7/30/05
Good evening everyone!!!! Thanks for those that visited and read the last couple of days. They have been hard.
Picked up Britt today. Bus was suppose to be there by 1 but they got there about 1:20. Of course, she was the last one off the bus but not alone - they all kind of walked off in a line. I could tell she made some great friends the last two weeks and I was so happy to see the smile on her face. She wasn't too smelly, was pretty clean, and wasn't burnt (it had tanned by today
). When we walked back to the car she said she had something to show me - she came off the bus in jeans and a sweatshirt (they were in upper WI and said it was chilly when they left at 7am). We got to the car and she took off her sweatshirt and said - See. I looked at it her and OMG, she looked thinner!!!!! Sure enough, her jeans probably had about 5 inches on them and they were sagging on her. So when we got home I had her go up on the scale - now granted she had eaten already today - and she had lost 5.5 pounds while she was gone. Before she left she had lost 10 so that was 15.5 pounds since July 1!!!!!!
I'm so very proud of her!!!! She said she was jumping up and down in her cabin when she put her jeans on and saw how big they were!!! Now we'll really see what her weight is when she gets up in the morning. She said she watched what she ate but didn't hold back - had seconds on some foods - and they did a lot of walking and hiking and they even did some exercises that one of the counselors came up with to get them moving a few mornings. 15.5 POUNDS - can you believe it!!!!!!!
Okay, now to me. I'm so happy dd is home. I was so happy to see her that I was the first in line. The girls come in through a door off the bus and into a room behind tables. We have to sign for them and then they can come from behind the table and out to get their gear. I was too excited to be the middle or last in line!!!!!
I did not get on the scale today but I was so incredibly miserable. I was bloated from TOM and had horrible cramps. I have horrible horrible TOM's about every 4th month and this was the one - and my 3rd or 4th days (mine go from 5 to 7 days) are usually the worst. So I wasn't in the mood to go workout, just too much pain. But went and got groceries and bought a lot of veggies to have on hand for the next two weeks (until next payday) and 100 cal snacks, cheese sticks, fruit, etc. I'm set for a healthy couple of weeks. We had brats tonight that were in the freezer and I didn't have the strength to throw them out - I was able to have one and could have had two given where my totals stand right now. But I am use to having 2 or 3 so I was happy I was able to stop at 1. Had some green beans and leftover onions and peppers from last night and some watermelon, cantalope, and honeydew that I mixed for a fruit salad. It all was really good!!!! Oh and in place of working out - because I couldn't let the month slip by with just 5 minutes left in the 1000 minute challenge I did - 5 minutes going up and down the basement steps continually; 5 minutes of ab crunches; 5 minutes of leg lifts like we do in Jazzercise. So I got through the challenge!!!!
Here's what I had today and where I stand for today:
breakfast 2 pieces toast on Wonder Light Wheat
2 tsp peanut butter
cheese stick
lunch ham sandwich
1 TBSP fat free mayo
2 pickle slices on sandwich
fat free yogurt
18 carrots
2 TBSP dip
snack 2 Weight Watcher Pecan Clusters
dinner brat, no bun or bread
1 c onions and peppers
1 cup green beans
1 cup cantelope, honeydew, watermelon mixed
OMG - we went to Meijer to get some produce as they had a lot on sale and it's usually pretty good. We were standing at the checkout counter and I was hungry and had forgotten to bring a snack with me. I wanted nuts but was freaking on the fat content so I saw these little packets of Weight Watchers Pecan Clusters - so I got one; had 2 in the package. THEY WERE AWESOME!!!!! And just enough chocolate to kill the craving I was having back in the cake mix, brownie mix isle!!!! They were 110 cals, 7 grams fat, and 13 carbs. Not far off from what the 100 cal snacks would have been so I didn't feel quilty. It was a nice treat!!!!
So my totals right now are:
988 calories, 35.25 fat grams, 126.55 carbs
So needless to say - I have to eat some more food tonight before long or I'm going to feel really icky tomorrow. I think I'm going to have either 1 cup of fat free frozen yogurt, or some real popcorn with butter spray, or some fat free fig newtons. Decisions, decisions (actually I do hate having to make these kinds of decisions).
Hope everyone had a good day - doing some laundry for dd now and have been enjoying catching up on her last couple of weeks. Going to go read some journals!!!! Have a good night and...
Keep on
Chris
You're losing at a good rate, too. Not too fast. Slow and steady. 
This is HUGE in keeping it OFF! 
All that watching what you eat, and all that exercise truly paid off!! Keep it up (and Off 
A nutritionist sounds like a good, neutral 3rd party to have involved! Maybe I should call one! 
