Good morning! How was the weekend? It was a quiet one for us and I got some cooking done for the week. Salad dressing, chili, brown rice and I made a batch of Fiber One muffins with some dried cherries and cinnamon. Great portable food!

DH and I rented the movie Doubt and all I can say is that Meryl Streep is my hero for allowing herself to be filmed looking just like a witch. They definitely aged her and even rimmed her eyes in red for the part. Interesting movie -- my takeaway reaction was 1. I'm glad I never went to Catholic school and 2. it wouldn't be a lot of fun to be a nun, at least in 1964.

Not much out of the ordinary happening this week except I have the first anniversary check of my new knees on Wednesday. We have to discuss how to deal with scar tissue in one of the knee replacements. My doctor asked me to wait six months to see what happened but it's gotten worse. Other than that, they couldn't be better!

How was everyone's weekend? Anything going on this week?

Hello Meg.

Not much to report regarding the past week-end, I basically spent time with friends (okay, we made pancakes... but those were MY pancakes, with spelt flour, fructose and skim milk ) and went to town to buy a few books and enjoy the sun. And of course I also went to my bodycombat class, and tried the bodystep one, which is fun as well. I'm yet to resume lifting, because I admit that with all those classes I just feel too tired in the end, but I'm sure that once I've found my rythm regarding those, I'll be able to fit other kinds of exercise in it. Well, I hope.

Eek.

I've juste realized: it's lunch time here and I've forgotten my box of vegetables in the fridge this morning.

Now I feel sad. Had I noticed it sooner, I'd have been able to go buy some, but now it's too late. Well at least I have an apple left, but it's not really the same.

...Yeah, crying over vegetables. Who'd have thought that a few years ago!

Good morning. I was going to go out for a short run this morning, but it's just too hot and humid! 71° and 97% humidity at 7am! So here I sit instead, waiting for the kids to get up so we can all go to the gym. They go back to school next week!

Modkittn!

What a cute kid!!!

Jay

Modkitten, your baby is absolutely adorable!! Congratulations!

But you absolutely still are a maintainer and we hope you stick around. You'll be back to your comfy weight before you know it.

Kery, I'm cracking up about your vegetable sorrow. Yeah, who would have thunk it??

Mod, what a cute baby! Congratulations!

Meg, has it already been a year since your knee replacements? Time flies! I hope they can work something out with the scar tissue.

Kery, LOL about the veggies.

Ward, did you make it to the gym yet?

I'm off to the doctor pretty soon for a six-month thyroid test. Hopefully everything will be fine and I won't need any medication adjustments -- I've been feeling fine, anyway. I'm a little afraid they're going to weigh me and I weigh more than last time (not by much, but still). Hopefully their magic body composition calculator scale will show a lower BF%. I know my muscles are much bigger now than six months ago.

what a cute baby !

Good morning everyone. I'm a little out of sorts this morning - had an emotionally unpleasant day yesterday so didn't sleep well, which then led to me sleeping in instead of exercising this morning, which now is making me beat myself up over it and extending the unpleasantness from yesterday into today. I have to shake it off, exercise when I get home, start tomorrow fresh. And have to eat well today - splurged some this weekend, for which I wasn't upset at myself at all, until this morning's failure to exercise... Blah.

Meg - one year with the new knees, wow!

Kery - sorry about your veggies! I would be sad, too!

Ward - Yesterday was sticky, I'm not surprised that it still was this morning. Yuck. Hope you make it to the gym!

Modkitten - beautiful baby!

Jessica - Lower bodyfat percentage would be good! I need to find somewhere to get mine tested - I'm reasonably curious about it and my doctor doesn't do it.

Good day everyone!

What a cutie, modkittn! I second Meg's statement that you're still a maintainer. Besides, we want to see more photos of your baby.

Modkittn - Cute! And such a lively gaze!

Aw, what a sweet baby, Modkittn!

gym, check! I did Group Ride, then Group Power. Now to shower, make lunch and then spend the afternoon at the pool.

I spent saturday at the beach, feeling pretty good in my bikini... then came home only to realize that my belly had gotten a nice little sunburn! ouch! I guess my skin there is just more sensitive - I put plenty of sunscreen on it just like everywhere else, but that's where I got burnt!

awww, modkitten, what a cute baby! =)

Ward, I have to make it to the gym this afternoon - I like running outside, but it's really humid here as well. The afternoon at the pool sounds great though!

Kery, I also get bummed when I have healthy food all packed and then forget it!

Shannon, I slept in this morning too but I'm going to get a workout in later in the day - hopefully you can too, I'm sure it'll help you feel better!

Good morning everyone,

I had a busy weekend but it was a lot of fun! Friday evening I hung out w/ BF & his friends, the ones I hadn't seen Thursday night. Saturday I went wakeboarding and hung out at a houseboat up the river w/ my friends. I tried so, so hard to "get up" on the wakeboard and I still can't do it (this is my third try)! Darn it! I had fun my first dozen or so tries, but by the end they gave me the knee board instead of the wakeboard and I just felt like a floundering, uncoordinated whale and had a bad "fat girl" mental moment. Anyway I'll try again the next time. We went home and totally surprised our friend with her surprise party, but the party didn't go much past 8:00 b/c we were all so tired from our day on the river. Sunday the same GFs and I did our outlet shopping trip. I got 2 cute tops from Banana Republic (sorry can't find pics online), a utensil holder for the kitchen, crocs for BF at his request. Between the outlet prices, sales, and a coupon we got some great deals! Trying on pants was really depressing but it's just a reminder to me to get serious! We got to eat sushi and drink starbucks , which we don't have here at home so it was very nice. Whew. I got lots of sleep every night, I was so tired! Back to work & fieldwork as usual this week.

Iris, ouch, I've never heard of someone's belly button alone burning. Put some aloe on it!

Shannon, sorry about the emotional upset. I totally understand how being upset can throw off your whole day's plan. Maybe a good exercise session will help you forget about things and work some emotions out. I seem to recall you have a punching bag...?

modkittn, aww, what a sweet face! You should most definitely stick around and keep posting baby pics.

Kery, sounds like you're really getting into all of your gym's classes! That's great! Sounds like you're getting some awesome workouts.

Hi everyone. I hope everyone's week is off to a good start.

Cute baby!!!!!