Yesterday at our weekly lunch outing, DH and I tried a new Italian place. I ordered the small sub sandwich and a side salad. Wow! Good thing I didn't order more! It was huge! The side salad was on a dinner plate (mostly just lettuce and tomato, so no harm there) and the small sub was a chicken parmesan with so much sauce I had to cut it and eat it with a fork, but it was very yummy. DH had lobster and shrimp canelloni which they served on a bed of spaghetti! Amazing prices for all that food, so that much was good.

We had a light dinner so my weight was just fine this morning. And so far today we've eaten quite light.

Tomorrow we'll probably golf in the morning then we're going to go see Surrogates. Should be an interesting movie. There are so many movies out this weekend! I want to see at least four of them!

OK, one day down - weekends are hard! We CAN make it through the weekend!
Some victories above

Let's finish strong!

Well, hi.
I'm not actually a maintainer.
I still have 20 pounds left to lose.
But I've been at 165 for about 3 weeks and I look pretty good at this weight (but not what I feel is my best) and my body seems rather happy here, so it seems more like me fighting a setpoint rather than a plateau, so to speak, so I think this last 20 pounds is going to be verrrrrrrrrrryyyyyy slow if at all, very tooth-and-nails.
I'm very bad at going very low-cal (1500 is fine, but any lower than that is impossible for me) and average about 1700/day over the course of a weekish.
Maintenance for this weight is 2200 calories.
Oh well.
I find it harder to get motivation to stop maintaining and REALLY try to lose the rest since I look good at this weight and am at a healthy BMI, so I thought this might be a good thread for me to join, because I kind of do feel like I am maintaining now but want to lose a bit more.
So uh... hi?

Welcome, Megwini!

My weekend is over. I am at the hospital today and, while there are lots of temptations, I tend to do okay cause it is a controlled food environment. I'll hae all my food planned for the day.

Today the scale read 158.5. That is because yesterday was POP! This is HUGE for me! My usual MO has been to break into the 150s on Thurs/Friday, eat poorly Saturday/Sunday and start the week at 163...repeat. Starting the week in the 150s is a huge victory for me. I will be POP today! Already got my run in.

midwife - What a GREAT start to your week!

megwini - You are at a healthy weight for your height - thus it may indeed come off slowly from here. My last 20 lbs came off very slowly! And like you, that was OK since I looked good, felt great, and was fit and healthy. Being able to maintain at 2200 is GREAT (my maintenance calories are 1400-1500).
Glad you joined us! And, it looks to me like you are indeed a maintainer - awesome loss so far!

Doing great here, I plan to cook ahead for the week. I need to make protein bars, and a healthy apple crisp, and a few main dishes. So - I'm off to finish my planning and cooking.


Hang tough - we CAN do this!

Apple crisp! How do you make it healthier?

I overdid it a little bit last night on the desserts, but was still holding steady at 129 this morning... whew! So long as that carries over till tomorrow!

This morning I had a bowl of Kashi cereal and soymilk and felt pretty good to go - set off for church and stopped by Target on the way home. By the time I got to target, I was RAVENOUS. Major drooling over the halloween funfetti cake mixes and of course all the candy... but no purchases! I came home and had a whole wheat english muffin with some cottage cheese. Hopefully that will hold me till lunch time!

Welcome, megwini! It sure is hard to lose those last pounds, but stay confident in yourself as you are, keep working, and they come slooooooowly but surely. =)

Thanks guys! I'm figuring I might have to put back in some actual structured exercise now to boost my metabolism up.
I really like walking. I don't do one set exercise right now but rather always make an effort to walk and walk around campus a LOT and take the stairs everywhere, which all added up is quite a bit, but although it's good for me, I don't think it's really boosting my metabolism at all, so I think it's time for me to have to put genuine structured exercise back in to beat out the last part.
I don't want to get tanned but simultaneously hate exercise machines, so maybe instead of what I did last year (getting up at 5 to go out right at sunrise) I'm thinking of just walking/running up the stairs in my dorm. They're pretty much always vacant because I'm one of the few people that takes the stairs instead of the elevator, and it's 12 floors if I went all the way to the top, so a couple rounds of that should leave me panting!

Aaaaaaaah desserts. I can pass up a lot and not really mind it but my weakness will ALWAYS be good ice cream. I'm addicted to ice cream. I have to incorporate a little bit a few times a week as my one... well... not so good food. Like I go off to a frozen yogurt place near campus and get a little bit often, or like today me and my friend Cody are going to ColdStone (I'm getting the smallest size with no mix-ins... but I haven't been back since like May so I wanted to go). <3 Ice cream.

Preheat oven to 375 F

Combine and put in a greased (non-stick cooking spray) casserole dish

3 c. sliced apples
1 T whole wheat flour
1/3 c. non-fat dry milk
1/4 c. 0 Calorie Splenda (for baking) (can substitute your favorite sweetener)
1 t. cinnamon
1/8 t. salt (optional)
1 T water


Cut together with pastry blender or food processor:

1/2 c rolled oats
3 T peanut butter
2 T ground flax seed
2 T bran
1/2 t. cinnamon

Sprinkle on top of casserole mixture.

Bake 35 minutes (I prefer to cover it while baking)

Serves 9

Saturday accountability:
Snacks: Check, had ice cream in the afternoon
Workouts: Check, 5th workout of the week was a 5k run
HIIT: Check, did the middle mile as HIIT
Calories: Almost, came in at 1418

Today we went to DH's company picnic at the zoo and I ended up having more ice cream. Oh well. I plan to go over calories a bit today anyway since tomorrow is Yom Kippur (= no food from sunset tonight until sunset tomorrow). Not sure how the fast will affect my exercise plans, I might have to skip it to avoid making myself sick. Leaving for the conference on Tuesday!

Hi! Poking my nose in here because I am having such a hard time with these last few pounds, even though I am staying OP. I'm probably doing fine, I just wish progress was faster. I have managed to lose 2 pounds in the last 5 weeks, since re-committing. I am logging my foods again, which I haven't for the past several months. In that time I wasn't able to lose any weight, but at least I managed to maintain. It's time for me to get serious about moving that ticker down to goal!

Yum, thanks for the recipe CD! I may try that next week.

Megwini, I'm a fellow ice cream addict. Today I am seriously contemplating having ice cream for dinner to stay w/in my calories... I think I'll be strong and eat something a little more nutritious instead. If the ice cream was in my freezer instead of me having to drive to get it, though, all bets would be off! Enjoy the coldstone, and stick with a small! =)

Hi, yoyoma!

CD, the recipe looks yummy! I live in the heart of apple-growing country so I think I will try to make this up this week.

If you like a thicker "topping" increase the oats. If you want the topping to be sweet, add some sweetener/Splenda to it.

Just tweak it to suit your taste. The keys to making any "crisp" recipe healthy is to substitute olive oil or peanut butter for the "fats" and to add protein and fiber anywhere you can (thus, the flax, bran, and milk powder).

You can also use any fruit - not just apples. Pears and peaches work well too.

Half the pan disappeard tonight. I love fruit-based desserts. They FEEL decadent, but are actually completely OP and healthy

Sunday accountability:
Snacks: check, ice cream was again my snack
Workouts: already did 5 for the week
HIIT: N/A
Calories: went over, 2042, because today is Yom Kippur so I'll probably only get about 500 cals today.

I had another POP day yesterday, but the scale isn't pulling its weight, so to speak. Oddly, it hasn't fluctuated at all in a week. I don't think I've ever had that many consecutive weighings at the same value. Well, at least I haven't had any "up" days.

I am hoping that I can shed 2 more pounds by Thanksgiving. I'm going to do my part and maybe I will give myself a new scale if I don't get some cooperation (not that I don't believe my scale, but I will need a new one after I chuck the one I've got off the roof).