Deb – I am so sorry about your friend.
I LOVE your pantry closet. WOW! That gives you so much more storage room and it looks like it is very easily accessible. I am very impressed.
Your son is very handsome and he and his date looked so nice!
Wow - I made top 10! Amazing.
Congratulations, Cheryl!!
Congratulations on your new clippie, Shawn!!
Well..... if you know ANYTHING about me, you know that I find my DH's homemade oatmeal chocolate chip cookie dough nearly irresistable... and he is in the kitchen making a batch RIGHT NOW! DD volunteered him to make cookies for her Latin class "festivus" tomorrow. So I am staying OUT of the kitchen! (But I did ask him to put a small scoop of dough in the fridge to enjoy AFTER weigh in tomorrow1
.) I had a good day and I don't need to spoil it this last in the day!
Now, that’s willpower & a plan! Were you able to resist, Pamela? They sound delicious!
My day of eating has been good. Unfortunately my only work out was a 45 minute walk at lunch. I'm not looking forward to tomorrow's weigh in. I think I'm back up the lb I lost last week but if nothing else, it will motivate me for next week!!
A 45 minute walk is wonderful! Glad you were able to fit it in.
I did good all day until dinner. Dh wanted to go out since today was pay day. We didnt have much at home to make so I agreed. He picked applebees. I got the trio but only ate 2 items. Boneless buffalo wings and spinach and artichoke dip.
Totally not sure what I was thinking. I hope it doesnt wreck my weight loss for the week. I didnt get my run in either.
It would be so much worse if you’d eaten something that you considered a splurge and didn’t enjoy it.
I’m glad you got in a “date” dinner.
Sure haven't had much time to read thru the thread, but got the basics down I think. I have major weight to lose...both from quitting smoking and stress eating. Glad I found this thread and looking forward to catching up.....Good luck everyone on tomorrow's weigh in....
Congratulations on quitting smoking! That takes incredible discipline and willpower. If you can do that, I am pretty convinced you can do anything. Welcome to this wonderful challenge! (BTW, I think if you add a / before IMG in the second IMG in your signature, you might get your image to show up)
I was doing pretty well, but the kids had the day off of school and I took them to the science museum. I fell asleep in the movie about Arabia - it was good, but also dark and comfy. We also went to the Dead Sea Scroll exhibit, which is amazing from an archeological perspective - the kids were impressed with how old all this stuff was. It's not every day you see a 2,000 year old piece of fabric or pomegranate or piece of parchment! After we got out, though, we were all pretty hungry. So we went to the food place in the museum - choices are limited. The kids each had one of the two remaining pieces of cheese pizza. I had a vegetable sub-type sandwich, but man, that provalone cheese adds up super fast. I did have them leave off the mayo AND olive oil and subbed in dijon mustard. That blew through most of my remaining points for the day. And I so clearly needed to eat something. My excess today was probably the McDonald's ice cream cone on the drive home. 3 points - not the end of the world, but probably not strictly necessary, either. Oh, and a few bites of DS's M&M mcFlurry- I gotta track that.... That probably is the worst thing in the past few days. Sooo fascinating, I know.
Corinna – What a fun day you gave the kids!!
I think you actually did really well with the choices available to you. I agree about the provolone, though. I made that “mistake” last week. I had no idea it was so point-heavy.
QOTD: I ate an entire torta for dinner. Its basically a sandwich in a bread roll. I did hollow out the entire roll. I lined the inside of the sandwich with smashed pinto beans. Only had lettuce, avocado, and onions in my sandwich. But I felt bad eating the whole thing when I knew I should only eat half.
Okay, the idea of that sounds absolutely fabulous. I don’t remember the last time I had a real roll. I think hollowing out the roll was a great solution. Maybe I can do that with a ciabatta roll. I have been craving one but am astonished to see that they are 250-290 calories just for the roll. EEK!!!
Dona – I agree with Lisah’s conjecture that the supervisor may in fact be intimidated by DH’s experience/success/popularity and may have just been trying to sound like she knew what she was talking about. I am sorry he had to go through that. Glad you got a “nap” at yoga. LOL! You poor thing – you obviously needed a nap. How wonderful that your former colleague dropped in for a visit.
Lindsay – Welcome to the wonderful world of coaching!
Jennz – Congratulations on 3 days of working out in a row!
So glad you are seeing the progress you deserve on the scale. I saw a cool quote on the weight watchers boards yesterday:
“We always get the scale change we deserve, sometimes just not right away.” Or something like that. It actually was a “lightbulb moment” for me.
LOL!
Lisa – I will be waiting also for the reminder about Christmas music. We are going to Hilton Head for Thanksgiving this year and for some reason I never feel like it is Christmas season until after Thanksgiving (logical, I know), but it is hard for me to gear up and do holiday stuff unless I am hearing the music and getting in the right mindset.
Oh, and yes, the pulls and knobs are brushed nickel. We thought the softer metal look went well with the cherry. Otherwise it looked almost too contemporary. We also found a really nice brushed nickel towel bar for the sink end of the island. It all went nicely with the fridge, too, rather than being high shine. The only things we couldn’t really avoid the high polished look for were the front of the double ovens and a utensil holder that is mounted to the right of the cooktop on the side of the wall oven cabinet frame.
Thank you to everyone for the nice compliments on the kitchen. I'll have to share more pictures. There are so MANY cool features that I designed to make it very user-friendly, including an appliance garage with outlets (great for my stand mixer and blender) and a 2 section pull-out in a cabinet to keep all my spices on one pull-out (it's closed on one side) and a separate pull-out (in the same cabinet) for oils, etc. that are heavier, so that I don't have to pull them all out on one pantry when I am cooking. Oh, and my slotted cookie sheet/baking pan holder above the ovens. Love that, too!
Melissa – Glad to see you here. Like I said just showing up is a major step for me, so it is always nice to see people checking in when we’ve been missing you.
CC – Great job on making a plan. Connie is a great example for all of us. Oh, and P is famous for her plans, too, right? I love how the good habits rub off on us.
As for me, nothing new, really. My many miles last weekend and on the elliptical earlier this week still have my knee protesting. Not a great excuse for doing no exercise, but that’s my story for the moment and I’m sticking to it.
I am doing 8 miles tomorrow morning, so I am "saving" my knee for that.
I was doing so well yesterday in the face of 2 huge cakes that someone brought into our office. I never even took a taste. Instead I had a WW 1 point red velvet cake bar. However, last night, I ate more food than I should have. Not bad stuff – progresso light NE clam chowder and then some pretzel crisps and bites of leftover ground turkey. I think my body was craving protein.
By the way, in case this is news – WW is changing its program the week after Thanksgiving. I think that may explain why so many products with WW points are on great sales everywhere. Last night, I found lean cuisines at Target for 4/$8 and 5/$9. And the progresso and healthy harvest soups were all between 50 cents and $1.50. I have also seen the WW frozen entrees on sale everywhere over the past two weeks. We’ve stocked up our basement freezer. I figure no matter what the new program is, those convenience foods still come in handy in a pinch.
For those of you who dont know me: My name is Lindsay. I am 31. Married for 7 years and I have 2 sons ages 3 and almost 6. I work full time as a practice manager for a pediatric office.
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, but I think it's safe to say that hallowing it the bread was a great choice! 
Hi cherry-pops! Nice to see you!
The good news: Im down for the week! 3.2 pounds! Those added fruits and veggies are sure helping. Now I just need to get the Benefiber.
