Rennie The knee is doing better, thank you! I don't "grate my cauliflower rice. I use a hand chopper...one of those "slap type" ones. I chop it up, microwave it, then wrap in several paper towels and wring the liquid out of it. Then I stir fry in in a non stick pan with some other veggies and seasonings and add chicken or shrimp.

Hubby will finish painting the living room today, but the carpet won't get installed until Nov 6th. I hate not having carpet in there. Oh well. I will just appreciate it that much more once it's installed right?

Morning Ladies…nice to see everyone posting…update on the mouth, still hurting …normally when I have a cavity filled the place where they give me all the shots hurts for a couple of weeks so I’m just eating my ibuprofen and dealing… :(

Last night was awful, we lost power around midnight due to a blown transformer and it didn’t come back on till after 3 ! Dh and I can only sleep with a fan on so as you can imagine we pretty much layed there wide awake for three hours …it was miserable …I’m working on like 3 hours of sleep today …gonna be an early bed time for me tonight, I’m exhausted. :coffee:

Dcap – good to see you, I hope things are better this week. :flow2:

Kate – 70 lbs ??? !!! ??? that is AWESOME !!!!!! :hat::cb::jig::bravo:
You are doing so well, hoping it rubs off on the rest of us …if I forget Happy Anniversary this Weds …doing anything special ? Me and dh will celebrate our 22nd anniversary ( got married at 19 ) on 11/6 …we usually just go out to a nice dinner.

Rennie – yes, the sweet potato is definitely a better carb for you. And tastes so good. Sounds like you and I had the same “not so good weekend with food” haha …we’ll get it together soon :grouphug:

Hope you all have a great Tuesday …I’ve gotta work till 5 then go to the grocery because we have like nothing at home which is making us eat out at fast food every night, which is not what I need to be doing ( or him ), so even though I find grocery shopping annoying I will go tonight for our better good LOL

See ya Ladies
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Kate - I wanna try that with the rice, I normally make cauliflower puree but have been wanting to try my hand at making like a cauliflower fried "rice" type of dish...I thought I would put mine in the food processor though...

Have you ever done the whole cauliflower crust for pizza ? I have that in mind to try too

Morning !!! I love this time of year, all the leaves around me are changing to reds, yellows and oranges, the nights are cooler ( and getting darker earlier )…seems like I just really look forward to going home after work and having my evening with my dh in the Fall and Winter …now once time changes and it’s getting dark at like 6:00 I won’t like that, that usually depresses me a little haha …well I’m good until after the holidays…then Winter just gets depressing…this year they are saying we are not going to have a bad Winter here in Indiana …not much snow and warmer temps…but we’ll see … :shocksn:

Did you all have a good evening last night ? I went upstairs early with dh and we laid in bed and watched It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown …haha, one of our favorites. No, we don’t have kids but we still love the classics. :ghost:

We had pizza burgers for dinner ( my Mom’s recipe ), very easy to make and very good…not real nice on the calories but you could adjust it I guess…I didn’t last night…but I only had two ( when I wanted more ), so I am trying.

Can’t wait till my dentist is back in the office this Monday and I can go in and have her adjust my bite or look and see what is causing all this discomfort.

Have a good day everyone !!!
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Kate thank you, re: how to make the cauliflower rice. I think I may still have mine. If not I may have to buy one. I love the thought and the fact that it's healthy not to mention I love rice so a sub for it would really make a difference. I've made the mock potato salad with cauliflower. My son in law and his Mother really enjoyed it. Salad they never would have thought to try it. I told them about the mock au gratin potatoes/mac n cheese. My youngest daughter likes those :) Yes great way to look at the delay in the carpet installation :) Happy Anniversary Kate and Hubby :)

Carri, the 4 of the kids and myself sleep can only sleep with a fan. My husband and youngest daughter don't need it. The rest of us can't do quiet. We love the hum :) Yes I have been having a horrid time with food. I need to snap things in order soon. I just bought 80lbs of sweet potatoes from a guy at work ($12 a box). His son is a grower/farmer. I can't wait till I get some down time to prepare them for the kids (and hubby). They love them more than he does :) LOL I love the old Charlie Brown shows, my kids hate them. We can still watch out old classics, children or not. I usually watch them alone or my 11 year old will sit with me and critique every little thing about my ole cartoons :)

I'm way up on the scale. I've got to reign this in soon.

Morning Ladies !!

Rennie - 80 lbs of sweet potatoes ??? What will you do with all of them ? can you use them before they go bad or will you freeze or can them ?

I'm still not doing well with my food ...I did so good for so long and then bam, my birthday hit and I've been bad ever since, that's almost a month I have wasted ...don't know what my deal is ....but it needs to stop

Hope you all have a good weekend, I so need to catch up on some sleep and tv shows ...so that's what I'll be doing, haha

see ya

Carri

Carri, I've cooked sweet potatoes since I bought them. The kids love them and my husband will eat what I put on his place (as long as he likes it). So they won't go bad. There are 40lbs per box. We're halfway through the first box. I bought this bag thingee called Quick Potato that cooks 4 of any kind of potato in 4 minutes. Sure beats the microwave at 8 minutes per potato :)

I'm not doing well food wise either. When I do well at the beginning of the day I mess up by afternoon/evening, smh

Morning Ladies, see no one has posted in a few days ...think most of us are not in the right head space right now to concentrate on this...which I hate, cause I need to get my butt in gear...I was off work the last couple of days not feeling well ...I am better now...I am REALLY gonna try and start back in full force next week until Christmas ...so we can have a Christmas challenge maybe ???

Have a great day ladies

Carri, I am definitely not in the the right head space. I can't even say it's about concentrating. I'm starting to think that I am alright with my weight but would just like to lose my stomach. I know this is not the ideal weight for me and I would look and feel better at least 20lbs lighter but it doesn't seem to be happening. No matter how good of a day I start out with I get tired in the early afternoon and I just grab what I can for the remainder of the day. Maybe a small challenge would be good. I'm on a couple on here now and I'm truly not actively participating. Let me know what you decide to do. ttyl

Carri, are you still around? I have got my head together thanks to another 3FCer. I have come down quite a bit of water weight by eliminating, bread, rice, pasta, and junk food :)

Linda I hope things are going well with you :hug:

I'm still around, just not doing so well ...and since we kind of lost our steam ( and our leader lol ) on this thread I just sort stopped checking in ...

:high: for trying to keep it alive Satine!

How are you doing?

Carri, don't stop checking in :hug: Maybe Linda will come back. Did YOU want to start a new thread and call it something else? We all have bad days. I certainly do. They often string alone into several days. Then I start over again. We can do this :huh:

dcapulet :wave:

Carri ... just a thought/suggestion dcapulet and I are on this thread. http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/100-...ty-thread.html You don't have to post or talk about your weight, just come over/in and chat, vent or what ever. It's a great group of supportive people and we'd love to have you. or we can just stay here. I think we'd have more people here it we took the date off. I'll see if I can get a moderator to take that part off.

Good idea Love! :wave:

thanks dcapulet :)

I sent the message asking to change the title for Linda. Hopefully they'll change it and more people will post :crossed:

Date changed. By the way, who is the leader? I'm the mod/admin and have not been posting much. Everything seems to be staying the same so I've very little to say. Being diabetic has become just part of my life which has been way too busy the past 8 months.

FBGL is steady and weight just fluctuates up or down depending on what I've been eating.

Ruth, good to see you :hug: Linda (Dougsoldlady) started the thread but she hasn't been on the forums for a while. We thank you for changing the name. Glad to hear your FBGL is steady that's a plus. My weight does the same thing :)

Why am I just now seeing this thread???? What was it called before?

It's the same title only says "Fall" instead of whatever the date was before.

Looks to me that we have two "daily threads" in here. :shrug:

Carol it had a date of Sept 21 at the end of it. The O.P. was gonna do a thread every week but we suggested that she just keep this one since it was so small we could just keep it going. So Ruth changed the end part for us ;)

Carri, where are you?

Do you ladies have room for another?? I joined this site hoping to find a support group of people for daily check-ins. Was going to start a thread and then I saw you guys! My name is Kristin. I just turned 40, and unfortunately along with it my highest weight ever. Ugh. (It was a real double whammy, but gave me the kick in the pants I so desperately need!) I live with my partner of 10 yrs. (he's my common-law DH. ;) ) and our two fur-babies. No kids. Looking forward to getting to know you all! I've got a journey ahead of me with the weight-loss, but hopefully having some folks along for the trek will help!

Kris, :wel3fc: ... This thread has seemed to die out you are welcome to join us on the daily accountability thread though I haven't been posting much due to work but that should change after Christmas :)
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/100-...thread-11.html

Hi Guys,
I'm a 29 year old graduate student. I have never been super skinny but over the past year I have gained so much weight that all of my clothes are very tight or do not fit at all. I now have a break from school for a month and I am going to focus on getting back to eating healthy and exercising.
I am starting my healthy eating plan again today because I got really off track during Thanksgiving week. I am also frustrated because I keep trying to lose weight and it is so difficult. I definatly need the support of this site and look forward to us encouraging eachother!
Hugs,
Brittany :)

Brittany :wel3fc: I hope you come back to 3FC. There are several threads that are quite lively. If you search which ever plan you're following you'll find a ton of info I'm sure so jump on in :) Keep checking in/coming back/posting it helps a ton on this journey of ours :)

http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/weig...-out-160s.html

Hi Rennie - long time no talk, lol ...if you can believe it I didn't gain any over the holiday season, I actually ended up losing a few pounds, not much though ...but that is a BIG plus for me as I usually gain 10-15 thru the holidays...not much is going on here, just trying to get back into the whole eating healthy routine...did you have a good holiday season ? How is your dieting going ? Hope all is well.

Hi everyone !!!!

Carri

Hi Lurch Mama, sorry I just noticed this while checking back in ...I would like for this to be an active thread again if we can get some peeps to join us and some others ( like myself lol ) to come back...Because, like you, I really need the encouragement and accountability to keep me on track.

How are you doing lately ?