Good morning to all you lovely ladies!!!! Weigh in was this morning and I am down 3 lbs for the week!
We went to see Valkyrie yesterday and it is a good movie. I wasn't sure I wanted to go as I don't like movies that involve Hitler and such, but this was pretty good. I do think they should have used subtitles to make it more authentic, but all in all it was a good movie about a real event. Did you know there were 15 separate assassination attempts on Hitler? Unbelievable that no one ever succeeded. This Colonel Stoffmeyer and his group came the closest of them all.
LaVonda: Happy to see you here and welcome. I can only re-iterate what Susan said. I and my dh are on WW and I decide the night before what we will have for dinner the following night as it uses the most points. We can then decide what we want for breakfast, lunch and snacks for the day. It helps my husband to decide as he leaves for work at 6 AM so we don't scurry around trying to figure stuff out for him. As to the non eating issues, which I have always believed are the real crux of dieting problems, sit down, be honest and see what makes you eat other than your regular meals. In other words, are you an anger, sad, eater, do you just plain overeat at all meals, what foods do you crave, salty, sweets, soft drinks, breads? Think about why you feel you have never been successful before. Then make changes to those things. If you seem to overeat watching tv, reading or other leisure, turn the tv off, put the book down, etc. Set a time limit as to when in the evening you will stop eating and never go past that. I never eat past 7 and even go upstairs for the evening so I am not close to the food. Make sure you include things you do love, but pair down the calories. If you love ice cream, substitute the WW treats instead of full fat, believe me, you won't notice the difference. If you love cake, have a slice of angel food with some fresh fruit instead of high fat cake with frosting. If you are a potato chip or salty food eater, allow yourself that treat, but buy ff and portion it out not take the bag with you. Pick a piece of fruit for a snack instead of something higher fat. I find a bowl of some kind of high fiber cereal for breakfast and a piece of fruit helps me stay OP instead of being hungry right away. One thing is DON'T plunge in so deeply all at once. Ease yourself away from the things you crave into better choices. More diets fail because people do something radical then they become fed up with how they are eating and go back to eating poorly. Rarely can people drastically change all at once and stick with it.
Gloria: You are doing a great job losing the weight so you diabetes stays under control. I am sure now that the holidays are pretty much over it will be easy to lose the last 10# I know you had to have had a wonderful holiday with the kids and grandkids.
Jean: The new Mariner has a tiny button underneath a logo thing for the liftgate instead of the squeeze handle type we always saw on other suv's. Jack swore the gate didn't lift, but I told him to look at the fact it had an open edge all around it instead of being solid so it had to open some way! lol We gals are going to hound you next year about Christmas! lol
Maggie: I wanted either red or blue for my new car so this was perfect. The salesman wanted to sell Jack another baby blue car, which is what our grand marquis is and Jack flipped out as he never liked the light blue car much. Have you now got all your glass projects finished? I am plugging away at the sweater and am almost to my armhole decreases so I may just get it finished in time to wear it at least once this year!
Bele: It is great to see you here. These ladies are a lot of fun and you will have great support here. I sent you a private message so I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Susan: I have to pick my battles with regards to my cabinets. Jack sort of tosses stuff in and I have to remind him not to do that. My spice cabinet is a mess, but it is a tiny cabinet so keeping it organized is tough. I really don't have enough cabinet space for everything so that makes it hard too. I have a bunch of small appliances that there isn't enough room for so they sit on top of my separate pantry in the dining room.
I guess I better go. I got rambunctious and got all my daily chores and the cleaning for today done so now it is time to exercise as I have had my breakfast. Then it is back to knitting on that sweater.
Have a great start to the week!
Faye