Posts by archer

Forum	Topic	Date	Replies

Weight Loss	low calorie dinner suggestions	Feb 09 2007 01:04 (UTC)	8
Salad with as many veggies as you want (lettuce, cukes, green peppers, onion, whatever). I splurge and put on 5 black olives. No cheese. And I top with a breast of grilled chicken and balsamic vinegar. That's about 400 cals and it's a huge filler. It's great because you can feed the chicken to the family - grill it, bake it, whatever, just put yours on a salad. On Sunday I grill 6 chicken breasts and then I can have a meal with the family one night and cut them up for my salads the other nights.
Weight Loss	Sign Ups Officially Closing for The Biggest Loser Challenge Part 2	Jan 02 2007 02:02 (UTC)	312
Sign me up. I loved the show and am relatively new here (starting over again).
Weight Loss	how far do you have to go?	Apr 12 2006 01:50 (UTC)	23
14 down, 28 to go
Weight Loss	goal pant size!	Apr 03 2006 02:28 (UTC)	29
I started this site because my size 14 jeans were too tight to be comfortable (so were my sweat pants - not good). They were the only pants I had left. Now I still wear them (six weeks later) but they are baggy and feel great. I pulled out an old pair of 12s that are very comfy but I can't wear them anywhere because they are ratty. I also have a nice pair of 10s that I can button and zip but I cannot breathe in them. About 6 or 7 years ago, I lost a bunch of weight and was in an 8 for a while - that's a real dream when you are tagged with the 3 F's (fat, female and 40!). Here's hoping for an 8!
Weight Loss	New!	Mar 14 2006 02:06 (UTC)	6
Ok, I'm 5'2" and would love to get back to 140 too but I'm shooting for a bit lower than that. I've lost 8.5 pounds in 3 weeks on this site and I feel great. I too did the back-to-back kid thing. They are 15 months apart. When they wer 4 and 5 I lost a bunch of weight (less then than now) and got down to 140. Over the last 5 years I've gained it back plus and now I am working on it again. My kids are 12 and 13 and I love the fact that I had them close but the first 3-4 years were HORRIBLE. On the diet front...stick with it no matter how bad it gets. On the marriage front....ditto. Remember no matter how bad it seems it'll be MUCH worse being a single parent.
Motivation	Finally! I did it!	Mar 11 2006 14:54 (UTC)	6
Congratulations. I'm looking to you as an inspiration and a role model. I'd love to hit 20 pounds. I'm down 8 1/2 in 3 weeks. I'm hoping to hit 20 in June. I love to see that scale go down. I don't DARE do measurements yet, but I did take them when I started. I think I'll follow your lead and do it at 20 - yes, scary as it may be. Congrats and keep up the good work.
Fitness	anyone work out on their lunch hour?	Mar 09 2006 02:07 (UTC)	1
Where a baseball hat and pull the pony tail out of the hole in the back. It keeps your hair out of your face and off your neck. Don't put it in an elastic first.
Motivation	Help! I'm obsessed!	Mar 04 2006 01:11 (UTC)	14
I'm addicted, too. I'm just finishing my second week and I'm so psyched. I've been sooooo good and it's starting to show. The forums are great but I NEED to see those green and blue lines go down. I haven't started exercising in earnest but if I would spend less time reading the forums I'd have plenty of time for my treadmill. Thanks for all the support.
Foods	Making tacos for dinner cuz kids n hubby love em! Help!	Mar 02 2006 12:09 (UTC)	9
On "taco night" at our house I just have a taco salad instead. Take a lot more lettuce, all the veggies you want and top it with the taco meat (I agree with the ground turkey). Use only salsa for dressing and low fat cheese and it's great. Let everyone else eat the tacos. I've read the labels on the refried beans - I've just decided they aren't worth it at this time. I take a scoop of the meat out for me and mix the rest with the beans for the family. Forget the beans, the tacos, the sourcream and toss the salad and meat together and it tastes great.
Foods	Best on the go food	Mar 01 2006 11:45 (UTC)	8
McDonald's salads and Subway - both of which my daughter introduced me too. Not because she's dieting but because she likes the veggie sub and the salads. You can look it up on this site but calorie wise they are low, yummy and fast and NO BREAD which helps your weight loss.
Weight Loss	woke up starving	Mar 01 2006 02:24 (UTC)
I have a theory that others might not agree with but.... I once tried the Atkins diet. I didn't stay with it very long (maybe a two months) but I did learn a lot about protein and carbs - lol. And ever since then I have learned that when I eat empty carbs or in my words "real" carbs - especially for dinner or at night - the next morning I'm ravenous. Absolutely starving. The carbs I'm talking about are bread, white pasta, cookies, etc. I find that when I eat a salad with chicken and veggie for dinner and my nightly jello & ff whip cream for dessert, I wake up hungry but not starving. Try an experiment with and without carbs and you'll see what I mean. There will be a distinct difference in your hunger level. One is normal with a healthy diet, the other indicates a carb overload. I'll tell you even eating a bowl of slow cooked oatmeal doesn't have the same reaction as "white" carbs. Just my experience.
Weight Loss	Official results from week 1 (woohoo)	Feb 25 2006 15:56 (UTC)	4
I need to clarify. Kat said "we are in the same place" because she has never dieted. Ummmm that's not my case (hee, hee). I've dieted a lot - all my life. You know, losing the same 10 pounds over and over while the upward weight keeps creeping up. My "never" is starting on a Saturday. I'm fond of saying that I start dieting every Monday and then by 2:00 I decide to wait until next week!
Weight Loss	Official results from week 1 (woohoo)	Feb 25 2006 13:10 (UTC)	10
Well I'm a Atkins holdover so getting in protein is easy. I never really did Atkins well (hubby loved it). I had to have my fruit and yogurt. It's hard to figure out where the fat is because I can't click on 7 days of foods and look at each one. It would be awesome to click on your percent of fat and have it list it all that way. Plus the items I enter don't have the details after you initially enter them. But yes, I'm sure I can review last week and look at the details. No doubt cheese is part of the culprit!
Foods	Question: Cooked vs. Raw	Feb 24 2006 01:12 (UTC)
For meat, you should always weigh the cooked amount. I've never known it to matter for veggies, most are such low calorie that the weight differential is inconsequential. You are eating the cooked weight, so that's what you should calculate. Unless of course you are eating it raw (yuck).
Foods	carb/fat trade offs	Feb 24 2006 01:08 (UTC)	3
I'm with you on this. I'm on Day 6 and the percentages are making me crazy. I want to find a list of foods that are lo-cal, low fat, lo carb. So lean meat, and mozzerella cheese... anything else? I've got the veggies covered...looking for suggestions too.
Foods	Glutinous Rice??	Feb 22 2006 02:25 (UTC)	2
A lifetime ago I lived in China and the way I always ate glutinous rice was in a dessert form. It was a ball of sticky, rice but you couldn't see each rice grain sticking together. It looks more like cookie dough (whiter). We usually had them with a bean paste or a sugar in them. Often the glutinous rice was sweet. China's a huge country so no doubt they use if for other types of food as well.
Recipes	looking for low fat, low cal dip for artichoke	Feb 21 2006 02:32 (UTC)	1
I realize it's a bit late but... Next time try "spray butter" - that's the name we use. I can't think of what it's called (it's not the same thing as cooking spray or Pam). It's a lot like butter with zero cals, zero fat, etc. Saute some garlic and lemon juice with it and then dip away.
Foods	calorie intake	Feb 20 2006 18:29 (UTC)	2
Pump up the protein level a little and eat less carbs. It will bring down your fat, too. Don't eliminate carbs - just bring them down a bit. I used to do Weight Watchers and they had all these boxes for each category that you had to fill out. I remember it had 5 for fruits and veggies, 5 for protein, 3 for bread, 2 for fat. This board is very different but it's the same idea. I could go for weeks without any weight loss but when I eliminated bread (not carbs, but bread) from my diet, the weight comes off. With this diet, let your carbs come from something other than starch (bread, potato, rice, etc).
Foods	favorite lo-cal foods?	Feb 20 2006 18:22 (UTC)	2
Wow, the pizza sounds great. I'll have to try it. I'm onto the Jello thing. I add lo cal whipped "cream" to it and it's yummy and sweet and that's my treat at night. Thanks for the ideas. Keep them coming.
Weight Loss	I am half way to my goal weight	Feb 19 2006 02:59 (UTC)
jewelry - it will always fit and it's a great reward. Doesn't have to be expensive but just something simple or flashy.
Weight Loss	What's up with the food log on bananas, apples?	Feb 18 2006 21:57 (UTC)
Thank you.

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