ONLY 20 DAYS TILL REGISTRATION FOR THE WDW HALF MARATHON!!!!!!!!!

Ditto what Fillise said..... I have about 10 projects that have to be done RIGHT NOW - Everything is top priority and I don't know where to start! Today I told one of my co-workers I couldn't even *think* about the revisions he was suggesting until we finish what we've got on our plate right now. I musta had a mean look on my face cause he looked scared and backed away. Oops!

My Meister is a sick puppy. He called from work yesterday and asked me to pick up some cough syrup on my way home (he refuses to shop, buy gas or anything in his police uniform). So today I confined him to the couch and the internet. I told him the only time I wanted him to leave the house was to go straight to Blockbuster and straight home - no going out running errands, fixing things or anything else. He refuses to stop and then his body stops him - and when that happens it lasts for a week. He's not your typical man - he doesn't whine or want to be babied when he's sick - he's mean and angry because he can't get up and 'do' things. I'm going to have to rent every Arnold Schwarzenegger and action flick in the place to keep him on the couch.

We're still looking for that racing bike for him and will do some shopping for that on Saturday and Sunday I'm going to update my photo album and clean my closet. I'm afraid to look in there!

Did my weights on Wed - walked 2 miles last night (my 'slow' night) - Tonight will be weights again before my 'long' day on Saturday. I'll do the 5.5 miles again - hopefully the time will be better, though.

Well, I better get back to work. Had comfort food today - tuna cassarole with WW spiral noodles, cream of mushroom soup, canned tuna, and peas. Yummy!

DEBBIE CONGRATS TO MICHAEL - AND HIS MOMMY WHO TAUGHT HIM THE DISCIPLINE AND PERSISTANCE TO STUDY AND BE HIS BEST!!

FROG THANKS FOR POSTING THE PICS - YOU DO LOOK AWESOME!!! I never saw your 'before' picture - you HAVE come a long way, Baby!! You never cease to motivate me!! No wonder Spewer is so mean - she's JEALOUS - your the 'BEAUTIFUL PERSON' in that group!!

QUILTER I LOVE that sauerkraut dish! I made a similar one with apples in it - but it made me sick - apples cooked in food does not agree with me!

NASCAR - They had the meet the drivers night last night - all over the news - including Dale's new statue - I thought of you! Your countdown is almost over!

MEL I'm soooo jealous! I wish I could come meet y'all for lunch, but with work being so busy there's no way they would even approve the time off.

RHOO WHERE ARE YOU????? ARE WE GOING TO HAVE TO SEND OUT GUIDO WITH THE WAGON????

I'm sorry I can't get to everyone. Have a great day!

Hiyas Everyone!! Got off work on TIME on a Friday... WooHoooooo!!!!!


DEB - I've had my mail forwarded to the ladies room if that answers you.. LOL!! I'm not doing that much today... I've only had 60 oz so far and it's almost 1pm. Yes, we have 2 Starbucks I think... we have one inside our brand new SuperTarget, and one inside Barnes & Noble... I adore that store. I haven't had any SB lately, because my fav's are the cold and sweet ones, so I haven't been there I can't make coffee worth a crap at home, it never tastes right... Oh and Blue's death was determined of natural causes

JRED - I'm glad I could give you a smile!! It was my son's fish, and his birthday is the 18th, so he is going fish shopping for his birthday! No, I didn't know your brother lived here

Frog - I'm sure Blue the Betta will be swimming with yours today I have had chronic UTI's since I had my youngest son... he was 10.3 lbs and something happened to my bladder, now it doesn't empty all the way sometimes. When I call my doc, she calls in Antibiotic, Pyridium (the stuff to numb your bladder and makes ya pee orange..lolol!!), AND Diflucan!! I love her. She knows me... I take the Diflucan halfway through the antibiotics, and NO more yeast trouble!! I used to eat a lot of bread and sugar too, and yeast thrives on that, so now that I'm not eating that stuff, I probably won't be as succeptable (sp) to the yeast. I get UTI about once every 2 months... and I knew the potty before and after <ahem>... they told me that about 5 years ago after my first UTI



Hope everyone is having a wonderful Friday


BTW - the threads are getting long because I never shut up LOL!

Just a brief catch up -

DEB - Michael is doing great! And so are you to have kids that are so interested in school. Give us your secrets!

BOB - I'm really happy you are posting losses again!!!!! Can ya bring that wagon around (along with a really cute and strong guy to help me climb in) so I get get losing again too?

BETH - I know that you have been with your doctor awhile and are happy, but just in case, has she cultured your UTI? I understand from my connections through work that if there are recurrent UTIs they need to be cultured to make sure that the right antibiotic is used. Could be it was right for you before, but the bacteria has changed. Just a thought, I'm not doctor, that's for sure

Have a good day, ladies and Daramus, and I'll try to sneak in later.

Karen

Karen - She cultured them the first few times, and then did tests and found out my bladder doesn't empty all the way sometimes, so that's why... the antibiotic she gives me always knocks it right out in a few days, and it's a couple of months before I get another one.

Just a quickie to the 2 ladies listed above.
SOL - Thanks for the sweet comments. Never realized that you hadn't seen my "before" pic. That pic was taken just before I hit rock bottom in October 2000. I just hope all the work I'm now doing for BFL will pay off. I really do want to lose this last 20 by May 1 which is doable at about 1.5 pounds a week. Keep your fingers crossed for me. Sorry to hear that Vince is not feeling well. Bill is just like him when he is sick. He wants to be left alone! I on the other hand want to fully pampered. Send him some get well wishes from The Frogs! You're doing FABULOUS with your exercising. Keep it up girl!

BETH - Between your doc and all of us on the board we are going to attempt to put an end to that UTI problem! Next thing you know we'll be trying to tell you how to do a home-self bladder tack! Isn't it great to have so many people who are interested in helping out though? Hope you're feeling better too, and BTW glad you know to tinkle-linkle after, how was it that you put it? <ahem> ! Funny!

Later!

Peace,
FROG

hi everybody,

just a quick note to everyone. i was in the kitchen yesterday fixing comfort foods for my ailing daughter sarah when she calls out "mom, merv griffin is talking to rosie about how much he likes AGAVE NECTAR! the only part i caught was that he likes it on spelt toast in the morning! i was cracking up as i visioned a run on agave by all of these talk show celebrities! maybe merv is the reason for the shortage debbie?

bad, bad news! tonight after dinner i pick up 135 boxes of girl scout cookies, i need to do all in my power to get them delivered as soon as possible. i wish the keebler elf would drop by and pass them out. then on sunday i have to sit at a booth while the little darlings sell them. i will take my legal snacks and plenty of water to keep me company!

in between everything else i need to SHOP for something to wear to the football banquet, nothing fits. what a good but rather inconvenient feeling, look out dillards here i come!

bye for now,

chris

happy late birthday Daramus

Well what a fun week this has been.......NOT!!!!!!! I am exhausted from all the driving I have done this week and next week is going to be just as bad. I have field trips Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

I have been checking the scale every morning and so far I am staying at the same wieght ....which is halfway to goal.....yeahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!

Tomorrow is going to be pretty and warmer so I plan on riding April.....hopefully I can get some good pictures to post soon.

Hello to all ....I love all your posts ....just no time to respond.

But I did want to say Happy Belated Birthday to Daramus!!!!!

Bye now...
Debbie


210/180/150

since 8/18/01

Evening All

Hope your last day of the work week was good! Just taking a break while I wait for some butter to soften. I'm making a batch of OATMEAL COOKIES with a new recipe. Hoping they come out good. I hate when something doesn't come out well as it is, but when using the agave and it being a rare commondity soon, I hate to even think about having to throw something away if it doesn't come out well.

Got a call a few minutes ago from the HFS up in Broward to let me know that my next 2 cases of agave did indeed come in That makes 72 bottles PLUS the ones that Avis shipped me before she left the company-which I think is about 16, plus a few other stragglers. I'm still toying with the idea of ordering 2 more cases

Went to a smaller HFS that I go to once in a blue moon, very small and very expensive, but they have some unusual stuff from time-to-time. Today, I took a shot and bought these things called SOYA-CAESAR PROTEIN CHIPS made by KAYS NATURALS. I very hesitantly plunked down $3.59 for a 6oz box of these little crackers and walked out the door. Opened the box as soon as I got outside and surprisingly, they were DELICIOUS! Here's the ingredients: Whole wheat flour, isolated soy protein, rice flour, natural vegetable oil, pea fiber, calcium carbonate, sea salt, onion powder, garlic powder, rosemary, parsley, pepper, cumin, cinnamon, and natural seasonings and the nutritional information is

Serving size - 30 chips (30g)
Amount Per Serving

They have 3 other flavors, but I was only able to find this one. If you can find them, they are worth buying, IMHO!

FROG, you can view more posts on less pages if you want. For me, I'm only at 4 pages-but heck, I'm thrilled with 4 pages and all the posts-we are really hot on this board!!!

FILLISE, have a good trip, wherever you are going! See you when you get back

SOL, hope you aren't running around like a chicken with it's head cut off with all these projects. Hope VINCE is feeling better-tell him we all say so.

BETH, I think today I should have my phone calls, at least, forwarded to the potty room-been drinking and peeing, but not enough of the later-def. retaining water, which gets me not to want to drink more-oye, what a vicious cycle! Both of those STARBUCKS are licensed and not owned by SB-no actual stores in your area? You think you can't make coffee, you should see me try! We don't even drink coffee at home, only if we have a party do we break it out, or if Michael has studying late into the night, he'll make some in our French Press. OR, if BOB comes for a visit, we HAVE to make lots of coffee!!!!!!!!

KAREN, no secrets at all with the kids and school. I just know how I was when I was a kid and said mine won't be like that. Luckily, they both like school and do well in it. I'm a stickler for them being there on time and neither has ever been abscent-my motto-DYING OR DEAD, YOU'RE GOING TO SCHOOL!! Actually, I think they love it when people hym and haw over them when they find out they've never been late/abscent

BIGK, thanks for the tip on the ROSIE SHOW! Heck, I hope there isn't a run on the agave! Not that I really need to buy more, but I'm toying with the idea of getting 2 more cases and sure don't want to have to go beat up Merv Griffin over getting the agave! I'm SURE those cookies won't bother you at all Hope you sell lots of them-just think of all those women who are buying them and invision them just strapping the entire box as-is to their hips, thighs, stomach, etc!!!!

BUSDEB, have a good weekend and enjoy your time out with APRIL!

Okay, I guess I'll go back in the kitchen and see if the butter has softened up so I can finish making these cookies. Will give you an update once they are done.

Have a great weekend!

Debbie
194/125/129
SB since 3/22/00
Reached goal 6/10/01

HELP!!!!! Okay, I'm guilty, I just KNEW when I made those cookies it spelled trouble with a capital T! I think I've had something like 6-7, maybe more. Get this, LAUREN even liked them! They are barely sweet, which I think is due to them originally having raisins, where the raisins would bring in some sweetness, but I tend to like a slightly sweet cookie moreso than a really sweet one anyhow.

BOB, I'm holding on to each and every bottle of agave I have stashed in the family room closet-not even if my Mother begs me for one shall I part with it, okay, maybe Mom, but no one else! Eli didn't mention anything about free FRAPS-will have to ask him when he gets his big ol but home!

Later!

Debbie

Now you've got ME craving oatmeal cookies! As soon as I read the post that you were baking them, I knew what the next one would be!

Yesterday I hit a real low- I did my measurements and compared them to when I started BFL and discovered my waist is 1" BIGGER. The scale not moving finally doesn't bug me too much (BOB-I'm right there in your article under "hysterical"). After I saw that, it didn't much matter what else the tape or mirror showed, I was done for. So today, I've had a stomach ache ALL DAY from the humungous meal I stuffed down at Outback. The crazy thing is, it would have been a reasonable meal for me 6 months ago. But things always look better in the morning, or at least not quite so tragic. I ate right, am almost up to a gallon and a half of water, and had an awesome arms workout at the gym. I can actually see striations on my shoulder muscles- hope no one thinks that's gross on women! BTW- FROG and ZANNE: no zits here, but I'm older than you. Except for the gashes and bruises from falling over dumbells and weight plates, my skin's never looked better. Maybe it's just an adjustment thing....what's getting to me is the noxious fumes from so much protein!

Beth- I always take the phone into the potty with me, I'm in there so much. BTW, after each of my kids was born, I was the queen of UTI's for a few years, and yeast infections. Mine stopped- only very infrequently now. Hope yours do too. Sorry about Blue- we could never seem to kill ours and they hung around forever. Since the kids would never clean the tank, I got stuck with the job and am not real fond of fish. When dd was in 5th grade, she had to do a science experiment involving ecosystems and she decided to see if her angelfish (very plural) would live in the pond. Viola! end of her fish! DS killed his eventually by introducing a fairly nasty thingy with teeth into his tank...also predictable results. Now I won't let him get any more until he proves he can clean the tank by keeping the hall bath clean He'll be 50 before he gets fish again!

BKM- Good luck with those GS cookies. I used to have a freezer full every year because the leader (me) always ended up having to buy the rest of the troop's allotment. I discovered they're pretty good frozen, too. Now I just scowl and the girls scouts trying to push their sugar at me! Boy do I sound mean today, actually I'm not.

Busdeb- I hope you have a lovely weekend and get to ride out all those kinks from too much driving.

Gotta go- Olympics are starting!

mel

Well, today was a bad eating day. I skipped breakfast since I was running late to school (made it on time, though!). I normally don't eat breakfast anyway, but I have been trying to change that. Then on the way home I decided to get some Jamba Juice instead of going home and eating. Oh, man, I love Jamba Juice!Then my sister ordered pizza and I decided I was going to cheat today lol. Only had 3 pieces though, so I figure I did ok. I starded SB about a week before new years, and in that time I have not had a chip, ice cream, cookie, cake, soda (aside from diet) or cheated in any other way EXCEPT for pizza. This will be the second time I've had pizza... it's not that I have a special craving for it, per se, but it appeals to the laziness factor in me. Let's see, there is steaming hot fresh pizza (ready now) or there is x, y, or z that will take me 5, 10, 20 minutes or whatever. No contest! GRRRR! Worse part is that I know I will end up having heartburn, but I still ate it anyway. Wasn't even that good, either! Bah.... I know tomorrow is another day!

Good evening all

Deb - You made a comment a couple of days ago about journalling every day to help you to stay on track and not overeat. I agree that it does make a difference, although I find it hard to do it every day. I will do it for a few days then slack off. Since you started the FOOD FOR THOUGHT board I was journalling most days even tho I didn't post to the board every day. But the last couple of days I have not been doing it and do I notice the difference. To-day and yesterday have been bad days for eating too many starchy carbs. It's all been legal but just too much of it. I bought some new bread to-day - I bought three different kinds and had to try a small piece of each, plus a handful of peanuts, and a couple of legal oatmeal cookies. You know how it goes. I would like to accept your offer of getting me a case of agave when I visit - if you are still able to get it. I would like BKM to get me a case too - I mentioned it to her in my last post. The company I ordered it from do not have it in stock at present. Who know's if they will be able to get any. Even if they do I'd like to get a good supply if I can - have to try and keep a good supply of the almond granola for snacking. I'm missing it already. Also I bought cream cheese last week to make the crustless cheesecake but didn't have enough agave to make it. I'm sure that weight you gained will come off soon, as you know from experience that it will. Just takes patience, which you obviously have a lot of. I copied out your article on CRAVINGS at work yesterday. Haven't had a chance to read it all yet but it looks like it is an interesting one.

Slaphappy - Our ft nursing staff have a regular rotation. It rotates over a six week period so they can always figure out when they will be off. Although I do have sympathy for the person who does the schedules. What with vacation time, and filling in for sick time she is kept very busy. We are also missing a couple of people from the schedule - people who have left and not been replaced so they have to be replaced with pt staff. It's not a job I would like to have.

Mel - Sorry to hear about the gain this week. You must be building up a lot of muscle with all the workouts you are doing, and as we know muscle weighs more than fat. I'm sure you will have a loss again soon. Take care of that sore knee.

Solshine - Sorry you are up again this week. With your dedication to exercise and staying op I am sure you will have a turnaround soon. I do hope things change for you after TOM arrives. Hope dh is not driving you crazy to-day and hope he is better soon.

Quilter - Hope your doctors visit went o.k. to-day. I agree with you that there are a great bunch of people on this board and I really appreciate all the help I have got from numerous people who have given me information and/or where to find information for my trip to Orlando.

BOB - Congrats on the 5 pound loss this week. Wonderful news. Loved the Dieting e-mail. It's a hoot.

Lamap - Hope you can make it to Orlando in March. I am looking forward to meeting you.

Andamay - Welcome to SB.

JRed - Glad you enjoyed the snowfall you had this week. I'm sure it was fun for the kids, particularly if they are not used to seeing much of it. I always love to see the first snowfall of the season. It can look very beautiful (as long as I don't have to drive in it). I remember the first Christmas I was in Canada - over 30 years ago - we had a beautiful snowfall on Boxing Day. My two gf's and I got all dressed up and went out for a walk, taking photos along the way. The locals probably thought we were nuts but it was fun. That was so sad to hear about the three students who were killed in the car accident.

Frog - I was just looking at the old pic that you had posted from last year. You sure are looking so much thinner.

Zanne - That was a neat way of getting around the birthday cake issue. Did you put a candle on each cake? Thanks for letting me know about the agave order. I was wondering why they hadn't processed the order yet. I discovered a new bread the other day. They had an ad in the paper and I checked out their website. It's called STONEMILL BREAD. Have you heard of it? It's made without any additives or preservatives and the label says 'we use whole organic grain'. It's made without sugar, except for one variety I found did have honey as an ingredient. That was the flax bread. I bought three loaves to-day to try - Organic Spelt Bread, 3 Grain Bread and Multi Grain Bread. It looks like it should be legal even tho it doesn't say stone ground ww. If you are interested in checking it out their website is www.stonemillbakehouse.com. It even gives you a list of local stores where you can buy it. I bought mine in Bruno's.

Beth - Sorry you lost a good friend the other day. But I'm glad you didn't get to have him for lunch. Yucks.

Karen - Hope your shoulder is better soon.

Sef - I will be thinking of you when I am watching the olympics. I meant to check it out at 8.0 p.m. to see what was on but I am still here trying to finish this post. I started before supper then stopped to eat and do the dishes.

Off to catch up on some reading and to check out the olympics.

Marie.

How is everyone???

Thank God it is Friday....except I am on call this weekend and so far we have 4 cases to do tomorrow which means probably about 5-6 hours of work. But the overtime pay will come in handy so I can't complain.

I am glad that this week is over, I am so tired I am headed to bed and I never go to bed on Friday before midnight. But I know I will never lose weight if I don't get the rest I need. That is one thing I noticed. That when I am over tired I don't lose. BUt get rested and the scale drops a little....and I need all the help I can get. I really need to get jump started back into the groove agaon, not that I am doing really bad. But a cheat here and there adds up.

I made it to the pool tonight at did another 1/2 mile. I can't believe that I did it with out stopping once for a rest. Feels good when I am so tired (like wanting to fall asleep driving there) and then swimming and feel so full of energy.

I am going to make this short...I need some sleep. Have a great day everyone...will be back over the weekend.
Laurie

TGIFMan am I glad this week is over. The kids have been crazy at school this week with all the snow. I, on the other hand, have been most wonderful today. This has been my first totally OP day in a while.Hopefully this is a sign of future successes.

JRED: So sorry to hear of the tragic accident. How is the student body handling it?

BOB: Loved the article. That's me in the loophole section sitting next to you.

Hope everyone has a good weekend. I'll be checking out the Olympics of course. My brother is the asst. sports editor for his paper and he's there. I offered to go as his assistant but he didn't take me up on it. He's covering the ice skating events. He got to go the the Sydney Olympics too. I tried to hide in his suitcase, but it didn't work.