Okay ladies so i am jazzed! Guess I wasn't as bad on sunday as I thought. Cause I was really good yesterday and even got my 90 minutes of walking in but this a.m. I am down 1 pound! (and we all know it usually takes more than just one day of being "good" to lose 1 pound! It usually takes two! or more.....)

Anyhow!

.50 an apple
2 slices ezekiel bread
1 oz cheddar cheese
1 serving cashews
2 slices of lunch meat turkey breast
1 cup of hot cocoa
3/4 oz of provolone
1 cup chili beans
1 tbs ranch dressing
1.5 cups romaine with a little tomato
2 servings of corn muffin
1 tbs AA butter
1/3 cup spinach
.50 cup of carrots
.20 cup of broccoli
2 tbs honey
32 oz coffee
5 tbs amaretto creamer

1765 cals

The cals were still a bit high but oh well. I try to strive for a cap at 1700 but didn't add my coffee and cream til this a.m. and overlooked it yesterday for some reason. Normally I have kefir and more fruit but we were on the run yesterday morning!

Anyhow the point is I am down another pound!!! That is 4 this month total and 1 for the new week!!! Hooray!!!

7 more pounds til onederland!!

Isthatreally me:

http://www.mercola.com/2003/mar/1/fish_oil_heart.htm

http://www.mercola.com/2001/jul/28/coconut_health3.htm


*sigh* He is such a little food ****!!!

http://www.mercola.com/2002/aug/24/saturated_fat3.htm

you ladies are soooo good at dieting.....frankly I am not....I can exercise faithfully, but don't follow a formal diet....my eating is generalized healthy. I avoid fat, oil, heavy carbs like bread, but do eat rice and pasta on occasion. Sugar doesn't really *excite* me, but give me a pizza or chips and I'm like an addict.

If the weather is warm, my nemisis is Ben and Jerry.........

today I am gulping down lemon tea with a little splenda and some cambbells select chicken soup for lunch....breakfast was 1 hard-boiled egg and a slice of leftover ham. Last night it was 3 steamed wontons, brown rice and chicken lettuce wraps from PF Changs, 1/2 an entree of Kung-Pao shrimp....sigh and 2 glasses of Cabernet

Hey hun well it took alot of us a LONG time to get to where we are today. For me, my changes did not come over nite. It was easier for me to cut back on soda, and cut out to eat to once a week and to start walking. I would seriously rather walk 3 hours a day than to cut back on eating. It was a slow change for me with the foods. First switching to more chicken, no frying and adding a fruit in, then more fruits, then more veggies, then I started cutting my potatoes to just once per week cause that is a HUGE trigger food for me! Also switched the red meat to like once a week. Switched to brown rice and now to alot of beans and turkye even! Yum! Just make the changes you can and do it slowly! This to me is about a lifestyle not about a diet. I Adore pizza too and I have it about once a month! I used to love chips too and still do but usually try to have that be once a month like for a b~day party. Good luck hun!

Oh and marble what really helped me to steadily start losing was when I combined the healthier eating and walking with cal counting! That really helped alot. :D

Hey guys, Jasmine gave me a hard time for not posting over here lately ;) so I thought I would pop in and say hi!

Things are going well here, I am snowed in (and we RARELY get snow here) and dh is about to start his own company. I am a SAHM so this is one big flying leap without a parachute, but the time is right. So I will be a work-at-home mom soon as I will do books/AR/AP/HR,etc.

Anyway still clicking along. Losing about 1-1.5 lbs a week, getting my exercise, recording my food.

thanks jammine for the links and recipes they are great well got my workout in and ate fairly well

Jasmine, congrats on your lb. loss. You're gonna be a goal soon! And thanks for all the info on oils. I had a question re:safflower oil. High oleic safflower and sunflower oils, produced from hybrid plants, have a composition similar to olive oil, namely, high amounts of oleic acid and only small amounts of polyunsaturated fatty acids and, thus, are more stable than traditional varieties. However, it is difficult to find truly cold-pressed versions of these oils. I only use extra virgin olive oil (cold pressed) and the Hollywood safflower oil, which is expeller pressed. Hollywood doesn't use any chemical solvents. Do you think this oil fits the quote above as being a truly cold-pressed oil? Thanks for your input.

Welcome and hi neighbor Marble. I live in PA! Ben and Jerrys tastes best on the boardwalk, doesn't it? ;)

Jo

Well this is my second post tonight, I went back to check something and lost the first, oh that makes me angry!. This one will be shorter.

Hi all, Congrats to the loser's for there weight loss, thanks everyone for all the information you are providing, recipes, links and so much more. Jasmine I don't know where you find the time, you do great with info. Martiniforme, how is the kitty, I had both mine done, I think it is almost as hard on us as them. Re: Breaking up the exercise, I have read numerous times, its great to even say do 10 mins. 4 times a day. The cooking oils, I think I saw that show on Oprah, I guess I am old fashioned, the first thing I reach for is Pam, I know, I know, I have to try and do better. I have been using the crock pot the last couple days, first for stew, (potatoes on the side, mashed), the made chili yesterday, my own version as I was short of a few ingredients. Have not had any, still not feeling great and that brings me to exercise, which I have not done either in a few days.

Went to see the knee doc. today, bottom line, need a replacement, he says come back in six months and you have to lose weight, how much I ask (stupid question) he says 50 lbs, try water aerobics (man I HATE putting on a bathing suit), but guess I might try it. All depends on what I hear about my arm tomorrow and when they are going to operate. I could go back in six months and look the same, you can't get in water with a brace or cast on your arm.

More news, my daughter informed us she is thinking of getting married, down South, probably in the begin. of Dec. this year. I want to be alot slimmer for that as well. Its a bummer when the body parts reak havoc on your life.

Tonight we had a guy come for the second time to measure for windows, so I say to my husband, "well what do you want to do" (we were trying to get a cheaper price as it was winter and we thought they would be looking for business), anyhow hubby says "we might as well go ahead and get them", I just about fell over, he usually says, "we will think about it", the guy said okay I need a third down now and the rest when they are done. My husband said we will get it to you tomorrow, I'm flipping, we don't have it, he just came up here a half hour ago and asked me how we were going to pay him, I just said I don't know, you come up with something. I thought if we were not going to get a good price, we would wait, or if we did get a good one, order them for June or so, at least give us time to try and get some money put away. We can always cancel, right! Only this guy is suppose to be doing us a favour, through another friend. I know very confusing.

Sorry for all the blabing tonight, I am wound up, about my arm and the windows.
Weight today was 231, you are right, I can weight myself everyday but so many variables are in that. Thanks

So much for short, you poor ladies, my apoligies (sp) over tired!
Have a good one today.
Sharon

hi conuke! jasmine congrats on your loss
i refuse to weigh again until i get my other scale which should be this weekend or monday

where is hunbe?

Sharon, my mom had a knee replacement a few years back (she was around 75 at the time). She has horrible rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and kept getting bursar (SP?) cysts from her knees that caused awful, hobbling pain. The knee surgery was a success and that leg doesn't bother her anymore. Good luck w/it all!

We also need to replace our windows. Our house is only 8 years old, new construction but the windows they use are just complete crap. I didn't know they made anything so poor in quality. We just replaced our sliding back door w/a Pella. WONDERFUL!!!!!! No frost or even condensation on the inside of the door and it's in our breakfast room which in on cement. The room as always been cold and this is the first time ever it's felt like the rest of the house. Even helped w/sound in that room. The guy who installed the door (Lowes) said that most people can't afford to replace all the windows in their house all at once because of cost. He said just do a few at a time and over a several years it will be done. We're thinking about starting w/the downstairs front windows (5 total) in the spring. We opened a Lowe's credit card cause they had a 1 year finance free option. We just divide the cost by the time and pay off that much each month. We also took advantage of similar offers to purchase hardwood flooring and an oriental rug. Eventually they'll be paid off!!

Just got done 3 good miles on the TM. Anyone ever notice that when they do any type of strength training (weights, resistance bands, weight machines, etc) that the scale seems to go up a lb. or two the next day? What up with that?

Jo

Jo - water speeds to the muscles to help heal and rebuild. I run long distance and after a really long run I can be up as much as 6 lbs the next day