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It sounds like everyone who's checked in had a happy and successful Thanksgiving! I love how you all shared the things you did to keep yourselves on track...sending away leftovers, packaging up leftovers in meal-size portions, tweaking recipes to make them lighter, and most important...tracking! Knowing that you went 300…

Hi Ladies! Anyone remember me? lol...I've been missing so long, I barely remember me! So I left off trying to catch up somewhere around Nov 11...I gave up and just got here. I kept staying away thinking I needed to read and catch up before I could post. I'm silly ;-) Happy Thanksgiving to all! We are having our…

Just checking in to say hi real quick. Been a bit out of control with the eating...the whole "well, I don't have to go to WW and weigh in, so I'll just get back on track when I feel like it" thing. Well, that couldn't go on forever...I'm back on track. Ate good today, and had enough calories left to enjoy a small piece of…

The last time I posted was Oct 21! Wow. I’ve been fighting this bug all this time, the cough got worse. I think it’s all heading in the right direction now though. @tattooedprincess8 Hi Believe! I am going to get everyone’s names mixed up, haha. @theslightedgeforever You posted that chart on cauliflower…I saw it and…

Believe, yay you found us! @Mysticlizard I will do that this weekend. Just popping in to say hi. Taught my class, 4 hrs, today, came home and passed out. Now coughing bad and super headache. Gotta get over this cold. But didn't want to not check in. G'night Karla :neutral:

@mysticlizard http://www.myfitnesspal.com/recipe/view/243575665183981 Hope that link works for the Butternut Chili. You can change it up by making it meatless (I do that plenty, enough protein in the beans). I don't think I put directions, haha. Just brown meat, saute veggies (I like to pre-soften butternut by steaming in…

So @peruviansweetie what time is dinner? I'll be right over! lol. That looks delicious! I'm super tired, and I have to teach tomorrow, so I need to hit the hay and get rest. Last night I slept pretty well...way less pain, I'm sure it has something to do with the mega-doses of aleve and motrin I've been switching back and…

@mysticlizard I'd never heard of Beef Tagine, so I looked it up. The recipe that came up was also with Butternut Squash. It sounds delicious...almost sounds like it has a Morocan flavor to it. I make a chili that everyone loves...with butternut...it gives it a bit of a sweet taste. @dawnemjh welcome to the board! I don't…

Welcome to the board, @mysticlizard and @trooworld . So I guess I'm not a WW anymore. Because I had to change my cc#, they didn't run it again (bank issued new cards) and they booted me. So now I can sign up for $2 more a month. Well, since the last time it happened, I had to pay $3 more a month, I'm just fed up. I use…

cbabie, 5k is 3.1 miles. Sounds long, but really not long at all, lol. So you were in L A and we didn't go have lunch or something? I went off track for the last couple days out of pure obstinance, but back on today. My debit card got cancelled and I got a new one sent to me, but didn't update it for WW. When I finally did…

slightedge and health_guard - you don't need a pressure cooker to cook the kabocha...I just LOVE my pressure cooker. Google Kabocha recipes, and there's plenty of help out there. The awesome things about the pressure cooker are (1) fast cooking (2) cooks well, keeps moist (every food...love doing meat in it) (3) makes the…

I bought a Kabocha squash yesterday because our WW leader has done several cooking demos of this squash in a pressure cooker, and I always miss it. So today I cooked it. She told me to sprinkle cinnamon in the pot. It turned out really good. I'm fussy about squash, but I think this one will definitely grow on me. It has a…

Quick check in. The weekend did me in, and it took 'til this morning to set myself straight. But here I am. 2 lbs up at weigh in, but I thought it would be worse, so I'll take the small graces! Got good ideas at today's WW mtg, will share tomorrow (Thurs) afternoon. We have a few different challenges going on at WW...which…

oh hey slightedge...funny thing, I just got my hair cut yesterday. Only about 4 inches at the longest. But I haven't got it cut or trimmed at all for 3 1/2 years. I don't trust anyone with it. Only one lady and I can't afford her. But I went to the cheap place with my family and they did an awesome job on all of us. (NOT…

Just checking in super fast. Should have been in bed hours ago. I work tomorrow (today? Thursday). I'll be busy finishing up packing and stuff in the evening and then I leave for the weekend for a comic convention to demo games. Today (Wednesday morning) was weigh in. 1st week down of the 5% challenge, lost 2.6 lbs...so…

@health_guard - it sounds like you're doing well on the way to 5%! Since it's almost 5 weeks from when we started last week to Halloween, I figured out we need 1% a week. Wow...that sounds super do-able! My home scale is a big fat liar, and it cannot be trusted, so I"m looking forward to weigh in tomorrow! On Plant Nanny I…

Had a blast this weekend with jr high/high school friends. Gotta go to bed, but I wanted to check in. Tracked, made decent food choices for the most part. Will read and catch up with everyone tomorrow. (Monday, which I guess since it's 1 am would be later today, lol) 'Til later, Karla :-)

@health_guard - we've got this! To get to my 5% by Halloween this is what I'm doing: tracking (and staying within my goals) and checking in here. Every morning I ask myself a question or 2. Because the fibromyalgia gets better with no sugar, I have to ask myself every morning "Do you want less pain tomorrow morning?" and I…

slightedge, you know me so well. The last 2 weeks totally went into the toilet...and I wasn't checking in here. I just feel bad when I only have a few minutes and I can't do personals. So I got back up to where I started the last time I joined WW. I'm so over this. This week our leader gave us a challenge. We have 'til…

Sorry I've been MIA...took a bit to recuperate from our convention 2 weekends ago, went out of town with hubby for our anniversary last weekend, and been crazy prepping for my class tomorrow and a convention this weekend. I will have time to sit and catch up after class tomorrow, so I'll back read and do just that. Not…

Peru, I need to get back to morning smoothies too. How are we going to make this a challenge? Dankas, I love zumba when I had a gym membership. I have 2 left feet, but it was still fun. I have a friend who teaches pilates, and she makes sure that everyone goes at their own pace and she can adapt for injuries and stuff. I…

I read quickly and wish I had time for personals...but it's midnight and I have to be up by 7, and I have a pile of clothes on my bed to deal with. My daughter needed something that looked like '60s fashion for school tomorrow...I found a few treasures in my closet that will work...and now I have a mess of dusty clothes…

Checking in quick before bed, and my crazy upcoming weekend. Had to share this meme I saw today...with everyone saying "this too shall pass" lately....hope you get a chuckle like I did! Have a great long weekend (for the US...everyone else have a great regular weekend!) Karla :-)

slightedge, you have an hour to edit. It will have a button in the top right corner of your message. After that, no editing. And I will wait to sync up my fitbit, but when I am ready I'll try it. I just don't like getting extra calories to burn for activity I feel is minimal. If I had the premium plan, I'd do it, then I…

you can make your fitbit info show up here, in MFP? do you have the premium account? Because my net calories chart doesn't look anything like yours. edit: ok, that is how it looks on the phone, lol, not on the computer. So my goal was 1200, and my net was 1257. And I lost weight. Cool beans. lol.

Went to WW today because I'll be too busy tomorrow. Weighed in a day early and still down 3.8. It's amazing how fast a body can reverse the damage done to it when you take care of it right! The topic was staying hydrated. A lady shared an app she uses on her phone called Plant Nanny. I downloaded it and it's a fun little…

slightedge, the recipe is in the Trim Healthy Mama cookbook. Which is awesome...we like many of the recipes. I just don't eat the way they say, I'm too confused about how many hours between S meals and E meals and what is too much fat in an E meal and too much carbs in a S meal. Lol. If you followed that, you are doing…

Another successful day, foodwise. I wasn't happy with only having 1100 steps, so when hubby came home from work at 9 pm I made him take me on a Pokewalk. lol. I ended up gaining another 5000. Not bad for a Sunday, since it's often my "day off" from walking. I tracked on MFP today. It was interesting to see how I was doing…

bree, welcome to the board! Some of us "newbies" are really "oldies"...been around a long time, lol. I like your thinking...positive vibes only...yes! slightedge, oooh...I like the way you broke down the answers to the question...I need to sit down and do that. "Do you like being broke?" is a very good place to start! I'm…