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Midsummer coming up which is a holiday here : ) Long weekend!!

Midsummer is a holiday? Interesting.


Also, anyone on here that goes to zeta having issues?

If I don't get back to work and finish my project, my next review will suck.

Evil Stepmother wrote:

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If I don't get back to work and finish my project, my next review will suck.

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 Hurry...get back to work!

kapper wrote:

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Great weekend but very busy week at work for me this week. Hopefully time will pass quickliy and it will be the weekend again before I notice.

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 Time flies when you're having fun. The weekend will be here before you know it.

EmmDee wrote:

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Midsummer is a holiday? Interesting.


Also, anyone on here that goes to zeta having issues?

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 Jepp - it is bigger than the national holiday here.

I know, I'm curious too!

Hamsterfun, that sounds like a blast. Maybe, possibly, you can take some photos to share with us this year. You know, just a thought.

hehe, cool beans!

That sounds so neat! I take it you are not in the US?

Will there be a bonfire too?
I wish I weren't moving this weekend...I'd love to have a midsummer's day thing with a fire, much wine and some good munchies.

have fun!

Glad you had fun. It sounds very cool.

Evil, I seem to recall special traps for Japanese beetles. Used them when I lived in MD and they were very effective.

I'm having a snail problem this year : (

Morning all. Today we are making a little landscaped plot where I can stage my stones to take photos. I'm excited about it.

eeewwww, I don't want to know what a salt covered slug or snail looks like

LOL, I love how when a person says they don't want to know, the peeps know they really must tell us.

lol, totally, we don't ever want to leave a peep without proper knowledge

hehe, I don't think we got that hot today but we did hit 109 and 106 the last two days..

Last year we had 90 straight days of 100+ degrees. Luckily we have not started that run this year but the last two days were record temps for the dates.

Cinthy wrote:

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Congrats, FRAED!

I am trying to lose a few pounds for the past few months, but the scale doesn't budge. How did you do it?

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 I lived on powdered iced tea mixes - that was my favorite drink.
That was the first thing to go - now I drink brewed iced tea with lemon & splenda sometimes, but I prefer water with 4C flavor packets. Today I brought fruit punch with me and it's yummy! Zero calories, sweetened with splenda and 100% vitamin C.

But I don't go nuts with it - I have to have creamer in my coffee - DH & I like the flavored ones, so I just get the fat free versions (they have sugar), because the sugar free versions aren't that tasty (to me).

Here's a typical day for me:

breakfast is either Quaker Oats Weight Control instant oatmeal (flavored) or a bowl of cold cereal like Honey Bunches of Oats, a half a glass of juice (to take my vitamin & bc pill) and one or two cups of coffee with fat free creamer. I eat breakfast around 6:30.

I have fruit for snack around 10 a.m. - either fresh or a canned - I get peaches or pears "no sugar added" or pineapples in 100% juice.

Lunch is around 1 and I have either Healthy Choice soup, a salad with chicken or a sandwich (today I have low fat/sodium deli ham on Weight Watchers whole wheat bread with mustard and cheese - I don't compromise on my cheese - I love Cooper's sharp).

When I get home around 4:30 if I'm hungry I'll have a snack of fat free caramel rice cakes with some peanut butter.

Then dinner is when DH gets home - 7:30 - and I'll have either some chicken & veggies with either brown rice or a half a baked potatoe or a salad with chicken, or a turkey hot dog with veggies.

Right before my monthly friend visits I crave mac & cheese or spaghetti so I don't deprive myself - I just measure my portions.

And when I want ice cream - I have a Skinny Cow ice cream sandwich.

I could have lost more, I know that for sure, but I decided to not deprive myself and then end up stuffing myself.

On payday Fridays we like to order take out. DH is a pizza fan, but I'm a snob about it, which is good because I don't go nuts - we only get my favorite a few times a year because it's not near where we live. So when DH gets pizza, I order a chicken cheese steak hoagie (6 inch) or when I'm in need of pasta, I'll get take out spaghetti & maybe chicken parm.

So - in other words - sorry to be so long winded - eat what you want, just cut back and try to get rid of as much sugar as you can. And the drinks are the worst for sugar. I HATE diet soda, but when I want soda, I can deal with Pepsi Next with lemon - it's somewhere in between real soda & diet.

OH! And 5 or 6 small meals/snacks over 2 or 3 big ones works too. I don't feel hungry and usually I eat because I know it's time to eat. After work is the only time I ever really felt hungry in the beginning but now I usually don't feel too hungry when I get home.

-- Edited by FRAED on Monday 2nd of July 2012 12:29:57 PM

-- Edited by FRAED on Monday 2nd of July 2012 12:33:49 PM

Woot Woot! Way to go FRAED!!!!!!

Congratulations! Since you did it slowly you probably will have good luck keeping it off.

Evil Stepmother wrote:

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Congratulations! Since you did it slowly you probably will have good luck keeping it off.

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 That's what I'm hoping....
I probably could have lost more but I decided to not deprive myself of anything I was truly craving.

Kapper,

I think that is the key. Because if you say "oh no more pizza for me" or whatever it is you really like, then you'll end up binging and then being mad at yourself and give up.
I have days I eat way more than what I wrote above, but I just get back on track the next day. My mom took us out for dinner last week to a great Italian restaurant. I was not about to just eat a salad. LOL!

Smaller portions and less sugar & fat where possible should work.

DH & I try to go for a walk every Sunday for about an hour & a half and most lunches my friend & I go for a short walk, but with the heat the way it is, I'm nervous about walking after my fainting "episode" from a few weeks ago..........