Sds~happy New Year!!!

[Mausinator]

Okay just starting the thread....

[Mausinator]

HAPPY NEW YEAR SISTAH'S!!!!!


Good late morning everyone!
WOW I actually slept until 1030am, that's got to be a record for me. Okay I did wake up earlier but I forced myself to go back to sleep. Last night was pretty good, sfil came over & we watched football the whole night. I normally do a huge buffet spread (even though it's only a few people) & last night was no different. I did make the requested "fried & fattening food" but I also made healthier versions of things (I had skinny pigs in a blanket, etc) for me to eat. Dh was really impressed with the mini pizza's, the dough was all WW & asked for me to make them this week for dinner again. Now if I could only switch him over to the lf salami & cheese. I only splurged on the cheese tray I made, gotta have my cheese, although when dh said he was too full to eat anything of it I packed the whole thing up & that was that. On the drinking I passed this year, had water & diet coke the whole time, well except for when we opened the champange at 12, but that's low in points anyway.

I'm also happy since yesterday morning I got 2 workouts done in the am, can you tell I'm loving the bootcamp elite?? After I post I'm going to get one in & maybe a couple of the 8 min bonus one's as well. Funny Alex came in yesterday & saw me getting ready for my second workout & told me I didn't have to do it. When I told him I wanted to & that it was better for me to be in good shape for the op he said I should get the workout done (he doesn't want dh's cooking for 5 weeks!:bcb_grin )

Now that the holidays are 100% over I can get back to posting w/o the fear that company is coming! I did talk to mil last night & she wants Alex to come over this week for a few days, I'm not really feeling that though. I wanna have him here since it's my last week home. I have to make some calls first & if he really wants to then he can go (if schedule's work.) I do want him back on Friday though, dh has Sat. off & we are doing a family weekend. We figured that after the op I'm not going to be up for a family outing so we want to take the kids to an aquarium.

ARGH!!! I just had a long discussion with Alex about visiting mil. The poor kid thought that I was going to be in the hospital for 5 weeks! Everything's okay now though. Well I just made some calls & I have to call one person back later to see when the kids are going to the movies so I can call mil about Alex. He wants to leave today & I need to know what's going on about the movies before anything else happens.

Nancee~I've missed your blue posts! I'm glad that you had a great time back home but it's nice to have you back here. I had to laugh when you mentioned the "I'm goin' to hell" comment :bcb_grin Hope that your gym isn't too full but like you said it's new years & everyone always makes the resolutions to hit the gym.

LD~Hmmm, your not happy with your standstill? If I were you I would be, think about it you said while you did workout more then normal you also ate a lot of stuff you didn't know the posts for. So in all reality if you had not done the extra workouts you could have actually gained for the week. Hope you did good with the chinese, you mentioned wanting to eat japanese instead, were you able to?

Melody~I hope that all of you had fun (& no trouble finding a parking spot) last night. I'm dreading taking down the decorations, we normally wait until after Epiphany to do it, but I have a feeling I'm going to do it earlier this year. I really don't like the idea of waiting until a couple of days before I go into the hospital & risk dh having to do it alone (not that I don't trust his "Just toss it in a box" way of packing:bcb_worry )

Michelle~Men have a great way of getting out of things! Dh used to tell me he was going to start working out next week, well let me just say I'm still waiting for the week to change after about 4 months!

Susie~Huh, I just always thought that New Years was the same everywhere. They always show the fireworks from all over the world, so you just assume it's a festive night for all.
Sorry about the doodie accident!

Okay well Alex wants to build something with me so I better go, I can manage a workout before we start to build. He won't harass me when I'm working out but when I'm on the computer that's another story all together!

[babygirl93]

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!

This is my "official" rededication to WW & my sisters. I have been away from this thread for way too long...again, I cannot post from work because of new filters but I will post in the evening when I get home or before bed. To be 100% honest, with or w/o the new scales as part excuse, I am fessing up to a gain of 11 pounds since October. (Funny thing is I only gained 1/2 in the entire month of Dec!) I'm not proud of that, but am admitting publically it so I can deal with it!!!!! :kickbutt: I am updating my sig and starting my day! Mostly taking down Christmas decorations and cleaning because we have a horrible steady rain... Restart with babysteps!

I trashed all of the leftover christmas candy and have nothing in here to "cheat" with. STEP #1!

Have a GREAT OP day!
XXX & OOO

[NurseLD]

HAPPY NEW YEAR MY SISTAH'S!!!!!!!!!!!


Well last night wasnt as bad as i expected. I limited myself and stuck to having sushi. Thank god to DH for making it for me. Yesterday afternoon was all chips and cheese platters at my house....so i called up my mom and we went shopping. Got myself a cute little yoga outfit. HA! that will teach DH for bringing out naughty foods LoL
This afternoon i plan on working out in the gym.

Vicki---what is the bootcamp elite? And when do you go in for your op? I just want to make sure i get to give you hugs before the actually day.

Debbie!!!!!!!--- welcome back. Awesome job on your rededication!! I love reading your posts...so dont be shy!!

Everyone else...rise and shine(well its raining here, but still)!!!!!! It's a new year and we can do this together!!! :kickbutt:

Talk to you all later...have a wonderful first day to a huge weight losing year!!!

[nan-see]

Hi ladies!
Just a quick pop in to say hello and HAPPY NEW YEAR! to my sisters.

All is well here. It's a beautiful day, got up thismorning and went for a walk down to whole foods to buy some necessities (eggs, milk, fructose) and came back and made french toast for dbf and myself for bfast - the house smelled great!
It's so nice to be back in a sunny warm location. It's so freeing to be able to just go outside and enjoy life. Much to my mom's dismay, i do not think i will ever move back to the northeast!

Anyhoo - more on that later.
I'm actually making my shopping list as we speak. DBF is determined to drop some weight this year and i'm happy he's on board for as long as it lasts. It's always much easier for me to stay OP when i'm not watching him eat pizza and fries.

OK - so when I was in NZ the 0 pt veggies soup in the book was really great - it was a tomatoe based soup and it was delicious. I just looked at the one in our book here and it's broth based and has cabbage and green beans in it! ack! totally different. I can't find my old book so i'm going to hunt around.

OH - also there was a great crock pot chili recipe in my women's health magazine. I believe it's all core - or i will make it that way! If it's any good I'll post the recipe here (going to make it tomorrow)

SO - tomorrow morning is d-day - the start of the new me. i am going to hop on the scale here at home - just to get a gauge of where i'm at. my ww WI is on Friday. i'm dreading the bad news, but at the same time i feel whatever will be will be and i'm determined to make sure that number gets smaller every week!
By this time next year i'd like to be 25 lbs lighter (sooner would be nice, but i'm being reasonable) That's about a 0.5 lb a week loss. There's no reason I shouldn't be able to do this!


OK - gotta run - BBL!

N :bcb_salut

[MelodyC]

Happy New Year my Sistah's!!!!

Yesterday and today have been really wonderful. Amazing how much better i feel now that i've faced the music and went to WI. Like Debbie... i've gained alot back since October when i was not feeling well and i know for me i've made about a billion excuses for it all. Now that i've faced the music, and changed my signature, i feel soooo much better. In fact, when i went to WI on Saturday i wore jeans for the first time. The old, really light weight stretch pants are dying and i can't fix them anymore. Time to relegate them to cleaning day. So, since i'm starting over i'll do it with reasonable clothes.

Yesterday we got all the christmas decorations put away and the house in pretty good shape. Then we got ds from his Dad and went to the Rose Parade . If you have never been there, picture a million people all camped out on the sidewalk on both sides of the street for miles and miles. And, little space to walk behind them down the street. It is one huge street party. We went to a cute little Italian place called Manny's Pizzarria. The food there is sooooo good and so was I. I had a salad and just a taste of DH's bbq chicken pizza (actually without the toppings, i just wanted the crust) and a taste of ds's veal parmigianna. Then we all shared one cannoli for dessert. Sadly, BIL and family were not able to go so we didn't stay too long. Then we came home and i continued to drink water till bedtime. I managed to keep DH up till midnight and that in itself was a miracle!!

This morning we got up and watched the parade (all very pretty) and then went out for breakfast. I had 2 scrambled eggs, fresh fruit and 1 pancake with sf syrup. Then we went home and i played with organizing my yarn a bit and then we went to the movies. Often a real hard place for me but today was great. I shared some popcorn with ds and i took my crocheting with me so i had something in my hands rather than hand to mouth with the popcorn. Between the two of us we didn't even finish half of the bag. I'm still nursing my large diet coke and not even hungry for dinner although it is 4:30 here. Like i said, one meal, one day at a time right now.

Deb... So glad to see you back here with us. I missed ya!! Interesting that we say it all the time but the topic of the week on Saturday was "We are all in the Same Boat". And, i am with ya on the large gains since October. Hang in with us and we will all eventually reach our goals.... one day at a time!!

Vicki... I can so see the "toss it in the box" method, made me laugh myself silly!! And glad to hear the Alex is ok now about your op schedule. I hope he has fun with his grandma this week.

LD... Great job on the shopping expedition. I like that thinking!! I still have a couple of gift cards that i could find a way to spend if they get out of hand around here :bcb_grin.

Nanc... I too missed your blue posts... glad to have ya back. BTW, you might want to check the CORE threads.... there were some serious changes with the new program, something about not having fructose and several others that don't really affect me because i don't eat that stuff. You might want to check it out. They found a tread from the WW board and uploaded it for the COREbies to ponder.

Ok... I'm going back to my crocheting and enjoy the rest of this relaxing day. Wishing everyone, everywhere a joyous, happy and healthy New Year!! I love you gals and couldn't do it without ya :bcb_salut .