I just got back from a 45 minute Ski out in the beautiful 25 degree sunshine! I'm dripping with sweat, so I'm feeling good I never did get any exercise in yesterday. Just got sidetracked, but I still made 3 points. And today is going to be tricky. Ben is having his birthday party, and store bought birthday cake is one of my downfalls! I just love it. BUT I'm planning for it...I already exercised, so that's out of the way. And I bought myself some lowfat Breyer's mint chip ice cream, which is my all time favorite treat...and it's way better than cake. So, I'm just going to give myself a small bowl of ice cream when everyone else is eating cake and hope I can hold it together. I know I'll be more successful if I just don't have ANY. Once I say I"m gonna have "one bite", it's all over!
Here's the cheesecake recipe:
Dissolve one pkg. of lemon jello in 1 cup of hot water (use lime if you want key lime pie!)
Put 2 cups of ff cottage cheese in the blender and blend until it's starts to get smooth. You may need to add a splash of milk to help it along. Once the jello is dissolved, pour it in with the cottage cheese. Now it should be nice and creamy.
Add 2 Tblspns. of vanilla or cheesecake flavored ff/sf jello pudding. Blend until it's all mixed. (once you put the pudding in, it will stiffen up quickly).
Pour it into a pie plate, or mini muffin tin for individual servings. and chill for a few hours. I put a sprinkle of cinnamon on top. Also, you can line the pie plate with crushed graham crackers if you want a crust (but that adds calories).
You will not believe how yummy this is!!! And the ENTIRE PIE has only 200 calories!!! You can actually eat the whole thing if you want to, and you're being healthy.
Another thing you can do with cottage cheese is blend it up with a little milk and onion soup mix. It tastes just like onion dip, but full of protein and no fat! Of course, you can't eat it with chips, just veggies!
There are more cool recipes on the "ladies who lift" forum, check the "recipes" sticky.
Okay, gotta get going now. I hope everyone is having a great weekend.
Good Morning Ya'll!
Weekends are so exhausting for me these days! Yesterday I went job hunting a little bit...Im applying at retail stores as well as offices. I drove by the park earlier this morning because I had to pick mi madre up. It made me kinda sad, because it is opening day today, and I am not there. I dont know if I am going to get excersice in today because I got a tattoo last night in between my shoulder blades. It hurt SO much more than my first one! It is still pretty sore from where the needle was grinding against my spine, and that is right were my sports bras lay. I am going to try to still do my ball and weight stuff...just no running around that requires the sports bra.
Funny stuff...when I checked my mail this morning, I had a letter from Miss Junior America telling me I am a candidate and all I need to do is apply for Queen of Houson. LOL. Thats funny even for random junk mail. Just the thought of me being a beauty queen.
Well I need to get some breakfast going, so I will do some individual replies in a little bit.
Yall have a wonderful day!
Nikki
SUNDAY: Today is Silly Poll Sunday and our Silly Poll this week is what celebrity would you like to meet and why?
POINTS:
Julie
Nikki: Listen, I think these pageants are disgusting. They still focus on what a woman looks like, ie PERFECTION! Perfection is determined by a bunch of dumbass judges and who died and made them GOD???? I know you are not down about it, but personally I think we are all pageant winners because we are all beautiful. I have no problem with beauty, just the fact that another human gets to determine what beauty is. One of the most beautiful sights I saw recently was a little 2 year old boy whose family was raising money for St Judes and the news here had him on tv. He was hairless, ill from leukemia and was going to die. He was here at St Jude's for treatment and had been battling his cancer since he was a tiny baby. He had gone into a short remission then this disgusting disease came back with a vengeance and stripped this family of that adorable child. One thing I noticed is that this tiny little boy always had a beautiful smile on his face. This kid had been poked, prodded, chemo'd, radiated to the point where no one should have to be but his little mouth always had this beautiful smile. When we think of beauty I think we need to think about what God considered beauty when he created us! He died about a week ago but I will forever remember how truly beautiful he was.
Julie: Everytime I hear you have been sking I think about the fact my dh thinks it would be fun to try and I shudder. First off, I could weigh a 100 lbs and still have a bad knee and secondly, I DON'T LIKE TO FALL DOWN! When I was a kid, I would go ice skating or roller skating and do crazy stuff just to keep from falling down in front of someone! I am glad you had such a great time.
GoodSunday Morning to All; God said it’s not the outer beauty that we should look for in a person, it’s the inter beauty in a person that counts.
I can not think of a single movie star that I would like to meet however I would like to meet Jane Paulie, Diane Sawyer & Oprah. They seem to live in the real world and what you see is what you get.
This week my weight stayed the same I am not discouraged I stayed with in my carb limits. Jana
I'm still feeling low and poorly so am just trying to rest up. I have been very low for the past few days and have noticed that I have started to go off track with my eating. On Friday I had a takeaway pizza (but just a small one), and yesterday I ate loads of white toast with full fat spread! I need to start exercising again and soon!!
I am in such a funk (as you Americans say!) and I need to get back in my routine again and get those endorphins pumping! I've got my counselling session tommorow which I am looking forward to - it should help me to sort my head out a bit.
I agree with Jan about celebrities - I hate the idea that they are 'someone special', just because they happen to do a job which puts them in the public eye and pays them enough money to feed a third world country. I particularly hate awards shows - there are so many of them and they are just celebrities giving themselves big pats on the back!! Don't get me wrong - I appreciate a talented actor or singer - I just don't think they should be held in higher esteem than a skilled teacher or doctor! So I've never been that bothered about celebrities - even when I was a teenager, a girl I knew asked me if I wanted to camp outside the latest boy bands house, and I just thought 'how embarrassing'!!'
Faye, that story about that little boy touched my heart - it's encouraged me to restart my voluntary work with the cancer charity Marie Curie .
MONDAY: Today is Mission Monday and our mission this week is to faithfully, seriously commit to at LEAST 4 days of 4 pters (unless we are too ill). Unless we truly start on a pattern of working at this, we are not going to lose the weight we want to. Believe me, I am pointing at ME first!
Amanda: Since you are still kind of ill, I would suggest doing some things in a chair. Take a couple books or something and do some upper body. You can sit in a chair and do leg lifts and such. That will at least help to keep you motivated!
I am going to try something totally new and see how it works. I printed out a bunch of stuff, I was impressed with the fact it is healthy and not nutty and though I am sure most of the people that follow the program weigh much much less than I, I think I can do this just adjusting a little, ie rather than 45 minutes of weights, I will do 20 and instead of 20 minutes of jogging or high impact aerobics, I will do 20 minutes of fast walking on my treadmill. I guess I need to thank Julie for it as I went to the bodybuilding site to try and find the recipe for the cheesecake before she posted it and saw a bunch of people on Body For Life. I knew a bit about it but then went to their site and really researched. Anyway, I am going to try this and see if I like it.
Everyone have a good day and I will check in later
4 points yesterday. On track today. Faye, I'm going to pull out my BFL book and start working weights heavily too...a word of caution, though, the BFL site is loaded with supplements that they want you to use. Don't buy them, you don't need them!
Under the "inspiration" section there's another section called "readers yak back" which is stories of people like us and their successes with weight lifting. Surprisingly alot of them are in their 50s and 60s and their stories and pictures are amazing!
Okay, I'm going to go get the weights out of the garage and start working today. It's sunny now, but we're supposed to get more snow tonight and tomorrow. Bleh.
Morning All - Glad to hear that you all had a good weekend...I was off program Sunday but was on Saturday and did exercise, so one out of two is not bad, ha ha I am in for trying for four 4 pointers this week ...
Julie - So were you able to stay away from the store bought cake? I can never do that, I love those way too much ...
Amanda - Hope you are feeling better !!!
Nikki - I know those tatoos can get sore, my dh has quite a few, he said the most painful one that he has ever got was on the back of his calf, it looked painful...I do not have any but he is always wanting me to get one ...
Faye - How are you liking the treadmill? Is it hurting your back any? Maybe I am going to fast ...
Well gotta get back to work, talk to you all later!!!!
Julie: Thanks for the info. I know about the supplements and phooey on them. I mean I guess if you want to do the actual bodybuilding stuff then that is different, but I take a mulptiple vitamin everyday and as far as their bars and shakes, I can either eat the meal or substitute with some other bar or shake. I am not paying over $50 for a box of their stuff. I did the upper body stuff today and whooeee! I did 25 minutes, which is good for a fat lady. There is this back crunch thing I thought I would die doing. For someone with less weight, I am sure it is not so hard but gracious that was hard! The meals are tiny kind of and having to get used to that is going to be a challenge, but I have weathered through worse. I had egg beaters and a serving or mandarin oranges for breakfast. I am supposed to eat again at 10:15 so I have to decide what to make.
I think I am going to get off my fat rear and get to work upstairs so you ladies have a good day!
Oh, I found out this morning the other neighbor is moving out. I went over there this morning because her washer was leaking into my bathroom again and she said they moved it last night so I am guessing since I found it this morning that they didn't empty the hoses before they took it and it leaked all underneath. Boy, can't wait to have two new sets of neighbors, UGH! At least the replacement for the one I talked to this morning will be decent as the previous owner moved and is renting it out now as well as several others he has here. He has done a lot of work on it and I know won't let just anyone rent from him. I want to get the ones on the other side out. Everyone sees them as pirriha (sp) She groaned when I even mentioned them.
Well I managed to get out for a gentle walk today and went to counselling and I feel ALOT better. I've decided to start exercising gently this week and gradually build up to where I was. I've rested for a whole week now and haven't felt any better or worse physically - but mentally I have really suffered for it (as you all know as I keep going on about it! ). So I think that perhaps I just need to work through it and some gentle exercise can only do me good.
Just getting out for a bit of a walk today has really lifted my spirits - I bumped into an old friend and we agreed to meet up for a drink which made me happy as I haven't got many friends here, so it will be good to get out. I also rang my other friend, who is now going to come and visit for my birthday at the weekend (my birthday is on Mon). So I've had a pretty good day really!
FAYE - Good news about your neighbours moving out - yay! I know me and Nigel did a bit of a celebratory dance when my noisy upstairs neighbours moved out. That Body for Life sounds interesting - maybe it is just what you need to shed those pounds.
CARRI - Well done for keeping up the exercise! If your back is hurting on the treadmill, maybe you are going too fast or at too steep an incline - or maybe you need a better sports bra?
JULIE - Hope the snow doesn't come - I'll try to send some Spring your way!
NIKKI - Any luck on the job/househunting front yet? I still think that the fairground have treated you really poorly - especially as it was they who built your hopes up with talks of promotion. To go from that to not even acknowledging you is disgraceful and I guess you are better off out of it. Things will pick up for you soon - you've had a bit of a run of bad luck haven't you?
JAN - Well done for maintaining last week - sometimes that's not as easy as it sounds! I don't know if I've put any weight on or maintained during my illness - I won't weigh till the end of the month to give myself a chance to get back on track!
SANDY G -Haven't heard from you for a few days - Hope you are just busy and not ill again!
TUESDAY: Today is Target Tuesday and our Target this week is skin care! We are getting out of the winter weather and many of us have skin care nightmares. Now is a good time to really tackle your skin and get it in shape for summer and summer swimsuits!
I got a 4 pters yesterday! Can't say it wasn't a struggle and that I am not sore sore sore, but it will go away.
3 points for yesterday.....I had to cancel dance class because we were supposed to get bad weather, then nothing happened after all GRRRRRRR.... I was mad all evening.
Today is icky, sleet/freezing rain/snow later....but I have a show this weekend so I have to rehearse. Definitely will get some exercise doing that. I also have to lift today. Don't know why I didn't get to it yesterday.
About the target today, I learned a secret about winter skin a while ago....if you slather on some sweet almond oil as soon as you get out of the shower and then let your skin air dry....your skin will stay smooth. No itchies, no scalies, and it even helps with stretch marks a bit. It takes a while to air dry though....sometimes I speed it up with a hair dryer!
Carrie, no I didn't manage to stay away from the cake 7 screaming little boys inside the house for 2 hours drove me right to it! But I gave them all extra big pieces so I wouldn't eat too much.
Gotta get the kids to school....hope everyone has a good day.
Julie: birthday cake is hard to resist! Ok, I originally posted I made it through the first BFL day and I did, but I looked up some info on a website all about different diets and I have decided to go back to what I was doing before. The information I found indicated that this was really only for bodybuilders and besides being hard to stick to , is not all that nutritionally sound. They said even the author admits it is not for people who are more than 30-40 lbs overweight. His plan is 12 weeks period. I am going to eat the smaller meals, do the calorie counting again with weights and treadmill combo.
Amanda: Always remember that exercise releases endorphins, which are our "feel good" neurotransmitters. If you are depressed, some exercise will always help some.
I finished about 99% of the last room needing spring cleaning. Dh has to help me get the new curtain rods up and move the vanity and I am cleaning upstairs today so everything will then be done. I have bags and bags and more bags of stuff for Goodwill in the garage though so I need to find some place to take them.
Well, hope everyone has a good day. I am getting a glass of water then going to rest a couple minutes and go up and clean. It is so nice feeling well enough to CLEAN!
Target Tuesday is very apt for me at the moment as I really need some advice about my skin. Since I've been exercising regularly my face has been sore, spotty and blotchy and it is really getting me down - as my clear skin used to be my one asset! When I sweat my face stings and also when I come back from swimming - today it is really red and blotchy because I've been swimming. I use a gentle facial scrub after exercise, sometimes twice a day - but I don't think it is the scrub that is irritating me - maybe it's the chlorine? I'm thinking of visiting my doctor about it as I've had it for weeks now.
My tip for smooth skin is to use a massage sponge - I always use a cheap sponge with a stiff side to stimulate the circulation. I am quite pleased that even though I am fat, I do not have cellulite and I think regular use of the massage sponge has helped!
I never did get any exercise in yesterday. Just got sidetracked, but I still made 3 points. And today is going to be tricky. Ben is having his birthday party, and store bought birthday cake is one of my downfalls! I just love it. BUT I'm planning for it...I already exercised, so that's out of the way. And I bought myself some lowfat Breyer's mint chip ice cream, which is my all time favorite treat...and it's way better than cake. So, I'm just going to give myself a small bowl of ice cream when everyone else is eating cake and hope I can hold it together. 
I know I'll be more successful if I just don't have ANY. Once I say I"m gonna have "one bite", it's all over! 
I am glad you had such a great time.
(but just a small one), and yesterday I ate loads of white toast with full fat spread! I need to start exercising again and soon!!
7 screaming little boys inside the house for 2 hours drove me right to it! But I gave them all extra big pieces so I wouldn't eat too much.
