DIS Ladies Only Meet 2006 Weight Loss Challenge - Starts March 28

[sahbushka]

Way to go! That is awesome! Keep up the great work. Which WW meal did you have? I really enjoy the Chicken Enchilada Suiza!
Sarah

 

[kelsco99]

Sounds like everyone is doing great - a few setbacks but that is to be expected! I've had a few myself.

Today this is what I ate... please tell me if this sounds like a lot cause I am really not sure...

Breakfast
2 cheese slices on 2 pieces of bread

Snack
Granola Bar

Lunch
1 and 1/2 tuna sandwichs made with light mayo
banana
plain salad with 1000 Island dressing

Supper
spaghetti and meatsauce
1 piece of bread
Glass of milk

Snack
Diet Fudge Bar

I am heading out to the gym now. My friend just called and we are meeting up so I won't be able to read the replies till I get back around 10ish.

Good Luck everyone!

Kelly

 

[k_hase]

Michelle- Awesome job on the treadmill. Not hanging on really forces your muscles to work more to balance you, its good for your core and burns more calories.

Kelly- 7 pounds!! you might be the girl to beat in this!

Kel-your food looks good to me

Beth-it doesn't happen all in one day, if we fall off the horse we have to get back on! Did you read the article on sparkpeople.com about self-efficacy? I thought of you as I read it. Its about knowing that you can do something, kind of like when you decided to stop crying and go out to your kids. If you did that, you can do this too.

Everyone else-keep going!!


I went to the sparkpeople.com site. I like it. Its a little more complicated than fitday.com which I've used in the past, but much more motivating!

My food list is long-kashi and nonfat milk, breyers nonfat yogurt, oatmeal and a banana mid morning, cup of left over pasta with tom. and eggplant, a granola bar, 4 hard candies off a co-workers desk, a handful of almonds while making dinner, a big mixed green salad with feta, dried cranberries, almonds and balsamic vinagrette with a chicken breast (4 oz). I tried a new recipe for the chicken tonight, with a lime sauce. Very tasty. For two breasts it was about 1/2 cup of ch broth, 1.5 tsp of brown sugar, 1 tsp of dijon mustard, 1 tblspn of lime juice, saute in the chicken pan after cooking the chicken, add a little corn starch and water to thicken and toss the chicken in the sauce. Good stuff!!

I snacked after dinner too, those Rold GOld HOney Wheat pretzels are so tasty, I had a serving and a half.

According to sparkpeople.com and if I measured right (I measure most food) I'm at 1700 cal today. And I worked out too. I'll most likely eat some light popcorn while watching lost. Hopefully I stop there. This is my danger zone, the TV eating...

 

[Princess Michelle]

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[JennaTX]

Hi ladies! I hope everyone is having a good day.

I'm feeling so much better now than I was last night and even this morning. My body is starting to adjust now so hopefully it will just get better from here.

I had a good workout this morning. 45 minutes on the treadmill, only held on for a few seconds every now and then to check my heart rate. I'm super proud of that. I've been pushing myself this week and it's good for me. I am doing something I never let myself believe I was capable of before. When Kim mentioned in another post that holding makes your workout less effective I made up my mind that I was going to try my best to not hold on anymore and I'm so happy that I've been able to accomplish that. Now I'll work on adding speed and more incline. That won't be so easy to accomplish but I'll get there.

Way to go on the treadmill that is so fantastic!

 

[JennaTX]

I did pretty good today, except no exercise.

Eating wise, low fat granola bar for breakfast, sandwich (low fat bread, low fat cheese, mustard and turkey breast) with grapes and those Minute Maid Lights, I feel like I am drinking a soda, since they are in a can. Dinner, small portion of spaghetti with large ceasar salad and apples. No snacking at all today and tons of apples.

I just need to kick the exercising into gear!

 

[2BigKIdz]

Some small victories for me-

1. have not had a coke since Monday! drinking unsweetened tea with meal instead
2. exercising every day
3. passed by the cinammon rolls this morning and had cereal instead!
4. not eating before going to bed

For dinner last night I had a pork tenderloin ke-bob and a sirloin ke-bob with basmati rice and two small slices of grilled flat bread. Not sure how fattening they are but they are grilled and probably about 3 ozs of meat on each skewer. Probably should have had just one ke-bob but that just didn't seem like much . I only eat one big meal a day during the week anyway, I have some fruit for a snack and a cereal/fruit bar and then will have some cereal for breakfast before I leave work this morning.

 

[Princess Michelle]

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[k_hase]

After I posted it didn't go so well. I had the popcorn. That was fine. But an hour later I wanted more. I waited and had some water, to see if I was actually hungry. I think I was. I ate a granola bar. And then more pretzels. I ate half the bag of pretzels. I know its just pretzels, but I still ate a lot of them while watching TV. I even made my challenge on sparkpeople that I wouldn't eat while watching TV. I failed on the first day!!!

Okay, today will be better, and even yesterday wasn't so bad, I went about 200 calories over what I would consider the limit for yesterday, but I've got a hard track workout today, so I can balance it out.

Have a good day ladies.

 

[macraven]

 

[kelsco99]

Good Morning Wishers! Today is going to be a great day!

I will be stuck at work from 9am to 8pm and these are the days that I usually break down and do fast food. And to boot, I forgot to eat breakfast before I left the house this morning. I have already dipped into my lunch so I hope that I have enough food to keep me going so I don't break down and buy the crappy fried food that our cafeteria sells. I am going to do my but I might need your support today... I am going to make a commitment right now to come here first before I make any food choices beyond what I brought.

Good Luck everyone!

Kelly

 

[Marseeya]

Kelly, I did McDonald's yesterday and bought a kid's meal! It ended up being much more filling than I thought it would and probably around 350 calories all together. Not bad at all for fast food.

Anyway, you might want to check out kids meals at the fast food places! It's a thought.

 

[k_hase]

and Burger King has great grilled chicken salad that is 190 calories without the dressing or croutons. Shaved parm, hot chicken, mixed greens its awesome.

Also, go to www.hungry-girl.com, great tips and food facts and funny too!

 

[Princess Michelle]

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[Marseeya]

How is everyone doing today?

I've had the munchies. Got. To. STOP!

 

[Princess Michelle]

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[kelsco99]

Kelly, I did McDonald's yesterday and bought a kid's meal! It ended up being much more filling than I thought it would and probably around 350 calories all together. Not bad at all for fast food.

Anyway, you might want to check out kids meals at the fast food places! It's a thought.

Thanks Marseeya, I read earlier how you subsituted the fries for apples... good thinking on your part.

I did end up going out but only to subway and I have 6" ham sub loaded with veggies.

I ate really light today and then I went to the gym. I was starving when I got home around 10 so I made nacho chips with salsa and cheese...these are my fave! It was kinda bad though cause I didn't have the baked nacho chips... I will definitely be picking some of those up.

This has been very motivating for me ...glad I joined this crew. Before this I was going to the gym regularly but using it as an excuse to eat whatever I wanted and I was continuing the gain weight. Now with my lower cal eating and excercise, the lbs should start melting off.

Thanks Ladies!
Kelly

 

[2BigKIdz]

It's Friday!!!

Hopefully that won't mean disaster to our diets! I know the weekends are going to be a lot more difficult for me than the work week, especially the weekends my husband is off (this weekend) because when he gets cheesecake or ice cream I know I am going to want it too!!! He was dieting awhile back and lost about 20lbs but then he got a cold and quit, maybe he will go back on his diet and that will help me out. I'm not buying ice cream and cookies or cakes anymore so if he wants that kind of stuff he'll have to go to the store himself!

I feel pretty good about myself this week. I have exercised every day and I have not had a coke since Monday and really haven't missed them. I'm not drinking as much water every day as I should, will have to work on that. I did have a steak and cheese sub for dinner last night but had a small salad with it instead of fries or onion rings. Need to do better with lower fat dinners too.

Good luck this weekend ladies! We've almost made it a week!

 

[2BigKIdz]

2BigKIdz ~ Congratulations on the victories, your dinner sounds soooo good! It made me want to go eat at Marakesh! LOL

We have a place here called Sticks and all they serve are ke-bobs and they are sooo good! I don't know where Marakesh is, somewhere at WDW?

 

[Princess Michelle]

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