Doin' a Happy Dance!!!!!!!!!
Kids are at the Lake!!!!!! DS played an awesome game this morning. He stopped the puck right at the last second of the game to prevent the tie being broken. The crowd went WILD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DH just made plans to go and install a dishwasher this aft and then go to a buddies for a few beers. WOOOOOHOOOOOOO-yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
This is an unexpected gift!!! The house to myself for a few hours. I will eat the food that only I like for supper.I may dance around naked, take a bubble bath and watch decorating shows to my hearts content!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The real plan is to. Get the kitchen cleaned up while listening to some good ole 70’s rock. Pull out the files. Sort. Start inputting data. Take a break. Dance around the house. Fold some laundry. Do more bookkeeping. Eat hummus and such. Have a bath. Maybe some more bookwork. Watch TLC shows and work on photo albums. Take a break. Drink a glass of wine. This will all be mostly done in flannel PJ’s.
WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! !!!!
Repeat tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!

Oh the madness of it all. I must turn off the phone. LOL!!!!

Holly: OMG LOL....enjoy your day!
Geez, that still sounds like a lot of work to me for being a relaxing day.
I'm so glad for you! It's funny because that is how most of my weekends are...except today I slept in until about noon and it felt SO good! I needed that! Gosh, I had better enjoy these days until I have children!

Definitely unplug that phone and play air guitar as you dry the dishes lol!

Girlie

Hi all. Checking in from a beautiful but *cold* Saturday in Colorado...no way I'm taking a walk outside in these temperatures! I'll have to try to boogie in the warmth of my living room, which should be no trouble, as my bf broke out the vinyl and is blasting me with ELO.

Jodi: Thanx for the welcome. Glad to hear the Subway is good...I saw their TV advert the other day in which they show the 6-grams-of-fat sandwich next to the 30-grams Big Mac, and I really got thinking about how much crappy fast food I eat. Sounds like Subway is a good substitute.

Holly: Sounds like you have an awesome day planned! Naked dancing should be on everyone's daily agenda.

Girlie: Ack, too much meat is a killer! I spent two weeks with my parents over Christmas, and they are pretty strict vegans, and I felt so good all over after just a couple of days eating what they eat. Wow, contemporary fiction: I could go on and on. If you like Oates, check out Alice Munroe (Canadian writer of mostly short stories...spare and evocative prose), Kate Atkinson (especially her first novel "Behind the Scenes at the Museum"...funny and poingant and insightful) and the essays of Virginia Woolf (much as I love her fiction, her essays are something else). I love Dickenson too, but am not familiar with her prose. Will look it up. I tried your link and got an error page; phooey!

Okay, gotta grade a pile of essays, hopefully with activity-breaks in between!

Hi there,
I just whant to say that I am so glad that I have found you!
I am from Europe and ther are no boards on net about loosing weight. Ther are only one or two that i have found but not interesting at all. They all have to loose 20 pounds or so...that is not a problem really

I will track your post and I hope I will get some support here. Also I will sare my feelings and try to help anyone who is interested.

It is Saturday evening and from tomorow I will be on 500 kcal diet (I know it is strict, but I will try to do it!) and i will go to acupunture every other day, for 1/2 houre. And i feel I am scared a little, because what if i fail again? I didnt get any helthy food, so I am afraid and because of that. But tomorow is Sanday and I hope I will get organised for the next week. So, wish me luck. I hope that we all get to 199 point soon!

LOL spores!!! We used to make out to ELO at school dances way back in the day. It reminds of DR. Pepper lip gloss and a disco ball. ROFLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Giggle. I may need to find some for this aft. Shucks DH just left.


Point~ Welcome!!!!
500 cal is not enough. It will set you up for failure because you will be too hungry. If you go to the main page here or www.fitday.com you can log in your age, height weight, activity level and it will give you a healthy amount. I eat between 1500- 1800 cal and I am losing. It is slow and steady.
It is nice to have someone from Europe here!

good saturday evening all of you beautiful wonderful women!!!
i am feeling great today! i had a great rest and did my puttering around, planned my meals and went to the stores. i had a great saturday! i did the WATP dvd just because i wanted to today. it felt good (i was actually fully awake ROFL). we are staying home again tonight just veggin' in front of the tv. i got a new book today called "fit from within" by victoria moran. i will cozy up later and read.

holly- good for you getting the place all to yourself!! your day sounds fab!! enjoy!

spores- i like subway a lot. they have some really good subs and this awesome fat free sweet onion sauce instead of mayo or regular dressing. i really recommend any of the 6 under 6 subs. a super treat. i started looking at some of the restaurants i eat on line and i was sickened by the amount of fat and cals i was eating. i can't even look at the kentucky fried chicken sign anymore lol. good luck with your choices!

girlie- good for you getting some extra ZZZZ'S you needed it!!

point- welcome!! i hope to see you post often! i totally agree with holly though 500 cals is not enough, you won't be able to function with that little to eat. check out fitday like holly said and make up a good healthy plan for yourself. it is much better to loose the healthy way! good luck!!

to all the rest of you wonderful chicks have a great saturday, do something good for yourself this weekend!!

Was very naughty and hit Chipotle this evening. Over 1500 calories for one burrito...and I ate the whole thing. Ugh. Though I know I should cut it in half (What IS it about portion sizes in this country? The whole American quest for value gone awry?), I find that what I often crave is not just the food itself but sheer volume. Smothering of the senses=smothering of some deeper emotional need. I wonder if a deep sense of deprivation is endemic to our whole culture. Fear of being alone with our deepest selves. If we allowed ourselves to spend a space of time without constant sensory input (food and television for me), are we afriad that we'd look inside and find little there? Or perhaps I'm overanalyzing. Subjecting the poor burrito to armchair psychology.

Point: Welcome. I'm a newbie here too! What part of Europe are you from? Good luck with your quest!

Holly: Oh, good, I'm not a dork for liking ELO! My punker-than-thou friends laugh at me, but hey, they're the ones trying to breast-feed around nipple piercings.

Jodi: Congrats on a great day! I personally find weekends the most difficult, fraught as they are with that time-to-forget-cares-and-have-fun feeling. Good for you exercising for the fun of it -- that's a great feeling.

Off to bed for me. Hardly slept last night (Bf said I woke up screaming things! Nothing like sharing a bed to find out all kinds of better-left-unknown things about yourself!), so I'm looking forward to forty uninterrupted winks. Unless that Chipotle has other designs.

Hi again, tx a lot for a wellcome

Spores, I dont think that you are going to far in analyzing (?) the situation. I also use food and TV for drug myself. Maybe you should think about yourself and what is bothering you. I think that will be a process of few months or even years. But I thnik that you are on a good path....

I started digging 3 years ago, and there a lots of sceletons in my closet. After 3 years I am now getting to the point were I will do something. Maybe?

I know that 500 kcal is little, but I have tried that before and it's not so bad. Acupunture is helping not to be mad from hunger. It really helps. I know some girls
that made it by acupunture. It's not in acupunture it's in diet, but it helps.

The man is a registered physician so I guess he should know...I went before, and I felt great. Everything is in diet and to eat the thing on the list. It is specific and you cant change it - insted of apple eat a pear or things like that. The key issue is that you have to bring food from home to the office and eat at the certain time. My skin was great and I didnt felt fatique during that diet, i was just lazy and did not prepare the meals on time...so...this time i am gonna stick to it!!!!

It's Sunday morning, and I am going for the first acupunture treatmant....and after that for shoping and cooking for tomorrow..

Just for info - it's an election day in Croatia (we are the conutry near Austria, we share a see with Italy, and we are a little bit up from the Greece - if you wolud like to see on the map!), we are selecting the president, as you did not so long ago...So...I am gong to vote, of course! I am telling this to you because I think it may be interesting to here something from Europe. If you dont like it - just tell me. Also If anybody would like to correct my big mistakes or explain to me some basic stuff from time to time, I would be happy about it I know that DH - is a dear husband - wich i dont have.... Cheers!

Hello,
I can't believe how much I miss, when I miss one day getting to the boards. I had DH get me up a little early this morning so I could read the boards and post before going to church. I've got a lot to do this afternoon and evening and I was afraid I wouldn't get here and after yesterday, I need to get here.

Yesterday was a BAD food day for me. I ate, and ate and ate. I didn't journal eithier. So, I figured out that in order to not let that happen again, I need to : Journal & Get to the boards! I think those two things work well for me because that's when I'm facing my feelings and such and I don't cover it up with food.

Holly: Did you enjoy your time alone? It sounded wonderful!

Girlie: You asked about TOPS. I have found it to be a great help to me. Our meetings are only a half hour long. We usually have a short business meeting and then some sort of 20 min. informational type talk. The weigh-in is so important to me for my accountablility. We also have contests within our group that keeps things interesting. Right now we are divided in two teams, and the first team that loses 10% of their body weight (as a whole) wins. We have some prizes set up for that. It's fun and it's helpful to encourge your team and that keeps oneselfs encouraged. You are correct that it's cheaper than WW. Also, in TOPS you can do your own program. Have you checked out the TOPS website? It will tell you more. It's www.TOPS.org

Jodi: How's the new book you are reading? Tell me about it?

Point & Spores: Welcome! I know everyone is looking forward to having you here with us.

DH just said that it's time for breakfast, so I've got to run. Today I will: Journal, Get to the Board (hey, I've already accomplished one thing!), workout, get my Accounting homework done. Watch Desperate Housewifes....sounds like a balanced day to me!

Have a great day ladies!

Susie

good morning ladies,
i had a very nice evening last night, i made wings and fries for the steelers playoff game (dh is a huge fan) i also made a veggie tray and a fresh fruit platter. i did very well with dinner, 4 wings a few fries and loaded up on fruit and veggies. i am very happy when i can make a compromise like this. i didn't have to snack later either. i wish i could do this more of the time just eat like a "normal" person.
my goals last week were:
1) exercise 4x (30min WATP) i actually did a total of 11 miles over 5 days excellent!
2) stick to the good plan i have laid out. i did stick to the plan all week with a few cheats
3) post everyday i posted everydat!!!
4) journal all of my food did great until friday!

not a bad week, i am trying to do everything to set myself up for success. i am going to keep the same goals this week and see where it takes me.

mychoice- the book so far is really good. it is one of those books where i have an ah-ha moment every few pages, i am going to go back and highlight certain points for myself because the just really click with me. i was drawn to this book because of the first chapter it is called "accept yourself today" the opening line did it for me it reads: "if you don't accept yourself, you won't live fully, and if you don't live fully, you'll need to get full some other way." this really hit me, the author was a yo-yo dieter, which i am not. but she has so much great insight. the chapters are short just 2-3 pages each, there are 101 chapters. i made it to 12 last night. it is a really good read. not a diet plan just a mental makeover of sorts. sounds like you have a good day planned. enjoy!!

spores- analyze away girl! the couch is always open. as far as the burrito incident goes move on, you can do this. weekends food wise are awful for me, i just love being free from work! hang in there!!!

point- the accupuncture sounds very interesting. good luck with your plan it does sound really strict though. glad you are under a doctors care with it! good for you going out to vote it is so important to voice our opinions.

hope you all have a fantastic day!!

Morning chicks.
I also post on the thread Around the World with 80 Chicks. It is more social than diet.I used to travel quite a bit I love connecting with the women from around the world. This morning some women described what the see outside while eating their breakfast. I realized I hadn’t paid attention to my surroundings lately. So I did.

I do come here every morning to have a coffee and visit with the chicks. The kids watch cartoons first thing so it is quiet in here.My computer is in what we call the library.It is where we keep our books.Sounds fancier than it is is. It is a lovely room, with old fashioned blue floral wallpaper and pine wainscotting, at the back of the house. It has a big picture window( no curtains). It is pretty drab out there right now. I do enjoy all the seasons though. The yard was completely empty when we moved here and they burned stuff in the middle so the ground was scorched. It is all twigs and the ground is snow covered. The bush is behind us, all bare trees and snow. We mostly have birds and squirrels although we do see a deer about once a winter.
Mostly it has made me feel a sense of pride and peace. Our yard has become a nice retreat. I have planted a beautiful hedge and rock gardens. I know in a few months the green will poke out of the ground. This room is the host of my picture gallery, including wedding pics from both sides of the family going back to our Great, great grandparents. That was an enjoyable quest!!Some of the relatives thought I was a nut, other made their own copies.
Yesterday was great. I didn’t exercise. I found the bookkeeping and sitting still that long made me really tired. I went to bed. I had a fantastic sleep. I am enjoying the quiet right now. DH met my Dad and DS at the arena for practise at 7 am. DD is still at the lake. I will get her this aft. I might go for a walk with my Mommy.
I think I will do pot roast for supper. DH’s fav.I could get it in the slow cooker!

Have a blessed day!

Point: 500 calories seems REALLY low (the lowest recommended is 1200), and I'm wondering if kcal is a different counting system? We yanks just can't seem to get on the metric program! So is kcal different than US calories? Glad to hear news from Croatia (used to have some pals from therabouts)! Hooray for voting! Hope your guy (or gal) wins it! Would love to hear how the accupuncture works for you...I've heard mixed things about it.

MyChoice: I'll be with you on the Desprate Housewives watching! My end-of-the-week treat. Arrested Develpment too...I love David Cross!

Jodi: Wow, you had an awesome week. I suppose working on the psychological reasons for our actions is one of the best ways to go about changing them. Just hammering away at doing something without interrogating the complex social/psychological/biological imputus behind it never works for me. I guess the biggest trouble is...great, now that I know this little insight, how to turn it into practical behavior? The book sounds interesting...educating ourselves (like understanding ourselves) is the first step.

Holly: Wish I could keep my books in one room...right now they cover a good deal of the floor in every room (even the kitchen!). Lovely idea, to describe what we see at breakfast. I think I'll join...on the days I'm lucky enough to eat breakfast sitting down, I sit at the kitchen table in front of the window overlooking the alley behind my townhouse. Not so glorious as a garden, but it's my own little rectangle of the world. My (very dirty) old Cutlass, neighbors' trash bins and garage doors, pot-holed ashpalt. Collections of sparrows picking among gravel for a morsel, random running children, the occasional odd character moseying back from the grocery store or coffeeshop (my favorite is the guy on a bike who rumages in the dumpster...last week he got a tire!). Cars blasting tejano and bass cruising slowly, or cars with plastic-taped windows gunning it. And right now, puddles of ice slowly receeding, snow-capped wooden fencing, and the brown thrust of determined vines that will glow green and nearly lewd when Spring winks around.

Hello everyone. I'm not feeling too well. I woke up with a slight headache and it's still here at 6pm. I think I just need to eat. I went to bed around 4am and woke up in the early afternoon. I headed to the gym first thing for my 65 mins on the elliptical. It's so "easy" now. I don't get winded and it's not difficult any more. I just have to do it. Oh, the weigh in was good! From 235 to 231.9 this week! This time next week I just want to be out of the 230's! I just have to keep this up.

Sorry no personals for right now. I just feel sort of icky and I haven't had a meal so I'm going to do that. We're having roasted chicken. I am proud of myself because I made homemade potato soup. It's in the crock pot for a couple more hours. DH tasted it and said it's the best soup he's ever had.

I hope I can eat and feel better. I'll be back to chat in the morning.

Girlie

Spores~ you are enjoyable , I must say. I had many,many, many more books but have been slowly whittling them down to absolute favs. I use the library constantly.
In my former life as a downtown , hip, single chick, the view was very much like yours. When I drive through my old neighbourhood I cry every time. I had a lot of wonderful years there.

Jodi~ you are awesome !!! I did pretty well but not outstanding like you!!!! HUGS !! PJ's are underated.

Susie~ hugs,get right back on the old gerbil wheel of healthy living!! You are doing great. Loved Desperate Housewives tonight!!

Girlie~ sorry you are feeling crummy. Your workouts are paying off big time!!! WOOOHOOO!!!

point~ hope you had a good day!

Suzi, Susan, Debbie~ How's it goin'?

Have a peaceful night!!!

Good Morning all!

Holly:
It's funny how we change. I used to be this poetry reading, coffee drinking hip chick too...I mean and that was shortly before I met my husband 7 years ago. I had to start working full time and finish college and I just didn't have time to be social and stuff any longer. While I do miss those days, I like my life now. It's just funny how we change and how our outlooks change as we get older, get married, have kids, etc.

I feel better today. My headache went away after I ate dinner and relaxed.

DH surprised me and went to the gym with me this morning! He got on the elliptical next to me and the poor boy was huffing by five minutes into it...and I was going twice the speed he was. But he made it about 45 minutes until he quit and I was so proud of him! I did my 65 minutes and was so happy he was there with me. He's been going swimming lately and that's good. I would love it if he started going with me.

I just can't wait until this day is over. I'm tired already...I can never get to sleep at a good time on Sunday nights, so I only had a few hours of sleep.

Girlie