irisinnia
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Post by irisinnia on Mar 13, 2018 4:20:38 GMT
sunrose49, Congratulations on your weight loss! Great goal! I agree that chicken is an excellent choice at restaurants. cj59, Congratulations on your weight loss! Definitely a successful weekend and what a great accomplishment, one whole year! You'll have to let us know what you're doing for your anniversary I fasted for the Beck Review today, then had a bad WI at WW. The irony isn't lost on me, but I do think I'm still recovering from those antibiotics. I'm experiencing a few side-effects so I'm thinking those were extremely powerful and thus very likely to have caused a gain. However, tracking is going amazing and today was my first day on program! Dailies plus 4. Anything less than dailies plus 7 I consider perfect. Looking forward to an on program week. Good luck on your plans!
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Post by sunrose49 on Mar 13, 2018 13:16:02 GMT
cj59, WTG with a loss!! You are doing great and survived the eating out.
irisinnia, sorry about the gain at WW. You are doing great with tracking. I did better yesterday.
Waving to all
My dson made a really good dinner last night. And we have left overs for a couple more meals. It was lemon herb chicken that he found in the WW site. We are going to try new things to cook and I think that will help me with my bad eating habit at night.
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Post by cj59 on Mar 13, 2018 19:24:20 GMT
Hello Everyone irisinnia - Congratulations on doing well with tracking and a day on program. I'm sure you'll see at loss at the next weigh-in. Sadly, for my anniversary, the main way I'd really like to celebrate is by eating food that I rarely have And it's likely that's what I'll be doing, but I'm hoping to plan ahead for it and keep what I eat within what I'm able to eat for the week. sunrose - That's a great idea trying new things to cook. I think we all tend to get stuck in a eating rut. I hope this does help you with your nighttime eating habits. I went out shopping today and did manage to pass up a lot of high calorie food. I brought home more Easter candy though, but I've already written down the points for each one on the package and I'll do my best to portion them out between now and Easter. Fortunately there are no other "candy" holidays again until Halloween Hope everyone else checking in is doing well on their plan!
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Post by cj59 on Mar 14, 2018 20:08:39 GMT
Hello Everyone - Hope you are all doing well I made some of the 2 Ingredient Dough today and put some cheddar cheese in part of it and made cheese sticks. I took a smaller piece of dough and sprayed it with canola oil and sprinkled on garlic and baked that and near the end of the baking time I added some shredded mozzarella cheese and made garlic cheese bread. All of these were pretty good. Of course it's nothing like having the real think - like Red Lobster Garlic Biscuits or Garlic Bread, but at least I can get the taste of it without the calories. I'm fighting a little bit of desire to overeat today, but controlling it so far. I guess these feelings will never go away completely.
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Post by sunrose49 on Mar 15, 2018 12:44:43 GMT
Good morning
cj59, I have yet to make the two ingredient dough. Jelly beans keep calling my name ugh. I have not bought any more.
waving to all
Today will be c25k and then walking outside. The sun is out, the wind had died down feels like a nice Spring day.
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Post by cj59 on Mar 15, 2018 20:55:10 GMT
Hello Everyone - Hope you are all doing well on your plans sunrose - good luck with your work on the c25k, hope you enjoy your walk. I finished my jelly beans, but got into that chocolate last night I'm doing pretty well today, hoping I won't get into the candy again tonight. It's been a pretty good week for me so far. Just 3 more days to this week.
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Post by sunrose49 on Mar 16, 2018 12:59:19 GMT
Good morning and Happy Friday
cj59, I almost bought jelly beans yesterday at the grocery store. But I didn't. I still over ate last night, but at least it was on better stuff.
Waving to all
I ended up not doing the c25k yesterday. I walked on the TM and also met my 10K step goal. It is windy here again and colder. So the TM is calling my name.
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Post by cj59 on Mar 16, 2018 22:00:10 GMT
Hello Everyone - Hope you are all doing well sunrose - Glad to hear you met your step goal. I find that setting a step goal really has motivated me to move more. I meant to say to you yesterday that the thing I like about the 2 Ingredient Dough is that you can just make a small portion. I only used 1/4 cup of flour and 1/4 cup of yogurt the other day and it made the 3 small breadsticks. I can't make it all the time but at least when I do it's not a lot of points and it gives me the satisfaction of bread. I went out to eat at Cracker Barrel today and stuck to the meal I'd planned ahead of time to eat. So this week has been pretty good so far. Hopefully I can have a good weekend and a good weigh-in on Monday. Two weeks from this Sunday will be my one year anniversary of reaching goal and I sure hope I can be at or below my number. Hope everyone has a good weekend!
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Post by sunrose49 on Mar 17, 2018 14:26:26 GMT
Good morning and Happy St. Patrick's Day to all
cj59, WTG sticking to the plan at Cracker Barrel!! Thanks for the tip on the 2 ingredient dough.
Feeling down today. Didn't sleep well. Had such awful dreams. I have dreams often about my weight. I feel overwhelmed by what I have to lose. I think most often I'll never do it. I know that is not a good way to look at it, but.....
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Post by cj59 on Mar 17, 2018 18:51:18 GMT
Hello Everyone
sunrose - I'm sorry to hear you are feeling down and that you had bad dreams. Hang in there, you are strong and you can do it I've often wished I would never have another dream again, some of mine are so disturbing.
//warning - mini rant ahead//
I fell into a bunch of food last night after dinner and ate it all! Most of what I ate was what I bought at the grocery store yesterday. It really bugs me that I went for so long being able to control my impulse to buy food not on my plan for so long and now I can't seem to avoid buying it.
I'm sticking to my plan today so far, but worry about the evening because I feel like I'm on the edge of overeating again. It's frustrating that I have to spend every day thinking about food. I have to plan my meals and prepare my food, which takes a lot of thought. Then I have all these thoughts about what I really want to eat and thinking about eating those foods.
I always hate to say anything about this because I'm so thankful and grateful to be able to have all the food I want when I know there are many in this world who don't have that option. But I just get tired of my "issues" with food, I'm obsessed with it. I can't even imagine what it would feel like to be someone who just ate what they wanted, when they wanted, and didn't have a weight problem.
Hope everyone else is doing better than I am
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irisinnia
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Post by irisinnia on Mar 17, 2018 21:08:06 GMT
sunrose49, Oh my goodness! Nightmares about your weight? I'm so sorry. I have nightmares about the job I quit 5 years ago (I joke that it's PTSD, but it's seriously stressful) so I can't imagine weight nightmares. I feel like they would be so much more personal. I totally get being overwhelmed though. You are probably having the dreams because you're making progress, and your mind is just trying to cope with the pain while you're in a better place. Hold onto the goodness of the day. You are doing amazing work and making progress, don't give up! cj59, Great mini rant! It is unfair! It's unfair that we can eat what we want when we want and not have a weight problem, and it's unfair that other people don't have the food we have. Everyone has a different struggle. I am right there with you. However, you deserve to have a weight you're proud, and if that means not buying your triggers, then so be it. Or you can buy it and use your skills that got you to goal to fight it. You can do this, either way. All challenges are problems that we can solve. Full disclosure, I did awful this week. I talk a good game, but my execution is lacking. I'm out of excuses. I just need to move forward, solving problems as I go. My big goals: (1) first step is to track (which I will be doing on paper this week) (2) fruit or veg with every meal or snack (3) water with every meal or snack Also, I am going on a cruise this week, so I am going to have huge amounts of delicious food available. My plan is two-fold: (1) low point breakfast and lunch - lots of fruit and veg (2) slow, mindful eating at dinner - it's going to be delicious but I need to pay attention to my level of fullness and enjoy it up to that point Wish me luck! I will miss you all!
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Post by cj59 on Mar 18, 2018 18:21:52 GMT
Hello Everyone irisinnia - I talk a good game too sometimes Good for you setting goals, I hope that will help you moving forward. Your plans for the cruise sound good too, I'm sure it will be tempting to eat all that food but I have heard they do have lots of fruits and vegetables on cruises so hopefully you can make some good choices and still treat yourself a little bit. I hope you have a wonderful time on your cruise and can't wait to hear from you when you get back sunrose - Hope you are feeling better today I did pretty well yesterday, only ate a bit of the candy (and a mini ice cream sandwich) last night after dinner and did some snacking during the day on rice crisp crackers. I know that sweets and salty crunchy foods are my triggers so I really need to learn to limit having them in the house. So far today I'm doing well so hopefully I can stick with my food plan for the day. I only have 9 points worth of candy left, so that's the worst I can eat today
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Post by cj59 on Mar 19, 2018 21:39:09 GMT
Just checking in for the day. I weighed-in today and stayed the same this week, so I was happy with that. I'm hoping I can keep my weight below my goal weight for a couple more weeks until it's been one year since I met my goal weight. I guess it's too much to expect that keeping the weight off will be easy but I sure wish there were more days when I didn't constantly think about overeating. Sometimes it just wears me out fighting that need all the time. Hope everyone else is doing well on their plans
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Post by sunrose49 on Mar 20, 2018 12:41:21 GMT
Good morning I tried to post yesterday, but my internet started acting up and just stopped trying to post. irisinnia, have a wonderful time. I love what you wrote to both cj59 and myself. You have a great plan in place for the cruise. cj59, Congrats on staying the same! I find (for myself) that when I have a goal coming up I blow it for some reason. Do you think you have a lot of pressure for your upcoming one year of goal? You sound pretty positive and strong to me. You can do it! Waving to all I have dreams about weight, my old job, my house, etc. It seems to be about all the things I have struggled with in my past. My weight right now is just not me. I kept my weight down for years. But, I also always struggled with food, being a certain size, etc. for most of my adult life. I wonder sometimes if I am rebelling mentally?
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Post by readyandwilling on Mar 20, 2018 17:43:00 GMT
Hi everyone! Well its only taken me 2 years to find this board. I have really missed the support from the old 100+ group, I'm hoping some of you are from there and I look forward to chatting with the rest of you.
Restarting for what seems like the 100th time but trying to remember to take it one day at a time. When you have over 100 lbs to lose it can seem very daunting.
How is everyone else doing?
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