Friday Five - Weekly Update

1. What types of food did you eat this week? 2. What types of exercise did you do this week? 3. How much weight did you lose? Total loss? 4. What was your biggest challenge? 5. Are you prepared for Thanksgiving Dinner? What will you be eating? *Fun bonus question: For all my Christmas celebrators, we only have 51 days till the big day...Is there a special gift you are searching for but can't find? If not, what is one gift that you would love to have? Have a great weekend, all. Amber

1. What types of food did you eat this week? the norm plus pork chops, tator tots, grilled tillapia, apple crisp, pineapple delite (splenda) from Tropical Smoothie, Chocolate Protein Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie, and Lean Pocket Egg thingy. 2. What types of exercise did you do this week? Besides practice, nothing 3. How much weight did you lose? Total loss? 1 lbs, no more stall I hope! 61 pounds total. 4. What was your biggest challenge? Not enough time in a day to do everything I need to. Soon. I will join Gold's by the end of the month. 5. Are you prepared for Thanksgiving Dinner? What will you be eating? I will be going to my best friend's house (who has also had the surgery) I plan to eat dark meat turkey, a little mashed potatos, I have to see if I can eat stuffing (probably not), green beans, and I plan on bringing a Sugar Free Pumpkin Cream Cheese Pie. I found a good recipe on Splenda.com. *Fun bonus question: For all my Christmas celebrators, we only have 51 days till the big day...Is there a special gift you are searching for but can't find? If not, what is one gift that you would love to have? Everything I need to buy has not been sold out so far. All I want for Christmas is a day at the spa. Someone tell my husband please!!! Hehe. Have a great weekend, all. Amber

Good Morning Amber! 1. What types of food did you eat this week? The regular stuff plus, chili, chili and more chili! Kiwi, cottage doubles, two bites of a turkey melt that made me sick, one bite of a stuffed baked potato with broccoli and cheese from Wendy's. 2. What types of exercise did you do this week? Water aerobics, and that's it 3. How much weight did you lose? 1 pound, I'm in a stall Total loss? 86lb gone forever! 4. What was your biggest challenge? exercise, and drinking enough water 5. Are you prepared for Thanksgiving Dinner? YES! What will you be eating? I'm sure we'll have all the usual things but I'm also making a bunch of sugar free things. I'm making a Pumpkin Pie from scratch (from a real pumpkin) this weekend and trying to adapt it to a sugar free recipe. *Fun bonus question: For all my Christmas celebrators, we only have 51 days till the big day...Is there a special gift you are searching for but can't find? If not, what is one gift that you would love to have? We have 14 birthdays in December, so it's always a very busy month, and I try to shop ahead. I bought my Mom a Balenciaga Bag for her birthday. All I want is gift certificates to buy new clothes!

1. What types of food did you eat this week? Cheese, almonds, water, sweet potato, carrots, usual 2. What types of exercise did you do this week? Treadmill like a mad woman 3. How much weight did you lose? Total loss? Toal 86 (I like to copy Jandell) and this eek no idea 4. What was your biggest challenge? Two morning this week I was HUNGRY 5. Are you prepared for Thanksgiving Dinner? What will you be eating? Not sure. Small w/ Mom and D... *Fun bonus question: For all my Christmas celebrators, we only have 51 days till the big day...Is there a special gift you are searching for but can't find? If not, what is one gift that you would love to have? In all honesty, my gifts this year are surgery and knowing that my Mom is moving to UT...I'm good Thanks Amber!

1. What types of food did you eat this week? Added potatoes and sweet potatoes and grapefruit to my diet this week. 2. What types of exercise did you do this week? Walk, steps, recumbent exercise bike and lots of stretching. 3. How much weight did you lose? Total loss? 2 lbs this week - loss 49lbs total / 49% loss to get to goal weight of 115Lbs. 4. What was your biggest challenge? Making sure to eat, drink plenty of fluids and to move! 5. Are you prepared for Thanksgiving Dinner? What will you be eating? Having the same traditional turkey & trimmings holiday meal - just smaller portions. *Fun bonus question: For all my Christmas celebrators, we only have 51 days till the big day...Is there a special gift you are searching for but can't find? If not, what is one gift that you would love to have? Finding a perfect gift to send to my son who presently is stationed (airforce) in Alaska. Marleen

1. What types of food did you eat this week? Seems like lots of stuff from mexican place-refried beans, chicken fajita meat, chicken meat from taco salad, lots of cottage cheese, everyday 1 slice of deli turkey and 1 slice colbyjack cheese for lunch 2. What types of exercise did you do this week? walking the walktrack 3. How much weight did you lose? Total loss? Don't know about the week. But I have lost 37.25 inches and into my 5th clothes size!!!! At last weigh in, 56lbs total 4. What was your biggest challenge? Getting the fitness place to call me back. I want to join and lift more weights, but after 3 calls this week they must have all of the members they want....GRRRRR!! 5. Are you prepared for Thanksgiving Dinner? What will you be eating? Turkey, SF cranberry salad, green beans, SF pumpkin cheesecake And that will be all for me! *Fun bonus question: For all my Christmas celebrators, we only have 51 days till the big day...Is there a special gift you are searching for but can't find? If not, what is one gift that you would love to have? Just beginning to think about Christmas, but I would love to have a coat that fits! I need a 18-20, does anyone have one to get rid of? Other than that, I would love a tennis bracelet, who wouldn't??

1. Foods eaten: at three-month follow-up appt yesterday (previously postponed a week), my nutritionist said now going forward, to only track protein, and to get minimum 60 gms daily. Otherwise, new things last week: sweet potato, two whole-grain crackers, and modified my former recipe for parmesan chicken. All were very nice--still no hunger nor appetite! 2. Exercise: Started Pilates/yoga class tonight, won a one-month membership at Snap Fitness two blocks away, and start tomorrow. Last week: mostly walking, and stair-stepping. Looking forward to new variety! 3. How much weight did you lose? Total loss? All our programs are so different; yesterday I was told not to weigh myself until the six-month followup in Feb. Am to keep following the plan, celebrating inches disappearing. However, I've lost 59 to date. 4. What was your biggest challenge? Remembering to eat three times daily--still no hunger nor cravings, which I was told yesterday may or may not change: priceless! 5. Am I prepared for Thanksgiving Dinner? YES! I work part-time, and signed up to work Thanksgiving (receptionist at a seniors' assisted-living complex), and will be taking some chicken with poultry spice, garlic and onion powders; and will be making (for the first time post-op) pumpkin custard (pie recipe without crust!). Haven't decided on which veggie yet. *Fun bonus question: No problems attaining my annual goal completing holiday shopping by Nov. 1.What I'd like? The one gift I'd love to have is for all my four siblings who will see me for the first time (since Father's day--and we all live in the twin cities area)) at Christmas day, and for just one of them to 'get it', that they're wrong, this is not just another "diet" I'm going to fail! I'm so grateful for the privilege of choosing my friends! Thanks to each and every one of you!