Good morning gals! I am so jazzed about this website I found. For one thing, it is FREEEEEEEE and it had everything you could possibly want, exercise section, diet programs, including one called Miami Beach, which is basically the South Beach. I chose the healthy lifestyle and though it takes time, I did two full weeks of menus through next payday, then will do two more weeks then two more weeks, then I will have 45 days of breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and dinners I can flip flop around and put into the menu section. I have always wanted something structured like this and this is sooooo cool. For my plan, as you insert your food, it subtracts carbs, fats, and protein and adds up the calories you just go back and forth for breakfast, two snacks a day, lunch and dinner until what you have chosen gives you the right balance of everything. I worked on it almost all day yesterday to get everything. It also will then give you a grocery list and you can save it as a weekly plan. I just took the grocery list and checked off what I already had, it then will let you "hide" what you checked off and you can print it out if you like. I just wrote it down so I could get proper amounts of everything I wanted to buy. You can also insert one of your own recipes in the program then click on a button that figures out the carbs, fats and proteins from what the recipe serving size is and you can then insert it into the menu and it figures it all out for you. It has a place to journal food and a blog to put down feelings and stuff and you can make it public or private. It has pretty much everything you could want. You can choose a bazillion exercise plans and set them up too. I think this may be the ticket for me as I can cook WW for Jack and still have the same kind of stuff that fits into my menu. The website is fitclick.com. It has been a long time since I was upbeat about any of this. I have been pretty depressed about the whole thing because though I lose with WW I knew I was not nutrionally getting the right stuff and this balances everything out. Oh and it has recipes too! It is just totally cool and will be fairly effortless once I have all my meals planned so I can just change them up. Cool thing is I don't have to eat everything sugar free or fatfree if there is something I just can't abide like I hate ff grated cheese because it won't melt. It has a pretty big database to draw from too so let's say you love those ritz crackers, you just type ritz crackers in the search and it brings up every ritz brank cracker in their database including ff or reduced fat varieties. Since you keep track of your starting weight and then losses, I imagine for my chosen plan it will reduce the calories, etc allowed as I lose.
fitclick.com
Susan: I have a question for you. I sent a post to my knitting website but would like your opinion too since you do socks too. I am doing my first striped sock using a basic solid sock pattern. My cuff is solid as is heel and toe with the foot and leg being striped. I did red and blue striping up to flap, then did flap in red, did my pickup and have started knitting gusset in red, but oops, I have my heel color red but I need to change to blue for leg front then back to heel color red around heel cup then back to leg front which starts blue again, but since I knit the stripe only in one direction, the blue is always at the opposite end when I begin next row and same goes with the red for the heel. What is the best way to do this since I basically end up with the color on the wrong side of heel and then leg with every row I do. I am not experienced in intarsia and am kind of clueless on this one as I have tried a couple things but it is kind of a mess. Am I just going to have to cut the yarn each section I do then reattach and I don't want a hole between my heel and leg section so what is the best way to prevent that sinc it isn't one color but two (I usually twist the two strands and knit the first stitch with both the cut strand and the starting strand but when it is two colors you can't do that because you end up with a half red half blue stitch)
Jean: I don't open the windows mainly because the back side of the condo has windows you can't open and the front side in the dining room has two huge tall bushes in front of them so you wouldn't get any air that way. My storm doors are glass so opening the doors won't do it either. I just rely on the box fan and the ceiling fan in the living room to keep air moving. The upstairs is the problems. Jack will not open windows because he can't stand people being able to see in so he just has to suffer in his office. The guest bedroom is rarely used and the door kept shut so no sense in opening them and again Jack goes to bed and can't stand the windows being open soooooo.
Maggie: Thanks for the soup info. I have a shorter version in plastic of what I call "church tables." It is great when the whole family is here. I just stick it in the living room and move the chairs and stuff out of the way. It is a great craft table and it fits under our bed so storage isn't an issue.
I am going upstairs and finish the vacuuming and dusting in about an hour before it gets too hot. I waited too long yesterday to go upstairs and got the bathrooms done, but was drenched and pooped from the heat to do the rest. That'll teach me to get things done first thing in the morning! lol I did get the bills paid this morning so we can still have a roof over our head, utilities and such! lol I have to get Jackson's birthday gifts ordered but am looking for the best deal and shipping etc. I hope Jay realizes he is going to have to put that darn bike together. Ahhhh, the joys of being a parent with a grandparent bent on buying the kid a bike!
Have a great day gals!
Faye
For the most part I've just cut back on portion size and try to avoid having "fun food" too often. I do like my WW leader and I do think facing her and the iron monster every week helps keep me on track better.
from Iowa!
The pastor had a list of 9 items to go over and we were to suggest people who might be good candidates for each position. No decisions were made and we weren't asked to call anyone. 
I missed the first part of DWTS, but taped it so can watch it whenever, since I know who won. Bob is at an all day meeting for BCBS so I am on my own for lunch. I need to go to the grocery store and pick up some Bible School supplies. Would you believe WM doesn't carry paper cups? 
Is the jicama like a peach, pear, orange, or plum? I will have to do a search for one as I don't ever remember seeing it in the stores. 
My problem with planning a menu too far ahead is that if it is to be chicken day, I may not feel like having chicken on that day. You are determined and motivated so that's good! 
Now we have a yard full of those little "whirly" seeds that come off of the neighbors' trees. Bob says we get them back with all of our leaves blowing around in the fall. Intarsia?? You've got to be kidding!
We use a Britta pitcher too! 
-- spent too much time watching the Today Show this morning! Have a wonderful Wednesday!
We do have a filter hooked to our kitchen faucet so I can use filtered water to cook with.
The neighborhood dogs are raising a ruckus ~ wonder what is happening out there. Ragg Mopp lets out a bit of a growel when they start up. He has a big voice for such a little fellow.
I substituted the cheese flavor instead, found paper cups at the grocery store along with the Cool Whip, and sandwich bags. There was a whole list of supplies and I suppose what doesn't get donated we'll have to use church funds to buy. One option was blue Jell-o, already made in individual cups -- not my thing after my Betty Crocker attempt a couple weeks ago! 