Lisa's Final Countdown, The Good Days, the Bad, & the Ugly

Geeze, ladies, lighten up!!! your calling us funny, comparing us to walls... There is so much estrogen floating around here, I think I'm starting to retain water...:biggrinjester:

All in fun!!!!

Yeah, Lisa, I did the chinese thing the other day and it didn't help me out much!! Luckily I'm only using Monday as an official weigh in day, because it wasn't pretty when I spot checked today:(
 
douknowjello said:
So, I doubt anyone would call me on this if I didn't post my food log today. But in keeping with being accountable there's a reason I haven't. My husband took me to chinese food today and it was a buffet. So of course I little bit of alot of things and I'm sure I over did it. But honestly trying to figure out the calories in it all would be a nightmare and nowhere close to accurate. Since that's all I ate today I'm just going to have a light dinner if I get hungry, salad or veggies or something. I almost got ice cream earlier but told myself no, having a bad lunch isn't a license to go hog wild all day.

So anyway I got a perm this morning and I'm really happy with it. I haven't had one since one time in highschool and other than that my hair's been pretty much the same. I wanted to do something to feel better about my appearance while I'm losing weight and I guess I finally realized I deserve to feel ok with how I look and not frumpy. I'm starting to get excited about the thought of being able to wear the jeans I have in my closet :) It's gonna take some time but still...actually starting to see it as possible. The fact I was able to lose 80lbs once before does help, even though I didn't always do it the right way. At least I know did it once and can do it again.
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Overdoing it on one day isn't the end of the world. Buffets of any kind are fatal for me too; I just can't resist, I always overeat at them.

You'll be fine though, don't sweat it too much.
 
reluctantcabbie said:
Geeze, ladies, lighten up!!! your calling us funny, comparing us to walls... There is so much estrogen floating around here, I think I'm starting to retain water...:biggrinjester:

All in fun!!!!

Yeah, Lisa, I did the chinese thing the other day and it didn't help me out much!! Luckily I'm only using Monday as an official weigh in day, because it wasn't pretty when I spot checked today:(
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ROFLMAO!!! You are so funny :D But hey we have our quirks too...and don't think we don't know men have their complaint sessions just like we do, lol.

Guess it was chinese food week for all of us. I don't think I have to worry much about this happening too much because my hubby, who for as long as I've known him has loved chinese food, now hates it. He got sick a few times, as did I, continued to eat it and then up one day and said he hates it now. He hates mexican food too...and all sorts of other things. I thought I'd got him out of this whole thing and then he goes and picks new foods to not like. If he gets any pickier I won't be able to feed him. I think he enjoys being difficult and makin me crazy lately, lol.
 
douknowjello said:
My husband took me to chinese food today and it was a buffet. So of course I ate little bit of alot of things and I'm sure I over did it.
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I always do that with chinese food!
douknowjello said:
I almost got ice cream earlier but told myself no,
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GREAT JOB! :hurray: i <3 ice cream. its hard to say no.

douknowjello said:
having a bad lunch isn't a license to go hog wild all day.
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I should learn this lesson!

douknowjello said:
I wanted to do something to feel better about my appearance while I'm losing weight and I guess I finally realized I deserve to feel ok with how I look and not frumpy.
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Its always good to do stuff like that! Keeps you motivated I think.
 
Well I got the idea from you Brandy :) With your rewards stuff. Of course I probably went a bit overboard for only 5lbs getting a perm but I figure thats for starting, being willing to do this differently AND losing 5lbs. Plus I just felt with I deserved something nice for a whole lot of reasons, lol. Was nice to have that thought.
 
reluctantcabbie said:
Geeze, ladies, lighten up!!! your calling us funny, comparing us to walls... There is so much estrogen floating around here, I think I'm starting to retain water...:biggrinjester:
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rofl rofl cute! :smilielol5:

Fantasy football? I never heard of that, haha. But Robbie is the same i think! He plays soccor games on teh computer and on his playstation all the time! And for lunch at his work, him and a bunch of his buddies eat and then kick a ball around for the rest of the time.

Men! Psh!

And on a random note, I miss my chinese nasi gorang! I think on my off day, in 10 more days, I'll order it at 'my' chinese restaurant!
 
Hey Lisa!
I finally caught up on your journal! Funny stuff!!


Chinese food is my enemy. I could probably eat over 3,000 calories in one sitting and I'm not even joking. The last time I ate at a buffet I happend to weigh myself before I went and that night I got on the scale afterwards and was up by NINE pounds! I know it's b/c it was the same day and at night and b/c of the salt...but still...NINE pounds?!? weird. I haven't eaten Chinese since I've started this, but maybe by Christmas I'll have earned it. I'll prob. get a to-go box and just eat out of it all day. yummmmmmmmm. haha!

I hear you on the hubby stuff. We don't usually fight, but when we do it's always the same thing. I get annoyed at him for rushing me and he gets annoyed that I take my sweet lil' old time! This is for EVERYTHING! We both try to work on it, but it seems that it's always an issue. I guess we balance each other out, but it gets frustrating to the both of us. Also, he was in the military for 4 years and he is very concious of the time it takes him to do something. For him, he's late if he's not 15 min. early anywhere he goes! If he says he's going to "run into the store real quick" he means it. Literally. He actually runs in and out of the store! I know that this might be trivial to some and that it could be worse, but since it's an everyday issue for us, it seems like a big one I guess. Ah well. I'm glad we're not the same or things would be boring!
 
So my thoughts today...I'm glad I got started but definitely see room for improvement. I'm still trying to find that balance between telling myself I'm not on a strict "diet" while also not letting myself just slide into my bad junkfood habits. This coming week is going to be crazy so I'm going to do the best to improve on this last week but as long as I stick with this that's a victory in and of itself.

I'm just glad to have found something I can live with that's not all or nothing. That's such a new concept to me....all my life whenever I tried to lose weight, no matter what kind of diet plan it's always all or nothing with X amount of restrictions and as soon as you screw up, you're off your diet. That only led to me torturing myself with food that eventually made me gag and then one slip up ended up and I was "off" my diet, and had to somehow will myself to "start again tomorrow". This only ended with me eating everything I wouldn't be able to have while I tried to find it in myself somewhere to restart the torture for very little results.

It all seems so simple now but honestly, while I'm so relieved to not be "dieting" anymore, I'm also scared as hell to not be on one. Yea...there's a part of me that is afraid of every thing I put into my mouth. There was a certain amount of safety in the diets I guess, as long as I was sticking to it I was being good. Looking at what I ate last week and the fact I lost 5lbs anyway I still have a hard time believing it. I'm just worried it's going to be too good to be true and I'm going to find out that some strict diet is the only way to lose weight, as ridiculous as that may sound. Even I know how it sounds...but it's been with me for so long it's hard to shake it.

So anyway, my calories were in range today but I felt like I was sneaking off my diet. I was starving and co-worker got me breakfast at Mcdonalds. Two breakfast burritos and a hashbrown, 750 cals total and I felt SO guilty after. You'd have thought I stole something I felt so bad. Then I had car trouble and by the time I got home it was afternoon and I was hungry and fighting it instead of just eating a real meal. I got next to no sleep today and I didn't feel like cooking and hubby wanted pizza so here came the guilt again.

I purposely looked up the nutrition info and we ordered thin crust veggie pizza, which I tested out toppings on their calculator until I found the lowest calorie pizza. I measured out my pieces with a food scale before I ate and had a salad and stayed within my calorie goals. So why do I feel like I just sat down and ate an entire chocolate cake? This is a lifestyle change, I didn't over eat today. But when I look at WHAT I ate I feel like I was cheating and just lying to myself that I'm doing good. Stupid really when if I look at the entire week and compared it to what I used to eat its night and day different. I really hope this gets easier fast and I figure out where that line is.

Anyway here's my food for today:

2 breakfast burritos (mcdonalds)
1 hashbrown patty
1 banana
1 nectarine
1 oscar meyer light cheese dog, turkey
1 low carb tortilla
1 salad (lettuce, tomatos, mushrooms, 1oz cheese, 2tb dressing)
3 slices of thin crust veggie pizza (mushrooms, onions, olives from Pizza Hut)

Total calories: 2031

No exercise today, barely any sleep either
 
OoooOoo....I just noticed I'm at 599 posts. I was just going to edit my other post but dang it, now I'll do this seperate so I have one more for an even 600, lol.

Anyway one thing I didn't mention is I finally prepacked all my vitamins and metformin. I've got C, B complex, daily vitamin, iron, and even some chromium piccolinate I had I thought I'd use up. Not sure why all these vitamins have to be the size of horse pills but I managed to get them down when I got home today. Woke up with a bit of acid reflux after my nap today though and I didn't take them on an empty stomach. Oh and note to self* buy some fiber tabs w/ calcium....then I think I'll have it covered.
 
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Today's food I came home and had a slice of leftover pizza, then got some sleep. Later I had a banana and didn't eat anything else so I knew I had some room for dinner. We had company and KFC so was a good thing.

Here's todays food:

Thin crust veggie pizza- 1 slice
1 banana

KFC Dinner: 2 original thighs, 1 wing, mashed potatoes & gravy, mac & cheese, 2 biscuits, margarine

Total calories: 1958

I'm going to have to look online and research how much sodium is ok a day. With all this prepared food I've been eating it seems awfully high.

...nevermind....on Fitday when I clicked on nutrition it has the recommended daily allowance....1500mg. I have 5600....wow. Welp baby steps...less prepared food and watch that salt. I'm still under my calorie range so I'm still making progress.
 
Ahh yes... guilt. Doesn't it kick us all in the @$$ at times...

Unfortunately for me I have had a string of days that I have every right to feel guilty about...

sounds like you are doing well keeping in range though, and doing well by it. Keep it up!!
 
Hi Lisa,

Thought I'd stop by and say hello. I'll try and get a read on your journal soon. Glad you found the green bags, they really do work. They are amazing.
 
Lisa, Great job on the weight loss! Don't stress about the Chinese Food or the Fried Chicken. A girl's got to have fun sometimes! Just resolve to be "good" most of the time and you will be all right. Keep giving yourself rewards ... you are worth it!
 
bigdogmom said:
Hi Lisa,

Thought I'd stop by and say hello. I'll try and get a read on your journal soon. Glad you found the green bags, they really do work. They are amazing.
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Bigdogmom!!! yay you're back!!! I kept watching your journal but haven't seen you. Yea I LOVe those bags. It's been almost 2 weeks and nothing has gone bad yet except the precut lettuce...it got brown but not slimy. And lettuce is easy...I'll just by it as a head from now on. My stomach can't take the cabbage anyway thats in the bags. Oh and I found some green bags at the local dollar general store yesterday :) So I may not even have to order them anymore. These were 5 bucks instead of 10 but don't know if they work as good, we'll see. Anyway so good to see you!!!
 
reluctantcabbie said:
Ahh yes... guilt. Doesn't it kick us all in the @$$ at times...

Unfortunately for me I have had a string of days that I have every right to feel guilty about...

sounds like you are doing well keeping in range though, and doing well by it. Keep it up!!
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Yea maybe I SHOULD be feeling more guilty :X lol But something is working....I was trying to walk around campus today and I had to keep pullin my pants up. I'm definitely starting to feel better all the way around and I had the amazing thought today that this hasn't been painful, the time is going by anyway, and I'm making progress. Still seems too good to be true.
 
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