IP Daily Chat Monday 09/10/12
 

Welcome back to the Daily Chat thread - post your plans for today, share what's been happening, ask questions!

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Some forum lingo:
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TOM = time of the month
WI = Weigh-in
WF = Walden Farms
OP = on program

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Good morning everyone hope you all have a great Monday.

Happy Monday, all!
WE were able to turn off the AC and open the windows last night, it was heavenly to let the wind blow through the house. I planted some lettuce as a fall "crop" haha, I could eat all I planted in 1 sitting. I'm hoping that planting it close to the house, I should get some harvest before we get a freeze in Nov.
NSV- my clothes in the closet are growing! More things for the give away pile!
I am so thankful! 20 more pounds to go!

Good morning all. It is a lovely 42 degrees here and the smoke has blown out a bit, so it is quite lovely. Off to work with the sunroof open. Yay. Hope you all have a great day...

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I just learned how to use these things...:o

good morning..hope everyone has a great day!

Good morning all! Just finished reading all the weekend daily chat posts. It was a busy weekend, and I only had a chance to check it briefly Sunday am.

It's so much easier to stay on top of the daily chat thread here at work =)

Good morning all! I just started IP today but have been lurking on this board forever (and posted a question awhile ago and you were all so helpful!)

It's cooled down here in Michigan too. I love the fall weather! Pulled out the fall smelling candles last night. Cheap thrills.. heheh.

Have a great Monday everyone!

Happy Monday!
I was out of town all day yesterday. I was freaking out a bit cause it would be the first time I have eaten in a restaurant since starting IP.
I had a salad at Subway, it was awesome - cost $5.50 - later we went for dinner at White Spot. I was specific with my ordering....a tossed salad w/a plain grilled chicken breast & a black coffee.
I was SHOCKED when my bill came to $16! The "bit" of chicken breast couldn't have been more then 3 oz (it was tiny) & the salad consisted mainly of lettuce.
I was proud of myself that I had no problem staying OP. I finally feel as though I have some control & it feels good!

My shirt doesn't fit!! My shirt doesn't fit!!
 

It is going to be a great week everyone, I feel it in the crisp cool air!

Today marks day 60 of IP and 19lbs lighter!

Despite a day 1 cheat last week--see previous post about Zac from Zac Brown band offering me a drink (Jack and DC)--I am down another 1.4lbs.

A few NSVs:
1.I am wearing a size 6 dress today that I haven't been able to fit into for years...and it is loose on top!
2. My local Shop Rite sells WF tomato basil and garlic herb pasta sauces AND I found fresh rhubarb there as well!!!

I started going back to the gym last week...my body fat % has not changed for a few weekS. What is with that? Any solutions to see it budge?

Good Morning everyone! Looking forward to a nice Monday and the upcoming fall weather! Hoping for another productive weight loss week!

Also, welcome to all of the new folks!

i was a little bit distracted this morning... i left the house without my pants!!:o im wearing a dress that comes to mid thigh which is a little shorter than I am comfortable with, so I wear legging type pants. However, I have Mastiff type dogs who are very sloobery so I dont put the leggings on first thing. Today I realized i had not put them on at all when i sat down in my car. brrr. cold leather:dizzy: Oh well, at least i caught it before i got all the way to work.

Good Morning Ipers. After a nice long weekend of our huge fair and wedding planning I am down another 2.6 lbs..... almost to 60 lbs lost.... wahoo. Walked around the fair with DH and although was tempted by the funnel cakes, I was actually discusted with the stand that was literally all fried food including a deep fried krispy kreme dognut cheeseburger. Gag..... I packed some snacks like a bar, and some zuc chips I made to taste like apple pie chips. My DH found me something to eat. One of the stands is a big huge burger stand. They make a plane burger cooked on onions. So I held the cooked onions and ate half the burger minus the bun. It let me feel like I got fair food without the bad juju stuff. Life is looking pretty good right now. I am supprised with my WI this morning just as TOM comes again.



Today's Quote:

way to go on making good choices at the fair AND for another gret loss this week!!! :woohoo:

NSV- while looking through pinterest and seeing all the recipes my friends have posted I was thinking "not interested," "too sweet," "too rich"... Then I realized a week ago I would have repinned every single one of those. They don't even tempt anymore!:D

:yay: i know exactly what you mean!!! don't you love that "change of thinking"!!!! way to go!!

djs06 - where in MI are you? I'm near Grayling.

Good morning!! Quick question.....does anyone else eat their snack between lunch and dinner? I think that I end up eating to late and it is preventing some weight loss???

GreenIris- Grayling.. hmmm... is that far from Traverse City? I went there last year for the first time and loved it. I'm relatively new to Michigan (been here two years, moved from the east coast) and live in Ann Arbor. Nice to see another Michigander on here! :)

I started dieting at 12 years old....I am now 47. I have wasted many years feeling guilty, embarrassed, ashamed....even though I feel like this, part of me wants to fail & that scares me.
I know this is more then "about the food" and I have a difficult time talking to a psychologist...cause I say whatever needs to be said...so I'm not really helping myself :?:
I decided to see a therapist who does CranialSacral Therapy. I found it very interesting.Through this experience, I discovered that, whatever I'm feeling, I ALWAYS turn it around to the positive, therefore, I am not feeling it. Does that make any sense????
I've always thought I was a great communicator. Oh yes, I get stuff out...but rather then sitting with the uncomfortable feelings I instantly analyze it, think of the lesson that is being taught to me and spin it around into something positive.
I know that having a positive attitude is "key" but I find that my extremely positive attitude is only allowing me to surface clean and sweep everything else under the carpet (so to speak). If I don't sweep under the carpet, the weight will eventually creep back on.
Oh gosh, I hope someone understands me and I'm not just babbling incoherently :(

Here in Billings we are REALLY SMOKEY! It looks terrible out...just a thick haze over the city from all the forest fires in the region. So we must have gotten the smoke from you :(:flame::drill::drill::drill:

Don't exercise too much. I have found that too much exercise can actually affect your losses. So eating protein is more important than exercise to lose fat. Sometimes an extra egg white or two a day helps. It did me.

TOO FUNNY! :D:hug:

Today is my last day on phase 2...tomorrow I start eating a breakfast. I have raspberries from my garden that I froze, knowing that some day I would be able to enjoy them.

The good news is that I lost a total of 5 lbs during the 2 weeks of phase 2. I was amazed, but I guess since you are still in ketosis, it stands to reason.

Coach says there will be a slight gain in phase 3 but not in fat...glycogen stores, which carry water molecules...So for every glycogen that is stored in the liver, there are 3 H2O molecules. So that is usually what the gain is attributed to. I loved biochemistry in college. So I really get into this stuff!

Happy Monday, everyone. Stay OP!:grouphug::drill:

Hi djs06,
As GreenIris knows, I'm a part time Michigander. Born and raised there, gone for many years, but have a house on a lake about 45 miles south of GreenIris, which we are on the other side of the state from Traverse City. Hope to retire there real soon. We drive up US 23 right by Ann Arbor when we come up.

Welcome to IP. Follow the plan and you'll do great. I'm having success with losing for the first time in almost 50 years of dieting.

Good morning, all. working from home while my torn tendon heals. This week is Employee Appreciation and they have all kinds of things going on at work, so my boss gave me permission to not work "as hard." So, I'm trying to catch up on my forum reading.

Have a great OP day.
Molly

Delgen - P3 already!?! That is awesome!!!! Congratulations to you!

djs06 - about 45 minutes east of Traverse City, on I-75. And a belated Welcome to MI!

vwbunny - I eat my snack between lunch & dinner. Lunch is usually 11:30 - noon, snack about 4, and supper around 7. If I know I'll have supper earlier, I'll have my snack later in the evening.

Employee appreciation...hmmm sounds like fun. The only employee appreciation we have at my work now is that we should feel appreciation that they gave us paycuts instead of laying us off.

I need a new job!

Wow, this really jumped out at me. I have suffered from chronic depression for as long as I can remember, and have found that unless I just plow ahead and make the best of things and think positive, it's just too hard. Just today, I was talking my walk, musing to myself and I thought about how many of my friends are so disgusted with the state of the world and all the screwed up stuff in it, and I think, yes, all of that is true, but I can not expend all of my energies thinking about it and I'm no good to anybody if I can't keep myself going and if that takes my little bubble of love, then so be it. I don't ignore the crap, but I choose to look at life through a prism of love. I know... that sounds corny... ;)

When it comes to the personal thoughts, that really comes out with this weight stuff. All the years of self-loathing, memories of cruel things people have said and I internalized. I bet we've all been there. Not truly seeing ourselves in the mirror because the truth is too painful. I've said it before, my body 'then' was a prison that I could not seem to break out of. Now that I am free of it, reinventing, re-everything about myself, I know that with what is left of my life, I will never go back to that prison. I'm 59 now, but I'm not going to spend one second regretting the past - just not worth it. All those cruel people and society thinking it is okay to hurt fat people can go jump in the lake, and that is as polite as I can make it. ;)

I would just keep talking and talking and writing all you can. The 'real' feelings will come out eventually and you will heal yourself of all that lousy pain so you can embrace this bright new future you are building for yourself.

I am fascinated by cranial-sacral therapy - tell us how it goes. I'd love to hear more about what happens and how it helps.

Good luck!

Margaret

Good morning everybody ! Rise and shine !

It's getting cool here too. I slept in my robe last night because I was cold, but I didn't want to close the windows. Too delicious having the fresh air...

Not much to report here. Have had some more tests done to diagnose/treat the gallstones and pancreas problems. Don't know the results yet. Just keeping my fingers crossed that I don't have another attack.

Need to get my butt in gear and clean the house, vacuum up the mud I've tracked in on my boots with the wet weather. Get back to my nephews quilt. General putzing around....

Hope you all have a wonderful Monday and cook something scrumptious!

Margaret

Congrats on starting IP. Hang in there the first week, and then you will be one happy camper.

That's why I mostly concentrate on weight lifting as it builds muscle. Staying away from anything other than light cardio at most.

That is too funny, yes it is a good think you caught it before you got to work. That would of gotten you a few looks. Happy Monday

I couldn't believe how much of a difference lifting weights can make! I've started taking a weight lifting class at the gym two days a week, but have only been able to make it about 5 times.... got discouraged when I weighed at home because I appeared to be up number wise (I'm in maintenance so I watch it daily almost).

Weighed in this morning for the first time in about 6 weeks and found that while I'd gained 1.8 lbs, it was ALL muscle. I even dropped almost a lb of fat and dropped my body fat percentage one point! I was so happy to see such quick and positive results.

Dana - how are you liking this cooler weather in ATX?! It was beautiful yesterday!

I feel like I could have written what you wrote; I also am a chronic dieter (age 11) and am now 46 (47 in a few months). I always try to be upbeat and yet I am miserable inside. I have seen therapists and feel like I'm saying the same thing over and over again. It is exhausting and there are many times I think I'll never get to the part where I am happy with me as a person. I have found Geneen Roth (author, speaker) to have some amazing insights that have helped me with my search for inner peace. Sabotage is lurking around the corner right now as I struggle to stay OP. Hang in there!

I always eat my snack between lunch and dinner...generally around 4:30 or 5:00. With lunch being about noon and dinner not till 6:30 or 7:00, I'd be starving otherwise. So far I seem to be loosing just fine. Down 13 LBS in 3 weeks.

Thanks greeniris! You really are in a nice neck of the woods! :)

Wingnut, everyone thought I was nuts when I moved here but I keep telling them how beautiful it is on the lake. There are so many nice places in MI. Hope you get to live up here full time soon! And hope you feel better soon. Thanks for the welcome. :)

DanafromAustin (hey, I like your name! :lol: that's my name too!) thanks for the welcome! Hanging in there okay so far, thankfully.

Great job! But OMG a "deep fried krispy kreme dognut cheeseburger" - wonder if anyone knows the stats on that? Who the heck thinks these things up anyway :?:

I do. I can't eat dinner until 7:00 pm, sometimes later so trying to get all that in makes for too much before bed. According to my coach - you can do any of the foods at any time (as long as you're semi-spaced out), even your veggies. Keep's the furnace burning better that way :0)

Happy Monday everyone! I just had the IP mushroom soup with pureed sauteed mushrooms. YUM! Today is WI day for me. Keeping my fingers crossed! I've been 100% OP but you just never know...

I'm planting lettuce AND spinach. I couldn't plant anything this summer b/c I'm gone for a MONTH to Michigan. I'm hoping next year I can find someone to water while I'm gone (& take any veggies that grow!)

I'm a displaced Michigander, living in St Louis. We spend a month in July on Grand Traverse Bay. This weekend I'll be in East Lansing at a football game!

It depends on what I'm doing for dinner & when it is planned whether I have my snack in the afternoon or evening. Today I was SUPER HUNGRY so I went ahead this afternoon. If I need a snack, I'll have a collagen later.

Hello IPeeps,

Too Funny Swimmomma. I love Mastiff's, never had one, but had a Shar-Pei mix and the Vet thought Mastiff, she wasn't that big 65 lbs, but her brother (my sister rescued her brother) was huge and by 9 months was 125 lbs and looked like a mastiff. I love big dogs, before her we had 2 Old English sheepdogs (brother & sister) they were wonderful.

I spent most of yesterday afternoon in my sewing room, although I finished a purse & a table runner that I had started a long time ago, there is still just too many unfinished projects lol. Hubby is from Buffalo and was disappointed (once again) that his Bills lost.

This week we have "Supper Club" at our house, we do this 1x/month and rotate houses. The "supper" always has a theme. This months is greek, it will be hard making spanakopikia & baklava and not sampling, I am going to buy some gum to chew. I will have a big salad with some chicken, while my guests feast away.... I am nervous, not gonna lie to ya......

Beautiful weather here in upstate NY, windows open fall candle burning, taking advantage, it is going up to mid 80's by middle of week, which won't be too bad, because it cools down at night. Have a great day, I just finished a protein bar & grilled zuke!