Panama Canal Weight Loss/Weight Maintenance Motivation Group

[Tami0220]

Add me to the chart. My start weight is 193 and my goal by cruise is 160. And I agree with the person who stated "maybe going public will help me". We are now accountable for our food decisions! Doesnt mean we cant have it, MODERATION, water and excercise.

 

[carmie3377]

Welcome Sumeto! How nice it must be to exercise at DL! If I lived that close to either DL or WDW, I think I would go walk there too!

Okay, as far as the chart, put me down. Starting weight 146, goal 130. I hope it's attainable. Before our cruise in Dec, I stalled at 136 for about a month even though I continued to exercise and diet. But, I also know that there comes a point where inches keep coming off but pounds don't because of the gain of lean muscle mass. I think that may be what happened before because my clothes did continue fitting better. If it does happen again, that's okay as it's the inches that's really count for me in the end.

Yesterday's journal:
Exercise: 35 minutes on elliptical and 20 minutes of resistance/strength training legs. My legs were BURNING after the last set of reps. I think I had my weight too high.

Food:
Breakfast: Special K w/skim milk
Snack: Special K cereal bar (chocolate pretzel - the perfect mix of sweet and salty!)
Lunch: Chicken Supreme Fresco Burrito from Taco Bell. Menu says it's only 340 calories so that's not bad for fast food.
Snack: Apple, 2 graham crackers dipped in milk
Super: Mini 100 calorie whole wheat bagel sandwich with 3 slices of turkey, romaine lettuce, and a little poppy seed dressing.
Snack: Graham cracker with peanut butter.

I snacked too much yesterday. Gotta do better today

 

[JenKatt]

You can put me on the chart. Starting weight was 187, down to 183 this week. Goal weight for the cruise is 150.
Thanks!

 

[Disneymoon0909]

Ok ladies, I will get started on the chart this weekend, just try and post your weigh ins for the week as early as possible on Monday so I can add it to the chart to post every Tuesday

I didn't have a great day today

FOOD:
60 calorie jello pudding
2pt kelloggs high fiber pb bar
carrabbas: 2 pieces bread, 1 tbsp butter, caesar salad, 3 slices (small) of an individual quattro formaggio pizza

I then got a horrible tummyache and have not been able to force down anymore food since then I think my body was trying to punish me for eating poorly hopefully I will be back on target tomorrow. Hope you ladies had a good day. My husband and I are relaxing at his beautiful house in Vermont. He is watching the Olympis and I am playing with the new netbook we bought today- I love it! Have a great weekend and remember to eat healthy to lose for the cruise! (hope it's ok to steal your witty phrase!).

Cheerio,

Holly

 

[sumeto]

Ok ladies, I will get started on the chart this weekend, just try and post your weigh ins for the week as early as possible on Monday so I can add it to the chart to post every Tuesday

I didn't have a great day today

FOOD:
60 calorie jello pudding
2pt kelloggs high fiber pb bar
carrabbas: 2 pieces bread, 1 tbsp butter, caesar salad, 3 slices (small) of an individual quattro formaggio pizza

I then got a horrible tummyache and have not been able to force down anymore food since then I think my body was trying to punish me for eating poorly hopefully I will be back on target tomorrow. Hope you ladies had a good day. My husband and I are relaxing at his beautiful house in Vermont. He is watching the Olympis and I am playing with the new netbook we bought today- I love it! Have a great weekend and remember to eat healthy to lose for the cruise! (hope it's ok to steal your witty phrase!).

Cheerio,

Holly

I have the phrase "Lose to Cruise" set to "pop up" as a reminder every Monday, to get me on the right foot for the upcoming week. It is also set as an alert as a reminder during the week at work to keep me from getting off track at work. So if it helps you or gives you a smile, that is great! We are all in this together

 

[LindaBabe]

Well I am thinking about the fact that I need to lose weight. My husband's 20 year class reunion is in August, and our Panama Canal cruise in January. I am also sitting here eating ice cream while I write this, so that gives you an idea of how it is going.

PORTION CONTROL is a start!

Food:
Breakfast: Special K w/skim milk
Snack: Special K cereal bar (chocolate pretzel - the perfect mix of sweet and salty!)
Lunch: Chicken Supreme Fresco Burrito from Taco Bell. Menu says it's only 340 calories so that's not bad for fast food.
Snack: Apple, 2 graham crackers dipped in milk
Super: Mini 100 calorie whole wheat bagel sandwich with 3 slices of turkey, romaine lettuce, and a little poppy seed dressing.
Snack: Graham cracker with peanut butter.

I snacked too much yesterday. Gotta do better today

You did pretty well - except for Veggies. Tomorrow is another day

Ok ladies, I will get started on the chart this weekend, just try and post your weigh ins for the week as early as possible on Monday so I can add it to the chart to post every Tuesday

I didn't have a great day today

FOOD:
60 calorie jello pudding
2pt kelloggs high fiber pb bar
carrabbas: 2 pieces bread, 1 tbsp butter, caesar salad, 3 slices (small) of an individual quattro formaggio pizza

I then got a horrible tummyache and have not been able to force down anymore food since then I think my body was trying to punish me for eating poorly hopefully I will be back on target tomorrow. Hope you ladies had a good day. My husband and I are relaxing at his beautiful house in Vermont. He is watching the Olympis and I am playing with the new netbook we bought today- I love it! Have a great weekend and remember to eat healthy to lose for the cruise! (hope it's ok to steal your witty phrase!).

Cheerio,

Holly

I have to be really careful with those sugar free things like bars. Something in them gives me a huge tummy ache, followed by the "trots". Special K crackers, Vitatop chocolate muffin tops, and SouthBeach double chocolate cookies are some of the things that have done if for me.

I have the phrase "Lose to Cruise" set to "pop up" as a reminder every Monday, to get me on the right foot for the upcoming week. It is also set as an alert as a reminder during the week at work to keep me from getting off track at work. So if it helps you or gives you a smile, that is great! We are all in this together

GREAT MOTIVATOR! I gotta figure out how to do that.

 

[poohs4me]

I then got a horrible tummyache and have not been able to force down anymore food since then I think my body was trying to punish me for eating poorly hopefully I will be back on target tomorrow. Hope you ladies had a good day. My husband and I are relaxing at his beautiful house in Vermont. He is watching the Olympis and I am playing with the new netbook we bought today- I love it! Have a great weekend and remember to eat healthy to lose for the cruise! (hope it's ok to steal your witty phrase!).

My stomach does the exact same thing when I have been eating healthy for awhile and then eat bad stuff. Its like it does not know what to do with it.

I like the "Lose to Cruise"!! I have Kokomo by the Beach Boys as my first workout song. A little slow I know but it gets me in the right mind set.

 

[Tami0220]

My music motivators are Gloria Estefan's Conga and The Best of Forienger. Both of those CD's get me dancing around the house. I dance around the house like I would NEVER dance in public. It's a combination of conga, hula, belly dance and aerobics. Doesnt look good, but sure feels good

 

[carmie3377]

I dance around the house like I would NEVER dance in public. ... Doesnt look good, but sure feels good

You sound just like me! I don't have one talented dance gene in my body but I do like to dance.

Okay, lets see if I can remember everything from yesterday:
Exercise: 35 minutes on the elliptical, 20 minutes of upper body exercises, 11 minutes on the bike.

Breakfast: Special K w/skim milk
Snack: Fiber One 50 calorie yogurt w/graham cracker
Lunch: Whole wheat mini bagel sandwich with turkey, romaine, and a touch of poppy seed dressing
Snack: Cashews
Dinner: Small grilled pork chop, grilled squash, small baked potato w/salt and pepper only; grilled apple slices w/cinnamon. Anyone wanting a healthy dessert, this is it! Take an apple, peel and slice it. Sprinkle some cinnamon on it and wrap it in foil and then grill. It's like an apple pie w/o the crust! No added sugar but it is so sweet and yummy!

I think I did better on veggies but still not great.

And Holly, sorry about your stomach ache! I get the same way. Unfortunately, it doesn't last long and it's easy to get back into the bad routine of unhealthy eating. I mean, it's good that the tummy aches are gone but bad because my body thinks it's okay to eat the junk again.

 

[LindaBabe]

Carmie, you did great today! (I can't dance either, lol) Did 20 minutes of the boxing video I got for two bucks at Job Lots - it kicked my butt, and all I did was the warmups, twice, and the first 5 minutes of the next exercise set. I *will* be doing that on the days I don't go to the gym. May not be able to move tomorrow, though.

I love to read cookbooks, and got a new one from the library yesterday The kid-friendly ADHD & Autism cookbook. It's pretty interesting! I have ADD without the H and noticed that my symptoms are less since I've dropped most of the carbs - and guess what? There's a basis for the improvement!

You gals who don't like veggies - might actually have a low zinc level, which affects the taste. I thought that was interesting, too. They have lots of strategies for hiding extra veggies in foods the kid likes - I think it will work for me, too.

Today, I made cabbage soup out of the leftover cooked cabbage from the other night. I chopped it up small and put it in a pot with some onion and finely chopped carrot and the water I save from deglazing the frying pan, pluss somemore water and a couple beef boullion cubes and simmered it a while, then used the imersion blender on it. OH MY it was SO good. That *will* be on my future menus.

Happy day, all!

 

[Disneymoon0909]

Hello ladies

I din't have time to read and reply to everything right now as I am still in Vermont with the hubby but when I get home tomorrow I will make sure to go through carefully and respond. Thanks for all your help so far and for your concern over my icky tummy.

This has been a tough weekend for me, I can be so good during the week and then lose control on the weekends, especially ones where we are away. Even though I pack my own food, other food is so tempting. I did manage to only go out to eat once as planned, so I am proud of myself for that. I still didn't feel great this morning so I didn't eat until around lunch time. Heres the day:

FOOD:
(lunch was at a local deli where I had a half tuna sandwich so the amounts of tuna and mayo are estimates)
1 thick slice of sourdough bread
2/3 can of tuna
3tbsp of mayo
3 pickles
12 chips (homemade, no salt) dipped lightly in ketchup
small salad: carrot, cucumber, lettuce) w/ranch dressing
1 small slice of leftover quattro formaggio pizza (bad bad bad)
5pt WW meal- broccoli and potatoes with cheddar

I didn't do any exercising today either but I plan to make up for that tomorrow. Hope you all have a great night and a great rest of the weekend!

Cheerio,

Holly

 

[LindaBabe]

Good Morning, everybody!

Yesterday (at least that which I can remember)

Breakfast
Melon
coffee cake made with almond flour and splenda only 10 carbs for a 3 inch piece and YUMMY
3 bacon

Lunch
Cabbage soup made with cabbage, carrots, onion, beef boullion, pan deglaze and water
2 short bread cookies = which I should have only eaten one, my sugar was at 130 after 2 hours which is higher than I like it.

Supper
Haddock
2 inch piec of sweet potato
broccoli and carrots
veggies & dip

Snack
another piece of coffee cake with two strawberries on it.

For exercise, I did 20 minutes with that exercise tape, oh my.

Happy Sunday!

 

[poohs4me]

Yesterday I was really, I mean REALLY Bad. I went to McDonalds and had a cheeseburger AND FRIES. But they were sooooo good. Well today is another day, hopefully I can get motivated again.

 

[LindaBabe]

Yesterday I was really, I mean REALLY Bad. I went to McDonalds and had a cheeseburger AND FRIES. But they were sooooo good. Well today is another day, hopefully I can get motivated again.

Oh my Glad you enjoyed it, at least! Cheesburger=300 calories, 33 carbs, Smal fries 231 cal, 29 carbs. But you're right - that was not so good. It could have been worse, though, the quarter pounder with cheese=510!

 

[Disneymoon0909]

Hey ladies

Back from Vermont. Had a wonderful relaxing weekend with DH which was nice since he has been working long 12 hour days lately

Pooh- don't be discouraged! We all slip up, the important thing to remember is that eating bad at one meal doesn't mean you have to throw the whole diet away- just get back on the horse so to speak

WEIGHT LOSS CHART INFO:​

I am starting to work on the chart now- I am gonna make some improvements So far this is what I have for people:

username------start--goal
Catwoman25----149---135
sumeto----------237---135
LindaBabe-------222---
Tami0202-------193---160
carmie3377-----146---130
JenKatt----------187---150

LindaBabe- I need your goal weight please! If anyone else would like to join please PM me or email me your info! My email is hollyhynes@comcast.net

Hope everyone has a great Sunday! My tummy is almost back to normal, I will definitely be thinking twice about being bad from now on! Though, LindaBabe might have something there about high fiber and tummy trouble!

I will post my day later tonight!

Cheerio,

Holly

 

[KayR]

Yesterday I was really, I mean REALLY Bad. I went to McDonalds and had a cheeseburger AND FRIES. But they were sooooo good. Well today is another day, hopefully I can get motivated again.

Its OK to have an occasional naughty day or treat. Today is a new day. Take things in small steps and work towards a lifestyle that you can manage and maintain your weight.

-Kay

 

[KayR]

OK, So I have decided to give myself not only a goal to loose weight and tone up, but another challenge as well. I want to be able to run the Castaway Cay 5K (and for a person that doesn't like running for running's sake, that's a big challenge).

I found this guide on how to train, if anyone else is interested.

http://www.ehow.com/how_10624_train-run-first.html

I am not lightweight either - my starting weight was 227 a couple of weeks ago. I am, as of this morning, 214.5 - I am aiming for a weight of 180 or lower, but will be ecstatic to even get there.

Kids are back to school tomorrow - and I need to get into the habit of going to the gym again!

-Kay

 

[JenKatt]

For those of you looking to start running, run, don't walk over to the Couch to 5K website. I was actually doing it and succeeding before my recent health issues. And I know people who weren't runners now doing half marathons off of this plan.
It does work!

 

[LindaBabe]

Holly,

I don't think it was the fiber that caused the upset - I think it was the sweetener used in those items - probably Maltitol. I eat a lot of fiber with no issues.

My goal? Well, I'd LOVE to drop another 45, but I won't beat myself if it's less. Stretch goal is 177, reasonable goal is 195.

OK, today was my day to be bad - really bad. We had our joint birthday dinner (I ate veggies and only the toppings off the pizza and one little piece of edge) but one of the women brought carrot cake - my favorite. I didn't stop at 3 bites. I didn't stop at 6 bites. I ATE THE WHOLE piece Tomorrow is another day. Thank goodness.

 

[IrishCowboy]