Monday, December 16th, Cardio & Cafe

Good Morning Botters:

I had a great weekend of shopping and got all my Christmas buying out of the way.  I am spending this week on getting everything wrapped.  Our big Christmas party is Saturday night so Friday night will be a huge cooking night.  Christmas is almost upon us.  My eats for today are:

Breakfast:  Coffee & Miralax

2nd Breakfast:  Oatmeal

Snack:  Fiber One Bar

Lunch:  Quest Protein Bar

Snack:  1/2 Granola Bar

Dinner:  Chicken Lean Pocket

Snack:  Vitatop

Exercise:  Bike

I hope everybody has a great week and please remember those vits and fluids, we really need them at this time of year for extra energy!

Still snowing here in WNY!!!  DH plowed the driveway but I am still not going anywhere as the driveway drifts are as tall as my car...

Breakfast:  chocolate protein shake

Lunch:  egg whites scrambled with a slice of 2% cheese and salsa

snack:  hot chocolate

dinner:  egg whites scrambled with a slice o 2% cheese, canadian bacon and salsa

Snack:  hot chocolate

Eating low calorie/low carb today as i made cookies this weekend.  Need I say more???   LOL  :)

Have a great day everyone!

Lynnie

I saw the snow on TV.  You just stay inside and enjoy the warm and cozy house feeling.  I hope you do not lose power.  Food looks great today, I am back in the saddle today also, I made a pecan pie for hubby and had to taste test it also.  Have a good day!

Today has started wonderfully, my Boss was out last week with the flu. We knew she was due back in today. We also knew that she was a little bah hum bug this year because her only child got married and is now living in Hawaii...first Christmas apart. So....we managed to transform her office into a winter wonderland. It started out as a joke but as the week progressed the transformation was incredible. We even enlisted her daughter's help and got a photo of her holding a Merry Christmas sign. It's awesome. I'll try and post some pictures of it. Needless to say, the Boss loved it. She has cried and laughed and basically shown signs of being in shock. No one was fired!!!!!!!!!

It's been a BUSY weekend. I got all my shopping done Saturday. All my wrapping done yesterday. Now to get the house back to some semblance of normal.

My stepfather is in the hospital and I just don't have a good feeling about it. Pneumonia & what started out to be bronchitis, his normal kidney & heart problems and now an upper GI bleed that's shown up in his colostomy (double cancer survivor). He's very tired and weak. They're doing an endoscope sometime today to try and locate the bleed and fix it (if possible).  Prayers would certainly be appreciated.

Today's plan is:

Commute:  Coffee

Breakfast: Sausage McMuffin

Lunch: Progresso Soup

snack:  Wheat crackers, veg & Dip  (Greek Yogurt w/ dry ranch dressing)

Dinner:  Fajita salad

Getting the vitamins in in just a few minutes. Working onthe tea and water for the day. Exercise is going to be in walking when I go see Moma & Julian today. I've found a distant parking lot that takes me quite sometime to get from it to the room and then I can always take some stairs. He's on the 5th floor.

Hope eevryone has a great day.

- Iris

Hi Iris:  This is the second time that I am trying to post to you.  Awesome surprise for your Boss!  Kudos to you and the other employees for brightening up her holiday!  I am so sorry to hear that your stepdad is not feeling better.  I am sending prayers for his comfort and recovery!

Iris,

Prayers and healing thoughts for your stepfather's health issues.

Gaby

Dealing with illness in family just before holidays is like double whammy. Hugs and prayers. 

Good morning/noon BOTTs.

Tess, you are ahead of me in the purchasing department.  I still have a few gifts to buy and then I will begin wrapping...I'd like to have it all done on Saturday.  That way I can just enjoy the Christmastime atmosphere without the last minute Christmas Eve stress.

This weekend was really nice and my daughter and I had some really good time, just the two of us, together yesterday. 

Breakfast:  granola bar

Snack:  too knee-deep in work to stop for a breather

Lunch: spaghetti sauce with ground turkey over green beans and a banana

Snack: SF hot chocolate

Dinner: Fish and veggies

Snack:  string cheese

Have a nice Monday, y'all, and good for those of you who are 2 or 3 hours ahead of me!!!  Get this "monday" over with sooner.  (:

Gaby

I made be ahead of you shopping but Iris is ahead of me wrapping.  So glad that you and your daughter had a good weekend together.  May you have many, many more.  Have a good evening.

The only reason I'm finished is my boys are all going to be together this week - so that's one Christmas event on Wednesday night. Then David & I are supposed to take the kiddos and head out of town to be with all of his family for Christmas (family event of Saturday night) then a quiet Christmas with the kiddos for the 25th. UGGGHHHHH!!! I was afraid I'd get the dates all screwed up and not have what I needed for any given event.

I LOVE being in a mall on Christmas eve to just people watch. It's a long held family tradition. My Dad loved to watch people. Christmas Eve is the BEST.

- Iris