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

[stitchfan23]

Hi everyone,
I am extemely STRESSED . Needed some items for an order that has to go out today and the company sent them to me UPS overnight by noon. When I checked the tracking this morning it now says I won't get it till tomorrow. My local courier wanted to charge me $150.00 to go and pick it up and deliver it to me It's $50 worth of merchanidise 1 1/2 away!!

The thing is that the last 2 days have been stressful and it's not that I'm eating all the wrong foods - it's that I'm not eating. My yogurt from breakfast is still sitting open on the table and it is now almost noon. Yesterday by the time dinner came I had only eated 235 cals all day.

Thanks for letting me vent and I have just finished my yogurt. Now to get some water into me and lunch soon. Hope everyone else is having a better day.

OMG! The doorbell just rang and it was my stuff!! So much for tracking. Now I am a happy camper and can calm down. Deep breaths, deep breaths.

 

[pipersmom]

Heather- I am soooo glad your stuff came in so that's off your mind! Not that I need to tell you this...but girl..you NEED to eat!! It's not worth sabotaging all the hard work you've put in! Just take it one meal at a time.

 

[tlenzendorf]

My class is finally done! Woo hoo!

 

[2_Eagle_Mom]

Sheree – You have GOT to get well. I hope your sore throat goes away quickly. OMG you are only 8 days away from your vacation.

Amanda – I had heard that about pumpkin. Luckily we have a couple of cans in the garage so I was able to make it. Apparently you can use 1 cup applesauce, 1 12oz can of diet soda, 1 cup egg substitute, or one cup fat free plain Greek yogurt instead of any of the ingredients listed on the box. I haven’t tried any of the other substitutes, but if I do I’ll let you know how they work out.

Barb – I guess I didn’t realize you both work from home. That’s fantastic – although a little too much together time for me and Jim so that wouldn’t work for us. Ok, I think someone suggested taking them around to your neighbors, church or homeless shelter. I also liked the suggestion to ask for more. Hee hee.

Heather – I’m so glad your stuff arrived and hopefully things will calm down a bit for you. I love online tracking, but when its wonky it can really mess up your day.

Tricia – Congratulations on finishing the class!

Today is going well so far. I’ve been keeping busy so no munching, but that’s normally saved for the afternoon. Just have to keep pushing through.

Tracking for yesterday:

Breakfast – raisin bran w/ff milk
Lunch – ½ Roast beef sandwich and ½ salad
Snack – chocolate pumpkin cake
Dinner – pizzas made with sandwich thins, olives and artichoke hearts
Dessert – 2 pieces of cake, nectarine

July 19 DONE – Veggies NOT done (only 1 cup)

 

[tlenzendorf]

Does anyone know where/how you can buy red pepper sauce? I searched the grocery store last night with no luck. I checked the Asian section which is where I found the rice vinegar, but nada for the red pepper sauce. I am going to make some spicy peanut chicken kabobs. Mmm mmm mmm.

 

[Mndisneygirl]

My class is finally done! Woo hoo!

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Does anyone know where/how you can buy red pepper sauce? I searched the grocery store last night with no luck. I checked the Asian section which is where I found the rice vinegar, but nada for the red pepper sauce. I am going to make some spicy peanut chicken kabobs. Mmm mmm mmm.

What time is dinner???
How about where the jarred peppers are? Or spice section? Or middle eastern section?

 

[stitchfan23]

Okay thanks everyone for your words or wisdom and your kind thoughts. Things are slowly getting less stressful. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. It is Murphy's Law - I had a quiet week this week so when one of my regular clients called to ask if I had time to do 17 baskets for them in 2 days I said "Sure". Yeah well these 2 days have been the two of the busiest days I have had this month with orders (and orders for none of my popular baskets). Most have been real estate agents that always leave their orders till the day before the house closes. It's not like they have known about some of these closing for at least 30 days!

I understand about the having to eat. This is partly how I got into the shape I am in. I would never eat breakfast and no lunch and then eat dinner and snack all evening. I never thought about starving myself until my old trainer pointed it out. I am trying really hard to eat each meal but when I get stressed I fall back into my old habits.

On a good note though, this large order that I am doing are heavy suckers. They are baskets with organic garden products like fetilizer (comapny produces it and sends them to the likes of Costco, Wal-Mart etc to introduce them to their company and to try to get them to buy it for their stores. It gets noticed more than just a flyer) and each one weighs almost 16kilos. Hubby has to wrap them because I can't lift them with one hand while holding the cello bag that they go into. But by lifting all the bags of product, making the basket and moving them all to another area I am sure getting an upper body workout. Guess that is a plus. They are being picked up in the morning and my others are going out tonight and I have one small order for 6 mugs to deliver tomorrow afternoon and them it is just the daily ones or twos.

 

[pwmitch237]

Aloha everyone!!!!!!

Thanks to all who wished me good luck on the test at the DMV - it worked! I got the license!

Thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday!

And due to that birthday, I've been EXTREMELY BUSY! Not even had time to get on here.....but I still tracked! And now I have to get 3 books. The Scarlet Letter for school, Coming Back STRONGER (by the Super Bowl Champion QB, Drew Brees....can't wait to read it.), and Eat This and Live! just because I can. The latter 2 I want to read...The other one...not so much.

Dawn - need to send you my weigh-in... I promise I'll send it shortly!

Sunday, July 18, 2010
Breakfast: Cheerios
Lunch: Chips & Salsa, Oldtimer, and Molten Chocolate Cake
Dinner: Jamablaya

Totals: 1600 calories

Monday, July 19, 2010
Breakfast: Sushi
Lunch: Single from Wendy's
Dinner: Times Burger, Chocolate Addiction

Totals: 1550 calories

Tuesday:
Breakfast: Heavenly Ham
Lunch: NONE
Dinner: 6 Onion Rings, Caesar Salad & 2 Meatballs
Snack: NONE
Exercise: Treadmill -383, 5K, 45:17

Totals: 1200-1300 calories

I've been up the last couple of days, but I guess with the birthday, I have a good excuse.... however, I'm still down from 2 weeks ago! (-1)

July 18/Veggies DONE!
July 19/Veggies DONE!
July 20/Veggies DONE!

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." - Thomas Jefferson

 

[Mndisneygirl]

Congrats on getting your license Patrick!! What a great birthday!

Tracking for today:
B: three slices of zucchini bread (OY)
L: Greek yogurt w/ blueberries, carrots, string cheese
S: snack mix (nuts & dried fruit), cashews
D: Luna bar, 4 chicken nuggets w/ sauce
S: 100 cal 94% FF popcorn
Oh, and I shared a small frappucino from Starbucks with DH.

JULY 20 DONE

 

[lizzyb5280]

Elizabeth – do you have any tips for freezing blueberries? They had them on sale this weekend and I bought a couple of extra containers don’t want to mess up and do something wrong to freeze them.

My biggest suggestion is to NOT rinse them before freezing, otherwise they'll clump together. Otherwise you can just stick them in a ziplock bag and they'll come out fine. They will of course thaw softer than you put them in, so not really what you'll want to eat plain, but perfect for baking, smoothies, sauces, etc.

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I think I tweaked a muscle in my abdomen getting into bed last night, so I'm trying to be cautious for the next few days. It's right in the area where I have my medication pump implanted, so I'm hoping everything in there is still secure. So I guess no BL workouts for a couple days, which means more time for Wii boxing and canoeing!

 

[tlenzendorf]

Good morning everybody! I hope you all have a great day! Congrats on getting the license Patrick! Mndisneygirl, we are having kabobs on Saturday, around 5... not sure how much construction there is, so you may want to leave around 12

 

[tebi73]

Tracking...

Tuesday, July 20th...

Bfast: Dannon Light n' Fit Vanilla yogurt, Rice Cake w/ 1 tsp. RF Peanut Butter
Lunch: Chick-fil-a Chargrilled Chicken Sandwich, 5 waffle fries
Dinner: Arby's Turkey & Swiss Market Fresh (no mayo, no crust on bread), 2 mozzarella sticks

Total Cals: 1475

JULY 20TH DONE

 

[stitchfan23]

Good morning everyone ,
Ah the stress is gone and I feel like myself again. Very tired but I can deal with that. Congratulations Patrick on your DL and Happy belated Birthday!

I am so far behind on my tracking I am entering it now...the good, the bad and the ugly.

July 16th
Breakfast - Yoplait source yogurt
Lunch - 5 Cornbread crackers, 1 slice of skim cheese, 1 serving of goldfish crackers
Dinner - McD's (Big Mac with med fries and coke Zero)

JULY 16TH - DONE

July 17th
Breakfast - Yogurt with fruit
Lunch - fruit salad, 2 pcs of brown toast, 1 egg, raspberry jam
Dinner - cheeseburger with small fries
Snack - wedding (a couple of crackers, some cheese, 3 hordurves (however you spell it), a sliver of wedding cake, 3 petite fours and one vodka and cranberry juice)

JULY 17TH - DONE

July 18th
Breakfast - Yoplait Source Yogurt
Lunch - BLT salad with light ranch dressing
Dinner - breaded shrimp, 2 onion rings, 1 potato skin & some spinach/cheese dip
Snack - strawberries

JULY 18th - DONE JULY 18th VEGGIES DONE

July 19th
Breakfast - Yoplait Yogurt
Lunch - 100 cal pack of choco pretzels, 100 cal pack of granola bites
Dinner - 10 chicken nuggets, honey/mustard sauce, small fries

JULY 19th DONE

July 20th
Breakfast - Yoplait Yogurt
Lunch - grapes
Dinner - Teryaki steak, cesear salad, baked potato, cauliflower/broccoli/carrots, 2 bites of cheesecake

JULY 20th DONE JULY 20th VEGGIES DONE

Okay the week from you know where is now done and I can get back to normal. We were on a ball diamond every night last week and we have a 5-10minute turn around usually from when hubby gets home till be have to leave again and he was late every night so it was fast food dinners most nights. They played in a tourney on the weekend and we never expected them to get as far as they did (they won the entire thing) so I never prepared my meals very well in advance. It is funny though, I didn't think I had eaten that badly until I tracked it all here. I think I was lucky to stay the same last week.

 

[tlenzendorf]

stitchfan, I am glad your stress is gone! Welcome back to the land of normalcy

 

[stitchfan23]

stitchfan, I am glad your stress is gone! Welcome back to the land of normalcy

Thanks and I have been called a lot of things but normal ain't one of them! See I can laugh today.

 

[pipersmom]

Good morning all!

Heather- I'm glad things have calmed down some for you!

Patrick- Great job on the driver's test! Just let me know if you ever come this way so I can stay off the roads

I was lazy last night and didn't post my tracking, and was almost lazier this morning, but Piper was up when I got up at 6:40, so I couldn't weasel out of our walk by letting her sleep in!! (darn kid....LOL!) Her port is getting flushed today, which is always a bundle of fun My "visitor" got arrived last night and I just reaaaally didn't want to exercise this morning. I did feel better after, but still need to do CardioMax later this evening. On an up note..I tried putting yogurt on waffles this morning and it was actually pretty yummy! I LOVE real maple syrup, and have 3 quarts sitting in my pantry...but a serving has 50 carbs!! Not worth blowing my carbs for the day, unfortunately.

Tracking for yesterday-
Breakfast- Egg beater omelette w/ ham and FF cheddar, orange, 100 cal english muffin.
Lunch- FF yoplait, leftover chix stir-fry.
Dinner- Huge salad w/ FF cheddar & Light 3 cheese ranch, sourdough bread w/ Brummel & brown.
Snacks- Shrimp eggroll, granola thin, FF cheesecake, FF pringles.
Cals- 1472 (1440-1790)

July 20th- Done!

 

[Funball]

A havn't been tracking. i just can't remember to do it everyday, but i did loose another 2 pounds,. last time i wrote i was 132, i an now 130, the edge of 129!!! i am soo excited!! i am sure though i am at 129, but i didn't weigh yet. but i found that i drink half those naked juice smoothies that have the acai berry or pomegranite plus other fruits in it for a lunch on like a saturday or a saturday did really boost the extra weight loss..

 

[2_Eagle_Mom]

Heather – sounds like you are building those arm muscles. Glad things are finally settling down.

Patrick – Congratulations on getting your license!!!!

Elizabeth – Thanks for the tips on freezing the berries. Of course I didn’t see until after I popped them in the freezer. Luckily I didn’t rinse them just put them on a cookie sheet (I put down a silicone sheet down first). Then once they are frozen I’ll put them in a bag.

Yesterday I had a hard time with the candy calling me. I just kept telling myself, that I didn’t need it, didn’t want it, etc. It worked! I didn’t eat a single piece. Then last night we had our last Italian cooking class. I was lucky when every dish was something that I really wouldn’t like. I had a small taste of two dishes and ate the poached pears in rum raisin sauce, then came home and ate dinner here instead. I totaled it up and had 1769 calories!

Breakfast
Toasted sandwich thin w/RF peanut butter & banana

Lunch
Taco salad (lettuce, turkey, salsa)
Peach

Dinner
Pork Tenderloin
Orzo Pasta & spinach salad

Dessert
LF/SF ice cream w/sf choc syrup
Nectarine

July 20 DONE – Veggies DONE

Breakfast
Toasted sandwich thin w/RF peanut butter & banana

Lunch
Subway turkey sandwich w/baked lays

Dinner
Spaghetti & sourdough bread (carb loading tonight)

Dessert
LF/SF ice cream w/sf choc syrup

Total 1640 (goal 1200 – 1550)
July 21 DONE

Sorry I forgot to give an update on my brother. He's been transfered from ICU to a regular room. They still don't know what is going on, but his vitals are doing better and it doesn't look like he'll need dialysis, his kidneys seem to be functioning now.

 

[pwmitch237]

Quick Tracking:
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Breakfast: Cheerios (280)
Lunch: Beignets (587) and frozen café au lait (80)
Dinner: Three Cheese Chicken & 1/8 Pizza (562)
Snack: NONE
Exercise: NONE

Totals: 1509 cals

July 21 DONE!
VEGGIES DONE!

Quote for the day:

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[pipersmom]

Good morning all! Got Piper's flush done with the usual amount of stress and drama, but the usual was a good thing, it could have been worse. We all thought eventually (she's had the port for 2 yrs now) it would be better, but even after having it done at least 40 times she still gets just as panicked. She fell asleep doing her nebs last night, so I did not wake her up to walk this morning, we'll walk tonight when it cools off instead.

Jane- Glad your brother's out of ICU and that his kidneys are behaving. Hopefully he'll continue to improve. Great job resisting the candy, and omgoodness those pears sound yummy..LOL!

Tracking for yest-
Breakfast- Waffles w/ ff yogurt.
Lunch- Lean Cuisine Chix Carbonara.
Dinner- 2 RF hot dogs w/ thin buns, roasted potatoes, mixed veggies.
Snacks- Granola thin, FF yogurt, RF dark choccy ice cream.
Cals- 1511 (1440-1790)

June 21- Done!