Good Sunday morning!! So, I tried the skinny cows chocolate peanut butter cup ice cream sandwiches, and OMG , they were soooo yummy. I only ate one, but, probably could have eaten two or three, LOL.
My tummy is still bloated, I'm hoping cause it's my last day for TOM. I have been OP since the 14th, and am still motivated. For breakfeast this morning I had 2 eggs, 2 light sausage links and 6 black cherries. A little more than I usually eat for breakfeast, but, it will help me to not binge throughout the day.
How is everyone doing? The weather is nice here, but, it was COOL this morning. We left the windows open, and it got down to 66 degrees in here last night. I have set my next challenge date, July 26, I am going to take this week by week. My best OP to date was 11 days, so, I CAN beat it. I find stress/emtional eating is the worst for me!
sorry I haven't checked in for the past couple of days.been pretty busy. Had a birthday party to go to yesterday for my kids cousin Abrianna. I hate going to their house. People were getting drunk, there was a fight, their grandma was crying the whole time because someone kept "disrespecting" her house. Abriannas brother Paul got smacked in the face or talking back and got a bloody lip and there seem to be only 2 people who thought that was completely out of line, me and another lady there. Their mom thought it was okay. After my *** got grabbed by the step-grandpa, I decided it was time to leave. And the great news is that I get to do this again next month for Pauls birthday. I've been thinking that when his party is over I might bring him here to stay with us for a while.
Today is going to be a busy day, I have to get my son packed and ready to leave for his Cub scout camping trip. He'll be gone for the next 3 days. And then I will be a sewing demon. I need to get the top of my quilt done before Tuesday. I'm helping my mom out at her office this next week so I won't have time to do it on Monday. The good news is that I have been doing pretty good about eating. The exercise seems to be the tough part. Oh well.
Well I will check back in later. You all have a great day!!!
so yesterday I did something major!!! I was SO good, on a saturday too! and at around 9pm, my husband wanted some Carl's Jr. We were watching movies, and he was wanting some... so I went and got him a big fat cheeseburger, and fries, and my kids wanted some chicken nuggets. God, I wanted some bad food so bad, but I had already eaten soup for dinner, and was at 21WWP, and 1000 calories, so I knew if I did it I would hate myself today. So, I got a 99 cent garden salad, came home, put some Kraft Free Italian on it, and sat there while my family ate all that good good good food, and I ate my salad, and enjoyed it. I had to at least taste his cheeseburger, but what's one bite ? I also had about 9 french fries is all. That was so major, usually when I get to that drive through, I say "screw it" and I order something good.
I also did all my water yesterday, for the most part stayed on program (the bites is all I did bad), and I excercised on my treadmill at full force the whole time
I was pretty proud of myself, I fought hard.
Today is going well so far, I had 3 pancakes with spray butter and lite sugar free syrup, one glass of skim milk, and 2 cups of coffee with fat free creamer. I am at 10 WWP just for breakfast, but it's 11:30, I slept in, so I could just do a snack around 1-2, and eat a good dinner and be ok for today =)
Have a lovely sunday ladies, I am off to do some more housework
Wow, You guys have all been so good this weekend. Not me!! I went back to Wendys for lunch today and got another Grilled Mesquite chicken sandwich and fries. Maybe I am stress eating. We are trying to come up with another way to make more money. We are in such a small area that this is about all we can do for business and it sucks. I make a good living if I dont save for the future or medical insurance. I want to be able to retire. That is all we have been talking about lately is how we can make more money. He is going to see if his mom needs some help for a little extra income so we can take that trip this winter. How pathetic is that that I cant even go on vacation?
I have been bad with the dieting but excellent with my exercise. Me and Jay walked from my house down through town and did the entire riverwalk this morning and then back home. It was about 5 miles. Rebel was pooped when we got back.
Sandy, I still havent found those skinny cows. I want to try them so bad too.
I was really good, but for some reason today I feel run down, and totally in a funk. I also think I pulled a muscle in my stomach, and it hurts pretty bad, I just want to forget monday all together and go back home and go to bed.. haha. But I made it through the weekend, so if I can just get a hold of this day, I think I might feel better. I screwed up breakfast already, and I am at 8 WWP, and I only allow myself 21 or 22, as long as I work off 2 of them, so that leaves me with a 5-6 point lunch, and same with dinner, today could be interesting... =P
have a good day girls, thanks for all your encouragement, this board helps me a lot, just typing out stuff like this helps me to come up with a plan and try to stick to it
What a Monday! I can bearly keep my eyes open. I think it is b/c of the humidity. It is making all of us sluggish. Even though I am inside I can still feel the effects of it.
I was kind of good this weekend. I didn't really eat off of plan but I did go out drinking Friday night. It wasn't supposed to happen that way but I got caught up in the moment. I didn't get back up to workout b/c no matter how hard I try I can not make mysefl come up here on my day off. I am here all week so I don't even want to see the front door on weekends. That is ok I will be back at it today.
I am sorry to here you guys struggled a little but remember today is another day. Hang in there.
GEM is still lurking - as you would say - I like the sounds of that goes with the GEMonster nickname.
Just busy with my head cut off today and can't quite get a rhythm. I went on the brownie diet friday and quit saturday because I felt sugar shocked - the up is great the down is not.
Doing WW but just online because there is no meeting time I can get into without cutting drastically into work. I like it because "the brownie diet" can fit into that - granted not the healthiest.
Last week and the weekend was crazy and now I'm gettting back into the routine. How else is everyone? Catch all of you later - work is beckoning.
ok lunch was 7 WWP, so I am at 15, oh boy, I get a whole 6-7 tonight TOPS. Does anyone know what to do about my pulled muscle. It's in my lower abdomen, about 4 inches below my bellybutton on the right side, I am sure it's just from lots of situps, and Pilates. I don't know if I should not do any until it goes away, or just do light ones... ?
I am not usually a boob about stuff like this, but when I wake up in the night from movement of rolling over, and I am in total pain, it tends to worry me.
Tonya - the brownie diet is my lack of willpower versus brownies on Friday. It is a center ring fight that comes about a couple times a year. The brownies won this time - I ate brownies for lunch and as a snack in between. it is a sad state but that is my binge food....so i excercised and ate better over the weekend...
as for the muscle - being a sports trainer in a past life - ice it and ibueprofen before bed and no sit ups. If it still is at the same point of pain and does not feel any better by Friday or Monday - call your doctor just to make sure nothing worse such as a tear happened. Do not exercise this area more now - it will hurt worse if you do.
kempy - thanks for keeping your eyes out for me.
i have to start banking points I have 3 weddings between the next two weekends. Anyone have suggestions???
banking points: make a spaghetti squash, use spray butter, and a can of tomato sauce with seasonall, and pepper, add any other veggies you like to this concoction. If you are doing WW, it's 1-2 points tops, unless you use spaghetti sauce, which might make it 3-4, depending on how much you eat. Eat it for dinner for a few nights, if you try to aim for half your point value for the day, then use this as a dinner, you should be 4-5 under your max points for the day, and walah ! =)
wow, I need to follow that advice for myself, haha.
thanks for the tip, I pretty much was going to see on the weekend how it feels, it's in the area of womanly stuff too.... so if it's not gone or at least better by then I really should see a doctor, in case it's not a muscle issue.
and yes, since I have snacked too much at work today, I AM following my own advice, I just went and bought a spaghetti squash, I plan to just steam some veggies and use spray butter to top it off, with a dash of lite soy sauce
What's the deal??? I'm so bummed. I haven't been able to access the forums since I've been back Saturday afternoon. I can get to the home-page and the journals, but when I tried to get to the forums (either bookmarked or typed in I couldn't! This was all on IE-- SO on a whim I decided to get on Netscape and try and here you all are! I don't know if it;s the site or my computer...what kind of problems were you having Noelle??
Well, Montana was really fun, but REALLY hot as it is everywhere in the west right now. It was 102 for the last 3 days...my parents are getting their siding re-done so after tearing off the wood there was just tar paper to attract more heat. Plus- lots of people in a smallish house and no a/c. It was pretty bad. Even in the basement it was HOT and had to have the kids sleep in just undies
It's good to be home though we had company yesterday. Still need to get my house back in order. I am feeling motivated to get back on track- didn't get totally off, but know I need to concentrate more to get the results I want.
Anyway, I think the baby is awake upstairs. Catch y'all later
Well, I am having a tough time getting focused on what I am supposed to be doing. I messed up on Saturday,Sunday and yet again today. What is wrong with me? Do I like to be fat? I must because I sure as **** cant handle keeping weight off for any length of time. JUST DO IT!!!! It sure sounds simple enough until i actually try to do it. I didnt even work out at all today. I was so tired this morning that I didnt get up and do it early enough and now it is raining out. I sure hope I can get a grip before I have to start over yet again. It seems like the only way I can focus and do what needs to be done is when I am over 200 pounds.
You don't like being fat, I know you don't. Here is what I *think* is my problem, and maybe you can relate. You are 3.5 pounds from your ultimate goal. You have waited so long to be here, right ? But you weigh 138 pounds, you are looking SO good I am sure, you know you do, people tell you you do, so you become lax.... you feel you need to reward yourself. I lose control all the time lately, in fact I have been since January, and I gain 5, then lose it again when I get mad enough at myself. It's a battle we will probably have forever. the other thing I wonder about myself, is that deprivation tends to make me unhappy. Sometimes I feel like at least when I was fat, I could eat what I wanted, and I was happy.. or was I ? Are we ever happy with ourselves ? I think not. It's a fight, you have to fight. Don't beat yourself up though, it's totally normal
, they were soooo yummy. I only ate one, but, probably could have eaten two or three, LOL.
I'm here
I'm so bummed. I haven't been able to access the forums since I've been back Saturday afternoon. I can get to the home-page and the journals, but when I tried to get to the forums (either bookmarked or typed in I couldn't! This was all on IE-- SO on a whim I decided to get on Netscape and try and here you all are! I don't know if it;s the site or my computer...what kind of problems were you having Noelle??
