glad you're safe and well Weezle!! Lots of well wishes to you and your neighbors for a smooth rebulding period

Hi Weezle. Just wanted to say that you and your area are in my thoughts and prayers. I am in NW Arkansas and we had a tornado last night about 5 miles from my house - too close for comfort. Not fun at all - I feel your pain.

Well, Terry and I were very lucky. There are reports of a touch down less than a mile from our house but it must've been a touch-n-go because our end of town has minimal damage. I spoke with my dad and he just sounded like he could cry after seeing all the damage out there. The mayor was right in saying that every square inch of Springfield has been affected. Incidentally, it's the mayor's brother's Irish pub that got demolished. Terry's out making sure his restaurant is still standing and then going to try to get home, but traffic has been horrendous, they've said.

Thanks for your well-wishes and prayers everyone. I'm still trying to get ahold of my friends who are getting married in less than 2 weeks. Otherwise, we're all accounted for. I'll keep everyone posted.

Lisa

Hey chickies,

Quick half reply right now as I am busy busy busy...

kiko - your daughter will be in my thoughts today. I enjoyed having you around the board more this week as well :)

Schatzi - how are you liking curves?

Ruth - welcome back

debbie - i would love to start scrapbooking. I am a photographer so that lends itself to being a picture junkie...

sarah - it sounds like you are such a great friend to those friends you have that are in need. I hear you about the weekend...

sunlit - congrats on your loss hun!

cottage - your new avatar is beautiful! Have fun outside...

3darlingsmomma - dont beat yourself up about it, those days happen to all of us. Just remember you are not OP you just had a bad day, go back to being good and use the thought of that day as motivation .

Beach - I am glad your DH is feeling better. You are so creative to make your own taco bell :)

muffin - I dont think we have met yet, nice to meet you.

ckb - what dedication...sounds like you have a handle on the sb way of life!

scrappinRN - nice to meet you :) I think you will really like it here.

yesican - also nice to meet you :)

MsCrockett - I fell into that trap, are you eating because you ae hungry or because you are now bored with the OP food you are choosing...

crk - I am so jealous....florida huh? I am so coming to visit

weezle - Glad to hear you are ok.

Ok will post to everyone else later gots to go!

I think I am BORED Stephie,,

I cant go shopping for another week, so I have to make this week work for me,, I like the P1 dinners better than the P2 .. so I am working on a way to add rice, ww pasta and things to some of the P1 recipes I have,,,,, THIS IS CERTAINLY GOING TO BE A LONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG WEEK......... I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO RIGHT NOW..

Weezle - I'm thinking about you. I've been looking at the pictures of KS, MO and IL.... It's just awful.

Ruth - What about WW Wheat Thins? I hope I haven't been messing up by eating those - they are soooo good!

Goodness
 

There are soooo many posts! No way can I reply! Just wanted to say hi to everyone! Changed my ticker in the left direction...YA!

Today my beach towel is in the snow! I WANT SPRING!!!!!!:(

hi all, back from
 

MIA. Friends from Seattle left last week and then I had to jump back on the beach--been losing the same 2.5 lbs this past week. But, as of this a.m. back to my March low (173). Sorry to read about health issues on board and also the terrible weather. Wish everyone well.

I am getting a little bored with food selections, off the the recipe section for some inspiration.

ckb - I am pretty sure the WW Thins have something that isn't allowed. Can you post the ingredients? I know I have looked at them on the shelf and put them back but that has been awhile.

Barb - I will have to look at home tonight and get the ingredients. I've been looking for them everywhere online and for some reason their ingredients are never listed! EEEK!

ckb - Are these the ones you buy? http://kraftfoods.com/main.aspx?s=pr...uct=4400004802

I think it was the enriched flour as a second ingredient as well as the sugar, high fructose corn syrup and molasses. Mainly the enriched flour.

Ingredients: WHOLE GRAIN WHEAT FLOUR, ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID), BARLEY FLAKES, SOYBEAN OIL, SUGAR, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, RYE, TRITICALE (A GRAIN), MILLET, MOLASSES, SALT, WHOLE WHEAT, LEAVENING (CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, BAKING SODA), EMULSIFIERS (DISTILLED MONOGLYCERIDES, SOY LECITHIN), ROLLED OATS, ONION POWDER, CORNSTARCH.

These are the only Kraft crackers listed on their web side as approved for phase 2
Snacks


Triscuit Reduced Fat Crackers
Triscuit Thin Crisps Crackers
South Beach Diet Whole Wheat Crackers

The list is here: http://www.kraftfoods.com/South_Beach_Diet/

Those are not the ones I got. The ones I got are the new 100% whole wheat crackers. http://www.nabiscoworld.com/wholegrains/ Here is a picture of them - but I can't find their nutritional info online.

Hey weezle- I actually live in Urbana, just an hour and a half from you. Heard about Springfield on the radio this morning. I actually thought of you when I heard it, because I have seen your post on here, and noticed you live in Springfield. Glad to hear all is okay with your family. We actually missed the worst of it here, but my parents live in the middle of Missouri and the tornados ripped right through their town, killed 4 down the street from them, and scared the crap out of everyone. I hate this kind of weather.

Oh my gosh, Stephanie!!!!! You are so tiny!! I think you now match your old "butt" avitar.

Home from work and catching up.

Weezle - Glad to hear that you and your family are okay. Hope you catch up with your friends soon.

Cottage, Sun & CKB - Congrats on the weight loss! :goodscale

Ruth & Sarah - Glad you had great getaway weekends. I need to squirrel away some $ so that I can do that myself sometime soon.

Debbie - Enjoy your son's birthday! :hb:

Soon & MsCrockett - Hope you feel better soon! :goodvibes

Muffin - Great job on the :dust:

CKB - I haven't seen any pics of the KU campus yet. Just heard that about 60% of the campus had some damage and that they cancelled classes today.

YesICan - I need some will power dust myself. Maybe Muffin can send some our way! :rofl:

ScrappinRN & Dare2Love - Welcome to the beach! :beach: This is a really fun board to post on and these ladies have LOTS of great advice. Also, welcome back to USMCHoney & PinkEagle - glad to have you back!

Schatzi - Another Curve-y babe! Join us, join us. :spin: I haven't passed the jellyfish stage either :lol3: - man, that's incentive, ain't it? I haven't gotten my outside chores done yet, but the flowers are coming up (my new avatar is the crocus popping up by the front steps).

Hope that caught just about everyone. After dinner, I'm going to curl up on the couch and settle in to watch '24'. Everybody have a great evening!

Hi everyone
 

First of all I want to thank all of you for your support. I was bummed about the scale and you all cheered me up. Thank you. Next I realized with so much going on in this world to be thankful for everything and not to complain about little things.
Wezzle- so glad you are ok- You and everyone in the area is in my prayers.

BB- sorry about your husband but will be praying and God is bigger then any illness!
I love all of you guys here. So thankful for this site> God Bless.
Kelley (mamahulk)

Amelie, I didn't realize you were so close by. I-L-L!!!!

We got nailed pretty hard. Most of my co-workers still don't have power yet. Terry and I were just discussing that this is the one time in our lives that we're happy to be poor because it's the ritzy part of town that's still without power and got hit hardest by the tornado. They've called off school tomorrow where I work due to everyone still being without power. The rumor is that it could be 6+ days before they get power back, but you know how rumors go. I heard from two totally different people last night that one of the smoke stacks at the power plant was destroyed, but the power plant is fine.

I just keep hearing how awful the damage is. I didn't leave the house today to try and stay out of the way of clean up. These things are really scary.

Well, even though school got called off, I'm going in for awhile tomorrow to try to get things caught up and started for the week. I took a nap today but I'm still pretty tired. This whole thing has been exhausting.

Thanks again to everyone for the well-wishes and prayers. It's going to be a long time before Springfield gets back to normal. I'm going to try to go to bed at a decent hour tonight and hopefully the phone's done ringing. We have a land-line and 2 cell phones and we've both just been ringing like crazy today. You all take care, and have a good night.

Lisa

Wheezle, just missed you so I will save for tomorrow, looks like. Glad to hear you are okay. wow.