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Post by bbbearsmom on Feb 1, 2017 23:33:53 GMT
Open floor and menu day.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Feb 2, 2017 16:17:17 GMT
Enjoying some pumpernickel bread and PNB right now. Just had blackberries and some Greek yogurt. Nice sunny day today. The fluffy cat is asleep in the sun by me. Oscar is in his basket in the living room.
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Post by jamescat1 on Feb 2, 2017 16:57:56 GMT
It was raining earlier but the dog and I were brave and walked around the block. Now it has seemed to have stopped and I have promised her a longer sniffy walk soon. DH, DD and I are going to an art exhibit downtown before noon. Our son-in-law's sister has a small exhibit of radical feminist art, not what we usually see, but we are trying to be supportive. The permanent art exhibits are wonderful. In the afternoon there is a monthly LT WW meeting.
Breakfast...egg on spinach, one slice toast with LC wedge, fresh fruit and tea
Lunch...?
Dinner...turkey burger, roasted butternut squash and steamed sugar snap peas, salad
Snack...fruit and ?
Pre-tracked what I know I am having.
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Post by surfgirl on Feb 2, 2017 17:53:32 GMT
Judy, your day sounds lovely!
Today's menu is:
Breakfast: Usual daily Eggbeater omelet with 1 slice LF swiss, fresh spinach, & salsa w/ 2 soy maple sausages, handful of fresh blueberries, coffee*. Lunch: Frozen Amy's mac 'n cheese. Dinner: Probably home made butternut squash soup because I need something nourishing and warm right now, w/ small salad and perhaps a piece of toast if I'm still hungry. Snacks: Sumo tangerine (amazing right now!), perhaps LF Babybel cheese round w/Ak Mak crackers and mango salsa, and/or soy jerky.
*I've taken to no longer using Equal in my coffee/tea and instead using unprocessed sugar. I have ingested so many years worth of Equal and it cant be good for me, so I've decided to take the minor PP hit with real sugar and it tastes so much better!
Today I'm finally starting to feel better so I am going to attempt to do at least 45 min on treadmill at gym this afternoon. I tried to get back on that horse Monday and after only a 30 min treadmill go I felt so depleted and weak that I decided to take it easy until I feel better, flu wise. I have not been to my twice weekly ballet classes since they closed down for their year end holiday break, but I hope to feel up to picking that back up again next week.
ETA: I feel like checking in here daily just makes me keep my head in the game. Thanks to all of you for being here daily as well, definitely a team effort! |
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Post by mariel on Feb 2, 2017 19:36:04 GMT
Andi, this is from something you said yesterday... I find if I am too hard on myself in other areas of my life then I definitely go to the "entitled eating" after all I need something for me. I really had to learn how to be gentle with myself and learn how to do things I enjoy without food. It really takes retraining and sometimes I am not as successful as other times. There are people who do really well with tough love...I am not one of them. I respond to gentle, kind instructions especially from myself!
Todays menu]
Usual breakfast parfait
Lunch Panera's l/2 chicken sandwich and l/2 green salad
Dinner Chicken stir fry over brown rice
Snack
Clementines
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 21:39:31 GMT
B:egg/eggbeater wrap with Country Crock Light
L:grilled chicken tender on bed of romaine,1/2 baby cucumber,baby carrots and grape tomatoes with 1 tbsp walnuts and EVOO,raspberries,sf jello
D:1/2 pork chop,large tossed salad with 1 tbsp light Italian dressing,ff Greek yogurt with dry roasted almonds
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Post by decolady on Feb 2, 2017 22:52:35 GMT
Good afternoon everyone
I am glad to see you are doing well.
I am am doing well on program. But still maintaining.
Remodeling is not going well. At a stand still. Refused instal of tile. Have a new box of tiles in the guest bathroom right now looking at them. All 7 tiles in the box are leaned up to tub and walls to get a good view. The lighting in this bathroom makes all beige based tiles look orange. So we had to try a lighter color with a touch of grey. I think it might be ok. Went to 3 tile stores yesterday. They all said grey based is the way to go. It looks like a light light beige travertine in our bathroom. No orange. Weird how this worked. But it's a lot lighter than I wanted. The designer is coming Monday to evaluate it. I am on the fence. But honestly do not have a choice. The counter and floor is already purchased and I need to get this shower surround to blend in well.
Amazing no stress eating. Hanging in there.
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Post by ladymajky on Feb 3, 2017 0:34:22 GMT
I, too, thought that this week's WW lesson sounded like it had been copied from the Beck book. No wonder they didn't want us quoting directly from Judith Beck in WW-land.
I find that my most subversive and invasive sabotaging thoughts are not the big, global ones (I deserve to eat whatever I want whenever I have a shitty day), but the little specific ones (Let's have some flan with caramel sauce). Those little ones slip in under my defenses. Before you know it, the flan is gone!
Recently I've been telling myself one of Beck's admonitions: Yes, it does matter. It matters every single time.
We have had some upheaval in our WW meeting. The very good, very inspirational leader we have enjoyed for several months all of a sudden wasn't there last week. It was very mysterious, because she has been careful to give us warning when she was planning to be gone. The meeting was led by the territory manager who would only say that the previous leader was no longer with WW. Given what we know about that previous leader, it sounds fishy. I don't much care for the meeting-leader style of the territory manager, and I hope they can find a permanent replacement quickly.
Today's menu:
B - 2 poached eggs and whole wheat toast
L - 1 1/2 oz turkey sausage, with green peppers, onions and spaghetti sauce over 1 1/2 oz whole grain pasta, nf milk
S - nf cottage cheese with diced peaches
D - nf milk, Progresso light soup, ole xtreme wellness wrap with fat free cheddar cheese, reduced fat cheese stick
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Post by keshet51 on Feb 3, 2017 1:58:17 GMT
Good evening all. Marie, I agree with you, I also don't do well with tough love which is why I think my first time through Beck's pink book didn't work for me. The blue one is a lot gentler although still real and direct and no-nonsense. I haven't found myself in rebellion at all since reading and working it. Which is very strange, a whole personality change for me. And I love the idea of being gentle with myself. Like so many of us, I am a harsh critic of myself.
Everyone's menus sound so good!
Mine today was:
Breakfast
half a baked apple oatmeal portion (Hungry Girl recipe)
1/3 c Cabot full fat cottage cheese (OMG so good and not much different in points from the lowfat stuff)
decaf with Fairlife milk
lunch
stuffed green pepper soup
side salad with 2 tsps dressing
2 c melon and blueberries
dinner
5 ozs chicken breast from and old WW Caribbean chicken recipe
1 c broccolini
3 ozs sweet potatoes (I bought these already cooked from Trader Joe's and they're so good, taste like dried apricots to me)
1 rice cake with Laughing Cow wedge
snacks
100 cal pack almonds
Siggi's raspberry Skyr
1 chocolate rice cake with 2 tsps PB
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Post by Tammy on Feb 3, 2017 2:04:04 GMT
Just reading posts.
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Post by surfgirl on Feb 3, 2017 19:08:10 GMT
Recently I've been telling myself one of Beck's admonitions: Yes, it does matter. It matters every single time. L - 1 1/2 oz turkey sausage, with green peppers, onions and spaghetti sauce over 1 1/2 oz whole grain pasta, nf milk Carol Ann (ladymajky), your first point is so on point. Years ago, I was out to lunch with a friend who's always been in great shape. She eats healthy, and works out like a fiend and does weights, etc. Very lean and very muscular. We'd go to this place where we ordered these big salads and she turned me on to ordering dressing on the side and dipping my fork into the dressing, then into the salad. It seems like a better way to get dressing in every bite and she said you don't eat more dressing than you need. I was convinced since it's a tangible thing and I experienced the same thing when I tried it. However...she always ordered her salads without black olives and cheese, and subbed in garbanzo and kidney beans. I said to her, "come on man, you cant eat a few shreds of cheese and a few slivers of olives...it's not going to make you fat!" She smiled and said that it's a habit and that over time yes, all that cheese and olives adds up. I wasn't buying it, not sure why...but I think she is right now, and your comment in green is spot on. To me, it's less a matter of some shreds of cheese and olives making me fat, and more a shift in mindset of habits and behaviors. If I get into the BEHAVIOR - and the acceptance of that behavior long time - of ordering healthier custom versions of restaurant food, that's x points per meal, per week, per month, per year that I'm no longer eating and more importantly, wearing! So yeah, every little thing DOES matter.
Regarding your mention of pasta, when you say 1.5 oz of pasta, do you mean dry or cooked? Some pasta and grain packages don't say whether their portions NI is based on dry or cooked weight and it's always confusing to me. Please, can you enlighten me? Thanks!
Andi (keshet51), your daily menu sounds fabulous!
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Post by ladymajky on Feb 3, 2017 19:16:41 GMT
Recently I've been telling myself one of Beck's admonitions: Yes, it does matter. It matters every single time. L - 1 1/2 oz turkey sausage, with green peppers, onions and spaghetti sauce over 1 1/2 oz whole grain pasta, nf milk
Regarding your mention of pasta, when you say 1.5 oz of pasta, do you mean dry or cooked? Some pasta and grain packages don't say whether their portions NI is based on dry or cooked weight and it's always confusing to me. Please, can you enlighten me? Thanks!
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Post by surfgirl on Feb 3, 2017 19:21:45 GMT
Thanks so much Carol Ann!
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