I'm not. See back about 4 months ago I went on thedailyplate.com and figured out how many calories I was suppose to eat. Then as I lost weight I just kinda adjusted the calorie intake myself....WRONG WAY TO DO IT! I went on there yesterday and found out that I am under eatting by about 400 calories a day! OMG I was shocked. I also looked into the right amounts of carbs, sodium and fat that I should be eatting. So as of yesterday not only am I writting down what I eat and how many calories are in it but I am also writting all the other stuff. I had a hard time eatting 1400 calories yesterday and I just could not do it. It may take a few days to get up there. I made it to 1295. I just find it weird that I am suppose to eat even if I am not hungry. But I guess I will have to force myself to do it. If I don't then my body will go into that survival mode thing and I wont shed a pound...and I dont want that to happen!
Thanks for all the suggestions about my wedding rings. I think I might make a trip to the mall this weekend and see if they have some sort of plastic thingy that I can put on there for a few months. Someone suggested that I wear it on a chain around my neck. Which is a good idea but I already wear a necklace eveyday. It is just a plain chain with three enfinity circles. One says MOTHER, one says, FAMILY and one says FOREVER. I have worn it everyday since my husband got it for me.
Not alot to report today. I think SURVIVOR starts tonight...maybe thats next week...anyway I am looking forward to it (lol) I am such a reality TV junkie!
Ever heard of em? Well I hadn't until today. A friend of mine here at EP talked about it in her blog. She said they not only weight you but they do all sorts of other cool stuff too like check you body fat% and muscle mass and bone weight and heck I can't even remember all the stuff they do. So I went online to look at them. Well I am not a patient person...I want to go to a store and buy them, not wait for it to come by mail. So I went and looked at Bed, Bath and Beyond. Now I don't know if you ladies are familiar with this store or not but there is one about 3 blocks from where I work...anyway they have them! Now hold on to your seats ladies cause this might shock you...they cost about $100. I want them! I guess before I go spend $100 on a set of scales (when I already have two sets of scales in my bathroom) that I would ask you ladies if you knew about them and if you owned them and what you thought about them...so let me know!
My scales did say 182.6 this morning but I am not sure that I believe them.
I forgot to tell you...Monday night I got into it with this girl at the gym. There are signs posted everywhere that ask you to please wipe off the machines when you are done. Well this girl did about 30 minutes on the eliptical and then she went to about 6 different machines and never cleaned her sweet off any of them! GROSS! So I asked her (very nicely) to please clean off the equiptment when she was done. Lets just say she was pised at me. She ran over and started cleaning every piece of equiptment in the place. I meanwhile, got on a clean eliptical. I had my ipod with me and had put the earpieces in my ear. I had a feeling she might say something so I didnt turn the ipod back on. As she was leaving she said "Your damn machines are clean" And I said THANKS! I think she was a bit shocked cause she wasnt looking in my direction when she said it and she probly thought that I coulndt hear her...well I thought it was funny.
My wedding rings don't fit anymore. They have been loose for while and now they are about to fall off! For some weird reason I have always had small fingers...even when I weighed 276. So my rings are a size 5 right now. And I dont want to get them sized cause I will probly have to have them sized again. I mean I want to lose 28 more pounds and my doctor wants me to lose 43 more pounds so somewhere between 140 and 155...anyway I dont want to have to have them sized twice. Any ideas?
Oh and when I was at the gym last night, Susan one of the trainer ladies, stopped me so she could find out how I was doing. OK she didnt stop me from working out...she just stopped me on my way in...anyway she told me that I could not afford to lose any more weight in my face. (Not sure what she meant by that). And that the only place left for me to lose weioght would be my belly, hips and butt...well duh they are hugh!
Well I have checked in on all my TN friends and everyone is alright...and I am glad. So I guess I will go see how everyone else is. Have a great day!!!
My goodness there were some bad storms last night. I was watching TBL and the local news station kept coming on every 15 minutes or so and letting everyone know where the storms were and where they would be next and so on. There were tonado warnings too. Then about 10 minutes before TBL was over...the news took over and I missed the end of the show. I have no idea who was voted off, I have no idea how much Bernie lost and I did not get to see the preview for next weeks show. Which kinda sucks for me but it could be so much worse. My house was not hit by a tornado. My children and my husband are all safe and sound today. There are many people that can not say that this morning.
I am off to check on Angela. I know she lives in TN and they were hit last night too. I will be back later to let you know how my weight loss is going.
but I was SOOOO busy yesterday. I am training a new assistant for myself and yesterday was her first day. So while I was at work I didn't get a chance to get on here. Then last night after dinner and the gym and helping the kids with thier homework and then getting caught up on all my shows the I had recorded it was just so late that I went to bed. I was just really tired by the end of the day yesterday.
By the way, GO GIANTS! That was so awesome. I was doing the happy dance all over my living room Sunday night. I heard on the radio this morning that the Super Bowl was the second most watched show ever. Only outwatched by the final episode of *MASH* back in 1986.
Well on the weight loss front...its going alright. I am down to 183 today. Only 28 more pounds to go until I reach my goal. It would really be nice to be there by my birthday in May. Its 14 weeks away. So if I keep lossing 2 pounds a week then I can make it.
I had a weird dream last night about when I went to my step-grandmas funeral about 3 years ago. When I woke up I was thinking about the outfit I had on. I know that you would think that I would have thought about something else but that is what I was thinking about. Then I remembered that I weighed about 178 back then and so I started searching through the closet for the outfit. It is a pair of dress pants and a matching jacket but you have to wear another shirt under the jacket....I can't decribe clothes very well...anyway it is gray with black pin stripes. So I find the outfit and try it on. It fits and it looks pretty good. I should have taken a pic of me in this instead of that frumpy ole dress.
Well I am gonna make my rounds and check on all you lovely ladies. I hope you all are doing well today!
Hey ladies. I hope you are all having a great day. We have just over an hour until the Super Bowl starts.I know alot of you could care less about sports but football is my thing. Of course I am sad hat my COLTS are not there but its OK. We were there last year. I am not a Super Bowl hog. Someone else should have a chance (lol) I do hope from the bottom of my heart that the Pats do not win. They are cheaters and thier coach is not a gentlemen. But the team is good and poor little Eli probly doesnt stand a chance.
Not alot going on today. I am just watching some shows that I have recorded during the week...House, American Idiol, Celebrity Apprentice.
I am waiting for my husband to bring home dinner. There is a little mom and pop pizza shop in Indianapolis in the neighborhood we used to live in. It is about a 30-35 minute drive from where we live now so we do not go there often. But they make a taco pizza that is oh so yummy. Well DH was up that way to visit a friend today and he is picking up one of those taco pizzas today. I will be having a big ole salad before I eat my pizza but I am def going to have a piece.
OK I am off to see you ladies. Have a great weekend!
OK so I posted a new pic. I am not sure how long I will leave it up cause I really dont care for it at all.
Friday night my husband and I went out to dinner. We went to McCormick and Schmicks...the place we went to when we went to the COLTS game. It isn't a fancy-fancy place but it is fancy enough for it to have a dress code. So I wore a dress. I thought I looked good in it until I saw the pic my husband took of me in it....won't be wearing that dress again...ugh!!!
I hope everyone has healthy snacks at all the Super Bowl parties tomorrow...and if you don't...its not the end of the world...Monday will be a new day!!!
act differently toward you after you have lost a bit of weight? OK now maybe its just in my head but I think they do. Yesterday I went to the gas station and there was a man that was walking to the door as I was walking to the door (he was a little bit in front of me but we were coming from different dirrections). He held the door open for me to go in first. Then as I was leaving the gas station there was a man just kinda hanging out, drinking a fountain pop and talking to one of the clerks. Well he sees me heading for the door and went over and opened it for me. I went to the grovcery store last night and maybe it was because I was smiling but it seemed like everytime I turned around some guy was smiling at me...maybe I had a buggie on my face (lol). There have been some other things that have happened in the past few weeks too. Like I said maybe it is in my head...who knows!
I did not make it to the gym last night. We were suppose to have this horrible storm with like a foot of snow and a butt load of ice. My kids were told at school yesterday that they would not be having school today. So I went to the grocery store because this storm is suppose to last until Sunday. Well I get up this morning and the school is NOT closed and I doubt we even got an inch of snow. Now there is about an inch thick layer ice of everywhere but thats it. Dang it, I wanted a day off!!
Alright well I am gonna go see how you ladies are doing today. Hope you are all well!
Yes ladies I did it! I had a grilled chicken taco with chicken and lettuce only and a water with lemon. They brought out my side of rice and it was an ENTIRE plate of rice. So I sectioned it off and ate a little less than 1/4 of it. At this point I hadnt had any chips!!! But after I ate my taco and rice we sat there talking for awhile and the chips were sitting right in front of me...I ate ONE! Thats right ONE and then I stopped! Go me, go me, go me!!!
As we were walking out she said "Well you look good...you've lost alot of weight, right". I told her that I had lost about 60 pounds and she started with the "I needed to lose and go to the gym but I dont have the time." So I gave her my speach about making time...I dont think she "heard" me, if you know what I mean.
So I am feeling pretty darn happy with myself right now. I DID IT!!!
Hello ladies! I am having lunch with a former co-worker today. We havent seen each other in a year! We have kept in contact with each other via our my space accounts. She has no idea that I have lost 60 pounds. I wonder if she will notice and if she will say anything.
We are going to a Mexican place (El Rodeo) for lunch. I am planning on having a grilled chicken taco with chicken and lettuce only and a side of rice with water to drink. I would like to say that I will not eat the chips and salsa but I know me better than that. I will be putting 10 on a plate and stopping after those 10 chips.
I hope you all have a great day and stay warm. It is freezing here and there is a winter weather advisory tonight. So stay warm ladies!!!
We had some pretty bad storms here last night and the channel that TBL comes on...well they decided to air the local radar for almost 2 hours! They finaly went back to normal programming at about 8:45. So I missed almost the first half of TBL. I was so upset. And I cried as usual at the elimination. I am hoping that someone from the black team wins. How unfair is it that they put all the "big people" on one team? There is no way that Jenn could lose 13 pounds in a week...it just isn't possible. Its like they are being punished for not being fat enough. I know its all about percent of weight lost but still...GO BLACK!!!
Now on to weight loss of my own...I realized this morning that I AM getting closer to my goal everyday. I have 29.8 pounds to go! It is still alot of weight but I am much closer now than I was 137 days ago. I was thinking what if I woke up tomorrow and I weighed 245 pounds again. How sad would I feel. I mean I have lost 60 pounds...you know how much my 8 year old weighs...60 pounds. I was looking at her this morning and thinking to myself "You lost a kid!". No I have not made it all the way to my goal but I have put in alot of hard work to get to where I am. I spent about 6 years putting on those 100 pounds and I am not gonna loss it in a few months. This is just gonna take some time. I had set a goal for myself to be at 175 by Valentines Day. I am pretty sure I am not gonna loss 9 pounds in 15 days. But I also wanted to be in a size 14 and I am. And I know that the scale is not the only way to measure our success. Don't get me wrong, I am still gonna get on that scale every morning and I am still gonna hope for a big loss every week...but I am gonna remember that this is not a race. It is a change of lifestyle and it is gonna take a while for my body to catch up to what my mind wants.
OK enough of that. I wasn't here yesterday...work is crazy...so I have to go see how all my girls are.
