Teachlady

And the mini-trampolines are only about $30.

Basically I jog, do twists and jumping jacks. Not all at the same time though!:smile: It's just a nice cardio workout and I can feel it in my muscles so it must be working!

Hi, my name is Judy and I'm a exercise equipment-holic. I just ordered two new things.... the Tony Little Rock 'n Roll Stepper https://www.rocknrollstepper.com/spark/index.php?ai=12 and a nifty little elliptical from QVC. Product Detail - Stamina 55-1610 InMotion E1000 Elliptical Trainer I'm loving my trampoline. I don't ever sit down in the living room anymore. I'm constantly on it. Now when these two things come in, I'll have my own little circuit training in front of the tv! Somebody make me stop!!!

Hey Pike and Pike's Mom... Hope you guys are doing well. Looking forward to seeing you at the next support group meeting... Feb. 9 11 a.m. same place.

GREAT NEWS, JENN!! I'm so happy for you.. and see... if it's meant to be, it will be! woooo hooooo!! (course prayers don't hurt either!)

So glad you didn't say pussy cat, cause that'd be wayyyyy TMI for Michelle. :smile:

I'm staying on plan today cause it's the first day of a brand new month!!

And my DH was just shy of 62 when he had his last May. He's doing great too!! No complications for either of us. If you go to the 60's thread you'll see lots and lots of us old farts with lap bands!

Holy cow... I remember that too. But I'm not jealous. nuff said. la la la la la

Good morning, Violets! We got a few inches of snow last night, but it's all the way up to 27 degrees.. woooo hooooo!! Ethan has arrived for the day so I'm gonna be busy. Will check in when I can. Hope Laura is feeling better today!

My Pistons won by 1 point, I did 10 minutes on the bike, 10 minutes on the glider, 1 min on the trampoline and 10 minutes on toning exercises in the hot tub and now it's time for bed. Ethan arrives at 8 in the morning. Everyone sleep well.

Sheeesh, Tracy, you'd think you were getting skinny for a wedding or something................. oh wait. :party:

I adore Paula Deen! I would LOVE to go to The Lady and Sons for lunch sometime. Pass the buttah please!!

Just finished dinner and it was delish.. a little too delish as a matter of fact. I ate too fast and PB'd twice. When will I ever learn?? Pam... that gift sounds lovely. What a nice memento of that special day for them. How old is the little girl? Love the name Roxy.

Michelle..wish there was a way to capture it all on video for us. It's gonna be awesome.. What a perfect surprise for the kids!! Suzie....cute cat and laid back too.... literally! Tracyinks......... 192 Kat...I've made the Death by Chocolate before, but I add toffee bits also. Won't be doing that THIS Superbowl!! I'll be making crockpot bbq meatballs instead. Terry...great pics. Sure is different from the snow I'm looking at out my window! 2-4 more inches predicted tonight and tomorrow. Oh joy! Got pineapple glazed spareribs in the pressure cooker and some cooked cabbage for supper. Yums

In my beginning chat days about 10 years ago I used to be on the computer until 2 a.m. Go to bed, get up at 4:30 a.m. and head to work at 6 a.m. It was a 62 mile drive one way. By rest time I would be in the rocking chair with a child on my lap asking... "Mrs. Case, are you sleepin'??" "Nope, just resting my eyes!". When it got to the point of me sleeping more and more during movies, etc, I said enough. I never went with that little sleep again. But I really, really enjoyed my chatting days. Made lots of good friends that I still chat with and visit today. Just not til 2 a.m.!!

Suzie... My quality time with Pam Pam Bo Bam will be spent trying to convince her I'm not her type. I noticed how quickly she jumped at the chance to be my roommate. hmmmmmmm Sure you can't join us, Suzie??? We're going to keep at you until the day of the trip, ya know!! Pam PPBB...don't ya just love evaluation days?? We finally went to once every 3 years if you had had positive evaluations. In Kindergarten I never knew what the kids were going to do when the principal entered the room. But we usually wowed her with all our knowledge. Now if she'd shown up at naptime, that would be a different story. Usually I was napping and the kids were running the room. Isn't that what nap time is for??? And I won't even begin to tell you about snack time!! LOVED eating the left overs..."no, kids, there are no more cookies..." (said with my mouth full and crumbs spitting everywhere)

Jenn...fingers, toes, eyes and legs crossed (woo hoo, I can do that now!) for you for good luck on getting that job!! Speaking of crossed legs, my beautician said I couldn't sit with my legs crossed in the chair anymore cause that throws my body out of whack and the haircut gets lopsided. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeesh... finally I can cross my legs and she won't let me!!!

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though they know you are slightly cracked. Friends always give their best to you even when that's hard to do Good friends are fellow travelers on the road of life

Whew.. just went through 70 pages of posts and picked out the tip of the day as best as I could. If I missed yours, please grab it and put it on the Tip'O The Day thread.

Tips to Feel Satisfied With Less food Did you know that simply changing the way you eat could help you to feel more satisfied after eating? Notice I used the word satisfied, not full. There's a big difference. Full means, "I'm really stuffed." Satisfied is simply, "I'm no longer hungry." Satisfaction is actually a learned feeling. Many of us in fact feel satisfied after eating only half of a meal, but we don't recognize that feeling because, instead of pausing, we go on and eat to fullness. I am still part of the clean-plate generation — that's just how we were brought up. But now we need to change our thinking and learn to recognize what it feels like to be satisfied during a meal. If you stop when you are satisfied, you will eat less food. Try some of these tips to help you feel more satisfied at meals: Use smaller plates and bowls. This trick actually fools your mind into thinking that you're getting more food. When you see a plate (no matter what size) brimming with food, you're already thinking, I am going to be satisfied after this meal! Smaller plates mean that your portion sizes will be smaller and you'll eat less food. Eat your meal slowly. It takes about 20 minutes for your brain to get the message that you have eaten enough and to then communicate that feeling of satisfaction (or fullness!) to your stomach. Put your fork or spoon down between bites of food, talk with others at the table, chew your food thoroughly, and drink liquids during meals to slow your rate of eating. Drink plenty of non-calorie beverages each day. Interestingly, the feeling of thirst can sometimes impersonate that of hunger, so make sure you are drinking enough fluids every day. Change your eating schedule, or create one that works. Skipping or delaying meals can result in overeating. If you skip meals often, try to eat on more of a schedule. You will then feel more satisfied with what you do eat. Enjoy your food. Take the time at meals to simply enjoy what you are eating. Taking pleasure in what you eat will help you feel more satisfied. __________________

Take a tip from high performance athletes. Look at how far you've come, not how much you have left to do. Scientists call this the horizon effect. It creates encouragement—"I've done twice as much as a week ago!" and builds determination—"I've made it this far; I might as well keep going." Focus on the ten pounds you did lose; the closet you managed to clean; the $1,000 debt you've wiped out; the evening you carved out for yourself. Don't forget to ask yourself how you've accomplished the task so far, so you can mine your success for ideas on how to keep going. --M.J.Ryan (Author of 'This Year I Will...') When we think about changing something in ourselves, it can feel overwhelming. But in truth, our entire lives are constructed of the minute-by-minute choices we're making, many of which we're not even aware of. If you're having trouble sticking to your resolution, for a day, try this practice: when you're doing the bad old thing, stop and say, "I'm choosing to: eat this Twinkie, not work out, stay at the office to finish this project, blow up, look at my email rather than clean my desk, etc. Do you like yourself when you make this choice? You can choose differently, moment to moment. The next day, make the positive choice visible to yourself: I'm choosing to throw this catalog away rather than go on a spending spree; I'm choosing to take a few calming breaths before speaking; I'm choosing to get my taxes done today rather than wait till April 14th. The more you focus on the positive choice you can make this very day, without worrying about forever, the more you will live yourself into the new habit. --M.J. Ryan

#1DONT EAT SAUCE AFTER IT HAS BEEN IN THE CROCK POT AND TURNED OFF FOR 6 HOURS! #2: THERE IS NO Protein IN pretzels. HOT chocolate A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired. During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives. Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot chocolate and an assortment of cups - porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the hot chocolate. When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor said: "Notice that all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. The cup that you're drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot chocolate. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not the cup; but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each others cups. Now consider this: Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life. The cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life you have. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot chocolate God has provided us. God makes the hot chocolate, man chooses the cups. The happiest people don't have the bestof everything. They just make the best of everything that they have. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. And enjoy your hot chocolate.

Tip o' the day... Are you living? Is there a dance in your life? Are you moving, growing, risking, taking the challenges of dangerous paths? In the acceptance of the danger, in the acceptance that anything can happen any moment, life comes to its best, to its fullest. Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

On Companionship: Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. On Ability: We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough. On Self Confidence: What I am looking for is not out there; it is in me. On Ability: When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. I'll be happy when... We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren't old enough and we'll be more content when they are. After that, we're frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage. We tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our spouse gets his or her act together, when we get a nicer car, when we are able to go on a nice vacation or when we retire. The truth is there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when? Your life will always be filled with challenges. It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway. Happiness is the way. So, treasure every moment that you have and treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time with..... and remember that time waits for no one. So, stop waiting Until your car or home is paid off. Until you get a new car or home. Until your kids leave the house. Until you go back to school. Until you finish school. Until you lose 10 lbs. Until you gain 10 lbs. Until you get married. Until you get a divorce Until you have kids. Until you retire. Until summer.. Until spring. Until winter. Until fall. Until you die. There is no better time than right now to be happy. Happiness is a journey, not a destination. So work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching, If you want to brighten someone's day, pass this on to someone special. I just did! I am going to be happy today---want to join me?