I'll have a slice too, biggest loser friendly please.Now give me the occasional slice of Peanut Butter Chocolate Cream Cheese Cake and we are really talkin'!!!
I'm thinking you are having one of those moments everyone has before their first half. And you will probably have a few more like it, even during the race, but when you cross that finishline, you are going to be so happy, strong and proud of how far you have come. You can do this.
Whoo hoo!! Can't believe it is deck weather already. Today was just amazing. I think it will be cooler tomorrow but then warming up again for the weekend. Sounds like a wonderful weekend with your nephew.
I'll enjoy the new things. I think it's great that fantasyland will be so much bigger, and I may not have to wait as long in the hot dumbo line.
Pamela, that is just awesome!! You are really getting out there and running again. Are you loving it? Do I see a race in your future????? It would be fun. And you are pretty fast in my book.It is crazy how much sports can cost. I'm also thinking as ds gets older, our trips will be fewer and farther between also. I can't help but look at big costs in terms of disney trips.But the rate I spent money this weekend - forget any trips. My son plays lacrosse - he starts Spring Meltdown conditioning camp tomorrow. So he got all his pads, etc out from last spring. Nothing fit - accept the helmet. And I think I would have buttered his ears to get it on.So I wrote a check for $260 to play lacrosse, $115 for Meltdown. $60 for cleats, $60 for running shoes, Gloves - $70, Pads - $40. We are lucky that his grandfather bought him a new stick for Christmas. Oh and I should mention - all the prices are on sale. Can you imagine $70 for gloves??? Originally $99.99!!!!
The whole time I was thinking - no Signature Dining this trip!!!! Then we went to Home Depot to look at gas grills. Our's blew off our deck and smashed a couple of months ago. After we priced up new burners etc, we decided it would be better to buy a new one. I told DH to get a Weber if he wanted one. Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary!!! But he helped cook on one at a cook out last year, and realized that a $300 grill works just as well as a $800 grill. So we bought another CharBroil with infra-red technology. It was one of Consumer Reports Best Buys. You can't see the flames - so no flare ups. I will need to get used to it. But I cooked chicken, pork tenderloin, turkey tenderloin on it tonight. All came out very juicy. I am so happy to have my grill back.
Have a great week everyone - and thank you to all that are helping with the QOTD this week. Can you believe that the merge is only about 10 days away???
Janis
I'd say family gatherings at my brothers house are toughest. If it's potluck i"ll bring a healthy dish, and otherwise, I"ll try and downstairs when the food is upstairs, and vice versa. I do try to keep track and have small amounts of the foods I really like.
Hope your day got better. A big thank you for all you do for your students. It's got to be so draining, yet so rewarding. We have a friend from ireland an one fourth of july some of her family was here, and our neighborhood is wild with Independance day celebrations and some neighbor teens over the fence were chanting U-S-A and her 12 yo nephew who was visiting tried to out do them chanting IRELAND! It was so funny.Oh I always fancied visiting New England-add it to my dream trip
Congratulation everyone! Especially DisNorth!!Thanks for sharing about your brother. Glad he is doing well. It's hard not to worry, and most of the time I'm positive and sure he will outgrow it and it will all be ok.Mikamah,
We have been through the same thing with my brother. He started having seizures when he was around 14. Absence seizures (I don't know if I spelled it right, but it was where he kind of blacked out for a few seconds, but was still functioning instead of passing out). He had a gran mal seizure one morning and we spent the next year and a half trying to get his medication just right. But it we finally found it and he doesn't have a seizure under normal circumstances. I know it is rough, but it will get better. And kudos to you for evening thinking about eating right while going through all that!
Thanks Deb. I'm so glad Hunter is doing so well. I can't even imagine going through all you've been through.Our middle son had a GM seizure about 2 1/2 years ago. Turns out he had been having PM seizures for years and he had been misdiagnosed with hypoglycemia. In his case it was a brain tumor. I remember how scary it was seeing him have the GM seizure and wondering if he was brain deadThe entire experience, diagnosis, surgery was almost surreal. I'm happy to share as little or as much as anyone would care to learn about our experience if it can help anyone deal with what they are going through. Hunter is 100% fine now and we are very blessed and very thankful.
The festival of the Lion king show in AK. It's been on my to-do list the past 2 trips, yet we haven't done it yet. One of these days.
Glad the shots are going well. And whoo hoo for some size 10s.Shots were better this week, did not hurt as much, although I am having some residual pain. I am hoping most of that will disappear with this weeks series, and I can get out and do some walking and getting my legs ready for the parks. Just three more weeks!
Gained weight this week...expected I would. I wasn't as OP as I should have been with all the craziness, working through lunch, etc. Plus that hugh loss was due to some gastrointestinal something (haven't figured out if a virus or something I ate). So gained it all back...
Carol
Sizes do run so strangely though don't they. Lucky you tried them all on rather than having to exchange. That's why you need to hold the camera. Or in group pictures make sure the kids are standing in front of you. And it is not easy to pull off a pic in a floaty tube.
This week's winning team with 17.34% is Team Donald!!
Team Mickey weighed-in losing 14.79% for the week!
Additional stats for the week!!!!
aamomma won for Team Mickey with 2.34% this week and was the overall Biggest Loser!!
Congrats to DisNorth who was Donald's Team winner with 1.52%!
Team Donald lost 11.6 pounds this week
Team Mickey lost 28.2 pounds this week
Team Donald leads the Total Weight Loss with 467.1 pounds and Team Mickey's total weight loss to date is 393.4!!!
Both teams together have lost 860.5 pounds!!!! Amazing!
Keep reading, keep posting and most of all keep losing and continue learning!!!!
Have an OP week
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Just an update.... I DID make my bed....
And I measured my run and it was 4.6 miles! Since I haven't been running with any consistency for about a year, I'm always surprised when I can actually get some mileage in. I did the 4.6 in 52 (ish) minutes and that was with a half mile warm-up walk, a short walk up two hills, and a short stop to chat with a friend who pulled over. It is so much easier to run with NO EXPECTATIONS! I told myself how far I was going (to the end of a particular neighborhood and back) figuring it would take about an hour with a run/walk combo. I give myself permission to run when I want and walk when I want. No pressure to run the whole thing. But I did run the entire return trip, as it has no big uphills.
Made some good progress at the scrapping table too! I got ALL of the photos I've order in the past week or so sorted and organized and got the layouts planned! Now to pick the papers and get down to work!
Now give me the occasional slice of Peanut Butter Chocolate Cream Cheese Cake and we are really talkin'!!!
Please excuse my MIA over the weekend! I spent all day yesterday with my favorite (and only...lol) nephew in the world!! He is almost 5 and just sees the world soooo differently. We spent time playing outside (football, soccer, baseball) and inside (Chutes and Ladders, UNO, memory games.) I drove home today absolutely exhausted!!
I'm spending the rest of the afternoon cleaning off the deck and taking out the deck furniture!!! If the weather holds I will be drinking coffee and DISing from my deck tomorrow morning! Happy Spring Break to meeee!
Bad eating yesterday and Sunday has derailed me...and I admit to not weighing in this week due to Aunt Flo and an unfortunate incident with a bag of jelly beans...
I'm with Kathy back on the wagon!!!
Congrats to all those amazing losers this week!! AND to our multiple coaches for stepping in and saving the day!
Have a great evening Donalds!!!
Thanks!
For some reason they don't think those are of concern. 
Target had a couple of options for those as well.
The thing is....I AM AMERICAN.
Now give me the occasional slice of Peanut Butter Chocolate Cream Cheese Cake and we are really talkin'!!!
I checked out all the Youtube videos of the opening!!! Love the Dumbo with fountain and changing colors at night!!! So excited for the B&B part to open and the new Dwarf Coaster!
I need to do that!
Please excuse my MIA over the weekend! I spent all day yesterday with my favorite (and only...lol) nephew in the world!! He is almost 5 and just sees the world soooo differently. We spent time playing outside (football, soccer, baseball) and inside (Chutes and Ladders, UNO, memory games.) I drove home today absolutely exhausted!!
I'm spending the rest of the afternoon cleaning off the deck and taking out the deck furniture!!! If the weather holds I will be drinking coffee and DISing from my deck tomorrow morning! Happy Spring Break to meeee!
Bad eating yesterday and Sunday has derailed me...and I admit to not weighing in this week due to Aunt Flo and an unfortunate incident with a bag of jelly beans...
I'm with Kathy back on the wagon!!!
Congrats to all those amazing losers this week!! AND to our multiple coaches for stepping in and saving the day!
Have a great evening Donalds!!!
Happy Tuesday morning friends! Here is today's QOTD: (feel free to answer any or all)
Organized or disorganized? Organized
Red or pink? Really? Okay.... I KNEW what you were going to say..... and I almost made a special "PURPLE" choice just for you!!
Summer or winter? Summer
Musicals or plays? Musicals
Talker or listener? talker
Anal planner or "fly by the seat of your pants"?Obsessive Planner
Twizzlers or Red Vines? Chocolate
Cream cheese or peanut butter? Peanut butter
Beach or mountains? Beach
Traveler or home-body?
Running/walking or Spinning?
Walking
Team player or independent worker?both
Survivor or Big Brother?Survivor is Amazing Race isn't an option
Real books/ magazines or electronic (Kindle type)?Real All the Way
Oatmeal or eggs? Both
Cheesecake or chocolate cake? both
Braces or no braces? braces
BONUS QOTD:
The new Storybook Faire portion of the MK/Fantasyland expansion had a soft opening yesterday. Are you looking forward to all of the new things? Or would you prefer that WDW leave well enough alone and you'll miss the old Toontown? I want to see and do it all
BBL to chat, but I'm at work today so it will be sporatic!.........P
I'm thinking you are having one of those moments everyone has before their first half. And you will probably have a few more like it, even during the race, but when you cross that finishline, you are going to be so happy, strong and proud of how far you have come. You can do this.
Voice of experience talking here!!
NO RACES! Too much pressure. And I am NOT enjoying the running really, but appreciating the feeling of accomplishment. Today will be a TM day unless the weather clears. Woke to fog and a bit of mist this morning.
It is crazy how much sports can cost. I'm also thinking as ds gets older, our trips will be fewer and farther between also. I can't help but look at big costs in terms of disney trips.
Wow, the merge is 10days away!! Whoo hoo!! I'm excited to catch up with all our team Mickey friends!!
ME TOO!
We had a beautiful day here, and Poko and I got lots of exercise in. I had the day off, so we walked probably a total of 2.5 hours, and am going to head out for another short walk. I also did some furniture shopping and bought a new couch and loveseat. Got my moneys worth out of my 21 year old couch. I got them cheap about $400 each and figure with ds and the dog they will take a beating, but my goal will be for them to last 8 years and I can get new furniture for ds's hs graduation. Maybe I am a planner after all.
I've been eating pretty well, but not tracking so I need to start doing that again.
We just got verizon fiios for the tv, and ds is thrilled to have more channels again, and we have dvr, and it's much cheaper than what I was paying for comcast. With the on demand and better channels, maybe we don't need netflix anymore. I'll have to think on that. We had barebones cable before, so ds got his nick and disney shows on netflix, but now he can get recent stuff on demand.
Just thinking out loud here.
That's all that's happening here. Hope you all are having a nice evening!! Or sleeping tightly over there in Europe!!
I LOVE my sofa and chair and would pick the fabric design again in a heartbeat, but the fabric itself hasn't worn well at all.... it is very faded and worn. But with DD heading to college, I just don't see a furniture purchase in my future. Did you go to Jordan's?
Looks like your day is busy enough to count as a workoutYour question about the Twizzlers and Red Vines didn't show up here because it was a quote, but I wondered as I posted it if it was going to be a regional thing. They are both a type of junk food/candy in the form of red licorice. I know that Twizzlers come in a few flavors, but I've only had the strawberry. The rest smell nasty! I'm pretty sure that Red Vines are also strawberry flavored, but I've never had them. I think that they are more of a West Coast thing..... but they are both classic movie candies. Guess they don't have them in the UK?? How about Swedish Fish?
We have strawberry laces here (skinny spaghetti like things which might be the saame as your red vines)? Dont have the swedish fish but do have lots of jelly type shaped sweets some of which are fish shapesWe love your buttery (very tasty even if very bad
Okay friends.... I made it through the first part of the morning. Morning meeting, reading groups, read aloud, and snack. The kids are off to library time.... then we will do math (ick) and then it will be time for lunch and recess! The rain is gone and the sun is shining, so recess should be fun today (although I'm not sure if I have lunch duty or recess duty). Then quiet time and a planet packet and we will be pretty much done!
I am done by 3pm, but both of my kids have afterschool activities that will keep them busy until 4pm, so I'll pop into the library, return my audiobook and get another one or two and read a few magazines. It takes nearly 20 minutes to get home, so no sense in heading home until I have my kids.
I don't see a workout in my future today. I will admit I could have had an early morning workout, but I washed my hair last night before my meeting and didn't want to do it again this morning before work, so no early workout was on the agenda. I MUST run two errands tonight while DD is swimming, so no time then either. The only option would be a quick workout sometime between 4:30 (when I will arrive home) and 5:15 (when I will depart again with DD) and in that time I have to finish dinner and eat.... we'll see what happens. If I had known this rain would clear, I might have brought my walking stuff along and gone for a walk/run while waiting for my kids! Grrr.....
Okay..... now I'm just rambling. Off to check out the scrapping board!.......P
Organized or disorganized? YES
Red or pink? RED
Summer or winter? SUMMER
Musicals or plays? MUSICALS
Talker or listener? LISTENER
Anal planner or "fly by the seat of your pants"? PLANNER
Twizzlers or Red Vines? BLACK LICORICE PLEASE
Cream cheese or peanut butter? LATELY CREAM CHEESE BUT LOVE PEANUT BUTTER
Beach or mountains? YES AND WHEN THE ARE SIDE BY SIDE.....EVEN BETTER
Traveler or home-body? TRAVELER
Running/walking or Spinning? WALKING
Team player or independent worker? YES
Survivor or Big Brother? BOTH
Real books/ magazines or electronic (Kindle type)? MIGRATING TO IBOOK ON IPAD
Oatmeal or eggs? EGGS
Cheesecake or chocolate cake? CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE PLEASE
Now thats just cheating
Braces or no braces? NO BRACES.....though I almost answered, I wear a belt..... since braces in British English are American suspenders
BONUS QOTD:
The new Storybook Faire portion of the MK/Fantasyland expansion had a soft opening yesterday. Are you looking forward to all of the new things? Or would you prefer that WDW leave well enough alone and you'll miss the old Toontown?
Looking forward to it. I think it will be great to see some new FANTASY in the MK
Well done for not giving up
You can definitely do itGlad you're sticking with it and getting back OPI checked out all the Youtube videos of the opening!!! Love the Dumbo with fountain and changing colors at night!!! So excited for the B&B part to open and the new Dwarf Coaster!
Woo Hoo!! You GO productive girl today!!! Gotta love this weather!
Wow! DOuble whammy!! I hope things get back on track soon! YAY...for spring break!!
Hang in there P!!
Nice job continuing the run!! I found that outside run/walk does not compare to the TM stuff. I'm so winded when I come home from an outdoor run even if I did the same run on the TM. The pollen count is also a factor for me!!
Keep going KAYLA!!! You can do it!!!
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Please excuse my MIA over the weekend! I spent all day yesterday with my favorite (and only...lol) nephew in the world!! He is almost 5 and just sees the world soooo differently. We spent time playing outside (football, soccer, baseball) and inside (Chutes and Ladders, UNO, memory games.) I drove home today absolutely exhausted!!
My youngest is 5-so funny, so much fun and def sooo tiring
I'm spending the rest of the afternoon cleaning off the deck and taking out the deck furniture!!! If the weather holds I will be drinking coffee and DISing from my deck tomorrow morning! Happy Spring Break to meeee!
Bad eating yesterday and Sunday has derailed me...and I admit to not weighing in this week due to Aunt Flo and an unfortunate incident with a bag of jelly beans...
I'm with Kathy back on the wagon!!!
Congrats to all those amazing losers this week!! AND to our multiple coaches for stepping in and saving the day!
Have a great evening Donalds!!!
ThanksWe have a friend from ireland an one fourth of july some of her family was here, and our neighborhood is wild with Independance day celebrations and some neighbor teens over the fence were chanting U-S-A and her 12 yo nephew who was visiting tried to out do them chanting IRELAND! It was so funny.
We've been to WDW on the 4th July but I would love to see it celebrated where "real people!" live! B et your friends love that memory too
We had a beautiful day here, and Poko and I got lots of exercise in. I had the day off, so we walked probably a total of 2.5 hours, and am going to head out for another short walk. I also did some furniture shopping and bought a new couch and loveseat. Got my moneys worth out of my 21 year old couch. I got them cheap about $400 each and figure with ds and the dog they will take a beating, but my goal will be for them to last 8 years and I can get new furniture for ds's hs graduation. Maybe I am a planner after all.
I've been eating pretty well, but not tracking so I need to start doing that again.
Keep up the good work
That's all that's happening here. Hope you all are having a nice evening!! Or sleeping tightly over there in Europe!!
You have no idea! I had a kid fake (yes we are absolutely sure he faked) a seizure during testing...2 times! It was hilarious. I know I shouldn't say that, but trust me...this kid has done this before. Who knows what will happen tomorrow?!?!
OMG thats crazy
Good job sticking with it. I actually prefer running outside instead of on the treadmill. I like the fresh air and scenery. Keep up the good work. That 1/2 marathon will feel like a breeze!
I prefer running outside too-that way I cant see myself in the horribly cruel mirrors at the gym
It's late (for me) and I'm tired. DS5 is sick with a horrible cough and a fever. We saw the doctor around 7 pm and they are treating him for croup (with steroids). The poor thing was up all night coughing (Delsym did not help at all), so we were too. I'm exhausted. So, I'm heading to bed and hoping he sleeps better tonight and feels better tomorrow. I will try to make more time to post tomorrow. Sorry
Hope your son feels better soon!
Jill
Hi Donalds!
I am excited to say that I am doing much better. It took me awhile to fall asleep last night, but I slept through the night! I woke up after an appropriate amount of sleep. This was the first night in too long that I didn't need 10+ hours of sleep! Things have calmed down a lot. The major drama from Sunday has passed and I am feeling better emotionally. I have been playing around with my meds (with my doctor's approval) and think that I have found a better plan. He works in the afternoon today, so I will call later and leave a message with his secretary. She is not the friendliest person, but I met one that is even worse so I am trying to take her with a grain of salt. What ticks me off is that I have spoken to both of these doctors about their secretaries upsetting me. I'm not calling to schedule a yearly gyno appt; I'm calling because I'm dehydrated from diarhhea or exhausted from vertigo.
I did a little shopping yesterday at Target. There are some great items in their Dollar Spot. I think it is Jill who mentioned starting to scrap. They have some scrapbooking items for $1. There are also a few Disney items. I got my sister magnets of the Disney Princesses. Those will go in her Easter basket. We really don't do Easter baskets anymore, but she and my BIL will get little items like that that I pick up cheap. I scored a few good deals at CVS so my BIL is getting a new (of the same kind) razor and a package of blades.
Target also has a bunch of bug/insect stuff. I started thinking of how I could use some of the $1 items for a language lesson. And, I know some teachers who have a stash of "special" pencils for when a student doesn't have one. You know, the ones that are not yellow so that the student will definitely want to return it to you when class ends.
Kathy: Hope DS outgrows his seizures! He is such a trooper.
There will be Healthy Habits this week and I have a surprise planned. Here's a hint: If you get any sales ads in print, don't recycle them yet.
So glad you got to walk with the puppy! I'm dying for Fios but they are not available in my area yet...at least in condo complexes. All I need is the Hallmark Channel and I am setWhoo hoo!! Can't believe it is deck weather already. Today was just amazing. I think it will be cooler tomorrow but then warming up again for the weekend. Sounds like a wonderful weekend with your nephew.
I am on the deck (in a fleece) with my coffee and my phone (working from home today!)....up to 70 again!! SO excited!
We had a beautiful day here, and Poko and I got lots of exercise in. I had the day off, so we walked probably a total of 2.5 hours, and am going to head out for another short walk. I also did some furniture shopping and bought a new couch and loveseat. Got my moneys worth out of my 21 year old couch. I got them cheap about $400 each and figure with ds and the dog they will take a beating, but my goal will be for them to last 8 years and I can get new furniture for ds's hs graduation. Maybe I am a planner after all.
I've been eating pretty well, but not tracking so I need to start doing that again.
We just got verizon fiios for the tv, and ds is thrilled to have more channels again, and we have dvr, and it's much cheaper than what I was paying for comcast. With the on demand and better channels, maybe we don't need netflix anymore. I'll have to think on that. We had barebones cable before, so ds got his nick and disney shows on netflix, but now he can get recent stuff on demand.
Just thinking out loud here.
That's all that's happening here. Hope you all are having a nice evening!! Or sleeping tightly over there in Europe!!
Oh No! I hope DS is feeling better today! And I hope you got some sleep too!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It's late (for me) and I'm tired. DS5 is sick with a horrible cough and a fever. We saw the doctor around 7 pm and they are treating him for croup (with steroids). The poor thing was up all night coughing (Delsym did not help at all), so we were too. I'm exhausted. So, I'm heading to bed and hoping he sleeps better tonight and feels better tomorrow. I will try to make more time to post tomorrow. Sorry
Jill
I have decided to lose weight because...
CC, Hang in there!Hi Donalds!
I am excited to say that I am doing much better. It took me awhile to fall asleep last night, but I slept through the night! I woke up after an appropriate amount of sleep. This was the first night in too long that I didn't need 10+ hours of sleep! Things have calmed down a lot. The major drama from Sunday has passed and I am feeling better emotionally. I have been playing around with my meds (with my doctor's approval) and think that I have found a better plan. He works in the afternoon today, so I will call later and leave a message with his secretary. She is not the friendliest person, but I met one that is even worse so I am trying to take her with a grain of salt. What ticks me off is that I have spoken to both of these doctors about their secretaries upsetting me. I'm not calling to schedule a yearly gyno appt; I'm calling because I'm dehydrated from diarhhea or exhausted from vertigo.
I did a little shopping yesterday at Target. There are some great items in their Dollar Spot. I think it is Jill who mentioned starting to scrap. They have some scrapbooking items for $1. There are also a few Disney items. I got my sister magnets of the Disney Princesses. Those will go in her Easter basket. We really don't do Easter baskets anymore, but she and my BIL will get little items like that that I pick up cheap. I scored a few good deals at CVS so my BIL is getting a new (of the same kind) razor and a package of blades.
Target also has a bunch of bug/insect stuff. I started thinking of how I could use some of the $1 items for a language lesson. And, I know some teachers who have a stash of "special" pencils for when a student doesn't have one. You know, the ones that are not yellow so that the student will definitely want to return it to you when class ends.
Kathy: Hope DS outgrows his seizures! He is such a trooper.
There will be Healthy Habits this week and I have a surprise planned. Here's a hint: If you get any sales ads in print, don't recycle them yet.
Sooooo glad you are on the mend!!! Wow! I'm just hitting 10 pounds myself so I am in awe of your 14! AND you had surgery!! Nice job!
Hope your tummy is feeling better!!
YUM! I'm with you on the soda bread...unfortunately I have yet to find a gluten free recipe that doesn't taste like cardboard
I already had my first phone call of the day (I have to call colleges to see if they are taking my students or not) so I only have four more to go! (10am, 11am, 1pm, and 3pm) I'm going to try to get in a walk/jog after my 11am call and some lunch too! AFter my 3pm call I am going to pick up my mom...they returned from their 2 months in Florida on Saturday... and head to Ikea. I love Ikea stuff but they do not last very long. I have 5 lamps from there and while I love the bases, the shades need to be replaced. The unfortunate part is that Ikea lamps can only use Ikea lampshades!! So, I have a feeling I will be buying more than lampshades.....just love their cool stuff for outdoor decor!
