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

[Mndisneygirl]

Congrats to all who lost this week! Unfortunately I am not one of them. I was on track until the dang weekend!
So I am up 2.5! Didn't get my water or veggies in and didn't do any exercise for days!!! I am getting back on track today - at least with the water and veggies. I'm muching on carrots as I type!

Yesterday was a lot of running - two dance recitals, one with both girls in it. Not much time to eat in between either.
Tracking for Sunday: (best as I remember - I wrote some down at home)
B: 1 English muffin w/ PB, 1 piece bacon, two bites of pancake (no syrup!)
L: um, not sure what I ate before recital, maybe some fruit?
D: chinese take out - mongolian chicken and fried rice
S: Twizzler Nibs and Skittles (less than one serving total), about 4 FF twist pretzels, Microwave Kettle Korn
I think I had a piece of a Rocky Road brownie bar too. I can't remember which day it was! (Yeah, it was that kind of a weekend!

June 13 done (sort of!)

It wasn't pretty. And the sad thing is, it's rainy, so I can't go walking outside during lunch. Well, I could, but that's not going to happen. Very tired today and the weather just ain't helping!!
I just haven't been feeling the love for veggies lately. Probably because I don't like too many of them and I'm getting sick of the same ones. I can only eat so many carrots!! So I'm not mastering the veggie challenge lately. But I'm still making sure to try to eat at least some each day.

Today my eating is better.
B: Multigrain cheerios with skim, coffee (mixed with Hot chocolate mix and creamer)
S: almonds (didn't count! ) 2 Hersheys Special Dark miniatures
L: Smart Ones Santa Fe Beans and Rice
carrots
D: Who KNOWS???

Thanks for keeping me accountable! At least when I don't eat right, I know I'm going to tell you all about it (although I don't want to). So I try to stop myself and eat better. But some days, you just write off.

Question: I had hit the 10 lb. mark and haven't yet changed my siggie picture. Now I'm back up so my total is less than 10 lbs again. I don't feel right changing my picture now. Would you? I'm going to leave it until next week when I KNOW I'll be back to losing 10.

 

[2_Eagle_Mom]

Cary – Congratulations on the 3 lbs!!!

Amanda – Way to go on 4.4lbs!!! I LOVED the finale of GA. I was crying and was so surprised a bunch of times. Definitely a good season finale and can’t wait for the beginning of next season.

Michele – I don’t do jazzercise but I feel your pain (see note below).

Sara – 2lbs WOO HOO!!!

Michelle - .8 isn’t anything to sneeze at.

Tricia – Hugs to you and hope the stress lessens and your life settles down a bit.

Stayhomemom – (sorry my cheat sheet doesn’t have your name listed) – For the longest time my threshold was to get under 200. I was very cautious when that finally happened. I did do a little jig, but having a good dose of Eeyore in me, I was worried about getting too happy for fear that I’d get cocky and go back up. Now my threshold is just to get to the under the 190 mark.

Allison – Welcome out of lurkdom and into the group. Good to have you join us. Looking at your sig I have a bunch of questions. I know that Pipersmom talked about the Big Give group on her TR, I’d love to know more, how did you get involved, etc.

Amy – Another 4lb’er and a total of 20 as well. AMAZING!!!


Ok, so now to my weigh in. I don’t know what is going on with my body, but I’m up 1.2 today. I didn’t go overboard on any day, worked out last week, I even did that long walk on Saturday. Drank my water and I’M UP??? I’m getting quite frustrated. I mean I get really close to getting down to 190 and my weight just bounces back. WTH?? I havn’t been below 191.2 in I can’t remember how long and I was only that weight because my Dad had died that week and I’m like Tricia and I can’t eat when I’m stressed. I’m trying really hard to rationalize it by saying that my body is adjusting to everything but DANG IT, ADJUST already!!! I’m NOT going to give up, but honestly if something doesn’t happen soon I’m out of ideas on what to change.

Ok, enough ranting. I really am stoked at how well everyone is doing here. I’m hoping that I’ll be going in the right direction towards Skinny Island soon.

 

[lizzyb5280]

Happy Monday everyone! We were crazy busy getting ready for our camping trip this coming weekend, and spent most of the weekend shopping. Academy, Whole Foods, Bass Pro, Walmart, Cabelas, and Target all in the span of two days! Taking today to get caught up around the house, so here's my catch up food tracking post

Friday
Breakfast - none
Lunch - 3 Taco Bell "Fresco Style" Crunchy Tacos, 1/2 bean burrito, 1/2 order cinnamon twists, Dr. Pepper
Snack - banana
Dinner - Boneless pork chops in brown gravy over biscuits, bacon caesar salad
Dessert - 2 chocolate chip cookies

1742+ calories (forgot to save the nutritional info off the bag salad DH bought)

JUNE 11 DONE

Saturday
Breakfast - one biscuit, plain
Lunch - McDonald's Crispy Ranch BLT chicken sandwich, sm. order fries, diet coke
Dinner - Spinach & Feta Salmon burgers (Whole Foods), butternut squash fusilli, creamed spinach

1293+ calories (can't find the info on the salmon burgers anywhere)

JUNE 12 DONE

Sunday
Breakfast - banana
Lunch - BBQ: two small pieces sausage, two ribs, sm. amt potato salad, about 1/3 of a cucumber
Dinner - Frozen fish patties, fries
Dessert - choc. chip cookies

No clue on the calories; we eat lunch at DH's grandma's house most Sundays, so I don't really know how things are prepared. I'd guess about 1500 though

JUNE 13 DONE

 

[stayhomemom77]

Welcome Allison! You look so cute in that pic. Thanks for cropping out the snake!! Just call me Indiana Jones!!

Jane: So sorry you are up this week. It's SOOOO frustrating isn't it? The same thing happened to my sister a couple of times (she lost 75 pounds over 14 months on weight watchers) and it was so demoralizing for her when she knew she was doing everything right but her body was just being stubborn. You have the right attitude about it and since you're trying to be patient it'll all be a distant memory in time. I know it sucks to hear platitudes, but "this too shall pass."

 

[gellybean]

Thanks for the encouragement Gellybean and 2 Eagle Mom. What are your names by the way?

Anytime!! I'm Aimee I have a green palm tree lined piece of paper with everyone's nicks and names on it. It helps! Love Jane's idea though!

Aimee- I'm so glad you have your hub for support. Hopefully now that you know what the underlying issues are, you can work on resolving them..you'll feel soooo much better! So glad to hear your son's hearing issues resolved themselves. :hooray:

Thank you! Me too! I don't know that there is any resolution but knowledge is half the battle right?


Now to vent for a moment..lol. I spoke with Piper on the phone tonight since today was her actual birthday. For her birthday she got a laptop computer and a cell phone. Call me old fashioned, but I don't think a 9 yr old needs a cell phone, her Dad and I had talked about it before and said when she was 12 or so it was something we'd think about. As for the laptop, well..we could have used the $400 when we were doing back to school shopping..or buying new clothes (we're frequent fliers at Goodwill and yard sales)..or shoes. I admit, I'm somewhat ticked that we struggle & budget out the butt so I can stay home with her, and then he spends that kind of money on something superfluous. Okay, vent done. She'll love having the laptop when she's in the hospital, and she was over the moon excited, so I guess that's what counts.

So sorry you are dealing with this. I have some issues with DS7's dad sometimes too that make me want to wring his neck. I feel ya!

Aimee - thanks for the link. I'm going to jump over and read tonight!

Thanks for reading!!

Wow... I feel like I have no clue what's going on...... Will try to catch up later. I hate being out-of-the-loop.

Anyway: Food Journal (Question: Do you actually write it down throughout the day, or just remember it here?)

There is a lot going on around here at one time and a lot to keep up with for sure. It takes some time to weed through it all. Hang in there!!

I don't write it down but I do track in livestrong as the day goes by.

:

Congrats on the emotional breakthrough! Its funny, that emotional baggage weighs a lot more than the weight we are carrying. I've also been through a lot, some of it related to why I suffered from depression. I'm glad you were able to talk to your hubby about it. When I was initially dealing with everything, about 6 years ago, I didn't have anybody to talk to. It was rough. I'm still processing and dealing with everything that I have going on... self-worth, self-esteem issues, lots of emotional and mental issues to work through. As I told Stacy, if you need to chat personally about it (since I've kinda been there) feel free to pm me.

Thanks for the offer! I may take you up on it. I feel like I've been talking about this stuff for years though. Kinda makes me mad I'm not 'over' it already but I know that's not neccesarily how it works is it?

Sorry you've been through something similar!! I know we all have our own battles but doesn't make them suck any less.


Glad that your little one doesn't need surgery! I have my degree in Child Development, work with young children. Once the hearing is fixed, the children usually pick up on the language very quickly. He'll go through what is called a "language explosion" and will just start saying so many words and putting lots of words together. Hopefully he'll get all caught up by the fall!

Thanks for the info!! About how long does it take for the language explosion to start?
He's definitely repeating a lot more words and will talk when prompted, ie Say ____ and he'll say it. But he's not using half of his vocabulary on a daily basis. Is that normal?

Hello to all,

Has anybody ever done a "combat" style of class? I'm planning on taking a "Cardio Combat" class from my gym with a friend, but I'm kinda nervous about it.

I'm too scared to try one. Let us know how it goes!

Aimee - Watched GA last night - OH my!!! I thought I'd watch 1/2 of it and watch the rest tonight, but I couldn't stop. I'm SO glad that I had recorded it. I would have been a mess waiting for the comercials to finish.

I thought it was really good. It will be interesting to see how it affects the show next season.

I am very interested to see how next season goes. It was sooooooooooooo good. I was so happy that it seems to be getting back to the way it used to be. I still miss the good old days. Losing My Religon is my favorite episode ever (the one where Denny died) and it may never get that good again but I was pleased with the direction it's going again.

Hello friends!!

Down exactly two pounds this week...and this was after the eat till you puke festival of filling my face with all my points (daily, flex points AND exercise points...oh my gosh I was SO FULL all week long) so I am THRILLED!!

Glad the plan worked for you Julie!!!!

I also went down one more ww point (now 30 per day) because I'm now in the 240's.

Makes it bittersweet to get down into that next 10 lb mark doesn't it? I had a really short friend that was doing it that got 18 pts a day.

Thank you to Bree for the great advice!! Who would have thunk that eating more makes you weigh less??


My goal is to focus on exercise more this week (which means I can't be so dang full or I'll never get through a workout without being sick) so I'm going to eat only my daily calories through the week and save any flex point consumption for Saturday night. And I'm not planning on using any of the exercise points at all.

I never ate my exercise points back. Kinda didn't make sense to me. Maybe I'm clueless.

For those of you looking to lose more than 50 pounds...where is your comfort threshold?

Size 16 is my next proud of myself moment.

I think being back in ONEderland will make a big difference in how I feel about myself too. It's been 13 years since I've been under 200. So I will join you in the celebrating and dancing in the streets.

So, I'm a real slacker and have just now decided to jump on the "Skinny Island" bandwagon. I've been lurking here and there for a little while and finally decided that this is just what I need. So, Dawn - Count me in!

First Name and Screen name: tebi73 - Allison

This puts my grand total since starting skinny island and my weight loss journey at 20 pounds!!

Cogratulations on hitting the 20 pound mark!!!!!



Personal update:
-0.2
Pretty much stayed the same this week. Which considering the binging I did earlier this week, I'll take it.

DH and I talked about WW some more today and he agreed that he's gonna try Livestrong with me for one week and see if he likes it. This way I won't have to double track, at least for the duration of my free subscription to Body Bugg software and we'll save a little money since Livestrong is free. AND we can both have a profile and do our own tracking. When we did WW online we used one profile and I tracked online and DH used paper. Cus we're cheapskates like that.

Just got back from taking DS7 to the dentist. He had 2 cavities. Poor guy. We've been watching these same spots for 3 years now so he did really good to take care of his teeth to make it wait this long. He's scheduled to get them fixed 2 weeks from today.

He's DREADING it. He's only had to have fillings once before and remembers the pain. Apparently Nitrous Oxide doesn't do a lot for him.

Just one more reason to not have any sugar in the house!!!!!!

Congratulations to all you big LOSERS out there !!

Big hugs of hang in there-ness to those that had a challeging week.

 

[Duchie]

Hi all!

I've been out all day at Cub Scout day camp and having a blast. We've got a really great group of boys this year. Anyway, I'm -3 this week which feel pretty good.

I want to tell you guys about one of the ladies at camp. I worked with her last year and when she walked up to me I hardly recognized her. She has lost 90 pounds in 18 months and looks fabulous. I'm just so impressed with how well she has done and it was a real inspiration to me. Hopefully you guys will be inspired, too.

Gotta run - camp all day and I still have to cook for the family. I'll catch up tomorrow.

 

[pwmitch237]

- Count me in!
First Name and Screen name: tebi73 - Allison
Oh, and here's me (i cropped out the huge boa constrictor just incase anyone's afraid of snakes)....

Allison! And thanks for cropping out the snakes... I can't handle them very well.

Happy Monday! This week, I'm-4 pounds!! This puts my grand total since starting skinny island and my weight loss journey at 20 pounds!!

CONGRATS

1293+ calories (can't find the info on the salmon burgers anywhere

Dug through 9 pages of Google:
http://www.thedailyplate.com/nutrition-calories/food/whole-foods/omega-foods-salmon-burgers Try that

I'm too scared to try one. Let us know how it goes!

Will do, I think I'll start next week (a lot going on this week.)

- Off to Outback! Be back later for food tracking!

-Patrick

 

[gellybean]

Just checked out the Eat This Not that for the Super Market from my local library.


Interesting Tidbit I just read - WARNING: not for the sqeamous!!!!





The Wrong Kind of Protein
The little "bonus" ingredients the FDA allows in your food


Canned pineapple - Can contain up to 20% moldy fruit
Canned tomatoes - Can contain up to 5 fly eggs or 2 maggots per 500 grams
Frozen broccoli - Can contain up to 60 mites per 100 grams
Ground cinnamon - Can contain up to 400 insect fragments and 11 rodent hairs per 100 grams
Peanut butter - Can contain up to 30 insect fragments or 1 rodent hair per 100 grams
Popcorn - Can contain 1 rodent pellet in one samle or 2 rodent hairs per pound
Potato chips - Can contain 6% rotten potatoes

 

[stayhomemom77]

Ewwww! Aimee what are you trying to do to us?

This is being filed under: Things I never needed to know!!

 

[gellybean]

Ewwww! Aimee what are you trying to do to us?

This is being filed under: Things I never needed to know!!

It's good motivation to eat fresh produce and non-processed foods and not canned process stuff yeah?

I think my motto should be "If I didn't see it get cleaned, it's not going in my mouth. "

 

[tlenzendorf]

Aimee I definitely did not need to know that! Ewwww! How are we supposed to eat anything?

Thanks for the well wishes guys. This is just really a stressful time in my life and I'm not sure what the outcome will be. Hopefully good, but time will tell.

Todays food:
Breakfast: 1 Grape Juice Cup
Lunch: 1 hot dog and a few bites of mac and cheese

Still not hungry and its 7:35 already. Probably won't eat dinner.

June 14 DONE

 

[pwmitch237]

On the plus side, did much better today, then I have in a while.

Breakfast: Cheerios (140) & Yogurt (80)
Lunch: California Roll Sushi (383)
Dinner [OUTBACK!!!]: Side Caesar Salad (329) & Grilled Chicken on the Barbie (LIGHT version) (383)
Snacks: NONE!

Exercise: Treadmill (378 Calories burned, 44:28, 5K (3.1miles))

TOTALS: 1315 Calories, 42.4g of Fat, 31g of Sugar, 96g of Carbs, 80.4g of Protein So happy to finally be within my ranges that I want to be. Had a tough weekend (an extremely good friend moved....)


JUNE 14 DONE!
VEGETABLES DONE!

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

 

[Mndisneygirl]

Okay Aimee -YUCK.
Now how am I supposed to make spaghetti sauce now? I HAVE to use canned tomatoes - I can't do the fresh - too much work. UGH.

Tricia - hang in there! We're here for you.

Today:
B: Multigrain cheerios and skim, coffee w/ hot choc and creamer
L: Smart Ones Santa Fe rice and beans, carrots
S: 3 Hershey's mini special dark, almonds (probably 1/4 cup)
D: Kielbasa, ceasar salad, 2 spoonfuls of cottage cheese, 5 spoonfuls of baked beans
Plus - a rocky road brownie. I have got to get rid of those things some other way than eating them myself!!!
Funny thing is - I'm still hungry and it's quarter to nine! Grrr.

 

[pipersmom]

Congrats to everyone on their losses!

Amy- Woohoo for 20 lbs! I can't wait to get there!

Julie- 200 is going to be a big number for me as well, I can't remember being there That will also put me to almost halfway!

Patrick- Great job on hitting your goals for the day, esp with Outback!! I don't know if I could go there and not get a big, juicy steak..yummy.

Aimee- LOL @ the insect/rodent stats. I have trouble hitting my proteins most days, maybe I'm getting closer to them than I thought

When I changed my weight in SparkPeople today it prompted me to re-do my goals and added calories I understand the reasoning behind it, but still not sure how I feel about it/if I want to do it, lol.

Breakfast- Yoplait Light Blueberry Pie (gross...won't buy it again)
Lunch- Ham and cheese on a sammy thin, FF Pringles.
Dinner- Salmon, reduced fat mac & cheese, green beans.
Snacks- (I was way short on cals) RF hot dog on thin bun (fill 'em), strawberries & cheesecake dip, light string cheese, WW chocolate chip cookie, toasted sammy thin w/ Brummel & Brown.

Cals- 1232 (1310-1660)

June 14- Done!

 

[gellybean]

Sorry you guys!
Thought y'all would find it interesting. Didn't mean to make anyone ill!

LOL Amanda. It definitely made me think twice. I don't think I want to be looking up the rest of the FDA guidelines. I think I'm already off popcorn for life!!


Tracking for today:
Breakfast - 2 eggs, 2 pieces of bacon, 2 pieces of toast, 1 tbsp butter, 1 tbsp peach preserves
540 cals
Snack - 1 tortilla, 1 tbsp of light canola oil butter
160 cals
Dinner - 4 oz chicken breast, 1/2 of 1 serving of Rotel Rice (hubby's recipe, we built it in Livestrong. 1 serving was a 1/4 of a pot, which started as 1 cup uncooked basmati rice) 2 cups fresh pineapple, 1 tbsp avocado, 1 tortilla
523 cals

Total cals for 1223 cals

Monday June 14 DONE

Have a good night everyone!

 

[2_Eagle_Mom]

Aimee- .2 is still .2 down. I’d be thrilled right now. I’m glad your hubby is going to try out your tracking plan. I know that WW has to make money, but heck the website is expensive, I’d be double tracking as well. Poor kid having 2 cavities. Hopefully the dentist can fill these ones without pain. Does your dentist have a TV or earphones? If not, maybe you can give him some music to listen to and calm him down. Ok, I can handle the snakes from Allison’s picture, but the info from Eat This not that – YUCK!

Duchie – I MISS cub scout day camp!!! We always had such a good time, but boy I was always exhausted afterwards. How did your friend lose her weight? That is an amazing amount of weight in a relatively short amount of time.

Amanda – I redid my goals as well. I decided to “restart” my goal tracking. It was just too depressing seeing how far away I was getting from that red line. My calories went DOWN. Maybe that is my problem. I’m going to have to get creative to not go over the top end.

Food log:

Breakfast – Raisin Bran w/ff milk
Lunch – Lean Cuisine Beef Portobelo, banana
Snack – cherries, fiber one, 100 cal choc covered pretzels
Dinner – Falafel, crackers, laughing cow cheese
Dessert – skinny cow

Total – 1473 (new goal 1200 – 1550)
June 14 DONE

 

[2_Eagle_Mom]

Allison - I just jumped over to your DISigns page and realized that you had created a couple of designs for me and our next trip. I can't wait till I can surprise the kids with their shirts. Anyway, just wanted to thank you once again.

 

[gellybean]

Aimee- .2 is still .2 down. I’d be thrilled right now. I’m glad your hubby is going to try out your tracking plan. I know that WW has to make money, but heck the website is expensive, I’d be double tracking as well. Poor kid having 2 cavities. Hopefully the dentist can fill these ones without pain. Does your dentist have a TV or earphones? If not, maybe you can give him some music to listen to and calm him down. Ok, I can handle the snakes from Allison’s picture, but the info from Eat This not that – YUCK!

Good idea about the headphones Jane!! I'll have to ask the dentist if that's ok. It's kinda funny cus DS7's best friend is the dentist's youngest kid. And they became best friends at school 2 year after we started using this dentist. Small town in a big city is what I call our town. We're 15 mins from downtown Austin but everyone still knows everyone in our little town.

I really am ok with my weigh in this week. I pulled it together and ended up at the same weight and not a gain so I'm pleased. Mid week I was up close to 2 lbs again. I refuse to lose and gain those two pounds again.

When I updated my weight in Body Bugg software I hadn't done it in a month and I was the same weight I was a month ago. I had lost and then gained back the same two pounds, so I totally understand your frustration.

When we get stuck it's a good thing to change it up. I really hope you find that new trick to change it up and get to your next goal! I know how frustrating it can be to be sooooooo close and then not get there!

I have several size 18 jeans and shorts that I can't get back in. I'm so close, but depending on the brand some 18s fit and some don't. I wanna be in this one pair of 18 shorts so bad before our vacation. Maybe I should duct table the shorts to the front of the fridge to motivate me.

Duchie - I second Jane's question. How did your friend lose the weight!? That's crazy!! and yes VERY motivating!!!!

 

[njcarita]

we'll survived my first Zumba Class last nite.... what a fun class.... but boy was I wiped....I have NEVER sweated as much.... the most streneous exercize I usually do is brisk walking.... definately going back next week...

and one of my other friends emailed me yesterday about a bellydancing class starting in July.... may have to try it too.... anyone here tried belly dancing???

 

[njcarita]

tracking for yesterday 6/14/10

exercise: went on 2 walks(morning and afternoon) for a total of 2.5 miles
1 hr Zumba Class

Breakfast
1cup of half decaf coffee with 1/2t sugar and 2T fat free half and half
low fat cottage cheese , blueberries and drizzle of honey
bottle of water

Snack
Hot Chocolate

Lunch
Grilled Chicken on a bed of iceburg lettuce , roasted red pepperd, onions ,carrots , green olives, gorgonzola cheese w/low fat raspberry vinnagrette
bottle of water
15 sweet potato oven baked fries

Snack
1 short bread cookie
drinkable yogart ( before Zumba)
2bottles of water
100 calorie pack of almonds ( after Zumba)

Dinner
1/2 slice of pizza
roasted tricolor peppers gorgonzola cheese
bottle of water

Snack
3 meringues