This is a war, there will be many battles

Yesterdays food was:
orange cranberry scone: 150
coffee & creamer: 50
slice of cheese: 100

noodles with broccoli & cheese sauce: 260
salad: 35
beets: 35
cottage cheese: 90
l/c cheese wedge: 35

apple: 90
Pepperjack cheese: 100

pizza: 300
salad with raspberry vinegarette: 50
total: 1295

wow...that was a lot of food for the lowish count. I also walked quite a bit yesterday, to my mom's house then over to pick up my son, back to my moms house and then home. Having good feelings about yesterday, hopefully I'll have an equally good day today.

My plan for today is to NOT fall asleep at 8pm. I don't know why I've been so tired lately...but I've got to stay motivated later.
 
Hey..welcome back :)

Gotta ask...how old is your son? Poor guy.

Glad your still working on your diet.

So can I ask hows the weight??
 
My son is 8, and far from poor...lol, when they say it takes a village to raise a child, they were talking about my village...lmao!

My weight is pretty steady, there was a little bump during the week I was in denver, but that beer bloat is going away ;) thank gawd. I think with the reduced calories ( I was doing up to 1400 before this week), and my mountain bike being assembled, oiled up and ready to go, I'll have some successful weeks ahead of me. And, I don't have to travel again until early July so I'll be in complete control.

My gym is remodeling, big time, and its a hassel to get there, find parking, then find space to work out. Glad the weather is improving. I have been walking to work, and around downtown where I live, to do my errands. I need a pedometer.

Funny thing about pedometers though. Humans have been walking around since we decided tree swinging was overrated, and not until the last decade have we felt a compulsion to know exactly how many steps we take a day. We are a obsessive compulsive society.
 
yesterday turned out to be a good day. I was on plan with food, if not a little heavy handed with some salad dressing. I also got in a good bike ride, and then re-arranged livingroom furnature for a few hours. I even managed to stay up past 8pm ;) Oh, and I saved the life of a child at the park, so add heroic feats of bravery to my list. NEVER give a two year old those little rubber bouncy balls...they WILL put them in their mouths and choke on them.
now, I must go, and deal with an employee who took casual friday to a place it hasn't been since...ever...
 
This weekend, was...eh. Pretty much nothing went right. I hired this doofus to mow the lawn and weedwhack. Pretty much all he did was edge the garden with my new weedwhacker, then broke it, left to go "get parts" and never came back. Then, we were going to have a fire in our fire pit last night, but it was too windy so we had to scrap that. Only went on one bike ride this weekend, I wanted to ride on saturday but my son was crippled with pain in his belly, but was well enough to play xbox all weekend, thank gawd (can you hear the sarcasm?).

I need to stop drinking. This weekend I single handedly consumed a bottle of red wine and 4 bottles of beer. I have a problem. I should seek help, but I don't think anyone will take me seriously. my four bottle of beer a weekend habit is OUT of CONTROL! I need 12-step lite.
 
I finally, after 7 days of waiting recieved some food I ordered. We live in a remote area, so healthy stuff is hard to come buy when its easy for the store to just buy ramen noodles and powdered milk...anyways, the food finally made it here and now I can stop stressing out about having to try and live off of 1200 calories of wonderbread and crisco.

Ever have one of those days where your really motivated to make changes, for the better, and you get going doing your thing and everybody you encounter is in the opposite mood and does everything within their power to derail you so they don't have to actually do anything strenuous....I'm having that kind of a day.
 
Oldschool said:
Ever have one of those days where your really motivated to make changes, for the better, and you get going doing your thing and everybody you encounter is in the opposite mood and does everything within their power to derail you so they don't have to actually do anything strenuous....I'm having that kind of a day.
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What doesnt kill us, makes us stronger.

Just take one day at a time, and hope tomorrow brings a better day.

Have a good nite and keep at it!
 
I was starving yesterday, all day. I ate my food, as always, my "perfectly portioned for weight loss" foods...and I was ravenous by lunch time, again, growling belly at dinner and when I was trying to sleep I was hungry again. I guess all the bike riding, walking and ab workouts require more fuel then what I'm giving myself. I've been eating on the nutrisystem plan, and calorie counting at the same time...lol, its nice though, because I like the NS food and its all easily countable. But, I've notice that sometimes I eat all the food, plus all the add ins, and I'm only at between 1000 and 1100 calories for the day. But I love the convenience of the food!
I think I'm going to start eating pickels when I'm starving...lol.

So, the scale was down 3 lbs yesterday, and I stepped on it this morning and it was up 1 lbs, but still, down two lbs so that was a bit of a fluke...oh well, I'm proud of 2 lbs in a week. I'll take it.

I'm looking at stepping up physical activities. In 8 days I'm putting my son on a plane to his Dad, who will meet him and then take him to Italy for a few weeks to be with their extended family. So I'll be free of parental responsibilities and I'll get a chance to focus on myself. Then, I have vacation planned for July, to go and see my Dad again, and all my siblings except for the black sheep (my sister...she hates my Dad so refuses to go). That should be a foodfest...not looking forward to that! But, my other sister and brother are struggling with weight issues, and my Dad is fresh off a double bypass, so maybe we can gang up and force healthy choices for the reunion fare.
 
I have a headache. Its been 1/2 hour since I ate lunch, and I'm starving again. This...is...pms. That would also explain the gain. I need to start writing this shit down on the calendar so I'm not so damn surprised every month. Is it true that you burn more calories during your TOM? Ya, like anyone is going to read that and respond...hahahaaa!
 
Oldschool said:
I have a headache. Its been 1/2 hour since I ate lunch, and I'm starving again. This...is...pms. That would also explain the gain. I need to start writing this shit down on the calendar so I'm not so damn surprised every month. Is it true that you burn more calories during your TOM? Ya, like anyone is going to read that and respond...hahahaaa!
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Especially not me!lol

Hope you feel better.

Wish I could offer advice on the hunger but I dont know your food plan. ie nutrisystem Better stick with it than listen to me on that one.

Good to hear about the 3 lb loss. It counts...even if you only see a 2 pound loss today. Give it a few days and see where you end up. Chart it.
You should see some favourable progression after a couple of weeks. Stick with it!

Good luck!
 
So. I post on the NS boards a lot, more than here for sure. It was very supportive...until today. When I realized that another member took my profile pic and had a whole thread devoted to mocking my appearance. WTF. I...just...don't know what to do or think right now. I am so hurt.
 
Oldschool said:
So. I post on the NS boards a lot, more than here for sure. It was very supportive...until today. When I realized that another member took my profile pic and had a whole thread devoted to mocking my appearance. WTF. I...just...don't know what to do or think right now. I am so hurt.
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Sorry to hear. Try to blow it off if you can. There are assholes everywhere. Even on the internet. You cant get away from them. Some people get off on others misery....with no gain to themselves. Its immature.

Hope you can get over it and get back in focus.
Good luck!
 
I'm not so dismissive. Somebody singled me out, unprovoked, on a weight-loss support board, and compared me to a fat, ugly psychopath over and over and over again for seven pages worth of posts with other members of the boards, most of whom I had never even had any contact with. Simply becasue they thought that I resembled a former board member that they did not like. It was humiliating, and so mean that it cut me to my heart. I was in tears all afternoon. I'm a real person, things hurt, and I don't compartmentalize things and forget them, and I'm not going to be ashamed of being hurt by this either. I've already been humilited enough.
 
I've now officially lost ten lbs. I notice some people keep a diary forever and it gets really long, but, I'd like to do 10 lbs increments in mine, that way they are easier to read.
So, letting this one go after today and will be starting a new 10 lbs journey. I like smaller goals, they are easier to attain, and if I can keep feeling refreshed with every 10 lbs lost, I think my larger goals will feel more achievable.
 
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