As per my previous post I've been doing alot of blog surfing .. and if I lost one pound each time I've read "THIS TIME IS FOR REAL!!" on people's blogs or in their titles I'd be a skeleton. No real concrete thoughts on it .. I just found that it's a funny coincidence that so many of us type or say that ... like the other times we were just pretending to lose weight or get healthy "practising" if you will which leads us up to this time .. the "real time" Maybe we say it to give ourselves conviction because when we type it it seems to be typed with such STRENGTH and FINALITY like drawning a line in the sand between the before big ass fried chicken french fry eating me and the now svelte baked chicken on a bed of baby greens with dressing on the side me... .. like tommorrow it's going to jump off the screen and smack us in the greasy lips when we are about to wolf down that quarter pounder with cheese and fries .. NO NO STOP .. THIS TIME WAS FOR REAL REMEMBER??? Good words though .. and if we type it enough we may even begin to believe it and it becomes our reality. I sure hope so .. cause I'm sick of buying fat pants, skinny pants, fat pants, skinny pants. FOR REAL.
Oh and btw .. I ate pretty darn good today even though I had a piece of peanut butter pie for dessert (shared amongst 3 adults I might add!) AND shovelled the driveway forever .. tommorrow is weigh in and measurement day ... FOR REAL!! "wink!"
omg now you guys probably think I'm crazy and won't join our group LOL
I'm developing a habit of surfing the EP blogs and dropping in encouragement to my fellow dieters out there and in turn you are all giving me a such very strange sense of satisfaction, motivation and encouragement without even saying a word. I feel a sense of belonging here .. like you guys know what I'm saying and going through.
I'm sitting here thinking .. when I drop into your blog with a "you can do it! I know you can!" what I'm also doing is speaking to and encouraging myself .. motivating myself .. making myself accountable .. if I say it to you it must also go for me right? Something to think about for me.
I did something awesome today ... I'm bored .. I'm sick of surfing .. the kids are doing crafts therefore have no interest in me ... I certainly have NO DESIRE to do housework .. hubby's watching sports and currently shovelling and I didn't know what to do with myself .. so I hopped my as up on my treadmill and did my C25K Week 1 Workout 3. yeah baby! I WORKED OUT.
Then I had some brushetta on 8 whole wheat crackers (recipe in the You ON a Diet Group) and a cup of soup ..
Anyone want a son? I got three to spare who are fighting non stop at the moment. I'll throw in a 130 pound hairy freakin' dog just for kicks too.
Lets start with snowstorms .. I'm Canadian so it kinda goes with the territory - got another one going on right now so it looks a good snuggly night.
Onion breath - got it but it was well worth it .. made myself an absolutely awesome meal of Chicken breast topped with a low fat bruschetta .. for the Recipe stop in at the YOU and ME ON A DIET support group here at EP .. link below it's great!
McDonalds - healthy sandwiches - someone told me that your McDonalds in the US does not have a healthy menu .. for real? Here they make a delicious toasted warm whole wheat turkey breast sandwich with lettuce and tomato (I always ask for 1/2 mayo) and they offer a grilled chicken wrap and salads (which normally tastes like plastic poo .. stay away!)
I made some damn fine choices today:
- on my way to a kids birthday party where I knew they would be serving only pizza and cake I ran through McD's drive thru and got myself the Turkey Breast sandwich and ate it in the car before I stepped into pizza and kid hell.
- I made sure before anything else got done that my ass hit the treadmill to do my C25K Week 1 workout 2 and I did it YES!!
All was not perfect in punkerland though .. I did nosh on some candy ok quite a bit at the party .. it was GUMMIES which is totally my downfall .. little squishy berries sent straight from heaven to my lips and then my damn hips lol
Next week is March break here which means my three sons (9, 71/2 and almost 6) are home for the whole week .. please grant me the strength not to eat my young this week when they are driving me bat shit nuts fighting amongst themselves. Amen
So dieting is all about MAKING A CHOICE IN THE MOMENT (or at least that's how I see this new lifestyle I am taking on) ... all choices are not going to be good ones .. I accept that so I'm ignoring the bad and celebrating the good.
Yesterday I made a not so great eating choice by saying "lets go to a buffet for dinner" .. I made some bad choices and some good choices while I was there. I'm not beating myself up over it .. my family had a great time and even if I didn't eat the very best ever ... we had a great time and I still was conscious of my decisions.
Today I went out to breakfast with a friend and today I was determined to make VERY VERY GOOD CHOICES ... I had an egg white veggie omlette no cheese with a side of tomato with whole wheat toast no butter ... I actually ASKED them not to bring me the hashbrowns that go with the meal so they replaced it with the tomato . I'm sitting here in shock over my awesome choice and guess what? I'M FEELING EMPOWERED! How stupid is it that I feel empowered over an egg white omlette? LOL The best part is that I feel good .. if I had the eggs, bacon, hashbrowns that I normally would have had I would be feeling stuffed, not so good and sluggish .. instead I'm sitting here feeling good and readyyyy to take on anything. Come on now .. a girl that can say no to a delightful crispy hashbrown can do almost anything right???
Luckily the school bus driver saw me GO BOOM and stopped to see if I was ok (I wasn't but I did that big JUMP UP OMG WHO SAW ME!! thing lol)
Dang it hurt my ass!! Luckily I got some padding there (thanks to the Golden Arches) so I'm not broken!! lol
Anyways I didn't let it stop me .. I weighed in this morning and lost another pound YAY!! ANNNNNDDDD went on to do my Week 1 Workout 1 of the C25K program.
So here I sit .. feeling pretty smug about myself with a sore ass .. but it's all good :)
And holy crap did I mention I found whole wheat weight watchers bagels? Now that's some serious yum.
I have just spent the ENTIRE day (well since 9 am) cleaning my house and IT FREAKIN' SPARKLES. I'm sure your sitting there thinking this chick is totally off her fucking rocker being so damn happy over a clean house but it's not really the clean house I'm so over the moon about (well ok IT REALLY IS) but it's the way I feel.
ENERGETIC
MOTIVATED
HEALTHY
Healthy eating, exercise, good vitamins .... good vibrations man!
I was thinking today .. it's not so much the weight of my body that bothers me it's the SHAPE. I am so thick around the middle due to menopause and when I gain that's where it all goes and when I lose it's sooooo very slow to come off there .. it comes off everywhere else first and one of my biggest worries is that it will come off my face big time and I will start looking super old. It's a no win situation I guess ... lose weight to lose the menopot belly and you end up losing your face too .. or leave the weight around the middle (unhappy and unhealthy) and keep the face I kinda like.
I like my arms, legs, butt, shoulders, face but put it together with my stomach and it looks like toothpicks sticking out of a melted pile of marshmellows so what to do? what to do? I've actually considered lipo of that area .. I figured it would solve the problem remove the fat from where I don't want it and keep it where I want it but I"m too damn chicken shit to go through with it .. then I try to rationalize .. yeah it will be some pain etc but do you want to live the rest of your life unhappy because of your stomach? I really need to shit or get off the pot for lack of a better phrase .. either go for it and do it OR continue dieting and hoping and against all hope that when the weight does come off it the middle that my face doesn't end up looking like a sharpei.
My husband's very very supporttive in all of this because he knows how much my middle bothers me *sigh* What to do? What to do? Lipo would definintely NOT replace a healthy lifestyle and eating well and exercising would also be part of the plan.
On the bright side ... as per my new buddy Star I looked up C25K and I'm thinking I'm going to add that to my regime and to my YOU and me ON A DIET support group that is pitifully just me at the moment LOL I'm going to give it a shot Monday!!
Oh and guess who did her 30 minutes of exercise today? YEAH ME
And guess who ate pretty darn healthy? YEAH ME AGAIN. (except for the 5 M&M's I snatched from the children lol)
Otherwise the day was good .. productive and I'm about to settle down with the kiddies to a bowl of popcorn and Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark shortly.
How'd you guys do today? And for the love of Gawd .. will you be my friend?? LOL Cheers!!
Anyone read the book? It's seriously awesome and if anyone is interested I started a YOU and me ON A DIET group .. maybe we can all support each other in this! Even if you aren't on the YOAD program itself it has alot of great advice .. I find it very very similar to Weight Watchers Core.
Many thanks to my well wishers yesterday .. it was kind of you guys to stop in and wish me well and it worked!! Today I feel a heck of alot better! Still not up to getting my 30 of exercise in but I definitely will tommorrow .. I'm also going to check out C25K .. sounds super interesting!!
In the meantime today I've eaten:
Breakfast: small cube of cheddar, 6 whole wheat crackers, coffee with cream
Lunch: cup of soup, turkey breast sandwich on 2 slices whole grain whole wheat bread with lettuce tomato and mustard
Dinner: 1/2 chicken white meat (Swiss Chalet MMMMmmmMM), chalet sauce (very low in cals) and a white bun - white bun = but I forgot to ask for multigrain and then I snatched (and I DO mean SNATCHED 3 fries from my son's plate!! )
I'm thinking I'm probably still recovering from the stomach flu thing because I'm full and not snacking YAY?
joint pain, stomach cramps, nausea... I slept most of the day yesterday after my lunch (one egg over easy, a slice of peameal bacon, some sliced tomato and a slice of whole wheat toast)
I sucked it up last night just to go to dinner with my girlfriends to one of my favourite restaurants and guess what I ate? a baked potaoto and some bread .. I thought if I put anything else in my mouth I would have hurled again .. I HATE THE FLU!!
Today I'm feeling somewhat better .. I ate an All Bran bar for breakfast and just had a cup of soup and 4 whole wheat crackers.
How the hell do I fit in 30 minutes of exercise when I feel like this? and omg my house if falling apart .. it needs sweeping, dusting, vacumming etc I'm 43 and I just want my mommy.
and I probably should have an exorcism to remove them from my home.
Little yummy heaven sent tasty morsels in a shell full of fat FAT FAT!! Has anyone read the the calorie/fat count on a pistachio package before??
Well I did a YOGA dvd last night and this morning my hips hurt and here I sit trying to motivate myself to get my butt on the treadmill ... a treadmill I bought a year ago .. used religiously for 6 weeks and then sporatically for the next 11 months ... wtf???
It's a vicious circle it is .... I know once I get back on my exercise track I will feel better and more motivated and healthy(!!) but dang it I need help in the motivation department!! I'm always such a great motivator for everyone else yet I can't take my own advice and pep talk ...
lol
but I forgot to ask for multigrain and then I snatched (and I DO mean SNATCHED 3 fries from my son's plate!! 
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