OMG ~ Discussions Starting 1-11-16 and Beyond
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Hi, all. Cindy, have a great trip - seeing Meg is a great bonus for you both.
Bert, they grow so fast. Bet it was fun to watch the little ninja warriors in action.
Karla, Izzy looks adorable and happy - that has to feed your heart. Did the storms do any damage near you?
Diane, are there cherry trees near you? Maybe next year I will get to your area that time of year- have always wanted to see the DC cherry trees in bloom.
Patti, hope you are having a fabulous time and didn’t get zapped by those storms - my best friend in Atlanta was up all night with a terrified dog.
My eating could be worse but can also be much better. Baby steps here. James and I went to Keeneland racetrack yesterday - the horses were spectacular, and the weather was perfect. Been feeling blah all day but need to rally and get trash/recycling out tonight, then shower and chill.
Hugs to all - may we each have much joy in the week ahead.0 -
Good morning all. What a wonderful weekend! Spring weather has sprung here at last! We spent much of the weekend outdoors. Saturday we had a landscaping company do all our trimming, edging and mulching. We have so much! Normally I do it and spread about 40 yards of mulch over about three weeks. This crew was all done in about a day and a half, and it looks so good! Meanwhile, John and I moved all the foundation shrubs from the bed in front of the house. They were all either overgrown or just not doing well. We have a consult with the local nursery set up for next Saturday to plan a renewed bed there. Then yesterday was Blue Jeans Sunday at church. We all work after the service cleaning inside and out. Then Brad called me to see if we could watch Elise for the afternoon. Rossanne’s dad had bypass surgery last Wednesday. When she went to get a few things from his house she realized he hadn’t been caring for himself or the house for a while. So the two of them spent the afternoon cleaning his house. They stayed for dinner afterwards.
Today is my regular grandma day. Elise has PT again today so I am keeping her on those days and taking her for her session. I’m waiting for her to wake up, then I will give her a bath before I take her to my house.
Eating has been better. At least being outside and busy I don’t snack as much! The scale isn’t moving though.
Cindy have a good trip.are you driving? I remember Suzy used to really struggle on road trips to find healthy food to eat.
Janet I’ve never been to the horse races. I guess you are right in the heart of race country there.
Karla, I’m sure it means so much to Izzy that you take care of all her dance classes. Looks like she was having a ball.
Patti, you probably aren’t reading, but hope you are having a terrific trip!
Bert, how is your garden coming? Is it spring yet there? My daffodils are about done.
Diane0 -
Good Morning, Ladies. I think I overdid it in my flower garden on Saturday. The rain yesterday was a blessing. I could have done things in the house after church, but I just needed to rest. My back and feet were rebelling, so I just rested.
I'm trying to dig up flowers that are overtaking the flower bed. I'm going to call someone as I can't dig up the Lily of the Valley plants, they are too far into the ground. It's unbelievable how much landscape businesses charge to dig up such a small area. We also want to enlarge our patio, and I'm wanting a fire pit, too.
Diane: Have a good day with Elise. Snacking is a problem for me, too. Yesterday was not pretty!
Janet: Hope you're feeling better today.
Have a great day, everyone!
Bert0 -
Hi ladies, I took a down day yesterday too after I returned home from church. I dropped Izzy off after we had breakfast at Cracker Barrel.
Diane- I bought a project table piece at a yard sale Saturday for my front porch. I’m dying to get outside and that is Saturday for Glenn and I. Izzy and I do bond on many fronts. Disney World is one, we are going again next week! 💜💜🦄🦄💜💜💋
Cindy- I had the snack monster yesterday myself!
Bert- I took a long nap yesterday.
I’m off tomorrow and Linda and I are going to the booth and then to lunch.
My girlfriend Diane flies in Sunday. Fun times.
Karla
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Good Morning, Ladies. It's going to be another gorgeous day today. I have a visit this afternoon, but will work in my flower bed this morning. Have a great day, everyone!0
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Gorgeous spring weather here too. The door to the deck has been open all day. My eating wasn't the best yesterday and I succumbed to bread this morning, Will try to do better this evening and tomorrow and beyond. Just wanted to say hi!0
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just lost a long post, aaaargh! having fun, doing pretty good on food, weather has not been the best but hasn't affected our fun meter. eating lots of fresh grilled seafood. saw the Blue Angels practice, impressive. boating tomorrow and will head to KY on thursday or possibly friday. more when I get home.0
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More pictures at the studios.. two costumes changes and makeup and hair... this old girl is tired. I’m also experiencing some pulling muscle strain in the left side of my chest that has Glenn and I concerned. It is easing up now, but disconcerting.
Will keep you all posted.
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Good Morning, Ladies. It's raining this morning, but is to clear up in late morning. I have a visit this morning. Eating has been ok, not great, but ok.
Karla: love your pictures of Izzy. Hope your muscle strain subsides.
Have a good day, everyone! Waving hi to Patti, Janet, Cindy, and Diane.
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Good morning ladies. I am doing better this morning. Blood pressure is 128/88 per my home cuff. Will retake it a little later. I’m relaxing this morning with a cup of tea an toast before I wake Izzy for school.
I read a post this morning with over 40 comments of freestyle breakfast ideas and there were some really good ones I hadn’t thought of.
One point bread French toast with sf syrup and an egg with fruit
Ole’ one point wrap with PB2 and banana
Ole’ wrap with scrambled eggs and salsa
Fairlife fatfree milk and special K cereal and fruit
Low fat frozen waffles and sf syrup and light jam or fruit
Tonight is my meeting and I am hoping to have Shed off a few more ounces if any. I was up on Monday when I checked but felt that was sodium as I have had blue dots all month.
We are at 59 degrees right now but are supposed to get up to 85 degrees today!! Nine degrees above normal.
Bert- It’s difficult to keep on plan . I strive for the blue dots. I track throughout the day and when I am out of my 23 points, I stop eating, even zero point foods. Now if I am really, really hungry, I will scramble me an egg white with some onion and peppers in spray butter. If I have even one day of not so good eating day I will not lose weight. It’s just where we are in life.
I’m going to rest a bit more before I get dressed.
Karla0 -
I did do a scale peek this morning and was looking good, over two pounds!! I hope it holds until my evening weigh in. Yippeee, I’ve had a month of blue dots!!
Karla0 -
Dang, don’t know what happened or which scale was off but only lost .8 at the meeting????
Karla0 -
Good Morning, Ladies. I have a visit out of town today and will be gone most of the day. Cole has a game at 5:30, so I want to be back for that as well as choir practice at 6:30. I'm filling in for our choir director as he's directing Annie Jr. and tonight is their last rehearsal.
Karla: At least you lost .8. That's good.
Waving hi to everyone. Have a great day.
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Bert- thanks, yes and adding my 1.2 from last week that’s 2 pounds in two weeks so that’s progress for sure, I just don’t understand my scale peek from the morning. Lol. But I’m slowly getting it down. I have three local friends on the plan too, one goes to meetings and two do online. We have a group text we share recipes and give support, it’s great. We are all losing. But losing small amounts.
Karla0 -
My total since 2-1-19 is 12.4 off at the nightly weigh in.
Karla0 -
Good Morning, Ladies. The weather has changed a little, and my joints are rebelling! I'll work through it though as I have much to do today. Have a great day!
Karla: Congratulations.
Bert0 -
Good morning and happy Friday. It's the weekend and fun things are beginning to happen in my world. I am on a big cleaning jag first. The house and then outside. I bought some canna lilies yesterday and some lantana plants. Last weekend I bought a too cute project table for my porch on the pool house. It has dragon flies on each end of it. I want to spray paint the ends Aqua and sand and stain the wood top. There are lots of yard sales this morning. I am going to hit them on the way back from dropping Izzy off at school. Life is good.
Bert - I guess this week is just me and you kid!! Yes, we have rain moving in on Sunday down here too. That's why I want to get my plants in the ground. A good rain will be wonderful for them. It has been in the mid 80's here already. Thank you for the compliment. I am really noticing and feeling the difference in my clothes with this amount of weight off. My jeans fit soooooo much better. I am going to be real careful on vacation next week and try not to gain this time like I did before. LOL.
Janet - I had a dream about you last night! I have been worried about you so that is why you showed up. I dreamed I came up to your house to see you. You were all alone and James had moved out. LOL.
I have washed the bathroom rugs and cleaned the kitchen already this morning and will be dusting, vacuuming and steaming the floors when I get back. Plus I need to change the linens on the beds. I will wash the sheets but Glenn always helps with the beds and the tubs. I have to clean the Pool house today too. The bed needs to be changed in there, plus dusting, vacuuming and steaming those floors.
I bought the cutest sign on my last trip for the kitchen in the pool house and I haven't hung it up yet. It has a 1950's lady holding a glass of wine and says: " My liquid diet isn't working, all I've lost is the three weeks".. lol
Have a wonderful weekend.
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Good Morning, Ladies. It is going to be a sunny day, but temps are on the cool side today. Jillian has back to back soccer matches this afternoon. I'm looking forward to watching her play as she is on a girls' travel team, and Greg says she's doing well. Tonight is a second performance of Annie, Jr., so I'll be working in the concession stand again tonight. This production is through ISU, but they are using our facilities as their theater buildings are being rennovated. Our church program director is the director, too. I'm happy that I wasn't in charge of tickets or the program.
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Good morning ladies and welcome to Saturday.
Bert - Your grandkids and church keep you busy as mine do. Izzy is here and is going with me to the nail salon. She wants unicorns on her toes. LOL. We are going to church in the morning also. Her Sunday school class has gotten so large they are moving to the new annex and she and Robert, Monica's grandson, are so excited about that. Have a great day. It has been just you and I all week! Also, there is another facebook page I am on that is very informational. It's Freestyle Recipes and Support. I read some great posts on it this morning about some members that were struggling with losing on the program and the tips others were giving them were very informational. You might like that group also.
I'm still on a cleaning jag and made some great headway. I do miss my cleaning ladies though!! LOL
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Here's a water chart and member posted.
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Hello all. I've read all, but have been so busy this week! I've decided I'm just not going to attempt to post if I am not on the computer. I have lost way too many posts from my phone or iPad.
Weather here is cool and rainy. We actually needed a little rain, but not as much as we got overnight! I had hoped for dry today because I have some outside things to get done, but I guess that isn't going to happen. Monday they will start the three-day process of sanding and refinishing our wood floors. So we will be living in the RV for a few days, and I am trying to get it ready. I cleaned yesterday, but then John took out the batteries to clean them and repaint the brackets and compartment. So there is no power in the RV until he gets that done, and he can't get that done if it rains all day! So I am at a bit of a standstill there.
Eating has definitely been a struggle. The snacks are still what is killing me. The last several weeks WI have been slight gains. NOT the direction to be heading! Today I made the flourless banana pancakes from the WW app. They were pretty good! But a fair amount more trouble than I usually take with breakfast.
Bert and Karla, thanks for keeping the board active this week. Hope you both have great weekends planned.
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Hi. Cooking my heels in the mall while stuff loads onto my new phone. Long story, but mine died without warning last night.
Will be gone the rest of the day for baseball, air show, & fireworks. Thunder Over Louisville kicks off the Detby Festival and it should be great fun.
My eating’s bern weird the last few days on timing & choices but totals have been OK and I am doing much better on evening snacking. Not really focusing on losing right now but on making decent choices and saying “not now” to cravings. Gotta go but sending you all a hug.0 -
Janet - Good to see you stop by. I need a new phone something terribly. I’m going to buy some disposer cameras for this trip it’s so bad about living up! Glad to hear you are having a good outing. Don’t overdo it on your back dear. I’ve been cleaning house for two going on three days now? But they are looking good. All three bathrooms are now cleans, all three bed linens are now changed and the main house floors are done.
My girlfriend and granddaughter are entourage from Nevada! Let this party begin!
Karla0 -
Hi my dear friends. we are home after a short day of driving. Edd is picking up Frankie and I am chilling. Car unloaded, mail sorted and bills handled. Lots of laundry but that may not start til tomorrow. We have had a truly restful and fun vacation. Started with camping and hanging with the Beemer group. Then a whirlwind trip to Pensacola. My brothers place is fabulous. Can't wait to see what it will be like once it is furnished and decorated. A gorgeous state park is across the street and Perdido Bay is within walking distance. He is 2 miles from the Naval Air museum and home of the Blue Angel's. They do their practices on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and it is open to the public. We watched from the stands Tuesday, it was very overcast with storms threatening so it was a low show. No loops or high in the sky stuff. It still was awesome and took my breath away. Wednesday was a full sun gorgeous day so we went out in the boat and watched the show again from an island in the bay. It was the full high show! Was totally stupid and got a nice sunburn, but it is already turning brown. Ate seafood and fish every day. we bought Chilean Sea Bass and Sea scallops on our way out of town so we could treat our friends in KY. The last 3 days we have spent in the hills of southern KY. No cellphone, no internet, no tv....it was glorious! My friend is a quilter extraordinaire and her sewing is overflowing, literally, with fabric. We spent all day yesterday organizing a huge closet full, this represents about 1/3 of her stash. once we had it all in piles on tables we started wondering just how much was there. I decided we should weigh it since it is all cotton. So the portion we did weighed approximately 176 pounds. We found that 1 yard weighs 5 oz. So that made it approx 550 yards! Even she was gobsmacked by this. She is going to have one of her finished king sized quilt tops finished for me as a gift for my hard work. I would have settled for a yard or two of her hand dyed fabric. The quilt is so perfect for the cabin. Country blue and yellow calicos. Edd helped them fix a motorcycle and take out a dishwasher that was leaking. he found the problem and the part for them to order0
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Did not do well with food this last leg of the trip. She had too many desserts and breads tempting me. I had done so well up til then. Oh well.
Have read all and glad to be back.
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Good Morning, Ladies. I'm happy that this past weekend is over. It was a busy one. Our cantata is this Sunday, and I have visits every day this week, so it will be busy as well. We are having our carpet cleaned today and tomorrow. He will do the upstairs today and downstairs tomorrow.
Eating hasn't been the greatest. I need to get my focus back on healthy choices.
Patti: So glad you had a great vacation.
Have a great day, everyone!
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Welcome home, Patti, and happy Monday, all. Karla, have a fun trip back to Disney (you sure are spoiling that girl - and I know you love doing it).
Had a lovely weekend. Saturday was Thunder Over Louisville - a very big day that culminates in a giant fireworks show over the Ohio River. It's a mob scene - hundreds of thousands of people (and traffic to match, plus assorted street & bridge closures). I had never been but dipped a toe in this year. The sanest way to do it was to buy baseball tickets for the Bats (our minor league team). That gave us seats and access to clean bathrooms (huge vs. portajohns). We got a baseball game and concert after from a really good cover band. There's a big airshow during the day, which we could see well, and we had an excellent vantage point for the fireworks. Long day but lots of fun, and the weather was perfect - not too much sun, comfy temps. My eating was OK in total but there weren't good choices so I settled for a stadium pretzel and a snack after we got home.
Eating remains odd but somewhat constrained so that's progress. Busy week ahead.0 -
Good Morning, Ladies. I have two visits today and am planning to watch one of my former students play college baseball. It's supposed to be a beautiful day, so I'll enjoy being outside. The downstairs carpet will be cleaned today.
I went to the gym yesterday. It felt so good to do something for myself! I'm looking forward to the semester ending, so I can get back into a better routine.
Have a great day, everyone!
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Janet- Sounds like a wonderful time. One thing about spoiling Izzy is that it is spoiling Karla at the same time. Lol.
Bert- How is Molly doing? Izzy has really enjoyed her new Suncay school location they just opened last week. Talk about high tech ang huge.
Diane and I have been having a fantastic visit reminiscing about old times. She is living our fresh seafood. I have to run to the office for a couple hours this morning and then we leaving for Panama City beach to meet more friends for dinner at 2 this afternoon. We are leaving early Wednesday morning for Irlando and going straight to Hollywood Studios to go ahead and use our hopper ticket for a Park. Disney on Thursday and Animal Kingdom on Friday.. yippeee! Lol.
I mailed offbclise to $9k in taxes yesterday so glad to get that over with. I have already started a special account I have been putting a $100 a week in for next year. Lol.
I better get my bags packed for my trip.
Oh, I am doing well on my eating and have continued to get a blue dot everyday!!
Karla0 -
Hi All,
Sorry for the MIA- I didn't take a laptop with me last week- food was not so hot but I just spent time tracking all that I remember. Best I could do.
Work was fine- Meg was great!
Don't have time for personal but read all.
Keep up the good fight ladies.
Welcome Home Patti
Cindy0
