Rabid Thanks for checking in with us...I hope you feel better soon!!!

Terra Glad your days are filled with happiness and you are getting your walks in

Tootsie Yeah it'll be nice staying over here. It's actually my grandmas house, she lives with her but it's definitely going to feel weird staying in a big house instead of my tiny apartment lol...I do live in Myrtle Beach so it's nothing new to me but wanted to be out in the sunshine lol...I might be able to get a walk in between the bands of rain that's coming our way. Isn't weird how foods we were used to eating can all the sudden make us feel yucky after not eating it for awhile. Hope your calves feel better...the soreness is a good thing

Fi The books you are reading sound interesting. I wish I made more time to read but it's been hard for me because I pretty much eat, sleep, work, exercise, repeat...my life is so consumed with work and weight loss that there isn't much time for anything else....At least I feel like there's no time. I do read the news and things like that to keep in the loop, and I love listening to podcasts....Maybe it's time to get a new book that can be enjoyable

Betsy WELCOME BACK!!!! MISSED YOU!!!! I'm so glad to hear you had a good time....It's ok if everything didn't go as planned...it sounds like you had an epiphany while you were there so I think you're going back into the right direction One of these days I'm going to get an RV and tour the country...that's my ultimate vacation right there

Ubee I might not have an official weigh in on Sunday. My mom has a scale but it's about 5 pounds off so I don't know how accurate my weight will be. I wanted to bring my scale and measuring tape but DH said that there was something wrong with me if I couldn't wait until we're back home lol...I might still go over there tomorrow and steal it and bring it over...It's hard for me to wait!!! I LOVE deviled eggs...I have recently found a recipe where people used avocado instead of mayo for their eggs but haven't tried it yet. I have my recipe down to a science, it can get pretty tricky lol...I'm glad you're posting again, I missed you so much!!

Today has been a crazy day...well at least when I got off work. I had to run to my grandmas to let the dog out, then came home and did my cardio video, had to get my kitchen cleaned up before we came over to my grandmas house...That's where I am now, posting on my mom's computer. We had to pack up everything and bring it over here and by the time we made it over here it was so late that we didn't have time to really cook anything, plus all the meat in this house is frozen so there was no way we would wait for something to thaw. We went to this Japanese steak house and I got their low carb bowl where it's just a bunch of veggies and I got the regular hibachi chicken that doesn't have any terriyaki sauce on it. I remember when I used to each Japanese food I'd drown it in that white sauce it comes with...So much fat!!! I use about a tad shy of 1/2 of a small sauce cup full and then put some hot sauce on it. It was good and still stayed within my calories today and the rest of my fat, carbs, and protein. Tomorrow I'm going to try and figure out some leg exercises to do here at the house and maybe try to get a walk in if the rain holds out. It's supposed to come in different bands so I might be able to sneak out for a little bit and take my mom's dog, Skylar with me.

It's pretty late so I'm going to call it a night. DH and I are going to kick back and relax and maybe go to the farmer's market in the morning, weather permitting. Take care my loves!!!

Sam— I know I'm runnin' late about congratulating you for your spectacular 100 pounds down. The thing of it is, I'm so literally struck with awe and good feeling, it's hard to know what to say. I think I had just barely joined the thread when I read your first posting: you were kind of tentative abiout opening up to strangers. I remember how I thought,"Wow—she's really tapped into something special. If I were betting, I'd put my money on her!"

Anyway... whoa... 100 pounds! Way to go!

Good morning! Haven't been able to check in much this week because I have a HUGE lab exam for my A&P class this afternoon, so I've been working and studying non-stop. With all that stress and poor eating this week I'm still down .8 and I really don't know how, but I'll take it!

Hi Mae. Good luck on your exam. Good job on being .8 down.

Just returned from my 5k! First one in about 15 years. As predicted, I finished last place, but there was a lot of encouragement and I really enjoyed it. I took about 67 minutes, which is right about 3mph -- slightly faster than I expected. I highly recommend a small, local 5k race for anyone who is at the point where they can walk 5k, no matter how slow, it really was nice all the encouragement for getting out there and doing it. I'll be back in the one next month!

And I've not had the cactus quite yet. Fiona, interesting that your husband cooks it! They're fairly popular in Mexico cuisine, I hear. I'm still a tad skeptical but willing to give it a go.

Good morning everyone. Feels good to be checking in on all of you -- missed doing that while I was on the road.

Fi Looks like we cross posted yesterday. In terms of recreational reading, it's a mix of thrillers and murder mysteries. I download just about everything to my Kindle and use BookBub to get them for free. I had gotten up to a $100/month kindle habit, and a friend recommended bookbub.com to get daily lists of free or low cost books from Amazon. I did copy down your info about Michael Connelly. Your reading definitely sounds much more intellectual than mine!
Ubee So good to read that you're feeling good. The new tops sound perfect as Wisconsin summers can be such a weather mix as I remember. Hope you have a wonderful Mother's Day tomorrow.
Sam Ignore DH. He would understand if he'd lost 100 pounds on that almost overwhelming need to see that needle actually go beyond the 100 pound point. So excited that you're going to be doing the blog (hopefully!). I know what you mean about the wordiness -- that's one of the reasons I like the genaw site as she just gives the recipe, posts a picture, and then at the bottom puts in some interesting detail like using what she had on hand instead of what the recipe called for and her opinion of the recipe. She makes it real!
MaeCrochet Good luck with your exams!
RabidStoat Way to go on the 5K!!!!! Doesn't matter if you came in first or last the fact that you did it and finished. So proud of you and in awe and inspired to do so much better.

Today is powerwash-the-deck day and take-the-covers-off-the-deck-furniture day. Tomorrow is put-up-the-screens-to-have-a-screened-in-porch day. I think on Monday I'll run around and get the good potting soil and buy the annuals to put in the planters. Tuesday I have to take Bill to the airport for this month's trip to Illinois. And Wednesday I guess I won't be able to procrastinate any longer and need to start on getting the yard whipped into shape. It will all get done. Eventually.

Time for the crossword and Sudoku and coffee. Have a great day.

Hi everyone.
Today is a perfect Wisconsin day! It is in the 60's. Everything is lush green. The fruit trees all have blossoms, most importantly my daughters meds are back where they need to be! Bonus I did not have any refined sugar yesterday, only fruit.
Betsy you have a screened porch? I am envious. We have 237 days to get to our goal.
rabid I am so proud of you for finishing your 5k! 3mph is fast for me. That is running in my book. Have you always been active?
Mae way to go on .8 down!
Sam there would be nothing stopping me from that weigh in on Sunday. Even if I had to run back home in my nightie!
Fi, tootsie, Terra,... how are you?
Our store can not get strawberries due to the drought. It is causing some fruit/food anxiety. Growing up in Wisconsin you could only get fruit in season. Blueberries, strawberries and the like were only available about two weeks out of the year. We have become so fortunate. My parents were teenagers during the depression and I still carry their depression era thinking. Anyone else have that?
Have a peaceful day.

Tootsie ~ Yes My day is going well. I just wish my sore throat would go away but other then that I'm doing good.

Ubee ~ No thankfully we havent got any of the nasty weather thats been on the news just thunder and lighting.

Sam ~ Congrats Girl, Good going on being 100 pounds down, I'm not even 50 pounds down yet, Your doing awesome. Keep it up. Yup I know I cant do one without the other, Exercise and Diet, I know some people can but I'm not one of them.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Good Afternoon Ladies - So far today I've taken a shower, I still need to clean the house and go for my daily walk. I'm still trying to get through my shows though. I'm slowly getting through them. I'll check in tomorrow. Take care everyone

Hi everyone.

Betsy, welcome back. you were missed. So glad you had a good vacation.

Fi, I read mostly fiction, murder mysteries and horror. Stephen King, Jonathan Kellerman, Stephen White and Dean Koontz are my favorite writers, and I definitely re-read my favorites.

Rabid, congratulations on your 5K. That's wonderful. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Sam, I can't wait to hear your official weigh-in, but you've got this.

Terra, I don't have as many lazy days in the summer because we are outside so much more.

Mae, good luck with your exam today.

Hi Tootsie and Ubee.

I have been completely out of control with eating this week. DH set me off Monday night by saying something quite insensitive during a spat. It had nothing to do with my weight - he would never go there, but I was upset and grabbed a can of Pringles - his. Spats between us are uncommon so I was upset about it, and I am an emotional eater. Since then, it's been impossible to get back on track. I do fine with breakfast and lunch but every night this week we have ordered out, and none of it has been healthy. The weather has been unusually warm here for May and I haven't felt like cooking, but that isn't an excuse for eating badly. Tomorrow we are going to DH's daughter's house for a bbq and I'm already thinking that I'm not going to get back on track until Monday, which happens to be DH's birthday. His daughter is having a cake for him tomorrow, so I'm thinking that relieves me from having one for him Monday, but we'll see.

I will check in tomorrow.

Good Afternoon Everyone!!

Fi Awwww thank you so much!!! I wouldn't say I'm a private person, just a little shy, but I have opened up a lot since joining 3FC....along with diet and exercise, joining 3FC was one of the best things I could have done for myself. I'm glad I found this place when I did, who knows where I may be had I not.

Mandy Hello!!! Thanks for checking in with us and good luck on your exam!!! With all that studying I'm sure you'll do fine

Rabid Congrats on the 5K today!!! You did amazing!!! I remember when I was first starting out with exercising, my BIL tried to help me out and decided we would go to the park one day and see how long it'd take me to go around this huge pond, it is just a little bit over 1 mile...It took me like 21 minutes to complete it, but when I was going and pushing with all my might I had several people yell out words of encouragement and that really helped me along...It's nice to see that there are still people in the world who can be encouraging when it seems like the world is against you and only there to make fun of you. I'm glad you had a great time!

Betsy It's great to have you back!!! Yeah I'm ignoring him lol...I'm going over to my house in a little bit to check on my cats and the turtle and give them some food and I will be picking up my things to weigh in tomorrow. I don't care what he says. I was going to try and hold out but meh...It's my official weigh in day and I'd like to keep a good log seeing as I had slacked off a couple months with measuring myself and such. So glad you had a good time on your trip and it sounds like you have a lot of house work to do!! I love planting flowers but they always die on me lol...I don't have much of a green thumb but I miraculously have been able to have an orchid in my office grow back every year for the past 4 years. Don't ask me how lol...I even had to show my very green thumbed grandmother how to keep an orchid because she kept killing hers! LOL

Betsy Glad the weather is nice there today and that your daughter's meds are back to where they are. I wanted to get some strawberries this morning at the farmer's market but we didn't go because the weather has been really iffy today and windy as all get out. It's funny about what you said with the depression era thinking...I don't really have that since it was my grand parents who grew up during the depression but being over here at my grandmas shows me she hasn't stopped with that thinking....She has enough canned goods to feed her for a year probably lol....well maybe not that much but I steer away from most canned goods unless it's tomatoes and even then I get the organic, NSA ones.

Terra I'm right there with ya girly...I gotta do both too to get the weight off...Seems like if I eat everything right but don't exercise I don't lose the weight. Hope the weather is nice today for your walk and get to enjoy some good shows!

Cindy I know the spats all too well....On top of me being very shy, I am really sensitive and emotional...I'm sure my PCOS has a good deal to do with that, and having bi-polar disorder which is a double whammy for me. I emotionally eat too but somehow I have fought the temptation on more than one occasion. You'll get back on track don't worry about it. What's the saying....Fall down 7 times, get up 8....What matters is if we have something that sets us back, we recognize it, dust ourselves off, and move forward. Without doing that you're fighting a losing battle. There's nothing wrong with having a cheat meal every once in awhile, but the hard part is making it not a cheat day or falling completely off track. We have to bounce back and I think for people who have been overweight for a long time, or just anyone who enjoys food, it's hard to bounce back sometimes. Here for ya doll anytime!!

So wow today has been pretty amazing. DH and I had a little bit of a restless night being in a new place over night so we didn't get much sleep. He's taking a nap now and I just finished my workout....more on that in a minute. I got up and we went the store to grab a few things to make breakfast...I had an egg bowl and DH had breakfast burritos. Had to do some tidying up around the house, feed the animals clean the cat box, that sort of thing. We relaxed for much of the morning playing some video games together and watching Saturday morning cartoons...Yes, I am a 28 year old who still watches cartoons...I probably watch more cartoons than I do regular shows lol...I'm not ashamed!! :P Then DH decided to go take a nap because he got even less sleep than me. He woke up 1/2 way through my work out because he couldn't sleep but then went back to bed.

Soooo....I wanted to tell you guys about my workout today!!! Since my Turbo Jam videos are on my computer at home I had to figure out something. The weather has been really cloudy, rainy and windy then all the sudden it started to get sunny outside and almost took mom's dog for a walk, but with the wind I didn't want to chance getting stuck in the rain. So apparently their cable provider has a fitness on demand channel...I found this video called Kickboxing Cardio Burn, it's just a little over an hour long and you burn 1,000 calories by the end of it!!! I was like, heck yeah I'm there!! It was nice to have something different to do for a change and I was actually able to keep up...I thought I sweated a lot when I did the Turbo Jam videos but holy cow did I sweat!!! After I did that, today was a planned leg day so I went to Instagram to find some leg workouts I could do at home...It was a total of 6 different moves and you went through all of them 3 times. So here are the totals of everything I did:

180 Donkey Kicks
90 Bridges
180 Lunges
90 Squats
90 Pile Squats
180 Side Lunges

AMAZING!!!! I figured after having the Japanese last night, and I ate 2 pieces of peanut butter fudge I had to make up for it so I said, ok go big or go home!!! I'm sure last night's meal probably didn't effect me much but I said, what the hey I got this huge living room to work out in, why not. I'm sure my legs are going to be thanking me for tomorrow's leg day.

Tonight we're going to make a healthy version of chicken bog. I'll be having cauliflower rice as my rice portion of it, then we have some organic chicken thighs I got on sale that I brought over and got the onion, celery and some turkey kielbasa to go with it, which I will be only eating a few small slices of that and eating mainly chicken. I've got some pork ribs thawing out for tomorrow. DH is going to cook them and make a home made BBQ sauce for them. I'm not big on ribs but he is so maybe I can have some BBQ chicken on the grill tomorrow if the weather is ok....It's so wishy washy right now with that tropical storm out in the ocean.

Well I need to hit the showers guys and find a snack to eat. I accidentally skipped lunch today...only because I had a little bit of a late breakfast. Oh and btw for those asking how eating is going over here....not too bad. There's some snacks here that can be a little tempting, mainly the tortilla chips lol but overall they don't have much over here that I find appetizing so I'm going to have to get a little creative...I crave fresh veggies these days so all this frozen and canned crap is killing me lol...

Have a great rest of the day everyone!!

Cindy ~ Oh okay I understand what your saying now, Thanks for explaining it to me.

Sam ~ Yeah I'm glad I'm not the only one that has to do both diet and exercise to lose weight. Yeah I'm gonna walk this morning in case it storms again today that way I would have still gotten my walking out of the way. Yep I'm enjoying my shows. Do you watch t.v? If so what shows do you watch?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Good Morning Ladies - Its 5 a.m. right now I've been up for an hour. At 8 this morning Mom and I are gonna go to Walmart to do some shopping and we might go to breakfast, If we go to breakfast, I pay for both mom and I since its Mother's Day but Mom also mentioned that she would like a hanging flower plant but she hasnt told me yet if she wants breakfast for Mother's Day or a hanging flower plant, I'll do whichever one she wants. I told mom I would do both but I just cant do it all in one month but she said I didnt have to do that. I would if she wanted me too though. Anyway I need to make sure I walk sometime this morning before it starts storming just in case it storms today. What is everyone's plans for Mother's Day today? Well I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend.

Terra I'm into all kinds of different shows...I watch a lot of sci-fy stuff like Firefly, and Star Trek...But I also like Sons of Anarchy, Brooklyn 99, Gotham, Breaking Bad, Weeds....Crime dramas are good too Hope you're able to get your walk in today. The rain has finally hit here so not sure if I'll go out for a stroll today or not.

Well my official weigh in is here....239.6...So I've lost a total of 100.4!!! Earlier in the week I weighed less but I'm thinking maybe I've gained a bit of it back from muscle soreness or something like that. My legs feel SO TIGHT this morning from all those leg exercises...That's a good thing though. Even though I wanted to lose more this week I'm ok with it, at least it's a loss.

I've decided eating eggs for breakfast every single day is not for me. In the past I'd eat them only on the weekends and I think that is what's best for me. So next week I'm going to be going back to the oatmeal and strawberries for breakfast and that will be the only time I eat my fruit in a day to try and stay under my carbs.

Today's going to be a lazy day I feel. The rain finally started last night and it's pretty dark and nasty over here. I definitely need the rest after yesterday's workout. Maybe DH and I can snuggle up and watch a good movie or something.

Going to continue to tweak my eating this next week and test things out, see how they go....I'm off to make breakfast now..Hope everyone has a great day!

CONGRATULATIONS SAM!


I am so proud of you!

Happy Mother's Day -- to everyone who has children as well to those of us who don't have any of our own, but try to nurture others. Miss my mom every day, but especially on Mother's Day.

Ubee Way to go on the no sugar. And, yes, I so remember growing up with having fresh veggies and/or fruit only certain times of the year. My parents were in high school and college during the depression and got married in 1938 while it was still going on. And while I buy way too much stuff, I definitely learned my money management and making do skills from them. My mom would pick up a penny off the ground every time she saw one (and so do I!). One time after they got married, they had collected 5 bottles to cash in at 2 cents each so they'd have a dime to buy one bottle (small 6 or 8 ounce ones then) to share. My mom dropped one of the bottles and broke it, and they didn't have another 2 cents so no soda as a treat. That story really stuck with me throughout my life -- both in terms of not getting things until I had the money to pay for them and just how bad the 30s were in terms of money.
Terra Glad all the tornadoes that hit in OK didn't swing up your way. I am sure that your mom will love whatever you do and it's sweet of you to want to be so generous.
Cindy I don't remember being over at your house yesterday, but I swear I could have written your post. There's a part of me that feels like posting on 3FC has allowed me to see that I'm not alone in these habits of sabotaging my eating. The good part is that knowing that, my falling off the wagon seems to happen for shorter duration than when I'd just give up and regain all of the weight I had lost. Do you find that it's almost like detoxing your body to get back to eating healthy? Good luck!
Sam Ubee and I donned our cheerleader outfits to give you a big yell of whoopee! You have reached a milestone for yourself and given us all hope of seeing triple digits in the loss column. Way to go!!!!!

Really do need to get the porch power scrubbed today. Yesterday was a complete wash out -- arthritis has just been killing me lately and I just didn't feel like doing it. Of course, the more I move around, the better it feels so there's a Catch 22 in there.

Bill leaves for another trip on Tuesday, so I'll have Becky (his dog) for the next two weeks. Toby will be in 7th heaven. It's definitely time to start working in the yard and getting it whipped into shape -- working on landscaping it so that it is low maintenance.....or at least lower maintenance.

Breakfast and coffee time! Have a wonderful day.

Mother's Day... I don't ever think much about my mother, because she was abusive to me. Now she's got Alzheimer's and lives in a fancy "memory care" facility in Houston. But I'm in favor of the holiday, for sure, for those with healthy minds and/or for those who left good memories behind them. Bob's family will be getting together today with his mom, who also has Alzheimer's, but is usually pretty with it in the afternoon.

My personal bugaboo is the damn stairs. They're the only place in the house where we left the ugly cream-colored carpeting, and the cats have been enjoying it as a sort of cat tree. It is convenient to have carpet to climb. Speaking of cat trees... Bob did some serious shopping and found one that he thinks would be better than anything he could make himself, so we have it on order.

Every time I try to climb the stairs myself, the first step is so painful, I have to stop the attempt. So the next time Bob & I are up for it, we're going to work together to see what we can come up with in the way of a less painful approach. We've been very careful about our bathroom routine, so I haven't fallen in several days. My bruised & sore legs are recovering, slowly. But I still get spasms from time to time. It feels like a long wait until June 11th, when we see the neurologist again.