Good Mooooorrrrrnnnning Chicks!
What a beautiful day it is here in north-central West Virginia! The sun is shining, the air is cool and crisp (but not freeze-your-toes cold), I've got coffee, and I'm in a good mood!
I'll start out with comments, then move on to updates on yours truly.
Julie: WOOHOO!
Way to go on the biking! And I know that a couple of us may be repeating ourselves on these questions/discussions, but I think that's ok. It's good to reaffirm your reasons for losing weight! It will help remind you of what you're doing and why, and that can help keep you on track.
Connie: 2 hours a day in the gym!?!
Egads, woman! But hey, it's a good thing, so keep it up! I didn't know if you wanted to be counted in our exercise challenge or not, so I didn't put you in the tally. Which is perfectly fine--the whole point is to give those of us who aren't working out enough something to work towards and a reason to get off our behinds, so if you've already got that base covered, there's no need. Kids are a great reason to get healthy--that's part of my reasoning as well. My parents have always been overweight, and I know that the lack of healthy eating and exercise in my youth contributed to my unhealthy lifestyle now. I don't want to do that to my kids, I refuse. As for the water... stick with it for a couple days and you will acquire the taste. If not, you could always use unsweetened tea, Crystal Light, or some of the new calorie-free flavored waters, like Fruit2Oh or Aquafina Flavor Splash, or make some KoolAid with Splenda instead of sugar, or add some lemon, lime, or orange to your water. Lots of options!
Missgreen: My former job was managing a cosmetics department, and I absolutely love being girly and making myself feel pretty. I'm all about wearing nice perfume (read: I had to go half way across the country to get the perfume I want!), makeup, high heels, manicures, pedicures, facials, the whole nine yards. Ask anyone--almost all of the rewards I give myself are of the girly variety! What I'm trying to say is, I agree. We can, and SHOULD feel pretty no matter what we weigh. I might weight 215 pounds today, but I'm stinking H-O-T!
And my wonderful BF, Steve, tells me every day! The truth is, guys *love* curvy women! At the bowling alley every week, all the guys let me go first, and I say it's because they want to look at my butt. Yep, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it!
Joy: Thanks for adding the crunchyness tip! As an added bonus, I'll add a little tip of my own: to add flavor to air-popped popcorn without all the calories, add some LF Parmesan cheese--yummy, and a lot fewer calories than butter! Good job on the walking--15 minutes is a start! When my calories start to go bad my journaling always disappears too. Perhaps that is something we should focus on--journaling *no matter what.*
Rosie: 140 minutes is a fine goal! The point is to set a goal that challenges you, but is still realistic. It's not realistic for me to say I'll exercise daily either, because I know it isn't going to happen. But hey, 18 minutes is a good start! Keep it up and you'll have 140 minutes under your belt in no time! And it is hard to keep up with the individual comments every day, and we all know it, so if you slack off sometimes, no one is going to tazer you (we save that for slacking off on the diet and exercise
). It happens. But if you can keep us updated on what's going on with you, and post comments when you can, that's great. Heck, I hardly ever used to post comments, and no one kicked me out! Then I got a job not doing much of anything but sitting in front of a computer all day, so I've got considerably more time to comment now. Perhaps the same could happen for you, you never know. Can I ask, just for curiosity's sake, what field are you in?
MsRD: WTG! Sounds like a "green" day for you (to steal TBJ's terminology)! Are you in for our exercise challenge? As for eating out... it's not so much being tired for me, it's mainly just a time issue when we go out. Since we live about 25 minutes from town, if we go home, we usually don't go back out, so if there's something to do in town, it's so much easier to just eat out. We really are trying to cut down on eating out, both for financial and dietary reasons, but this week has just been a real bear. And now with the upcoming trip to Cincinnati, it's not going to get any easier. I will have to really focus on watching both the quality and the quantity of the food I'm eating. Once we get settled into our house, Steve and I are planning to have a regular night out, with an actual decent meal rather than fast food, but keep it down to about once every other week or so. I'd much rather do that anyway than waste my calories on fast food.
OK, did I get everyone who posted since my last post? I think so! If not, just yell at me. I'm feeling talkative today (Obviously), so it won't be hard for me to find something to say.
Now, on to... ME!!!
I did pretty well last night, at least for me. I had a few too many dried apricots (I love those things) for a snack, but it's fruit so I'm not too guilty about that. Dinner was Subway, as I predicted, but they were out of turkey (can you believe that?), so I had roast beef instead. The nutrition chart says they have the same calories, so it's all good. And some baked potato chips, since they didn't have any SunChips. *sigh* Guess I'll have to go to Quizno's if I want SunChips with my sub. Anyway, at the football game (which we won 45-13, Go 'Eers!), I skipped food in favor of hot chocolate, since I was freezing. I did, however, have 2 small bites of Steve's Philly cheesesteak hoagie. And if you know me, that's an accomplishment, because cheesesteak hoagies are my favorite.
Lunch yesterday was ok, but there was still that Halloween candy issue. I had a mini Butterfinger, a mini KitKat, and a few Hershey kisses with almonds. It would have been worse, but the rest of the office picked out everything but the Krakle bars and the plain kisses, neither of which I'm crazy about, so I suppose that was a good thing.
Oh, and I was hungry when I got home, so I had a little bit of chicken broccoli rice casserole that Mom had fixed for dinner. Like I've said, it had chicken, broccoli, and rice, therefore my mom thinks it's completely healthy. Even if it is smothered in cheese. But it's a step in the right direction, so I'm not really complaining. If I complain, she'll just stop cooking altogether, so I'd rather not.
Today, I'm already a little over my calorie budget, and I haven't eaten anything entirely bad. Coffee with skim milk, 1/2 a bowl of LF granola cereal with skim milk, and whole wheat toast with peanut butter. Lunch is more of the chicken broccoli rice stuff, only with more chicken and less stuff this time. I have an apple for a snack, oh, and a Diet Dr. Pepper--yummy!
I don't know what dinner will be yet. This morning Mom was complaining because we didn't have anything for dinner and she would have to go to the store. Umm, did she think to check the freezer? I distinctly remember planning meals for 2 weeks and buying enough food for all of those meals. We have a freezer chock full of food! So I told her to pick something from the list that we haven't already had in the past few days, and if she needed help, I can help cook when I get home.
I am absolutely NOT going out to eat tonight or tomorrow! I have a couple of recipes I want to try, so if I end up cooking, great. If Mom cooks, that's fine too. But I am NOT going out.
And Steve has band practice tonight, so I will be left peacefully alone this evening. Time to exercise! Woot! Yourself!Fitness, here I come! I'm excited! (And how often do I say that about exercise? Not very! This is a good thing.)
In other news... we're not leaving for Cincinnati until early afternoon on Saturday, so I will be able to exercise Saturday morning, and we should be back late on Sunday, so perhaps I can exercise then too. Although I may not exercise Sunday, since we've got bowling, and if I exercise today, tomorrow, and Saturday, I'll most likely use Sunday as a rest day. Yep, that's the plan. OK, so let me add up my forecasted minutes... 180 minutes. That's my goal. I didn't exercise yesterday, but I did make a deal with a friend to do 20 crunches before bed, and I DID! Yay Me!
I'll post our exercise challenge minutes in a separate thread, but right now I've gotta run--meeting time! Have a lovely day, chickies!
~Elisha
Extrinsic Rapture , 11-02-2005 10:00 PM
LOL
Evening everyone....
Missgreen & Wnnabthin
scale_challenged , 11-03-2005 07:06 AM
hikein2005 , 11-03-2005 08:16 AM
Lookit that smiley face!! LOL! 
, but for many of you, I'm a total stranger just like you are to me, so here goes:
miss_elisha , 11-03-2005 09:08 AM
I posted some relatively healthy hotdish recipes in the Vegetarian recipes forum. They are nice and goopy, so they have that hotdish feel, but they aren't too bad.
I am so rooting for you to reach that size 14. Just imagine the new clothing options. You will have so much fun! You have to share that moment with us, 'k? How far do you have to go?
And cheese, yep, hard to stop eating the stuff. Apparently it does have an addictive chemical (casomorphine SP?), which explains why it's hard to give up the stuff. So many people I know, in the vegetarian community and in the better-eating community in general, say that they wish they could stop eating cheese. I'm with you on the goal to cut down on the stuff.
You'll reach your goal. 
