hello from canada-addicted to chocolate!
 

:dizzy: hello, i am 26 years old, and have a 8 month old daughter. I have been overweight most of my life, due to being a sick child. My pre pregnancy weight was 240, i am currently 198#, and i would like to be between 140-150#. my problem is whenever it gets near "that time of that month" i crave chocolate and salt and could eat more than my husband!! and i dont know how to handle these situations. i try avoiding them for the days when i am craving, and in the end, i end up eating a ton of stuff all in one night, and feel guilty. I am steadily losing about 1to 2 lbs per week. so, i decided to try this forum for some online help and maybe to be able to encourage others as well. that's me in a nutshell.

Hey Jellybeanz, I'm from southern Alberta - and I too am addicted to chocolate - although it doesn't matter what time of month it is!! Congrats on the 42 pounds lost - that is awesome!! I just started doing one of the Firm videos this evening and am recuperating from getting my *** kicked! I actually had to stop a couple of times and rewind it to see what the moves were - and I still have no idea!

hey!!
 

hey, i have the videos walk away the pounds, first video is 15 mins, 1 mile walk. second is 30min 2 mile walk, and 3rd is 45min 3 mile walk. it's not toooo strenuous but you get a good work out even with the first video(that's the one im one) i just up the tempo a little bit faster than the girl on the video. and having an 8 month old, the 15 min video is perfect, because i need to get stuff done while she's sleeping!!! good luck on your own weight loss.

Hey! Newbie from Ottawa here...
Also bad with the Monthly chocolate and salt...
But also bad with the eating carbs when its cold (I live in a house that is "early Reno" with insulation that leaves something to be desired..)

Simcoe Ontario Canada here
 

I've been doing Oprah's Boot Camp Challenge for 2 weeks now and have lost 5 lbs. It's kinda strict but it's getting easier and easier as the days go on.
No carbs, and no sugar. Only whole wheat bread, pasta etc and can have them only 3 x once a week. No eating 2-3 hours before bedtime, exercising every day, drinking 6-8 glasses of water every day. I haven't had bread in 2 weeks and I'm not craving it. I haven't had a potato in 2 weeks and not craving that either. I eat alot of salads, tuna, grapes, grapefruit, fat free yogurt, chicken, lots of veggies and believe it or not....I'm not craving all those carbs. And I soooooo love my carbs. I'd eat 2 bowls of pasta....2 sandwiches....huge baked potato etc. When I make dinner and I make carbs for my dh and kids..but I just make extra veggies for me.

How did everyone do over the weekend?
Us Canadians need to stick together! Looking foward to learning more about everyone here.

hello nice to see l'm not the only canadian on this forum l live in Claresholm Alberta,
l joined a little while ago .... still stuggling with ups and downs..... l think the cold weather makes us crave sugar l've been bad this winter to with wanting sweets. l find chewing sugarless gum helps it takes a few minutes to take gum out and put something else in your mouth. it works for me any how l wish you all the best. Jo

You know how some people can't eat when they are stressed? Not me! Just skidded my way into work in the snow - and I'm ready to shovel everything that comes along into my mouth as a passifier. (sp?)
One of those giant PC choclate bars would really hit the spot right now - does anyone have a substitute? I've tried drinking straight Cocoa for choclate cravings, and it kind of helps, but drinking something isnt the same as eating something.

Let me see......
 

How about a chocolate fat free pudding? I had sugar free hot chocolate the other day and man did it ever taste sweet. Just between me and you though...I put some marshmellows on it! LOL
You'll have to find some low fat, low cal chocolate recipes. Keep them on hand for times like this.
Did you folks get more snow dumped on you? We did. Started late yesterday and is still snowing this morning. I'm sooooo sooooo tired of all this friggin snow. I can't wait till the warm weather comes. It feels like winter is dragging on for ever. I'm dreading the thought of having to go outside and shovel the blinkin driveway and sidewalk. I know it's classified as exercise but still.....I know when I'm done I'll be all sweaty and sore and frankly....I'm not looking forward to it! Man....I need to get myself a 4x4 and a plough!

Hi here is a recipe i got somewhere off the site. I to am a chocoholic. I really enjoyed them. I did find that you need to use a blender or one of the hand mixers to get out all the lumps. I also used 2% milk instead of the skim, but with my popsicle things I got 5 instead of 4 so it worked out to be about the same number of calories. Also I am not a big fan of splenda and the like so I used stevia instead (each brand is very different and you really have to get used to the amounts, you need very little stevia to equal the amount of sugar you would have to use) oh and I also added more cocoa to mine.

Enjoy (they are obviously not a chocolate bar, but when your really having a fit they help)

Chocolate Popsicles

1.25 cup skim or 1% milk
1 Tbsp cocoa powder
3 packets Splenda

Mix until smooth, and pour into popsicle molds.
Makes 4.

35 calories each

Humm... chocolate popsicles, that I will try! Especially if it EVER warms up!

Yep, got snowed on but good yesterday. I figure one more snow storm before spring. I can't wait, it is so much easier to exercise in the Spring than in the Winter - for example, I can pop out and do 20 minutes of gardening, rather than spending 10 min struggling in and out of winter clothing for 10 min of winter-stuff, which just doesn't seem worth it.

My grocery store used to carry PC chocolate-soya puddings that were pretty good & relatively low fat, although about as much sugar/calories as a yogurt - but I havn't seen them on the shelf for a while. Are these still around? If yes, maybe I can nag the store into stocking them.

chocolate bars
 

hey, i found a good chocolate by nestle, it's a crunch bar, low carbs, no fat, and diabetics can eat it. it's ok..not big enough though!!! The weekends seem to kill me. I am pretty good all week, but come friday that's it. Sunday we eat out, and i just cant justify paying 8 bucks for a salad ( i know, i should buy it anyway) but i figure, im spending 8 on a frickin salad, i might as well spend 12 and get something that i actually want!!! :devil:

Crunch bar could be good...
I hear you on the $8 salads. Especially since so may restaurants put 3 pieces of iceburg on a plate with a slice of tomato and a piece of cucumber and call it a salad.

Sometimes when you crave something it's better to eat a little of it than try to eat more of a substitute. Why not once a month got to Godiva and treat yourself to a dark chocolote truffle and savor it slowly. That won't wreak havoc with your diet and will satisfy your cravings. What's the name of that Nestle's bar. never heard of one with no fat.

Jellybeanz and tjl...where abouts in canada are you folks?

I'm all about us Canadians sticking together...we are a...what's the word...minority group here.

I hear you!
Nothing against Americans, but sometimes the grocery suggestions just arn't available at the IGA.

Nestle's CRUNCH
 

hey, the name of the bar is actually Nestle's crunch. It is basically chocolate covered rice crispies. its good. I am from Cambridge Ontario. we drive through simcoe all the time on our way to long point, or to see the lights around christmas! The thing for me about giving in and having that one piece of real chocolate, is i cant stop myself. I have will power for certain things, my chocolate is seriously my killer. It controls me once i get the taste. Now, i was craving chocolate and peanutbutter. so i did have my hot chocolate with my peanutbutter sandwich with it because i was craving it. I go to this club called Slimmin Wimmin. It's like a weight watchers, but 1000 times cheaper!!! we have a guideline of how much food we can eat, but we dont exercise. I started this club in mid september 2004 and i was 229, now i am 197.5 ( i went to cuba and gained 4.5#, i was down to 196 :o ) i have to admit, i dont exercise a whole lot and the last couple of weeks i've been steadily losing .5# a week. but in my defence, i have an 8 month old daughter here, so i dont do an exercise work out, but BELIEVE ME i dont sit around all day either!! i have found that i eat when im bored, i eat when im excited, i eat when im upset, i eat when im(fill in the blank) i LOVE food. to me, i would rather come home and cook steak and potatoes or whatever than go for a hamburger. I have also come to the realization that when i eat any type of starch (potato, bread, corn,mr. noodles) i gain weight. If anyone is interested in the basics of what my program allows for eating let me know and i'll go a little more into detail. Good luck you all. and i propose we let eachother know on a weekly basis how we did. I will be posting Monday night after weigh ins. I dont know how to use this very well yet, but im sure we could set something up for a site. i'll set it up as soon as i find out who's in! ciao

For me, its fat. Fried anything, butter, marg, also the fatty dairy - ice cream etc. goes straight to my seat. sigh...

Hi girls! I read your posts from the beginning and found myself having a lot in common with you except for the chocolate cravings but at times I know I could trade my husbad for one lousy potatoe (and I like him) I am in Toronto and love the simcoe area in the spring and fall.

I am a definate grease and carb lover. I could never have a sweet again and would not miss it but life with gravy is just not worth living. Until now that is. Since Christmas I have been really bad with diet and exercise and this after losing the first 45 pounds! With another 25 to go I am ready to start anew, might even change my start weight so I don't always think to myself that gee I have done good, I have lost 45 pounds I can relax for a while. Maybe if I change it to what my current weight is it will motivate me.

I am doing the walk away the pounds dvd's as well (ok on Monday I am going to start doing them again) and starting Oprah's boot camp. I never thought she lost alot until you see people like Jessica Simson and Halle Berry stand beside her and she looks about the same size and I always thought they were tiny. I am sooooo proud of her and want to be just as proud as me.

To lose the first 45 I did low carb, low fat and drank tons of water. I exercised periodically and wished I had done more. If I elimate carbs I lose weight. You would think that since I know how I would have continued, but noooooo Christmas came and the gift I have given to myself is five pounds back.

I love that we are from Canada and hope you don't mind that I jumped in so late.

Take Care

welcome trixi
 

HI!!! dont mind you jumping in. I think we are becoming eachothers "fat" supporters. and thats so COOL!!! i did bad this weekend. Had a show i D.J'd so i got home around 2am and had a whopper from BK...but MAN WAS IT GOOOD!!! :devil: we'll see how my weigh in's go on monday..im going to start the walk away the pounds on monday, again. and im aiming for 3 times a week......THREEEE...keep telling myself...THREEE :dizzy: great to hear you lost alot before, so did i, but slowly gained it back, but i vow, not this time!!

With spring just around the corner I want to greet it with a smile and be proud that I am working on me again. I have eaten everything I could get my hands on this weekend and vow it will be the last for at least 12 weeks and hopefully by then I won't be craving. My goal for March is to lose 7 pounds and get use to exercising 6 days a week. 3 at Curves and 3 doing the WATP's dvd's. I had worked my way up to the 3 mile but think I will start out with the 2 mile since it has been so long since I did it.

I am going to create a 12 week journal and plan meals, weigh myself only once a week (I step on that scale everyday) and log my water in take.

My father's memorial is today and I am going to see relatives I have not seen for years and I am kind of nervous. I don't want them to think I let myself go (even though I have) me and my dad have had a rocky relationship since childhood and I made a decision that to be away from him was emotionally healthy for me and so I had not seen him in awhile. I did not think his death would effect me as much as it has, but I guess that this point we all think of the good stuff and forget the years of torment. For me I always thought that if he was still alive there was always the chance that he would try to make amends and now that's not possible. Hopefully today will put closure on things and I will be able to forgive and move on. Sorry for the depressing note there.

Anyway it's going to take hours to create my journal and so I am off for now! Take Care.

alright everyone, i have started a journal *sigh*, my name is jellybeanz there as well, it's not that hard really. and i've added a few of you to my buddy list, so if you start a journal, let me know, so i can check up on how y'all are doin!! good luck all, i'll post tomorrow about my success!!!!! after weigh ins.

PS. and i've subscribed to this thread so i get messages about who's replying and i want to do the same, subscribe to your journal so i know what's goin on when you guys post. talk later!

Trixi
Sorry to hear about your dad, these things are always very hard. Although its easier to say than do, try not to get caught up in what the relatives think - they don't live in your shoes.

I also was BAD this weekend - lemon squares and ice cream and popcorn and steak and...
I usually do reasonably well all week, and then lose it on the weekends. SIGH...

Bad weekend
 

Like Trixi...I too ate everything I could get my hands on! And I was doing so good! I walked 5 times last week for 30-35 min. I think I thought that hey....I can eat that bag of chips because I can walk off the calories tomorrow. Well, the one good thing that came from having a bad weekend was that when I got on the scales this morning, there was no gain...but there wasn't no loss either.
So I'm back at it again today. Cept I didn't get my walk in today. Will walk tomorrow thru saturday.

Trixi--How did you manage yesterday with your Father's memorial?
I too am a carb addict. That is why I'm doing Oprah's boot camp. I'm trying to not eat any pototes, pasta, rice or bread. And if I do choose to eat any of those, I will eat whole wheat version. I'm into my 4th week of the boot camp and have lost 5 lbs so far. I mostly live on salads with the little clover leaf cans of tuna you can get in the stores. I love the lemon and pepper and the lemon and dill variety. If I'm home for dinner then I'll have some protien...and lots of veggies while I make my family pototes or pasta. For breakfast I'll have half a grapefruit...maybe some scrambled eggs with salsa, or a bowl of the new special k vanilla and almonds. For snacks...I live on grapes like you wouldn't believe. And Fat Free yogurt. I do poorly with the water though. When the warmer weather comes around I don't really have a problem drinking it.

Jellybeanz--I think I'm going to start a journal too. I have a recipe some where for frozen chocolate peanut butter cups. They were to die for. I'll look it up and post the recipes for you.

Charlotte--I too tend to not do well on the weekends. Maybe I'll be able to do better this weekend coming up.

Well I'm off to check out some other threads. I'll chat with you all later.

WTF...not a good weigh in
 

chocolate peanutbutter cups...excuse me while i wipe the drool off my keyboard!!!

well ladies....im sad to report that i am up 2 pounds this week..WTF!!! I was so disgusted with myself that i didnt even stay for the meeting at my fat club. luckily when i got home, my husband had my chicken breast sandwich and a salad already made, so i ate that instead of getting into cookies or whatever. I know i didnt do the best last week for food consumption, but still, i didnt think i did THAT bad either. so, new week, new goals. I just feel really down right now....i didnt do my WATP video today, because i was at mcmaster hospital and did some speed walking around the hospital for about 15 mins, so i did get a work out. But, im still going to do the video three times a week, so i have to do it tomorrow. I've never been this disgusted with myself. I only had a goal of 1/2 a frickin pound this week, and im UP TWO!!! encouragement...encouragement....... :shrug: :stress: :censored:

Hey ladies,

Yesterday the memorial was quick and quaint. Which is how I wanted it. Everyone looked the same and they had tons of pictures with me and my dad when I was younger. Everyone was really nice.

Today was day one for me and I have stayed OP alllllll day long. Yea me! I have yet to buy a journal but will do it tomorrow during lunch. I brought my lunch and am eating dinner right now and with that no food for three hours before bedtime I am going to have to stay awake in 11 at least. Dinner is tasty.

Kelly it was great chatting with you today, hope to do it again. I went to curves after work and even though I had been away for a month it was not too bad. Feeling pretty relaxed now.

Jellybeanz I am so sorry that the scale was not your friend this week, we got to keep at it and next week will probably be different, hey tomorrow might be different. I have weighed in one day and the next there was a five pound difference. Look at the big picture and you will feel better. You have lost 30 pounds so far and that is amazing and you know you can do it. Dont let it get you down ok? Big hugs.

Charlotte, weekends are definately a killer for me as well. We got to try and remember "there are no weekends in dieting" Maybe we should make at the begininng of the week a goal we want to achieve on the weekend non food related and hopefully it will distract us. This weekend I want to clean my fridge cause it is really gross and will probalbly take the whole weekend. It might even help curb my appetite cause I dont know what I am going to find in there. lol.

Take care ladies.

Good morning ladies
 

I just got back in from my 50 min walk in this freezing cold! I tell ya...I can't wait till the warm weather gets here! This is nuts.
Well after having a bad weekend and then devoting myself to starting anew....well lets just say it go as I had planned. Hubby came home from work yesterday miserable and stressed from his job and that it's possible he might be out of a job at the end of march. So then I got miserable and stressed and went looking in the kitchen for anything to eat. I didn't exercise yesterday either and I felt like crap because of it. So today, I got up bright and early, had my breakfast, waited until dd was of to school and then I headed out the door for my walk. So far so good.

Jellybeanz--I looked for the recipe and I haven't found it yet, but as soon as I do, I'll post it for you. Sorry to hear about your gain, you'll just have to buckle down this week and work a bit harder to lose it for next week. Just like the song says...."if at first you don't succeed, pick yourself up and dust yourself off again"

Trixi--Congrats on staying op yesterday. Alot of people doing Oprah's boot camp says that week 2 is the hardest. I found week 3 to be for me. Just a heads up on what you might expect. I really enjoyed chatting with you yesterday. Looking forward to doing again. LOL Good luck with cleaning out your fridge this weekend.

Well, I'm off to check out a couple of more threads before I head out and run my errands. I'll check back in here later. Have a great morning!

ok ladies!!! happyto report im in good spirits today, i've vacuumed, did laundry did my WATP 15 min video!!!!!! wooohoo :cp: :hat: :dance: I have already started my dinner for tonight, a beef dish with curry and oranges, and whole wheat rice. I weighed my portions, seperated my meat and ingredients for my portion of dinner to cook, from my husbands. I've munched on veggies as my tummy growels. I had an apple for breakfast and i've drank about 1.5L of water today. im gonna get it this week!! IM GOING TO!!! and i've got my meal planned for tomorrow. But i have to go buy an eggplant for it, has anyone ever had egg plant? is it any good?? taste? anyway, thought i'd post while my rug rat is napping. thanks for the words of encouragement ladies. :D

trixie: glad you got through everything ok. Im very proud of you getting through it without a melt down. You can create a journal on here, under the journal tab, you dont have to go buy one. Weighing yourself once a week is better pyschologically i think, because we fluctuate so much from day to day, And with your suggestion of getting something done this weekend to occupy us, my goal is going to be washing my kitchen floor. I have to get down on my hands and knees to get it really clean, stupid linoleum!! so that's my goal. oh, and to not pick at the food im serving at work on the weekend. I work in a nursing home as a cook/server. for only 11 hours every second weekend.

KrazyKelly: your name suits you perfect!! You went walking in this weather!!!! good lord :p and it's probably best you cant find that recipe just yet, im gettin toward aunt flow visiting, and if i have the recipe i foresee a baddd outcome!!! Im sorry to hear about your husbands job, it's stressful, i've been there. Keep yourself motivated, eating isnt going to change your situation, and will stress you out even more.

Charlotte: the weekends is where i blow it too. I dont have my meals planned for the weekends, and we grab whatever, whenever. and we usually go out on sundays to eat, and as i said before, i have trouble paying 8 bucks for a frickin salad!

I hear you on the weather - I want spring already!
Eggplant - alone it tastes like slime, but it picks up flavors from other things, so in some recepies, it is really good. Just make sure that if the recepie says to peel it - you do! Skipping this little step can make for icky textures.

I every one... newbie here. I too live in the great white north. i live in a little village 2 hours north of toronto. It is nice to know that there are other canadians here and that its not just me... i get soooo jellouse when some of the other ladies talk about thier warm weather ... :( but i guess we can't be snowed in for ever ...... right.......... right?????? :)

Holy moly it was cold today! I swear I backed up into January! Day two was a killer,got so stressed out. work sucks right now cause the lawyer has decided he needs to be in everyone business when usually he' okay with us makng the money and doing the work and every once in awhile he signs something.

I got up this morning at 5:30 am (use to waking up at 7) exercised, traveled the hour to work, worked 9 hours, went grocery shopping, put the laundry away, cleaned the kitchen, thank the good lord that my sister (she lives in my building) fed my daughter today (she is a beautiful 11 year old) or I would have simply died. But got all my water in and I am glad today is over. I was bad and skipped dinner, only because I got home at 8:30 and don't want to stay up for another 3 hours after that. Oh well, I will have a good breakfast tomorrow. So as far as day two goes, I made it.


Welcome hugemomof5! (only liking to call you that cause of the size of your family) I hate it when people talk about how balmy it is when I am freezing. Maybe in the summer when we are dying in the city we can come out there and lay around. What are the ages of your children? Tell us more!

Jellybeanz, way to go on not letting it get you down and getting back on track. Like Charlotte I am not a fan of eggplant alone, but as an additive I can handle it. Have no idea how to prepare it though. Because I am doing the no carb thing right now, your dinner sounded fantasic. My mouth watered. BTW thank you for the kinds words. :)

Kelly, week 2? sounds really far away, day 2 was bad enough, sorry to hear that things are stressful for you right now. hope it looks up and the lay off does not happen. Is he is a profession that it happens quite often? My hubby is in sheetmetal and they have there ups and downs as well. When he's working it's great pay but when he is not it's hard. Not only the money but then I have to deal with him not feeling productive.

My weekend is actually going to be pretty busy, taking my daughter and her friend for a manicure and pedicure on Sat (we have girls day out every so often) and Sun it's the fridge, took a gander today and it's pretty evil in there, I think I heard something talking to me.

well ladies it's time for me to go beddybyes.

Hope you all wake up tomorrow full of inspiration and empty of sorrow.

Dale

Hi Trixi... wow LONG day.

I agree, i think mother nature turned back the clocks on us... it feels like jan not March.

I did change the way my name reads.. to HUG E mom ( like Huggy ) sounds a little more positive.
As i said i have 5 kids. 6 months ( rhys ) 3 years ( Kieran ) 5 years ( alexander) 7 years ( Bethany ) and 9 years ( Alyssa )

Last night i decided to see if there was a TOPS group near me... and there was. it was starting in 20 minutes..... so i went. i decided if i waited a week to think about it i wouldnt go. what a nice group. havent read it all yet but im sure i will get the hang of it.

oh well i better go. Kieran ( my 3 year old ) had dental surgury today and is still groggy from the general anasthetic. but i will be back later.

SO 2hrs north of TO - are you in Orillia? I lived in Bracebridge for a year.
Another COLD day today, I had to trundle myself down the street to french class this am (I work for the govt. and french class is mandatory) and it was HORRIBLE with the wind whipping between the buildings, so forget lunchtime exercise!
Anyone know of any good things to do with squash? My hubbie bought a couple from the grocery store on account of everything else looking like it had spent a few months on a truck (his words) and all my cookbooks talk about how great it can be if you add a mountain of butter or cream cheese - but I'm trying to go low fat.

no i live just outside a little place called shelburne.. about 20 mins north of orangeville.

you could add the squash to your mashed potato's to bulk them out. or stew it with some black pepper.

Man 'o' Man am I tired
 

Well Ladies, it;s been a pretty rough day for me. But that is usual. we sem to carry everything don't we? or maye that is just me feeling sorry for myself today,

I did not get any work outs in today and I hate that. But work really really sucked and than I got home and it was homework, dinner, kitty litter cleaning and even though it is only Wed I am ready for the weekend. I have not called in sick or had a vacation in almost two years and I think it is catching up. Geesh I am really tired.

Been really good with food no cheating at all, the Boot Camp has really made me focused and I am happy about that.

Good morning from another Canadian - Rideau Lakes Area in Ontario. And yes, it's damned cold here too!

This has turned into a real support group rather than a buddy up thread. Would you like me to change the title when I move it to the Support Groups Forum? (We usually move Buddy Up Threads when they get this big.)

So nice to see so many Canadians posting.

Same name sounds good to me. I will know where to find us :)

OK. I'm about to move but will leave a re-direct in here. PM me if you all decide to change the name later. "Canadian Chocolate Cravers" maybe?

no no, keep the name, as Trixi said, we'll know where to find us!!! well ladies, i went to the dr. today, learned that the left side of my back is killing me because i have pulled the muscles that control the shoulder blade area ( i guess carrying a 9 month old 20# baby will do that to you!!) Now, my dr says i am 196# today, but i bet when i go to my S/W (slimmin wimmin) meeting on monday, they will say im more than that....i give up... frickin cold today :( , i was going to go for a walk today but...im not that dumb! ( no offence to the rest of you who have the nerve to do it!! :lol: ) i didnt do too badly yesterday for eating. and i walked around Costco for about 2 hours. I am going to do my WATP video tonight. and i am making a veggie casserole thing, minus the egg plant...i havent heard great things about it, and im already adding zuchini to it, and that is bad enough!! later chickens, good luck with your weight loss today, keep strong.

We are going to get really lost if we don't post more often eh? Hope every one is doing good and staying as OP as possible. Took my daughter and her friend out today for a girly day. It was alot of fun. I had a great time being with them.

How is everyone doing?

Dale

hi all, did ok this weekend. over ate a little, but that's nothing new. i dont know what is wrong with me this past week i am eating everything i shouldnt...well i know what's wrong, i have three pills left in my birth control cycle. i didnt work out this weekend, but i did work 6 hours a day on sat and sun in a nursing home running around, didnt even sit the whole shift, so by the time i got home i was too tired, so i guess that's a work out. anyway, weigh ins are tomorrow, and i am a little unsure of how the scales are going to be this week, im retaining that much water that i cant even get my rings on!! ok, tomorrow i start my new job, and back on track for me...no no....for real this time!!! haha not promising too much exercise next week though, im starting a new job after being off of work for the last year with my baby so it's going to take some getting used to, but, im going to eat properly. that's my goal for the week. plain and simple so i dont blow it. ciao chickens. hope you had a good weekend!! :p