Challenge: Fridge Raiders Unite!

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  • kaytbognar
    kaytbognar Posts: 249
    That's why I'm here, girl!

    I can understand your frustration with your family's learning curve, it's always hard to maintain your own lifestyle changes and impress upon those you live with the important of accomodating you when they're not self-motivated to make those changes.

    Hahaha, if your husband comes home with treats, you can always try the old school "this is why you don't smoke" lesson and sit him down and make him eat ALL the sweet junky stuff he brings home in one sitting by himself. Then it'll be gone from your sight, and he'll understnad how gross that stuff can make you feel! LOL.

    Also, HAHA! On TaeBo. Billy Blaaaaaanks! Gosh, I have the original taebo tapes around somewhere at home, I used to LOVE LOVE LOVE them. Billy Blanks is kind of creepy/scary and I always found him so entertaining. KEEP IT UP :)
  • jrbowers83
    jrbowers83 Posts: 282 Member
    Kayt, I am laughing so hard at the "eat it until you're sick" philosophy. LOL. I just may try that. It reminds me of this Curious George movie my son has, George gets the man's pipe and smokes it then turns all green and starts seeing ghosts and stuff. Pretty creepy and I'm fairly certain my son is turned off of smoking for quite awhile at least. As far as the Tae Bo goes yes I know it is old school, but someone gave me a DVD. I never jumped on the hype it had years ago, but I miss kickboxing at the gym, so I found this to be good alternative. It is so HARD!!! Usually I have to stop and walk it out after 20 min. but today I went the whole 45 min. video and I rocked it. I felt so proud of myself and I burned a whopping 525 cals. so that made it easy to stay under on my cals today. I actually even found myself having to REMIND myself to eat today. Was very busy trying to squeeze in running errands with daughter and then the HVAC guy came out to work on my heater (STILL not fixed, but they say tomorrow it will be.) Then I've started keeping a little boy in my son's class after school so that means 3 kids to look after instead of 2. Doesn't sound like alot, but it quickly can turn to chaos. Anyway, I managed to stick to my meal plan all day and eat pretty healthy. Feel free to check up on me. LOL

    Day 1 challenge complete.

    How's everyone else doing?
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,416 Member
    notetoself.gif *

    *Note to self: must practice "Prickly Body Language" to avoid possible good-nite kisses.





    and

    :ohwell: also Forgot-to-Have-Kids (for same reason, Kayt.) Plus they just scare meeek-1.gif


    Welcome, jr. uh. no offence on the kids joke.....:embarassed: :flowerforyou:


    I had a great day, but I woke up at 3:30 AM and I'm beat. So even tho it's 5:55 PM here, I'm going to the bedroom and relax. Niters. Good food day, great pool day. Beautiful sunny day.
  • jrbowers83
    jrbowers83 Posts: 282 Member
    Okay, so I went back and caught up a little on this thread. Kayt-Glad to get the WHOLE story about the NOT date. Yep, you were just getting out, definitely not a date. It's ironic you're in this adventurous paradise of sorts, but in a way you're so isolated. I can understand why the fridge raiding could become a problem. Great job conquering it lately.

    I take no offense to the no kids, scared of them, don't want them comments. I mean, you're not actually talking about MY kids. I know ya'll would love them :wink: LOL. But you know it's not for everyone. I personally would not feel my life is complete without kids, but if you don't like them or don't see yourself as a mother, then I'm glad you choose to abstain from having them. It's the women who can't stand kids then try to raise them that make me angry...have had some family experience with that and my anger runs high. So I just hope that I don't bore or annoy any of you with my comments about the kids, because I'm a stay at home mom and the kids and this diet/exercise routine are all that I do. And as far as the no-dating/picky dating, that may be smart. I'm going through all kinds of issues in my marriage of almost 7 years, so I'm certainly not the one to speak of what relationships should be like.

    Well, I've planned steak followed by fat free sugar free banana pudding for tonight, so not technically going off my meal plan, just allowing myself a little indulgence. The rest of my day is healthy!
  • kaytbognar
    kaytbognar Posts: 249
    Ahahaha, poor jrbowers--you're getting here AND over at our other thread. Oh well. I think I'm pretty much done venting/stressing about it. You're right though, sometimes the fridge is THAT much more of a challenge because I don't have much else to do.

    <3 What I love so much about MFP is that we get so many people from SO MANY different walks and stages of life. It's rare to have such a wide variety of friendships with so much diversity between them :) And I don't mind kids most of the time, so long as I can GIVE THEM BACK later LOL.

    Good job planning for a little indulgence, too. I keep having to free up more and more space in my food diary for our oranges and bananas. I've come to really enjoy peeling oranges with a knife and eating them kind of like apples--you get more fibre with more of the pith on them too--it's like...KIND OF a calorie free indulgence.

    Cheryl, hope you're feeling better rested today--you sounded POOPED! Hopefully not too pooped to resist the distant call of trail mix somewhere...

    aHappierMe *poke*poke* Where y'at! Hope you're not choking on nuts ;P OR looking for the meaning of life in the can of whipped cream. (I'll be angry if you can find it in there when I couldn't!)
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,416 Member
    Helllllllo.

    Much good sleep last night. I was really out - for about nine hours.

    Today was another beautiful sunny day here in WA so I went to the beach which involves a big long steep hill. I sat in the sun and wondered why I feel a need to move south when it's so nice here.

    I went to Trader Joes and wistfullly walked down the trail mix / nuts and dried fruits aisle. Twice. Picked up a couple bags. Put them back.

    I had a good food day today. Whenever I work out I eat better that whole day. Brain chemicals? Sunshine? I dunno, but it definitely makes a difference.

    And tomorrow is the pool YAY. I :heart: the pool. So it will be another good food day.

    I'm not hating kids so much now that I slept, walked and ate healthy food. There. I feel better. They just look like work. And I think you're supposed to be married first? Dunno. That's probably another reason I didn't have any.

    Enjoy your oranges and sugar-free banana puddings!
  • kaytbognar
    kaytbognar Posts: 249
    Cheryl, P-P-P-POW! Way to resist. Pride for you right here, sister.

    Mowed down on some coconut this afternoon, lots of fresh bananas and oranges make up my life. Was a little bad last night, dipping into the coquito and JWB--my excuse is that I had a phone date with my near and dear Theodore, and 1 coquito and 1 JWB (both measured and logged and within the day's quota!) were good concessions to up my enjoyment of time "spent" with someone I miss a lot.

    It been a year since I moved from Toronto, makes me a little homesick to think of it! I sure am glad to have long distance plan to keep in touch with my besties.

    Anyway.

    Have a gooder, I'll be back later to check up on 'yall *hairy eyeball* That's right, I'M WATCHIN' YOUS!
  • jrbowers83
    jrbowers83 Posts: 282 Member
    Cm-great job resisting the impulse for the trail mix. That's the only way to protect yourself is to completely abstain! I can just picture you walking the aisle and putting some in your basket, then trudging back to wistfully put it back on the shelf. LOL. You did good! I am so jealous of you and Kayt with the swimming thing. I would love to be able to swim as a workout but no pool here, and have no funds for gym membership so there goes that. Ah well, you guys do lots of swimming for me okay?

    Kayt-so glad that you are using fruits to sock it to that fridge and say "no way". My fave dessert of late (although you wouldn't know it because I've been indulging in "real" dessert... so not worth it!) Is pineapple and berries with Cool Whip Free. Yum and huge serving for only 100 cals. I have so looked for the meaning of life in the can of cool whip before...and canned cheese, which is SO disgusting now. But I do think it might be in my fruit and Cool Whip Free.

    Well, not too good today. Stuck with my plan for a healthy Mexican lunch, but then gave into the girl scout cookie temptation. Darn Girl Scouts and your calorific concoctions! And they're not even that good!!! I don't know why I feel the impulse to munch on them. I honestly wonder if there is some kind of additive that causes addiction, you know like smoking? Cuz cigarettes taste and smell gross too, but plenty of people out there just HAVE to have them. Blech. The meaning of life is not in the Girl Scout cookies.....
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,416 Member
    Jr.

    Thx. I actually didn't put trail mix in the cart. Just picked it up...

    And Samoans. Girl Scout Samoans.

    I would be very tempted to cheat with a Samoan. . . . . . but I made it thru last year with NONE. Zip. ZERO. Zilch. If I did it once, I can do it again. :smile:
  • kaytbognar
    kaytbognar Posts: 249
    Hey. I miss you guys.

    I hate my boss, he is CRAZY and woke my sorry butt up at 7:45 am by BANGING on my door really really loud and telling me I had a massage at 9:30am. I was having a weird dream, so the banging made me think for a minute that God was coming to hang out and drink scotch and tell me the secret to indugling my way to a flat tummy. As much as my boss might THINK he's God, he's not. He's just a lousy crumbum with an inflated ego who never wants to do anything for himself. GRUMBLES.

    Been eating pretty good lately, though, got myself some tea yesterday--mango green and jasmine white--as treats. Holding out against temptation, though I'm still eating dinner around 9:30/10ish a lot of nights.

    Do you guys know, does it make a difference, eating late? I hear so many different opinions, so many of them are SO COMMON, it's nearly impossible for me to tell what's solid and what's not. GRUMBLES.

    Thankfully, Robert Downey Jr. is a calorie-free snack (and, in the booter of Sherlock Holmes my girlfriend mailed to me which arrived yesterday, he's covered in the calorie-free deliciousness that is Jude Law! OMNOMNOM) and I have a long-standing engagement with my friend to have at LEAST one RDJ movie date over the internet every week. That's like, four hours of ogling and fun that I do not snack on anything.

    How you guys doing? This two-week challenge is almost up!
  • jrbowers83
    jrbowers83 Posts: 282 Member
    Kayt-oh my, you have some funny stuff going on there. God in the form of your loony boss giving you diet ideas. LOL. Sorry for the rude awakening though. How odd.
    I LOVE Robert Downey, Jr. too and Sherlock Holmes was an awesome movie. Did not expect the whole satanic ritual theme to it, but so good. Can't wait for the new Iron Man movie to come out. I wish that I felt like indulging in a movie would take care of my hunger cravings. So far not so good there. Darn challenge! But maybe I'm doing myself some good giving in to the cravings a LITTLE because I finally dropped 2 pounds this week. WOO HOO!
    As far as the late night eating, I've heard that your metabolism is slower at night and therefore those calories don't get put to use like they would during the day and therefore stick on you more. But on the other hand, a slower metabolism is rarely to blame for slow weight loss, it's really a matter of the amount of calories you put in. I do notice that if I eat later at night before a weigh-in I'm unlikely to show a weight loss. But this just makes sense to me-I normally eat dinner around 6 and don't eat anything later than 7 pm. I go to bed around 9 (now understand that I have kids so our schedules probably very different than yours). I weigh myself in the mornings, in the buff, after a bathroom break. So if I eat around nine, then weigh myself around 7am, I'm still gonna have partially undigested food in my tummy and that could account for a couple ounces to a couple pounds even. Another thing is that if that dinner is loaded with sodium, that could cause some serious bloating overnight, and not drinking any water during the night to flush all of it out, you could easily wake up a couple pounds heavier. I think you're doing okay with the eating late as long as you're not going to bed right after you eat, and making sure that it is a healthy balanced meal like you've been doing.

    To all of the nut lovers, I just had to share this article about nuts I read. Awesome stuff! I think I'm going to start allowing myself a serving of unsalted nuts a day, see how it works. (BTW, I don't have thyroid probs that I know of, was looking up info for my mom who's put on about 40 pounds after her thyroidectomy.)

    http://www.thyroid-info.com/dietnews/7july.htm

    Hope ya'll are having a good Friday.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,416 Member
    jr

    thanks for that Peanuts article! Awesome news. I knew nuts were good fat but it's great to know that eating them isn't going to sabatoge weight loss. I notice the article said "a handful". I hope it's a huge hand. Like Jude Law's . . . .he has to have big hands, right? He keeps getting all these women to sleep with him. Oh, he's gorgeous too. There is that. perv.gif
  • kaytbognar
    kaytbognar Posts: 249
    Cheryl, Jude Law also has that CHARMING English accent. I am quite fond of that moustache he dons for Sherlock Holmes, too. I love that smiley, too.

    jrbowers, I've actually got a book of complete Sherlock holmes (4 novels, 56 shorts) coming so I'll find out if that's a true-blue storyline or something compeltely made up :P My girlfriend that I've been having an ongoing RDJ festival of love with says she's got the same problem--in order to feel like she's multitasking, she'll eat while watching the movie. I'm SUPER JAZZED to see Iron Man 2 also--incidentally, I'm going to California to visit this particular RDJ-loving gal RIGHT when IM2 comes out. We're gonna have a pizza party and hit up the midnight showing opening night :P I'm SO looking forward to my little Cali vacay. /ramble.

    Way to go on the deuce, dunno if I congratulated you on our other thread, but way to go! Blap blap. Etc.

    LAST CHALLENGE DAY FOLKS, I'm proud of all of us for giving it a good go.

    Personally, I feel pretty pleased with my two weeks. I broke my 9:30 cutoff a bunch of times, BUT I think I only stood in front of the fridge with the spoon, eating from containers maybe one or two times, both of which I was able to step back, put down the spoon and lock the fridge.

    I'll be starting up a month-long February challenge tomorrow, look for it titled "The Meaning Of Life is Not In The Fridge..." or something similar if you wanna get on the train (please get on the train, I don't wanna be the crazy gal talking to herself all month LMAO!)
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,416 Member
    Kayt, when you start the new thread, please come back here and post the link, so I can find you!

    I haven't decided what to do about the sugar thread. . . . I can't walk away from it. . . but I don't know if I'll let it continue under its name till it rolls or change it to a new thread.

    I'd kinda like a Coke. :drinker: So maybe a new month/thread is in order.
  • sissy56
    sissy56 Posts: 108 Member
    I've been lurking, but I'd like to join the meaning of life ... thread. My personal challenges this week: no sugar, no alcohol, no eating after 8:00, (except for a port and chocolate tasting Fri. we've already RSVP'd for). Mon. thru Thurs., back on Sat. - Tues., weigh-in day.
  • kaytbognar
    kaytbognar Posts: 249
    NEW THREAD HOMIES!

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/79541-the-meaning-of-life-is-not-in-the-fridge-febuary-chall

    WORK IT FOR 28. With Hallmark's war against our waistlines that is VD (erm....Valentine's Day, that is) situation SMACK DAB in the middle of Febuary, I'll champion our cause, tell you to follow me and to ALWAYS REMEBMER:

    THE MEANING OF LIFE IS NOT IN THAT BOX OF DRUGSTORE CHOCOLATES!!!! (Nope, not in the box of Godiva's or other high-end truffles of your choice----remind your partners and suggest the meaning of life might be in a CALORIE FREE bouquet of roses!)

    Work it. WHUD UP. And such (yeah, I'm feeling silly.)
  • MyFamilyRox15
    MyFamilyRox15 Posts: 25 Member
    fridge raider
    :wink: How clever!
    I'm on board.
    Just coming off of a 3 day binge :sad:
    But now I think I'm sliding back into the "Zone".
  • HealthyChanges2010
    HealthyChanges2010 Posts: 5,831 Member
    :tongue: bump
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