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Post by katelight on Oct 20, 2005 7:30:13 GMT -5
So much for great plans. But somethings are just unavoidable. As I posted earlier, I spent yesterday in Minneapolis, with my friends, being interviewed for Discovery Health Channel's Mystery Diagnosis. It was an extreemely loooooong day, with no food choices. I was able to have a chicken salad for lunch. It had a little fresh parm.cheese, and the dressing was full fat, but considering they ordered pizza also, I did very well. But there were muffins, to nibble on and for supper my friend did the best she could and ordered soup and a grilled chicken sandwich for me. The chicken was completely core, I didn't eat the bun, but the soup was creamy wild rice. Delicious but not core. Oh well. My body is deffinately feeling the affects of not being properly taken care of. I'm bloated, and sluggish and just feel yucky. This is the first time in a year that I have had a whole week of being off program, and I have decided I don't like it. I am so ready to get back to NORMAL. Wow, when did Core become my normal. What a NSV. I'm very excited about that. Breakfast: banana, sw&b, skim, coffee Lunch: salad, with lots of vegies, mock crab, apple Supper:core beef and barley soup, grapes Water:///// vitamin: yes snacks: 3 or 4 handfulls of caramel corn, 1T cashews.(You'd think I'd learn) warm skim milk with sf caramel syrup. I'm almost ashamed to admit that I am down 2.2lbs this week. I have had an absolutely non-core week. All that I can figure is that I haven't caught up with what I ate. We did hike quite a bit while camping though. Probably the reatlity is that I went to a different meeting, I'm guessing that their scales and my regular meeting scales are different from each other.
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Post by katelight on Oct 21, 2005 7:02:38 GMT -5
IT'S FRIDAY!!! I'm so glad that this week is almost over. I am a routine person, I like to eat the same breakfast every day, I like to have a regular work schedule, I like to just keep on an even keel. These past 2 weeks have been pretty out of the ordinary for me and I'm ready to get back to my normal schedule. That includes normal eating patterns. I am going out of town Saturday shopping with my Mom and my Sister, but I know that I can have a good core or mostly core lunch with them. My Sis has never said anything about my weight loss, but watches what I eat like a hawk. So I will be very on program for the day. I have a freind that has 2 exerise balls and he said I could borrow one to try it out before I buy one. I really appreciate his offer. He has lost over 150lbs. Not WW, but his own program, by combining good points of several different plans. and lots of exercie. He is quite an inspiration. My daughter didn't make her 10% last night. She lost .2 and has .2 to make it. She was ok with that. So I will attend her meeting next week too. It was very different going to her meeting. I knew several of the members, but the whole meeting was points, points, points. DD is the only Core person. So of course I couldn't keep my mouth shut about core and we had a really good discussion about it. Most people there have done points for a long time, and are afraid to try something different. I understand completely how they feel, I would have just as hard a time trying to do points, because it's different. I am so comfortable with core, I just do it without thinking about it a lot. Breakfast: usual, coffee Lunch: left over core soup Supper: Snacks: Water: vitamin:* exercise:
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Post by cydkitty on Oct 21, 2005 19:57:16 GMT -5
Thanks for visiting and I agree it is great to watch our kids learn healthy habits too. Sounds like your daughter is doing great! I too am .2 away from my 10% I thought I was going to have it this past WI but not quite!
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Post by katelight on Oct 23, 2005 20:39:17 GMT -5
Went shopping with my mom and sis yesterday. We had a really nice time. Mom tires easily so we don't power shop. We go once a year to a bigger city about 2 hours away and hit the same stores every time. We are all fabric people so we go to a couple of fabric stores, Khol's, Michaels. and eat at Panera. This year we also went to T.J. Max and I got a very classy grey wool, completely lined skirt for only 18 dollars. I also got a new winter coat. It's bright pink. How fun is that. Our son decided last minute to come home for the weekend. It was so great to have him home. He lives about 350 miles away so we don't see him often. Food wise I have no idea where I'm at. I haven't done a very good job of keeping track, but I am still aware of my level of satisfaction. I forgot to tell you all about something my husband said to me while we were camping last weekend. He and I decided to follow a trail to see where it would go. Part way into it there were lots of stairs going down into a ravine. When we got to the bottom and started back to the top I was breathing harder, but not huffing and puffing as I would have a year ago, but he was really struggling to keep his breath. He said to me " I'm almost jealous of you. You have gottten yourself into shape. I'm proud of you" He has been incredibly supportive of me this past year but to have him say that so out of the blue really knocked my socks off. I told him he could do it too if he wanted to. All he has to do is decide that he wants to.
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Post by katelight on Oct 24, 2005 6:53:47 GMT -5
It's Monday morning, and as near as I can tell, it looks to be a normal week. I sure hope so. Breakfast: coffee, sw&b cereal, banana, blueberries, skim, splenda Lunch: salad, mock crab, lots of vegies, apple supper: snacks: water: vitamin: *
A couple of weeks ago I bought some DaVince sugar free caramel syrup. It is wonderful. I've really enjoyed having it in my coffee in the morning, and having a skim steamer in the evening once in a while. I'm trying to figure out though if it helps to satisfy my sweet tooth or make it worse. This week will be a better test of that since I won't have an out of ordinary week.
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Post by katelight on Oct 25, 2005 21:35:48 GMT -5
I'm pooped. I don't know if it is fall and I just want to hibernate, or if I've just taken too many deposits from my energy bank. I'm such a routine person that being out of routine for the past 2 weeks has deffinately taken it's toll. Breakfast: coffee, sw&b, blueberries, skim, splenda lunch: salad,(all vegies) apple plain lo-fat yougurt with vanilla& splenda snacks: 2pts french twists,sfff hot chocolate, legal popcorn, diet coke Supper: 1/2 leftover baked spud, boca burger with ketsup, mustart, pickles. grapes
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Post by paula on Oct 26, 2005 6:08:38 GMT -5
Hi Kate, I hope you're feeling more normal by this midweek. I too, really do better with structure--my son calls it a RUT--hee--but whatever it is, when I get off course, everything else goes off course too!
Say, I'd like to ask you, have you lost your entire 78 pounds doing Core? Or did you try other plans as well?
paula
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Post by katelight on Oct 26, 2005 7:40:16 GMT -5
Hi Paula, thanks for checking in, and yes I'm feeling much more normal this week. I have lost all of my weight on Core. I have been a member of WW several times before, but the last time was many years ago with the exchange program. I never really made it close to goal before I would lose momentum and quit. Once I was only 10lbs away from goal but got pregnant with #4. A couple of years ago DH &I tried Atkins, I lost but when I resumed regular eating of course the weight came back on and more came with it. I always knew I would get back at it and lose the weight but I wasn't in a hurry or on a time schedule. Then a friend, came into the store I work in and told me about her daughter who had joined WW and was doing really well, she also told me about this new no-count program and I knew without even looking at the materials that this was the plan for me. I joined last year October 9. I was ready. I love vegetables, and fish, and knew from doing Atkins that I can live without bread just fine. My husband works 2 jobs and wasn't home til 9:30p.m. so I got to cook what I wanted for my supper. It was great. When he came home I would cook for him. Going to the meetings has become a very important part of my week. I need the accountability, and support and I love the social aspect of it. Now that I am lifetime I still go to the meetings because I still need the acountability, hope I am support and encouragement to the other members, and I love the social aspect. lol WW has always said this is a lifestyle, not a diet. I never believed that before. Now I do. I have changed my whole outlook on food. I never felt deprived, I really haven't had cravings, once in a while, but not often. I have learned that I am a boredom eater, so I keep busy. This has been an amazing journey for me that I have completely enjoyed.
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Post by sulee on Oct 26, 2005 20:21:09 GMT -5
Hi Katie, I never know whether to reply to someone in my journal or the person who wrote to me's journal....whew, all this web etiquette!! So, I decided to post what is below in mine AND yours!! Sorry if I blundered on the rules!! (grin) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thank you Katie for your kind words. The break-up is a "thing" that does weigh on me, even if the end result is positive. Thanks for appreciating that. You have done SOOOOO well. 78 pounds is simply stunning work! Very inspirational. I know that being in a routine is helpful for me too so I'm glad that things are settling down for you.
All the best!!
Sulee
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Post by katelight on Oct 27, 2005 21:47:07 GMT -5
It was a good day. The weather is beautiful. I can hardly believe October is almost over. I got off work at 2:00p.m. today. I did a little cleaning. Key word is little, I took a snooze in my chair and had my WW meeting. I love going to my meetings. They are a little reward I give myself. Breakfast: cereal, coffee, banana, blueberries, skim milk lunch: 1/2 avocado, with mock crab salad Supper: fish with cornmeal "breading" fried in daily oil, WW spaghetti with greek seasoning, mixed vegies Snacks: grapes, 2pt graham crackers, Almond joy pudding (yum) Water: /// vitamin: nope I am going to really work on drinking more water and getting in my vitamin. It seems if I journal it first thing in the morning then I go take it. Other wise I just forget. I was down 1lb at my WI tonight. Only .8 left to my personal goal. Yippee.
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Post by paula on Oct 28, 2005 6:09:50 GMT -5
Kate, Howdy!
Is your personal goal the same as WW? They made mine a bit high, I thought. I'd like to be about 6 pounds under that. I'ts finally quit raining here in our neck of Ohio. I'm going to take the doggies out for a long, chilly but lovely walk!
paual
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Post by katelight on Oct 29, 2005 0:14:23 GMT -5
Paula, Sorry I had to laugh, sometimes I can't spell my name either. My goal weight is 175 my Dr. and I came up with that. My personal goal is 165, and WW says I should be 155. I am never going to be 155, nor do I want to. You can set your goal weight any where in the goal range. If you want to be 6lbs less go for it. You can set your weight at the highest in the range and continue to lose from there and have a little cushion if you want. I had to have a DR. permission slip to have 175 be my goal weight. The only thing it stops me from doing is being a WW employee. They say I have to be within their range to work for WW. It really bothered my for awhile, but now I just think it is their loss. Food today was ok. Breakfast: usual lunch: salad with mock crab, ff ranch, apple supper: boca burger, zuccini, onion, mushroom, tomato, pea stir fry, core mashed spuds went shopping with a friend and stopped for a drink. I had a smirnoff ice. ?pts snacks: FF popcorn, granola bar 4pts, almond joy pudding vitamin: nope water:///// I got a pair of jeans tonight. Levi's for under 20.00 at Walmart. Great for work. I get so dirty unloading trucks and mixing paint that i just hate to spend much on a pair. Our son called tonight and told us he lost his job, and may be moving home. While I would be thrilled to have him here, I'm not sure what the job market is here compared to where he lives in Wisconsin. He is just looking for factory for now and wants to go to photography school next year. There is a good school a couple of hours from here so he will be moving back to the state in a few months any way. It's so hard being the parent of grown children. It's hard seeing them struggle. He has a good head on his shoulders and has learned alot over the past few years so I know he will make good decisions. I just wish we could help him out financially, but we can't.
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Post by paula on Oct 29, 2005 7:18:04 GMT -5
Kate, that is so ironic. My son is only 16, but he is very interested in photography. And like you, there is no way we can afford college. We've been saving for it since he was born, but even with that, it will only be a drop in the bucket. It's just insane the price of higher education today. None of us--me, hubby, son--want to borrow money for this; I do not want my son to be in debt up to his ears even before he gets his first real job. Many of our friends are doing this, and I just think it is so dangerous. Being in debt is the same as being in jail; everyone owns you.
We have told our kids up front, that they will be working their way through school. We will help all we can, but it will be a slow process. I did that, and must say I am a better person for it. The social pressure around here is the biggest problem; people want to be rich--whether they are or not. It's a sad situation. My kids are pretty grounded. This is a tough world these days, I sure hope they keep that ground under their feet.
P-A-U-L-A, there! I did it right this time! hee.
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Post by katelight on Oct 29, 2005 19:14:43 GMT -5
Speciality schools are sooooo expensive. Our other son started culinary school 40,000 for a 15month program. About 4 months into the school he quit because he said he just couldn't justify that much money to learn what he already knew. He has been cooking in different restaurants since he was 16, he's now 23. Higher education is outrageous. I'm not totally convinced that it is worth the money. The world needs average factory workers just as much if not more than degreed jobs. I feel that the bottom line is that a job is just a job, that the job doesn't make the person. Ok off my soap box now. Breakfast: usual, cafe au lait from my fav coffee shop Lunch: soup and apple Supper: to be determined. I'm waiting for DH to finish the chapter in his book so we can go out for supper. snacks: none so far water: not enough vitamin: nope. Haven't done very good with the 8's today. Will do better tomorrow I hope, but I have to work tomorrow too.
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Post by katelight on Nov 1, 2005 8:36:59 GMT -5
Halloween what a disaster. I have now learned there isn't a candy I don't like. Thank goodness it only comes once a year. I don't even like Halloween but we live in a safe neighborhood and have alot of trick-or-treaters, so I feel that I have to have something for them. We had about 45 kids last night. That's alot for a small town So today I will drink lots of water, eat healthy but light and stay out of the kitchen. I have the day off and that usually is difficult for me as I am a boredom grazer. Maybe I'll go visit a friend who lives in the country. Breakfast: usual cereal, coffee Lunch: Supper: Snacks: Water: Vitamin: YES!!
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