Sunflower2
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Mmm, your lime chicken sounds lovelyyy. Care to share the recipe? 
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mizzie
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For those who are interested:
Spicy Lime Garlic Chicken
Ingredients:
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/8 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/8 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
1/4 teaspoon dried parsley
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about 1 pound)
2 tablespoons butter (low fat butter or margarine work just fine)
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 teaspoons garlic powder
3 tablespoons lime juice (feel free to use less if you wish, it does have a pretty strong lime flavor, but I like it)
Directions:
1. In small bowl, mix together salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, 1/4 tsp garlic powder, onion powder, thyme and parsley. Sprinkle spice mix generously on both sides of chicken breasts.
2. Heat butter and oil in a large heavy skillet over medium heat. Saute chicken until golden brown, about 6 minutes on each side. Sprinkle with 2 tsp garlic powder and lime juice. Cook 5 minutes, stirring frequently to coat evenly with sauce.
Calories: 220 for 4 oz. chicken
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It's one of my favorites! I usually serve this with plain rice and a side of veggies or a salad. You can get a whole meal for less than 400 calories! And so flavorful. You can also cut the chicken up bite sized before spicing and cooking it, then serve it right on the rice (with some veggies, if that's your thing), stir fry style. I love chicken because it's low calorie, low fat and you can do so much with it. I could eat chicken every night and not really get bored with it, because of all the different ways to cook it. I have a few more recipes along these lines if anyone is interested, I think I'm going to make honey crusted chicken tomorrow.
Not doing so great on my goals today. I think I'll be about right with calories, but I didn't get my exercise in. I just had so much to do, plus my living room has been taken over with dirty laundry. And I still need to drink more water. Going to be bad tonight and just make a frozen pizza. I know, I know, but I won't go over my calories (I already have it figured out how much I can eat). We have an open house at Chloe's new school tonight and we'll all get to meet her teacher, see her classroom, etc. Can't miss it, so time is going to be short. The school is only about half a mile from here, so I think we might walk over there. Get some exercise in there anyway.
Spicy Lime Garlic Chicken
Ingredients:
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/8 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/8 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
1/4 teaspoon dried parsley
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about 1 pound)
2 tablespoons butter (low fat butter or margarine work just fine)
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 teaspoons garlic powder
3 tablespoons lime juice (feel free to use less if you wish, it does have a pretty strong lime flavor, but I like it)
Directions:
1. In small bowl, mix together salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, 1/4 tsp garlic powder, onion powder, thyme and parsley. Sprinkle spice mix generously on both sides of chicken breasts.
2. Heat butter and oil in a large heavy skillet over medium heat. Saute chicken until golden brown, about 6 minutes on each side. Sprinkle with 2 tsp garlic powder and lime juice. Cook 5 minutes, stirring frequently to coat evenly with sauce.
Calories: 220 for 4 oz. chicken
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It's one of my favorites! I usually serve this with plain rice and a side of veggies or a salad. You can get a whole meal for less than 400 calories! And so flavorful. You can also cut the chicken up bite sized before spicing and cooking it, then serve it right on the rice (with some veggies, if that's your thing), stir fry style. I love chicken because it's low calorie, low fat and you can do so much with it. I could eat chicken every night and not really get bored with it, because of all the different ways to cook it. I have a few more recipes along these lines if anyone is interested, I think I'm going to make honey crusted chicken tomorrow.
Not doing so great on my goals today. I think I'll be about right with calories, but I didn't get my exercise in. I just had so much to do, plus my living room has been taken over with dirty laundry. And I still need to drink more water. Going to be bad tonight and just make a frozen pizza. I know, I know, but I won't go over my calories (I already have it figured out how much I can eat). We have an open house at Chloe's new school tonight and we'll all get to meet her teacher, see her classroom, etc. Can't miss it, so time is going to be short. The school is only about half a mile from here, so I think we might walk over there. Get some exercise in there anyway.
mizzie
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I bet! Man, I wish I could eat 2000 calories!!! That would be great. I suppose I could if I started really working out hard core, but that's not going to happen. lol
Thanks for dropping by! I was so glad that so many people I knew before were still around here. Nice to see you again!
mizzie
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Ugg, roller coaster morning as far as how I feel about losing weight. I was really looking forward to my weigh in this morning because, even though the weekend wasn't great, I mostly did pretty well this week with a few days that were super good. So I was expecting at least a 2 pound loss. Last week I was 177.4 and I stepped on the scale this morning and it said 177. 
Hardly even counts as a loss, since my stupid scale can fluctuate that much in 20 minutes. Made me want to just sit on the couch and eat all day, what's the difference? Yeah, I was down this morning.
But then I started thinking about it, waited a hour, ate breakfast then weighed again. 175.4 Ok, lots better, but what's going on? I even ate in the meantime! No change in clothes or anything. Finally realized that our bathroom floor is horribly uneven and that's probably part of it. So I decided to move my scale to the bedroom (we have wood floors) and leave it in one spot there so even in the actual number is skewed because of uneven-ness, it should be consistently skewed. Weighed myself there and it came up as 176, so that's what I'm going with. 176, which is a 1.4 pound loss. Not great, wanted a little more, but given the weekend, I'll take it.
At least I don't feel like giving up any more.
This weekend shouldn't be quite as hard, we only have something going on one day and that's a first birthday for my good friend's twin boys. No alcohol there and she's knows my goals so she won't be hurt if I don't eat much and skip the cake.
Hardly even counts as a loss, since my stupid scale can fluctuate that much in 20 minutes. Made me want to just sit on the couch and eat all day, what's the difference? Yeah, I was down this morning.But then I started thinking about it, waited a hour, ate breakfast then weighed again. 175.4
Ok, lots better, but what's going on? I even ate in the meantime! No change in clothes or anything. Finally realized that our bathroom floor is horribly uneven and that's probably part of it. So I decided to move my scale to the bedroom (we have wood floors) and leave it in one spot there so even in the actual number is skewed because of uneven-ness, it should be consistently skewed. Weighed myself there and it came up as 176, so that's what I'm going with. 176, which is a 1.4 pound loss. Not great, wanted a little more, but given the weekend, I'll take it.At least I don't feel like giving up any more.
This weekend shouldn't be quite as hard, we only have something going on one day and that's a first birthday for my good friend's twin boys. No alcohol there and she's knows my goals so she won't be hurt if I don't eat much and skip the cake.
mizzie
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Thanks guys!
Sorry I sort of fell off the face of the earth again. Moving expenses hit us hard and money became a huge problem for a few weeks. We are still working it out, but I've started a new job (there now actually, on here with boss' permission ^_~ ), so things should pick up in the next couple of weeks.
The down side of that is my eating has been all over the place. We literally didn't have money to buy any food for a month, so had to eat what we could find in the cupboards, which is not always healthy or low calorie. Also, I've been baking break, corn bread, cookies, home-made pasta, etc to help fill the gaps (ingredients are all things we had already). None of that is low calorie and I tried not to pig out, but I also vowed from the beginning that I wasn't going to starve myself. It was hard to just to get enough money together to buy milk, had to actually borrow from our daughter. Times are hard when you are reduced to emptying your 7 year old's piggy bank.
But, as I've said, things should pick up in a week or so and I can start counting calories again. I know it's terrible, but it seems like when I can't really stick closely with my calories, I stop exercising also. It's like all or nothing with me, apparently.
Anyway, new job! ^_^ I'm an office manager at a brand new chiropractic clinic that opened in our town. It's going pretty well, considering we just opened on Monday. We aren't exactly back to back patients, of course, but we've had more than expected. In fact, the owner/chiropractor said that she had set a goal for the first week and we met that on Monday!
My boss is super nice also! Which is absolutely great, as I'm sure you all know. I don't have a whole lot of work yet, since we don't have a ton of patients yet and I'm still learning how to submit things to insurances and such. She doesn't care if I read in my down time (been studying my scuba book, it's inspiration to keep going with this!) and I'm actually on her laptop now, since she needed the desk computer. She actually asked me if I wanted to check my e-mail or anything. LOL Of course, we'll be busier soon and I won't be playing online, but that'll be a good thing. Oh, and Josh, Chloe and I all get free chiropractic services.
Well, that's about all that going on with me. Need some inspiration to get going again as soon as I'm able, since it's very discouraging to pretty much have to stop just as soon as I was getting started again.
Sorry I sort of fell off the face of the earth again. Moving expenses hit us hard and money became a huge problem for a few weeks. We are still working it out, but I've started a new job (there now actually, on here with boss' permission ^_~ ), so things should pick up in the next couple of weeks.
The down side of that is my eating has been all over the place. We literally didn't have money to buy any food for a month, so had to eat what we could find in the cupboards, which is not always healthy or low calorie. Also, I've been baking break, corn bread, cookies, home-made pasta, etc to help fill the gaps (ingredients are all things we had already). None of that is low calorie and I tried not to pig out, but I also vowed from the beginning that I wasn't going to starve myself. It was hard to just to get enough money together to buy milk, had to actually borrow from our daughter. Times are hard when you are reduced to emptying your 7 year old's piggy bank.
But, as I've said, things should pick up in a week or so and I can start counting calories again. I know it's terrible, but it seems like when I can't really stick closely with my calories, I stop exercising also. It's like all or nothing with me, apparently.
Anyway, new job! ^_^ I'm an office manager at a brand new chiropractic clinic that opened in our town. It's going pretty well, considering we just opened on Monday. We aren't exactly back to back patients, of course, but we've had more than expected. In fact, the owner/chiropractor said that she had set a goal for the first week and we met that on Monday!
My boss is super nice also! Which is absolutely great, as I'm sure you all know. I don't have a whole lot of work yet, since we don't have a ton of patients yet and I'm still learning how to submit things to insurances and such. She doesn't care if I read in my down time (been studying my scuba book, it's inspiration to keep going with this!) and I'm actually on her laptop now, since she needed the desk computer. She actually asked me if I wanted to check my e-mail or anything. LOL Of course, we'll be busier soon and I won't be playing online, but that'll be a good thing. Oh, and Josh, Chloe and I all get free chiropractic services.
Well, that's about all that going on with me. Need some inspiration to get going again as soon as I'm able, since it's very discouraging to pretty much have to stop just as soon as I was getting started again.
Hi Mizzie!!! Great to see you back again, you were missed!!
Congrats on the new job, I'm glad to hear you like your boss. From what I read in your post, you did what you had to to survive food wise... just think of your job as a fresh start, you can be back in control again of your food and just pick right back up from where you left off.
Congrats on the new job, I'm glad to hear you like your boss. From what I read in your post, you did what you had to to survive food wise... just think of your job as a fresh start, you can be back in control again of your food and just pick right back up from where you left off.
mattmanbass
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Your blog has been very inspiring, i know you had a slight "hiccup" in your plans but stay with it! I know exactly how it feels to fall off the wagon and gain it back, it can get out of hand so fast! But your blog has kept me strong since i discovered it, the way you have opened up your mind for all us to see has really helped me with some of my own issues and fears. Even though at times this type of journy can seem "easy" , or at least easier than we had thought, it can also be one hell of a difficult thing to accomplish. I hope you will keep posting your progress and keep working toward a better you, just know that your struggle has helped me with mine! Good luck from Kansas City
Matt
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mizzie
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And here I am, yet again, slinking back with my head down. *sigh* Fell off again hard core. I have a dozen excuses for why, but none of them matter. The end all, be all reason is that I just made bad (read: very bad) choices. I'm now up to 193... I cried when I saw that number on the scale. That means I've gone up 40 pounds from my lightest AND I'm only 7 pounds from being over 200 again. I swore I would never see that again!
Well, I spent 4 days feeling sorry for myself... and eating. Then I spent yesterday trying to be good, only to completely blow it at the very end of the day (what? 7 chocolate chip cookies aren't part of my diet?). Doing well today, think I'm going to end the day a little low, which is good after yesterday.
I just really need to kick my butt and stick with it. It gets so easy to just think "oh, one day won't matter" but it's never one day. One turns into a week, then a month, now a year!!! It was this time last year that I just gave up.
NO MORE!!!
I've said this before, and even now I'm worried that I'll just fall again and I can't help thinking of all the foods I'd like to eat for dinner tonight. It's hard to get a good strong start when you've fallen so many times. You start with doubt. I just need to keep telling myself that I've done this before and I can do it again! Been reading inspirational weight loss stories today to prove to myself that it can be done. Apparently my own success isn't enough for me. Go figure.
I found a locally run exercise place last month. They don't have a gym, but they offer a bunch of classes for pretty cheap. There are all different types of classes and most combine aerobic and weight training. The trainer just loves squats and lunges, both while holding a weighted bar. I joined last month and really liked it. Having a class to go to is better for me, since I can't put it off. I can't say "I'll do it later" since it's now or never. Plus, I'm hoping to meet some people, since we are new here. Unfortunately... money issues hit hard this month and I can't continue with the class. But hopefully I can in January and my plan is to do something on Tues and Thurs mornings since I don't go into work until later. Even though I didn't today.... *sigh*
But, so far so good on today. And we are cooking chicken breast and cutting it up into a salad for dinner tonight, so calories should be pretty good. Plus, the cookies are gone.
If you all aren't sick of me coming and going, pop in with some butt kicking! ^_^
I cried when I saw that number on the scale. That means I've gone up 40 pounds from my lightest AND I'm only 7 pounds from being over 200 again. I swore I would never see that again!Well, I spent 4 days feeling sorry for myself... and eating. Then I spent yesterday trying to be good, only to completely blow it at the very end of the day (what? 7 chocolate chip cookies aren't part of my diet?). Doing well today, think I'm going to end the day a little low, which is good after yesterday.
I just really need to kick my butt and stick with it. It gets so easy to just think "oh, one day won't matter" but it's never one day. One turns into a week, then a month, now a year!!! It was this time last year that I just gave up.
NO MORE!!!
I've said this before, and even now I'm worried that I'll just fall again and I can't help thinking of all the foods I'd like to eat for dinner tonight. It's hard to get a good strong start when you've fallen so many times. You start with doubt. I just need to keep telling myself that I've done this before and I can do it again! Been reading inspirational weight loss stories today to prove to myself that it can be done. Apparently my own success isn't enough for me. Go figure.
I found a locally run exercise place last month. They don't have a gym, but they offer a bunch of classes for pretty cheap. There are all different types of classes and most combine aerobic and weight training. The trainer just loves squats and lunges, both while holding a weighted bar. I joined last month and really liked it. Having a class to go to is better for me, since I can't put it off. I can't say "I'll do it later" since it's now or never. Plus, I'm hoping to meet some people, since we are new here. Unfortunately... money issues hit hard this month and I can't continue with the class. But hopefully I can in January and my plan is to do something on Tues and Thurs mornings since I don't go into work until later. Even though I didn't today.... *sigh*
But, so far so good on today. And we are cooking chicken breast and cutting it up into a salad for dinner tonight, so calories should be pretty good. Plus, the cookies are gone.
If you all aren't sick of me coming and going, pop in with some butt kicking! ^_^
mizzie
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So, yesterday ended very well! I forgot to weigh my salad stuff individually before I threw it all on, but I've made this salad often enough that I have a pretty good guess. I made sure to go light on the dressing and sunflower seeds. I did have seconds, but seconds of lettuce, carrots and brocolli isn't a bad thing! We were out of chicken then, which was fine. Best guess is that I ended the day with at least a 1100 calorie deficete. Yea!
Doing good so far today also. I made a packet of oatmeal for breakfast (160 calories), but it was a new kind and wasn't very good, so I only ate about 2/3 of it. Feeling a little hungry now, but I have light string cheese in the fridge at work, so I can have one of those (50 calories). Will probably have salad again for lunch (~110 calories) or a peanut butter sandwich and carrots (~230 calories). That will leave quite a lot of calories left for dinner. No idea yet what we will have, but we have chicken and fish in the freezer, so probably one of those and rice. If I have the calories left, I might splurge for some hot chocolate tonight. It's cold in MN this time of year!
It's DD's birthday on Friday and we are having family over to celebrate on Saturday, so this weekend will be hard. But I'm making, at her request, an angel food cake and that's only 100 calories a slice, so I'll be able to have a peice of cake with her.
Feeling really good about this right now. I do keep starting to think about all the things *"I can't have anymore", but whenever I start thinking about that, I try to focus on how much better I'll look and feel in 6 months if I'm just a good girl now.
* Yes, there are things I've decided I just plain can't have because I have no control over them. There are things that I'll keep eating until they are gone then go buy more. So, none at all is a better plan for me. Maybe some day a long time from now, when all this is second nature... but maybe not.
Doing good so far today also. I made a packet of oatmeal for breakfast (160 calories), but it was a new kind and wasn't very good, so I only ate about 2/3 of it. Feeling a little hungry now, but I have light string cheese in the fridge at work, so I can have one of those (50 calories). Will probably have salad again for lunch (~110 calories) or a peanut butter sandwich and carrots (~230 calories). That will leave quite a lot of calories left for dinner. No idea yet what we will have, but we have chicken and fish in the freezer, so probably one of those and rice. If I have the calories left, I might splurge for some hot chocolate tonight. It's cold in MN this time of year!
It's DD's birthday on Friday and we are having family over to celebrate on Saturday, so this weekend will be hard. But I'm making, at her request, an angel food cake and that's only 100 calories a slice, so I'll be able to have a peice of cake with her.
Feeling really good about this right now. I do keep starting to think about all the things *"I can't have anymore", but whenever I start thinking about that, I try to focus on how much better I'll look and feel in 6 months if I'm just a good girl now.
* Yes, there are things I've decided I just plain can't have because I have no control over them. There are things that I'll keep eating until they are gone then go buy more. So, none at all is a better plan for me. Maybe some day a long time from now, when all this is second nature... but maybe not.
mizzie
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So, lunch turned out very different from planned. Shortly after I posted that someone came into the office from one of those healthy smoothies places that just opened in town. She was giving out free lunch coupons. Figured "what the heck" and went there for lunch. It was pretty good, actually! You get 16 oz of tea and a 16 oz shake. I was a little worried because I don't really like tea and I don't really like berries (yeah yeah, I'm nuts, I know), so I wasn't sure if I'd find something there I'd want. Well, they have different flavors they add to the tea to mask the taste for people who don't like it. I got a margarita lime flavor that wasn't half bad. Sort of tasted like a watered down virgin margarita, which isn't wonderful, but 100 times better than green tea, IMHO and was only 20 calories. Plus, they had like 40 different flavors for the shakes. Not only were there tons that sounded good, I actually had trouble picking. Decided to get the chocolate peanut butter cup one. YUM! And for only about 250 calories also! Plus, it had about 20g of protein, so yea for that also. That was over 3 hours ago and I don't feel hungry at all. ^_^
So, not somewhere I'll go every day or anything, but definitely something I'll do again.
So, grand total for today so far is 400 calories, which leaves about 800 for dinner!!!
Think I can stay around that. I might even have trouble hitting it! Feeling very happy about things right now. ^_^
So, not somewhere I'll go every day or anything, but definitely something I'll do again.
So, grand total for today so far is 400 calories, which leaves about 800 for dinner!!!
Think I can stay around that. I might even have trouble hitting it! Feeling very happy about things right now. ^_^
mizzie
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Luz! Good to see you again girl! Super glad you're still here. ^_^
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Man, I wanted to hit up the shake place again today. What do they put in those things? Geez. If I had a little more time this morning, I probably would have. But it's cool, I'm getting past the "hungry all the time just because my body is used to eatting way too much" thing, which is good. Not really feeling hungry today, which I like. Had about 200 calories for a late breakfast and I have a peanut butter sandwich and the light string cheese in the fridge for whenever I start feeling hungry. I should make it to 7pm with only about 500 calories, so no matter what, dinner shouldn't derail me too much. Totally didn't get any exercise in this morning before work though. No excuses there, I was just having too much fun playing around on my computer.
So, I sort of unofficially stepped on the scale today. I'm not supposed to weigh until tomorrow, but I couldn't help it. I wasn't expecting much, since I sort of blew Monday, so it's really only been 2 days of being good, but I was actually quite surprised by the number! Holy crap! I'm sure a lot of that is just water weight from being hydrated, but I'll take it. ^_^ Just hope I'm not setting myself up to be angry tomorrow if it goes up at all. *sigh* This is why I shouldn't weigh during the week.
Gah, I really shouldn't have pissed away the morning. I have so much to do! Our house is a mess and I have to plan for tomorrow and Saturday. I have to order something for DD to bring to school tomorrow, wrap her gift, and get groceries for her dinner tomorrow and lunch Saturday plus 2 cakes! Not to mention bake the 2 cakes.
Why did I waste all morning playing computer games? Oy veh! And I work until 7 tonight and start again at 7:30 tomorrow morning. PLUS, I have a really cute idea for things to make for Christmas gifts, but I haven't even started! I still need to find the materials!!! I swear, I'm one of those "if it wasn't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done" people.
OH! I didn't post this before, but it's sort of related to this. For anyone who doesn't know, I've always wanted to get my scuba license. I had an opportunity to scuba when I was 13 and always vowed I would do it again. So, that's my reward for when I reach my weight loss goal of 150. Small-ish issue, the town we used to live in had a scuba shop, but we've moved now and this one doesn't. But we only live about an hour from Fargo and there is one there. Anyway, the point of all this is a couple weeks ago we were in Fargo so we decided to go check out the shop. I got to talk to the worker there for about an hour and drool over all the equipment. Totally fun! Ok, so DD didn't think so as much, but I did. Really helped me get excited about this again, which is great.
Part of all of this is that I want more from life. I don't want to be just another overweight wife and mother, working a 9-5 job, coming home to eat a boxed dinner in front of the TV, lather rinse repeat. I love my husband and daughter and I like my job very much, but I want more from life! I want to get healthy, that's a given, but I also want to go more places and do more things. One way to do that, for me, would be scuba. It's something I've always wanted and something most people don't do. I'm surrounded by people who don't DO things, people who just plod along through one more day. I just want more.
Whoa, ok, got a little heavy there.
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Man, I wanted to hit up the shake place again today. What do they put in those things? Geez. If I had a little more time this morning, I probably would have. But it's cool, I'm getting past the "hungry all the time just because my body is used to eatting way too much" thing, which is good. Not really feeling hungry today, which I like. Had about 200 calories for a late breakfast and I have a peanut butter sandwich and the light string cheese in the fridge for whenever I start feeling hungry. I should make it to 7pm with only about 500 calories, so no matter what, dinner shouldn't derail me too much. Totally didn't get any exercise in this morning before work though. No excuses there, I was just having too much fun playing around on my computer.
So, I sort of unofficially stepped on the scale today. I'm not supposed to weigh until tomorrow, but I couldn't help it. I wasn't expecting much, since I sort of blew Monday, so it's really only been 2 days of being good, but I was actually quite surprised by the number! Holy crap! I'm sure a lot of that is just water weight from being hydrated, but I'll take it. ^_^ Just hope I'm not setting myself up to be angry tomorrow if it goes up at all. *sigh* This is why I shouldn't weigh during the week.
Gah, I really shouldn't have pissed away the morning. I have so much to do! Our house is a mess and I have to plan for tomorrow and Saturday. I have to order something for DD to bring to school tomorrow, wrap her gift, and get groceries for her dinner tomorrow and lunch Saturday plus 2 cakes! Not to mention bake the 2 cakes.
Why did I waste all morning playing computer games? Oy veh! And I work until 7 tonight and start again at 7:30 tomorrow morning. PLUS, I have a really cute idea for things to make for Christmas gifts, but I haven't even started! I still need to find the materials!!! I swear, I'm one of those "if it wasn't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done" people.OH! I didn't post this before, but it's sort of related to this. For anyone who doesn't know, I've always wanted to get my scuba license. I had an opportunity to scuba when I was 13 and always vowed I would do it again. So, that's my reward for when I reach my weight loss goal of 150. Small-ish issue, the town we used to live in had a scuba shop, but we've moved now and this one doesn't. But we only live about an hour from Fargo and there is one there. Anyway, the point of all this is a couple weeks ago we were in Fargo so we decided to go check out the shop. I got to talk to the worker there for about an hour and drool over all the equipment. Totally fun! Ok, so DD didn't think so as much, but I did. Really helped me get excited about this again, which is great.
Part of all of this is that I want more from life. I don't want to be just another overweight wife and mother, working a 9-5 job, coming home to eat a boxed dinner in front of the TV, lather rinse repeat. I love my husband and daughter and I like my job very much, but I want more from life! I want to get healthy, that's a given, but I also want to go more places and do more things. One way to do that, for me, would be scuba. It's something I've always wanted and something most people don't do. I'm surrounded by people who don't DO things, people who just plod along through one more day. I just want more.
Whoa, ok, got a little heavy there.
mizzie
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Woot! I'm at 191.6 this morning, so that's a 1.9 pound loss. I'll take it. Ok, I did weight a little less yesterday, but I'm not going to whine about that. I was just happy because the first time I stepped on the scale this morning, it was the exact same weight I was on Monday. I was so shocked! But I stepped off and back on and then got the 191.6. I really need a new scale, this is rediculous.
Today is going to be kind of bad. DD wanted waffles this morning for her birthday breakfast and yeah, I could have still had my usual breakfast, but... waffles! *sigh* I only had one and only put a little syrup on it, but I really have no idea of calories on that. I'm sure it's not good. But I'm going to have salad for lunch, so that will help. But dinner won't be great either. DD requested one of my mom's hotdishes (I'm from MN, we call them hotdishes. Cassaroles for you non-MN people) and I don't really know what it might be for that either. Grr...
Mini goal for the day: Finish my water bottle at least once before I leave work at 1. Oh, and clean the house this afternoon, but that has nothing to do with weight loss. ^_^
I really need a new scale, this is rediculous.Today is going to be kind of bad. DD wanted waffles this morning for her birthday breakfast and yeah, I could have still had my usual breakfast, but... waffles! *sigh* I only had one and only put a little syrup on it, but I really have no idea of calories on that. I'm sure it's not good. But I'm going to have salad for lunch, so that will help. But dinner won't be great either. DD requested one of my mom's hotdishes (I'm from MN, we call them hotdishes. Cassaroles for you non-MN people) and I don't really know what it might be for that either. Grr...
Mini goal for the day: Finish my water bottle at least once before I leave work at 1. Oh, and clean the house this afternoon, but that has nothing to do with weight loss. ^_^
Yay Mizzie, that's awesome!!!!!!!!!! 
Haha I've always found that the state of my house depends on my mood- if I'm really happy the house is spotless, then if I get down for a few days the dishes build up, clothes start to go everywhere... Usually if I get a good weigh in the house is spotless that night
Also I think that you did really well with breakfast. From reading your post if you weren't currently on a health kick I'm assuming you would've eaten a lot more than you did- remember you're trying to make lifestyle changes and if having one waffle with a bit of syrup compared to having two or 3 (or more!) with the works- I would count that as a positive lifestyle change! You can be good all the time but it doesn't necessarily mean depriving yourself. Little changes!!
Haha I've always found that the state of my house depends on my mood- if I'm really happy the house is spotless, then if I get down for a few days the dishes build up, clothes start to go everywhere... Usually if I get a good weigh in the house is spotless that night
Also I think that you did really well with breakfast. From reading your post if you weren't currently on a health kick I'm assuming you would've eaten a lot more than you did- remember you're trying to make lifestyle changes and if having one waffle with a bit of syrup compared to having two or 3 (or more!) with the works- I would count that as a positive lifestyle change! You can be good all the time but it doesn't necessarily mean depriving yourself. Little changes!!
mizzie
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Thanks Luz. Yeah, I probably would have had a worse breakfast if I wasn't back on the weight loss wagon. But it's still not good...
And speaking of not good... the weekend! That horrible, horrible weekend! Ok, my weekend was not horrible, it was actually really good, but the mass amounts of calories are going to bite me in the butt this week! I can't even tell you what all I ate, I was out of control. Part of it was having people over and all the good food around and part if it is that I just gave in. *sigh* Ok, I'm giving up on my weigh in this week, I'm just going to be as good as I possibly can and hope that I don't gain weight. If I break even, I'll be... well, not exactly happy, but relieved anyway.
And at least now the yummy hotdish from calorie hell is gone, so we can move on. Right?
So, breakfast was a peanut butter sandwich (~200 cal), morning snack in a light string cheese (50 cal) and lunch is a lettuce salad with brocolli, cauliflower, unsalted seasame seeds and light dressing (~120 cal). Dinner will probably be a frozen pizza or something, but DH has the flu and by time I get home I won't really want to cook. If I have the salad for lunch, I should have calories enough for a small salad and two pieces of pizza.
I've been thinking, this time of year is so bad for trying to loss weight. For the most part, we don't have a whole lot going on, but it seems like you can be very, very good all week, but then you have a family gathering or something and it blows your weigh in. And for me, that is depressing and makes it so much harder to be good the next week. So I'm going to just focus on getting healthy eating habits established this month and not worry about what the scale says so much. Once that's done, it'll be that much easier to really hit it hard after the new year when holiday gathering (and eating) is done. Hopefully by then, the eating better will be more second nature than it is now and the pounds will start melting off more easily. I'm undecided whether to weigh in the mean time or not. Part of me thinks I should to just keep an eye on things even though I'm not focusing on that number right now. But the other part of me thinks that it would just cause me to focus on that number. Plus, if I don't weigh in, then I check it after the new year and see 5 pounds gone or something, that would be really exciting! But, if I see I went up, that would be really depressing. Blah! And then, maybe I'm just trying to avoid stepping on this week and seeing the damage I did over the weekend.
Any thoughts?
And speaking of not good... the weekend! That horrible, horrible weekend! Ok, my weekend was not horrible, it was actually really good, but the mass amounts of calories are going to bite me in the butt this week! I can't even tell you what all I ate, I was out of control. Part of it was having people over and all the good food around and part if it is that I just gave in. *sigh* Ok, I'm giving up on my weigh in this week, I'm just going to be as good as I possibly can and hope that I don't gain weight. If I break even, I'll be... well, not exactly happy, but relieved anyway.
And at least now the yummy hotdish from calorie hell is gone, so we can move on. Right?
So, breakfast was a peanut butter sandwich (~200 cal), morning snack in a light string cheese (50 cal) and lunch is a lettuce salad with brocolli, cauliflower, unsalted seasame seeds and light dressing (~120 cal). Dinner will probably be a frozen pizza or something, but DH has the flu and by time I get home I won't really want to cook. If I have the salad for lunch, I should have calories enough for a small salad and two pieces of pizza.
I've been thinking, this time of year is so bad for trying to loss weight. For the most part, we don't have a whole lot going on, but it seems like you can be very, very good all week, but then you have a family gathering or something and it blows your weigh in. And for me, that is depressing and makes it so much harder to be good the next week. So I'm going to just focus on getting healthy eating habits established this month and not worry about what the scale says so much. Once that's done, it'll be that much easier to really hit it hard after the new year when holiday gathering (and eating) is done. Hopefully by then, the eating better will be more second nature than it is now and the pounds will start melting off more easily. I'm undecided whether to weigh in the mean time or not. Part of me thinks I should to just keep an eye on things even though I'm not focusing on that number right now. But the other part of me thinks that it would just cause me to focus on that number. Plus, if I don't weigh in, then I check it after the new year and see 5 pounds gone or something, that would be really exciting! But, if I see I went up, that would be really depressing. Blah! And then, maybe I'm just trying to avoid stepping on this week and seeing the damage I did over the weekend.
Any thoughts?
Irishprincess
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Hey your doing great!!! You are so so right, this time of the year is the worst ever to try to lose weight when so many family stuff is going on and is food is the main element of the event ha!! Anyway keep up the great work!! xxx
mizzie
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See? This is why I don't let myself have many free days. Just one will derail me totally. So, the healthy, lo-cal salad for lunch went right out the window. Part of it was that I left for lunch late, then had to pick up some meds for DH, so I didn't have much time. And part of it, to be perfectly honest, was that the leftovers from Saturday just sounded so much better. But I have no idea on calories (I highly doubt it's good) and I'm over full. Gah! Well, that's gone now too, so we shouldn't have any more temptations in the house.I guess I just have to make a "healthy and low calorie foods only" rule until I get a handle on this again. We do have to bake something to leave for Santa soon, but I've already figured out a plan for that. DH and DD love almonds, but I'm *allergic. So, cookies with almonds in them this year! That way I can't eat them, no matter if I want them or not. Drastic? Yes. Necessary? Also yes. Will it work? Totally!
*Just want to point out that I'm not deathly allergic or anything, but if I do eat one life gets very, very miserable for the next few hours. But it won't bother me to bake with them.