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oh dear... Lois, gotta watch those sweets and hang in there. You've done okay so far, don't let yourself get derailed here at a time when you are already vulnerable and not able to exercise. Glad you have some control over the foods but even more glad that you have some help getting it all cooked and pulled together since…

If a group that checks in and does a weigh in once a week can help you, check out Short and Sassy group. We're just getting set up here at MFP but we've been together for a good while. Another face is always welcome :) http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/17190-short-n-sassy-bodybugg-and-fitbit-users Welcome back to…

way to go with the steppin' :) I was worn out by 6:30, did my biking and went to bed. My steps for yesterday stank. I'll have to do some extra walking tonight to balance it out so I can get my 5000/day average when it comes report time :P Glad you got your new bug. I imagine it will make a lot of difference to you and get…

yeah, Sarah!! Life is good once more...

cut back on your salt... and enjoy those little grandkids!~ I'm really looking forward to being with mine again next week. Here's hoping for a lot of active time for both of us, and not so much sit and watch them play time :)

Good to see the loss this week, and great to hear the tooth isn't as bad as it had been. :) It's a good thing for exercise equipment some days at my house... it gets really really hot and rainy in the summers and I don't like to be out alone in the dark for walks in the winter. I started collecting some of it when the…

Good luck, Lois :) Sarah, what are we going to do with you? LOL... figure out how to move that tv so you can exercise or get a small one that you can put in front of the treadmil, hehehe... I have my exercise bike in front of the tv in my bedroom and the Giselle in the living room where I can watch tv too. Amazing how many…

I would think that your tooth should be fine after all this time, iquilt... hmmmm. Hope it settles down soon. And I would think that weight gain is mostly water. I will gain 2-3 lbs in a day and lose it during the night and I can tell I'm losing retained water from my legs. Still is aggravating when you see it sitting on…

(((((Hugs Sarah))))) You are going thru a rough patch but *thru* is the operative word. It won't last forever and you'll have it behind you soon, I hope. Busy busy day at work today and we were short staffed so that meant I sat pretty much all day. I think I was about 1200 steps by the time I came home (and that included…

I was thinking of a spinach dip made with lowfat cream cheese stuffed in the center of that bread- save the bread you removed from the center for people to use to eat with the dip :) Yumm...

tell her you're sorry for the argument earlier and then offer to help her fix the meals... and you can do the veggies/side dishes. That way you know what half of the meals are going to cost in the way of calories and you can moderate how much of the main course you eat without leaving the table hungry or offending her…

Well, I haven't been very active today, either, but it's all for a good cause :) I spend a weekend every so often cooking ahead, dividing everything out into portions and freezing them so I have good meals to pull out of the freezer for lunches. Makes things so much easier for me in the long run, esp since I like my "big"…

just to clarify, you add the stuff from the frying pan into the crockpot as soon as you get the tomato stuff mixed up, right? Or do you add that later to avoid overcooking the squash? And when do you add the beans? It sounds yummy but I want to make sure I understand how you are cooking it. Thanks

Lois, so sorry you are hurting like that... keep training your arms and upper body and do what you can to avoid stressing that knee. Glad things are lined up, though wish we could move things a little faster for you.

That's good news for you and shows you are getting healthier :) Congratulations on a good checkup :)

(((((Sarah))))) Okay, now you've thought it out, decided what you need to do, next week is going to be better, right? :) Getting the new bugg will help, as will adding the calories back in. I don't do that but I make sure I stop a good 200 calories short of what they want me to have (well, most of the time, anyways, or…

Well, I'm doing a do-over because the scale did show a loss this morning. Not a big loss but I'm claiming it nonetheless, LOL. SW 198 LW 181.4 TW 180.8 STGW 165.8 by 2-1-14 I've also discovered my scale is not measuring accurately anymore, which is very disappointing to me for as expensive as it was. The top measuring…

LOL, Sarah... off and running this morning with little time to talk but I'll be back... at some point...

hey, hey, hey :) You're scale went down in between weigh ins :D Congrats. I'm still waiting to see a dip... Hope you can get everything fixed at one time so you can get back into life again without the pain and problems you've been dealing with. You've had one tough year...

That's one way to get your steps in, LOL! I got out for a walk at lunchtime but even then, I only made it to 3570 steps... that leaves me doing a little walking with Leslie Sansone tonight before getting on my bike ...

some of my favorite goodies are only available at Halloween and they come in such large packages... I did myself a favor this year and stayed out of the stores, did not bring home any candy at all as I have found (like you, Sarah), it just takes too much exercise to burn it off. Worked out fine as there were hardly any…

Well, we are all going in the right direction, LOL :) Yes, Iquilt, you have lost an awesome amount of weight :) Good for you to get to the gym and the steps you are taking. Sheesh, you are still skunking us with your daily steps. You are one hard gal to keep up with :) And the fact you are here brings a smile to my face. I…

Andrea, welcome to the group and thanks for introducing yourself :) You've had quite the year and it's good to see how far you've come since you first sat in that doctor's chair and decided to take action. I look forward to watching your success :)

I drive over directly from work and arrive close to bedtime when I go so I'm not up to shopping once I get there. Since I now end up leaving Sunday morning, it's just a matter of Saturday meals... and sometimes they have food and sometimes they don't. I was taking food with me or going grocery shopping each time but it got…

Really great to see you made it over here (finally, LOL!) You've done well maintaining most of your loss. I hope to do that well once I get back down again... Lastchance, you did well to more or less maintain while eating meals prepared by others. That's my hardest time of all, I need the control of what I'm eating. This…

Sarah, good for you with the weight loss this week :) Lois, bummer about the lateral tear, but it's good to know why you were still having problems Keeping it short as I am at Grandbabyland and really need to get to bed.... will try again tomorrow but my focus has to be logging foods, whatever that turns out tobe...

Good to see you back here again :) I can switch over to Tuesdays, that's fine. It doesn't give me as much recovery time from my GBLweekends but it's the Biggest Loser night so it works for me, LOL. I know you must be looking forward to getting the new bugg to replace the one that's not working so well right now. All in…

So good to see you made it over here today, Sarah :) I've missed your chatter :) Hopefully Lastchance will make it over here soon, too. I know how hard it must be for her to check in right now. I'm finding it a bit easier to log my foods over here and it's easier to add a little note, too, since I'm here already here. Food…

Good to see you here :) Hopefully the others will be here soon. I use a Fitbit and like it, especially for the price and no monthly fees. I like how it slips in my bra and find that the calorie burn estimate it provides is pretty close to what I was getting while using the bodybugg. I liked the bodybugg a lot but when mine…

I like to think of my meal plan as a bank account... containing calories that I spend. Log your foods in advance- plan them out and include snacks. You have a limited number of calories available to "spend" for each day, when you have reached that number in your logging, you are done. Don't let yourself go…