BFL Free Sunday!!!

[irishrose]

Good morning, everyone! Did everyone hear me? Today is FREE DAY SUNDAY!!! It's more like "Pumpkin Muffin Day" for me than it is free day. I've made them my free day ritual, and I look forward to it all week. How bad is that?!?! Like I can't find anything else to get excited about??

Anyway, the past week for me was excellent. Stayed clean all week and didn't miss a workout. AND the scale went down a smidgen more. Not a ton, but I'm hoping I've started ont he down slope finally. We'll see.

What's on everyone's plate today? Weather here is finally beautiful.

I never got to check in yesterday, so I'll have to go catch up with you all. Have a great day!!

Jennifer

 

[banslug]

Hi, Jennifer! "What's on everyone's plate today?" LOL I chuckled at that and my answer is, "a toasted bagel with veggie cream cheese". lol The one thing that I crave for each Free Day is Chex Mix...the Peanut Butter flavor or the Turtle one. YUMMO!

YES...FREE DAY! I have to admit that I had to go to bed last night at 9:30 when the kids went to bed just so I'd stay out of the kitchen! I knew Free Day was just a few hours away, and I read a post about someone staying up till Midnight on Saturday night so that TECHNCIALLY Free Day started! LOL I couldn't get that out of my mind. The BDay cake was calling me, as were the homemade Tasty Kakes. BUT.....I persevered, tucked myself into bed, and slept it out! LOL

Free Day today. YEAH!!!!!!!!! I got up early and put a big pot roast, with onions, carrots and potatoes in the crockpot. It's a recipe from the Eating For Life cookbook, and older DS and I are SOOOOOOO looking forward to it! I'm going to treat myself to some BDay cake (chocolate with caramel frosting). I'm taking the boys to the skating rink for some roller blading. Maybe we'll pick up a pumpkin to carve. QUIET DAY!!!!

I've taken my Week 4 measruements and photos and I AM HAPPY! My weight is down a complete 12.6#, and my measurements are ALL down (except for my thigh measurement, which is the same). I'M PSYCHED!!!!!!!!!!!

ENJOY FREE DAY SUNDAY, ladies! I'll come back later today to see how you're all doing!

Gayle

 

[irishrose]

Gayle, you are making my mouth water! I'm on my way to your house for free day!!

Great job on the weight loss and the measurements. You are looking FANTASTIC!! As you should...because I know you're working incredibly hard. Keep up the good work.

Jennifer

P.S. I'm going out to look for that Chex Mix today! I hope you haven't cursed me ;-) .

 

[banslug]

Jennifer-I AM WARNING YOU!!!!!! That Chex Mix is DELISH!!!! And it's MUCH healthier than MANY Free Day choices that we could make! ENJOY it! It's YUMMY!!!!!!!!!

Thanks, too, for the kind words. I was reluctant to post pics, but it really is keeping me accountable!!!

Chat more later!!

Gayle

p.s. I wish you guys could just SMELL this house right now! Yummy!

 

[HPLECTRA]

Hi Gayle and Jennifer,

Just checking in kinda late. Sorry I missed you all this morning.
Had to get more shopping in...grocery this time. They were having a sale on lobsters so my DH is cooking them right now.

Just finished my workout. I did it!:7 I promised that I would and boy do I feel better for it. I was kinda feeling sickish like a headache was coming on and I knew if I ran I would feel better.
Completed a 30 min trail run and then went into SH Tri & Bi's. Finished out with abs and a stretch. Feel fantastic now!

My DH has the fire roaring and ready for me to sit with him and have a glass of wine and I am not sure about how clean eating a lobster is. What do you think?

Gayle: I am going to make Pumpkin soup and muffins from the EC cookbook tomorrow. (Love that spice smell too.) The chex mix is my sons favorite too! :9
You must be very proud of your accomplishmnents thus far. My we all stick with it and have great success!

Take Care, have a great evening.

 

[geojill]

Mmmm....pumpkin muffins....I LOVE pumpkin muffins! I recently made a not so clean recipe recently for DD. It used spice cake mix, a can of pumpkin, applesauce, 2 eggs, and some chocolate chips. YUM!!!! And they were so moist and delicious!

Anyway, I got in a workout today! I worked out Friday afternoon and slept great Friday night. I didn't work out yesterday and didn't sleep so well last night. So I worked out today and we'll see how well I sleep. If I do sleep well tonight then I will just switch my workout times to late afternoon and Tuesdays will be my rest day from exercise (that's when I am at school late for lab).

I decided to do Tae Bo Ultimate Boot Camp. The bands he uses (and the 94 pushups in the workout!) really work the upper body. I have to tell you, though, I'm really looking forward to doing LIC again! It was a really fun workout

I'm off to make dinner, so have a great night!

 

[irishrose]

Good evening BFL'ers ~ hope everyone enjoyed their day.

Gayle, I don't know if I am forever indebted to you or forever cursed by you :+ . I picked up the very last bag of Chocolate Turtle Chex Mix in the store this morning, and all I can say is YUUUMMMMMY. I've enjoyed it very much today, and now it's under lock and key so I don't touch it again.

Looking forward to starting a new week tomorrow!

Jennifer