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

[stayhomemom77]

Hooray for Heather and Sara!!

Hooray for getting closer to massages and the achieving the next 10's!! I should be in the 230's next week which is exciting since I haven't seen that number on the scale for at least a year so Heather, I feel your excitement!!

Your awesome losses make my being down 1.4 look pretty paltry in comparison but I am too happy with all the outcomes to feel badly about it.

Way to go ladies!!

So, as I mentioned I am down 1.4 pounds again this week which means I SHOULD break out of the 240's next Monday. So exciting!!

And I'm down 20.4 pounds since I joined this thread so I get to add a pic to my siggy. I'm excited about that as well as the fact that I have lost 2 inches off my bust and 2 inches off my hips in the last month. Sadly, the waist has stayed the same but in another 4 weeks I'll measure again and I'm confident that I'll see a lost at that point.

Can't wait to hear how the rest of you fared this week!!

 

[tlenzendorf]

Bring it on! Truth be told, I kinda hope I lose this one because I LOVE buying magnets. I think I already have one picked out for you, so you'd better get busy if you want it!

Lets get ready to rumble!!!

 

[pipersmom]

First of all..congrats to all the LOSERS! Great job!

Okay, so I admit to being a bit frustrated at this point. I am +1 for the week. I've exercised more in the past three weeks than I have since I played college tennis err..almost 20 yrs ago! I also religiously track what I eat and stay under 1300 cals 99% of the time, and way under my max all the time. Grr! I realize it's probably water/fluid weight. I also realize that weight can fluctuate anywhere from 2-5 lbs during a day. It doesn't help..LOL! Sparkpeople says I should be eating more cals than I am in a day, and I guess I just need to give that a try next week if I don't have a loss again. It just seems so counterintuitive to me. Okay, enough whining! I'll post my tracking for yesterday and today this evening.

Quote of the Day- (Seemed appropriate for me..LOL)
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt." -- William Shakespeare.

 

[stitchfan23]

Ended up at The Cheesecake Factory. Where they tout that their lighter choices are all salads under 600 calories. that's what, half my daily caloric intake. For a salad?!?!

They also have a really great chicken dish. It is called Weight Watcher or something like that and it is under 590 cals but you will be full after if you finish it. I get it everytime we go and I like it cause I never feel like I am depriving myself. It is 3 grilled chicken breasts (probably one large one cut into 3) about 8 pcs of asparagus, a scoop of plain rice all topped of with a small arugala salad on top. There is plenty of food and it tasted really good too.

Okay, so I admit to being a bit frustrated at this point. I am +1 for the week. I've exercised more in the past three weeks than I have since I played college tennis err..almost 20 yrs ago! I also religiously track what I eat and stay under 1300 cals 99% of the time, and way under my max all the time. Grr! I realize it's probably water/fluid weight. I also realize that weight can fluctuate anywhere from 2-5 lbs during a day. It doesn't help..LOL! Sparkpeople says I should be eating more cals than I am in a day, and I guess I just need to give that a try next week if I don't have a loss again. It just seems so counterintuitive to me. Okay, enough whining! I'll post my tracking for yesterday and today this evening.

I was struggling for a couple of weeks where I wasn't really loosing very much if anything at all and this past week I upped my calories by about 200 a day and this week I lost almost 3 lbs. Maybe you need to try adding just an extra 100 cals a day or something. Part of the reason that we gain weight is that we starve ourselves by cutting our calories down too much.

 

[Duchie]

I was struggling for a couple of weeks where I wasn't really loosing very much if anything at all and this past week I upped my calories by about 200 a day and this week I lost almost 3 lbs. Maybe you need to try adding just an extra 100 cals a day or something. Part of the reason that we gain weight is that we starve ourselves by cutting our calories down too much.

Yup, what she said. I know it seems wrong, but remember that digesting food burns calories, too. So just a few more per day might help. I also read that rather than eating three bigger meals per day, you should eat smaller amounts multiple times per day. This helps keep your metabolism at a steadier rate (because you're digesting all of the time, rather than just 3x/day). That to me is hard because my mom always told me "no in-between meal snacks" so I'm having to un-learn that lesson.

Hang in there - it'll get better soon!

 

[tebi73]

Tracking...

Friday - July 9th
Bfast: Egg & Cheese Biscuit
Lunch: Salad from local deli with Grilled Chicken, spring mix lettuce, black beans, salsa, ranch dressing & tortilla chips
Dinner: Omaha Steaks Burger w/ lettuce & tomato, 1 c. Rice-A-Roni fried rice

Total Cals: 1512

Saturday - July 10th
Bfast: Chef Boyardee ABCs & 123's Mini Cup
Lunch: Tossed Salad, 2 slices Supreme Pizza from local pasta joint
Dinner: Shrimp Stirfry w/ broccoli, zucchini, squash, onions & carrots

Total Cals: 1437

JULY 9TH DONE
JULY 10TH DONE

 

[Mndisneygirl]

Crazy morning rushing to Dr. appt. so I forgot to weigh in!
Will do it tomorrow a.m. and will post later about my food intake. At work now.

 

[2_Eagle_Mom]

Zela – Hugs to you for a less stressful work day.

Michele - +1 for a weigh in after vacation is a HUGH accomplishment (at least it would be for me).

Sara – Congratulations on the great week! I agree weekends are WAY to quick to pass and the weeks SO long…

Heather – Congratulations on reaching that next 10!!!

Barb – My diet funk continues… I’m really frustrated with my brother. Apparently he refused to go to the hospital. He’s 56 years old and still acts like he’s 5 sometimes. I spent the whole day worrying about how he was doing and finally called Mom at 6pm only to find out he was at home the whole time. UGHHH! I’m just frustrated with him and then I ate to try and get rid of some of that frustration, Yeah that didn’t work AT ALL.

I know exactly where you are coming from as well. I’m feeling good about how much I’ve lost. I’m fitting in size 16s and everyone says how good I look. I never thought that I’d ever reach my WW goal weight, I just wanted to get to a place where I could walk into a store and buy something from the Misses Dept (instead of the Women’s section) and I’m there. I’m tired of always watching EVERYTHING and although I would love to lose more weight I’m just not motivated right now. Even though we’ve got the Magnet challenge, I get distracted very easily. I had to buy candy for an event we have this Friday and I’ve already eaten a bunch of it. I need to STAY AWAY FROM THE CANDY, but once I’ve stepped on that slope, I have a really hard time not going down. I’m going to try and STOP right now. I did log everything into SP so hopefully with dinner of salad, my calories won’t be SO terrible.

Another thing that I’m dealing with is being so dang tired. I got a full 8 hours of sleep last night and when the alarm when off it was as if I had just gone to sleep. I’m dragging today and the caffeine just isn’t doing the trick. Hence the amount of candy I ate. I’m about to make an appt to get a check-up and see if there is something wrong (low iron, thyroid, menopause?). I just don’t think I should be this tired all the time.

TriciaR – It sounds like you did an amazing job at keeping track of your food and still satisfying your hunger. GOOD JOB!! Just think next week you should blow the 18s away for good.

Julie – 1.4!!! Yipee!! And congratulations on the new picture!

Amanda – I’m sorry you have a + this week. From my experience, it sometimes takes a week or so for your body to catch up when you finally start doing the right thing. Of course the same can’t be said when I mess up, the pounds show up right away. Don’t give up!

Sheree - 16 days!!! Woo Hoo!

I’m down .8 this week and excited about that. I fell off the tracking wagon this week, but trying to hop back on (even though it isn’t pretty already today). I’m trying to regain control and stay away from the candy.

I did some research over the weekend and I think I’ve found a cookbook program that I’m going to get. You can input all your recipes and it will calculate the nutritional facts. I’ve done it on SP but I want to input all my recipes and then be able to print them off if I need to. It will make it easier to figure out my count when I can adjust the service size, etc. Hopefully once I’ve got the recipes in there I’ll be more likely to track our normal menu items.

 

[stayhomemom77]

Amanda:

I think increasing your calories will solve the problem. Remember that you have a base level which must be consumed just to perform regular body functions like breathing and you circulatory system. I’m not sure what you weigh, but I weigh 240 and I need to consume around 1700 calories just for those things and if I were to dip below my metabolism would slow down and my body might begin retaining water and fat thinking that I am in danger of starving. I had this problem a month ago and because I’m on weight watchers I decided to eat more points (at Jane’s suggestion) because I was under for a whole week and I didn’t lose anything. I lost 2 pounds that week and I was thrilled. It does seem counterintuitive but I would follow the sparkpeople advice and see where that gets you next week. It worked for me!!

Tebi73 :

(sorry, I don’t have you on my name list…guess I need to update it) I LOVE your Donald ticker!! It’s the cutest!!

Jane:

Have you thought about upping your protein intake? I don’t know how much you are getting but if it’s not sleep deprivation or a more serious problem (that you are checking into) it might just be a protein level thing. I find that if I make sure I have a bit of protein at each meal then I have energy all day even when I haven’t had a good night’s sleep. (Also, just as an aside, sometimes caffeine can actually make things worse instead of better. I’m not sure why that is but I think it has something to do with reoccurring spikes and crashes in energy levels?) It also could be stress! Whatever the reason, I hope you get it identified soon and it’s not too serious.

That cookbook sounds intriguing. I like that function on weight watchers online. I do the recipe builder quite a bit now so that I don’t have to avoid my homemade foods simply because I have no idea how many points they are worth. Some of what I’m eating is surprisingly better than I feared but most of it is around what I’ve expected. I’m excited about that since it means I’m really learning the program.

Personal Update:
I forgot to mention earlier this morning that my sister just became a lifetime member of weight watchers. She went from 221 to 146 (75 pounds) in around 15 months. I’m quite proud of her and am determined to follow in her footsteps. She had to maintain 146 for six weeks before she became a “lifetimer” and now it’s official and she’s thrilled.

I began at 261 (well on here anyway), am currently at 240.6 and would like to get to 161 before I reassess to see exactly how much further I would like to go. I believe I would like to settle at 149 but I won’t decide for sure until the first 100 pounds have been lost.

I feel I’ll be in a better position then to determine my final fitness and health goals. I remember the size I wore (9) and the physique I had when I was last in the low 160's and I was quite happy with myself at that point. I'm curious to see if my two pregnancies and all of the weight I've since put on will have a drastic impact on what my psysique will be at that weight once I reach it once more. If I'm happy there, that's where I'll stop. If not...lower I go!!

Like Heather, I am doing it in 25 pound chunks (which I am calling stages) so I am excited to see that Stage One is nearing completion…only 4.6 pounds to go. I’m hoping that I’ll begin Stage Two in early August (well, sooner than that hopefully, but I’m attempting to be realistic so I don’t get discouraged if it goes slower than 2 pounds a week). I'll be ecstatic if I can manage to begin Stage Three by (or shortly after) the New Year.

I guess that'll do for an update!! Later friends!!

 

[CrabbyYetLovable]

I'm the same this week, which I'm ok with. This week's weigh in included the 4th weekend (I weigh in on Fridays), and I went out to eat way too many times last week. Also had a few servings of ice cream.... I need to get my behind back on track. So 2EagleMom... It's definately on!! We start the challenge today right? So we don't include todays loss/gain?

Since I had no loss this week, I guess I went on a bit of a bender. Had some M&M's, Taco Bell, Sonic Blast, and DQ cone over the course of the weekend. Ugh, that sounds like a lot when I write it all down. I know I was stressing about the drs appointment and thinking about all the other crap I have to do. But I was able to avoid buying ice cream at the store today. I think it might be easier for me to turn things down if I look at the nutritional content and see how much sugar is in things. I'm trying to eat a low-glycemic diet, so I'm cutting out as much sugar and carbs as I can.

Update on Dr's appointment/lump: Went to the MD at the university today. He's not sure what the lump is, so he's sending me to a general sugereon who is a breast specialist to look at it. Since I'm older, read more than an 18-19 year old college student, he thought it would better to get it checked out rather than to wait and recheck it in 6 months or so. I may have an ultrasound done, or possibly a mammogram. So I'm going to try not to worry too much until I find out more info. Most likely its nothing, he just wants to be sure. Thanks to everyone for your well-wishes and kicking me into gear to see the MD!

OT: I love the Discovery Channel, but they keep showing commercials for Phil Harris's last episode of Deadliest Catch. I'm doing my best to keep from crying during the commercials, but I know I'm going to loose it tomorrow during the show, the last 2 weeks (the whole season really) of the show have been hard to watch.

 

[officereg]

OT: I love the Discovery Channel, but they keep showing commercials for Phil Harris's last episode of Deadliest Catch. I'm doing my best to keep from crying during the commercials, but I know I'm going to loose it tomorrow during the show, the last 2 weeks (the whole season really) of the show have been hard to watch.

Finally someone who watches this show. I keep asking everyone at work, and NOBODY watches it. I love this show and know exactly how you feel.

 

[pipersmom]

Evening all!

Jane- Good idea to go to your Dr and get checked out! I have to second the protein thing, I feel much better all day when I have some with each meal, esp with the exercising. I know what you mean about the candy..I'm a chocoholic. What I've found that does the trick is the mini York Peppermint Patties, and the 3 Musketeers- neither are horrible on cals or fat. I keep the Yorks in the freezer and they are so yummy that way!

Julie- Woooohoo on 4 lbs to go, that's so awesome! I've split into 50 lb chunks, but can't wait to hit the 25 lb mark.

Amy- Glad you're going to see a breast specialist, more than likely it's nothing, but at least this way you'll have the peace of mind!

Okay, so I am out of the ticked off funk I was in this morning! Thank you all so much for the input. I went back into spark and modified my fitness plan with the amount of cals I've been burning a week (1,000- I think it's more than that, but I had to guesstimate, and with Piper home I won't be taking any two hour hikes, lol.) and it re-figured the cals I need to be taking in. It sent it up to 1390 minimum, and I'm going to hit at least that for the next week and see what happens. It did feel odd eating that much today though, lol.

Tracking for yesterday & today-
Sunday (Pasted this one, sorry for the length, just seemed easier!)
July 11
Breakfast:
Egg white, 1 serving
Sara Lee Mini Blueberry Bagels
Brummel & Brown, Original Spread made with Yogurt, 1 Tbsp
Lunch:
Tossed Salad
Kraft Light Done Right - Three Cheese Ranch dressing (2 tbsp)
Nabisco Fat Free Premium Saltine Crackers (5 crackers)
baked chicken breast boneless skinless
Kraft Free Shredded Cheddar Cheese
Dinner:
Green Giant cut green bean steamer
Betty Crocker 'Sweet Potato Mashed Potatoes'
Al Fresco All Natural Apple Maple Breakfast Chicken Sausage
Snack:
Pringle Light Fat Free Sour Cream & Onion (1 svg = 14 chips)
Arnold Sandwich Thins Fill Ems
Nature Valley Granola Thins - Dark Chocolate
Blueberries
hot dog, beef, Hebrew National 97% fat free
Frigo Light String Cheese
Hostess Shortcake (1 cake)

CALORIES:
1,423 (1,390 - 1,740)

July 11- Done!

Monday-
Breakfast- Banana, granola thin.
Lunch- Healthy Choice Sesame Chicken Steamer, Coconut Lite Yogurt.
Dinner- Broccoli & Cheese Chicken, broccoli, applesauce.
Snacks- 100 cal Bagel, oyster crackers, Coffee fudge brownie ice cream w/ sugarfree choc syrup.

Cals- 1395 (1390-1740)

Monday July 12- Done!

Quote for the night-

"I Can't Save You. You Have to Save Yourself." Jillian Michaels.

 

[2_Eagle_Mom]

Julie – Thanks for the suggestion. I’m normally on the low end of my protein target. I’ll take your suggestion starting tomorrow and have a little protein with every meal and see if that helps.

Amy – I’m hoping the challenge starts today since my loss this week wasn’t that great. Ok, so even though we are competitors how does the low glycemic thing work? Does that mean no fruits? I’ve tried to cut down on my starches (I could eat bread/pasta all day long) and that was difficult, if I had to cut out fruit I don’t think I could do it.

I’m glad you had your appt and your Dr. is sending you to a specialist. Better to be safe than sorry, keep us updated.

I watch DC too! Heck, I was bawling last week, I can only imagine how I’ll manage this week. Have you watched “After the Catch”? Last week they had Josh and Kenny on and I blubbered through the whole show.


I can proudly say that I didn’t eat any more candy after my plow through earlier in the day. I even passed up cookies. I wasn’t really hungry, but kept craving the sugar so I ate my frozen lunch and added spinach to the dish. It really filled me up and I couldn’t even think about candy.

Breakfast: Raisin Bran w/ff milk
Snack: 10 dots, 3 tootsie rolls, 1 tootsie pop
Lunch: Stuffed rigatoni with 2 cups spinach
Dinner: Turkey meatloaf, orzo spinach pasta, cantaloupe
Dessert: Fiber One bar
Total 1794 (goal 1200 – 1550)

July 12, 2010 DONE – Veggies DONE

Tomorrow I will NOT eat any candy. We have cooking class tomorrow so I don't know what we'll be eating for dinner. I'm going to have a salad before we go so I'm not starved. But at the very least I'll only take one bite of any of the dishes so I don't blow through the calories again tomorrow.

 

[Mndisneygirl]

Tracking for today - 7/12

B: two pieces of whole wheat toast w/ margarine and honey
L: pack of PB sandwich crackers (180 cal)
mint tea (w/sugar), rice krispie treat (90 cal), handful of almonds
S: 1 fun size hershey bar
D: 1/2 PBJ sandwich, Luna Bar

Lots of cough drops too!

JULY 12 DONE

I'm sure that wasn't enough calories, no veggies or fruit! I forgot to pack lunch today, figured I'd go get some soup or salad, and found out once I was at work that I had to be in a meeting and in court through the lunch hour. So I was stuck with what I had at my desk.

I'm fighting this cough/cold and eye infection now. May have another dr. appt this week for my eye if it doesn't improve in a day or so. Went to the orthopedist today for my shoulder. He's sending me to PT for 6 weeks. It's not feeling too bad now of course.

Crabby Amy - glad you went to the dr. Keep us posted.


For those of you struggling or in a funk or frustrated with family issues:
HANG IN THERE!!! You can do this. We all hit walls or plateaus. We need to mix things up a bit. Try different foods or exercise. If you walk, take a different route, listen to different more upbeat music. I think sometimes we get into routines in what we eat or what type of exercise we do and it gets boring. Then we might not see much of a loss, and we say, what the heck, why bother? We just have to plow through that and keep going!
Hope that helped someone. I should take my own advice! I need to try to get more sleep (especially to beat this cold). I only have 16 days left to get healthy before WDW!! I don't want to be sick at WDW (but for the humidity -induced sinus problems I know I will have!)

 

[CrabbyYetLovable]

Finally someone who watches this show. I keep asking everyone at work, and NOBODY watches it. I love this show and know exactly how you feel.

I know! I don't know how I'm going to get through tomorrow night. It absolutely tore me apart that Phill and the Boys were looking through their old family photos right before the stroke.

I've split into 50 lb chunks, but can't wait to hit the 25 lb mark.

Amy- Glad you're going to see a breast specialist, more than likely it's nothing, but at least this way you'll have the peace of mind!

OMG No kidding! Thats definately what I need right now, a little peace of mind.

Can't believe you're breaking it down into 25/50 pound chunks! Sounds like you're doing a great job so far, I have to look 5 pounds ahead otherwise I get to discouraged.

Amy – I’m hoping the challenge starts today since my loss this week wasn’t that great. Ok, so even though we are competitors how does the low glycemic thing work? Does that mean no fruits? I’ve tried to cut down on my starches (I could eat bread/pasta all day long) and that was difficult, if I had to cut out fruit I don’t think I could do it.

I’m glad you had your appt and your Dr. is sending you to a specialist. Better to be safe than sorry, keep us updated.

I watch DC too! Heck, I was bawling last week, I can only imagine how I’ll manage this week. Have you watched “After the Catch”? Last week they had Josh and Kenny on and I blubbered through the whole show.

Even if it does start this week (as in today's weigh in), you're beating me already! I lost nothing this week! Congrats on passing up the candy this afternoon! I was thinking the same thing about seeing the specialist, rather be safe than sorry and have some peace of mind. I have watched "After the Catch," any time I can watch Mike Rowe, hmm... This week they're going to have a New Orleans style funeral (I think, from what I remember from wiki) for Phill.

Ok, so with the low-glycemic diet: I eat tons of fruit and veggies, thats where I get a lot of my carbs and sugars from. I still eat pasta, speghetti specifically, but I eat whole wheat pasta rather than regular pasta. I usually try to drink 1-2 protein and fiber meal replacement shakes a day, with 1-2 low-glycemic snacks in between. The one veggie I avoid is potatoes. Thats the one vegatable that has been found to spike your blood sugar like crazy. Once your blood sugar spikes, it will take a drastic fall, and you will be hungry again in about an hour or so. Carbs and sugars do the same thing. Ever eat a meal and been hungry an hour later? You get on a roller coaster with your blood sugar and its really difficult to get off of it. What I try to do is maintain my blood sugar levels so I don't get ravenously hungry. Its been working, and all the weight I've lost has been in the last 2 months. It sounds like a lot of work, and might be kinda abstract, but here's a video about it and about some of the products that I use. If you have any other questions about it, or want some more information, let me know and I'll be glad to help. I also have some friends of mine who have been doing it for a lot longer than I have who may be able to explain it better than I do.

http://www.usana.com/dotCom/mediaCenter/video?category=Prospecting&id=ven055&SET_LOCALE=en_US

 

[gellybean]

Sorry I've been so scarce lately!! My sister is back in the hospital, this time with diverticulitis... little pockets on her colon that have gotten inflamed and infected. They are still trying to decide if it's surgical. Which considering the blood clot issue, is a REALLy scary prospect.

We are still going to the beach on Wednesday. We'd lose the entire payment for the four nights we're renting the house if we don't go. So those of us that can, are going.

We'll have my sister's kids with us, so 3 more kids to be responsible for.

I didn't weigh in this morning. I just didn't have it in me to face the scale.

I'm hoping that I'll be so busy this week with the kids and swimming and walks on the busy that I won't gain while on our mini vakay.

Hope things settle down on my end soon so I can get back to focusing on me. I'm not giving up at all, in fact as of Saturday I'd lost some down from last week's weigh in. But work outs and tracking cals are suffering.

I just am fried, mentally and emotionally.

Congrats to all you losers!! So proud of you all. I will try to get on tomorrow and get trackers posted, before we leave. I don't know if there's wi fi in the house or not. I need to check on that!

See you guys when we get back!!

Good luck on the partner challenge!!

 

[Duchie]

Very interesting day yesterday….
DD (12) had her well-check appointment. Before we left she asked me if she could weigh herself, kind of an unusual request for her but OK. She was 105 and that upset her. When I asked her why, she said “all” her friends weigh under 100 and she thinks she needs to lose 10 lbs. Now where in the heck did THIS come from??? This is totally unusual behavior for her. So when I asked her who was under 100, it was one of her friends at school, and her best friend who is a head shorter than her. She was also upset because all of her size 12 shorts suddenly no longer fit.

We had a really long talk about body shapes and sizes. I pulled up a growth chart and showed her on it how her weight is right at the average point for a girl her age. I reminded her that while her shorts didn’t fit any more, she hadn’t gained any weight. So it’s not that she’s getting fatter, just that with puberty her body’s shape is changing. We also talked about how being conscious of what she’s eating is a good thing, but that she doesn’t need to worry about it or try to diet. She asked if I thought she should start exercising and I said it never hurt. I think my Wii Fit might start getting some serious use now.

Off to the doctor we go. One thing I love about my pediatrician is that she talks to the kids. She asks them how they are doing, if they have any concerns or questions. When she asked DD, DD brought up the weight issue. It was funny because for almost everything she told DD, DD would say, “That’s what my Mom said.” The Dr. showed DD her growth chart and how she’s stayed on the same curve since she was born. The Dr. also told her that for every inch she grows, she should gain 7-10 pounds. DD grew 3 inches this past year, and the Dr. pointed out that she had only gained 18 lbs, so under the normal amount. DD walked out of there feeling much better about things.

We stopped at the grocery store on the way home and DD asked about getting a healthier cereal. So we sat there in the cereal aisle reading labels. Wow – was that ever enlightening! I went for the Strawberry Cheerios, thinking they were healthier. Then I pulled down a box of Apple Jacks to show her what a “bad” cereal was. Imagine our shock when we realized that the Apple Jacks were actually better than the Cheerios – they had fewer calories, less fat and carbs, and more fiber. And the serving size was bigger! Even Life cereal wasn’t as healthy as you’d think. She learned a lot about how important it is to read labels to really know what you’re eating.

I'm another one who watches Deadliest Catch and am dreading tonight's show. Last night Jonathan Hillstrand and Josh Harris were on The Tonight Show and I was crying just watching that. So I'm sure I'll be a mess tonight.

 

[tebi73]

Julie (stayhomemom77) - Congrats to your sister! What a great inspiration! Also, keep up the great work. Your second "stage" will be here before you know it!

Amy (crabby) - Keeping you in my thoughts - keep us updated! I totally know what you mean about the Disc. Channel. Those commercials are so sad. Plus they play "Tuesday's Gone" in the background music

Amanda (pipersmom) - So glad you are out of your funk!

Jane (2eaglemom) - Just say NO!.... to CANDY

Sheree (mndisneygirl) - Hope you get to feeling better!

Aimee (gellybean) - Try to have fun and relax on your mini trip. Maybe that's just what you need!

Barb (duchie) - I totally understand about your DD! My DS8 (he'll be 9 on Monday) grew 5 inches over the past year and gained about 25 lbs. He's 4'9" and weighs around 110. He's really muscular from his many hours of baseball, football & taekwondo, but he just can't understand why he weighs so much more than his friends. I have to try to explain to him that he's also a lot taller and more athletic than most of them. He is starting to understand that he has to make good food choices though.

My week so far has been pretty calm. Just trying to help DS8 focus on training and practicing for his Black Belt test in a few weeks. Here's my tracking for Sunday and yesterday...

Sunday - July 11th
Bfast: none
Lunch: Chicken Burrito w/ Lettuce, Tomato & Sour Cream from local mexican place, tortilla chips & salsa
Dinner: Shrimp stirfry leftovers

Total cals: around 1500

Monday - July 12th
Bfast: Bagel w/ 1 scrambled egg & 1 slice cheese
Lunch: Quiznos Turkey Club Bullet (no mayo or bacon) and small Quiznos Chicken Taco Salad w/ ff ranch dressing
Dinner: Wendy's Chicken Nuggets & plain baked potato

Total cals: around 1750

JULY 11TH DONE
JULY 12TH DONE

 

[Mndisneygirl]

I remembered to weigh today! I'm +1 for the week. Not too surprising, but I kind of thought I might lose just because I haven't eaten much being sick. But camping probably did me in. I only ate one smore, but we had so much other good food I probably had too many servings.
C'est la vie.

Aimee -sorry your sister is struggling and back in the hospital. Praying for a speedy recovery for her.

Barb - isn't it amazing what kids think they know and how what their friends say and do affects them? DD9 has asked me if she's fat. I just about cry. So we have a nice conversation about the same things - size and shape and how everyone's body is different. I have noticed she's starting to get a "shape" as she grows. I don't think I'm ready for that yet!!!

 

[stitchfan23]

Tracking for July 12th
Breakfast - Yoplait Source Yogurt
Lunch - Smart Ones Spinach raviloi
Dinner - veal cutlett, new potatoes & corn, peas & carrots mix
snack - Thinsations Cheescake bar, peach, 3 cupcakes (I know but if they are in the house I eat them so they are out of the house now and not coming back in again)

JULY 12th DONE - JULY 12th VEGGIES DONE

So far today I have had...

Breakfast - Yoplait Source Yogurt
Lunch - 2 pieces of weight watchers bread with margarine & kraft light peanut butter
Dinner - 1/4 chicken (white meat - almost no skin), french fries, dinner roll, 3 perogies & a piece of chocolate cake
Snack - 2 cups of watermelon, 90 cal pack of granola bites, 1/2 100 cal thinsation cheesecake bar (waiting for dinner to arrive)

Not too bad a day but if I don't stop eating out for dinner Dawn is going to kick my butt with this challenge. If hubby craves Swiss Chalet again I will smack him! The thing is we ordered delivery and we waited 2 1/2 hours for it. After 4 phone calls we got out meal for free and another meal free in the next 60 days but I was starving when if finally showed up about 8:30.

JULY 13th DONE