Bellaryna's Journey

Okay so here the "Official" after camping post. hahaha
I don't think I did to bad.......okay so it wasn't nearly as good as I hoped but I sure did alot better than what I would have had I not had the mindset that I did. As well as knowing my b-day mini-goal was literally right around the corner!
So here is the eating run down:
Friday started out really well. I had honey nut cheerios for breakfast (pre-measured of course) with skim milk. Dh took me to Subway for lunch where I had a roasted chicken sub on honey wheat with lots and lots of veggies. Side of baked lays. Ice tea to drink.
Tried to drink my water but I had run out of my fav water flavorer (is that a word? haha) so was really having a hard time with that.
There were some snacks here and there but nothing that would break the bank.
For dinner that night at the campsite I had got some premade turkey burgers. I cheated a bit and took my electric tabletop grill. I actually forgot to bring the chips so for dinner. Everyone had a burger on a bun w/cheese, 1/2 cup cottage cheese and baby carrots. Or at least that is what the kids had. Dh was hilarious. He kept going on and on about how I was trying to starve him while we were camping. Of course he was only kidding but I never heard the end of it. People even were joshing me saying that I was trying to feed him tofu burgers!
I did not have a burger but I had a salad with fresh from the garden tomatoes as well as red peppers with cottage cheese on top. So you see I started out well.
It was later on that I caved.
While watching people play eurker (spelling again haha) someone kindly, HA, put an entire bowl of homemade cookies right under my nose. And I am not kidding when I say they were right under my nose. It was AWFUL 'cuz I could barely stop from putting my whole face in the bowl and just devouring 'em! Smelling those cookies and sniffing them. And not being able to move them anywhere since the table was being used for the card game.
Well you can figure out that I ate some of those. I don't even know how many I ate. They were just so dang tasty!
Saturday:
Got up and everyone had cereal. Plus I had got the kids some of those little bitty baby doughnuts. I expected them to eat them all. But they didn't. So I had a few of those. Okay it was more like 8! LOL But they were little......so it was better than eating 8 regular sized doughnuts. Right? haha
Had some goldfish crackers for a snack while I was playing games with the kids. Lunch was a ham sandwich with a small side of potato salad and some Pringles chips. Dh I guess couldn't take the fact that I hadn't brought any true camping food so headed off to Walmart to get some chips and the potato salad. That and my youngest had wet the bed the night before so I needed laundry soap so I could wash all the bedding.
Dinner was the dreaded pudgie pies. You know if I wouldn't have had to make the ones for the kids I think I could have held off better. I did have salad for dinner while everyone else was eating all those pudgies but I couldn't help gravitating to the dessert tables and fixing up a pudgie over there for me.
Used crescent rolls instead of bread. Put one marshmallow in the center and put about 2 tbsp of chocolate (the kind you make chocolate milk with) on it. Closed it all up and cooked it.
Man it was tasty!!! :drool5::drool5:
I actually didn't eat anything else that night. So maybe it wasn't such a bad day after all.
But Sunday was a whole 'nother story. LOL
Sunday:
On Sunday we have a carry in breakfast. Every family is assigned a specific thing that they are expected to cook or bring. We had to bring pancakes and a pot of coffee. As well as cook for another family who couldn't go at the last minute. So we also had to make pancakes for them as well as an entire package of bacon. Bacon is my nemesis!!!! LOL
There was pancakes, all kinds of fruit toppings as well as syrups ( I was the only one to bring sugar free syrup and of course got razzed for it), bacon, sausage of every kind, scrambled eggs, and biscuits and gravy.
I would love to say that I had my cereal and was a good girl but all that food was just so tasty looking and it "smelled" sooooo good!!! :drool5::drool5::drool5: I had a little bit of everything. :piggy:
But I didn't eat any lunch and dinner was one of those turkey burgers with a very very small bit of potatoe salad.
I did graze on some cookies and chips here and there while we were tearing down our camp. People just sort of bring their extra things over and set it all on a table for those who aren't leaving right away. You know stuff that can't keep very well for the ride home or can't be packed back up for next year.
Over all I did waaaaaay better than I would normally have. But I didn't do anywhere as near as good as I wanted.
I didn't drink hardly any water the entire time that I was there due to the fact that the bathroom was a 1/4 of a mile away. And I am not making that up. It was literally on the other side of the park for us. And when I gotta go I gotta go NOW!!!
So had I been drinking all that water I would have been peeing my pants for sure!!! LOL
I could have takin' my bike but I really didn't want to just ride around in a circle. That and the kids were always playing on the road so I would have had to constantly been slowing down to not run someone over.
As well as no bathroom action *blushing* ( I like the comfort of my own home LOL)
Take all of that into consideration and I thought for sure that when I got home I would weigh in at like 211 or something. But I actually only weighed like 205 something............with all my clothes on..........in the afternoon.
I was shocked to say the least. That meant that I at least weighed 203 something w/o the clothes.
And since I was home *uh-hmmm* things got to moving again. hahaha
So this morning I actually came in at 202.4lbs! Which is actually .4 lower than my last official weigh-in. Which was Thursday. So I actually came in lower even after my weekend of excess. ????
And I know that I am carrying some water weight since I didn't drink like I should have. That and my wedding ring is a tiny bit snug. Which happens when I don't drink my water but eat salty things. So you know I am chugging the water now and holding to my eating. Plus I have my class with Kelly tonight. So even if I don't make it below 200 tomorrow I achieved a small amount of success over the weekend. I proved to myself that I could have fun, eat somewhat well, and still enjoy myself without ballooning up.
Here's to next camping season and being closer to the bathroom! LOL
 
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Looks like you proved the theory that there are no calories in camping food. Nice job!

BTW, Pudgies sound fantastic :drool5: and terrible all at the same time.
 
Looks like you proved the theory that there are no calories in camping food. Nice job!

BTW, Pudgies sound fantastic :drool5: and terrible all at the same time.

Thanks! I was quite surprised to say the least!!!! :jump:
Your right about the pudgies being fantastic while being sooooo baaaaad. :coolgleamA:
There are so many different ways to make them that I have to believe that there is a healthy way to make them. I mean heck just about everything has a healthy alternative.
I think I just might "research" that one and see if I can't find something for next year. :sifone:
Of course I will have to be careful to not eat to much of the research. hehehehe
 
Pillsbury makes a low fat crescent roll dough. I'm thinking using that as a starting point might work, then fill it with healthier stuff?
 
Pillsbury makes a low fat crescent roll dough. I'm thinking using that as a starting point might work, then fill it with healthier stuff?

That would definately be a good place to start.
I was thinking of doing like a breakfast one.
You know with eggbeaters scrambled eggs, a sprinkle of cheese and lots of chopped of veggies. Add to that some veggie sausage and it ought to be yummy! And it always helps that the pudgies are generally small to start with so you really couldn't over do it to much unless you were to eat like a while bunch of them!
 
I don't think you did too badly, and the scale reflects that. Why would people razz you about bringing healthier choices?? Perhaps they're feeling a bit guilty about their own unhealthy eating. I think I'd have a hard time not reminding them that gluttony is a sin. :smilielol5:

If you are carrying some water weight, and have Kelly's class tonight, I think there's a good chance you could weigh below 200 tomorrow. I can drop 2lbs of water in a day if I eat well, exercise, and drink plenty of water. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed for ya. :D

Glad you had a good time camping. If only you'd brought a chamber pot. :smilielol5:
 
If you are carrying some water weight, and have Kelly's class tonight, I think there's a good chance you could weigh below 200 tomorrow. I can drop 2lbs of water in a day if I eat well, exercise, and drink plenty of water. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed for ya. :D

Glad you had a good time camping. If only you'd brought a chamber pot. :smilielol5:

I really am hoping to go below 200 tomorrow but you know I am not going to allow myself to be all "woe is me" if I don't. I had a great time camping and wouldn't change anything.
Funny you should mention a chamber pot.
The family camping next to us, the wife was like ready to pop that's how pregnant she was!
Anyway she told me that she had some kind of portable potty that her granny use to have back when she was still alive. And that the last time they went camping this summer they were using their camper......and it does not have a potty in it. So you guessed it. Granny's potty went camping!!!
Lucky for me they were using someone else's camper for the weekend. ( I guess they felt sorry her being so pregnant and all! :) )
So I got to use her potty all the time.
Phew!
 
I really should be cleaning my house........but I really dislike cleaning my house. So I am on here instead. hahaha
I am a few days behind on the checking in thing. As yesterday was my B-Day ( by the way Karl THANKS for the B-Day wishes! ) and I was out and about all day long!
First off I had to work at the Y in the morning. Which was cool 'cuz everyone just kept telling me Happy B-day all morning long. :biggrinjester:
After that I went and spent about 3 hours with my very good friend Marcia. She is the Senior Minister's wife at my chuch. I am the wife to the Children's Minister.
She has been battling a brain tumor for about a year and a half. They had thought that she would be able to go off her Chemo about 3 weeks ago but it appears that the tumor has come back. So they are now trying one more thing. Basically it is nothing more than a research study. As they have done every other thing that they can. So she is feeling pretty depressed about everything.
If you are the praying sort I would ask that you keep her in your prayers. Thanks.
Anyhow she really wanted to visit with me and the only day that she wasn't going to be at some kind of doctor's appt was yesterday.
I think that she was really appreciative to the fact that I took time out of my b-day to spend with her. Which was nothing to me. I would spend anyday with her no matter what. She was so cute 'cuz she sent her daughter to the store to get "something" and when she came back she had a small Strawberry Swirled Cheesecake and a card. I was so touched that there was no way that I could turn down the Cheesecake. Besides it was Cheesecake!!! LOL
Add to that she really wanted French toast so I whipped her up some and she insisted that I have some too. The part of the brain that is being affected by her tumor makes it so that when she gets an idea she really gets stuck on it until it comes to fruitation. So again there was no way I could turn down the French toast.
I really enjoyed spending time with her. :blush5:
After visiting with Marcia I picked up MIL and we headed to the big town (LOL) and went shopping. Woohoo! I love to shop when MIL is buying. hahaha
She got me a real nice sweater that has a dress shirt sewn into the collar and the sleeves. If I remember I will take a picture on Sunday before church.
She also insisted on taking me to Victoria Secrets to get resized. Since I have lost weight and as she puts it, "the boo boos aren't where they are suppose to be." :smilielol5:
I have never ever in my life had my chest "sized". So it was quite the experiance. Nothing bad happened just was weird having someone other than dh oggling me. :smilielol5::smilielol5::smilielol5:
MIL ended up buying me a new boulder holder. So all and all it was a great shopping trip.
Oh and we had some Cinnamon Sticks from the local pretzel place. I really hadn't eaten too badly up to this point.
It was after I got home that things went down hill.
I am not sure why last year I was able to hold so firmly to not eating/over indulging at my birthday and this year I ate it all.
Dh had made steaks, mashed potatoes and these tasty Garlic Bread sticks for dinner. Which except for the potatoes (had waaaaaay to much of :piggy: them) things still weren't real bad. It was the cake that was my ultimate down fall.
Ice Cream cake is one of my absolute FAVS!!!
I guess I could say that it is dh's fault but really he didn't twist my arm and MAKE me eat the food.
Today is a new day and things are going well. I ate my Greek organic yogurt w/ honey for breakfast. Had a laughing cow wedge with 4 kashi crackers for snack. Dh took me to lunch since there was no time to do it yesterday.
I had a Chicken wrap in a Spinach tortialla (sp?) with some cole slaw and a few chips on the side. There was a small latte involved but it was SF and FF.
I think that for dinner tonight I will only be having a salad to off-set all this birthday eating. LOL
I didn't make it to the 200 mark on my b-day. I weighed in at 201.4lbs. Which was less than Monday's weight. And this morning I came in at 202.4lbs.
Over all perhaps there really wasn't much damage done.
I have class tonight with Kelly and plan to hop on the elliptical. If I can get my butt to bed at a decent time I will get up early tomorrow and go for another ride on the beastie before my day kicks in.
Well there is the going's on in my life for the past 2 days.
 
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Thought I would re-post this to keep it fresh in my mind.
Though I missed the b-day mini-goal I was not so far off of it that I can't make my Halloween goal.
Just to spice things up a bit I am also going to keep a written journal for this week (9-25/9-30). You know something to help me along.
Sorta like a mini-mini goal.

Below by Holiday
200 by Birthday (missed by 1.4lbs)
195~190 by Halloween (need to lose @ least 7 pounds in 39 days to make 195....with an average of 1.4 pounds a week.)
189~185 by Thanksgiving (1 less week to work with)
184~175 by Christmas
174~170 by Step's B-Day (1-18) (again 1 less week)
169~160 by Valentine's
159~155 by St. Patrick's
155~150 by Easter
 
It sounds like you had a great day and I'm glad you got to spend it with Marcia.

I guess we will just have to have salad when I take you out for your bday? LOL

Oh well, I need it too. I haven't done that bad at all, and yet my weight is back up. :( Oh well, I'm sure the Wendy's the other day didn't help.

Hey you going on the Ladie's trip on Sat?

TTYL!
 
Hi Bella, glad you had a cool B-day. Only up about a pound from it? I consider it a failure if I don't gain at least 3 - 4 lbs on a day like that:eek:HaHa

Ona more serious matter... your friend Marcia sounds like a wonderful person. My wife had a good friend who also was given the "experimental treatments" because there really wasn't anything left to do. It is a tough situation and all you can do is be there for her. I'm not the praying type per se, but that doesn't mean that I can't think on someone and wish some positive energy in their direction. I wish her the best.
 
:party: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!! :party:

I'm so annoyed with myself for not catching you yesterday. For the week before it I kept telling myself to make sure I got in here on your birthday, and of course I forgot. :blush5:

I'm glad you had a great birthday, and I hope the latest treatment helps Marcia.

So are we gonna get to see any pics of the new boulder holder--with the boulders in it?? :D Hey, it's TLD, I can't help myself. :rofl:
 
It sounds like you had a great day and I'm glad you got to spend it with Marcia.

I guess we will just have to have salad when I take you out for your bday? LOL

Oh well, I need it too. I haven't done that bad at all, and yet my weight is back up. :( Oh well, I'm sure the Wendy's the other day didn't help.

Hey you going on the Ladie's trip on Sat?

TTYL!

Hey Girl~
It was really nice to spend my b-day w/ Marcia. It was like getting a present of friendship on my b-day.
Yeah I think maybe I had better stick to a salad!!! LOL
I wouldn't worry about the couple of pounds up. You know that could be just about anything. I doubt you ate 7000 cals worth of Wendy's. :biggrinjester:
I am going to try to get to the Ladies trip but Gil just left for Colorado so it will be a wait and see. Sarah will be here to watch the kids if I need her to.
 
Hi Bella, glad you had a cool B-day. Only up about a pound from it? I consider it a failure if I don't gain at least 3 - 4 lbs on a day like that:eek:HaHa

Ona more serious matter... your friend Marcia sounds like a wonderful person. My wife had a good friend who also was given the "experimental treatments" because there really wasn't anything left to do. It is a tough situation and all you can do is be there for her. I'm not the praying type per se, but that doesn't mean that I can't think on someone and wish some positive energy in their direction. I wish her the best.

LOL
I guess I failed by your b-day standards! Whew!! You set the bar pretty high. :piggy:
Thanks for the positive thoughts for Marcia. Right now she could use all the help that anyone can give.
And your right the saddest thing about the "experimental stuff" is knowing that if this doesn't work than that is all they really can do. And I think that it is finally starting to sink in to Marcia that she very well may not pull thru this.
 
:party: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!! :party:

I'm so annoyed with myself for not catching you yesterday. For the week before it I kept telling myself to make sure I got in here on your birthday, and of course I forgot. :blush5:

I'm glad you had a great birthday, and I hope the latest treatment helps Marcia.

So are we gonna get to see any pics of the new boulder holder--with the boulders in it?? :D Hey, it's TLD, I can't help myself. :rofl:

You should be annoyed!!! Just kidding! LOL
I do the same thing here. Except it usually involves a bill or some kind of maintenance to the car.
Thanks for the well wishes for the B-day as well as for Marcia.
I am hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. I don't want to see her go just yet. :angelsad2:
As for the pics of the boulder holder w/ the boulders I think I just might have to pass on that one! LOL
Being oggled by one stranger was enough........Thank You Very Much!!! :smilielol5::smilielol5::smilielol5:
Pervert! :biggrinjester:
 
Whew........what a night!

Real quick 'cuz I am absolutely exhausted :sleeping:.
Had to put my mom into the hospital last night. Turns out she had a pretty severe case of pnuemonia. Bad enough that her O2 saturation level when I took her in was only at 85%!
Prior to my taking her in she called here to the house. Demanding to know why I wouldn't pick up the phone when she was calling. She hadn't called me except for that one time.
Earlier in the day I knew she wasn't feeling well so I made her call her doctor and get an appt. Right now I am a bit honked at the doc as she guessed that mom probably had pnuemonia but never ordered x-rays. And even though mom was obviously NOT feeling well they let her drive herself home!!! They let her go telling her that if she wasn't better in 48 hours that they were going to admit her to the hospital anyway. Stupid if you ask me. Take a woman who is on disability and gets confused on a good day and send her home with 4 different things that must be done if she is to get better and expect her to actually accomplish any of it. Hmmph:flame:
They told her to use her nebulizer every 4 hours, take the meds they were prescribing, go to bed and stay in bed and get herself on her O2 at home 24hours a day.
She didn't do any of it. So by the time I even knew that she was as sick as she was it was pretty bad. She was pretty delusional from lack of oxygen. In fact her levels were so low that they put her in the ICU.
Hopefully she won't have to be there to long. But chances are she will. She is a very slow healer.
I gave her the parent/child lecture. With me playing the starring role as parent and her as the child.
Basically she let her pride get in the way of her health. And I told her that that was a stupid thing to do. I asked her what was more important.....her health or her pride. She finally agreed w/ me that her health is more important.
It was obvious that she would need to be in the hospital. But had she gone in earlier in the day she most likely would not have ended up in the ICU.
So with all that going on I have had exactly 20 minutes of sleep in the last 25 1/2 hours.
So as of right now I have no idea what I weigh and I don't really care.
Maybe after I get up from my little sleepy sleep I'll see where I am at. But with the lack of sleep I would have to think that the # will most likely not be a good one.
So this will be Tata for now.
Catch ya'll later.
 
Well, I know all about having one's mom in the hospital. :grouphug: I hope she gets better soon. It's funny the doc sent her home like that. With my mom it's the opposite--they want to send her to the hospital for every little thing. She's had oxygen issues, too, so they've done several chest xrays over the past couple of months. Hopefully they'll get her back to normal soon.

Try to get some sleep, honey. :hug2:

Pervert. Like I've never been called that before. :biggrinjester:
 
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