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Thanks for that - I've googled groundhog - sort of a non climbing squirrel? It looks cute.
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Thanks for that - I've googled groundhog - sort of a non climbing squirrel? It looks cute.
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What temp do you roast them at? Please mention Faranheit or Celcius, I can do the conversions if needed
I HATE it when people "have to be in charge" of where we go eat. I'm just rude enough to leave and come back after I got what I wanted from where I wanted it, though. You may find it easier to not tell people about your food choices, just as a thought. A lot of people here have trouble with people that try to "tempt" with bad food choices, offering dessert, etc. and have just found it simpler to not say anything, just order better food.
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I lost another pound today. I am trying not to think about needing to lose 85 pounds, as a pound seems such an insignificant amount compared to that - I feel as if I am wasting my time if I think about all I have to lose. So I try to think that when I have lost 4 pounds - my first target - I will have reached the weight I was when I started the year. I must remember that it took 4 weeks to gain that 4 pounds. Whilst going through my weight charts I realised that I have been gaining for a year now - I am almost exactly a stone heavier than what I weighed on 20 February 2006. Shocking. When I have the nerve, I will look further back.
There is a programme "The Trust about Food" that focused on slimming this week, debunking the metabolism myth (some people have lower ones than others) and detailing what sort of things have been proved to help. One interesting thing that they featured was that eating a diet high in diary calcium causes more fat to be excreted. I will try to include the link BBC - Science & Nature - The Dairy Diet
Another interesting thing was that they fed two lots of people the same food - chicken, broccoli and mushrooms - one had it with a glass of water to drink, the others had it made into soup with the water. The soup eaters were fuller for a whole hour longer than the others, purely down to the fact that the stomach was fuller longer. It was described as similar to putting food in a fine sieve and pouring water over it, or by putting thick soup in a fine sieve.
My sister arrived just after we watched it and said she had heard that if people ate blindfolded, they ate less. Not only that, but their likes and dislikes changed. Not exactly practical though is it!
There is a programme "The Trust about Food" that focused on slimming this week, debunking the metabolism myth (some people have lower ones than others) and detailing what sort of things have been proved to help. One interesting thing that they featured was that eating a diet high in diary calcium causes more fat to be excreted. I will try to include the link BBC - Science & Nature - The Dairy Diet
Another interesting thing was that they fed two lots of people the same food - chicken, broccoli and mushrooms - one had it with a glass of water to drink, the others had it made into soup with the water. The soup eaters were fuller for a whole hour longer than the others, purely down to the fact that the stomach was fuller longer. It was described as similar to putting food in a fine sieve and pouring water over it, or by putting thick soup in a fine sieve.
My sister arrived just after we watched it and said she had heard that if people ate blindfolded, they ate less. Not only that, but their likes and dislikes changed. Not exactly practical though is it!
Gotcha! a max of 200 would imply "metric" temp
According to the handy online converter I found:
180 degree Celsius = 356 degree Fahrenheit which sounds about right.
Danke!
The soup thing it pretty cool, it also explains a lot about my addiction to bean thread soup! The blindfold thing is neat too, but it really brings a few humorous images to mind
According to the handy online converter I found:
180 degree Celsius = 356 degree Fahrenheit which sounds about right.
Danke!
The soup thing it pretty cool, it also explains a lot about my addiction to bean thread soup! The blindfold thing is neat too, but it really brings a few humorous images to mind
I am doing the same thing. I am thinking in short term goals versus long term even though I am tracking the long term progress. I am trying to get to 150.8 by Feb 28 which is 7.2 lbs for the month.
Good job on your loss!
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My eating has been a little odd today and yesterday, so I am a bit unsure whether I will register a loss tomorrow.
Yesterday I slept in, then was busy with people in the house, so apart from a very small OJ, I hadn't eaten by noon. Then it seemed to late for breakfast and i had fruit and yogurt. That was fine, we went out about 2 - when I got home at 4 I was starving. I had some cereal, then was still hungry so had a little cheese, then was still hungry so made a milky coffee.
When I had finished that I was stuffed - and I had about 40 minutes until DH and I were eating dinner! Yelp. The kids were at my sisters and we were going to a show, so he had decided to make me a healthy dinner, but we had to eat early because of the show. He'd bought crab claws, and made salad. Luckily he had some man-style hold up so dinner was late, but I still didn't need more than 3 crab claws.
I had a glass of wine with dinner, and began to feel that I had overeaten - with the cheese etc. We went to the show, and everone was eating sweets, but we didn't. At the interval we sipped on water looking longingly at the Hagen Daaz tubs being brought back in. I really felt that I had eaten too much to lose weight so may as well have more, but stopped myself/
We got home, I had another glass of wine, reviewed what I had eaten and thought that really it wasn't so bad.
Today I had very little to eat until about 3 - I don't know why I wasn't hungry - that is very unlike me.
I can feel the weight loss, which is daft when it is 1-2% of my total weight, but my clothes are definitely looser. I am quite interested in what the scales reveal tomorrow!
Yesterday I slept in, then was busy with people in the house, so apart from a very small OJ, I hadn't eaten by noon. Then it seemed to late for breakfast and i had fruit and yogurt. That was fine, we went out about 2 - when I got home at 4 I was starving. I had some cereal, then was still hungry so had a little cheese, then was still hungry so made a milky coffee.
When I had finished that I was stuffed - and I had about 40 minutes until DH and I were eating dinner! Yelp. The kids were at my sisters and we were going to a show, so he had decided to make me a healthy dinner, but we had to eat early because of the show. He'd bought crab claws, and made salad. Luckily he had some man-style hold up so dinner was late, but I still didn't need more than 3 crab claws.
I had a glass of wine with dinner, and began to feel that I had overeaten - with the cheese etc. We went to the show, and everone was eating sweets, but we didn't. At the interval we sipped on water looking longingly at the Hagen Daaz tubs being brought back in. I really felt that I had eaten too much to lose weight so may as well have more, but stopped myself/
We got home, I had another glass of wine, reviewed what I had eaten and thought that really it wasn't so bad.
Today I had very little to eat until about 3 - I don't know why I wasn't hungry - that is very unlike me.
I can feel the weight loss, which is daft when it is 1-2% of my total weight, but my clothes are definitely looser. I am quite interested in what the scales reveal tomorrow!
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Gotcha! a max of 200 would imply "metric" temp
According to the handy online converter I found:
180 degree Celsius = 356 degree Fahrenheit which sounds about right.
Danke!
The soup thing it pretty cool, it also explains a lot about my addiction to bean thread soup! The blindfold thing is neat too, but it really brings a few humorous images to mind
Bean thread soup sounds interesting. You have such exotic sounding food in America - I mean Chimichangas? That could be a fruit, a dance, or a type of clothes.
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That's brave choosing a short month. I have decided not to give myself a date to lose weight by, as I know from experience that I will have weeks where I lose nothing, weeks where I lose barely nothing, and weeks where I gain, even though I am doing everything I should to lose weight. I am easily demotivated, so I don't want to risk failing to make a target.
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Welcome to the weight loss forum 2/3. You're doing great. The helpful folks on-line here got me straightened out in a hurry and now I know what I have to do!! Don't forget to drink tons of water.
Welcome to the weight loss forum 2/3. You're doing great. The helpful folks on-line here got me straightened out in a hurry and now I know what I have to do!! Don't forget to drink tons of water.
Well, I chose the month of February because of the Feb 2lbs per week challenge that is going on, I thought it could help push me; and I am going to a cabin in the mountains skiing the first week of March with 2 other couples and there is an indoor pool and hot tub that I really want to get into.
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i have just clicked where you are from! ohmydays i absolutely love the channel islands and would love to live there when im older. except dont you guys have rule about only being allowed to live there if you have an asset to add to the island?
and i saw that tv probramme aswell - it was really good - so much better than all the gillian mckeith stuff -they just out that to make it look like torture - totally the wrong image for weight loss - so negative.
and i saw that tv probramme aswell - it was really good - so much better than all the gillian mckeith stuff -they just out that to make it look like torture - totally the wrong image for weight loss - so negative.
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Hurrah!
Down one pound today, which means that I have achieved my first target - yahoo! - of losing 4 pounds to regain my weight as at 01.01.07.
So. Week two. I have decided to allow myself one mid week weigh this week - next Monday seems a long, long way away - and to set a new target of losing 1 1/2 pounds which will get me to 230 exactly, will mean my target goes to a round 80 pounds, and that I have 7 pounds to lose to get under 16 stone.
I wont set a target, even for such a small weight loss. I was thinking ahead yesterday and looking out resources for maintaining weight - early I know, but there is a good reason for it. I have lost significant amounts of weight several times before. But keeping it off is harder for me than losing it. Anyway, this site doesn't seem to provide maintenance support, so I looked elsewhere and found that some do exist.
The site I looked at had a thread started by someone who said that after 5 or 6 years maintenance got easier. The replies were from people who had maintained at least a couple of years, and all disagreed with her. They battled daily with their weight - and these are the 5% people - the ones who keep it off. What they say is worth hearing. The issue of being "obese reduced" was mentioned as a factor making it harder to maintain. One lady states that if she eats more than 1,500 calories a day her weight increases, and another says that she cannot eat as much as that. Another says she is hungry all of every day.
Now I don't know if I would find the pleasures of being slim worth those particular pains, but I do not have to make that decision yet. What I do need to focus on though is that if I look at this as being a temporary measure I have no hope of keeping any weight lost off. As I need to look long term at losing the weight there need be no hurry.
So, 1 1/2 pounds is my next target.
Down one pound today, which means that I have achieved my first target - yahoo! - of losing 4 pounds to regain my weight as at 01.01.07.
So. Week two. I have decided to allow myself one mid week weigh this week - next Monday seems a long, long way away - and to set a new target of losing 1 1/2 pounds which will get me to 230 exactly, will mean my target goes to a round 80 pounds, and that I have 7 pounds to lose to get under 16 stone.
I wont set a target, even for such a small weight loss. I was thinking ahead yesterday and looking out resources for maintaining weight - early I know, but there is a good reason for it. I have lost significant amounts of weight several times before. But keeping it off is harder for me than losing it. Anyway, this site doesn't seem to provide maintenance support, so I looked elsewhere and found that some do exist.
The site I looked at had a thread started by someone who said that after 5 or 6 years maintenance got easier. The replies were from people who had maintained at least a couple of years, and all disagreed with her. They battled daily with their weight - and these are the 5% people - the ones who keep it off. What they say is worth hearing. The issue of being "obese reduced" was mentioned as a factor making it harder to maintain. One lady states that if she eats more than 1,500 calories a day her weight increases, and another says that she cannot eat as much as that. Another says she is hungry all of every day.
Now I don't know if I would find the pleasures of being slim worth those particular pains, but I do not have to make that decision yet. What I do need to focus on though is that if I look at this as being a temporary measure I have no hope of keeping any weight lost off. As I need to look long term at losing the weight there need be no hurry.
So, 1 1/2 pounds is my next target.
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Wow. That is really good motivation. We went away in December and I lost some weight beforehand motivated by the image of me getting stuck wedged into the airplane seat.
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Anyone can live in Jersey - we have a two tier housing system though - if you have your housing qualifications you can rent/buy cheaper housing, and the non-qualified housing isn't that great - lodgings mostly. We do have a lot of people live here without qualies though. The qualification period is reducing each year - it used to be 20 years, I think it's about 13 now. Still a long time to live in lodgings.
I used to find Gillian fascinating. I think anyone who put themselves up for the programme would have to be absolutely desperate, knowing that they were putting themselves up for humiliation on tv. I mean she made such a fuss about their poo stinking. It's poo for God's sake!
Sophie335
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no need to worry about this 2/3 - i have read about something called calorie bouncing which means that your metabolic rate wont adapt to the level at which youve dieted to (ie if youve dieted with an intake of 1300 for a couple of months then your body can reduce your metabolism eventually for this amount and it becomes the norm.) some people in here bounce their calories up for a week or two just to kick the metabolism into action again and then they reduce the calories again.
thats not a very good explanation but theres some peeps in the harsh truth section who know a lot about it.
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Thanks for that. I have heard of people who have a regular (or rather irregular - don't want to body to adjust to any routine) meal out on the grounds that it confuses the body out of the diet (cling on to all that weight) mentality. Plus knowing there would be a good meal coming along helped them stick to the diet.
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I had decided that I would weigh myself on Thursday, but I found the gap between weigh ins a bit scary. And it seems I had reason to be nervous as I had a bad day food wise yesterday. I think it all stemmed from the fact that we were short of milk at breakfast. So I had yogurt and fruit. I should have sprinkled some cereal on it, but didn't. I ate more fruit in the morning, and had baked beans on toast for lunch. I had some fruit mid afternoon. So far, so saintly.
When I got home with the kids, and they were having their crisps, I was ravenous. Ravenous! I knew DH was bringing fish home, and cooking dinner, so it would be late, and as eating more fruit was NOT helping (and I ate a LOT) , I made myself a sandwich of hot smoked salmon with coleslaw. Looking back I can see that I was grabbing the first thing I could see in the fridge and not thinking things out at all. This made a huge sandwich, and I made it with white bread that I normally dislike as the brown was in the freezer. I scoffed that, and was still hungry.
Again, I wasn't thinking, so I drank no water, and did not wait to see if I was full after 20 minutes, but grabbed a pack of crisps and ate them. They were ready salted, and were disgusting. They tasted of fat and salt, and left a horrid taste in my mouth, but before I knew it they were gone. I ate nothing more, but gradually realised that I was feeling quite full. DH came home and got to work cooking dinner and I began feeling embarrased, and trapped - it's a special occasion when he cooks so I couldn't really opt out, and he had brought home red snapper, a fish that doesn't really keep.
DH made a lovely dinner - grilled red snapper with veg cous-cous and carrots. He had worked hard to make sure it was a healthy dinner, so I ate it making all the right noises, and feeling as sick as a dog. I spent the rest of the evening on the sofa feeling so uncomfortable! Hubby had piled the plates high - normally I would have left some, but I was so intent on eating when I was already full that I ate the lot!
I feel so stupid. I know a lot of things that could have helped me get through the day better (drinking water, eating malt loaf, waiting) but I didn't use them.
Anyway. I weigh myself tomorrow, and want to do things properly today.
I had decided that I would weigh myself on Thursday, but I found the gap between weigh ins a bit scary. And it seems I had reason to be nervous as I had a bad day food wise yesterday. I think it all stemmed from the fact that we were short of milk at breakfast. So I had yogurt and fruit. I should have sprinkled some cereal on it, but didn't. I ate more fruit in the morning, and had baked beans on toast for lunch. I had some fruit mid afternoon. So far, so saintly.
When I got home with the kids, and they were having their crisps, I was ravenous. Ravenous! I knew DH was bringing fish home, and cooking dinner, so it would be late, and as eating more fruit was NOT helping (and I ate a LOT) , I made myself a sandwich of hot smoked salmon with coleslaw. Looking back I can see that I was grabbing the first thing I could see in the fridge and not thinking things out at all. This made a huge sandwich, and I made it with white bread that I normally dislike as the brown was in the freezer. I scoffed that, and was still hungry.
Again, I wasn't thinking, so I drank no water, and did not wait to see if I was full after 20 minutes, but grabbed a pack of crisps and ate them. They were ready salted, and were disgusting. They tasted of fat and salt, and left a horrid taste in my mouth, but before I knew it they were gone. I ate nothing more, but gradually realised that I was feeling quite full. DH came home and got to work cooking dinner and I began feeling embarrased, and trapped - it's a special occasion when he cooks so I couldn't really opt out, and he had brought home red snapper, a fish that doesn't really keep.
DH made a lovely dinner - grilled red snapper with veg cous-cous and carrots. He had worked hard to make sure it was a healthy dinner, so I ate it making all the right noises, and feeling as sick as a dog. I spent the rest of the evening on the sofa feeling so uncomfortable! Hubby had piled the plates high - normally I would have left some, but I was so intent on eating when I was already full that I ate the lot!
I feel so stupid. I know a lot of things that could have helped me get through the day better (drinking water, eating malt loaf, waiting) but I didn't use them.
Anyway. I weigh myself tomorrow, and want to do things properly today.
Ouch.
Well, it could be worse, at least you stopped with the crisps, and he didn't make a dessert. If this is the harshest lesson you have to learn, then I'm jealous. I still wish you had been less ravenous, though.
At least you have thought your way through the chain of events and have a good idea of what happened; maybe you can avoid it next time.
Well, back on that horse in the morning No big deal, you ate some crisps, I just wish you didn't feel so bad about everything; from the sound of things you felt more horrible that you might hurt your hubby's feelings than you did about the extra snacking. This is generally a good thing, but a little bad in this case because you felt like you had to overeat to spare his feelings. Still, it's only a little bad, just try not to find that reason next time.
At least there is always tomorrow, right?
Well, it could be worse, at least you stopped with the crisps, and he didn't make a dessert.
If this is the harshest lesson you have to learn, then I'm jealous. I still wish you had been less ravenous, though. At least you have thought your way through the chain of events and have a good idea of what happened; maybe you can avoid it next time.
Well, back on that horse in the morning
No big deal, you ate some crisps, I just wish you didn't feel so bad about everything; from the sound of things you felt more horrible that you might hurt your hubby's feelings than you did about the extra snacking. This is generally a good thing, but a little bad in this case because you felt like you had to overeat to spare his feelings. Still, it's only a little bad, just try not to find that reason next time. At least there is always tomorrow, right?
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Where did my post go! I did a long one too.
Well, despite all the angst and feeling that I was eating too much, I weighed myself this morning to find that I had lost 2 1/2 pounds in the past 3 days. I was delighted! I sailed right through my second target and am a pound into my next target of losing 7 pounds. 6 pounds to go!
I don't weigh myself now until Monday, and after that I will weigh myself weekly.
Looking at last year's weight charts I was last around this weight about August 2006. I had a couple of dips back to it, or below it, but none lasted long.
Anyway, happy days!
Well, despite all the angst and feeling that I was eating too much, I weighed myself this morning to find that I had lost 2 1/2 pounds in the past 3 days. I was delighted! I sailed right through my second target and am a pound into my next target of losing 7 pounds. 6 pounds to go!
I don't weigh myself now until Monday, and after that I will weigh myself weekly.
Looking at last year's weight charts I was last around this weight about August 2006. I had a couple of dips back to it, or below it, but none lasted long.
Anyway, happy days!