Today I was at a house we were working on. (I am a construction worker / project management worker) I was standing in the yard taking pictures with my camera. When a homeowner from down the street, pulled up in his car. He let down his window and said hi. He said have you lost some weight? I said since I saw you last about 25 lbs. (I padded that by 4 lbs) Anyway he gave me the thumbs up and said you look great and then drove off. This made my day. It was great that someone noticed. That moment is priceless. It was so exciting!! On to something else- Suze Orman review. I finished listening to the cds and I would recommend that you either buy it or check it out at the library. It has really inspired me to get organized and watch my spending and increase my saving. I went and spoke to one of my homeowners about the cd and she said she had one of her earlier books and I am starting it tonight. Ok, gotta go, love you all and good luck at your weigh in.
Well if you've been reading my blog. You will know, that out of the blue, I just changed plans. The main reason was financial. The second reason was that I was bored of boxed food. So i left Jenny Craig and went to Weight Watchers. I think I needed variety, cause I lost 4.6 lbs. I am sitting at 270 lbs now and I have not been below 270 in 3 years. I am ready, BRING IT ON!!! SO WHAT IS MY SECRET? I walked 2 times last week. I had sushi 2 nights. Wine 2 nights and a chocolate doughnot, a cream horn and fried fish over the weekend. I enjoyed all those no no foods because I could count them on the plan.I saved my flex points to the end of the week and enjoyed them. I had WHOLE milk with my chocolate doughnut. It has been years since I tasted milk that good. I also got lucky tonight, I won the door prize at the WW meeting. I got a box of 2 point bars. They are mint cookie crisp. MMMM... I already had one. It is good. By The Way, ladies I am listening to Suze Orman's Women & Money, I'll review it when I finish, but I can tell you that it is worth buying. In case you don't know there is a special code in it that you use to start a savings account with $50 a month, at the end of 1 year, they will give you $100.00 bonus. That is over 17%. No one is paying that interest. I bough the audio cds at Walmart. In one day I have listened to 4 of the 6 cds or 4 hours of it. I'll review when I get finished. Sorry JD, I haven't reviewed men and money yet!!! YAy I LoSt 4.6 lbs!!!!
I've been very busy the past few days, sorry I haven't posted. I've been eating! Ha! Just Joking! Work has been wild. We did manage to walk the neighborhood for about 20 minutes last night. It was my husband's idea. We passed 2 sets of neighbors. One set I knew, the others I had never seen before, but it was fun. I had fried fish last night for dinner. I had saved up my flex points and it was so good. I like the variety this weight wastchers plan gives me. I cant wait till Monday to weigh in to see how it works.
This is an awesome desert to have when you're grilling out. It will give you a reason to look forward to grilling that same old piece of chicken again!
Grilled Banana Splits
4 ripe bananas
2 T. Chocolate Chips
1/2 c. nonfat, frozen vanilla yogurt
4 t. chopped Walnuts
Preheat grill or oven to 400 degrees. Place each banana on its side on a piece of foil. Cut a slit lengthwise. LEAVE THE SKIN ON.. Push 1/2 t. chocolate chips into the slit of the banana. Wrap the banana in the foil, leaving the top near the slit open. Grill or bake 15 minutes until the chips melt. Losen the foil and press the banana opena bit. Top each banana with 2 T frozen yogurt and sprinkle with walnuts. Cinnamon is good on top too!
Yield: 4 servings. Calories 185, Fat 4g, Fiber 3g, Protein 3 g. (3 prs. on WW)
This recipe came from Jenny Craig's new cookbook. It is a great cookbook called The Volumetrics Cookbook. It teaches how to get the alot of food for minimal calories and fat. It's really good!
Well I have to go and record my in my point log. Have a great day!
Ok, I had a sushi attack last night, but I think I stayed within points. Unfortunately, tonight some other friends want to have sushi again. I think I am going to turn into rice. So I have planned all day and ate skimply so I can have fun. I am drinking a lot of water. I am looking forward to a loss this week, but only if I focus more. I am logging everything in the WW website that I eat. I enjoy those message boards as well. If any of you guys need a recipe let me know. I have a great one for you that I'll post, this one came out of taste of home for two magazine:
Brocolli Waldorf Salad
3 T of fat free mayo (I like lite)
1 T. honey
1 t. cider vinegar
1/2 c. chopped broccoli
3/4 c. chopped apple
2 T. raisins
1T. chopped pecans
This yields 2 servings, Nutrition facts per serving: 145 c. 4 g. fat, 29 g. carbs, 2 g protein (1 cup serving = 2 points!)
Actually, guys I have been on most all of the plans. My biggest success was with Weight Watchers. I lost about 80 lbs and kept it off for 2 years, while I was a single girl on the market. Once I hooked my man, I quit going to meetings and blew up like a blowfish. Those of you have been following this blog know that I have been on the Jenny Craig plan since mid Novemember. I lost 20 lbs in the first 2 months. So why am I switching? I think it is because I miss the group support and I need more flexibility. By the way- I could have lost a whole lot more. I took the weekends off the plan. I will not say anything negative about that plan. It taught me portion control. JC was a cash outlay on a weekly basis, but if you ate out a lot like I did, its about the same.The LA Weightloss plan I did about 5 years ago. It was very expensive and it involved a lot of shake drinking and bar eating, but you didn't have the flexibility to eat out. It was one of those where you had to be perfect. I was perfect and lost 20 lbs the first month. I'm sorry, but I could not live with it. I have to have sushi and pie ocassionally. So last night I trotted over to a WW Meeting. I joined online. I bought the monthly pass for $39.95 which gives you unlimited meetingsand online tools . This comes out to about $9.22 a week I think. So how did today go on the plan? So far so good. I am still trying to finish up my JC bars and some old "good" food that I have, but overall I just finished lunch and have only spent 16.5 points of my daily 32. So I am doing great. I have need for motivation, so I will be reading your blogs and reading magazines, etc to get me hyped up again. I would like to set a mini goal. Last night on the WW scale they weighed me in at 275, I would like to break 270 by April 2nd. Thats 2 weeks away! Our leader shared this with us last night and I love it:
TO LOOSE YOUR BEHIND, YOU MUST LEAVE SOME FOOD BEHIND.
I guess there goes my membership to the clean plate club
Every couple of weeks I find myself reviewing my behaviors, eating behaviors to be exact. I try to reflect by first looking at how bad I was and what I ate that I shouldn't have and what I will try to do better on next time. Then I think about everything that I have accomplished so far. The 20 lb. loss and all the meals that I had over the last few days where I was in control and made better choices for myself. I could beat myself up for eating the chocolate brownie at Chilis, but instead I congratulate myself for sharing it with a friend. Previously I would have eaten it all by myself. I won't beat myself up over the ham lettuce and tomato sandwich I had last night with the fries, because I left half the fries on the plate and I went light on the mayo. I think the reason most of us fail on diets is because we totally look at the negative and don't reward ourselves for something positive that we did. Try to look at your meals today and remember what your old baaaad self would have done and celebrate what your new lifestyle change has caused you to do!
We are half way through the month now. Actually how many of you can honestly say you have exercised 30 minutes a day every day this month? Honestly, I can't , I have missed a few days every now and then, so I won't be the person to tell you if the 30 day challenge works or not. So, if you are still in, please post and give your progress report. The dropouts are curious! OK, now on to something else. I went out with a group of friends and one of them knew that I had been on JC for a couple of months and she brought up weight loss and we started talking. Well she went on to talk about a book she was reading. I blocked it out, couldn't even tell you the name of it, then she started telling me about everything that was wrong with my program and she went on to tell me how to modify it. By the end of the meal, I was sick of this crap. If everyone is such a nutrition expert, then why do we need diet programs? If they know it all then why are they obese themselves. Anyway to make a long story short, I think you have to pick what is best for you. Thats why I like this site, because no one forces you to buy their food or belong to their program. We can all just come together and identify with each others passion to loose weight. I also like this site because most of the people are like me, large! I hate going to a center where everyone is a size 2! Here, we are REAL PEOPLE with real challenges. I hope whatever your challenge is, you can conquer it. My challenge lately was to decide if I wanted to continue on with Jenny or go back to WW meetings. I am going back to WW. I had more success with it in the past. JC has taught me portion control, but I really miss the group support. So, I'll go back to the meetings on Tuesday night and see what happens, wish me luck!
When I started this lifestyle change last November. I thought I would watch other women and see what they do differently. I work around a lot of desperate housewives. They push the babies in strollers, walk the dogs, run, stretch and all that good exercise. I even went to lunch with one of them last week. First, she ordered water, so did I. It taste like Florida swamp water, so I exchanged it for diet coke. She raved about some spreadable butter, I had 2 buttered melba toasts, she had one. We ordered grilled grouper sandwiches. I ate all of mine. She ate the fish off of hers and left the bread on the plate. Who does not eat bread? A skinny minnie. What did I learn from this? I am a pig! No, seriously I am convinced that these skinny women really work hard to stay that way. I'll keep watching them and see what I can learn!
Today was very STRESSFUL, but that is no excuse for the things I have done today. I had a horrible breakfast. MCD's Steak egg and cheese bagel. Man that thing has 29g of fat in it!! Then for lunch I was out and about and I ate a KFC roasted twister. That was bad too! I have been up since 3 am, so I am fixing to crash. I won't walk treadmill tonite. I am dizzy. I checked my sugar and it was too low, so I ate sushi for dinner. I figured the rice would shoot it back up. However, I am just going to chill. I am here at the apartment by myself during the week while I am working. I go home to the house with my husband on the weekends. So being by myself, I don't want to take a chance on passing out when no one is here. Tomorrow is a brand new day, I promise to stay on plan and do 30 mins of exercise.
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