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Great Job Stacy! :hug2:

I like salads like that to!
I also love to use salsa as dressing..Yum!
You can really save on cals/fat. :)

Have A Goal Reachin' Day! :jump:
 
I'm also a huge fan of using salsa as dressing. It's soooo good!

I never really thought of it until now, but I love making taco salads at home. My mom had got these tortilla baking pans that mold regular flour tortillas into the taco shell just by baking them. No extra calories by having one that's been deep fried. Plus, tortillas are about 100 cal anyway, so it's a great way to have some carbs with the salad in a healthy way. :)

I found some on amazon and thought I would share them with you. For baking them, it only takes about 8-10 min at 350 and you have a great, low-cal shell to put a salad in.
 
hickgurltx said:
Great Job Stacy! :hug2:

I like salads like that to!
I also love to use salsa as dressing..Yum!
You can really save on cals/fat. :)

Have A Goal Reachin' Day! :jump:
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crazygirl said:
I'm also a huge fan of using salsa as dressing. It's soooo good!

I never really thought of it until now, but I love making taco salads at home. My mom had got these tortilla baking pans that mold regular flour tortillas into the taco shell just by baking them. No extra calories by having one that's been deep fried. Plus, tortillas are about 100 cal anyway, so it's a great way to have some carbs with the salad in a healthy way. :)

I found some on amazon and thought I would share them with you. For baking them, it only takes about 8-10 min at 350 and you have a great, low-cal shell to put a salad in.
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Thanks guys! Yea, I love salsa on salads, also. I make homemade pico de gallo that is to die for. (If I blended it, it would be more of a salsa consistency, but I just use my food processor...) I actually have the recipe that I made for taco salads on one of my earlier journal entries. That's neat that they actually have specific pans to mold the shells. I just put a whole wheat tortilla in the bottom of a glass pyrex mixing bowl and it forms about a 1-2 inch side, then bake it. You're right... no frying involved. I also usually use fat free refried beans & ground turkey meat instead of ground beef. YUMMY!!!
 
pastelroses said:
Hi! Sounds like you had a really fun day! I go to my in-laws' on Sundays too( and a day or two in between...they're only 15 min. away) and it's always tough with the food...Yesterday I brought my own food and ate a Kashi frozen dinner while they were eating Ribeyes, fresh guacumole(which I did have a couple spoonfuls of), and fries....It wasn't as tough as I though it would be though because I had prepared myself ahead of time.... AND I didn't look at their plates at all! hhaha! Today though I did eat what they had and just limited my portions. These are the days we can take a small break from "diet food" and practice portion control. I think you had a great idea with keeping your breakfast and lunch low so that you could splurge a little on dinner. Glad y'all had fun!!!
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Yea, I just left a message on your diary and FREAKED myself out. Counting up the calories in things I used to eat is a definite eye opener. Anyway, I agree that these are days we can take breaks. Just have to eat healthier throughout the rest of the day. That's why I made sure and had the breakfast & lunch that I did. WOOHOO!!!
 
Day 22

Food:
Breakfast- 1 cup (cooked) oatmeal with 1/4 cup fat free milk, 1 slice wheat toast, 1 hard boiled egg, 1 kiwi
Snack- baby yellow & red bell peppers
Lunch- turkey sandwich on whole wheat w/ 1 slice swiss cheese, guacomole & tomato (I toasted this sandwich & didn't put any mayo, mustard, etc... it was DELISH!!!)
Snack- snow snap peas, 1 apple w/ reduced fat peanut butter
Dinner- repeat of above turkey sandwich, 1 snack size rice pudding w/ 1 peach

Fitness:
walked Ace 1.5 miles
gym- 30 minutes on treadmill, 2.0 miles

Fun:
I start classes next week so I am trying to finish the book that I am reading before then. So, I sat down for about an hour and just read. It was so relaxing!

Feelings:
I'm not counting calories, but still wanted to get a guess as to where I was at, so I entered some of my food entries into fitday & calorie king. I don't think I'm getting quite enough and I definitely don't want my body to go into starvation mode & start hanging on to my fat. So, I'm going to start increasing my food intake just slightly. Making sure I'm eating about 5-6 times a day, and just making sure that those choices remain healthy.

I feel great. I have been kinda tired the last few days. Probably just from having to work all weekend and still trying to get everything in order before school starts. But today I feel great! Maybe it's the extra calories. PLUS, I was able to run again today. My leg started briefly hurting but it's not hurting now and I think I am back on track!
 
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Good to know you are running again and you had a good day today. What are you taking at school? I'm taking this next year off, but I love school.
 
Bigreen said:
Good to know you are running again and you had a good day today. What are you taking at school? I'm taking this next year off, but I love school.
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Thanks!

I finished my prereqs & petitioned for the nursing program in January. (There is a 2 year waiting list, and my start date is not until August of 2009...) So, I am going to take my CNA (nursing assistant) this semester. It is required to take this before starting the nursing program (usually the semester before you start) but I am going to take it now so I can start working as a tech in the hospital. I have worked in hospitals for the past 8 years but always in administrative positions, so I want to get more hands on, and gain some valuable experience before I start the actual program.

I know you are taking the year off, but when you go back what will you be studying? What is your passion?
 
I'll be taking Kinesiology. Part of my plan is to become a personal trainer for people who are overweight. I would say most personal trainers have never been obese, so I think that I will be able to connect with my clients on a more personal level.

I will be physically fit before I graduate so I am not worried about that. I'll have my own little shop one day where I meet people on a more personal level, not at a huge gym.
 
Bigreen said:
I will be physically fit before I graduate so I am not worried about that. I'll have my own little shop one day where I meet people on a more personal level, not at a huge gym.
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That is an AWESOME goal! Just keep at it and I know you will get there!
 
Day 23

Food:
Breakfast- smoothie made with low fat vanilla yogurt, fresh blueberries & frozen strawberries, 2 hard boiled eggs
Lunch- cheesy rice w/broccoli (and I mean cheesy:reddevil:)
Dinner- salad w/lettuce, fresh spinach, grape tomatoes, jalapeno stuffed green olives & grilled chicken

Fitness:
MAN I HAD A GREAT WORKOUT TODAY!!!
walked Ace 1.5 miles
gym- 40 minutes on bike
lifted weights, legs
20 minutes on eliptical machine (woo was I sweating after I left the gym today...)

Fun:
I've kinda been feeling a little sick to my stomach today so took it really easy most of the day (until I got to the gym) and I got some more reading in. That was very nice.

Feelings:
I feel stinky & sweaty! LOL... I definitely need a shower. I weigh in tomorrow so we'll see if all my hard work this week has paid off.
 
Week 3: 213.0

WOOHOO!!! Did you see that number? I have lost 4.5 lbs this week. Ha ha... I think my scale is broken. Had to get on it like 100 times. I am so excited.

Paul came home this morning so this day is just awesome, and it's only 8:30am.

Well, we are off to go take Ace for his walk. I'll catch up with everyone later today. :hurray:
 
minus86 said:
WOOHOO!!! Did you see that number? I have lost 4.5 lbs this week. Ha ha... I think my scale is broken. Had to get on it like 100 times. I am so excited.

Paul came home this morning so this day is just awesome, and it's only 8:30am.

Well, we are off to go take Ace for his walk. I'll catch up with everyone later today. :hurray:
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WOWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!That's SOOOOOO exciting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are doing so well and I'm so proud of you!!! Your hard work is truly paying off! :smash:

Stacy, thank you so much for what you said to me in my journal. I really needed that kick in the pants and I need to re-focus. Today, I'm going to be thinking about that and I'm going to stay busy. I truly do concider you a friend. Thanks for being there. :seeya:
 
Uh huh, oh yeah, knew you could do it!!!!
Your rocking it now girl!!!
Did you do the booty dance in the bathroom? You know the one where you are so happy at that number that you just gotta shake it! LOL:smilielol5::smilielol5:
 
Day 24

First, thank you ALL for your support & kind words.
Second, I now feel like I have let you all down and don't deserve anything except scolding. I just don't know what happened today...

Food:
Breakfast- watermelon, granola
Lunch- (we went out to eat...) 2 beef tacos, beans & 1 sopapilla, plus some chips & salsa
Snack- (then we went to a movie... and I knew better than this! Didn't I just look up the fat content in popcorn & freak out?) YES!!! I had some buttered popcorn, about a quarter of a small bag (so about 25-30 grams of FAT...)
Snack- 1 peach
Dinner- cheesy rice w/broccoli

Fitness:
walked Ace 1.5 miles
(didn't even make it to the gym to counter balance some of what I ate)

Fun:
We saw Mama Mia (this was a very adorable movie)

Feelings:
I feel fat & bloated & gross!!! I did learn something from today, though. Number 1: Do not celebrate a successfull weigh in with a gluttonous day of indulgences. Number 2: I DO NOT want this to fail. I feel like I have come so far in the past few weeks and I do not want to revert back to my previous eating habits. I do not want to gain back all the weight that I have lost so far. I want to keep going, not start over.

Ok, well, tomorrow is another day, right? I keep saying that to everyone else so I guess it's my time to listen. The worst thing about this all is the way I feel about myself now... Blahhhhhh... :puke:
 
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