10 year reunion!

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  • alisha123
    alisha123 Posts: 71
    Wow, that reunion story is crazy! Lisa they might have a little deli stand where you can get a sandwich or packaged salad. At our stadium we also can get a grilled chicken sandwich, otherwise I would think a hot dog would be the next best thing and if you can eat only half the bun even better...I don't like sushi so I can't help you there. Good luck! Have fun!
  • stratdl
    stratdl Posts: 303 Member
    My husband also wants to lose, but we completely enable each other, so we haven't had too much luck since we started living together. i think if i found some pals to be accountable to here, i could take motivation home to the hubby too.

    Have you thought about letting your hubby in on the whole MFP thing, too? I did that with my hubby and he LOVES it. That way, you can be accountable to your MFP buddies and to each other and you'll have another thing in common as a married couple--you'll be on the same page, fitness-wise.

    Just a thought--it may help out! :flowerforyou:
  • lisapisa81
    lisapisa81 Posts: 68 Member
    Can I join in? My 10 year reunion is in September, and I would like to try and lose at least 10lbs...more importantly, my husband's reunion is also this year. I want his classmates to think he has a hot wife! hehe:devil:

    of course! the more the merrier as far as i'm concerned!
  • hartkid13
    hartkid13 Posts: 1,551 Member
    dilemma... going to the angels game tonight (gooooooo angels!) and due to my schedule i won't be able to eat before...

    so there will be beer and bad food there, and i'm budgeting about 600 calories for the game, but that's still a pretty small number. any suggestions on what kind of ballpark food might fit in those confines? i was thinking maybe a normal sized hotdog? and then i'll have room for a beer...

    of course given that its angel stadium they do have sushi, but i can't imagine the ungodly prices...plus not sure if i trust raw fish at a baseball stadium.

    I'm not sure if I'd trust a ball park with raw fish either. If that is something you're interested in, you might wanna check with the rolls that have cooked fish (California, etc.).
  • lisapisa81
    lisapisa81 Posts: 68 Member
    My husband also wants to lose, but we completely enable each other, so we haven't had too much luck since we started living together. i think if i found some pals to be accountable to here, i could take motivation home to the hubby too.

    Have you thought about letting your hubby in on the whole MFP thing, too? I did that with my hubby and he LOVES it. That way, you can be accountable to your MFP buddies and to each other and you'll have another thing in common as a married couple--you'll be on the same page, fitness-wise.

    Just a thought--it may help out! :flowerforyou:

    yep, he's already a member. i told him about it the day i found it. we're just not consistent with recording. i think if i get serious about it (with support from the boards) i can get him on board too...we enable eachother in good ways too, we've just got to get the ball rolling.
  • lisapisa81
    lisapisa81 Posts: 68 Member
    Wow, that reunion story is crazy! Lisa they might have a little deli stand where you can get a sandwich or packaged salad. At our stadium we also can get a grilled chicken sandwich, otherwise I would think a hot dog would be the next best thing and if you can eat only half the bun even better...I don't like sushi so I can't help you there. Good luck! Have fun!

    yeah, i looked online and saw that there's a bbq stand, a cpk, and a deli at the stadium so i don't have to trust the sushi. i just need to stay away from the snack stand (with the nachos and burgers and fries, oh my!).
  • lisapisa81
    lisapisa81 Posts: 68 Member
    I will definately keep you in check if you can keep me in check. My 10 year class reunion is in June, followed by a big family wedding that I want to look slammin' for. I keep saying I am going to lose more before then, but it just isn't happening. I need to lose about 25lbs more, but since my reunion is the beginning of June, I think it would be realistic for me to lose about 5lbs more.

    welcome! you can do it!
  • alisha123
    alisha123 Posts: 71
    Wow, that reunion story is crazy! Lisa they might have a little deli stand where you can get a sandwich or packaged salad. At our stadium we also can get a grilled chicken sandwich, otherwise I would think a hot dog would be the next best thing and if you can eat only half the bun even better...I don't like sushi so I can't help you there. Good luck! Have fun!

    yeah, i looked online and saw that there's a bbq stand, a cpk, and a deli at the stadium so i don't have to trust the sushi. i just need to stay away from the snack stand (with the nachos and burgers and fries, oh my!).

    Oh my is right, that's the best food......Now my husband said we may get free tickets to the brewers game tonight so if that's the case I need to follow this same advice:smile: And today at work they are having an ice cream social and I am being strong and just sticking to my strawberries for a snack. It feels good to beat the temptation!
  • lisapisa81
    lisapisa81 Posts: 68 Member
    happy friday everyone! don't forget that check-in is monday! i need to get new batteries for my scale, they're dead (maybe from overuse)!

    i'm going to try my hardest to be good this weekend, but tonight is a friend's birthday dinner in santa monica...we're getting sushi so there's healthy options, but i'll have to watch the drinking!
  • lisapisa81
    lisapisa81 Posts: 68 Member
    how was everyone's weekend? i'm up a pound, boo. we'll see how friday goes...i'm usually the heaviest right after the weekend if i have anything to drink...which i did. eventhough i gained a pound, i ate and drank a lot less than on normal weekends, and i burned 275 cals at the driving range saturday! plus i recorded everything...which was a bit depressing, but that means i'm sticking to my goal for the week!

    other good news - the hubby and i bought a new digital food scale...i was shocked this morning to remember how little 3/4 of a cup of cereal really is!

    how did everyone else do?
  • alisha123
    alisha123 Posts: 71
    I am also up a pound but am happy to say I logged everything, which I also thought was depressing.:cry: I did eat out for lunch both Saturday and Sunday due to family events so that did not help. This next week I will continue to log everything and add in lots more water. I noticed how little water I drink on the weekends so those are my 2 goals this week. Good luck everyone! Now that I got a week down, I'm optimistic about this :tongue: Oh I also wanted to mention I don't have a reunion so I kinda feel like the odd ball here but I am going to Vegas the end of June and that's why I joined this group because nothing else has seemed to work.
  • lisapisa81
    lisapisa81 Posts: 68 Member
    I am also up a pound but am happy to say I logged everything, which I also thought was depressing.:cry: I did eat out for lunch both Saturday and Sunday due to family events so that did not help. This next week I will continue to log everything and add in lots more water. I noticed how little water I drink on the weekends so those are my 2 goals this week. Good luck everyone! Now that I got a week down, I'm optimistic about this :tongue: Oh I also wanted to mention I don't have a reunion so I kinda feel like the odd ball here but I am going to Vegas the end of June and that's why I joined this group because nothing else has seemed to work.

    no reunion required! vegas will probably be more fun than a reunion anyway. i'm actually going to vegas 1 week before my reunion (and its also my 1 year wedding anniversary), so i have 2 things to work for! i would love to weigh 10 lbs less than i did at the wedding for our anniversary! good luck this week!
  • hartkid13
    hartkid13 Posts: 1,551 Member
    I'm a slacker. I was out of the office yesterday and forgot to post.

    I was down one pound last week.
  • lisapisa81
    lisapisa81 Posts: 68 Member
    good job losing another pound! i weighed myself again this morning and i'm back down to last week's weight...even though i kept it more under control than normal this last weekend, i still drank some wine sunday night and i think that caused me to weigh a little more monday. we'll see what next monday brings!

    oh and i added another 10 lb to my final goal. my old goal was what i wanted to lose by the reunion, but i don't think that's possible now - i'd have to consistently lose 2 lb per week and based on past results, i don't think that's going to happen. so now i'm just going to lose as much as i can by the reunion, and keep going from there.

    what do you guys do? do you put your final goal or your mini goals in your ticker? and is there a feature that predicts when you will meet your final goal, based on the information you enter about starting/ending weight and how much exercise per week?
  • hartkid13
    hartkid13 Posts: 1,551 Member
    My ticker is my first big goal. I think I can maintain 2lbs a week until that weight. After that I'm going down another 20 pounds but that will be a pace at one pound a week.

    My ticker weight is what I weighed when I graduated HS so I'm certainly wanting to be there by the reunion.
  • lisapisa81
    lisapisa81 Posts: 68 Member
    oh by the way, i met my first nano-milestone...i've recorded everything i've eaten for the past week! no skipping weekends!
  • hartkid13
    hartkid13 Posts: 1,551 Member
    oh by the way, i met my first nano-milestone...i've recorded everything i've eaten for the past week! no skipping weekends!

    WTG! Keep it up. :drinker:
  • hartkid13
    hartkid13 Posts: 1,551 Member
    2lbs this week!
  • lisapisa81
    lisapisa81 Posts: 68 Member
    yahoo way to go! i'm down 1...not bad considering i went over my calories both sat and sun (not by as much as usual though!). i'm finding its getting easier to refuse temptations to overeat every day!
  • hartkid13
    hartkid13 Posts: 1,551 Member
    Great job! Keep up the good work. Each temptation defeated is a small victory.
  • alisha123
    alisha123 Posts: 71
    Good job guys! Sorry I was up north all weekend and no access to a computer. Thus I could not log what I ate which I think is why I'm up a pound. Really it's no change from last week because that pound I gained when I wrote here last Monday I lost during the week but then gained it back this weekend.
  • Jenelz
    Jenelz Posts: 9 Member
    I just saw your post and caught up on reading this thread. I am wondering if I can join your group as well. My 10 year is in November and I want to drop 40 pounds before then. Plus I noticed you went to the Angel game. I live in Orange County as well and have been to a couple of games. You are right, there is not a lot to choose from at the stadiums.
  • lisapisa81
    lisapisa81 Posts: 68 Member
    of course you can join! good luck!
  • lisapisa81
    lisapisa81 Posts: 68 Member
    wow i was bad this weekend...my family was in town and i didn't record anything. we went to a wedding catered with mexican food so i think i blew my whole day's worth of calories there alone. somehow i still lost another pound, i'm flabbergasted but relieved!

    tonight i'm going back to the gym...haven't been in a long time since i've been busy!
  • hartkid13
    hartkid13 Posts: 1,551 Member
    I unexpectedly spent an extra two days on the road last week, which means I did not eat well. Somehow I didn't gain. :smile:
  • lisapisa81
    lisapisa81 Posts: 68 Member
    I unexpectedly spent an extra two days on the road last week, which means I did not eat well. Somehow I didn't gain. :smile:

    guess it was a lucky week for both of us! how's everyone else doing?
  • alisha123
    alisha123 Posts: 71
    I did alright this week. No gain, but still disappointed that I didn't have a loss. Hopefully this week I'll lose.
  • lisapisa81
    lisapisa81 Posts: 68 Member
    I did alright this week. No gain, but still disappointed that I didn't have a loss. Hopefully this week I'll lose.

    hopefully! there were times when i kept trying and trying and the scale wasn't moving too, especially right after i started working out (after a long period of inactivity). did you just start working out again? if so you could be gaining muscle but losing fat, so you're not seeing a net loss.
  • alisha123
    alisha123 Posts: 71
    Yes I've been working out. I did 4 days last week with the weekend as my break and started up again this week. I have been slowly working up my working up my workout routine after a winter and I guess spring of inactivity :laugh:
  • lisapisa81
    lisapisa81 Posts: 68 Member
    weekly check in time...so monday i was up 1.5 pounds from last week. boo on that. but i wasn't surprised, considering i went beer tasting on saturday. weighed in again today and i am only .2 lb up from where i was last week. so i'm ok with that. probably still won't update it in my ticker though :tongue:

    how is everyone else doing? my reunion is now just over 3.5 months away!
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