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Hmmm I guess I don’t really know how many calories is in most fruit, but I would guess there are somewhere around 250 or 300 calories in the smoothie… 100 for yogurt, 35 for the juice and the rest is fruit…It makes quite a bit, though! 🙂 Also, good job on the weight loss I am very impressed!

I hate cooking too. I use a lot of the recipes on kraftfoods.com under the healthy living catagory. Sign up for their meal & fitness planner and it weekly menus that have good ideas. Try their easy chicken pot pie, unstuffed cabbage skillet, or Creamy Basil & red pepper pasta (those are my favs). http://www.24hourfitness.com/html/nutrition/ is another good site.

I am constantly searching for low fat meals. A lot of times when I do a search for low fat meals, it will come up with hospital websites and their meals are usually pretty good. I also make chicken nuggets using crunched up cornflakes. I just dip the chopped up chicken in a little milk and coat it with cornflakes, garlic & a little pepper then bake for 45 minutes.

Hey, I have a couple of weight watchers cook books and they have some really good recipes… you might try searching for them on amazon or ebay? They have everything too… like breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, it is really cool. Anywho, congrats on the weight loss so far!!

practically fat-free fruit trifle: layer angelfood cake, chopped fruit (i use grapes, nectarines, peaches, strawberries, bananas, blueberries–whatever’s available and not too juicy), and fatfree, sugarfree instant pudding mixed with either nonfat yogurt or fatfree coolwhip (skim milk’s fine, too). add 3/4 tsp.orange peel to the pudding or cake mix for added taste, if you have it on hand.

I’ve definitely experienced that “I look awesome” and then straight to “I look like shit.” I find it’s been happening more and more often lately. I’ll spare you from being tagged, since Steph already got you.

i have those days too. it’s amazing how they can swing. =)

Wow! You have made such great progress!!

Thanks for the sweet note. I’ve still got a long way to go. You are doing so well, and are such an inspiration!

ryn: I really struggle with going to a gym. First – the money, second – getting my butt down there, third – I hate being around so many thinner people. I feel like everyone is staring, saying, “Yeah, baby, SHE needs to be here!”. I’m very self-conscious. So I work on getting my exercise here at home. I’m better than I used to be, and I guess that’s a start. 🙂 I hear ya about the …

…flabbies. Got ’em all over. rotfl – I know they’ll go eventually, but man, they suck. I feel like I could hurt someone with the “flags” under my arms (that’s what Oprah calls them…). Have a great weekend! 🙂

Thank you very much. You are the sweetest. Go ahead and sound as motherly as you want (although I don’t think you did) Do you think the white shutters would work or would they be too much white? I wish we could just put them on in a bunch of different colors and see but no such luck. Thanks for the suggestion.

Do you notice any difference on those vitamins? Just curious – it’s not like I’ll stop using the bottle I bought, I’m just impressed that they were the same price. I take the calcium for two – no, three reasons. I *hate* milk – can’t stand the taste of it at all , I’ve heard it’s good for weight loss, and the doctor said that I don’t get enough calcium with a daily yogurt, so she..

…suggested that I do. I have the “quick release” kind from Walmart. How special! I need to stop writing so much…even my notes are too long. 🙂

Oh no! The tickers aren’t showing up! All I see are red x’s. 🙁