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

[dislvr74]

I think I'm going to post my tracking even if nobody cares to read it. I need the daily check-in.

This is what I have eaten/will eat today. Like most of you, I like to enter everything in the morning.

Yes, I am admitting to the world that I have a nutterbutter addiction. I consider it a good day when I limit myself to one package.

Edited to add: I didn't include the number of servings in order to save room. That's two servings of carrots, two bananas, two tortillas, and two servings of cheddar cheese. Everything else is one serving.

 

[Dizneydawn]

I think I'm going to post my tracking even if nobody cares to read it. I need the daily check-in.

I like the layout of this - sparkpeople does not convert easily to print here - what do you use?

 

[dislvr74]

I use the daily plate at www.livestrong.com. At the bottom of the page, there is a link to export the information to excel. I did that and then cleaned it up a bit (it first lists all the information for one serving and then the total if you had multiple servings). I then saved that as a jpg and uploaded it to photobucket so that I could just insert it as an image. A simple copy and paste from excel doesn't work.

I figure the 5 minutes it takes me to do all of that is 5 minutes I'm not eating.

 

[Dizneydawn]

TURN ON THE NEWS!!!

A killer whale just killed a trainer at sea world!!!

 

[Mndisneygirl]

Holy Crap! That's horrible! Man, it looks like it was at the beginning of a show.

 

[luvsJack]

That is just so very, very sad!!

 

[Jasperann]

TURN ON THE NEWS!!!

A killer whale just killed a trainer at sea world!!!

Oh MY GOSH!!!! I'm scared to death of the killer whales. They are not showing it on my news though. That is so sad.

 

[Mndisneygirl]

Ironically, (or not) my DD6 is doing her science project on killer whales and was working on it after school today. We did not discuss it in great detail.

I feel like I struggled with my eating today. I was eating mostly healthy food but I felt hungry often, and did snack a bit too much at work this afternoon. I also was tired, having stayed up too late watching figure skating.

Another temptation - I have a garage full of girl scout cookies!!!
I am the cookie mom for DD8's troop and have to store the cookies until everyone picks up (one family left) and for the cookie booth. Not to mention the large number of boxes I ordered!!! Have to put them in the freezer right away! There's really only two types that I have trouble with, and I could eat a whole box.

Hope you are all doing well. I'm scheduling some exercise in for the next few days! Walking during lunch, Wii fit on Friday after volunteering at school... if I plan for it, I'm more likely to do it!

 

[Jasperann]

I use the daily plate at www.livestrong.com. At the bottom of the page, there is a link to export the information to excel. I did that and then cleaned it up a bit (it first lists all the information for one serving and then the total if you had multiple servings). I then saved that as a jpg and uploaded it to photobucket so that I could just insert it as an image. A simple copy and paste from excel doesn't work.

I figure the 5 minutes it takes me to do all of that is 5 minutes I'm not eating.

Thank you so much for that link! I love the way it lets you add the food. Much easier than what I have been using! It even tells you the new values for the other stuff too (fat, carbs....ect) Is the amount of calories to eat accurate though? It says I'm suppose to eat a crazy amount of calories. But I do love the site, I think I will be switching over to using it, to see how I really like it.

Edited to add: I had a rough day yesterday... I seemed to eat and eat and eat... or at least want to eat and eat and eat. I didn't actually eat all that much, besides 5 girl scout thin mint cookies. I didn't want to work out and basically felt kinda crappy. I did force myself to do at least 20 minutes on the elliptical and actually made myself do an extra 10 minutes, so I did have a small win. So that blah feeling started to seep into today too... then my loving boyfriend (that is such the wrong word for him... but we aren't married... so it's really all I've got) told me that my face is losing weight! It wasn't even one of those times where I asked him if he could see a change. We were talking about random stuff this morning before taking the kids to school and he just blurted it out. That really helped the blah feeling to go away. Makes me want to do a happy dance. I'm going to work out some this morning to keep the blahs away...lol Thanks for letting me vent even if it doesn't make much sense to any of you. Maybe it will make sense to some of you though.

 

[Jasperann]

Ironically, (or not) my DD6 is doing her science project on killer whales and was working on it after school today. We did not discuss it in great detail.

I feel like I struggled with my eating today. I was eating mostly healthy food but I felt hungry often, and did snack a bit too much at work this afternoon. I also was tired, having stayed up too late watching figure skating.

Another temptation - I have a garage full of girl scout cookies!!!
I am the cookie mom for DD8's troop and have to store the cookies until everyone picks up (one family left) and for the cookie booth. Not to mention the large number of boxes I ordered!!! Have to put them in the freezer right away! There's really only two types that I have trouble with, and I could eat a whole box.

Hope you are all doing well. I'm scheduling some exercise in for the next few days! Walking during lunch, Wii fit on Friday after volunteering at school... if I plan for it, I'm more likely to do it!

I just noticed your post!!! You are one strong woman to have all those cookies in your garage! I hate cookies, but Girl Scout cookies are not normal cookies. Be strong.

Don't you love the Wii Fit? I love the boxing one. I heard that they sell real boxing gloves you can hook up to work with the Wii Fit. I would love to have them. They also have that kick boxing thing with the Wii Fit plus, but I'm not that coordinated.

 

[Stacybaeasm]

Hi everyone! I made it back from Disney in one piece. I had the best time. Now I guess it's time to see how the scale reacts. It looks like I have many, many pages to catch up on so I'll get started. I hope everyone is having a great week!

 

[eliz991]

Ok, that makes sense but still, it was the worst thing I ever felt and I have had my share of big injuries. When they did my surgery to clean up the damage they did a lateral release on me because mine just popped out for no apparent reason and the doctor figured that meant my ligaments were too tight.
Now my knees are a motivating factor for me to lose weight as well, carrying around an extra 75 pounds is not helping them at all. I do need to find some exercise I can do that doesn't hurt my knees but still burns calories, my knee didn't heal right so there is stuff I just can't physically do now but I'm working on it.

It is still hurting me today - I still haven't worked out. I actually stayed home sick yesterday with a cold I picked up at Disney but I'm surprised how much the knee is still bothering me. Maybe the drinks I was having at Epcot masked the pain while I was still on vacation. When my knee isn't feeling terrible, spinning is my favorite "kick my butt without making me feel like I'm being stabbed in the knee" exercise. Step aerobics and running are out for me, for sure.

Does anyone here have a Wii Fit or the EA Sports Active for Wii? If you have both, would you recommend one over the other? It may come down to the one I can actually find in the stores, but I would like to get one of these this weekend. Sooo, which one would any of you suggest? TIA!

If you do get the wii fit, get the wii fit plus. It lets you go for 30 minutes (or however long) straight without having to go back to the main screen in between every exercise. I do want the EA sports, but I need to use the ones I have more often first! (Wii fit and the biggest loser game).

TURN ON THE NEWS!!!

A killer whale just killed a trainer at sea world!!!

I saw that. So sad.

 

[ancestry]

Ugh.....so last night I had a sore throat before going to bed. In the middle of the night I woke up with my throat hurting so bad I could hardly breathe. By this morning I was feeling better although my throat was still sore. So I went to the gym as planned did 30 minutes on the treadmill, 30 minutes on the bike, and a full set of reps on all of the weight equipment. I felt fine. By the time I changed my clothes and headed out to the car I got the shakes and felt like I was freezing. I ran some errands and got home -- I have a fever of 102! YIKES!

I hope this passes quickly. I don't have any symptoms at all other than a fever and sore throat but yet I don't think it is strep throat (I've had strep many many times before and this seems different).

Every time I start a new diet/exercise plan I ALWAYS end up sick within 7-10 days. WHY? I'm exercising and eating very healthy so why do I end up sick? Sorry, I'm just feeling a bit frustrated at the moment.

At least I got in my exercise for the day. <sigh> I'm scheduled to do my GAD at the area food bank with the kids on Saturday. I really hope that whatever this is passes quickly.

 

[littlepeppers]

Wow. Thank for posting the Livestrong link. It is the best.

It reminds me of the Weight Watchers online, but FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I only want to loose 1lb a week, but the Daily Plate seems to give me a lot of calories to play with a day. I have almost 2000 calories per day. That can't be right.

If it is right, then I can still eat with my family. YEAH!!! I hate cooking for them & not being able to eat it with them.

 

[gellybean]

While we are talking about shockers. We were in the US over Valentine's Day and we don't have any Cheesecake Factory's up here so we decided to head there for dinner. I was able tohave a healthy dinner for 590 calories and a glass of water but of course going to the Cheesecake Factory is all about the cheesecake. Well they were featuring their red velvet cheesecake and my sil for some reason asked what the calorie content was on it. Well the girl tells us that most of the cheesecakes are between 600-700 calories a slice but that one was a little higher...

Are you ready for it....

1700 calories a sliceYES A SLICE

Needless to say I did not have any cheesecake

Not surprised! They have some dessert called Chris' Ultimate or something. It's not cheesecake but a cake cake and it was something like 1900 calories a slice or something insane like that. No wonder right? Even splitting that 3 or 4 ways! INSANE!

This has me totally intrigued! Can you track both for a week and see what each says? I would be very interested in the outcome.

I get what you are saying by understanding foods.

WW poinys system is easy but it did not teach me the breakdown of food like sparkpeople.

I thought it was interesting too. I tracked them both yesterday and I went over my points by 8 pts but was under all my ranges in Sparkpeople except fat and I was barely in range for fat. Something's up. I don't know which way to go. I don't want to keep jumping around on programs.

Are you or anyone else interested in posting your food who is following sparkpeople. I will as well but it would be great to have others. We can get ideas and ah ha moments from the individual foods and their values in fat, protein, carbs and calories. Maybe we can discover new foods we never thought about as well as decide which ones are not worth it.

Let me know guys.


I'll be glad to post my tracking, as soon as I settle on one program!

Trainer update! So last night I was supposed to meet with the trainer for the first time - and I was not exactly jumping for joy over it ! At 4:30 I get a voice mail from her and how sorry she is blah blah blah but she has to cancel for tonight. Now I am doing the happy dance Anyway I decide to go to the gym anyway and do some stuff. I get there and things go downhill fast. I am no prude but I was in the locker room putting my coat away, etc. and this woman next to me starts up a conversation so I look over and she is completely butt naked! Not a stitch of clothes on or near her, no attempt to cover up and she is babbling on about the sale of her house or whatever - I mean my God I was mortified and I was trying not to luck at her without being rude but geez cover up for petes sake. So I bolt out of there and who do I run into but my trainer. She is still apoligizing blah blah blah, but then has this bright idea to hook me up in this TRX class that you usually have to pay for but because she stood me up yadda yadda yadda they can put me in. Well let me tell you this was torture! They hang these straps from the ceiling and you do all kinds of crazy exercises - it was insane. I did it but I thought I was going to actually get sick or pass out at one point. Holy Cow what a butt kick! I felt like such a whimp compared to the other 5 people who have apparently been born for this torture - I thought for sure I was going to hang myself - coordination is not my strong trait. Well after this went on for an HOUR and we were released from our death sentence I then when on the treadmill for 20 minutes - what was I thinking!! Actually I was afraid to go back in the locker room and get my coat is what I was thinking! Thankfully no more encounters of the naked kind!! So I feel I got my exercise for a week in last night and the paramedics weren't even called in - so that was a plus! Tonight is my no gym night due to activities with the kids - Thank God!

I'm soooooooooo glad my gym doesn't have a locker room! I would have been horrorfied.

I know what you are talking about with that TRX thing. I saw it on Biggest Loser. Holy hard exercise, batman!

I'm impressed you made it an hour!!!!

I use the daily plate at www.livestrong.com. At the bottom of the page, there is a link to export the information to excel. I did that and then cleaned it up a bit (it first lists all the information for one serving and then the total if you had multiple servings). I then saved that as a jpg and uploaded it to photobucket so that I could just insert it as an image. A simple copy and paste from excel doesn't work.

I figure the 5 minutes it takes me to do all of that is 5 minutes I'm not eating.

I'm totally gonna check into this site next!! Love me some Lance. Course being from Austin, I have too!

TURN ON THE NEWS!!!

A killer whale just killed a trainer at sea world!!!

That was so sad. Did you see where the whale in question had kiled 2 people before?

So um... I kinda feel sorry for the whale too! I mean he's genetically designed be a predator and they keep putting people in a tank with him?

HELLO!

Ironically, (or not) my DD6 is doing her science project on killer whales and was working on it after school today. We did not discuss it in great detail.

I feel like I struggled with my eating today. I was eating mostly healthy food but I felt hungry often, and did snack a bit too much at work this afternoon. I also was tired, having stayed up too late watching figure skating.

Another temptation - I have a garage full of girl scout cookies!!!
I am the cookie mom for DD8's troop and have to store the cookies until everyone picks up (one family left) and for the cookie booth. Not to mention the large number of boxes I ordered!!! Have to put them in the freezer right away! There's really only two types that I have trouble with, and I could eat a whole box.

Hope you are all doing well. I'm scheduling some exercise in for the next few days! Walking during lunch, Wii fit on Friday after volunteering at school... if I plan for it, I'm more likely to do it!

There's NO WAY that I could survive with Girl Scout Cookies in my garage!!

What kinds do you like? I'm a thin mints girl! *DROOL*

Thank you so much for that link! I love the way it lets you add the food. Much easier than what I have been using! It even tells you the new values for the other stuff too (fat, carbs....ect) Is the amount of calories to eat accurate though? It says I'm suppose to eat a crazy amount of calories. But I do love the site, I think I will be switching over to using it, to see how I really like it.

Edited to add: I had a rough day yesterday... I seemed to eat and eat and eat... or at least want to eat and eat and eat. I didn't actually eat all that much, besides 5 girl scout thin mint cookies. I didn't want to work out and basically felt kinda crappy. I did force myself to do at least 20 minutes on the elliptical and actually made myself do an extra 10 minutes, so I did have a small win. So that blah feeling started to seep into today too... then my loving boyfriend (that is such the wrong word for him... but we aren't married... so it's really all I've got) told me that my face is losing weight! It wasn't even one of those times where I asked him if he could see a change. We were talking about random stuff this morning before taking the kids to school and he just blurted it out. That really helped the blah feeling to go away. Makes me want to do a happy dance. I'm going to work out some this morning to keep the blahs away...lol Thanks for letting me vent even if it doesn't make much sense to any of you. Maybe it will make sense to some of you though.

It totally makes sense to me. There are times that I don't know why I am blah or unmotivated and there are times I feel like I could take on the world, 5 pound losses at a time. And I can find no rhyme or reason as to why I feel these things at different times.

That was really sweet of your man to tell you out of the blue like that. I never believe mine when he tells me that stuff. But I'm glad it gave you a pep in your step and got you motivated to work out! Everyone is gonna fall off the wagon. It's not realistic to think that we can make it through the rest of our life without eating something bad for us. The important thing is that we course correct and don't just give up! Dr. Oz's diet book calls it making a U Turn back on the right track. And he says it's important not to beat yourself up about it!

Hi everyone! I made it back from Disney in one piece. I had the best time. Now I guess it's time to see how the scale reacts. It looks like I have many, many pages to catch up on so I'll get started. I hope everyone is having a great week!

home!!!! Hope you had a great trip!

Ugh.....so last night I had a sore throat before going to bed. In the middle of the night I woke up with my throat hurting so bad I could hardly breathe. By this morning I was feeling better although my throat was still sore. So I went to the gym as planned did 30 minutes on the treadmill, 30 minutes on the bike, and a full set of reps on all of the weight equipment. I felt fine. By the time I changed my clothes and headed out to the car I got the shakes and felt like I was freezing. I ran some errands and got home -- I have a fever of 102! YIKES!

I hope this passes quickly. I don't have any symptoms at all other than a fever and sore throat but yet I don't think it is strep throat (I've had strep many many times before and this seems different).

Every time I start a new diet/exercise plan I ALWAYS end up sick within 7-10 days. WHY? I'm exercising and eating very healthy so why do I end up sick? Sorry, I'm just feeling a bit frustrated at the moment.

At least I got in my exercise for the day. <sigh> I'm scheduled to do my GAD at the area food bank with the kids on Saturday. I really hope that whatever this is passes quickly.

I hope it passes quickly for you too! I'm getting sick and so frustrated because I'm scared to death I'm gonna get out of my work out routine that I'm just now starting and it's gonna be that much harder to start back again!

But life is getting sick sometimes, even when it's bad timing. Though I do wonder why a lot of us are getting sick right when we're starting new exercise programs? Hmmmmmm.

Wow. Thank for posting the Livestrong link. It is the best.

It reminds me of the Weight Watchers online, but FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I only want to loose 1lb a week, but the Daily Plate seems to give me a lot of calories to play with a day. I have almost 2000 calories per day. That can't be right.

If it is right, then I can still eat with my family. YEAH!!! I hate cooking for them & not being able to eat it with them.

If it's like WW I'm so over there!!!! That's my only issue with Sparkpeople is its a little harder to find the foods on there than on WW. At least for unexperienced me!! So I definitely have to go log in on Daily Plate now. It said I can have 2300 cals a day! I think I need to lower my activity level back down or something. That seems like A LOT!

 

[TB'sWidow]

Congrat's to all who are doing so well with their eating,exercise & weightloss Well I have gotten back on track after my bender on the week-end. My eating has been good, plenty of water and I went back to the gym for the last three days. Mary

 

[gellybean]

Congrat's to all who are doing so well with their eating,exercise & weightloss Well I have gotten back on track after my bender on the week-end. My eating has been good, plenty of water and I went back to the gym for the last three days. Mary

Mary!!!!

 

[Mndisneygirl]

The only reason I'm not eating all the cookies is because then I'd have to pay for them!
My family did order quite a few, but if they go in the freezer, I can leave them alone. We had a couple boxes in the freezer from LAST YEAR! (they were not my favorite kind). I had one Samoa last night (that's my favorite along with Tagalongs) and that was it. I was pretty proud. My DH, on the other hand, had already opened two boxes!!! He could eat a sleeve of Thin Mints in no time!

So after I felt like I ate too much yesterday, I got on the scale today and it was good! So I am still feeling like I'm on track. Now I just have to work on that exercise! I was unable to walk during lunch today, so I'll have to add something tonight while I'm watching figure skating. Maybe I'll get my exercise ball out and do some abs and stretch my aching back!

 

[luvsJack]

Ugh.....so last night I had a sore throat before going to bed. In the middle of the night I woke up with my throat hurting so bad I could hardly breathe. By this morning I was feeling better although my throat was still sore. So I went to the gym as planned did 30 minutes on the treadmill, 30 minutes on the bike, and a full set of reps on all of the weight equipment. I felt fine. By the time I changed my clothes and headed out to the car I got the shakes and felt like I was freezing. I ran some errands and got home -- I have a fever of 102! YIKES!

I hope this passes quickly. I don't have any symptoms at all other than a fever and sore throat but yet I don't think it is strep throat (I've had strep many many times before and this seems different).

Every time I start a new diet/exercise plan I ALWAYS end up sick within 7-10 days. WHY? I'm exercising and eating very healthy so why do I end up sick? Sorry, I'm just feeling a bit frustrated at the moment.

At least I got in my exercise for the day. <sigh> I'm scheduled to do my GAD at the area food bank with the kids on Saturday. I really hope that whatever this is passes quickly.

Bless your heart. I hope you feel better soon. I did the same thing after my first week of trying to lose weight. Ended up down with a sinus infection for about 5 days. Then this week, I exercised for two days and on the third I left work feeling AWFUL!! I am better today so I will be right back at it but its like my own body is trying to sabatoge my efforts to make it healthier!

I guess we just have to keep saying "and this too shall pass".

 

[luvsJack]

I just looked at LiveStrong, too. If I plug in "no activity" and 1.5 lbs to lose each week it gives me about the same calorie range as spark people but if I change it to 1 lb per week it ups about 200 calories per day.

It seems a bit easier to track than spark people. Like someone else said the foods are easier to find, I have had to manually put in a lot of the foods I eat using spark people.