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

[stayhomemom77]

Thanks for the post Dawn, it made me realize that I had missed putting up Thursday's tracking.

I'll put up pics of the new car by Monday. We get the car Friday afternoon so I'll take some and upload them over the weekend.

Okay so, Thursday...

B-yogurt, oatmeal, orange
L-chicken noodle soup, celery sticks, ham and cheese on english muffin
D-2 cheeseburger sliders, salad with light ceasar dressing
S-ice cream cone
May 27th done

And today...

B-turkey and cheese on an english muffin
L-8 rice crackers, baby carrots, chicken noodle soup, 12 almonds, 40 grams of marble cheddar
D-yogurt, veggie burger, salad with light ceasar dressing, baby carrots
S-100 cal snack bag of doritos, 2 WW cookies**

I'm bringing these treats to the baseball game tonight but I may not eat them. I thought I should log them though, just in case.

June 2nd done!!

 

[eliz991]

I just finished yesterday's (edited above Dawn) so once I do today's I should be 7 for 7 this week! woo-hoo!

My allergies are killing me and making my insomnia even worse than normal...I wanted to get up this morning and work out and I just couldn't. However, yesterday I burned 2582 and ate something like 1445 so . One of my tricks for that is the bottom floor of our condo is like a circle - living room, kitchen, dining room, entry, living room, etc. So when I am watching tv instead of DVRing it and fast forwarding the commercials I get up and do laps during the commercials! It really helps!

Today should be a good day also, I'm making a ratatouille au gratin WW recipe that my DH will actually accept as a meatless entree (I think it's good to go veggie once in a while) and it only has like 200 calories a serving.

So far today:

B: one fat free hotdog with a squirt of ketchup, one lean pocket with bacon, egg and cheese (I know that is a weird combo but when I ate the other pocket it didn't keep me full so I wanted to add something protein-y). = 340 calories

S: 3 pretzel nuggets with pb = 35 calories

L: It would be nice if DH let me know when he used all the mayo so I improvised: bagel thin with 1 can of tuna, 2 T of dijonnaise - you know, it wasn't half bad. 8 reduced fat pringles (wished I had pepper or carrot strips but none in the house, have to get some), 1/2 C sugar free jello = 335 cal

S: I brought extra snacks but my allergies are too bad for me to go to rehearsal tonight (I can't talk!) so should just be 1/2 cup blackberries and a yogurt (light and fit, the small ones) = 91 cal

also had 2 pieces of laffy taffy and two chocolate covered almonds = 74 cal

D: Ratatouille, a slice of cheese, a slice of salami, and 4 crackers = 381 calories

S: 3 flips pretzels = 32 calories

Total for day = 1414, total burned = 2424 (I knew it would be a little low, laid down for an hour or so when I got home from work instead of working out or doing stuff around the house because I felt so crappy - still feel crappy today, so it will be a challenge to get my burn up).

Wednesday, June 3 DONE!

 

[eliz991]

Oh and Amanda - I wouldn't worry about the carbs in berries - they are the good carbs full of fiber and berries are great for you! I'm sure none of us got fat from eating too many berries (covered in whipped cream maybe but not just the berries - enjoy them while they're in season!)

 

[tlenzendorf]

Ha I totally forgot about the challenge. I guess thats what happens when life gets busy! Here was our challenge at work for our last week of our 6 week fitness program:

Eat 2 cups of veggies every day for seven days in a row!

At first I thought holy cow! Thats a lot of veggies, there's no way I could do that! But I totally surprised myself and did it. It wasn't that hard! I just made sure I had a salad once a day and then had some cut up veggies as a snack in the afternoon. Plus if I had a sandwich I'd have lettuce, cucumber, tomato, green pepper, etc...

Maybe we could do it the same as the food tracking pic for our sig? Put one photo down and then you can put x1, x2, x3 etc when you have completed it?

 

[lizzyb5280]

Today should be a good day also, I'm making a ratatouille au gratin WW recipe that my DH will actually accept as a meatless entree (I think it's good to go veggie once in a while) and it only has like 200 calories a serving.

Ohhh, recipe please! I also have a tough time getting my DH to go veg occasionally, and since one of his big problems is portion size, it wouldn't hurt as much if he ate a really big portion.

 

[eliz991]

Ohhh, recipe please! I also have a tough time getting my DH to go veg occasionally, and since one of his big problems is portion size, it wouldn't hurt as much if he ate a really big portion.

I will post it tonight! My DH is the same way, he doesn't think he will get full on just veggies (and I personally don't think it's as good if we make a big plate of white pasta with marinara sauce).

I will say the first time I made it he was like "and it doesn't go over rice...and there's no potatoes in it" and I told him, "look, there is no requirement to have a meat and a starch just because that's how we grew up ... just try it!"

(It does have breadcrumbs on top, but not a lot.)

 

[gellybean]

Tracking for yesterday:

Breakfast- McD's Bacon Egg and Cheese Biscuit with a diet coke 420 cals, 23 g fat.

Lunch - 1/3rd of a frozen Pepperoni flatbread 320 cals 18 g fat. Started drinking a regular soda with it and after about 3 swallows, gave it to DS7 and drank water. THAT'S huge for me cus pizza is the one thing I really miss soda with.

Dinner - Pei Wei take out 750 cals 21.3 g fat
Jello Sugar Free Chocolate Mousse 60 cals 3 g fat


Here's where the day could have majorly tanked. We gave DS7 a choice for his end of school celebration meal (DH is not going to be home tomorrow evening the actual last day of school so we celebrated early) DS7 wanted Pei Wei. One of my faves!!
Hubby did the ordering because I was on the bike at the gym texting him all this. He ordered a salad for him, 2 mongolian beef, 1 chicken pad thai, and a crispy honey chicken, sauce on the side. To be split between 2 kids, and 2 adults. Now DS7 can eat an entire monogolian beef by himself.

I ended up eating
1/4 of an order of chicken pad thai, 1/3 order of mongolian beef meat and mushrooms only, and 1/2 cup of rice



I tried to track it the best I could and I got around 1550 cals for the day total. The sodium was through the roof so I tried to drink drink drink water the rest of the night and again today. And I know the majority of my cals came from dinner but I tried to limit the portions. Didn't eat any appetizers or fortune cookies. Didn't eat much rice. Didn't go back for seconds. Before I could have eaten a half of a pad thai and an entire monogolian beef w all the rice plus crab wontons and fortune cookies. So it was a huge improvement for me.

For the day, I burned 2600 ish cals including the 45 mins on the bike and even allowing for some error in my attempt at tracking dinner (lunch and breakfast I know were accurate) I should have had right at 1000 deficit for the day.


Tuesday, June 1 DONE


So far today has been

Breakfast : Instant Peaches N Cream Oatmeal with 2 tbsp sugar 228 cals


Gotta go get DS7, only one more day after today . BBS

 

[lizzyb5280]

Breakfast wasn't too bad...one eggo waffle with butter and cinnamon sugar, strawberries, and half a glass of milk: 582 calories, 20g fat (mostly from the milk and butter)

Ok, this has been buggging me all morning. I knew that 582 calories for that relatively healthy breakfast didn't sound right. So I checked my spark page when I logged on to chart lunch. Umm, yeah...instead of crediting me for five strawberries like I told it, I logged me with 5 CUPS of strawberries! OMG!

Edited the entry, and my calories dropped from 582 to 416. MUCH BETTER!

Had a FF yogurt for my AM snack (90 calories) and a ham & cheese sandwich
and grapes for lunch (320 calories). So far so good! Now if I can keep my naptime munchies under control, I should be set well for dinner!

 

[stitchfan23]

June 2nd

Breakfast - 1 Yoplait Source Yogurt
Lunch - 2 slices of Wonder+ bread, 3 slices of xlean ham, 1 cheese slice, 1 tsp margarine
Dinner - pork chop, leftover potatoe/carrots, 10pcs asparagas
Snack - 2 servings of whole grain Goldfish crackers, 1 pack fruit snacks, 2 slices of xlean ham

*I will probably have a snack this evening - either rainbow sherbert or popcorn

OKAY SO I HAD BOTH SHERBERT AND POPCORN!

June 2nd Done

 

[Zela]

First Name and Screen name:Zela
What your Goal Is for Fitnesso a marathon
Food that you Find Hardest to Eat in Moderation:cake, ice cream, pie, bread
Favorite Good Food for You:Squash and Watermelon (separate, of course)
Favorite Form of Exercise:walking
What Your Goal is For Yourself when you get to Skinny Island:To fit into my jean cutoff shorts and the bathing suit I wore when me and my hubby went to the beach for the first time.
Family:It's just me, my husband(who doesn't even have to try and stays skinny) and our two doggies

 

[Zela]

I just decided to start so today was pretty bad but at least I am tracking it:

Breakfast:
-Bowl of Honeycombs with a little bit of milk
Second Breakfast(work cafeteria):
-Small Biscuit with packet grape jelly
-a bowl of oatmeal with 3 packets of splenda
-a carton of lowfat chocolate milk ( I remember looking at the nutrition facts and it had like 180 calories and 8 g fat)
-a cup of tang-like orange juice
-2 link turkey sausages
Lunch:
-1 dollar burger from Sonic
Afternoon Snack:
-Ice Cream Cone from Mcdy's
Getting Home From Work Snack:
-4 bites of cookies and cream fluff (heavy whipping cream, cream cheese, powedered sugar, and a hersheys cookies and cream bar broken up and blended together.......not good if you are trying to eat healthy)
-squash
-3 pieces of lunch meat ham
-3 bowls honey bunches of oats

Wowzers....I didn't realize I had eaten that much until I wrote it all down

 

[Duchie]

Zela!

 

[gellybean]

I just decided to start so today was pretty bad but at least I am tracking it:

Breakfast:
-Bowl of Honeycombs with a little bit of milk
Second Breakfast(work cafeteria):
-Small Biscuit with packet grape jelly
-a bowl of oatmeal with 3 packets of splenda
-a carton of lowfat chocolate milk ( I remember looking at the nutrition facts and it had like 180 calories and 8 g fat)
-a cup of tang-like orange juice
-2 link turkey sausages
Lunch:
-1 dollar burger from Sonic
Afternoon Snack:
-Ice Cream Cone from Mcdy's
Getting Home From Work Snack:
-4 bites of cookies and cream fluff (heavy whipping cream, cream cheese, powedered sugar, and a hersheys cookies and cream bar broken up and blended together.......not good if you are trying to eat healthy)
-squash
-3 pieces of lunch meat ham
-3 bowls honey bunches of oats

Wowzers....I didn't realize I had eaten that much until I wrote it all down

Zela!!

Good for you tracking today even though you're just getting started!!

Tracking is a great great weight loss tool!!! And it does often surprise me too, that as I go through the day I don't realize how much I'm snacking here or there, but when I write it all down, WOW! So I feel ya there!! Owning it is so important though so good on ya!




Personal update:
Stopped and got McD's on the way home from picking up DS7.
ANOTHER reason I'm looking forward to summer. I won't be driving by fast food mecca everyday!

Tracked it and am going to eat a light dinner. Made it to the gym, two days in a row now. Going to the Y tomorrow after DS7 gets out of school at noon. Early release for his last day of First grade I'm so stinking excited for summer and ready for next year.

I'm probably not going to join the Y tomorrow, just tour. No point paying for two weeks I can't use. And my sister's gonna be out of town next week and DS7 is gonna be with his dad and I don't see DS2 being ok in the play room for the first week without his older brother, so I'm probably going to wait and join the week he gets back. But DS7 got upset when we were gonna take the tour while he was gone to California so it's tomorrow or wait another 10 days. I think touring may help with my motivation some!

I did talk to the gym I'm a member of now and they will put our current membership on hold for 3 bucks a month, total for both of us. I think that may be a good idea to lock the rate in case we don't enjoy the Y. The gym I'm at now is cheaper and much closer than the Y and I'd hate to have to pay the sign up fee again etc and potentially have our rate increase. I figure a few months of paying the 3/mth hold fee would be enough to know if we're gonna like the Y enough to justify the extra drive time and extra cost.

Will be back to track the good, the bad and the ugly after dinner.

 

[tlenzendorf]

Welcome zela!

Today's food:
breakfast: 1 low fat raisin granola bar

lunch: 1 banana, 1 piece wheat toast w/butter, 1/2 can diet sierra mist

dinner: salad w/2 pieces bacon, small amt shredded cheddar, ff ranch dressing, 10 croutons, 3 pieces orvs rising crust pepperoni pizza.


June 2 DONE

I'm amazed at how better I do eating when I track it

 

[zoegirl]

Welcome Zela!

Don't beat yourself up about the McD's Aimee. I hope you like the Y, they usually have so much to offer.

Tricia I like your eating more veggies challenge, let's go for it.

Today's food:
brkfst - cantaloupe about a cup & 1/2
lunch - turkey sammie on arnold thin, plain, with some reduced fat pringles
dinner - went to Chili's with a good girlfriend of mine. We split chips n salsa (2 bowls - yikes) I had a bowl of chicken & green chili soup
snacks - pretzel crackers with hummus, handful of goldfish, no pudge brownie, more cantaloupe.

Didn't do so well today. I've actually not been tracking my WW points for over a week. I've had so much going on & I lost interest. I'm definitely going to start tracking again next week. I'd be stupid not to, I'm within 7 lbs of my goal, 12 from my ultimate goal.

 

[mstinson14]

I am going to join in!! I am Megan I am also the daughter of the main poster(we share the account. Sharon is my mom)
Breakfast
-Leftover chicken and fries from supper last night
-Chocochip muffins
Lunch
-Frozen Marie Calendars chicken parmesan dinner
-Chocochip muffins
Snack
-Granola Bar
-German Chocolate blizzard from dq
Dinner
-2 McDonalds cheeseburgers
-Medium Fry
Snack
-small strawberry blizzard from dq
First Name and Screen name: Megan mstinson14 actually the daughter of Sharon
What your Goal Is for Fitness: to be healthy and to not be laughed at and made fun of
Food that you Find Hardest to Eat in Moderation: chicken and potatoes
Favorite Good Food for You: fruit
Favorite Form of Exercise: walking/swimming/elliptical
What Your Goal is For Yourself when you get to Skinny Island: To just be healthy and do what I want to do. To not be looked at differently because of my weight. Also to not worry about fitting in an airplane seat or amusement park attraction seat.
Family: My mom and my 2 kitties

 

[gellybean]

I am going to join in!! I am Megan
Breakfast
-Leftover chicken and fries from supper last night
-Chocochip muffins
Lunch
-Frozen Marie Calendars chicken parmesan dinner
-Chocochip muffins
Snack
-Granola Bar
Dinner
-2 McDonalds cheeseburgers
-Medium Fry
Snack
-small strawberry blizzard from dq

Megan!!

Glad to have two new members this week!!

The intro post is on the first page when you get a chance Megan, maybe you could fill it out so we can find out a little bit more about you!!

Looks like you're going to Disney the same time I am, over Christmas!! Are you staying on property?!

 

[mstinson14]

Looks like you're going to Disney the same time I am, over Christmas!! Are you staying on property?!

We actually leave on the 23rd, but we are staying at POFQ. We arrive on the 17th.

 

[gellybean]

We actually leave on the 23rd, but we are staying at POFQ. We arrive on the 17th.

We arrive on the 17th and leave on the 23rd too!! Very cool!!!!



Personal update:

Lunch: 10 mcnuggets, medium fry, diet coke, 1 package bbq sauce
Dinner: turkey sandwich on 2 pieces white bread, avocado mayo ( I made it w about 3/4 tbsp of light mayo), 1 slice muenster cheese, 1 serving baked bbq lays and 1 peach.

Wednesday, June 2 DONE

I still only consumed about 1700 cals for the day and should burn at least 500 cals more than I ate today. My burns are down though. My bike workouts aren't showing the burn they used to. Even more reason to join the Y and get going in a spin class or step class or Zumba or something!

 

[pipersmom]

Welcome Zela and Megan!

Congrats to everyone on the tracking! I didn't even realize the week was almost up!

Good day for us today! Piper had a Dr's appt and it went awesome! On the way we went through Mickey D's...and just got DRINKS! *go me* LOL. I got the FF SF iced vanilla latte, and though it was not anywhere as good as the real thing, it was an okay substitute I think it's going to be harder for me when she goes to her Dad's next week as far as not hitting fast food. At home it will be easier since I won't need to have any junk in the house! ( I don't keep a lot now, but there are a few things.)

So here's today:

Breakfast- Yoplait FF Pineapple Upside Down Cake.
Lunch- Sammie thin with roast beef & tomato, string cheese.
Dinner- Salad w/ turkey breast, FF Ranch, FF Saltines.
Snacks- WW ice cream bar, wasa cracker w/ albacore & FF cheddar, FF choccy pudding w/ berries & cool whip, SF FF iced latte.

June 2- Done!