I LOVE vinegar, so maybe i could put up with that! Could you tell me more about the high metabolism diet? I feel like maybe that could help me. of course i know i am also to blame for my weight gain...not just my metabolism. It just seems harder to loose weight than it used to. IT is very easy to put in on however. That's life I suppose!
Hey Katie is it?
Moses Lake huh! Wow, you're over there aren't you. Were you guys getting snow or was it all dumped on the passes and skipped ya'll?
Anyway, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks the apple cider vinegar works. I have a little book, the kind that you find at the check out stands, on the benefits of apple cider vinegar. I've had it for years. Anyway, I really need some support here.
I am definately an emotional eater. This may sound stupid but this is the way I'm going to describe my emotional eating. Here goes......... I'm a SAHM so I am around food 24/7. I feed my children healthy snacks but of course while daddy is home we buy pretzels and occasionally Doritos. I'm not a Dorito eater so I partake in the pretzels. I do have quite a bit of snack food in my house but also a health mix of veggies and calcium enriched foods and fruit. I'll be sitting on the couch or at the computer like I am now or doing housework and a thought will pop into my head..."I need something to eat." even though I am not hungry. I don't need to eat but it's something to keep me busy. I always think about food. I think, "ooh, that sounds good" or "I haven't had that in a while." or "I need to treat myself to make me feel better." I eat like food is going out of style and won't be around tomorrow! I know it will be. I know cookies, chips, crackers, Three Musketeers will all still be there tomorrow and the next day and the next and so on.
How in the world do I keep these thoughts about wanting to eat when I don't need to from poping in my head? How do you control those cravings?????????? That's my biggest problem. I eat even when I'm not hungry.
Over the last two years since I had my second and last child I went from 232 to now 180. My ultimate goal is 160! I am 5'9" and people tell me all the time that I don't look like I weigh that much. I just tell them that they never see me naked!!!!! My husband loves me just the way I am and tells me all the time that I need to lose weight for me and not for him. He wants me to be healthy and happy with myself which I clearly am not at this point. I have resolved to lose 22 pounds by the time he comes home the middle of August! He also plans to lose weight underway as well. That will no doubt happen as it has the last two underways he was on.
Amy
We made it to Monday ladies!!!!! I had not too bad a weekend. I did cheat a little on saturady night. Stupid stress kicked my butt and I had to munch on that slice of cake at midnight as I listened to my DH djing. That's his stress relief! Funny, his is not fattening at all! 
So I am sure that scale will tell me about myself but I am just not ready to face it this Monday morn as of yet. O.K. new goals:
1. stress or no stress- no emotional eatng this week.
2. better water consumption.
3. stop cleaning the 2 year old plate with myself and just dump that food she didn't eat. It's not wasting it!
So let's gettem going girls. We can do this......CHARGE!!!!!!!!
Well I could have been better this weekend. I gave myself friday night off and went out for pizza and I told myself no more after that. We were gone all weekend for my Husbands grandfathers funeral, so there was a luncheon and then dinner later then we went to chuck e cheese yesterday for my neices birthday (but I got a salad at least) So I didnt have a lot of control over the food. But I still didnt NEED to eat birthday cake and stuff. I am learning that I do best if I just lock myself at home and dont go to parties....but that is no fun ! I just need to find some skills for when I am not preparing the meals. But I plan to really work hard for the rest of this week. I was thinking I'd try to get the the gym an extra day to work off my cheating. Talk to you all later!
The weekend was a little rough. We had Saturday night pizza night, then I had leftovers for lunch yesterday...
I was also bad with water, but my back pain finally drove me to the bottle...LOL. 
That sounds bad! I did have a few drinks this weekend, and drank a lot of cranberry juice. But almost no water. So I'm going to do better starting now, I'm on my first bottle of water and I will fill it up from the water cooler all day. I stopped bringing cash to work, so I can't hit the soda machine! 
Well the weekend took the wind out of my sails too. I made the mistake of taking my hubby grocery shopping on Saturday. A girl can only resist twinkies, hohos, and doughnuts for so long. I had one Saturday and again yesterday. But on the brighter side I did walk my 10,000 steps, drink all my water and keep up with the rest of my diet plan, so I'm considering that a victory. Usually I just declare myself a faillure and gorge for a week or two. It's Monday and though I spent the morning at the vet instead of the gym, it is a beautiful day here so I'm going to move some heavy exercise machinery in the garage, as well as some various over stuffed boxes, if that doesn't count as a work out, I don't know what does.
Though I'm not as overmotivated as I was last week I'm still feeling some kind of driving force, Thank Heaven. As my cheerleader duty I would like to say you all did a good job not beating yourselves up for any slipping you did and I have to ask how are the food journals coming?
Whew! I couldn't get on here at all yesterday - having withdrawls! I didn't do so hot over the weekend either, we had pizza on Friday & donut holes and french fries on Sunday. I only meant to eat one donut hole, but, you know. I did treadmill & keep my food journal. The journal definitely helps me to not eat that extra snack.
Two days of being good until weigh in 
-Lisa
I didnt manage to keep the food journal over the weekend because we were out of town, but I suppose I COULD have...might have helped me not to snack as much as I did. I have been doing pretty good with the water. I found it I float a slice of lemon it in, I like to drink it more. I think it is more the presentation than the flavor. I decided to get back into lifting weights too, so I started my upper body strengthening exercises today. I hope I am not too sore tomorrow!
I have to admit
... I totally blanked on the food journal!! What a goober I am! Okay, I am going to put it together today and get started! Oh, darn it, I just beat myself up, too, didn't I??? Rambo's gonna get me...
Got'cha - just kidding. Goober's not so bad it's when you say something negative about your body or the reasons it may have gotten out of shape. I spaced my journal a couple days this week too, we all have blond moments. (I'm allowed to say that as I am and always have been blond, no matter what color of Clairol I bring home) 
Merissa if you get tired of the lemon slice I've heard watermelon chunk or a slice of cucumber is pretty good and helps mix things up a bit. Funny how it's possible to fall out of the water habit. Once I've been religious about it for a week I totally can tell when I'm hungry and just dehydrated.
Keep up the good work, two days till weigh in.
hmmm...interesting, cucumber, melon. I might have to try that! I was drinking some sparkling water (like that flavored kind that walmart sells, I forgot the name of if now) anyway I said to my husband, I bet I would think this was a real treat if I put it in a wine glass (you know back to the whole presentation thing) He gave me a look like "are you kidding?? 
" But I really think it might make me feel like I was having a real treat, instead of calorie free water. So that is why I have been using the lemon too. Feels like I am out for dinner or something.
Need I remind everyone that today is "no cheat Wednesday"?? One more day until weigh ins, who's with me for a day of success??
I need this no cheat wed. girls. BAD! I became a garbage disposal yesterday: chocolate doughtnuts, baked apples, cake, fried rice x 3 helpings, pretzels, fried eggs and toast loaded with strawberry perserves. I just hosed down the kitchen with my lips I believe. I dunno what got into me. I am so ashamed I slept horribly thinking about all the calories dancing around my hips, stomach and thighs. 
So absolutely NO CHEAT WED!!!!!!
Sign me up for no-cheat day! I was at Sam's Club yesterday and bought one of their giant apple pies because my husband has been bugging me to get something to go with the cool whip we have He, also trying to lose weight (not trying very hard), decided to look at the calories in one portion of pie - which is something close to 400. The label also said that there are 17 servings in one pie. LOL! He ate a smallish piece and I only had one bite. Boy that was hard!
-Lisa
I'm all for no cheat wednesday. I did so good yesterday, until supper time. My DH and I rotate who cooks and last night was his night. He said he wanted a cheeseburger, so it was Burger King. I ate it, but felt sick afterwards. I am deffinately not eating fast food anymore. That burger, fries and coke were over 1100 calories! in one meal! no wonder I felt sick.
We used to eat fast food 3 maybe 4 times a week. (We both work long hours) So the plan was to cut it out and only eat there maybe once every 2 weeks. (It has been 2 weks for DH , but since Sunday for me) But now, after looking up the calorie content, and since I felt so sick afterwards, I think I'll just go buy the stuff to cook by own greasy cheeseburger. I bet it will taste better! Why waste that many calories on stuff that doesn't even taste that good, when I can cook it myself.
Have to tell you all, I've been doing that Good Mood Diet, the book Santa got me for Christmas. There is a big benefit to sticking with it. When you over indulge on grease, caffeine, or sugar your mood takes a huge nose dive into nastiness. It's really kind of wierd but I can definately tell a difference. So bring on No Cheat Wednesday, I'm ready
I hear you, Tuesday! I am skipping breakfast and lunch today after my disgraceful bingeing last night I realize that's not the healthy thing to do, but I'm sure I took in enough calories to sustain me for the day. Baked chicken and veggies for dinner tonight!! I guess I'm going to have to stop 'watching what I eat' and get back to counting my calories. There were times when I was doing that when I might have eaten only 600 calories all day, but felt perfectly full. All about making smart choices, which I have not been doing so far.
O.K So send me all your strength and some good energy. I have just been asked to do 4 dozen, 1/2 and 1/2 yellow flower and red hearts valentine cookies for tomorrow! They'll be rolled buttercream covered and the ohter halfwill be iced in b/c with sugar sprinkles. Just simple since it's a last minute order! Oh give me strength not to eat that cookie dough and not to taste that frosting or warm cookies!!!!!!
I put cream in my coffee this morning, does that count as cheating? I'm going to go with no, it would be different if I drank the whole darn quart of cream though.
Tuesday - no cookie dough! And that's not to say you have an out for once they are baked either because then that's just baked dough. You can do it, you are a strong woman and those cookies got nothing on you!
Just to give you all the 411 on me, I have not been writing my food down, naughty I know but on the up side, I have been doing really well. We were travelling in the car this weekend and instead of a giant pop for the road I took a giant bottle of water and only snacks for the kiddos. I'm hoping it shows tomorrow when I step on that nasty scale.
Stay strong girls and we will persevere.
2sday before you start baking take the following precautionary steps.
1. chug a bunch of water
2. make sure you have lot's of gum or mints or gargle with mothwash
3. get out some carrot/celery sticks or apple chunks. Eat a little PB with them as a substitute for frosting (same consistency)
4. Play some music that makes you want to sing. If you have to stop singing to put something in your mouth you will be mindful of what's going in.
5. If you absolutely start to cave stop and sit down with your treat and think about what you can do to offset your splurge (take a walk, eat salad for dinner)
Be strong, chances are if you don't slip into mindless nibbling, you'll be fine.
Oh I thought up all of this because I have to bake my my very first PAID cake this weekend and every thing is CHOCOLATE - my old nemesis
What good advice Rambo! Such a great leader for the week! I wish I had read this before having a handful of chocolate chips. What was I thinking? I mean I am the one who suggested having a no cheating day!
Okay, weighing in.
Start weight: 150.8 Today's weight: 150.4 Total lost .4 Weight lost this week: 1.4
Last weeks goals:
1. Journal my foods at least a few days to see where i might be going wrong. (met)
2. Follow my eating plan at least 6 out of 7 days-(I think I snacked a cheated too much this week. I know I ate a lot of chips (potato and chocolate!))
3. drink 64 ounces water daily-(been doing pretty good with this, I was out of town over the weekend, but otherwise I followed this well.)
4. Exercise 3-4 times this week-(met. I went 3 times. I wish I had made it 4.)
5. dont eat off of my kid's plates-(not met)
6. Do not weigh myself until next weigh in...I got discouraged when I gained this week.-(not met, I peeked!)
New goals:
1. Drink 64 ounces water daily
2. Stick to my diet plan 6 out of 7 days
3. Exercise 4 times, 2 of which need to involve weight lifting.
4. Dont eat off of my kids plates!!!
5. Loose 1-2 pound by next weigh in
6. STOP CHEATING ON MY GOALS!
I think I am realizing that my plan is only allowing me to MAINTAIN my weight. If I really want to loose it I think I am going to have to kick it up a notch. I really need to stop cheating on the diet.
Good luck this week everyone! We can do it!
Okay ladies, I'm having a bit of a meltdown today. Focused more on my back pain than my weight, but it's all related. I gained 2 lbs this week, which was totally my fault because I didn't eat as well as I should have. But I am SO FRUSTRATED because I can't work out. I KNOW that if I could start my daily workout, the weight would just drop off. My back is now so bad that I can barely walk without a limp, let alone work out. It's so downheartening. I really want to get myself back in shape...but on the up side, I did have my MRI yesterday, so my doc and I will be making some decisions soon about how to fix it.
Enough whining, I'm sorry, I just needed to vent. As I'm sure some of you know, living with constant pain wears on you terribly. I am just lucky that I know it will eventually get resolved. I'm backing down a little on my goals for the week because, frankly, I'm an emotional wreck. I have to be super careful, though. I expect to get a steriod shot from the doc on Monday and it will make me super hungry...
Last week's goals:
1. Child-sized servings - only some of the time
2. No fast food or pizza - good except pizza night-but it was homemade at least...
3. Only one drink per day that is NOT water - MET
4. Try to find a way to work out and deal with back pain. - NOT MET
This week's goals
1. Serve food on the smaller, kids' plates (smaller servings)
2. 64+ oz of water every day
3. Don't let my back problem get me down, and don't EAT when I'm feeling blue!!
The scale was my friend this morning! Start weight - 170. Last week - 167. Today - 164. Total 6 pounds lost 
I think my body is finally getting used to not eating as often as it used to, but it's still hard for me to not eat when I used to eat just because I wanted something to eat. The food journal definitely helps.
4dollars - Next time he wants BK, just get a salad or grilled chicken sandwich and wipe off the mayo. It may not be as healthy as eating something you've made at home, but it'll be better than a burger & fries! {Note to self - follow own advice}
Goals for this week - MAINTAIN!! My husband's birthday is on Monday, and my birthday is on Wednesday, so we're making one cake (chocolate...drool...) for both of us. I'm going to have to get on the treadmill twice a day every day this week!
-Lisa
O.K. I have a totally nutty scale for sure. I got on it this morning and it said 134 then 107 then 234! I think my scale has bit the dust. I know I did terrible this week but I know I couldn't have really been weighing at any of those weights. I was 124 last week. So deff not that much flux going on. But I will have to work on getting one this weekend. Then I run the risk of what has my real weight been all along, who knows how far off my scale has been. Yikes!
Goals:
1. drink my water, 10-8oz glasses of the stuff everyday.
2. no matter how I fell, no grasing through the kitchen.
3. get out and walk more than I have, I do feel better when I've walking my 1 1/2 miles a day.
4. be watchful and accountable for my eating and exercising, no excuses!
Good for you Lisa! you are doing great! Shelbur10 (sorry I forgot your real name...shelly?) Sorry to hear your back has given you so much trouble. It really makes me feel like I take my own body for granted you know? I mean I am young and healthy, pain free (except I am sore from my upper body workout the other day!) and I could really do so much more for myself. I hope you can get to feeling better, I know back pain can really be debilitating.
Thanks, Merissa...yes, it is Shellie. I'll answer to Shel, though, that's easier to remember... I can't wait to get to WalMart today, my dr called in a stronger painkiller...vicodan, which for those of you TV fans like me, is what House is addicted to...YIKES! But we'll find a long term solution soon. I mean, really, I'm only 31 and can't even lift a basket of laundry! (well, maybe that part isn't so bad...getting a lot more help from DH these days...LOL)
O.K. I have a totally nutty scale for sure. ... But I will have to work on getting one this weekend.
Then I run the risk of what has my real weight been all along, who knows how far off my scale has been. Yikes!
I've been thinking about getting a new scale too; I'd like a professional one but they're a bit pricey. I know they're more accurate than my old, cheap scale I got from Wal-Mart years ago. But I don't want to get a new one now because even if my scale isn't accurate, at least it's going to be consistent in terms of pounds lost or gained. Maybe this summer when I have to get the bathing suit out
-Lisa
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