Jennifuffa's Journal

Reflection

Ok I've joined the group two week challenge. I will be a part of the spare tire deflaters. I wish it was only one of those little donuts but it's a full size truck tire around my waist.

M2M you will be happy to know that I took your adivce. I finally got to the dollar store and I bought 4 16ounce water bottles. They were washed, filled up last night and put in the fridge for today.

I've already drank one. 1/4th of my water is consumed......Look, look I'm using the math!

I decided that I will not bother stepping on the scale until my weigh in days. I really think that doing so has been hindering my progress. I've talked about my unhealthy relationship with the scale and I think it is time to address it. I don't think I could go a whole month or anything because that terrifies me. However if I really stick to my 1700 calorie intake then I should be rewarded with a loss on monday. Oh just talking about the scale makes me want to go step on it. Is this a sickness or what?

What I have done good about today

I've made a plan. Yesterday I created a weekly meal plan just for dinners. I find if I know ahead of time what I have planned to make for supper that I stick to it and I'm less tempted to pick up something unhealthy.

Tonight is pizza and I use whole wheat dough, low fat cheese, peperoni (I know I could use just veggies hey maybe I will on half of the pizza). The thing about making it at home is that I find that two piece are more than enough. I usually make a nice salad with it as well and it's a wonderful meal. Anything left over my husband takes in his lunch. So it's a win win.

Well I'm off to go meet my new group of wonderful weightloss ladies.
 
congratulations on joining the challenge!!! I think it's going to be a great motivator for all of us. Good luck to you and your team!!!
 
The scale

jennifuffa said:
Kinda like when I weigh myself all of the time. When I am watching my weight I am always weighting myself. When I know I have gained weight I avoid the scale. I guess I like to hide from the truth.
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Me too! Good luck with how you decide to handle the scale!

I weigh myself once per day, in the am, after tinkling, naked, before food or water. If it's up, I vow to do better for the day. If it's down, I vow to continue doing well for the day. Doesn't always work! And when I fall.... A PBJ? That went down too quickly. Have some hot tamales (little red devils), no that didn't satisfy me. How about some chips and dip? No, that didn't hit it. Okay, something sweet. Disgusted now. Have to shake it off and do better next day or continue on a downward spiral.

"I went to buy some camoflage trousers the other day but I couldn't find any." :p
 
Patty said:
A PBJ? That went down too quickly. Have some hot tamales (little red devils), no that didn't satisfy me. How about some chips and dip? No, that didn't hit it. Okay, something sweet.
" :p
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LOL! That is so like me! On those really bad days. So I'm just going to avoid the scale!

I have not stepped on the scale today! Yeah for me!

2 bottles down. 1/2 of my water in take is donnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnne!

No exercise yet! I had a lot of running around to do. I will walk and strength train tonight!
 
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jennifuffa said:
M2M you will be happy to know that I took your adivce. I finally got to the dollar store and I bought 4 16ounce water bottles. They were washed, filled up last night and put in the fridge for today.

I've already drank one. 1/4th of my water is consumed......Look, look I'm using the math!
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That's great to see you're taking control of your drinking habits like that Jenn. I do something similar but with 1 liter bottles (33.8 oz). It's so much easier to keep track of them huh?
 
Sounds like you've got a good plan set up to get rid of that spare tire! Mine is probably closer to a truck tire too... but a very oddly shaped truck tire... :p Keep up the good work!
 
Doing great today! I've been really trying very hard to get with it. I know I will be rewarded on Monday for it!

Exercise:

45 minutes strength training
60 minutes walking

total 1 hr 45 minutes of exercise!

Calories

Right now are a little low 634 cals consumed and several burned but I'm having pizza for supper so I will get to my 1800 shortly!

Reflection:
Why do I fight exercising? I feel so good after I've exercised.

Water:
I've consumed 1/2 of my total so far.
 
Twinmom. thanks. I laughed when I saw the grumpy little kitty. I just couldn't resist the little sourpuss. I kinda feel and look like that in the morning.

Reflection:​

What I liked about today:

Well I've managed to do really well today. I consumed 1858 calories which is 58 calories over what I wanted but I am really hungry right now and I just had to eat a plum. I did my strength training and walking. So I burned approximately 316 calories doing so. Yeah! So eventhough I ate pizza tonight I still did grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat! All water will be consumed in two shakes of a lambs tail. Gulp....gulp......gulp.....aaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

What I could have changed about today?

I forgot to put on sunscreen and I burned my shoulders during my walk. Silly me. But other than that I don't think I would have done anything differently!
 
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Hey Jenn - doesn't it feel good knowing you're in control! Making a dinner meal plan, having the bottles of water ready to go - those are all terrific steps at being in charge! And your home made pizza sounds *wonderful* I think I'm going to have to make one!

Glad to hear you've joined the challenge! No matter who wins, we're all going to win :D
 
M2M said:
Glad to hear you've joined the challenge! No matter who wins, we're all going to win :D
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I'm glad you feel that way- Now I won't feel guilty when Jennifuffa, myself and the rest of the Spare Tire Deflators beat you:)


You're doing a great job Jen-- you are right on track. Isn't it great to have a day in your diary where you can say that you wouldn't change anything you did??
 
M2M:
It certainly does feel good to be back in control again. I like having a meal plan.....and so does my husband. It prevents me from doing the fast food thing. The water is so easy to drink now that I know exactly what I've drank and what I have yet to drink. Then anything over and above that is a bonus and I'm aware of what I've consumed.

About the challenge I couldn't agree more. It doesn't really matter who wins because we are all going to be losing weight. So even if your team loses you still win.
 
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I'm glad you feel that way- Now I won't feel guilty when Jennifuffa, myself and the rest of the Spare Tire Deflators beat you:)
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LOL. A competitive one as well, eh? (my Canadian comming out there oops. Yes we actually do say it from time to time. he he he)
 
I am so glad you feel better and your back on track I know you can do it!
 
Look at you busting out the exercise!!!! And so glad you had a great day, isn't it nice putting your head on the pillow knowing that you did so many positive things for yourself that day. Proud of ya, honey!!!
 
Reflection:

Well yes Scarlett, Redneck woman it does really feel pretty good to be back on track and in control. In fact I slept like a baby knowing I did something for myself.

I just have to remember that no matter how much support I get from all of you guys I still am the only one who can lose the weight. I've really been thinking about what I will look next summer and it seems to motivate me.

Goal!

I have a mini goal set with Darcy we are trying out a challenge on our own. We want to lose 10lbs by the 10th of August and I decided to set a longer term goal for myself.
Actually this goal pretty much works well for the spare tire deflaters because between her and I that would be 20lbs.

My latest goal is to 30lbs by my son's 1st birthday. Which will bring me to 240lbs. That was my prepregnacy weight or at least close to it I wasn't really weighting myself at that time. I didn't want to know my weight but I needed to know because I wanted to keep track of my weight gain during my pregnancy.


Cals today: 1718
cals burned: 192 Strengthe training 40 min

All water consumed today! YIPEE!

What I liked about today:

Eventhough this could possibly be the hottest day of the summer here I still did some exercicse. I wanted to do my areobics tape but I just didn't have the energy today. It is way to hot plus it's also very humid today.
 
Joke of the day

How do you make a kleenex dance?

Ya put a little boogie in it.

Reflection:

I'm looking forward to the weekend! Working on the bathroom again. When it is all done, if anyone wants I will put up a picture of it. We are also going out to camp on Saturday. It's really hard to avoid munchies there. My mom is really thin and can pretty much eat anything she wants so there are always munches out for everyone. I find it so hard to avoid the chips and dip and stuff. She does put out good stuff like fruit and veggies but not all of the time.

I know I've done really well this week and I would really hate to ruin all the progress that I've made during the week.

I've already drank 1/2 of my water! I'm going to leave now so that I can do my aerobic before the baby wakes up. Gee I'm really finding it so hard to time manage lately. The day goes by so fast and I can't find the time to either exercise or post on here.



I will try to post more often than I have been.
 
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