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

[Stacybaeasm]

Good morning everyone! I joined Sparkpeople yesterday. Wow, what a great site. And I love seeing how I am doing on all levels of eating. I just entered breakfast and lunch for today and I like seeing what kind of calories, etc I have left for dinner and snacks. Now, if only I could breathe enough to head to the gym. Oh well, I'll get plenty of walking in next week at WDW.

 

[littlepeppers]

I had a small bowl of low sugar cereal w/ skim milk & used the leftover cereal milk for my coffee.

I know, I know, it is so green of me.

Pray for lunch.

 

[stitchfan23]

I like sparkpeople as well. I am finding it really helpful to be able to track my food. It is amazing how you can play tricks on yourself if you are not tracking. Yesterday for example I hadn't tracked and thought that I was way under for the day so I had a treat of a small ice cream sundae. Well when I did track (while hubby was out getting the ice cream) I realized that I had been right on the calories and fat and everything for the day and the ice cream was not going to put me over in both fat and calories. That was my treat and my lesson and now I am tracking before each meal.

 

[Dizneydawn]

Hey everyone,

I am just checking in before I leave work for a nice loooooong weekend. Here in Abe's country the kids are off school for his birthday AND President's Day, so I have to take a day off too.
Hope you have a great weekend and lok forward to seeing you here when you can!
My first weigh-in is Saturday. If you hear a loud Woo-hoo from the central IL area, that means I hit my goal of 2lbs.

I will have my ear pointed east!

still staying on program!

Awesome job!

First Name and Screen name: Jennifer/ littlepeppers WELCOME!!!
We live in South Louisiana. We don't eat to live here. We live to eat. Most conversations around a typical cajun lunch table is what's for dinner.
That is MN best too! Hotdish heaven country!!!

Need them!?! Shoot girl! I would hurt myself and a few people around me if I didn't have on a sports bra!! I don't find being beaten by my own body parts much fun while trying to work out, thank you very much! : What ya wanna bet that dang tag fairy will tag me now!?!

My gosh you make my stomach hurt!!! Be by your phone this weekend!

First Name and Screen name: Sheila and WyldLynx

What your Goal Is for Fitness: loose about 150lbs OMG did I really just say that out loud, or type that.
I understand how scary it is but once you face the number...it has less power over you!

Family: wonderful hubby who loves me for who I am not how I am.
Awesome powerful statement! Thank you for posting that!!!
Thank you for starting this thread, maybe it can help me be honest with myself and try to stay on track a little bit better.

I hope to get to know you better here as well and we can lose this fat together!!!

It is KILLING me! and oddly I am loving it.

I am seeing you in hose and leg warmers beating on Richard Simmons!

Is it too late?
Heck NO!!!
What Your Goal is For Yourself when you get to Skinny Island: Buy regular-sized clothes rather than plus sizes; do a 1/2 marathon.

I love your goal AND FEEL REALY LUCKY YOU JOINED US!!!

Trying not to stress about not being able to get to the gym.When I go to the gym I feel so much better and I don't get all crazy if I slip up an eaten things I shouldn't when I've been to the gym.

That everything or nothing mentality and accepting what is not within our power and that sometimes good enough is all we can do...is a hard pill to chike down!

Good morning everyone! I joined Sparkpeople yesterday. Wow, what a great site. And I love seeing how I am doing on all levels of eating. I just entered breakfast and lunch for today and I like seeing what kind of calories, etc I have left for dinner and snacks. Told you...even if my day is not perfect...it is amazing how proud I feel when the balance is close. Learning a ton about food!

I had a small bowl of low sugar cereal w/ skim milk & used the leftover cereal milk for my coffee.

I know, I know, it is so green of me.

Pray for lunch.

Great job! Keep posting here!

 

[Dizneydawn]

I like sparkpeople as well. I am finding it really helpful to be able to track my food. It is amazing how you can play tricks on yourself if you are not tracking. Yesterday for example I hadn't tracked and thought that I was way under for the day so I had a treat of a small ice cream sundae. Well when I did track (while hubby was out getting the ice cream) I realized that I had been right on the calories and fat and everything for the day and the ice cream was not going to put me over in both fat and calories. That was my treat and my lesson and now I am tracking before each meal.

This whole post made my day! I am soooo very proud of you!!!


Well my food has been pretty good. I will post my last 2 days totalsand today...later on. Just running around with my head chopped off and although am tracking 100% - no time to rearrange the format for dis from sparkpeople.

Yesterday - I think I might have overdone the lettuce consumption!

I was starving and am close to Tom...so in order to avoid chocloate...ate 2 bags of Dole lettuce with homemade dressing! Literally 2 bags. Servings per bag is 2 1/2.

Is there too much lettuce for your diet?



It was all field greens mix with shredded carrots. No iceberg. I adore lettuce - darker greens are awesome.

I did have 3 chocloate chips - frozen btw. It cut the chocolate craving and I felt good I did not splurge.

Thanks everybody for all the posts and I am so GLAD there are new people still joining us!

Let's have a successful MONDAY WEIGH IN!

This Valentines Day...LOVE YOURSELF ENOUGH to treat yourself to a healthy body!

 

[eliz991]

Okay guys I am packed and suitcase weighed to make sure it wasn't too heavy (my suitcase and i have the same problem I guess!)...off in about 12 hours...only for vacation will I get up that early! See y'all when I return!

I have my bodybugg packed in my suitcase, didn't want to wear it on my arm at the airport so I packed in a plastic bag with its instruction manual right on top so if the TSA thinks it looks funny they can see that it is harmless!

 

[littlepeppers]

I opted for the plain instead of the cream cheese filled. It is rude not to accept king cake. I cut the piece myself. It was very, very skinny. Almost insulting to dirty the knife to do it.

4 more days until those things aren't in the stores anymore.

 

[dislvr74]

Just checking in. I didn't work yesterday because I had to take a furlough day. My plan was to do my 10 mile run while the girls were in school. I just couldn't find the motivation to do it, but I did complete 4 miles and I was at a much faster pace. I was pretty excited about that because I am trying to improve my PR by 8 minutes on May 1st. After the princess half I'm going to really focus on pace. Anyway, so I'm happy I got some sort of run done and will do my 10 miles on Sunday.

I'm doing much better with consistent exercise. I have started cross training and I think that will help me lose some weight. I've been good about running 3 times a week, but that's all I've been doing.

I haven't been doing so great with controlling my eating. It is really hard for me to stick to my plan when I am at home and this week I was home for a snow day and that furlough day. The weekends are always bad and I have got to get control of myself! I keep going from 160 to 157 and back to 160!

 

[PixiePlanner]

Woo!

Not a Woo-hoo as I only lost a pound. But at least it's a loss and not a gain. However, I am really disappointed in myself. I went to the store yesterday and bought cookies just because I had a coupon. Yes, they are very good cookies but I ate EIGHT of them: not so proud of that. I could hear myself justifying it, "I have been so good this week," but yet I had no willpower! The rest of the cookies I am putting in DH's lunch to take to work on Monday. He can eat them all in one day if he wants. He's skinny! (Do you feel the jealousy?) Needless to say, I was way over on my calories & fat for yesterday.

Today is a new day. I have 2lbs to lose by next Saturday. I cannot look back, I must focus on the future: what I can still change.

Good luck! By the way, I also live in central IL.

I have lived here for almost 17 years. Still trying to get used the the "politics."

Just checking in. I didn't work yesterday because I had to take a furlough day.

Do you work for the state?

 

[Dizneydawn]

Just checking in. I didn't work yesterday because I had to take a furlough day. My plan was to do my 10 mile run while the girls were in school. I just couldn't find the motivation to do it, but I did complete 4 miles and I was at a much faster pace. Great job!!!

I haven't been doing so great with controlling my eating. It is really hard for me to stick to my plan when I am at home and this week I was home for a snow day and that furlough day. The weekends are always bad and I have got to get control of myself! I keep going from 160 to 157 and back to 160!

Eating is the bane of my existance and the yo yo 4 pounds is almost the entire weight story of last year! Let's do this! Wouldn't you feel awesome to be at 152! Lower than the lowest weight by a few punds so you have a buffer and don't feel like in your head you will say..."well I will just slip back so what is the difference?" Let's make it the goal for the next fe weeks...create a buffer from the current bottom of the yo yo and your next goal!

I opted for the plain instead of the cream cheese filled. It is rude not to accept king cake. I cut the piece myself. It was very, very skinny. Almost insulting to dirty the knife to do it.

4 more days until those things aren't in the stores anymore.

I know squat about Louisianna and Mardi Gras so please explain this cake to me...I loove cake so I can live vicariously through you!

I have my bodybugg packed in my suitcase, didn't want to wear it on my arm at the airport so I packed in a plastic bag with its instruction manual right on top so if the TSA thinks it looks funny they can see that it is harmless!

Uh Huh....does it have batteries?

Woo!

Not a Woo-hoo as I only lost a pound. But at least it's a loss and not a gain. However, I am really disappointed in myself. I went to the store yesterday and bought cookies just because I had a coupon. Yes, they are very good cookies but I ate EIGHT of them: not so proud of that. I could hear myself justifying it, "I have been so good this week," but yet I had no willpower! The rest of the cookies I am putting in DH's lunch to take to work on Monday. He can eat them all in one day if he wants. He's skinny! (Do you feel the jealousy?) Needless to say, I was way over on my calories & fat for yesterday.

Today is a new day. I have 2lbs to lose by next Saturday. I cannot look back, I must focus on the future: what I can still change.

Darn those cookies! I bought a bunch of baking stuff also but will pack them away in the freezer for our trip in a few weeks and to send to my son in college. One idea is to buy sweets in small pkgs...even if it is not economical...so you only have one or two. I bought 2 gourmet cupcakes yeaterday - so I knew I would only eat one and there was none around to tempt me today.

I learned a few things also. That Lunds grocery store (more high end shopping) here has the best buttercream frosting I have ever eaten and will be my go to place for cakes in the future. ( I had been a Sam's fan previously but their cakes were often stale if the frosting was good.) Second, it was a marble cake with both white frosting died pink and chocolate on the other half. Decorated to the nines with Valentine theming and I ate it slow because of the presentation. Third, I really enjoyed the treat and knew I had alloted for it and felt good about my decession vs guilty eating which leads to the "screw it" mentality. Today, I have no reminants of the temptation haunting me and can go about having a good day. In the past I bought economical always and thus meant quantity and not quality.

Have a great Saturday everybody!!!

I have lived here for almost 17 years. Still trying to get used the the "politics."




Do you work for the state?

 

[dislvr74]

Woo!

Not a Woo-hoo as I only lost a pound. But at least it's a loss and not a gain. However, I am really disappointed in myself. I went to the store yesterday and bought cookies just because I had a coupon. Yes, they are very good cookies but I ate EIGHT of them: not so proud of that.

I have lived here for almost 17 years. Still trying to get used the the "politics."

Do you work for the state?

One pound gone is still one pound gone. I hear you on the lack of willpower. I have a hard time with mindless eating.

I have lived here off and on my entire life. I was born here and went to college here. Almost 9 years ago we moved back so that I could work at U of IL. I like my job, but these four furlough days that we have to take by May 15th are painful.

 

[littlepeppers]

King cake is like a big ring of braided cinnamonroll with a hard white icing covered in yellow, green, & purple sugar sprinkles.

You can get almost any filling in them. (cream cheese, strawberry, strawberry cream cheese, pecan praline........ you name it, they've got it)

They used to put a hard plastic 1inch baby cooked in the cake. It is now in the middle of the cakes due to lawsuits from people choaking on them. Cajuns take very big bites. If your piece of king cake had the baby, then you were responsible for bringing the king cake for the next gathering.

Be glad that you don't have access to these cakes. They sometimes change the sprinkle colors to pastels for Easter. I just hope they go away. I saw a few black & gold ones this year. Who Dat!

 

[Stacybaeasm]

This weekend is not off to a good start for me. I went to the grocery store and as I got out of the car, I realized I had made 2 rookie, yet BIG mistakes - I went to the store hungry AND I didn't have a list. Then, on top of it, the store is all decked out for that nasty holiday tomorrow with chocolate and candy everywhere!!!! I made it out with some damage but it was minimal -some chips and some lowfat ice cream. I guess I'm lucky there is no one special in my life so I won't be getting a big box of candy tomorrow! Now I need to find the will power to not eat all the chips in one sitting!!!

 

[gellybean]

Hey all!

Sorry I didn't check in yesterday. I took the laptop to bed with me last night, all set to post, and the boards were down for maintenance.

I've had some ups and some downs the past few days. I did well yesterday, all things considered. We did go out to eat - my mom was in town so my sister and I took her out to dinner, with my two boys. We went to Carino's, one of my favorite restaurants. I had one of their loaves of bread... which was a vast improvement over my two or three loaves... typing that out now makes me wanna kick myself for eating that much bread before. I split 1 solo order of chicken Italian nachos with Mom, sister, and both boys. I shared a Spicy Chicken Romano with my mom and DS7, when I used to wolf down the whole order of nachos and the whole bowl of pasta. The pasta isn't a heavy cream sauce. According to a website I found the whole plate of that dish would have been 13 pts and half an order of nachos would have been 7. And I had less than those servings. Hard to figure, but I guesstimated.

Then for dessert, I orderd 1 tiramisu in the mini espresso cup. By the time mom, DS7 and my sister each had a bite I think I got 3 bites. HUGE improvement over a big dessert all to myself!

I did go into my flex points some but I was so proud that I made a game plan and stuck to it and ate probably a 1/3 of what I would have eaten there before!

Today, I've had two scrambled eggs, 1 piece of sourdough toast and 2 pieces of bacon.

Then a bowl of tortilla soup- my own recipe. A whole bowl of the soup is 3 points, but you have to watch the cheese and tortillas you add. So I measured the cheese into a 1/3 cup and only fried one corn tortilla in canola oil and used very little strips.

I've had 2 slim fast chocolate bars since lunch.

I've got about 10 pts left for the day, but am satisfied and cured the snacking urge. I can have more soup for dinner or edamame or a turkey wrap for dinner. Plus I still have lots of flex points for the week that I can use if I need.


I didn't get to the gym last night. I called to reschedule earlier because my sister was already here and there was no point sitting around for 1.5 hrs waiting for our gym appt. And I was told the head trainer had gone home ill.

This gym, you have to have an assessment with the head trainer before they'll let you loose on the equipment. So I rescheduled for Tuesday, the next day DH will be off and available to watch the kids. The gym does have child care but the first appointment is gonna take an hour and half. I don't want to leave the boys in child care that long, especially not the first time.

We don't have anything planned for tomorrow. DH is working 14 hours minimal. Big day for a restaurant manager. So Valentine's for us is just another work day. The benefit of that is no temptations!

I did go to the doctor on Friday. Will have to do bloodwork on Tuesday. I'm getting my cholesterol ran for the first time in a LONG time, so that'll be interesting.


Hope everyone is having a good weekend! DS7 was off Friday and again on Monday so we've having a lazy 4 day weekend. Watching the Olympics, and catching up on things on the DVR from the week, and into Season 2 of LOST! Love that show! Dawn, I highly recommend it, but boy am I glad that I waited to watch it when I can just go to the next episode instead of waiting a week or months between cliff hangers!! Really enjoying it!

I'm trying to learn to treat myself in other ways besides food! A TV show, a manicure, pedicure even if I do them myself. Shopping, reading a good book, bubble baths etc. I've used food, for far too long for my celebration and comfort, solace and self soothing. No MAS!!


everyone!

 

[tiggerplus5]

I've been busy tracking.

I really tried to plan my food for the week before I went grocery shopping. I have lots of good food in the fridge. I also made two pudding pies, a chocolate and banana, this morning. I had the pudding in the cabinet and I knew if I made them, the kids would eat them up. I haven't had a piece today and I really didn't care that I didn't. That was a HUGE step for me. I just don't feel so hungry all the time. I haven't been over stuffing myself until I feel uncomfortable.

I have been a little high on the calorie intake all week 1600-1800 calorie a day range but it is still SOOOOO much better than my usual eating habits. I really feel like I'm on the right path.

I did something stupid today. I ate a grilled rueben sandwich today. My husband made me one at lunch. I just wasn't thinking. I should have checked the calories before I ate it. I was thinking that it was on rye bread and the meat can't be that bad. I've been eating turkey and ham during the week and it wasn't way over in the calorie department. Guess what! Corned beef was a bad choice. That sandwich was 800 calories! I'm way over for today. At dinner I just had a small piece of broiled haddock and a scoop of rice. **I didn't fill up my plate though. This is really a big step for me** I had one piece of chocolate for dessert (25 calories). total calories for the day: 2530

I did 30 minutes of wii fit but it was low impact yoga. So I added another 30 minutes of aerobics this afternoon to try to burn a few more calories. I'm finally accepting that I am out of shape. I'm pretty sore now that I've been sitting for a while. It will prolly be worse tomorrow.

I feel like this time I'm doing it right. I really want this to work. I turn 45 this month. It's time to make some changes. I'm so busy these days I hardly have time to DIS.

 

[luvsJack]

Hi Ladies! Been out of pocket for a few days.

Had a snow day Friday (only a couple of inches, but a major event around here ) and was sick yesterday. I don't think I have done too bad, but haven't tracked either (and that's the bad part) But, I am ready to get back on track starting now!! I will weigh in tomorrow.

Someone mentioned King Cake? They are a little piece of heaven (or maybe they are from the devil, depends on the way you look at it !) Especially when they come from a place called Paul's Pastries in South Mississippi! Earlier in the season, had one with Apple pie and cream cheese filling---oh, so GOOD!!

I was watching Celebrity Fit Club last night and was wondering about Dr. Ian's 4 Day Diet. Has anyone read the book or tried it? Sounds like you eat different types of foods every 4 days or something. He says it helps with the mental part of weight loss (which is my problem). I am thinking of looking for the book when we go out later this afternoon.

Taking dd to the movies today (tickets were her Valentine's present--so tired of STUFF, trying to do things like this for gifts!) and am already telling myself "no buttered popcorn, no buttered popcorn, no buttered popcorn". Its a shame they don't have air-popped popcorn as an alternative.

 

[TB'sWidow]

Hi,everyone well I finally got back to the gym today after a week of being snowed in. Of course its like starting all over again I did 35min on the elliptical and it say I burned 410 cal not sure if you can trust those counts. I also am not tracking the calories to much in what I eat. I find that tedious. I joined sparkpeople awhile back but it became a real chore to do.Today so far I have eaten ww eggmuffin & applesauce no sugar added. Mary

 

[luvsJack]

Hi,everyone well I finally got back to the gym today after a week of being snowed in. Of course its like starting all over again I did 35min on the elliptical and it say I burned 410 cal not sure if you can trust those counts. I also am not tracking the calories to much in what I eat. I find that tedious. I joined sparkpeople awhile back but it became a real chore to do.Today so far I have eaten ww eggmuffin & applesauce no sugar added. Mary

If you are not tracking calories, are there just certain foods you are trying to avoid? Or do you look at the calories eaten at a meal?--I know I once just tried to make sure each meal was under 350 calories and each snack under 100. If I went out to eat, it always had to be somewhere I knew I had options and I picked what was the lowest cal/fat count.

 

[Stacybaeasm]

Hi Ladies! Been out of pocket for a few days.

Had a snow day Friday (only a couple of inches, but a major event around here ) and was sick yesterday. I don't think I have done too bad, but haven't tracked either (and that's the bad part) But, I am ready to get back on track starting now!! I will weigh in tomorrow.

Someone mentioned King Cake? They are a little piece of heaven (or maybe they are from the devil, depends on the way you look at it !) Especially when they come from a place called Paul's Pastries in South Mississippi! Earlier in the season, had one with Apple pie and cream cheese filling---oh, so GOOD!!

I was watching Celebrity Fit Club last night and was wondering about Dr. Ian's 4 Day Diet. Has anyone read the book or tried it? Sounds like you eat different types of foods every 4 days or something. He says it helps with the mental part of weight loss (which is my problem). I am thinking of looking for the book when we go out later this afternoon.

Taking dd to the movies today (tickets were her Valentine's present--so tired of STUFF, trying to do things like this for gifts!) and am already telling myself "no buttered popcorn, no buttered popcorn, no buttered popcorn". Its a shame they don't have air-popped popcorn as an alternative.

Do they actually make the popcorn at your theatre? At my theatre, I've seen them dump it from a bag so it IS airpopped. The calories come in the "butter flavoring" you add. You can always ask. But good luck. I can rarely go into the movies without getting popcorn because of the smell.

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

Just found this thread and loving it. I have to go back and read from the beginning though.

I'm at 6 pounds so far. Yeah, I have 60 to go. I am hoping to be down at least 20 more by September for our next trip.

All I can think about right now is King Cake after reading some of this thread.