Weekly Chat Aug 4 - 10
 

Hello everyone! I hope everyone had a great weekend. Mine was ok, my eating wasn’t steller but it also wasn’t terrible. I did a lot of shopping which had me out walking around (since I was at my sisters and couldn’t go to the gym). I'm actually balancing between 167 and 168 today so hopefully tomorrow I'll be down to 167.

I have lots of healthy food that we cooked over the weekend to eat this week. Skinless grilled chicken and veggies, I also go stuff for a salad for lunch.

I’m so excited because I go out of town to see my best friend for two weeks in just 5 days. I really need a break from life.

Hello all!

I had a bit of a splurge-y weekend, but I'm back on track today, and not regretting it for a second! :D

Hope everyone has a great week!

I had a wild weekend due to a goodbye party for a fellow intern and a trip to San Francisco with some buddies. Even though my weight is up from Friday, I still had a fun weekend and I'm back on plan today, no harm done. Hitting the gym at least 4 days this week, and eating healthy once again!

Remember- I am totally with you on needing a break from life!

My weekend was not so good. I had a Relay For Life fundraiser so I over did it with nachos and then a whole funnel cake!! I did really bad.. really bad. I am up this week. I thought I was done seeing the 160's but darn it I crept back up and this morning I was 160. I am just going to have to get over it and get right back on track! This week I will do better!

My last week was quite bad so I'm trying to get back on getting lots of fiber and water. I'm about to do some WATP too... Back on track, back on track. :)

I had my first "cheat day" on Saturday. I went to San Francisco with my cousin. With all of the walking and fun at the beach, I actually got a workout. My calves were so sore. I was very proud of myself, even on my "cheat day" I didn't go over 1900 cal. I am sunburned though. I'm not looking forward to working out today with all of this sun burn. I'm trying to decide if I should, it hurts pretty bad. Any suggestions if I should?

I had two interviews for externships for the fall today and I’m pretty sure I got both of them which leaves me in the difficult position of not knowing which one to do. One is substantially less work then the other one but I think more work means a better learning opportunity. I can’t decide what to do. (And I feel bad complaining about this because most people aren’t in the position of having two job offers).

Sh315 – Enjoy the week off. You’ll love the Wii and Wii fit. It is so much fun.

Just Keep Swimming – Good job getting back on track. Weekends are hard.

Cornell – As you said you are back on track today. Is your weight still up.

Aerogore – Oh that is hard. I had a funnel cake at the Detroit HoeDown with my sister and felt like **** afterwards. Such a bad plan it made me sick.

Tara – OMG I got stuck in construction everywhere I went this weekend. I couldn’t help but think of our discussion last week. Sorry you had a bad weekend. Good luck this week.

Here we go – I always use Aleo with my sunburn. It seems to help. Good job staying in control with your cheat day. I keep telling my sister that its one thing to cross the “healthy line” and it is a different thing to run past it at full speed and not look back.

Hey, my first post here... It was so HUMID out today! I got in a workout and then had to spread a pile of bark around my yard. What's weird is I got a bit of sun, a it's a little burnt on my right upper arm. Just there, not sure why. Anyways, I haven't been sun burned at all in over 10 years (yes, I've been a bit of a hermit). And then I cleaned my entire house and cooked my lunches for the week. And now I'm tired. Back to work tomorrow and I think it is going to be boring. But today was a good day... :flame:

Bella - Welcome to the forum, everyone is wonderful. What plan are you following? Where are you from?

Welcome, Bella! Sunburns in random, isolated spots are the story of my life. And I'm uber pale, so they stay that way FOREVER. :lol:

So, I have an NSV to share! Which is good, because the scale hasn't been doing me any favors lately... I ran the 3fc 5k last night, and beat my previous best time by more than a minute! 36:09. :D I am super excited. I guess even if I'm not losing weight very quickly, I'm obviously getting in better shape.

Thank you! Everyone seems wonderful so far! I'm counting calories (simple works for me, so far anyways). And I'm from central WI.


JKS -- That is awesome about the run!!! I always see people running, and one day I hope to be one of them (now, I don't want to frighten my neighbors!). My skin hasn't seen the sun in a decade at least, so I think it just might be confused. :nono:

So with sunburn and all I worked out yesterday. Couldn't do the squat machine very well, the pad was rubbing my sunburn! Ouch! I ended up doing my best workout ever and burned 553 cal in 30 min, which is pretty good for me. It was my new record. Funny how you do your best when you're worst.

I'm a little frustrated. I've been stuck at 285 for three weeks. The only thing I've changed is I've started working out and I went from 1,200 cal/ day to 1,500/ day. Do I just keep doing what I'm doing and push through? Any suggestions? I'm wanting to go back to 1,200 but I know that's probably not smart.

Hey you guys, I'm new -can anyone link me to a thread about what plans everyone is on? I want to know what everyone is doing for food and exercise! Thanks!

Hey everybody!

Not sure if anyone on this board is from Chicago, but WOW did we have some scary storms last night. I have NEVER heard the sirens go off in the loop before. Seriously, my biggest fear are tornadoes (probably because I've never been in one). Ever since 6th grade when we read Night of the Twisters I have been TERRIFIED of them.

Anyways, I saw people writing about how difficult the weekends are. I TOTALLY agree. I am a calorie counter and lost 20 pounds staying around 1,000 calories (I know that sounds low, but I probably underestimated portion size a lot and who knows what they throw in at restaurants). I have started on the weekends though to have a couple of binges. Mostly after I start drinking wine... So I decided during the week to stick to the 1,000 goal but on weekends bring it up to 1,200. See how that works. Maybe then I won't be so hungry when I go out because I eat more during the day.

I'm so depressed. Last week, my wireless just stopped working on my computer. I thought it was something I did, so I called technical support and he asked me a couple of questions about my laptop and if it had been overheating...which is has but it's been doing that for like a year now. So there is some type of defect on the model notebook I have and now it has to be shipped to some repair place and I'm not going to get it back for like 3 weeks! They are replacing the mother board and some other computer speak, so I've been computer-less since last Thursday. BRUTAL! At least it’s covered by warranty. Last night, I had to MacGyver me up a computer, using my sis old laptop--the screen was broke but the computer still worked and I hooked it up to the monitor of my ancient HP and found that old Compaq keyboard in the closet. The computer is slow as cold molasses, but beggars can't be choosers, right?

Meanwhile, when I'm depressed I have no energy to eat or exercise. I feel like such a blob right now.

On the bright side, I don't mind being at work where the high speed internet is.

Just wanted to check in. Today didn't go steller, I was starving all day eventhough I was eating, which caused me to overeat (I haven't figured out my calories today but I'm sure it is over 1400). I was rejected from donating blood because my iron was too low :(

However I did buy a dress for a wedding I have to go to Labor day. I'm going to keep looking but this one is cute, it's a little big so it is hard for me to justify the expense. They didn't have it in a 12. However, I'm going to keep looking and return it if I find one that fits me better.

Remember -- at least the dress is a little BIG and not a little SMALL, right??

caligirl -- ewwwwwwww I think computer problems stress me out more than any other kind of problem. Probably because I just don't understand them at all, but at least yours is covered under warranty!!

I'm REALLY nervous for these next 2 weeks because bf has left to go on a trip with his friends. I'm happy he's going, but I only binge when he isn't here. We're the only two who live in our apt., so it's REALLY easy to binge having nobody around. I had a little mini-binge tonight...but I hadn't really eaten all day (I wasn't hungry....I try really hard not to eat if I'm not hungry) and it didn't put me too far over my cals, so that's sort of a small semi-victory. I feel that post-binge grossness now, though, so I'm hoping that remmebering this feeling will motivate me to not binge the rest of the time he's not here......but I'm definitely going to need some BIG TIME 3FC support this week.... :(

ETA: Just entered all of my food (including the binge) into TDP....only 121 cals over my estimate, so I guess it's not so so bad. But still....THE BINGING. AHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRGGGGGGG.

arts, I'm sorry to hear that about binging when he's not there. How about trying to find something you can do? like reading books or something like that to take your minid off of eating? 121 cals isn't that bad, either! Good luck for the next 2 weeks and let us know how it goes.

Remember Wow! 2 jobs! That's great! I'm sure you will be able to decide which one works better for you.

cali I know how it feels about computer. My laptop died and the only way to get on the net was at work and using my bf's computer... it sucked... well, now i got my own again. yay! hopefully they will fix sooner than expected time.

This week has finally weighed me down. No pun intended. I'm usually so motivated and even though I gained 6 pounds in 3 days the week before TOM, I tried to keep positive. But... I kinda feel like it all fell apart. I was so tired I could hardly function for two weeks. We ordered out three times in one week and then went out to lunch on sunday. I managed to lose the water weight and am up only two and half pounds at 203.4 from 200.8. I'm so mad at myself for being so uncontrollably tired.

I just want to reach ONEDERLAND!!!! I will feel so accomplished. I feel like I havent really set mini goals for myself. I need to do that more. I will reach 198 by the September 1st!

I've really cracked down more on my eating this week. Eating something fiberous for breakfast (oatmeal or kashi cereal, etc) trying to stick to all veggies/fruit for lunch and maybe a few nuts throughout the day. Get my meat and remaining grains at dinner. :/ I dont know. I feel happy with it.

I'm just so blah and stuck at the moment. I feel. :(

Hey y'all - My eating was TERRIBLE this weekend - gained 3 lbs. (which I'm assuming is water weight) since Friday! But I got back on track yesterday, and I'm already starting to de-bloat.

Cali - I *hate* it when I don't have internet access. I feel cut off from the world.

Remember - Where did you get the dress? I have to go shopping for one soon.

Bombshell - You CAN DO IT! Don't let the evil TOM get you down.

IT's hard to stay motivated. Try googleing "diet motivation" there are some good articles to get you back up and motivated hopefully.

Some things I do are buying a new work out outfit, or trying a new recipe... I don't know - keep your head up, it's worth it in the end! Just remember what you're working towards,and how far you've come!!

After I wrote that, I spent about twenty minutes browsing the "Goal!" forum pictures. They were so inspiring! I got up and Worked out on the elliptical. Only 20min/420 calories, but that is better than nothin! And I dont think I've even eaten that many calories today yet... Anyway.

If you ever start feeling down, go troll there for a while. It gives you a sense of "I can do it too!" It picked me up out of my funk anyway :)

if you go to the main page that lists all the forums and scroll down you will come to "diet central" where there are lots of forusm for the different diets :)

ok so ive been gradually drifting off track this week..you know, i'll just have one biscuit, oh maybe some cheese as well, that icing looks nice, arrggh! But i am ready to be back on track today- going to the gym which always helps me get my eating patterns back on track, and the icing is in the bin :carrot:

garstar, you mentioned motivation...and that reminded me of something that happened last night. well. some of you know about my ex MIL.. I still have to deal with her daily because she watches my DD when I'm at work at night. Two nights ago, she told me that she decided to do Nutrisystem... I told her good luck, regardless of what my thoughts are about that program. She didn't ask for my advice and I decided not to give one out unless someone asks for it last time I had a talk about weight loss with her. Then last night, she told me she's returning the Nutrisystem stuff.. I was surprised. Well, she actually then said she's going to do "Smart for life". At first I wasn't sure what that was...until she said something about Cookie. I remembered reading something about it on here 3FC but I never really paid attention because for me, that was not teaching something for life time. I'm sure there are people on here doing that program and doing great.. :) Anyways... that program is not cheap at all. wow... well, she then said some guy at church lost 63 lbs doing it so that's why she decided to change from Nutrisystem to Smart For Life. She then said "I need something quick and easy to lose weight to MOTIVATE me. And once I lose what I want to lose, then I'm going to work hard to maintain." She also made it very clear that she is not interested in working out at all. So.. with this program, she eats 4 cookies or something like that and lean meat and veggies for dinner. That's it for the day. I didn't really research that much into it but... I did ask her about after stopping the program. Problems with Nutrisystem or something like Grape diet and stuff like that...is that you gain weight all back because you don't learn how to eat healthy on your own. She said they teach you once you reach the goal and changing the phase or something like that. I wished her good luck...

I just thought... how are you supposed to be able to maintain weight that you lost quick and easy, when you don't know how to since you didn't do it on your own....?

I just thought of that when you said "Motivation.." lol

Yeah, it's kind of like I forgot how to function without internet access. And there was a time in my life...say 10 years ago...when I didn't have internet access. How did I live?

This is almost as bad as when I dropped my cell in the toilet and lost all of my numbers. I didn't talk to my mom for 2 weeks because I didn't have her number written down anywhere.

Today is a good day I’ve been able to control my eating fairly well. I stabbed myself in the figure when I opening a package of hot dogs. Hopefully the bleeding stops soon. I packed for my trip, I over packed, but was able to fit everything in one bag. I just have to make sure it weights less then 50 pounds.

Blond – Your close don’t fret you’ll hit onderland soon. A motivation I just did was to post a full body before photo on myspace and a current full body shot. It reminds me how far I’ve come.

Ursus – I’m sure it’s water weight, try and drinking extra water (with lemon in it).

Tara – Your ex-MIL is jealous of you success and clearly looking for the easiest way out. I agree that people like that don’t have long term success because they don’t correct the problem of what caused their obesity.

isn't it just crazy how you can get when you can't use the internet!! It's insane how much we have become dependent on the computer! I am absolutely addicted to it. I honestly can't imagine my life without it!! How sad is that? Just a few years ago, the internet wasn't an everyday thing at all!!!

I went on a baking binge today. I made sugar-free banana nut muffins, and pine honey blackberry muffins. The banana turned out amazing. The blackberry is intersting beause of the pine honey. I also cleaned out the fridge and packed for my trip. I'm going to take the muffins to my intership with me tomorrow and share, save a few for my sister and maybe put one or two in the freezer for me. I just love cooking.

aerogora - I agree I couldn't live without internet, I don't know what I would do without facebook and myspace.

MMMM Those muffins sound delicious. Do you know any good low fat recipes? Ones that actually taste good?

hey new here im having a hard time adjusting to breakfast does anyone have any ideas, recipes, etc?

what do you usually have? Im partial to cereals and porridge with a little honey myself, but if you have more time you could always have an egg, or something a bit more extravagent

im just so bored of cereal.....and im trying to do like a scraqmbled egg or something every once and a while

bentley -- welcome!! I'm really not a breakfast eater, either. I never have been and probably, honestly, never will be in the sense that it will never feel "natural" for me to get up and eat right away. BUT -- I do work very long waitressing shifts (Frequently 12+ hours) so I need to be fueling ALL the time. I've found that I really respond well to eating Luna bars (or something else like that) in the morning. It's enough to keep me going until my next break but not so much that I feel like I've just eaten a "meal". If I know I have a particularly active day ahead of me I will also down a Fiber One yogurt for some extra. I have found, though, that I definitely lose more weight when I start eat breakfast. What they say about it starting up your metabolism for the day is definitely true!

ill def add in some yougurt to the routine! its just weird for me to eat when i get up like you were saying...

I pair a fruit or yogurt with a grain. Oatmeal with raisins is fantastic. Or i'll do a light english muffin with a piece of cheese. My favorite breakfast though is oatmeal because it keeps me full for a while!

Remember, please share the recipe for the banana-nut muffin! I got some banana sitting at home that I gotta use!! :D

Bently, one of my fav breakfast: frozen strawberries+uncooked old fashioned oatmeal+skim milk+banana...throw them altogether into a blender. YUMMY smoothie...it's sooo good and filling too. For oatmeal and milk...milk is double of oatmeal. For example, if you put 1/4 cup of oatmeal, then half cup of milk. That's just enough for one serving for me. One BIG serving, too. :D

I've hitten a jag with breakfast, too. So I bought some of these whole grain, low fat frozen waffles. lol. Sounds awful, I know but they're only 140 for 2 and with a little fruit its DELISH.

I'm all about tricking myself into thinking I'm super spoiled with what I eat.

I'm not really a breakfast person either. I think I stopped eating that meal in the 6th grade...about the time I started waking myself up and catching the bus to school. I'm just now, as in the last year started eating breakfast again. And it can only be cereal because I don't have the umph to get up and cook anything. I used to cut up fresh fruit, but again, at 5am in the morning, I don't really have the hand/eye coordination I need to handle a knife.

Anyway, I'm feeling good about my week...though finals are next week, I don't really have any homework, so I've been working out AND eating dinner. Though I do wonder when is it too late to eat dinner. I'm noticing that I don't eat until like 8 or 9 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. And even later than that on the weekend. I know I'm not supposed to eat after 7, but I don't know why.

And since I'm hitting up a late movie on Friday night and an even later dinner (around 2am) is that too late to eat, or just an early breakfast?

What is the oatmeal of choice? I'm kinda bored with Fiber One and Special K myself... Oatmeal is super easy to carry to work too.