Good morning, Maintainers, and pour me some more coffee, please! I'm struggling with the time change. My body does NOT think it's time to go to the gym!
How is everyone?
This is finally my last long week at work (though I'll be filling in on occasional weekends). The assistant manager decided to work full-time so I can go back to my normal schedule next week. It's a good thing because I haven't even had time to start our taxes yet!
Tomorrow night the Jane Iredale (the brand of makeup we carry) rep is coming to the spa for a makeup training class, which I'm going to sit in on. Both for learning about the makeup to sell it and for my own knowledge. Their spring colors seem to be focused around "azure" and "pinot noir" so I'm curious how it will look on an actual person. Blue eye shadow seems so 70s to me.
DH and I had a date night last night for dinner and the theater. I *thought* I made good choices ... one glass of wine, a beet-goat cheese salad with baby greens, and half a piece of salmon with tomatoes. Of course, I gained 1.2 pounds overnight. I swear, restaurant food has double the amount of calories as the same food prepared at home! What DO they do to it?? (and yes, I know it will come back off, but it's such a weird phenomenon of eating out, choosing carefully, and always gaining weight)
Enough blabbing ... time for the gym. Is it spring where you are?
Good morning maintainers! After last week's winter, we're now on to spring! I had a nice long outdoor run yesterday - in shorts and a tank! I am grumbling about the time change, though. I practically had to drag my daughter out of bed to get ready for school.
Meg -- But don't we all know that eating 20g of chocolate makes one gain a whole pound anyway? (Seriously, I don't even want to understand anymore how come I can drink half a liter of water and then be *two* pounds "overweight" on the scale if I weigh right after. The body is a mysterious thing.)
Spring is in the air here too. I left the window cracked last night and it just smelled different in the air this morning. This weekend was a big festival in my town - lots of fun. Lots of beer, but lots of fun. Then yesterday I had a choral performance and ran over to the gym in my skirt and heels - got some strange looks there - for benchpress training. I mean, I changed before I trained, obviously. My parents are arriving for a visit sometime Thursday night-Friday and I'm glad I cleaned the house last week already.
Yes Meg, it's what I refer to as a restaurant's "special crazy sauce". This sauce is tasteless, odorless, colorless, in fact you can't even tell it's there no matter how much you scrutinize. But it contains sodium, calories, fat, did I mention sodium galore. It's the best kept secret of the restaurant industry.
Yes Meg, it's what I refer to as a restaurant's "special crazy sauce". This sauce is tasteless, odorless, colorless, in fact you can't even tell it's there no matter how much you scrutinize. But it contains sodium, calories, fat, did I mention sodium galore. It's the best kept secret of the restaurant industry.
That's it exactly!! I'm so glad you've solved the mystery. Now how do we get them to leave the special crazy sauce off??
And Megan, your benchpress story reminds me of the time I raced to the gym from an appointment, only to discover myself doing squats while wearing a strand of pearls.
That's it exactly!! I'm so glad you've solved the mystery. Now how do we get them to leave the special crazy sauce off??
And Megan, your benchpress story reminds me of the time I raced to the gym from an appointment, only to discover myself doing squats while wearing a strand of pearls.
Love it! Love the heels, love the pearls! I once lifted weights wearing a necklace that had a clay pendant of a breastfeeding baby. Strength is feminine, at least in my world!
I had a great weekend. We drove to Fullerton to see DD and attend one of her concerts. I finally got to see her dorm. It's quite nice but a LOT smaller than I imagined (I had seen photos and floor plans). It was also quite a mess. They hadn't taken the garbage out all week and there were 3 heaping bags sitting by the door as well as two overflowing garbage cans in one bathroom. My goodness but girls can be messy!
Sunday was spent running errands and getting food ready for the week. I've decided to forgo the frozen entrees for lunch and concentrate on salads. I chopped up all sorts of things to be ready for a new week:
red peppers and red onions to toss into my egg whites in the morning for breakfast
chicken to throw into my baby greens for lunch salads
I also weighed everything to see what kind of calories I'm looking at. Basically the peppers and onions will add about 10-15 calories to my egg whites so breakfast will be really low in calories. The full tupperware container of chicken came to 700 calories. Divide that in half (share with DH) and then divide it by 5-6 salads, that comes to 60-70 calories per day of chicken. I'll add a few pecans (haven't weighed that yet) and blue cheese and dried cranberries. With the 30 calorie dressing, I think I'll be coming in at 150-200 calories per salad. Add my yogurt and a tangelo for another 150ish. I think I'll have a great week ahead (as long as my dinners remain on the good side).
I had to say all that because the crazy sauce attacked me from Saturday's lunch (a southwest chicken salad) and I gained a pound. Or maybe it was that pizzookie that DD insisted we get and share.
Meg - glad your long days are almost at an end! On the restaurant food, I always see the same thing. I had grilled mahi mahi with veggies one night a couple of weeks ago that were grilled in no sauce of any kind, just on a hot skillet. They must have been doused in that 'special sauce' because even that made me retain three pounds of water the next day!
Ward - I hate the daylight savings time mornings for the first couple of weeks... Though, I am glad to get more light after work to run in the warm weather!
Kery - I weighed my full water bottle once and it was almost three pounds...
Megan - I went for a run right after work one day last week and forgot to take off my jewelry when I changed clothes so I had on a short brightly colored necklace and bright dangly earrings.... Felt kind of silly when I got home and saw them in the mirror...
Midwife - I meant to tell you, I've been doing less steady running and more sprint intervals since I was released to run again and I'm really enjoying them. Thanks for the info you sent me!
Allison - the salads sound great! What is a 'pizzookie'?
DSS's birthday party at his mom's was this Saturday, to which I was not invited (as usual). DH and I have been married for three years this year, DSS is turned 4 today, so he doesn't have any memories of a time when I wasn't around. My anger over the whole situation resulted in some pretty solid exercise on Saturday - I did weight training, kickboxing and other assorted calisthenics for an hour and fifteen minutes then went to the park and ran five miles - 1.5 miles steady, 3.5 of intervals. HRM said I burned 1023 calories. I guess I need to build up some anger to burn off more often!
Last edited by Shannon in ATL; 03-09-2009 at 12:07 PM.
Hey all! I popped in last week and I think I might hang out here if it's okay... I'm still trying to lose at least 5 lbs (maybe more, I'll see when I get there) but overall I feel like I'm mostly a maintainer. I'd be happy at this weight (135) if I was in a little bit better shape!
I moved to Arizona this summer and we don't do DST, so there was no time change here! Very nice. =) However there are a lot of things I miss about the east cost, but don't tell anyone (especially my father, he would have a field day!).
Hi Iris! Please do stick around! I think a lot of our regulars are in exactly the same situation as you of wanting to lose a few more pounds and get in better shape, so we'd love to have you join in, share your experiences, and cheerlead us all on!
It's so crazy about AZ not doing daylight savings time! If I connect through Phoenix on a trip, I always have a horrible time figuring out what time it is. And then there was the time that DH and I traveled from Sedona to Monument Valley in the Navajo Nation and back to NM ... we kept weaving in and out of different time zones and pretty much gave up on knowing what time it was.
Hi Iris! My best friend moved to Phoenix last year and I have the hardest time keeping track of what time it is when I call him with the no DST. Now is back to three hour difference, I guess! And welcome!
Midwife - DH and his ex have been split since before DSS was born, so he is remarkably flexible on different houses and different people different places, but I think this was the last year he will just accept that I don't come to mommie's house so can't come to the parties... He was at our house yesterday and told me all about his party and his presents and said "you should come to my next party"... My plan is for us to host the party next year and we will invite my family, DHs family and her and her family... And, I love the sprint intervals! Don't know if they are all the cause, but my tummy measurement has dropped an inch in a little over two weeks...
Allison - the salads sound great! What is a 'pizzookie'?
Can you say pizza and cookie together? They bake a cookie in a pizza pan and top the still hot cookie with vanilla ice cream. There were six of us for lunch and we ordered the pizzookie platter (which is supposed to serve 4--with four different cookies). It had to have had 10 scoops of ice cream. I was good--I had the equivalent of 1/2 a cookie and 1/2 a scoop of ice cream. It was at a BJ's restaurant.
Thanks for the welcome, Meg and Shannon! Yeah, the DST thing keeps confusing me. My family is on the east coast and my boyfriend is in the same time zone but a different state so we're now an hour off from each other.
Meg, the dog in my avatar is actually my dad's dog, but in the house I'm renting I'm not allowed to have pets, so I pretend he's also my dog even though I live hours and hours away! =) I'm hoping to make it home this summer, though... some of my family members are getting up there in years and having health problems, so I'd really like to spend as much time with them as possible.
I just got in a 1/2 hour workout video. I need to be in the lab (for work) in about two hours and I'm debating what to do between now and then. I have plenty to do, it's just a matter of prioritizing!
Hope everyone is having a great Monday (if there is such a thing!)
Hi,
I can relate to the adding of pounds after just one meal! I gained 3 pounds after a gourmet meal with my friend who was celebrating a new position in her company. I think it was the creme brulee not any "special sauce" that did it. I was back down to 128 in two days. I think its from doing the 30 day Shred in December. Muscles help the body rebound. Also moderating my eating the next two days helped.
I am dealing with what I think is IBS for the past six months so it was fun to not suffer any aftereffects from the meal. The IBS is a whole other story. My gp is continuing different tests to make sure I don't have something else. So far I have had to be proactive in getting self help because not all doctors are helpful with this condition. The gastroenterology specialist has not been helpful. The IBS for Dummies book is good but it was startling to read that over forties rarely get this. ??????? Maybe its true and I have food intolerances. I have given up lactose so will see how that goes. Also going to do elimination diet to check out other foods. Other things I am doing are acupuncture and working with a homeopathy school because I am on limited income.
I have been lurking in the maintainer threads for a while. Felt more comfortable today in joining the chat.
Maintainers Chat: March 9 - 15
It's a good thing because I haven't even had time to start our taxes yet!
(Seriously, I don't even want to understand anymore how come I can drink half a liter of water and then be *two* pounds "overweight" on the scale if I weigh right after. The body is a mysterious thing.)
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Please do stick around! I think a lot of our regulars are in exactly the same situation as you of wanting to lose a few more pounds and get in better shape, so we'd love to have you join in, share your experiences, and cheerlead us all on! 
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