Weekend Support Chat
 

sh,
What in the world is baked bean tea??
I had veggie lasagna fro dinner, it was yummy and hit the spot, I was craving comfort food what with the nasty cold rainy weather here in Italy...
Planning on staying on track as well, and this does help me too!

sg3l5 - I thought you were at goal? Are you losing more?

Oh, gotcha. Well congrats on the loss!!

sh315 Congrats are being so close to your goal! You've been working so hard, I bet you're going to look amazing at the event coming up!!

Well I am feeling pretty good today. I wasn't very excited to weigh in today as it is TOM, but I was very pleasantly surprised that I lost 1.4!!! :carrot:

Tonight my roomie and I are getting chinese food, which I totally deserve. Every friday night I get to have a special meal where I don't worry about calories. It helps me not feel deprived.

I am slightly worried about not reaching my Thanksgiving goal of 153, but I know that if I keep OP and get my exercise in I should be able to reach it.

So far all I've had today is cheerios for breakfast, but I'm on the west coast so it's still only 1pm here and I slept in til 11 :o

Everyone good luck this weekend!! :goodluck:

Yay - I love weekend support!

My eating has been really on track these last two weeks but that's because I have been so damn busy!

Anyway- my weekend goal is to continue on my excellent eating plan and stay away from junk food at rehearsals and the urge to get fast food afterwards!

I'll go for any day of the week support!!

I've not had a great week food wise but after seeing a photo taken of me earlier in the week I am so motivated. I couldn't believe how big I looked in it. I normally try to hide behind something or someone but got caught out on this one :( With my newly found motivation I've already planned out my entire menu for next week. I just need to go out and buy the food now.

My weekends are always lazy and full of family and food hopefully i can try to squeeze in exercise .

Well. Today was not so good. I have eaten the following things:

Breakfast
2 x whole-wheat bread with jam
Slice of melon
Glass of buttermilk

Snack
Clementine

Lunch
1 croissant (!)
1 slice of whole-wheat bread with tahin
Apple

Dinner
Pasta, with cheese and cauliflower (it was at somebody else's house and they had the cheese mixed in so I couldn't really avoid it. I tried to take a small portion though.)

Snack
3 bottles of beer (1 l total) (!)
6 peanuts
6 slices of french bread with herb butter (!)

Total is probably 2000-2200 calories? I don't feel like counting.

I cycled for an hour but I think that doesn't really count as exercise, because it was not continuous and it is not too tiring. Tomorrow is about time to go running again. Come on, chop chop. I know I can do better than this.

I find that I can do somewhat better on the weekends, which is usually the opposite I guess of other people. But especially with exercise, I like knowing that there really aren't any time constraints and that I can do whatever I want there for however long....within reason, of course!

I am looking forward to a nice, relaxing weekend! I have been going nonstop since last week it seems, so it will be nice to be able to sleep in a bit and just worry about cleaning up a bit and nothing else really.

I hope everyone has a productive weekend :)

I'm in for weekend support, for sure!

Sh3l5 - Wow, look at you! Good luck starting maintenance!

misstraveller - I am SO JEALOUS that you live in Italy, rain and all! I spent a semester in Milan two years ago and cannot wait to go back.

Arlene Dallas- Girl, you gotta just pick yourself up and realize how much better you'll feel when you work out and eat right rather than stuff your face with mood ruining foods (bad carbs, etc). Granted, there is a time to grieve but maybe try to translate that grieving into workout pain rather than eating pain. You are awesome, you can do this. Good luck this weekend!! We'll all be here for you. :hug:

I'm joining this chat because I have been SO not good the last 2 days, I've been stuffing my face, too! NOW please someone give me a swift kick in the rear. I seriously need that pep talk, guys!! hahahaha I have been SO not motivated the last couple of days, and today I even caught myself thinking "This is so not worth it. I'm all right being overweight, I think I'll just stay this way." HELLO?! What is wrong with me!?!??!?! I'm so grateful you started this thread!!!

ps Arlene Dallas- I hope that wasn't rude of me. I just noticed you have come so far in your weight loss, don't let that man have any control over messing it up! You are strong and you have that will power inside of you. That's all I was saying, haha! Sometimes I worry I come across a little harshly so I apologize if I did! :)

Well, my Saturday's only just started too and I've only just woken up, though I'd like to go back to sleep :yawn:

Haven't had any breakfast yet but I'm going shopping in a bit so will buy something there. I'm making a list so I don't get tempted to buy stuff I don't need. Weekend should be ok, though I'm off out to a fireworks party tonight at a friends house. Apparently there's going to be loads of food there so I'm planning to have dinner before I go so I don't end up eating loads tonight. I'll have to find a way to work some vodka into my diet today too ;)

I forgot to weigh myself yesterday morning so I did it this morning instead and was really pleased to see that I'm 1.3lbs down from my ticker :carrot: My ticker's been lying to me for a while too, I was really about 2lbs heavier than it said I was but now I can finally put it down again! Means it's about a 3lbs loss this week so I'm going to try really hard this weekend not to undo everything :D

Wow this weekend support is fantastic!!!! I usually end up slipping up on the weekends which sends me in to a terrible eating binge where I can't stop for days and I undo everything I worked so hard all week for (ie exercise every day and eat healthy).

I am alone this weekend for the first time in 2 months. No visitors, no weddings, just a relaxing weekend. It is easier for me to stay on plan when I am by myself or with my BF. Last weekend, my parents were here and we ate out 3 times, got homemade apple pies and donuts.. it was awful as far as calories go.

I hope everyone's weekend is successful and relaxing!!!!:smug:

SO far so good i had oatmeal this morning :D

We're having a family BBQ which i guess is better than any other food. lol

Yay, weekend support! I'm excited for this weekend, but tonight is certainly going to be an interesting night... One of my friends who goes to a nearby school is coming to visit, and we are both going to another very good friend's a cappella group's concert (yea!) as well as the afterparty--which will most likely include copious amounts of alcohol, which I will most likely drink. Now, I don't have any problems monitoring my alcohol intake (my addiction is to food, not alcohol :o) BUT I do find that I always make very poor eating choices after I've had a few beers... It becomes 1000x easier to justify buying a candy bar or a pint of ice cream or something from our student convenience store at 2:00AM. :rolleyes: It's a vicious cycle, and I know I'd be better off avoiding alcohol in the first place, and I usually do--but it's been at least a month or so since I've had any, and tonight is a somewhat special occasion, so I don't feel bad about having a few empty calories, hah. My only concern is that I'll start shoving MORE calories into my mouth because of impaired judgment or what-have-you. I'm hoping that if I write about it here and call myself out on this bad behavior, if I get tempted later, I'll be able to recognize what I'm doing and STOP. Plus, it doesn't hurt that the scale was very good to me today (202.2 lbs! Woohoo!) so the last thing I want is to undo all the leaps and bounds of progress I made this week! :D

Wish me luck, ladies!

sh3: i think it's becuz everyone is worrying about you and your eating habit. It just seems that you aren't eating enough. But if you certainly that you're eating enough (1200+ calories) per day then don't worry. But if you're below that, i think you should consider everyone's advises. :) In the end, your body is yours and no one can understand it better than you're, right :)

i'd been off exercises track quite bad, and food. I haven't been eating enough this past week and haven't been exercising enough either. I skipped 4 days without doing any exercises. But i've back on track since yesterday and hope i'll do good from now on. :) This weekend won't be anything fun, but will just sleep pretty much all of the time. It's getting cold and i just can't seem to resist my bed. lol

SH3l5- I'm very sorry if I came off as pushy. I know I have a habit of that sometimes, but I'm just concerned. I really apologize if I hurt your feelings :(

I think we just want to make sure you're ok. It's not about eating when you're hungry necessarily, but eating to make sure your body has the proper nutrition to function. That's all I meant. I also know people have a tendency to focus soley on the number on the scale and I wish I hadn't wasted so much time doing that. I guess I'm just a little zealous about wanting to share with you what I've learned. :hug:

sh3l5 - sorry also if I upset you. When you go to the doc, maybe take in a few days records of what you ate and look over it with her? She can give you an official opinion about your nutrition, we all want you to be healthy!

My weekend is going to stink. Last night BF and I went out to Fridays, I have a salad, a handful of french fries, some little chicken strip/bites things, and 1 1/2 cookeis for dinne. Bad stuff!

And today is one of my best friends Bdays, so we'll be going to the bars.... at least i'll be in minneapolis, and I'll have no idea where to get food because I'm not from there! So I won't be doing any drunk eating..... hah.


I think I'll save my dinner calories for the alcohol, have me a liquid dinner, anyone ever do this?

Dear god the drama has already started...
 

Okay, there is a core setup when it comes to groups of female friends. You have the intelligent, motherly, responsible one, the crazy loud party girl/drama queen, the friend that is ALWAYS depressed about something, and the ditz.


Today Crazy, Prozac, and Ditzy held an intervention of sorts to report to me that my husband is having a secret affair... in Iraq. :rolleyes: This astounding conclusion was made after she overheard her baby daddy (who is deployed with DH) joking around with all the guys about an inside joke that is far too complex and gross to describe here, but trust me it's stupid and not even funny unless you're drunk or you have a penis. They were also teasing my husband about 'his girl'. 'His Girl' being the not-right-in-the-head LNO that gives him the butterfly lashes every time she see's him, and has been stalking him and one of his friends since they got there. Apparently she is a very embarrassing person to be stalked by, and i've already been aware of this and I make fun of him about it every chance I get. Why?

My husband has NO game, and no social skills. He's scared of most girls, he is not a smooth talker, and he is not even romantic in the slightest. In fact, the only reason I decided he was worth dating is because of his brutal honesty and the fact that he himself is just... hilarious. Not because he means to be (sometimes he does), but because he just IS. You know Spicolli? THAT'S my husband. Heck, the night we started dating he had the bartender send me a beer. It was a Coors light. :mad: I sent it back because I only drink Michelob Ultra. He got the bartender to get him a MU and brought it over to me, put it on the bar and said angrily, "Here! Now what is it gonna take to f*cking impress you? I ain't got sh*t!" He growled at me the rest of the night! The next day we were changing tires on some old busted down 5 Tons and he kept winking and making kissy faces at me. He thought it was sexy. I thought he needed medication. LOL!!!

Whatever that poor girl is thinking, she is sorely mistaken. :lol:

I told them I already knew about that stupid crap and that it wasn't a big deal. Now The Concerned Gossips Brigade has taken it upon themselves to give me that 'poor thing, she's in denial' look every ten minutes. I'm seriously going to punch one of them in their stupid face. I didn't today at the confrontation since my marriage intervention happened to be when we all got together to see another friends newborn this morning.

I trust my husband, he's not a dog, he doesn't need a leash. Just because I don't get uptight about a bunch of monkey *** boys acting like a bunch of monkey *** boys doesn't mean my marriage is falling apart. We've been together for eons and six combined deployments on top of that. I don't give a crap if some little 18 year old girl is starstruck over him. If she knew the exorbitant cost of feeding that Sasquatch and what his socks smell like she might change her mind. LoL. If my idiot friends would get out of their SO's butts they might notice their relationships improve, and I wouldn't get stuck listening to their melodramatic overblown crap 24/7. I'm all for taking care of your friends, but don't try to cause a problem when there isn't one. Once you've got photos on myspace of them canoodling THEN let me know. Until then it's speculation, or as it was in this case, just a stupid joke taken out of context.

I was so mad I ate three butterscotch 'It's A Boy!' cupcakes and a bowl of Neopolitan ice cream. But I do feel better now. :p

I had a cheeseburger today and it didnt stop there.. i had about 5 chicken wings! but im going to the gym in a few minutes to work them all off hopefully lol

I went shopping with my mom this afternoon and managed to get my nieces and nephew's Christmas presents all bought!!! I had outfits already for all of them and just needed toys. Well, I found some good stuf.....although my nephew was the hardest to buy "toys" for since he's only 3 months old. But I pretty much have all of that taken care of. I still haven't started any other Christmas shopping, but I like knowing that the kids are done! They're the fun ones anyway! haha

We went food shopping afterwards and my mom and I were both starving by the time we got in there. Bad mistake! haha But we didn't overindulge with any bad foods or anything, so I can't complain too much. I refilled some of my fruits and vegetables that have been pretty nonexistant for the past week or so.

The rest of the night will probably be spent cleaning my room and doing some laundry. I still haven't unpacked from when I went away last weekend...haha. So, I should get that done and then definitely tackle my room. It kind of looks like a bomb hit it and only managed to leave a trail from my bed to the door!

I went food shopping yesterday too .. is it just here or is food getting really expensive? i mean especially healthy food?

I'm glad I didn't offend ya! It's human nature to take those two steps backwards - you are doing great and good luck with all you are dealing with!

Triumphant!

I went out last night and go thome around... 2ish maybe. I wanted pizza sooo bad but as I was cooking my bfs I talked myself out of it. I almost consumed almost 700 calories of crap for no reason.

I'm having a so so weekend as far as food goes, I haven't exercised once. I'm a bad bad girl.

Food shopping is ridiculous!! We didn't even fill the cart and it was still close to $100!

Oh dear... I have blown this weekend.... Well, really it was just a carry-over from a crappy week of eating and not exercising. URG. Already had lasagna today. Gonna have to stick with fruits and veggies for the rest of the day. Hope you all are doing better than I am. Feeling fat and really just not motivated. Think I'll go do an exercise vid that always helps.

I had a good weekend, a mediocre week and today is "brunch day". Every other Sunday, I take my little girl out for brunch and we gossip and eat lots of whip cream, then we spend the afternoon at the Library. I love sundays!

But first...a spin class! Have a good rest of the weekend!