My Journey: Positive Outlook For 2013

Hi Mandy, I agree with what most of your friends have said re this being your journal. My diary has helped keep my sanity the last few years. If it was only "diet" related it would most probably be very boring. I don't think I would be reducing calories as you seem to have a very good balance. Well done on resisting the rubbish food in the office. Your body is a temple sweets & deserves better. Good for you. Taebo sounds fun. I'll look it up later. Almost half way, almost half way, happy dance for Mandy :D Cheers, xo Cate
 
Thanks guys!

I kind of messed up tonight, but I'm ok with it. Our vet apt ran later than expected so instead of cooking when I got home I swung into Kentucky Fried Chicken and got some tenders and potato wedges (no soda or biscuit). I felt bad for getting it at first, but then I reminded myself of how hard I've been working at this over the past couple of weeks AND that having it this once would not undo any of it. So with that said, it was awfully delicious! :)

I did get a workout in tonight. I did the shortest Taebo workout. It was only about an hour after eating which probably wasn't a good idea. I just couldn't get going like I normally do. I felt sluggish and had somewhat of a hard time. I still worked up a really good sweat though so I'm pleased knowing I did SOMETHING tonight afterall. :)

I'm not expecting a loss for tomorrow morning. I'd honestly be surprised if I'm not higher than I was yesterday (eating late and drinking a lot of water late), but it's only one day so I'm not going to stress over it.
 
Oh gosh, KFC! I just got one of their coupon sheets in the mail today and I was like, "Nooo! Why! Why send me this right when I begin to diet?" Haha, enjoy it for the both of us please :p

You're doing wonderful! From 250 down to 200.8 is AMAZING and I know you'll make it to your goal eventually! Congrats and keep up the wonderful progress!
 
I think I've never tried KFC, but I wouldn't mind... I haven't eaten anything "good" on a while, so I could gladly eat a lot of things... It's not much of a craving nor an urge, but more of a "I wouldn't mind" thought.

I'm glad you enjoyed it, but don't stress about it. It's way better having a little treat once in a while than ending up binging on everything on sight.

Keep the enthusiasm, it is great. Good luck for tomorrow! :)
 
KFC is good. But Long John Silver's is my weakness. Ooohhh... I love their chicken and hush puppies!!! Mmmmmmm

Okay... Enough of that!! Congrats on not eating the tempting food and even though u had KFC, at least you worked out afterwards!! Go you!! Good luck on your weigh in tomorrow!! :)
 
Yeah, so as I thought the weigh in wasn't very good this morning. Back up to 202lb even. Now I'm not sure if it's an after effect of eating and drinking too late or if yesterday's weigh in of 200.8lb was more or less just a fluctuation. I suppose it could also be water retention from the salt in last night's meal. Either way, I'm not complaining or stressing. Even at 202lb I'm very close to onderland so all is well.

The plan for today is to eat well. I get out of work early so I'll be doing a workout this afternoon. Looking forward to it. :)
 
Thanks Q, I'm hoping! I can't wait to be in the 100's. It's been a long battle for me, but I'm getting there... slowly, but surely! :)

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A different topic... Music has always been huge for me. As I've gotten older I've found relating to songs to be a huge kind of therapy for me. That makes me wonder what kind of music you all listen to? Do any of you listen to the group Imagine Dragons? I just "discovered" them over this past weekend and downloaded their Night Visions album. I cannot stop listening to it! I don't know the lead singers name, but man he could sing the phone book and I'd be in a trance listening to him. Such a beautiful, soothing voice (when he's singing not yelling! :)
 
If you like Imagine Dragon's Radioactive I think you'll like AWOL's Sail.



Another song that has that anthemic "big" quality that I dig is Kavinsky Nightcall. It's has a weird tripped out 80's vibe.



Also if you like mellow acoustic indie/folk try Dana Falconberry or Damien Jurado.

For just a mellow sad album that is great from beginning to end try Beck's Sea Change.
 
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Imagine Dragons is amaaaazing. You'll be glad you 'discovered' them for many, many years to come.

As Quercus mentioned, AWOLNATION is another awesome artist - one of my absolute favorites. This video is actually how I first heard of it: (watch it, its hilarious) I had to listen to the rest of the song after that, then I went on to listen to all the other songs. 'Kill Your Heroes' is another one of my favorite songs by AWOL.

Another band I adore, and recently got into, was GroupLove. Named my journal after one of their songs, Ways to Go . The music video for this is just brilliant and the absolute feeeeels the song gives you...

This song has been my obsession lately; I turn the volume up every time the radio plays it:

Let's see... there's also Passion Pit, Fun, The Lumineers, Mumford & Sons, Of Monsters & Men, Ed Sheeran, Passenger, and so many more that I can't name right now. But yeah... that's my general taste in music!

Oh, and one more! Bastille! Love this song!

Hehe, another song! As you can tell, I love music! I already mentioned Passenger, but this song is just too beautiful not to share:
 
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Hey Mandy, I missed your big (lowest) weigh in :( but maybe I'll catch the next one :p If you like ID's Radioactive, you should check out . I'd go so far as to say it's better than the original. is another group I found a few months back, her voice is very unique and appealing.

And I've been listening to this playlist over and over for several months now:
 
Thanks for all of the suggestions. Will look into them over when I have the free time! :) Belinda, don't worry about missing my low. I think it was just a fluke with the fluctuations that morning.

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Last night I took my measurements again and found that I apparently lost 1" on my waist in a week. I've been doing this new Taebo for exactly one week yesterday, but I HIGHLY doubt that I really lost a full inch. It would be nice, but I think that's too much of a loss. Either way, all of my other measurements were down too, but only by .25-.5". Exciting to see these changes taking place again! :)

It got chilly in our house last night, but we wait as long as possible to turn the heat on. I grabbed a pair of my flanel pants that I wore last winter. Another big reminder of how much weight I've lost. The pants fit, but were VERY loose. If I moved the wrong way they kept falling down. It was pretty humorous. Looks like I'll need to do a little bit of clothes shopping this weekend.

As for my weigh in this morning, I was at 201.4lb. I think that the 200.8lb from earlier this week was just a fluke, but I'm glad to see that I'm really not that far away from that weight anyway. I was hoping to get to -200lb by the end of the week, but it's not looking good for that. Oh well, looks like next week *should be* the week! :)
 
Happy Friday everyone!

Last night was rest night and I thought for sure my weight would be up this morning, BUT it was down. Down to a new low actually! Not by much, by I weighed in at 200.6lb (previous low was 200.8). Maybe... just maybe... I will be out of the 200's for tomorrow's challenge weigh in. We shall see! :)
 
Thanks!

I got ANOTHER new low today, but still not out of the 200's as I'd hoped. Oh so close though! I weighed in at 200.2lb. I just laughed when I saw that number. I mean really, I couldn't just have that .2 to be out of the 200's already? LOL Oh well, at least next week I know I can pretty much count on it.

Tonight will be a very tough night. Mom's making homemade spaghetti and meatballs for the first time this fall. This is one of my favorite meals and I always tend to over do it. Will definitely need to practice some self control! Later on she's making an apple pie with vanilla ice cream. If my weight is up tomorrow I know it's most likely going to be from food weight. Ugh... I do plan on eating very light throughout the day to "make room" for all of this.
 
Ahhhhh choosing between breaking onederland and mom's homemade spaghetti and meatballs??!!?! Whyyyy cruel world lol. Well hopefully you get there anyways! I'm a big pasta fanatic, and guilty of going to Olive Garden earlier this week.
 
Mandy, what helps me when I know the hubby is cooking my favorite food is to either fast through the day and then eat however much I want OR to eat like I normally do with using portion control and then tell myself I can still eat that food tomorrow as well. So when you go to eat tonight, keep giving yourself that mental reminder that if you don't eat as much tonight, you'll still have some tasty food tomorrow, too. This really helps because I think when we overdo it, we have this mentality that we want the flavor to last, so we eat more. This is how I am with sweet stuff: I eat a ton of it in one sitting because I just love the flavor. It's been a difficult habit to break but it's gotten easier. If we get into the habit of telling ourselves that the food we enjoy can be eaten tomorrow, too, then portion control can be made easier.
 
That sounds good! I have Thanksgiving dinner at my friend's place tonight...must drink lots of water and think I will eat light all day and try portion control, though I doubt that will happen.

Good luck tonight! I like Belinda's idea too. If you control your portions today you can allow yourself to eat the same wonderful stuff tomorrow :)

Eat slow, savor the food, and drink water before dinner and while eating dinner as well. Bite of food, sip of water kind of thing.
 
Well, I ate pretty light all day long today, but I still ended up having two helpings of spaghetti, BUT the good news is that I had smaller than normal portions and I skipped having seconds on the meatballs so hopefully that somewhat balances things out. For dessert I also passed up on the pie. It was very difficult saying no, but I'll have a slice tomorrow. I'd rather have reheated pie than reheated spaghetti. :)

My brother ended up coming to spend the night tonight so I didn't get my workout in. I did some shopping and housework earlier in the day though so that'll count as my exercise for the day, even though it is very little. Tomorrow I may do a double workout. We'll see how I feel.

My last bite of food was at about 5:30pm tonight, but I'm still kind of scared to weigh in tomorrow. We'll see what the damage is in the morning.
 
I guess I'm a bit too late for the music discussion... But I can't resist... I love these discussions!

I would said that 80% of the stuff I like is either sad or melancholic. The other 20% is either some more "joyful" songs or agressive ones with a misanthropic tone to them. I don't really listen to any artists or genres in particular. I just listen the songs I like and constantly look for more.

Having said that, I've liked several songs from Damien Rice, Poets of the Fall (Lots of thanks to San for "introducing" me to them!) and Pain of Salvation. Anyways, I'll try to save you the unnecessary sad stuff;

Some songs I would recommend;










Other two songs I would recommend (which are a somewhat sad, I suppose) are:

(I'm sorry about the subtitles on this one - It was the only good quality video)

Couldn't really suggest anything else. I tried to avoid the sad stuff on my other thread, and I don't think you'll like the aggressive songs. The happier* stuff I know is on the list above.

Now that I got that out of the way; Congratulations on the new low! You are almost on the 100's.

Hope you get a good weight tomorrow! Good luck and take care! :)
 
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