When Did I Get Voted Off of Skinny Island & Why is This Fat Shadow Stalking Me?

[graciejane]

Okay, here goes my tracking for the day.....

egg on a whole grain muffin, low fat cheese

no sugar no carb rock star

grilled chicken with 1/2 cup noodles.

I had no fruit or veggies....but I did drink lots of water.

Tomorrow will be a better day.

 

[lizzyb5280]

Geez! I miss out on a week or so, and had like a dozen pages to read! (Admittedly, just skimmed, but still....) There's noooo way I'd be able to respond to all of it, but here goes:

First of all, welcome to all our new members! (Esp. Patrick, as I'm right up the road in BR!) Congrats to all who have had great losses, and hugs to those going through tough times.

In the realm of OT, I've heard there were a few shows that had series/season finales lately. Lost? AI? DWTS? I couldn't tell ya, as I've never seen even one episode of any of them. (Seen bits and pieces of AI, but I don't think ever a whole episode.) There's only one show that we consistenly watch on network television (will occasionally watch current episodes of House, but mostly just the reruns) and that is BIGGEST LOSER! So amazed with all of their success! I feel bad for Koli though, as his percentages would have blown Michael out the water had he been chosen as a finalist - and I cast a few votes for Daris. Same thing happened to Heba a couple seasons ago; she won the at-home prize, but actually had a higher percentage weight loss than the title winner (I think it was Michelle that season).

As for myself, I haven't been around much b/c we've been crazy busy. Just general busy over the weekend, then Monday & Tuesday had three Dr appointments in two days (neuro and gyn for me, ped for DD). I've been eating decently I think, but not tracking. Back on it today though; I can't believe I missed the goal by one day last time! I'll get it this week! Didn't keep track of quantities for spark, but did keep a running food log in my head.

Breakfast - mini bagel with butter and cinnamon sugar
AM snack - raisins
Lunch - 1/2 a BLT salad from Cracker Barrel (LO from Tuesday) with Light Ranch
PM snack 1 - grapes
Dinner - 4 baked chicken wings (whole wings), whole wheat pasta shells (w/ some sort of sauce made by DH), steamed cauliflower
PM snack 2 - 1 thin mint, and a few doritos as I was making DH's lunch

Thursday May 27 Done!

OH! I almost forgot my picture! This is me and DD at the zoo on Mother's Day. One of the things that bothers me most about the way I look is that my SCI has cost me a lot of my posture, which wasn't great to begin with. So couple that with being overweight and being insanely large-chested, I feel like all I am is a set of lopsided breasts and a lap; I have no torso anymore! My reward to myself when I am maintaining goal weight AND done having kids is a breast reduction. I've wanted one since I was 15, and can't wait!

 

[littlepeppers]

OMG!!! Why are we doing pictures? I avoid cameras like the plague. Accountability!!!!!

I had to go back to Nov 2009 to find a pic. I have 8 extra friends hanging on my body since this pic was taken.

Did some P90X but my C-section scar is literally killing me. I know it didn't heal right. I had 2 emergency sections from hip bone to hip bone. Not the cute little ones that most people have. I may not be able to do the stomach stuff. I'm in a lot of pain & I am moving aroung like I'm 10days post C-section. My other muscles hurt in a good way.

 

[njcarita]

what an amazingly lovely picture....... U have inspired me to start taking more pictures with my kids...... I'm another mom who sadly if only we went by "photographic record" didn't exist in her kids lives.....

 

[njcarita]

add me to the posting what i eat challenge.... I'll start recording today.... really need to figure out what the heck is going on.....

 

[littlepeppers]

Breakfast - putting salt in pool (forgot about it until it was too late)
*Got a good work out brushing the salt in the pool to make it dissolve faster. All 310lbs of the salt.

Early Lunch - veggi filled lasagna (home made)- small piece

Dinner (remind me to kill DH) - Chinese buffet

**DH thinks we need full blown meals. We were messing w/ the pool & I didn't get to cook. Instead of sandwiches, cereal......... he wanted to go out to the store ie...eat out

 

[zoegirl]

Breakfast - putting salt in pool (forgot about it until it was too late)
*Got a good work out brushing the salt in the pool to make it dissolve faster. All 310lbs of the salt.

Early Lunch - veggi filled lasagna (home made)- small piece

Dinner (remind me to kill DH) - Chinese buffet

**DH thinks we need full blown meals. We were messing w/ the pool & I didn't get to cook. Instead of sandwiches, cereal......... he wanted to go out to the store ie...eat out

This post just cracked me up. I'm sure so many of us can say we want to kill our DHs for leading us to the dark side with food.

what i ate yesterday:
Breakfast: again none 3 cups of coffee. I promise I really do eat breakfast, just haven't had much of an appetite the last few days.
Lunch: Salad with 1/2 cup of leftover taco meat, & some chips w/homemade salsa
dinner:2 of my sweet girlfriends took me out for the evening to help get my mind off of my dad's death. I ate sushi (2 rolls), a salad w/ginger dressing and 1 beer.
I'm trying to keep up with drinking water. I am so bad with this. I try to not make anything else available to drink except water & I still fail. Want to get better at drinking what I'm supposed to.

May 27 done


~bree~

 

[njcarita]

I'm trying to keep up with drinking water. I am so bad with this. I try to not make anything else available to drink except water & I still fail. Want to get better at drinking what I'm supposed to.

May 27 done


~bree~

I'm also trying to up my water intake.. but I really try to stay away from artificial sweetners, colors etc... so I was so excited when I saw these the other day.... I use one a day... to relieve water bordem...

has no artificial sweetners , colors or preservatives and only 15 calories each..

 

[officereg]

Holy large picture....sorry I can not seem to get it smaller. Oh well. I am in the back like usual. My son is next then my niece and nephew. We were at the Henry Ford Museum in December. This was at my heaviest 237.

 

[officereg]

I also found this and laughed until it hurt.

 

[tlenzendorf]

As promised... the leg!

 

[tlenzendorf]

 

[tlenzendorf]

Yesterday's food intake...

Breakfast: Bowl Raisin Bran Crunch w/skim

Lunch: Sub-whole wheat sub roll, ham, provolone, lettuce, tomato, miracle whip. 1 apple, Diet Pepsi. We had a party for a birthday and I DIDN'T order Olive Garden OR eat dessert! Huge success!!

Dinner: Whole wheat pasta salad-Whole Wheat Rotini, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, fat free italian dressing and shredded parmesan. 1 piece wheat bread with 2 TSP peanut butter

Beverages at ball: 2 Jello shots(with Vodka), 1 Miller Lite

LOTS OF WATER

Exercise- I coach Mariah's softball team, so I practiced with them for 1.5 hours, then we drove to my game and I played for an hour.

I don't even feel bad about the ball beverages, I worked hard and ate well!

Weds, May 26 Done!

 

[stayhomemom77]

Okay, let me preface this with an "I'm sorry, but...."

EWWWW!! Those are gross pictures of the leg injury heard 'round the world!! Let me just say...you have my attention and my sympathy. I hope it heals quickly.

The car accident yesterday sort of robbed me of my appetite so although I ate my meals...they were tiny. So I still had 12 points left at the end of the day. I decided (since hubby wanted a treat) that I would do ice cream and I indulged in an 8 point cone...and then felt guilty about it for an hour afterward. Still had four regular points left for the day even after the indulgence and 2 exercise points as well as ALL of my weekly flex points. But, I figured that it was like a meal's worth of empty calories and hence a bad choice.

Anyway, I've forgiven myself for that...although I may not have if the scale hadn't been nice to me again this morning. Weighed in at 252.8 so down 0.8 pounds overnight. How much longer can I keep this up?? I'm enjoying this daily weight loss posting and I'll be sad when I'll have to resort to weekly bragging...I mean sharing!!

I'm going to ignore all the Jesus comments, I want to have immunity from all of the lightening strikes!! But I think he's up there cheering me on to hot mama-ness. I'm only planning on seducing my own husband so I should be good to go.

I've noticed that when I see myself alone in a picture, I often think..."hey! That's not so bad." It's only when I'm standing with my skinny mini friends that I can hear the Fat Albert theme song in my head.

Case in point:

This was taken at Christmas last year. Thankfully these pants are too large now...however you can see DH is still sexy despite his extra 40 pounds. (I'm jealous of that.) I'd like to be able to look at pictures of the two of us and not wonder what he is doing with me. I outweigh him by a lot.

And now that I have just confirmed your suspicions that I am extremely vain, I'll sign off for now!! Please continue to love me.

 

[Mndisneygirl]

HOLY HANNAH!!! That is one ugly bruise!! I hope it's improving!

I guess we're all a bit vain - or we wouldn't be so shy about being in pictures because we're overweight right? I always notice my weight in pictures, never in the mirror. The good thing is I had a new ID picture taken for work recently and compared it to an old one and you can see how much thinner I am in the face. Of course, I'm not sure, but I think the old one may have been taken when I was pregnant!

Doing well eating today- made myself a yogurt parfait with greek honey flavored yogurt, blueberries and organic granola cereal. Then I had a banana.
Lunch was a wrap with steak, lowfat pepperjack, mushrooms and lettuce.
I ate my calcium chews for dessert (chocolate flavored!)

I spend the morning outside at my kids' school for game day, so I drank some water, but it was getting warm. Going to go get more water now and walk the dog.

Happy Friday everyone!!!

 

[zoegirl]

Sara - I want to try those crystal light packs. I plan on buying some as soon as I go through the box of fake sugar propel packs I have. Love the aerobics quote. We have all felt that way at some point or other haven't we?

tlen - ohgoodgrief that's a nasty bruise! I hope it looks worse than it feels, and if it feels bad that it heals soon.

stayhomemom - I just want to say I think it's sexy that you think your husband is sexy. I think too many folks look outside the home for validation & the fact that you want to look and feel sexy for your husband speaks volumes about your character. I also know how you feel about having "skinny-mini" friends. My two closest are both a size 4 one having one of those rock hard bodies I only dream of having. If she weren't such a sweet person I'd hate her guts but in her defense she works hard to look as good as she does. And she's one of my biggest fans so I think I'll keep her

Sheree - I'm totally hungry after reading what you've eaten today. Think I'll go fix some lunch

 

[PixiePlanner]

I am off of work shortly but wanted to check in before leaving for a long weekend. My home computer is STILL down. I will post my weight on Tuesday Dawn.

Have a FABULOUS weekend everyone. Enjoy.

 

[gellybean]

Just a quick drive by. I'm running around trying to pack for me and both boys. Heading to my parents house for Memorial Day weekend.

Tricia- YEOWCH! I'm cringing just looking that leg. You win the battle scar award for the week.

Julie- I bet if you asked him your hubby thinks your sexy too!! I have issues cus I think my hubby is hot and I'm not but when I talk to him he feels the exact way, only opposite. That I'm hot and he's not. A lot of it is perception. Course my response to him is I'd feel a lot better if I thought *I* was sexy. So I totally get it!

Bree- I totally agree about wanting to hate your skinny friends. Which is why I don't have any!
Just kidding! Though my bff was TINY for a long time and now she's struggling and actually admitted to me she was sorry for thinking all those years that I could just 'eat less and exercise more' and be skinny. A little redemption in that, not gonna lie.


Dawn- hope you start to feel better once and for all!! Is it ok if I post all my trackings for Friday-Monday on Tuesday since our tracking week runs Thurs-Thurs anyway?


I'm out like trout! Will probably post my weigh in Tuesday morning when I return. I'll be reading over the weekend from my phone but probably won't post.

Have a fabulous and safe weekend!!!

 

[eliz991]

Gelly - yeah, working at a court it's better if I don't walk around looking like I have a house arrest monitor stuck on my arm! Plus I hate the way it looks, it squishes my arm fat. Love the graphs and stuff though, like you! On the leg it's not as accurate, it will give you a higher reading because you move your legs more than your arm. I actually started doing it that way during spin because I read so many people complaining that it didn't measure biking well (which is true, on my arm it would give me like 150 calories for spinning, on my leg more like 500). It will get easier to track on their site after a while, assuming you eat the same things.

I'm totally going to Central Market for those mini croissants! We don't have regular HEB up here, but CM carries a lot of their stuff so I'll see if they have them.

Hope everyone else is having a good day - no time to quote right now! But speaking of quotes, Patrick I love the one of Jillian that you have today!

Food today so far:

post midnight: half of a red stripe = 75 calories

breakfast: coke and a leftover taco (can you tell I was a little hung over?) = 361 calories

snack: goldfish crackers = 140 calories

lunch: WW pasta with ricotta and spinach (I wasn't sure about this one but it was actually pretty good) = 280 calories

Not planning an afternoon snack; don't know about dinner yet but it will probably be out again since we have no food in the house. Maybe a big salad since we are going to a party tonight and I know I will be drinking again (wine, most likely).

Dinner and evening (I wasn't very hungry): 3 oz boneless Flounder,1/2 cup Green Snap Beans, 1/4 serving Long Grain & Wild Rice
37 1/2 oz White Table Wine (this is a bottle and a half, if you're wondering) = 1033 calories

Total for day = 1890, not terrible for a Friday

Friday, May 28 done!

 

[pwmitch237]

I'll be out of town for the next week so, I won't be able to get on here until next Friday afternoon. Have a great week ya'll!

-Patrick

"Stand up and FINISH what you STARTED!" - Bob Harper