The A2K (virtual) Weight Loss Club !!

I find that if I'm organized about the meal-planning/creation, a lot of other stuff fits in better.

I wouldn't normally do this, but I think Rachael Ray's 30 minute meals are really a great way to go at it. She uses real ingredients, gets good results <even the high nose foodies like her results, if not her>, and it really is fast meal prep.

If you ever get into making the boule, it's very fast (other than the overnight wait).

I made the menu for this coming week, made a shopping list, and E.G. and sozlet are out getting the stuff on it now (they actually told me she was going with this time... residual grrr...) and YEAST was the #1 item on it. Plan to make that this week, looking forward to it.

The biggest problem is the unpredictability of the kid, and therefore the need to maximize the time she's at school. Sometimes she's happy to draw for an hour (or two) at a time, sometimes she wants attention attention and more attention and I need/want to be able to accommodate that.

I just made a schedule for working about half of my job time when she's asleep, then going to the gym when she's at school, and should be able to scrounge the remaining half of job time from here and there including when she's at school on my "short" gym days.

Alas, 1/24 didn't look so good after all. Maybe next week...

I'm betting on you making it, mac.

Still counting calories on my website and losing a steady pound a week, am now slimmer than I have been for about 10 years, and feel great! Why did I never count calories before? I suppose it's never been this easy, with the site, and packages labelled.

Mac--

Weight-watching Texans seem to be a bit...wimpy?....compared to the Texas Stereotype.

Clary--

Congratulations.

Soz--

Motherhood is checks and balances--some weeks are mostly checks.

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I'm down to 118--six pounds to go. BMI now is about 21.3. Six pounds from now it will be 20.2.

"Normal" is between 18.5 and 24.9.

When the flowers bloom in the spring, tra-la, I'll need a new wardrobe.

Noddy, if that wimpy shoe fits, I'll wear it. And god knows, I'm a fer piece from a stereotypical Texan.

Mac--

Those cancelled meeting were to be celebrations of your daily triumphs.

Weight Watchers should have met at your place with the admiring hoards ferried in by Sno Cats or dog sleds.

Everyone tick-ticking away?

I just got back from a mini-roadtrip with one of my friends from bellydance class and her pal who's a yoga instructor. We picked up some stuff for class and made plans to get some help from R with our yoga.

slowly slowly

and then we break into a mmmaaaaaaaaddddd shimmy

172.5 this morning. First time since October that I've been in my comfort zone. Still looking to lose one more before next Sunday's Super Bowl party.


I read somewhere that the top two food consumption days in the US are Thanksgiving Day and Super Bowl Sunday. I don't doubt it!

Ccongratulations, JPB!

This all reminds me of a certain superbowl sunday back in the years we had stopped watching the game. A bunch of us went to Chinatown in LA - LA being eerily silent, as the game was on - where a friend owned a Vietnamese restaurant. He knew we were coming that afternoon. The eight of us got there, he wasn't there. We waited a bit and then ended up ordering and eating a meal for eight people or more. Stuffed ourselves. We were just paying the bill when he walked in the door hauling grocery bags... and his face fell.

What could we do? We stayed, drank a lot of his special tea (cognac, good cognac) and ate another whole meal for eight or more, this time country-type dishes. Oh, lord, we waddled out of there. But then one of the fellows had to play in a band on the other side of town, so we all went there with him, with probably a lot of gas expelled in the cars.

I seem to remember dancing exceptionally badly.

Anyhow, another one of the fellows had a job interview the next morning somewhere in downtown LA.
Turns out....
that the interviewer had also been at that establishment, and recognized him (he's very tall and his wife was quite small, both stylish people, though he was stylish while under the influence - so they were memorable on the dance floor). He got the job...

Even without the game on, it was a major food day.

EhBeth--

Shimmy, shimmy, tick-tick.

JPB--

Congratulations. Starting from "Go" is a big ego boost.

Osso--

Auld lang syne. The best women have wonderful memories.

Mac--

Did you ever get to weigh in in January?


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Mr. Noddy bought a new bathroom scale because he couldn't see the figures on the old bathroom scale.

Weight on new scale: 118.

I forgot to update y'all yesterday. I had a decent loss, but didn't make it to the big 1-0-0. I was at 99.4 pounds down. Looking forward to 2/7.

Mac--

Us Westerners are hung up on round numbers. You have a more celestial--even global--view of progress.

99.4

unh hunh
unh hunh

99.4

so cool
so cool

<grooves to the tune>

Thanks for the laugh, bethie. (I'm contemplating NYC in June on a daily basis.)

Contemplating.

Oy!

Book a room at 'my' place already - you can always cancel it closer to the date if you can't come - but you'll have a hard time getting a good affordable place closer to the date.

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This week (today in fact) we start cane work in our Egyptian Folk Dance class. I don't think they get how uncoordinated I am yet. I can (pretty much) control my own body - but accessories to dance with ?!?!

Well, I didn't hit anyone with my cane - and I made it almost to the end of the class before I lost control of it - and mine didn't fly across the room as a few others did - I managed to do some kind of baton twirl which made the instructor's eyebrows go up - and for some reason I'm a natural at the advanced backward spin, not the beginner's forward spin.

EhBeth--

You keep discovering talents.