Losingmore

A friend of mine at ate the Olive Garden today….and is trying to lose weight, in fact, has lost 15 pounds she says.  She posted on fb that she ordered the tour of italy and split it with her son, and had two breadsticks.  She said she bought a new fitness program for the Wii and would work it off.  OMG…..the tour of italy is…wait…..its coming….a SHOCKING 1450 cals and 74g of fat and ( this is the MOST shocking of all)  3830 mg of sodium.   Breadsticks are 150 cals a pc.  2.5 g of fat. Even with the split, this is 1025 cals in ONE meal!!  YIKES!

In order to “work off” a pound of fat…you need to burn approx 3500 calories.

To burn 3500 calories, you could:

• Play squash for almost 4 hours
• Run at a pace of 11 min per mile for 6 hours.
• Backpack without a load for 7 hours.
• Plan tennis for 7 hours and a half.
• Cycle at a leisurely pace of 9.4 mph for 8 hours.
• Play badminton for 8 hours and a half.
• Train with free weights for 9 hours and a half.
• Play golf for almost 10 hours.
• Walk at a pace of 3.0 mph for 11 hours.

Making the idea that you can indulge and then just “work it off” absurd!  Should I send a message to her?  LOL  Or would it make me sound all uppity?

Yes, the November skies have arrived.  The really dark ones that look like they are full of that four letter word…snow!  Yikes!  This is only the beginning.  I heard that some of the area forecasters are calling for a cold but dry winter, and that would be really fine by me.  Cold I can take.  Snow I can not!  There is supposed to be a warm up ( to the 60’s) this weekend though, and we still have leaf duty and winter storing to do, so I am planning on getting that done….plus, we need to winterize fertilize the lawn before it snows!

Yesterday was a good day!  Got my exercise in, ate within my pts.  Stayed in all day.  It seemed so cold out, I never even went and got the mail from the box.  Today I need to venture out to the grocery store though.

I reworked my ticker on the side, to reflect my WW weigh ins.  About 4 ish pounds to go to get to my 5% loss.

I remade a good pork dish I usually make.  I will post here incase anyone is interested.  It worked out to 5pts for 4 oz of pork and 1/8 of the sauce.

Pork Tenderloin with Mushrooms

Cut approx. 3 # of pork tenderloin into 1 inch pcs and flatten out a bit.  Season with salt and pepper. Heat 1 tbs olive oil in a lg nonstick pan and brown the pork on both sides.  ( you may need to do it in two batches) Remove pork from the pan and keep in a warm oven.  ( the pork does not necessarily need to be cooked through at this point, as it will finish cooking in the warm oven and the sauce)  Add 8 oz sliced fresh mushrooms to pan.  Saute for about 5 min.  Add 1/2 cup white wine to pan to deglaze the brown bits.  Let it come to a boil and reduce by about half.  Whisk in one can of Healthy Request Cream of Mushroom soup.  If it is too thick,  loosen it with a bit of water or FF chicken broth.  Let it get bubbly.  Add the pork medallions back in with the juices that have accumulated in the dish that they were in in the oven.  Sprinkle with about a Tbs of fresh chopped parsley.   Serves 8.

It was decadently good.

So I guess I need to get my butt rolling if I want to get some stuff done today.  Make it a great day all!

but a loss is a loss.  .2 pounds!  LOL  lets see, what weighs .2 pounds?  A sock maybe.  LOL  But seriously, after loosing 7 last week, I didn’t have much hope for this week, and hey, I didn’t gain .2 pounds, I lost it!  LOL  But boy, the pressure is on for this week!  LOL

I need to bump up the exercise already.  I knew it was coming.  I know I can’t lose without good sweating.  I know this.  I need to do it.  I was hoping it would last longer. Ya know, just watching what I eat.  No matter how I try, I will never be a fan of sweating.  Sure, I go through spells where I dislike it less than other times….but I never LOVE it.  I guess I need to dust of Jillian and Bob, and go back to doing them.  I did see some results when I was doing those videos.  Its a half hour for goodness sakes….its not like its half my day!  I do have to snicker at the WW meeting when they talk about how little exercise steps add up, like parking far away from stores and taking an extra lap around the grocery store.  Ya……not for me.

DH managed to come home and get the boys out for dinner.  I came home after the meeting and nuked the other half of my Olive garden pasta primavera….a respectable 7 pts.  Had a 1//2 cup 3 bean salad for 1pt. Still had pts left over to use ( some week days, its hard to use them all…but man, on the weekends, I have NO problem using them up and then some!) I had 8 oz ff milk and 2 black bean brownies.   Was a .5 shy of my daily total.   I think next week I might try the crockpot idea.  I picked up the dining out guide at the meeting last night too.  It is pretty complete.  But DWLZ is still better.  Only not as accessible on the go.   It’s a smallish book, so I could pop it into my purse easily.  Looking over the restaurants in it,  ( which as you know, restaurants are my BIG problem zone) most of the places I eat, I do normally choose the best meals…..I almost NEVER do fried anything.  I guess, I need to work on portion control.  But having it right there to guide me, should help.  I am miffed at the amount of fast food restaurants and the four ( yes four) pages devoted to cold stone creamery!  I mean come on…..do we really need pts on small, med, large of just about every combo they make?  I think Cold stone Creamery should be a once in a while treat…..you don’t need that many stats for it, for goodness sakes!  I think you know when you walk through the doors, this isn’t going to be a diet friendly place.  Go to Mcdonalds and get a small cone or even a small hot fudge sundae WITH nuts for far less points than ANYTHING they have at cold stone!   LOL  I would really like to see more sit down, chain restaurants included in there.  NOT everyone in America lives on Fast food, ya know.

So that’s about it for me today.  Stealing LT’s mantra….don’t forget to sweat, and neither will I!!! 

Thank you Diet Buddy Daily!  What an honor!!!!!!!!!

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Six interesting facts about me:

1. I live in Ohio

2. I have three kids, a husband, a cat named sox and a dog named Molly, a box turtle named Sheldon ( well, she is my sons…we thought she was a he ( hence the name) but a few years ago, “he” laid eggs, then we knew we had it wrong!  LOL )

3. I have been coming to 3fc for about 6 years ( back in the day of the journals!!) , was successful in loosing 30+ pounds on my own, but saddly, gained it all back.  Just joined WW in hopes for a better outcome…..my first time doing anything structured like this.

4. I am a stay at home mom at present…but am a licensed RN by training who worked in Labor and Delivery for 8 years before staying home to care for my own kids.

5. I love the domestic chores of life.  My only real dream as a child was to become a wife and mom.

6. I have been married to to a man, who started off as a good friend in highschool, for 18 years.

I nominate:

http://www.3fatchicks.com/diet-blogs/2fat4myjeans/

http://www.3fatchicks.com/diet-blogs/lindat/

http://www.3fatchicks.com/diet-blogs/tic09/

http://www.3fatchicks.com/diet-blogs/marbear24/

http://www.3fatchicks.com/diet-blogs/kotapaint/

http://www.3fatchicks.com/diet-blogs/laura705/

honestly, I wanted to nominate EVERY blogger on my list!!!!! Because you are ALL beautiful bloggers to me, and the best support system in the world!!!  You have each given me hope…and the will to carry on….

I don’t have high hopes for tonight’s meeting.  I haven’t gone over in points or anything this week….I did use up all my flex points, but I also exercised for 6 days….so that is different from last week.  BUT…..as I peeked on the scale, I have pretty much stayed the same as last week.  Which isn’t bad…but I would like to see some drop for my hard work…LOL  You know the story.  Seeing the large drop in numbers last week, I can’t expect much this week.  I know.  Patience…patience….as long as I stay the course and make the right decisions, EVENTUALLY it will happen…I have to keep telling myself this.  I am NOT a believer, and I think, really, that is a problem I need to work on.

I need to come up with a plan for dinners on Tuesdays.  Last week, I made dinner before the meeting ( which is at 6:30 ) and then we ate when I got home…but I think it was too late, because I was starving.  And so was everyone else.  I don’t want to eat BEFORE the meeting.  I could feed the kids before the meeting, but then I will still need to deal with me and DH when I get home….sooooo I told DH this week, maybe he could come home at a decent hour and take care of getting the kids some dinner, and then I only need to worry about myself when I get home.  Its only ONE day a week.  We will see if he can handle it.  I guess I need to call and remind him of the plan today at some point.  I seriously, get so friggin tired of doing all the thinking for everyone around here!!  LOL

Thanks for all the advice yesterday.  Ya, there are definitely some MOM issues I need to work through.

I am getting into the habit of getting up at 6 am, loading up the lunches with sandwiches from the fridge, and then going back to bed.  Its really lovely getting the extra sleep, and the bed is so warm in the morning.  I feel guilty that I am not UP as the kids go out the door, but I do make sure they are up and getting ready.  They say they don’t care….its fine.  But I still feel guilty.  A mothers guilt, I guess.  But why should I feel guilty, I still get up at the same time or earlier than DH, and obviously, HE feels no guilt in sleeping in. 

Not much on the agenda today.  Laundry.  Its sunny, but cool.  Will do treadmill work this morning, and then get a bonus walk in with the dog this afternoon, I think.  Only two weeks till Chicago!  That should be an interesting trip.

The weekend was hard this week…..not just because of all the candy, actually, that was less of a problem than it could have been.  I bought candy I really don’t like that much, and just a little bit of the stuff I do, but I was able to resist opening up the bags early and having “samples”.  So that part was good.  The hard part came, in that my mother seems to think that Halloween is this BIG friggen holiday…and we should celebrate with cakes and lots and lots of goodies!  sigh…..

I am sorry, I used to get into the holiday spirit a lot more when I was younger, and my kids were younger, but honestly, it is just extra work to me.  Not that I don’t like the decorations, because I do….but I just don’t want to be the one dealing with all of it.  Truth be told, since the basement remodel, things down there on the “storage” side are in shambles.  I had visions of getting my butt down there and doing massive organizing…but it just never happened.  There is so much crap down there, and A LOT of leftover crap from the remodel that I just am not sure what to do with….DS should do something with it, so I can get to organizing our stuff…but lets face it…the man is a bonafide PIG….I guess I am just going to have to eventually go down there and do it myself…but I just don’t want to.  I get tired of picking up after everyone else, especially him….so anyway, this makes getting to the decorating stuff a pain in the butt, and putting it back a pain in the butt, so I just rather not bother.   And then my mom complains that I have no holiday spirit.

So my mother came over to spend Halloween with us.  I shouldn’t really care.  She is my mother.  Part of me didn’t care, but part of me didn’t want her there, and then the rest of me felt guilty for not wanting her there.  So I was in a grumpy mood all day.   I planned to eat liberally, as I had saved all my flex points for Saturday…and I did…but I have no idea what some of the things I ate were worth.  So I just practiced portion control.  I had one reeses cup.  That is ALL the candy I ate.  I had chicken chili ( which was fine and on plan) and three mini corn dogs.  About a 1/4 cup of a recipe makeover for buffalo chicken dip with celery and 2 glasses of wine.  I also had a pc of homemade cake my mom brought over.  I have no idea how many points were in that.

DS felt better on Saturday.  Well enough to trick or treat.  Fever was gone.  It never got very high…so I don’t think he had the swine flu.  Just a random bug.

Ate at Olive garden on Sunday.  One thing for sure, is that you go through points awful fast when you eat out….even if you plan.  How is it that restaurant food in general is sooooooo high in fat and calories?  its mind boggling.   Got salad with dsg on the side.  Got the shrimp pasta primevera.  Ate half.  Had one breadstick.  Still used up gobs of points on one meal!  Stayed within the points range I needed to for the day though.

Came home yesterday and thought the house felt cool.  Ds came in later in the evening, and said his room was freezing.  I went to turn up the thermostat, and nothing happened.  So I yelled down to dh, who was playing the ps3 game that is going to ruin our marriage….call of duty….and told him I thought something was wrong with the furnace.  Sure enough, something was wrong.  We started a fire in the woodstove, but it was almost time to go to bed.  We had a cold night….got down in the 30’s. The guy finally came today to fix it.  It didn’t cost us an arm and a leg, thank goodness.

On track with food today…..doubt that I will see any numbers move this week.  Would be happy with just one.  One lousy pound…I would be happy.

Thursday already.  Got two kids home sick.  One stayed home…but I think she is feeling better, and one I picked up from school early this afternoon, my youngest, who I think is feeling really bad.  If he does have h1n1, how will I know?  they don’t want you to come to the doctors office if you have the flu. And if he does have it, then how does that alter him getting the vaccine if and when it does become available?  He does feel a bit feverish, but chugged a big glass of water before I could take his temp, and then I just gave him advil after that….so maybe I will try later.  He had the seasonal flu vaccine over a month ago.  Oh well, you can only wash your hands so much….what can you do?  I feel bad for him though.  He is napping right now….at least that is what I told him to do.  He is up in his room.

It is a fairly nice fall day today.  Took a walk through the woods and my neighborhood with the dog.  The paths through the woods are completely covered in leaves…its pretty, but it makes trying to follow the paths a bit disorienting.  I am not that great finding my way through them, but I like to take the dog back there, because if she poops, I make her go a ways off the path, and then I don’t have to carry it around with me!

I made a great, great make over dish for dinner last night, and had the rest for lunch today.  I made a chicken in lemon butter dish, which worked out to 5 pts per breast.  The sauce was to die for!  I made sure to make an index card with the ingredients and directions for my index card holder of dinner ideas with points.   Served it last night with some risotto and broccoli, but just had broccoli and cauliflower this afternoon with it.  Yum, yum!  I also made a banana bar recipe out of an issue of taste of home healthy cooking ( yes, the mag I got my recipe put into, just a different edition).  I tweaked it even more, by replacing some of the sugar with splenda.  I got it down to one point per bar without frosting, and three points with.  They came out pretty good.  They would have been better had my bananas been more ripe, but they didn’t have any overripe ones to buy at the store, so I had to pick ones that were the most ripe…which wasn’t really very ripe at all.

So I guess thats it for today….weekend is only a day away!

down 7 pounds.  Certainly, some of it was water, as TOM came on Monday…but I earned my first star no less.   The group leader cautioned me that next week won’t be as good….I said, yes, I know, I watch the biggest loser…LOL  but ya, I know.  But a loss is a loss.  So I am happy.

What have I done different?  Not a whole lot.  Much more careful with my portions and weighing everything, I will say.  Maybe making better choices….like you can have a lt yogurt for 2pts, or a bag of baked lays for 2 pts…..choosing the yogurt, even though I am not a huge yogurt fan…but knowing that in the long run, that is the better choice for the same amt of pts and will likely keep me fuller longer.  Getting my required amount of dairy in, has been a bit of a challenge.  I am not a huge dairy person, I guess.  When I was a kid, I drank milk all the time, but as an adult, have strayed away from it.  I do buy all low fat or nonfat dairy products, but just don’t eat enough of it, I guess.  But I need it.  This week, I added some exercise back in for each week day.  Nothing big.  Just walking.  I know eventually I will need to bump that up.  Its raining today, so when I am done here, I am going to do WATP.  My legs are stiff this morning…..likely due to the walking the past two days….walking IS more strenuous when you do it with a dog that pulls, I will say that much.  You have to keep up for the most part at a dogs pace.

So on to week two.  I am dropping a point from my daily allowance this week also.  Which is good, because quite frankly, some days, it was hard to get all the points in.  I mean, if you aren’t hungry, you aren’t hungry.  Most days though, I did my best to come within a point or two, if not using ALL the points up.  The weekend, of course, I went over.

Not much else.  Grocery store today.  More laundry…yadda, yadda, yadda…LOL

Make it a great day all!

Mild out and sun is shining right now.  Looking forward to another nice day before the rain comes this evening.  Planning on another walk with the dog.  :)  with hopefully less sniffing than yesterday.  Still crampy….but a few advil should help in that department.

The potpie yesterday was pretty good.  I think I might replace maybe a quarter to a half cup of milk to the liquid next time though…to make it a little creamier.  But the nutritionals were really good and on track , and the boys gobbled it up.  The recipe made 8 servings, I had one, gave DH two, and the boys had the rest.  No leftovers.  The food processor made an easy job of making the crust.  Then I rolled it between two sheets of wax paper, so no mess. 

I forgot to mention in yesterdays post, I watched an interesting thing on tv on Sunday morning…it was the CBS Sunday morning show, and the topic of the day was obesity in America.  I didn’t see it from the beginning, but saw a good portion of it.  They touched on all sorts of things.  Like is it really the entire fault of the individual for the problem or is the food industry part to blame?  They went back in time, and discovered that most societies in the past actually thought plus sized was the beauty standard, and the skinny rail type we value today was what was looked upon as “ugly”….I learned a new term….Rubenesque…which I would say pretty much describes myself.  LOL  And then they interviewed Valerie Bertinelli…..who once again said her sad horrible life is what led her to her overeating.  You hear this over and over again. Why is it that one must always assume that if we are fat, there must be some sort of turmoil in our lives that caused us to get that way?  I can’t come up with a sad story for me, actually, quite the opposite.  Contentment and happiness in my life, caused me to stop always evaluating myself, and to just live in the moment.  Eat what I want, when I want.  That, combined with the genetic makeup that  allowed me to gain weight easily and the lack of any real physical activity is probably what is most to blame for my current condition.  Not everyone has a sad, “trying to fill a hole” story to tell.

So today is my second WW meeting.  I know I will see a drop in the scale this week.  Not sure how much, as we weigh in at 6pm…but I was really happy with the scale this morning when I peeked.

It’s a beautiful fall day today….low 70’s with abundant sunshine.  Can I bottle it up and take it with me for the LONG winter months that lay ahead?  I wish!!

Weekend….weekend was good.  Too short, but good.  I did eat out more than I had really intended to.  But did my homework for the most part, and did ok on the points.  I did have to go into the bank of flex points….but thats ok too.  I am ok with it.  We had lunch at Eat N park, and that was easy.  Lots of good choices there.  Dinner was at Red Lobster.  I did ok there too.  Was able to stay away from the biscuits.  I have started to compile a list of acceptable foods and point values in a notebook at the places we tend to eat out at the most.  As creatures of habit, I got to thinking, we really eat out at the same places MOST of the time.  So I researched and picked out what I know I like and what the points are for each thing.  I think this will help out for times when I don’t have time to research.

TOM arrived this morning…oh joy, joy.  It is such a nice day though, I made time to take the dog for a walk in the park.  She did A LOT of sniffing, as usual…LOL  I had quite a bit of housework and laundry to tackle today…but I will get to all of it in due time.  It will still be here waiting to be done tomorrow.  I also have a good deal of yardwork to do to get the yard ready for winter.  Pull out garden plants, flowers and all the greenery that has become victim to the frost we must have had while I was in NY.  There is also plenty of shurbs needing a haircut and of course, the never ending job of cleaning up leaves….but today…TOM is making me feel kind of achy and draggy.  Maybe tomorrow I will have more energy.  Unfortunately, we haven’t had a ton of nice days to get this outside work done….and DH hasn’t been much help this year either….so now I am feeling like…crap, its almost November, and so much still needs to get done.  oh well…..

ok…I hear my buzzer going off for the turkey pot pie I made for dinner, which I painstakingly entered into the WW site to figure out how many points there are a serving before I even made it.  So I guess I better go get dinner on the table.  Hope to have more time to write and read tomorrow.