LoveofSelf: What's your fave cottage cheese add in?? I am ALWAYS looking for something yummi to try. I usually do a mixed version of Friendship NO Added Sodium (85g) and Breakstone's 30% Less Sodium (31g). I couldn't go cold turkey with the Friendship, but just adding abt 1/4 c Breakstone's really makes a fabulous blend. A far as add-ins go, I like fresh pineapple, canned peaches, or SF Strawberry Preserves (Smucker's or All Fruit).
I found a superb granola from Kroger called Love Grown Foods--Sweet Cranberry Pecan. I add 15g (1/8 c) atop my raspberry Greek yogurt
That's a great idea about seeking other people who look uncomfortable at parties. There is usually at least one or 2 others that are feeling the same way you are about the buffet of food.
Hi PP. I hope you and your parents have a great time at lunch tomorrow. What's on the menu?
Georgia: Isn't it funny how an electronic device--or a rotary one--can dictate so much of our lives!! I am so used to being my present size, even if I think I feel "fat", I dare not step on that devilish killjoy! that you have a loss tomorrow!!
We are missing some ladies on this thread. You know who you are and YES, you are missed greatly!
Hello Everyone! K9O
You did great being around all that sugar. The tuna sounds delicious! Tuna sandwiches or in a pita pocket, esp made by someone else, are my faves!
I add mixed dried berries, no salt almonds which I chop myself, sprinkle wheat germ, topped with a dollop of yoghurt. I'm funny about tinned fruit mixed in with anything. Even when it is sugar free, prefer them without any garnish. Another funny thing, With the fruit on the bottom yoghurt, while I spoon them up together, I never mix them together first
Georgia Congrats! PP Enjoy your lunch with parents. I hope it is not a stresser for you.
Sum38 thought of you yesterday! Hope all is well with you.
Breakfast: was a slice of wheat toast, and peach greek yoghurt.
Lunch: Tuna sandwich sounds really good!
Dinner: Meatless. Stir fried veggies
Snacks. cottage cheese or yogurt, dried fruit and almonds.
good morning ive been out of internet and cell phone range for three days...we traveled on very short notice to my husband's native village because our immediate family experienced two deaths within days of each other (both suicides)...my husband was the leader of most of what went on, organizing, transporting ppl etc in lieu of his older brothers, who were unable to come back home...if anyone is interested in life in a tiny alaskan village, let me know and i will copy/paste a LONG version that i wrote to someone else
i did not exercise, there was no gym, i also have a terrible ear infection that i'm on antibiotics for...i'm exhausted, very little sleep, very little food...am going home to rest once i leave the work shift this morning...i managed to drop 6-8 pounds in those three days...not healthy, i'm sure, it will all bounce back up once i start hydrating myself and eating better again...
and let me tell you, landing a jet on an icy short runway next to the ocean is something else!! talk about slamming on the brakes! LOL! we touched down in the village (which oddly enough is served by alaska airlines, the BIG airplanes) and as soon as we hit the runway, the pilot SLAMMED on the brakes...i thought for sure we would skid off, because one time that did happen, and the pilot took out a few lightposts on the landing...
krystal...check facebook! i will be posting AMAZINGGGG photos of the beach there!!
Alaskan: OMG!! I thought you were going to have J&D alone while he went. I didn't realize you were traveling with him! Of course I want the detailed Alaskan blog! I'm glad you're home & safe & I'd take that 6-8 lb drop right now, even unhealthfully!!
Alaskan - Wow... that landing sounds like it would have taken my breath. When I am nervous, I forget to breathe... or when I am super hyperfocussed on something (I didn't say it was a good thing) I sure hope you are feeling better soon.
Looks like everyone is doing amazing! I read through to see resisting the sugar (though chocolate isn't a problem, lol) and I think I would have caved on the sugar - saw worries of an office party. I go to gatherings, but because of my father's influence, I am not comfortable eating in front of others who I may think MIGHT pay attention - so eating at a big gathering is a non-issue for me. Wish I had some advice for you though.
As for me, sorry for being MIA for a bit. I have actually been having losses now that I broke the plateau, and I'm not gonna lie - would have felt guilty posting here. I "fit" better when I plateaued. I was able to log a 1.8lb loss this week - that's HUGE to me! Some of you know, others don't... but I have some real bad medically based pain that occurs from time to time and it prevents me from workouts.. it hasn't been so bad as of late, and that seems to be helping. I have always been like that though. Everyone always says on weight loss that food/diet is for weightloss and exercise is for fitness. Well... without the full fitness, workouts, pushing myself... diet alone will not make me loss jack-diddly. I have to exercise or stay still as far as scale. I guess I am an odd duck that way I have been staying on plan with eating and been able to add a few workouts in (a couple really good ones), and feeling pretty good. Things have been super busy, but as I have heard here... I am worth the time it takes in order to take care of me
So my challenges (I know I am so late on this) for the week are:
Want to fit in 3 workouts (more if body allows)
Stay totally on plan with food
Log/track food/activity daily
My sympathies to you and your family, Alaskan, and I'm glad you made it back home safely. I couldn't imagine being on a plane that had to land on an icy runway. I can barely stand landing in rain.
As for me, I was able to lose 0.5 pounds in the past week despite the clear and present danger of food at my conference last week. I also managed to put on a size 14 skinny jeans without creating a muffin top (I bought them day after Thanksgiving and could zip them but felt like a sausage). So, yay NSV! As for my party tomorrow, I will try to seek out a companion in discomfort. But, I have never been able to find such an elusive creature. Everyone always seems to be talking to someone at the gatherings I attend. But, we will see. Maybe this time will be different. At least there will be punch!
princessgina - Look at you all fitting comfy in the 14s!!!!! Great job!!!! Isn't it awesome to have those victories that aren't measured by the scale??? I am so happy for you! Happy dance! Good luck at your party, I am sure you will do wonderfully! Look at how far you have come!
Star: How long was your plateau? As you know from MFP, my 1.6 was actually only 0.2 this week. Was yours true fat loss? I certainly hope so. I hate gaining and losing the same 2 lbs month after month! Is your office holding Christmas parties?
BTW: Don't be silly! You can post here as long as you like!
Gina: yippee for your NSV!! I love when clothes fit the way they were intended!
LoveofSelf: I promise, if I had had that tuna ball this morning at my house when I woke up, I would have eaten his entire head!! I was craving tuna so badly. How weird of a craving is that???
AFM: I've been pretty much OP today. I did have a . I woke up at 11pm last night from a 4 hr nap. I do keep weird hours with sleep. Anyway, by midnight I was famished. I ate 376 cals before bed at 2:30am, then I slept until 11:30 this morning. I took my K9s to the park & instead of them walking me, I ran them!! Riv & I did hill intervals at the park, since it's like 65F & pleasantly WARM! I was able to wear short-sleeves! Great burn today!
princess - if it's winter in alaska, virtually all flights, big or small, land on icy runways...sometimes the ground crew will put some gravel down, sometimes the wind just blows the gravel off...i'm not too worried, it's how i've flown all my life and i'm not scared to fly and there's really very few major accidents up here anyhow...it was a couple years ago that the boeing 737 airplane slid on the runway there, took out a couple lightposts...probably because they brake so freaking FAST at that runway...oh! and when you take off from my city on the coast, the runway (while longer than the runway in the village) is set on tidal flatland between an ocean channel and a mountain...the runway dead-ends in the ocean so when the pilot touches down for landing, those wheels hit RIGHT at the edge of the ocean/runway and then you brake like crazy LMAO!
i still find it crazy that alaska airlines flies those huge boeing 737s in and out of these little cities and villages around here...part of what's called the "milk run" where the airlines run from anchorage to seattle, but make a ton of stops along the way to pick up village stuff....oh! and one of the 737s has the entire front section blocked off and that's how they haul extra cargo...the ppl sit in the back half, and the extra cargo goes in the front
krystal - i will send it to you on facebook when i get home...i can only do 3fc at work and only do facebook at home LOL!
i have even more to tell that i didnt add to the long version because i was writing it last night to a facebook group of girls that i'm part of, one of those "secret" groups
it was amazing to see all these people, friends and family and relatives, in the village...i know that i have something of a social anxiety around most people because i'm never 100% comfortable with anyone - ever - even after years of knowing them...while i enjoy being around people, i'm never totally comfortable...BUT being in the village, i actually met TWO people who i was totally comfortable with, 100%, right off the bat and i dont think i can list even two people in town here that i'm that comfortable with, excluding my husband....but in the village i got to spend time with his cousin melissa, who i've known already, and i was completely comfortable with her, although not all the other cousins and relatives...and i got to meet my husband's best friend from childhood and was immediately comfortable with him, which is SO RARE!...we spent one night at the local bar with the entire family and while my husband was involved with talking to everyone all night long, his best friend sat with me and we talked all night and he kept an eye on me when the drunk creepies started coming over to the new girl at the bar LOL! but it was just a very different experience to be around someone that i felt completely comfortable with from the moment i met him...i knew i could trust him and it was a very rare experience that i'm still sort of processing in my head because it was so different...im not sure why i had less social anxiety in the village, but only around certain people and not all of them
so here's a story: my DH is known around the village for a rough start in his life, lots of fighting, a tough Brown Bear (that's his clan)...i heard people say "there's a bear around here" in reference to him when we were at the bar...although he's straightened out in the last 15 or so years...so i'm sitting there by myself while his friend H smoked outside, and this drunk guy comes up to me and starts talking, he leaned in real close and said "what would you do if a weirdo like me got in your space?" and i looked him dead in the eye and said "why, i'd go get my husband" and i got up and walked over to my DH...that guy never came near me again! LMAO!
Krystal - My plateau was 5 weeks. Then I started with a .2lb loss the first week I started to break it, then it was .8 the next week, and this week finally 1.8. It should be a genuine loss... but going to level back out with female factors about to be thrown into the mix. I hate the plateaus though and started going according to my "feeling" instead after week 3 How is my breathing, how is my energy level..etc.
Sounds like you had an amazing exercising time!!!! Great job!
Alaskan - I have learned something new today, had never heard the term milk run before. I am so glad you had such a great experience out Less anxieties, even when odd, is a good thing
Hey guys, sorry I have been lax in the updating. I am doing well, staying on plan, just extra busy right now.
Looks like most of you are having a pretty good week this week and that makes me smile. I will weigh in on Saturday officially, hoping for some sort of loss this week.
Holiday party went okay. It was too crowded to stay for a long time, so I didn't overeat. I did enjoy some tiramisu, but nothing to derail this week's weight loss. I was a little disappointed with the selections (no cookies!), but I guess it was for the best. Now, Christmas will really be my time to shine and overeat. Turkey and mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes...oh, my!
i'm here today....still with an ear infection...it bugs me that i havent been able to go to the gym for nearly a week first with travel and now with an ear infection....if only i wasnt so dizzy and uncoordinated with this ear infection LOL but i'm worried i'd fall off the treadmill
im also extremely exhausted... i havent been this tired in yearsss...im not sure if it's the travel, the ear infection, emotionally drained from the memorial service/funeral/burial, or what...but i have slept as much as possible between work shifts for two days now, even begging out of meetings, and im so tired when i get up...ugh...im finally feeling a little better this afternoon...
Hi PP. I hope you and your parents have a great time at lunch tomorrow. What's on the menu?
that you have a loss tomorrow!!
I sure hope you are feeling better soon. 
Good luck at your party, I am sure you will do wonderfully! Look at how far you have come!
yippee for your NSV!! I love when clothes fit the way they were intended!
. I woke up at 11pm last night from a 4 hr nap. I do keep weird hours with sleep. Anyway, by midnight I was famished. I ate 376 cals before bed at 2:30am, then I slept until 11:30 this morning. I took my K9s to the park & instead of them walking me, I ran them!! 
Riv & I did hill intervals at the park, since it's like 65F 
& pleasantly WARM! I was able to wear short-sleeves! 
Great burn today!
first with travel and now with an ear infection....if only i wasnt so dizzy and uncoordinated with this ear infection LOL but i'm worried i'd fall off the treadmill
