***Monday Roll Call***

Good Morning all!! I HATE getting up during the night to go potty - I can't imagine then getting on the computer! lol

Today has me at wor****il 4. I think that I'll run into Giant on the way home, I really want a cesar salad and don't have any romaine. When I get home I am going to try out a few new exercises on the total gym that Chris showed me last night then off to bed early. I slept terribly last night. Oh and the Beck Group meeting at 8.

Have a great monday all

my problem is that my computer is in my bedroom.  I either need to turn it off or move it out of here and into the living room.

Good morning !!!!!

Well today my sister-in-law and my niece are coming over for lunch and to spend some time in the pool!  I am very excited!! I ADORE my niece and my Sister in law so it should be a lovely lovely day!! YAY!!

Then after they leave I am going to hit the treadmill and ellipitical for an hour or so...

After that just finish up some reading and maybe play onthe computer for awhile.  Nothing too hard on this Monday morning !!!

Hope everyone has a Marvelous Monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Much luv!!
Laura

Morning everyone - I didn't sleep well last night either, but opted for going back to bed and trying rather than get up and get on line. Didn't work - I guess I slept at times but it sure didn't feel like it this morning.

We went to our friends place in Fenwick on Saturday only planning on spending the day - ended up spending the night and drinking way too much wine - bad, bad Kathy...so we got up yesterday and headed home. Called mom Saturday night to make sure she was okay and she said sure, go ahead and stay, so it was a nice little surprise get-away for me and hubby.

Today finds me back at work - going to Curves after work, then dropping my car off to have the brakes checked - they're vibrating something fierce. After that it'll be walking the dog, then riding my bike - I've been on an exercise 'break' since Friday night so I need to get back on the wagon.

Oh, the good news was Friday night at Curves I got weighed, measured and my BMI taken and in 2 months I've lost 8 more inches over all and dropped 3 more points on my BMI - only lost 1 lb but at this point I'll take anything and inches work!!

Kathy

Morning Everyone -
Today has me at work, but in a training class most of the day.  Then just a couple of errands after work.

My challenge for today is to get to the park after work and walk not one, but two miles. 

My challenge for this week is to work pureed foods WITH protein into my daily food for the day.  It's a lot harder than I thought.   I started my morning off with a 30 gram protein shake.  That should keep me going for a while.  I think I'm going to have some trouble getting used to food again if you can believe that.  My schedule is so crazy, that it has actually been super easy to grab protein shakes rather than food.  I'll really have to put my thinking cap on to make sure that I get good, high protein stuff that isn't a shake into my daily eats.

Hope everyone has a super day !

Lisa

Lisa,

Here are a couple of things I really liked at that stage...

Pureed 3 meatballs, mixed with a tablespoon or two of Don Pepino's spaghetti sauce (no sugar in that brand), and a tablespoon or two of fat free or lowfat ricotta cheese

Italian wedding soup pureed (leave the meatballs and veggies in)

Chicken veggie soup pureed

Smart Food chili (vegetarian - but high protein, sold in the produce section or wherever they have tofu in the grocery story), blend to puree, then stir in greek yogurt and if you want top with shredded lowfat cheese.

In a non-stick pan, sautee some mushrooms and onions with a spritz of olive oil, then puree them and add them to an egg-beaters omelet... top with fat-free american cheese if you want

There are also some great ideas at www.bariatriceating.com - look for the meal plans by stage and look for pureed.

Hope this helps!

karen

Good Morning Pa!!!!!!!!!

I am in a WONDERFUL mood this monday morning. No exact reason. Just am. I had a good weekend. An unexpected run in with my dad yesterday. Hadn't seen him in YEARS. But that's a whole other issue I am not going to dwell on and let it ruin my mood!

I am at work till 3:30, then home to make dinner, hang with my family and get caught up on laundry. Hope everyone has a great day and hope my wonderful mood stays that way! LOL

Well this is "Sunday take two" for us.  We got absolutely nothing done that we had planned on yesterday.  I did pre make all the burgers and husk the corn for dinner and what not for the in laws visit...who I then found out weren't coming. 

In the meantime, hubby decided to "experiment" with the self cleaning cycle of the oven.  Uh, well, he negelected to take the sheets of aluminum foil out of the BOTTOM of the oven I have there to catch any drips.  For those who are wondering, aluminum foil DOES melt to the bottom of an oven when it is on a self clean cycle.  So we then spent over an hour in the kitchen scraping baked aluminum foil off the bottom of my oven.  Not a good thing when it is YOUR oven..even worse when you are renting an apartment and would like a security deposit back when you move out.  By that point I was very hot, very tired, and very annoyed.  So I didn't cook the burgers and other things, realized we were out of shortening which we needed for the pie....and there was no way I was going out for that, and had no desire to get showered and dressed to look at the open house place.

So, anyway....today...going out shortly to get the shortening.  While out I will get my DD fix.  Oh, and hubby wants to bake something that HE will eat too (thus far except for the bundt cake everything has been WLS friendly or contained fruit which he doesn't eat.  So I have a theory that some "illegal" goodies will be baked today too.  We'll be in the kitchen most of the day.

Tonight will be burgers etc for dinner.  And there will be LOTS of leftovers...I had pre shaped 10 burgers...and now it's just two of us.  That's ok, though, easy meals for the rest of the week!

And then the beck group tonight!

Pam

worky worky for me today. Then taking Charlotte (my 2 year old) for her swim lesson after work at the Y. very excited for that, she's a really good swimmer and LOVES the water.

We have a MOUSE problem in our house! Our trashy disgusting freak-ass neighbors are being foreclosed on and have been emptying out the ****hole they call a home all weekend and we've been the lucky recipients of their MICE!!!! (can you tell I really despise these people) I don't even know what to do, I'm so disgusted I don't even want to go home

I'm seriously contemplating starting the 5 day pouch test tomorrow, though I know I most likely won't do it since I'm such a wuss (encouragement welcomed)

other than that just another day in the life of a former chubby chick. Hope everyone has a great Monday.

Mel,

    I feel your pain when it comes to the mice...That was my biggest fear living alone well my first year alone I had them and moved out to my aunt's house for 3 months...I had them the next three years but managed to suck it up but was in fear to deal with them.

  I had my extermintor put down bait, glue traps and I have those sonic things in every single room.  Hope you rid them quickly.