Teachlady

Good morning, Violets.. Beautiful sunny day here in Northern Michigan. Hope to get in the pool again this afternoon for some exercise. Ethan arrived at 7:30 and we've been going ever since. For breakfast I shared a slice of toast with peanut butter with him. Also had 4 segments of mandarin oranges. Yes, this accountability for food seems to be working.. yay, Laura!!! But we also need to be accountable for exercise. Take it from one who knows. We should be listing our exercise for the day along with the food intake. When I look at what everyone is eating, we should be dropping pounds like crazy. Think how we used to eat!!! The key has to be exercise along with the eating. So how bout we log in that too? Gotta run to a rehearsal. Catch ya all later!!

Good Evening, Violets.. Just got back from seeing the Dark Knight. Great movie, excellent job by Heath Ledger, but just not my kind of movie. About 1/3 of the way through I'd really had enough, but stuck it out til the end. Way too loud, way too much happening and people getting blown up all the way through it. But I did enjoy the popcorn and ice cream afterwards!! Eating report.. 1 slice toast with peanut butter 6 segments of mandarin oranges 2 cream cheese wontons 1 talapia filet 1 SF ice cream bar 1 chicken enchilada (threw the rice away) 1 scoop regular ice cream 3 cups buttered popcorn 2 liters Crystal Light 30 minutes of exercise in the pool. Didn't get to the wiifit today. Ethan comes at 8 tomorrow so Grandma needs to sign off and head to bed. Everyone have a good evening. Sleep well.

Jumping up and down and waving my hand.... I want another baby!!!! oh wait.... make that grandbaby! I can send those home when I've lost my patience. Haydee... I'd much rather hear about good things between you and Juan, than about big poops... ewwwwwwww:lol: Ethan has been sleeping since he got here. It's a really quiet day here. I got him some new toys for when he wakes up. It's 78 so I'm guessing I'll be able to get in the pool in a little bit.

Good morning, Violets.. Haydee, we are having our baseboards replaced in our hallway and kitchen/dining area. We hired someone to do it. The Bobster tried, but he just isn't that good with the miter thingy. We got the baseboards at Home Depot.. they are not wood, but composite. The guy we hired is a friend and does it for $15 an hour. Actually Bob just called and he's talking about using wood instead of the composite. We'll have to price them out today. I did really well yesterday on eating and plan on keeping it up today.. but you know what happens to the best laid plans...... So far today I've had.. 1 slice toast with peanut butter 5 mandarin orange segments 2 glasses Crystal Light No exercise yet. That's yet to come this afternoon. I'm really sore from yesterday so it must be working!! According to a report I read the other day, I'm a major participant in the dumbing down of America. I watch Flavor of Love, I Love New York, Rock of Love, I Love Money, all those highly intellectual progams offered on VH1. I'm off to get some cards at Walmart. Got a wedding on Saturday and Kris's 5th anniversary is also Saturday. Catch you all later!!

Good evening, Violets.. What a great day today. Rehearsals went well this morning, had lunch with the Bobster and then when he left to go out of town for his meeting, I did 30 minutes on the Wii fit and then hit the pool. The water temp is FINALLY 82 so I spent a half hour exercising. I got new water dumbells. These are medium resistance and what a difference. My first set was light. I got a great workout today. Now I'm in my nammies and just chilling and watching tv til the Bobster gets home in a few hours. My eating for today.. 1 egg with shredded cheddar (could only eat half) BBQ ribs... ate a few bites and pb'd it Onion petals... ate about 8 of them 1 granola bar 2 cream cheese wontons 1 tortilla encrusted talapia filet 1 sugar free ice cream bar 1 liter Crystal Light I'm done for the day except for 1 more liter of Crystal Light which I'll get to as soon as my hour is up after eating dinner. I figure I had about 900 calories today. Hopefully that with my hour of exercise will show some drop in poundage soon. We need to make an appointment to get a fill in August and I want to be down at least a few pounds when we go. Everyone have a good evening. I'm going to relax and enjoy the peace and quiet here right now. Ethan comes at 1 tomorrow and we hope to go see Dark Knight later in the evening after he goes home. Nighters....

Good Morning, Violets.. Getting ready for my flute rehearsal. I fixed an egg with some shredded cheddar this morning and got half of it down, but now it's stuck. Guess I'll have to start flapping my arms and walking around like a chicken and see if it budges. PamELa.. whew.. what a story!! Sure hope it turns out ok. Gotta run and get dressed. Everyone have a good day!!

Good evening Violets.. Just back from my 2 hour singing rehearsal. My food consumption for today was.. 2/3 cup cottage cheese with 1/4 cup blueberries and 1T. splenda brown sugar blend 1/4 of a BBQ chicken quesadilla 2 granola bars 1 Butter Burger 4 fries 1 sugar free ice cream bar 2 liters of Crystal Light I am done for the day with eating. I did 40 minutes on the Wii today. Everyone have a great evening. Sleep well.

Good Morning, Violets.. Laura..you look MAAAAAVELOUS!!! Love the outfit!! PamELa...the office looks great. Looks like you and Bob could go for the "who has the most books" title. The family got him a Kindle for his birthday in hopes he wouldn't have to have so many physical books. He can just download them onto the kindle and store up to 20,000. I just saw two books come in the mail the other day so I was not a happy camper! He knows for every book he buys now, he has to get rid of two. Terry... I looked at your stuff online. Very pretty. I'm so happy with my cruising bracelet. It will go with me in October when we head to the Caribbean again. Kat..I had Ethan from 8-6 yesterday. I don't think I have played that much baseball in my life. You know how hard it is to throw the ball so it hits the bat so you can yell and cheer when it bounces off?? I didn't get in the pool yesterday cause Ethan was here, but hope to get in it today if it warms up. It got down into the 50's again last night and is only 64 right now, but the sun is shining and the solar panels are on. I'm off to do my hospital shift. I am going to have lunch with a potential lap bander who has lots of questions. I seem to be the Alpena Lap band guru right now.. lol I'll tackle Wiifit when I get home and then have singing rehearsal tonight. A typical Tuesday for me! Everyone have a good day. Eat wisely!! Oh as for meeting again... fall is definitely out for me. But YES for next year sometime. We have a grandbaby coming in February and a cruise to Hawaii the end of March, but after that I'm sooooooo game for meeting again! How bout that place that Michelle suggested before? Or back in Gruene? Anyplace is fine as long as we get to see each other again. Raise your hand if you wanna meet again!!:thumbup::seeya:

Food consumed so far today. 1 egg with 1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese 2 granola bars 6 glasses Crystal Light 1 cup eggplant something or other Bob brought back from Greektown yesterday 1 cup nachos 5 nacho chips 2 thin slices salami 1 slice cheese 1 small root beer float ($1 on Mondays so that's our treat) That's it for the day. No eating this evening and 2 glasses of Crystal Light to go. Hope everyone else did well.. I'm packing it in early tonight, going to go read and then head to bed. Everyone have a good evening... sleep well. Eat wisely.

Good for you!! It is next to impossible to get the wiifit here. Keep your eye out for ads for target or Meijers for the console. They go out the door as fast as they come in!!

Ok.. here's my Wiifit routine most days. I start with the balance stuff. Ski jump, slalom, guiding a bubble through a river, butting soccer balls coming at me. Nothing really taxing, but fun and I'm developing my balance. Then I do the aerobics. I love these. There is the hula hoop where you spin your hips around just like you would if you had a hoop and you lean every so often to catch hoops they throw at you. That's a couple minutes each time of twirling your hips.. a good exercise. Then I do the step dance aerobics. It's not fast and not complicated, once you've done it several times. Then I do the step one that is just stepping on and off the balance board for 800 steps. You can watch tv while you're doing that. Then I do boxing and then I finish up with the jogging in place. You can choose the 3 minute or free run which is 10 or 20 minutes. That you can do also while you watch tv. The sound is in the background letting you know how far you've gone. After that I do the strength training and I usually do the tricep extensions.. 10 on each arm and then 20 with both arms together. I do a couple of other ones I can't think of right now and then I finish it all up with the yoga. Lots of stretching and breathing. It's a no brainer to do 30 minutes. It just flies by. It records how you do so I'm always trying to beat my best record. The best part is it's there whenever I want to do it. No special outfits, no getting in the car and going to the gym. Between that and my bikes and glider, I get a darn good workout.

Jane.. I highly recommend the Wiifit. I did 30 minutes on it this morning and it said my Wiifit age was 46.. wooo hoooo. I have only lost 1#, but my pants are getting looser and looser. This is my 3rd week with the Wiifit and I still can't wait to get on it during the day. It's expensive, but so much fun!

Food consumed so far today. 1 egg with 1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese 1 granola bar 2 glasses Crystal Light 1 cup eggplant something or other Bob brought back from Greektown yesterday

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You are more than welcome to hang out there with me!!

I love it out there, Jane. Had my dinner on the patio and just enjoyed the view. I did 45 minutes on the wiifit today and 30 minutes in the pool doing exercises. I'm going to the hot tub and then to bed. Bob is in Detroit so I have the bed to myself... well, along with the two yorkies and one cat, but they don't take up much room... Everyone sleep well and have a good evening.

Good evening, Violets.. Bob left to go to a Tiger's game and won't be home til tomorrow night so I've been out in the backyard and in the pool today. Here is a link to some pics of my backyard this year and one of my little fur babies. It was too cute a shot to pass up. I'm off to do Wii and then some serious cleaning in Bob's office. Catch ya later. Backyard 2008 pictures from outdoors photos on webshots

Good Morning, Violets.. Off to breakfast with friends. Everyone have a great weekend!

Good Morning, Violets.. I'm sitting here eating my omelette and can barely raise my arms to the keyboard to type. I did an hour on the wiifit yesterday and my shoulders are killing me! Sooooooo I guess it must be working. Had a 2 hour singing rehearsal last night and will have a 2 hour flute rehearsal this morning. Then some more rehearsal for a wedding coming up a week from Saturday. Then out to lunch with my friend and organist, Betsy. Ethan doesn't come today so I have a little breather. They are coming to replace the door that Jetta chewed through today. Sure will be nice to have something other than a big old hole there! It looks like the sun is finally going to shine today!! It's supposed to get all the way up to 78.. wooo hooo. It stormed again last night. Just don't know how we can handle any more rain. Kat... I have been keeping a journal since the day of my surgery. I write down several things about the day and then track my water, food and exercise. I'm on my 3rd notebook now. I know that June 1 last year I was in the pool and the water temp was 82. I know that this year, I have only been in it once on the 7th of July. :thumbdown::thumbup: Got to get my rear in gear. Everyone have a great day!!!

Good Morning, Violets.. I'm running late today. Eating my omelette in front of the computer. I did 40 min. on the wiifit this morning. It's really fun to see the improvement on scores and hopefully on me! Terry.. continued prayers for your mom. Hope she's doing better today. Suzie... 19-4 Tigers over Royals. hmmmmmmmm maybe I shouldn't wear the Royals shirt, eh? Laura.. purple power to you for all the testing! Jenn....so good to see you posting again! You were missed a LOT! Well, the Bobster broke down yesterday and filled the hot tub back up again. I can't go that long without being in water, so at least tonight I can get in and do some exercises and relax a bit. *wink, wink* The sun is out today so I should turn the pool pump and solar panels on. Can't believe how much rain we are getting here!!! Michelle... school starts in a month!!! YIKES, time flies when yer having fun!! DD Kris is doing well except for feeling sick in the afternoons, but it's killing me not to be able to say anything about her being pregnant yet! She says not until after she's heard the heartbeat. That won't be until Aug. 8 when she goes for her sonogram. After that I'll be blabbing to EVERYBODY!!! I understand her not wanting to say anything until she's sure everything is ok, but dang, I remember telling everyone when I was only a month along!! Course that was back in the good old days. :eek: Just ate my last bite of breakfast so I better get my hair curled and make up on and get out the door. Everyone have a great day!!!

:biggrin:Suzie...Tigers vs Royals tonight!! I'm wearing my Royals shirt.. you got your Tigers mug out????

:argue:Who you callin' silly?? Don't they teach you to respect yer elders????

I didn't mean title. I meant what would her JOB be? Sheeeeeeeeeesh!!!

Sorry about your boss's dad. So you are training your boss?? What's wrong with this picture????? If you got a promotion, what would your job be then?

The Wiifit is definitely helping with that. Plus the Pb'ing doesn't hurt. But of course I can't count on that as a weight loss tool!! I'm cleaning out drawers today waiting for Ethan to arrive. He should be here any minute. Then the fun begins. The sun left and it's cloudy and looking like rain again. sighhhhhhhhh