Baby, the stars shine bright. (Paper Moon's Diary)

Just checking in to wish everyone a lovely Monday.

Scale read 212 after 3 consecutive reads... WOOOOO :O

I'm like gleaming and dancing... so silly for just a few pounds but... I'm happeeee!!! I want that ticker to move :D

Todays Goals:

Wattteeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!
Either Tae Bo or a 30 min walk
Fix the screen door on the porch

Ok the last one has nothing to do with weight lol. But if I don't write it somewhere I will forget to do it :p
 
You are doing great!! It sounds like you are really putting forth alot of effort and I know you will definately be able to reach your goals. I am also trying to lose weight for health reasons since diabetes runs on both sides of my family. Your journal is great motivation for me. It really helps when I can relate with others...

Keep up the great work!!!! :)
 
hey papermoon, looks like u're doing great. :)
quick question... how is the tae bo workouts? are they difficult?
I'm looking for a good workout routine/dvd. something simple and fun.
how would you review it outta 5 stars? :confused:
 
Today's menu sounds great!!! I truly believe in limiting the starchy foods. My theory is...if we just ate what we took from the earth in it's natural form like people did thousands of years ago before they learned how to bake bread.....i.e. fruits, veggies, nuts, meat......well, no one would be overweight.

Congrats on the loss...keep it up!!!!
 
Hi Paper Moon,

Looks like you are doing great. The whole nutrition thing is difficult. I found it very overwhelming. I quit looking at it. I just try to get in appropriate servings of fruit and veggies per day and that is good enough for me right now. It was hard enough to learn to count calories without mucking it all up with nutrition. Sounds bad, I know.....but I need to keep my head clear and straight and I love fruits and veggies so I think I will be OK. I am on the fence about the carb thing. Millions of people on this earth eat rice with every meal and they are not fat. I'm with Scarlett on the white bread etc....although it is good, it has pretty much no nutritional value, so why eat it. A waste of calories for the most part. Take care. You are doing great!
 
Thanks for the encouragement guys!!!!

Initial_C: I like the Tae Bo tapes, but some of the workouts I find hard to do. keep in mind i'm TERRIBLY out of shape, and get winded easily. I have the older set of tapes ( I think the first set made ) that includes a basic 30 min workout, an advanced hour workout, and some power 20 min thing with abs. ( I think I lost that one. ) The 30 min one I can do with a lot of sweat and tears, the hour one...... I can't even get through half that one yet. But they DO get you moving in many different ways, and Ol Billy Blanks is really there with you through the tapes. I'd rate it a 3 out of 5. It does get a bit repetitive. I think the new tapes are a little more advanced and have more choices. :3 Hope I helped!

Scarlet & Pineloa: I agree that certain refined things like white bread and pasta can be pretty bad. Unfortunately, things like rice... and rice noodles, those are SO hard for me to just cut from my diet!!!! Not only do I have them in bulk quantity here at the house, but I'm extremely used to eating at least one meal a day with white japanese rice. ( or at least brown rice ) I'll do my best, but my funds are EXTREMELY Limited this week, and i'm a bit scared that once I run out of salad and tuna and fruit, that I'm gonna have to go to rice balls or ramen like I usually do, till I get my paycheck. EEK!

Today I ate:

B: 1 cup cottage cheese and 1 cup grapes - 280

L: 4 Taco bell tacos, fresco style - 600 ( whoa! I think it was all the outside working today! I was STARVING at lunch )

D: Tofu in black bean & garlic sauce over steamed veggies - 235

Snack: chips ahoy 100 calorie snack pack - 100

Total: 1215

Diet Soda: only one!!!! :D
Water: only 3 :/ gonna try for 2 more before I sleep.
 
Yeah I'm glad I can choose when I'm there. Taco bell is my ultimate fast food weakness, and since I don't get home till 11:30 at night, it's really sometimes the only thing open around here! So I used to get it for a quick dinner when I was just too tired to cook. It's tough sometimes because when you pull up to that shiny neon drive thru sign, they seem to highlight all the WORST things you could possibly eat on the pictures!! All the oozy cheese and sourcream!! damn them!!! I just say to myself that the taco bell menu consists of about 40 or so items that are all made from the same 5 ingredients - therefore my fresco taco will taste the same as the uber cheesy sourcream things. And you know what? they do. :D

Todays News: It's HOT out!!! And I'm down half a pound. HEY!!! I'll count that!!!! -slides the ticker just a tad-

Also, my TOM came last night. woo. This means probably no excersize for at least 3 days, as the first few days have me so crampy and sick, it's all I can do to go to work. I will of course watch what I eat.. ( probably moreso, since my tummy hurts.) and drink TONS... of water. Not soda XD

Worried about my food budget for the next two weeks. I will do my best but I think because of my unexpected spending ( garbage disposal broke ) I might not even have but 10 dollars to spend. We'll see what I can come up with. I might be in rice ball city x_x

Todays Goals:
Drink till I float away.
 
You can make a super low fat fried rice with just some veggies. Just cook the veggies in a non-stick skillet, steam your rice and throw it together with a little soy sauce. Yummy! Just as good as the greasy stuff at a restaurant. And easy on the budget.

I have a hard time with the Tae bo too, I went out and got the biggest loser workout and that's pretty good. You can work out at your own pace and it has a six week challange portion that you can do.

Keep up the good work, even though TOM is here!! :D
 
Hey PM,

It sounds like your doing really well. Thanks for the info on the workout dvds as I'm looking for some.

Congrats on the ticker move. I love when that happens. Keep up the good work.
 
Paper Moon said:
Today I ate:

B: 1 cup cottage cheese and 1 cup grapes - 280

L: 4 Taco bell tacos, fresco style - 600 ( whoa! I think it was all the outside working today! I was STARVING at lunch )

D: Tofu in black bean & garlic sauce over steamed veggies - 235

Snack: chips ahoy 100 calorie snack pack - 100

Total: 1215

Diet Soda: only one!!!! :D
Water: only 3 :/ gonna try for 2 more before I sleep.
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Hi Moonie :)

Nice balance on the menu. These are the changes that will get you to where you're going. As you grow in knowledge (and more funds become available) you will start fine-tuning and refining your menu to an even greater level.

Stay patient and consistent and keep fighting the good fight ;)
 
Yesterday was really bad. I was so sick from my TOM, per usual.. that I could only stomach a small bowl of oatmeal. I had throbbing headache ( very usual for me around this time ) and couldn't stand to even sip water. I tried to eat something around dinner time, but it just wasn't happening.

Pretty depressed, probably helped along by raging hormones. It's a long off topic rant, and I don't want to bore anyone, but I'm all alone here.. and I can't really make ends meet anymore. It's come down to either get a second job, ( which physically I don't think I can manage ) or sell my condo and go to my mother's house. x_x

Keep in mind I love my mother very much. But her idea of compassionate parenting is OUT THERE. Her ways of motivating me in things is to bring up the bad bad bad. ie: She shows me a picture of me in highschool, when I was super thin and goes "omg look at this picture I found! Look how pretty and thin you look here! Remember?" >.> If I try to talk to her about how I'm missing my bf.. ( He's in NE right now... we met on the internet.) She chimes in with "Why don't you go look for a REAL boyfriend instead. You were waiting around for the last internet bf and he never came back."

Wow thanks mom, I had no Idea that happened. I mean, I didn't live it or anything.

That's just a taste of her attitude. Not to mention she doesn't take this dieting thing seriously. She "says" shes on a diet too, but she keeps huge bowls of M&M's, chocolate peanuts, Dove chocolates, and potato chips OUT on our living room table AT ALL TIMES. Her excuse is "incase company comes!!!!" my ass. I often see her stealing from it. And she bitches to me about why her diets don't work.

Sorry about the totally random rant. It's just been bugging me that I've been managing totally on my own for 8 years, and now I'm failing...I'm not sure what my next move is... since I can't think very straight with this headache.

Think I'll take that walk now.
 
There is nothing 'random' about your rant. Real problems at real time.

Don't let this adversity bend you over. Blowing out your diet won't change your mom and her quirky ways.

Take this head-on and address the fact food is not a solution to anything you listed in your 'rant'.

Be strong Moonie, you are counting you. No one else is.
 
Hey there- I hope you're feeling a bit better today. Sometimes we get PO'd about something and we need to take the good nights sleep and an angry rant to calm ourselves down. I hope you are back on track today- And keep it up with the Tae-bo.... Try not to stare directly at Billy's teeth :)
 
Thanks guys.

Don't worry about me. Getting upset like this makes me tend to NOT eat.. rather than binge. I'm mostly worried about losing my house to the bank... I can deal with my mothers shotty attitude.. I can just lock myself in my room if I have to.

I'm just scared that everything I worked so hard to get might be lost very soon.
 
hey papermoon, I just had Taco Bell yesterday too. heh. Normally I wouldn't go but I was starving and it was the only fast food restaurant nearby. No subway anywhere. I didn't have the frescos but I will try them next time if I go. OH~ and thanks for the review on the Tae Bo tapes. They don't sound like for me though. Guess I'll keep searching. I'm picky about workout videos cause I have HORRIBLE hand-eye coordination so I want something simple, yet non-repetitive and fun. :p :rolleyes:

And OH MY GOD! I'm in the same boat as you. I'm in a long-d relationship right now too. My bf lives in Finland and I'm Canadian. We've been dating for a lil over 4 years now. My Mom actually tells me to TWO-TIME my boyfriend. GAH! It annoys me so much. So I can totally relate to you right now. I've been missing my bf alot lately too. *huggles* I'm here if you need to talk or rant.
 
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