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Hi Everyone,
Just a short message to let you know I did re-join WW this afternoon and tomorrow I will start the program. I managed to gain 8 lbs. over my allotted goal of 142. However, I probably gained another 2 lbs. today because I was eating everything in sight. Will check in tomorrow after work! Take care, Anita |
Hello Ladies,
Nita - Congrats on joining Ww. This is the first step in recommitting yourself to a better lifestyle. Don't worry about the 8lb, if you set your mind to it, you can lose it. As for me I have got to recommitt myself too. There are alot of things going on here at work & when I get stressed I reach for food... junk... candy. I have got to start focusing on the choices I make. Hope everyone is having a great day! |
Hi Patty,
Thanks for the words of encouragement. Today I was at work at 6:30 a.m. and even though this was my first day OP, I had so much more energy than I have had for a long time. I had my breakfast at 5:00 a.m. and then I had an orange at about 10:00 a.m. I then had lunch at 12:15 which consisted of two slices of whole wheat bread (1 pt); 4 thin slices of lowfat ham and 1 piece of cheddar cheese and of course a little mayo and lettuce. I then had sugar free orange jello with a little coolwhip; and then I even ate a small apple. Oh, I did have a diet coke with my lunch. I believe eating the fruit really gives you energy and also keeps you from eating candy, sweets, etc. I even measured my cereal and milk this morning. The Leader said that is important--portion control. I believe after you are on any type of program after a while some of us get lax and think oh a little more isn't going to hurt anything. Trust me, it's those little extras that add up to a whole lot of pounds. When I was at the Business Expo I was introduced to some new type of athletic shoes. They have metal rings built right into the sole of the shoe. They are not visible when you look at them. Supposedly they make your feet feel really great and they are supposed to be great for running. I will let you know. Here is a recipe we received at the meeting: Banana Split Smoothie 1-1/4 cups sliced ripe bananas (2 med) 1 (8-ounce) can crushed pineapple in juice, undrained 1 cup crushed ice 1/2 cup orange juice 1 teaspoon sugar 1 (8 ounce) carton vanilla low-fat yogurt Combine first 5 ingredients in a blender, process until smooth. Add yogurt, and process until blended. Serve immediately. Makes 4 servings (serving size=1 cup) Per serving: 3 points Take care, Anita |
Mooz--also hope you are better, and Thin, will say a prayer for good news tomorrow. 1day, hope the party was fun.
Sat the NAACP is having their soul food luncheon. I'd like to support the group, but fried chicken, red beans & rice . . . is this wise? |
Hi all~~just a quick check-in. It is raining again this morning in the valley!! I tell ya, it's pretty strange to see all this in such a normal dry state as Az.
We are now planning a trip on the 'dolly'. Its a huge paddleboat that does tours on Canyon Lake near here. We won a gift certificate for a good portion off recently but you must use it in Feb. and Feb. is nearly gone! How that happened i don't know. Will try to walk once it stops. ~~CAT~~ i think it was 1day who was waiting for the call from her doc, but i will still take the prayers! I need every one of those:) You are right the soul food sounds like a lot of bad foods for ya. Will they at least add a salad? Yesterday i got to taste this spinach/strawberries and red onion salad. Was it delish. I have GOT to find out what the dressing was. I would love to have it again some time. Wishing you all a great day~~ Friday is a very good feeling for our working chicks. Post soon. :wave: :grouphug: thinlizzie |
Good afternoon chickies - just a quick call and catch-up with you all. I should be doing housework but I am taking a little break!
It is a beautiful sunny day here but quite cold. I am off all rubbish food for Lent but I find that I now eat too much bread instead! I really have to watch my intake there as bread seems to be quite high in salt which is a no-no for Blood Pressure! I have been for a 2 mile walk and hope to get for another later. On Thursday I went a different walk as the footpaths were slippery where I usually go so I took my camera with me and took some photographs. I have posted them to Webshots and the addy is community.webshots.com/album/121245839uroDIr?900 ……. If anyone is interested. Gotta get back to the housework now so have a great weekend all. |
Mornin' All~~ Got my 2 mile walk in also, Mooz! I hope to add on some more steps/miles later. Thanks for the link to your newest photos. Loved them. What bodies of water are there? Looks to be smaller river /creek in one? And photos 6 & 7 what was that pier of rock upcroppings? Just curious. Beautiful scenes as usual.
I think we picked a grand day to go on the steamboat Dolly. It is sunny and clear today, and i will take my camera to get some shots of the canyon and the lake we go on...only thing is i did not take my software for the camera(didn't think we'd ever take the plunge and get a notebook!) so i can't show you the pics till i go home in May. Next year i will be much better prepared to live down here for these winter months. I certainly need to bring more sweat/workout pants..& not so many shorts, as so far it has been below average and rainy for Arizona! Beats the high snowbanks at home tho! My friend emailed me one showing the banks(where they plow their driveway) to be as high as the back of their full size Ford pickup! Wow. Glad i'm here. I will do my best to stop by here later. HOpe to hear from more of you today. :wave: :grouphug: thinlizzie |
Happy Saturday to all of You,
This is just a short message to let you know I am finally on track and I even put the scale away. I truly believe one of my downfalls is getting on the scale. Today I slept in until 8:00, something I rarely do but I guess I needed the rest. Have a lot of things scheduled for today so I will close for now. Take care, Anita |
WTG everyone!
Mooz--there are low-sodium breads, at least in this country. I would think there'd be a market there as well. Well, I am a happy Cat. Got a good walk in also, had a good job review--and a raise!--and even started a very inspirational lenten book. See y layta. |
Good Mornin' Chicks~~Waking up here to a much better forcast. Should be quite sunny and near 65 degrees. Tho we do have an event to attend midday...its called a Michigan Picnic. This is at the village that DMIL lives at. She and another lady is in charge of it this year, and we will go early to help her set up things and then stay for it also. She has some games planned that have to do w/Michigan.(like Bingo--but to place the dot on that square you need to find someone in the room who can say they did what was in that square--example: Drove over the mackinaw bridge. Then that person can put their name in your square. Then another one is stickers that you have put on your back, and you walk around and ask people questions to help you find out who or what you are. And these ones can be Arizona or Michigan things/people. That sounds pretty neat. Like one was Alice Cooper(the rock star who is from AZ) I don't know if too many there will even know who he is...course he does golf alot, so maybe i'm wrong. But it could get hilarious.
Yesterday's ride on the Dolly was fun. We got to see about 7 long horn sheep. They really blend into the desert landscape so it was very hard to spot them. Too far for a good picture w/my camera. A few osprey and eagles flying above too. But it was cold! The sun had went behind some dark clouds for the whole 90 minute trip, and the winds blew. I was dressed for it tho. My hooded jacket under another windbreaker jacket, so i had the hood on most of the time. ~~~CATLOVER~~~Way to go on getting a good review and a raise! YGG! That makes a person feel good. Keep up the walks and your lenten journal. Tell us more about that if you can. ~~NITA~~~ I just know you are going to do great on the WW plan again. They do motivate us to try harder. Seeing all the success' and getting new recipes and tips. It DOES work. And i know you will get back to your goal wt. Keep us updated w/those recipes. OH< and how does that 4 serving banana smoothie keep? Or does your DH help you drink it? Is it easier to just cut the serving size when you make it?? All for now chicks. Got to eat 1/2 an orange and get my walk in.~~ :wave: :grouphug: thinlizzie |
Hi Thin,
I haven't made the smoothie yet, but I agree with you I will either cut it in half or even a fourth. Yesterday I found some Vanilla Alba--a milk product I used years ago when I was also doing WW. It makes the most wonderful milkshake WW style. It was a total of 3 points when I added 1/2 cup of skim milkk and 1/4 frozen banana and about 1/4 frozen strawberries. It really fills you up. You are so correct--going back to WW does get you enthusiastic again, especially because my bowling partner also joined and after all, I can't let her lose more than me. We bowled together today and she said she really got hungry the first day but it has gotten better since. This is the first time she has ever done WW so I know it will work like a charm. My older daughter lost another couple of pounds--making it over 17 lbs. in four weeks. The other daughter has lost 14 lbs. I am so very proud of them! I hope the rest of you nice ladies are having a "wonderful" Sunday and that most of you are staying OP--no matter which plan you have chosen. As you can see, I am enthusiastic again so perhaps some of it will rub off. I still have not gotten the scale from under the bed and don't intend to until the day I weigh in. Maybe I will wait until I get back from the meeting--at this point I am not really sure! Well ladies I have a lot of fun projects planned for thsi afternoon so I will close for now! :lol: :lol: Take care, Anita |
Hello ladies,
Got good new from my gasto doctor. Everything was fine except, I did have signs of gastrics. I asked about that he said it was basically a irration of the stomach lining. Could be caused by medication, or food. I just need to take my medications on a daily basis & I need to start listening to my relaxation tapes & I need to start eating more healthy. I need to keep a log of what bothers my stomach. I still have a pain though & we talked about that, he said I needed to go see my obgyn & have that look at. I noticed that I don't have my pain when i'm on my period.. so I need to be sure & talk to my doc about that. Went to the casinos yesterday & got back today... Did not do well at all, but I did have fun... Nita - I hope your motivatation starts to rub off on me. I know I need to start some program because it's going to be time to start wearing shorts soon. That is great news about your daughters weight loss. Cat - Everyone likes a raise, glad you got one. Mooz - I will go look at your pictures after this. I'm sure they are beautiful. Thin - I saw on the news where you all were getting lots of rain. Glad you were able to enjoy your day trip. Did anyone watch the Oscars? I"m so glad Sean Penn won.. Has anybody seen that movie. He played such a great part... he made you feel his pain... We'll I need to get going, need to do some laundry, and go to the grocery store.. |
Patty,
I am happy to hear about your report from your doctor. I know you are going to get motivated here real soon! You are so correct--short season is just around the corner. I did watch the Oscars and I was happy Sean won. I have not seen the movie but when it is on DVD I will buy it. I was sort of disappointed at all the oscars being won by Return of the King--I did not see this movie either because it's not the kind of movies I enjoy. When I was at the gym today I asked one of the employees if anyone had thought of getting a group together who needed to lose weight and perhaps follow the Dr. Phil program. She said she had thought about it and is going to talk to the owners today. I told her I would be more than happy to help organize it. Take care, Anita |
Evenin' Chicks~~
Walked & rode my pedal bike alot today. Hope i'm toning up at least. But there are just too many good foods to be tried here. Yesterdays Mi.Picnic had too many things plus dessert table, which i can never leave alone! I need to workout all day long to make up for these potlucks! Tonite the single guy we met here in the RV park had us over for a beef roast. At least that was a pretty healthy meal. Crockpot spuds and carrots too. Tossed salad too. He has to go home to Illinois soon, so we have a few things planned...by Sat. we leave for our week in Vegas, and he will probably be gone when we return. He is fun and kinda lonely. And he has been nice enough to take us places in his truck when we only have the motorcycle. And all those rainy days it was needed! ~~Nita~~ is VAnilla Alba like the malted milk powder or?? Where do you buy it? I haven't seen Mystic River yet either, but it certainly sounds like i should rent it asap too. I did enjoy all the Lord of the Rings movies, so i was very glad that they won all their nominations. I read the Hobbit when i was in high school, my DH has read all the novels, and he really enjoyed the way they did the movies. They certainly had a novel idea to film them all at once, kept the trilogy going to the end it deserved. Sometimes the money is not put in for #2 on these types of movies, and then you await it and it never happens! Soon Hidalgo will be released(starring Viggo Mortenson from L.O.R.'s) that big race across the desert on horseback. Looked pretty cool, we think we will see that one on the big screen. Probably so much better on that. Glad that your daughters are still doing so good on their plans. Helps you to stay motivated just hearing about it! :) ~~1day~~ Glad your doc let you know things are o.k. And knowing you can get a hold on the gastritis by watching diet and taking meds will be more motivation to keep you on track. Wishing you good luck for a jump start on the journaling and then onto better health~ Well chicks, gotta go. I will check in tomorrow. :wave: :grouphug: thinlizzie |
Just a quick check--glad to hear the news, 1day.I think the meditation tapes can really help--I have been less flustered at work since I've been listening to mine. What kind of tapes do you have?
Hi to everyone else--I need to get to bed. Our church is having an early-morning Bible study for Lent that I am trying to go to. Need to sleep. Cat |
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