jessabridge4444's Journal, 14 October 2012

SEE? Look how pretty you look in your profile photo! Awesome, lady. You look great, and will jus get more beautiful as the sclae slides down. 

Thanks HCB! I am excited too! 

Gorgeous pic! So nice to get to see the real you :) 

Jessa you look so great!!!! 

Hooray for feeling great and for LOOKING great! You look so pretty in your picture!!! 

Love the new picture, you look great!!! And that soup sounds delicious... I could go for some right now. yeah, for breakfast :) 

LOVE the profile pic, Jessa. You look beautiful. I'm with Evelyn, nice to see the real you! Have a great week with your spreadsheets. 

Thanks all. :-) I wished I grabbed some soup for breakfast too, now! 

GREAT new pic! The soup can be quite good for you. I came up with a chicken soup that I put tortelinni in (that's my kids fav pasta by far!) but I am still working on not over cooking it so I can freeze and reheat without it getting mushy. Have you frozen it? 

I'm in agreement-beautiful picture! You are glowing :) 

I Just freeze it w/o the pasta. I like the thickness of the soup when you cooked the pasta in it but I ALWAYS make far to much and the soup will overflow if I had 1 more thing to it. I cook mine in a 12 qt and it was filled to the brim. I Served 5 people (4 guys and me & 3 of them twice), plus dinner for Sun night. That's 10 servings and the pan is almost half full. Still! And the bowls were huge too! I just don't know how to make soup on a small scale. LOL I am going to freeze whatever we have leftover tonight. 

Yeha that's what I was thinking. Freeze it with out and cook it while the soup is warming though.  

Great idea! So what is your chicken soup recipe? I love soup in the fall. I like to (well, I used too) like beef stew in bread bowls. YUM! No more beef for me though, damn my cholesterol! 

Oh it's a "semi homemade" since I need things as fast as possible lol I buy an organic, low sodium premade chicken stock (I have no time to make my own even though I know it's easy, I do everything last minute lol), grill chicken breasts and maybe 2 thighs for just a bit of flavor, dice it up and toss it in and add in diced onion, celery and onion. Nothing fancy but easy to control as much sodium as possible. Then I split it in half and the kids get it with the tortelinni added in and mine get spinach. Nothing fancy but better than sodium filled canned soup. 

I cheat with my stock too. I use Better then Bouillon Chicken Base with just water to control the sodium. The sodium for a huge bowl is 1300 ish. The chicken base is 400 of that. 730 per serving and there is .53 of a serving in each bowl. The tortellini and chicken is the rest! I never knew there was so much in the tortellini! I never grilled the chicken before. I just boil it in the soup. I never use thighs either, just breasts, to control the fat content. I add chopped celery and carrots to my other soups, small enough so that I will eat it. Can't use onion, but I do use a lot of garlic powder. I will try grilling it next time. Sounds yummy! 

I kinda par grill it, grill it to about 75% done then dice it up and simmer it about 30 min to finish the cooking etc. The thighs add minimal fat considering it's 1 one in a whole pot (2 if they are little). I cook them after I remove the skin too and the kids are better about eating it with a bit more flavor. Of course I add pepper and spices, what depends on my mood. Easy Peasy! 

You are beautiful! I too remember that feeling and also losing the roll near my bra. I was jumping for joy! Congrats on your weightloss, your journal is speaking loud success!  

Thanks Cindy! @ thynes...you know, I say no thighs because of the fat content...but I think that is only a VERY small part of it. LOL Hubby likes thighs but I prefer white meat...I am diabolical! So easy to start believeing anything if you say it often enough. :-) 

Hi Jessa! I just left you a long note over on my journal about my dog walking adventure yesterday. :) 

congrats! I love the new pic!