5mates wrote: »

Roger - so sorry to hear about your flooding. Can you consider bailing water an activity to record?
OK NS buddies - I need to confess. I apparently was on a hiatus from the program for the last several weeks because I did not log weight, journal food etc. or log into this discussion group. And the scale shows it - up about 5 lbs. I'm back in the saddle again and appreciate you all being here to hear my confession and to help me stay focused. I need this program like many of you and I know it works. But the biggest component to my success is my mindset. I wish you all a happy and healthy, on program week!
Bev

suegen1 wrote: »

Oh my Roger . I am sorry to hear all of that and it seems like you had as much rain as we did during the past weeks. I am glad that you were able to take care of the issue before it hit your water heater and such.

We finally got a break from all the rain and it doesn't look like that we get anything till next week.

Have a great week everybody!

Nene1125 wrote: »

Roger......I agree with Sue. Bailing water has to be an activity worth lots of calories burned. So sorry this happened to you. Good luck with the repairs.

Sue..... Welcome home my friend. We missed you but glad to have you back and getting on track. You are always a winner cause you don't quit.

"Bless my biscuits" I am under 300 at 299. Doing the happy shake, shake, shake dance! :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ke8mzgex4U

mslesam wrote: »

Hi y'all

Had a great weekend with my boyfriend, went to see San Andreas in IMAX 3D, it was a great movie. Saturday ate out lunch and dinner and I did really well, made good choices. Then Sunday morning came around lol. We went to Denny's and I apparently lost my mind! Looked up what I ate afterwards and it was more than the days calorie intake. Oh well.

The abscess is finally healing! I cancelled the surgeon appointment I had because all of a sudden something is working and it has shrunk by over half and I don't have any more pain! Yay.

Hope everyone is well.

Lesa

hope4change_val wrote: »

Nene - welcome to TWOterville!!! Great accomplishment.

Roger - sorry about your flooded basement.

Jan - thanks. So far so good! I'll post some pics on the weekend.

Hi everyone!

Universal Studios says they offer healthy choices...I found a salad bar, i got 2.5 cups spinach n 0.5 cups lettuce (everything else was high cal: potato salad, cole slaw, bacon, cheese, dressings). My kid got a plain hamburger...so I made it double meat and took a patty. After squeezing out the butter n fat (10 napkins!) I feasted on my burger & greens! I really miss having control of my food options, but I think I'm doing pretty well here. We got another order of plain veggies... Each time the chef comes out to ask if we want butter (no), oil (no), salt (no thank you...just plain). W this order, Em ate 1/2 before I even got to it. I love that my kid loves veggies!

Terri70 wrote: »

I'm proud of myself. In the beginning I said I wouldn't exercise until I lost 50 or so, but I just got done walking 3 laps of the Quad for a total of 22 minutes. Man! I am outta shape. Bad! I'm so outta breath. I plan on doing this to start out for 3 days a week while here at work. Will work myself up to all 5 days as it gets easier. I can't walk the road at my house. I live in the country and between the cyclists, cars and trucks all speeding along, I would end up in the ditch more often than not so not gonna even try. lol I know it would be more exercise but I'm not going to get killed while trying to lose weight. lol

Nene1125 wrote: »

Big giggles! Thank you Roger I now have a new theme song "the hippy hippy shakes" by the swinging blue jeans.

5mates wrote: »

Happy Friday all! WI indicates that 2.6 lbs from Memorial day are GONE! Yahoo - now I never want to see them Again Haven't figured out how to get my weight stuff on the ticker yet. I followed the instructions but alas it does not show up. Hope everyone is having a good Friday!

My Fitnesspal links
Roger's Useful Links
Abbreviations commonly used
NutriSystem Food Reviews Group
NS Foods for sale Posts

Notice that the ticker only records in 1 pound increments,
and shows my loss since I joined NutriSystem and not since joining My Fitness Pal

scrappin999 wrote: »

Roger - good idea about walking home - you go guy!

No fishing again - gorgeous, but really windy day and cold this morning. Trying again tomorrow, then car gets unpacked as we start the week with valeted appts. Here's hoping we finally get to go and enjoy the lake.

hope4change_val wrote: »

Hi everyone! I'm back from vacation (Harry Potter World/Universal Orlando). It was so worth it to see my kid's face light up. The good news is I tried really hard to find healthy food; Universal claims healthy options but few n far between. Sugar and butter are available in every store n food cart. I fit in all of the rides very comfortably (I'm 216 @5'5")....room to spare! They really enforce size restrictions; they have teams of employees plucking all the larger people out of line to try the test seats to check fit. We Walked 10 miles a day (very spread out). Lots of stairs. They oversell their 'fast pass' but the single rider lines got us on rides relatively quickly.

So glad to be home w NS, veggies, n healthy protein! Worked 8 hrs today, plus 5 miles w my dogs, and gardening!

Best dinner tonight: thick crust pizza cut into 2 thin crusts (thanks Roger for that idea!!!) with a tsp of BBQ, chopped cooked chicken breast, diced onion, n diced bell pepper, and NS cheese. Healthy feast!

suegen1 wrote: »

hope4change_val wrote: »

Hi everyone! I'm back from vacation (Harry Potter World/Universal Orlando). It was so worth it to see my kid's face light up. The good news is I tried really hard to find healthy food; Universal claims healthy options but few n far between. Sugar and butter are available in every store n food cart. I fit in all of the rides very comfortably (I'm 216 @5'5")....room to spare! They really enforce size restrictions; they have teams of employees plucking all the larger people out of line to try the test seats to check fit. We Walked 10 miles a day (very spread out). Lots of stairs. They oversell their 'fast pass' but the single rider lines got us on rides relatively quickly.

So glad to be home w NS, veggies, n healthy protein! Worked 8 hrs today, plus 5 miles w my dogs, and gardening!

Best dinner tonight: thick crust pizza cut into 2 thin crusts (thanks Roger for that idea!!!) with a tsp of BBQ, chopped cooked chicken breast, diced onion, n diced bell pepper, and NS cheese. Healthy feast!

I am so proud of you Val....I followed your progress during your vacation and you lost weight...that's simply amazing . Good for you Congratulations on this huge success to stay on track even with all those temptations waiting on every corner.

scrappin999 wrote: »

Roger - good idea about walking home - you go guy!

No fishing again - gorgeous, but really windy day and cold this morning. Trying again tomorrow, then car gets unpacked as we start the week with valeted appts. Here's hoping we finally get to go and enjoy the lake.

Sorry to hear that fishing didn't happen...was really hoping for you . Lets hope it happens today!!

I went to Birthday Party of my daughters friend yesterday and was staying on track but I won't lie it was hard and so tempting. I ate my NS before I went with lots of veggies and flavored water. At that birthday party they had hamburgers, hotdogs, steak, and whatever else you can imagine...weird thing was that the cake at the end didn't really bother me....which was a plus. Anyways, I survived it and my mid goal is even closer now!! I am hoping to get below the 200 lbs. mark next week....that would be so amazing since it has been many, many years since I have been below 200 lbs. I can't even remember when that was. Sorry lol...didn't mean to blabber up a whole book .

I am going to start to remodel my kitchen today. New coat of wood color for all the cabinets. I didn't want to replace them all as it would be too expensive so I got a whole kit which strips the cabinets of all the color and it can be repainted. A friend of mine did it a couple months back and said it was very easy. So, off I go doing that today ..

Happy Sunday everybody!!

mslesam wrote: »

Hi y'all

Time to fess up, I've had a bad week. I haven't been eating right, haven't been able to exercise because I wasn't feeling well, been having trouble with my heart rate again. I finally got to see the cardiologist who told me basically he won't help me unless I give up all caffeine . I've been trying but it's hard, I love my coffee, no I adore my coffee and he says I can't even have decaf. Well the first day was like torture because my head hurt so bad I couldn't move or open my eyes. So I added one cup of regular coffee and a couple of cups of decaf back in, the headache was better, today I'm down to one small cup of coffee and no decaf. No more Coke Zero, I found that I like Sprite Zero. Also I've been a smoker for 29 years and of course, no help from the Dr. unless I give that up too. Yes I'm an RN and I should know better, I get it, it's bad for me. This whole scenario has just depressed me so much that I turned to food. So as a result I'm up 5 pounds this week, I'm hoping some of that is from the excess salt but I know some of it isn't.

So I had a long talk with myself last night, I was using the excuse that because of financial issues I had to delay my order and I was getting low on food. My food was to be delivered today, so get back on track woman!!! My order came today and it was only the SS foods that I ordered very little of and part of that was missing. So I call customer service, my frozen foods are still "processing" whatever that means. They said they would contact the warehouse and get it pushed out today and that I would have it by the end of the week. I'm frustrated. I will be calling first thing in the AM to find out if the order shipped today as promised.

Ok so there's my sad story, I'm working on getting myself straightened out I really am. My boyfriend is being hugely supportive which is good, he didn't realize I wasn't eating right until I told him today. He responded with "I know how much you want this, and even though I think you're beautiful just the way you are and I don't care if you don't lose another pound, you have to get back on track for yourself." He's right, I do.

Hope everyone else is doing well.