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

[pjlla]

I just want to get back and say thanks to everyone who took the time to comment on my post about wanting more info on the Slimquick and about being hungry. Let me clarify....

I have lost a considerable amount of weight already on my own, using the WW plan.... 51 pounds last year, 70 pounds overall. I am pretty sure that I know how to use the WW plan to my best advantage and I am, overall, a pretty healthy eater. But there are days where perhaps I didn't use my points to my best advantage and I end up hungry with little/no points left. It doesn't "kill" me to go to bed hungry (or to have a few hungry hours in a day), but sometimes I do wonder how I will do this FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!! (And yes, I do try to fill up on 0 point foods if I run out of points.)

I never have taken anything to help with the weight loss and for the record, there are many things that I would never take. But if there is possibly something non-chemical, non-addicting, non-caffeine that could help me on some of my hungrier days, I would give it a try. PLus, as someone else mentioned, as you get closer to your goal weight (and as I age), the weight loss seems to slow down. I have about 19 pounds to get to my goal and I am NOT going to give up now, but things have been slow.

I am definitely not looking for a "miracle-in-a-bottle" or a quick fix. I know that NO MATTER what "supplement" you take, it still comes down to less calories in than burned, healthy eating, and regular exercise to lose weight and keep it off.

Again... a sincere thanks to all who replied. I know that you are looking out for my health and well-being and I appreciate it....................P

 

[DisneyGalUK]

just posting my total calorie count for yesterday (keeping myself accountable!)

breakfast:
oatmeal~170
2 cups coffee~10
creamer x 3~75

lunch:
chips/salsa~165
grilled chicken (4 oz.)~250
veggies (onions/peppers/tomatoes)~85
cheese~100

snack:
apple~70

dinner:
quesadilla~320
V-8 corn chowder~150

snack:
yogurt~60

TOTAL: 1455 calories

ray made these awesome quesadillas for dinner. he used whole wheat tortillas (and no butter on mine when he fried it), cheddar cheese, a little bit of chopped up bacon, chopped tomatoes and chopped red onion. then i dipped mine in a little bit of BBQ sauce. it was good!

Dawn - Do you make your own Salsa? I chips and salsa but some of the Salsa I get over here is quite high in points so I just wondered if you made your own or could recommend a brand?

 

[LMO429]

Dawn I think I am going to post calorie counts as well, I think this is a good idea it will keep us all accountable and maybe we could all get some other ideas on what to eat for meals I know sometimes I eat the same things often.

Here is mine for yesterday

Before Working out: 1/2 Banana 60 Coffee black 10
Breakfast Kashi Might Bite Cereal 120 1/2 Banana 60 + skim milk 80

Snack: String Cheese 80

Lunch whole wheat bread (240) with ham (60) /swiss (90)

Snack fiber one english muffin with peanut butter 100 +90

Dinner 6 inch subway turkey sandwich + apple package 290 + 40 (have class tuesday nights so I usually get subway on tues so I can eat it in class)

I drank 8 glasses of water

my total calories for the day was 1320.....I'm trying that goal weight X 12 I ate hundred calories less than I wanted to put overall i did very well yesterday

As far as workign out goes I did Jillian Michaels Shape Up 30 mins+ turbo Jams 20 minute cardio workout

 

[mousehouselover]

I would love to hear more about the Slimquick and other things like that (although don't tell my mother!). I am so tired of going to bed hungry! And after a full year on Weight Watchers you would think that I would be used to it, but I am not..... some days I am just HUNGRY! (Truly hungry, stomach growling... not just "bored-and-want-to-eat-for-entertainment" hungry.)

I try so hard to make good food choices that are filling and lower points, but some days it is hard! Somedays I feel like I make all good choices... lots of fruit, veggies, and low point protein, and I am STILL hungry! If there were something out there to help at least a little bit with the appetite suppression, maybe it would help. Anyone else try any of these things?? I am NOT looking for a quick fix or a miracle "eat everything you want and lose 50 pounds" drug... just something to keep me from being hungry sometimes.........................P

I hate being hungry too. It's just not a lot of fun. I know I can have a soup and salad for no points but it just gets old after a while. I try to keep WW or Fiber One yogurt in the house. I have one of those when I'm hungry at night. The combination of dairy and fiber usually gets me through to bed time.

As far as WW, I don't go hungry and I get 20 points. I eat about every 2 hours, I just eat mostly fruits and veggies (1 or 0 points) so I can eat a lot! LOL. My big screw up right now is no exercise and cheating on the weekends.

I've been eating 1 and 2 pt foods as snacks 2-3 times a day between meals so I don't feel really hungry. Are you sure about just getting 20 pts though? I thought I only got 20 but going by the new guidelines, I get 26. I very rarely go over 23 but just knowing I have the extra pts really helps me not go crazy and I'm not nearly so hard on myself anymore. I do 'cheat' on the weekends but I've been trying to log it in my food diary and even though I don't always succed, I'm trying to limit it to 1 meal rather than a whole day or the entire weekend.

I'm still here and doing really well this week. I've been doing interval training at least once a day, sometimes 2 so I know I'm really boosting my metabolism. Hopefully I can keep at this and not get too discouraged because it's kind of slow going. I'm getting tired of losing the same 5-10 lbs and not making a lot of progress.

One more day to weigh in! Don't sabatoge yourselves today!

 

[pjlla]

How is everyone doing? Ready for the scales tomorrow?? Eat well today... it will be SO worth it tomorrow!.........................P

 

[Disneyfreak92]

Dawn - Do you make your own Salsa? I chips and salsa but some of the Salsa I get over here is quite high in points so I just wondered if you made your own or could recommend a brand?

I don't know if you like black beans and corn or not, but I use Newman's Own Black Bean & Corn salsa a lot. I LOVE it! I'm out right now, and I had some avocado in the fridge that needed to be used, so I chopped some up into the salsa we had on hand (Chi-Chi's, I think), and I was surprised at how yummy it was too.

Dawn I think I am going to post calorie counts as well, I think this is a good idea it will keep us all accountable and maybe we could all get some other ideas on what to eat for meals I know sometimes I eat the same things often.

Here is mine for yesterday

Before Working out: 1/2 Banana 60 Coffee black 10
Breakfast Kashi Might Bite Cereal 120 1/2 Banana 60 + skim milk 80

Snack: String Cheese 80

Lunch whole wheat bread (240) with ham (60) /swiss (90)

Snack fiber one english muffin with peanut butter 100 +90

Dinner 6 inch subway turkey sandwich + apple package 290 + 40 (have class tuesday nights so I usually get subway on tues so I can eat it in class)

I drank 8 glasses of water

my total calories for the day was 1320.....I'm trying that goal weight X 12 I ate hundred calories less than I wanted to put overall i did very well yesterday

As far as workign out goes I did Jillian Michaels Shape Up 30 mins+ turbo Jams 20 minute cardio workout

Several of us used to do this daily, and I was SO good about it. (Posting the daily intake, that is.) I don't know if I can get back into it or not. I log everything into Sparkpeople now, and it feels like doubling that effort, and I used to feel so bad if I missed posting here. I think it's a great way to stay accountable and share ideas though. I might give it a try again.

 

[punkin413]

Dawn - Do you make your own Salsa? I chips and salsa but some of the Salsa I get over here is quite high in points so I just wondered if you made your own or could recommend a brand?

i have made my own salsa in the past but i usually don't. i wonder why the salsa is high in points? probably because of the sodium count. chips and salsa are my comfort food so i eat them alot. the chips part is what gets me! but i try to keep them to a minimum. most of the salsa around here is only about 10 calories per 2 tablespoons. there's no way i measure it correctly but i eat more salsa than chip, if that makes sense. i try to keep my chip count to about 5 per meal so that i don't kill my calorie count for the day.

here's my calories from yesterday.

breakfast:
coffee~5
creamer x 2~50
oatmeal~170

snack:
vanilla yogurt raisins~120

lunch:
chips/salsa (again!)~165
diet salad (see below for explanation if you're curious)~290

snack:
cheddar quakes~80

dinner:
smart ones rigatoni~320
extra spaghetti sauce~35
parmesean cheese~30

also had an extra cup of coffee (with creamer) last night as i had typing to do and i was sleepy~55

total calorie count~1320

so i wanted to share with you what the diet salad was. there's a mexican place near my office that has what's called a diet salad. basically it's lettuce, onions, peppers, mushrooms and tomatoes and grilled chicken. i poor salsa on top and it's REALLY GOOD. i didn't mean to have mexican for lunch 2 days in a row but i had a deposition yesterday that they need tomorrow (which is always stressful) and i needed my mexican comfort food. at least i kept it semi-healthy!

i have a dentist appointment today with an oral surgeon to look at my wisdom teeth. i want to get these suckers pulled SOON!!!!!! so wish me luck. i hate the dentist.

 

[Disneyfreak92]

How is everyone doing? Ready for the scales tomorrow?? Eat well today... it will be SO worth it tomorrow!.........................P

I'm excited about weigh in day actually! I did my sneak peek on Tuesday, and the number wasn't that exciting, but it was in the right direction, and I've been REALLY good, so I'm hoping for a good number. I need it if I'm gonna make my St. Patty's Day goal. I can't wait to see how I did!

 

[LMO429]

Here is yesterday's food log

B: Might bite cereal skim milk and banana

s string cheese

L turkey sandwich on whole wheat

s oatmeal 6 almonds

d spicy tuna roll 1/2 cup edamame green salad

Working out Wise I did Jillian Michaels Shape Up Back + turbo jams cardio party remix

 

[Disneyfreak92]

All right, I'm gonna give this a shot. Here's yesterday's food...

Breakfast:

maple brown sugar oatmeal, Quaker Weight Control (160) with 1/4 cup milk, wheat germ & milled flax seed added (81)

Snacks:

1/2 cranberry flax seed cookie (40)
Activia Fiber peaches & cereal yogurt (110)
slice of Papa Murphy's cheese delite pizza (131)

Lunch:

Manwich made with ground turkey (218) on 1 slice Healthy Life light bread w/flax (40) with a Kraft FF single (25)
baby carrots (38) with red-pepper hummus (50)

Snacks:

1/2 piece of rugala - never had it & someone brought it into work so I HAD to taste it (85)
2 Hershey's kisses (50)
banana (125)

Dinner:

6 california rolls (181) with soy sauce (30)
zucchini (29) with 2 tbsp light ranch dressing (70)
peach (42) with splenda brown sugar (40)

Snack: Skinny Cow vanilla "Dipper" (80)

TOTAL: 1625 calories

Drank about 100 oz. of water

walked for 30 minutes at lunch and did 35 min. on the treadmill & 25 min. on the bike when I got home

 

[punkin413]

does sweeping and mopping my laundry room and kitchen floor and doing laundry count as working out?

 

[HockeyKat]

I'll post food too. Although it is cut-and-paste cheating from elsewhere...

Today:

B: 1/2 cup Fiber One + 1/4 cup milk (80), coffee
L: Salad (45), 2 cups v8 garden broccoli soup (160), apple (60), 1/2 piece of wee chocolate (25) = 290
D: 1/2 eggplant pizza w/ bacon bits, chopped mushrooms, red onion (150), 1 bag popcorn (200), 1/2 cup no sugar added vanilla ice cream + 1 crushed thin mint + 2 tbsp ff whipped cream (135) = 485

Total, 855 (yikes, need to eat more). Water, 96 oz. Exercise, 45 min kickboxing class.

 

[DisneyLaura]

How is everyone doing? Ready for the scales tomorrow?? Eat well today... it will be SO worth it tomorrow!.........................P

I'm ready, my post is below

i have a dentist appointment today with an oral surgeon to look at my wisdom teeth. i want to get these suckers pulled SOON!!!!!! so wish me luck. i hate the dentist.

Hope the dentist went well

does sweeping and mopping my laundry room and kitchen floor and doing laundry count as working out?

Yes it does


Ok my weigh in for the week -2.8 lb I'm very happy about that because that's what I gained last week when AF was coming, so now I'm back to where I started.

I also have to share that it's going to be almost 50 today, 61 tomorrow YEAH, spring is coming.

I was wondering, I'm not a breakfast person at all but I see a lot of you eat oatmeal for breakfast. Which kind do you buy and do you just add water or milk in yours? I need to start eating breakfast instead of just coffee.

 

[pjlla]

I am frustrated to report that I am a SAMER..... which is very unusual for me. I usually have a stinky week and gain a little.... or a good or even just okay week and lose at least a little.

I ate well, journaled all my food, exercised three times (I know it should be more, but at least I did some) and AF is on her way out the door, so I really expected a loss.... but I will try not to get discouraged and I will look forward to a good showing next week!

Hope everyone else does better than me!!....................P

 

[DisneyGalUK]

Good Morning

I am +0.5lbs which I am happy with. I haven't been able to exercise due to an ear infection and dizzy spells and I had bad eating days on Tuesday & Wednesday!

Good Luck everyone!

 

[::Snow_White::]

Yikes. Good Morning!
This week has been crazy! The weekend was horrible horrible for food. Monday I was really sick and could hardly move, I was basically sleeping on the bathroom floor just in case. I didn't eat hardly anything that day. The next day I went back to school and had a headache but felt better, still ate bad. Wednesday was better, but not the best. Yesterday was alright, but me and another girl placed at a poetry contest so our teacher bought everyone ice cream. And still...

I'm -1!
I don't know how that even happened.
So I'm back on schedule today, going to exercise afterschool and crossing my fingers I don't get sick again! Hopefully going shopping this weekend because I almost have no summer clothes. (That being a good thing, but also bad. )

Have a great day everyone!

 

[DisneyLaura]

I am frustrated to report that I am a SAMER..... which is very unusual for me. I usually have a stinky week and gain a little.... or a good or even just okay week and lose at least a little.

I ate well, journaled all my food, exercised three times (I know it should be more, but at least I did some) and AF is on her way out the door, so I really expected a loss.... but I will try not to get discouraged and I will look forward to a good showing next week!

Hope everyone else does better than me!!....................P

Next week it your week

Good Morning

I am +0.5lbs which I am happy with. I haven't been able to exercise due to an ear infection and dizzy spells and I had bad eating days on Tuesday & Wednesday!

Good Luck everyone!

Feel better

Yikes. Good Morning!
This week has been crazy! The weekend was horrible horrible for food. Monday I was really sick and could hardly move, I was basically sleeping on the bathroom floor just in case. I didn't eat hardly anything that day. The next day I went back to school and had a headache but felt better, still ate bad. Wednesday was better, but not the best. Yesterday was alright, but me and another girl placed at a poetry contest so our teacher bought everyone ice cream. And still...

I'm -1!
I don't know how that even happened.
So I'm back on schedule today, going to exercise afterschool and crossing my fingers I don't get sick again! Hopefully going shopping this weekend because I almost have no summer clothes. (That being a good thing, but also bad. )

Have a great day everyone!

Glad to hear you're feeling better

 

[my2boysrtwicethefun]

I'm +1.5 lbs this week. Maybe after next week my numbers will get better. I only have 1 week of classes left & then my time will be occupied by ob clinicals and my nursing preceptorship. I'm sooooooo excited. Finally, after 3+ years, it's nearly over. Yay!

 

[UGABelle]

Hi Peeps -

I am -0.5 this week. Again, hoping for a bit more, but I'm doing okay.

I didn't get to work out yesterday because of an inpromptu birthday party for a friend, but atleast I didn't sabotage my diet.

Spring weather is here I just hope it stays - once I start wearing flip-flops it's hard to stop! It seems crazy it will be in the 70's this weekend, since I was off work on Monday for a snow day!!

Hope everyone has a great weekend. We're headed to the Billy Joel/Elton John concert tomorrow. I got tickets for Christmas and COULD NOT BE MORE EXCITED!

 

[mousehouselover]

I wound up -0.2 lbs for the week. I lost a lot of ground last weekend so I'm not at all surprised.

Dawn~ I hope you made it through the dentist ok. I had my wisdom teeth out last fall. I opted to stay awake but don't recommend it unless you know what to expect. I had two really impacted teeth and he had to break them up to get them out. It was loud, there was a lot of pressure and discomfort, and even though I'd assisted with dental extractions at the vet's office and knew what to expect, I was still anxious and uncomfortable.

Yesterdays food:
B- Eng muffin w/ 1T peanut butter, fiber one yogurt, small apple
s- banana, fiber one bar
L- Smart Ones pot roast dinner, progresso soup, 1 c cauliflower, salad
s- oatmeal raisin cookie, grapefruit
D- Healthy Choice roasted turkey breast meal with sweet potatos, green beans and apple crisp

I only had 21 pts for the day and felt satisfied. I still need to get 3 servings of dairy on a regular basis but I do really well with my fruits and veggies.