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

[Zela]

Tracking June 7

Breakfast:
1 small porkchop fat trimmed off
1 egg microwaved with spray oil
Lunch:
Chicken Salad with:
at least 2 cups of lettuce
1 boiled egg
1 packet of ranch dressing
about 1/4 c cheese
Supper:
Watermelon Kiwi Kool Aid made with splenda
1/2c chicken salad

Only got in about 20 minutes of exercise yesterday.

I got at least 8 waters(stopped counting after 8).

June 7th Done

Veggies Done

We;ve been having a lot of weight loss this week. Good Job Wishers!

 

[njcarita]

we'll here is my first time tracking....
feel free to comment on what and how much I'm eating.... seems like a lot of food to me??? but all pretty healthy... have no idea about the calories but a rough estimate...1000 calories??? seem right???


and I also wanted to add I went on 3 walks yesterday ( 20-30 minutes each walk)

1cup of half decaf coffee with 1/2t sugar and 2T fat free half and half

bottle of h20
small bowl of veggie/spinach /lentil soup


1/2 serving of savory farina and a Tomato Basil Pizza Veggie Burger
bottle of H20





Handful of Cherry Tomatos

Greek Yogart Parfait( fat free plain greek ypgart layered with blueberries ,pineaple ,1T honey and sprinkle of blueberry granola
bottlle of water


hot chocolate

1 small serving of tator tot casserole made with soy crumbles instead of ground beef
1/2 cup of skim milk

bottle of water

 

[Duchie]

HI everyone. Wow, I feel so out of it. I just can't get here every day because of my schedule and I feel like I am so far behind on what everyone is doing, etc. I'm also struggling with feeling like I deserve to come here. I can't be around to be supportive of others and I'm not doing so great myself.

I was up 3 pounds this morning, which upsets me. I'm working out when I can (which isn't every day) and watching what I eat, but I can't get all my water in and I know I am eating really late at night. I feel like I am stuck in neutral and can't get off the ground. I'm going to push myself this week and see what happens. I'm tired of being stuck. I haven't really moved since the season started 5 weeks ago and it's annoying!

It looks like many of you had very successful weeks. I am so proud. Someday, I will be able to get back with all of you but my life is only going to get busier before it gets better.

Of course you deserve to be here! Right now it's not your turn to be supportive - it's our turn to support you. So please keep coming here and let us do just that, OK?

Okay if anyone has noticed I STILL haven't lost any weight since we started this group - I definitely feel like I should tuck my tail between my legs and go away, but I'm not, because what good would that do?

Please don't go away! It wouldn't be the same here without you. I believe in you!

This group has been such a blessing to me. I gained a bit this week and in the past that would have haunted me all week long. But yesterday I found that I couldn't get upset about it because I was so excited to see everyone posting such nice losses. I'm so proud of how well everyone did this week! I also appreciated every single word of encouragement sent my way. I may not have responded to everyone, but I read and appreciated every single comment.

I also have to thank you guys for kicking my butt into action this morning. I started work early today so I had to get up an hour earlier than usual. It was so hard, though, because I really didn't sleep well at all last night. So I was tempted to hit the snooze and skip the workout. But no, I dragged myself out of bed and went to work out. But the battle was not won - I considered doing an easier workout, not pushing myself quite as hard. But then a teeny voice in the back of my head told me, "Yeah but if you do, your fellow Castaways will be VERY disappointed in you ." So I pulled up my big girl panties and pushed myself and wound up with a really great workout. So thanks you guys!

 

[Duchie]

Does my new avatar make me look fat?

Simply smashing!


Oh, before I forget, here's my vegetable challenge update:

Sunday June 6 had 5 fruit/vegetable servings - Veggies done.

Monday June 7 had 6 servings - Veggies done.

Tuesday June 8, OK so I know I haven't eaten them yet but I've got a grilled chicken salad waiting for me in the fridge for lunch and it's easily 2 cups by itself, so I know I'll make it today. Plus we're having fajitas for dinner. Wanna know why? Because we had a HUGE bell pepper getting ripe on the plant, and I knew DH would want to eat it soon. So I planned fajitas so he could eat his pepper from the garden . Anyway I plan to put the sliced steak on a salad rather than using tortillas, maybe have one on the side. Veggies done.

 

[PixiePlanner]

Does my new avatar make me look fat?

I love the avatar! But I liked the chickens too.

 

[PixiePlanner]

Glad he's ok!! My heart always leaps out of my chest when I get a phone call late at night.

That last part is hysterical. My DS7 comes back from his Dad's every other weekend stinking to high heaven and wearing the same clothes and SOCKS he wore to school on FRIDAY. EW EW EW

BOYS are so gross!! Men aren't much better!!!

Sorry Patrick and Dan!

Thanks! The whole sock thing just disgusted me. Yes, Sorry Patrick & Dan. I'm sure you have never done anything like this.

Exactly my thoughts when the phone rang late at night. Oh no!! but glad he's ok. Both my boys were in scouts so I can totally relate. The first year Steven (our oldest who has Aspergers) when to his first week long camp without us. The parents promissed that they would watch out for him and make sure he had a good time. Jim went to pick him up at the end of the week and NO ONE had make him take a shower ALL WEEK!!! And it wasn't just men, there were a couple of moms there, but they just let him wallow in his own filth. Oh and they didn't make sure he went to any of the activities so we spent a boatload of money for him to sit in the dirt all week long. Way to take special care of a kid with disabilities (we had had multiple conversations before we let him go with the adult leaders and they assured us they would watch out for him and make sure he participated). We left that Troop shortly after that and found a fantastic Troop. It did take a couple more years before we let him go to camp by himself. Normally I went and I made it MANDITORY that everyone take a shower at least every other day. I mean who wants to sit next to someone who hasn't taken a shower in a week??

Now the call that had us jumping out of our skin was when Brendan went to the National Jamboree back east. We got a call from another parent telling us that they had finally found Brendan. He had exited the stadium when there was a storm brewing and had taken a wrong turn and ended up 2 miles from his campsite durning a thurnderstorm shelter in place. Glad they found him, didn't know he was missing!!! Ah, scouts - where boys grow up and parents get gray.

How your son was treated is just plain wrong. I am amazed at how different troops can be. We are very lucky to be part of a great troop.

Glad your other son was found. I have enough grey hair on my own -thank you very much- no scout help is needed!

DS has his first week long camp in July. Maybe we will spray him down with Febreeze before he gets in the car?

we'll here is my first time tracking....
feel free to comment on what and how much I'm eating.... seems like a lot of food to me??? but all pretty healthy... have no idea about the calories but a rough estimate...1000 calories??? seem right???

and I also wanted to add I went on 3 walks yesterday ( 20-30 minutes each walk)

Congratulations on the tracking. I have not done it yet but need to. I am tracking my veggies for now.

 

[hanutedmansionmomma]

I'm having a hard time with snacks. I'm falling within my calorie range, but I just can't seem to stop munching on things. I do fine from breakfast time to lunch, but then I really have to control myself to wait till 3 to have an afternoon snack. It doesn't help to have bigger lunches. It seems that I still need to munch throughout the afternoon. I hate raw veggies so it makes my options higher in calories than I want. Any suggestions?

Forgot to add - weight this week -.8 no matter what I do it just is taking FOREVER to lose the weight to get that 5lb picture. Hopefully next week.

The afternoon grazing is my hard time too. I have been giving in to it, and eating less at dinner (just the protein/veggies mostly, and not having 2nds). I mean, it's kinda like dinner anyway by then, right? I end up snacking on crackers and cheese, that seems to satisfy and slows me down a bit more than just crackers alone. Sometimes I make popcorn and put hot sauce on it.



cereal/skim
orange
lean cuisine chix pizza 7 points
cheese/crackers
WW turkey chili recipe -YUM! with a little shredded cheese and tortilla crumbs
ww banana muffins - 2 for 2 points each
June 7 done

 

[Stacybaeasm]

Well, I may not be losing weight, but I'm getting faster! When I first started working out back at the beginning of this thread, I was only able to walk a mile in 30 minutes. Today, I hit the mile mark on the treadmill at 19 minutes!! I'm not ready for a 5K or anything yet, but at least I'm seeing some kind of improvement.

 

[GaRain]

Well, I may not be losing weight, but I'm getting faster! When I first started working out back at the beginning of this thread, I was only able to walk a mile in 30 minutes. Today, I hit the mile mark on the treadmill at 19 minutes!! I'm not ready for a 5K or anything yet, but at least I'm seeing some kind of improvement.

I think that is awesome!!! I average about a 21 minute mile....so that is awesome! If you can just push yourself a bit, I know you can do it.

Not gonna try the 5K again at the gym today, I think I am gonna work on the muscles!!

 

[GaRain]

I meant to ask this in my last post...

I am really bad at breakfast. I have actually changed my route for my drive to work so that I don't pass any fast food places (chick fil a is EVIL!).
Do any of you follow Hungry Girl? She has these egg mugs that she does. She takes the serving size of the egg beaters, puts it in a microwaveable mug and adds things like cheese and veggies and then nukes it!
Wondering if anyone here has tried that. I just don't know how nuked egg beaters would taste!?

 

[MulanUSAF]

Hey everyone, I'm back! Took a quick trip to Washington DC because my brother was at a math competition and stopped at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg on the way back. I think it's now my second favorite theme park after Disney World. Lots of walking yesterday, but the park was gorgeous. They brag that they're the most beautiful theme park and I don't dispute it. Plus it wasn't too hot, just sunny and perfect. Loved the rides, but I love the Irish dancing show more than any of the rides. They also had really good food for a theme park, almost as good as Disney food. My brother went on every single roller coaster and loved it, but all of them are on the rather intense/thrill-seeker side. I rode one of them and it took several minutes for my knees to stop shaking. But I enjoyed the park immensely and highly recommend it for anyone who's in the Washington DC/Richmond area.

I am checking in at -0.8 lbs for this week.

Overall, last few days have been pretty good food wise despite the fact that we ate out for almost every meal. I'm going to skip tracking since I don't remember half of what I had. I tried to get lean proteins or fruits and vegetables whenever possible and avoided carbs for the most part. I did have a moment of weakness at a place called Snow-To-Go in Williamsburg. I shared a pina-colada stuffed snow ball (fluffy shaved ice layered with vanilla soft serve) with my brother. It was fantastic!

I'm going to read the previous few days worth of entries later tonight. Hope you all had a fabulous weekend!

 

[ski_mom]

I meant to ask this in my last post...

I am really bad at breakfast. I have actually changed my route for my drive to work so that I don't pass any fast food places (chick fil a is EVIL!).
Do any of you follow Hungry Girl? She has these egg mugs that she does. She takes the serving size of the egg beaters, puts it in a microwaveable mug and adds things like cheese and veggies and then nukes it!
Wondering if anyone here has tried that. I just don't know how nuked egg beaters would taste!?

I have done these. I enjoy them, but I love scrambled eggs. I sometimes will do their egg trick and then put it on a toasted english muffin (or just one of my healthy life toasted buns) and put it with a low-fat sausage patty and laughing cow cheese. I think it is a great breakfast and you can make it and take it with you! That's a great benefit to me because I never have time to sit and eat a relaxing breakfast. I usually either have this or a serving of instant oatmeal and the egg/sausage breakfast definately keeps me feeling full longer.

 

[stitchfan23]

I meant to ask this in my last post...

I am really bad at breakfast. I have actually changed my route for my drive to work so that I don't pass any fast food places (chick fil a is EVIL!).
Do any of you follow Hungry Girl? She has these egg mugs that she does. She takes the serving size of the egg beaters, puts it in a microwaveable mug and adds things like cheese and veggies and then nukes it!
Wondering if anyone here has tried that. I just don't know how nuked egg beaters would taste!?

I haven't done it with egg beaters but with a real egg, a little milk, some cheese and veggies and it was quite good. I liked it when I worked in an office since I could just grab all the ingredients at home and made it at work in the microwave.

 

[eliz991]

WW turkey chili recipe -YUM! with a little shredded cheese and tortilla crumbs
ww banana muffins - 2 for 2 points each
June 7 done

Turkey chili recipe please?! Although it is 100 degrees here so I might not make it for a while.

I meant to ask this in my last post...

I am really bad at breakfast. I have actually changed my route for my drive to work so that I don't pass any fast food places (chick fil a is EVIL!).
Do any of you follow Hungry Girl? She has these egg mugs that she does. She takes the serving size of the egg beaters, puts it in a microwaveable mug and adds things like cheese and veggies and then nukes it!
Wondering if anyone here has tried that. I just don't know how nuked egg beaters would taste!?

I too have made them with a real egg. It works pretty well. Eggbeaters tend to upset my stomach for some reason. I do agree that eggs keep me full better than anything else for breakfast.

Today's food:

B: honey nut cheerios and milk

S: 3/4 of a biscuit

L: I had a mammogram appointment today (sorry Patrick and Dan!) - yeah, great idea, it's 100 degrees out, let's go without deodorant until after the 11 am appointment and see how that works out!

Anyway, had a healthy lunch planned but my friend who just got back from Greece last night called and asked if I would go eat Mexican with her (she and I both have to have tex-mex after a vacation). So I had about 10 chips, a tamale, a chicken enchilada, and a little bit of rice and beans (about half what was on the plate and it was a lunch special so not full size).

989 calories so far.

Still full so probably won't have a snack; either having leftovers for dinner or going to Pappadeaux after rehearsal with a friend. If the latter, will try to stick to healthy stuff and avoid the fondeaux! Although I'm guessing raw gulf oysters, my usual go-to, are out of the question.

 

[stayhomemom77]

Green Booger!!
Dawn, that's awesome!

Just came for a quick track before dinner...

Friday
B-oatmeal and strawberries
L-chicken noodle soup, baby carrots, turkey and cheese on an english muffin
D-swiss chalet:white roll, 1/4 chalet sauce, chicken breast without skin and an order of fries (12 points just for the fries YIKES!!!)
June 4 done

Saturday
B-apple, strawberries, yogurt
L-1.5 sandwiches (tomato, lettuce, turkey and cheese) a few Doritos, chocolate chip cookie
D--nothing (fasting again)
June 5 done

Sunday
B-still fasting
L-chicken noodle soup, baby carrots, turkey and cheese english muffin sandwich, rice crackers
D-1\4 cup garlic noodles, broccoli, baby carrots, ham, ww lemon cake
S-whole grain crackers, 2 tbsp cream cheese, 2 ww cookies, 25 almonds
June 6 done

Monday
B-yogurt, apple, egg and cheese on english muffin
L-2 small pitas, 1/4 cup hummus, cup of lentil soup, 3 oz beef tenderloin
D-baby carrots, chicken noodle soup, 1 oz cheese, 2 oz chicken breast, rice crackers
S-pita chips and hummus, small ice cream bar
June 7 done

Tuesday
B-1 cup honey nut cheerios, 1/2 cup skim milk
L-baby carrots, large apple, 2 small pitas, 1/4 cup hummus, 12 almonds, chicken noodle soup, yogurt
D-2 pieces chicken and red pepper pizza (thin crust), mexi-salad, baby carrots
S-small ice cream bar
June 8 done

Had to get caught up on housework today so I didn't have much time. I'll check in again later ladies and gents...

 

[gellybean]

Adding to yesterday's tracking:

Snack- 2 pieces of banana bread

Monday, June 7 DONE

Today so far:

Breakfast- 1 piece of banana bread 110 cals
Lunch - WW chicken suiza entree 270 cals, 1/2 cup fresh pineapple 52 cals and 1 60 cals Jello chocolate mousse cup


I had the following epiphany last night:

The cleaner my house is the less I want to eat all day. Sitting in a cluttered house makes me feel icky and thus I eat more. Once my house is clean, I tend to get up and do more things because a cluttered house makes me want to sit on my butt and do nothing. And consequently the busier I am, once again, the less I eat.

Well duh. Knowing it and doing it are two different things though. I've been doing laundry all day and working on a project with some digital pics and sorting papers etc and I've done pretty good food wise. So far. Gotta finish the day strong!

Catch y'all in a bit.

P.S. I'm changing my font color for the summer.

 

[pwmitch237]

Thanks! The whole sock thing just disgusted me. Yes, Sorry Patrick & Dan. I'm sure you have never done anything like this.

Actually, I like to stay clean pretty much all the time. Only time I've gone without taking a shower for more than 24 Hours, is when there are none available. (Imagine that, a place without showers...even I was disgusted when I found out there were no showers......)

Anyway:

Breakfast: Cheerios (140) & Yogurt (100)
Lunch (Wendy's.....blah ) Jr. Cheeseburger (270), Side Salad (40), & Diet Coke Frosty Float (270)
Dinner: Healthy Choice Fresh Mixer (Chicken Caccitore): 310 & Easy Mac (220)
Snack: Compassionberry Snapple: 180

EXERCISE (the good stuff): Ultimate Frisbee & (shortly) The Biggest Loser Last Chance Workout!

Totals: 1540 Calories, 28g of fat, 122g of Sugar

June 8 DONE! (Veggies....done, barely)

"Don't ask me if the CHANGE is worth it....Ask yourself if YOU are worth it!" - Michael Ventrella (BL9 Winner)

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[Zela]

Tracking
(today was my cheat day from the low carb diet)

Breakfast:
-3 pcs bacon
-1/2 c scrambled eggs ( i think they were eggbeaters)

Lunch:
Chicken Salad with
-2 chicken strips
-packet of ranch dressing
-1 egg
-light sprinkle of cheese
-2+ cups of lettuce

Snack:
-5 Cheese-its
-Regular size hand-dipped yogurt from tcby(very good)

Supper:
not very hungry.....I just ate one frozen taquito

I think I did pretty good considering it was a cheat day(I am going to do one a week).

I got 8+ glasses of water today.

I went to the gym today and burned 561 calories on the elliptical in 60 minutes and 11 seconds

June 8th Done

Veggies Done

 

[zoegirl]

Good evening everyone!

Dawn - love the booger avitar! And Carsyn is my new hero in those rugby pics. I wish I had been that tough & athletic when I was her age. I hope you feel better & your knee is ok.

Barb - I think you have us all beat on the veggie challenge. You go girl!

Stacy - way to go on getting faster! And btw, for any of you that are remotely interested in possibly doing one of the many races wdw offers per year, you need to be able to keep a 16 minute pace to not get swept off the course.
Maybe it could be a goal for some???

Lara - good for you also on pushing yourself a little bit each time you go to the gym. You never know what you're capable of until you try right? And I also LOVE the hungry girl site.

Liz - I had my first mammogram two weeks ago & it was the most awkward thing I've ever done. And if I lived in Texas I'd eat mexican everyday, as I'm sure it's so much better down there.

Aimee - loved your epiphany! Keep up the good work....errrr housework??

Jane - To answer your snack question. Have you ever tried to blanch veggies first, then dip them in a low fat dip? I keep a container of ranch dip in the fridge so it entices me to snack on veggies. By ranch dip I mean low-fat sour cream with a pack of powder ranch mixed in. Not the healthiest, but 3T of low fat sour cream is 1 WW point & the ranch pack adds nothing to it. I also keep fruit cut up, vita muffins, special K fruit crisps, & the fig newton fruit crisps around for when that snack attack hits. For me it's usually late afternoon.

brkfst - oikos yogurt w/honey, coffee w/creamer
lunch - turkey on arnold sammie thin w/brown mustard, steamed brussel sprouts w/tsp brummel & brown spread
dinner - home made pizza on boboli wheat crust, pizza sauce & pepperoni (3 slices out of 8) big salad w/house made vinegarette, orange slices
snack - vita muffin (choc), 25 calorie diet hot chocolate w/T vanilla creamer

Went to gym, ran 3 miles on dreadmill, and did 20 mins on the eliptical

June 8 done
veggies done

 

[njcarita]

todays tracking 6/8/10...

Breakast
1cup of half decaf coffee with 1/2t sugar and 2T fat free half and half
1 small blueberry pancake no syrup
bottle of h20

lunch
diet coke
grilled salmon on a bed of Mesclun Greens, Fresh Mozzarella, Roasted Red Peppers, Crispy Artichokes, Balsamic Vinaigrette

snack
Mango Italian Ice
15 lime tostito chips
bottle of h2o

dinner
small bowl of veggie/spinach /lentil soup
1/2 serving of mac and cheese
bottle of H20
1/2 cup of skim milk