The fun's over! It's time for an Easter (Sunday, March 31) Challenge!

[Lynn49]

-2 exactly!

Granger, congrats, on your loss...yes, we absolutely CAN do this! I wish I only had 13.5 lbs to go!!!
Enjoy your new little nephew!

Patty.....this is a war, not a skirmish, as we well know, and maintaining without gaining is still a victory!!!

[thriftygranny]

Happy Friday everyone!!Well I am only down 1 pound but really had a great eating week!!Will keep marching on.
Granger, congrats!!

[SassyAshley]

You are all braver than me, not ready to step on a scale yet.

So far so good have packed my lunch and included veggies as well as added fruit to my snacks at work.

Granger have fun with your nephew

[walkonby]

You are all braver than me, not ready to step on a scale yet.

So far so good have packed my lunch and included veggies as well as added fruit to my snacks at work.

Granger have fun with your nephew

I am just as cowardly as you SassyAshley, nope ain't gonna step on one just yet. I am being sort of disciplined though, doing my lemon and hot water every a.m. and drinking healthy green juices during the day, but today was a homemade Boston Baked Bean Bonanza Day!! Martha Stewart's recipe turned out so darn delicious I could have wiped out the entire pot myself.
We are def. repeating that recipe.

[i_forget]

I weigh in tomorrow if I decide to go to a WW meeting.
Not sure what will happen, but when I tossed my work out clothes on this morning straight from the dryer they felt looser, so that is a positive sign.

[Lynn49]

I am just as cowardly as you SassyAshley, nope ain't gonna step on one just yet. I am being sort of disciplined though, doing my lemon and hot water every a.m. and drinking healthy green juices during the day, but today was a homemade Boston Baked Bean Bonanza Day!! Martha Stewart's recipe turned out so darn delicious I could have wiped out the entire pot myself.
We are def. repeating that recipe.

We also watcher her make those beans and I kept saying to my DH that if she doesn't add molasses, it's not REALLY good baked beans. She added a little...I'd probably add double sincec I even take unsulphured molasses by the spoonful sometimes...

But how did the non-mixing everything together work out? I mentioned to him that I'd likely still mix....

[walkonby]

We also watcher her make those beans and I kept saying to my DH that if she doesn't add molasses, it's not REALLY good baked beans. She added a little...I'd probably add double sincec I even take unsulphured molasses by the spoonful sometimes...

But how did the non-mixing everything together work out? I mentioned to him that I'd likely still mix....

lol!! Oh Lynn I was tempted to stir it, but I wanted to obey as many of Martha's methods as possible. I loved pushing cloves into the onion halves, and the pork I placed all in the bottom, it just was fall apart tender small pieces after 6 hrs. The only thing I never do is break bay leaves up, I put them in whole and scoop them out before serving. Maybe Martha has never sliced the inside of her mouth on a sharp bay leaf but I have. lol!!

[Lynn49]

You're SO right about the bay leaves! Always leave them whole...I guess she has plebians sifting them out of her bowl before she dines...lol!!!
As kids our Mom made us take a tsp of molasses quite often "for our health" and my brother loathed it and I loved it!

Didn't Martha put the pork on top? Anyhoodles, I'm glad it turned out so nicely for you; when I'm close to the weight I want to be, I'll treat myself to home-made beans! I may omit the cloves...I've never put it in mine, and I like it only in some things...not beans, I'm thinkin'... But OIY, I'd love some right now!!!

[SassyAshley]

I find my biggest challenge when it comes to weight lose is finding so called "good for you foods" I can eat. Most diet recipes include beans, avocado, egg whites and I cannot eat any of the above due to texture issues. Some have forced me too try them and I just cannot do it, it ended bad for them. Although the funny thing is the person who insisted this was all in my head and my mom letting me get away with it (I have had these issues since I was a kid) has a child who is WAY worse than me when it comes to textures.

I see so man recipes I could love to try but they Black Beans, or Chickpeas and I just cannot eat them.

[Granger]

Got to snuggle my nephew for an hour tonight and hear all about my SIL's birth. She is a superhero. No time to go to hospital as planned and birthed her firstborn at home. Midwife barely made it there.

[Lynn49]

I find my biggest challenge when it comes to weight lose is finding so called "good for you foods" I can eat. Most diet recipes include beans, avocado, egg whites and I cannot eat any of the above due to texture issues. Some have forced me too try them and I just cannot do it, it ended bad for them. Although the funny thing is the person who insisted this was all in my head and my mom letting me get away with it (I have had these issues since I was a kid) has a child who is WAY worse than me when it comes to textures.

I see so man recipes I could love to try but they Black Beans, or Chickpeas and I just cannot eat them.

Ashley, there is no reason to eat foods that you truly do not enjoy. Egg whites?! Not a chance. I'd rather eat two regular eggs @70 cal each than a dozen whites! I enjoy omelettes any time if the day made with eggs, onions, mushrooms, green peppers and I toss a slice of processed cheese on one half, flip the other half over and that, to me, isn't diet food. I do use Wonder thin sliced bread for lunch sandwiches made with ham, mayo, mustard and lettuce. Dinner with hubby is often a typical meat or fish/seafood, rice, veggie one, although we vary with veggie dinners, also. I never have pasta. I have made a fantastic veggie lasagna, no pasta, and we love crustless quiche.

I don't eat starchy beans on my diet, so they're out. I have IBS, so no nice big salads. Canned soup is great with a few soda crackers.....in short, I've always eaten what I've always eaten, including a big burger on weekends, but I've cut my portions or ingredients to lower fats and carbs, and lost, so far, 50-ish pounds.

Hth...

[curt81]

- 0.2

[Lynn49]

At least it's going in the right direction, Curt!

[Angela273]

Lynn49, could you share your crustless quiche recipe? Dh didn't like the crust on the ones I have made.

[Patty Smyth]

Cooking down , hopefully set for the week but with DS you never know what will last