I'm not used to eating all this fiber.

LOL! When i started drinking all this water, I was thinking to myself I should just move my office to the bathroom.

it does a body good!

and certainly helps the stock of charmin

This is a cool website a friend sent to me. http://www.hungry-girl.com/

Oh, I love Hungry Girl... I get their newsletter - lots of good info!

For those on WW who just want to go out to eat occasionaly, here's a good website: http://www.dwlz.com/restaurants.html

Gives calculated points for most things on the menu for alot of restaurants. Look at it before you go, know what you want to order, and that way you don't have to look at the menu and you can stay within your points. I used it alot when I had to go out to eat for lunch meetings and such.

-need to scroll down at bit on the page

I love dottie's site!! She has a link to her message board somewhere in there too that I've gotten good recipes from. There's one for chicken and broccoli that is awesome and I think it's either 3 or 4 points per serving. I"ll have to go find it now.


here it is!!! http://www.dwlz2.com/forum/showthread.php?t=546

Has anyone tried the Laughing Cow Gourmet Cheese and Baquettes???? I am going tomorrow to see if my Stop n Shop carries them. Only ONE point in the whole package!!!! http://www.thelaughingcow.com/ go to products and it's the last one on the bottom.

I tried a new recipe out on my kids this morning. I have this recipe book "The Sneaky Chef" and all the recipes call for some type of vegetable or fruit puree. Sounds gross I know. Well today I made cocoa chocolate chip pancakes and they loved them! I have to admit they weren't too bad. It had "purple puree" which is spiniach, blueberries (no sugar added) and lemon juice. and white flour, wheat flour and wheat germ. It's amazing! I've only gooded a handful of things from this book, but I need to do more. Next on the list is a chocolate cake with the same purple puree!

That is the book they accused Jessica Seinfeld of ripping off I think... Anyway I think its a great idea. My husband doesnt support the theory however. He thinks our son needs to learn to love the vegetables the way they are vs. sneaking them in stuff. I still do it though. I make my son "strawberry juice" which is carrots, beets and at the end i add a few strawberries. I call him in the room at that point! anyway between the beets and the strawberries it turns a lovely shade of magenta and beets and carrots are sweet so he loves it.

My son has a serious texture and "if it looks funny I ain't eating it" problem. He's a carb-o-holic which really scares me since I have diabetes and diabetes is all in my family......he has a greater change of getting it. It's funny, I'll get a bottle of juice, and refill it for weeks with the V-8 splash and he never notices the difference!

I am not a mother so I am not claiming to be experienced...but my brother has a 2 year old baby boy...and my best friend has a 4 year old girl. Both gave them little or no fruits their first years of living, and gave them lots of veggies. Now they both LOVE veggies and choose them when it is on the table. I think that is pretty cool! I remember when I was a kid all I wanted was carbs and peanut butter! lol

I started doing that with my 9 month old and my pediatrician made me stop! She told me 1) the diet needs to be balanced and he needs what is in the fruit and 2) when he does get to have fruit (and sweet stuff) finally he will binge!

So I dont know. Im still trying to give him more veggies than anything sweet at all.

i kind of wondered when my friend said she didn't feed her daughter fruit at all the first year. it seemed weird. but now she begs for broccoli! lol

down another pound this week!


fyi:

tootsie roll pops = 1 point. Good for chocolate cravings and if you do it right lasts about 1/2 hour!



on the go tip: to stop you from stopping at mcd's or bk for a small fry when starving pack a soft cooler full of snacks before going out on errands!!! I now have in my cooler: 2 juice boxes, 1 coke zero, 6 100 calorie packs (oreo cookie wafer thingies). If we use any of it I'll just refill it up.

I can participate in this thread again now with a clear conscience. I finally stopped making excuses and started going to the gym on my lunch break. I only have time for a half hour on the elliptical and some stretching and crunches, but it sure beats my former routine of sitting on my a$$. I hope to do 4-5 times per week.

bump

I like your ticker, Bridget. Maybe I should do one too, for motivation.

Where is everyone else? Did they fall off the wagon?

Since my conscience isn't clear yet and I am still guilty of major transgressions can I at least be cheerleader for all of the ladies who are doing so well...

GO BRIDGET



GO JENN!

I can't in good consence participate bc I hardly feel like eating anymore and I'm still feeling bloated and actually gained a bit of weight

go Jenn!!!!

I have been working out like a maniac. We are going on vacation soon and I want to look bikini perfect! Whoo-whee!

Thanks for the support! I really need it to get motivated to go to the gym. I hate it so much.

I've realized it's not the actual exercising that bothers me as much as the getting changed, showering, re-doing my makeup, etc. What a pain in the tooshie.

Oh, and I put up a ticker, yay! But I lied and said I'd lost a pound, even though I've lost 0, since I felt like a tool.

Think about the shower as time to yourself. i dont remember if your hubby is here or not, but its a shower without interruptions! I have a baby and a young child and my hubby so showering at the gym is lovely me time!

So you just need to say you will go 5x per week no matter what. Do you want a butt that is droopy and big or a tight firm but you could serve drinks off of???? Go girl!

Woohoo! Ok, off to get my peaceful shower and an a$$ I can bounce quarters off of!

i'm too scared to look at my butt

signed up for weight watchers sat hope to have good news to report soon let you know sat

yay!!! are you doing the core or the flex plan? I'm on the flex plan because I want to be able to eat chocolate for breakfast lunch and dinner if I want dammit! lol

im doing flex too! Way to go on the 8 pounds !!!

The first week is always the best! I'm wicked hungry though. I don't remember being this hungry the last time! I need to buy more baby carrots!!!

Has anyone heard of the Bender Ball? I got one a couple weeks ago and that thing really works the abs!

Yes, I saw the TV commercial for it. It does look good. There's a new half-ball thingie in our gym now, and I think it's for ab work, but I don't want to look like a dork trying to use it.

I love it because it doubles as a kickball for the kids.

This is what they have in my gym:



Anyone use it? I'm sure I could find some info online, but I'm too tired from my workout to search.

I have one of those too. It's great for abs and back, and a lot of other stuff.

BTW, my wife was 110lbs before pregnancy and now 114lbs only 5 weeks after giving birth. Not bad huh? I told her she better watch out, she's looking pretty good and ...

whaddya do, sit on it? lol Looks like a sit n spin thing.

Oh good grief.

There must be something I can do with it so as to not look totally ridiculous....

It's called a Bosu Ball and my former trainer used to have me do all kinds of stuff on it - mostly squats and sort or jumpy lunges - i hated those, but they work very well. It's great for balance also.

those are great for balance. you can stand on them and lift weights while balancing on those and tightening your abs in the process. it looks easier than it is! maybe ask a trainer at your gym if they can show you a few techniques ?

Thanks guys! Bosu ball....I just found a couple YouTube videos showing how to use it, so I'll check those out.

hey, search youtube for bamboo massage.... i just ordered a set for my office!! deeeeeeeeeee-lightful!

Darn, I forgot to look it up last night like I had planned to, no YouTube at work. What is it?

Didn't watch the Bosu ball videos either. Guess I'll leave that for next week (something to look forward to, yay!)

have stuck to Weight watchers like glue for the last 5 days
I hhope I have good news to report sat

I wholeheartedly recommend the Spa Cuisine line of Lean Cuisines! I just had the salmon with basil and orzo and it was da bomb for only 4 points!!! That with a single serving size ff kettle corn popcorn, 1 tootsieroll pop and a coke zero for a whopping 6 point yummie lunch. Their lemongrass chicken is to die for as well!

The lemongrass chicken is my favorite. Yum!

thanks ill give it a try

I got my Dr. McDougall books on Wednesday. I've been reading them and I'm really impressed. I'm going to start the Ultimate Weight loss book first. "I like his saying that the fat we eat is the fat we wear." If you haven't checked out his books yet I'd recommend it because it's sound research.

Oh man, this dropped off the first page!

Will weigh myself today. Hopefully I've lost *something*!

I took my ticker off and spit on it! After faithfully following WW and not going over my points last week I gained 1.5 pounds. I know that it's water weight but it still pizzed me off. People on the WW boards say to weigh yourself monthly if your cycle makes you fluctuate so that is what I will do from now on.