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

[stitchfan23]

Okay me again! Just a question for you bodybugg users. I am looking for something that will calculate the number of calories I burn in a day. I know the bodybugg does this but do you or anyone else know if I can get that info by using a pedometer. The bodybugg is alot of money plus you then need to pay a monthly subscription fee that I am not sure I would ge the use out of. I have heard that the bodybugg site is hard to track food on so if I am going to track elsewhere why would I pay for it? Really all I want is something that says... Hey Heather you burned XXXX calories today. That way I can look at my food log and go great I burned more calories than I consumed without having to guess. That is all I want nothing more, nothing less. Any ideas?

 

[stayhomemom77]

Well....

I had a great week!! I lost 10.8 pounds my first week here and I gotta tell ya, it feels GOOD!!!

Hubby told me Friday morning that I was already looking slimmer...I glowed for the rest of the day.

I had a rough week for exercising (go figure!!) so that's my main goal for this week. Aiming for a half hour minimum/four days so I can progress from there.

If I'm right, I'm supposed to track my eating from Friday to Thursday (hopefully I'm right) so I'll do that now.

I'd better go figure out what to do with tonight's chicken. I seem to make the same three or four dishes all the time (with chicken) so I'm on the hunt for a new diet friendly recipe. Wish me luck!!


Friday, May 28

B-toasted ham and egg sandwich
L-shrimp and cheese tortilla, orange, 1 cup clam chowder
D-McDonalds:small fry, grilled buffalo chicken wrap
May 28th done

Saturday, May 29
B-honey nut cheerios/1/2 cup 2% milk, orange, yogurt
L-McDonalds:small fry, grilled buffalo chicken wrap
D-nothing (I fast for 24 hours once a month for religious reasons)
May 29th done

Sunday, May 30
B-nothing (still fasting)
L-toasted egg and cheese sandwich
D-2 bean and cheese tortillas with 1/2 cup salsa and 1/4 cup sour cream
May 30th done

Congrats Stitchfan for being down this week! Keep up the good work.

 

[Mndisneygirl]

No Change for me this week.
That's okay. I didn't get much exercise, and tried to be cautious with my eating. Since today is so beautiful I am planning a nice long walk! I got some arm exercise already this morning scrubbing the stain off the side of the hot tub. (We're re-staining it).

 

[stitchfan23]

I had a great week!! I lost 10.8 pounds my first week here and I gotta tell ya, it feels GOOD!!!

How in the name did you loose 10.8lbs in one week? Please tell Congratulations.

 

[Octoberbeauty]

Well....

I had a great week!! I lost 10.8 pounds my first week here and I gotta tell ya, it feels GOOD!!!

Great Job!!

Thank you for all the prayers and thoughts this weekend. Friday was really rough, but the rest of the weekend has been okay. We went to the Omaha Zoo Saturday along with about 3 million other people. It was CROWDED! Noah loved the zoo though. He was so cute!

I'm down 2 more lbs this week. I plan to add in exercise this next week and see if I can rev up the weight loss. So, glad to be losing though.

Okay, I'm way behind on this thread. I'll have to sit down and read the last several pages tonight.

 

[stayhomemom77]

How did I lose that much in one week, you ask?

I dunno...

But whenever I get back on the raft for skinny island, I always lose BIG in the first week (10 to 12 pounds usually) moderately for the second week (3 to 6 pounds usually) and then a pound or two weekly after that. I'm curious to see how much I'll lose this week.

Wait, this calls for a dancing banana.

Apparently, it has something to do with the shock to the system and that there are so many fat cells to choose from the body goes hog wild and dumps a bunch right away. That's what I've been told, anyway.

I also drink TONS of water when I'm dieting (like 16 to 20 glasses a day) so it just seems to melt off at the beginning.

 

[MulanUSAF]

Hey everyone, I'm back from the beach! Got on the Wii fit board and it shows -1.6 lbs

What made me really happy was that on the Wii Fit, I'm now out of the pink "overweight" zone for BMI and now I'm hovering at the top of the yellow "normal" zone. I have never been in the yellow since I bought the Wii Fit system about 2 years ago. So I'm really really

Went to the beach with some friends this past weekend. No bikinis or one piece swim suits for me yet, but I didn't feel half as self-conscious as I was last year. Bought some new mix-n-match tankini top and shorts at Kohl's for $12 total! So I was pretty happy overall, and I resisted most of the bad boardwalk food.

Food log for the past 3 days:

Breakfast - 2 hard boiled eggs (no yolk), grapes and 1/2 piece of Eggo waffle
Lunch - Caesar salad with chicken, Parmesan cheese and croutons
Dinner - fried shrimp and oyster po-boy (only ate 1/3 of the bread roll), cole slaw, 1 piece of hushpuppy
Snack - 1/2 ear of roasted corn on the cob
Friday May 28 Done

Breakfast - Single serving bowl of cheerios with milk, 1 small apple, 1 yogurt
Lunch - fish and chips (I gave most of the chips to my brother), small garden salad with bleu cheese dressing
Dinner - BBQ ribs, grilled shrimp and vegetable kabobs, single scoop ice cream cone
Snack - a couple handfuls of toffee nut popcorn and 1/2 cheese corn dog
Saturday, May 29 Done


Breakfast - 1/2 pecan waffle and 1 egg sunny side up, 1 sausage patty and some fruit salad
Lunch - seafood salad (made with light mayo) in a whole wheat pita with lettuce and tomatoes, 1/2 bag of Sun Chips
Dinner - grilled chicken breast with creamy mushroom sauce, grilled tomatoes, asparagus and zucchini and 2 small chocolate chip cookies
Snack - frozen banana dipped in chocolate and rolled in nuts
Sunday, May 30 Done

 

[stayhomemom77]

Hooray for being in the normal weight zone!!

Great job Leen!! Keep it up!

 

[2_Eagle_Mom]

Jane- Hope you had a great time at the wedding : I'll be curious to see how you like your planters, I have two pots with strawberries on my porch and the BIRDS!!! keep eating them! They're young plants, this is our second yr with them, so they aren't yielding a ton of berries anyway, but still.

The wedding was great (well, not food wise, but we had a good time). It was a beautiful day and everything went smoothly.

So far the plants are still allive, but its only been one day. We've killed things faster.

We bought one of the strawberry ones, and we also put a few plants in our garden. We've found that the upside-down one needs a LOT of watering. It did great at first but now it's not doing as well. I told DH that I'm not sure if strawberries are worth the effort in our garden because we're getting so few berries. I know they take a few years to get going so we'll probably give it another go next year and see how they do. I didn't know strawberry plants might last more than on year (see I told you we kill things fast around here). I'll let you know if we get enough strawberries to make it worthwhile. I'm curious to see if the tomatoes come out good. We have a good recipe for bruschetta so can't wait to try it with homegrown tomatoes.

Hey did y'all know that Jack In The Box has "heart healthy" stuff noted on their menu? We stopped by there on the way to the pool today and I had no idea what I was going to get. But then I saw the heart healthy icon and figured that one of those might at least be a better choice than anything else on the menu. I got the chicken fajita pita and when I looked it up when I got home it wasn't too bad at all - only 6 WW points.

I was reading an article in Cooking Light magazine about how New York has a law that all menus must have nutrition information printed on them. I'm not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, I really don't like the government feeling it needs to babysit me and my choices. If I care (and I do) I will research the information on my own. Most restaurants have the information on their website without someone telling them they HAVE to do it, so it's very easy to get to with just a teeny bit of effort. More importantly, research seems to indicate that having the information on menus is not having the desired effect. People are not making different choices; thus this is not having a significant impact on battling obesity (the reason the law was passed in the first place). On the other hand, since I DO care it sure would be handy to have that information right there. And many companies, when faced with having to post nutritional information, are offering lower calorie/fat options now. So I'm really torn on this one - what do you guys think?

CA has the same law. Any restaurant that has more than 15 locations must offer nutritional information. I love it. It makes is much easier to know exactly what the calories are in a dish before I order it. I guess it might be possible to find an estimate of how many calories are in the dish but not all restaurants (like smaller ones) will have the information available. I wish Disney had to post their nutritional information. I agree I don't think its going to make everyone make different choices, but it absolutly changes my ordering. I might go slim on one thing so I can have a dessert, or have my favorite dish but skip on dessert.

Good morning everyone,
Hope you are all having a great holiday. It was our holiday last weekend so it is business as usual today. Sorry I haven't been around too much lately. I have my own gift basket business and between orders, the heat, working on new designs and updating the website I am not sure where the days have gone.

Not sure on the rest of the day as my in laws are taking hubby and I out to a chinese buffet for dinner tonight. It is our anniversay today (13 years) so I will have to plan lunch accordingly since dinner won't be good.

Now for the important Monday morning stuff. I weighed in this morning and was very happy with what I saw after last weeks gain. I was -1.3lbs. It is a restart in the right direction.

Hope everyone has a sucessful week.

Congratulations on 13 years!!! Enjoy your dinner out. And congrats on your loss.

Yesterday was pretty much a blow out. Breakfast and lunch were contained, but dinner was a fat fest. Stuffed chicken breast, potatoes au gratin and a creamy pasta dish. Then a red velvet cupcake. Then came the candy bar. .

Day is over and today is fresh and new...

Breakfast - Fiber One blueberry muffin & activia yogurt

Lunch - Hot Dog with bun (I THOUGHT it was a fat free one, but accidentally cooked the wrong ones and gave the family the FF ones and had the regular one myself) & cherries

Dinner - pork ribs, green beans and chinese chicken salad.

 

[stayhomemom77]

For May 31st

B-breakfast burrito and yogurt
L-chicken noodle soup, strawberries (1.5 cup), apple, 10 rice crackers, 12 almonds, yogurt
D-homemade chicken parmesan over fettuccine, salad with light dressing, baby carrots

Lunch and dinner were a little heftier for me than usual but I was still well within my points. I went grocery shopping today so I can get back to my normal eating habits. Thank goodness!!

May 31st done

 

[shellabell]

Hope everyone had a great Memorial day. I won't be able to post my weight today. My scale is at work and I'm not there

 

[pipersmom]

Now for the important Monday morning stuff. I weighed in this morning and was very happy with what I saw after last weeks gain. I was -1.3lbs. It is a restart in the right direction.

Hope everyone has a sucessful week.

Well....

I had a great week!! I lost 10.8 pounds my first week here and I gotta tell ya, it feels GOOD!!!

Hubby told me Friday morning that I was already looking slimmer...I glowed for the rest of the day.

I'm down 2 more lbs this week. I plan to add in exercise this next week and see if I can rev up the weight loss. So, glad to be losing though.

Okay, I'm way behind on this thread. I'll have to sit down and read the last several pages tonight.

Hey everyone, I'm back from the beach! Got on the Wii fit board and it shows -1.6 lbs

What made me really happy was that on the Wii Fit, I'm now out of the pink "overweight" zone for BMI and now I'm hovering at the top of the yellow "normal" zone. I have never been in the yellow since I bought the Wii Fit system about 2 years ago. So I'm really really
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Great job everyone on the week's losses! Leen..I would be totally excited to see that on my Wii..I hate the %^*#@ word "obese" screaming at me every time I do a weigh in! I'll get there though

The wedding was great (well, not food wise, but we had a good time). It was a beautiful day and everything went smoothly.

So far the plants are still allive, but its only been one day. We've killed things faster.

I'm glad you had a good time at the wedding! Short of packing your own dinner, I think it would be impossible to stay in range at that kind of event. LOL@ the plants still being alive after a day, I can totally relate!



I am down 6lbs this week! I was hoping for a pound more just to see the number change from 40's to 30's, but that's okay! I'm hoping for one more high week like that before my body realizes what's going on and it slows down! Our restaurants do not have to show nutritional info, though I wish they would just because it would make my life easier..lol. I have started looking at different sites to find the info just to give me some idea should a spur of the moment thing come up though. The main thing I've learned is to avoid Hardee's at all costs..seriously, there was nothing really healthy on their menu unless I want to make a meal of ketchup, mayo, mustard, or FF salad dressing! DD was wanting blueberry biscuits from there one morning this week, and I thought the pancakes weren't bad until I saw the 60g of carbs. So, she'll get her blueberry biscuits but I'm going to forego ordering for myself.

Tracking for today-

Breakfast- Yoplait Lite Raspberry w/ coffee.

Lunch- Roast beef on sandwich thin w/ tomatoes & ff mayo, Dole Light Mixed Fruit, coffee.

Dinner- Tossed salad w/ roast beef & ff Catalina dressing, oyster crackers.

Snacks- Lite string cheese, choccy malt push-up, cream cheese poppers (DD did not like these..hooray! LOL..so I ate hers from last night this afternoon!)

I still have cals left, I'm at 922 (1230-1580), will prob have a bowl of rice krispies and fruit a bit later on!

May 31- Done!

 

[tlenzendorf]

The scale is also at work for me, so I'll weigh in tomorrow. On e-ticket and it's too much of a pain to post food so I will do tomorrow. Have a good night everyone

 

[Duchie]

Hey guys!

We've been out and about all day today so I'm just now getting a chance to post. And we came home to find the upstairs AC isn't working. We're getting into the upper 90s and are supposed to hit 100 for the first time this week, so this is NOT a good time for it. DH thinks we just had a coil freeze up or something and he thinks he's got it fixed, but if he doesn't my workout tomorrow morning is not going to be fun.

This past week I was -3.6, so not too shabby. I've got to be careful though becasue I don't want to get cocky and start slipping up now.

 

[gellybean]

Hey everybody!!

I'll come back and post a longer post later and quote everyone...

brain isn't quite working right now. I sat down on DS7's bed, trying to avoid his injured from a splinter foot , misjudged the space I had left on the bed, or the width of my butt, depending on how you look at it, fell off his bed, hit the floor and slammed the door with my head.

So yeah, got a bit of a headache.



About the menu cal info thing, I just skimmed so don't kill me if y'all've already said this, but did y'all know that was one of the things that passed in the health care bill earlier this year? Any restaurant with over 27 locations has to have nutritional information on the menu. I think it goes into effect in 2014. I was kinda against it at first, since hubby's in the restaurant business and I was worrying that it might hurt their business, but now, I think I'm glad about it. I much prefer going to a restaurant that has nutritional info available.


Y'all- I've never been as aware of how good you guys are for my dieting as I was this weekend. So, truly, from the bottom of my heart, thank you all for being here!!!!!!!


This weekend, I started out doing fairly well and it kinda went downhill with each day I was unplugged, so to speak. Then Sunday, my bugg lost battery power and I didn't have my laptop to charge it.

Being away from the accountability of the thread, and my tracking software, and the bugg.... ugh. It was not pretty.


When I got on the scale tonight, I was up FIVE lbs from last Monday.

I'm not posting it officially until tomorrow morning, but OUCH!

*Sighs*

Gotta get back to being serious this week. Can't risk gaining back the 8 lbs I've lost in the THREE months I've been on this thread. I was down 16 lbs since January. Gotta keep going in that direction, not the opposite.

Memorial Day weekend was just one bad food bomb after another for me. Burgers, chips, cupcakes, cake batter (licked the bowl), cookies, etc. I wrote it all down the first two days but stopped after that. I'm just gonna skip tracking for this week and start again tomorrow. We're getting back into the gym tomorrow and looking at the Y for the summer. And we're going on South Beach/Diabetic diet as soon as school's out. DS7 is gone for a week and that'll be a good time to start it when I'm only having to feed one kid.

I'm going to track everything in my software, so that's not really South Beach technically because you don't count cals on that diet. But I'm following the food list for the most part! Cutting way way back on processed foods. Gotta do something to stop the cravings!

Will work on quoting tonight and tomorrow.

Missed you guys! Hope everyone had a great weekend, be it a holiday one where you live, or not!

 

[lizzyb5280]

Happy Memorial Day everyone! Here's my food log for the day:

Breakfast - Blackberry pancakes w/ sliced strawberries and light whipped cream, 2% milk
Lunch - DH went to get Popeyes. 2sm pieces fried chicken (wing and thigh), cole slaw, biscuit
Snack - Light popcorn
Dinner - Grilled turkey sausage with sauteed onions, pasta salad, okra
Dessert - Watermelon

No exercise today, but did spend about an hour gardening.

Monday May 31 Done

 

[adnilele]

Wow...I have been away for too long...School has been crazy, running the Senior Ball and the Senior Picnic have kept me busy! So in my spare time, instead of going on the computer, I've been getting out and running/walking.

I think I have been away for three weeks, but since then, I have lost 6lbs!


Congratulations to all who have continued making their way to the skinny island!

 

[zoegirl]

Morning all!
Congrats to everyone that lost this past week. It seems like so many of us threw some caution to the wind and enjoyed the holiday eating. No worries, let's get back on the wagon, and start a new week. I for one started my downward spiral Friday & ended it last night. Seriously though I had a few days that I didn't keep track but I'm just not gonna beat myself up. Today is my father's funeral, so I'm sure it'll be an emotional day. I'm glad to get it over so I can get on with life.

Sunday
Brkfst:coffee w/hazelnut creamer
lunch: turkey sammie on arnold thin, w/lowfat chips
dinner: lean cuisine lasagna, & a salad w/vinegarette
snacks: chips n-salsa, no-pudge brownie(2)

May 30 done

Monday
Brkfst: oikos greek yogurt w/honey, coffee w/creamer
lunch:turkey sammie, with chips-n-salsa
dinner: Sonny's real pit bbq - sliced smoked turkey, w/garlic bread(2), baked beans & coleslaw, and the salad bar
snacks: peppers w/ranch dip, chips-n-salsa

May 31 done

haven't worked out since last Thursday, will get back on that wagon this week too.

~bree~

 

[ski_mom]

Not so great this morning - I was up 2 from last week. Over the long weekend I went with a group of 37 kids from our church to the Holiday World amusement park. We got home last night around midnight, so I'm hoping that some of it is just extra weight from a little swelling - I can't even hardly budge my ring this morning. Normally it is hard to get it off (th'at bad enough), but today I think they'd have to cut my finger off if it had to come off!

But at the same time, maybe this will be the kick in the rear end that I need to ramp it up a bit more again, because I have become less focused for some reason and really need to get back on the boat!

 

[officereg]

I had the best weekend ever. We did nothing at all yet everything. I don’t know I can’t explain it. I am -3 for the week. I bought a really cute bathing suit over the weekend, and I actually like the way it looks on me. (except my legs, but if someone saw me standing in water up to my waist I would be HOT)