Morning!! Are we all ready to get our asses in gear and lose this weight??!!! YES!!!!! Lets do it!!! We have at least until the 4th of July before we should have any major temptations right? Just think of how much better we will all look and feel by then.

Not much happening here today just getting our supplies delivered and then I will probably head off for a walk. I set the deck up yesterday and cashed in cans and bottles. $45.00 just since December. I guess we drink alot of soda.

I was in my daughters room looking for an envelope(because she usually grabs a bunch when I buy them) and I found a list of online crushes and a websight. WHAT?? I went on it and sure enough she's a member. I changed her email address on it so anything comes to my box(she had one set up and I think it was an old one at my sisters) Needless to say I will be doing some checking around to find out what the **** is going on. I have always told them no chatting online it is dangerous,etc. I hate the teen years!!!!

I will check back later.

Sorry I didn't make it again for the weekend. It has been a crazy few days. Wednesday my teacher called to tell me that her MIL and grandmother were killed in a car wreck Tuesday night. Wednesday I was home sick (as you all know) so I got to deal with that news too. I had treated the MIL in school so it was kind of heart breaking for me. Thursday we had a half day so that she could get ready for the wake that night. I ended up going to Target. They opened one about 20 mins away from my house so I made an afternoon of it. I got a few more fish for the tank too. Friday I was off of school for the funeral (which I didn't go to). I felt kind of weird going to a place that I really didn't know the family. I went to look at a few houses w/ my mom, sister and brother. My mom is really into buying places to rent out and maybe live in herself later on in life. Once we were done there my sister and I went to Lowe's to buy more plants for my yard. I have no color in the back yard so I got some flowers for a few sun pots back there. (I am going to toot my own horn here, I think they look pretty good too). Saturday I had school and then yesterday I spent the day inside piddling and watching tv. Joe came home from the camp at around 1 and we watched that movie Duplex. I thought I was going to pee on myself I was laughing so had. Joe thought I was nuts. So to make a long story short (too late) I was pretty busy all weekend.

I am with all of you though on betting back on track starting today. I do have left overs fromlast night for lunch but I tried to make everything as healthy as possible. I made lasagna from scratch yesterday and I used the lite versions of everything. I did bring my workout clothes though so I can get some form of exercise in today. I really want to get myself into better shape. No more excuses!

Angie the picture in my avatar is of Rhea. I have a hard time telling them apart sometimes. If they are outside sleeping next to each other I have to really look at them to tell which one is which.

Good Morning Girls

Angie good for you tackling that computer problem. Everyone has heard that sickos go into teenage chat rooms and try and get to know them. I agree lets get into speed mode with getting healthy and in shape.

Well gotta go I am being called. Hi to everyone. Julie

How is this for odd? Yesterday was BEAUTIFUL outside. I spent the entire day outside, I cleaned the RV out and I raked the entire lawn to get the fallen tree limbs off from it, I raked out all my flower boxes to get them ready for new mulch,etc. and I woke up this morning to.... SNOW!!! My deck is all set up for the summer and everything. BOOHOO!! Julie, doesnt it suck when that happens.

Well, I need to confess my foods for yesterday.

Breakfast: 3/4 cup Honey Bunches of oats with skim milk-160 calories

Lunch: 2 slices lowfat bread,1 slice fat free bologna,1teaspoon lowfat onion dip,WOW chips- 250 calories


Supper: 1/2 cup rice,3 oz. baked chicken breast,cauliflower-270 calories

Snack: 1 mini bag micro popcorn/sprinkle cheese and spray butter-170 calories
1 pack of easter snack cakes(I took the coating and fed it to the dogs)-250 calories
2 mini peanut butter cups-?

okay I guess the calories for the day werent bad but oh boy did I feel guilty last night. I felt like I had cheated on you guys. I will try not to let it happen again though.

Hows it going for you guys? I will check back in in a while.

Angie I don't think that is bad at all. The only thing that I can see that you need to do (if you don't mind me telling you this) is to add more veggies and fruit. Maybe some strawberries or something on your cereal, some lettuce and tomatoes on your sandwich. Dinner looked good w/ the cualiflower. I bet once you add those you will feel fuller longer and not need to eat the sweets.

I did my part on staying OP yesterday. I didn't eat 3 hours before I went to bed. Sometimes I feel that I snack to late in the evenings. I told Joe yesterday that I feel like I sabatoge myself. He said that he did notice that I was eating a littel to much lately. Ok, that was not what I needed to hear. I quickly stopped him and said that needed his support not those type of comments. He said that those might be what I need to hear. Wrong, I made sure that he knew that I walk a very fine line and those type of things will push me to eat more. I know that I am not the typical person that would get embarassed and stop eating. I am the person who will chow down when you say that I eat to much. I go into a depression and that is what I do to help with the depression. Not the best thing to do but that is what happens. (rant over)

I know I need more fruits and veggies. I actually have bananas sitting right here but I had a "craving" for the snack cakes. Boy dont I wish I was one of those people who craved fruits and veggies. I actually did the first time I lost weight. I went 1 full year with absolutely NO junkfood or snacks and I could tell when I had fresh fruits and veggies from the store. I wished I could get back to that time.

I am the same way you are. If someone says something I will go eat out of spite. Are you sure we arent twins? Like Danny Devito and Arnold. I am the short chubby one. We do share a birthday to. haha

The snow has stopped and now it is slowly melting but yuck. I hate to look outside in April and see that.

HI Girls

How is everyone doing today? I am doing pretty good staying OP. Since Easter. MIL sent home extra lemon cheesecake from the dinner but that went straight to work with my hus. The kids don't like it anyway. I am with you two, I want to start eating more vegetables. But its the carbs I crave like you Angie, cakes and cookies! What is everyone making for dinner? I think I will make ham and cheese omlettes. I have extra ham leftover from the one I baked on Saturday.

Kempy isn't it hard not to snack in the evenings? I just want some popcorn or a cookie or something. Good job though last night. Believe me when I get down I want to eat too. Its a hard thing to confront not to do.

Angie May is right around the corner. I know how you feel though, it can be nice out one minute and snowing the next. We had snow flakes last weekend but nothing stayed on the ground.

Hi to everyone. Noelle come out and tell us about your Easter! Julie

Hey girls . Not too much time to talk right now but I'll come right out and say it, I was not OP yesterday but I am doing good so far today. We had a hawaiian style easter dinner--all the foods you could ever imagine at a full-on luau... anyway, all the family less one sister came over. I hid a dozen plastic eggs in our backyard and let Michael go hunting for them. It was funny because Kai started sniffing them out before I even called Michael out of the house. When my niece came over I hid the rest of the eggs and she and Michael went on another hunt. The eggs they couldn't find we had Kai help them by saying "go find"--he would go straight to the hidden eggs using his nose--what a cheater! It was hilarious to watch.

I have all the "tools" I need to be OP, my freezer and fridge are stocked w/healthy choices. I just need to quit yapping about it and DO IT!

Bravo to all of you who have stuck with it like you said you would. I am following in your footsteps today. We have free Jamba juice day today at all the local stores but I bypassed that and got my FF latte instead.

Angie/Julie sorry to hear you girls are still having snow. I'm still suffering from a slight sunburn from the weekend , if that makes you feel any better

Kempy, I am the same way about people making comments about what I'm eating or not eating....exercising or not exercising. Our minds are tricky things eh? Well, we all have the power to control our own destinies so let's do it!

I gotta run for now, but will run in later to check things out. Ciao!

Julie, I have some spaghetti sauce with meatballs in the crock pot for supper tonight. I love that. I have to get on the elliptical or the treadmill or the bike in a minute since I didnt get any exercise in today.

Jay is dieting with me too. He really wants to lose some weight since he gained quite a bit with me this winter and his Dad is a very big man and he is afraid that he will get that big. We really are screwed though, How many restaurant owners do you see that are small? We have to look at food and it is so hard. Today I mixed up cookies to shape and freeze so I can just pull them out and bake them in the future for the accounts and I had a hard time not baking some off for myself. I still cant believe that I gained so much back again. I wonder if I will ever get a handle on my weight and stop yoyo-ing so bad. I think losing all my weigh actually made my eating worse because I now will say "okay all the food needs to be gone tonight so that I can get back on track in the morning" and then the next day I do the same thing so I am actually eating quite a bit but with good intentions of getting back to dieting the next day(if that makes any sense)

Hey Noelle you were posting the same time I was. Yep, we can all get back on track together and support each other. I miss it being like it was when we all were doing so well. It was so nice to come here every week and see everyones losses. Let's do it.

You are making me drool with the thoughts of a traditional Hawaiian Luau. My moms best friend did one when she was in Hawaii and she said the pig was so good and it just fell off the bone. YUM!! You lucky dog!! I think I actually got quite a bit of sun yesterday but not today.

What is Jamba juice?

It sounds like Michael had a great Easter. I love his name. Did I ever tell you that I wanted to name Corey Joshua Michael before he was born? I got negative comments from the Inlaws so I changed it. But I loved that name.

Hi Angie...sorry to make you drool **hmmm, wheres the smiley with the bib icon

Here's a recipe (just shoot me, I know) for Kalua pig in the oven or the crock pot, you can have your own taste of a luau right at home:

1 4-5lb pork butt
1 tsp Liquid smoke
1/4 cup Hawaiian salt (rock salt will do)
2 cups water

For oven
Place pork fat side up in a roasting pan or deep casserole dish
Combine water and liquid smoke and pour over meat
Sprinkle with salt
Cover and roast in oven at 400 degrees F. for 3 hours
Remove, cool and shred

For Crock pot
Make slits through pork butt and generously rub with salt and Liquid smoke
Place in crock pot on high for 5-7 hours
It is done when meat comes apart easily when prodded with a fork
*I add round onion and black pepper to mine.


Jamba Juice is a smoothie joint -- www.jambajuice.com (I was suprised to see they weren't in LA or ME but they are in WI) Although people think smoothies are healthy, they can be loaded with more calories than you think, hence why I skipped them today even though they were free *pat myself on the back* and lastly, Michael was Rick's uncles name so it was his choice. I like the name although I think it's a little too comon, BUT it is the name of the archangel so I was alright. I wanted Jacob Dylan (like the Wallflowers guy) OK girlies, I really gotta get back to work .

Hi Ladies! I need to try and check in more often, it keeps me accountable for my eating habits. I tried talking with my husband about it, but, he says I worry too much and that I am fine the way I am. Nice, but, doesn't help my efforts. Darn scale said 145 this am, though it is first day of TOM, but, we do have 3 kids who have 3 easter baskets FULL of the good stuff. I have been so off plan, and REALLY need to get back on!! Tomorrow, I hope! I do well when at work, then I come home and totally screw it up. Here's my eating today:

Breakfeast: oatmeal with 1/2 cup 1% milk & 1 tsp brown sugar

Lunch: 1 cup light and fit vanilla yogurt, 1/2 cup applesauce

PM Snack: Here's where the trouble starts, lol. 1 tsp peanutbutter, all natural, 4 jelly beans, 3 pieces of easter chocolate

Dinner: Chef Boyardee lasagna bake

I have been so busy with Mary Kay, working 25 hours a week out of the home, daycare after school until 5:30 pm, and trying to keep our house in decent shape. I have been exercising, but, not as much. Although last night I did get in 3 miles with WATP, and did 30 mins of Gilad's Bodies In Motion.

Angie,

It is good that your husband is dieting with you. It really helps to be able to cook the same for the both of you.

Noelle,

Don't feel bad for being off plan, I have been WAY off plan, lol. Hey, great job on choosing the fat free latte!

Julie,

Good job on staying on plan! I need some motivation....or a good kick in the rear .

Kempy,

You sound like an emotional eater, like me. If I am sad, I eat. If I am happy, I eat. If I am grouchy, I eat. Just too much eating!! I guess I just LOVE food, lol.

Hi to everyone else!! I hope I can start over tomorrow OP!

Holly

Noelle, I am going to get a ham for next weekend and try that recipe. It sounds good. Thanks.

Holly, My trouble starts with the afternoon snacking too. It seems like 3:00 comes and all I want to do is eat until bed and I dont go to bed until around 11:00 so I guess I know how I got so fat again.

Well, I did yesterday totally OP!! I traded cookies for Nookie!!!
Hey, It kept me busy!!

Hey Angie just look at it this way, you not only turned down the cookies you burned calories too. I see nothing wrong with that.

I think we might all be getting back on track. I had an OP day yesterday too. I am trying to make myself have a salad every night before dinner. I eat the whole thing first too so that I don't eat so much of the other stuff that I have cooked. It really does fill me up. I have even gotten in 2 days of wieght training. Yesterday JOe and I took the dogs for a walk. It was so beautiful outside plus it was good for all of us to spend time together.

Oh, did I tell you guys that we think Echo is prego? Her belly is getting pretty tight and she is getting very lazy. As Joe says she is in no hurry to do anything. They say that is a sign for dogs. So, hopefully we will have some babies by the end of May.

Good Morning Girls

Angie you are so darn funny, and I also agree with Kempy you burnt up some cals.

Kempy congrats about Echo. I just love lab puppies. You are going to have to baby her and give her some extra treats!

I agree, I think we are all starting to get back on track it seems like. Yesterday I was totally OP eating and I even did some cardio. I have not gotten on the scale in a while. I might just try staying OP for a length of time and then jump on it. Well I better not jump-I would probally break the thing and it is to expensive to replace. Check in later. Julie