hi all. Well I think Im almost back to normal. I was able to get to work today. Still have a stuffy head and a cough but felt a whole bunch better. My appetite is not back yet though. Since the beginning of the week I havnt ate more than toast, tricuits and chicken soup so not being so healthy its been nice on the scale. I tried to add a yogurt and part of a apple today but I just dont feel like eating. Maybe tomorrow things will improve in that area.

Fillise: Italy !! that sounds exciting!!

I hope everyones having a wonderful week. And tomorrows Friday !!! Yeah!

My sister flies in from Denver Saturday for 4 days so it will be nice to see her. Shes here to see my dad who is not doing so well at this time.

Have a wonderful evening.

I made fish stuffed won tons for dinner. I had planned to boil them, but the guys wanted them deep fried. I ate two or three, then ate leftover bean curd and parrot (spinach) and some egg drop soup with lots of veggies. The Just My Size web site had a big sale on bras, so I am trying two new styles, cheap.

FILLISE: Oh, drat! I was so looking forward to trying out my new combat boots too! ;) Italy in May sounds divine! You will have such a wonderful time! Make sure you take tons of pictures! It was sunny here today. Was it over there for you? I hope that helped your mood. I even had to wear sunglasses! Now, honestly, isn't it time for an Atlanta run?

CINDY: I am glad you are on the mend! Being sick sucks! I hope you have a good visit with your sister.

Hi everyone!! Just sitting here eating my coffee, grapes, grapefruit and oatmeal. Does oatmeal have enough protein to count as a protein or should I be having an egg, too?

Well, winter is getting old fast. Ten degrees out today and it snowed another few inches yesterday. Last week it went up to 40, but this time of year, that just makes things muddy. You know, the other day I was thinking of a time when I was about 20 and I worked at a TGIFriday's in Rochester. Thoroughly hated that job...until I worked at an Atlanta branch for two weeks to visit a girlfriend of mine in Marietta. The people there were soooooo nice. I remember every single person I met in Atlanta was so completely nice and friendly, way over and above the people up here that I know. So much so that I was making arrangements to permanently move there...until my neice (who is in college now, but was 3 at the time) said, "Aunt Kris, are you really moving to Mylanta?" with a tear in her eye. So, I decided to stay up here. But at times, like lately when it's so cold still... and likely will be well into March...and I say hello to people at the post office and they look at me like I don't know you...why are you saying hi to me...what do you want from me... My son is playing the gamecube yet again today...there is only so much play dohing we can do and going over numbers and letters and practicing writing and such...and it's too cold to go outside, so what else are we supposed to do? I know I can think up a dozen things...but I really just want to get my garden started and I'm feeling just a little cabin feverish. And sort of blue...I'll get over it, I suppose once I take my shower.

Anyhow...the scale is STILL the same. I know exercise would help. My husband mentioned getting a stepper. I just really hate the stationary bike. It hurts my butt and its uncomfortable. But, the good news is, he said if we get a stepper, then we could both get up together a bit early and he'll ride the bike while I do the stepper. I found one at Sears that also has a spinning platform that you can stand on behind the stepping part and spin back and forth while holding some handles to work your obliques. Which would be GREAT!! Now we just have to find the cash to buy it and we'll be all set. :lol: Which should be fun...with prices these days...We just got 150 gallons of fuel oil and now its up to $2.04 a gallon!! It was like $1.30 when we first moved here five years ago. And it's been so cold that we haven't even paid them off from their last trip here earlier in the winter!! Sometimes I really wish I'd moved to Atlanta...

Anyhow...grapefruit tastes really vile just after brushing your teeth :p . I have to go have some coffee or something to get the toothpaste taste out or put away the grapefruit until lunch or something.

I'd do replies today, but as you can see from the above, I'm feeling rather self-absorbed today. Hopefully I'll get to replies later.

C-yas!! Kris

Happy TGIF!

Man has it been a long week. I am ready for the weekend for sure. I have been tired all week.

Didn't get in any exercise yesterday other than walking down 6 flights of stairs during a meeting. But did gt in3 days this week.

Going to get my nails done tomorrow and while I am there I'm going to ask one of the hairdressers to look at my hair and see if there is anything that can be done with it yet. I am sick of the wig and it is showing out the bottom. it is so curly and unruly. Plus so gray. I have to get it colored first but it needs to be tamed somehow.

Cindy, glad you are feeling beetter. Gee I never lose my appetite. Have a nice visist with your DS. prayers for your DD.

Heart, glad you are home safe and sound. Airlines these days are so unreliable. Can't wait to hear the outcome of the trip.

Monet, I can't beleive you needed new tires so quickly. Shouldn't they last about 5 years? You must be a heck of a driver.

Susan, the trip sounds so nice. I assume you are going with your parents? May will be here before you know it. Glad you are back on here. We missed you.

Teensy, where are you? I know you are lurking.

Country, Have you abandoned us?

Bob, get back on here.

Tech, hope your shower got you out of your funk. If I ever move, which I doubt that I ever will, it will definately be south. I hate winter too. It is so depressing and lately all we have had is rain and no sunshine.Wish I had the money to travel in the winter.

Got to run, boss needs me.

Good Friday Morning!
 

Hello all!

Last night I went to our Longhorn steakhouse for dinner. They had a HUGE 18 oz steak. It was only $2.00 more than the 7 oz steak so I ordered it. Needless to say, Belle and I will be dining on leftover steak all weekend! It was delicious though. I'm about to pop some flour (WW of course) into the bread machine so I can have a steak sandwich tonight! Belle loves steak. She was yelling at me to cut it faster for her last night! I've never seen a cat so gonzo over beef.

Jackie--I bet you will be glad to get rid of the wig. I hear they are really hot and scratchy. I hope it will be soon for you! I am going to Italy with my parents. They were stunned when I called yesterday and told them I bought the plane tickets. We've been talking about it for months, but I think they thought it wasn't really going to happen.

Kris--I sympathize with you. I complain about the funk here, but I've lived in hard winter land and you how really confining it can be. White brown and gray are the only colors in the landscape. Spring WILL come--we have to keep muttering that to ourselves (and I had forgotten how truly messy things get when it does warm up in the winter). Hang in there and keep warm!

Monet--So sorry to disappoint! ;) I do need a trip up that way--I'm down to four bottles of agave (shriek!). ;) Have fun on you retreat this weekend!

Cindy--I hope you feel better soon!

Time to get the bread machine going!

Susan

Good Morning! Tom has taken the day off and is doing an upper body workout before we get packed up and leave for the weekend. I can't wait! I am using my new suitcase I got for Christmas for the first time too! The weather is gorgeous...blue skies, sunny and mild temps. Its a perfect weekend to wander up into the north Georgia mountains. I have not had breakfast yet, but it will be eggs and probably some bacon or sausage. I will fix stuff for Tom and I when he is done in a bit. So far, I have had one cup of coffee. I am going for another in after I finish this. I hope the weekend will be good food wise. I don't know what the food is like at this place...the place we went last year was AWFUL, so we changed locations. The food is supposed to be good, but who knows if good means healthy, or just tasty by normal standards!


TECH: Oh, man, how I WISH you had moved to Atlanta! Even Marietta! That would be so totally cool to have you so close! I am about 20-30 minutes from there, but here in Hotlanta, that is nothing. You could still move. There are jobs down here for your techie husband. Lots of them, in fact. And just think of all the money you would save on heating oil, galoshes, coats, scarves, and mittens!

JACK: Ok, insult my driving eh? :) The problem was NOT my driving...honest! The balance and alignment was off. Hopefully, it should be fine now. I honestly think since he was so quick to offer me a free alignment and a free tire, there was something he knew about the quality of those particular tires. I did not even ask. He offered. Interesting. Anyway, I am good for about six months now. Then I need to go in and have the tires rotated, balanced and have the alignment checked again.

Ok, that is it for me. I will be back on Sunday and let you know how it all went. I plan to take my digital camera and if I get any good pix, I will post them. I hope everyone has a great weekend! I'll miss you all while I am gone. Be good!

:grouphug:

FILLISE: We were posting at the same time! Plan a trip over then. I will be out of town the first week of March, so try not to plan it then! It would really be awful if you came and I was not here! :lol: I hope Harry's gets more of the Sweet Cactus Farms agave in soon...all they have is the Madhava or whatever that brand is. Its wild agave, and the SCF is blue, and with a lower GI than the wild.

Funny thing about my trip to Atlanta... I couldn't believe the day I woke up and it had snowed two inches and the whole city shut down for the day! I flew on an airplane going south for two hours and Atlanta was closed!! And to think I brought my bathing suit so I could sit by the pool!! :lol: BUt after one week's time I had a job, a roomate and a boyfriend!! I could have been very successful if I'd moved south, that's for sure!! And the cool thing was at the Friday's they were all abuzz about the week before, Mick Jagger pulled in on his motorcycle, no helmet on so everyone knew it was him, and had a burger. And I was on a constant Bo Duke watch...apparently, he lived around the corner and frequented the place a lot. I would have passed out. BUt I definitely felt an immediate kinship with my southern counterparts and quit my job at Fridays in Rochester shortly after coming back after being reminded how unfriendly and grumpy everyone was in my own back yard. Much like my life now...I live in a tiny little town here where most people that live here are third/fourth generation locals and, although they are basically okay towards us, they definitely treat us as though we're 'not from around here'. It's really annoying talking to someone and then they interrupt you in the middle of a sentence and talk to someone they're close to. Or the other person will just walk up and talk over me in the middle of a conversation as if I were invisible. I jsut hate that. As you can see...I'm still in my funk.

For lunch today I had a strawberry/banana smoothie with a turkey burger patty on the side.

Off to go get ready for the girl scouts!! :dizzy: We're quilting and embroidering today...

Kris

Just a fly by, too much to do! I posted on the exercise board and forgot my ab runches, so add 60 of those too!
Hi to everyone, and Nat, I'll try the lite cheese, but it doesn't ceem to make much difference to me....and the scale.
Take care!
Barbara

Hi, all. Just a flyby. Thanks to those who welcomed me! :)

Monet, thanks for the answer I can tell folks when they tell me Sugarbusters is South Beach! :lol: I've also been told a lot that I shouldn't be eating fruit because it has carbs in it! :) Again, I don't consider Sugar Busters a low-carb plan; I think it's a good carb plan. Re my previous weight loss, most of it was just counting cals and exercising, both of which I still do. I know Sugar Busters says it isn't necessary to count cals but I do it out of habit. It's so easy to stick to a moderate cal amount when I'm no longer having cravings, which is what Sugar Busters accomplished for me.

Pancho (BTW, I also live in Arizona), my goal is 135. I know I will reach it now. Had doubts before ... hard to get fit when eating donuts all day. I really love Sugar Busters! :) Have never been this enthusiastic about a WOE before.

To all, sorry for the lack o' individual posties.

I do have some questions re the plan, but shall just lurk on, if that's ok, for awhile and see how y'all go about implementing it.

I would really like it if there was a Sugar Busters revival and a new book!

Bye y'all! :wave:

Hey, guys. I'm holding at 160 today, so only 1 pound before I'm back at my low. Would like to lose a couple before we go to Disney on the 2nd, that way hopefully, I won't be no higher than I am today when I get back. Speaking of leaving, MONET, we have connection flights in Atlanta(sigh) again. On the way there, there isn't enough time for a meet. But on the way back there is. Unfortunately, the time sucks. We are due to arrive in Atlanta at 8:48 PM on the 6th(Sunday), and we depart for home at 11:28 PM.
Anyway, the trip to Philly- I hate Philly. So much that I wouldn't even buy a souvenir. Sorry, Philly fans. Every time I go, I encounter the rudest people. The thing is, I've come to realize that they don't think they are being rude, it's simply their way of life. Well, they can have it, I'm so glad to be back in the hospitality of the South. And no, I'm not trying to tick off any Northerners. I've met alot of nice people in the North as well. Just don't have a nice experience for the times I've been to Philly. Anyway, the hospital visit- it was exhausting. Boogie was "tested" all day. Only had a 1 hour lunch break. They test him mainly using pictures and asking tons of questions pertaining to the pics. Well, when a 4 year old has sat in one place for 2 hours, he gets cranky(and so do I), then he figured out that the quicker he answered, that meant that the lady could turn the page, go on to the next, and the quicker his session would be over. SO...he started using wrong answers on purpose so he could hurry up and get thru. Of course, they didn't know it so they jotted everything down. So when I get the summary in 3-4 months, I'm taking it with a huge grain of salt because I know my little stinker is smarter than what they are going to say he is. I did find out that he has at least a 25% chance of developing ADHD. And he is showing signs, but not old enough yet to confirm. He does have trouble with concentration at times and short attention span. The neurologist seen him and asked him to hop on one leg at a time, he did and then he said that another 4 year old should have been able to do it longer before losing his balance and then he did a hand test where you turn it over and back several times. It looked good to me, but he said it was a slight hesitation(I didn't catch it). So his opinion is that there is a slight effect on the brain from low sat's and being on bypass. But not enough to notice in everyday life. I have never noticed it. And really still didn't. So basically, that's all I know so far until I get the summary. The docs and the genetics docs did remark on how energetic and normal looking he was. Duh.

I'm not doing anything right now. I need to exercise considering I've only done so once this week. Later on, I have to get my car fixed, the axle. That's about it. I rented Cellular to watch this evening. Last night we watched Shark Tale. It was alright, although NEMO was way better. I didn't like the way they made a cartoon about scamming, lying, money, and such for little kids. BOB- I want to see The Notebook, too, they were out. Well, my eating has been pretty good, although yesterday I ate too much SF chocolate and paid for it with toxic gas(tmi). Here is today's menu which is subject to change, but will remain legal.

BF- had 3 eggs topped with cheese, salsa, and sour cream. 1 cup 2% CC milk
Lunch- will be huge salad with veggies, can chicken, little cheese, Ranch dressing. OR I may cook me some veggies in olive oil and garlic followed by a couple of spoons PB for protein?? Dunno.
Supper- cooking chili with beans. Top with sour cream.

Hello everyone.
My first chance to get here today. Still carrying the head cold but feeling pretty good. Had to get my sister at the airport an off to my folks we went. Then My mom had gotton Chinese for dinner and I didnt have much choice on what to eat. I had two pieces of coated chicken ( with a sugary sauce) and about 10 minutes later felt instantly nausous. There was some beef and brocilli so I had some of that but I know Ill be swelled from the msg tomorrow. Now I wish I would of brought along a salad or protein shake..or something other than that. I have avoided chinese as much as I possibly can since lcing . I used to love it but after tonight I think I have a change of heart. One you get away from some of these foods and then try them again , makes you wonder how you used to eat them all the time. I can made my own stirfrys here at home that are tons healther and taste way better.

My menu for today was pretty lousy:
b- 1/2 ww bagel with 1 tbl creamcheese, 2 bacon
L- 3 triscuits with chedder
D- stated above with some brocilli spears added in.
snack- small handful of macadamia nuts

I only got in one day of exercise since I was so sick last week then I took my normal friday/saturday days off. So tomorrow night I should be back on scheduled. Hey , maybe it helped to take some time off. Ill scare my body back into working out again !

Have a great eve :)

Hi everyone! It's awful slow here today, what's going on. And no one had posted on the exercise board either. I can't be the only one exercising!!
Going to go make some sourdough rye bread, have a great day everyone!
Barbara