DISappearing Peeps...A fastpass to THIN!

[nsalz]

Hi everybody...I started today. Saw this site last night and it seemed to give me a little push. I have tried all and I meen ALL diets. I have decided to simply count my calories.....hopefully that will work. I have a soft cast on my leg right now, so exercising is difficult. I am greatful for eeyeore45's
exercises. Hey I can sit at my computer and suck it in with the best of them.

I have a few calories to spare today....saving them for later incase I want a snack. On my lunch hour today, I went and loaded up on 100 calorie packs to help me keep track.

 

[monymony3471]

I like the minni and I added her to my siggy.

Dinner has me stuffed. It's amazing how protein just fills you up.

Breakfast: western scramble (eggs and veggies and cheese)
am snack: cheese stick with a piece of turkey meat
lunch: salad: romaine lettuce sprinkled with cheese, cukes, chick peas, boiled chicken,and homemade dressing.
pm snack: turkey and swiss cheese
dinner: chicken and veggie soup with black beans and tomatoes, asperagus.

I did 33 mins on the tread mill today. 9 glasses of water (72oz.)

I am stuffed!

As you can tell I love cheese. This plan allows me to eat it and it works for me. And later I can have chocolate. Certain forms of it, but it's chocolate!

 

[monymony3471]

Just a thought. We could be the skinny minni club.

I love the title of this thread. Very clever. Or we can be proud members of the disappearing Peeps


Or we can add after minni, A fastpass to THIN and make it a link to this thread.

Just random thoughts. But I love the minni!

 

[UtahMama]

Hi everybody...I started today. Saw this site last night and it seemed to give me a little push. I have tried all and I meen ALL diets. I have decided to simply count my calories.....hopefully that will work. I have a soft cast on my leg right now, so exercising is difficult. I am greatful for eeyeore45's
exercises. Hey I can sit at my computer and suck it in with the best of them.

I have a few calories to spare today....saving them for later incase I want a snack. On my lunch hour today, I went and loaded up on 100 calorie packs to help me keep track.

YAY! Good for you! DONT quit! I'm laughing at the computer exercises! If only I could figure a way to power my computer with a tread mill!!!! I would be a skinny minnie in no time!

 

[pixie dust 112]

Oh I also got some exercise in today!!! Not a lot, but I walked for 30 minutes and embarassed my kids by dancing around the school (while cleaning up after the Talent Show practice)

Wait....you exercised and embarassed your kids at the same time! You are my idol!!!!

 

[UtahMama]

Just a thought. We could be the skinny minni club.

I love the title of this thread. Very clever. Or we can be proud members of the disappearing Peeps


Or we can add after minni, A fastpass to THIN and make it a link to this thread.

Just random thoughts. But I love the minni!

Thanks! The "DIS appearing Peeps...A fast pass to thin" was donated by Horsegirl who should be coming around any time now. I plan on adding the minnie to our ribbon and calling people skinny minnie's when they do something successful (?????). I keep asking my husband if I look skinny yet? and he's all, I can just hear his Homer Simpson voice in his head!

"What should I say? What should I do??? (shoves twix into his mouth) Should I lie and make her happy??? Should I tell her the truth and risk sumpin sumpin???"

 

[pixie dust 112]

Hi everybody...I started today. Saw this site last night and it seemed to give me a little push. I have tried all and I meen ALL diets. I have decided to simply count my calories.....hopefully that will work. I have a soft cast on my leg right now, so exercising is difficult. I am greatful for eeyeore45's
exercises. Hey I can sit at my computer and suck it in with the best of them.

I have a few calories to spare today....saving them for later incase I want a snack. On my lunch hour today, I went and loaded up on 100 calorie packs to help me keep track.

Hi Little sis! Littler both age wise qand weight wise. We do think alike. I came on tonight to post that I decided to do the old fashioned counting calorie thing too. Went to my personal library on Sunday (a/k/a Barnes and Noble) and read through all different books and decided that I'd just count calories. I'm starting with a small (for me) goal of 20 lbs. So according to the book I read I should take my goal weight and multiply by 10 (the multiplier for a sedentary woman) and that's the number of calories I can have. I'll adjust as I add exercise and readjust my goal.

So far 2 days and I've kept to the plan! (that's big for me) I made lots of sugar free jello today in case I get hungry at night! If nothing else I should have great nails!

UTM You are too funny!

 

[UtahMama]

Hi Little sis! Littler both age wise qand weight wise. We do think alike. I came on tonight to post that I decided to do the old fashioned counting calorie thing too. Went to my personal library on Sunday (a/k/a Barnes and Noble) and read through all different books and decided that I'd just count calories. I'm starting with a small (for me) goal of 20 lbs. So according to the book I read I should take my goal weight and multiply by 10 (the multiplier for a sedentary woman) and that's the number of calories I can have. I'll adjust as I add exercise and readjust my goal.

So far 2 days and I've kept to the plan! (that's big for me) I made lots of sugar free jello today in case I get hungry at night! If nothing else I should have great nails!

UTM You are too funny!

SOOOO glad to have you and your sissy here!

20 pounds is do-able than "X". I'm going to go make some sugar free jello right now too...that sounds good for when I'm craving sweets.

 

[eeyore45]

everybody - -

I'm beginning to understand the mascot Utm - -

I only put MM in my siggy to see if I could - if I resized the image, etc...
No problem changing - *g I"m all about the change!!!

So I went upstairs to find Minnie - and dd reminded me we got Cheerleader MM our first trip to the World!!! ( I was skinnier then, not by much mind you!! ) If only I'd keep up the walking I did in the World!!!

Dinner 1 cup tomato soup
1 cup microwave popcorn.

Right now I'm committed to portion control, and trying to get the water and the ab work in... baby steps. For portion control think of the palm of your hand as one serving...

I was thinking about fat free jello, and fat free cool whip!! (talk about chemicals eh Utm!!?!! )

Off to look for recipes from eons ago for a pumpkin chiffon pie that was deelish!!!

 

[eeyore45]

forgot to post the picture -

Is this what you meant utm??

 

[lexmelinda]

Just got back from the birthday dinner. Bummer not to really KNOW how many calories there are at restaurants so I try to over estimate. So I'm calling it 1500 calories for today. There was a lot of dancing going on today but still over my max calories by about 100. Here are some things I've learned....

If it's not easy, I can't stick to it.....I've gotta limit portions and count calories on real things I eat every day. I'm too lazy to cook special stuff....not that there's anything wrong with that.

Stock up on easy stuff....Lean Cuisine was $2 a pop at the grocery today so I stocked up. (Thai Chicken is my fave.) But any brand will do....Healthy Choice, Smart Ones, etc. I take these to work for lunch and eat them at home when I feed the kids chicken nuggets and such. Calories are clear cut and my dinner is ready in 5 minutes or less.

I love salad....I'm trying to reach for a salad instead of Cheez-Its. I keep salad mix and fat free balsamic vinagrette in the frig at all times.

I love chocolate....dark chocolate. If I need a fix, one dk choc hershey kiss....20 calories or if I'm living large...one Dove special dark is 40 calories. Satisfies my craving and doesn't send me over the top on calories.

Some things I'm not willing to give up.....I love whole milk in my coffee and I like one Bud Lite in the evening. Calorie count....260 for both. I can live with that.

Love you guys! Thanks for all the wonderful advice, exercises, and inspiration!

 

[pixie dust 112]

Man if we all moved as fast as this thread does we'd already be Skinny Minnies!

 

[TwinkieMama]

Hiya girls!!! Keep the tips coming!
I know most of us read/have heard/know these things in our heads but we need to know them in our hearts to make a permanent life change.

I am doing the old fashioned counting calories too! I find that it helps re-educate me about appropriate portion size and exactly how "expensive" foods are.... and doing so has automatically shifted me to a protein and veggie heavy menu (veggies to fill me up and protein to make that full feeling last)... I have a major sweet tooth and I miss my sweets but ususally a dessert isn't worth "wasting" a quarter of my daily calorie allotment on...


Other things I do: check on you gals when I want a snack... either I get distracted or someone posts a healthy snack idea for me to try

Brush my teeth. I don't like to eat right after I have brushed my teeth.

Try to time my snacks so I am not hungry when I am feeding the kids or cooking dinner.


I have noticed how many "zombie bites" I take either when cooking or cleaning (oh look all the pasta but three bites fits in this tupperware, I'll just eat them!)

I am also hoping to shrink my stomach size before the holidays... then I take a day or two off from dieting but I won't want to eat as much.

 

[spongemommie05]

I am on my way too the gym with husband (hope i don't die) wish me luck !!
Off the subject!!! how do you add cute lil pictures to your signature i want to post some stuff but have no clue, i'll check back in a hour off to burn some fat..

 

[UtahMama]

I am on my way too the gym with husband (hope i don't die) wish me luck !!
Off the subject!!! how do you add cute lil pictures to your signature i want to post some stuff but have no clue, i'll check back in a hour off to burn some fat..

No Idea! People have tried to walk me step by step through it. I am just unwilling to learn when I have a technical department all to myself. I know it has to do with "Photo-bucket"(???). I only know this because everything in my siggie is also in my photo bucket account. There may be a siggie line 101 in the Technical boards. NO clue though! When people try to help me, they assume I know some mundaine but crucial step like click on X and I'm instantly lost and give up.

 

[eeyore45]

I can help (and I have a tech help dept here too - my dh is a software computer engineer!!)

1. go to www.photobucket.com and register.

2. Do you have photos on your computer anywhere? (that's a whole 'nother splanation!!)

3. at photobucket it says "upload" click on that... and mysteriously your computer will obey... at this point you have to know where you "saved as" images are... so read and make sure you are on the right folder (when I use my digital camera and just want one image I often right click on that image and use the "send to" option sending it to "My Documents" so at photobucket I have to make sure the "magical pop up says "my Documents"

4. click on the image you want from your computer... and click "ok"

5. back to photobucket where it does all the work for you... click on "upload" or its already done that...

6. your image should appear in your photbucket page.

7. copy the one - - all those letters etc...

8. go to the top of this page "User CP" click... left hand side find "edit signature" click.

9. paste that stuff you "copied from photobucket"

10 click on preview or save...

Now to use an image you see here - like the minnie dancing - you "right click" and a pop up from your computer find the lline that says "save as" click Now another "mysterious" window pops up... and you can either click on save, or cancel - but again, PAY VERY CLOSE attention to what that pop up window says - that way you dont "loose" the folder you chose to "save as" in!! (I cant tell you how often I lost images because of that one ... [I]minor[/I] detail!!

HTH!

 

[LBelle]

Hi all!!!


I had a very bad day....no excercise to speak of for me today!!! DH was home all day and we just kind of 'hung out', all lazy and stuff!! Didn't eat too badly and I feel so dehydrated whenever I'm not sucking on water!!! This is common with me for the first few days of a water regimen!! I really should know better by now NOT to go off it in the first place, even for a day or 2, puts me right back at square 1!!!!! Also...had 3, yes 3 popsicles tonight!!!! Oh well....tomorrow is another day!!! Don't like to beat myself up over this stuff, as I've said before, I will NEVER 'give up' the things I love....just need to continually be AWARE of what's going in my mouth!!! That helps!!!

 

[hinsok1]

i just would like to maintain a healthy weight so that my post partum c-sections scar will be happy with me and also my 4 herniated disk in my back (i do not want surgery) i am pathetic

Spongemommie05 - I'm going to go a little off topic . . . sorry ladies! Depending on which surgery they suggested for the herniated disks . . . Rethink the no surgery option! Had a terrible pain from my hip to by anke for awhile. . . Dr didn't really take me serious, encouraged me to lose weight . . .sure I can do that when I could barely walk across the room because of the pain. Finally had a MRI - Herniated disk. Back Sprecialist suggested surgery (L4/L5) and I told him no way . . . I also was going to lose weight and make it all better . . . well it got worse and I couldn't get off the couch! I had the surgery, they cleaned up the disk and shaved off some of the bone on the vertebre to give the nerves more room . . . (there is some long medical term for it, but I can never remember how to spell it . . . ) and now I wonder why I ever said no! It was the best thing I have ever done for myself. I was out of work for 6 weeks, but over all the recovery was way easier than I expected. The past two summers I have been able to do things I have not enjoyed in years! The shooting pain was gone almost immediately! I now have the strength and determiniation to make it to the gym and have made it a goal to strengthen the core muscles so I have less chance to reinjure the back again! The weight hasn't come off as easily as I would like (but I know I need to change my eating habits for that to work), but my body feels so much better.

I stopped going to the gym and lifting weights 2-3x a week and I can feel such a difference in my body. It really missed the work out . . . I am now trying to get back and I am amazed how much better I feel! Still have a lot of lbs to go, but the main thing is that I am in much better shape physically!

 

[UtahMama]

Hi all!!!


I had a very bad day....no excercise to speak of for me today!!! DH was home all day and we just kind of 'hung out', all lazy and stuff!! Didn't eat too badly and I feel so dehydrated whenever I'm not sucking on water!!! This is common with me for the first few days of a water regimen!! I really should know better by now NOT to go off it in the first place, even for a day or 2, puts me right back at square 1!!!!! Also...had 3, yes 3 popsicles tonight!!!! Oh well....tomorrow is another day!!! Don't like to beat myself up over this stuff, as I've said before, I will NEVER 'give up' the things I love....just need to continually be AWARE of what's going in my mouth!!! That helps!!!

Awwww! So sorry! I love lazy, hanging out days...you LUCKY girl you! If popscicles are a quick easy snack, maybe juice-bassed ones or the Crystal Lite-ish one's??? Anything (that cost twice as much...) that wont make you feel guilty? I totally need to be aware of my "Zombie" eating! Aware of everything period!


I felt something NEW today...THIRST! (I KNOW!) I'm so used to just retaining every little bit from the diet Pepsi that the majority of my beverages were plain ice water! Excercising made me thirsty! Wow! I even slightly sweat-ed!

I am already sore. Tomarrow may be a ouch-day.
I had forgot to take my vitamins, so I took them just now at 8:00 (past our STOP EATING cut off point) but I cant take them on an empty stomach so I ate a piece of my pre-grilled (ready to go on a salad) chicken. THEN took my vitamins. So I sorta broke a rule. But it was a GREAT day!


THE BEST!!!!

 

[hinsok1]

Also...had 3, yes 3 popsicles tonight!!!! Oh well....tomorrow is another day!!! Don't like to beat myself up over this stuff, as I've said before, I will NEVER 'give up' the things I love....just need to continually be AWARE of what's going in my mouth!!! That helps!!!

LBelle - don't worry about the popsicles . . . according to Calorie king, they are only about 15 cal apiece. . . not bad for falling off the wagon!

Ladies . . . I'm missing out on all the posts during the day . . . Can't believe the action! You are all great!