Hey everyone! Hope ya'll are haveing a good weekend! We worked in the yard today raking so I think I earned bonus points! Maybe I can have a little more wine for the race:s:

Hottie - the dancing banana is in with the smiles click on the get more section. There are lots of cute things!:twirly:

JanetMae - hope all is well with the father-in-law. That is scarey! My mom had a heart attack on easter and she had to slow down. I have to remind her to take things easy.

Joyce - Hope you had a great trip!

Thanks everyone fo the support. I do hope I see more of a loss Monday night. I'll be doing lots of walking tomorrow at the track. Ya'll take care and I'll check in later:dance:

NascarGirl: thanks for the tip :dancer: I love these guys! (doesn't take much to amuse me, does it? :yikes: ) :joker: ... okay, that's enough for one reply! HA!

Are you going to Bristol?? My husband is a NASCAR fan and we are going in a couple of weeks-should be fun!

I found a new cereal that I wanted to share with you all. You may already know about it, but it's called Kashi GoLean For 3/4 cup of cereal (not including milk), there are 120 cals, 1gram of fat, 8 grams of protein and 10 grams of fiber (40% of daily fiber requirement). A friend of mine told me about it because I mentioned to her that I need "snacky" stuff: I love the crunch and am addicted to popcorn, chips and stuff like that. (I do love chocolate, but will almost always prefer salty/crunch over sweets)...anyway, I eat this cereal dry (did last night) and it satisfied my hankering without being so damaging. Just thought I'd share.

Have a great day! Hope there's "less of each of you" this week! :D

Nascar Sounds like extra points to me! Good for you!

JAN, I'm glad yor f-i-l is o.k. It's hard for us all to remember that we need to slow down as we get older. :(

bandit good for you! $1,000!! I remember winning $300 one time when I was playing with my d-i-l. that was pretty exciting! but I think the regulars were not too happy about a visitor winning the big prize.

I did have a good trip! Not sure about points and pounds time will tell.
Mother is doing well, I took dinner in to her twice. Sometimes she just needs to have food other than facility food....it is a treat for her. She loves to have Chinese, which we had one night, and KFC chicken wings are at the top of her list too, took that in the second night.
My b-i-l was really puzzled one night when I turned down sweet after sweet :lol: But I felt good about it because I really didn't feel like I was being denied anything.
I need to WI early this week, I think we are going camping Friday for the weekend. We have a new trailer that we haven't gotten to use yet. We need to get it out on a 'maiden voyage' to see what problems it might have. So we are going to a near by lake with some friends. I am sure the guys will do some fishing on the friends boat, which I do not plan to do, that will be a good time to do some walking!

dgd is still in the Persian gulf, so am watching that situation closely.

We are having photos taken at church today for a new pictorial directory. I must scoot and get ready!!

HOTTIE We were posting at the same time!
Just wanted to mention that I realy like the Kashi Good Friends cereal. I don't think I have tried the Go lean variety, might give it a try!

gmalil-I like it, too...it's a new thing for me, because I don't like breakfast, but I use it for snacking. I do eat "breakfast" but not until about 9 (I get up at 5:15)...it's a good snack food for me.

I just found a good post/an article that was posted in Men's Corner. The thread is It's 2003 Let's get Healthy (or something like that)-anyway, I posted some information I learned about how to know when you are full. I hope that helps you all. I would have cut and pasted the response, but for some reason, my computer ineptness is winning this morning! :o

Have a fun day! :cool:

Hottie's hints
 

Hottie I found your post, sounds really good advice. I took the liberty of copying it here. Thanks!

A naturally thin person can even take a spoon and eat right from the container -- then put the container away when they’ve had enough. Eat slowly, pay attention to how you feel as you get full and learn hot to recognize fullness cues.

I recently read somewhere about "recognizing fullness cues" and wanted to share. As an overweight person, obviously, I don't (well, didn't) recognize "fullness cues" and after reading about this, I now kind of "get it." Your stomach is the size of your fist. That is all your stomach can comfortably hold. A cue that will tell you if you actually ARE "full" is sighing. When your stomach is full, it presses on your diaphram, which causes you to sigh. I HAD to try it out. I ate, and sure enough: the sigh came! I am learning to eat healthier, but I still have no forbidden foods. That's all it takes for me to eat out of control-if I know I "can't have" certain foods, then I will go out of my way to eat that food (and in abundance). I am finally, after years of being unkind to myself, am learning to change my lifestyle and learn to appreciate myself.

Anyway, I thought the information about the sighing would help someone. I find it extremely helpful for me!

Thanks, gmalil (the first paragraph is a quote from the original post-the rest is mine). It does help to be a little more "aware" of your stomach reaching "capacity." I think it's a good idea to become aware of what our bodies naturally do. I want to learn to eat correctly/eat well for life and I think this is another hint which will help me do it! Good luck to each of you! :D