Hi Everyone

Thought I would get a headstart on the week's thread even though it's only Sunday night. I've had a wicked case of food poisoning all weekend. Started Friday afternoon after sushi for lunch, and I won't describe my drive home in rush hour traffic. I basically spent the weekend with my time didvided between bed and bathroom. I hadn't thrown up in 15 years and had forgotten how awful it is. Feeling better tonight, and I'm not sleepy due to excessive napping yesterday and today.

Thanks for your concern about my mom. She's home now and doing okay. Her heart condition is newly diagnosed, and she needs some more testing, but the cardiologist feels she'll do well for years.

Carla, how did your lunch go? I haven't been around much lately to tell you how happy I am for you that you've found your groove again. You're doing great.

Judy, how was your weekend? Hopefully with Halloween over and done with the treats will settle down at school. Mike looked after all our trick or treaters as I was sick - we have tons of leftover chocolate bars that I'm going to drop off to a local shelter tomorrow.

Jessica - welcome. Hope you'll join our weekly threads.

Will try to get back here more regularly. You guys are a lifeline.


Karen

Hi all.

Karen - Oh my gosh, you poor thing. What a horrible ordeal. I can only imagine your drive home. I'm glad to hear you're feeling better. I imagine it will be awhile before you tackle sushi again. I'm glad to hear that your mom is home doing ok. And great idea for bringing your leftover chocolate to the shelter. Thank you so much for your kind words. I've had to struggle to keep my groove intact the past couple of weeks, but I'm trying my hardest not to lose it again.

Lunch on Thursday was good. I stuck with a soup and salad, and while they weren't particularly point friendly, they were a better option that most of the other stuff. I got my period on Thursday, which helped a bit with the "I just want to stuff food in my face and forget about it" mood I was fighting, although it didn't do much to stop the salty/sweet cravings. Still, I've managed to come away from the weekend with a handful, albeit a small handful, of flex points intact, so I'm in a better place than I was this time last week. Of course, our leftover candy, which isn't that much, is still around, as well as Ana's haul. Our leftovers are put away and right now guilt over stealing from my child has kept me out of Ana's stash, not that she'd ever notice it was gone. So I should be able to handle it all.

Have a great day.

Carla

Oh Karen - you poor thing! I'm so glad to hear that you are feeling better. I'm very relieved to her that your mom is OK and the prognosis is good! That's a great idea about the leftover candy. I think I'll suggest it to Tony.

Carla - I wish TOM would come - I'm still in the "stuff anything into my face" mode and I don't have the thought of stealing from my child to help stay out of the candy that's left (too much of it too!)

The weekend was great although we ended up leaving too early for Connecticut on Saturday for me to get to weigh-in (probably a good thing). We did a lot of gardening on Sunday although we still have some bulbs to plant. We took Krista out to dinner for her birthday last night. She suggested Outback Steakhouse and while I certainly went into my FP's, I didn't do too badly. (Anthony was adorable, btw). I did OK for most of the evening but ended up eating a few too many snacks last night. I still have about 15 FP's left for the week (!) so I'm going to do my best to earn AP's everyday so I don't have to use too many more!

Have a great one,
Judy

Hi all.

Judy - Sounds like you had a nice weekend. I've never been to Outback Steakhouse and I figure that's probably a good thing. I don't need another restaurant to crave, that's for sure. What was Anthony for Halloween? Did you get to see him in his costume? Ana cracks me up about once a day with the things that she says. Last week she told me her talent was eating. I told her she's part of a family of very talented eaters.

Well, those flex points I had hanging around are history. And I managed to go into a bit of a deficit too, although not as bad as last week. I'm going to try very, very hard to just stay away from the candy and stay within points today. Today is my heavy duty housecleaning day, so I'm sure I burned up some points with the sweeping and mopping and scrubbing and polishing, so hopefully that will help me maintain the good sneek peaks I've been seeing. And we finally have some sunshine this morning (we've been gray, gloomy and rainy the past few days), so hopefully that will improve my mood and keep my hands from my mouth. My focus for today is just making through the day without doing more damage, but for the coming week I have to return my focus to getting in all my fruits, veggies and milks before I let any superfluous points enter my mouth. And now to finish my housework and then make myself what's becoming one of my favorite lunches: a spinach tortilla w/ reduced fat cream cheese, fresh veggies (usually onions, cucumber and tomato) with a bit of fat free peach salsa and fat free sour cream. Yum.

Have a great evening.

Carla

Hi all.

Karen - I hope you're completely recovered from your bout with food poisoning. I bet you were exhausted the last couple of days.

Judy - How's it going with earing the activity points?

Well, it looks like my wicked ways with candy haven't caught up with me yet (and yes I did go over points last night). I'm happy to report a 2.2 loss. The WW gods have gifted me this week, but something tells me if I don't shape up, I won't be seeing those results next week. So it's within points for me. I'm going to have to be judicious with my flex points as well, as I just found out a bit ago that BIL and SIL want to go out to dinner this weekend. I have no idea where, so I'd best leave myself in good shape for it. It's going to be a busy weekend as the parent's group at Ana's school is having their fall fundraiser, which is a gift bazaar and bake sale. I'm on the committee for this one, so it means I'll be at school most of the afternoon/evening on Friday and all day on Saturday with a table full of baked goods staring me down. Plus I'm making cookies for the bake sale. It will be a challenge, that's for sure. Wish me luck.

Have a great afternoon/evening.

Carla

Greetings...

Carla - great job on the loss. The WW gods are smiling on you for sure. Imagine all that baked stuff writhing with salmonella or something equally off-putting - maybe that'll keep you away from them.

Feeling fine again, and for the first time in weeks feel up to getting back to some form of organized weight loss efforts. I shall get my head around this by week end and be ready to give it my all again next week (no point in rushing things!).

ttfn...

Karen

Carla - congratulations on that great loss! Glad to see that the candy has not derailed your results.

Karen - I'm glad you are feeling better.

I'm doing sort of lousy. The fight Tony and I had last night turned into a candy fest - I finally got disgusted after blowing all but 2 of my FP's and threw out the whole lot of what was left of the H-candy. I wish I had done that before. At least TOM came today - of course, my sneak peek not only had me not lose the 3 pounds I gained but added 2 more! Thank goodness I won't be able to weigh in on Saturday. At least I will be eating spa food this weekend so hopefully that will help. I just did a yoga tape when I got home - I got home later than usual 'cause a place near work had a great sale and I needed some tops for work. I'm going to try to get up early tomorrow and exercise to earn a couple of AP's - we'll see how well I do.....

Have a great one!
Judy

Hi all.

Karen - I'm glad to hear you're feeling all better. And that you're ready to get your head wrapped around this again. Remember the great losses you were seeing? You'll be seeing them again soon.

Judy - Sorry to hear about the candy fest last night. TOM plus high emotions plus available candy - never a good thing. Good for you for throwing the rest of it out. That's a great step and one I probably wouldn't be able to make. Don't fret about the sneak peek - you know it's just TOM messing with your head. Are you going away for the weekend?

I got my cookies made this morning and had my alloted 2 small cookies, which I've counted. Fortunately, baking them decreased my appetite for the cookies. The nice bowl of Kashi To Good Friends that filled me up prior to baking helped too. All but 5 cookies are wrapped for the bake sale and those five are out of sight. I managed to stay within points last night and didn't use any flex points, so that was a minor victory. I'm still not sure where we're going for dinner this weekend, so I'll just plan for the worst and hope for the best.

Carla

Carla - good for you for doing so well baking. I always try to allot myself a couple when I bake too - there's no way I'm not going to have one or two so ya' may as well make 'em "legal", count 'em and forget 'em. Good luck this weekend. Way to go on not using at FP's.

I had a so-so night last night - I went over (and am in a deficit of FP's) points, but it could have been worse (I've got about a 3 point deficit) - at least I noshed on low point things. Yes, I am going away this weekend - to a fairly cheap spa with my cousin and some of my WW buddies from my meeting. I am really planning (and hoping) that it will put me back in a losing frame of mind again. Spa food, a hike, water aerobics and yoga (with a massage Sun afternoon) should help.

Have a great weekend all,
Judy

I've done really badly this week. I also went to Outback Steakhouse for my b-day. It's my TOM too. I haven't exercised at all, but somehow, I am down 6 pounds to 230!

Jessica

Hi all.

Judy - Enjoy your spa weekend - it sounds lovely. I think it will probably go a long way to helping you get back on track.

Jessica - Congrats on a great loss! You must have done much more right than you did wrong!

I had an ok day yesterday. I ended up using 5 flex points with stupid late at night snacking. When will I learn that when I'm tired I should just go to bed rather than eat? At any rate, I still have 30 left, so all's well. It turns out that rather than going out, my MIL is making dinner on Saturday. That will make it much easier, especially since I know what she's making - sauerbraten - and can plan for it. I should have plenty of points for it since I'll be working at the bazaar all day.

Have a great weekend.

Carla

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