Diet News!
LOL! Do you remember waaaaaay back to when this blog was ALL about my diet and exercise regime? Whew! We need to get back to some of that!!! *seriously*.... Well, today I have something to share with you!
THIS is an awesome product! It IS a veggie burger -- and I know you're thinking UGH... been there... done that! NO YOU HAVEN'T!!! This little sucker is GOOD! I can even eat them without a bun! (but i don't... but i did...) I kid you not! They have 100 calories, 2.5 g of fat, and 5 g of carbs PER. You can eat like 11 of these for the same caloric count as a McDonalds ANYTHING! LOL! And they are way lower than any "burger" you can cook even with the lowest fat beef! They are lower than turkey burgers... they are lower than almost any food on the planet! And I LOVE them! Don't trust me... TRY them!Labels: diet
Chai Tea
Have you TRIED this???
Nope... I have NOT gone paid advertising! But I have found a product that I just REALLY like! I'm a HUGE fan of Starbucks, and a chai tea latte is probably one of the most comforting things in my world. But they are also JAM PACKED with my worst enemies -- calories and sugar and carbs out the wahzoo! I found this in the grocery store yesterday and I am excited! I've been using the vanilla chai spice creamer in my coffee -- BAD, BAD, BAD for me! But NOW I can get my "fix" of chai and do it completely fat free - calorie free - carb free - sugar free! Or any combination of those I so choose! (well, i think the tea bag does have 1 gm. of carbs!) This is GREAT stuff! GREAT stuff!!!
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Friday Weigh-In ... Late!
I never got here to post yesterday... but I don't guess you were all storming my door to find out my weight for this week!
The home scale gave me a loss of 1.1 -- which honestly, I was THRILLED with! I didn't think I was going to lose ANY this week because I've had several "treats" and two days of just being ravishingly HUNGRY! So while I didn't eat things that were BAD ... I ate a LOT of food! So to do all that, and still end with a pound down -- I'll TAKE it!
For the Big Losers this week, their scale was down 2 pounnds -- but that was for two weeks, as I didn't weigh last Friday. I was still happy! I'm now down 11.5 pounds for the BLC!
Exercise maintains... I'm still only able to do 15-20 minutes at level 3... I just can't believe how much harder level 3 IS than level 2.... sheeeesh... there should be a middle ground between the two. *sigh*
Labels: diet, Weight Loss
H20...
YAY! I finally did it! I finally drank the "required" 80 ounces of water for one day! I challenged myself this morning! I said I would drink 8 oz. at the beginning of every class today -- and there are 8 classes! So that got me through 64 ounces! And since I've been home I drank 2 more glasses -- one each hour! Now I'm going to float away! LOL!
Labels: diet, Weight Loss
Friday Weigh - In....
Well, this morning the scale was feeling friendly. It says I'm at 255.9 - which brings it about into agreeance (is that a word?) with what the doctors scale said LAST week! LOL!
Exercise has been great this week! I'm doing really well with adding minutes at level 3 pedaling, I swam about 10 olympic sized laps on Sunday, and have increased my numbers with leg lifts -- it's really helping my belly FEEL thinner - even though it's not really "visible" yet! Soon though! Verrrrrrry soon, I think!
I'm not working today, so I'm not weighing at school. We'll catch up with the Big Losers next Friday!
Labels: diet, Weight Loss
Friday Weigh-In... Scales and Fish Tales...
... or
The Loss That Got Away! Sheeeeeeesh! I have NO IDEA how -- but I seem to have gained 2.1 pounds this week. At least according to my scale at home. I know we ate dinner out on Easter and yes, I had some good treats at that meal -- cream of crab soup and cheesey crab dip - and the fish was all fried -- but still. It was only ONE meal! I have still pedaled FIVE days this week -- and all the other days I was completely ON my diet. I don't see how I could have gained -- I would accept "not losing" -- but I really don't see how I gained! But the scale knows what the scale knows. I'm cancelling my pizza for this week!
As for the Big Losers at school... I lost 4 pounds from the last weigh-in there. But that would be the 4 pounds I lost last week plus a few days from the prior week. So that's probably about right! I've lost 9.5 pounds total with them. BUT... I found out this week that my chances of winning this are MUCH lower than I thought - because it's not who loses the most "pounds" -- it's the one who loses the greatest "percent" of body weight. Which means I would have to lose a whooooooooole lot to match the skinny's percents! LOL! It's just not my week in the weight loss world!
I'm just disgusted! Going to go pedal now!
Labels: diet, Weight Loss
Friday Weigh-In...
Holy schmOley! I lost a lot of weight this week! FOUR POINT FIVE POUNDS!!! 4.5! Yep! I haven't done anything different -- so it must just be all those little bits finally catching up! I'm sO excited - mainly because that put me over the 20 lb. mark -- and now I get to go have Sbarro's Pizza!!! YAY! (i'll probably gain 3 of it back!) LOL! Actually... I've decided to hold off on my treat until AFTER my next school weigh-in --- which I have no idea when it is - probably NEXT Friday! So NEXT weekend I'm treating myself to Sbarros! Oh JOY! I cannot wait! It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood....
Labels: diet, Weight Loss
Big LOSERS Club...
We're having scale issues again today. (what ELSE is new?) Just listen to this....
Since Amanda said I have to move my "home" weigh-in to Fridays, to coincide with my BLC weigh-in at school, I went ahead and got on the scale at home this morning. It LIES! Boy does it lie! It SAID... if you can believe it... that I had actually GAINED 1.4 pounds - since Monday! Yea. RIGHT! ( I have done absolutely NOTHING to GAIN weight these 4 days - and have actually increased my exercise for one of the days! ) So then, this afternoon after school, I get on the scale at school and IT says I've LOST 3 pounds - since last Friday! Now how can I LOSE weight on one scale and GAIN weight on the other? Do you know how much I hate scales? I'm IGNORING what my home scale says today -- I think it's PMSing or something. I'm not getting on it again until NEXT Friday. At that time I will add whatever it says to my chart. Fickle scales... I'll tell ya.... sheeeeeesh! At any rate...
For the Big LOSERS Club I have now lost 3 pounds!
Labels: diet, Weight Loss
The Race Is On....
I just found out today that we have a "Big Losers Club" at the school that I work at! They happend to be meeting after school today and so I stopped in and joined! The way it's working is everybody puts in a dollar a week for 13 weeks and at the end, who ever has lost the most weight gets the money! I'M gonna WIN! Yep! So CHEER me on!!! Most of the people there couldn't lose as much as me if their life depended on it... but there ARE a few who could give me some stiff competition! I'm going to have to WORK for it!
Labels: diet, Weight Loss
Leaner Times....
Today I was reminiscing about leaner times....
Like 1987... Shortly after Mathew was born...
... and 1973, when I was Sweet 16!...
Can you BELIEVE I thought I was fat back then?
Ugh! It makes me sick today to remember how
little self esteem I had back then! I should
have been at the absolute TOP of my game! Instead
I was just another crazy teenager looking at models
in magazines.... *sigh*
Labels: diet, Weight Loss
Little Changes....
So the dieting really isn't going so bad. As I've gotten older I really don't eat all the stuff I used to eat. I hardly EVER crave chocolate or candy anymore -- it's really been MONTHS since I've thought I had a need for a candy bar! I'm not a chip eater at all.... and usually when I eat a french fry it's just because it "came with" whatever I really DID want to eat. So I've quit eating them -- they really are NOT something that I "want" - and to me they are a complete and total waste of calories. (and fat... and carbs...) After the major Battle Of The Butter, Amanda and I agreed to disagree. I have NOT given up butter --- but I have cut back sooooooooo drastically that I might as well have given it up. I used to eat butter every single solitary day of my life on something or another. Usually a bagel. Well... sometimes I still do eat some on a bagel -- but I use SO much less -- just enough to add some flavor -- it doesn't have to SWIM in butter! And I don't put any on most of my vegetables anymore. Occassionally a tiny bit on asparagus! :) I have not given up milk - and won't -- I drink at least 2 glasses of milk a day. But I have cut back to 1% from 2% -- and no, I won't go to skim. Sorry... can't do it! I'm also not eating nearly as much bread (i.e. bagels) as I used to. I really did used to eat a bagel every morning for breakfast -- and sometimes another one for a snack in the afternoon! I've cut myself back to 2-3 bagels a week. That means one with butter, one with cream cheese... and one with (cover Amanda's ears) Peanutbutter! (oh God... peanutbutter really IS a problem... but again - I now only use enough to barely coat the surface!) I actually measure and make sure I only use 1 TBS or less per bagel half! Peanutbutter COULD have the potential to blow an entire weeks worth of dieting right out the window if I were not this careful! Other than that... I'm eating more cereal for breakfast... including oatmeal again! And occassionally I make eggs - poached!
The major change I've made is lunch -- I now eat a can of soup almost every day. It's great ... it's a hot meal, it's comforting, and it fills me up. And some days I eat a can of tuna mixed with the tiniest amount of lite-mayonaise you ever saw in your life! And pickles. Sometimes I eat in on a sandwich - but usually I prefer to spread it on crackers --- FEELS like I get more that way!
I'm not a big snacker, but I have made sure to eat an apple somewhere along the way every day. I bought a box of "diet" candy bars for the "in case" times. It's sitting on the shelf waiting for "in case" to happen.
I really haven't changed dinner all that much. I still have to "cook" for Dennis -- so I eat whatever and just make sure my portions of meat and potatoes are small, and my servings of veggies are LARGE! A lot of times I just skip the meat altogether. I'm not a big fan of chicken ... and while I like a good steak, or a hamburger, I'm not super fond of meatloaf or other mixed meat dishes. The main thing I've done is to cut way back on cooking with oil... even my beloved olive oil.... and of course - very little butter. It's forced me to try some new recipes and Dennis is actually liking that! I have been cooking a LOT more fish -- which, he's not crazy about - but seafood is MY favorite food -- and it works GREAT for weight loss, so he's going to have to deal with this... and it won't kill HIM to lose a few pounds either! LOL!
So now... with all this said... let's see what the scale says on Monday! *crossing my fingers for at least a 2 pound loss!*
Labels: diet, Weight Loss
THIS is an awesome product! It IS a veggie burger -- and I know you're thinking UGH... been there... done that! NO YOU HAVEN'T!!! This little sucker is GOOD! I can even eat them without a bun! (but i don't... but i did...) I kid you not! They have 100 calories, 2.5 g of fat, and 5 g of carbs PER. You can eat like 11 of these for the same caloric count as a McDonalds ANYTHING! LOL! And they are way lower than any "burger" you can cook even with the lowest fat beef! They are lower than turkey burgers... they are lower than almost any food on the planet! And I LOVE them! 
