Good morning! I need my daily fix (10x a day!) of the love and support I get here at 3FC! I find new ways to think, new ways to cook, new things to try. Keeps me cranked up about the changes I'm making in my life.

Back to 160! I'm bouncing, though. :) I hit 160 a week ago then bounced up three pounds and slowly got back here. It's that old TOM plus the usual water weight/undigested food bumping me up. Next stop ... 159! I hope. LOL Who knows - at least the trend is downward.

Gennel - I don't know how many people (zillions) have thought that if they had someone (like Oprah has) to plan and cook for them - they could do it. How could you lose with low-cal food AND advice to share?

I'm still having a hard time trying to find replacements for our usual weekly dinner menu. Friday night is cool - the local pizza place made a special thin crust/half the cheese 14" pizza with lots of fresh veggies on half (for me!) and BB and I must have saved about 2000 calories over our usual party-size thick crust/extra cheese/pepperoni pizza pig out. We were psyched just to have our treat!

Stirfry can replace one or two of the meat & potatoes/rice meals. Quesadillas will work for one - we both loved them with chicken and cheese.

Spaghetti sauce - no meat and half portions of pasta - takes some getting used to.

But what about tuna noodle casserole and mac n cheese replacements? Bob loves this stuff in the winter. Help!

I use Kraft 2% mac and cheese with tuna and peas for a tuna casserole about once a week. I also use Low fat Bisquick and water to make biscuits to go with it. YUM. I actually like the reduced fat mac and cheese over the full fat.By Kraft 2% mac and cheese I mean the one with the cheese sauce not the powder.

Angie - I got a dell. I hope I like it. We had to add some things to it so hubby could do work from home on it. Yeah right! I think it was just his way of getting a loaded computer. Now the next step is dsl connection.
Good job on the weight lose.

Gen - I don't know how to put the pics on the posts. Can you tell me how? I think that is a great idea about the food.

Rusty - I am terrible with making food low fat. We ate lots of Zatarain meals in a box. What a bad wife I am. If it isn't easy I don't cook it.

Pedometers
 

Do any of you use a pedometer? If so which one do you use and do you like it?

I have never heard of it. What is it?

Ya know, you all are so beautiful. Makes me want to try harder... So that I could put my picture up there with the rest of you and be beautiful too. But at the moment, I don't think that would be a good idea. So, I have to make healthier choices and aim for low fat alternatives. Got it. I also have to go to the gym today. I think they missed me since Sunday. :D But my knees have been bothering me. Darn knees... Well I'm gonna do the weight training thing again today. I just hope it isn't as hot as it was on sunday. It was terrible because I wasn't sweating because I was tired, but rather because I was so durn hot. It was fricken humid in there!

You Ladies are great inspiration! Keep it up! :)

~Sahvara

A pedometer is a thing you clip on your belt and it tells you how many steps you have taken or how far you have gone. I read something about 10,000 steps and I have always wanted one.

Sahvara, Everyone is pretty in there own way. You dont have to be 120 pounds to be beautiful. I for one would love to see a pic of you. I like to have faces to go with everyones names.

I bet Sah is beautiful. We are not going to judge you in any way. I am the same way, I like to know who I am talking to.

A Pedometer sounds cool. I would give me minigoals for the day. Are they combersome?

I went to a cool lecture given by Matt Kelly. He created MAVIN magazine for the Multiracial audience. He's half white and half korean and he talked a lot about what it meant to him to be multiracial. It was an important learning experience for me cause I'm multiracial too. And until 2000, the census (and basically the rest of america) didn't recognize us as a specific, separate, group. So like to go to those lectures... but I missed going to the gym because of it. But I don't care, I got 4 copies of the magazine (they cost $5 a piece!) and I got them for free. And he signed one of them. :D

And maybe one day I'll put up my picture. But I'd have to take one first. I seriously just don't like being in them... I'll have to get over that.

~Sahvara

Ciao Ladies,

Wow, Kempyd, you look great! Now I really want to put a picture up but I don't know how, somebody help!!!

It is cool to put a face on who you're chatting with.

Angie- you are on fire! I love your determination. Keep it up

Rusty- I know how TOM can jack us up but I think you'll be fine.

Sahvara- I know how easy it is to feel self conscious about being in a picture. Don't worry about it, we can both be the mystery chicks for a little while longer. (emphasis on "little while" I'm kinda axious to get my face on here) But you take you're time, girly.

Dips - AngieME helped me. I e-mailed her the picture and she shrank it down for me. The real pic is of me and my friend. Once you have it down to sixe it is easy to get in.

I think it is cool seeing everyone. It is like I have real friend now, not just flowers or cat women. (which by the way is cool)

Hey, I thought you were all computer wizards and did your own cropping. If anyone want to help me crop a pic of mine I'll post it. I just don't have any "just me" pictures. Let me know.

Laterz! :)

~Sahvara

Yes! Yes more Pics!
 

Yes! I would love if everyone had their face picture here! I plan to take another shot of my face instead of a booty shot lol.



Gen

WOOO HOOO!!Sah. Great pic! I am glad to see more smiling pretty faces starting to show up.

Well I did my best. The first one was a bit fuzzy so I decided to try my hand at it again. Here I am.

~Sahvara