DISappearing Peeps...Vol. 3! All are Welcome!

[UGABelle]

FYI...I was on the tread mill for 2 hours last night during Biggest Loser (LOVE that show, I need a Jillian!) AND...I weight trained for 45 minutes. This little "friendly" (I mean "dirty") competition may be what the Dr. ordered for me!!!

I was just about to ask if anyone watched The Biggest Loser! It's not one of my normal shows, but I've gotten sucked in this season. Phil and Amy P live near me, so I was rooting for them, but now I'll have to find someone else!

Who do you want to win?

Oh, and I'm not sure I could handle a Jillian - I think all the yelling would get to me...

 

[DisneyLaura]

everyone - i may be MIA again for awhile. my computer CRASHED last night.

Sorry about your computer Dawn, I sure hope Ray can fix it for you. I know you have a lot of things on there for work.

I've got a serious case of the winter doldrums, and it is only October. It was too cold after supper to go for a walk, so I went down stairs to use my brother-in-law's elliptical machine that we are storing for him. I stopped after 5 minutes because I was too bored. Then I thought I'd hit my Bowflex machine to get some weight training in. I quit after two sets of the first exercise (bench press) because I was bored with that, too. Hopefully I'm just in a "blah" mood today, otherwise this is going to be an extremely long winter; and I'm a little afraid what is going to happen to my weight if this persists.

Aaron - What if you bought or borrowed from the library a new exercise tape or something? I know I am no one to talk about exercise because I have not exercised but I did by a tape that Gina suggested and it's still it the wrapper (not good) but this weekend I plan on trying it or I think maybe thursday night (tonight I have to work)

I started my diet today! For dinner I ate a ham and cheese omelet. I couldn't think of anything else. Tomorrow I am having blackened chicken salad. YUM!

Oh blackened chicken salad sounds yummy, care to share the recipe

Y'all...
My internet time has been very cut thanks to an agreement with DH. He thinks I'm addicted (probably! Grrrr!!!!) so to keep the peace I have to budget my time much better. I'm not gone-gone by any means. I think when the kids are at school and he's at work is a fair compromise.

I try just to DIS in the morning when the kids are at school and DH is at work because I was getting out of hand with constantly being on here, I wasn't keeping up with my mommy/wifely duties, like cleaning the house. So I understand. Now I just limit my time to right after the kids are in school (even though DD2 is still here she watches Play House Disney for awhile). This is my adult friend time here.

I fell on my ceremic tile floor earlier, and my left knee is killing me!

Hope your knee starts to feel better

And for you Wendy...

That looks SOOOOOOOO good. I haven't had that kind of pizza in years.

I think it borders on addictionif one would rather be on the internet than with one's kids/family/responsibilities. I'm a maybe there.

Me too, my house got out of control with laundry and cleaning but I'm back on track now.


Ok peeps - I'm doing well eating wise this week so hopefully Friday's weigh in will show it. But then again Saturday morning usually is more weight loss . Now that I have a scale I weigh myself several times a week just to be curious but always in the morning before I had any coffee. Today I get to go into school to volunteer at the kids' book fair. I'm going in today for a while for DS7 class and then tomorrow for DS9. They are really excited that I can come. I have to bring DD2 so hopefully with a stop for chicky nana's aka chicken nuggets and chocolate milk she'll sit in her stroller while I work the bookfair.

 

[LMO429]

Friday is the official start of the holiday season's (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, etc)

Other than the weekly weigh ins maybe we can think of something else to motivate us during the Holiday Season

Possible Example also posting on Fridays how many times we workout for the week to burn off those holiday treats...any other thoughts

 

[DisneyGalUK]

Hi Guys! I finally have time to catch up on everything...bear with me, its a long one!

Thanks to all for the good wishes on DDs surgery. She is devastated that she is going to miss indoor track, but she will survive. SHe is looking forward to starting physical therapy.

I am somewhat relieved that it is just a re-tear of the meniscus, as a mommy, I feared the worst. Good news for me is we get to visit her doctor more. Just found out the nurses around here call him "Dr. Adorable" behind his back .... and he is!

So glad everything went ok for your DD...and she gets her own McDreamy!

I've got a wake to go to this afternoon. A friend's dad died lat week and they are having a celebration of life today. It's so soon after loosing my MIL, I'm a bit concerned about how well DH is going to do. He's been having pretty severe panic attacks and he's really worried about how he's handling things. He saw one of his Drs on Thurs and I have to call in on Mon and talk about the situation. If is gets much worse, I'm afraid they may want to discuss inpatient care. That thought does nothing for my stress level.

For both you and your husband

I finally downloaded my Paris/Disneyland Paris pics. I'll post a few here soon. Disneyland Paris is just so beautiful. There are so many pics-I must have done nothing else while on vacation except point and click. I'll be scrapbooking that trip for a year.

I Disneyland Paris. Its only a couple of hours away from me (2 hours to get to London on the train, 1 hour from London-DP on the Eurostar) but we really dont take advantage of it! I think DP may be our next disney trip - its soooo expensive for us to do Florida!

Last night we went bowling, I drank waaaaayyy to much...at 3:30 in the morning I ate 3/4 a slice of pizza and cheese fries YUM!!!! I know so Bad!!! but they were so good!!!!!

I wish I had your willpower! I would have inhaled 3/4 of the full pizza without a second thought!

So far, so good, right? I go to bed around 11 Friday night, only to have the phone ring at 11:40. My mother has a live-in caregiver due to multiple health problems. The caregiver calls and tells me to get over there, because she is leaving. No explanation, no nothing. I grab a set of clean clothes, pull on my robe and slippers, grab the morning food from my Nutrisystem carton, and zip over there.

The house was an incredible mess. We could report the caregiver for elder abuse, because the house was a health hazard. Rotten food left on the stove, in the fridge, soiled Depends left on the floor, dirty dishes and half-drunk water bottles everywhere! To top it off, mom got sick to her stomach, either from the stress or food poisoning, so when I wasn't cleaning the other messes, I had to do 8 loads of laundry and bathe my mother repeatedly as well as clean up the cr@p that got everywhere.

Anyways, I have kept to the Nutrisystem. (yay me!) In a way, it's a blessing, because heaven knows what I would be eating if I hadn't already laid out the money for this (donuts and cheeseburgers come to mind). I found an agency to send a certified nursing assistant for this week, and then Mom is going to "test-drive" an assisted living facility. Please all send pixie dust that the facility works out for her.

OK, vent over. Sorry for the TMI, but I just had to have my pity party.

Oh my, that is awful. I would definately report the 'caregiver'.

everyone - i may be MIA again for awhile. my computer CRASHED last night. DH took it with him to work today to see if he could pull everything off my hard drive and reformat it (thank goodness he knows lots about computers!). so i'm dealing with that and will be for the next few days. i'm using his laptop right now. i have lots of sound files and very important documents on there from work so keep your fingers crossed for me! i was in tears last night but now i'm just hoping to salvage something. he did run a virus check on it last night and i had like 6 spyware/hijack viruses, which is very odd because i don't just click on any link like some people. i'm very selective about what i look at. this didn't happen until i clicked on a few things on facebook, so just beware for those of you who use it. i'm no longer clicking on ANY of those apps that people send you there. it's just too risky.

Oh no Dawn Im also really careful what I do and dont open from sites like Facebook - I learnt the hard way and had to have my computer fixed because I was getting spammed with....explicit material shall we say!

Morning all. I committed peepicide this weekend with the way I ate.

I've got a serious case of the winter doldrums, and it is only October. It was too cold after supper to go for a walk, so I went down stairs to use my brother-in-law's elliptical machine that we are storing for him. I stopped after 5 minutes because I was too bored. Then I thought I'd hit my Bowflex machine to get some weight training in. I quit after two sets of the first exercise (bench press) because I was bored with that, too. Hopefully I'm just in a "blah" mood today, otherwise this is going to be an extremely long winter; and I'm a little afraid what is going to happen to my weight if this persists.

I totally blame the weather! Its freezing here now and all I want to do is sit on the sofa with my PJ's on drinking hot chocolate Im really forcing myself to do the exercise! Have a cheerleader!

This thought process controlled my life for years, I still deal with it here and there but I would say I am conquering it. I just realized one day that this "way" of thinking was sabtoging EVERYTHING and I was not fully enjoying my life because I kept looking to tomorrow for things to be "perfect". I would tell friends I could not go out on a Sat Night because I felt "fat" and then I would tell myself I would start on Monday..For me Monday never came, the party that I was going to look hot for because I dropped weight would come and go, the summer would be here and I would feel uncomfortable in a bathing suit.... when I finally accepted that there are no quick fixes, that I was NOT going to lose 20 pounds in a month but rather just ate healthy and exercised and made it a lifestyle change something I could deal with EVERYDAY for the rest of my life than the weight started to melt off.

instead of saying "ill start when my friends leave after the weekend" why not start today eat good all week, exercise and then YES indulge while your friends are here for the weekend and then Monday get back on track. I find if I am consistent 90% of the time and go off track here and there its ok. I went off the deep end on my honeymoon I got right back on track the second the plane landed and today I weigh only a pound more than my wedding day.

Im glad it's starting to just "click" for me.... Im not saying Im perfect Im just saying once I adjusted my mental attitude about food, social events and not being perfect I started to obtain my goals.

even this weekend I ate drank like a fish, ate wings and for once enjoyed myself while I was out with friends and ate bad foods instead of eating the salad because "i was on a diet!" and then monday I was back in the gym and eating right.

I use to sabotage myself with that same situation I would go out with friends eat bad and then say oh well I might as well start on Nov 1st (new month) and then I would have gained in more weight in the process.

anyway I hope this makes sense didnt drink my coffee yet. good luck everyone you can do it!

So wise Lauren! Ive read this over and over, its so true!

Sorry I've been MIA. I've been busy! So the race is on? All right! I would be stretching right now in preparation, but I fell on my ceremic tile floor earlier, and my left knee is killing me!

Hope the knees feeling ok!

Ooh, you ladies fight dirrrrrty! That pizza looks soooooo good!

Hope everyones having a great day!
to anyone Ive missed.

 

[WI_DisneyFan]

Aaron - What if you bought or borrowed from the library a new exercise tape or something? I know I am no one to talk about exercise because I have not exercised but I did by a tape that Gina suggested and it's still it the wrapper (not good) but this weekend I plan on trying it or I think maybe thursday night (tonight I have to work)

That is a GREAT idea! I tend to get bored with the exercise tapes/DVDs pretty quickly, so getting one from the library would be perfect because I keep it for 2-4 weeks, then return it and get a different one. Hmmm, I think I know where I'll be heading this weekend!

All right, here's the update on our Halloween challenge. This is the last week, so good luck to all of those still participating. And as always, let me know if I missed or misquoted you...

Also, if anybody is interested in joining me, I'm setting my next goal date for Christmas. I'm not going to be too agressive because of the holidays and what they entail, so I'm just hoping to get below 155, which would be three stinkin' pounds based on last Friday. Let me know if you want to join me in shooting for a goal by Christmas.

Finally, I need a little Peepish advice. We recently went though a major upgrade project at work that made us all work extra hours; so for a "thanks" my boss's boss is taking us all out for lunch in a few weeks. And he needs to know ahead of time what we'd like to eat. Below is a link to the menu. Because we are ordering ahead of time, I'm not sure what sort of requests he can make (i.e. no mayo); so based strictly on the menu description, and keeping in mind that I don't like 'shrooms or brocolini, what wouldn't kill my diet? Thanks in advance for the help!

http://www.destinationkohler.com/restaurants/bwr_lunchmenu.html

 

[UGABelle]

Hey everyone!

My Disney trip is rapidly approaching, and I wanted to see if you all could help me out...

I haven't been to Disney in over six years and my DH hasn't been since he was little.

We will be there for six days (Nov. 9 - 15) and have park hoppers. We're staying at POFQ and have plans to eat at the following TS:

Lunch @ LTT
Breakfast @ CP
Lunch @ Kona
Dinner @ Le Cellier
Lunch or Dinner @ Beaches and Cream (depending on which works better)

I've planned most of our vacation, but I wanted to ask if there was any advice you had for me. Even though I'd love to go every year (or more!) this will probably be our only Disney trip for a while...unless DH gets bit by the Disney bug so I want to make the most of it!

Let me know what we must eat, see or do or any tips you've got for me!

 

[lovealldisney]

Aaron,
Put me down for the challenge! I would like to lose at least 5lbs. I haven't been very good lately, I can't wait until my DD is done with b-ball and my son is done with drivers ed! I haven't been eating or exercising like I should! So I haven't been around much but come November I hope to get back on track.

 

[lovealldisney]

Aaron,
Ok I looked at the menu and I would go with either this:

Rockshrimp-Crusted Pollock Filet
citrus rice, corn relish and broccolini,
honey remoulade sauce


Or this:


Curried Chicken Salad Wrap
oven-roasted chicken breast,
celery, scallions, pecans, sun-dried tomato, low-fat mayonnaise
served on an herb-garlic tortilla


Or this:
Teriyaki Vegetable Salad
mixed greens, sugar snap peas, baby corn,
water chestnuts, cherry tomatoes,
crispy noodles in a ginger teriyaki vinaigrette

I would see if they could add maybe some grilled chicken with this????

 

[Pakey]

Aaron:

I'm in for 10. Kat, I want you to join me in this challenge. Cmon, we can do this together. I'm eating my dreaded oatmeal as I type this.


Kelly, I'm so jealous that you are only one hour from Disneyland Paris. OMG. I just loved it there. I am 4 hours from Disneyland and never go there as I don't care for it. We go to WDW 2-3 times a year. And I thought it was the greatest place on earth until I spent those 3 days at Disneyland Paris. It's somewhat embarrassing when people ask what I liked best about Paris and I say Disneyland.

UGABelle, best advice is to have fun! Make sure you take some relaxing time while you are there. My husband and all 3 of my grown sons hate the madness of rope drop and hustling from ride to ride.

Wendy, how's the reduced computer time going? You know, a laptop in the bathroom works well for me. I've gotten good enough that I don't even have to turn the light on anymore.

 

[katiebug86]

Oh blackened chicken salad sounds yummy, care to share the recipe

The way I make it is I just take chicken breast and sprinkle Tony Chachere's on it. Then fry it in light butter. Then you cut up the chicken and put it in a salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. I eat it with light ranch. It is yummy.

 

[MA pigletfan]

Dangit Aaron..you are just so persuasive with your fun chart that i am going for it...count me in for 7 lbs for the Christmas Challenge! I imagine it will begin with the first weigh in next week? i am hoping for a loss this week though to give me some confidence!
( by the way i learned those tiny tiny mini twix have 80 cals in them each!!! YIKES!

 

[HockeyKat]

That is a GREAT idea! I tend to get bored with the exercise tapes/DVDs pretty quickly, so getting one from the library would be perfect because I keep it for 2-4 weeks, then return it and get a different one. Hmmm, I think I know where I'll be heading this weekend!

All right, here's the update on our Halloween challenge. This is the last week, so good luck to all of those still participating. And as always, let me know if I missed or misquoted you...

Also, if anybody is interested in joining me, I'm setting my next goal date for Christmas. I'm not going to be too agressive because of the holidays and what they entail, so I'm just hoping to get below 155, which would be three stinkin' pounds based on last Friday. Let me know if you want to join me in shooting for a goal by Christmas.

Finally, I need a little Peepish advice. We recently went though a major upgrade project at work that made us all work extra hours; so for a "thanks" my boss's boss is taking us all out for lunch in a few weeks. And he needs to know ahead of time what we'd like to eat. Below is a link to the menu. Because we are ordering ahead of time, I'm not sure what sort of requests he can make (i.e. no mayo); so based strictly on the menu description, and keeping in mind that I don't like 'shrooms or brocolini, what wouldn't kill my diet? Thanks in advance for the help!

http://www.destinationkohler.com/restaurants/bwr_lunchmenu.html

I would get this (with fresh vegetables and dip):

Curried Chicken Salad Wrap
oven-roasted chicken breast,
celery, scallions, pecans, sun-dried tomato, low-fat mayonnaise
served on an herb-garlic tortilla

Aaron:

I'm in for 10. Kat, I want you to join me in this challenge. Cmon, we can do this together. I'm eating my dreaded oatmeal as I type this.

I'm in for 5. Going to count it from the Friday, Nov 7th weigh in. Hoping for more.

 

[mommaU4]

Also, if anybody is interested in joining me, I'm setting my next goal date for Christmas. I'm not going to be too agressive because of the holidays and what they entail, so I'm just hoping to get below 155, which would be three stinkin' pounds based on last Friday. Let me know if you want to join me in shooting for a goal by Christmas.

Aaron, I'd be interested in a Christmas challenge. Put me down for 15 lbs. since I must be a glutten for punishment. Should be a piece of cake (no, no cake!) to lose 15 lbs with Halloween, Thanksgiving, 2 birthdays, a day at Disneyland, and all that Christmas baking. But I'll try my best!!!

Looks like I am not going to make my Halloween goal. Close, but no cigar. Which is ok seeing as how along the way I had a week at Disney which totally threw me off.

I think it's great you are working at planning out your meal ahead of time and making the best choice possible. Times like that, I'd just say, "Whoo hoo, cheat time!" and order any old thing.
I am very impressed. And so jealous of your willpower!!

Thanks again for keeping track of all these challenges. And I hope everyone here is doing GREAT!!! Hang in there!!!! Don't give in to those small, evil bite me sized candies!

 

[katiebug86]

Aaron will you put me down for 10 pounds for the Christmas challenge. Thanks!!

 

[pixie dust 112]

Aaron, put me down for 5 please. With luck it will be lots more, but don;t want to be an over-achiever with the holidays!

I'd probably go with the teriyaki salad. That restaurant sure likes to serve bacon with everything, don't they?

 

[LMO429]

Hey Aaron! Please put me down for 4 pounds!!

 

[dwheatl]

dwheat how awful about the so called caregiver for your mom. wish i were closer.... i would take care of her for you. I agree that you should report her. Did you hire her from an agency?

We are not reporting her. She was not hired from an agency, she was someone my mom hired through a friend of a friend. some of you may remember that my mom's previous caregiver walked off with a big chunk of my mom's money. that we did report, the woman served jail time, and also is paying back in small installments. It has been such an ordeal, though, and has gone on for years. I don't think any of us has the energy to fight on this one, and because she wasn't through an agency and isn't licensed, she didn't steal anything or use physical violence, I don't know how far it would go. My sister and I did tell mom that we insist she either go to assisted living, where the workers are licensed and supervised, or get a certified nursing assistant full-time. I think mom will pick the assisted living (cross your fingers) because the CNAs are a minimum of $275 a day.

Ok peeps - I'm doing well eating wise this week so hopefully Friday's weigh in will show it. But then again Saturday morning usually is more weight loss . Now that I have a scale I weigh myself several times a week just to be curious but always in the morning before I had any coffee. Today I get to go into school to volunteer at the kids' book fair. I'm going in today for a while for DS7 class and then tomorrow for DS9. They are really excited that I can come. I have to bring DD2 so hopefully with a stop for chicky nana's aka chicken nuggets and chocolate milk she'll sit in her stroller while I work the bookfair.

Yay, I love the book fair moms. At one of my schools the media clerk and I had to run it ourselves with no volunteers. It was exhausting trying to do that and teach at the same time. Good luck with the sales, and stay away from the chicky nanas.

Also, if anybody is interested in joining me, I'm setting my next goal date for Christmas. I'm not going to be too agressive because of the holidays and what they entail, so I'm just hoping to get below 155, which would be three stinkin' pounds based on last Friday. Let me know if you want to join me in shooting for a goal by Christmas.

Finally, I need a little Peepish advice. We recently went though a major upgrade project at work that made us all work extra hours; so for a "thanks" my boss's boss is taking us all out for lunch in a few weeks. And he needs to know ahead of time what we'd like to eat. Below is a link to the menu. Because we are ordering ahead of time, I'm not sure what sort of requests he can make (i.e. no mayo); so based strictly on the menu description, and keeping in mind that I don't like 'shrooms or brocolini, what wouldn't kill my diet? Thanks in advance for the help!

http://www.destinationkohler.com/restaurants/bwr_lunchmenu.html

OK, put me down for 7 lbs. I went back and forth in my mind between 5 & 10 lbs., so here's the compromise.
I thought the walleye sandwich sounded pretty healthy, and would give you some protein so you don't succumb later. Not everyone is a fish eater, though.

 

[LMO429]

It's official I no longer have to do modified push-ups!!! I can do the real deal military style ones now

 

[MA pigletfan]

It's official I no longer have to do modified push-ups!!! I can do the real deal military style ones now

thats awesome...i need to add those to my workout..i have NO upperbody strength right now!

OK peeps..I COMMITED PEEPICIDE last night! I did great throughtout the day with eating then i went to dinner with Greg and his brother and had mexican food!!! I had shrimp fajitas..super yummy but i know they were loaded with salt and probably hidden fat ( from oils)...so mad. so of course i did a pre weigh and itw as NOT GOOD! AF is also here so that might play a bit part..but still...i am all about water and caffeine free tea and good eatin' today hoping for at least a samer or small loss!
I think i will be ordering turbo jam today after all...i can't take these weird short workouts on demand all the time..i need something more consistent to see results....so i think i will do the gym at least 3 days ( long walks/weights) and work out at home for the other 3-4 days...HOPEFULLY i can resist eating peep sabotaging food..that is def. my downfall in weightloss..my mouth!!!

 

[LMO429]

thats awesome...i need to add those to my workout..i have NO upperbody strength right now!

OK peeps..I COMMITED PEEPICIDE last night! I did great throughtout the day with eating then i went to dinner with Greg and his brother and had mexican food!!! I had shrimp fajitas..super yummy but i know they were loaded with salt and probably hidden fat ( from oils)...so mad. so of course i did a pre weigh and itw as NOT GOOD! AF is also here so that might play a bit part..but still...i am all about water and caffeine free tea and good eatin' today hoping for at least a samer or small loss!
I think i will be ordering turbo jam today after all...i can't take these weird short workouts on demand all the time..i need something more consistent to see results....so i think i will do the gym at least 3 days ( long walks/weights) and work out at home for the other 3-4 days...HOPEFULLY i can resist eating peep sabotaging food..that is def. my downfall in weightloss..my mouth!!!

Turbo Jam Rocks! You will love it, I also suggest buying Jillian Michaels "the biggest winner" its a 5 disk set and I have seen some serious results from it (ex, I can do full push ups now)

Have you considered joining weight watchers..I do it online and it helped me incorporate eating "peep sabotaging foods" while I also lost weight.