Good morning all! The sun is shining here in Texas and it looks like its going to be a beautiful day. Had rain all day yesterday so stayed indoors and was lazy.
Tree - welcome back. congrats on new job. Its always easier to go to a job that you like, makes life better.

BOB - hope you make it back safely. Looks like DH and I picked a good week to go to SC on our golf trip. We went from Dec 16 - Dec 20th, a week before the weather blew in.

to all those at WDW - sounds like you guys are having fun. Food sounded good to. tell Frog I said good luck. Hope the weather is nice down there.



Have yet to start on an exercise program. The TM keeps calling my name but I just refuse to answer. I will make a gallant effort tonite to walk on it.

Whats everyone's secret on Exercise motivation. I know I should do it, but how do you continue after you start. I usually get bored after a week or so. I have the TM, yoga for golf tape, weight workout tapes.

Well gotta run.

Catlover--I know just what you mean about the exercise. I feel the same way. I have so many irons in the fire that, first of all, it is very hard to even find the time to go out for that walk. I hate to tear myself away from studying my French or whatever. Then, actually, I find that exercise thing very boring. So that makes it hard to get motivated. I know I could walk a couple of miles a day, but just doing it is the hard part. Maybe we could work something out where we were accountable to each other for doing it, or SOMETHING!! Any ideas? Let me know.

Big Orange--More quotes and info on your favorite (former) coach that you love to hate: “He was both a uniter and a divider, beloved by his fans, deplored by everyone else's. Most of all, he was different — a change of pace in a sport that has become a
business in the 30 years between the time Spurrier won the Heisman in 1966 and led the Gators to their national title in 1996.”
"It's going to be different, just because he's Steve and nobody else is like him. And now, all those other teams are going to have to find new reasons to hate us."
There was even an article about an FSU fan who actually regretted seeing SOS leave because the level of ball he brought to the college game.
We are all still waiting to see who the new guy will be. The two names most mentioned are Mike Shanahan of the Denver Broncos and, of course, Bob Stoops.

More about the Marathon:
My DH and I drove out to Disney about 8:30 this morning and expected Frog and her DH, Bill. to be about an hour+ from the finish line by the time we got there at 9:30. Right after we arrived a huge storm pelted the area with torrents of cold rain and wind. We got pretty wet. Then, we couldn’t find Deb or Solshine because of a problem with Deb’s cell phone. The finish line was so packed with people that we could not even begin to get close. So after trying to find a spot for viewing where we could see even a little bit, and milling around for a while, we decided to check out and head back home. I did hear from Debbie later and Frog and Bill were running a little slower than they thought. We think they will finish in about 6 hours instead of the 5 she was hoping for. Last time she ran in that race she did it in 6.5 hours, so this will be an improvement.. Since I didn’t get to talk with them, I am wondering if she froze because of the cold rain. Normally a runner doesn’t get too cold when running in just cold air, because the running keeps you pretty heated up. But the rain may be another matter.

More info about our lunch yesterday. I forget to mention that Debbie brought a very good zucchini bread that we also had as part of our meal. I hope I didn’t forget anything else.

I am typing all this on my word program because I found out something about our “reply” board. If you change ANYTHING in the format while you are typing, for example, if you resize the page, or if your attachment at the bottom of the page is something that the 3FC program doesn’t like and you have to use another one instead, then you lose everything you have typed. I started a post and had just typed a couple of lines and went to resize my page and lost all my post. So, be forewarned.

To all my SEC Sugar Buster friends and sports fans, including Big Orange and Fillise, Fruitloupe, etc. here is a fascinating read about Spurrier and the other SEC teams that I think you will find amusing and also true. Enjoy!
http://espn.go.com/ncf/columns/forde_pat/1305836.html

Good Morning....or afternoon I should say! I'm alive and well, enjoying the beautiful day we are having!

Hope everyone has a great time on getting together in Florida...better not forget cameras and take plenty of mug shots to share with the rest of us!!!

Dan the Man and I went out to dinner last night and then to a movie. One of those miracle nights when both kids spent the night a friends.

I was watching the "Food Network" yesterday and they had an incredible cooking show in Morroco (sp?) DEB!!!! I couldn't help think about you and Eli and the chicken he made all of us, and found my recipes I had copied out of your cookbook, and was ready to prepare a feast! They cooked a recipe on the show for "Chicken Tangine with Loives and Preserved Lemons" that looked soooooo good. I went to my Moms and picked a gob of lemons, and am ready to roll!

Sef- Thanks for the warm welcome back. You are doing GREAT with your weight. Congrats for being on the board for a year....you are so close to goal! That's wonderful!

Yikes.....I have to go retrieve Nadia from a slumber-party....The Dad said they were up ALL NIGHT, so I'm sure she'll be a walking Zombie today!

Check in later!!!! Love to all, Nancy

Hi gals,
I am new to this folder - but have been posting elsewhere for over a year. I love this WOE - it works well for me! As you can see, I'm another Floridian! We live in a retirement development of 600 families and love it here. Been in this state 30 years but we hail from NJ. I lead a support group for SB in our clubhouse on Saturday mornings. One of the gals raised a question about cooking with tofu - which I have never done. Is there a better brand? Do you know where I can find recipes that include tofu???

Hi Everyone, sounds like you FLA GALS had a blast yesterday. Sorry to hear that the day did not work out today with the nasty weather finally getting your way. Hope Frog & Mr. Frog were able to finish the race without getting sick. Sounds like they'll have a heck of a time getting back home as well with the weather.

DH got our tree down yesterday while I was at work, bless his heart. I hate to have to take it down. It's such a chore. Anyway, now all I need to do is get the rest of the decorations that he missed.

Having Chilly Chili Night at church tonight, so I made my Lentil Chili & a Chocolate CheeseCake with the Special K crust to bring. Smells so good in here that I'm tempted to eat BEFORE I leave with it

Was up a lb today on the scale. This yoyo drives me crazy. I'll go down a couple of lbs then all of a sudden I'll go up again. Oh well, I guess maybe if I could get back into exercising & drinking enough water I would do better, you think? But after I'm so beat from work I just don't have the energy. Yesterday was like a mad house. I worked a 12 hr shift with hardly a bathroom break, let only have time to eat lunch or drink even a cup of coffee, & I'm up a lb instead of down? Go figure.

Well, enough complaining. Sorry about that. Just came to say hello. See ya! 174/139/135

Good Evening everyone!

Well just got through with dinner. This is the first time I've used the WW pasta (we had spaghetti). Amazingly enough the family liked it!! After all the negative comments on the looks of the pasta in the box (ewwww it's brown) I am quite pleased.

Went down to Whole foods today and was able to get 3 bottles of the agave syrup. I do some baking and would like to have that on hand. I have never baked using splenda or any of the other substitute sweetners. I've been downloading recipes from the files.

Catlover & Gatorgal I know exactly what you mean about exercising. It takes every ounce of will power for me to get on the treadmill. Even with the TV there, I can't really hear it over the treadmill. I do however go to Tae Kwondo 3 nights a week. I just started last week and boy is it a workout. My daughter was not to pleased I joined (she's a green belt) thinking Mom would cramp her style. I pretty much ignored her and talked with one of the other Moms that was there and joined with me.

I hope I have as good a week next week weight wise as last week. I am down 4 pounds. Have a great week everyone!

Tina in TX
229/225/150

Thanks for the warm welcome back. You guys are great!

My new job is still at a fertility clinic, which is great. I thought I would have to leave the field! I'm still working at the old place for awhile (you know, "giving notice" and all that). I've become a persona non grata already with the management. Luckily, the rest of the staff are supportive and great friends to boot. I will miss them.

Sounds like you all have been having lots of fun while I've been gone!

Welcome to the Newbies! This is a great site, very supportive and informative.

I must say I've cheated a bit since the holidays. As for the exercise, what exercise?! Amazingly enough, just with the SB WOE I've kept the lost weight off. Now it's time to lose the next 16#, so I need to get on the TM too!

Well, gotta go, DH is wondering where I got to.

Went to the Health Food Store today to look for some agave nectar. They didn't have any. I did find something that looks interesting. I found a hot cereal called "Brown Rice Cream". It's like Cream of Wheat but it is Brown Rice and it has "0" sugars. I don't know how it is yet, but I'll let you know.

I found a recipie on the recipie board for "hummus" and so I bought the ingredients to make that and some ww pitas and tortillas.

Thanks everyone for the kind welcome.

Sheann

It's a new week, and the NEW WEEKLY BOARD is up and running!

Here's the link!Just click on it and it will take you right to the new board:

http://64.119.161.199/forum/showthre...threadid=12324

See you there!