Happy Saturday Ladies,

So, Today was an OK day. It rained last night, which was nice, ohhh I just wanted to stay in bed this morning. But I had to work so that was just not an option. I let myself go too long without breakfast and by 1pm I was hungry with a Capital H! I had 1/4 teriyaki chicken, 2 Corn thins with some goat cheese, 1/4 cup trail mix and water. So far so good lol... I managed to walk past the fresh cookies, pastries and croissants today too!!! Anyway, the "OK" part part of the day is that I'm not feeling like exercising tonight. Maybe I'll change my mind later but what I feel like doing is just laying in bed with a book and relax.

Curley~ What awesome friends to go thru all that for you! I'm sure one small piece of cake is ok. Eventually we'll all be faced with having to practice moderation. I love the map! It'll be neat to see what a small world it really is :).

AngelEyes~ yummm lasagna. Crock pot none the less! hehe I love my crock pot.

Zoey~ Welcome ~ WoooHoooooo another party!! lol :welcome3: Post often. You'll find great info and great tips.

Speaking of great info...... Petra~ that was a very informative post. Being diabetic I knew some of it, but not quite such detail. A little refresher never hurts and acutally it really helps things make sense. Thanks!

YOu all enjoy your Sunday. I'll be thinking of each and every one of you while I'm ignoring the cookies again lol... :grouphugs:

Howdy All,
I am still around. Had to do some retail therapy today.

Curly: Glad you had a Happy Bday!!!

Petra: I need your advice!! I have been smoke free for 3 weeks..it is playing havic on the scale. I really don't want to "quit" again so the smoking is probably not an option (besides M would kill me) but it is killing me to see any gain but these gains have been unreal. Is this possible? I am not eating more...exercising very well... but several WW friends said I probably wasn't eating enough for the extra exercise. I am having a hard time finding balance.

I am going to track everything I eat and I am going to start weigh in on Monday's instead of Saturday am's. My leader really made me mad this morning about the gain and upset me a lot. I am tried of paying for the meetings and not staying for them. This morning was not an option to stay..I was in tears before I was out the door.

I want to welcome the new Lisa,Zoey and anyone else. I am Lisa in Wyoming.. I am doing WW and up until 2 weeks ago after quitting smoking..I was doing very well. I will be 40 next year and my goal is to be a normal weight. I have been married for 8 years and we have a 5 year old daughter, Mallissa or M.(Her name is like Mississippi and has all those extra letters..M is so much easier. LOL)

Angel: M was asked to audition for the Twas the Night Before Christmas Ballet in December. Everyone cross their fingers. LOL She is doing that next week and very excited. Also she has a piano recital and I have to make the dress. That is also next week. I also bought the pattern and material for her and Skyler's(Dave's granddaughter) Christmas dresses plus I found some old material for Carrie's(other granddaughter) that will be close enough to the other girls. If I have enough material I will make the cousin one too. LOL Not sure I want to do 4 this year. LOL Plus I have to make Sweetie one (M's doll) LOL


Turtle: How did the MOuntaineers do today? I know my dad is in heaven watching them and cheering them on. Did I tell you my family was from Parkesburg?

Iwmonn: GLad you are on track. Thanks for asking about me.

Well I promise I will be better about checking in. I will talk to everyone soon!

Lisa
Wyoming

LisaWY,
Keep the faith GF! When I quit, the first thing my Dr. told me was that my metabolism will slow down so i should exercise or I may gain weight and that I really needed to watch for it, and deal with it. LOL Well, I didn't, I did, I didn't and I didn't. That is what brought me here. Stepping on that scale 5 months after quitting and seeing 20 more pounds than the last time I had weighed. I would think your extra exercise would counter the slowed down metab tho. Also, with the extra exercise could you be gaining muscle weight? I'm not the dr and I'm gonna wait for Petra's input. I just wanted to let you know I'm rooting for you. Don't let your leader get you down Lisa..... quitting smoking is as important as weight loss too. You're body will catch up with you. Keep on track.... :goodluck: and http://wemissjerry.org/smiles/hug.gif

Happy Birthday Turtle!!!
 

H* A* P* P* Y B*I*R*T*H*D*A*Y!!!!!
:hat:*******:woo:

:woo: Happy Birthday Turtle!!! :woo:
Hope you have a fantastic day. Do tell....how old are you today? Any special plans. I sure hope that squeak is feeling better by now, gosh its been forever. Let us know how you're doing GF!!

Lisa..... You are going to be one crazy sewing MAMA!!! :yikes: Not one, not two...but 4 dresses?....When you were telling us about M's dress, I had a beautiful vision of her at her recital all dressed up. You know she'll be telling EVERYONE....My mom made me this dress!!.....and the same for her barbie. I was at Target the other day doing some quick errands, and they already have some of their party dresses out. I couldn't believe it....velvets, satins...Please post a picture when you are done, I'd love to see it. And hang in there with the smoking!!! Change meetings if you need more support for ww's and come here more often....we don't charge. :lol:

Here it is early Sunday morning, and dh just left for his conference in NJ. He won't be back for 4 days, so I'm left holding the fort down. The boys go back to school tommorow and my days will be my own again....woohoo, here I come gym!!! :cb: It was very hard making it to the gym this week with my son sick. I think I did all right though with my food and staying OP, might have had a little too many carbs on a couple of days but other than that we'll see at tommorows weigh in. I need just one more little pound loss for another flower... :flow1: ....I think I can...I think I can!!! My mini success yesterday was bringing home some donuts for everyone, and only having 2 mini donut holes for me!!! YEAH.. :cheer: oh? who wants a visitor?....TOM is getting booted out the door TODAY!!! good riddance I say :lol:

Thanks!
 

For all the advice and support guys! I'm taking it day by day and know that I'll make it this time. I had a little set back last night. I went to my nephews birthday party and you can guess what happened from there. :^: I felt so guilty that I even considered ridding myself of what I'd eaten but after I found myself on my knees at my nephews birthday party in front of the toilet,I realized how desperate and irrational I was bieng! Imagine,seriously considering causing myself more problems by starting an eating disorder! :dizzy: How stupid was I bieng? Instead of practicing self control I allowed myself to overindulge and then wanted the easy way out. No,way Jose! That just made me more determined to stick with it. So,last night I worked out and then got up this morning at 7:30 and went jogging/walking. I ate me a small portion of oatmeal with Splenda and planned my day,menu and all! Well,I have to go and get ready for church!TTYL

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE TURTLE!!!!


Curly-I forgot to answer your L-carnitine question. The answer is at least 1000 mg. I try to get between 1000-1500 but you can go as high as 3000 mg. It takes about a week before you start to notice.

Lisa-iwmonn is on the money. Nicotine raises your metabolism, so when you quit, your metabolism slows down. Also, with all that exercise you've been doing I"m sure you put on some muscle which everyone knows weighs more than fat. What you are doing is so important to your health, don't get discouraged by the scale. Keep the faith. You will get there.

jhriqua-good job on not making a bad situation worse. so you had a little set back? just get right back on the wagon and keep going. It sounds like maybe you have decided to go with a low glycemic diet instead of strict low carb? I'm going to tell you about a diet I think is fantastic even though I'm not on it. You'll probably have to order the book if you are interested. It's called The Four Corners Diet. It's a low carb diet but it allows you to eat up to 50 grams of carbs a day. It only has a 1 week induction, and the nutritional advice is so sound you can't go wrong. Even though I'm not on this diet, I try to incorporate some of it's principles into my plan and it may end up being my lifelong plan.

I bought two new low carb cookbooks yesterday. I got Dana Carpender's 500 More Low Carb Recipes which is a collaborative work with a lot of her fans. I also got one called Saving Dinner the Low Carb Way. I made one of the recipes from the Dana Carpender book this morning--nothing fancy but not something I would have come up with on my own. Warning, this is not an induction recipe. It was a brie and walnut quesidilla with low carb tortillas. OMG!!! I also had strawberries with no carb whipped cream to round out the meal.

Hope everyone has a good Sunday.

Hi de ho partners !!

I had a quick few minutes while the kettle is boiling that I thought I should take a minute to check in with everyone. So here goes :wave:

Time sure does get away from me and I am finding it hard to check in with you all regularly. I will have to make a point of taking the last 5 minutes of the day to check in and see how you are all doing... I certainly don't want to lose touch with the group.

My weight loss efforts have pretty much tanked... I don't think I have stepped on scale for the past few weeks, but I know that I have to. I really need to do something about this weight, but I seem to put myself about 4th in the list behind hubby, work and school. The time will come when I can dedicate more time to myself, I just need to be patient and not do alot of extra damage in the meantime.

Hotcup ~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!! Hope all is going well for you and that you have the wonderful day that you deserve.

Petra ~ thanks for all the continued support and information that you provide to the group, always look forward to your posts.

Curly ~ the map thing is awesome.. a great idea for a group as I am terrible at geography, so it is nice to see where you are all from.

Angel ~ enjoy your days at the gym, I am sure that you will find lots of great classes to attend.

Jhiraqua ~ welcome to the group. Congrats on making a wise choice at the bday party, we all have set backs.. we gain strength in how we deal with them.

Iwmonn ~ good luck with the cookie avoidance..you can do it !!

Lisa ~ so proud of you for sticking with the no smoking. I have a good friend is undergoing radiation/chemo for lung cancer and last I saw her she was still smoking..I wish she could find your strength. Right now you are fighting 2 addictions (food/cigarettes).. some times one will win over the other, but you are doing awesome..keep up the fight !!

Zoey ~ welcome to the group..post often !!

Jennie and Mom ~ hope everything is going well for you and that you are taking care !

Well I hope that I got everyone.. this group seems to be an ever changing cast of characters. A shout out to the old cast members..Dee, Annie, L2L, Moonray.. where are you gals ?!?!?

Okay gang have a wonderful Sunday.. I am off to make a java and hit the books.. I have my first exam coming up next Saturday so I must be prepared.

I will talk to you all soon !! TTFN ~ Teri

Hey Everyone,
well today was my WI, and I lost!!! 1.8 thaks goodness, this new plan is easier than I had thought and I'm feeling good and seeing results. I'm a core convert. for so long I was diong the flex at WW, recording everything, and loseing but not all the time. Hopefully this will last and my dedication will contiue. Busy week as usual, I want to go and get some new jeans, I was hopeing to wait until I was in a 14 but my jeans are so old and they are litterally falling to shreds. I might hit the gap today.

Jhiraqua- this plan I'm on is a kind of a low card, it more like southbeach, you can have carbs if they are not refined, so whole wheat, and whole grains, its cool, once about a week or so went by, I really havn't felt to many cracvings, at work, I even passed on the cookies, in the past I would have had one and been mad at my self. Now birthday cake, I dont' think I could pass on that, I think I would have had some and moved on, just like you did. We still have to keep living, we jsut have to make better choices, and it sounds like you are doing it.

Turtle, happy b-day!!!

TEB, welcome back, I know what you mean about the changing cast, I'm glad you still check in. I miss you.

Lisa WY, quiting smoking is hard and you were losing so well for so long. Its probably the single healthies thing you could do so keep at it and don't give up. Your body will balance out and you will start to lose again.

Curly, I've had hair problems before, raggadey anne sounds kind of cute.

Zoey welcome! I didn't know we had a profile, maybe I should go back and read page one, all are welcome.

Hey, Iwmonn, Petra, angel, and anybody I missed,
ttyl
Jennie

Thanks for the welcome, everyone. WOW, I was gone just long enough for church and Bible study, and I came home to find a bunch of new posts. Active group. Good!

angel Enjoy(?) your new iron!

curly Frapper map......Great idea!

iwmonn Good work ignoring those cookies.

lisa_wy Please hang in there with the smoke free life. We are all pulling for you.

turtle :woo: Happy Birthday! :woo:

jhiraqua Good going on the self control.....listen to Petra, she knows lo carb.

petra Strawberries and whipped cream......sounds wonderful.

teaellebee You are important too you know, and sometimes you need to be first on the list!

jennie Congrats on the weight loss.

Please send some positive vibes my way everyone because I am resisting dh's birthday cake [so far]!

zoey

ty petra!!! I also did some research on my metformin.. my dr has me taking it ... 500 mg 2x a day.. but the recommended dose for weight loss is 500 mg with each meal... 3x a day.. think i might try it 3x a day see if it has an effect on my being stuck for so long..

Curly-I added myself to the frapper map. Cute idea.

Jennie-you and I see seem to be neck and neck on the weight loss. Wonder who will get to the 200 lb mark first? ;) I had commented before about WW Core being very similar to South Beach. I think they changed it just enough to avoid a lawsuit for copyright infringement.

I have been on a cooking frenzy today. I'm making cauliflower cheese soup in my crockpot that I'm mostly going to freeze. Hope it freezes well. The cauliflower was beautiful and cheap this week so I couldn't pass it up even though it is a pain in the :censored: to chop up.

I'm also making this pumpkin pudding thing. I"ll tell you how it turns out. Oh, and I had shrimp in a homemade alfredo sauce over dreamfields pasta. I have a love/hate relationship with dreamfields pasta. I love the stuff but feel like I really shouldn't be eating the stuff. I only made one serving so at least I don't have leftovers.

ohhhhh, you certainly have been chef Petra today!!! I LOVE....cauliflower cheese soup!!! Perfect for a nice freezin' cold winters day!! haha :lol: Which will be soon enough I reckon.

I made a really good chicken stroganof a' la crockpot today, a little bit of a thin sauce but non the less, delish. Yeah, I know what you mean about pasta....I always keep my handy dandy measuring cup beside me when I serve my portion. I feel so bloated after having some and if I don't measure, my portion size almost doubles!!! (or triples)

Zoey....you DO know I was kidding about my iron right? :D Straight from the store...straight to the ironing cupboard. There was no bonding done.

What was everyone else up to today? Been pretty quiet here in PIC land. Tommorow's the big weighin.....whose going to have a drum roll? same bat channel, same bat station. :goodvibes

Hey Now P'sIC,

What a beautiful day here on the coast! The sun is back and it's warm and nice yayyyyy! So I did manage to skip the cookies agian today- easiest day yet lol... the oven was broken at work hehehe... Tomorrow's my Friday and I can't wait.

I've got dinner in the oven, and getting ready to do my videowalking. I did skip it last night, I think I needed to.

Lisa_WY~ hugs to ya!

Petra~ I think I'm going to find hThe Four Corners Diet. My Dr recommends low carb/low glycimic for me (nothing as strict as atkins which she doesn't agree with), and it sounds like something I may be able to work with :) I already know those diets are too strict for me to stick with. ...And Oh My Word, those quesidilla sound heavenly!

Curley~ I love your map, but I don't wanna be the only one with my pic up, lol. Can you delete it? I can't find a place for me to edit my post there. Thanks. Have you used your gazelle at all yet? Metformin for weight loss??? I'd be interested to hear more cuz I think that's the next oral they are going to put me on to help control my blood sugar.

jhiraqua~ Good job! Been there/done that (finger down the throat scene) and look at me now lol.. I ain't no skinny minny heheheh.... Its' been years but I remember feeling guilty and stupid for doing it, but I kept it up. Oddly enough I usually did it because I was too full and needed to make room for more. Anyways, I'm fortunate I recognized early on that it was not the magic key to getting thin! And so are you! You're on the right path Lisa. Slow and steady wins the race ;) Good Luck Today!

Jennie~ WoooHOOOOO!! Glad your plan is working for you. Congratulations!!!

Zoey~ hehehe and active group is a happy group, right? Glad to see you back too!

TeaElleBee~ Try to find some time for you! It's important.

AngelEyes~ 4 days without the DH. Time to stretch out and sleep corner to corner on the bed, lmao. That's my favorite thing to do when mine's away. But I'm always glad when he gets home.

Happy late birthday Turtle, whereever you are tonight!!!! Blow out all the candles and I hope you get your wish!

'Till next time Ladies, :grouphug:

Iwmonn.....hehe, YOU READ MY MIND!!! No really, as soon as he leaves....I'm stretching out as far as a can, corner to corner.....and I'm talking as soon as he gets in the SHOWER!!! :lol: Back to the frapper map thing... I like your picture, great xmas sweater btw. I wish I was more computer savvy and knew how to do that stuff.