NYBNY Challenge October (closed group)

JamesonsMommy

My new favorite protein/after workout drink is: 1/2 c of dark chocolate almond milk, 1 c of brewed coffee, 1 scoop of chocolate protein powder. I love the flavor and the coffee adds an extra kick

As much as i love my coffee black this sounds really tasty

ljjorgensen

Took my grandson to get a flu shot today and while I was at it got one myself.


My Tip: I love Dr.Oz, I get to watch him some because I am retired so thought I would give you workin' girls a tip from Dr. Oz.
To speed up your metabolism eat pickled peppers. The vinegar prevents storage of fat and the capsasin raises metabolism.

szczepj

My tip is thEre is always time for exercise. Whether you dance to a song while you
Are getting ready or if you walk up and down the stairs an extra time or two. It all counts! So Dobruja if you are ever feeling down.

rebeccask

Because I'm on a super pumpkin kick, here's a vegetarian pumpkin protein filled soup:

Pumpkin Tofu Soup adapted from sparkpeople.com

Ingredients
2 packets splenda
1/2 tsp curry
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp black pepper
dash of salt
dash red pepper

3 cups non-fat milk
1 package soft tofu
1 can pumpkin
1 onion



Directions
1. Either use a blender or food processer to blend the pumpkin, tofu, and onions.

2. Add the ingriedients to the spices in a medium pot and let the soup simmer at low heat for an hour.

Nutritional Info
Servings Per Recipe: 5
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 144.6
Total Fat: 2.8 g
Cholesterol: 2.9 mg
Sodium: 110.2 mg
Total Carbs: 19.8 g
Dietary Fiber: 3.9 g
Protein: 11.2 g


****reviews said to leave out the onion.

wvualum

My good deed for this friday...Someone started a Boo chain (you give treats to someone secretly with a little poem, and they copy the poem and pass on to someone with more treats. Well theres a guy at work that doesn't have a way to get the candy and candy bags to do this, so I made bags for him to use, and another coworker has extra treats to fill his bag. Now he won't feel left out. :bigsmile:

Kekibird

Yesterday's RAOK was on the ride home from work and my son's school. I *tried* to let in a few people but no one took my SPOT! So I kept trying and about a mile away from home someone took advantage of my good deed and moved into my lane.

California drivers can be soooo frustrating....

Twinmom1221

Today's good deed was giving a friend my halloween "costume" from when I was pregnant.

adamkat

my good deed was making a coffee cake to bring to my co-workers and halloween cookies for my boys to bring to daycare.

JamesonsMommy

I only went one place today and that was my grammys.. She gets me every friday.. We get her hair done and shop if needed No other way i want to spend my fridays

adamkat

sounds like a perfect day! :flowerforyou:

ljjorgensen

I picked up a friend at Enterprise so she wouldn't have to wait for someone to bring her to the office.

JamesonsMommy

Made a donation to one of our many homeless shelters

libs41223

Yesterday's RAOK - I made my husband oreo stuffed chocolate chip cookies even though I felt like crap all day. He really like them.

JamesonsMommy

todays RAOK is taking my homemade fall soup and a batch of roasted brussel sprouts to my grammy.. I'm also putting some of my favorite diet snacks together for my cousin who is also on a weight loss journey. A lot of her funds go to her teenage son and her rescue kittys.. Figured she would like to give some yummy over priced treats a try...lol Hope everyone has a wonderful sunday GOD IS GOOD!!!

ljjorgensen

Bought my sis a fresh hot pepperoni roll for her lunch after church and took cookies for my
Sunday school class to have with coffee.

wvualum

This weeks special challenge:

Since I think we really enjoyed our random acts of kindness week, This weeks special challenge is the same 3 pts bonus for 5 random acts of kindness, (I am going to prorate if you 2 or 3 instead of 5, so don't worry if you miss a day.)

I am also adding to this weeks challenge, you have to go on the message board and add either a halloween story or joke, can be funny or scary! You have to do this by 5 est. Monday!

ETA: Again I will be tracking the points for the special challenge.

Kekibird

Happy Monday!

Wasn't on at all this weekend. We just had too much to do.

Our random acts this weekend. On Friday I treated my friend out to a movie and bought his ticket for him. He's very kind and helps out around the house with technology things so I wanted to treat him.

Then yesterday, my mom and I helped make way for a woman in a rolling chair. She was very sweet and gave my son a high five for helping her through the doorway. I was very proud of my little man :happy:

Katie

ljjorgensen

Here is my Halloween joke:

How does a girl vampire flirt?
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She bats her eyes:)

lauralou23

My RAOK for today:

My co-worker has been wanting to start dieting and asked me to remind her to remind her to call this doctor that I went to about my weight loss. So instead of just reminding her I made a pretty little note with all of his information on it and stuck it to her phone so she won't forget!

ljjorgensen

I bought lunch for the girls in the office today, we had Wendy's Chile. YUMMY

MsBrwnSugga

Here is a Halloween Scary Story( not really that scary though)

LATE NIGHT RIDE

Jerry was driving home late one night when he saw a young lady waiting by a bus stop. He stopped his car and told her that he didn't think the buses were running so late at night and offered her a ride. The fall night air was getting chilly, so he took off his jacket and gave it to her. Jerry found out that the girl's name was Mary and she was on her way home.

After an hours drive, they arrived at her home and he dropped her off by the front door. Jerry said goodnight and went home himself.

The next day he remembered that Mary still had his jacket.

He drove to her house and knocked on the door, an old woman answered.
John told her about the ride he had given her daughter Mary, and had come back to get the jacket he had lent her. The old woman looked very confused.

John noticed a picture of Mary on the fireplace mantel. He pointed to it and told the old woman that that was the girl he had given a ride to.

With her voice shaking, the old woman told Jerry that her daughter had been dead for many years and was buried in a cemetery about an hours drive away from there.
Jerry ran to his car and drove to the cemetery....

He found his jacket, neatly folded on top of a grave...the name on the gravestone was Mary!

MsBrwnSugga

Today I invited a former co-worker to my house for dinner this weekend.

Kekibird

Here is a real life scary story.

My grandfather haunts the house my parents live in. It was originally his house and he died there in 1998 surrounded by my family. He was ill with cancer and was gone within a week of his diagnosis.

We hear footsteps down the hall as if he's patrolling and watching out for us. We've heard voices and found no one there.

Recently, my dad awoke to hear the footsteps and thought it was my mom returning to bed. The footsteps didn't stay on the hardwood floor but continued onto the carpet of his bedroom, unlike before when the footsteps stayed in the hallway.

He then her tinkering noises and the sound of clothes shifting. He thought he mom was removing her robe so she could return to bed but the noises stopped and he opened his eyes wondering what in the world she was doing.

Then he rolled over and found my mom, dead asleep. It wasn't her he was hearing. Then he thought a burglar had broken in and was stealing my mom's jewelry. He waited with his eyes opened (but the blankets pulled ALL THE WAY up to his nose) for the person to appear.

The footsteps continued to his side of the room but he couldn't see anyone or anything. That's when he realized it was grandpa coming back to his room. Back to were he and my grandmother used to sleep. Back to where he passed on.

It's creepy, I'll admit even though the spirit is peaceful and not at all harmful. But it's odd. The room where he died is always cold and my son has seen my grandfather standing next to my mom. It didn't scare him because he was too little to understand and because he'd never met my grandfather.

lauralou23

ROAK for Tuesday:

I am in charge of our Adopt-A-Class program for my office and we are going to visit our little 5-6 year olds on Monday. I spent my lunch break shopping for goodies and then spent part of my afternoon filling goody bags for the kids. I can't wait to see them on Halloween!

ljjorgensen

Tuesday I put the equipment we use for our water aerobics class away for the girls.

wvualum

My tuesday RAOK, was I bought donuts from Krispy Kreme (all just to get 2 hats, come to find out they were out of hats :grumble: ). So instead of eating them, I took them to the neighbors.

wvualum

My tuesday RAOK, was I bought donuts from Krispy Kreme (all just to get 2 hats, come to find out they were out of hats :grumble: ). So instead of eating them, I took them to the neighbors.

Correction: instead of eating all of them! :bigsmile:

feydruss

I know I'm tired when I interpret your RAOK to mean that you ate the neighbors. Time for bed! LOL!

Kekibird

I know I'M tired when I read RAOK as "rack" and I automatically think of boobs....

RAOK: I made more room for one of the regulars in my class tonight when I saw the instructor bring out floor gliders. She thanked me.

rebeccask

I've noticed my appetite for salads has lowered and I remembered back to what a nutritionist once told me about warming and cooling foods. Here's part of an article I found related to warming and cooling foods, I hope you find it useful.

Warming and Cooling Characteristics of Common Foods
Published on Jan 25, 2010 by Ping Ming Health in Food & Diet
2 Each food has its own characteristics. In very ancient times Chinese TCM practitioners use specific foods to balance the bodies yin and yang and to treat disease. Because Chinese medicine discovered that most foods have either cooling or warming characteristics so when you eat cooling foods, it is adding cooling effects to your body and eating warm foods will adding warming effects to your body so they can be used to balance the body which may be deficient in yin or yang. Chinese medicine has divided food into three characteristics;
1) cooling food
2) warming food
3) balanced food (neither cool nor warm)

1) Effects of cooling foods
Cooling food has effects of clearing heat and toxins, cooling and calming the blood and nourishing yin. These types of food are suitable for people who have heat constitution of the body. Usually these people have the following symptoms; The body feeling hot, perspiration, thirst, constipation, pungent wind and stool, burning of the *kitten* area after bowl movement, anxiety, red eyes, red face, emotional, head aches, vivid dreams, ulcers in the mouth or tongue, coldsore’s around the mouth, red tongue with a thick yellow coating on the tongue, rapid pulse, heart burn and dark or yellow urine.
If you have any of the symptoms listed above, the following cooling foods are suitable to be eaten;

Cooling foods:
Celery, chinese radish, cabbage, cucumber, tomato, mushrooms, eggplant, green vegetables, spinach, bananas, pear, oranges, apples, kiwi fruit, winter-melon, watermelon, sweet melon, chicken eggs, duck eggs, rabbit, crabs, seaweed, green tea, peppermint tea, mung beans, lotus root, locuts and tofu.

2) Effects of warming foods
Warming foods have the effects of raising the yang, energy (qi) of organs and warming and improving the circulation and dispelling the cold. These types of food are suitable for people who are yang deficient. Usually with the following symptoms; cold hand, cold feet, cold body, diarrhea, stomach pains or discomfort after eating or drinking cold things, bloating after eating, lack of energy, sore joints, odema and fluid retention.
If you have any of the following symptoms listed above, it is suitable to eat more of the following foods;

Warming foods
Onion, chives, ginger, spring onions, garlic, chilli, pumpkin, coconut, cherries, peaches, dates, nectarine, lamb, deer, chicken, ham, goat milk, prawns and pepper.

3) Foods which are neither warm nor cold, and is suitable for any type of body;
Chinese cabbage, carrots, sweet potato, potato, black mushrooms, peanuts, olives, lemons, grapes, plums, sunflower seeds, pork, beef, duck, fish, oysters and cow milk.

http://www.pingminghealth.com/article/581/warming-and-cooling-characteristics-of-common-foods/