Thanks everyone for the suggestions on what I should eat on Saturday. I don't want to go and not knowing what to eat is adding to my anxiety. I think I am going to call the restaurant today and ask what they would suggest I eat. I'm also going to email my mom and ask her what she thinks. She is a weight watchers success story. 5 years ago she lost 35 pounds and she has kept it off.
I would not ask the restaurant! To begin with, other than the cooks/chefs, most of the restaurant staff wouldn't really know what was in each meal. Second of all, you can't rely on what someone ELSE thinks is a "healthy" meal. If you have the NI for the foods at the restaurant's website, use that information and your own good judgement.
Raw green peppers. Love em, should eat more of them. I think I'll go to the grocery after my PTO meeting and pick some up.
I should have thought of those. I like them a lot too!
ugh, not having a good week. I have made some, ok, a lot of bad food choices. And have done minimal exercise. I dread weigh in tomorrow, I know I've gained.
What the heck is wrong with me?? It was a crazy week at school, stacked up with meeting after meeting. I'm truly exhausted, I've fallen asleep on the couch every night this week.
I need to go to the grocery store and stock up on good food again, the kids ate all the celery, carrots, apples, oranges, and clementines. I'm glad they ate the good stuff but darn, save some for me!
I have lost the desire to care about food. I'm in a foodie rut. How do I get out of it??
Well, first of all,
to you for a tough week. Second... nice job raising kids that will eat the healthy stuff! But it is tough when they eat ALL of it!
I don't have any really good suggestions for getting you out of the rut, but it is good that you recognize that there IS a rut. I guess my only idea would be to try to find some new foods and/or new recipes that might get you excited about eating healthy again. Have you tried Vitamuffins? They are pricey and I don't eat them often, but they are a GREAT treat when you need low cal comfort food. Are you familiar with the Hungry Girl cookbooks? I don't approve of all of the ingredients she uses, but she has some great recipes if you can avoid the ones with "diet" and fake foods.
Hey all...
Funny how one day can change so much. I was on top of the world yesterday, and then today started out badly, with me eating stuff I didn't need and didn't even want. I usually stop at Timmy's (all you fellow Canucks understand) on the way to work, but this morning I went right by McDonalds, so I thought, hey, I'll just stop and get an orange juice instead, and maybe I'll splurge on a breakfast sandwich and skip snack, since I had packed a healthy lunch. Instead, no OJ so I got bad coffee, greasy hashbrowns, and the sausage mcmuffin - which I usually love - was so not worth the feeling gross after. After I was just like, what did I do? I felt like crap about it. Then, to top it all off, when I got to work I realized it was hot dog day, made by the students to support school programs... kind of a requirement for the teacher, so I did that too for lunch. I am trying really hard to stay positive, but now I am fairly certain that I will not see much - if any - loss on the scale tomorrow at all. And this weekend is going to be bad. It's my birthday on Monday, so my parents and siblings are coming to town to take me out, which is great, but not exactly healthy. And DBF is taking me out too on Saturday; at least I can be healthier then.
I guess I will just get up early tomorrow for a last chance workout before work, and then try to make the smartest choices possible.
I don't think I will be lucky enough to hang on to that clippie for long! Trying not to get frustrated.
Thanks for listening.
Try to remember the yucky feeling you had after the sausage mcmuffin and bring it up next time you are tempted to order one (or to eat something else like it). Hopefully it will remind you WHY you shouldn't eat it. McD's at breakfast is a tough one. If forced to eat there, I usually end up with a black coffee and a fruit and yogurt parfait. It seems to be the only thing that isn't off the charts, calorie-wise. Dunkin Donuts is making things a bit easier these days as they have lots of egg white sandwiches available (if you can go there without ordering a donut, of course!).
As far as hot dog day goes, could you just make a financial donation and skip the hot dog in the future?? That way you would be doing your part, but not sabotaging your diet. (Plus hot dogs are really terrible for you! No one should be eating them! )
Take good care of yourself this weekend and by your birthday on Monday you will be feeling much better! And that is the best gift you can give to yourself.
So this is a really random question:
I use Bodybugg and part of the program is logging what I eat and then it shows me my calorie deficit or surplus for the day. Here is where the question comes in: If you throw up, would you count that meal?
I became severely nauseated after dinner last night. I'm pretty sure it was one of my diabetes meds. It pretty much sucked. By the time I got home I was hypo (low blood sugar) and pretty much hung around in a mild hypo all night. I was too sick to my stomach to eat something, so I told myself that as long as I was above 60 I would not correct. I'm glad I didn't because about 2 hours later I threw up my dinner. I'm thinking I'm not going to count it.
I guess I would count a portion of the calories... maybe 25%? Not sure how many calories your body could absorb in two hours. Sorry to hear you are feeling poorly. Hope you recover quickly.
Friday QOTD: Looking back on the first two (ish) weeks of the year, how do you feel about your progress oh your resolution to lose weight? Is it going how you anticipated? Are you as motivated as you were on January 1?
I guess my progress has been as well as could be expected. Sure, I would love for all of the Christmas weight gain to be gone already, but it isn't. But it's heading out, so that is good enough for now. My weight loss and healthy lifestyle journey wasn't new on 1/1/2010 so my motivation is something that kept me going for two years now. Certainly at times I seem to have more motivation and at other times less, but I'm doing great now motivationally speaking.
Well.... I did my weigh in and I am just waiting for DH to rise and shine so I can hit the treadmill. I had a modest weight loss this week and I am happy with that. It is just frustrating that I managed to GAIN about 6 pounds in the week between Christmas eve and New years day, but now it will probably take me all of January to LOSE the weight.
And other than the lemon meringue pie, I can't even remember most of what I ate that helped me gain this weight. Which makes me realize that most of it wasn't worth the calories. I need to keep remembering that when confronted with those foods again.
I'm debating about whether or not today should be a splurge day. I don't have anything big planned, but maybe I should save my splurge for later in the weekend. Plus with the holiday on Monday, I don't really know what will be going on. DD has a swim meet tomorrow, DS has a b.ball game. Then on Sunday and Monday DD has to study for mid-terms and get ready for her school trip to Disney (she leaves next Thursday!). I think I'll save the splurge for later in the weekend, in case we end up ordering a pizza or something like that.
Well..... DH asked for ten more minute of sleep before I hit the treadmill... and it's been about 45 minutes and he is STILL not up! I'm pulling out the TM anyhow and he can either rise and shine or try to sleep through it!
Have a great Friday everyone!.....................P
I've been having a bad - or more like sad - day today. Tomorrow is my birthday, my first one without my mom. As the day has gone on I've been sadder and sadder. But I want to post about my victories today! My mind was saying that I should lay on the couch and watch tv and have a pizza hut pan meatlover's pizza with extra sauce, but then this *other* voice said no - you don't really want that pizza (and it's true I didn't) and you should work out to get some of this emotion out. So...I did my BL wii workout and made a tasty tilapia for dinner, and I am actually feeling better. My habits are being changed. Yes I am still sad and miss my mom so much, but I am finding better ways to adjust and cope.
You are so right that working out can help your emotions so much better than meatlovers pizza. Have a happy birthday.
. It was just 90 over for the day and I've been under by that amount several times, but I need to watch that 90 calories today don't turn into 150 tomorrow and so on. Confession is good for the soul, right? So, there's my confession!
11lbs 
total and just 18lbs from my goal! Visions of exceeding my goal dance in my head! So far I am ahead of my expectations, however feel as though there is a plateau week coming soon that will kill my motivation. 
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with it (1/2 staff and 1/2 residents of the retirement community).
