Originally Posted By ophellia way to go smeds....I havent been so good lately....guilty of too much 'tasting' lately and its thrown me off...havent gained but havent lost must stay strong...
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 YAY for smeds!! I'm glad you are re energized and so in the zone ophelia, no gain is great! You are doing something right, you'll get back in your zone in no time. I am taking the weekend off. Too much stress lately and I've been very good but very hard to keep up. I really needed to just "be" if that makes sense. I still exercised yesterday and will today but I'm eating whatever I want. Sometimes a piece of pumpkin pie followed by a piece of apple pie is just called for. Monday I'll be back on track, I have Dr's appointments hanging over my head so I know the weigh ins and lab work is close so I know I won't slip for too long. Happy Halloween!
Originally Posted By mickeymeg uhoh. My husband couldn't live with just giving out play-doh. He didn't want to be the house the didn't give away candy. Even if the play-doh was super cute and fun awesome in every way. So now there is a ton of candy around taunting me despite my best efforts to keep it out of the house.
Originally Posted By smedley Amazed, I hope you have a wonderful weekend off, sounds like it's needed I know you won't wander too far. Mickeymeg, did you resist the urge? Well another day fully on plan and another torturous session with the personal trainer (we did cardio today, holy cow am I unfit!) still I am at least seeing improvement, my body appears to be changing shape and I am losing weight and feeling a teensy bit fitter
Originally Posted By mickeymeg I wish I could say I did resist. We had disappointingly few trick or treaters this year and there was a lot left. On the upside I gave a bucket full to my husband to take to work this morning. On the down side I haven't been able to keep my mitts off what is left.
Originally Posted By iamsally Boy, does that sound familiar. Candy seems to be able to call my name. I have been hovering around 133-134 (which is so much better that the 140-142 of last year.) Still, I want to get back on the band wagon and the exercise wagon and lose a bit more. I know how good it feels to be in the zone and I want to get back there.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Way to hang in here everyone! Being thoughtful and trying is at least 1/2 the game. I'm only able to be thoughtful at the moment. Our walks are now haphazard and my Wii Fit exercise is cut short.....well I COULD be doing it right now, couldn't I? Meals are thrown together but I did go yesterday and shop for some quick nutritious things so no excuse to have take out
Originally Posted By Labuda Can someone recommend a good scale for me, please? Since moving, I no longer have one, but want to get one...
Originally Posted By iamsally First, be willing to spend more than $20. I have bought so many cheap scales and they just do not work well. You can kick them around the room and change your weight as much as 3#. I have a digital that I got at Walmart and it seems pretty accurate. It also has settings that track your weight so you can see your gains and losses. I like that. My daughter has one endorsed by Weigh Watchers that tracks even more that she really likes.
Originally Posted By Labuda sally - yeah, I'm thinking maybe I want to get the Weight Watchers scale that is available sometimes at my CostCo. Does anyone here have one? What features do you like best?
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 ^^I don't have any info on the scale. I just weigh on the Wii Fit which is close enough to my MD's scale. I lost one lb this week. Between pizza 2 nights last weekend followed by apple AND pumpkin pie WITH whipped cream and ice cream, then thoughtful but unorganized meals the rest of the week with haphazard exercise, I am shocked. I expected a gain. I am lower than I've been in years and now and my jeans are loose again WAY sooner than I expected them to be. I am appreciating being able to get up and get dressed at a moments notice and not worry about whether something is going to fit or be too tight by the end of the day. I am also appreciating being able to squat down to adjust hospital beds, move quickly and run when I need to. We CAN do this.
Originally Posted By iamsally I know what you mean about being able to get dressed in the morning. I even have a few things that are too big now. But I had a REALITY CHECK today. I have been resting on my laurels a bit too much and was up. Today I did really well with measured and weighed amounts and no between meal snacks.
Originally Posted By ophellia way to ao everyone...this week's been a challenge for me...still just holding steady...I think I need to bump up my workouts....now that it's Finally cooler here I can walk more without melting...
Originally Posted By oredisneyfan I have a WW scale that I love. It can track your weight and you can have several users on it. I have not had problems with it being inaccurate the biggest problem is my Husband steals it to weigh his packages for his ebay addiction There are two different models, I have the cheaper one and my friend bought the more expensive one and I cant see much difference in how them work, they are both digital and have similar features but hers is glass and the one I have is metal....both from Costco.
Originally Posted By smedley Well I am here, I had a mass blowout at the weekend because I was feeling sorry for myself after throwing my back out. Back on track today but basically blew 2 weeks of good with 3 days of bad, how the heck does that work? I so want to be at target for Christmas, but I have several things on between now and then so I don't know if it's just a pipe dream. At least my back is feeling a lot better after the chiropractor on Sunday, so I should be able to get back to working out at the end of the week!
Originally Posted By oredisneyfan well I finally made the Pumpkin Muffins....I found a WW recipe that called for no oil just apple sauce and I used egg whites and skim milk so they had no fat, cut sugar in half and added mini semi sweet choc chips instead and used whole wheat flour in place of white. They were very good and worked well for that snack on the run. Just put them in zip lock bag in the fridge. Only drawback with no oil is they really will stick, even to the paper muffin wrappers, so WW reccomends spraying them with pam... I used some foil wrappers and they worked better but next time will use the pam also. If anyone is interested: 2 C flour 1T baking powder 1t baking soda 1/2t ground cloves 1t salt 1t ground cinnamon 1t ground nutmeg 2/3C applesauce 1C pumpkin (canned or cooked fresh) 2/3C sugar 1/2C egg substitute or egg whites 2/3C skim milk combine all dry ingedients combine all wet ingredients: Mix wet ingredients to dry, Mix fill muffins 2/3 full and Bake @ 400 degrees for 20-25 min (use pam inside your muffin wrappers so they dont stick ) *makes about 2 dozen regular siz, not mini.
Originally Posted By smedley They sound great I need to dig out my beetroot chocolate cake recipe, it was yummy, a lovely treat and still not too bad for you
Originally Posted By oredisneyfan Yes Smedley any yummy recipes that are not to bad for us sound great.... Going into the Holidays especially .
Originally Posted By smedley Yup! Well I am considering changing my name by deed poll to YoYo Smed I was away for 4 days over the weekend, and I most definitely overindulged! Haven't subjected myself to the horror of the scale yet, but I know it's not going to be pretty!! Still I have physio tomorrow and pt on Thursday so I am at least going to get to undo some of the damage
