Over 200 New Year New Me Part 19

you guys I am sooooo bored at work. I have NOTHING to do. someone entertain me PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!! :laugh:

Since I'm bored I'll share- I got a blister on both of my feet from my c25k run. It hurts like a b#@$%. I had two blisters on the same spot and they had almost healed so now these new ones are like on top of them if that makes sense, making it much more painful. Today's workout (i told you i plan them on monday) is supposed to be a 10 mins run plus 20 mins on the bike...i should be ok on the bike but the run is scaring me a bit. Im gonna put band aids on and see if that helps otherwise screw it

and its really nice here today and Im in total cook out mode. i want a burger with lots of miller lite...is that so wrong?

ok done rambling for now, im sure ill be back in 5 mins

the shoes I have are Under Armour running shoes. I bought them cause I had a sicount (UA used to be my customer) but I never wore them. When I started going to the gym I decided to use them and they were fine but lately I started noticing these blister. :sad:

Good Morning!

Holy Cow You ladies are freakin amazing with all of the weight loss...I wish I had big loss number to report but I am still sitting here at 217 :-) which is better than last week I think. The really good news is that my trainer measured me yesterday & I have lost 1 1/2 inches from my waist in the past 2 weeks!
On a different note...Warning long vent ahead...
I am totally bumming & in a weird place today...last night I realized exactly why I was packing for a week...to go to a memorial service & it just totally screwed me up. Also my sister-in-law, who happens to be a really close friend, doesn't know if she is going to come to the memorial service because she feels awkward & my hubby actually thought that it would NOT help me if she was there...HELLOOOO are my family members just stupid? I would like to know that there are people there tomorrow just to support me so I can be supportive to my parents & stuff...is that too much to ask? Its seems awfully selfish for my sister-in-law not to come just because she feels awkward, even though she has spent lots of time with my grandparents too (we had custody of her when she was in high school...long story)
Also my hubby got really good news yesterday about his annual bonus which will allow us to be completely debt free except for house & student loans so of course he was in a rather frisky mood....but I am ovulating & our plan is NOT to get pregnant right now. So as he was trying desperately to get into my pants, I had a major epifany in my head...I feel like if I let him get me pregnant, I am damning myself to a lifetime of being fat & gross...& I told him just that, but I don't think he even heard me. & then I proceeded to have nightmares about being pregnant and being told I was going to be fat forever....I have NEVER had nightmares like that before...I could hardly sleep last night.
I am also actually petrified about not being able to check-in & stalk with you ladies throughout the day...I can probably manage once a day or every other. There is this little voice in my head telling me that if I don't check in, I am going to blow everything I've worked for.
I still have 14 papers to edit & a whole week of sub plans to write....
I will check back in later before I leave...
Does anyone actually live in California? We should totally have a meet up :-)
Also I am trying to get my best friend to join us...her user name is chicaverde...she would totally fit in & needs the support!

Kdub -- getting pregenant now wouldn't have to be a nightmare! I mean, obviously the best idea is probably to lose weight before so that you can have an ultra healthy preganancy, but it absolutely doesn't condemn you to being fat! I'm sure you know this, but the fact of the matter is overweight women don't need to gain much weight at all with their pregnancies -- just 15 pounds or so! And guess what, you lose all of that pretty much immediately with the birth! My understanding is that even women at a healthy weight don't need to gain more than 20-25 pounds with pregnancy. People do because they use pregnancy as an excuse to overeat. But that's not healthy. You can also continue eating healthy and exercising while you're pregnant assuming you're not having major complications (you'll just need to eat your maintenance cals plus 100 extra for baby growin' )!

My mom was a tiny little thing when she got pregnant with my brother. She weighed about 120 when she got pregnant & said she gained about 20 pounds. And she lost 17 with the birth.

I didn't gain any weight with my son until that last month & then I packed on 25lbs and it totally stuck around...I am still working the pregnancy weight off right now & my son is almost 27 months old...
I think that the fact that I am having nightmares about being pregnant is a sign that its really not the right thing for me to do right now...its just every month when I am ovulating, my hubby gets all obsessive about getting some action but I know he doesn't really want a 2nd child right now either...

Good news is that my sub plans are almost done, but still have 14 papers staring at me

I have to agree. A good friend of mine got pregnant and she was a bigger girl. She gained maybe 5 pounds and that wasn't until the last month or two. Her weight just shifted around. She actually lost weight the first couple of months and the doctor said that was okay.

The same thing happened to me. I lost weight due to morning ( all day sickness) which lasted 8 months. But overall I only gained 5 pounds with my 3rd child. And when i had him, he was 6 lb. 7oz...plus when i got home for the hospital i weighed myself and lost 15 more pounds...then i gained it all ( and 30 more) back due to breastfeeding..

So it is possible to get pregnant and not gain much weight.

Yep, full on stalk mode. I've done my 2 hours of work at work today. :laugh: (awful)

Df & I are going to the zoo tonight. I bought him a membership a few years ago for Valentine's day and he's kept it up each year since then (the membership is $60/year but it would cost us $20 to go each time and we live about 3 miles away so it's a fun place to go walk or hang out for a couple of hours if we're bored). Anyway, tonight they're having a function for their members involving meeting the penguins & feeding them and they're giving us a preview of the brand new kangaroo exhibit that will be opening to the public tomorrow. You can walk around with the kangaroos and wallabys! I'm so excited! I've never seen a kangaroo before (that seems like such a silly thing to say).

Also, what I'm excited about is zoo food. It'll be really cheap tonight so I'm getting a soft pretzel and an icee for dinner (and then I'll come home & have some chicken breast & veggies )! It's like all I can think about. :laugh:

I'm eating a leftover sweet potato enchilada and it reminded me to post the recipe: They were easy & are very good & not so bad (except for the sodium thanks to the enchilada sauce. I suppose you could make your own).

Sweet potato enchiladas

5 sweet potatoes (I used 4. Mine were monsters. I still had too much filling so I should've only used 3)
1 (8 ounce) package Neufchatel cheese (reduced fat cream cheese), softened
4 green onions, chopped (I used 6, but then, I had too many potatoes :laugh:)
2 teaspoon chili powder (had none. Couldn't believe it. I used about 1 tsp paprika, 1/2 tsp cayenne, a little garlic, and 1/2-1tsp cumin instead)
1 teaspoon ground cumin (optional) (I didn't add any additional from what I explained above and I thought they were plenty cuminy)
2 teaspoon dried oregano (The only dried I had was ground, so I used 1tsp)
1 teaspoon salt (NOT NECESSARY. I used about 1/4 and IMO, it didn't need even that much. Then again, my tastes have changed and I like things much less salty than I used to so YMMV)
12 (7 inch) corn tortillas
1 (19 ounce) can enchilada sauce (I do NOT recommend the kind I used. I don't remember what brand it was... La something (that helps, huh?) but it wasn't so good. :laugh:)
1 (8 ounce) package shredded 2% cheddar cheese (I used 2% mexican 4 cheese)

Directions
1.Bring a large pot of water to a boil over medium heat, and boil the sweet potatoes until tender, about 30 minutes. Cool and peel the sweet potatoes. (Um, I nuked my sweet potatoes. Worked just fine and took under 10 minutes, thanks, then I scraped the innards out of the skin. Messy, but easy)
2.Place the sweet potatoes in a bowl, and mash them with the cream cheese, green onions, chili powder, cumin, oregano, salt, until well mixed.
3.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C), and grease a 13x9 inch baking dish.
4.Heat pan and fry the tortillas with pam, one at a time, for about 30 seconds per side. Remove tortillas. (I didn't do this either and I didn't miss it. No need to add extra oil. Pam & other cooking sprays ARE NOT calorie free, not matter what the labels say. They're still OIL and have the exact same calories as oil which is a lot. Manufacturers get away with that by making the serving size like "1/8 of a second spray" Who can even work the spray nozzle that quickly?)
5.Place about 1/3 cup of sweet potato filling down the center of each tortilla, roll it up, and place filled tortillas seam side down in the prepared baking dish. Pour enchilada sauce over the tortillas, and sprinkle with shredded cheese.
6.Bake in the preheated oven for 20 to 30 minutes, until the enchiladas are bubbling and the cheese is beginning to brown. (I baked for 25 minutes & couldn't wait anymore. They were good)

I also added some leftover rotisserie chicken to each enchilada. I recommend adding some kind of protein to them. Chicken was very good. I think steak or ground beef would be good, too. Whatever you want! Anyway, I think they're yummy! And it was so nice to eat a flavor combination I don't think I've ever had before. I love to keep food super flavorful and interesting!

Edit -- sorry, you probably want the nutrition info for the enchiladas, eh? This is based on how I made them not including the chicken I added (reduced salt, 2% cheese, neufchatel cheese)

This is for the filling and enchilada sauce only! Add the tortillas & top cheese yourself:
Calories 217
Total Fat 8 g
Saturated 4 g
Polyunsaturated 0 g
Monounsaturated 0 g
Trans 0 g
Cholesterol 20 mg
Sodium 890 mg (:noway: if you omit the salt altogether this will go down about 100mg)
Potassium 478 mg
Total Carbs 30 g
Dietary Fiber 5 g
Sugars 12 g
Protein 6 g
Vitamin A 130%
Vitamin C 24%
Calcium 17%
Iron 8%

Small corn tortillas are about 60 calories and if you add a full 8oz of cheese & eat two of the enchiladas, that's about 100 calories worth of cheese. So, for 2 enchiladas (which is a lot of food --I couldn't eat 2 last night when I tried. I'm eating one at a time) you're looking at about 457 cals. But, like I said, I'm eating ONE for lunch right now with a serving of "fiesta style" frozen veggies and I'm looking at about 275 calories for a lunch which is awesome and so yummy.

OMG THOSE SOUND SOOOO GOOD!!!! Sounds like a lot of work though. :laugh:

OMG THOSE SOUND SOOOO GOOD!!!! Sounds like a lot of work though. :laugh:

You know, I really thought it was going to be, too. But it was super easy and actually pretty quick, too! Just a little messy. But then... everything I do in the kitchen ends up being a little messy. :laugh:

I have a kitchen scale and don'[t think i could manage without it I don't know what kind it is but had it forever...i was frekaing out yesterday i was weighing my food and it said "low" then shut offf...it does take regular batteries but wasn't sure if i had any , luckily i found some ..

I like it, but it is old and someday would like another one, but it will work for now. you can switch between grams and oz.,it has a bowl on it, that i use often but you just put stuff on there like a plate and zero it out then add the food.

Thanks girls!

I was looking at this one

http://www.amazon.com/EatSmart-Precision-Digital-Kitchen-Silver/dp/B001N07KUE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1274458606&sr=8-1

And it sounds/looks good but wanted to know what ya think. It does take regular AA batteries. I have a food scale but it's not digital, it give me inaccurate reaading all the time.

Let me know what you think of this one.

Jess - TOO funny!!! I know what you mean i had one of those i wore with my wedding dress to try to help the pooch (that was like 50 lbs from now so thinking i would like that little pooch right now ) ..I can imagine !!!

Well i was deciding what to eat for lunch, i was going to have a grill cheese but only had a few slices of bread and wanted to keep them for my french toast this weekend yummmy...then i was lik I WANT PASTA!!! So i am making me some penne pasta with parms cheese...little more than i usally eat for lunch but since i am having a big work out (at least 400 maybe 500 toinight) and i struggle with my cals being up enought i figure i am worth it

So i decided i am just going to stalk here for a while instead of doing anything production at lunch

Totally random, has anyone ever made "frozen yogurt" byt putting a container in the freezer? I didn't eat my yogurt with breakfast and I was thinking about a tasty frozen treat later this afternoon. I have a Dannon Light and Fit yogurt. If I just put it in the freezer will it be any good??

Pos me! I love that picture of your family. Your kids are soooo gorgeous!

Jess -- I so want one of those full body sucker-inner things. :laugh: I've never tried one on but I can only imagine. I fall down just putting on pants half of the time.

Pos me! I love that picture of your family. Your kids are soooo gorgeous!

Jess -- I so want one of those full body sucker-inner things. :laugh: I've never tried one on but I can only imagine. I fall down just putting on pants half of the time.

I've worn the control top pantiehose YEARS ago but never one of these. They are HARD to get on!! I was asking my roommate what if you have to pee!!?? No way could I get that back on drunk! Boy was I informed there are holes sewen in for that. WEIRD!! But man do they slim ya down!!