OVER 200 CLUB NEW YEAR NEW BODY (OPEN GROUP) Part 2

Momma2four

Oh I want to comment on everyone's day!!!! but I have not time.

I got home -changed, drank a bottle of water, got on that elliptical machine and stayed on it for 50 minutes! :bigsmile:

Easy good cheap calories you can take with you to school or work - hard boiled eggs - fat makes you feel good, protein to feed you body... I keep a few at work :happy:

Today -
Calories - ate my exercise but otherwise under
Water - under (still working on it)
Exercise YES!

Proud - that I came home and got on that beast and stayed on it for 50 minutes!

FOOD: Black Bean lettuce wraps - Rinse canned black beans add a little water and simmer with your favorite seasoning for meat - we use taco seasoning the most but curry works great!. Lettuce wraps - I use cabbage leaves myself because they are so sturdy - but bib lettuce works GREAT! Toppings - low fat cheese or fat free yogurt if you like!

Just put a spoon full of beans on your lettuce, add a topping if you like, and start eating!

I par-boil the cabbage leaves (just dunk em in boiling water for a few minutes then rinse them off) and it makes them flexible - you can wrap up the beans like a burrito!

With the curry beans we had goat cheese crumbles and plain yogurt, With the taco beans I had low fat cheddar...

Super simple, fast and YUM!

These wraps sound good. I am going to have to try that!!! Wonder how the kids would like it.

Momma2four

Today was so blah...Home today with my 3 yo being sick, luckily she slept most of the day and was able to work and didn't have to take any sick time.

my older daughter was sooo bad today at school, she peed on herself 2x and spent all day in the ofifce for refusing to do her work. He teacher sent home a permission slip for her to have up to 6 sessions with the counselor to see if that helps. Hopefully it does, or at least to some insight , we may have to continue with some outside counseling i just want her to be better.

I ate okay today, i have to still put my cals in. i didn't get my wii workout at lunch today as my lunch was spent taking care of the little one. About to do my wii ea active though.

lildeb, I am so sorry to hear about your rough day. Our children are so important to us and it is hard when we see these types of things happening. Hopefully, the counselor will be able to help your little girl. I know as a mother we want to fix things right away and it does not always work that way and boy is it frustrating. I am praying for your little girl and I am praying for her mommy to have strength through it all.:flowerforyou:

snowflakes

Calories: yes
Water: yes
Exercise: yes
Proud: that I added weights to the exercise today.

Have a good night all.

Renea_Kay

First of all, last night i was watching Biggest Loser when I was exercising. Have you guys noticed how commercial this show is? I mean, its a great show, but every other word/thing is a freaking advertisement. That, and they plug their crazy website, but they wont ever help you untill you hand your credit card over...and a biggest loser ranch out in the midwest? are you kidding? Its like fat camp for rich people I bet. ugh. Extra sugar free gum this, extra sugar free gum that...Lets use our state of the art GE equipment to show us how fat you are! etc etc. I dunno, product placement is just kind of gross in my opinion.


Also pissing me off today (and alot of other times) Is one of my best friends. you could cut a diamond on him, he's just skin and bones. And apparently he kind of likes me (he's a little too girly for my tastes.) He's made it known to me before that he doesnt like fat chicks, and thats fine, but he's just so hurtful sometimes the way he behaves (he'll flirt with me and stuff, but after he told me he thinks I'm unattractive, what the heck am I supposed to do?!). He was doing gesture drawings to study anatomy and he needed maybe some of his female friends to help. Of course he tells me that he's going to have one of his manliest looking female friends do it for him, and she's like a rectangle! I have more lady curves, I look more like a woman than her, but no. Dont treat me like an attractive girl because I'm fat, and fatties are icky. I cannot WAIT to slap him in the face with a big, fat "NO" when he all of a sudden wants to date me when I get skinny. Ugh. Stupid men dont get it sometimes. I'm right in front of him and he asks someone else who has no shape. Of course I'm upset. People make me feel like I'm not a woman (or even a person!) sometimes when they treat me differently...

Haha to the Extra gum thing...i notice that alot...i cant get through school without my gum and i stare at the packet and im like hmm...Biggest loser....wahoo? And to the guy...eh wat a jerk ....sounds like my guy friend (except mine is gay heh). I think you need a better friend...i mean its okay to have him as a somewhat friend...but any guy like that isnt really your friend...you get to a healthy weight and ignore his dumbness.

MariSama44

Thanks Reanea. Yeah my friend might as well be gay! haha, it would be better if he was, because atleast then he wouldnt hit on me and confuse me. =( I could never be affectionate with someone who thinks/says that I'm unattractive.

bluenote

Good attitude, Mari! :flowerforyou:
lildeb - I am praying for you and your little girl.
Renea - how did you do on calories today? I hope it was easier for you today. :flowerforyou:
I've been taking a hard look at my own calories, and I think I need more. I am always under my goal and this has NOT been working for me for the past four weeks. When I met my goal I lost five a week, remember? Ugh. Frustrating. :grumble:
But I will prevail!!!

check-in: WAY closer to goal cals
water: 64
exercise: 40 mins bike plus arm work
proud: that even though I feel yucky I still ate relatively healthy and I rode the old bike. These meds are giving me a run for their money. :explode: I am irritable, paranoid, and constipated! LOL

lildebbie

Hi gals...I am pooped. I just had to get on to work and work another hour to make up some time from earlier.

momma - you are right...i just want to fix it and make it all better,...and I can't...it is very frustrating. I am soo angry with her , for her not wanting to make good choices....today i took a box and filled it with toys in her room and she ain't getting them back till there is improvement and everyday she doesn't improve more is getting taken away...something has to make this girl care about SOMETHING.

Calories - a little over, but under exercise cals.
exercise - 20 min Ea active tonight
water - 4 cups under but more than yesterday
Proud - ..I am not sure i can be proud of anything right now.

I feel sooo blah today...i ate probably the wrong things today....didn't necessarily overinduldge but could of made better choices. My stomach has been icky all night, been in the bathroom several times :sad:

I know on Friday i won't be as low as i was yesterday, after such a good # yesterday i was striving for 283 or under, but at this point i will be happy with under 285. I am a bit worried because we are going to my inlaws this weekend. We already told them, no pizza, taco mayo (like a fast food taco place ), that is what we usually get. No fast food, so i know one meal they are making spaghetti, i can handle that, we may bring some of our own snack stuff so i know i will have a healthy choice....I love being under 285 and really don't want to be back over that number any longer.

Mari - that guy is just a complete jerk.

LittleSpy

Ah, so much I want to read and comment on, but I just got off work an hour or so ago (yep, 14 hour work day.. I feel like mstahl!) and I'm sitting in bed and I want to sleep more than I want to type. :yawn:

Calories: 1,266
Exercise: 30 minutes stationary bike
Water: 80oz+
Proud: Hmm... I guess the usual "I'm proud I'm still here" stuff.

A guy at work pretty much ticked me all the way off tonight. Apparently he likes me, which I always thought but it's been more obvious lately. Of course I don't flirt with him because I don't think I've ever flirted with anyone a day in my life. :laugh: Not intentionally at least. But I talk to him just as I would talk to anyone else I find relatively interesting. But, since my bf works there sometimes, too, he knows him. And he just started asking me all of these questions about our relationship and our situation and talking about how he better "treat me right" and talking junk about how my bf is still a student at the age of 30 & he just went on and on and on to the point I just said "Okay, goodnight" and walked out & drove home. Boys are dumb. And that's the end of that story. Sorry, I felt like I needed to tell someone and obviously I can't tell my boyfriend because I don't want to start some stupid mess & my best friend is in WV where she gets no cell phone reception & I didn't want to call her and wake up her terminally ill grandmother at midnight just to tell her some stupid story about stupid boys.
Okay, good, over and done!

HonestOmnivore

jlb123 - I understand about the work boy situation! After working with guys for 20 years (and being so unbelievably hot of course ) I've had these situations crop up. I think you handled it fine! I have a "no personal relationship" ban on discussions. I won't listen to guys talk about wife/gf issues and I won't share any of my own relationship stuff. I mean the general discussions with a group around is fine of course but not one-on-one!

I got a recipe from this site on a thread about cottage cheese - I made it for work yesterday for the dessert and its sooooooo good! If I already posted this one sorry - I'm a little ADD!

1 tub light cottage cheese
1 tub light cool whip (sugar free or low fat what every you like)
1 can crushed pineapple (no sugar added- and you can use any fruit)
1 package of sugar free Jell-O (I used lemon but what ever flavor you like)

Mix the Jell-O into the cottage cheese, mix in the fruit then fold in the cool whip. It's AMAZING! I'm having a half cup for breakfast

I'm sweating so much on the elliptical I'm not too worried about my sodium. I track it, and it helps explain water gain... but I know I am sweating out so much that I cant be hurting myself too much! Plus I'm usually well under

HonestOmnivore

Renea_Kay - Since your mom is supportive, can you ask her to help you come up with some healthy, portable foods? Here's the list I came up with in the shower this morning (hey - sometimes it's the only place I get to think! )

Hard Boiled eggs - in a sandwich bag with some salt
Tuna Salad - on some spinach in a little re-usable tub- if you use store bought light mayo it will last most of the day without refrigeration (unlike homemade mayo!)
Peanut butter on whole wheat - in one of those hard sandwich plastic containers
Light Yogurt - if you chuck a couple in your backpack with a spoon they'll last all day without refrigeration, you just need to stir!
:flowerforyou:
Hope this helps!

LittleSpy

First of all, last night i was watching Biggest Loser when I was exercising. Have you guys noticed how commercial this show is? I mean, its a great show, but every other word/thing is a freaking advertisement. That, and they plug their crazy website, but they wont ever help you untill you hand your credit card over...and a biggest loser ranch out in the midwest? are you kidding? Its like fat camp for rich people I bet. ugh. Extra sugar free gum this, extra sugar free gum that...Lets use our state of the art GE equipment to show us how fat you are! etc etc. I dunno, product placement is just kind of gross in my opinion.

Product placement is annoying but I think we're going to have to get used to it. With the invention of DVRs, everyone (myself included) records the shows & fast forwards past the commercials. So, that means advertisers pay a lot less for those commercial slots because they're not as effective. So, product placement it is. We brought it on ourselves.

Edit:

Yeah, it's unfortunate that BL has to stoop to advertisements in the show, but now that most all live in TivoLand, we fast forward commercials. And fast-forwarding commercials does not bring cash to the show. Therefore, they have to start putting commercials into the shows. I am seeing it everywhere and I hate it, too.

Oh, I see this was already discussed. I can't keep up with you ladies! :laugh:

LittleSpy

I also found out today that I have shrunk, yah, not sure but I lost some height. I wonder could it be my weight? I have always said I was 5'2 and I was barely but right there close. found out today I am slightly over 5'1.:noway:

Doesn't everyone shrink with age? My mom sure did. She was always short (5'2", so she said ) but I'm not even 5'4" and I TOWER over her now. I'd be surprised if she's even 5'1" at this point. I mean, I'm short, so when I can see right over someone's head, that means they're *really* short. :laugh:

Positively_Me

Mari, I think you need to drop your guy friend..he is not a real friend…more like an annoying bug that needs to be smashed.

He sounds like my younger brother who constantly calling my sister and me “fatties” I don’t take him seriously because he can never gain weight…been trying for so long…then tried to become muscular but that has never happened..he is meant to stay stick and bones. Hang in there – you are worth better than that!

Lildebbie: I think session with the counselor may be helpful, maybe your daughter will tell her things that she can’t quite tell you. My daughter, 14 y/o, has a problem she will come to me, at times, but if it’s something she does not want to tell me she would go to my sister ( my sister is 10 years younger than me)..which is fine with me, for my sister to give advice. But good advice…my sister will come to me and tell me what my daughter told her..and I take it in and give her solutions (if she doesn’t know what to tell her) to give to my daughter. And I am with Momma2four, we, as mothers, want to solve every problem our family endures, but sometimes we have to step back and let someone else help us out. The best advice I have gotten was listening to the problem before trying to solve it. May something is going on in school that the teacher is not aware of…like bulling from a classmate..and the only way to relieve her pain is to rebel..pee in her pants or not doing class work. Children have a fun way expressing their emotions. Hang in there…I hope you can resolve this matter soon. Stay positive and strong!

Msthi: you beans and cabbage rolls sounds delish. I make a cabbage rolls during the winter time..but mine is filled with meat and rice..but his is a quick alternative..i will sure try it..using cabbage instead of bread. I also like the cottage cheese recipe. Thanks for all those helpful recipes.


Renea: it is so hard to incorporating healthier foods in your daily regimen..but believe me the more you do it the better *this* gets. it will be second nature to you. Good luck girl...we are with you..stay positive

lildebbie

Postively - Thanks for the advise. I am not sure , she has been like this off an on all year long. THis week has been horrible, i think with our dog dying this weekend may have contributed to that, by making it worse but not causing it. It is like nothing motivates her long term to do anything...I am curious if the conselour has any inssight. I ma not sure when she will start. She gets like 6 sessions, then i will probably have a conference with her. And we may take her to a conserlour outside of the school. She acts very very immature for her age, but she is very smart when she applies herself.

I am soooo ready for this week to be over..wish i could chill this weekend, but we are going to the inlaws , luckily only like a 3 hr drive. But it is christmas time up there I am excited, i already know my Father in law is giving me money and plan to buy a HRM with it. I can't wait.

i guess i better get back to work....fun fun.

awestfall

I am here my weight is up 3 pounds again but I am not recording it until I see what tomorrows weigh in is.I had a bad night last night and on top of that I fell this morning on the ice and bruised up my already hurt leg.So I am officially in pain.

awestfall

I feel right now at the rate I'm going and all the mishaps that I am never going to reach my goals.I'm not giving up just whining about it right now.

lildebbie

I am here my weight is up 3 pounds again but I am not recording it until I see what tomorrows weigh in is.I had a bad night last night and on top of that I fell this morning on the ice and bruised up my already hurt leg.So I am officially in pain.

Oh no!! Sorry you hurt your leg...falling on ice is the worse

eshaw2001

Checking in from yesterday:
Calories: 1,365
Exercise: None :grumble:
Water: 64+ oz
Proud: That even though I am on a deadline this week, I am still keeping up with my workouts and watching what I eat. When I hit "crunch" times at work, I ignore everything else (including myself) to get what I need to get complete done. I promised myself this time around that I would make sure to focus on other things as I work on getting my project submitted. I did not make it to the gym yesterday because yesterday morning I was not feeling it and I realized I did not have time bewtween work and the class I teach Wednesday evenings. I am really trying to focus on working out in the morning because I know later in the day I am more likely to "blow" my workout off. I did make it to my spin class this morning as well as getting my strength training in :happy:

ColoradoGirl

awestfal.. so sorry to hear about your fall.. make sure you are icing your hurt area today.. normally it is like 10 minutes at a time. It will make a huge difference in the long haul!

Eshaw2001.. I know exactly what you mean about getting your workout in early in the day! I am the same way.. I tend to just get so busy and run myself ragged that by the end of the day (sometimes even mid afternoon) I am done. hang in there.. sounds like you are on the right track!

Checking in this morning.. I woke up so sore and stiff this morning. Holy cow... Between PT on Tuesday and my Massage therapist yesterday I am so sore.. To top it off TOM decided to visit a few days early so.. lets add that to the mix.. Now I am hormonal to. :ohwell:

At any rate.. did some yoga stretched, took a hot shower and took some advil.. Starting to feel human now ... So.. I am off with my husband this morning. We have the consult for his surgery for his torn meniscus and then I am off to work. I have a short day today so, I am hoping to come home and get some tax stuff done.

I will check in with all of you a little later! Have a fabulous day! :flowerforyou:

jennbarrette

Just a question, I noticed most of us are under our calories because we don't eat our exercise calories. I was just curious why you don't eat your exercise calories? If you already have MFP set to a 2 pound weight loss, is it because you hope to lose more than 2 pounds a week? I used to eat my exercise calories, but have been eating less of them the last two weeks, and have lost more than 2 pounds both weeks, but I don't think that is something I can keep up forever.

I think I will just eat my exercise calories if I am still hungry. At this weight, I think can afford to have more than a 1000 calorie a day deficit, without throwing off my metabolism.

Thoughts on exercise calories?

LittleSpy

I am really trying to focus on working out in the morning because I know later in the day I am more likely to "blow" my workout off. I did make it to my spin class this morning as well as getting my strength training in :happy:

I'm with you on this. Now that I've been getting up 30 minutes early for a few months and I've adjusted to it (as much as I'll ever adjust to it. :indifferent:), I'm thinking I'll start getting up 30 minutes earlier so I can workout for an hour before work. I've been biking 30 minutes every morning and c25king it at night 3x/week but now that C25K has gotten difficult for me I'm finding myself trying to find excuses to blow it off. I come home from work & I'm hungry and tired and all I want to do is cook dinner and relax on the couch.

Awestfall - :flowerforyou: This is an intervention. Ask your husband to hide the scale from you for 2 weeks. Seriously, I think it will help!

Solandra

Good morning! I've been lurking in this thread for a few days, and I really like what I see! I tend to be shy at first, but I am reading everyone's comments and posts, even if my own may tend towards "here's my status, hang in there, folks, and good job!"

I made really good progress before the beginning of the year, but I've been spinning my wheels for two weeks since. It's been stupidly cold, so I haven't been walking, but that changed last night - walked 20 minutes with my husband after dinner. I'm back into the habit of logging during the week and being mindful during the weekend, I'm just not getting anywhere. Hope springs eternal and all that, I'm hoping that a support thread will make a difference, and maybe there's some fine tuning that I can do. Thank you!

HeatherMN

Good morning!

Checking in for yesterday 1/13/2010:
Calories: 217 calories under
Water: 96 oz.
Exercise: None
Proud: That this morning, I had dropped another pound even though I ate buffalo wings last night!

Yep, that's right, my weight this morning was 198.6! TOM is on the way, so I'm hoping this is already my bloated weight. Wouldn't that be great??

Regarding exercise calories, I eat mine if I'm hungry and I don't eat them if I'm not. I'm really trying to focus on listening to my body regarding how many calories I eat rather than strictly going by the numbers. Hope that helps!

Have a great day!
Heather

HonestOmnivore

Welcome Solandra - you've probably already caught on to this but we report in every day and say if we stayed within our calories, if we drank at least 64 oz. of water, if we exercised and then we say one thing that we're proud of!

Awestfal - I agree with jlb123 - NO MORE SCALE FOR YOU! You're doing the right things and the weigh is coming off one way or another! Be kind to yourself and start telling yourself what you would tell one of us! When I'm dying after 25 minutes on my elliptical machine YOU are the one I think of - two hours? OMG! You have GUTS!!! If you can do that - you can withstand these 'In Irons' stand-stills!

A co-worker is taking me out for sushi!

(edited because I fat fingered the keys and submitted too soon and TWICE the first time - too much caffeine anyone?)

HonestOmnivore

oops!

Momma2four

Hi Solandra, glad you decided to introduce your self. I know that being part of a support group is very helpful, jump right in and join us. We weigh in on Fridays and we try to answer some questions each day that just helps us a long this journey. Here they are

Have I stayed within my cals. today?
Did I drink at least 64 oz of water today?
Did I exercise today?

Now tell us something that you are proud of about your self.

I know that you will love it here.

Jenn, I eat my exercise calories, Most of them. It looks as if I may have lost close to 3 pounds this week. I say that as my ring feels tight and it was so loose yesterday it was sliding around. So I am hoping that I still have a 3 pound weight loss tomorrow with this water retention.

Jlb123, are you telling me I might have shrunk because I am old?:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Just wondering?:laugh:


awestfall, step away from the scale girl, and let that leg heal. I am so sorry that you fell on the ice and got hurt. I hope everything gets better quick. I Ya!!!!!

ColoradoGirl, glad that you are finally feeling human

eshaw, good for you!!! I read your post earlier you are an inspiration!!! I just want to be able to run, it is very hard for me to do right now:flowerforyou:

Momma2four

I am really full this morning and my breakfast was only 195 Cals

orowheat multi-grain sandwhich thin
egg white cooked in a pan with cooking spray
2 slices of low fat deli ham, sliced very thin
1/2 slice of cheese

toasted the bread and put spray butter on it then made a sandwich. Yum!!!!!! I am going to leave the cheese out next time because it kinda bothered my stomach, which would drop the cals by 35



By the way here is our percentage calculator for those of us who are new, Do not forget to post your percentage tomorrow

http://menshealth.about.com/library/blpercentage.htm

LittleSpy

Jlb123, are you telling me I might have shrunk because I am old?:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Just wondering?:laugh:

:laugh: NO! Of course not! :laugh: By "older" I mean, well, you are older than you used to be, right? I am! I meant it like that, not like using the term "older" as a euphemism for "old." I think most people shrink as they progress in age (after they're done growing, of course).

Solandra

Thank you for the warm welcome!

For yesterday (to get started off on the right foot):

Calories - Just under
Water: Over on my water
Exercise: 20 minute walk

I'm proud that I've lost the first 17 pounds and they have stayed off, and a growth opportunity at work just opened up.

Cool things from yesterday:
- my husband made dinner for us last night, announced what the calories for the entire meal were, based on serving size, etc - he's a non-food-prep type, so I was both floored, proud, and well fed
- My walk was with the aforementioned supportive husband, who did announce that he was walking with me both because he loves me and for the brownie points.

awestfall

Thanks Gals!!! I guess I am just upset that I can't exercise for at least a week (doc's orders).You guys have no idea how many times I have attempted to exercise this morning but remember that I can't.Its frustrating because exercise is what keeps me from eating.So I have been doing light cleaning around the house and I just feel terrible.

Jbl-Thanks I need to hide the scales from myself.I am so glad you are here to support me amongst many others here.
Momma-I You too !! You always check and make sure I am doing well and I you for that alone.
Mstahl-I am just bummed because I can't exercise,by no means I am giving up its just seeing all of you being able to exercise and I want to be right there with you.I guess in a way its like starting a race with you guys and then having to stop half way through to take a break and I don't like that.I feel like a quitter even though I know I'm not.But thanks for the suggestions I am going to keep on keepin on.