Squeeze My Lemons

I made my official weigh-in day rounds. Update the table, signature, and Hotties in 2008 Club. I like my little Thursday routine. It reconfirming my committment to this weight loss thing. When I hit an all time low weight, its exciting to run around telling the world.

TODAY...I HIT 159....WooHoo....my new favorite number!!!!

I am really going to have to watch things in Portland. There was too much of a delay in getting to this number. The only way I want this number to run away is if its chased away by a smaller number!!! Go number 158 and 157 beat the crap out of 159. I dare ya!!!

So I think that I'm gonna load my pockets with healthy munchies on this trip. This way if we end up going to too many fatty restaurants. I can gorge on my healthy niblets and tame down the restaurant meals, without a) remaining too hungry, and giving into temptation, b) without being a nasty diet wench. The one that pouts and whines about everyones dining experience choices (not that I've ever done that). I don't really like having everyone know that I'm dieting. It always feels like I grow a set of horns or a third breast when other people hear that I'm dieting. I become the anomaly in the group. The only reason I like to stand out in a group is if I'm dishing out dirty and inappropriate jokes...then thats a horn of a different sort. :D
 
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Hi LL!

Love the title to your thread. I can tell you're really determined.

Good luck with your goals!
 
agreed about telling people im dieting, though people noticed with me anyway soon enough.
I have to admit, its always fun eating KFC or McDs or Ice Cream or something considered 'bad' when you're on a diet, the looks you get are rather amusing :D
 
HELLO Sweetpea! Nice to have you drop in. I'm quite fond on my title...still makes me giggle. Hope to see you drop by again. BTW that is a very nice picture of yourself in your public profile. You are gorgeous!

Wishes,

Hahaha! Yeah you get that disapproving motherly looks. The "yeah, like thats gonna do it, chubby" looks. People have definitely noticed the drop in weight but is kinda fun having them think that its some form of magic! Its too bad the word "dieting" has a such a bad connotation. For many people dieting means "some crackpot wacho scheme that some snake-oil salesman came up with". Diet means creating a calorie deficit to lose weight, period. Thats it that's all. How you do it is a plan or a program. Keeping it off is maintaining a conscious decision to reform bad habits. That is where the lifestyle change comes in... being conscious of something you'd rather forget. Really, who wants to be conscious of the fact that a daily dose of a milkshake with a burger and fries isn't a good idea?
 
Wahoo a new low!! Yeys!!

Packing snacks to munch on is always a good idea. I always find that by eating something small before hitting a resturant, one is less likely to gorge themselves in the Entree or appetizers.

I recommed carrot sticks, grapes, nuts, anything small that can fit in your pockets. Or else, Portland is going to be hell for you when it comes to sticking to your food plan.

I hate the diet word too. To me, that implies its merely something you're doing for a limited amount of time. As we all know, this is a lifestyle change. We do it for the rest of our lives.
 
lusciouslemon said:
HELLO Sweetpea! Nice to have you drop in. I'm quite fond on my title...still makes me giggle. Hope to see you drop by again. BTW that is a very nice picture of yourself in your public profile. You are gorgeous!
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Awe shucks! :blush5: Thank you very much!
 
lusciouslemon said:
Hahaha! Yeah you get that disapproving motherly looks. The "yeah, like thats gonna do it, chubby" looks. People have definitely noticed the drop in weight but is kinda fun having them think that its some form of magic! Its too bad the word "dieting" has a such a bad connotation. For many people dieting means "some crackpot wacho scheme that some snake-oil salesman came up with". Diet means creating a calorie deficit to lose weight, period. Thats it that's all. How you do it is a plan or a program. Keeping it off is maintaining a conscious decision to reform bad habits. That is where the lifestyle change comes in... being conscious of something you'd rather forget. Really, who wants to be conscious of the fact that a daily dose of a milkshake with a burger and fries isn't a good idea?
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Man, I COULD NOT agree more!

I HATE people commenting on my food. You would think that I have 1 celery stick for lunch with the looks I get. "Is that it?!" "That's all you are going to eat?!" YES! I have a sensible lunch of tuna, bread, 100 cal chips and a 100 cal dessert, and people look at me as though I am crazy! Yes, I count calories. Yes, I check the nutritional labels. LEAVE ME ALONE! I hate that people make me feel like / look at me like I am doing something wrong.

Wow. I got a bit carried away on that one. :D
 
Congratualtions on all your successes
Wedding plainning, weight loss, and a terrific sense of humor much like my wife's and my own.

Keep it up, love the diary, it gives me strength
Brian:hurray:
 
Brian said:
Congratualtions on all your successes
Wedding plainning, weight loss, and a terrific sense of humor much like my wife's and my own.

Keep it up, love the diary, it gives me strength
Brian:hurray:
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Welcome Brian. Thanks for all the kind words! I hope to see you here again and again. The more the merrier!!!

Tyly,
Rant away...I feel exactly the same!!!
 
its weird, i always used to feel very conspicuous when i ate an ice cream in public when i was fat ... lol, now i love too :D
 
Yeah, I think people who are really overweight have it tough. Everyone seems to watch what they are eating and putting in their shopping cart. I know I even tend to look at someone who is really fat in a grocery store and wonder why they're putting a pint of ben and jerry's into their cart. They could be eating healthy and have already lost 100lbs or be buying ice cream for their niece's birthday for all I know... but its so hard not to be critical when I look at my basket with its crappy cottage cheese and melba toast (though I do love both). Then when I see some skinny chick stuffing herself with hagen daaz, I think lucky biotch with crazy genetics...but who knows maybe she goes home and works out eight hours in a day. What am I getting at: I am friggin jealous on ANYONE who has a close relationship with ice cream. My boyfriends Ben and Jerry dumped me months ago. I hope they miss me... However, I did have an brief affair with gelato this weekend, but when I finished with him he told me I was fat and to leave him to the skinny chicks...
 
So here's the scoop with the weekend Portland trip I just got back from (a leftover pun from the previous post):

Lot's of fun.
Way to short.
Ate very poorly health-wise, ate very wonderfully taste-wise.
Gained 1.6lbs.
Drank 9 beers over two days.
Found new favorite micro-brew...Pyramid Apricot Wiesen.

It was worth the 1.6lb gain for the wonderful time. Right now I'm not to concerned with it. It should come off by my next weigh-in (thursday). I figure that I will always be a victim of "vacation syndrome" and that's fine because as long as I get back on track we're good. Plus, I don't vacation very often at all because of my "poor student syndrome". My syndromes balance each other out. I can wallow in "vacation syndrome" as long as I maintain my diet the rest of the time. Its the daily life that counts.

Sure I sound optimistic now but really I have been disappointed during the last month about my poor weight loss numbers. It feels like my goal date has crept farther because I only lost 0.6lbs last month when you average things out. The weight loss isn't where I need it to be. February was a crappy month for me in many respects so March is going to have to pick up the pace.

Weigh-ins so far this year:

01/10/08: 168
01/17/08 163.5 (-4.5lb)
01/24/08 161.8 (-1.7lb)
01/31/08 159.6 (-2.2)
02/07/08 159.8 (+0.2)
02/14/08 162.0 (+2.2) This was the really crappy week of funerals.
02/21/08 160.5 (-1.5)
02/28/08 159.0 (-1.5)

GO MARCH GO!!!!
 
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Yeah, I think people who are really overweight have it tough. Everyone seems to watch what they are eating and putting in their shopping cart. I know I even tend to look at someone who is really fat in a grocery store and wonder why they're putting a pint of ben and jerry's into their cart. They could be eating healthy and have already lost 100lbs or be buying ice cream for their niece's birthday for all I know... but its so hard not to be critical when I look at my basket with its crappy cottage cheese and melba toast (though I do love both). Then when I see some skinny chick stuffing herself with hagen daaz, I think lucky biotch with crazy genetics...but who knows maybe she goes home and works out eight hours in a day. What am I getting at: I am friggin jealous on ANYONE who has a close relationship with ice cream. My boyfriends Ben and Jerry dumped me months ago. I hope they miss me... However, I did have an brief affair with gelato this weekend, but when I finished with him he told me I was fat and to leave him to the skinny chicks...
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You truly crack me up.

And we think alike, I am realizing!
 
I love that fact that despite your weight gain, you're optimistic about loosing it quickly. In this respect, you remind me of myself. I never worry too much when I've indulged myself because I know I'll be more careful in the days following.

An apricot microbrew sounds pretty good. I've had apple before and it isn't half bad. In fact, my father brewed apple beer and it was quite tolerable. LOL.

Your syndromes crack me up. We're alike in this respect too. I no longer feel alone knowing you suffer from the indulgence of vacation eating. You know what it is, I think? When vacationing, we never feel tied down with routine so subconsiously, it's an excuse to eat whatever we want. Technically, we don't have to follow the rules when we're miles from home, I mean right?

I recall gaining three pounds when I went to Cali last year. But you know what? 'Twas worth it. I doubt I'll ever eat shrimp as often and as richly as I did then.

Hey, at least we can harbor the memories of being careless with our eating habits for a week.

Hope you're having a great Monday!! (((Big Hugs)))
 
I'm definitely going to be rooting for March Weight LOSS for everyone. Hubby and I just got back today from a 4 night minivacay and well, we didn't eat perfectly either. I'm going to have to note my diary soon and everyone will see how badly YIKES. But this is a new week, and we'll do better (once the cookies are gone) [insert evil laugh here]

glad you are back!!! Keep up the great work and let's give March a run for it's skinny jeans. :sifone:
 
So I am feeling absolutely, unjustifiable, wickedly lazy today. I sit here looking around at my disgustingly messy house and I have no desire to peel my lazy butt off the couch. Its rainy and chilly today. Its definitely a day to crawl under a fluffy warm blanket and hibernate until spring officially peeks her sunshiny face around the corner. My impending deadlines are weighing me down, but I have never accepted the fact that they only get heavier the longer you wait. I think this is a big myth.

I'm going to make a plan of attack for today and I AM going to follow it if it kills me.
1) Do my laundry...I really, really need some clean socks!
2) Clean out my fridge...it already pretty empty, but I need to get rid of some wayward lettuce.
3) Clarify my research focus and get reading some papers...This might be able to survive until tomorrow...I know, I know. I should do it today.
4) Go through the odd bits of paper that have formed little colonies throughout my living room...it I leave it any longer they may multiply (like rabbits) into entire dictionaries or almanacs.
 
So I made some major headway with my research...not so much with my socks. I know, I should have been doing some laundry while doing my research. Its not that multitasking is a problem. I mean I can stuff my face AND watch TV, or read trashy novels AND soak in the tub. Laundry is just something completely different. My mind doesn't function in that realm. My hubbie to be is going to have to be a bit of the housewife if we're going to exist with clean clothes.

So my calories have been kept in check today. Mind you I did sit with a tub of fat free coolwhip on my lap. I ate enough to feel guilty about eating something made entirely out of ingredients I can't pronounce, but not enough to affect my calorie count. This is not good. I'm feeling like a bit of a liar when I say that I want to eat healthy. Most days, I really want to eat myself to skinny not to healthy. Then again I did eat an entire 1lb egglant for supper. That's got to count for something. Mmmm, eggplant.

Tomorrow is Day 1 of Week 2 for C25K. I am really hoping it isn't raining tomorrow. I don't want anything to break my resolve. I will run...I mean run, walk, run, walk, run, walk...tomorrow! Way to go, fellow C25Kers!
 
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Tomorrow is Day 1 of Week 2 for C25K. I am really hoping it isn't raining tomorrow. I don't want anything to break my resolve. I will run...I mean run, walk, run, walk, run, walk...tomorrow! Way to go, fellow C25Kers!
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LMAO. hehe. Will you make up your mind, are you going to run or walk? hehe. Glad you made some progress with your research, but sorry you didn't get your laundry done. (Maybe tomorrow)??

Hubby is pitching in so much now that I'm in school, so he's doing a lot more with cooking, cleaning and laundry. It's awesome!
 
Seriously, you spooned the whole tub of Cool Whip? Wow, I couldn't imagine doing that. I mean, it's good, but I think I would get nauseas from the sweetness of it.

For future reference, I hate washing socks. I always end up losing some in the wash and wearing mismatched pairs.

I love reading your journal, Lemon. It's so fun.
 
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