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#61

jensmith72 , 08-23-2010 10:16 AM

At any rate 173.8 is terrific!!! I am hoping that the stop in diet and the re-enter will cause a big drop over the next few days! I cant help but be discouraged at the still above 200 I am happy I have lost some weight but its been a month not (minus the 10 days I fell off) and thats probably why Im still in the 200s anyway. I plan to start walking on my treadmill today. It is an older model so Im unable to actually set the speed so I will just have to guess but it has a read out of distance but the lady said it isnt always correct! Probably why I got it so cheap but Im not complaining if I walk for an hour I will know I walked a pretty good distance. At the gym I would do 3.5 mph and could walk 1 mile in 20 min so an hour would be 3.. I can judge the speed..again its the end of the month so I am low on supplies but hopefully I can pull out a weeks worth of good meals with what I have. Dont be surprised if you see dinners for breakfast from me

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#62

love2b150 , 08-23-2010 10:57 PM

Thank You I just keep jumping back and forth which is discouraging because I want to get out of the 170 and move to a new decade as they say. You can't get discouraged, you can but you shouldn't feel that way. Look at how well you have done without exercise. You had a lot on your plate and you are only up 1.4 Yay YOU!! You are goal oriented and you have a made up mind and you are gonna do this. I hope you had an OP day and you got your workout in. Your walks sound like mine. I'm getting better. I have managed to cut my 3 mile walks down from 52 minutes to 48-49 minutes at an average speed of 3.36-3.76 and at a pace of 15.58-17.49. My speed and pace are lower when there are dogs out. I am so proud of myself when I first started I couldn't do a quarter of a mile. I ran into a lady on Friday and she said she didn't recognize me because I look so different from when I first started. That made me feel really good. I only know here from seeing her at the track.

I like breakfast for dinner also. I am having a hard time with breakfast here lately. I'm not hungry when I get up but I know I have to eat in order to lose. I was trying to kick the Slim Fast thing but when I don't feel like eating it's so easy to just drink one. I need to post today's eats. Glad you're back

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#63

love2b150 , 08-23-2010 11:02 PM

Well I changed my ticker from 175 to 174 since 173.8 is technically that . with hopes not to see 174 or 175 again but you never know. I started TOM, yippy. I sometimes feel and look bloated and other times I look fine. Weird I had a pretty good day. No complaints ...

My eats today 8/23/10

Breakfast (370)
cup of grapes, 3/4c Kashi dry, Slim Fast Choc Shake

Snack (195)
1tbsp Chitpotle & 1tbsp Sun Dried Tomato Hummus and 12 tortilla scoops <--- very good

Lunch (442)
2 slices whole wheat, w/2oz deli turkey & deli Swiss w/light mayo, probiotic choc pudding with cool whip and 1/2 grapefruit

Snack (100)
100 Calorie chip ahoy

Dinner (347)
Salad with salad greens, fresh spinach w/ croutons, Parmesan cheese and FF 1000 island, 1c grapes and fit & active peach yogurt <--- I'm full but I think it's from my 32ozs of water

Total calories 1456
Water 96ozs plus 22oz = 118ozs yay me
Exercise 3.44 miles track <--- yay. Going walking with the same person tomorrow maybe I'll get to do 4 ... I'm excited, can't wait.

Hoping for a great weigh in tomorrow

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#64

jensmith72 , 08-24-2010 08:26 AM

This mornings weigh in was 202.0 which is only up .2 from my earlier weight before my "break"
Yesterday I had:

B: 1 pc wheat bread-70
Smart Ones eggs and hasbrowns-210

S: 20 pretzels-110

L: 1 can lite Healthy Coice beef stew-160

S: sm V8 juice-30
FF chocolate pudding-80

D: HC Lemon Pepper fish with wild rice Broccoli and apple crisp-320
1 slice FF cheese-25
1 pc wheat b

read with spray butter and garlic powder-70

TOTAL: 1155
drank pleanty of water (not sure how much 3-4 16oz bottles)
as far as exercise I finished cleaning the rooms but my right knee is throbbing from all the stairs over the last 10 days so I even tried the treadmill and it just hurt to bad. it feels better today though

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#65

love2b150 , 08-24-2010 11:37 PM

Glad your knee is feeling better. Hope you get to work out soon.

I posted this on the WHAT DID YOU SAY NO TO TODAY thread. ... I said NO to a double cheese burger from Burger King. We stopped at Burger King to use the restroom and the kids got Icee's and even though I had packed my lunch that burger looked so good. I looked at the nutrition facts so long trying to justify that dbl cheeseburger. Then tonight went with my daughter to Walmart and saw that huge banner with the cone for 75 cents and thought it'll be OK, I can have it. Then I called my daughter and told her I was ready to go. I was so proud of myself.

Now today's eats 8/24/10

Breakfast (250)
Chocolate Slim Fast, V8, V8 splash

Lunch (634)
2 slices of whole wheat bread w/light mayo, deli turkey and swiss, cup of grapes. Then I had to try to PB2, so I had 1 slice of whole wheat bread with 2tbsp PB2 and a tsp of apple jelly <-- I don't like a lot of jelly just a coating is fine.

Snack (105)
5 saltines with 2tbsps PB2 (so good)

Dinner (260) late
2 cups of iceberg lettuce, 6 croutons, Parmesan cheese, light classic Caesar, 6 ranch doritos, with corn/bean salsa, 2 cups diet cranberry

Total calories 1249
Water 88ozs plus 16ozs decaf green tea
Exercise 3 miles track

I didn't get to walk with the person I walked with yesterday, her husband was home from travel and they went for a romantic dinner. So I got to walk with my DH. I asked him if there was ever a time at my heaviest non-pregnant weight that he didn't want to be seen with me. He looked at me and said, "Honey I have always liked the way you look, I never thought of you as heavy, I just see my wife. As long as you were happy I'm happy". I thought that was the sweetest thing .

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#66

jensmith72 , 08-25-2010 07:48 AM

Good morning! Today the scale is at 201.2 which is moving in the right direction again! (lower than backon the 13th during my TOM!! YAY!
Yesterdays eats are:
B:285
sandwich thin,1 egg, ff cheese,turkey lunchmeat
S:80
immitation crab meat w/a lil old bay and spray butter
L:350
Select harvest chicken and rice soup and 2 pc wheat bread spray butter and garlic powder
S:90
sliced apples and ff caramel dip
D:450
grilled chicken (skinless boneless) wheat bun, lettuce, tomato, pickles and side salad with ff Balsamic Vinaigrette
TOTAL: 1255
Plenty of water and my coffee through out the day
Yesterdays exercise was 1.5 hours of yard work (cut grass, raked up cut grass, trimmed hedges and used clippers around the edges) I was sweating like a pig so I am counting this as exercise!!

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#67

love2b150 , 08-27-2010 12:16 PM

I consider yard work as exercise big time. It takes me 5 hours to do our yard by myself I hate it.

Catching up ...As for me, I cleaned most of the day and I am still not finished. Gonna hopefully get done tomorrow. It's so much easier when the children are in school, they help but it's not like Mommy wants it.

Today's eats 8/26/10

Breakfast (320)
2 svgs Bran Flakes, cup of skim, V8 Fusion

Snack (100)
100 cal pack Chocolate wafers (fake oreos)

Lunch (395)
2slices whole wheat, w/light mayo, lettuce, turkey and Swiss also a salad with iceberg lettuce, Parmesan cheese, garlic butter croutons and Light Caesar

Snack (160)
Apple, and 100 cal Klondike bar

Dinner (423)
h/m chili and cornbread

Total Calories 1398 plus 30cal for croutons in my salad so 1428
Water 100ozs
Exercise 3 miles track and my all day cleaning, TONS of up and down cleaning baseboards.

I have to tell you I was so proud of myself doing this. I use to get down on that floor and it would take me forever to get up. I would actually crawl to a chair or anything that would hold my weight to get up. Not today. I got up all by myself. Pat on the back

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#68

love2b150 , 08-29-2010 10:47 PM

I didn't do too bad today ... Got a little more done. Laundry is finished until morning. A load a day saves the attitude ... so why don't I do it.
Here's my complaint log ... this is my favorite number

19 ~ 173.6 (-0.4)
20 ~ 174.0 (+0.4)
21 ~ 173.2 (-0.8)
22 ~ 173.6 (+0.4)
23 ~ 173.8 (+0.2) TTOM
24 ~ 173.8 (N/C) TTOM
25 ~ 173.6 (-0.2) TTOM
26 ~ 173.8 (+0.2) TTOM
27 ~ 173.8 (N/C) TTOM

Yippy with the scale today ... Hopefully today is the last day of TTOM

Today's eats 8/27/10

Breakfast (380)
2 svgs bran cereal, skim milk, V8, V8 fusion, V8 splash

Snack (110)
20 Rold Gold cheddar pretzels

Lunch (379)
PB2 & 1/2 tbsp apple jelly on 2 slices whole wheat, cup of grapes, 1/2 grapefruit and 1/2 cup vegetable soup in beef broth

Snack (60)
38 oyster crackers

Dinner (130)
Iceberg lettuce/spinach with light Caesar dressing, tbsp real bacon bits, 1tbsp Parmesan cheese

Snack at 9:50pm (90)
Bran flakes

Total calories 1149 <--- will definitely do better tomorrow
Water 96ozs plus 16ozs decaf green tea
Exercise 3 miles track

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love2b150 , 08-29-2010 10:49 PM

Today was a good day. Spent most of the day in the truck it seemed but we were all together and that's what matters. I love that about the weekends.

Today's eats 8/28/10

Breakfast (190) had to take our oldest son to his Scouting yard sale (rushing)
Slim fast chocolate shake

Snack (132)
Apple, Activia Vanilla Light yogurt

Snack (162) in the truck
Banana, bran flakes <--- after leaving Walmart, very hungry

Late Lunch (190) <--- made this to eat in the truck earlier
Spinach salad, w/ Light Caesar dressing, Parmesan cheese, croutons, bacon bits (very filing once I got to eat it) a serving of spinach is a lot

Dinner (290)
Lean Cuisine Orange Chicken **this was so good, thanks for recommending it

Snack (150)
Spray cheese and 5 saltine crackers

Total calories 1114 ... I know, I know very low. But eating on the run is not a good thing. I am working on this. Promising myself
I had some extra things I had forgot about ... devil's food cookie cake 50 cal, 100 cal Keebler pack Total calories 1264
Water I don't think I've had 32ozs today
Exercise 2.5 miles track in 40 minutes we were trying to do 3 but it was too dark

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love2b150 , 08-29-2010 10:51 PM

Today's eats 8/29/10

Breakfast (783) <-- big breakfast
Grits, 2 eggs scrambled cooked in marg, 2 slices whole wheat toast w/ marg and apple jelly, 4 strips bacon, skim

Snack (162)
Bran cereal dry, small banana

Dinner (207)
Spinach/Lettuce salad, with Parmesan cheese, bacon bits, croutons and light Caesar dressing

Total calories 1152
Water 64ozs
No exercise other than serving beverages, bending for ice and water in the heat and sweating so much that my clothes were saturated

I tried the Lean Cuisine Lobster Ravioli, not good at all. (at least not to me) So 260 of my calories of for dinner went in the trash. But I did enjoy my breakfast, hope I don't pay for it in the morning

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love2b150 , 08-31-2010 09:33 PM

Another good day for me ...

Today's eats 8/30/10

Breakfast (230)
Bran cereal dry, skim, V8 fusion

Snack (72)
Small banana

Lunch (390)
Smart One fettuccine Alfredo with broccoli, I added a cup of broccoli to it also, 1 tbsp Chipotle Hummus & 1 tbsp Sun Dried Tomato Hummus, 5 saltines, diet cranberry

Snack (131)
100 calorie chip ahoy (before dinner) 1/2 cup of grapes (after my walk)

Dinner (260)
Lean Cuisine beef with broccoli <--- not bad

Total Calories 1083
Water 96ozs plus 16ozs decaf green tea <--- I have learned to drink it without Stevia me
Exercise 2.61 mile walk

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#72

love2b150 , 08-31-2010 09:35 PM

My good news for this last day of August

I got on that scale this morning 5 times .... 171.6 down 1.4 down from yesterday.
~I am .4 away from my Labor Day Challenge goal.
~I passed my second mini goal of 172 by .4
~Total LOSS for August 6.8lbs

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#73

love2b150 , 08-31-2010 09:36 PM

Today's eats 8/31/10 calories are better today ... thanks to the Dollar Store and animal crackers

Breakfast (252)
Bran cereal dry, Skim, small banana

Snack (290)
Activia Light Vanilla yogurt, low fat animal crackers, slim fast bar

Lunch (290)
Lean Cuisine lemon pepper fish <--- very good

Snack (200)
another svg of low fat animal crackers, apple

Dinner (240)
Smart One roasted potatoes and broccoli

Total calories 1272
Water 72ozs plus 16ozs decaf green tea
Exercise 3 miles track

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love2b150 , 08-31-2010 09:40 PM

August 2010 stats
Here is what I did in June: Beginning Weight: 195.4; Ending Weight: 183.2; Total loss for JUNE: -12.2lbs
Here is what I did in July: Beginning Weight: 183.0, Ending weight 178.0, Total loss for JULY -5lbs
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... guess I'll keep my same goal of 170lb and just maybe I'll see 169lb by the end of August Best of luck to us all!!!

~weight (+ or -)~daily cal/cal cycle amt, + or - calories

01 ~ 178.4 (+0.4) ~ calories 1879/1424, +455 calories TTOM super tired this morning
02 ~ 179.4 (+1.0) ~ calories 1286/1424, -138 calories TTOM tired again this morning
03 ~ 178.0 (-1.4) ~ calories 1245 TTOM feeling great
04 ~ 177.4 (-0.6) ~ calories 1072 whew calories really low gotta work on that TTOM still here
05 ~ 176.2 (-1.2) ~calories 1282
06 ~ 176.4 (+0.2) ~calories 535, I wasn't hungry yesterday & the day got away from me forgot to take a Slim Fast to church
07 ~ 174.8 (-1.6) ~ calories 1215 Weight will be back to normal tomorrow. Appetite is better today
08 ~ 175.4 (+0.6) ~ calories 1181 20lbs down
09 ~ 175.6 (+0.2) ~ calories 1333 (had to add cinnamon muffin)
10 ~ 176.0 (+0.4) ~ calories 1140 added cup of grapes calories
11 ~ 176.4 (+0.4) ~ calories 884
12 ~ 175.0 (-1.4) ~ calories 1138
13 ~ 175.4 (+0.4) ~ calories 1940 ~~ ok here we go again ... this is my plateau time I guess
14 ~ 175.6 (+0.2) ~ calories 1222
15 ~ 175.0 (-0.6) ~ calories 1607 I weighed in at 6:30am back on track . Trying my new 1600 calorie regimen let's see how Wk 1 goes
16 ~ 175.6 (+0.6) ~ calories 1414
17 ~ 174.8 (-0.8) ~ calories 1668
18 ~ 174.0 (-0.8) ~ calories 1277
19 ~ 173.6 (-0.4) ~ calories 1728 too much sodium, yuk
20 ~ 174.0 (+0.4) ~ calories 1377 I knew this would happen, I see every weight twice, not bad I know but still
21 ~ 173.2 (-0.8) ~ calories 1414 started spotting today
22 ~ 173.6 (+0.4) ~ calories 1021 still spotting
23 ~ 173.8 (+0.2) ~ calories 1436 TTOM
24 ~ 173.8 (N/C) ~ calories 1249 TTOM heavy
25 ~ 173.6 (-0.2) ~ calories 1372 TTOM
26 ~ 173.8 (+0.2) ~ calories 1428 TTOM
27 ~ 173.8 (N/C) ~ calories 1149 TTOM
28 ~ 173.6 (-0.2) ~ calories 1264
29 ~ 173.4 (-0.2) ~ calories 1152
30 ~ 173.0 (-0.4) ~ calories 1083
31 ~ 171.6 (-1.4) ~ calories 1272

Total weight loss for August is 6.8lbs

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love2b150 , 09-02-2010 10:08 PM

Today's eats 9/1/10

Breakfast (469)
1 slice whole wheat toast w/spray butter and a tsp of apple jelly, small banana, 1 egg w/a half svg of egg beaters, reduced fat cheddar slice, 4 strips of bacon, skim milk

Snack (90)
Bran flakes

Lunch (200)
1cup turnip greens, lemon pepper fish fillet, Activia light vanilla yogurt

Dinner (370)
H/C Roasted Red Pepper marinara pasta w/tbsp Parmesan cheese and an apple

Total calories 1139
Water 98ozs
Exercise 4 miles WATP

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