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Kasey23 said:
Its funny you mentioned that. When I was 5months pregnant I was in the grocery store and this woman looked at my belly and said "Any day now!" and I was like Ummmmmmm I still have a good 4 months to go and than she replied with "Oh big baby than!"... I was like... I know, your basically wanting to say IM FAT without actually saying it lol
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LOL LOL I'm cracking up over here. I can relate to that.
when I was about 3 months pregnant with my second, I had to bring in a script for an antibiotic that was ongoing for the rest of my pregnancy because I get reoccurring UTI's/kidney infections only when pregnant. Anyway, the pharmacist was looked at me and said "you have about 2 months left??" And I was like no like 6 LOL. I was so upset, but I think it's funny now

I think a lot of it is people think pregnant women shouldn't get bigger than Hollywood portrays.....well that, and I started showing so so fast with baby two. It's good to know other people can relate though :smilielol5:
 
Sounds like you did great on your vacation, good job! I'm really impressed, I'm not sure if I could have shown that much will power.

Welcome back!
 
Thanks Funmom. :waving:

First, I'm going to post the ugly truth. Today I was so on track. My fat intake was looking fantastic, cals were good even with the 3 oz of vanilla ice cream and 4 oz of strawberries I factored in for dessert. But then, DH went grocery shopping after dinner. I sent him with a list of healthy foods. And guess what he does?? He was nice and brought home peanut butter Twix. Before I could blink, I scarfed one and a half down. Not the Twix sticks, but 1.5 CANDY BARS. I'm so irritated at myself 429 calories and 26 grams of fat :cuss: He even brought home a whole package of Reese's Peanut Butter cups. :smash: I didn't eat those, but they'll be here all day tomorrow and it just adds more difficulty for me to avoid them. Desserts are my weakness.... If I would have known it was that much, there's no way I would have eaten it. Lesson learned again: Log it into SparkPeople so I can see the ugly truth BEFORE I Scarf it down.

today's intake

CALORIES 1,715
CARBS 212
FAT 58
PROTEIN 108

I guess I can look on the bright side. At least I didn't have an already high day and screw it up even worse. I just don't understand how I can be so motivated all day and just throw it all away??

Anyway. I also stretched and went on a 2.5 mile bike ride. I was pretty happy that I easily cruised past the points that I was dying when I first started out and even though my heart rate was up nicely, I never ever felt like dying, I just felt invigorated. I had to stop because it was getting dark and the kids were along in the bike trailer. I can't see a difference in my body, and I can barely see a difference on the scale, so at least that's great news. I got home, and did 40 crunches. Next week I'm upping it to 50 crunches EOD or more often.

Another positive is that my fiber intake has been up in the 20's almost every day. Yay

DH is obviously off the wagon. He's 6'3 300 lbs. I'm so worried he's going to die and leave me alone when we're 40 or something. I really hope he changes his mind. :( Not only that, but it sure would be nice to have someone supporting me instead of passively sending me "youre crazy for wanting to work out again, or pass up eating that etc" UGH
 
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Aww, that really sucks. It sounds like DH is trying to be nice, but missing the point!

Here's what I did with mine regarding that... he loooves buying us munchies for watching dvd's in bed. So eventually I just had to show him what to buy me if he absolutely has to! He now buys these little coconut candy bars (low cal) as well as only sugary sweets (no fat) and as far as chips/crisps go, low cal puffs or pretzels.

Give it a shot. Ohterwise, I think you STILL handled it well :) And good on you for the holiday moderation!
 
thanks Anke. I will give it a shot. My dh is the sweetest guy. I love him to pieces. Today is a new day and I'm not even tempted by the Reese's PB cups that I know are in the house. woohoo. Tonight, I"m going to go for a 1 mile run for 30 seconds, walk fast for 1min, run for 30 sec etc. I'm also going to do my ballet dvd this afternoon.

I planned out all my food and entered it into spark people. So we'll see if this works to plan ahead. The bagels are thanks to Kristi/wittbound. I kept reading that she used to eat that in her journal and it sounded sooo yummy

breakfast--blueberry bagel w/ reduced fat strawberry cream cheese, coffee w/ creamer. 1 cup strawberries--may be moved to a snack if I can't eat all that

lunch--salad w/ 2 tbs Ranch, cucumbers . 1 cup of Progresso soup, 1/2 peanut butter and jelly sandwich on whole wheat bread

dinner--3 oz grilled pork chops, steamed broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, brown rice

snacks: 4oz yogurt
1 cup grapes
baby carrots
 
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Hey purpleshirt, don't be so hard on yourself about the twix. When it is my TOM I am like a crazy junk food maniac, I will eat anything I can find... it's a little scary actually. I tell my hubby (not to sound ignorant, but what does DH stand for?) anyhow, I tell my hubby he can buy what he wants, but he needs to keep it somewhere just for himself. He can take it to work with him and keep it there, or he can find a secret cabinet that I don't go in or whatever, but I don't want to know about it. It usually works pretty well for us... until my TOM and then I threaten him with bodily harm if he doesn't cough up the goods, LOL.

One day of eating some twix bars is not going to derail your entire effort. You are doing great with the exercise and your eating plan is fine otherwise. Blame it on your hormones and move on, I know that you can reach your goal, you are doing great!
 
thanks funmom. You're right, and I knew it yesterday when I was being so dramatic, but well I guess I wasn't rational lol

dh is dear husband

Know what I just discovered? I try to have coffee like every other day, but it's daily a lot of the time. I try to limit it because I like so much creamer and sugar in it. I just made my coffee and kinda measured out the creamer. It was about 5 tablespoons. Yup 5I was plugging in 2 tablespoons on SP. that's like a 300 calorie coffee. I seriously can't drink it any other way. So....I guess I have to work up the courage to say goodbye to coffee and hello to green tea.

It's almost time for my pictures---i'll take them around the 2nd of each month. I know I won't see a difference, but I hope knowing I have to take them soon will keep me working out more.

So I"m making all these changes and resisting all these calories, upping my exercise, and I'm barely seeing 1lb a week loss. How was it that I wasn't 500 lbs with all the bad choices I was making?
 
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I read about your candy incident. Like PP's have mentioned, I wouldn't be so hard on myself! From the looks of everything your doing great anyways! Last year when I was "dieting" [I was trying to get good muscle tone] I allowed myself one day a week to have one item of food, anything I wanted. Sundays were my day and I had Chocolate chip cookies! I still lost weight and had great muscle tone... and that was with eating a handful of Chocolate Chip cookies every Sunday! lol

As far as the weightloss... How long have you been dieting? It can take up to two months before the scale starts to go down. Usually it takes me a good month a half to two months before I start seeing a steady 2-4lb loss every week. Your Metabolism just has to get going and burning them fats!
 
Hey I saw your sad realization about your coffee, I have a suggestion, you don't have to take it, but this is what I did when I wanted to quit drinking coffee- I only drank coffee for the fabulous caffeine, I would get terrible headaches without my morning cup. When I realized how many calories I was squandering with sugar and cream I stopped drinking coffee and bought a bottle of vivarin. They are these wonderful little yellow caffeine pills that have 100mg of caffeine in each and 0 calories. I started taking 2 every morning b/c I heard there is about 200mg of caffeine in a cup of coffee. Soon I was able to take only one a morning and now I only take one when I am really dragging, but I have been drinking more tea lately and that has caffeine in it. If you do this just be careful not to over do it. It is so nice to get "instant" energy from a pill, but too much caffeine can make you irritable and jumpy.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do!
 
Kasey23 said:
As far as the weightloss... How long have you been dieting? It can take up to two months before the scale starts to go down. Usually it takes me a good month a half to two months before I start seeing a steady 2-4lb loss every week. Your Metabolism just has to get going and burning them fats!
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I started trying to lose weight 4 wks ago. It's good to know that it takes some people longer, because I keep reading how people have a really easy start at first, and here I am not dropping even a pound a week even though I am being pretty strict. Thank you for that.

Thanks for the tip on vivarin funmom. I don't think I'll need it. I make my coffee pretty weak and never get withdrawal or problems even if I skip several days in a row. Thank goodness. A few yrs ago, dh stopped drinking diet coke all day and he was so sick for a few days

So I did my Turbo Jam Cardio Party. I am doing better and I love it at first, but when they start doing kicks and turbo twists I get all awkward and clumsy and don't know how to do it. The kicks feel wrong to me, probably because I'm used to ballet? I don't know, but I feel weird and am so glad that no one's watching me as I clomp around

The plan is still to go for a bike ride tonight. I've been eaten exactly as planned earlier today, except I subbed an apple for the 1/2 PB/jelly sandwich, and I still have a snack of grapes to eat and dinner will be in less than an hr. Oh gosh, and tomorrow I have a pool party to go to. I'm going to be wearing shorts over my suit, and I'll be ok, but hopefully I'll get some exercise even though I'm not looking forward to getting into my suit. It's a party with a bunch of kids and moms, so no biggie, but still....

I just had to update. This journal's going to be so long, but I just wanted to update. It keeps me on track and reminds me why I'm doing this.

update 2--Went on a 4 mile bike ride with stretches. I wanted a peanut butter cup earlier, looked at the nutrition label, put it down, and grabbed about 10 semi sweet choc. chips instead. yeah!!
 
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Good job leaving the PB cups behind! You are doing so well, chocolate chips as a substitute was a great idea to help you get your chocolate fix!
 
I like your new avatar :)

I love dark chocolate. I like the little Dove pieces... Dove chocolate is one of my favorites if I'm seriously craving some.

-Sam
 
I use the mini semi-sweet chocolate in my yogurt, and it definitely gives me my chocolate fix.

I also tried Weight Watchers oreo ice cream bars, and they are delicious! I think 140 calories in each bar.

Any way...hope you're having a good day!
 
Ooooo, thanks for all the yummy ideas! Wish we had Hershey's in SA... it's soooo divine! Hope you've all had a good day!
 
Mmm Dove, and Hershey's chocolate sticks. Yum. I loooove yogurt and chocolate chips too. All you need is a few. I had to stop because my 3 year old started to demand chocolate chips every time I served her yogurt! haha.

Today for exercise was 30 minutes of stretching (I took 5 yrs of ballet and did the normal ballet bar warm up before we move in the center for dance moves). I also did an hour of active swimming, chasing after kids, playing with my kids etc. Fun! I'm a little sore from yesterday, I had to take a little Advil!

Food wise was ok, not enough fiber :( I can tell, I don't feel as good today

Breakfast--blueberry bagel & red. fat straw. cream cheese, green tea with 1 tbs sugar. (I drank about 3 oz of orange juice, but then started feeling guilty that I was drinking so many calories!)

lunch--whole wheat tortilla with 1 oz of cheese with 1/2 oz of pork chops (leftover), carrots, 1/2 c strawberries

Dinner (at the bbq/swim party)--1 Hebrew Nationals hot dog and bun, watermelon, cantaloupe, a couple bites of skunk salad (fruit with whipped cream and cookies in it), and half a chocolate chip cookie (that I baked and resisted eating any before the party yay!!), and 4 bite sized deli meat on tortilla roll things

snacks--
Yogurt and a banana

My plans for exercise tomorrow are to do my Turbo Jam. I"m also going swimming again tomorrow at my In Law's house.

I'm going to weigh myself tomorrow. I've been so good, so I really hope I see a loss, but that TOM is still lurking and I feel bloated and awful. We'll see....
 
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Your food sounds yummy! I know how you feel about that TOM! Im bloated right now and it sucks. I never weigh myself around this time because I ALWAYS gain an extra 5-8lbs in waterweight and man can I feel it!

Let us know what the scale says!
 
Thanks Anke, I really am positive. I think I'm realizing after a month of doing this, that I can change, and I really think I can get to my goal. It feels good

Kasey23 said:
Your food sounds yummy! I know how you feel about that TOM! Im bloated right now and it sucks. I never weigh myself around this time because I ALWAYS gain an extra 5-8lbs in waterweight and man can I feel it!

Let us know what the scale says!
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I should have read this before I got on the scale....167.3. I sure hope at least couple pounds of that is water weight. I'm not moving my ticker back lol....TOM is STILL not here. I'm cramping and feel bloated and now I'm a couple days late. I'm never late. Uh oh

I don't think Turbo Jam is in the cards for today. I'm miserably sore, mostly on my sides and shoulders from TJ the other day. My bum hurts from my long bike ride too. I think today might be a half exercise day with just swimming and light stretching this morning. I will eat light today because MIL said she's going to have rolls, and casserole and dessert. Just in case, I want to prepare for any slip ups.

I love how flexible I"m getting again. I can put my palms flat on the floor with my legs straight and together. I haven't been able to do that in 5 years. yay, I also find myself instead of just helping my kids to somersaults and rolls, and other fun stuff, that I'm also doing it with them. I don't feel so freaking old any more. I love it :party:


oh and I forgot to say...I'm no longer going to be plugging all my stuff into SparkPeople. I find myself having weird thoughts. Like about 4am last night, I woke up dying of thirst, and I had a thought that I shouldn't drink water because it will affect my weigh in. I've had a few time when I was starving, low on calories, but still didn't want to eat. I don't know, just weird thoughts that I've never had before. Since overeating has never been a problem for me, I'm going back to eating moderately, often as I'm hungry, and of course looking at the nutrition label. I'm keeping up the 3 small meals and 2 snacks. I am still going to severely limit the sweets because that is my weakness, and no eating after seven etc.....I've learned a lot from charting everything, and I'm glad I did it. I might go back to it again, but I think it's not healthy for me right now.
 
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