Confession Time! ((ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGEMENT))
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AgentOrangeJuice wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Confession: My SO pissed me off to tears on Mother's Day. He got highly intoxicated the night before. I don't think I've ever seen him that drunk. He puked ALL night. No sleep for me. Then he slept in - not me, the MOTHER, on MOTHER'S DAY!!! Then he wouldn't go with us to our trip to Craters of the Moon cuz he was "sick" (hungover). I think he owes me another Mother's Day.
I drank half a bottle of Gold Tequila in Margaritas on Saturday night. #noregrets #OLE!
I don't care that he was drinking, but he should have sucked it up on Sunday. That's all I'm sayin'.0 -
kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »Confession: I am totally confused with the weight loss thing. Just started to read this http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10159119/just-fit-it-in-to-your-daily-allowance#latest and everyone is saying 1200 calories is too low. So. This has been the last 5 months of my life.
January and February I was eating 1600 calories + swimming 3 x week and not losing weight.
March I go down to 1400 calories and start going to the gym 3 x week as well as swimming 3 x week. Still not losing weight. I go to the doctors and he tells me to go down to 1200 calories maybe even 1000 calories.
April I go down to 1200 calories go to the gym 3x week, swim 3 x week and start doing the couch to 5K (Which is a 30 minute jog/walk program 3x week) I have only lost 5lbs in 5 months.
Anyone else baffled? Because I am! I'm going to keep going, I refuse to go down to 1000 calories because I will probably faint, but my parents are insisting I should because that's what the doctor said. Which leads me onto a small rant/ramble. What makes MFP so confusing is the fact that I have a trained and licensed doctor tell me I might have to go down to 1000 calories a day to lose weight, but if I posted that on the forum EVERYONE would have a field day. Unlicensed, untrained people telling me its too low, possible trolls telling me its too low but on the other hand people who have succeeded telling me its too low. Who do you listen to??
When you ate around 1600 were you weighing your food on a food scale? I weigh a lot of my foods on a food scale in grams/ounces. It's especially handy to weigh things I know I would still indulge way too much in like ice cream, peanut butter, chips, & cereal. I think the most pitiful serving size has to be cereal since it barely fills a bowl.
I think it's also harder at times to accurately gauge your exercise burns unless you're using a heart rate monitor with a chest strap since MFP & machines can be very inaccurate. I am not sure if they make a HRM that can track swimming calories?
The people who get the most grief with eating 1,200 calories or lower are the people who have greater amounts to lose & could get away with eating a higher calorie amount & losing at a steady rate rather than crash dieting & then having a binge & giving up.
Most of the time if someone has a medical reason & doctor supervision to eat lower calories then most don't give them a hard time.
Now I am on Pinterest looking up recipes to make with Quest bars.
I confess I made protein pancakes for the first time & the taste was good, but they didn't flip as well as I would've liked. Next time I make them I'll have to thin out the batter more.
I know! I actually went and bought a smaller bowl so it didn't look so bad. I definitely know how I got fat to start with!
It's not a HRM but I got a Mis-Fit because it can track swimming. I crossed the calorie burn with various websites and on average they are all in the same ball park. I have discovered today that said Mis-Fit is giving me extra calories to take me up to my TDEE (I think). So I need to play around and see if I can change that.
That could be what it's doing with the extra calories & taking it up to what your maintenance would be. How many would it be if you would minus 500 off of it to equal a pound of weight loss a week?
I confess that I have a Fitbit Flex & haven't worn it for a few weeks since it made me get into restrictive patterns again. I think the hardest part with my Fitbit Flex is not knowing which calorie amount to use when it comes to trying to maintain my weight on MFP. I tried using around 1700 & eating back calories I burned when I work which is anywhere from 2,100-2,300; however, there's no way I am going to stick to 1700 or lower if I enable negative calories on my days off since I am not as active.
Yea this is what I'm thinking. It doesn't quite take me up to maintenance. Yesterday for example it gave me 317 extra calories which isn't enough. But you can set a goal weight on the app and I was going to do baby steps so I just did 5lbs, but now I'm thinking if I set it to my overall goal weight it might stop giving me the extra calories.
I wear my Mis-Fit religiously. The only time I take it off is when I wash so I can clean my wrist properly.0 -
dearmrsowl wrote: »It's 4:43 am and I'm eating a left over chocolate bunny from Easter while watching workout videos on YouTube.
Is this confessing or boasting? I mean, who still has leftover Easter chocolate!?
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quiksylver296 wrote: »Confession: My SO pissed me off to tears on Mother's Day. He got highly intoxicated the night before. I don't think I've ever seen him that drunk. He puked ALL night. No sleep for me. Then he slept in - not me, the MOTHER, on MOTHER'S DAY!!! Then he wouldn't go with us to our trip to Craters of the Moon cuz he was "sick" (hungover). I think he owes me another Mother's Day.
He totally owes you...
I drank all my son's juice this weekend
It was so dang good and its been so long since I've drank anything another than water, coffee or a protein shake... I just kept coming back to the fridge for one more juice glass full until it was gone and the poor boy told me I had drank it all! 0 -
lilaclovebird wrote: »@lois_1989 Do you use a food scale? I know mine has been a life saver(which is why I confessed the peanut butter thing, because a serving of peanut butter is actually quite large). Weigh and measure everything.
Have you considered heavy lifting and focusing on lowering your body fat percentage instead of focusing on the scale? I know that has helped me a bit as well, considering my weight has gone up 3 pounds but my pants can be pulled off without unbuttoning them(now if only I had a boyfriend to do that FOR me)
Pardon?? LOL0 -
Yesterday was Mother's Day and I ate however much of whatever I wanted to eat. My lovely children made chicken alfredo baked ziti with steamed broccoli and Brazilian cheese puffs. I had two helpings and two slices of hummingbird cake (not in one sitting). All of that, I did not work out, and I did not feel the least bit of remorse.0
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I'm currently living with someone I don't want to spend the rest of my life with and he wants to. He's arrogant and cruel to others. A small part of my motivation to get back in shape is to possibly begin a life with a man I've grown to really care for. A friend who is caring and more like me.
I hope you can get out of your current toxic situation and be happy. If it is with someone else, great. If not, find your own happiness! Your happiness should not be based on anyone other than yourself. Easier said then done, I know.0 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Confession: My SO pissed me off to tears on Mother's Day. He got highly intoxicated the night before. I don't think I've ever seen him that drunk. He puked ALL night. No sleep for me. Then he slept in - not me, the MOTHER, on MOTHER'S DAY!!! Then he wouldn't go with us to our trip to Craters of the Moon cuz he was "sick" (hungover). I think he owes me another Mother's Day.
Tell him you want a "Mother's Day Do Over"!0 -
CountessKitteh wrote: »pofoster21 wrote: »kellienw335 wrote: »I feel really hard done by when I vote, play the lottery, or place a bet, and don't win. I SHOULD GET WHAT I WANT BECAUSE I TRIED.
YES. I bought 5 lines on the lottery on my birthday which was on the 5th May. So it was 5 5 5, but I'm too scared to check it, because I know I haven't won anything, I never do, but what if I have?? It's like Schrodinger's Cat in my head right now. lol
My husband has been explaining Schrödinger's cat to me for years, but you have finally helped me to get it!
The only reason I've even heard of that is Big Bang Theory! Love that show!
I had heard of Schrödinger's cat before Big Bang Theory but it was Sheldon who taught me what it was. Sheldon has taught me many things. Interesting fact, did you know the actor that plays Sheldon is 40! That man has aged well.
So I have to ask (and sorry if someone explained it and I missed it) what is this cat thing?
I didn't see anyone respond to this, but apologies if they did!
To over-simplify, it's the belief that until an action occurs, both possible outcomes exist equally. The "experiement" is that if you put a cat in a box with a vial of poison that will at some undetermined point in time break open and kill the cat, the cat is BOTH alive and dead until you open the box. Opening the box is what determines if it is in fact alive or dead, eliminating the other possibility.
It's kind of like the butterfly effect (NOT the terrible movie), which more people seem to understand.
I haaaaaate that movie.0 -
kellienw335 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Confession: My SO pissed me off to tears on Mother's Day. He got highly intoxicated the night before. I don't think I've ever seen him that drunk. He puked ALL night. No sleep for me. Then he slept in - not me, the MOTHER, on MOTHER'S DAY!!! Then he wouldn't go with us to our trip to Craters of the Moon cuz he was "sick" (hungover). I think he owes me another Mother's Day.
Tell him you want a "Mother's Day Do Over"!
Or paybacks on Father's Day...0 -
Opening the MFP app on my phone but then closing it straight away & ignoring it for the rest of the day - just so it shows I logged in. Stupid really!!0
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lilaclovebird wrote: »Confession, I just ate two servings of peanut butter. I mean, there was some apple in there, but it was just an excuse for the peanut butter... ugh...
Which kind of peanut butter? It's only sad if it's one you didn't like:D.
I've been making a rice cake sandwich lately with two Quaker Chocolate Rice Cakes, two tablespoons or three of peanut butter, & either a half or full serving of peanuts or almonds. So tasty.
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smashley_mashley wrote: »kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »I confess that I always pin a ton of recipes on Pinterest & then never make them.
I also love to pin funny memes & food/exercise funnies.
I have a board just for funnies/memes and exercise. But I have about 3 or 4 for food (desserts, baking, squares, bread, etc). I have made a few things I have seen on there (Carmelitas, salted caramel cheesecake, caramel sauce). I have started my own recipe book. The recipes I find that I have tried and tinkered to my liking (adding things/changing quantities/variations/etc) I print on nice paper add pictures and put in a sheet protector. Then there are ones that I find and store in a section of my book called "prospects". That way I can write in any changes that I make when making it or make notes on what I would do next time before I save a final copy.
When I was a kid, my mom, grandma, and aunt would always make apple pie from all the apples from their trees. I used to get so sick of apple pie since we had it for dessert for every dinner because we made so many pies in the fall. Now that they are gone, it took a while to figure out all the spices they put in it and the tricks they used to get the right pie crust (vinegar). I have since mastered making pie crust (and abhor any store bought crust/pie) but i want something I can pass down to my kids (when I have them) so they can recreate the yummy food I make. Now, when we have family dinners i always make dessert and apple pie just for my dad. Food=love.
We lost my grandmother recipes and it breaks my heart. Loved all her meals and desserts.
My grandma died suddenly when I was 9, and then most of her belongings and papers were lost in a house fire before they were divided up. It's still difficult to think about.0 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »The campground had wifi...crappy wifi but enough to log in quickly each morning. Streak continues!
Yay, I'm so glad.
I know I'm not going to keep mine unless I have someone in town help me log in each day. No wifi where I go.
Confession: Last week I was on vacation and I ate so much. When I weighed in on Saturday I was six pounds heavier.
I haven't been working out since I injured my knee either so that didn't help at all.
I got my MRI done and I do have a small meniscus tear so I'm going to try physical therapy first. Hope it helps.0 -
JynxedHunter wrote: »I drink extreme amounts of caffeine to make myself feel better when I over eat. Five hours, black coffee shots, and lots of cups of coffee. A lot of the times when I do this it prevents weight gain or helps my weight loss. However it is a bad habit and can be very unsafe depending on the person.
I can't drink 5 Hour Energy drinks. There was one night I couldn't sleep & of course I had to go to work so I had a Monster Coffee drink the next morning & that didn't seem to give me any energy at all. During the afternoon I decided to try a 5 Hour Energy & thought I was going to have a heart attack, because my heart was racing a mile a minute. The worst part was I couldn't sleep again & was up another night.
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Confession: I hate Pinterest! It's not organized enough for my OCD brain!0
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Yeah, I did too. I don't want 'stuff'. All I ever want (and yes, I have expressed this previously) is something homemade/heartfelt. I loved it when they were little and made macaroni pictures or little photo frames at school. One of my treasured gifts was when my youngest painted a picture of me and the teacher framed them. I still have it on my wall.Italian_Buju wrote: »I am now going to bed irritated like I do nearly every single Mothers Day.
I was upset this year because nobody gave me a card. My husband made me feel like I was being bratty about it because they took me out for a nice lunch and to the bee farm.
At the risk of sounding terrible, I was slightly put out that my in-laws didn't really acknowledge that I was celebrating Mother's Day, too. We went to their house for lunch, got my mil a big box of chocolates, and nada for me. My mil has kind of set a precedent of making a big deal out of stuff, so it was weird to not even get a card from them. Obviously I'm not their mother, but isn't it strange to do it one year and not the next?0 -
pofoster21 wrote: »Unrelated but I heard on the radio Monday is National Eat Whatever You Want Day! For those in the US enjoy!
Wish my body knew about that.A workout confession from me:
I refuse to go to a public gym because I am severely embarrassed by the massive amounts of fat I carry on my upper arms, and the way it flaps and makes disgusting sounds when I am working out makes me queasy. I don't want to imagine how it would make others feel.
I'm sorry. I completely get it.
Confession - got peeved at the gym because they promised muffins and coffee for Mother's Day this morning and there wasn't any.
My Mother's Day treat was going to Carvel and getting a waffle bowl and Nutella soft serve (I was 'good' and only got medium size though). So I'll be a bit over. Whatever. I'd been craving it for 2 weeks, since I got the flyer in the mail. Probably shouldn't have got a waffle and a chocolate croissant this morning too, in retrospect, but the funny thing is that I should still be hitting my protein goal, and even if I eat at maintenance today I'll have enough of a deficit to lose half a pound this week, so it's all good.
And my husband did steam clean the floors while I was at the gym.
Awesome! Glad he did that for you!0 -
CountessKitteh wrote: »
I confess that I am on Quest's website looking at different recipes to make with Quest Bars.
Has anyone tried their protein powders yet? If so, what do you think of them?
http://blog.questnutrition.com/category/recipes/0 -
melissajones360 wrote: »I'm about to eat 3,000 calories of Dominos pizza. Think it's safe to say I've fallen off the wagon
Just get up & dust yourself off again. One day of bad eating or even a few days of bad eating won't derail all of your hard work.0 -
I am 35 pages behind!0
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I love chicken nuggets. That's what I get 99% of the time at Wendy's or McDonald's. I don't believe that they're only a "kid's food" and I don't feel weird about ordering them as an adult. And yay that chicken fries have returned to Burger King!
I love chicken nuggets too. If I have a burger, I have it totally plain, so I figure I may as well forgo the bread and just stick to the yummy bit. Haven't had any in ages though. This thread leads to most of my poor food decisions!0 -
pofoster21 wrote: »smashley_mashley wrote: »Confession: My dad got my mom, sister, and mother gift certificates for manicures and pedicures for Christmas.
For Mother's Day we took my mom out for a brunch buffet at a craft beer market (which was amazing and I completely ate more than I should). It was $25.95 per person and I paid for myself, my husband's and half of my mom's plus tip. Mom, sister, and I then went for manicures and pedicures using the gift certificates we got for Christmas.... Including my mom's. The way I look at it, it should be spending time with my mom and not the amount I spend on her. I think my mom was slightly offended for using her Christmas gift certificate though.
Been craving brunch buffets so badly, I avoid them, last time I went to one I probably ate 1200 calories and that was by restraining myself a LOT. So I'm stuck in the 'I really want to go but it's so bad for me' mentality...
For the manicures and pedicures, well, I guess it depends how it happened. If you invited her and asked her to use her gift certificate, well, yeah I would be offended too. If you just decided to go there together, it's not the same thing...
Confession - I don't really like mother's day because I feel I always have to plan what I want to do for it and it just completely defeats the purpose for me. Maybe when the kids are older it will be nicer... But at the same time, it's not really something we ever celebrated when I was growing up (in France) so it's not such a huge deal.
Planning mother's day is your husband's job. I remember I loved mothers day when I was a kid we got to make french toast with my dad and surprise mom with breakfast in bed. For some reason I never figured out this was the one day of the year my mom always 'slept in'. She was probably jumping out of her skin wanting to get out of bed. Now in retrospect I think that is so sweet.
Sleeping in... LOL. I had to sleep on the recliner last night again because my husband was snoring too much, which means I was up at 6am again... it's like clockwork. Too bright too early so I wake up. Sigh. But at least he didn't wake me up during the night for once. But no... Made all my own meals today and the kids' too...
Ok I might be a bit bitter.
While I don't think sleeping in the recliner is a good long-term option for you, in the meantime, get an eye mask! I have a black satin eye mask that I use if I'm ever where I need to sleep and block out the light.0 -
spacequiztime wrote: »I confess that I really don't see the big deal with freaking out over loose skin around the arms and stuff. I was more embarrassed with how my arms looked when I was obese.
The only time I hate seeing my loose skin is when I am on the treadmill & I see it flapping in the wind or notice it looks like lumpy cottage cheese. Now when I was morbidly obese I was shocked by how my arm was as large as my 3 year old niece.
Still I didn't appreciate how a customer a man around 60-70 came up to me around a month ago & asked if I lost some more arm fat & how to lose arm fat as if I am Dr. Oz or something haha.0 -
Italian_Buju wrote: »I am now going to bed irritated like I do nearly every single Mothers Day.
I'm sorry! Why?0 -
dearmrsowl wrote: »It's 4:43 am and I'm eating a left over chocolate bunny from Easter while watching workout videos on YouTube.
Is this confessing or boasting? I mean, who still has leftover Easter chocolate!?
I have left over Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's and Easter candy. I'm probably going to drop off the Halloween candy at work since it's getting old and I'm not going to be able to eat it all (I try to work some into each day as a snack). As I said in one of my first confessions, I have probably 10 lbs of candy (good candy...I wish I could eat it all).
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I confess that I'm actually delighted when I find myself 20 pages behind, unlike many others here who hate falling behind on the thread. It gives me a lot of reading to do while I slack off on housework...
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quiksylver296 wrote: »The campground had wifi...crappy wifi but enough to log in quickly each morning. Streak continues!
I had similar a while back - just logged a coffee for each day of the following week to make sure I had *something* logged each day, didnt need to panic about signal then!0 -
Susieq_1994 wrote: »I confess that I'm actually delighted when I find myself 20 pages behind, unlike many others here who hate falling behind on the thread. It gives me a lot of reading to do while I slack off on housework...
Usually I'm way behind but I'm caught up now and like you said, I don't know what to read now.
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