Posts by mchulie

Hello Everyone!

     You all sound like your doing great.   I used to belong to Curves before we moved, I enjoyed it.  My sister in law worked their at the time and she kept me motivated.

     Jess, I also love to nibble in the car while I am driving!  I have to drive about 15 mins to the pool and back.  I bring a pound of baby carrots with me, they are crunchy and sweet. (I never all of them!)  My friends laugh cause I am always eatting baby carrots.  I have now lost 18.4 pounds. 

    One down fall from the pool, I picked up strep throat while I was there last weekend and have been paying for it all week.  My last swim was last Monday.  I have watched everything that has gone into my mouth this week.  Campbells soup has a series called "Healthy Request".  I have tried the veggie beef and the herbed chicken.  The herbed chicken is only 100 calories per cup and has loads of favor.  I have discovered soup this week cause my throat has been too sore for even scrambled eggs!  My throat isn't sore anymore, but it has turned into the most horrible cough I have ever had and my voice is gone.  My husband and son are enjoying a nag free weekend!

    Susan, its great that your HD said he needs to improve his health.  Now see if you can get him to get moving.  Mine DH knows he needs to lose some.  He is tall, almost 6'4" and now looks pregnant from a side view.  I told him he needs to get mobile.  He has been taking the dogs for a walk...its a start!

   Lora and Karen keep up the good work, you are doing great!!!

   I left a note to the easter bunny, no chocolate for me this year.  However, he left me a small thing of eggies.  Might have to have one or 2. 

    Have a great Easter everyone!

     Julie

Hey!

     How is everyone? Did you all have a good weekend, I worked out in the pool for and hour and a half each day.  The scale has been good to me I am now down 15.4 pounds! I cna't believe it.  I have already been to the pool this morning for deep water aqua fit and after it was finished I stayed in the pool for another 15 mins and used the water weights.  I feel good.

     Welcome all the newbies.  I am still looking for someone in my are "Chatham" to work out with.  Well I must go and clean out the spare room, until later.

     Julie

Hello!

     I haven't tried the Smart Ones, but I love dessert and I have found Chapmans Dutch Chocolate Frozen Yogurt  half a cup is 90 calories and they also have a fudge bar that is also 120 calories and both taste great!

     As for all of you in the states, I am in Chatham, Ontario, Canada and we got 15cm or 7 inches of snow last night and today.  I pray for warm weather, we kayak and camp in the summer and I can't wait.

    Julie

Hello Everyone!

     I have been so busy with life that I haven't had a chance until this morning to read all the posts since I was on here last.  Lots of new members I see, thats great.   I have been a member since Jan 22, 08 and have lost 12.2 pounds!  The scale this last 2 weeks has not moved and so yesterday I started a deep water aquafit program that goes 3 times a week.  The class is an hour long and I didn't think it was possible to sweat in the water, but I was.  It was great, all women, in every shape and size.  They were all very friendly and now I can't wait until Wednesdays class.

     Instead of finding different recipes, I cook things in different ways than I did before.  My man won't eat anything else but white bread, so I got whole wheat for me.  I did change our pasta to whole wheat and he likes that.  I am the only one that eats real veggies, either raw or steamed.

     I met one of my sons friends out with his mother last week and we have become good friends.  Her name is Patty, she will be me in 5 years (from watching her eatting habits) and she is only 31.  I am 40.  We went swimming on Sunday and on the way home I had to stop at a grocery store.  I filled my buggy with healthy items, I watched as she went to put some kids lunchables into her cart...I asked her if she ever read the box.  She did right then and there and put them back on the shelf.  She said she has bought them before beacuse it was easier than making lunch.  Anyway, we got back into my mini van I paused to take a bag of baby carrots out and put them up front where I could munch them as I drove home.  Patty took out a huge bag of ketchup potato chips for her son Damien, my son Andrew and herself.  I managed to get Andrew to eat about 5 carrots before he started on the chips.  Patty even offered them to me about 3 times and I just said no thank you and continued eatting carrots.  I had to turn up my will power button a few notches, cause the chips did smell great.  She had the bag finished by the time we got home.   Patty realized that I was counting calories for real when I came on here and started to type in my food.   She didn't know what to say, but they are going swimming again with us this Friday.

     Well I hope everyone is doing great and would love to hear how everyone is doing.  Don't don't forget...get up and move...or go swimming the water feels great!

      Julie

Hello everybody!

     As of yesterday I am down 12.2 pounds in 3 weeks.. I hope I can keep this up.  I have caught my sons cold and haven't gone walking in a while.  I need to get back into exercising.  Although I have been doing some weigh training and it feels like I have stomache muscles, if only I could see them lol.  I have discovered that I like to eat or drink a smoothie that has a banana, a few strawberries and half a cup of vanilla yogurt.  It is really good and very filling!  The recipe I had also called for orange juice, but I didn't like the flavor of it!  I hope everyone is staying cold free and still eatting their veggies.

I already have true love, so can I still have the 20 million?

I was 18.

What would you buy after your lonas were paid off?

Ok, here's the good news I lost 2 more pounds for a total of 6! The bad news is we bought a new scale and I weighted more that I thought I did.  But I have still lost 6.  So Instead of being at 254 like I thought, I am at 262.2.  Is anyone confused yet?  I know that I am.  But its just a number and in a few weeks the number will slowly drop.  I can do this!

With the help of all of you!

Thanks!

Julie

Hello!

How is everyone doing? It sounds like you are all doing great.  I haven't been exercising as much lately.  But I did take the dogs for a good run and even ran with them. 

Is there a better part of the day to exercise? Does it really matter? I think I will use the recumbent bike tonight for a bit.

Is everyone still eatting all of their veggies?  I found out last week that I really like a baby spinach salad.  I have it with an oz of cheese, celery, and a raspberry dressing.  Its really good and as long as I don't go nuts with the cheese, its low in cals.

Have a good day everyone!

Julie

Dear Lora,

How do I add friends to my account?

Lost,

Julie

Lora I like your idea from your past posts about listing veggies.

I have have a 3 cup baby spinach , one stalk of celery and another cup of mixed romaine lettuce mixed together with a blueberry dressing and an orange for lunch.  At supper time I ate 2 cups of steamed brocoli.  Its hard when I am the only one that eats more than carrots, corn and peas.

Any idea how to cook a sweet potatoe? I bought one cause I heard that they are good for you and high in fiber.  But  have no clue what to expect.

I'm glad that you don't put up with any crap on your bus! Good for you, I wouldn't put up with it either.  I am in Chatham, On.  How far am I from you?

Julie

Hi!  I'm new, I hope you have room for one more.  My name is Julie, I am 40 years old, 5'7" and weigh 260 pounds.  I joined yesterday, but have already been exercising for a week.  I walked at such a good pace today that my calves hurt.  I have been walking 2 miles every other day and riding a recumbent bike on the off days.

My dad has always seen me for who I am, my mum is thin and has always been thin.  I wish for once that she could look behond my weight and see that their is a person here and that my feelings are the same as anyone elses.  I don't see my parents too often, I live 7 hours away from them.  Last summer when I went for a visit, after a 7 hour drive, the first words out of my mums mouth were I see you haven't lost any weight.  It made me want to get back into the car with my 5 yr old son and come home again.  But I bit my lip and stayed.  I made 2 trips to the Hersheys Chocolate factory while I was there and enjoyed every mouthfull. 

But now I am ready to lose the weight.  I want to be able to chase my son around and do all the activities that he wants to do.  I got into kayaking last summer and can't wait for the weather to warm up to go again.

Its great to read everyones hopes and dreams.  Keep up the good work, we know we can do it and we will!

Julie