervals and there were 12 stations. I love working out. Solly and Mercee, I'll give you my number too. I am usually up between 2-4 myself. Although knock on wood the last 2 nights i was sleeping.

Oh and to add one more thing to my list o jobs I picked up another sports class on Wed. This is great because I was staying for the adult class anyway's. Now, although I am technically not "working out" I am getting paid for another class. I do a lot of running around in these classes setting everything up It will be great to make a few more bucks.

Im having lunch then going to relax before the next class. I also got an offer to baby sit tonight, which is great cause i went on quite the shopping spree yesterday.

I hope everyone's day is going good.

My menu is as follows.

B-cottage cheese (2 scoops) Apple sauce (1 scoop) and a small handful of fiber one.
S-SF Choc chip muffin ( I went to the bakery yesterday)
L-Salad W/ cottage cheese, can tuna and tomatos. green tea to drink. SF ff dressing.

I have no idea how the rest of the day is going to be..For now..Thumbs up

Monet-Ahh yuck..I hope you get over that. I had that for 2 days last week then it went away. I hope that happens to you as well. Im crossing my fingers for Tom.

Solly-Your very welcome. Im happy to help. I always need food help..Knowing and practicing are very different. We can trade tips..Exercise for food..LOL Vday is just me being to lazy to type out valentines day. Hope your staying awake..do you drink coffee? Hope so..That saves me on my long days with no sleep.

Mercee-Hope your not dragging too much. Actually i find on my 'night' gym nights i sleep worse. Between being all hyped up and adrenalin pumping, its hard to fall asleep. Then I have to wake up to pee most of the time, because I drink more in the evenings if I have worked out late. I do mostly am work outs. I read somewhere they are better because your metabolism is revved for the day..and since we eat during the day not night it's better for effectively burning calories. The way i see it any exercise is better than none. Go you!!

Damn i talk alot..Haha Have a good one ladies!

Hello everyone. We went to our son's welcome home party in Oklahoma and it was wonderful. He was so surprised. There were about 40 people there. I also got to get in a good visit with my brother from Colorado too. Then Steve's Mother passed away and we've been in a hectic mess trying to get him on a flight. The nearest airport is almost 3 hours away. He got a flight out and it was canceled and he had to come back last night. He just left a while ago to catch another plane. I hope this works out as the funeral is tomorrow. My nerves are shot and I've ate all the wrong things. I'm going to weigh in shortly and I know I've gained weight. Hope I can get a handle on it today. Solly just wanted you to know I'm so happy about your 4 year anniversary...... Congratulations. I'm to far behind to post individual replies so this will have to do. Will be back later.....

Hey everbody - just a quick pop in during lunch. Arby's was the choice today, although secretly I sure dreaded it. I ended up with a Philly steak and cheese with au jus on the side. It was cut in half, so I did eat half, wrapped up the rest to take home to hubby. I hated so bad to eat that white bread!
Oh yes, unsweet tea with sweet n low to go along with the sandwich. The sandwich was good, and it was not hard to stop at half of it cause I knew I should not be eating the bread!

Haven't read all the replies since this morning so I will just say have a very pleasant afternoon.

Toni - Welcome back and sory to hear about Steve's mother. I'm sure you will be able to get back on track.

Monet: How do you get so much action on Etsy? I can't even get anyone to look at my things...although my NY Giants set has had a few hits. The only hits I get are from the people I tell to look at my store. OH, well...

I'm making a pot of split pea soup. I can't wait till it's done...I'm freezing! We had a snow day today, so I closed up the shop early since I had no customers. YOu can never tell...last snow day, I made $175!!!

Okay...time to check the soup!

I know that Subway wheat bread isn't legal..but what about Quizno's? I've looked on their website and it doesn't list the ingredients of the bread.