Honeymo78's Wedding Journal (Comments Welcome)

[honeymo78]

Lunch - Teriyaki chicken LC (280cal, 3.5g)
Snack - chips ahoy thin crisps (100cal, 3g)


I'm getting ready to eat my snack now and have less than 3 hrs left at work. I think I'll make it without running to wawa. If my tummy is still growling at 7 I'll probably make the popcorn. Now I'm wondering if I will have eaten enough calories today - dinner is a LC skillet which is only about 200cal per serving - even if I eat the entire bag it will only be about 600-700cal. I know that I don't have to eat 1800 everyday but I also don't want to eat too little - I was thinking at least 1400 would be safe. I guess I'll see how hungry I am when I get home and if I eat the whole bag of dinner it will be no big deal - I'll be right at the minimum. Otherwise, I'm not sure what to do.

UPDATE *Snack - popcorn (these bags are confusing but I think 100cal, 2g)

Dan just called to tell me that he has made it to the second round of interview for a trainer position he applied for. I really hope he does well b/c the job would combine his teaching skills (he has his masters in education) with his love of technology (its with the wireless carrier he works for now). It would be a bit of travel in general and perhpas a 3hr drive to the office for "local" training sessions but he'll find out more about that at the interview. He has to give a short presentation while he's there and that is one thing he really does well.

My mom also said that she and my brother would come and help with the yardwork this weekend if we couldn't find an affordable lawn service to do it. Her suggestion was totally unexpected.

 

[honeymo78]

Dinner - LC Turkey Skillet (520cal, 6g) I ate the whole thing, 2 slices italian bread with margarine (250cal, 6g)
Total for day - 1450cal, 25.5 - that was definitely the low fat/cal day I needed after this weekend.

I was up a lb from yesterday but I am in full bloat mode right now and feel generally crappy. Hopefully when TOM is over I will see a nice big loss =) We are giving up on trying to find a lawn service - even after I explained exactly what I wanted them to do, and what I didn't want them to do, they went ahead and quoted a job for more than I asked for and won't do what I wanted. My mom and her boyfriend and probably my brother will come on sat with the chainsaw and tree trimmer to help take care of that and all it will cost me is lunch. Hopefully they will be here early since I still will need to work about 5 hours at work that afternoon/evening. You've gotta love family =)

I'm calling to make/revise some ADRs for the honeymoon today - wish me luck =)

 

[lillygator]

Good luck with your ADR's....you must be going to WDW around the same time we are....we check in 10/26.

 

[toystoryduo]

Hi Stephanie!

I hope everything works out with the ADRs. I'm sorry that TOM has you feeling a bit under the weather today. Isn't it amazing how much havoc TOM can create in our bodies? I know that the last few months have been very hard for me TOM-wise. I hope you start feeling better soon!

Have a great day today!

 

[honeymo78]

Thanks for the pixie dust for the ADRs. V - we're going the first week of Oct. Today I'm just trying to get some that weren't available when I originally called a few weeks ago or get a better time for some that we already have.

Tracy - I should be feeling better tomorrow or friday. TOM only puts me out of whack for the first 2-3 days an then I'm fine. It definitely is amazing what it can do to us.

Breakfast - leftover noodle soup (120cal, 3g)
Snack - Wheat thins (100cal, 3g)
Lunch - LC Salisbury Steak (280cal, 8g)
Snack - will be 100cal oreos
Dinner will be pasta with homemade sauce

 

[Cruise04]

You are doing well there Stephanie - sorry to hear your TOM has arrived too - seems like a bunch of us on the same cycle - WATCH OUT DON AND MIKE!!!! j/k of course.

How fun that you are just two months out from your trip - very exciting I'm sure!!!!!!

Keep on
Chris

 

[lillygator]

HI!! Hope you have a great day today!!!

 

[honeymo78]

Things kind of fell apart last night - as the cold front moved through which got rid of the near 100 temps, there were lots of storms and my train home was delayed about 45min. By that time I was tired and cranky and didn't feel like cooking so we got McDonalds - it would have been fine if I had gotten a medium fry instead of large - oh well.

Dinner - Bacon Ranch Salad (250, 9g), Creamy Italian Dressing (100, 11g), 4 Chicken Nuggets (170, 10g), Large Fries (520, 25g) with ketchup and bbq sauce (50)

Total for the day - 1640cal, 71g fat This could have been a lot worse, not happy with my fat for the day but I'm glad I didn't overdo it on the calories (I was very tempted to eat the Drumstick icecream in the freezer.)

Today has not started out well. I am super bloated (TOM plus sodium from fries does not equal happy) and back to last week's weight. My 201 weigh in was the morning before TOM hit so hopefully it will come back when the bloat is gone. I'm just gonna keep on drinking that water and flushing out my system, although I tend not to have to pee so much during TOM - must be the bloat. I also don't have a desk to use at work since the new computers have not been set up yet (for the past 2 weeks I've been using the desk of a girl who took off to take the bar exam but she is back today.)

Breakfast - maple sugar instant oatmeal (160cal, 2g)
Snack - Wheat Thins (100cal, 3g)
Lunch - LC Turkey and Stuffing (270cal, 2.5g)
Snack - Chips Ahoy (100cal, 3g) Sugar Free Hot Chocolate (60cal)

 

[honeymo78]

Last night we finally got some of the new computers in at work and a few more are due tonight with the rest of them coming in next week. I'm still using someone else's desk today and probably will do so until Monday - hopefully then I'll be able to stake out a permanent spot. I was very good last night and instead of putting on my movie as soon as I got home, I walked for a half hour =) Here's the rest of yesterday's food..

Snack - rice cake (35cal) forgot to add this to yesterday morning's snack
Dinner - Beef noodles and sauce (520cal, 8.5g)
Snack - 2 slices toast w/pb (210cal, 9.5g), cup of milk (100cal, 3g)

Total - 1555cal, 31.5g fat

Since the past 3 days have been well under 1800cals I might splurge a little on lunch and get a hoagie but I'll check out wawa's site first and see how much of a splurge it is. I know we are either having pasta or keilbasa and potatos for dinner - either way it won't be too high in calories so I'll have some extra to use during the day.

Breakfast - plain oatmeal (100cal, 2g)

I forgot perhaps the most important news of the day - I'm back to 201 Hopefully I can hang on to that for one more day since I only count Saturdays for weigh in.

 

[toystoryduo]

Hi Stephanie!

That's great to hear that you're back to 201! You'll be in Onederland soon!!!!

I hope you have a great weekend!

 

[honeymo78]

Thanks Tracy - I'm glad I'm back down too. I can't wait to see onderland.

Snack - Wheat Thins (100cal, 3g)
Lunch - ham and cheese short hoagie (380cal, 14g), Baked Lays (220cal, 3g) I wanted a salad but they were all of any of the low cal or ff dressings at wawa and I hate dry salad.

I have a little less than an hour left at work and I'm trying so hard not to have my snack. I really want to save those cals for dinner or not eat them at all today since I had a bigger lunch than usual.

I just realized that I'm getting married 2 months from tomorrow and that means 2 months until Disney. I still have plenty to do - order my bouquet, reserve a table for the reception, figure out if I need my dress hemmed and if so find a place to do it rather quickly, get a dress to wear to the reception (I have a pale blue dress that should fit then but I really want something new and probably white but I'm not sure what luck I'll have finding that), and this weekend I need to print and mail out our invitations. I still have to go over the ceremony and turn in any changes (I really want traditional vows so I'll need to search the net for the text for the district justice to use).

Dinner - Kielbasa (390cal, 34g), fried/baked potato (250-350cal, 7.5g) corn (60cal, 1g)

Total -1460-1560cal, 64.5g (again a little over fat but I'm okay with that)

 

[pearlieq]

You're doing an awesome job! Keep up the great work!!!

 

[Cruise04]

You are really doing well - since you are doing about what I'm doing it's interesting to see it written out by someone besides me, which is good. This helps me figure out if I want to use my calories on some foods you have used them for, which are good foods. Just foods that I would have thought were MUCH higher than you have posted they are and that's good for me!!!!

2 more months - how exciting!!!! Hope you have a good time getting everything printed and ready to mail. I did our invitations and I really enjoyed doing them. It was fun!!!

Keep on
Chris

 

[honeymo78]

Chris - I like seeing what you eat too. I've been so surprised when I look up the nutritional value of some stuff - it's not as bad as I thought - but then again I'm not eating nearly as much of it as I used to. I'm slowly learning that moderation is the key.

Well we finally got the backyard mowed tonight and sprayed where we thought the bees live but since we didn't see any we can't be sure. I forgot to call my mom before it got too late so I hope she's still coming tomorrow. I guess I can just head out to the yard after Dan leaves for work and see what I can get done on my own in case she doesn't come. I'll call her in the morning too and see what's up.

I also posted my ADRs for the honeymoon over on the Restaurants board in case anyone wants to check them out. I will not be eating according to plan that week but hey it's vacation and honeymoon - plus we'll be walking our butts off.

 

[honeymo78]

I was so happy this am - I hopped on the scale and it said 200 I am so close to onderland now. This means I had 3lb loss this week and I can now claim my 5lb clippie. I don't know what weight I started at but it was at least 205 so I'm gonna count from that.

I also tried my wedding gown on since it's only 9 weeks away. Amazingly it fit. Two months ago I couldn't even get it zipped up halfway and now it fits perfectly, not even too snug. I felt like such a princess putting it on. Now I just have to find a seamstress to hem and bustle it in basically 8 weeks time. I've heard some bad things about David's Bridal where I bought it so hopefully a non-chain wedding shop can help me.

My mom, brother and brother's girlfriend came with the chainsaw, hacksaw, tree trimmer etc to help take care of the backyard this morning. The yard looks amazing and it took less than 2hrs to do. The only thing we didn't do is cut the bush that houses the bees - still waiting for the spray to kill them all but otherwise it looks great back there. They even helped weedwhack (i'm horrible at it) the front yard.

Now to the bad part of my day - I took them to lunch and we went to my fave diner and I didn't eat stuff that was good for me. I don't think I'm gonna really count my cals today but I'll still keep track of them anyway.

Lunch - milkshake (800-900cals, 40g) hot dog w/sauerkraut (350cal, 13g) cheese fries (450cal, 25g I probably had less than this) total (1700cals, 78g)

I'm gonna go shower and get ready for work. If I eat anything at work it will be a 100cal snack pack but I'm really going to try not to have anything until dinner. Dan might want to go out though. I we go out this will be my free day this week. If we don't go out I'll try to really curb cals and fat on anything else I eat today since its likely we'll go out tomorrow.

UPDATE - I have an appointment for a dress fitting with a local bridal shop on Thurs night. They didn't seem to have a problem with 2 months to the wedding and I'll find out the cost for alterations then as well. I'll be sure to let all of you know how it goes.

 

[lillygator]

HI! Great job on your new clippie!! You'll have to post some pics of your dress...and wow only a couple months to go - are you soooo excited??

 

[Cruise04]

Great job on the loss!!!!!! BRAVO for you!!!! And good job on finding a bridal shop to do your alterations. I got my dress at David's too and they were great but their alterations were just WAY too expensive. So the lady that always does my alterations did them for about 3/4 what David's was going to charge me!!!!!!

Keep on
Chris

 

[honeymo78]

V - my dress is no longer on the david's bridal website but I'll try to scan in the picture I kept from the catalog.
Chris and V - thanks for the congrats on the new clippie/loss - I'm so excited.

Well I manged to salvage the day and haven't ended up too far off plan

Dinner - Minestrone soup (220cal, 4g)
Snack - cup of choc milk (150cal, 3g)

Total - 2070cal, 85g (only 270 over in cals and 25g over in fats - this could have been much worse and I got in some strenous exercise this morning)

I'm not sure what the food plan is for tomorrow - if we go out for breakfast (usual weekend activity) I'll pick something lower on the cals if not fat too. Dan has a work party to go to tomorrow night so I plan on getting in about 45min of walking on the treadmill - I have several new books to pick from to read.

 

[toystoryduo]

Hi Stephanie!!!

How exciting for you that your wedding and honeymoon are only 2 months away! My DH and I went to WDW on our honeymoon and we had such an amazing time! That trip to WDW started my Disney "addiction".

Congratulations on being at 200 pounds! Onederland is yours!

I hope you have a great Sunday!

 

[honeymo78]

Tracy - I'm glad you got addicted I've been an addict for years and since I've been with Dan I've turned him into one too.

Well my Sunday was good and bad food and exercise wise. I got all the bathrooms cleaned (I didn't mop cause the cleaning lady is coming on Thurs and I'll let her do it) and the upstairs floor and steps vaccuumed (i hate vacuuming steps). I also got a new bookcase and put that together and filled it up with books. I never got around to walking on the treadmill - by the time I was done everything I needed to do I was pooped and it was time for a nice relaxing bubble bath.

Now for the food - we went to the olive garden and I wasn't as good as the last time. I had some toasted ravioli for an appy, one breadstick, 2 plates of salad, and the new 5 cheese ziti. Here's the good part though, that is all I had today, I took at least half of the ziti home and ate it for dinner. I couldn't find any nutritional info for the ravioli or ziti so I have no idea how off I was for the day but at least I controlled the urge to snack.

Oh and when I stepped on the scale this morning...199