I cook (well, techinically mostly bake) for a living, and I too enjoy making good food for other people. The problem is, I often eat it as well.
Hence the "shrink-wrap" jeans issue.
I always say my goal is to make other people FAT with my yummy treats so that I look thinner by comparison!
My dream job - to work in the movie industry as a costume designer/maker. I just love that stuff.
Just finished the costuming for my son's high school play this past weekend - made these drop-dead gorgeous Victorian dresses (you woulda thought I'd have taken a picture - DUH!
) and start tomorrow with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Should be fun!
You and I have a lot in common, I toured for half a year with Jesus Christ Superstar in the costume department, it was a lot of fun. I worked in TV, theater and comedy for a long time; I've always wondered what my life would have been like if I would have used my cosmetology license to become a make up artist, not just make up but I was very interested in the moster make up type of work, like CSI and Stardust - really changing people's appearance. That is real art work that I can sink my hands into (literally)
I am, also a cook, but decided not to do it for work. I love cooking, taking cooking classes (took one on the Med. cruise this summer in Oblia, Sardinia) and am writing a sort of cook book within a comedy book.
I will post my food here daily if you want... Starting w/ yesterday:
B: Sugar Free Oatmeal (100), coffee w/ sweet'n'low and splash of skim milk (10)
L: Banquet Sliced Beef meal (230), salad (100)
D: Omelette made w/ onions, mushrooms, 3/4 cup egg beaters, 1/4 cup mozzarella, and 1 TBSP lean bacon (200), 3 eggo special K waffles (240)
S: 1 bag 94% FF popcorn (200), 2 hershey's special dark minis (80)
Total for the day: 1160. Exercise: 45 min of weights. Water: 64 oz.
FWIW, I only watch calories. I track everything through sparkpeople.com and attempt to keep my fat, carbs, protein pretty well balanced and esp to get enough protein, but I don't worry too much about that part.
That is very helpful!
I hate to exercise - HATE IT - but I know I need to do it. Right now I am attempting to train for the 5K race in Disney in May - my sister convinced me to do it with her. I think I must have lost my mind - a person my size doesn't run unless they are being chased by someone intent on doing them bodily harm - but I'm committed now, so I'm going to give it my best shot. There are quite a few of us from the Disney Cruising doing the Minnie in May - some are runners and many of us are speed walkers. My knee is such bad shape that I just want to make it through. I sign up for the 5K's to keep me motivated. I'm so glad you'll be there too!
I would love to take Roy Disney to dinner to pick his brain about his uncle. I would go to the best steakhouse I could find and get a great steak dinner. You'd be eating at DL's Steakhouse 55. His picture is up on the wall with the many other famous folks who ate there in the 50's.
I would love to go to a fat farm AND see a therapist - just to have someone to talk to about the emotional issues that have contributed to my weight problem. I will share some of that in a later post (no time now), but I do think that food is a crutch for me when I am dealing with strong emotions and it is SO DIFFICULT to break out of that habit. (Yes, I know, I'm preaching to the choir.) GO and do it. You make it happen!
ummm.....'scuse me....is this confessional taken??
Ok. So, I guess it serves me right. I *tried* to sneak a yumm-o-licious dark chocolate Hershey's kiss after lunch today...but...then there was a knock at the door <doh> so I stuck it in my pocket. Well, that "knock" was the guy that DH was meeting with about the possiblity of putting in solar panels on our barn. So - I sat in - and forgot about that Kiss until about an hour later when I stuck my hand in my pocket. EEEEEWWWW! Nasty, nasty, nasty. It got worse, as I discretely took a napkin and tried to remove the chocolate, mistakenly thinking that it would still be somewhat "in tact" ....nope....it was not. It was completely melted, and was like a big ol' doody in my pocket. Now, I have melted chocolate mess on my hand, and all over this napkin - looking like I tried to wipe a babies bottom blindfolded or something...and I'm still working hard to make certain no one else sees this catastrophe. The inside of my pocket is all smeared with brown....and I have to go to school for a meeting. I decided to change first...I could just see myself reaching into my pocket at school and coming out with a hand that looks like I've been playing in a litter box...
The moral of my story? Always eat your chocolate BEFORE you answer the door!
This is so me, I have more melted chocolate than anyone could imagine in every pocket, purse, bag etc.
Hi Guys, I'm still here. It took me an hour to get caught up with everyone. I spent the week working/driving back and forth to Los Angeles (which means many, many hours in the car) so I listened to a lot of Oprah XM radio and an audio book. The hard part (my big obstacles) of being in the car is that I'm not moving my body and try not to snack. I purposely brought yogurt and boiled eggs.
I just got caught up with grumpy guys post when I realized that he left the thread. I'm so sorry to you go, you really are one of the good guys. I hope you find the support you are looking for out there!
Here's my dream dinner, I made this for a t-shirt and bookmarks and door signs for the cruise:
Walt made all my dreams come true, when he shared his!
If I had one day with Walt Id let him see his Disney through my eyes!!
Thank you, Walt!!!
Well, no weight change again on my end. Some of you may remember from the beginning I said I have 10 of the hardest pounds to lose... the last 10!!!
I have a little different story about my weight problem, I've always been the smallest person, very sickly, scrony, and skinny. I'm an eater, I love food, in fact, I'm pretty sure that they modeled the role of Remy after me. You wouldn't believe how many people told me that I was Remy after Ratatouille came out. (I was Colette and DH was Linguine for Halloween this year) The most common phrase on the Med cruise, "Have you ever seen anyone so small eat so much food and love it so much!" I'm not an overeater or a compulsive eater, so I'm lucky in that respect (since I come from a family of emotional eaters.)
Well, friends my body took a turn this year and I have to mount that hurdle. When I got pregnant I only gained 27 pounds by the end of the 8th month my doctor said "NO activity and start drinking peanut butter milk shakes." My blood pressure was low - everything was healthy and good. I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl a month early (5LBS), but she is a healthy exceptional kid. I was 41 when she was born, so my body decided that it was time to change. I lost 17 pounds in a few weeks, but that 10 pounds stuck to me. 2 years later on a fluke diagnoses I found out that I had a blood disorder in my immune system that could possibly lead to multiple myeloma. Everytime I went in for another test they found something else wrong, always with the same words, "well, everything looks good except this little blip that we need to do one more test!" These tests ran into the $6000 and I wasn't never getting any answers. Every time they did a test all I could think was, "There goes another excursion on my cruise." Well, my blood pressure skyrocketed up to 200/107 every time I walked into a doctor's office. It was driving me nuts!
So, after seeing every doctor in Orange County I'm being monitored annually and trying to stay healthy. They put me on blood pressure meds and told me to lose the extra weight and excercise every day. The cardiologist believes it was a genetic change and it was just my time for the blood pressure to change. And they changed my other daily meds. Well, I instantly put on 7 more pounds and my skin broke out like I had poison ivy. Not good for a public speaker!!!!!
Well, work, projects, child, house, Ph.D are all in the way every day of squeezing in one more thing, the most important thing. right now, none of my clothes fit me so I'm still wearing my pregnancy pants when I'm lecturing. Here's the ridiculous part, I'm only a size 4-5, but my body size (bone structure) requires me to be a size 2/3. The extra weight (while it sounds like nothing to some people) looks like a lot on my body size. Most important is that I'm uncomfortable. So, while it is only 10 pounds it seems like 30 and it has been very noticable to everone who knows me.
I'm very aware that my weight (that feels uncomfortable to me) is way lower than many other people's goal weights, but on my body its just awful. Even the doctor laughed when she said you are a small person and you don't need that extra weight even though some people would consider you skinny to start with! She was right and I'm telling you that naked I'm not skinny anymore!!!! I'm certainly not muscular and tight. I need to be that!
So, I've adjusted all of my meds and lost 4 pounds instantly, but I am right back where I started with 10 pounds to go. My weight isn't budging. I can't really cut any food out, so I have to excercise regularly and vary that excercise. I'm going to try each day to post what I've done so that I can feel the obligation to you guys to get it done. My health is absolutely my first priority because my DH, DD and business can't go on without me being healthy. My ultimate goal is to get off the blood pressure med even though the cardiologist thinks its genetic, I'm convinced that I have the power to make a difference in my body by working it. So, that's me today, I need to be a different body by the Minnie 5K because I leave on the Panama Canal cruise from there. Good luck today everyone, I'm with you. Kelly
So I was having a challenge keeping everyone strait and who was weighing in with what and who wanted private or not....so I am devising a new plan...
BROOOOHAAAAAHAAAA!
...so please if I can have everyone P.M me on Fridays or by Fridays...that would be awesome. I want weight if that is okay...I know some are not comfortable w/ that and want just a loss, gain, same posted and if that is your comfort I am okay with that. Many of us are at that acceptance point of the "NUMBER"
Ahemmm....also...I don't know all my times tables....
seriously...ask me to write a thesis on why the Lion King is a metaphor for the Quaker philosophy on life...I'll be back in 10...but numers...YUCK!
that should be helpfull to us all.
(See previous re-ply post for the 411) 
Don't leave...
Who will keep the running total for us? 
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