Yes Deb, got my FitBit at 4 PM on Thursday. So far I'm using their site to log food but not up on what everything means. They don't offer vitamins so I think I'll enter my daily vitamin & calcium as FOOD. I haven't seen anything that lets me know if what I'm eating is good or bad, just calories. I do like the fact that I can check at any time and see how many calories I have burned for the day. With the Charge HR I can also check my Heart Rate which I like.
I am going to send Granny an e-mail and tell her about this GROUP. I love that I copied the link my FitBit.doc and all I have to do to visit is click on the link; no signing in or anything.
I see some new faces here which is GREAT. Welcome Everyone!
Sheryl, I'm watching your progress...GO FOR THE BLUE!!!
Going back to see what I've missed. I was surprised to see that this was started on January 10th.
I am so glad that all of you PEEPS have found a new home.

Have a GREAT WEEKEND!!!

Good Morning, I made a fresh pot of coffee and enjoyed a mug while watching my favorite Saturday morning tv show, Recipe Rehab. It's on CBS if you want to look for it. A family presents their favorite, rich, unhealthy dish and two chefs rehab it into something healthier. Then the family is given all the ingredients and instructions and they fix both recipes at home and score them. A nutritionist gives them the score for health, but the family gives the scores for taste and ease of preparation. This morning was a cherry cream pie. I'm not too interested in fixing that. Last week was country fried steak...my most favorite dinner. Both recipes baked the steaks instead of frying, so I went online and copied the recipes, but I haven't tried to prepare either one yet.

I usually get on the computer before the tv, but lately, I've really been sleeping in. Even when not sleeping, my bed has become more and more comfortable, I like to just lay out and stretch. Some of my PT exercises are done in bed too, morning and night.

PT was very painful again, but like they say..."no pain, no gain" and now I can see that to be true. I am getting more and more range of motion in my arm, YAY!!!!!!

My hair is growing out and I look frightful. Ha ha ha, it's coming in very wavy and curly, like when I was a little girl. All through junior high and high school, I did everything I could to straighten it. I guess, I'll revert back to those days and tinker with my hair again, like a teenager. How about a blue streak for fashion?????????

Those of you who know me well, know I have a "thing" for names. Gotta get them right.
I see most comments typing "greasygal", and it's "greasysgal". Would love to know your story behind that name, but for now, I just picture a guy named Greasy and you're his gal. Too cute!

Greasysgal, I had a craving last night and was satisfied by cottage cheese. Who knew? But, it did the trick for me. I usually crave more protein than carbs and go for yogurt or hummus with some fruit. Or left over country fried steak!!!!!

John's still in bed and the animals want their breakfast. I'm feeling good enough to take over the feeding again. Throwing out cracked corn for the birds is easy, but putting hay in the hay racks is more strenuous, but I can do it now. I'm so thankful that I'm getting better.

I guess I better get to it, and since there's basketball on tv today, John will be occupied and I can come back here later. Time for me to get started logging everything, food and exercise again.

Thanks Pam, I have to learn to embrace it. But, isn't it always the case...that we want what we don't have. My sister has fine, straight hair and is always getting a perm. I envied her hair and she envied my thick, coarse, curly hair.

Ugh, I had a large response and lost the whole thing. I don't think I am going to start over again though. Everyone have a great day.

Hi all, I made it! Glad to see you all here!

Thanks very much for the movie trailer Marcie. It sounds great! I love the actors involved. BTW, is there a list anywhere of former NM names to MFP names? I seem to remember there being one?

Sheryl, I can't believe your parents have been married for 65 yrs! Congrats and God's blessings to them!

I sent Granny an e-mail today. I hope she replies. Thanks Sheryl, I finally got it to go thru.

Dan and I are having some wood repair done on our home. When they are done with repairing/replacing wood on the patio covers and front awning (for lack of a better word) we will have them do some stucco repair. We were really surprised this time at just how difficult it was to find a contractor we felt good about. We finally hired the sixth company we interviewed called RB painting. They actually spent some time checking out the house and measuring, etc. They seem like a good honest company that knows what they are doing.

A woman at my curves gym has season tickets at the local performing arts center and she had a show that she can’t attend so she gave me the tickets. The show is tonight at 8pm. It is a former member of the young rascals (a group from the mid-1960s). One of their most famous songs is “Good Lovin’”. Do you remember them? I’m really excited about it, especially since it was free! (for those of you who don't know - my husband has been out of work for about 6 mos now).

Well, I'm going to go start dinner now so we'll have plenty of time to eat and get ready for the show.

Sleep well all!

Ok Jannie but I like Hawk. Mainly because you have to watch those 2 boys like a hawk, they are getting old and those girls will be starting to come around. Just saying....

JC, I hope that you and HP will still be doing your birthday shout outs here to those of us who are in your LBBook.

Debora, Anew, Greasysgal, Marcie, Sheryl and eveyone else I hope you had a awesome day.

Hi, got done what I wanted today and didn't have to push. We got up to 60 today which was nice. Hubby came home tonight and put his clothes directly into the washer. They were loading honey (nickname for manure) and something went wrong and there was a minor explosion and he couldn't move fast enough. Glad that doesn't happen every day. Getting the logging format figured out. Need to look at my NM logs to see why I'm so far from meeting my iron now. Used to not have any problem with it. I get a few less calories here but doing okay with that. Oh yeah, it's not a good idea to forget about a bag of apples - several had to be tossed. Yuck.

JC, neat that you can check your heart rate. I still haven't connected my fitbit with MFP. We may have started Jan. 10 but we have more time to chat now that we're not trying to save things from NM. Sad but reality.

Pam, is MapMyWalk just short walks or are there long ones. Elaine was looking for another long one to do. Hope you enjoyed the artwork.

Sheryl, food shows are fun. I'll have to look for that. If you've been sleeping in, your body is telling you that's what it needs. So many have their hair come back in differently. Our interim pastor's wife was still wearing her wig cause her hair came in gray. Thanks for pointing out greasysgal - I agree that it's important to try and do names right. I try and do that with my 4- and Good News Club kids and sometimes there's one or two that give me trouble.
Happy Anniversary to your parents. 65 years - that's commitment.

Marcie, your dad is so disciplined, he shouldn't have any trouble losing the pounds. He gets a lot of walking in. Funny on the guy having to leave MFP. Glad he was willing to do it. With Cisco "smelling", you'll be more willing to head off to work on Monday. Did you do food ahead last weekend too so your meals were a cinch all week?

Anewstart, not fun when you lose your whole comment. Right now, I'm writing in a word document and then will copy and paste it.

Sheryl, glad you made it over to Facebook. I do more reading than commenting there too. Smart not to take the rooster. I had a bad experience with one once. Not my favorite animal.
Sounds good on Leslie - I usually do 2 miles and do it on the days I don't walk with my friend. Today would have been one of those days and I talked myself out of it. So let me know. Competition spurs me on. Granny has never responded to my email. I just hope she's okay. I really miss her.

Isabella, glad you found some good workers. Jim and Lori took two or three tries to get someone to work on their old place. I don't know what it's costing but I like the people they have and they do good work (and are keeping me from having to clean or paint). Cool on getting some free tickets.

Maybe since I'm not in a hurry, I'll see how to use the fitbit while sleeping. I did get over 4000 steps today so feel good about that. Have a great Sunday.

What a perfect day today (almost

Good morning all!

Thanks tons for the great video Marcie! The show was fantastic last night! Best show we've seen there yet. The songs were all feel good songs and the band was awesome! We even got to talk to them after the show.

I got a response from Granny. She said she just isn't up to joining a new group. I'm going to try to send her a snap shot of this group to see if that will help. Maybe that will change if/when she feels better.

Well, I have to get ready for church. I'll try to check in later.

Good Morning.
I also got a response from Granny, she is really down, sounds like full blown depression, but I doubt she'll seek treatment for it. She told me she's not going to spend any more money for her supplements because they were suppose to keep her healthy and they let her down this past year. She also had Mike cancel her gym membership and she's not going to put forth any effort to keep in shape. She blames having her teeth pulled for the downfall, which is probably true, that was very traumatic and a long adjustment period that still isn't over. I pray that given more time, and if her teeth do get adjusted and fit properly, she'll be able to bounce back.

I made egg muffins yesterday for late breakfast/early lunch. John never wants to eat when he gets up, so it's been a long time since I've fixed breakfast at breakfast time. Marcie, I needed your silicon muffin pans, even though I have non-stick pans and I sprayed them with olive oil, four muffins stuck. I'll probably microwave the ones left for today's breakfast. Our neighbor's go out to breakfast a lot and I heard them pull their truck out this morning. I love to go out to breakfast, but too lazy to get the car out. ha ha ha Not really, it's John who doesn't like to go out, so we eat at home 99.99% of the time.

Every time I open this NM Family page, I think of Christmas...good memories. The blue and green bubbles remind me of ornaments. When I was in junior high school, we had a white artificial Christmas tree and decorated it exclusively with blue and green ornaments. We had just remodeled the living room and got new furniture and everything was blue and green. Funny how this page brought me back to being 12-14 years old.

Greasysgal, that's the story I had envisioned, Someday, I'd love to hear the story of how you got together. My story is long and involved too, short version is we worked together for a year and a half before I even realized John was interested in me and he tells it that my first night on the job, when he talked to me on the phone, he knew I was the one. Took him all that time to get me to come around...I was a real dunce.

I better get going, the animals are wondering if they will ever get fed today.

Hi all!

MapMyWalk is just an app, you turn it on and walk as far as you want to walk. It shows elevations among other things.

I have my FitBit on and it automatically sets to 10,000 steps.

Shame on me...I'm finally able to do all my own cooking and what do I do today? Throw a frozen pizza in the oven. Boy, have I gotten lazy!

I'm inundated with emails regarding Facebook, but at least this time, I know the names and I want to be friends. That's what scared me off the last time, woke up to two dozen emails and I only knew 3 of the people requesting, so I un-joined.

Wow Sheryl, I'm REALLY concerned about Granny now. I had no idea she quit everything. Even the gym. It is so very upsetting. We will definitely have to keep her in our prayers.

I agree, too bad about Carole. Maybe she'll still come post once in a while.

Sheryl, when I make any type of muffins now I use cupcake papers so my pans (stainless steel) come out pretty clean. I got rid of the silicone pans I had after only a couple of uses because they were too flexible and because I was uncomfortable about what might be leaching into my food.

Hi Debora, Jan, Marcie, Pam, Tammy, Greasysgal, anew and anyone else I may have missed. Hope you all had a wonderful day.

I am off to see if I can figure out how to give myself a profile pic. Then watch TV with hubby before bed. Sleep well all.