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I'm really starting to love this thread. I love how it's like a hidden slice of 3FC heaven. A sanctuary away from the loud noise :)
Judy - I like your view on calories not counting! And for what it's worth, they were calories bloody brilliantly spent. :D Marie, a vanilla slice is.... oh god. How do I explain? How does one explain heaven on a plate? It's just like a caramel slice - (assuming you know what one of those coronary nightmares is) but instead of caramel filling, it's got vanilla filling. It's got a cream in the middle of two pastry type layers and on top is vanilla icing. Enough to make your heart stop working as soon as you walk into the bakery. Auntie - chocolate is by far my biggest weakness, so I hear ya. Your evil chocolate monster and I go wayyy back. I think I could give up almost everything except for chocolate and cheese. I've been stressed out lately with exams, my part-time job and some family issues and for some reason I've been craving salty foods like crazy. I read something about it being linked to stress and adrenal exhaustion, ut I'll have to look into it more. The sun is really intense these days and forgetting to coat yourself in sunscreen before leaving the house means getting home with a burnt face - and worst of all, a peppermint stripe (red sunburn line across the back of your neck). Do all of you ladies use a gym or do you do outdoor exercise? What do your routines look like? I'm just curious. I love hearing about what sort of exercise regimes people have. |
:shrug: Well, the chocolate monster visited again last night, but now there's nothing left in the house, so I think I'll recover today. I stupidly thought that I was being smart :doh:, buying stuff ahead of time for Christmas, but, ummm, guess not. I've learned my lesson.
On the bright side, I got a lot done yesterday, including some major physical exertion - hauling stuff up to the attic, lifting an old heavy TV quite a few times, and even did an exercise video - woo hoo! Today it's finally sunny out, and I am going to get a good walk in! Carol, you're on a roll with the gym! Congrats! Hope your SIL is feeling better soon. Judy, helping the Post-its achieve their destiny cracked me up! It is a good plan. That monster pic was the only one I could find, so he'll have to do. He's lucky I didn't eat him! :hun: OK, now, about the logging- :soap: you've GOT to snap out of the resistance! Remember that this is for YOU. That's the problem with us as women- we do whatever we have to do for everybody else, but then we don't do what we should do for ourselves. We are worth the trouble! :yes: (I'm trying to tell myself that, too...) Marie, the Eagles blew it, too. It was a bad football day, but a good day for getting things done, so it's all good. Congrats on the strength to scrape the stuff off your pancake! That is amazing! I don't think I could do that. That's why it's better I just don't go out to eat too often. :no: I am scheduled for a Red Robin trip next Saturday, but it's been a while, and it will fit into the plan, as long as I stay far, far away from chocolate during the week - which I will do! Mazza, yep, chocolate and cheese are my close friends, too. At least there are good choices for lighter cheeses nowadays. Do you have the Laughing Cow cheeses in Australia? They have been a life saver for me! And as for your question, no gym for me yet. I mostly just walk with my doggy daughter. Sometimes I get out by myself for a more vigorous walk, and sometimes I mess around with some weights while I'm watching TV, but no formal plan going on here. :eek: Have a great day, everybody! |
Hi all, day 3 of my 4 day weekend. I feel much better today (I'd slept wrong on Fri and Sat night and my neck was really painful). DH and I took the doggies for a 3 mile hike and we went at the big mountain road climb that I couldn't do a few years ago without several breaks on the way up. I admit I was really huffing and puffing, but I made it without a break. Major accomplishment. So I got a good workout in.
Mazza, my exercise is eclectic. I like to vary it but what always stays is hiking the roads I live on. I'm nestled in the mountains and out my door is many hills and dirt roads. No where on the roads is flat so it's quite a workout. My eldest doggie has hip problems and is on constant meds if I don't exercise her pretty much every day. So exercise she gets because she is my soul doggie. It matters none to me if my heel is throwing darts up my leg (as it did for about 2 months and just recently stopped) or if I just had toe surgery (about a month ago). She must walk and as she can't go alone, I just endure it. But for other exercise to have lots of fun, I swim a lot in my pool during the summer/start of fall. But that's over for the season. I'll post my 2008 swimming miles when I next log onto a windows computer (my exercise database is access and that's windows based). Last I looked at the mileage, I was quite please. Probably at the end of 2008 I'll post the walk miles as well. I also do Leslie Sansome's WATP videos when the weather is too yucky in the morning to walk the doggies. And I really do like Richard Simmons Sweatin' 1 & 2 videos. I also have my mountain bike on a trainer for the winter. And during the winter I snowshoe and downhill ski. I love to ski - I'm a speed maniac. I have season passes to the area about 75 miles from my house and I go at least once a week. Thank heaven the price of gas has come down in the last 2 weeks. BTW, I actually paid $2.09/gallon yesterday. It was like a gift after the $4.25/gallon in sept. Auntie, I forbid you to buy any more Christmas chocolate. If it calls your name and you can't ignore it, it must never be invited in. So yesterday I played with the itunes store for iPhone and iTouch applications. I went a little overboard for my iTouch. It now has Frogger, the only arcade game I have ever liked. DH and I got engaged over it at our favorite pizza place. I bought soduko, a grocery list program, pong, dictionary and a couple others. Yes, I went overboard but it's really cheap. I think I spent about $15. So then I played with the internet part of my iTouch ipod and actually posted a message on 3FC. It wasn't very hard and it was easy to read the messages. But my beloved Mac is much easier (said as I type on it) for surfing. I guess I'm going to cut a litte more glass out today. DS2 is coming for dinner and bringing his new GF. DH hasn't met her, I did briefly a couple weeks ago. I already made an Italian herb/garlic bread in the bread machine. All right, I measured the ingredients and it will start in a few hours. DH will make the pasta and the marinara is already made. I guess a salad would be good, but that would require driving 30 minutes to town. So frozen petite green beans will do for the vegetable. Have a great day everyone!!!! Marie |
Hello everyone. Looks like we are all trying to move towards our goals. Hurray! Today will be a bit tricky I did the scale this a.m. and down a half from yesterday but still need 1 more lb. to be where I was last week. Oh its so tricky. At any rate this afternoons meeting is being held at a chinese rest. with the buffet. I am a bit worried about having so much to choose from. I am trying to tell myself to take small portions and of only what I really want and to try eat veggies fresh fruit hot tea and drink ice water. For dinner I will make a salad tonight with some tuna. Last night I steamed some shrimp and had a little steak roll up with carrot sticks,spinach inside. It was okay I only at half of it not my favorite not that tasty. Figured why waste the cals. My pumpkin cake I had for dessert with a little banana yogurt fresh banana on the side. I figured all healthy. Hubby loved that pumpkin cake hah hah if he only new it was a ww recipe funny huh. At any rate it was a good easy treat and was healthier than some other choices. I too had a bit of choc. in the house Auntie g but mine was the special choc. bar and that I was able to have one little square. I guess that shows its not my favorite but meets my choc. need. Well today our office building is closed at he state runs it. So I am as they say out in the field. I am going to make a lot of visits and then work out after work today. I didn't manage to get there yesterday as I had to drive a coworker into the city. But today I will. SIL is still in the hospital they are working on finding an antibotic that will treat her infection. That is a good thing for her. The one they tried yesterday she had a reaction to. They can only do one a day. So today will be 2 and wait and see. Its not nice she is in the hospital but hubby and I have kind of liked having the whole house to ourselves. Not that she really is a bother but yah know what I mean. Anyways I would love to live near the moutains Marie how beautiful it must be. No wonder you walk so much I would to. Wish I could join yah! Your dinner sounds yummy. Is he serious about this one? Mom's usually can tell.
Mazza I am glad your liking this thread we are all enjoying your company and all the rest of you that have joined recently. We are all in this together and the more the better. Bouncing ideas sharing thoughts its what its all about to stay focused even when we are detoured off course for a bit. Coming back to grips with what we need to accomplish. Have a super day and wow todays work out will be a bit longer to make up for any extra lunch cals.......Thats one way to try to beat the cals off!!! |
Plugging away at work on Veterans Day. The weather's really feeling like classic autumn--sunny, crisp and with an awfully quick nightfall. Now that I've figured out how to dress, my mornings are going much more smoothly!
Mazza, probably my liberal views related calories is why it's taking me eons to reach my goal ;) I do workout videos most mornings (or at least I was until recently). I have a little rowing machine, and my apartment building has a small exercise room that hardly anyone uses, so I'll be down there a lot. I love walking, and I used to do more long walks on my way to work, but last year I had so many foot and knee problems that I decided to be kind to my joints and not spend so much extra time pounding the concrete. Ideally I do 45-60 minutes of intentional workouts at least five days a week, and my goal between now and the Thanksgiving break two weeks from now it to get back to that routine. Auntie, thanks for the pep talk :coach: Something's going on inside my head that's tired, afraid or otherwise being difficult. Once I figure out what's making me so irrational, I'll be speeding down the losing track, like you! Carol, I hope your SIL is better soon. It was so good of you and your hubby to take her in. That slow cooker recipe sounds interesting. I would try it, but the smell of cooking food overnight makes wake up ravenous! Marie, I'm waiting until my BlackBerry dies (not too soon, I hope) before investing in the iPhone or something similar. At this point I don't use all the features on the BalckBerry--I forget it has a camera--and I have little iPod Shuffle that I only occasionally use. I would like to have Scrabble on my BlackBerry, though, as I had on my Palm years ago. judy |
Another chocolate-free day - woo hoo! And during PMS and a just about full moon, too! Hmmmm... very strange for me, indeed. I've decided to wear my pedometer at work every day now, so I can try to increase my normal activity. Today I got in 2 miles during the work day, so tomorrow I'll shoot for more.
Has anyone tried the FiberGourmet light mac and cheese? I saw it advertised on Hungry Girl, and I couldn't resist ordering it. I haven't had boxed mac in ages, and I was so excited because it is loaded with fiber, and being a carboholic, well, I had no choice. Anyway, I had some for dinner tonight, and although it's no Kraft, it was pretty good, and incredibly filling! Ah, fiber... Marie, congrats on the mountain climb! And Frogger brought back some memories! That was my sister's fave, but I was always a Pac-Man fan. I never really advanced beyond that in computerized games. So sad. I sure could go for a good game of pinball, though! Carol, how'd you make out at the Chinese buffet? I'm not really into Chinese food, but any buffet is scary! Willpower definitely is in order... Judy, I can totally relate to the "trying to figure out what's making you irrational" thing. Every time I've been in between diets, that's what I tried to do. Figure it out. But I never did succeed at that. For some reason, when the time is right, the switch just flips and I start to do what needs to be done. The switch flip is always initiated by something I hadn't expected and can't control. I'm not sure this is making sense, so I shall give it up for now. But if you do figure this thing out, maybe you should write a book! I'd buy it! OK, off to watch Biggest Loser. Have a great Wednesday, everyone! |
Hey everyone!
I have my last exams today and thursday.. finally, freedom. Auntie - is The Biggest Loser a good season this year? We have our own version but still see the american one. It's great how they keep things fresh season after season. Good work on resisting the chocolate! TOM makes cravings especially difficult to deal with. That mac and cheese stuff sounds good .. and I'm with you on the Kraft thing. Mmmmmm. Oh - and we do have laughing cow cheese here.. I don't know how I would have made it through my childhood without it, but I haven't eaten them in ages. I used to love opening the little triangle aluminium wrappers. That brings back memories! I usually stick to danish-style reduced fat feta cheese - it's less than 200 calories per 100gms and it's tasty, but it isn't the biggest indulgence as far as cheese goes. Carol - Thanks for the warm words! "We are all in this together and the more the better." :hug: :D:D I love chinese food - and steamed shrimp, as well as salad and tuna. Looks like we make a lot of similar food choices:). What is pumpkin cake like? I can only imagine, but I've never tried it. Pumpkin and cake are both yummy - so both things together would make sense. Is it sort of like carrot cake - with the combination of flavours? Judy - Blackberries have always seemed, to me, to be at the the cutting edge of palm pilot-type technology - are there many differences between one of those and an iPhone? I, too have resisted buying one. I figure, I've got an iPod, and a phone - and I'm not dying for internet access while I'm on the bus, but I can understand why people would buy them, for work reasons etc. I guess i'll end up buying one eventually, but for now I'm happy with my phone being able to text and call. Marie - you're all set for electronics! I had no clue they made so many different features and applications for iPhone and iTouch. I hope your neck is feeling better. Well I am off. I'm going to have lunch soon - which will include a delicious, fresh mango straight from the fridge... mmmmmm. Seeya! |
Mazza yes it is like carrot cake. In fact you can use a carrot cake mix instead of spice and just add a 15oz can of pumpkin. I think next time I will add maybe a 1/4 or 1/3 cup of unsweetened applesauce. Just to make the batter a little thinner. But everyone liked it and the fiber was also in it. Pumpkin is a good source of fiber. I served the last piece to my SIL.
She came home from the hospital yesterday we are in for a long journey but it will be okay with support from my friends and family. She needs an antibotic once a day put into her line to fight infections etc until 12/23 can you say wow that will be a celebration day if ever. The same time everyday so we are edging up the time by one hr. until we reach 5 pm. Then it will workout better for me. A nurse will come in to do blood draws etc. This won't be fun but we will make it through it. She is a good person and we are going to support her during this time with what she needs. In the end we hope it works their worried the infection could of gone into her bones? Say a prayer for Sandy that didn't happen. Well Mazza and everyone else chinese is tricky even when you take the healthier choices I think they add lots of salt. My scale showed a 1.5 inc. this a.m. not to worry myself its most likely salt. So today I will be good for breakfast and lunch now dinner is another story. I have ordered chicken on the choice list for an appreciation dinner for work with a certain group of admin. folks. So needless to say its at a nice rest. in the city. I am going to try to skip out for lunch and workout today at the gym near my work. I paid a bit more for my membership so I can us it at different locations there are 3 in diff. areas throughout the city east, north and west where I work. I figure the workout would be a good thing since I am out to dinner tonight. I am trying and the scale even know its stubborn it helps for me to know whats up or down oh lets hope this is it for meals out. Well fresh mango sounds good wish my son could bring some from HI with him but he can't bring fruit. Its a law so no issues get trans. from one place to another etc.. buggies I guess? Take care and oh I spent some cash on new beads to make some more things it was a fun time and cost me 45.00. Oh well can't take it with us and some stuff was for resale necklace I am making. Have a great day!! |
Morning everyone!!! I'm back at work, the 4 day weekend a pleasant memory. I did a bit of stained glass, snuggling (and walking) the doggies, cleaning, shopping, etc. Co-workers asked if I did anything fun. I replied it was just nice and relaxing so it was very fun.
Mazza, I bet you get fresh fruits like the mango all the time. I'd be a fruit-a-terian if I lived in an area where fruits are easy to come by. Especially if I could grow my own. Oh, I'm jealous. Carol, I'm glad your SIL is back home. Sounds like it will be quite a medical workout until Christmas. Hopefully all goes well. Judy, I didn't realize your new place also has a little gym. That will be nice for you. What Auntie said about something just switching on is what it is like for me as well. My advice is to keep fighting it, even if you don't totally succeed until the switch flips. For me, I set a deadline, the day my sister left after our mini-vacation, as the day to weigh in, and it was a breeze to get back on track. But I think the damage I could have done would have been way worse if I'd not fought it, wanting the switch to flip. And with the amount of flux in your daily life, you are doing great on the fight. I have found that weighing daily has kept the switch flipped as I don't give myself any flexibility for cheating. Auntie, the full moon has something to do with chocolate cravings too? Wow, us females have a lot to contend with. Good job on the coco monster at bay. Penny, Lu, and Mi mi, I hope all is okay with you. Lu, I've been thinking about you and your DH deploying this weekend. I changed my loss ticker today. It took 1.5 weeks to lose another pound, but Mr Scale was much kinder today than yesterday (which said that I'd eaten an extra 3500 cals if I hadn't known it was water weight). I set my Alarm 1 this morning to take the doggies out but apparently I've been using alarm 2 and I slept in. So I need to exercise after work and I fixed the alarm situation for the morning. Food is on track and today the girls are getting squished at 12:30. Yes, I have to give up my lunch break for a mammogram. Bad scheduling on my dr.'s office part. I suppose I should work.:p Marie |
We're over the hump and on the downslide to the weekend!:jig: (I'm not sure what that monkey is supposed to be doing, but I've always wanted to use him.) Well, my pedometer didn't work today because I was wearing pants that are 2 sizes too big (:D), so it didn't sit right. Bummer! I was so excited to try to beat yesterday's mileage that I actually did some warehouse jogging :twirly:. I'll try again tomorrow.
Mazza, The Biggest Loser seems a little off this year. There are some people I seriously do not like. They are more about PLAYING the game than WINNING the game. There's a clique led by a nasty woman and I'm getting junior high vibes from her. She's gotta go! Oh, and that Laughing Cow cheese is still relatively new to me, so I am really digging it! The light wedges only have 35 calories, and they are such a delicious change on a veggie burger from some nasty, fat free pre-sliced piece of plastic! Mmmmm... And now with all this mango talk, I had to break out my mango lipgloss- mmmmmm... Carol, good luck taking care of your SIL! Sounds like you've got your work cut out for you. I hope things go smoothly. And I am definitely going to try that spice cake! Maybe I'll make it for Thanksgiving for a little change of pace from pie. Marie, so sorry your long weekend is over, but at least it's almost the weekend again! I'm not sure about the full moon and chocolate connection - it might be just me! :crazy: But I do usually have a way worse PMS when it's also a full moon. This time I seem to be doing much better than normal. Congrats on the ticker change!!!:cheer: Have a good one! |
Hello everyone. Well I met with the gym trainer today. She actually just showed the group how to use different equipment. Gave us great tips and a schedule on when to do the machines. Its upper body one day the next workout lower then upper. She stuck in there 10 min. of cardio between reps completed then reps. 10 min cardio, reps, 10 min cardio. Then at the end of one week working out at least the 3 times we chg. it around lower, upper and lower. My friend and I really liked her and signed up for the circuit session on the 24th just in time for turkey day. Hah hah. So we will do every 3 rd time circuit. We also were told when driving watching tv and other times throughout our day to suck in the belly to firm it up. It will be fun working on these new ideas.... Anyways we are sure getting our 20 bucks worth every month. She gave us a chart to work on and said never work in the same manner two days in the row no matter what type of work out shake it up and the last few times in the rep to always challenge yourself or if walking do a little mix up skip or go faster, slower faster etc. Well thats my tip of the day to share with all of you. Hope your all doing well. It was a good food day except for a little cookie that jumped from the bakery into my hand and then to my mouth. But I think during my day I wore it off at least I hope so. I am doing better with tracking my intakes so if it was naughty it got added in. Take care and have a great day. I loved the monkey still haven't figured out on how to add things like that in.
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Where is everyone? Sounds like where is Waldo. Anyways just venting. My white evil scale said I am up 3lbs. from yesterday. No I will admit I did have that cookie but thats crazy! I also drank alot of coffee yesterday. I thought back to reflect what I had also a packaged wild rice for dinner and the sodium is high in that stuff just thought it was a nice chg. guess not. So today I will watch myself like a hawk over prey! One coffee home and one at the conference, and watch for sodium level info. becareful not to let the devil grab me today! I have to say it was suprising # if that was the case I should of really enjoyed myself. It could of been some leftover cals etc. from my dinner out I guess the day before wed.? No that could be. Oh well trying to move forward and will really take careful foot steps today and drink plenty of water to flush out my system.....................................
Have a good one. CC |
Helloooooooo... Happy Friday! Nothing much new to report, but I have been officially chocolate-free since for 4 days now!
Carol, sounds like a good gym plan, and I'm sucking in my belly right now! Good reminder! I'm sure that 3 lbs in one day is fluid. Drink your water and it'll be gone. And to put in the smileys, you've got to click "Go Advanced" at the bottom of the posting area (before you type your message). Then the selections will show up, and you just click on whatever you want to insert. Off to work. Have a good day, all! |
Hi Everyone,
I hope all is going great and everyone is busy exercising and is the reason we're so quiet this week. :D Things have been going good. Mr. Scale was kind this morning but one never knows when it will pull a trick like Carol's did. Those evil boxes are mean. I told DH yesterday, "What the scale gaveth yesterday, it tooketh away today". ;) But alas it gave again today plus .2 pounds loss. so it's a tricky box. I'm in a politcal thing that is taking time away from my precious doggies. A disgruntled ex-school district employee petitioned for a school district merger and got 1400 signatures. Now we have to fight it, get our own petition to file a remonstrance and I'm a chief petitioner. Eeks. The formally non-political person has converted and I admit I don't like it. But alas, it is very bad for students and I have to fight. So I was doing that last night. Food is right on target and the doggies and I have hiked every day, including this morning. Auntie, :carrot: on the chocolate withdrawal. It definitely sounded like the cooca bean was attacking you. Carol, it sounds like you had a great time at the gym. That will keep you going back. Good job and the sodium in those packaged rices is enough to make the evil box angray. Marie |
Well it's the beginning of the day, and I guess all I have to say so far, is that I weighed myself and I'm 1 pound less than I was when I origionally weighed myself!! woot, 313!! I am on my period and I think that effects weight a little, but anyways, one pound is a good start if I do say so myself!
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