I love Good Eats and Alton Brown seems like an awesome dude. Plus, he's a gun guy!

Good morning and Happy Thursday!

I weighed in at Weight Watchers this morning... wasn't going to so I drank my morning water (24-32 oz) and wore my "heavy" clothes. Then on the drive to the center I realized I needed to weigh in for the accountability. I was up, but not sure how much of that was water/clothes and how much was from my overeating all week.

But it's a new week. Back to tracking, drinking water, and if I can muster up the energy... get some activity in!

Hope everyone is doing well!

carolssalva wrote: »

howie6267 wrote: »

Hi all, I didn't want you to think I was dead. lol A couple things have kept me away. First for a couple weeks my eating was horrible. I have probably put on maybe 10 lbs over the thanksgiving two week celebration. lol Second I hate the forums here they need to add the simple features that all other forums have, such as email notification. Third I really need to have some people that are like minded around. For example have over 100 lbs to lose, count calories ect... So for that reason I have been going back over to 3 fat chicks forums which is where I was the first time I lost all this weight. Even though I have not kept up on my diary until the last 2 days I have been watching things and am back on track. So that being said I probably won't be on here much. I enjoy talking with you all but with the differences in diets I just need a better fit.

Sorry not to have you around more regularly Howie. I hate that we've gotten so much about carbs. I wish we had more guests that were of different beliefs. I'll work on that. I have just this week gone back to watching my calories. I'm tired of not worrying about it... I need to shake Things up. Hope you'll check in regularly. We hope to be mostly about motivation & you're an asset to us all in that dept!

I need to get back to counting calories as well. I like the Paleo eating (with my occasional carbs), but I have gained A LOT of weight since trying to eat Paleo and NOT count calories. Going to try both and see where it gets me. I hate being obsessive about counting calories (and balancing the calories in/calories out) but that is what got the weight off and kept it off for three years. I totally changed the way I eat and gained nearly 20 pounds. So obviously that is not working for me...

Wow, Howie. I didn't know about that. It's been a while since I've even seen anything he's on, though. That's an incredibly rude way to put it. If that was on his show, you'd think some network folks would have modified the script a little. The way to convince someone to change is not to insult their lifestyle. That just makes most people dig in harder and stand their ground. It would have been much better to say something like he was shocked at the amount of overweight fans and that he would like to help his fans to live a better, healthier life.

Is that happening where you are Heronh?

TJ I think it was from an interview he was doing but still a lousy way to be and say something like that.

John, Sending good thoughts to your friend
Kim you are doing awesome while traveling! Yes mobility is very important, it prevent injuries.

Chris, you have inspired me, you are tackling something that is hard to you. So I am going to doing more flutter kicks regularly. Keep up with the swimming!

As for the Alton Brown comment, that was rude and insensitive of him to say. I'm not speaking up for him or taking his side, But I've heard similar comment from people who were heavy and are at their goal weight now.

Howie, in my immediate area there is no flooding, those pictures are from surrounding area. California has been in a drought for so long and we really need the rain. But this is a bad one. Schools are close, cable car is not running, flooding everywhere, ferries are not in service as there are 25foot waves. We are not at high tide yet and the sea water is coming over the sea wall. a couple of subway station are flooded, power outages all over due to high winds. Trees are falling down on houses and cars. In fact firemen are working right now to free a teenager that is trapped under a felled tree. If the rain continues there will be mudslides in certain areas. All the low lying counties has been handing sand bags for the past couple of days. Oh and in the sierras they are reporting 135MPH winds.
To top it off sinkholes are opening up in San Francisco. Because somebody from back in the day thought it was a good idea to build roads on sand... Oy

One of our skylight has a leak.. The roofer sent someone over to band aid it. We'll have to wait for the rain to stop to figure out the damage.

For those who want to try making mayonnaise. Here's the video. Its so simple!! From start to clean up it took me 5minutes!!
I add 1 TBSP of vinegar (apple cider, white wine sherry etc) in addition to the lemon so that my mayo keep longer and I like the tartness of it, since we use that mayo primary for salad dressing. If I need to make something else I'll cut out the vinegar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbPF_rLpd9o

Yes, last night's dinner was awesome. I had five palm sized slices of bread soaked in olive oil and balsamic vinegar (I tore off the crust off each slice and made a "sponge" out of the bread). We tasted several wines, I'm not a wine drinker so altogether I had maybe 1 glass. My main was an 18 oz. bone in NY steak with a side of creamed spinach and just a bit of broccoli and carrot slices. However, I would say the only real indulgence was the ice cream sundae I had for dessert

So today we're doing to try to do a fat fast to minimize any potential damage (though any real damage is unlikely, will probably just have some water retention for a couple of days).

Can't remember if I checked in today or not. Anyway I'm wearing a pair of pants I have not been able to wear in awhile!

Feeling accomplished. Haven't done a row of monkey bars in couple of months and i felt strong doing them today.

imabizzybee wrote: »

Good morning everyone! Christmas parties are now behind me for at least a week. Whew! Won't pretend I did well, but today is a new day. Working on "guns" this morning (gotta get ready for that bakery war!). Walking the dog this morning I listened to the Body Do-over podcast. If you haven't listened, it is generally worth it. They just did their 50th episode. Basically a 45 year old guy who decided to make weight loss permanent. He and his trainer are pretty sane, and his process was realistic. Carol - they would make great guests on Fat2FitHQ!

We need more sanity.