I am eating my Yoplait Light FF strawberry yogurt with a cup of fresh strawberries, that's where I am . I went to the grocery store this morning and bought some mutant (and I mean big!) Thompson seedless green grapes, a lb of red cherries and some strawberries. I love that we have all these great fruits in season now.
Emily I'm sure watching over 7 boys burns a lot of calories ! I think my hair would be standing on end. So what's the sexy new 'do look like? Does it make you feel fabulous?
GEM enjoy your solitude now! Kids change everything. I was always one who thought I'd never ever want kids, and took awhile getting pregnant. When I finally had one though, it really mellowed me out and made me more compassionate and patient. Now I want at least one more. Who knew? But a new puppy! How sweet.
Hmmm, traveling by RV. It sounds like an exciting thing to do but I wonder if I'd get motion sickness. I can't stand being in a car for more than an hour and a half--I'm spoiled because I live on such a tiny rock that it only takes me 25 minutes or so to get to most "far" places, barring traffic of course. I'd love to see the great North American countryside though, from coast to coast. I missed out on that when I was a baby. Although we drove from AR to CA, I was only a year and a half old so I don't remember anything.
Jen have you quilted before? I'm quite useless with a needle and thread myself. It definately sounds like something to keep you busy and your mind off eating.
Oh ho, SKinny Cow ice cream . I prefer the vanilla ones myself as the chocolate ones aren't "chocolatey enough" for me. For chocolate ice cream I like Healthy Choice fudge bars, or even Swiss Miss makes a low-fat variety bar. I had to hide a box of 'em in my downstairs freezer so the kids wouldn't eat 'em up in a day.
Holly good for you on sticking it out! I'm sure you'll see a good loss for your efforts. TOM always brings me up a few lbs, then down again rather quickly.
Kempy, how're you doing today? Are you going to moving over to the new journals with us? Is anyone planning on saving their old journals to their hard drives for posterity's sake?
Sandy hope you're doing OK as well. Give us a shout.
Last edited by melekalikimaka; 07-17-2003 at 05:14 PM.
Here I am.....Here I am.....and on plan for the 2nd day in a row, can you believe that? I still need to get back the exercise and the water things.
Skinny Cows..... yummy, my choice of flavor is the choc/ peanut butter ones. They are so so yummy. Think I need to stock up tomorrow when I go grocery shopping. I am bound and determind to be back on this program of mine!! So back to lots of veggies and stuff.
Noelle: Fresh Cherries~ I love those too, they are one of my favorite fruits, and I am not a big fruit eatter.
Angie: Do you eat fruit? I don't hear you talk of it often?
Kempy: Pizza resistance....you go girl!!!
Gem: I have 2 monsters running around....my boy is 11 and my girl will be 6 in a couple of weeks. They are a lot of work but would not trade them for the world. Now Angie is the one to talk to about kids, she has twins~~god bless her.
Angie: Speaking of Twins, 2 weekends ago when we were camping my sil's friend came down, she has triplets, they are 6 months old and oh so cute, 2 boys and a girl. What work though and she has no outside help. Just her and hubby.
YEAH SANDY!!!!! Congrats for being OP 2 days in a row.
I would go nuts if I had triplets. Twins was so hard that I would never want to do it again. Now they are at a manageable age but I swear I was so depressed after they were born. Just going grocery shopping was a chore because I had 3 under the age of 2. AAHHH!!! It felt like I was trapped. I am embarrassed to admit that but it was so true at the time.
I eat strawberries,watermelon and bananas but not too often. I am not a big fruit eater.
I would like to try the peanut butter skinny cows. Where could I get those? I have never seen them before.
Angie, I found the PB Skinny Cows at Shaws. Try that. Or if you have a local Shop and Save oh excuse me they changed names yet again to Hannaford Bros. anyway you can ask them to order them for you, usually they will. If not, ask Shaws. Good luck. Maybe even Walmart has them?
I've never seen the PB variety of Skinny Cows in my stores, only the strawb/choc and van. Of course we don't even have FF Blue Bunny cartons anywhere either. I guess it's just as well that we don't have a lot of variety or I'd be buying and eating more of them as well.
It's the tail end of lychee (lie-chee) season here. Have any of you ever heard of/tried these? These fruits are like gold here. If you've got a tree in your yard everyone wants to be your best friend, or if they're not your best friend, they'll try to steal them from you . They're really great especially when eaten chilled. They have a weird rough outside skin, usually reddish to reddish brown in color. You peel it open and eat the tangy sweet fruit w/a pit inside. Here's a pic. Just thought I'd share that with ya. Can you tell I'm goofing off yet again at work?
Good Morning! Under a thunderstorm here right now. I am still doing pretty well. Got up at 5 am to do 45 minute aerobics tape. Now my husband has decided to give me a hard time about exercising. See, yesterday I walked 4 miles (2 WATP 2 mile tapes), did pilates, and went on a short walk with our 6 year old. Anyway, he says I am obsessed with exercising. I said, no, I am eating well, and trying to get fit. It is sooo hard with him because he doesn't think I need to lose an ounce, not to mention 24 pounds! Oh well. Here's to another OP day. The weekend will be the challenge for me. It's too easy to eat whatever I want and slack on the exercise on the weekends.
Ok, now I HAVE TO find these skinny cow ice cream thingys. We have P&C, TOPS, and Wegmans. Hopefully one of them have it.
Angie,
I can't imagine having twins! We have 2 that are 16 months apart, and it is CRAZY! I love them dearly, but, sometimes I want to hide in the closet. It does help me to get out and work for 6.5 hours a day though.
Noelle,
Mmm, that fruit (lychee) looks really good! Almost resembles raspberries. If you didn't guess from my name, I eat alot of bananas. Not so much during the summer cuz they bring in the nasty fruit flies. I also love the dark cherries. Not too much on melons, other than watermelon.
Sandy,
Good job on being OP! I am trying as well, though it is an hourly struggle for me!!
Hi to Emily, Jen, GEM, Summer, Kempy...everyone else! Check in later.
Good Morning! It is so hot outside right now. Our whole walk this morning was in the direct sunlight. Talk about sweaty.
Kempy, Did you and Joe have a nice evening? He came home last night right?
Noelle, Those fruit are so pretty. I would like a tree in my yard just to look at. You have so many great things to eat in Hawaii.
Sandy, I am going to Bangor tomorrow so I will have to run into Shaws while I am there. I love PB and chocolate.
Holly, weekends are the worst arent they? I have such a hard time on Saturday because that is my only off day so I usually go to the city and there are so many fast food places. Back in my eating days we would make the trip just to get tons of junk to bring home and sit on the couch and eat. Jay is my eating buddy.
Joe came home Wednesday night but it was late so I barely remeber him coming in. We really didn't do much just relaxed after dinner. He had a rough day outside so I let him just lay around on the sofa and watch a movie.
Holly you just forget about that hubby and do this for yourself. I know when I am not working out Joe can tell b/c I act different. I am sure you are the same way. You just aren't happy when you aren't healthy. Stick with it!
I am kind of busy so I will be back later to finsih with all of you guys!
well, yesterday I was off to such a good start, until about 8pm when I was craving chocolate SO bad, good thing there was none in the house, but there were rice crispie treats..
I ate one, only 2 extra WWP. So I am just going to forget I ate it, haha!
I have never seen the skinny cow PB one's either, but we have peppermint (pink), vanilla, and mint chocolate flavors at most grocery stores here, I like the mint/chocolate one's best
It got to 102F here yesterday, and they say there is no relief in sight for a while. Most of July will be HOT.. ugggh, and so dry. I drive a car with no AC, so it's a fun ride home from work :P
So last night I did crunches, leglifts, and this excercise I like to do where I go up, up , down, down on a chair... alternating sides. It BURNS my thighs and bum, and that's my problem area, along with my stomach. So I dunno how many calories I burned but I sure did tighten up my muscles. *sore*
Sandy, I wish it would rain here!
oh, the weekend... I have got to be good this weekend! aren't they the hardest ?
Just a quick note... we got in a mailer at work for a company that sells used workout equipment. I know that Angie was looking for a few thins and I didn't know if anybody else was. Try this site www.bigfitness.net
Hey everybody. My computer's been doing some funky things and I don't know if it's the system or the website. Anyway, how's everyone doing today? I almost had a binge attack last night but stopped at 4 large jetpuff marshmallows, 90 cals, 0 fat grams...of course the sugar rush was something else, but it could've been worse. Got a lot of grocery shopping done at Costco so I'm armed for the weekend, planning to stay on track FOR REAL this time! We all have such problems with the weekend. Maybe we should think POSITIVE--that we can get through it without any major screw-ups, that we can exercise and stay in the routine. I'm gonna try that. I will eat normal, healthy feeds and will not overstuff my face. I will walk for exercise and drink my water...ohmmmmmmmmm....
Tonya 102 degrees! How can you stand it? I would be sticking to the seat for sure, no A/C? Hope it's a short ride to and from work. Good job on the workout .
Kempy I'm glad Joe is back. Any plans for the weekend (or is that getting too personal ) ? You're doing great on BodyRx BTW, I've been lurking....
Angie you're so lucky to have Jay walk w/you. Rick has actually come home early for the past 2 days and came with me--it's much more fun with him along, especially when he starts huffing and puffing up my "regular" hills. I get competitive . Oh yeah, and re: Kids? I felt trapped sometimes and I only have one! (what a wuss I am)
(((Holly))) , you just keep on exercising if it makes you happy. Being the kind of independent, stand-up-for-your-rights, take-no-cr@p-from-anyone kind of gal myself, I can think of a few choice words I'd like to say to your hubby , but I'll be nice and keep my mouth shut . You're doing good girlfriend.
Sandy that's great for staying OP . It's tough but we can do it!!!!
Emily, how's your visit going today?
Jen what's up?
Well, I gotta get some work done since I'm at work and all...check back w/ya later.
Happy Saturday everyone. I had a mini-binge last night...too many sweets, because I was PO'd at Rick--so I fixed him! I ate and I ate and I ate ... Anyway, just popping in to say I redeemed myself this morning and went for a 5.2 mile walk. My slate is wiped clean ( or so I would like to believe) and I am ready to begin my OP weekend. Is that allowed?
We are ALWAYS allowed to start with a clean slate. Don't worry too much about last night, I am sure you walked off the weight today. That's what's keeping me OP. I realize that if I eat those brownies, or cookie, etc., I will have to do twice or three times as much exercise to work it off! Sorry to hear you were PO'd at Rick. Emotional crises are hard for me, and tend to be a binge provoker for me as well.
So far this weekend I have been OP! Today I had a bowl of honey nut cheerios for bk, a lite and fit smoothie and a skinny cow ice cream sandwich for lunch, and a few fat free pretzels between breakfeast and lunch. I am trying to measure my portions now, hoping it will make a difference. I can't wait until TOM is over so I can weigh myself and be able to see what is really going on. Right now, nothing that was a little tight before fits around my tummy .
So far, I have walked 2 miles today, and am hoping to do another 2 and pilates.
YES!! I started my period early. That means this week hasnt been me sabotaging myself. It was PMS!!! I got up this morning and walked Rebel to the next town over from mine. It was about a 5 mile walk. I ate a good breakfast and then we went RV looking. I didnt get lunch until I was starving and I ended up at Wendy's. I ate a bad meal. I had the Mesquite grilled chicken sandwich(I didnt see the pic but figured how bad can a grilled chicken breast and BBQ sauce be?) I didnt expect the bacon and cheese but I ate it all plus a biggie fry. Oh well, on the bright side at least I didnt order another one to take home.
I did cave and buy some fat free Blue Bunny from Walmart to eat later because for some reason I have been dying for some. Sunday is back to the grind and maybe I can get away with a little Saturday cheat once in a while.
Hey there chicklets. I'm here reading, don't have much time to post, we are off to a cookout for my inlaws 35th anniversary.
Hubby also sent me to buy a new computer lastnight at staples. So here I sit with it half done? Maybe? There is so much on here I will never learn it all? This one has XP so that in it self is kinda new. But I have been using this same computer type at work since the other one pooped the bed. But, there are so many choices of things to do etc....I will learn...LOL
Hope everyone is doing well. Angie, did you find PB Skinny cows?
Noelle: Those fruits kinda look like big berries on a tree.
Kempy: Hope you and Joe are getting some time together.
. I went to the grocery store this morning and bought some mutant (and I mean big!) Thompson seedless green grapes, a lb of red cherries and some strawberries. I love that we have all these great fruits in season now. 
! I think my hair would be standing on end. So what's the sexy new 'do look like? Does it make you feel fabulous?
yummy, my choice of flavor is the choc/ peanut butter ones. They are so so yummy. Think I need to stock up tomorrow when I go grocery shopping. I am bound and determind to be back on this program of mine!! So back to lots of veggies and stuff.
How can you stand it? I would be sticking to the seat for sure, no A/C? Hope it's a short ride to and from work. Good job on the workout 
.
) ? You're doing great on BodyRx BTW, I've been lurking....
, but I'll be nice and keep my mouth shut 
. It's tough but we can do it!!!! 
