Good afternoon everyone. Can't believe Steve let me sleep in so late today. I'm all messed up now and will play catch up all afternoon. We didn't eat our pork tenderloin yesterday so I'll have to make it for dinner. Getting ready to go in and make lunch. I know I'm boring today.....

Bunny- I'm so glad you're here. Tell us about you. I think you'll really love it here.

GYM- Now have I got that right? Hope your babysitting went well.

Peggy- Hope you're getting your AC fixed today. Did you sleep cool enough last night?

Meowee- Good afternoon fearless leader...

Okay going to fix lunch.

Happy birthday Gym!!

Hi Ladies,

Wow, so many new faces, that is wonderful. Sorry I haven't been around much. This golf tournament is keeping me so busy. It is next Monday so pray for good weather and we raise a lot of money. I will be back Monday on a regular basis. Eating has been pretty good. The scale is moving down. I am back in the 170's (barely) so I was up to 191 so that is good. I haven't seen much difference in my clothes and that I what I desparately need. Walking every morning and some evenings if it is not too hot. Hopefully next week I can get back to the gym on a regular basis and get back on track fully.

Sorry no time for replies. Next week I promise. Glad to see we have a new moderator. Thanks Meowee.

Gym, Happy belated birthday :balloon: Hope it was a good one.

Toni, Bob, I have missed you.

To all the newbies

See you Monday.

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Morning all, So many nice welcomes. You girls obviously stay busy. I'll try to figure out how to do the profile. And I LOVE all the colorful pretties on your messages - I want to learn to do that!!!
Didn't do very well yesterday - I know I can eat so many wonderful foods on SB and every now and then I blow it and overeat some of them. BREAD! Yesterday I ate half the bag of whole wheat pita chips. SOOO good and even though I know they are legal I also know that many of them is bad. Back on it this morning!
Hubby left for work so I'm going to try to figure out how to work this new Pilates DVD. I'm as good with a video or dvd player as I am with this computer.
Hope all of you have a great day. Will check in later. BunnyB

Good Morning . . .

Wowee . . . don't know what has happened to my morning for some reason I am running way behind today; so guess this will just be a fairly quick little fly-by for right now.

BUNNY . . . to get the little emoticons (smilies) in your posts, just use the "go advanced" button under the little reply box for doing your post. That takes you to a different spot where you will find a little box at the right hand side that has a few smilies in it. More importantly, at the bottom of that little box is a button that says "more". Click on that and you'll be taken to a whole big page of the little suckers. So have fun -- and after a while it gets even easier because you just learn what the code is for the ones you use the most. For example this one is " : lol : " without the quotation marks and spaces.

See you all later, gang . . .

I LOVE this. This is a trial run to see if I can figure it out. OOOPS! Don't know were the little guy went - just ended up with that ? Guess I'll send this and see if they show up. If if goes through then to you Meowee! (no little faces again!) I'll keep trying!

Meowee, IT WORKED!!!! to you!!!

My goodness my days are crazy. Did I tell you DH works nights. I wait up for him and he gets home between 12 and 1 Am. He then eats something and watches a little tv. Well some nights we end up staying up really late so there is the reason I don't get up till late. So my days are nuts. LOL I have to watch it or I'll eat something then. Last night I didn't and I'm so proud of myself. For dinner I baked a pork tenderloin and we had that with some fresh broccoli. I've got to think of something for tonight. I have a hair appointment this afternoon...

Solly- So glad to see you. I've been wondering where you went to. Glad when you're back posting regular. You're doing so well. Congradulation on losing back down.

bunny- You know we didn't get like this overnight so don't beat your self up when you slip up. Just get up and start over. Its good to have you with us.

meowee- You sound busier than all get out. Have a good day....

Chris- Howdy gal.

Well will report back in after I beautiful from my perm. LOL

Hi Girls..Phew what A crazy weekend and past 2 days I have had. Thank you all so much for all the birthday wishes..26..Woah where did the time go...HAHA

I packed all my food for the weekend and ended up eating crap all weekend. Oh well..Today was perfect as of so far..its 730.
I should have time to catch up with everyone this week I am a lighter week now. Good thing.

Just wanted to stop in and say hello. How is everyone doing loosing???

Good Morning . . . although it is only just still morning here in northern Nova Scotia.

We've had enough different weather so far to qualify for two days. First thing this morning (well just before 8am) we had some really nasty thunderstorms go roaring through and now it's actually mostly sunny and mild (but not hot and sticky) and just a little too breezy -- but I hope it continues this way.

Nothing too exciting for me today -- I got a bag of precut sweet potatoes yesterday and had some with my asparagus and salmon for dinner -- can't say that I'm a lover of sweet potatoes; but guess I'll be looking for other things to do with them since the bag holds 16 servings and I hate waste. Just seems like another type of squash to me.

Anyway . . . lots of stuff to catch up on around here (3FC) . . . then I think I'll try to tear my almost completed Queen-size quilt out from under the cats and try to wrestle the bulk through the sewing machine to finish up the quilting process. At some point, I'll fire up my WiiFit and do some step aerobic with the Mii's. Other than that -- SSDD.

The scale was kind to me this morning and showed me the first 218 number I've seen in -- wow, decades. Hope that sticks around too, but the way I bounce around, you never know.

Hope everybody else has a great day . . . try to keep things moving and shaking . . .

Aw Gee Whiz . . . I'm talking to myself in here . . .

Wow its almost scary in here its so empty. Good thing meowee posted. Didn't get over cause we were out of town yesterday and then the lady that helps with cleaning came in the evening. But I'm backkkkkkkkk. Eating yesterday was pretty darn good. I just can't seem to get back on the treadmill this week. I'm going to try hard today to get some walking in.

meowee-Congradulations on the weight loss. You're inspiring. Thank you for keeping us alive over here.


Guess I'll go for now I'll check back in later....

Morning! Meowee, I love sweet potatoes and have two great ways to prepare them that are SB acceptable. I've never used precut, though but I'm sure they can be used.

Lynns Sweet Potatoes & Onions

Prick whole Sweet Potatoe with fork & cook in your Microwave on "Potatoe" til somewhat soft.
Let cool.
Cut in quarters lenghtwise. Scoop the meat out of the skin. (It just sorta pops out!)
Slice large white onion into thick rings.
In heavy frying pan heat ollive oil and butter. (I've had to add oil as they cook usuallly.)
Cook the onion for a few minutes over med/low heat. Add the potatoes and turn the heat to medium. Flip often. Cook to your liking. Sprinkle with Kosher Salt immediately upon removing from the pan.
The potatoes will turn a nice brown and somewhat caramalize. Just be sure to watch the onions as they will burn quickly.
I LOVE this dish - a little sweet. Sort of a Southern Dish! It's great with grilled pork chops!
I always make enough to have left overs - they are great the next day heated in my toaster over thats been preheated to 450. Just takes a minute and gets them nice and crispy again! Yum!

Lynns Baked Sweet Potatoes

Prick and cook in Micro on "Potatoe" til done (Nice and soft!)
Open and top with -
butter
the green part of green onions - chopped
bacon bits
SOOOO good! So much better than a loaded baked potatoe!

I serve these to guests and they love them. Don't even miss that brown sugar!

I'm doing the leftover Spaghetti for dinner this eve. I love whole wheat pasta. (Just have to fix the WW for me and the regular for hubby. A little work but worth it as he appreciates it.) Did a Vodka Penne Sauce with Hot Italian Sausages the other night. Wonderful and looking forward to the leftovers tonight.
It's just hotter than heck here in Ft. Worth but being the tuff girl I am I'm off to hit the thrift shops! Fun!!
Have a great day all!

BunnyB

Hey Everyone,

Meowee-Im sorry you feel like your talking to yourself. This place used to be hopping all the time. but i think with the warm weather everyone is out and about. Awesome job with the weight..I always feel like a new number could skip away as quickly as it appears. try hard to hang on to it.. How do you like the Wiifit? It seems really cool but i dunno.

Toni-Welcome back, and horray for eating well. The treadmill will work its way back into your life. At least your eating better again..Good for you. I finally am back to eating good I had almost 3 weeks where every day or so was a cheat day.

Solly-Thanks it was an awesome day!!! Congrats on the weight loss..woah that was great..Im trying to get into the 160's i got there for about 2 days then I have been stuck @ 170-174 depending on the day. We can so this keep it up..

Bunnyb-Welcome to the board. Im sure you will love this WOE once everything gets it self worked out. In the beginning I ate way to much legal food so I wouldn't be tempted by hunger to cheat. It's not too bad in the beginning but after a week or so it is good to try to watch portions. However if your still loosing with that your doing they good..keep it what ever works for you.

Chris-whats new with you? How the food and such going?

Well I sat outside after the gym today for 90 min reading my book in the sun. it was nice. If anyone is interested in reading The Memory keepers Daughter By Kim Edwards I highly recommend not watching the lifetime move first. If you have the book will be really difficult and confusing. I kind of did both and it took me almost 2 weeks to finish the book. I am usually a 3-4 day book reader. Ok well I have to go shower and enjoy the rest of my day off!!!

Good Afternoon Ladies,
I have been in TN for a few days and have not even been on a computer! I usually go through withdrawal symptoms after a day but we were so busy cleaning up for couple coming to use the cabin I just did not have time. Thank the Lord it was just some weed eating and heavy dusting to do. Nothing like having a pastor and his wife coming to make you clean house! This is just me being in panic mode b/c they would not have cared it it was not spotless!
Weight is down another half pound so the hard work was good for me!
As we came back home we treated ourselves to a picnic in Roaring Fork. It is called this b/c there are areas on this motor nature trail where the water roars.........usually. It wasn't roaring but we sat near a very nice mini-waterfall and the sounds and sights were beautiful. Moss everywhere and it was so cool and damp! I loved it! I bet I saw a hundred different shades of green as I sat there and green is my favorite color!
Hope all of you are doing ok!