In Search of my Body...Not The One I Ate.. #4 "Inspiring Others... 1 Tiara at a Time"

[3DisneyKids]

Angrier than my perpetually empty womb! OMFG! I HOWLED throughout this whole thing!

And Paula--follow that link and read it. (It will only take 5-10 minutes.) But you will love it b/c it shows Bella as totally whiney! OME, that was funny!

 

[adsrtw]

Ok, I have missed a ton of posts (guess who I am talking with ~ still not getting excited). Gotta catch up again!

Ok, decided to try the noodles (finally getting to eat supper). I love them. Put a little organic thai peanut sauce on them with some broccoli (yummy!). I haven't had noodles in ages.

 

[SeptemberGirl]

Wasn't it??? I was reading it out loud, choking with laughter!

"Jame, I'm RIGHT HERE".

Yes, Paula, you will love it. And I love your use of "OME", Erika!


Okay, so this is major. Ready? MAJOR.

Tonight, I fell in love with Jillian.

 

[3DisneyKids]

Ok, time for serious again...

On the longer than one hour thing. This is definitely a newer theory in fitness as it pertains to fat loss. The idea is that hours and hours of cardio at the same pace is useless when compared with 45-60 minutes of interval training. It is all about intervals.

But the interval theory is for fat loss. Obviously, cardio is for your HEART as well as weight loss. And if you are going to be an endurance athlete, then of course you have to go well over 60 minutes. And at least for me, there is no way my long run could be intervals! But I just switched up my running program so that I am doing to interval runs per week, one "regular" run and one long run.

 

[3DisneyKids]

I KNEW you would catch that!

And I haven't yet watched BL. I am going to start it soon if I ever get off this thread and get some work done. And I will do my second workout and core while watching BL. At like 11:30 pm...

 

[adsrtw]

We will help you find your way.

Thank you. Sometimes a girl just needs a reassuring kick in the butt I am that girl.

:flower3 flower3:

All for you!!!

Thanks Lisa!

Wow, i love coming on to 10 posts!

Okay, you all wrote interesting and intelligent and meaningful things I want to reply to. But first.

Twilight readers, this one is for you. It is making me crack up, laugh sooo loud.

xoxo

http://movies.msn.com/movies/galleryfeature/lost-twilight-script/?photoidx=1&silentchk=1&vv=600

OMG! I am only on p. 3 and I swear...truly, no lie, I am teary from laughing so hard. Badonkadonk....

I'm crying and my sides hurt! Can't hear you. Earbuds.

Paula, please read it. It too think she is a whiner at times and this hits the mark (but I love the series!).

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

Hi. I just wanted to post. Cause I feel all good inside after reading all your posts. Such a family created here.

And yes, whatever Lisa asks, I'm interested too. (Cept for ball questions, I go to sleep there.)

What does "OME" stand for?

There is more, but I'm tired. Night.

 

[SeptemberGirl]

Liz--Just saw your edit about the other ingredients in the sauce. I LOVE kalamata olives. And I think wine used in cooking would be acceptable to anyone who is on the wagon. but I am not the challenge czar.

About the wagon...I am still on it. No booze since 11:59 on Sunday night.

On an unrelated note, I just booked a ticket for Delena and I to go visit SIL and nieces in a couple weeks. 68 dollars round trip. FL to SC. Sweet. I will be able to get my final long run in the day I leave (the 19th), and then will be able to continue the C25K while I am up there. It will be a taper week anyhow. I get back the 26th and the race is the 1st.

Nicely done, Amy, on the no booze!!! And how fun to have a trip to look forward to.

Liz is right. Yes, healthy food is a big issue with me. It has been for years and years. But that is the thing...it is MY issue and I have no business pushing it on others.

I am the first one to say (and how many times have I said it???) that we all need to start with baby steps. We can't start doing everything from day one or it is a recipe for failure and heartache.

And I am so so so far from perfect. I mean, I have been needing to lose the same freaking 15 pounds for like 6 months now. If I was doing everything right, then those 15 pounds would have been gone in June and I would be at goal and all of the rest.

So clearly, I have my own crap to deal with.

So for everyone who is working her program in whole or in part...GO! Excellent! You are on the right path...and it is YOUR path. Not mine and not anyone else's.

Ok, I now have to go out in the snow (still snowing here) and dark to pick up my kid from snowboarding. And I am sure that I am going to have to sit in my car for ages waiting as the bus will likely be late due to said snow.

See, this is why I love you. And am proud to be your friend. And have you stalk me.

Amy, sorry you aren't feeling well.

E, get that 2nd workout in yet?


Oh, when I am off, my food choices would curdle E's vampiric lack of soul. Really.

I can't even tell you the quantity of junk I can consume. It is staggering.

And you do have to start somewhere. It has taken me years to get to the point where I bulk my food up with veggies. Since this is confession time... I do this as much to feel FULL, and get as much food for my calories, as I do to be healthy. If all I had were two small meals, even if they only added to 1200 cals, I would be ready to punch someone by 8PM. Really.

But this week, I went into multiple health food stores to find tofu noodles. TOFU NOODLES!!

Veggies are definitely more expensive, but I will freely admit to buying non-organic, SuperWalmart veggies, and sometimes frozen ones as well. I have gone completely away from frozen meals... $2-3 here, and that can buy 1 romaine lettuce, an onion, a cucumber, and salad dressing.

I finally did find the tofu noodles, btw, at Earth Fare. The non-tofu ones that I got at the Asian market, I am eating now and they are GOOD (they taste and texture like thin rice noodles which I LOVE). The Asian market also had cheap veggies. I hear the farmers markets do as well but the one here isn't that close to me.

So tonight I made the following:
1 boneless pork chop and cut it up (240 cals), added frozen artichoke hearts (25), broccoli, zucchini, onion, spinach, 2 mushrooms (~30 total for all, likely), 1/4 cup roasted red pepper alfredo (80), and 1 tbsp parmesan (25) and 1/2 pack shirataki noodles. Total, 400 cals, 5g carb.

It filled a whole dinner plate and was yummy and filling.

TAG FAIRY!!! TAG FAIRY. Hi! Did you see that? About the food choices and E's vampric soul???

Hey Everybody! I hope all is well!

I wrote down everything I have had so far today ~ going to figure out a way to track it. I wore a shirt today that I bought a year or more ago without trying on (it didn't fit back then and still had the tags, lol). It's bright turquoise blue with a peasant collar, can't believe it but I even got a few compliments.

Well, I am off again to catch up.

Oh, what a nice feeling!

Thank you so much Lisa! That means alot to me. Trust me when I say that I was not always calm and collected. I went from both puddle to psycho in seconds! In fact many times during it, I thought I was losing my mind. I threw myself into my job while I was there and then at home would become a zombie.

One thing that I haven't shared though is what I went through is really a huge driving force for my weight loss effort. It is so mental for me! My ex constantly would degrade me because of my weight. I didn't deserve to have somebody who loved me for what I was (then). Now, I know I still have a way to go, but my inner self knows that I do deserve to have that and more (the real part that I know is lurking down deep). Just scared of the unknown. The old way is really all that I know.

You deserve to have someone love you at any size, at any point in your life. and I am glad you see that now.

We will help you find your way.

Ah, my girlfriend Kat. You are so right. I love when you're like this. I am proud to be your friend, too.

Ummm if you are channeling can you leave your swan neck and waist with me to try on. Thanks so much.

My motto has always been and always will be, for me, if I'm eating it ten years from now - then eat it now while losing.

My mother God love her used to say all the time - moderation, moderation, moderation. But it was hard listening to a woman who had no weight issues and was naturally small. I still can't believe I came from her. Poor thing. I told you I was almost ten pounds, eh? One of Jean's brothers was thirteen pounds. Mama would tell me about that birth. Holy cow Batman!!



Not too much for me Dawn. It makes me think. I firmly believe that many become scared of food. Sometimes I stay off the BL because of that. I made a choice years and years back that I was never going there. Honestly, I would rather be overweight than fear food. Honestly. I think I started there Dawn actually - that I was going to live loving food and where the chips fall - they fall.

You're really something Erika. I learn all the time from you guys. You are so fair and calm. I am so reactive. I learn from you.

Stacey - where for art thou Master Stacey?

Steph - missing you.

Hi to everyone.

Ditto to the Stacy and Steph missing.

And Erika - she really is something, isn't she?

Lisa, I miss you when you're not here.

 

[SeptemberGirl]

Hi. I just wanted to post. Cause I feel all good inside after reading all your posts. Such a family created here.

And yes, whatever Lisa asks, I'm interested too. (Cept for ball questions, I go to sleep there.)

What does "OME" stand for?

There is more, but I'm tired. Night.

Oh my Edward. Tee hee!!! Go look at it, Lyz.

 

[SeptemberGirl]

Also - Lisa -

YES. Eat like you will in 10 years. I am sooo working on that right now.

 

[goofyfan-12]

We will help you find your way.

Most definitely....

I KNEW you would catch that!

And I haven't yet watched BL. I am going to start it soon if I ever get off this thread and get some work done. And I will do my second workout and core while watching BL. At like 11:30 pm...

Yikes - she is definitely a vampire since she doesn't sleep...

I'll read the link - I promise...

 

[adsrtw]

Hi. I just wanted to post. Cause I feel all good inside after reading all your posts. Such a family created here.

And yes, whatever Lisa asks, I'm interested too. (Cept for ball questions, I go to sleep there.)

What does "OME" stand for?

There is more, but I'm tired. Night.

Yes, I agree. One big extended family. Guess I should read to find out what OME means, love it.

Good night Lyz.

 

[AKASnowWhite]

I was out for the evening & I have to admit I'm now several pages behind in reading. I'll catch up in the a.m. Promise. AND I haven't watched BL yet. DVR'd so I'll watch that tomorrow to.


Today's check-in

Food: 29 points. Again, slightly higher than typically preferred, but again, exercise was intense.

Alcohol: none

Exercise: 60+ minutes of strength work, 30 minutes elliptical: including warm up, cool down & stretching: 105 min. Total: 195/2100

Tomorrow a more *normal* workout. Definitely!

 

[adsrtw]

So on to the tracking stuff. I have everything written down in a notebook and it looks like I am well under 1200 calories today. I signed up on sparkpeople, but I have a few things to enter before I can say officially. OMG the noodles ~ supper for under 200 calories and very filling.

Where do I need to improve?

WATER ~ yeah I know I did not get enough today. I simply was to busy to even think about drinking. Not an excuse, just lost track of time. I need to get more water, period.

Mid-Day Snack ~ I have to have one and I didn't plan very well today. Breakfast for me is 7am-ish, lunch time at work is 2pm, and supper is usually around 8 or 9 when I get home. I was famished by 2pm and wolfed down my sandwich.

Veggies ~ for some reason I didn't get as many as I normally do. Very odd for me.

What I did good?

Carbs ~ stuck with the good for me kind (whole grains, higher fiber content, fruits & veggies)

Protein ~ had the right amount (didn't get any dizzies or disconnected feelings). I'm judging that on how I feel not by grams yet.

Exercise ~ I was in charge of a special project that required a few trips to the post office. I walked all 3 times in the freezing cold and took the steps up and down 5 several times today (not including a trip all the way down to the lower level from the 8th floor). I jog down the steps (I know dangerous!).


OMG ~ this was my 500th post!!! Numbers 300, 400, & 500 have all been here!!!

I have alot to say about some of the previous posts, but I just want to stay at 500 for a few hours.

 

[lisaviolet]

Ok, time for serious again...

On the longer than one hour thing. This is definitely a newer theory in fitness as it pertains to fat loss. The idea is that hours and hours of cardio at the same pace is useless when compared with 45-60 minutes of interval training. It is all about intervals.

But the interval theory is for fat loss. Obviously, cardio is for your HEART as well as weight loss. And if you are going to be an endurance athlete, then of course you have to go well over 60 minutes. And at least for me, there is no way my long run could be intervals! But I just switched up my running program so that I am doing to interval runs per week, one "regular" run and one long run.

Erika, just to be clear he was talking about intervals. About not going over an hour. I have no idea but it's just stuck in my head.

I so love my intervals. Nothing produces the numbers in my rotation than my intervals.

And obviously it doesn't pertain to when you guys are training for endurance. Which do you enjoy more?

 

[lisaviolet]

And yes, whatever Lisa asks, I'm interested too. (Cept for ball questions, I go to sleep there.)

WTH???? What ball questions. It does say ball, doesn't it? I should get my glasses.

I'm sure I'll have some ball questions, one day.

 

[lisaviolet]

Also - Lisa -

YES. Eat like you will in 10 years. I am sooo working on that right now.

Let's just hope it won't be another ten years for me.

 

[lisaviolet]

Let's just hope it won't be another ten years for me.

But you know what - I'm nervous about my decision this week. However, it feels good to take in the now. It really does. And I thought you know what if it takes 2009 to get whereever I'm going then so be it. Now is fine.

Erika!!! I forgot to ask you. Can you put the word "celebrate" in the weight column for me. Oh, that might put off your columns. Maybe a heart. I'm so excited about this goal.

I already feel different when I look in the mirror. It sucks not to appreciate success. Channeling swan neck small waist.

 

[lisaviolet]

Oh, I'm going to regret this. I bought Twilight.

 

[lisaviolet]

WTH???? What ball questions. It does say ball, doesn't it? I should get my glasses.

I'm sure I'll have some ball questions, one day.

And you won't fall asleep for those cutie.