Hi everyone, just jumping in quick from vacation. We left in a hurry, so I didn't get to say goodbye. I'll probably check in once or twice this week if I have a chance. Hope everyone is doing well.
Welcome Back,
Sue! I hope your trip was fantastic, please feel free to share all the details!
I hope that my shopping methods would change and I would not buy the stuff that I eat when I am not eating for hunger. It is all about choices, and I choose to buy it now, and hence I am not losing weight, but if I was on a show and like someone else mentioned, everyone would be watching and waiting for me to fail, then I'd want to prove them wrong. And actually, not everybody would be waiting for me to fail, most of my friends and family would want me to succeed, but I can think of a few negative people who'd wait to see me fail. I know I would have learned the good eating habits that they show on BL, and that is what I would focus on when I returned home since that seems to be my downfall of late.
Maria-Did you get any good deals? I forgot all about it, and went to target for about 100$ worth of stuff last night. Oh well. Hope ds enjoyed his camp this week.
It is true that if you don't buy it you can't eat it, but it's hard with growing boys in the house
I think you have a great strategy, focusing on good eating habits is always a sure bet
I saved $30 at Staples! I had a 10% off coupon, and with their sale, I got $80 worth of binders for ds for $50. I also spent about $60 on him at Target, tax-free. I am very happy!
Even if I could have my own kids, I don't think I'd want to; at this point I've grown quite attached to the idea of adopting, and giving a kid or three a better home.
Well, never say never, this world often brings things we wouldn't expect -- but as an adopted child I can say that my parents could not have loved me more, and I am so grateful that I had their amazing guidance and support. If you do eventually adopt, you should do it secure in the knowledge that both you and your child are very lucky
QOTD: We always spend a good amount of time at the WOD store and always go into Once Upon A Toy.
For restaurants at DTD, we just discovered Earl of Sandwich on our last trip. Ended up there 2 nights in a row for supper! Love the variety of sandwiches and the prices. They are supposed to be putting one in Boston at some point but haven't heard anything lately about it.
Do you collect the Mr. PotatoHead pieces? I kind of wish we would have started that, but ds was already "done of" him the first time we went. EOS is awesome, I don't think the new one on Boston Common is open yet, but I'll be watching
Oh tough choices! For eating, we really like EoS and WPE, and then Goofy's Candy Co., of course!
Shopping: World of Disney, Christmas Shop, and Magnetron (so sad it's closing). Oh, and Mickey's Mart, where everything is less than $10.
In the parks, we almost always seem to make a stop at Sunshine Seasons and MouseGears in Epcot.
What is your favorite treat at Goofy's? I was partial to the make your own pretzel sticks, but now you can't get caramel drizzle or cashews, so I love them a little less
I love Mouse Gear, that is an awesome store!
I slept!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't say it was perfect...those dreams, while not nightmares, were not exactly pretty.
for the sleep,
because it wasn't exactly restful. Here's to a better night tonight
I am happy to report that buzz5985 is going to be our hostess for this fall and dvccruiser (Sue) is going to be our weight keeper! Thank you to Janis and Sue for stepping in!
If you would like to coach in September, please visit the planning thread. I am putting together the first month of coaching for Janis. Please DO NOT post on this thread if you would like to coach--it's a little busy and I don't want to miss your post. Thanks!
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Janis and Sue! And please volunteer to coach if you think you might enjoy it. I can attest that it is a fantastic tool to help keep you on track, and a lot of fun!
Hope that you had a safe drive and DS had a great time at camp!
I was so happy when I realized that I no longer qualified for BL. But if you did go and were successful, you would have to realize that your new life was going to have to be totally differentfrom your old life. I think the big one there for me would have to be long stretches of activity every, single day, no matter what kind of day I had or how tired I was. I agree with those who said you would be more willing to make those necessary changes because you would feel like the whole world was watching you. Think of poor Erik who was the winner and gained it all back.
Oh, I don't see how Journey would be same without Steve Perry.
And I don't think you killed the thread with your question -- just a nice summer Saturday thing!
I have only been to DTD about twice. I hear lots of nice things about it. I will have to check it out next time I'm at WDW so I'll be interested to hear all the answers.
Did you get to see a deer at Deer Island?
Would you believe ds went back this afternoon for another week? Yes, I am the fool that allowed him to schedule this. Absolutely nuts and won't happen again next year...he did have a great time, and can't wait to go back and do Sports Camp again next summer.
I do remember poor Erik, he just looked miserable and defensive. I guess even with the prize money, you still have to have a keen desire to maintain where you are
I agree about Journey and Steve Perry, his voice is just so distinctive
I thought DL had a DTD, too?
Sorry, I didn't mean to be so "East Coast" with a QOTD!
Raglan Road is my favorite restaurant. I would not say the food is spectacular, but (and this goes against everything we are all working for here) they can do gluten-free fried food, including onion rings!
And honestly, I think they are some of the best onion rings I have every had. And they have irish whiskey flights--that's all I'm going to say. I don't have fried food very often, so it is quite the treat!
We also really like the ghiradhelli ice cream shop. We usually share something.
And we have pictures of Tom in front of the
lego creations since he was itty bitty, so that's kind of cool.
Another fun thing to do is hang out on the patio at House of Blues. They often have a singer outside--and it's free! Well, we usually have a drink while watching, so not actually free, but close to free.
Great question!
Rose -- You clearly know how to have a good time at DTD!
As much as you have gone through with food, I think you deserve to enjoy yourself at RR!
Just popping on to say hi, its been a busy weekend. Yesterday we went hiking in the mountains and this morning I did another 5K. It looks like I beat my previous PR by about a minute (still waiting on an official time and I actually forgot to pause my garmin at the finish!) but it was very hot and not pretty. I wasn't fueled as well as I could be (another lesson learned). Between that and the heat, I didn't finish as strong as I would have liked, but I guess I did pretty well considering all of that and the fact that I had a much harder time fitting in my runs this summer. I hope everyone is having a great weekend!
QOTD: Ghiradelli of course! Actually I've only been there, the Lego shop, and the
Disney store, but I love Ghiradelli!
Thanks so much for coaching this week Maria!
Another 5K?! You are on fire!
I sense a trend here -- people seem to love Ghirardelli!
I don't have a dtd favorite restaurant. We tend to go there for short periods. We always stop at Goofy's candy Shop, and I love the christmas shop, and the scrapbooking/memories store. We also stop and see the lego characters, and spend way too much time and money in World of Disney. I really enjoyed dtd with my sil on our first trip when my brother took the kids back to the hotel.
So psyched your vacation is almost here! I can't get out of the Christmas shop without an ornament, I just love it! My tree is a wee bit Disney
Our must shop store at Downtown Disney is the World of Disney, what doesn't it have. Restaurants...where to start. Earl of Sandwich is always a good choice. Ghiradelli is a great choice for ice cream. T-rex is totally cool.
I've never been to T-Rex, but it looks really fun!
The WOD does have it all, one stop shopping!
QOTD: we never spend all that much time at DTD. every time we go we say we're going to spend more time but then we just wind up leaving! i am not a big shopper in general so a quick walk-thru the stores is usually enough for me! i do like world of disney because it is SO big! i like all the kitchen things and stuff like that but don't think i'd ever actually pull the trigger and buy all those mickey shaped kitchen utensils. i think if i had a second bathroom maybe i'd make it a little disney-fied. ah, second bathroom...one can dream.
we really love raglan road too! in fact we have an ADR there for our trip. it's on 9/16 and i just found out that there's a big halfway to st. patrick's day party there the day after! doh! we're leaving that day so we'll just have to go the following year. you know we irish just loooooove an excuse to party! i'll never forget when i was about 9 weeks pregnant with thomas we went to ireland for vacation/visit DH's family. i asked my very conservative jewish OB if it'd be ok if i had a little guinness. he just looked at me and john and said, "you're irish, it wouldn't be healthy if you DIDN'T have some guinness!" don't worry, i didn't have too much.
I love to make DTD my activity on the day before race day. I wander around slowly, take in whatever takes my fancy, and grab a bite to eat. Since I'm not rushing off to a park and I'm trying to take it easy, it seems like the perfect activity
Have to agree with this. I know I typed it yesterday, but then it disappeared, so can't remember if I re-typed it, but 44 mins is great compared to what I can do! I think it would take me about an hour, since with the C25K I was consistently doing 1.6 or so miles in about 30 minutes.
Just a reminder -- you have to run your own race, so if it takes you an hour, that's peachy keen! I want everyone who is exercising, no matter at what level (and trust me, some of you ladies are much faster than I am!), should feel good about it.
Healthy Habits Week 9Results
Great Job, HH participants!
Maria
The salad did have cheese-and more than I expected-but it was good and sounded much better than the salad with chicken on the WW menu. I was going to order a half size, but the waitress explained that it only comes with half the chicken and since I didn't eat breakfast, I figured I needed the protein. Overall, I decided I made a good choice.
But if you did go and were successful, you would have to realize that your new life was going to have to be totally differentfrom your old life. I think the big one there for me would have to be long stretches of activity every, single day, no matter what kind of day I had or how tired I was. I agree with those who said you would be more willing to make those necessary changes because you would feel like the whole world was watching you. Think of poor Erik who was the winner and gained it all back. 
Yikes, I had no idea I was that slow at 44 mins. Looks like most people take around 30 mins give or take and the really fast ones around 20 mins give or take. I am still planning on doing a 5K on Oct 1st but it will be a good one to start with since they do not do an official time. It's just a small fund raising event. If I decide to do a "real" one after that, I've got some work to do unless I want to be embarrassed!
Don't work too hard this week trying to catch up. 
Yeah, oh for the good old day when you could say it was bedtime and no one realized you were putting them down an hour earlier! 
I keep thinking "Where did the summer go?!" but also that May feels soooooo long ago.
