Weight loss/Diet NET

[tanyachap]

I know the meatballs are about 18% sodium and I think the nuggets are much less. I haven't tried the short cuts - will check it out.

[froggie83]

@zenmomof3 on your birthday you have to be the first one to take a bite of cake and chase it with a spoonful of ice cream. it has to be a regular size piece of cake and a full scoop of ice cream and you gotta eat it all.... or the kids will taclke and tickle you. with 8 nieces and nephews and 2 kids of my own thats alot of tackles and tickles... so i opt to eat the cake and ice cream.

[Cosmo]

Never heard of that one. I'm glad we don't do that in my family because I can't eat that much sugar or I will get sick.

[preciousnd98]

Sounds like a fun tradition - but not the most diet-friendly! I would opt to eat the cake and ice cream, too

[zenmomof3]

I never heard of that tradition. I would do it without the tackles lol!

I just made a really delicious lunch! I used a chi chi flour tortilla (80 calories) and spread 1/2tbsp of hummus, layered a few cucumbers, 2 thin slices of red pepper and 1/2oz of feta. I grilled it in a sautee pan for a few mins. It was delicious!!! Only 155 calories and 17g carbs! In the future I may try it w/o the hummus and add olives as well as fresh spinach. And I will probably try it with roasted peppers at some point. I can see this being my new fav. I loved the cucumbers and feta. Lately I am really loving feta. We eat it all the time but I am really into it lately lol.

I was 133.6 this morning so now I guess I got rid of most of the water and am hopefully working on actual fat. I probably wont weigh in until Tuesday and after that IDK because AF is due next weekend. Maybe not until next-NEXT Friday.

This morning was SUCH an awful morning. The kids were horrendous at bedtime last night. I could hear them giving DH a really hard time and just being wild and not listening. Ugh I hate that at bedtime! I was in the baby's room the whole time. So when I came out I kind of let them have it and said I was disappointed. DD1 wanted me to help her pick out an outfit for the 100th day of school (today) because they had to dress like 100 year old people. So I told her no and said we'd do it in the morning. Well I knew that it would bite me in the ass because it would make the morning stressful but I figured we'd get up early then. Well I went to bed too late and didn't get up early enough so this morning was rushed. Then she wants me to make a bun in her hair which is super thick and it took me like 15 mins. 5 mins later she decides she doesn't want it and takes it out! I suddenly realize it's 8:30 and DD2 is barely ready and DD3 is still in her crib. So I get them moving and then realize they don't have their library books. So they rush to get them and DD2 can't find hers and starts crying. I did not know which book it was and started looking but it was a lost cause and just told her she could bring it in tomorrow but this is her first year and she isn't used to this process so she thought she would get in trouble. So I have to talk her off the ledge and get us all out the door. Then I finally drop them off and think it's over and realize we totally forgot to send in 3 of DD2's favorite things because she is student of the week and today was show and tell! So I race around to get a few things and have to bundle the baby back up and get back in the car and now get out and walk into the school. UGH. THEN I finally get home and there is a message on the machine from my mom saying she needs to cancel our dinner tonight because my nephew is sick! I wanted to die seriously. I don't think I am going to get to see my nephew at all now and havent seen him since xmas and probably wont see him again until June....when he turns 1. THEN I re-read the student of the week sheet and realize that it says the favorite things will stay at school until Friday and I included her lovey bear who she can't sleep w/o! So I had to call the teacher and ask her to send it home with her. OMG. Bad bad morning......

[froggie83]

@zenmomof3 sorry about the horrific morning.. hopefully the rest of the day is better.
@Cosmo we don't make grandma or mil do it, they have food intolerances and are exempt... you would be exempt too. we used to only make the kids do it but they got older and started to question why we didn't participate so we joined the fun.

[tanyachap]

@zenmomof3 sorry about that bad morning. The lunch sounds delic. Very healthy too

[zenmomof3]

Thanks for the sympathies lol. It was one of those mornings! Then to top it off I could not sleep last night! Was up until after 2am. Ugh. Just when you want to the day to be over already!

Anyway, the plus side to not going to dinner at my mom's was that I was able to stick to my diet again and I did! I was proud of that too because my first instinct was to drown my sorrows in snacks. I stuck to my plan and was down to 133.2 this morning! So I was really happy with that. 4lbs in 5 days isn't bad lol. I know it was mostly water but now I feel like I am starting to get to the real stuff too. I think I have a good plan and I feel like I am there mentally. I am trying to take all my failures and learn from them and I am hoping it sets me up well for the next 10-12 weeks. If I can do 1lb/week I can be down to 120 by Memorial Day and hopefully maintain that over the summer or gain no more than 5lbs. Luckily there are not too many big events coming up so that is good. I just have to contend with a few dinners/drinks out. I NEED to plan for these and can't make that an "oh well" day. I can't have any more of those days. I need to either be at 1600-1700 total or under.

Today is DD2's bday (feels like it's been going on forever!) and I already calculated my 1 cupcake. I also logged my 2 glasses of wine and 2 cups of skinny pop tonight lol. With that and dinner (chicken soup) I am at 1300 calories. That is good for a weekend! Tomorrow I should also be able to keep it together. Sunday I am going to an Italian restaurant for an early dinner around 3. I am going to try to make that my big one meal and most of my calories. This stuff really takes a lot of planning! But honestly that is the only way I am successful. I need to plan and log.

[froggie83]

if it makes you feel better i started yesterday morning with the dog whining to go out at 6 am i got up to let her out and fell on my butt at the top of the stairs and went all the way to the bottom... my buttcheeks are so bruised i am having a hard time sitting... then this morning the same doggone dog discovered that dh didn't properly latch the gate and off she went! came back about half hour later when i stepped out the door and hollered for her playfully.
ds has been waking at daybreak and refusing to go back to sleep till after bedtime... i can't catch up on my sleep either since dd stays up late and hes getting up so early... i am cranky.
scale is averaging 163 so not where i wanted to be. but i am doing a cardio ab workout every day (its only 10 minutes of time and zero impact) i have cut out the snacking alltogether and have had hardboiled eggs, salads, and oatmeal for non-dinner meals.

[preciousnd98]

Ugh! What a week for everyone! I got some unexpected cardio in on Wednesday when my car wouldn't start, so we had to walk to school in the 15 degree weather. Luckily the sun was out. But unfortunately for my friend's son, we were taking him to school so he had to walk, too. She had dropped him off early before heading to a dentist appt. I tried calling a couple people to come rescue us, but no one was free. And DD and her friend were the slowest. walkers. ever. and it was so cold!!! Then DD came home from school with a fever, so she was home yesterday. That made for a much longer day yesterday. Luckily today has been a little better.

Here's to hoping for a good weekend and a better week for all of us! lol

[zenmomof3]

@froggie83 Sorry to hear of your bad day too! I am thankful my kids have not done the early rise thing in a while. NOT a fan of that!

@preciousnd98 Ugh that sounds awful! Wow 15 degree walking is rough. I see a woman who comes from down the block whop must have no car because she walks to pick up her kid from school no matter what the weather. And she has a kid in a stroller with her! I always feel so badly for her! Today is about 36 and I am going back and forth between wanting to walk and not lol. It is windy and there is a lot of snow on the street (got another 6" yesterday!) so that would usually point to "no way" but they have changed the dismissal side today because of the snow and the last time they did that it was a nightmare to park and walk so I may just suck it up and walk. I will have to walk half as far anyway because I wont get a close parking spot and then have to deal with loading kids into the car! Ugh. Can't wait until this weather is over. I think I am officially DONE.

As for my diet I am VERY happy about my efforts this weekend. I stuck to around 1400 calories on Friday and stayed right around 1600 on BOTH Sat and Sun! It helped that on Sunday my dinner out got cancelled. I am really starting to think I may be in the zone and finally have the right combinations of things i need to do to have success. By sticking to what I burn on the weekends it allows me to indulge (but lightly) and enjoy a few things I enjoy without blowing my progress during the week. I was about 133.6 this morning but I weighed myself after breakfast. So I think I probably held on to my 133.2 and will hopefully knock at least 1 more lb off during the week and then try to remain steady over the weekend again. I think if I continue this I will stop the 1 step fw 2 steps back routine I have been doing for years. This will also help me to at least maintain over the spring break and the summer. I will weigh in tomorrow, Wed and Thurs but that will be it for a while since AF is due this weekend. I may wait until next Friday. I should be fine though because now I think I know what I need to do and I should not really worry what the scale says because if I am doing the right things the scale will catch up eventually.

[preciousnd98]

Good job on sticking to your diet! I did okay, diet wise myself, except we went out for Mexican last night. I ordered a cheese quesadilla and actually ate a very reasonable portion, but I could tell I was retaining water this morning from it. I have been back in the 140s, but my highest so far has been 142.2, which had become my low before my stomach bug. So hopefully I am keeping that extra pound or 2 off! And DH should be home any minute. I am hoping he doesn't mind if I sneak out for a quick run. It isn't dark yet and it is a little warmer today than it has been. Tonight and tomorrow we are supposed to get icy rain/snow/mess, so the sidewalks will be bad for the rest of the week. This is kind of my only chance, so hopefully he doesn't have anything going on when he gets home!

I hope everyone else had a nice weekend!

[zenmomof3]

@preciousnd98 You are so brave running in this cold! I whimped out of walking to the kids school lol. I think we are ALMOST done with this awful weather. One more round of snow tonight and Sat & Sun look to be in the 40s! I may finally get out and running although AF is due this weekend. We'll see.

As for diet I am doing GREAT and I am hoping I have finally figured out what I need to do. I was 133.4 this morning which I wasn't too happy about but we had hot dogs last night and AF is due soon so I shrugged it off. I am hoping I am no longer mentally damaged by the scale. I ended up getting on later in the day and I was 133 even so hopefully I will see a good # tomorrow to confirm I am doing the right things diet-wise and I may stay off the scale until the end of next week. Although if it's not setting me back I can get on and just figure I am bloated and move on. This weekend is going to be a bit tough though....date night Fri nite and a dinner out (Mexican) on Sat night. Hoping I can get some exercise in - even walking - to offset a bit. I have been sticking to 1100 calories/day during the week still.

[zenmomof3]

132 this morning! Yesterday was VERY low cal (about 850!) and low carb. I did not intend to go so low calorie-wise but I was just not really hungry probably because of the low carb. That was the only day I was going to do low carb so that is that. I am hoping I don't pop back up after eating carbs today. It will be hard to tell though because AF is due in a few days. I was able to at least walk to pick up the kids yesterday but today they are OFF because of the snow! UGH. So a whole day trapped in AND they have been begging me for banana bread so I just made that. Not gonna be an easy diet day!

Next week looks good weather-wise though. 40s! Woo!

[zenmomof3]

132 again this morning and a surprise AF 2 days early! So that is good that I am 132 on the morning of AF. I am very much hoping to leave the 130s for good this time soon!

Doing 1500 calorie days today and tomorrow as Sunday I can control things better. After Sunday the weather will be in the mid 40s! With AF on her way out and more exercise 120s here I come!

[tanyachap]

Good job on your diet Am. Really nice.

How is your weight now @preciousnd98?

I was 143 today so 1 lbs down from 2 weeks ago - I skipped weighing in last week unintentionally ... I am happy ...

[preciousnd98]

Great job @zenmomof3 and @tanyachap on being down!

I did jump back up a bit and have been hovering around 141 and 142. But after the holidays those were my low days, so at least I am down 1 or 2 lbs.

We are finally going to have some 40 and 50 degree days - hooray! I have to do a 4 mile run today. I signed up for an 8K at the end of the month and have barely trained. I went 3 miles the other day, but that is the furthest I have gone in months. So today I need to push and start stretching my runs and my endurance back out.

I went to a Body Pump class on Thursday with a friend. It is a weight training class very similar to one I used to do years ago. It was really fun and I enjoyed pushing myself some in class, but wow am I sore! lol I can barely lift my arms. That just means I need to go more often I guess And the good news is that with all of the squats and lunges with weights, my knee didn't bother me at all! I am just super careful about my form and didn't go too high with the weight. I am hoping to make it a routine and get to this class every week.

[tanyachap]

Body Pump is an awesome class!!! I love it.

[tanyachap]

So wish me luck - I am putting the boys on GF diet for at least several weeks to see if it helps the older one with his ADHD and the younger one with his tummy aches. I will go myself since I cook for the 3 of us together. I already made my first coffee cake - FAIL - and my first bread which seems to be OK. So now I am all set for breakfast with a loaf of super healthy screwed up coffee cake LOL low GI, organic, the works... I am new to baking GF so I used the wrong flour (I used coconut and it called for almond flour and had to add other flours and water so yep, very healthy, I think it qualifies as paleo too)

[preciousnd98]

That is a big change - but I hope it is a successful one. Sorry the first attempt wasn't so successful. I am sure you will get the hang of it. I don't know if you shop at Trader Joe's or have one nearby, but they have a lot of gluten free stuff in stock and clearly labeled there. Most grocery stores do these days, I think, but I have noticed it the most at TJ's.

So our weather is finally turning!! I made it out for a run this weekend, and have already walked to do errands this morning. I plan on going for a big, long walk with the kiddos later.

I need to figure out times to go running this week. My goal is to get out 2x during the week. And I will definitely be heading to Body Pump on Thursday again. It was so fun!