Hi everyone, sorry it took me so long to get back and reply. I have been so busy I had a good day yesterday. I started excersizing and had to fight myself all the way through it, but I made all but 10 min of my routine. So today I'm going to try and push myself really hard.
Thank you ladies I am so excited to be in the 70's too. I'm contiplating making a mini goal of 9 more pounds off by the end of this month. But since I dont want to bite off more than my body can chew, I'll do the best I can and celebrate whatever I do lose.
Kim- I am 5'0. And I still ask my mom at family get togethers why she couldn't have given me a taller daddy? I stopped asking when she told me how cute my dad was, and how he, well you get the idea
Val- Me an inspiration? Wow
Joan- You know what, when I first started my journey and food changes. I stressed myself out with self imposed dead lines. By April, I will be this weight, by May I will be this size. I even charted my weight loss on self made charts, you get the idea. There would be no room for error, no stop overs for any reason. Then one day, I realized I was more stressed out over reaching my goals than having to make this change. So I tossed out my charts, my self imposed goals. Then I looked at myself in the mirror and saw me just as I am, me. I took a deep breath and gave myself permission to lose weight at whatever pace my body needed to get to the size that I wanted. Oh the joy. Not to be melodramatic, to late but It felt so good. I really could do this. If it took a year, well see ya next year. My point is to just give yourself permission to live happy everyday no matter what your size. This life is a journey and our weight loss is just part of it. You are the jem in your life. Shine and sparkle, because you can.
And thank you everyone for the encouragement. Have a great day, I go to face my nordic track once again. Sabrina
Good morning! I'm posting a bit later than usual, because I didn't get my yoga done last night, and wanted to do that first thing this morning. I did it! I tend to spend too much time online sometimes! As a matter of fact, part of the reason I didn't get my yoga done last night after I came back a bit late from shopping (it was 10:00 by the time I got the kids in bed!) is because I got online instead and entered my food into fitday.com, posted an entry to my livejournal journal, and tried to post a long response to you all. I was just about to post it when I hit some wrong key and lost the whole thing. So annoying! And then I had spent so much time online that I was getting really tired, so I went to bed. I got up this morning around 7:45, and I checked out our thread, but caught myself before posting anything. I really needed to get to that yoga, so I could quit worrying about it and get on with my day. And BOY, do I feel good!
Karyn--I totally get the "saving for the weekend" trick. I eat light in the mornings when I know there is going to be a big meal later or a party with cake and ice cream. Certainly do whatever works for you, but I hope you are coming to see your eating plan as a change for life, and not a punishment that you give yourself so that you can have a reward later. You might start feeling resentful doing that and just fall completely off. Initially, it can feel that way, but it gets so much easier, especially if you are eating things you enjoy. They don't have to be junk foods or high calorie, high fat things--and they shouldn't be--but be sure to eat things you truly love--even if that means experimenting. Don't mean to sound so preachy! I just want to see you--and all of us--succeed! You're doing great Karyn, especially with how active and busy you are in your life. That, along with the adjustments to your meals is going to make a HUGE difference! And, CONGRATULATIONS on dropping some more weight! You're doing it!
Kim--OH YES! I know Bunko...We played that for hours the first time I went to one of my husband's family reunions. It really fun!
Like you, I want to eat everything in sight the week before my period, especially sweets . I decided to prepare. Last night when I went shopping, I stocked up on tea, since I'm out of everything except gingko, green tea and a few others that don't appeal to me. Stash brand tea was on sale. (Stash is out of Portland, so I don't know if you are familiar with it, but they have yummy teas, both herbal and black.) Anyway, they are normally about 3.50 for a box of 18 tea bags, but the sale price was 3/$5.00!!! I bought their Decaffeinated Dulce de Leche Black tea, because it is so yummy with a heavenly aroma and is just right for when I'm craving something sweet. I add a light teaspoon of sugar and a splash of milk, and it tastes so creamy and delicious! I also got their Mango Passion Fruit herbal tea, because my kids really like it too. And I got some Double-Spice Chai Black Tea, because I like that from time to time.
I also got 2 boxes of Post Shredded Wheat and Bran. It was on sale, too--2 boxes for $4.00! WOW! I don't usually buy boxed cereal, because I think it's totally overpriced, and that bugs me. But this sale is good and Shredded Wheat and Bran is not only VERY healthy, but it's one of my all-time favorite cereals! I had some this morning with 2% milk (all I had in the house) some sliced fresh strawberries, and half a tsp of sugar. It was delicious--and it was nice to have a sweet, crunchy, milky breakfast!
Another good-for-me thing I picked up is a a box of Viactive Calcium chews. Since I have been using Fitday.com, I noticed that the only nutrients I don't usually get enough of is Calcium and Vitamin D (and sometimes Iron). Since calcium is so important to me as a woman, I decided to supplement. Viactiv calcium chews are YUMMY, too, by the way, so I am killing two birds with one stone! I can take my calcium chew twice a day and satisfy my urge for a chewy piece of candy --they are THAT good. Plus, I won't be tempted to overeat them, because you shouldn't get too much calcium and because the darned things are a bit expensive. $5.99 for a box of 60--it's a month's worth, but STILL! Oh, and the chews also have vitamins D and K, in addition to the calcium. Those help you absorb calcium.
Kim, I'm glad you enjoyed my story of how I picked my screen name. Like I've already said, I am so glad to have found something I like and am inspired by. And the pics of me were taken at roughly the same time, with beach picture preceding the other by a few days. I weighed about 209 then. It was before I decided to lose weight.
Mammamaemae--Welcome back! Haven't seen you in awhile. Congratulations on your 1 lb loss! Hope it motivates you to get rid of more! Good luck!
Val--I sure hope you enjoy your much anticipated walk today! I felt the same way about getting my yoga in today after missing yesterday--couldn't wait to get on it. And now I feel so good!
And, isn't it great when our little darlings tell us that we look good and cheer us on!? My five year old, Stella, has been so encouraging. She says some funny things, too, like a couple of days ago, when she saw me getting dressed and pointed at my lower belly and said, "Hey Mommy, you don't have so much squishy stuff there anymore!"
By the way, thanks for asking where I was this morning. It feels good to be missed!
Oh Andrea, Before I forget. The comment you made about my dog Dixie (part dachshund, part Australian Shepherd) reminding you of something from Dr. Suess..........One of our closest friends said the same exact thing.
She is such a sweetie though! Good job on making healthy food choices and getting a sale too! YOU GO GIRL! I must be getting ready to start, cause I could eat everything right now. I just hate that!
I walked this morning. Before it started raining AGAIN! Then I went off to deliver food for a catering job. I didn't touch the sweets or the bread for MY lunch. I ate very good and had water to drink. I wanted a cookie so bad though! I was glad when that job was over!! Anyway, it has been a long day already and it has just started. Gotta go get the kids and do homework, and the usual routine.
Sabrina, It really stinks to be short doesn't it? I use to love it when I was lin school. I was very tiny anyway. I could date guys of all heights! They were always taller than me! However, I am not so thrilled with it anymore. UGH!
Karyn, tanning does help cure the winter blues. Something about getting a tan makes you feel sexy! Just think........Thin AND Tan=SEXY! Whoo Hooo!
Oh well, I am going to rest for a few minutes before getting the kids.
HAVE A GREAT DAY EVERYONE!!!
I got out and walked again today. Brought Nicky (my son) to the beach. I walked double what I did last night. it was 0.2 miles. does anyone know what that means? Anyway, I did it pushing 35lbs and the carriage weight...haha..
Way to get out there and get it done Karyn! After I got home from work Seth and I walked over to the school were we shot some hoops, played knockout and H-O-R-S-E, and then played on the swings!! I felt like a kid again! Exercise without it seeming like work!
I also added a photo to my profile, but it is a little fuzzy...sorry!
Since I've started this weight loss endeavor, I've been pretty darned chipper about eating and exercising and counting calories, but today has been a bad one. It started out fine. I had a bowl of that Shredded Wheat and Bran Cereal for breakfast with Strawberries in it and a light teaspoon of sugar and 2% milk. Great. Tasted good, was 300 some odd calories. Great start. Later while I was cooking lunch, I had half a whole wheat bagel with a tsp of strawberry cream cheese. Normally I'd have that for an afternoon snack, if at all, but I had given the kids some, because they were, as they usually are when they have cereal for breakfast, hungry long before lunch. When I gave it to them, I really wanted some too, so I indulged. Not that big of a deal, I though. Then, I made a pot of what I've always considered very healthy food: Lentil Soup, chock full of carrots, celery, onions and stewed tomatoes. I ate about a cup and a half of it for lunch. It was delicious and hearty and healthy.
After lunch was when things turned nasty. I've got a shorter fuse when I'm pre-menstrual. Didn't used to be that way at all, but for the last year and a half or so, things have changed. When I came out of the kitchen after cleaning up after cooking and eating lunch, I found that the kids had totally trashed the living room again. I spent a half hour picking up, after having just done that last night. They did this in a matter of about 2 hours, tops, and I just blew my stack. I yelled at them and really threw a temper tantrum, which I'm not proud of. They are just little kids, and I am supposed to be a grown-up. But please understand, I've been trying to get better--I try all the time, but this time of the month is ALWAYS so darned difficult for me. I felt so angry at them and even angrier at myself, that the rest of the day was ruined for me emotionally. I felt guilty and sour all day.
To make matters worse, I took them to McDonald's because my 4 year old has been begging me to take them there so she and the others can play in the playland. This peninsula can be downright boring in winter and rainy weather, and that is a place they like to go to. I've been avoiding taking them, because I don't like to eat there, but feel guilty not buying anything. So I took them. All I bought for myself was coffee, but the kids had cheeseburgers, fries and water. I ate 4 fries and 1 bite of cheeseburger and then said, "enough...you brought books, READ em and leave this other crap alone." Did pretty well...
When we got home, I heated up the lentil soup and had about 2 cups worth of it. Then I went to log everything into my fitday food log, and WHOA!!! the estimated 2 cups of actual lentils that I ate (and it may have been more) cost me 1,245 Calories!!!! I couldn't beleive it! Even without the bites of McD's and the 4 almonds I ate in the car and the 3 long whole wheat crackers I ate with the soup, I was WAY over my calorie limit. Once I added it all in, plus the other half of bagel with cream cheese that I then ate in an effort to soothe myself (BAD!), I ate a total of 2,369 today!! I could cry. If I had known lentils, as healthy as they are, were that high in calories, I would have easily held back to 1/4 cup at a time. Which it turns out is considered a serving size according to at least one website I was looking at--but since I made it from my head, just like I've done for 15 years or so, I just didn't know. I thought that it would be like eating veggie soup--one of those things I could go for seconds on without worrying about it. THAT's why I cooked it!!!! I knew today would be hard, because I woke up irritable.
Anway, get this: If I had eaten only 1/4 cup of lentils at each meal for a total of 1/2 cup lentils (I'm not counting all the broth and carrots and other stuff), I would have eaten a grand total of 1,435 calories today, instead of 2,369.
Anyway, I know it will all be okay. I'm just bummed, because I was actually trying so hard to preempt a disaster and look what happened just eating an extra couple of bowls of soup. Sheesh!
Karyn, .2 means two tenths. Is that what you wanted to know? Great job keeping active! Good for you!
And you, too, Kim--glad you got out before it rained. Sometimes that's really hard to do! I haven't gotten out and walked on the beach with the kids, because everytime I see the sun (or a lack of rain) and start getting the kids ready to go, the weather changes and suddenly it's pouring rain or hail or the wind is blowing like mad. Weird, ever-changing weather here the last 2 days or so.
Val, you are just so positive--what an inspiration you are to me. How do you hold up so well? And out playing with your kids all the time, despite the stress you must be under with your ex and all. I see you and I feel guilty for feeling overwhelmed and outnumbered by my 3 sweet little kids. I love them and we have fun, but I've been living out here with them, by myself, for a year now, with my husband 3 hours away and no money for an occasional sitter. UGH! NEVER getting a darned break takes the fun out of being able to be home with them. See...there I go again. Negativity. At least I don't have a psycho ex scaring the crap out of me, eh? Sorry for being such a whiner today. Hopefully, I will feel better tomorrow.
Andrea sorry to hear about your bad day. But remember today is a new day. Start fresh. YOu learned a very important lesson yesterday about Lentils. Maybe making your soup you can use less then the receipe calls for and more veggies. I feel like I yell at my son alot and I only have one but I too have been trying to change that. I noticed that getting him outside more is helping. They just don't understand how much or hard we work and they think everything is play and don't understand that we have other respohsibilities but play. Keep your head up and start a new day. I too splugrged yesterday and ate over my calories. Don't fret on that bite of cheeseburger and 4 fries. Honestly I don';t think that hurt you. IF you said you had a large frie or cheeseburger to yourself I would say well maybe. YOu should have gotten a salad. They have side salads with fatfree dressing.
Today is a new day and I am on board so far. My hubby thinks my pediometer needds a new battery cause he thinks the walk I took yesterday was longer then .2. I will have to look into it.
Andrea I so wish I was there because I would babysit for you in an instant!! You just need some mom time. Everyone is negative sometimes, trust me I fall prey to it, and get overwhelmed. Hmm...of course if I was there we could always just have my kids watch your kids and then we could go have some mom time together!!! I'm thinking sunny beach and cold beer!! YeeHaw (Light beer of course )
Hello all -
My life as usual has taken over - I always intend to post...I've finally purchased the South Beach book and am starting today! Wish me luck. The warm weather has finally arrived, I have a baseball bag in the car for my two boys - ages 6 and 4 - and chasing their "hits" has been a workout in itself. I'd love any tips on staying positive while I begin this journey. I have a hard time not comparing myself to others and doing the self-pity wallow.
Kelly, I think you are going to love the SBD, I've tried ALL of the other diets and even the ones that I liked I found it difficult to stay with. This is my 8th week on and I truly love it. I don't have all those cravings anymore, and if I feel like I really just must have some chocolate, I don't overindulge and I make sure I have some sugar free stuff around. I don't feel like my appetite is controlling me anymore!! YEAH!!
Running around with the kids is definitely lots of exercise!! Both of my younger ones play sports and there are frequently overlapping schedules!! So I find myself running back and forth from one end of town to the other making sure everyone gets to games on time and I can get back to the other before their game is over and they are left behind!! Sometimes it is crazy but I LOVE IT!
Well, I woke up today to the sounds of my four year old grunting and whining and making some kind of awful noise because her sister asked her to take something off of their "road". I tried to ignore it, but she kept doing it over and over again, for about 5 long minutes---so the day started!
I still need to do yoga, but I wanted to get them fed first so that maybe they'd bicker less--you know, full stomachs and all. They are still bickering like crazy, though. And the oldest one is banging a toy golf club on everything in sight, including her little brother's head. I keep telling her to stop banging it, and she just finds a new place to bang. I've had enough! I just put the older two in seperate bedrooms.
Ahhh...peace and quiet!
I couldn't help stepping on the scale this morning to see if there was any damage from eating so much yesterday, but to my surprise I've gone down 2 pounds. Weird. I'm not posting it yet. I decided not to change my weight except on weigh-in day, which looks like it is Monday. So far it hasn't happened, but I know that weight fluctuates during the week and I don't want to post every single change. I weigh myself at different times of day, but only count my morning weight. Does anyone else do this?
Karyn--thank you for the kind words. It's nice to have support. I'm not worried about the burger and fries--they had relatively few calories for me, since I took just the smallest bit of the burger and only 4 short fries. The funny thing, is they didn't even taste that good, especially the fries. As for the burger, I'm sure I would have enjoyed eating one, but I can make a better tasting, healthier one myself if I want a burger. Now...a Whopper...that would have been more difficult for me--I LOVE those things! I'm so glad there is no Burger King on this peninsula!
Val--you are sweet to say that about babysitting my kids. I had people I could trade with from time to time in Portland, but out here I don't know that many people even after a year. And many of those I do know are older ladies from the cafe where we all knit on Tuesdays and Thursdays--actually I don't knit there anymore unless I need some specific help, because the kids just won't behave long enough for me to get anything done. So I go in, let the kids have a small ice cream cone and I visit a little and leave when the little ones start getting antsy. I just don't have the nerve to ask one of these ladies to babysit! hahaha! I mean, I have THREE! Anyway, my oldest starts kindergarten this Fall and I will try to get the other girl into preschool for a couple of days a week. I think it will be good for ALL of us.
OH, Val, just so you know--you're welcome to come out here and sit on the beach with me, but you might want to wait a few months for summer to be here! Right now it's rain, hail and wind--not sun! Brrrr! We could drink big hot, steaming latte's instead. (non-fat, of course)
Welcome back Kelly! Long time no see! Glad you're still with us. Try not to compare yourself to other people when you are trying to lose weight. Only you know what works for you, and if you don't, then experiment and ask for ideas, but know that you are an individual who needs specific care and attention. We are all different, and ALL of us have times when things are or aren't working as well--there are just too many variables within each persons make-up and external circumstances to compare. Just jump in and start! We'll be here to share your success and help you lift yourself out of the slumps. You CAN do this!
Oh, and Karyn--I forgot to say I'm thinking your husband is right about your pedometer--from your description it sounds like you walked further than that. Give the batteries a try!
Hello ladies
I had a good day yesterday. I started excersizing and had to fight myself all the way through it, but I made all but 10 min of my routine. So today I'm going to try and push myself really hard. 
but It felt so good. I really could do this. If it took a year, well see ya next year. My point is to just give yourself permission to live happy everyday no matter what your size. This life is a journey and our weight loss is just part of it. You are the jem in your life. Shine and sparkle, because you can. 
So annoying! And then I had spent so much time online that I was getting really tired, so I went to bed. I got up this morning around 7:45, and I checked out our thread, but caught myself before posting anything. I really needed to get to that yoga, so I could quit worrying about it and get on with my day. And BOY, do I feel good! 
I decided to prepare. Last night when I went shopping, I stocked up on tea, since I'm out of everything except gingko, green tea and a few others that don't appeal to me. Stash brand tea was on sale. (Stash is out of Portland, so I don't know if you are familiar with it, but they have yummy teas, both herbal and black.) Anyway, they are normally about 3.50 for a box of 18 tea bags, but the sale price was 3/$5.00!!! I bought their Decaffeinated Dulce de Leche Black tea, because it is so yummy with a heavenly aroma and is just right for when I'm craving something sweet. I add a light teaspoon of sugar and a splash of milk, and it tastes so creamy and delicious! I also got their Mango Passion Fruit herbal tea, because my kids really like it too. And I got some Double-Spice Chai Black Tea, because I like that from time to time. 
--they are THAT good. Plus, I won't be tempted to overeat them, because you shouldn't get too much calcium and because the darned things are a bit expensive. $5.99 for a box of 60--it's a month's worth, but STILL! Oh, and the chews also have vitamins D and K, in addition to the calcium. Those help you absorb calcium.
Then I went off to deliver food for a catering job. I didn't touch the sweets or the bread for MY lunch. I ate very good and had water to drink. I wanted a cookie so bad though! I was glad when that job was over!! Anyway, it has been a long day already and it has just started. Gotta go get the kids and do homework, and the usual routine. 
Exercise without it seeming like work! 
The worst day so far...
sunny beach and cold beer!! YeeHaw 
(Light beer of course 
I'm so glad there is no Burger King on this peninsula! 