DISappearing Peeps...A fastpass to THIN!

[monymony3471]

Monica! I like the taco salad without the taco chips idea!

BUT!

Have you ever sucked the inards out of a bean/beef burrito?? Leaving behind the sad, sad limp flour tortilla? I have! Next time I crave taco bell I'll do that!


Weekends are TOUGH!
BUT(T)! we have each other!

Just Keep Slimin, Just Keep Slimin, slimin, slimin!

You mean I'm not alone? I don't have to hang my head low anymore?

I wanted to post something about the broccoli and you being full, but I couldn't be tackful enough, glad you're all the way in Utah! Fart away!

 

[UtahMama]

I am!!!!

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Monica, I just read your pre-trippie, very funny. This should be a fun report when you get back.

 

[Minnie]

UM: this sounds yummy.. I think I may try it this weekend. this may be a silly question but ... Do you eat something with it.. like a dip.. or is it more like a pudding you just eat with a spoon ??

Make sure you don't get Sargento's that brand is nasty grity. Also if you have a hand blender it is real easy to mix this stuff up and it tastes better as a lot of people have texture issues with it.

Oh and it works great with a dash of the powdered sf pudding mix. You can make tons of great flavors this week. Add it in at the end though as it gets very stiff.

 

[TwinkieMama]

Hi Peeps!

Welcome Bonitatime! So glad you are here! It will make us all feel smart and sophisticated to talk in kilos

Utah the funny thing is I *had* legwarmers back in the 80s... they were awesome! Wonder wear a gal would go to find some today... also I just pinned my hair up but for you I will put in a side ponytail with 2 scrunchies

Sandy: how many calories are in gobbledy gook? I need to know.

Minnie: Yay for you for now being a slave to the scale.

Nsalz: What can we call you? You need a nickname. Salsa? maybe?


Today was very hard for me. First of all I have such a reward mentality... I deserve a reward for dieting all week. I deserve a reward for cleaning my house. I deserve a reward for being nice to my inlaws for 9 DAYS (they come tomorrow). I did not get a Frosty though I really really wanted one (and had to drive by Wendy's 3x today).
I made confetti bean soup for dinner while DH took DS12 out for BBQ, cornbread, fries, and baked beans. I love eating out. Ugh! The soup was very yucky. I made cookies with my twins and ate a small one. (It was good unlike the soup).
I haven't sat down to count my calories for today yet but I did keep moving all day doing the power cleaning bit. I am hungry right now so I am going to go add up the damage and see if I can have a snack. I did drink all my water and do an amazing workout (I am sore.... lunges and squats while holding a one year old are not to be done by the faint of heart!)

 

[lexmelinda]

Welcome, Nikki! Glad to have you!

Calorie count today....very low and even ended the day with two lite beers. Didn't go to work so no exercise today.

So ends the pukiest, poopiest day in recent memory at our house.

Gonna sleep good tonight....I hope! It'll be better tomorrow.

Later taters!

 

[UtahMama]

I loved leg warmers with my tight pegged leg jeans and stirrup pants!

I think of Napolean Dynomite when I think of side pony tails.

Thanks for all the laughs today!

40 pounds! Sheesh!

Our dog food comes in 40# bags. They are heavy!

I'm so proud!

Tomarrow I have to go to the High School Musical, "Beauty and the Beast"

and I'm going to a candle party/open house, doing my lesson for sunday, and a "talk" for DS8 (Dallen) for Primary (kids sunday school), and finish my next chapter of my TR which may have to wait till Sunday afternoon. I just wont go near my TR because people are hounding me for "more".

What can I do?

My lesson just need tweaking. The candle party is a priority because nothing says "dieting" like a sugar cookie candle smelling up the house! Beauty and the Beast, I'm taking Dallen and Riley and Jordan and his girlfriend. Dallen is 8, Riley is 6 they'll like it. Norah is 2, she get's a babysitter. I dont want to chance her going with me. She's hit and miss with behavior and at $5 a ticket, I cant chance a melt down.

It's only 9:21 ish and I am BEAT! I 'm gonna go to bed early so I'll be bushy-tailed tomarrow for what's on my plate.

Good-Night Peeps!!!!!

I'll be around a little tomarrow. ((Hugs and Keeses!))

 

[eeyore45]

GOOD MORNIN PEEPS!!!

or so I hear anyway!!

Utm - I love going to the high school plays and musicals here - cheap date, and our town has some amazing talent - they did LeMis 3 years ago, I'm still tearing up, so powerful and moving!! and I'm sure you'll find the right babysitter -

Last night, early this am. Waterbed sprung a leak. Anyone have an extra $2,000? What is going on? Dh will repair it with the repair kit. But I'm noticing no one is selling waterbeds (or accessories) ours is about 15 years old! Its great for my back... to get something to continue to allow me to sleep well $2,000 (and that's my trip to WDW - now I am going to cry!!)

NO FOOD. no unhealthy choices!!! suck it up... and suck it in.

you dont want to know what I had for dinner last night, but I'm thinking I stayed under 700 calories!!

Twinkie I'm so with you and the reward system. I mean, come on I survived 5 straight days with 8th graders - teaching imovie, which I knew NOTHING about!! Not to mention...

I have a dream... hold fast your dreams... nothing tastes as good as thin feels....

breath in. breath out...

going to do some situps!

 

[monymony3471]

If dieting was easy, we'd all be walking around like super models. Honestly it's the hardest thing I've ever done and it's the one thing I've spent my whole life trying to perfect.

Just remember that we are not perfect and we do make mistakes. You just have to know and believe that you'll jump right back on when you do fall off.

Keep those happy images in your head. The skinnie minnie you screaming to get out.

That feeling that you finally like yourself.

Knowing people are looking at you because you are beautiful.

These are all great little things to keep tucked away to keep you strong and motivated.

Make it a great one! Keep on Keepin' on!

 

[honeymo78]

Hi ladies (and 1 guy I think) Can I join the fun? I've been lurking and then read UMA's trip report and saw many of your comments there and I knew I wanted to join in on the fun.

I'm Stephanie and I have tons of weight to lose but I'm working with baby steps here. First goal is to lose 13 more lbs and get back under 200. Once there I get to pick a new color for my hair - wavering between something reddish or just getting highlights again, probably will depend on how close it is to our March trip cause I love highlights in my disney pics. Hopefully I'll lose a few more lbs before March - 190 would make me smile - so I dig out the summer clothes from 2 years ago and not have to buy new stuff for vacation. Fast forward to next Oct and my 2nd anniversary back at disney and I'd like to be at 160-170, a weight my husband may have briefly seen (although I was in scale denial back then) right when we first started dating.

I like to talk so here's some more. I'm not on any plan. WW didn't really work out so well for me and I'm a carboholic so anything getting rid of those is out. I went to some fitness website and calculated how many calories I'm supposed to eat every day to maintain my weight and got 2200-2500 depending on if I think I'm sedentary or slightly active. Does that even sound right? I'm loosely keeping track of calories and shooting for approx 1800/day. This past week I've averaged that with the exception of yesterday - didn't plan on having pizza for dinner so had a big lunch. Now I know we'll finish the pizza today so I'm having a nice veggie salad for lunch to make room for the pizza. Exercise is the devil. Well maybe not, but finding time to exercise certainly is. So along with eating my real challenge is fitting some walking in 3x a week.

Okay I've blabbed enough. Hopefully none of you have minded.

 

[monymony3471]

Hi ladies (and 1 guy I think) Can I join the fun? I've been lurking and then read UMA's trip report and saw many of your comments there and I knew I wanted to join in on the fun.

I'm Stephanie and I have tons of weight to lose but I'm working with baby steps here. First goal is to lose 13 more lbs and get back under 200. Once there I get to pick a new color for my hair - wavering between something reddish or just getting highlights again, probably will depend on how close it is to our March trip cause I love highlights in my disney pics. Hopefully I'll lose a few more lbs before March - 190 would make me smile - so I dig out the summer clothes from 2 years ago and not have to buy new stuff for vacation. Fast forward to next Oct and my 2nd anniversary back at disney and I'd like to be at 160-170, a weight my husband may have briefly seen (although I was in scale denial back then) right when we first started dating.

I like to talk so here's some more. I'm not on any plan. WW didn't really work out so well for me and I'm a carboholic so anything getting rid of those is out. I went to some fitness website and calculated how many calories I'm supposed to eat every day to maintain my weight and got 2200-2500 depending on if I think I'm sedentary or slightly active. Does that even sound right? I'm loosely keeping track of calories and shooting for approx 1800/day. This past week I've averaged that with the exception of yesterday - didn't plan on having pizza for dinner so had a big lunch. Now I know we'll finish the pizza today so I'm having a nice veggie salad for lunch to make room for the pizza. Exercise is the devil. Well maybe not, but finding time to exercise certainly is. So along with eating my real challenge is fitting some walking in 3x a week.

Okay I've blabbed enough. Hopefully none of you have minded.

Hi Stephanie. I think alot of us can relate to your story. You could be my long lost twin.

I can eat pasta and potatoes for breakfast lunch and dinner. Diets failed me in the past because I was allowed to have them. I've been South Beaching it on and off for almost 2 years. The first seriously trip on it I lost 40. The only hard part was the first 2 weeks. I was literally detoxing, if that's a word, and once I got through the no bread, pasta, potatoes, I was ok. I still love them, but I know what they do to me and I try to stay far far away from them. I've gotten side tracked and went off the diet for awhile but when I came back, the first two weeks of phase 1 are almost easy. I guess because I got so used to not eating so much of these taboo foods, it didn't faze me this time. Hope that makes sense.

Exercise, I love to hate, but in the end, I love that I do it. Don't like it while doing it, but happy when it's over. It's so good for you and important that you do even some of it.

and here's to your success!!!!!

 

[monymony3471]

Oh BTW, there's a really fun riddle going on today.

saturdays riddle

Come on over and play!

 

[Minnie]

Good morning Peeps

Welcome Stephanie there is always room for another Peep!

All you SBDers I need some help. I'm still trying to stick with Ph1 but I'm so sick of eggs I simply can't do another week eating them for breakfast so I need some new ideas.

I'd love some apple/oatmeal which is my favorite winter breakfast but I've got another week to go yet before I get that.

Any ideas that are Ph1 friendly????????

Thanks Peeps!

 

[UtahMama]

Hi ladies (and 1 guy I think) Can I join the fun? I've been lurking and then read UMA's trip report and saw many of your comments there and I knew I wanted to join in on the fun.

I'm Stephanie and I have tons of weight to lose but I'm working with baby steps here. First goal is to lose 13 more lbs and get back under 200. Once there I get to pick a new color for my hair - wavering between something reddish or just getting highlights again, probably will depend on how close it is to our March trip cause I love highlights in my disney pics. Hopefully I'll lose a few more lbs before March - 190 would make me smile - so I dig out the summer clothes from 2 years ago and not have to buy new stuff for vacation. Fast forward to next Oct and my 2nd anniversary back at disney and I'd like to be at 160-170, a weight my husband may have briefly seen (although I was in scale denial back then) right when we first started dating.

I like to talk so here's some more. I'm not on any plan. WW didn't really work out so well for me and I'm a carboholic so anything getting rid of those is out. I went to some fitness website and calculated how many calories I'm supposed to eat every day to maintain my weight and got 2200-2500 depending on if I think I'm sedentary or slightly active. Does that even sound right? I'm loosely keeping track of calories and shooting for approx 1800/day. This past week I've averaged that with the exception of yesterday - didn't plan on having pizza for dinner so had a big lunch. Now I know we'll finish the pizza today so I'm having a nice veggie salad for lunch to make room for the pizza. Exercise is the devil. Well maybe not, but finding time to exercise certainly is. So along with eating my real challenge is fitting some walking in 3x a week.

Okay I've blabbed enough. Hopefully none of you have minded.

First of all, Mmmmmm PIZZA!!!!

Second of all, WELCOME!

WW didnt work for me ONLY because it wasn't free I hated paying when that week I didn't lose! Dumb, huh?

Stephanie, Your calorie number sounds pretty good to loose. My DH is always pointing out, excercise is key (Old School!) which is easy for him to point out!

You can do it!

Our diets on this thread may be different, but each of us is doing what we feel is best for us. We all seem to agree on drinking lots of water and getting in excercise 3 or more times a week. Both of those, when I started last week seemed like huge mountains (because they were in the past)but I enjoy doing them now just because its fun to for yourself her on this thread! I guess it's the reward mentality! I reeally want the 10# ribbon! I'll keep that in mind if I want to cheat this week!

 

[UtahMama]

Good morning Peeps

Welcome Stephanie there is always room for another Peep!

All you SBDers I need some help. I'm still trying to stick with Ph1 but I'm so sick of eggs I simply can't do another week eating them for breakfast so I need some new ideas.

I'd love some apple/oatmeal which is my favorite winter breakfast but I've got another week to go yet before I get that.

Any ideas that are Ph1 friendly????????

Thanks Peeps!

I was just going to be a smart alek and say scrambled egg, poached egg, hard boiled EGG....but I'm in the same egg boat. I'm eating turkey bacon with my EGG....I'm looking forward to phase 2...1 more week

eat a meat???

 

[monymony3471]

I remember I used to omit the eggs and cook up some canadian bacon, and drink tomatoe juice. Or just saute some veggies, like peppers, mushrooms, zuchinni, onions, and when done sprinkle with mozzerella cheese. I'd also eat some rolled up turkey with that.

It's tough I know. But it's only one more week!

What about some plain yogurt. You can flavor it with sf pudding mix right? or like the ricotta cheese thingy um was talking about. Couldn't you have that for breakfast?
Can we have cottage cheese on phase 1? There's an option.

 

[crazy4dizney]

Utha mama
"I see your drinking 1%, is that because you think your fat? You could be drinking whole milk if you wanted."




O.k not everyone will get it but, I think you will.....

 

[eeyore45]

Welcome Stephanie (insert page 2 graphics that cannot be displayed here )

I love to "talk" too - SURPRISED I'm sure!!

I think a lot of times I just need a place to "get it off my chest"... and I've found this to be a safe thread...

I've been on and off every diet I can... and I'm still adjusting. I agree with UTm post - and of course monymony hit the nail on the head - it aint easy -

I really admire the SB dieters posting their tips, their successes, as well as their frustrations - I'm also a carb loader, anytime I try to cut carbs, my body rebels big time (think dizzy enough to pass out!) part of it is sugar levels gone screwy, part of it is vertigo... but I cant argue with the science - too many carbs = excess fat. So I'm going healthy carbs - oatmeal instead of white flour (portion control) brown rice instead of white... and then there is our Thanksgiving, I am SO a picky eater btw... so I will just skip the potatoes and think... nothing taste as good as thin feels. and of course, I will just SUCK IT UP (and suck it in!!)

and most importantly, its easier said than done!! Anything worth having... I do believe in miracles...

and my scale still shows a 6# weight loss...

so as I sit here, I know I can raise my arms behind my back, and lift them slowly... and try closing them together, keep them up high... 50 times... dont overdue... then I'll get up and do the side whittlers... something is better than nothing... like it or not, it has to be done... so shall I say... so shall I DO!!

 

[honeymo78]

Thanks for the warm welcomes everyone

Its nice to see that even though we aren’t all on the same plan we can all still play nicely with each other and support each other.

Water has never been a problem for me. Water and I are good friends – ice is an even better friend but no one likes to hear me chomping on ice all day. And yes, I firmly believe that ice can be a snack. Half the time I only put food in my mouth to have something to chew on so ice, gum, whatever it makes no difference to me. I brought my CR mug to work with me and I try and fill it up at least 5 times and since I’m here 6 days a week it works pretty well. Plus I get to pretend I’m at CR and I’m actually filling it up with a coke slushie. (Yes I love coke the same way UMA loves Pepsi). I even chose Pop over ASMu because you can refill your mug with slushies there.

Since I have a feeling I’m going to be a slug when I get home tonight I’m going to take a 15-20 min walk while at work this afternoon. Hey, it’s better than not walking at all. I really should try and walk to the art museum but that might take longer than I’m planning.

And thanks to whoever kept mentioning musicals (I think it was this thread – I get confused easily). I’ve already listened to Pippin and Grease on my ipod.

Several pages back it looked like everyone was sharing pictures so I’ll share a few and give you some info on my weight yoyo. Since about 3rd grade I’ve been a big girl. I didn’t wear jeans in middle school or high school because I couldn’t buy them in the regular store. I learned about places like Lane Bryant and that the Gap carries larger jean sizes once I was in college. Fortunately I didn’t gain the freshman 15 so by soph year I was 170-180. Then I met my future DH who loves to eat and things went south from there on. Fast forward to my last year of law school and I’m now 230-240. When I finally saw a picture of what I looked like at an awards ceremony I freaked out. By May 2004 I was down to about 190 by walking almost everyday (I didn’t work fulltime so it was easy). Gained a bit back while studying for the bar exam but managed to end up at 195 for my wedding in 2005. Here is a lovely picture of us at the airport getting ready to head to Disneyworld for

After that I slipped back into old habits and ended up back around 220. At least I’ve made some progress from there. Here’s a picture from Feb when we were at Disneyworld with my mom. Yes I am still just a big kid.

Okay enough blabbing for now. I’m sure you know more about me than you ever planned on knowing. And I actually need to get some work done (that’s why its called work) if I expect to take a walk later today.

 

[Minnie]

Nice pics Stephanie - I really liked the one with Pooh

I spent some of this morning (between loads of laundry which will never end) searching for something other than eggs to eat for breakfast and I found a yummy one (I feel very full now and that is a big part).

Danish in a bowl:

In a microwave-safe bowl, thouroughly blend 1/2 cup low-fat or fat-free cottage cheese with 1 egg. Mix in 1 to 2 tsps. Splenda (or equivalent sweetness of another artificial sweetener), a dash of cinnamon, and a few drops of vanilla. Drop in a few slivers of no-trans-fat margerine, and a few small chunks of cream cheese substitute (if p1) or low-fat/fat-free cream cheese (if p2). Sprinkle top with a small amount of brown sugar substitute and 1 tsp. or so of chopped nuts (if you prefer). In phase 2, I also sprinkle the top with 1 tbsp. wheat bran for a little extra fiber.
Microwave until thoroughly set and bubbly (about 4 minutes in my microwave). Cool slightly and enjoy.

This was so yummy that I thought I was eating a very illegal carb. Now my substitution was ricotta (part skim) for the cottage cheese.

I used my hand blender (this is a SBDers friend - less than $10 at Shopko and makes this smooth as silk which ricotta really needs and a whole lot less cleanup than your regular blender). Use a deep bowl though!

After microwaving I topped this with a tiny bit of sf syrup and it was amazing! I got my stupid eggs in without tasting them!

I'm going to work with this to see how to make it get ready quick friendly