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Post by katelight on Nov 2, 2005 8:27:58 GMT -5
2 days off work in a row during the week is a disaster for me. I didn't go visit the friend, I didn't eat light. I read the rest of the latest Harry Potter book, and snacked through the whole day. Yuck. But back to work for me and back into routine. Yippee. Breakfast: coffee, usual cereal with banana and strawberries Lunch: grilled ff cheese &vegie sand. applesauce Supper: Snack:2 fun size candy bars, apple, WW 2pt ice cream bar Water: /// Vitamin: Yes I'm a little short of vegies, and dairy. I'm also eating way too many points on junk. I need to really work on using those points wisely and not just snacking them away. WI is tomorrow night and I have no idea where I stand.
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Post by katelight on Nov 4, 2005 22:36:17 GMT -5
Well, I'm up 2 pounds. I totally deserve it. So back to paying attention to what goes in. It's amazing to me how when I have a few days off program my body starts to really crave the good and healthy. I don't really crave the junk I just let the twinges get out of control. Today was a good day food wise. Breakfast: banana, strawberries, sw&b, skim, splenda, coffee Lunch: vegie salad, ff ranch, apple Supper: Aruna's tomato & black olive fish recipe (one of my favorites), brown rice, green beans, Snacks: WW 2pt ice cream bar, ff plain yogurt pineapple& strawberries a few kernels of pop corn.(it always smells better than it tastes, to me) Water:////// vitamin: no
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Post by katelight on Nov 6, 2005 0:53:12 GMT -5
I love Saturday's off work. The original plan was to get some heavy duty cleaning done, but instead we went to see a movie,do alittle shopping and to friend's for supper. No control over supper and I ate more than I should have but I have no regrets. Tomorrow will be a fresh clean day. and I had the WPA's. My contrabution for supper was the salad. So I made an old-fashioned layered lettuce salad. Lots of vegies, low fat mayo, splenda, real bacon, real cheddar cheese, hard cooked eggs. It was so good. Nobody even knew I used low fat mayo instead of the full fat stuff. hehehe my little secret. Breakfast: cereal, coffee Lunch: ff cheese sand. 2pts, apple Snack: none Supper: chicken casserole, salad, yummy chocolate, hot fudge cake. Coffee and too many jelly beans and candy corn.
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Post by katelight on Nov 6, 2005 21:46:37 GMT -5
We had the most beautiful Vetran's Day service at Church today. Beautiful music, and a very emotional MIA-POW ceremony. Awesome. There was coffee and bars afterwards. I had to bars and coffee Breakfast: usual cereal Lunch: knife and fork burritos, grapes Supper: soup, 6 triscuits, grapes Snack: popcorn, apple DH and I worked our bu**'s off today. Twice a year our local garbage pick-up has large garbage pick-up. They take the stuff you don't know how to get rid of. Mattresses, carpet, junk. Well we hadn't purged in several years and decided this was the time to do it. Holy cow what a job and what a lot of junk we have been holding on to. It feels good to purge but we both know this is just the tip of the iceburg. We are both keepers. Bad, Bad, Bad. You wouldn't know it to see the public places in our home. We hide the junk well just like I hid my weight well. lol What a good feeling to get such a large mess out of our house. Probably just in time for our oldest son to move back home, with all of his stuff. Oh well it was progress.
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Post by katelight on Nov 10, 2005 7:24:00 GMT -5
I so look forward to checking in on everyone here with my morning coffee after DH has gone to work. I have about an hour to be here before I need to start getting ready for work and I have found that this is a great way to start my day thinking about Core and weight control. Breakfast: coffee, usual cereal Lunch: tomato soup with vegies, grapes Supper: Snacks: Water: Vitamin: *
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Post by katelight on Nov 11, 2005 21:04:38 GMT -5
Im really bugged by the information our WW leader gave last night. We were talking about how to figure the points in a recipe and we divided into groups to work on one particular recipe. Our group had the job of lightening the points or making it core. We went with the core version and I was the spokesperson, so I told the group how it could be core plus 1pt and she said that can't be done. That if it isn't all core the points have to be taken. So wrong. It's in the getting started booklet that you only have to count the points on the non-core ingredients in a recipe within reason. Especially when you make it and know that there is only 1 or 2 ingredients that are not core. I am going to take my getting started book and make sure that this error is corrected next week. Usually she is really correct, but this just really bugged me. Food wise not to bad today. Breakfast: usual Lunch: salad ff dressing. Vege beef soup Supper: turkey breast wrap 1pt for tortillia, fresh fruit salad Snacks: peanut clusters 3pts, WW ice cream cone 2pts
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Post by pammywhamy on Nov 14, 2005 10:54:20 GMT -5
Hey Kate,
Thanks for checking in on me. It's 5 years. We had a really nice time. No kids.
Have a great day, Pam
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Post by katelight on Nov 17, 2005 8:13:07 GMT -5
I haven't posted much lately, not much to say I guess. How unusual for me. lol I've been maintaining well, but feel that too many old thoughts and habits are creeping back in. I know how to be in full weight loss swing, but keeping my mind on maintaining is much harder. I'm not worried about keeping this weight off, but want to do it the "right" way, and am not quite sure what that means. WW does a much better job of getting information out to those who are losing than to the lifetimers. I am planing to join the after Thanksgiving Challenge, if there is one, to include exercise. I need to start a program and do it every week day. There I said it, now I have to do it.
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Post by katelight on Nov 18, 2005 8:06:52 GMT -5
I am down .8 at my weight in last night. That leaves me only .2 left to reach my personal goal. I've been lifetime since August with my Dr. goal weight. We won't have WW Thursday because of Thanksgiving. So I have an extra week to lose what I will gain from Thanksgiving meal. Not planning to pig out but to be relaxed and not feel guilty. these next few weeks are going to be incredibly busy. I work retail and the rush starts the day after Thanksgiving. The very next weekend we have our annual Christmas by the Lake celebration. Lots of activity, lots of people, We have a lighted parade in the evening followed by fireworks over the lake. Fireworks in the cold over a lake are absolutely beautiful. Then of course there are the added social events that go along with the season. I am planning now to join the After turkey day challenge to get in some exercise to help counteract the extra food and stress of the season. We have decided to scale way back on presents. We have never had big Christmas' but this year none of us (kids included) can really afford lots of presents so we are just giving stocking stuffer type things. Socks, undies, practical stuff. When I ran this idea past our 4 kids they all said sounds like a great idea. That really humbled me to think that they didn't care about presents but more about just being home and spending time with each other. So I think I will make a special effort to decorate and prepare their favorite foods. I'm looking forward to this simplier holiday season.
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Post by simpsoncd75 on Nov 19, 2005 9:21:16 GMT -5
Hi Kate, Congrats on the loss! And congrats on moving forward into a simpler holiday. My mom suffered from the belief that the holidays are all about the gifts. I think she enjoys everything much better now because it's lower stress (i.e., getting the "right" present) and more about quality of time than quantity of pretty boxes. Have a great holiday season -- and good luck with the exercise! I'm trying to channel my boredom on the road into exercise rather than eating. Simps
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Post by cydkitty on Nov 20, 2005 9:52:58 GMT -5
Hi Kate,
A simpler holiday sounds great. When I go home for the holidays we now just do small stuff, and everyone feels happier about that. Since I help with the cooking when I am there I can usually make sure there are some core foods at each meal too.
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Post by katelight on Nov 20, 2005 22:59:03 GMT -5
Thanks for stopping by Simps and Cyd. In many ways this Core journey has helped me prioritize many other areas of my life too. simplifying Christmas gift giving seems to be a natural part of my journey.
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Post by katelight on Nov 22, 2005 8:46:16 GMT -5
Busy weekend. Friday night special speaker at Church. Sat worked all day, Sunday, Church work church, with a quick trip to the neighboring town to buy DH a winter coat between work and evening church. There were treats at church for coffee after the services and I just "Had" to try some. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Now I'm having a hard time getting the carb monkey off my back. Ok....breath.... re focus. I can do this. Today I plan on visiting my DF and then home to sew. I want to get a skirt and blouse done for our annual Christmas tea at church on Dec 7th. There was a thread on how irregular clothing sizes are. Trying to figure out what size to cut a pattern adds lots of confusion to that mess. I hope I'm measuring correctly and these clothes will fit. When you make them you can't take them back if they don't fit.
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Post by xoxohart on Nov 22, 2005 11:20:34 GMT -5
Hi Katie,
My DH works retail, too, so I know how busy it makes the holidays. We basically don't see him, except Sundays, between Thanksgiving and Christmas eve. Even then he is in his home office crunching numbers and sending e-mails. I am totally with you on a simpler holiday. That's why Thanksgiving is really my favorite -- the focus is on family being thankful for all our blessings. But I'm working on ways to make the rest of the holiday season stress-free, as well!
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Post by katelight on Nov 27, 2005 18:45:46 GMT -5
Well... Thanksgiving... what can I say. I really feel that I handled the dinner at my parents ok. I planned to eat what I wanted without guilt and then get right back on track Friday morning. I did well Friday day, but Friday night hit then we decided to have friends over for supper and I didn't cook core. Not good on my part. We had an absolutely wonderful time with the friends, but dessert killed me. I went to bed with a headache vowing to toss the cake when I got up. Well I didn't and I grazed through too much more of it before I finally had a moment of lucidity and threw it out. I feel that I have gained 5lbs. Probably didn't, but can feel a difference in how my freshly washed jean fit . I'm so glad tomorrow is Monday and that I have an exercise plan in place. I feel like now that I have a new challenge for myself that I will get back into thinking mode, and listening to what my body has been trying to scream at me. Stupid to not listen to what my body is telling me.
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