OK I'm back....DH called on the cell,then my fave sissy called,THEN...MIL called wanting me to add her minutes to her trac phone....whew....and I've been picking up around the house fixed DS some breakfast and so on....speaking of DS he just busted his own butt..lol, he just saved me the trouble....he's on this kick of jumping from the coffee table to the couch,well he hit a pile of pillows,bounced off of them and hit the floor right on his bottom....,then he was like "oohhhh" I couldn't help laughing,but he didn't hurt himself..he's a little comedian!
I weighed too while I was away....193 so I'm doin' fine in my book as long as I'm not gaining!! so I'll get outta here and talk later...
TDIPrincess, welcome! Sounds like you are on the right track and from the numbers on your tracker, I would say that you are doing well!
Are any of you on facebook or are you all just myspace people? I have a facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...p?id=641573936
I'm not tremendously good at doing facebook (or anything else for that matter) but at least I am trying to keep up in this high tech world.
Trysh, I had Bugaboo's salmon the last time I was there. It wasn't bad and it might have been a better choice for me, but I didn't feel like fish on that particular day. Maybe next time, if I go back there.
Happy Valentines Day everyone!
I'm hoping that my husband didn't get me candy, I won't be able to resist if he did. I told him not to. Time will tell.
I have a busy day today, time to get rolling. This week has been booked solid and I hope to have time to breath next week a bit. I need to make time to exercise as well. I always seem to put that aside. I do not enjoy it, I know, but it needs to become a front burner thing for me!
This morning will be busy; we are having dh's mom up for Valentines lunch. I am making a lasagna, and I think I'm going to make it like I did a few weeks ago. I bought reduced fat cheese, fat free cottage cheese, and I think I'll use crushed tomatoes again...we didn't notice the difference last time, and they don't add points. I have ground beef that is "home grown" from my parents (they raise beef cows, so we are able to get meat from them often.) Usually it's quite lean, but I will still drain it and such. I have also made a special dessert, though, that is NOT WW friendly. I have started doing "secret" baking challenges through an online baking site, to keep me in the loop of trying new and more challenging recipes. The one assigned this month is a really good Valentines dessert, so I've been preparing it for today. It's really, REALLY rich and heavy, though, so I'm going to plate it in small proportions. I can post a picture of it on my foodie blog ( http://chefpaige.blogspot.com ) on the 28th, but until then it's "top secret." Isn't that kind of funny?! Anyway, so this morning will be on the busy side.
I have decided that I am going to start applying for any suitable jobs, pastry or not...it has only been three weeks since I've been gone from the cafe, and I'm so incredibly stir crazy...there is no way I'm going to make it till September. I've noticed that my eating has a big trend during the day, too; I always start out on a good foot, have a plan...but as the day progresses and I get more lonely/bored/whatever I am looking to food for some relief. Once I get my older dd off the bus and dh comes home, I'm fine again. I am in control for dinner, and am usually satisfied not eating after that. I'm also thinking about asking dh if I could use some income tax refund $ to go back to WW meetings for a few months. I don't know if he will go for it though, but I need something to keep me more motivated.
Ok, well I guess I should get the day started...hope you all have a great day!
Paige, I know what you mean. When I am home all the time I pass through the kitchen (in the middle of the house) all the time and each time I go in there I want and think about food.
I've been trying to grab a piece of chewing gum with a strong flavor and have a drink of water at those times. Sometimes it is helpful, sometimes not.
Today, after the morning at church, I vow to find a way to have exercise that is not the usual for me. Not sure what, but I want to move.
I blew it yesterday and ate some candy, but it was Valentines day, so I just forgive myself and move on.
Just a quick note....I am going back to WW meetings on Thursday! I feel kind of a "relieved" feeling. I want the scale to be as gentle as possible, so I am really feeling motivated and op today, and I think I'll be able to carry that on throughout this week. I think it's just easier, knowing that you have to weigh in somewhere else, by someone else. I did really well by myself for a long time, but I've been struggling for too long to just maintain.
Did everyone have a good Valentines? If it weren't for my awesome dessert, I would of done ok. But it's allllll gone, so it's back to healthy op eating with no distractions.
Dh and I are going to be ripping up the carpet in dds room today. It's something that I've wanted to do since the day we moved in here (we have hardwood under all of our house except for the family room, which is an addition.) The people that lived here before us were VERY heavy smokers, so between that still stuck in the carpet, other dirt and I'm sure mold from whatever being spilled...it's disgusting. My dds have asthma, so we are hoping that removing the carpet will help out a little. We also put in an air purifier w/hepa filter last week; I'm not sure if it's helping yet or not.
I also told Linda that I would try to bundle up and take a walk around the lake; if I don't do that I'll do an exercise tape. I promise!
Hey all, It seems like its been a very busy weekend!! I went to see Mama Mia and then had a bunch of ladies over for dinner after. I'm glad I saved my flex points!!
On a tragic note... I don't know if you guys have heard but there was a plane crash in one of my suburbs on Thursday 2/12... Everyone in the plane and one man in his home died from the crash. In total I believe 50 people died. It was a commuter flight. They're not exactly sure of the cause. But thought I would make everyone aware. This is very tragic. This is the first plane crash we have had ever in Western New York. It happened about 5 miles from where the pilot was supposed to be landing the planes.
I will be making a post. They made a list available of those who passed away. A lot of them were very brilliant people!
Paige, I'm sure ripping up that carpet accomplished two things, one being exercise and two being a really great feeling about getting it finally done. I'll just bet your DD's asthma will be greatly improved as well. Good for you!
tdiprincess, yes I have heard of that crash and it was so very sad. To think of that other crash on the Hudson just a few short weeks ago and how everyone make it out in comparison, it's even more sad. I felt so badly about the woman who lost her husband on 9/11 as well.
I wondered about something, I heard on the news that they evacuated a 2 mile radius around the sight. Why was that, do you think? I've never heard of them doing that before and 2 miles is pretty far reaching. I hope you were not one of those disturbed by this on top of the stress and sadness.
Well, today is a huge challenge for me. I start a new tracker today but I was almost thinking of starting it tomorrow. Tomorrow is meeting day as well and most people like to start their trackers on meeting days (am I looking for an excuse?). Do all of you start yours on meeting days?
At any rate, today is my aunts funeral and we are all going back to my cousin's house for food. I have no idea what food there will be there and I know from the last funeral (sadly, my uncle her husband) two years ago that they had tons of stuff. I may stop at the store and buy one of those veggies/dip trays that are all made up to bring along and it might be my saviour today. Not sure if I'll have time or not.
Also, today is another day of great consequence. My son turns 21 today and it is his wish for us all to go to Longhorn Steakhouse to celebrate this evening and we also have a cake.
Today is certainly a huge challenge.
I'm wondering if I should try my best to make good choices and start with a fresh journal and forgiveness tomorrow. What would you do?
There is no way I can track points on anything at either of these place.
I know this morning's breakfast will be 4 points, at least.
Derry Daughter: fortunately I was not disturbed, I live about 20minutes from where it happened. They evacuated because there was about 3,000 gallons of Jet fuel on that plane. I think they were worried about an explosion and plus I think because of how tragic this was, I think they wanted people to be away from the scene. There were a lot of great people on that plane too. If you check out the thread I made with names there were quite a number of activists, historians, musicians, other pilots..
.. on a good note my weigh in on Friday showed me at 156.. I've lost 2lbs since I started now that I'm on track and ready to go!!
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tdiprincess-I'm in NY, too, so it's been all over our news...I'm pretty sure it has probably made national news due to the severity of it. It really is so sad, especially being on the heels of the Hudson River crash, like Linda said. My dh went to UB, so I know it must hit home a little bit for him.
Linda-I had to laugh a little...we went to Walmart yesterday, too...to get out of the house, more or less. The carpet chore went great; the hardwood floors are in wonderful shape. It makes the room look completely different. I got such a sick feeling in my stomach, though, when we ripped the carpet up under my older dd's bed (who has been sleeping in that spot for the last 5 1/2 years) and saw that on the underside of the carpet was ALL black mold. I had suspected, but couldn't believe it. We actually went to Home Depot too, and priced out carpet for our living room, but it will be over $1000 so that just isn't happening right now. I worry about there being a mold issue in the livingroom, but there is no hardwood under that carpet, so we would have to spend money to replace it with something. Anyway, I do feel a lot better having gotten rid of that carpet in the girls room, and maybe their health issues will start to clear up some?
I did pretty well eating wise yesterday. I have purchased a lot of the Fiber 1 products lately (I have become the coupon clipping mad woman, and have had a lot of coupons for Fiber 1 products) and they are SO good! Every weekend dh always makes pancakes and bacon for breakfast, so yesterday he made me some of the Fiber 1 pancakes, and I skipped the bacon. The pancakes are 3 pts for a huge serving, and the I used a 1/2 serving of lite syrup, which was 1 pt. For lunch I had leftover homemade veggie soup that I made the other day, and then dinner dh bbq'd (it's never to cold to bbq!) some burgers using the ground beef from my parents. Man, that is probably the LEANEST ground beef I have ever had. It's amazing the difference when you have meat that has been raised properly!
Today I'm off to a good start, as well! Dh has today off for President's Day, and the girls requested scrambled eggs and bacon, but I opted for a bowl of the Fiber 1 cereal. So far that's all I've had. Dh let me sleep in (although I should of just gotten up...I kept having dreams that I was in Atlantic City and couldn't find my car, then there was a tidal wave...weird!!!!!) and I've been working on gumpaste flowers for a baby shower cake that I have due this coming weekend, so it's been a nice morning so far.
Today I started off well.. I had my Yogurt... I had all my veggies and fruit for the day later on... then for dinner we went to wendy's Fortunately I still had tons of points.. all in all I ended up over by 3.. but that's because I also had some tea with cream in it.. Not too bad. Especially coming off the weekend where we had a party at our place and then a friend over on Sunday too.
I'm getting back on track!!
Good Morning everybody and happy Tuesday!! Well how was everyone's Valentine's Day? I see some of you had a good one...mine was good and yes we did go to Nashville!! It was great fun...we stayed at the Radisson which has an Applebees in it,so that's where we ate dinner Saturday night ,I did good,I did have a bourbon street steak(awesome),but I ate all my veggies and I gave almost half of my steak to DS and DH,not sure on the points,but I'm confident I did alright,atleast I didn't over do it...,and man was I tired from walking around the mall.......good Lord that place is big....I think we were there 6 hours,from about 10:30 to almost 5:00,of course about 30 minutes of that was trying to get out of the parking lot,LOL! Traffic was backed up everywhere......as it was coming into the mall...but I had such a good time....I bought me some shoes...but that's about it....the one thing I don't like about those big malls is the reps set up in the middle trying to sale their "product" like straightening irons...spas...neck wraps....they absolutely will not take no for an answer.....but I think they work on commission,but that's just wrong...you can't walk through a mall without being badgered to buy something you just don't need............
Paige~ I got a weird email yesterday from some dude from my space wanting to be my friend,the name was winners and sinners, so I checked it out.......OMG.....I almost fell over....he had like the devil on his home page,apparently he's a singger in a group and I guess they sing some heavy music...like satan music or something.....that was just weird,anyway,in the email it read,"don't let this scare you off".........Hello........I almost pooped my pants and then wondered if myspace was actually a good idea....how in the world did he find me? why me? or does he just try to recruit all the newbies?,or just because I have that I'm a Christian in my profile and I have a prayer request on my homepage........? sorry I just got a little
freaked....anyway I did not tell DH,he would have flipped...........
So I'm off to go try to take a boat apart,and I really dread it..........I need DH's help,but he's going to Louisville to the houseboat expo,did I happen to metion to you all that DH went back to his old job? he was so miserable at the other boat place,he stayed on the road...in fact he had just got back Friday night from Michigan,then he started yesterday back at the houseboat place he's worked at 1/2 his life...but he's happier and he's been whistling again..lol...I haven't heard him do that in months....so I better go......again!!LOL!!!
Trysh-Which mall did you go to? We love going to Opryland Mills; it's just a cool mall. We've been to some of the bigger ones around Brentwood (where my brother in law lives) but they tend to have more expensive stores. I love Nashville; I was so disappointed that I didn't get to go this year; in hindsight, if I had known that I would be let go from my job a month later, I would of gone when dh and dds went in November. We usually stay downtown, and try to book a hotel close to the walking bridge to the stadium. As far as Myspace, you can go into your account settings, and then "privacy"..there is a spot there where you can change it so only your friends can view your profile. If you go into "spam" onto account settings, you can change who sends you messages, etc. Myspace is a big music place, and you will get messages from bands/singers/groups you don't know wanting to promote their music. If I don't know someone, or their subject isn't personal (I got one the other day from a girl I didn't know, but she put in the subject line that she knew a friend of mine...she wanted to order a cake) or if it's a message/friend request from a band and it doesn't look like something I'd want to listen to, I just delete it and don't bother opening it. I'd just play around with the account settings until you get it as private as you need it to be.
tdiprincess-It doesn't sound like you went off program...three points over isn't bad. If I stay under 5 points over my daily points each day, then I'm ok (35 flex pts, plus I don't count activity points.) If you used up your flex pts, just do some extra exercise today. Three points is no biggie.
I'll probably be back later today! Have a good day all!
tdip: No matter who those people were, they deserved life and it is a sad thing. I guess it was ice that caused the crash? It must be hard having it so close to home and it's probably very active on your local news stations, where it is news "gone by" around here in a way.
Eeewww... that mold thing does sound terrible, Paige. I'm so glad you took the time to rip that up. You might want to chat with a carpet cleaning company about cleaning the existing living room carpet and see if they have an anti-microbic treatment of some kind? It could help? Did you wash down the hardwood with something when you ripped up the carpet. What a good thing you did. You helped your home, your family and you got exercise, a win-win situation!
So, Paige, are there recipes on the Fiber 1 cereal boxes for these pancakes? You have my interest peeking a bit. I do love pancakes and, sadly, rarely have them due to points. Points, it's always points. No more of the good stuff, but I am still determined. I need to use my head and figure out ways to have good stuff that are also good for me, if that makes sense!
I bought the new WW cookbook on sale for $10.00 yesterday, it's the one where you have one recipe and it gives you a second thing to make with the leftovers. I'm going to try a few things soon. That will be interesting at least.
Tdip, glad you are getting back on track and eating well. I hope to do better as well. Today is my birthday and I keep wondering if I'll get through the day? I plan on just having a WW yogurt for breakfast and nothing more, or maybe an apple so it will be 2 points only. We're having gingerbread (my choice) with FF cool whip at our meeting today as it is my birthday. But, gingerbread is fairly low in points and it's something I never have at home as all three of the other people in this house dislike it. I look forward to it.
Trysh, glad your DH is back to being happy again. Jobs are so hard, the wrong one really can destroy not only the one person in the job, but an entire family. I know from experience.
As for me.... as it is my birthday I am indulging in my gingerbread this morning and will hopefully scrape through the day with using only about 4 or 5 flex points. My husband is away and I am supposed to be heading over to my daughter's dorm with my son later on to pick her up and to take them both our to dinner. It's going to be Applebee's if we go so I can control my points. However, there is supposed to be snow, so maybe not today after all? We'll see.
I have challenge Paige on her facebook page to 10 sit ups today! Anyone else accept that challenge? I'm in!
The Fiber 1 pancake mix comes in a box with and is in the isle with the regular pancake mixes and syrup. I think I got it for 49 cents the other day; it was on sale for $2.49 and I had a $1 off coupon (double coupons!) It's a complete pancake mix, so all you do is mix in the water. Surprisingly, I was able to make them...usually I can never get pancake mixes to come out right (probably my "cake mix snob" coming through) so I leave that to dh. Like I had mentioned before, the serving is really large, and because of the high fiber, it makes the points value lower (for 1/2 cup of pancake mix it was 3 points.) We use lite syrup, or I think Walden Farms might have a pancake syrup? One thing I also do (which is probably going to sound odd) is I will put a few slices of the really thin deli ham on my pancakes...when everyone else is having bacon, it helps me not to want any, and the ham that we get is 1 pt for 4 slices.
Which new cookbook is this? I purchased one of their cookbooks (I think it was the 5 ingredient one) back years ago, but never cooked from it. I've have the urge to cook a little more gourmet lately. Maybe I'll go through my cookbooks today and see what I can come up with.
I don't have too much planned for today. My older dd is home again today for winter break, but goes back to school tomorrow. I have a baby shower cake due on Saturday, so I have a few more gumpaste decorations to make for that today, and then will be ready to start assembling everything on Friday. I'm anxious to see it together; it is supposed to look like the crib bedding that the mom-to-be picked out, so it's cherry blossoms with dragonflies, and I made baby booties for the top. It is funny because after awhile I don't think of cake as a "food" anymore!
HI and Happy Hump Day!!!!
Linda~
I am in on those sit ups,in fact I'll raise ya 5 sit ups to make it 15!!! Ya know it's funny,because I was thinking this morning,after looking at my ticker, to challenge you all to lose 1 lb a week....what do you think? it doesn't sound hard at all,but it really is a challenge and for every pound we get a cyber treat to add to our siggy for our efforts like... or or just a smiley or something it could be our choice..let me know...but that was so weird when I read your post..lol...
Paige~ thanks for the info on my space..I went in and changed it.....Thanks..
and we went to Opry Mills....we ate lunch at Rain forest Cafe,have you ever ate in there? the atmosphere is awesome!! DS was freaking out over the gorillas and then when it started thundering and lightning,I think he was ready to leave!!LOL! It's expensive but it's worth a visit to eat,when you go especially when it's been 4 years since you've been to Nashville,like us!! We've only been downtown once,and it made DH nervous,because you don't really know where to go,and he doesn't like all the bars,I tried to get him to drive us down there and he wouldn't....I told him there was probably more stores and he said all there was downtown was honkytonks and bars,which that is what we saw when we drove down there several years ago and a bunch of barhoppers!! He said he would like to go to that blue bird cafe,I think that's what it's called,alot of country singers have been discovered there... I remember the first time we went to Nashville,DD was about 3 I think and my brother who has sang all his life told us to visit Nashville Palace,they used to have singing contests there,in fact Randy Travis used to work there in the kitchen before he was discovered, so we went & DH enetered and won,then had to go back a second night to go up against a guy who had won the night before DH and DH beat him,all DH won was 50 dollars,but it was so worth it and these people were coming up to him wanting his autograph,just in case he did become "famous" one day..lol!! it was alot of fun..good good memories and another thing,sorry to go on and on,but when you're down there again take a ride on the General Jackson,it's right there next to opry mills,actually in the parking lot around back on the river ,of course,I forget how much it costs, but it takes you up the river under the bridge that Big and Rich filmed the "Save a Horse" video all the way into down town where all the buildings are and right at dusk is so beautiful,we saw the ampitheatre there on the water,it was pretty cool,plus they have a dinner and show on the boat which is extra,but we just rode on the boat,then you can get drinks at their bar(you have to pay) but still cool...OK I'm finished!!for now!!!
Well I better go and do those sit ups!!!!DS can help me......or hurt me!!LOL
,then he was like "oohhhh" I couldn't help laughing,but he didn't hurt himself..he's a little comedian!
Fortunately I still had tons of points.. all in all I ended up over by 3.. but that's because I also had some tea with cream in it.. Not too bad. Especially coming off the weekend where we had a party at our place and then a friend over on Sunday too. 
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or just a smiley or something it could be our choice..let me know...but that was so weird when I read your post..lol...
and another thing,sorry to go on and on,but when you're down there again take a ride on the General Jackson,it's right there next to opry mills,actually in the parking lot around back on the river ,of course,I forget how much it costs, but it takes you up the river under the bridge that Big and Rich filmed the "Save a Horse" video all the way into down town where all the buildings are and right at dusk is so beautiful,we saw the ampitheatre there on the water,it was pretty cool,plus they have a dinner and show on the boat which is extra,but we just rode on the boat,then you can get drinks at their bar(you have to pay) but still cool...OK I'm finished!!for now!!!