Ok - I feel I'm back on track and ready to move on down the scale. I don't know if I'll have a loss but I don't fear a 8 pound gain. I'm serious that was where I felt I was headed. Of course there are two days to weigh in and my jeckyll and hyde eating personality may come into play again. Let's hope not.
Thanks buddies for the great encouraging comments!!!!!
This is what I ate yesterday that seemed to clean me out (sorry tmi) and make me not feel so bloated. I ate 3 bowls of Fiber One with honey clusters and skim milk and 2 pink grapefruits and water. I also walked quite a bit. I feel so much better today. I have a lot of energy and I walked with my lab around the trails at my church while the men at my church changed my oil and washed my car for free!!!!! So I got about an hour of walking some nice relaxing trails in the woods and I went up and down the only real hill about 4-5 times on purpose. My dog thinks I'm looney but loves me anyway.
Well it's beautiful here and I think I'll go pick up some pecans for some extra exercise today.
Hope everyone has a great weekend and that you have terrific weigh ins this week!!! Go Red Team!!!
OH MY GOODNESS ME I AM A PIG!!!!! Normally I would not post about that problem but it has got to stop NOW!
The slippery slope of gluttony started not long after my weighin on monday. I thought ok I have a whole week to get the bad things I eat today off my butt. So I went to Zaxby's and got a nice salad with chicken and home made potato chips... I walked and did some exercise......then Tueday I had some stress eating, but I thought I can recover. My biggest mistake was not planning and preparing my meals ahead of time. Wednesday got a little worse and I made some items for our Thanksgiving lunch at work... then today we had our thanksgiving dinner and I ate some of everything.... except there wasn't a fresh veggie or anything healthy on my plate. I was miserable!!! I went to physical therapy and some of the exercises for my arm I lay on my stomach on a padded table. I thought I was going to hurl. Then I took a friend out for her birthday to Cheddars and didn't eat horribly there but was not stellar either. So tonight my tummy is miserable from putting junk in it and the scales are groaning....... normally when I do this bad I will not come here and confess it... but I need to see it and confess it and I definitely need support from my buddies!
The plan to recover somewhat from this disaster is: tomorrow I will stuff myself with lots of water, green tea, and raw fruit and veggies. Thankfully I got some grapefruit and oranges I order from a school. I will walk in the morning with my dogs and in the evening and I will do my weights and WATPs tomorrow. I cannot wait for this crap to exit my body. I seriously thought about a laxative but decided I need to let nature take it's course.
I'm very excited to say I lost 2.6 pounds. I felt like I was struggling the last two days. Last night I was IMing with a non EP friend and we challenged each other to go do something aerobic for 30 minutes. So I hopped on the treadmill and watched a Boston Legal episode I DVRed, So I got in a good 30-40 minutes cause I scanned through the commercials.
I weigh 216.8 this morning only .8 from my 10% on this go around. I have never stuck to WW plan long enough to make my 10%... I feel like I can do it this time!!!! I did WW meetings for 6 months and didn't get there,. Loved the meetings couldn't commit to being POP.... GRRRRR.
I do have challenges this week so it means I have to do some mental planning plus step up the exercise.
Hope everyone had a successful week
No news on the men front: John was sick and didn't go to church. My other man at church was there but I'm a little tired of chasing that one.
Did pretty good eatng overall today. Went out for japanese tonight and had grill mahi mahi, veggies over rice. There was some kind of sauce over all so I may have overloaded on the sodium. I didn't get the exercise I usually do - will have to crank it up a notch tomorrow.
Especially for Eva: Date Report
Met John at Japanese restaurant. There were not movies that we were espcially interested in or hadn't seen already. Had nice conversation at dinner. Drove over to the tiny mall in my town and walked around. He rub my shoulders a little bit when we shopped but I walked away and he held my hand in his truck, but I didn't hold it back. I'm just not feeling anything towards him now Don't know if that will change or not. He's very nice (not anything like camel/monkey lips). Recently widowed (within a year ) and still dealing with that, so I think he's a bit lonely. So nothing exciting to report.
I hope to report some exciting news at weigh in... at least have a loss!
First - I'm still doing ok... I went from great to good to well and now... OK.. I had fiber one cereal skim milk for breakfast, grilled chicken breast and fresh spinach, tomatoes and salsa for lunch. A apple for snack. Not many points and so I decided to go to Wendy's. I got a baked potato and 2 small chilis and a side cesar salad. I"m not sure why I got 2 chilis I didn't need an extra - but it was good and I didn't go over my points. I feel like I ate a ton though.
Random thougt: well actually I thought a little about it. I used to spend about 3-5 dollars in vending stuff,... from rice krispie treats, chips, soda a day. I made it the entire week without vending food.... I saved $15-25 this week on that alone. I think I'm gonna stuff that money in an envelope and go shopping for smaller clothes at the end of this.. I could have a good chunk for an outfit.
Another thought.. I was reading blogs and have found some from young ladies that are starting at their ideal weight and want to lose well below what they should be. One listed that she was only going to have 600 calories or less a day and then fast and then maybe go up to 1200. I feel for that girl.. Actually I wish someone would show her proper nutrition to maintain a healthy, happy, beautiful body.
This morning I peeked at the scale and I was very happy. The lowest I have been in about 3 years. Which really made me happy. I'm still focusing on eating lots of veggies and fruit and staying away from the white bread and bad carbs. I looked at some old BCB posts and found that over 3 1/2 years ago I weighed 207. That is the lowest posted I could find. So the goal for this challenge is 12 pounds that would put me at 207. That would make me happy - I would be bubbling over with Joy if I could beat that and make onderland by New Years.
But the road is paved with some challenges. The first one will be this week. I have a date. I usually eat healthy on first dates. I should be ok. Then I have a pot luck Wednesday and Thursday. The following week is Thanksgiving, thankfully I'm going to someone's house and not have leftovers at mine. I'm so glad I'm doing this challenge - it may help me to remember not to eat like a pig at every dinner.
I think I'm gonna make an early night of it tonight and get in bed before 11p.m.
Still doing well. Loading up on my fruits and veggies every day. I feel good and more energized and not so bloaty. I haven't had any bread or bad carbs. I've had very high fiber whole grain cereal for breakfast. Tonight for supper I was craving oatmeal. So I had that with a banana. Actually when I had it it was early and I thought I would just use that as a snack.. but it filled me up and I didn't want anything else.
I'm on the Red Team this time! I'm excited to get to know some new people in this challenge.
I hope I keep up this momentum and these good habits for much more than 3 days at a time. I really want to make my goal and even better my goal on this challenge.
I'm beginning this challenge at 219.4 up about .5 from the ending of the last challenge. I'm ready to move downward.
Yesterday I bought a bunch of veggies and fruit and some chicken breast. I cut up and prepared all the fruits and veggies and grilled 3 pieces of chicken and cut it up into bite size pieces to put on a salad. So this morning before work I pulled out a bunch of healthy things to eat at work. My eyes were bigger than my stomach and I didn't get my five pounds of stuff in my mouth but I did eat a bunch of it. Tonight I came home and made tilapia and sauted a bunch of veggies and some pineapple in light teriaki sauce. Yummy - I did well today. I also got in over 10,000 steps on the pedometer and 100 crunches. I will be sore tomorrow I'm sure. I need to get a great start to this before the heavy eating days arrive. My office thanksgiving glutfest will be next wednesday. I've had a couple of obstacles come up in the last day but I think I can overcome them. The cheesecakes I have order from different school kids have arrived. I took one down to my mothers house to store in her freezer and the other one is still in the freezer at work.. unopened. The plan is to take them to different dinners I will have throughout the holiday season.
Men update: There is another one in the hopper now. This one I met Friday night at a church recreation night. I invited him to my church and he came Sunday. (Sat next to another man in the hopper). He works in the same building I do and came looking for me today and didn't know exactly where I worked and then called the security group and got my managers number. I happened to be in my managers office when he called. Then he called me at home and asked me to dinner. But being the focused challenge member that I am... I said no.. but left it open for another time. Hmmmm... I must have good perfume on that night. He's a very nice man, recently widowed, church goer, hard working....HAS A TRUCK!!! there are a few negatives.. the major one is that he is 13 years older than me, the other is that he's had some major health issues but seems fine now. But he's nice looking for his age.... may give this one a shot.... so much more pleasant than last man I met.
Hope all my challenge buddies are having a great first day!!!
Today was another beautiful cold day. I went to work for a little while to catch up on a couple of things. I had healthy cereal and skim milk, then had a healthy choice dinner at lunch and eeegads two rice krispie treats, came home and had a small bag of smart pop. I was going to go out to eat with a group to a southern eat at the trough type place tonight, but I decided it would be best to stay home because I'll probably eat out tomorrow after church. So I took both dogs for long walks and all the while I was walking I was thinking I want pizza or mexican for dinner. My thinking was this would be my last big bad meal before I start this new challenge. HOW STUPID IS THAT MENTALITY!!!!!!!. So I'd walk a few steps and try to figure out if I want papa johns hawaiann pizza and cinnamon bread and a real coke or mexican and then the smart voice would say NOOOOOOOOOOOO that's stupid and not helping you towards your final goal. So I walked in total with the dogs over an hour and this back and forth battle between eating good and bad went on the entire time. Just as I was finishing walking a papa john's pizza delivery car comes by. But I came to my senses and kinda compromised with some home made comfort food. I had a small amount of ziti and some pasta sauce (no meat) and added extra spinach and brocolli to the sauce. I ate that instead of pizza. I figure all of it was less calories and fat than one piece of pizza. And you know if I had a pizza delivered that I would have eaten at least 4 pieces when it first arrived and then nibble the rest for the next few hours or tomorrow. Plus I know me.. I would have ordered the cinnamon bread stuff. Thank you Lord that reason prevailed. Well while I was on a roll... I decided to play back the "YOU on a Diet" I had recorded on Discovery Health. I also walked the whole time on a treadmill at about 2.5 miles an hour. During the first commercial I fast forwarded through.. the rest of the commercials I decided to up the speed of the tread mill to over 3 mph and then reduce it back down during the show. I ended up with almost 2 1/2 miles walked on the treadmill. And I got a good sweat up. The show was interesting but nothing I hadn't heard before because I've been fat a long time and I know what it takes..... I just don't do it. But they did show some good success stories and it was motivating. I'm going to save it so I can see other peoples success just by making simple lifestyle changes.
I'm ready to get this challenge going...tomorrow I'm going to go grocery shopping and prepare my fruits and veggies. Maybe make some more soup. And grill up some chicken breasts. I want to make it easy to pick the correct foods to eat during the week when I don't have much time.
I'm also going to challenge myself to walking everyday at work for at least 20 minutes of my lunch time.
I'm ready !!! Bring it on!!! I have a new jogging suit that my butt won't fit in that I want to wear New Years Morning.
It's a beautiful cold crisp morning here in Central Georgia......I hope it's especially energizing for me today. I need to get some good exercise in this weekend.
Well today I'm very determined to get this weight off..... an I sooooo miss my old boyfriend. I have an ad on match.com and I have met two men in my area. The first one is a nice man and he has been going to my church and sunday school and to a singles bible study and he sits with me and we talk a bit. But I feel it's moving at the slowest pace ever. So I figure he's good friend material and it probably won't go much farther. The second lives a few miles away and I met him last night. We had been talking for about a week and I didn't really want to just do that forever and he's invited me over or out to coffee before. So I had gone to a pot luck and a singles Bible Study last night... I looked really cute (as cute as you can at 5'1" and 219#) and I sat next to contestant number one "H". We talked and it was friendly but,.... so since I was feeling like I was looking pretty good, this would be the time to meet contestant number 2 "R". Well I knew "R" was more flirty than "H" and that was fine because I could use some flirting and cuddling. So when I got home we got in contact and since I was still dressed cute I decided to initiate the first meeting. So I purposely didn't shave my legs and told him that and don't expect anything hanky panky. So I go over and he's got a nice house and we talk a bit and then he wants me to sit next to him on the couch.. so I do and then he gets a little touchy feely rubbing my back and shoulders which is nice... but says I really can't do a good job with your shirt on (I say sure you can!) anyway it went a little more touchy feely and we cuddle a bit on the bed... I still had my clothes and my jeans on.. which he though was no condusive to cuddling and I say it was. So he trys to kiss me and this was full force messy kissing... I felt like a chimpanzee or a giraffe was kissing me....yuckky. If you have seen this fake lip balm commercial where the girl thinks she is about to test lip balm on two male models and then they blind forl her and switch the models to chimpanzees.. that's what I thought about the entire time he attempt to kiss me. My lips were glued shut after that. About two minutes after that I found my shoes and left. Ewwwww I miss my old boyfriend badly too bad he is shacked up with someone. I always seem to have a good man and a not good man in the hopper. I'll probably see "H" again at a group function tonight. I'll have to find something else cute to wear.
Anyway - I am determined to get this weight off so I can just go find me a good man....one that doesn't kiss like a chimpanzee.
Off to go with my mom shopping and to a Christmas Craft show in Macon.
