Ok, one more time, since I lost my last post ... ok, since whenever I post in the "beware" type sections of diet forums such as this, I am often ridiculed for my opinions (no, not paranoid, that's how I feel), I shall post this only for my Queenly Comrades in the Palace so's ya won't make the same mistake I just made.

I unfortunately grilled and ate one of those seemingly popular new pouches of marinated tuna steak that are in the stores now. It was awful, but I just continued eating it and now I am ill ... not a food safety issue ... it was just a horrible product.

Beware, Queens!

Just say no.

And if ya go there, remember, I told ya so!!

It's gonna take the whole night for me to feel better, I'm afraid!

Hello all...

Really did a boycott of getting out of bed this morning but am so far am pleased that I got a few things done and some of them ( clearing the side table next to my living room chair) are instant grafication.....

So far....

2 whole wheat slices of bread
1 morningstar burger
tomato, onion, mustard on burger
1 small delicious apple
2 cups of coffee
1 cup of decaf English Breakfast tea

and very shortly,
one garden salad ( literally w/ ingredients from our garden) .... w/ sprinkling of feta cheese and baslamic vinegar... w/1/2 an avocado that no, didnt come from my garden....
and 2 more slices of whole wheat bread.....

Am also pleased to brag that I got some "extra" trash to the curb b/4 the trash folks arrived, washed a french door window ( doggie nose prints), wiped down venetian blinds on the same window....

Thanks for the headsup, Empess. Had seen some of those advertised and thought they'd be a good choice for me.

TaDa! Not much but actually took an early morning walk down to the corner and back. Felt great! Don't know when will be able to work regular walks into schedule but took advantage of combination of factors that made it work today and feel so much more virtuous. And more sociable too now that i've had a chance to sort of catch up on things in the Palace.

Just a fly-by: I'm doing well, food-wise, but the fluey thing I had last week returned (I think I didn't completely get rid of it and then pushed too hard, too much exercise, too busy). I've never experienced this particular malaise before (hurts to breathe, rattle-y, pains in my upper body). My mom (a nurse) said it was likely bronchitis -- lo and behold, I looked it up and there were the symptoms. So I'm trying to lay low, will work but rest if I need to. No exercise, I guess, until the symptoms are gone. I hope it goes away soon! If it's not gone by the end of the week, I'll go to the doctor for sure.

Hope all have a good day!

Yesterday I ate:

a chicken sandwich on whole spelt with light mayo and veggies

a bowl of lentil/barley/spinach soup

few ounces sliced lean grilled steak on salad greens with roasted garlic/light mayo/dijon sauce
green beans
few oven fries

Have a great day, all!

Hello all
Have decided that last week had absolutely too much in front of the tv time....
although I was not thrilled to be on the phone nearly non stop today, I have come home not exactly charged but have managed to do more in the past 45 minutes than I did nearly all of yesterday.... hmmmmmmm......

what's that about the task will take as long as the time you have to do it???

yes, very true....

so....

Was on my way to more negative thoughts and how to eat my way thru them when I found an email from a WW meeting member who just wanted to touch base since I hadnt made it to last weeks meeting.... and she actually was kind enough to mention that her mom has to buy a new wardrobe and would I be interested in anything ??
What kind of luck is that?? Will anything fit? I dunno but even if its one or two pieces, this is amazing.... I havent been able to " share and swap " since highschool w/ my sisters.........

And believe it or not, as small and vain as this sounds, this really made my day.... lifted me out of that hole....

So...
just goes to show....

How just a little kindness can make such a difference....

have a good evening all... here's to tomorrow being a day that we can make a
difference in someone elses life.....

Good morning, all! Feeling as if I might recover this morning -- kept the vaporizer going last night, drinking ginger tea, taking jacuzzis with eucalyptus oil in the water. And my breathing seems less constricted, doesn't hurt to bend over today. Enough about that -- I have a call into the doctor anyway, because it seems like if you have chest pain and breathing problems you're supposed to do that. Anyway. I intend to do everything I can to get better as quickly as possible. DH leaves for a week today and I don't want to be an invalid while he's away.

Here's yesterday's food:

Oatmeal with blueberries, banana & soymilk

lentil soup
"almost legal" blueberry crisp with ice cream

corned beef hash cooked with little olive oil
beets
mustard pickle

No exercise still, which I think is how I need to continue for the moment anyway.

Anagram, good for you getting that walk in! Here's hoping that things settle into "the new normal" before too long.

Kaylets, it would have made my WEEK to have a potential new wardrobe! I was just thinking the other day that I love clothes so much they could almost provide total motivation for me, make the whole thing worth while without any of the other benefits of losing weight! Enjoy

Eydie, thanks for the banana ice cream recipe (and the protein fudge, too). Definitely going to try that!

Amarantha, those other threads -- how dare anyone diss the Empress! -- will just have to find out about the tuna on their own! Too bad -- I love tuna steak, esp. in a salade Nicoise. I'll beware the marinated tuna. We get a marinated salmon sometimes that's very good. WTG on that almost half-pound loss!

Hope everyone has a good day. Love to all, mentioned or un-

Hi there ladies!

Been absent from the board for the past couple of days. Took yesterday off work to enjoy some Mommy birthday alone time. My mom picked up the baby and I set out for a pedicure, shoe shopping and listing some things on ebay that have been sitting here in a pile for the past month or so. Then DH took us out to dinner and of course BIRTHDAY CAKE later that night! I didn't over indulge though. I had a scoop of chili w/cheese at dinner along with 2 small pieces of baked fish, a couple of hushpuppies, a bite of mash potatoes, and a spoonfull of my favorite fried okra. I also had a bite of meatloaf since that's what I chose for Sydney to eat and I didn't know if was 'good' meatloaf ya know? (She had a small hunk of the stuff, almost a whole dinner roll and a whole scoopful of mac and cheese. Good eater last night).

coffee w/ 1/2 and 1/2
brocolli quiche [w/ oat crust]***1 soy sausage

1 cup grapes

1/2 cup brown rice***1 cup steamed brocolli
ww tortilla w/ beans, cheese, salsa

1 cup butternut squash soup
4 romaine leaves w/ carrots, ginger, onion, spinach, peanuts, thai peanut sauce, lime

2 tbsp. unsweet. carob chips
1 ww toast w/ butter

calories: 1780
water: 8 glasses

exercise: 55 min. lower body and abs
15 min. Pilates

Enjoying your menus every day, Arabella---keep 'em coming!

I've done really well with keeping up with Pilates. I think I've done it 9 days out of 10! Weight still will not let go. grrr....

hELLO ALL....

well, lets put it this way....we'll call today "Murphy's Law"... If it could go wrong it will...

I'll spare you the blow by blow details.....

I am chugging decaf tea as I had one SF hot choc which made me bloat up like a balloon and trying to remember why I try to stay away from the stuff in the first place....


Have I share this w/ you yet?

SMALLEST THINGS CAN HAVE BIG EFFECTS
>
> A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his
> wife open a package. "What food might this contain?" He was devastated
> to discover it was a mousetrap.
>
> Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. "There is
> a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
>
> The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse,
> I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence
> to me. I cannot be bothered by it."
>
> The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the
> house."
>
> The pig sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there
> is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers."
>
> The mouse turned to the cow. She said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for
> you, but it's no skin off my nose."
>
> So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the
> farmer's mousetrap alone.
>
> That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound
> of a mousetrap catching its prey.
>
> The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she
> couldn't tell it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.
>
> The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital,
> and she returned home with a fever. Everyone knows you treat a fever
> with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard
> for the soup's main ingredient.
>
> But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit
> with her around the clock.
> To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.
>
> The farmer's wife did not get well; she died.
> So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had
> the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all
> of them.
>
> So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it
> doesn't concern you, remember -- when one of us is threatened, we are
> all at risk.
>
> We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out
> for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.
>
> REMEMBER: EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY; OUR
> LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER FOR A REASON.
>



Good night all!

Great story, Kaylets!!!!

I keep losing my bloody posts!!!!!

Hail, Sword Bearer!!! Sorry to hear about thy coworker ... it's unpleasant to be around when people are fired ... I've been through that too many times ... I don't like to see people hurt.

Queens, I will vent another example, perhaps, of my lifelong PTSD reactions, but was furious in the grocery/bank parking lot today. I was sitting there minding my own business and eating for my blood sugar when a woman started pounding on the window. It startled me and I screamed (yes, I AM nervous ... a leftover from events in my childhood) and she was screaming at me to pull my car forward. Actually, I WAS parked a tad too far back, but I just got furious at being accosted ... I told her to go away and she just kept on indicating I should pull the car forward ... she was parked behind me, so I don't know what her freakin' problem was as she had an adequate amount of room and was in fact PARKED and out of the car ... then a man, her dh, I assume, came up on the other side and was making some kind of thumbs up gesture, which meant I don't know what, I guess he was being sarcastic or on the other hand he may have been trying to placate me thinking that his wife should not have pounded on my windshield and frightened me. I did pull forward (why, I don't know, as in my view they were intruding on my privacy), then as they walked away, I honked at them and pulled backwards again and she gave me an evil look. Then went into the bank and I left before they came back.

How come these things bother me?

Dunno, but they do.

Forgot to mention my great new exercise class that I am definitely going to fight to keep in my schedule. Have really been enjoying the new gym/fitness center and today did a 30-minute abs/core class that immediately morphed into a 30-minute relaxation/stretch class that promised NO yoga but was in fact an athletic version of yoga. The hour-long session was just what I need and struck exactly the right note. It's twice a week and I intend to go to each session, it's early enough that it won't interfere even if I get another job, which I may do sometime. After the class, I walked 5/7 of a mile around the indoor track upstairs ... just a nice workout.