Hi all and happy Tuesday to everyone!

It was a very busy weekend here for us... we had company here on Saturday and celebrated D-DIL's birthday and then Sunday and Monday we painted the bedroom that youngest DS just vacated so we were super busy... it sure seemed like an easy clear cut job when we started... LOL. Not so much when we got into it. Ugh, took both days and we still have some blinds and curtains to put up but it will make a nice guest room when it is all done.

Eating was not so good this weekend and I never did make it to the gym, I let myself get side tracked but it was for a good cause I guess....

Welcome to our new poster Mrs THO! Glad to have you with us!

Bandit: Walking on lunch is very helpful... I have done that in the past just don't always have time to do it... great idea though!

Judy: I am in a slump too... don't feel bad! I feel like I am chasing my tail lately! We will get it together yet!

Peanut: Great job on the loss!!!

Kim: how are you doing? what ever happened to your friend that was in a mess a while back?

life4ever: Not a bad gain at all for being off plan! Like you said, you will be back on track!

Cherry: How are you doing?

Tessa: What is new with you?

Have a great evening everyone!

Bandit- I do love it! When their so little and cute and they feel like princesses! As crazy as it gets I know I will miss it when they are older and dont want to be with mom so much! Something like an apple would never hold me over <sigh> I'm jealous! For my afternoon snack I had a necterine with a 1/2 of digestive health cottage cheese. I find things with more protein work for me! and its only 1pt for the 1/2C so Im happy with that!

Princess- Thanks for the welcome! Sounds like a busy weekend. I'm afraid I went in with the same idea with my girls rooms..4days later I think I was done! lol

Peanutt, : weigh to go with weight loss!

Life4evr, yeah-----I barely consider that amount of weight a gain. Being away for the weekend could have been a much different story, so here's a for using flexible restraint and keeping things under control.

So far so good for me today. All Core foods and I allowed myself a vitatop as dessert. Later I'll have popcorn and call it a day. Dh and I walked along the boardwalk at the sound. I also went to my writing group which I really love. Fall activities are starting up again. Yay! Gotta run. Love the activity we've got going on now.
Judy
234.6/?/170's by 9/30

Peanutt -So sorry I dont know how I missed this!!! WTG!!!! Thats awesome! Keep up the good work! Its so much easier when you have someone supporting you! Glad hes helping you out!

MrsTHO and bandit2 thanks for the encouragement, so far today has been good. The late night munchies have hit so I am going to have some fruit.

I just need to hit up the gym. I am on search from some wheat ravioli that is not going to kill my points. Any suggestions?

Morning, turtles:

Kim - My day started off great with bringing my breakfast, lunch & snack to work along with my water & got in a walk at lunch. I was going to have leftover meatloaf for dinner, but then found I had other leftovers of cabbage & cottage roll so used that up along with a potatoe, so still OP. THEN later I was checking out my freezer and found opened potatoe chips (about 1/3 bag) so just had to finish them off - but the good thing is whenever I ate those I didn't finish them off AND I had actually forgotten about opened chips which is unheard of for me. So, not 100% but better than the past week.
WOW - great job on the walk & weight loss, that is really great!

Life - fruit for snack (especially late-night) shows good self control, good for you. I am not a ravioli person, so can't help you there.

So, cooling off up here and has been very breezy the last few days & I can't believe I already have leafs accumulating in my yard & driveway.

Have a great OP day!

Kim - Weigh to go! I am so proud of you. That is a great weigh in . I just know you will see 255 again.

Mrs. T - WELCOME! We have so many new ones posting lately. I have 3 kids also ages 5, 3, and 1. So some of mine are a little younger but i know how busy it can be and how hard to find time for yourself.

Life4ever- Sounds like you are going in the right direction. I know how it is to have to little gains and losses over and over again.

Bandit, and Princess- Good to read your posts. I will try to right better response later.

Judy- Hope the core program is going well for you

Peanutt- Such a great loss. Keep up the good work.

Official weigh in today:238.8 so i am down .6 for this week. I will take it with how much munching i have been doing lately.

Hi Guys,
I'm off to the boardwalk with my dh, but wanted to chime in. Scale was up 3.6# and although some of this is hive weight (My face is all puffy again), some of it is from food. Yuck. I crossed over to the bad side of 190# and I promised myself I'd never do that again. Soooooo, good thing I started Core. So far ( 1 1/2days) so good.

: to you all.
Judy
234.6/191.4/170's by 9/30

Mind if I hop on board here?? I went to my first WW meeting and weigh in today at noon. I am starting at 265 and am ready to lose! This evening will be off grocery shopping to stock up on good stuff. Off to read the back posts!

Afternoon Turtles! Checking in

CherryAutum -thanks for the welcome! and congrats on the loss. Looks like you have your hands full as well! Why dont we have like 40 activity points weekly? Im going to write to WW and as if they can add "Life" as an activity lol


KimL1214- awesome walking!! and even better weight loss , looks like what your doing is paying off!


Econ Nerd Im new as well and these guys are super sweet!

Bandit- Good for you for not looking for more! I'm the same way with sweets!

life3evr- have you tried maybe a specialty italian stores? If you can find one that makes their own pasta you might be able to find some. I dont know about being point friendly.

Itryharder- Im sorry hives are bothering you, hope it clears up soon

I didnt get my miles in last night. In fact the stress of the day just totally set me off and I think I ate like a horse. Wait, I know I did. Today has been a lot better HOWEVER I woke up with my monthly friend quite a few days early ugh. I was actually debating if I should weigh in on Friday. It seems silly but I tend to avoid weigh in around that time.DH was like you have 2 days. I dont know, part of me thinks i should just face it like a woman and WI lol If i see a gain I just dont want to be dissapointed. Just writing this down I already know my answer, Im going to weigh in.

How do you guys handle this?

Olive garden...has an apricot chicken type thing forgot whats its called, comes with asparagus its light and tasty...its sooo not olive garden, but its not heavy, creamy, oh so good, I just ate 2 weeks worth of my WPA lol
You can also do a soup and salad..minestrone porbably has some decent fiber in it.

Thanks everyone. Today has been okay didn't make it to the gym since my contacts were bothering me too bad after class.

KimL Olive garden is not friendly at all. They claim they have healthy options, but when I looked them up it didn't look that friendly. Stay away from the salad and breadsticks. I found that one out the hardway.

to Econ Nerd, it's great that you want to hop on board and start losing your weight. You're just like us! This is a great group of gals who lend support and advice and also write our experiences with food and recipes and staying on track, etc.

Good luck to all of us. This site is hopping and i'm going to start a new thread now. See you all at #238 Bale of Turtles--Isn't it Fall?
judy
234.6/191.4/a70's by 9/30

Welcome Econ Nerd!!

If I was going to Olive Garden I'd probably have salad with dressing on the side (then dip my fork in the dressing for flavour in each bite) and minestrone. Or maybe a half order of eggplant parmesan (I think theirs is baked).

Doing yoga today I noticed that I'm already improving in strength and flexibility in the poses. There's my NSV for the week.