Featherweights Planning and Chat Oct 29-Nov 4
 

Good morning!

What's happening this week?

I'm on evenings which (other than alienating me from my family) is my favourite. I can get my life in order before I go to work and relax when I get home. It also gives me my three day weekend!
My mornings are starting to fill up with appts but nothing before 11 so I'm good.

I'm going to Halloween costume party today. Food might be a challenge, I probably will practice portion control, depends what they have,

Well I couldn't sleeep so I decided to get up and do stuff... or continue to avoid doing stuff by coming on 3FC.

Yep.

My weekend was good, had my final weight/measurements for october. Pretty happy with 3.4lbs gone and 1.75 inches adios.

The rest of today I'll be at school doing school things. ugh.

Of course I will be going to Halloween party this wednesday. Should be fun. I plan to bring along a plate of delicious sugar cookies (the only recipe I've made that I like, I normally hate sugar cookies.) covered in black and orange icing of course. Hmmmm.

Other than that I'm looking forward to a chill week.

Let's see....tonight is dinner with the in-laws and then a concert at DD's school. Wednesday is the homecoming parade. Friday is the homecoming game. Sunday is the gay pride parade and then the Mother-Daughter tea. I think I'll be quite busy!

My weight hasn't been going down as planned. I'll be doing some better planning this week in hopes of a loss later.

Good morning everyone! Well, I don't *feel* like a featherweight but here I am!!!

I had a Halloween party today too, at story hour with the 2 year old I babysit. I had: 2 small slices of pumkin bread (homemade, never had it before, it was so yummy!), a slice of apple, some cucumbers, and about 5 mini (real small) cookies. Then came home and whipped together some chicekn soup... I only used chicken broth, pepper, chicken, egg noodles, celery and a piece of carrot. Now I gotta figure out points!!!
Tonight, one boy has basketball.
Our nights are always busy doing *something*!!!

I feel like I spent the entire weekend in the kitchen! We are inundated by guavas right now, so I prepped three batches (that's three 5qt pots) of guavas for jelly (as of this morning, I have 14 quarts of guava juice in the freezer to make into jelly). We may be handing out guavas to trick-or-treaters for Halloween (actually, we're handing out toys--no Halloween candy for me!)

I also canned 6 pints of green tomato salsa (well, there were also a few red tomatoes thrown in--trying to use up the last of the crop--so I'm calling it Christmas salsa). And I made my lunch for the next six days (tuna, rice, and veggie salad). That was a lot of work, so now I'm looking forward to a few days off from the kitchen. I need to make dinner tonight, but it is going to feed us for three nights, then Thursday night is going to be scrounge night and Friday I'll be going out with the girls for pedicures and dinner. Of course, I'll still have to prep a batch of guavas every night.

A very nasty week now
 

I have to get through Halloween and then get back on track.

Just received an email from the City. The commercial dog walker's permit is coming up for debate again and once again they've scheduled it so we have to take time off work (and lose pay) or not go to the debate.

I'm so glad I had my vacation before this came up again. At least that wasn't ruined as the rest of this week now will be.

And Halloween is my favorite holiday too. SIGH.

Dagmar :( (don't know whether to :cry: or :barf:)

Today, the head of my project was in town (normally she works remotely), and she took us out to a really nice lunch. However, I was actually disappointed, because I was looking forward to the yummy and healthy lunch I packed! I did better than I usually do when I go out to eat (had only one small piece of bread from the bread basket), but it still wasn't too diet-friendly. We split tomatoes and mozzarella for the table (not my choice, but I didn't want to be rude and refuse) for the appetizer. For the main course I picked chicken marsala, because there weren't many options that looked healthy, but I asked for the roasted vegetables instead of potato croquettes with it. Sounds like a simple enough switch, but the server made a HUGE deal out of it. "I'm going to have to charge you for that!" Okay; fine - just do it instead of calling out to the table that I'm trying to eat healthy. Then at the end of the meal when she brought the check AGAIN she mentioned my extra charge for the vegetables. I was slightly embarrassed by that whole thing... it was just annoying. However, aside from her and aside from the fact that the food wasn't healthy, it was an enjoyable and tasty outing. Anyone else have any similar stories from eating out at work?

Tonight for dinner I tried to eat really healthy to make up for it. Did some tofu boiled in dashi (Japanese soup stock, basically) and then with some spices, then spinach with a touch of sesame-soy, and finally a big bowl of broth plus a few crackers. Unfortunately, the recipes did NOT come out like I wanted them to... first time I've been disappointed with the Japanese recipes I've tried. At least it was healthy!

Hopefully tomorrow's food will go better. However, I swear I feel myself bloating already. I'm sure it's me being paranoid, but especially after losing a lot last week, it's going to be hard not to plateau/gain.

Good morning!
Today is the dentist (ugh) I need to make funeral sandwiches and then work. Now that I'm sitting here in my jammies sipping coffee at 9 am, I sure wish I'd gone to the grocer yesterday. However ... I'll have to make three seperate trips and it's all walking so ...

What are funeral sandwiches ? I am assuming you are not making sandwiches to take to a funeral.

Ok, I'm trying desperately to get back on plan, I'm tired of maintaining and want to hit my goal once and for all...so for the hundredth time in the past two months, I'm working on my eating. I've done well for two straight days now so hopefully I'm back on track. I am, and have been, thankfully staying very consistent with my exercise and running. I'm even bumping up the exercise lately b/c I love seeing muscles and desperately want to eliminate my ugly glute folds.

I bought Halloween candy today for the first time this year. Usually as soon as the Halloween candy starts hitting the shelves I'm buying it for us and when I purchase candy for the kiddos I always buy only stuff I like and lots of extra stuff for us. BUT this year I haven't wanted to buy any of it b/c I know what happens when it's in the house. Today I forced myself to b/c I really don't have any time left since Halloween is tomorrow. So, I have several grocery store bags full of candy that's haunting and taunting me sitting in the other room. *sigh* I dread Xmas coming.

How many trick or treaters dose everyone get? Last year I think we got somewhere around 50 kids or more.

Kim~when I lived in Palm Springs, we'd get anywhere from 20-100 kids (usually around 50, though), but since we moved to Palm Desert, we hardly get any. We have a few little kids that live in the neighborhood that might trick or treat so I am prepared. I doubt I'll see more than 10 kids. Most of my neighbors are retired and in my old neighborhood we had a lot of everything (most of the trick or treaters were driven in from the neighboring mobile home parks, though).

I think we get between 30-50 kids. Last having the Halloween candy around was such an ordeal--am I giving away too much, will I run out; am I not giving away enough, will I have too much left; if I have some left, do I eat it or not eat it; if I don't eat the leftovers, what do I do with them. I have enough in my life to worry about without stressing about Halloween candy, so this year I got smart and bought little toys to hand out from the Oriental Trading Company. We are handing out dinosaur eggs, stretchy lizards and frogs, and daisy bracelets. If I have leftovers, they'll keep until next year.

Yup, when our church is the gathering place ... we women make the food. I always choose sandwiches cuz I've never made a decent square in my life. Salmon on whole wheat today.

It's Halloween!! Candy eatin' time!!
 

:haphal:
I never worry about running out. I just bring in the pumpkin and decorations (I go all out - this is my favorite holiday) when I'm out of stuff. Last year we had a bunch left over and DH ate it all - I only got the sour gummie things and I don't like those. The first year we were here we had about 100 kids. Last year only about half that so the leftovers.

Doritos chips (which I gave out last year) keep forever. I'm still eating the leftover bags once in awhile and they're perfectly ok. Serious preservatives - now I know what to stock the nuclear fallout bunker with ;)

Am going to go eat my healthy veggie stew now before the onslaught of tricksters. Have only had about 20 :o little chocolate bars so far.

It's Halloween. I'm gonna eat candy. :devil: :devil: :devil:

Dagmar :p (later on this will be :barf:)

Tonight for dinner I ate baked fish (prob about 4 oz - a healthy portion), brussel sprouts (yum - just started getting into those and now I love them)... and then about 3 cups of whole wheat pasta with tomato sauce. WAY too much to really be healthy. To make things worse, I was then all carb-crazy so I ate a ton of these little mini-soy crackers I get from Trader Joe's and usually eat 1/2 servings of when I have soup. Tonight, I ate half a bag, which is about 4 servings and 400 calories. Yuck. I then made the mistake of powering up my work laptop before going to the gym... and then got so caught up in e-mails and various things that I didn't go at all. Definitely just not a good night for me, diet-wise; tomorrow I want to try to double my workout to make up for it. While it's good that eating too much pasta and crackers and skipping my workout for ONE night is what constitutes a big slip up for me, it's frustrating that I know I am going to see the evidence of this on the scale this week.

Just before I posted the above, I realized, you know what? I am awake right now, and my gym is open until 11. So I went and did a quick 2 miles on the treadmill, then 20 mins of an abs DVD, and I feel a THOUSAND times better. Hurray for this board inspiring me to not be lazy :)

I've tried that in the past, but they can see we're home (it's a small house, there's really only one room we can be in where you won't see light from the street) and will ring the doorbell anyway. I remember one year handing out coins after the candy ran out and then cowering in the back bedroom in desperation. So now I make sure I always have enough goodies. And unless I handed out expensive chocolate, my SO absolutely will not eat the leftover candy. He's just not interested in low quality candy (his relationship with food is very different than mine-I'll eat almost anything with sugar in it), but he also would be loath to have me throw it out (I know--it's a conundrum--he won't eat it but makes me feel horribly guilty if I throw it out). So the toys were definitely a better solution this year. They seemed to go over well; one kid came back and asked for more. He said they were "tight" which I think is a good thing.

Scenestealer--We all have those days. It's great that you fit in some time at the gym after all--I find that always makes me feel more in control. My guess is that it won't make that much difference on the scale. Remember, it takes 3,500 calories above your maintenance calorie level to gain just one pound and I don't think you ate anywhere near that much.

Time to regroup
 

Halloween is over. I didn't keep track of just how much candy I ate :o :o :o but I've never had a stomach ache after Halloween the next day.

I have one now. And such a sugar hangover it's unbelievable. :hyper: :hyper:

So that particular binge is out of my system and I'm almost caught up with household/work stuff left over from my holiday absence. No more doggie sits until Christmas. So no more excuses.

This is my public declaration that I'm back OP until Christmas. There may be a day or two when I fall off the wagon but not like this. This day will be a reminder every time I reach for something sweet.

My body is saying NOOO and I'm going to get my darn brain to listen to that. Lots and lots of internal conversation in the next two months. :p

Dagmar :barf:

It's Thursday right? What a weird discombobulated week!

As if working evenings doesn't remove you from the human race enough ... I did a twelve hour yesterday. Accompanied by awful cramps, I'm having a weird little perimenopausal period. Max tells me we're out of catfood and sardines are just not gonna cut it.
Bleh! I'm just out of it! I think I have a hair appt this morning. I'd better call.
Coffee will help ... and I'd better make a list.

I know logically that 3500 calories is one pound... but I would SWEAR that my body acquires and loses weight easier than that. It's just the kind of thing where when I have a big meal (though not 3500 calories), I can see it on my stomach the next day, and my pants are tighter. I know that makes no rational sense, and I certainly don't obsess over it, but I do notice it.

Good luck with the coffee to get through the day, Susan!

My Halloween went reasonably well, all things considered. The fambly had pizza for a pre-T&Ting dinner; I ate leftovers (1/3 a baked potato w/chutney, a slice of tofu, leftover salad, and sauerkraut). While trick-or-treating I had one of the regular size Reeses PB cups and 5-6 malted milk balls, but otherwise avoided the candy. Did have a couple of beers, though, at a friends' house as we were handing out candy.

Now the trick is to get TB's haul of candy out of the house. I don't want either of us to eat it, but I don't want to just take it away from him, either. The "oh, it's just once a year" thing doesn't work for me, both because of the volume of candy we're talking about and because I don't want him to get in the habit of eating junk like that, even as a "special treat" dessert.

Any of you with 5 year olds or former 5-year olds have tips for how to deal with the Halloween loot?

Kim

Kim~I don't know if I have weird kids or what....I can usually stay away from their haul, so it's not a problem for me, but what's weird is that they stay away from it, too! I usually have to throw it out at Thanksgiving because they won't eat it and it's taking up too much room in my pantry (I won't let them keep it in their rooms). Same with all the other holidays--they get candy, it sits, I throw it out. Sorry, I don't have any suggestions for you.

We ended up having two trick or treaters! Sisters, about 3 and 5. The older one asked for "seconds" and she got 3 candy bars (full sized, remember?). We just laughed. My DS when T&Ting with the neighbors and none of them even bothered coming to our house! When I was a kid, we'd hit our own houses at the beginning AND at the end! LOL

Mmmm ... I honestly think I would pay just to have someone wash my hair for me. It was fabulous! And I feel so much lighter. It really had been a long time since I'd had some weight cut out.
This new gal I tried was great. She talked my ear off for almost two hours and it was $65 but my hair looks and feels great.
Now I'll sock it up in a ponytail and go to work :(

I don't doubt it but I suspect that it is water weight. When I eat off plan, my body immediately starts retaining water. So it seems like I've gained more weight than is possible, but it usually disappears pretty quickly once I'm back on plan again. For example, when I got back on plan after my Conference/Joshua Tree trip last month, I dropped 3 lbs in just a couple of days. Now I know I couldn't create a 10,000 calorie deficit in three days, so clearly that was just water. Also, eating off plan, particularly foods that are high in fat, will make me constipated (sorry if this is TMI), which also makes it seem like I've gained more weight than possible.

Weight loss is weird!
 

But we all already know that. ;)

I went on two Halloween chocolate binges this week and I was dreading getting on the scale this morning. :eek:

134.4 lbs :woohoo:.

I was expecting to be up around 138. I will try to lose this weekend, instead of maintaining. Christmas is just 55 days away (someone on the beach told me that yesterday) so I figure I better get going to make goal. ;)

Dagmar (chocolate is evil :devil:, well for this week anyway)

Hi all :wave:

I've been lurking but not posting the last few weeks. I'm almost back down to my 143 which is what I weighed before I fell off the wagon in July. I wanted to wait a few weeks to make sure that I was re-commited to this weight loss thing and I believe I am. Also, I was embarassed that I fell off the wagon :o

Where is everyone lately? This used to be such a busy thread. Maybe everyone else is lurking too ;)

Join back in the conversation guys, we have work to do :drill:

Yes sir Abbyin sir!

Good morning everyone! We have been quiet.

We're on the road today. As soon as we get a few things done around here, we're off to visit DD and her husband. She'll be 24 on Friday and I've got a little something for her.
Oh and we'll probably shop a little along the way ;)

My DH is driving me nuts
 

You're right abbyin - we've got a lot of work to do.

My DH went and bought ice cream and cookies last night. I can't figure out what's up with him. He's given notice (kinda) at his job and should be happier.

But he's still sitting in front of the TV and stuffing his face. It seems like he wants to be like the rest of his family - 300lbs +.

And he's insisting I join him. I'm finding it really hard to say no. And I'm getting really fed up with living like this. Every time I make suggestions for a healthier lifestyle he jumps on me for criticizing and nagging him. He wants me to compliment him but I'm finding it hard to come up with anything positive 'cause he's so negative.

I'm starting to dread the time DH comes home every night because I already know he'll be angry/anxious/ upset or just plain cranky. I'm really happy during the day and that all ends when he gets home.

I really don't want to sit in front of the TV and eat every night but I'm so tired after walking from 8:30 a.m.- 4 p.m. that I don't want to go out and walk some more.

I've been with this man for 12 years. I'm really starting to think seriously about leaving because I can't seem to find any way to get through to him.

Dagmar

I'm still here--busy as ever.

I got my run in this morning and came back and bathed the dog. Now he wants to lie on the bed and he's still wet!

Tomorrow is our annual Mother-Daughter Tea. But first DD has a parade that ends at 11:30. I just found out she is supposed to be at the tea at 12:30 for photos. Yeah, right--all hot and sweaty! NOT. She will have to find a friend's home to go to and shower and get ready for the tea as she won't have time to drive home, shower, get dressed and get back to the tea even close to 'on time' let alone 1.5 hours EARLY for the photos. So if she misses the group photo, oh, well.

My weight has been climbing but I've got it in my head to really concentrate on getting back to goal. I've got to get my grocery list going and head to the store.

Have a great weekend!

Weighed in this morning, and I'm up a pound from last week. I know exactly why ("cheated" on three meals this week, skipped one workout, and did two that were easier/shorter than they should have been). Because there were a couple slip-ups compared to my awesome week last week, I think it's a legitimate pound gained and not just water weight. However, as I posted earlier it's frustrating that I gain a pound just from the relatively minor slip-ups I had.

Hey everyone,

surprise surprise I weighed in this morning and was down .6 lbs. o.0 Don't know how that happened. It seems like my body has decided it's ready to lose weight and it doesn't matter what I eat... Lots of small losses but losses all the same. That means however that I'm .6 lbs away from my mini-goal!!!

Scenestealer - sounds like a reasonable assumption to me. And it's good you can see why/where the pound would have come from.

abbyin - Hello! Will joing conversation! Will work hard! And don't be embarrassed, I think everyone here has had problems staying on that darn wagon.... it's just so easy to go over the edge.

dagmar - *hugs* Sounds like life is pretty rough for you right now. I wish we could help. I guess you've tried to get him to open up? Have you thought about counseling at all or is he not up for that sort of thing? Having your significant other being miserable and causing you misery is never good... I hope you can figure out some sort of solution. :)