~DISappearing PEEPS~Vol. IV Come Play With Us!!!!!

[DisneyObsession]

Hi Peeps!

I've been lurking lately, as I'm a little embarrassed coming back again. It's probably been at least a year since I've posted, but I feel like it's time to come back for the support and friendship you all offer.

My weight is almost at my all time high and I am diligently working on it. I'd like to lose 15lbs by June 6th, which is when my vacation starts. (Unfortunately NOT at Disney, but in Washington State to visit my DD & SIL.) I've re-joined Weight Watchers and have been exercising, so I know I am on the right track.

Shannon..I understand the binging...I do it too. I'll purposely buy a food I like, knowing I will eat it ALL in a short amount of time. I then feel lousy and guilty and wonder why I do this to myself. I have realized, for me, it's a self-esteem issue....when I am feeling worthless, fat, unappreciated, unloved....I binge. I am trying to do something for me at those times instead of filling the void with food...exercise, take time to read a book...you get the idea. I say all this to reassure you that your not alone in this.

It's good to be back!

 

[Wonders10]

Okay Peeps, this is the week I'm going to start turning things around. I've got lots of yummy and good for me breakfasts, lunches and dinners planned plus snacks. I've written out a meal plan for the week with everything listed and their WW points.I'd love to lose maybe 5 lbs in the next 2 weeks which I think is possible considering how bloated I feel. In Disney, I know my activity will be up, but my mom and I both want to not eat as badly as we usually do. Sharing meals or splitting an order of fries, that sort of thing.

I also purchased a book on my Kindle called "50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food". The title sounds so cheesy. I've only read the intro but just reading that, the book could have been called, "Shannon, here are 50 Ways...". My plan is to read some of the book when I start feeling the need to eat (unnecessarily eat).

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend! I got so much done around the house. Starting to make my lists for Disney - we're leaving in 2 weeks!

 

[DisneyObsession]

OH Shannon! I am so jealous!!! I sooo wish I was going to Disney in 2 weeks! I am going to follow your example and plan the week with food & WW points so I am prepared. We Can Do This!

 

[Wonders10]

I'm on a roll! After putting ginormous amounts of laundry away and chilling out, I then did 2 miles with Leslie Sansone and her Walking DVD! I'm not going to lie - I'm pathetically out of shape, but I did it! I'm really going to try to keep that up this week (the exercise part). I know working out will help to increase my weight loss and the sooner I see results, the more motivated I think I'll be to stick with it.

 

[HockeyKat]

I'm on a roll! After putting ginormous amounts of laundry away and chilling out, I then did 2 miles with Leslie Sansone and her Walking DVD! I'm not going to lie - I'm pathetically out of shape, but I did it! I'm really going to try to keep that up this week (the exercise part). I know working out will help to increase my weight loss and the sooner I see results, the more motivated I think I'll be to stick with it.

I also find that working out keeps me honest somehow. It's like, I did all of that (whatever it is) so I am not going to blow it by eating bad.

For some I have read that it tends to be, "I worked out so therefore I can eat whatever I want," but it has an opposite effect on me.

I thought of you this morning for a breakfast idea! I took a microwaveable bowl and sprayed with cooking sprady. In it I put 1/2 cup better'n'eggs, 1 tbsp Hormel Bacon Pieces (found next to salad dressings), and a sprinkle of chopped red onion. Nuked for 1 min on high, stirred, nuked another min on high, then added to a High Fiber Extreme Wellness Wheat Tortilla (found at Walmart, 71 cals and 8g protein) with a sparing sprinkle of 2% shredded sharp cheddar.

About 160 cals, a whopping 23g protein, 12g fiber, and fast and yummy!! Could totally be eaten on the go.


End of week 1 of my training plan for the May 15th Historic Half! I managed 11.4 miles total (3, 4, 4.4) and kept up the 1min run, 1min walk intervals for probablyh 10 of those miles. 1 hour hockey and 1 hour water aerobics, for cross-training, and stuck between 1200-1400 calories each day.

 

[Wonders10]

How is this possible? If all fruits are 0 points on WW, how can frozen strawberries have 1 point? As far as I can tell, they are just frozen strawberries - no sauce or anything.

 

[dwheatl]

How is this possible? If all fruits are 0 points on WW, how can frozen strawberries have 1 point? As far as I can tell, they are just frozen strawberries - no sauce or anything.

I just looked online, and 1 c. of frozen strawberries, no sugar added, is 0 pts. If it's fruit, don't calculate the points. Just look them up.
I am so with you on needing a way to soothe myself. I have stuffed a lot of food in my face today, partly because of a party, partly because of taxes, and partly because I gave up candy for Lent for Mondays through Saturdays. Right now, I'm eating a spinach and broccoli salad to repent.
I have the Leslie Sansome dvd. It came "free" with Nutrisystem. I like it!

 

[lovealldisney]

Hi Peeps!

I've been lurking lately, as I'm a little embarrassed coming back again. It's probably been at least a year since I've posted, but I feel like it's time to come back for the support and friendship you all offer.

Shannon..I understand the binging...I do it too. I'll purposely buy a food I like, knowing I will eat it ALL in a short amount of time. I then feel lousy and guilty and wonder why I do this to myself. I have realized, for me, it's a self-esteem issue....when I am feeling worthless, fat, unappreciated, unloved....I binge. I am trying to do something for me at those times instead of filling the void with food...exercise, take time to read a book...you get the idea. I say all this to reassure you that your not alone in this.

It's good to be back!

Hi and welcome back! Glad to have you! We're here for you.

Okay Peeps, this is the week I'm going to start turning things around. I've got lots of yummy and good for me breakfasts, lunches and dinners planned plus snacks. I've written out a meal plan for the week with everything listed and their WW points.

I also purchased a book on my Kindle called "50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food". The title sounds so cheesy. I've only read the intro but just reading that, the book could have been called, "Shannon, here are 50 Ways...". My plan is to read some of the book when I start feeling the need to eat (unnecessarily eat).

Awesome planning! I'll have to check out the book. I have been meaning to look into a Nook or Kindle. I LOVE to read

I'm on a roll! After putting ginormous amounts of laundry away and chilling out, I then did 2 miles with Leslie Sansone and her Walking DVD! I'm not going to lie - I'm pathetically out of shape, but I did it! I'm really going to try to keep that up this week (the exercise part). I know working out will help to increase my weight loss and the sooner I see results, the more motivated I think I'll be to stick with it.

Another awesome! I have a few of Leslie Sansone DVD's to and I have to admit I'm pretty sweaty when I'm done.


Hope everyone had a good weekend! It was so nice yesterday that I was able to get in a nice long walk! I miss walking Spring can't come soon enough! Have a great week everyone.

 

[Wonders10]

Alrighty, so I'm going with you guys and counting those strawberries as 0 points. The ingredients just say "strawberries". So...this morning, since I actually woke up when my alarm went off, I had plenty of time to make myself a smoothie! Frozen strawberries, fresh pineapple, 1 splenda, and 1/2 cup milk plus a little water to thin it out all mixed up in my magic bullet. 2 points for about 16 oz and it actually tastes very similar to a smoothie I get at a restaurant here. I'm also eating a hard boiled egg.

My goal for today is to stick with my food plan, not buy any "treats" when I stop at Wal-greens after work, and do 2 miles of my DVD before dinner.

Have a great, skinny day peeps!

 

[Wonders10]

I just looked online, and 1 c. of frozen strawberries, no sugar added, is 0 pts. If it's fruit, don't calculate the points. Just look them up.
I am so with you on needing a way to soothe myself. I have stuffed a lot of food in my face today, partly because of a party, partly because of taxes, and partly because I gave up candy for Lent for Mondays through Saturdays. Right now, I'm eating a spinach and broccoli salad to repent.
I have the Leslie Sansome dvd. It came "free" with Nutrisystem. I like it!

I tried to give something up for lent but I I didn't. I'd love to stop eating so much fast food, but I know when I go to Disney, most of my meals will have some sort of "fast food" item in it.

Awesome planning! I'll have to check out the book. I have been meaning to look into a Nook or Kindle. I LOVE to read

Another awesome! I have a few of Leslie Sansone DVD's to and I have to admit I'm pretty sweaty when I'm done.

The book is okay after I read through the introduction which totally spoke to me , I still haven't gotten to the meat and potatoes of it yet where they specifically give you ideas. I felt it during that DVD but I know it will get easier as I keep doing it. I'm going to just stick with the 2 miles for awhile until that gets only mildly hard at times and then I'll add the 3rd, then the 4th mile.

 

[Wonders10]

Well, my day didn't go exactly as planned, but MUCH better than I've been doing. I had to stop at Wal-greens to pick up some drug store type items and I bought a cadbury egg. Not great - but also not an entire bag of chocolate that I inhale over 2 days. Got home and did 1 mile, plus the warm up and stretching, but not the 2 that I wanted to. It actually seemed a lot harder today than yesterday, and my calf (just one ) was sort of hurting. So maybe I can alternate the 1 and 2 miles until my body adjusts. I made my planned dinner and had one snack and that's it! All in all a success, but I know tomorrow I can do better.

Hope my peeps had a good Monday - I'm getting swamped at work and have 8 student meetings to go to next week, 6 of which I have to do IEPs and other paperwork for. Fun. But then Spring Break and Disney!

 

[LMO429]

hey peeps!

Had a busy weekend but kept my eating on point as possible. looking for easy healthy new dinner recipes any one have one?

 

[ArielSRL]

i'm on a roll! After putting ginormous amounts of laundry away and chilling out, i then did 2 miles with leslie sansone and her walking dvd! I'm not going to lie - i'm pathetically out of shape, but i did it! I'm really going to try to keep that up this week (the exercise part). I know working out will help to increase my weight loss and the sooner i see results, the more motivated i think i'll be to stick with it.

i love leslie!!!

 

[ArielSRL]

I thought of you this morning for a breakfast idea! I took a microwaveable bowl and sprayed with cooking sprady. In it I put 1/2 cup better'n'eggs, 1 tbsp Hormel Bacon Pieces (found next to salad dressings), and a sprinkle of chopped red onion. Nuked for 1 min on high, stirred, nuked another min on high, then added to a High Fiber Extreme Wellness Wheat Tortilla (found at Walmart, 71 cals and 8g protein) with a sparing sprinkle of 2% shredded sharp cheddar.

About 160 cals, a whopping 23g protein, 12g fiber, and fast and yummy!! Could totally be eaten on the go.

I follow Hungry Girl and she does several "egg mugs" where she does the same sort of thing, but puts all the ingredients in a mug, microwaves, and eats straight from said mug!

 

[ArielSRL]

I just looked online, and 1 c. of frozen strawberries, no sugar added, is 0 pts. If it's fruit, don't calculate the points. Just look them up.
I am so with you on needing a way to soothe myself. I have stuffed a lot of food in my face today, partly because of a party, partly because of taxes, and partly because I gave up candy for Lent for Mondays through Saturdays. Right now, I'm eating a spinach and broccoli salad to repent.
I have the Leslie Sansome dvd. It came "free" with Nutrisystem. I like it!

I gave up cursing for Lent! I thought it would be easier than anything food related!

 

[DisneyLaura]

I definitely have over-eaten but I'm not sure I have ever binged b/c I haven't felt the way you ladies are describing it. I commend everyone on getting past their demons though. I mean, its the emotional roller coaster that sends us spiralling out of control with our eating, isn't it? I'm a big rationalizer...always coming up with a reason its ok to make bad choices! Its even more important that I make healthy choices now b/c it isn't just me anymore!

Speaking of baby, we had our 10 week ultrasound and OB appt yesterday! Everything went great, baby danced for us! We saw arms, legs, head, body, umbilical cord! Heart rate is 164bpm! I go back in 3 weeks for another ultrasound and bloodwork for the initial screening tests and another OB appt!

Great news!


Ok I'm so late in posting my weight loss of a whopping 0.5 lb from last Friday.

I have had vertigo problems for a week now, ENT put me on a antidiizy med on Monday and it seems to help me in the afternoon but until then hard to just walk. Didn't go to work Monday or Tuesday, trying to go for Friday (I work only three days a week as of right now). I stand on my feet a lot on Tuesday and Friday so that might be difficult.

As for the eating thing - doing well but could be better. I need to really start exercising again once my dizziness goes away.

I will tell you though that my midwife runs in the Princess Marathon every year in Disney and invited to run with her next year! We are friends as well. She's awesome! I think I might take her up on that if I can train properly. I'm going to start the couch25K as soon as I can, then take it from there. If I don't run with her in 2012 then definately 2013! That's my goal.

 

[LMO429]

Hey peeps

I am down 2.6 pounds this week! that's alot for me in one week no idea how that happened but of course ill take it!

 

[DisneyObsession]

Good Morning Peeps!

I am down 0.5 this week. Thought I was doing better than that! Oh well.

I bought "The Biggest Loser Challenge" for the Wii and absolutely love it! They have set routines, as well as challenges for you to do. The set routines will put you on an exercise schedule and you decide the amount of time for the work out, the difficulty level and even what type of exercise. (Yoga, Circuit Training, Boxing...) They even have weigh in once a week on "The Biggest Loser Scale"! I have it set for a 12 week weight loss program right now. I would highly recommend it for anyone who has a Wii...much better than the Wii Fit by far!

This weeks goals...drink 6-8oz glasses of water... 5 F/V's...40 min of exercise 4x's this week. For lent I gave up baked desserts...cake, cookies, pie, etc...so far, so good.

Happy Day All!

 

[dwheatl]

I'm up .2. I am having such a hard time getting back on the wagon. I've been good on the exercise, not so good on the eating. I tried to honestly log everything I ate this week, and I'm 15 pts. in the hole. I think it would have been worse if I hadn't tracked it.
Congrats to the losers. I did get out my Leslie Sansome video and do it because of this thread.

 

[pixie dust 112]

sneaking back into the thread! I somehow deleted a bunch of my subscribed threads by mistake! Hi kids! I've been doing great on exercise (for me) 4 to 5 times a week at the YMCA doing an hour on the treadmill. Still walking on the treadmill but hopefully I will be running soonish!