Over 200 New Year New Me Part 25

LittleSpy

<snip>I shared my dinner with my son...lol its mean but since im only allowed a certain amount of food I get really cranky when hubby to be and my son try to eat my food. I need every crumb! Last night I was happily sharing like a big girl :laugh: :laugh: ...who doesnt share with a 1 yrs old right? yea, thatd be me!

:laugh: I so did this last night! I portioned out some M&Ms in a container on the kitchen counter so I could walk by and grab a couple while still keeping track of how many I was eating. Hubs walks over and starts to grab one and I swear it was like a slow motion run toward him & the M&Ms with me shrieking "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!" :blushing: He got this awful "WTF?!" look on his face and I just looked at him nonchalantly and handed him the BAG full of M&Ms to eat instead.

VeryKerri

Good morning all!
Blue: I am sorry to hear about your broken toes, Sometimes I feel like if I had bad luck I would have no luck at all. I hope they heal quickly and you can do your PT

myworld: I used to feel tired all the time as well I have 4 kids to chase after two of them being under 5 and all kinds of activities to do with them as well. I told myself that I would exercise when I could find the time. I had to make myself start and now I truly cant go a day without doing something to workout. I have so much more energy too. At 301 I still feel like I can do anything now. I think once you start, you will feel the same and the energy will come.

Awestfall: 9 pounds is AWESOME!!!!!! That is great and I cant wait to see more of that for you!

lildebbie: any loss is a good loss!!! Great job

POS ME: I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE "just dance" An aunt of mine introduced my family to it and now we play all the time. What a great workout! I can do about a 40 minute session at a time and I am so grossly sweating by the time its over its not even funny!

Cris: I have a problem with sharing my portions too! They are already so much smaller than what everyone else at the table is eating so I want to "hoard" it all to myself!! My youngest daughter is two and she just likes to graze from plate to plate and she gets sad if I dont let her eat from mine..... "mommy you mean!"

Anyway, here are my stats for yesterday:
Cals: under goal but I did eat all but 400 (shoot I had 2400 to eat!!)
water: 128 oz
sodium: in check
exersize: 35 minute workout at the gym including 7 mins on the elliptical!!!! I am working my way up on this one! burned 560 cals
proud: so my husband is thin and he wanted a banana split from DQ so I went to get it and got myself a medium dipped cone. I REALLY wanted the large. I am proud that I got the medium (should of had the small but oh well) Still under calories....
no weight change still at 301..... dang plateu! :ohwell:

RedneckWmn

Good morning ladies! Internet connection out here with my moms sprint card is non existant. I can use fb and my phone but it's really slow! I haven't read all the posts. I saw something about blue and broken bones! Hope you are ok sister!

Congrats to the biggiest losers this week!

I'm enjoying my vacation and trying to stay active! I took Jayden and my cousins on almost a 2 hour hike around the campgrounds and played on the playground. I was even doing cartwheels! Miss you ladies! Talk soon!

elmox

Nancy! Honey! I swear, only you girl. You are too too much. I'm so sorry to hear about your toes. Here's to a speedy recovery!

Jess - Hope you're having fun!!

LittleSpy - Hooray on the "look of approval"! It feels good to know you look good!

Cris - Sharing is caring... Way to go on the spin class last night! Wish my gym had them...

Awestfall - Congrats on the 9 lbs!! WA-FREAKING-HOO!

Kerri - Nice job on resisting the larger ice cream cone!

Pos_Me - Enjoy the shore. Stay away from Snooki, The Situation, and JWoww. They are nothing but trouble! :laugh:

Yesterday's check-in:
Cals - Under with exercise = 1249
Water - 88 oz
Excerise - Yoga in the park. Bliss...
Proud - We went out for sushi last night after yoga. I had sashimi for the first time (just raw fish, no rice) because I had read an article earlier about how sushi can be good for you, but not with all that rice. It was actually really good!! I had two pieces of tuna and two of salmon. I added an avocado roll because they are delicious. It's great to know that I can go to a sushi restaurant (a favorite of mine) and make good choices. I was still in my yoga clothes and I had my mat with me. I felt oh so healthy and hip! :laugh:

Positively_Me

Blue: I am so sorry to hear about your broken toe(s). I am hoping and praying for a speedy recovery. I would miss you too much if you would go into hibernation…Please stay in touch

Deb: glad you got [some] answers..keep us posted. Congrats on your weight loss:flowerforyou:

Heather: great job on resisting Ice cream:flowerforyou:

Ann: congrats on your BIG weight loss! You’re awesome!!! Have fun on vacation

Cris and Julie: you are doing so great…starting to wear smaller clothing..AWESOME feeling right!
You’re all so inspirational…:flowerforyou:

Welcome to all the newbies..we have a great support system

Kerridodson: I started to love “just dance” too. My sister weighs less than I do and she was huffing and puffing when were where done competing and I was normal..I could take another round while she wanted to rest. I felt so great because I had the endurance and stamina for a 200lb girl..

Jess: sounds like you are having fun..we miss you

Let me go finish..be back later. I hate last minute vacation...

elmox

And the weigh-in:

Awestfall...............-9.0 = 4.01%
Lildebbie..............-0.9 = 0.34%
Pos_me................ 0.0 = 0.0%
LittleSpy................-0.4 = 0.20%
Elmox....................-3.0 = 1.61%

Positively_Me

Pos_Me - Enjoy the shore. Stay away from Snooki, The Situation, and JWoww. They are nothing but trouble! :laugh:

ROFL..I have never watch the show, but I heard a lot of crap about them..LOL..:laugh:

One bunch of messiness:laugh:

meokk

NANCY - So hurting for you right now. It should have been a fun girls day out. SORRY :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

check in for yesterday:
calories - 1150
water - 85oz
exercise - bed pilates (nancy style, not Cris style :laugh: )
proud that we went out for dinner and I got a burger with salad, not fries and only ate 1/2 of the burger

Awestfall...............-9.0 = 4.01%
Lildebbie..............-0.9 = 0.34%
Pos_me................ 0.0 = 0.0%
LittleSpy................-0.4 = 0.20%
Elmox....................-3.0 = 1.61%
Meokk....................-1.6 = 0.88%

newbies, you are perhaps wondering how we are doing this calculation. I know it took me a few weeks to catch on.
You do weight lost over the past week divided by what you weighed last week and move the decimal point 2 places.
So I did 1.6 divided by 180.6 = 0.00885 and then moved the decimal for my weekly % loss

edit to say I'm really pleased that I got back on track this week. After vacation and business trip I was up to about 182 on Monday of this week ( I know probably sodium from all the restaurant meals) so I ate pretty clean and lean Tues - Thurs and it has paid off.
I'm back down to 179.0 which is 0.6 less than my June 4th, pre trips weigh in. Note to self, staying home is good for weight loss, vacation and business trips = BAD

tlrue

Not too bad considering the terrible weekend and TOM surprised me last night. It's super early? Very strange. Happy Friday, ladies

Awestfall...............-9.0 = 4.01%
Lildebbie..............-0.9 = 0.34%
Pos_me................ 0.0 = 0.0%
LittleSpy................-0.4 = 0.20%
Elmox....................-3.0 = 1.61%
Meokk....................-1.6 = 0.88%
tstout......................-1.6 = 0.68%

HeatherMN

Awestfall...............-9.0 = 4.01%
Lildebbie..............-0.9 = 0.34%
Pos_me................ 0.0 = 0.0%
LittleSpy................-0.4 = 0.20%
Elmox....................-3.0 = 1.61%
Meokk....................-1.6 = 0.88%
tstout......................-1.6 = 0.68%
HeatherMN..........-4.0 = 0%

tlrue

Oohh! I should check in for yesterday (duh)...


Calories - Under!
Fitness - Went running with the boyfriend. Greatest coach/motivator ever The perfect balance of "You can do it!" and "Quit being a baby!" I'm so lucky to have him.
Water - LOTS! I drank it, I swam in it (Yay for Lake Michigan!)
Proud - Running! I'm a terrible runner. As soon as I start, so does my brain... surveying every possible imperfection and trying to convince me to stop. Thank God for the boyfriend. Love him so.

HeatherMN

Good morning!

I'm sitting here trying to decide if I have enough energy to attempt running this morning before moving on to my chore of grocery shopping for weekend camping food. I haven't run in a while because I've been focusing on 30 Day Shred. If I'm going to do it, I have to get it done early because the current temp of 72 will become 88 before too long. Ick!

Ann: To find a 40B bra, my mom goes to Kohls, where she can usually find them; otherwise, we have a Bali outlet near our house. I highly recommend going somewhere for a fitting. I did that after I'd lost 20 lbs. and found the most comfortable and cute bras. Most lingerie stores offer these services if you ask. Otherwise, I know you can also order less common sizes from Victoria's Secret, but you'll pay a whole lot more for them and I don't feel the extra cost is worth it unless you can't find it anywhere else. Luckily I'm still in a size that is very easy to find, 38D, but I'm down from a 40DD. I personally LOVE my tatas and hope I don't lose too much of them.

Myworld: You're off to a great start. Don't worry to much about the exercise piece if it's easier for you to focus on the eating part first and slowly add the exercise. Hopefully your hubby will get on board like many of the significant others in this group have. As for calories, I would really ask your doctor, though 1200 sounds low for breastfeeding. My doctor told me that women should stay around 1500 calories although I know MFP puts most people at 1200 to lose weight. I manually adjust my calorie goals to better suit me. Oh, and don't worry about the sodium tracking. Not everyone here watches the sodium, but I find for myself that the sodium has more to do with my weight loss or gain than the actually calories. It's all a personal preference on which items you want to track.

Nancy: So sorry to hear about the broken toes. Your niece sounds absolutely adorable and just think of the money she'll save by only having her bffs do her nails! Even if you can't do all of your exercises, I'm sure your PT can have you focus on arm exercises such as weights and punches. Arm punches get the heart rate up pretty quickly, so it's an easy yet effective exercise.

Checking in for yesterday:
Calories: 29 calories under
Sodium: On target!
Water: 104.5 oz. Yep, I was running to the restroom every 30-60 minutes!
Exercise: 90 minutes walking at volunteer work. The first 45 minutes were with a rider who needed a lot of physical support so I got a good arm workout, too!
Proud: That I stayed within my calories and sodium even though I met a friend for a beer (yes, only one) and chips and salsa to discuss her relationship problems. Also, I woke the boyfriend up at 1:20am when I got home for a "bed pilates" session (Cris' style)!

elmox

How I know Heather's been doing lots of the the 30 Day Shred: "Arm punches get the heart rate up pretty quickly, so it's an easy yet effective exercise."

Gotta love that second circuit!! Make sure you sit really down for the full on burn. :bigsmile:

meokk

is Mstahl on vacation or do we need to stalk her and I've been away but noticed no posts from Mari this week. Did I miss something???

LittleSpy

is Mstahl on vacation or do we need to stalk her and I've been away but noticed no posts from Mari this week. Did I miss something???

I think we need to stalk them both. I know they're both going through some transitions and my guess is that's why they're not posting. I see Mari check in with weight loss every once in a while though so I think she's doing well.

Danielle_81

I am SOOO HAPPY!! I lost 5.5lbs! Yay me :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

Awestfall...............-9.0 = 4.01%
Lildebbie..............-0.9 = 0.34%
Pos_me................ 0.0 = 0.0%
LittleSpy................-0.4 = 0.20%
Elmox....................-3.0 = 1.61%
Meokk....................-1.6 = 0.88%
tstout......................-1.6 = 0.68%
HeatherMN..........-4.0 = 0%
myworld898.........-5.5=1.89%

SO I got up and weighed myself (we use our Wii because we have no scale) It says I've lost 10.8lbs. I kind of freaked:noway: . THEN I weighed the baby -2.2 lbs (he's 8 mos) so I REALLY freaked. Then my hubby gets on and he's lost 5.1 lbs. SO we can't figure out what's going on. Then a few minutes later it hits us, we realize, Monday we put a carpet down on the floor! We only had an area rug before, very thin, this is a piece of carpet from my in laws that has padding on the back. So anyway -5.5 is still AWESOME! (but my husband did have to remind me of that at first:laugh: )

Positively_Me

hey girls,

I was thinking of making cranberry chicken salad with the rotisserie chicken i bought yesterday..

Is 9 grams of fat and 151 calories a lot per serving?

here is the recipe..it makes 12 servings

4 cups cubed, cooked chicken meat
1/3 cup reduced fat mayonnaise
1/4 cup light sour cream
1/4 cup light ranch dressing
1 teaspoon paprika
1 1/2 cups dried cranberries
1 cup chopped celery
2 green onions, chopped
1/2 cup minced green bell pepper
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon seasoning salt
ground black pepper to taste

Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 97 g

Amount Per Serving
Calories 151Calories from Fat 71
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 7.8g12%
Saturated Fat 1.4g7%
Cholesterol 43mg14%
Sodium 346mg14%
Total Carbohydrates 4.0g1%
Dietary Fiber 1.3g5%
Sugars 1.4g
Protein 16.2g

Vitamin A 7% • Vitamin C 13%
Calcium 2% • Iron 5%

Nutrition Grade B
* Based on a 2000 calorie diet


What do you all thing? too much fat or not...

cris20056

Heather- it usually takes me more than one beer to want to do bed pilates at 1:20am....Im calling your bluff! :laugh:

LittleSpy

Sounds yum to me, Pos_me. I think it's fine. But I eat at 45/30/25 or 40/30/30 sometimes so I'm pretty used to seeing high fat food. I'd probably sub all sour cream for the mayo but yeah... that's just because I don't particularly care for mayo. It could help reduce the fat some though maybe.

I think 151 calories for almost 4oz is super!

I just had an orchard chicken salad sub because of Cris going on about chicken salad the other day. :laugh: Surprisingly, I can tolerate the mayo in it. I'm not nearly as picky about it as dh. Mayo can't have even TOUCHED his food or he won't eat it. Baby.

LittleSpy

Heather- it usually takes me more than one beer to want to do bed pilates at 1:20am....Im calling your bluff! :laugh:

Seriously. :noway:
Sometimes all I can think about is "OMG, I have to get up for work in __ hours!" I'm very romantic.
:laugh:

cris20056

I posted to Mstahl once or twice with no answer, I hope shes just busy!! I miss her!

Momma is doing great and sends us all her best!

Cogirl just graduated c25k and didnt tell anyone!!! CONGRATS DAWN!!!!

Hmmm, ok and Im hungry time for lunch!

cris20056

My mind is already on Holiday mode...Im already thinking about the cook outs and beer...I decided to get pit beef for lunch today (best thing ever!) so to hold me over until I get off work I decided to eat another bagelful (200 cals) ugh its gonna get ugly this weekend!

I was at 194.0 this morning, lowest ever!!!! Im not weighing in because I dont really have last week to compare it to...so next week Im in!!!

And exciting news...this morning I had to throw my jeans (size 16) in the dryer to try to SHRINK them! WHAT?!:noway: I reember not washing my jeans for weeks at a time so they would fit on me because after washing and drying I would have to squeeze myself into them!!!!

Positively_Me

I just finished making the chicken salad and it was soooo goood! YUM!!!

thanks Julie for the information on the Chicken salad...without you I would be lost:flowerforyou:

Cris: you are doing awesome ( all around) weight wise and pants falling off...mine are a size 12 and recently they have become so loose I am afraid of my pant falling on the ground. I think I should put them in the dryer instead of air drying them.

did you write/email momma..as far as I remember her MFP has been disconnected..I thought of email her daughter but was afraid of stepping over boundries..

I hope Mstahl is doing well..she has been MIA for 2 weeks now.

Meokk: I ment to post this before and I forgot. It's about the homemade yogurt. I make plain yogurt and when the final process is complete I add whatever to it...and that is when I make the greek yogurt..
Hope that helps

ColoradoGirl

Sooooo... I am having a rough time right now. I think I am hitting yet another plateau. Oh Joy! They frustrate me so. That means no loss for me this week. But, no gain either so, I guess that is a good thing!

I did finish the C25k today and yes it feels good to have accomplished it. However, I am struggling with many things going on right now and have too many damn irons in the fire! I simply am overwhelmed. From family wanting to eat crap and not understand why I choose not to eat out more than 1x per week to my family wanting another dog. (We still have 2). From the weight not coming off like I would prefer to see to work being a little slow right now (and yes, it always is this time of year). Then there is the fact that I am turning the BIG 40 in August. It should be just a number, but, I feel like it is a line in the sand for me and I am having one hell of a time trying to grasp it!

So, I apologize for not being around much lately and probably won't be here commenting every day until I can get my head back where it needs to be. I do hope it is sooner than later. I will still lurk and will still be logging my food and exercise but, I just do not have the time and energy right now. Sorry, if that sounds selfish!

I hope you all understand and have a fabulous Independence day weekend!

HeatherMN

COgirl: I'll tell you the same thing we told Cris. Take the time you need to get focused and take care of things, but don't you dare leave us completely or we'll hunt you down! Take care.

Cris: I'm not kidding about the bed pilates at 1:20am after 1 beer. I have to admit that I might be a bit of a nympho and my boyfriend and I have a fantastic bed pilates schedule! I knew how happy it would make him if I came home and work him up in his favorite way, so I did it. Trust me, I realize how naughty I am and I love it!

Julie: To be fair, I didn't have to work today. If I'd had to be at work this morning, I wouldn't have stayed out that late to begin with. I would have done the bed pilates at 10pm instead of 1:20am!

I'm just waiting for the boyfriend and his son to get here so we can finish loading up the camper and head out for the weekend. I did, however, get my butt up and go for a run this morning after I posted. I struggled a bit since it had been a month since I last ran, but I managed 25 minutes straight of running. Total distance was about 3 miles in 45 minutes.

Okay, they're here! I better go. Have a happy and safe 4th of July weekend!!

LittleSpy

Cogirl -- I wholeheartedly agree with Heather. Take some YOU time and refocus. You've been doing a really awesome job the last couple of months and it helps to take a breather.

Heather -- Have a great time camping!!

bluenote

The online gimp here happy to report that the PT said no worries, he'll work around the out of commission toes!
:bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: HALLELUJAH!!!:bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

lildebbie

good jobs girls on the losses (and the smaller clothes !!!)

Cogirl - Take your time, We will be here !!!

We got some bad news today...the AC went out in our rental house. At first they said 2400 $$ i don't have that money at all..we were freaking out, then our prop mang called back and said he found a used one that will be 500 installed..so still crappy but lots better

now on to my fun filled day

We took girls to day care, went to lift class (225 cals ) + swimming ( 93 cals) ,
then to applebeese (was supposed to meet a friend but she got caught up so just me and jeremy.. eating 350 cal salad ), then movie ( i id havfe a treat and got a kids meal, but the whole thing was like 300 cals (popcorn and candy) ,
Then DMV to get hubby texas lice woohoo, and gnc to get serena vitamin D and jermey some protien power
Then went back to the gym.........yes...i did the dance class!!:noway: :noway: :noway: I burned 520 cals in that class ...i was soo suprised., then i did 1/2 a spin class (well like 20 minutes)

So total calorie burn of 1044 ...i think that tops any calorie burn i have had in 1 day ...EVER.!!!!

Now on to eating!!!

bluenote

COGirl - {{{hugs}}}

check in for Friday:
calories - way over YIKES - my father's 85th birthday dinner, expensive restaurant, huge steak, cannoli, the whole nine yards
water: 96
exercise: 30 mins water exercises - gonna go ride Old Bessie when I log off
proud: To see my father happy that all of his kids were with him today, even my bro from Boston. I love my Dad!

bluenote

Awestfall...............-9.0 = 4.01%
Lildebbie..............-0.9 = 0.34%
Pos_me................ 0.0 = 0.0%
LittleSpy................-0.4 = 0.20%
Elmox....................-3.0 = 1.61%
Meokk....................-1.6 = 0.88%
tstout......................-1.6 = 0.68%
HeatherMN..........-4.0 = 0%
myworld898.........-5.5 = 1.89%
blue........................-2.5 = 0.62%