[Sweater Girl]

Yes, I was original with the name of today's thread!

I hope everyone is doing well. I splurged and had a Cadbury egg yesterday which was devine and half price, but I resisted the temptation of eating more than one (and buying more than one). I kind of binged partly from stress and a nasty TOM this month...

Anyhoo, today is a new day! I am really thinking of combining WW with South Beach for a while (starting next week). I have to lower my carbs and I have heard the plan is excellent for reducing Sugar cravings... I think the losing 13 lbs in the first two weeks definitely won't happen and I am not sure how I feel about giving up fruit and starches for two weeks, but I figure two weeks without won't kill me, I'll have my apple juice on hand just in case I have a sugar low, but sugar lows in general are caused by too much sugar and then crashing... South Beach is a lot more sensible than Atkin's and you can incorporate good carbs in and everything and good fats. It's not really high protien per say. My problem with the fact that I am hypoglycemic is that it has a tendancy to turn into diabetes in middle age so I do have to be very careful now. I still want to do points because I feel portion size is still important and I of course will still exercise.

I'll also modify the phase 2... I rely on bananas to stop muscle cramps and I figure with the amount of exercise I do it won't be too detrimental.

Anyhoo, hope everyone is doing well!

Ali

[Horsey girl]

Morning Ali - and anyone else out there!! I had a great long weekend. My car made the 4 hour drive to my friend's a breeze. We had a nice visit and I made it back in time for Saturday's shift. That was a blast. 6 and half hours and the police only arrested 9 people. They had two paddy wagons parked out in front of the event and we treated about 6 people for pepper spray. It was a big East Indian concert and the young males were drunk and rowdy. They would be asked to leave and they would threaten security and tell them to "make them" leave - so security would and they would freak out and start hitting and end up in the paddy wagon. Ahh, to be young, drunk and stupid...on the bright side, it was a 7 hour shift and I had budgeted only 5 - yay! And now today is back to work and another week of fun. I went for a long hike on Sunday with my roommate and I have arranged to walk one day a week with a friend. I'm trying to get into more physical activity and the ankle seems to be holding out well. We'll see what happens.

How was everybody's Easter? Did you overcome any great food obstacles? Congrats to Auntie Belle!! Come out and play everyone!!
KT

[modkittn]

Hey gals,

Ali - I had a PB egg today. We all cave at some time

KT - ONLY 9 people? What is the usual arrest rate? hehe

Sorry I haven't written in a while. I've been very busy lately. My in-laws sprung on me Saturday that I was hosting THEM for Easter on Sunday (originally the plan was to go there...) so Saturday involved cleaning all day and food preparation, and Sunday I was cooking until they got here...long weekend!

Well I don't got much time, I have school work to finish up tonight. I'm taking a grad class online. It's pretty cool, but the instructor kinda sucks.

Lori