hi meowee do want to trade? :lol: glen

Wow what a beautiful day here! Snow is melting fast,,,roads are dry.

I have to take Brandon to the foot specialist, kinda worried that hes going to say they have to fuse both feet, or that they can't do anything. Which is worse? Doing nothing.

anywho thats all that is happening here,,,gonna go get a decent cup of coffee...Tim Hortons

Hi there . . .

I don't have to trade, Glen. You'll be sending it this way soon enough. Today is gorgeous, Sunny, 10+C but still pretty windy. Tomorrow . . . forecast says . . . snow, followed by freezing rain, followed by rain, all with lots of wind.:(

If you just keep pumping your weather eastward, Angie, I should get it in another couple of days . . . as long as Glen doesn't steal it all on the way past. ;) Hope the appointment goes well. I would probably agree that doing nothing would be worse in the long run. The real question is whether it would be worse to do both feet at the same time or one at a time. That is a really tough choice. Whatever the diagnosis . . . enjoy the coffee, but try to stay away from the doughnuts. :hug: Good luck.

Wowee, I wonder where everybody else is hiding today? Have a good one folks and keep up all the good stuff. :carrot:

Hey everyone. Well I'm glad the weekend is over and things are looking much better (except the weather that is!). My dad is doing better, thank you for the well wishes, and I also lost the pound I gained plus one more at weigh in today. woo hoo!

Now I have to be especially focused this week as I was invited to lunch with the girls on Thursday, going out for date night with hubby on Friday and then I'm throwing a wedding shower for my neice on Saturday for which there will be lots of yummy stuff I shouldn't touch! Yikes. I'm simply going to promise myself to eat healthy and light.

Hey gang :wave: I had a great weekend at :yoga: camp... I am exhausted today though, not sure why... It could be the combination of dull, rainy weather and the weekend, I didn't sleep very well I keep being awoken by the furnace starting up down the hall grrrr :mad: ... Send the nice weather vibes this way please!!

Hi from across the St. Lawrence!! :wave: I live directly across the river from Kingston, ON and feel Canadian by association. Actually, my grandfather and his relatives are from Picton, ON. :D

Anyhow...just had to add to the weather reports. It was beautiful here on Saturday and I walked about four miles (don't know the kimmies) and rode my bike about four as well. But yesterday and today have been very foggy and soggy. Our snow has all melted and now we enter the MUD season. :p Twice in two days I've taken my dog and son for a walk and got rained on on the way back. :mad: Oh, well, that's why God made blowdryers, right?

Okay...just saying HI!!

Kris

OH!!! And the robins are everywhere!! So are the GEESE!! :carrot: And the Simcoe (the ice breaker) is scheduled to head up the river any time now!! My favorite signs of spring!! :D

Hey all!
I am new to this chat, but full blown CANADIAN!!! I love saying that!

Its been raining allllllll day!!! T-storms too!!!! Had a friend here for the day, went to Williams for coffee (yummmY) then went to the mall...I bought the new "eye intesifiing" make-up fomr Almay! I am soooo excited!!!

so yeah, that was my fun filled day!
later!

:wave: welcome kris and fitgirl. meowee it's cooler here today. i saw the forcast for ns and you keep it. :) glen

Good morning all, and welcome to our new people.

ate healthy yesterday No donuts Meowee! Infact I came home and made bran muffins, a breakfast on the go sorta thing. Drank my water

Brandon has to have surgery they will do one foot at a time. The foot that has all ready been done will be done first. They will be fusing 3 large bones together. But first he needs to loose some weight the Dr. said, hes 6'2 and 250 lbs, he wants him down as low as he can go because this will be a hard surgery (which we know from experience already) so now I feel like I have a diet buddy at home.... much easier.

weather is beautiful here...don't know what the forecast is...but right now it feels like spring.

It is incredibly windy here today. I will not be biking!

Oh say! fitgal2 ... I was in London last evening. DH the carpenter needed some things from Home Depot.

Hello everybody . . . sorry I didn't wake you this morning. ;) So far, no snow, ice, or rain is falling (and it's now noon) but it is definitely a dull, windy day.

I've been busy playing around with FitDay vs Nutridiary and trying to decide if I want to replace my personal little Excel program with one or the other of those two. So far I'm leaning toward Nutridiary because it seems to log meals better for future reference. Anybody got any suggestions? Or preferences? that you're willing to share. I'd appreciate hearing your thoughts. :listen:

Carol . . . good on you for 2 lbs gone to ugly-pound-heaven . . . and very glad to hear your Dad is doing better. Here's an advance dose of :dust: for thursday.

Ilene . . . glad you had a good yoga camp. You got me thinking about how much I used to like yoga (back in the days when the earth was new and I was thinner and more supple). So I ordered Peggy Cappy's "Yoga For The Rest Of Us" in the hopes I can get started again. Unfortunately the confirmation from Amazon says not to expect to receive it before mid-April. What the :devil: are they cutting this DVD especially for me?

Techwife . . . a welcoming :hug: for our new part-time/almost Canadian. Fitgirl . . . a welcoming :hug: for our new full-time/real Canadian. Glad to have you both with us. We love lot's of company.

Angie . . . good eating, girl. :crossed: for Brandon. Wowee, this is like getting a 2fer. Two exercise buddies in the same household = two sets of good :goodvibes everytime you post.

Susan . . . Always glad to hear from you, too. You can keep your windy stuff . . . I don't need anymore.

Have a good day, gang. We'll see you soon. Keep on doing the good stuff. :carrot:

hi everyone.......

i am a fellow canadian... i live in Nova Scotia......

i just found the board today..... i hope to get to know you all......

Hey Goy :wave: and :welcome:

Meowee -- :lol: they must be cutting the tape just for you or maybe personalising it with your name dubbed in where it says : "Now, meowee, take a deep breath." :lol:...

Today was EXTREMELY windy here and now it's snowing... DANG!!

Food has been good, had a great leg workout this morning... I did a few excercises that I used to do 20 years ago when I first started weight training, stuff with cables... it was fun and I'm sure I'm going to feel them tomorrow :dance: ... I believe in the moto "No pain, no gain" :yes:, but it's not for everybody though....

Hi all. Major wind around here since yesterday afternoon and that darn snow showed up again. grrr

Meowee - thanks for that willpower dust, i think I'll need it!

Angie - sorry to hear Brandon requires surgery, I'll be sending good wishes your way for getting through it all OK

Welcome everyone new!

Holy windchill factor, Batman!! You know, you'd think being a North Country Mamma and having real Canadian blood streaming through my veins that I'd be able to take that howling wind today. I've had many weeks where the high temp is minus 30 F at high noon, but this damp, cold wind is horrible. :fr: And its flurrying on and off again, too. At least the back yard is freezing again so I can let my dog out and he won't turn my kitchen into a mud explosion.

Okay...that's the report from the deep south...across the river, anyway. :carrot:

:wave: meowee here is the weather report from ontario. it's cold, windy and it snowed. i'm off to the ymca. :) glen

Cold and windy here to :( ... I'm off to the gym I'm going breakdown and run on the dreadmill :tread: :( ... Going to work on shoulders too, tonight I have swimming :dance: ...

It is beautiful here, but oh how easily it can turn on you.

nothing planned today, did my lil errands yesterday, even went out last night to talk to a costumer. My youngest son's school is doing the play Aladdin and they asked me to give a hand, I do alot of theatre. And so went and did the Im begging.stealing and borrowing these. It was great since I got to visit for a bit with alot of people.

so today will be a bit of cleaning,,,bathrooms, laundry,,,(folding)

Well everybody, looks like you did your best/worst; but we didn't get the really bad weather they were predicting. It rained a bit, but that's all. The radio this morning was yelping about some slippery highway problems in the province, so I guess we just got lucky.

A great big welcoming :hug: for you Goy. Glad to have you with us. Hope we'll see you often. Where in NS are you? I'm in Pictou. Did you get the bad weather?

Hope you both have good workouts, Ilene and Glen. Wow, wouldn't I be shocked to finally get that DVD and find my name on it. :dizzy:

Hope the dust helped, MrsMoby. Here's some more, just because none of us can every really get enough. :dust:

Alladin is always a favourite with the kids. Have lots of fun putting it together, Angie. :belly:

My day started out really well. Finally, I got to move my ticker-slider a whole 2 pounds. :hat: Then reality dawned. Have you ever had those feelings that something is just not quite right about something? Well, I was feeling tht way about the excel program I use to track my calories, etc. Anyway, I finally discovered what it was. When I added the calorie counter to the program I neglected to readjust the carbs --- When I was using the program just to track carbs for the purpose of controlling my diabetes, I only wanted to deal with "net carbs" (total less fibre). Of course, when you count calories, the fibre calories have to be counted, too. Sooooo, I'm as happy as can be about getting the scale to cooperate finally. :shrug: But I'm kind of elated/disappointed (don't really know which) to discover I've been underestimating my calories consumed for the last 10 weeks by approximately 12.5%. Now I have to get used to about 200 calories less but hopefully the rate of loss will speed up a bit. I'm also having trouble getting the program rewritten (can't cross balance), but I'll find the bug eventually. :mad:

Better get back to the :devil: program or I won't be keeping track of anything today. Have a great one, gang. We'll see you later. :carrot:

Road trip tomorrow. I hope the weather's good. The college boy called and I guess there's been no talks yet. The strike continues. He wants to come home. So, I'm off to Welland in the morning.

Hello Canada. Saskatchewan is cold and calling for more snow! I hit my first stepping stone today! I hit 5 pounds of weight loss since starthing March 1, I am ready for more!

My program is fixed so I'm good to go. The radio says snow here in the morning, too. . . I'll wait until I see it.

SusanB -- that is such a waste of time for the students....I hope they settle soon...

ApplBride -- Congrats on the weight lost :high:

:wave: welcome applbride i am en ex stubble jumper (someone from the praries). i lived in sakatoon and regina. :) glen

Another cold one down here by Kingston! Minus 3C, but the sun is shining to beat the band, so my car should be nice and solar heated by the time I get in it to go grocery shopping! March is such a yo-yo month for weather. It's like it just dangles spring in front of you like a :carrot:, but doesn't let you have it till April comes.

Okay...that's it from the deep south!! :coolsnow:

What a great description of our Canadian Spring :yes:!

Yesterday food wise was a lost cause :mad: exercise was so-so :( ... Today I am determined to do well at least foodwise if I don't have time to exercise...

Back later to report...

Good Morning . . . Sunny and cold in Atlantic Canada, too. Nothing exciting going on today. See you later, gang.

Good morning, not too bad here, still early so hopefully it will brighten up. Had some down right spooky fog last night, I don't like fog. And I remember my youngest son would cry if it was foggy and he had to go out in it...we lived behind the school and I would then drive him and walk hand in hand into the school.
I ate ok yesterday till the toast, cinnamon raisin. Ate 4 slices. Can you say Carbaholic?

Hello fellow Canadians!! Thought I'd pop in and see how you all are doing!

The weather here in Winnipeg is quite nice today! It's -10 or -16 with the wind chill! nice and sunny too! So far no sign of snow coming and that's a blessing,I don't like to shovel!! lol!
Take care,
Wendy:D

Happy St. Patrick's Day . . . He's wearing a white coat today. Just to let us know that Winter is not yet over. At least the sun is trying to shine.

If you don't like fog, I definitely can't recommend moving to the east coast, Angie. Fog is almost a way of life down here. I don't like to shovel either, Wendy and today's snow blanket is not really enough to worry about, luckily. It will melt away soon if the sun stays out.

Have a great day, gang, and remember to wear something green.

Happy St. Paddy's Day!

Did anyone see Primetime last night? Ive never watched it before but someone from another group was talking about it. There were these people who agreed to have their picture taken wearing only a bikini, we are talking about poeple who are weighing in at lowest 161 lbs all the way up to 261 lbs for the females there was one male and he was 279 lbs. So they take their picture a couple of months ago. And are told they have to lose 15 lbs in the next 8 weeks or they are going to broadcast their picture. Talk about pressure.
anyways all but 1 made it she had a 13 lbs loss. She did alot of weight training and had gone down 3 dress sizes.

So fellow Canadians, would you have ever signed up for something like this?

NO WAY! I'm sure it was a great incentive; but kind of 'the carrot' vs 'the stick' type of incentive. I've always been a carrot kind of girl:carrot:and this sounds too much like a 'big stick' to me.

You know what...it might be an incentive to me. But then I saw these dee-lish shamrock cut-outs today at preschool and they were so wonderful, I'm pretty sure even public humiliation wouldn't have been enough to keep me at bay from those cookies!! :lol3:

Well, its still pretty cold here, but the SUN!...Oh, my, it feels so nice on my head:D UV is such an under-rated thing, unless you're deprived of it all winter. There's not a cloud in the sky today!! :D

Heck no! I never would have signed up for something like that, not just because of the pressure but I'm sure after the broadcast I would probably just pig out . I think the motivation needs to come from inside in order to stick with it long term and of course to keep the weight off after.

It's bright and sunny today but very chilly, brrrr!

Sunny and cold . . . and we got another sprinkle of snow last night. Forecast is calling for 15 to 20 cm for Monday . . . the official first day of Spring. We'll see.

Nothing else too exciting. Eating light and healthy and moving and shaking from time to time.

Have a good day, gang. See you soon. :carrot:

hi everyone. :coffee: is everyone doing the :carrot: it's sunny and cool here. :) :wave: glen

Sunny and cold here, Glen. Have a good day.

It was :sunny: and cold here today... I worked out legs for 2 hours with my friend Luanne, we had a ball!

did I mention I signed up for that show Taking It Off, got to 2 interviews but wasn't picked,,,the following month I see front page teh people they did pick,,,in bathingsuit type outfits...the sigh of relief, and the feeling like I dodged a bullet was felt.

The weather today was fantastic, warm, melting the snow. I cleaned the pantry today,,,that was a job in itself...now I have about 6 loads of laundry to fold.
have a great day all