Renee's daily journal.....comments welcomed

[marsh0013]

hey renee, great job staying on plan even with a stressful day. it's tough to stick to the plan when our routine changes. i think it's really interesting how we all become such creatures of habit. and it's hard when something comes in and messes that up. but you did a great job! and you made it to curves even with the kiddies home! and did watp! (as long as you did it after you posted, but i know that you said you were going to )

have a great day today

 

[wiskband]

HI marsh
thanks for support....I did do my tape after the post.
so today was so/so.
I went nuts for breakfast and had an atkins bagel.
I got up at 5 cause baby would not sleep and I woke up so hungry!
Couldnt wait till my normal 10 oclock breakfast while watching ellen, so I ate at 5 in the morning! bad thing is, I didnt eat much else until much later.
I had a bite of a donut about 11 and a few pork rinds through out the day.
Drank 4 cups of coffee
and then finally at about 5 I had dinner. I ate steak and a small salad.
AND THEN there was my 5 year olds birthday cake!
YES I had a small piece of this.
As far as my lack of eatig I really didn;t think much about eating because I simply wasn't hungry. Also, my day was consumed with buying this great crib tent that will keep baby in crib! He is just nto ready for a bed.
I drank 100 oz of water and unfortunatly did not get to the gym nor did I do my tapes.
Tomorrow I am going upstate to pick up my nephews so I will be on the road. I plan to eat breakfast at home and then stop at subway on the way for a low carb wrap! I have been wating all week for that.
I am a little worried about saturday though. My daughter bday party is then and will be at mcdonalds.
I have been thinking about it all week. I am torn. I havent had mickey dees in so long! I really really want to eat it! but know I really shouldn;t.
lol. I think ill post a thread about this.
till tomorrow
renee

 

[marsh0013]

hey renee, you sound crazy busy! no wonder you had no time to even think about food!

that tent crib thing sounds funny. keep that baby in there! i'm sure it'll frustrate him, but it will be much nicer for mommy

i'm glad you had a small piece of dd's cake. if you hadn't allowed yourself a small piece to begin with, i think there's more of a chance you would have indulged in a large piece later. because you would have felt you were denying yourself. so good job

about the mickey d's..as crazy as it sounds, i think you can find something there to eat that will allow you to partake, but will also be on plan. i don't knwo the carb specifics, but i assume that if you had a burger with no bun, that could work. or how about one of their salads with grilled chicken? you guys are allowed to have full fat dressings right? sorry i don't know too much about your plan, but i know that you will be able to find something to enjoy but stay on plan

btw, my brother's birthday party is tomorrow too! he's turning 17 (well, actually, he did today...but the party is tomorrow). it's at my house, and there's gonna be lots of food that i don't want to eat, but i'm gonna stick to the shrimp dish that is good for me

hope you had a great day today, and enjoyed your atkins wrap from subway!!

 

[wiskband]

Hi marsh.........
Hope you did well at your brothers party...I did not do so well....lol
I rationalized my day.....
"ahhhh I haven't had this in so long" YADDA YADDA YADDA.
Anyway, i also went to the gym early saturday morning and although, I did not feel I lost enough, they did! and really made me fell so good about myself!
I only last 6 pounds but I havent been weighed in in about 2 months. whic is not alot for me. I have to consider that I went off my plan durin my 2 week vacation and the holidays so it was more like losing 6 pounds in amonth which is so bad. I did loss alot of inches. Didnt get the amount cause they didn;t *** everything up while I was there but she did say I did real good in inches.
Which leads me to Mickey dees!
I always mess up once I found that I lost a few pounds. Which is why I had the big mac and fries!
OMG!
It was all I ate all day...but then I got pretty wasted drinking some wine with and old friend!
This is weird cause I never drink, I mean I did last weekend which was the first time in literally years. So two weekends in a row I drank wine!
Sunday morning (today) I started out good. We had a houseful of people that stayed over so this morning my bro in law went and got dozens of bagel. I did not have one I ate my usualy breakfast.
egg scrambled bacon and atkins bread with CL lemonade.
I did howver have a bagal later today but I made it an atkins bagel. I drank one cup of coffee and then really screwed up!
I ate a few sugar wafers and some more junk lying around the house. Well I am back on track tomorrow,
till then ( its time for sex int he city).
renee

 

[marsh0013]

alright, so let's look at the positive. 6 pounds gone! banished and gone forever. so it took 2 months, oh well. sometimes weight loss will be slow. just do your best to stick to your eating plan and continue to work out, and you will keep that scale moving in the right direction.

big mac and fries! oh goodness. well, i think you knew you knew you were going to end up eating somethign not so good there. i hope you enjoyed your little indulgence .

but the weekend is over. so no looking back, just look forward and stick to the plan. you already said you are back on track for today, so that is good. you can do it . hope you have a wonderful on plan day today

 

[wiskband]

Thanks marsh...........I like how you dont sugarcoat things for me but still positive!
BY the way, I was chceking out your journal last night which got me thinking about WW instead of low carb.........It was the pizza bagels/muffins.........that got me thinking. LOL.
Also, by the way, I used to livein bergen county (englewood).

Anyways,
Today was good.
I ate a bagel (atkins) for breakfast with cream cheese and a glass of CL lemonade.
I did not have lunch although., I did have a few pieces of pepperoni and cheese.
I ate about 3/4 nacho chips.
For dinner I ate a bowl of creamed spinach and half a small avacado.
I then snack on 2 atkins peanut butter cups and a few more pepperoni pieces. I ate one sugar free jello and drank all my water 4 (24) oz. and drank about 4 cups of coffee.

I made it to curves but did not do my WATP tape........I am just not into that all of a sudden. I could make excuses but I always used to fit it in.
However I was very busy today and really didnt sit except when a friend came by. Anyway menu for this wekk is as followed.

Tuesday

(B) one egg bacon and atkins bread CL lemonade.
(L) spinach pepperoni and cheese snack.
(D) a big cx salad.
(S) low carb ice cream and atkins peanut butter cups.
My usual water and coffee the GYM and WATP (try 2).


Wednesday

(B) one egg bacon and atkins bread CL lemonade.
(L) small salad and avacado
(D) LC pizza
(S) one sugar free jello and atkins peanut butter cups
My usual water and coffee the GYM and WATP.

Thursday

(B) 2 egg hard boiled , bacon and CL lemonade
(L) tuna salad on atkins bread
(D) Steak and a small salad and avacado
(S) LC ice cream and atkins peanut butter cups.
My usual water and coffee the GYM and WATP (try 2)

Friday

(B) one egg scrambled bacon on atkins and CL lemonade.
(L) LC pizza
(D) Subway LC wrap
(S) Jello and atkins peanut butter cups.
My usual water and coffee and WATP.

AND NOW I WILL ATTEMPT....... to make a weAkend plan!!!! lol

Saturday

(B) 2 eggs hard boiled bacon and atkins bread.
(L) tuna salad
(D) LC pizza
(S) cheese cake (made with splenda)
my usual water coffee and WATP

Sunday

(B) one egg scrambled bacon and atkins bread.
(L) spinach and a small salad.
(D) Chicken and veggies......
(S) cheesecake.
No exercise!!!

 

[CourtasanSatine]

you're doing great with making a eating plan

 

[marsh0013]

renee, what a small world it is. i'm in park ridge, and the first 10 years of my life i lived in bogota. we used to be pretty much neighbors!

and ya know what, i think whatever plan we're on, we're always gonna look at somebody else's and think...hmmm...that sounds like some good food. like since i eat low fat stuff, i see you guys eating stuff like ranch dressing and cheese sauces and stuff. mmm. and i know i've mentioned before how i'm jealous of all the places that have low carb menus (subway, friday's, etc). but i guess it's whatever works for you. i could never ever give up carbs. ww works for me. but everybody's different. and thank god, otherwise life would be pretty boring!

once again, you impress me with planning out your entire week! but it looks like a good plan. even if you have to tweak it a bit depending on how you're feeling on a particular day, it's a great framework to have.

and i understand about skipping the watp tape. but you did go to curves, so that is excellent. i know for me, i really enjoy running, and i would never skip a run day unless there were circumstances beyond my control. but i've skipped on my pilates vid a few times. i know i shouldn't, but oh well. so as long as you enjoy curves and you do those workouts, you're doing great. so do the watp when you can. maybe make it more of an occassional thing if you don't enjoy them as much anymore. or try getting a different kind of tape to switch it up once in a while.

alright, i've blabbed enough, hehe . oh but one more thing...have a great day today

 

[wiskband]

hey marsh......
I have been dying to run! I am a smoker and have decided that once I hit my goal weight I would quit. I have never been one to stick to anything I say but I have been losing the weight so smoking can be done. BUt just one thing at a time. I did however decide to day that I am gonna cut down to 10 smokes a day! I smoke a pack now (about 20) so I have decide to cut my habbit in at least half. Its a start and this way when I get doen to my goal hopefully it will be easier. I am appraoching the smoking thing as a phychologically thing. I tend to smoke when I am on the comp and especially driving soooooo.....gonna stop smoking at the comp and when driving this way when I do quit I missit driving or by the comp. I really enjoy walking and would really love to run! that is my ulimate goal. I did try it when I was down in FL last month but realized that I couldnt do it so I ran then walked and so on. I am wondering though, where do you run this time of year? Also, are you going to WISHCON? I am registered to walk it maybe by then I could run it. Hope to talk to you soon marsh......

Today didnt follow plan although, I did do quite well.........
To b e totally honest, I didnt print a copy of my plan and was being lazy to get on line and do that so........
I wound eating breakfast at about 2:00

(B) one egg scrambled bacon atkins bread LC lemonade
S) pepperoni and cheese
(D) half tuna sandwich and some spinach
(S) LC ice cream and a sugar ffree jello.
Did cheat once today.....my 20 month old insisted on feeding me 2 cookies..........HOW COULD I SAY NO!
I drank 100 oz of water and my usual coffee.
and made it to curves




gonna try and get that WATP tape in this evening...
till tomorrow
renee

 

[ZerasPride]

Hi Renee,

You impress me with making up a meal plan for the whole week. That takes dedication and organization. Good for you!

I look at other people's plans (like WW) and sometimes think it would be nice to have the foods they can have. I guess like Marcia said, someone else's plan always looks better than yours.

Anyway, keep up the great work and you'll be at your goal in no time. Then you can work on the smoking thing. Take care!

 

[marsh0013]

renee, sounds like a good idea to me to cut back on the smokes . i know, i know, it's not easy. and neither is this healthy living thing. hmm, i was gonna say "weight loss thing" but everyone refers to it more as healthy living, and then i realized...not smoking fits into healthy living too. everything is related. and i know, one thing at a time. but deciding to cut back is so great. i'm sure you can do it, if not just for your own health, then for the health of the kiddies too. (ok, sorry if that sounded soap-boxy, i didn't mean it to, i'm just proud of you for making "healthy living" choices ).

and yes, i'm registerd for wishcon! i'm going to run the half marathon. and what you said about walking/running, that's exactly the right way to do it! run a little, walk a little. there's a program called "couch to 5k", i think it's on www.coolrunning.com , maybe other sites too, but it teaches you how to build up your stamina. i've read that a lot of people have had great success with it. you may want to check it out if that interests you . oh yeah, and i run indoors on a treadmill. i have a free gym in teh building of my office during the work-week, so that's convenient. and on weekends, i'm paying to have a weekends only membership at another gym. i can't wait till it gets nicer so i can actually run outside!

ok, and the 20 month old feeding you cookies, there is no way you can count that as a cheat! you cannot resist such a thing! kids are so cute, and especially at that age, how can you say "no, mommy can't eat that"...they don't understand! so don't you dare count that as a cheat!

have a great day today, i'll talk to you later

 

[DoeWDW]

Renee, the cookies that your 20 month old feeds you do NOT have any calories! How sweet of your little one - they are so fun at that age (can you tell I have 2 teenagers? ).

Good for you on cutting down on the # of ciggies per day! Your lungs will thank you for it! It will make training for the half marathon easier too. It is tough to do though - are you sure you don't want to taper off a bit slower??

Hang in there!

 

[sharoncity]

Hey Renee-

That's a big order! Healthy eating AND cutting back on smokes?! Good for you! We will all cheer you on. We want some updates on how that is going too! But remember to take baby steps with it; it will all come together!

And I too agree - cookies from a 20 mo old don't count!!! I always loved that age (18 -36 mos) it was my favorite time with my kids. Don't get me wrong, I love it now too, but they are just so DARN CUTE at that age!

Keep up with all the good work. You are doing GREAT!
TTFN-
Sharon

 

[wiskband]

sharon.....
I like how you put it.. that the cookies dont even count! lol..... very cute.

Dow....
Believe it or not I ACTUALLY forgot to split up my cigarettes today (ten in each pack for two days). About half way though the day I realized this and forgot how many I had already had! Kinda got me thinking that perhaps your right. Cutting i half is drastic.....
Although, that does sound like I am rationalizing. BUt I think tomorrow I will go down to 15.......for about 2 weeks and so on.
thanks

Marsh......
definitely gonna check out that site.....I was up late last night reading threads about the marathon. I am very excited about it. As I said ultimatley, I would love to run (as you do). I had a professer once (chemical dependency counseling) and told us that he was s smoker and began to jog to loss weight. He fell in love wit running and ralized he needed to quit smoking in order to run!. It was giving up one addiction for another. And he also went into the explanation of what running actually does to your brain chemically (endorphins etc) I do hope that this magic will happen for me. It seems that many people (like yourself) when they talk about running.. you can hear the passion they have for it. Anyway I am going on and on sorry. I am just looking forward to a wonderful feeling when I do run someday.

Zera.....
Hi. hope your well.......The plan is good although, I havent really been sticking to it! LOL although I havent done bad but like my daily TO DO Lists this list gets altered as well, according to how my day is going. I usually stay home and have no visitrs during the weekdays, this week happens to be different. I have had a visitor everyday and/or have had to gone out for some reason. LOL.
but as I said, I haven still been doing ok.
thanks
again
renee



SOOOO today.
(B) one egg scrambled bacon and stkins bread.
(L) a few pepperoni and chees snacks. ( keep inmind I eat breakfast late so I usually dont have a lunch meal.
(D) Heres where I impressed myself!
We took the kids to chuck e cheese.

I was stressing this the whole ride. BUt I got there and ordered a large pie and a salad.
As we waited for the pie, I quickly filled up on salad! lol. I actually had 2 1/2 salad servings.......by the time the pizza got there I was full. I did however have some cheese.
My daughter takes her cheese off which works out perfectly fro me! OH and I ate my littles one crust ( a very thin crust ) I just wrapped the cheese around it. It was saitisfing enough after all the salad I had!

(S) one sugar free jello and then I went a little bad.
My daughter handed me a bag of crunchy cheese doodles to throw away when I notice there were a few little ones left at the bottom! SOOOOOO I ate them...not a crime but I also had one cookie(that baby did not feed me LOL) anyway not too too bad. Although, I admit I have a problem with picking! I just remembered yesterday I snuck a bite of hubby sandwich too!

WELL ANYWAY, I made it to Curves and drank my usual water a coffee. I did not do my WATP I think I am seriuosly bored. I am expected a kick boxing video.......compliments of OH mom! from WISH ( thanks mom) so I think that will get me going again at home. I have been practicing the kicking on hubbys chest! LOL
till tomorrow.
renee

 

[CourtasanSatine]

I'll second cookies from little kids don't count,and it's really cute

 

[marsh0013]

renee, i've definitely heard of "runner's high". i'm not sure that i've actually experienced it, but i know i experience something... most of the time, the first mile or so is the hardest. but once i hit about the 1.5 mark, i feel like i hit a groove or something, and i usually speed up, and i feel like i could keep going forever. maybe it's runner's high, maybe it's just a groove, not sure. either way, i love it . it really is like an obsession for me, but i like how you refer to it as a passion. makes me sound less loony . a lot of the time, you just have to get through that wall in the beginning. i'm sure once you do get to running (whenever that may be), you will enjoy it as well

i am so proud of you for surviving chuck e cheese! you got to give your kids a treat, without sacrificing your healthy eating. sounds like you made excellent choices. and the teeny bit of cheese doodles and one cookie surely won't kill you. everything in moderation

and that kick boxing tape sounds like fun. even though kicking hubby's chest sounds more fun . just kidding of course!!! hehe

have a great day today

 

[wiskband]

HI all..........
Today was a good one.
(B) one egg scrambled baconand atkins bread LC lemonade.
(L) no lunch ( just a late breakfast ).
(D) I had a big salad with grilled Cx olives bacon bits onions and dressing.
(S) one cookie 4 small pepperoni pieces and atkins peanut butter cups.
I drank all my water and my coffee.

I was reading a thread about eating low carbs and perhaps my slow weight loss may be because of my body reserving fat. I think that I am gonna alternate days with the carbs.
Gonna ty this for about 2 weeks.
Till tomorrow.
renee

 

[marsh0013]

sounds like an interesting experiment, i hope it works out for you. i have no idea about low carb plans (only really what i've picked up reading all of your guys journals), so i'm not much help in that area. maybe it'll help to kick start a loss again? i hope so! i'm sure you'll keep us up to date as to how it's going

 

[sharoncity]

renee- I've read about the idea as it pertains to WW. Change your pts day to day high-low-high-low...Try to fool your body into keep the metabolism up all the time. I've been trying to do it, but I just can't seem to get in the groove of alternating my pts. I'll keep trying and let you know how I fair. I'll be interested to read how you make out with it.
Good job at Chuck E Cheee the other day. That was a tuff one! Good for you for sticking with the plan!

TTFN-
Sharon

 

[wiskband]

HI all........its 200 sunday afternoon..........Almost didn't ever want to cmeback to journals after the last two days I had! lol.
Very bad choices......
Friday started out OK.
(B) one egg scrambled with bacon atkins bread and I ate a frenh toast stick. (remember, trying to increase the carbs a little) I ate that however with sugarfree syrup. And youll soon see I went a little nuts eating perhaps too many carbs!lol

(L) BK...hubby was home and we were out running around so we stopped to eat.
I ate a CX snadwich with half the bread. I took off the top half and had a few onions rings.

(D) I was so sick.............Not sure from what, we had a 24 hour thing going around so I wasnt sure if it was that or the BK that got me sick.
I did not eat anything for dinner but then my girlfriends cam over with a bottle of wine! OH NOOOOOOOO
Funny thing is, I never drink. I mean I know I have said this beofre but I have drank 3 times this past month, and beofre that it literally has to be years since I have drank no less drank too much!
See the thing is I am moving this summer to FL and my friends are a bit upset about this so there are trying to spend all the time they can with me LOL. but they really have to stop bringing the alcohol. lol
Anyway I felt better l;ater that night and have about 3 glasses of wine 2 glasses of vanilla vodka and cream soda... then we got hungry!!!!!!!!! OH NOOOOOOOO
so too drunk to drive we order dominos pizza
thankfully we all agreed onthe thin crust.......
which by the way (not rationalizing) is really REALLY thin!

Saturday morning, I woke up so sick and hung over everything went to $hit!
As sick as I felt, I was really really hungry.
Being that I had noithing to do with making breakfast, my hubby and brother in law went out for bagels.
OMG! I ate a half of everything bagel and half a sandwich (egg bacon and cheese) on a roll!. Welll after this I had that attitude like many of us do......well I screwed up already may as well do it up.
Next hubby and I had a falling out so, I packed up the kids and went to my friends house ( the one who got my drunk lol) she watched all thekids while I layed on her couch and then she broke out the food!
I ate fish sticks for the first timem ever. and like them. After that we watched TV and I saw someone eating a peanut butter and jelly snadwich well.......I had to have one. And all she had was potatoe bread!!!!!! Goodness
I finally had a enough strength to get myself together and drive us home and when I got here I really over did it. I felt I nned to eat all the bad stuff today so I can get back on the wagon tomorrow.
So I ate a breakfst burrito and 5 oreos and milk!
needless to say, I think I got it out of my system.
I did not drink any of my water the past two days nor did I exercise.
So today. I had my regualr breakfast and am on my second water.....
I plan to eat good the rest of day and week!!!!!!!!
till tomorrow.
renee