Looking to Lose Ladies

[LindaBabe]

Hello everyone!

I've been reading, so I haven't been here much, sorry.

IF you're serious about wanting to lose weight and keep it off and lead a health life forevermore, even if you're not into "low carb", may I recommend reading "Living the Low Carb Life" by Jonny Bowden. Chapter 3, where they talk about the low carb diets was the least interesting, but the rest of the book, I found fascinating. It has given me plenty of food for thought to chew on!

The author specifically mentioned two things that I've seen in here recently that people are bothered with - cravings at times of the month, and PCO.

As a scientist, I can say that I was impressed with the thoroughness of this author's research of the literature and the clarity of the explainations. Very often, books that try to explain the science behind something for the layperson are so much gobbledygook. This was amazingly clear.

Today, I went for a brisk walk, instead of the gym. About the distance of from the farthest buses to secruity at MK - it was pretty chilly and by the time I got home the lungs were burning and my hips and back hurt. Tomorrow, I'm going back to the gym and pool - it's easier!

Today, I ate
Breakfast
1/2 cup melon
3 bacon
2 eggs
1 whole wheat flat

Lunch
Chicken Salad
veggies with dressing
the small half of a cranberry muffin

Supper
The rest of the chicken salad
the other half of the veggies
1 whole wheat mini bagel with cheese

Snack
5 almonds
piece of cheese.

May we all Sleep well tonight, and make good choices tomorrow.

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

Linda, what do you put in your chicken salad? I always made mine with mayo, but I'm pretty sure I want to stay away from that.

 

[Lisa]

I want Girl Scout Samoa cookies, and I want them now!!!!!

Thank goodness none are in the pantry or they would be gone!

Off to swig my water.

 

[StitchIsOurHero]

Good morning, everyone!! Keep up the awesome work! Rebecca--I like your chart idea!

We can do this, ladies!!!

 

[DisneyIsTerrific]

I stayed the same this week which I'm happy about considering last week consisted of girl scout cookies and potato chips! Not a healthy eating week!!!! This week will be a better week!

 

[MazdaUK]

Even low fat mayo has fat, fat free yoghurt is recommended as an alternative, or a fat-free dressing.

I was down 3 this morning - amazing the differnece weighing yourself in your nightie before breakfast rather than after lunch in work clothes

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

Naked is even better.

 

[MazdaUK]

Its only a T-shirt, and as our garage (where I hide the scales) registers "safe fridge temperature" I'll swallow the extra ounces

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

That is pretty darn cold Mazda. I take the hit with the few ounces too.

 

[LindaBabe]

Linda, what do you put in your chicken salad? I always made mine with mayo, but I'm pretty sure I want to stay away from that.

I think it had mayo in it, but I didn't make it - we ate lunch at Sutton's in Lake George, after a visit to Oscar's Smoke House in Warrensburg. It was very good. (I'm not among those who think fat is bad, so I'll eat my mayo, thank you)

Good workout this am at the gym - I changed up my routine a bit - instead of30 minutes plodding at level 7 on the cross trainer, I did 10 minutes at level 6 going intervals of 2 minutes at 80, 30 seconds at 100 - that was enough to get me breathing hard and coughing, so I was maxed. Then hand weights, abs, back extensions, thighs 30 reps each. Then 40 minutes in the pool 50 reps each exercise and still had time to swim a bit.
When I started, I could barely do 15 reps of each in half an hour and then went home and slept for 2 hours. So, albeit slowly, clearly, progress is being made. If I can do it, YOU CAN TOO! BABY STEPS!

 

[Lisa]

If you go back to the first page, you can see the tracking of how we have been doing, it's impressive!!!!

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

I haven't weighed myself in a while, to busy doing other things.

Must get back on track for the DC trip with the 8th grade. Don't want to look like a fat slob in the photos!!! LOL

 

[LindaBabe]

Good Morning, Everyone!

Yesterday, I ate
Snack (before gym)
1/2 wwh mini bagel with 1 T pb

Breakfast
slice of melon
3 bacon
2 egg mushroom omlet
2 pieces of that really skinny black pumpernickel (28 carbs)

Lunch
Salad with feta and olives
1/2 a full sugar, full fat, white flour cranberry muffin

Snack
1/2 apple
chunk of store cheese

Supper
Smoked pork chop
1/2 cup mixed brown rice and couscous (because there wasn't enough rice)
1 cup of broccoli

Snack at bedtime
a sugarfree cough drop - because i'd been coughing so much my back hurt

Did I post about the gym? My memory is so short. Oh, yes. I did. Well, I won't chew my cabbage twice

YOU CAN DO IT!

Happy day, all!

 

[PinballFamily]

With all of yesterday's craziness, I forgot to weigh and post! Result: No change from last week.

(I suppose that's good, considering all the "prescription chocolate chips" I was eating by the handful as I pored over DSs testing results...!) I'll be better this week.

Also, thanks for the page one summary - but could you add my 2/11/10 results; 2 lbs. down! Merci beaucoup!

 

[Lisa]

Pam, I am sure I will be in the same boat this week. It will be amazing if I don't gain ten pounds with all the stress that has been going on.

 

[LindaBabe]

Nothing healthy happened here today, and I have no recollection of what I ate yesterday - oh, yeah, salmon and asparagus for dinner, because I had asparagus omlet for breakfast today. Scale hit 218.5 several days this week, so I think it's probably a good number. I'm happy.

 

[ddavis860]

Boy, today I blew it. Went to Fat Tuna at the beach and ate "Mike's Waffles" which is basicly waffle cut tatoes, with crab, shrimp, and cheese on them. OMG...sooo good with the Chipolte dip... But I was with my DH and we were having such a nice day Did I mention the margarita?

But I'm not doing the points, just starting again tomorrow...

 

[Lisa]

And darling, you ruk maaarvelous!!

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

If we don't give ourselves permission to eat the stuff we like every once and while, we are going be miserable and never stay with this for the long haul. It's about making choices that are right and healthy and maybe not both at the same time.

I'm not going to stop living because I want to be healthy. I need to find that balance of eating mostly good for me health wise and a few good for me spiritually/emotionally wise.

I'll get there.

 

[rlovew]

Yep, I have been good about exercising all week and good about eating for a few days now but I know Sunday I am going out to a big event with all kinds of junk to eat so I will allow myself to eat a little of the junk.

Rebecca