200+ Haulin' Off The Weight
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Alright girls, I need your help.
It's Friday, date night a.k.a. grocery shooping (lame, I know), but I always try to come up with a menu for the week. It helps me stay on budget and not buy junk. I need some new recipes though. I'm so bored with dinner lately.
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I've been playing...what do you think?
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rain: Normally I LOVE giving people meal ideas but I almost had a panic attack thinking about coming up with low protein meal plans for you. Do you guys eat a lot of salads? Last week we had taco salads, Greek falafel salads and Thai-style salads and they were awesome. You could even make sure that the protein sources (beans, falafel and tofu/beans) were kept separate so you could eat them and DH could be within his protein limitations. I also go to foodgawker.com, allrecipes.com and peasandthankyou.com when I need fresh meal ideas. Maybe you can find something on one of those sites.
Kendal: Your talk about loud teenagers just made me feel old (cuz I think the same things when confronted with teenagers).
Nava: OMG, that comic was perfect!!! I have TOTALLY done that to The Kid and The Hubbs!!! LOL.0 -
Super Pals started as a nickname when this group was young 22 months ago. We liked it and it stuck. Holy crude - I've been hanging out with you for a looonnnngggg time.0
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Amy, I just have to say that everytime I read one of your posts, I'm instantly drawn to the quote in your signature. I don't know what it is, but something about it just calls for my attention.0
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We eat a lot of salad and vegetable stir fry haha.
We eat meat 3-4 times a week. Usually boneless skinless chicken breast. Occasionally we'll have steaks, but its rare as the protein is high and I don't care for steak anyway. We don't eat any other type of meet and hubs eats no seafood (obviously).
I'm pretty much fresh out of ideas for cooking chicken breast. I want some meatless recipes for his non-meat days too, but he's so damn picky.0 -
OK, Rikki-Happy Late Birthday!
Those were some awesome before & after pics ladies! Wow! Loved them!!
Amy-no overworking yourself like that! Silly lady!!
Rain-I'm hopeless at menus in advance-I do good to make it through dinner most nights!
Victoria-wow at the run!
Hailie-glad you're back! Disney is AWESOME!! But I'm talking FL, not CA, so maybe Amy's opinion will differ from mine. As October is also Food & Wine Festival time at Epcot...which was GREAT when I was pregnant with Casey...Hubby drank, I ate, all was good! LOL! And October is the best time, but I also have that thing with it being my around my birthday...Libra's are just cool like that! :-)
And NO, NOTHING on the house yet. This is the SSLLOOOOOWWEESSTT bank ever! If I have Labor Day weekend off & can't work on that house, I'm gonna really not be a happy camper! :-P But at least I guess I'll get some packing done!
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I'm sure there's more I could respond to, but I'm at work & this is gonna be a busy weekend. I have a kickball game tonight, a walk race & at least one kickball game tomorrow. And possibly a kickball game on Sunday. But it burns almost 700 calories per game! Woo hoo! OK, gotta run! *hugs* (And Amy/Hailie-I'm "pathetic" with you, cause you ladies are my friends I tell it all to!!)0 -
Ok, Victoria. I am doing nine miles tonight with a friend. We are trail running and I am pretty excited about it. I got my four miler in this morning and it felt awesome. I did four miles last night too (unplanned) due to tension.
Speaking of tension: I only have half a day with The Monsters today, a full day on Monday and half a day on Tuesday and I am D O N E with them. Finished. Thank. God.
Yesterday, the little one decided to channel his inner Sailor and start in with the language. I tell ya, I'm old, and I have never heard some of these words. So, since he's not mine and I can't beat him, I set him down with a pencil and paper and told him to write an entire page of "I will not use foul language." Well, that brought out his inner WWF wrestler and he threw my dining room chairs, tossed my dining room table, turned my coffee table upside down, along with the six loads of freshly washed and folded laundry on it, destroyed three library books, broke my lamp, and ripped (yes, really) my cabinet door off in the kitchen. When he was done, he said, "What do you think of that?" I looked at him and asked, "Is that the best ya got? I thought you could do better." He said, "I just destroyed your house. Why aren't you mad?" And I simply responded, "Well, because, nothing in this house is more important than you." And he started sobbing -- uncontrollably -- for like 5 full minutes. Then he started picking up his mess. His mom paid for the library books and was 'really sorry.' At this point, I don't believe anything she says. I just want her to love her kids and start parenting them. Six is too young to raise yourself. /endrant
Rain: I've got nothin' for ya, girl. We eat meat, carb, veg at almost every meal. I am so un-creative while on this weightloss journey. Once I get to my goal and maintain for a coupla months, I'll start adding interesting things back in, but I don't want to be in "weight-loss" forever, so we are pretty boring. It provides motivation for me. For example, almost every one of my running routes takes me by the Old Spaghetti Factory at some point -- usually near the end, and I think, "I am running so I can someday eat here without guilt."
Karen: She is awesomely adorable. What a CUTIE!! but now you've opened the door... prepare for kid pics.
Kendal: I am super-impressed with the 10minute -bed to door time. That has to be some kind of record. And I am in agreement, the sooner school starts, the sooner I can regain my sanity -- or what is left of it.
Lacey: My plan of attack with the sulking: ignorance. That's what they do. They don't notice when we are all sullen and sad...so why should I notice? (only when it is uncalled for, though. Otherwise, i am the doting wifey.)
We are going to Seattle tomorrow with the whole fam-damily. joy. My SIL is going to be there. She told me a couple of months ago that I think i am better than her because I am a better housekeeper, better daughter to her mom, more active, dress better, and a better parent. That was all news to me. But since I am already guilty of it, I am going to look AMAZING tomorrow. She hasn't seen me looking good since I started losing weight. The last time I saw her was immediately post run..and I was still drippy. (I am not usually vindictive, but something about her makes me want to win everything all the time. Maybe it's because she is the family pot-stirrer and I can never be safe from her tactics. I'll just be hotter. Bring it on, sister. You have met your match.) Did I tell you she wore her husbands slippers to my wedding...and his sweatpants? Yeah. Classy, right?
Amy: I agree with Victoria. More Low Impact Aerobics. (teehee) I couldn't help it. i'm sorry. *hangs head in shame.* But seriously, if you don't heal, you won't be able to do much for much much longer.0 -
Why are my posts always so damned long? I try to keep 'em short. Sorry. :-/0
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Morning Ladies! Glad its Friday. Unfortunately I woke up still pissed off at the husband. I am glad he is going to Seattle early tomorrow morning for the night with his dad and won't be babk until late late Sunday. I think I am hormonal, which is highly irritating because hello! I just got done with my period last week. Grr. So its just an all around crap kind of week. I'm not wearing my bmf today. I am going to try to go walking/running this afternoon.
Rain - definitely get on foodgawker.com. Scroll to the bottom and hit the links to search for groups/kinds of foods. Its an awesomely inspiring food site. Congrats on pushing through that running wall everyone needs to get over. I am hoping to get there myself one of these days.
Queire - thats because the book Amy's quote came from totally rocks! I am looking forward to the movie.
Karen - I like the pics.
Kendal - I have such an amazingly hard time waking up in the morning, so I feel ya on the getting up late. I set my alarm clock to start going off at 5:15 to get up around 6. I get that deep deep sleep from 3am on until I wake up, so yeah.
Nava- that cartoon rocks! and you're right, one meal doesn't ruin the day!
Amy - if my dogs are allowed to eat that stuff that is all they would eat. Broccoli, watermelon, cookies, meat, whatever. Can you blame them though? Even the Blue Buffalo dog food which is said to be the best dog food and even smells like real food when you open the bag still has to taste like **** compared to a piece of cheese.
And yeah the whole double standard just chaps my hide. I think he is having a super hard time with my going away from two weeks this time, and to Europe of all places. And not for just work either. But I gave him the option to come, told him we'd work it out somehow if he wanted to, and he didn't even want to attempt to ask for the time off. So it is what it is. And I can't control what kind of job he has, only he can. So if he wants a job that has perks like mine, he is going to have to get it himself. Rant over. Must. Make Myself Stop lol.
Don't be bumming up your foot girl!! We've got lots of walking to do..though I'm not above paying pedicabs, etc. lol. Make your plan "being able to walk around Paris in one month" and form a work out schedule according to that.
Rikki - glad to hear you had a good birthday.
Hailie - I have this group of girls and another group of three girls that I met on thedailyplate.come (before it got bought out by livestrong and started sucking) that I talk to on a daily basis. The other three girls have all met each other, but I am the lone wolf on the west coast so its hard for me to see any of them..however, they and all of you are closer to me than even my BFF these days.
Megan - me too girl. Me too. Willpower has left the building.
Victoria - wow thats a lot of meat in chili but sounds fantastic!! I've grown up with chili meaning mostly beans, but in watching the food shows I think the Pac NW must have their own more bean chili recipes, since it seems like most people do meat only or very little beans. I'd love to try that recipe with the syrup and beer.
Sheba - you are doing great. Putting your feelings into written words really does help one to see how silly they are once in a while right? I think I need to do that more often.
Annette - I sure hope your dog is going to be okay!!
Bloody hell. My MIL, the one who is coming to help take care of Gracie (since Jeff works at 3am in the morning) just texted me to say she broke her foot yesterday. Its just been one of those weeks.0 -
Weigh in: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 189.5 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HELLO 180's!!!0 -
Hey guys! Real quick post to weigh in - 169.8 (and hopefully for sure now good riddance to 170s). That's still up from what I was before the 4 day weekend, but with TOM looming, I'll take it.
My coworker is on vacation from noon today until the day after Labor Day, so if I'm MIA, its just because I'm insanenly busy. Know that I'll be lurking as often as possible to keep up on things.
Congrats to everyone who has got awesome weight/workout victories rockin' right now!
Ok... work work work work work here I come. Boo.0 -
OFFICE RANT: Somebody in my office decided to be nice to me while I was on vacation, so they watered all of my plants...which would be great...except they tried to drown them and now I have a million fungas gnats. ERG...this will take forever to get rid of of. It would be one thing if I had asked someone to water for me. But i didn't, I knew how long i was going to be gone. I knew my plants wouldn't die in one week. I also know someone had to have "helped" me since the soil was wetter when I got back than when I left. Likewise, I'm CONVINCED they (the evil companies) ship crappy soil up here to Alaska. I've never had to worry about contaminated soil while i lived in the lower 48. I've yet to buy any up here that doesn't have fungas. It just ticks me off. ERRRRRRRGGGGGGGGG. RANT OVER...
Rain....let me tell you I about spit water all over my comp. screen laughting at your comment about "date night". I too get excited for DH and mine's shopping date each payday. We don't currently have a car so unless it's within walking distance of the house we don't go. So that pretty much means we "date" by going to Fred Meyers about twice a month. Buss ride there; taxi ride home. So, if your date night makes you pathetic, I'm equally so.
I'll be weighing in sometime over the weekend. I hope to drop a little more of my salt enduced weight before then.
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Katherynne - I had a girlfriend watch some of my plants when I took a five day trip one time. I had had this succulent plant for over 5 years when I took it to her house. It had been with me through house buying, moving 300 miles away, etc. etc. It was like MY plant. She totally over watered it and it was drooping when I picked it up. Needless to say it died. Died died died from overwatering.
My random rant to the stickynotes makers: Thanks for the coolest pieces of paper ever. I use them all. the. time. However, it would be nice that when I finally go to take the sticky note off the surface of whatever I stuck it to that the stick would also leave and not be stuck so I have to wipe and wipe and wipe at it to get it off. Stickynotes are not compatible with plastic or rubber surffaces for more than an hour before this happens.0 -
Still no time for a long response! Auuugggghhh, crazy work week.
Just wanted to say that you all look FANTASTIC!! Seeing your pictures is huge motivation. You all kick some serious butt.0 -
So, this morning my apartment complex management was handing out breakfast tacos and bottles of water to the residents as they were leaving for work. They also had a 5 hour energy rep there handing samples of that out.
I always get what I call the "3:00 sleepies" at the office, but they came on at about 2:15 today so I thought "hmm, maybe I'll try this 5-hour energy thing."
Holy jeebus that stuff works. I just read the nutrition label and it says it has 8333% of the daily value for Vitamin B12. LOL! Whee, hyper! Good thing I only had half so far.0 -
TOM turns Katheryne into a grub munchin' zombie with a really crappy disposition. God perserve my husband and the kitchen cabinets in their time of need...0
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10 more minutes until they go home...10 more minutes until they go home. I can do it for 10 more minutes.
Nava: I am scared of that stuff. I got a bunch of it for free couponing one day and it is sitting in my cupboard. Maybe I should give it to the kids I am sitting right before they go home? I dunno.
Lacey and katheryne: I don't own plants because I am the one that kills them. I killed an aloe plant. No kidding. dead. *hangs head in shame.* I do, however, have a zucchini growing in my 'garden.' That's right, I have fruit from my labor...we'll see how it tastes.
Amy: We had a dog that ate rocks. That's right. She left the food alone, and ate...rocks. Not just one or two, and not little ones, but a lot of big rocks. After her sixth surgery, we told her...you eat another one, you die. Well, she went after Wiggle when he was just 4 months old, so she found another home anyway. Be glad that the canine eats like a canine and not a rock monster.
Kerry: I want to be you when I grow up. Seriously.0 -
TOM turns Katheryne into a grub munchin' zombie with a really crappy disposition. God perserve my husband and the kitchen cabinets in their time of need...
This made me blow chips and salsa all over my monitor. Thanks. :laugh:0 -
I rearranged how I pay my bills today..and now will be buying groceries every two weeks instead of on a weekly basis. Should I just make a two week recipe plan or should I make a one week plan and buy a gift card for the second weeks groceries? (I cold leave the $ for it in the bank too I know)..Why does this seem more daunting??
I am SO ready to get out of here today.0 -
Nava I've never used that 5 hour energy stuff. It kind of scares me for some reason too. No bad side effects? I can't get people who drink rock stars either..so yeah. But that might be because I had a little too much fun when I was 22 years old in a bar with rock stars and vodka and orange juice I think? I remember flashes of me and my guy friends dancing in this club that was packed like sardines in a can, us walking down the street with them trying to flip an old vw (they couldn't even lift it Thank God looking bacK), one of them jumping off the balcony back in the bar naked, me showing my bra to the whole of the bar, parts are black. So that stuff scares me now lol.
I can laugh at myself thank goodness. I would die if I acted like that now. Which brings me to the other point I forgot to mention. I am SO totally old. Because yeah Amy and Kendal? Teenagers blowing their airhorn in the evening down the street got me yelling back at them a few weeks ago and I HATE when I want peace and quiet and their music is turned up. Sigh.0 -
I've actually been a bit frightened of them myself, but this was free, and why not. I'm definitely awake but kinda feeling fidgety.
I don't think I'd make a habit of taking these. Also, it tasted awful.0 -
More playing! LOL!
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aaaaaaaaand, I'm already falling asleep at my desk again. So much for that.0
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aaaaaaaaand, I'm already falling asleep at my desk again. So much for that.
Five Hour Fail!0 -
My senior year in college, I stayed up late to finish work many times, but only had to pull one all nighter. I got off work at 11pm and started writing the big, end of the semester, counts for 33% of your grade, should be at least 15 pages long and include works cited type of paper. Back then there was an energy drink made by Mountain Dew called MDX and it tasted like carbonated green jello. IT WAS AWESOME. But I had so many that night ( I think it was 3...20 oz bottles) when I was in class (I think it was a 9 or 10am class), I could not sit still. My feet were bouncing everywhere and I could not stop talking. As in my tongue would not quit moving and my vocal chords had to produce noise. Mostly "be boo bop de boo bop bop bop deeee" type stuff (but times 1000). I'm sure I looked like a crazy person.
I skipped the next class and absolutely crashed after that lol0 -
aaaaaaaaand, I'm already falling asleep at my desk again. So much for that.
Five Hour Fail!
Well, she did say she only drank half...so 2.5 hours is all that's guaranteed...lol
I remember that when I was a teenager, the thing to drink (other than whatever was in the family liquor cabinet) was Jolt Cola...twice the sugar and 4x the caffeine. You felt like you'd never have to sleep again, ever!0 -
Well, I'm on my way to go replace my broken lamp. His mother gave me money today to do that. Really glad I didn't have to ask her to and that she just ponied up the cash. YAY for a new lamp. My cabinet door will be reattached this evening. The boy's father is coming over to do it. He is going to have to sand and repaint too, since he ripped huge holes in the casing. They both admitted that he has done this at their homes too. *sigh* Unfolding the laundry is what made me the most angry. I hate doing laundry as it is, let alone TWICE. grr. /endrant
OK, so tomorrow I get to go to Seattle :happy: with the in-laws :sad: and we are eating here: http://www.ivars.com/index.php?page=menus_salmon-house for dinner.
And, we are not paying!! (What? We always pay!) I know, right?! Exciting.
I am going to run again tonight after dinner just to get the calorie burn since I won't get to do it tomorrow. Six hours in the car with two kids under five and another 6 hours with the family...Rage calories, but no real cardio.
Bobbie: I remember Jolt!! I wonder if it can still be found?
Kendal: MDX was a major FAIL by Mountain Dew. It tasted like carbonated horse urine and created zombies. Aye yie yie.0 -
I am new to the website and looking for a support group would lit be ok to join you. I did not read all your posts but it looks like how I like to post when I was on a support group before. I just need to learn how to do it on my phone so that I can post and read more often - if that is possible,
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Welcome to the group mepeiffer!! We are always welcoming new members!
Sarah- You are the calmest person in the world not to yell at the kid, but also the most compassionate. That kid needs some serious therapy. And you are so wrong about MDX! I loved it!! lol
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