Posts by pinkpinkotter

hey now!!!! where the heck is everybody?! i'm a very sad panda.

i joined weght watchers online. yes i did. and i must say.. i'm eating the same things i am now... but my dinners are a BIT smaller... i guess my dinner portion wasn't REALLY completely in control... though not bad!! plus i love the fact that it does the math for everything for me.. instead of me trying to figure out the calories... and what calories i SHOULD be having (apparently i was under eating for a few weeks and over eating other weeks)..

the best part is that on saturday i DID go over my points... as usual.. but i didn't go over them by THAT much. just by a 4 oz steak lol. but i DIDN'T GAIN WEIGHT!!! and what's even better... this monday i am down 2 lbs from monday last week!! so every monday i'm tracking my weight and measurements on there... and every day i'm obviously tracking my eating habits and exercise habits.

yay!

but i'm still really upset that none of you guys have been on here in awhile.

:(

so sad that no one has been on in awhile.

well i'm back up tw0 pounds... buuuuuutttttttttttttttt... that's because of my horrible weekend lol. saturday in particular.. i find i go down some pounds during the week.. and up some on the weekends... which means i have to find some hobbies for the weekend so i don't go stir crazy and eat myself out of house and home. hehe. (i'll be back down those two pounds by tomorrow.. so the trend goes)

yesterday i went to zumba class. it wwas so fun!! although it's always more fun if you go with someone.. that way you both look like fools lol. and i'm going to go work out tonight on some weight training.. followed by aqua fit!!! i can't wait!!! i love water... even if it is filled with chlorine.

and of course... the awesome muscle conditioning class on thursday (which isn't awesome... i hate it lol.) But i figure that... if i have fun classes two times a week...it's working out but it's not REALLY working out. so i need that death work out class once a week just so i know i'm actually doing something lol. and i'll do some weight training on tuesdays (before water fun!!) and on saturdays... just so i'm not being one of those ppl who are lazing off... which i kind of was doing there for a bit. but back on track i am!!!

i eat really really well during the week... i'm even not that hungry during the week and so i cut my calories in the day.. and eat them more in the evening... but apparently my weekends are horrible lol. i'll have to try to fix that... maybe go out on weekends and walk around.. walk to friends' house etc.

i also paid off a credit card!!!!!!! get exccciiittedddd!!! lmao lmao lmao. i know i know... but it's taken me FOREVERRRRR.

on top of everything else!!! no one told me plums were sour!! i bought a bucket full!!! ughhhh i can't even eat one lol.

come back ladies... come baccckkkkk.

well i only like caesar salad so i can't actually change that. lol. it's the only salad i can eat. i change my fruit every few days though... i'm on cherries and celementines right now. but i miss my strawberries and grapes... cherries go bad SOOOOO quickly! i also change what sandwhich i'm going to have. last week it was tuna. the week before was peanut butter and banana (my favorite) and this week it's ham!!! woo! my sandwhiches are small though!!! i eat 1/4 a pita pouch!!! carbs are a huge part of my problem lol. and i just can't get rid of them. i love them so much!! my big bunny (nibbles) has gone and had his nuts chopped off today!!! he amde it through ok!!! i hope he just doesnt' look at me with hate in his eyes from now on. .. :(

i'm going to try to go to an aqua fit class tonight!! nothing more fun than doing exercise in the water!!!

soooo i'm down 4 lbs!! yayy!!! celebrate!! lmao. ok so it's 4 down from the 5 i originally gained back. but that means one mroe pound to go.. and then the real weight loss can come off!!!

i'm so proud of you ocean!! you're really hunkering down and making this happen!!! being busy always helps!! lol. i can't wait till september.. it's my busy time!! yay!

my back and arms are killing me from my back and arm work out on sunday lol. that means it works right?!?!?!

how you making out blink??? haven't heard from you in a while. how'd that run go?? i ran for like... a minute on the tread the other day lol lol. but everything counts right???

the thief is caught and fired!!! what an interesting week!!! i can't wait to weight in next monday! (i'm eating pizza today... but whole wheat crust and skim mozzerrella cheese!! yay for healthy! lol). it'll be epic. i swear lol.

i know what you mean ocean girl!!! i thought i was doing SOOOO well since i've been back "on the wagon"... eating all things healthy and what not.. but i started to go back to counting today and WOW. my lunch was over 800 calories alone. all completely healthy... but there are some sauces and what not... and i found out my tuna is packed in oil and not water which added like 200 calories alone to it!! so i started to coutn today and almost died lmao. it's ridiculous. so back to counting i come!! i've printed out these special coutn sheets for myself.. as well as tables for daily percent for fat and fiber intake. that way i kind of see where i'm going wrong.. like eating 1500 calories but 230% of it being fat calories... etc. lol. and making sure my fiber is high.. since that is so so important for my IB. I'm also keeping the binder i put all these sheets in directly in the kitchen!! that way there's no.. "i don't know where my book is so i can't enter the calories" going on. :) hopefully this all shows a bit of success in the future.

my friend who has had a bit of weight loss success.. like over 40 pounds.. but is on a plateau is going to be my work out buddy now!! only about once a week since we live in different cities.. but our days off are on the same days now!! yay! so it'll sort of be like a comptetition to catch up to her.. i don't want to be the fat friend anymore lol.

anyways. i'll let you know how it's going in a week...or a few days.. whenever i get a bit bored lol.

another update for blink!!! *i'm bored at work lol* soooo i went grocery shopping last night... and LO AND BEHOLD!!!! while we were shopping... the power went out!!! and they ushered everyone to the cash.. because they only have a 20 minute battery life on there cash registers before they die as well... and it was at sobeys.. and already 1030 at night.. so there was NO OTHER place to go :(. but i did get veggies and fruits. and am eating them right now... but i have no dinner or lunch sandwich stuffs lol. i'll get them today... and for lunch just have some subway sub. yum yum. i walked to work today. it's a 30 minute walk. and will be walking again tomorrow as well!! soooo already it's a benefit to living where i am :) yay.

so my bigger bunny found a way to take over the whole apartment and terrorize the small one. so i had to get the little guy in our room until we buy one of those pens to keep him in his area. haha.

the sick little guy is getting better. though he REFUSES to eat hay and vegetables... which should be like 90% of his staple. he only wants pellets and treats... so i'm starving him lol. well not really... rabbits are clever and they'll eat a tiny bit of this stuff when no one is looking.. and hold out for the fatty stuff that they like... but after a few days they come to realize that they need to eat the hay and veggies. but they look so sad when you don't give them their favorite food :(. why can't he be like my big one? he's a garbage disposal unit. eats everything you put in front of him. .... ohhh i wish i were a rabbit lol.

how are you lovely ladies doing by the way?

yay for running and enjoying it blink!!!

guess what :) ??? i move in less than a week!! i'm so excited!! but also... i got another bunny!!! he's so cute and so small!! he's actually 3 years old so he's not really a "bunny" but he's two pounds. so he's so small!! lol. but he has a lot of eating issues... he doesn't like the healthy stuff.. jsut treats... like me lol.

but i did hop on the band wagon yesterday ladies :) let's see how long a can stay on it this time!! hopefully forever!! lol. it's easy for me to eat lots of fruits and veggies now... i have two bunnies who i give the extra stuff to.. like strawberry tops and the ends of carrots and other veggies. so i eat more so they eat more healthy lol.

nothing new to report except to watch out!! i'm back on the wagon so i'm gonna give you ladies a run for your money!!!

my healthy teacher always used to say that for every pound you weigh... you should eat 12 calories per pound to gain weight... 10 calories to maintain weight... and 7 calories to lose weight (7 to 9 really, anything below 7 is starvation). if you're weighing in (on average) at 150... 1800 calories a day will put weight on you, 1500 will make you maintain, 1050 will make you drop the weight. (though that's a crazy number and i wouldn't recommend it lol)... but tha'ts if you're ONLY chaning your diet.. and not your lifestyle... if you're more active... you need to eat more... etc. and stick to proteins and complex carbs... it takes your body more energy to eat them than to pack them on your hips. so lets say you're eating 1300 calories a day.. and you weigh 150. It should take you 15 days to lose 1 pound.

you need to burn 3000 calories to lose a single pound.. that's twice your daily calorie intake needed (1500x2), then how much you're cutting down (1500-1300=200 calories lost a day)... 3000/200=15 days to lose one pound.

this may be your equation of why you're not losing weight... and why it's so much easier for bigger ppl to drop weight initially then smaller ppl. i know when i scale right back to 1200-1600 i tend to lose a pound every 5 days... up until the ten poundl ose mark then i stall hard core lol. ugh plateaus.

i have been pretty good so far. i'm not losing that much. but i'm very proud. i normally don't have too many calories in the day.. and i try not to eat seconds... although i did yesterday because i was starved... and went to the gym.... and it was rice and pork... not the worst thing i could have had seconds on. :)

that's good to hear blink!!! i would like to get schooling done at home... or... done in general... but i cannot afford it. sad days for me.

now it's just me and you Harl :P lol kidding blink and ocean.

i have nothing to report... i'm trying this whole "portion" thing lmao. not that i didn't knwo what portions were before... just... i would always have seconds... or a footlong instead of a 6 inch... so instead of eating until i'm FULL... i'm trying to eat until i'm SATISFIED... which is so much harder to do lol... because you always want that "full" feeling... but i think i'm doing good :) . we applied for this cute little apartment yesterday... the two applicants before us had bad credit... so we're next in line... and hopefully our collective credit is good enough... his is perfect... mine is... a lot less than perfect lol... but getting there!!! if so i'll be down the mountain (actually an escarpment... not a REAL mountain)... so i'll be walking distance to work... walking distance to family.. and walking distance to friends... kind of lol... so i'll have in a lot more exercise :) ... and my own food to buy!! grocery stores are walks away too lol.

lets hope i get it!! yayyyy!!!!!!

other than that... just checking in to see how you lovely ladies are doing :) ??

lol!!!! that's so sad blink!! stupid scales all getting your hopes up... i didn't weigh myself this morning... but i figure it's same as always. lol. though i was down a pound earlier in the week. Yay! lol.

i decided not to get my bunny fixed!!! i don't want to chance him not making it.... :( ... they're prey animals... so they fight the anesthesia (however that's spelt). so i'll just put up with his silly horny ways. plus i don't want him to become a fat cow bunny that just sits in corners all day once he's fixed... i like how active and fun he is to play with. he jumps over logs and follows you around and throws his furniture and toys around.. drags his teddy bears around.. it's cute.. you guys should see lol.

i don't actually get messages anymore when someone posts something in here.... do you guys??? it just kind of stopped... i got one like two weeks ago... but none since then.. dunno if it's the system or what???

i go to my trainer tonight again :) yay!!! i found out i have some genetic knee problem... my knee caps are facing inwardish i guess... and they're wearing away the cartiledge... so now they always creek and make noise and hurt when they're bent... so i have to start exercising the inside part of my knees and when the muscle gets bigger it'll push the knee cap out ane relieve some pressure off the cartiledge... more pills for me to pop too :P i'm like a vitamin junkie apparently lmao.

ewwwwwww a whales tongue?!?! .....ewwwww lol. i'd be terrified it'd snap shut and take me for a ride... i saw it hapen on when animals go bad lol. today is mine and my fiance's one year!!!! yep that's right!!! we're engaged already and it has only just been a year!!! lol.

i stopped drum lessons.... because i was paying 27 bucks and hour for them to tell me stuff i already know.... boo that.. i can do that at home on my own. which i will do with my new drum set :)

hopefull i move out to a new apartment soon... living at jeffs moms house (though she doesn't charge me rent) is killing me... she buys cakes and ice cream and pizza and pastas and lasagna and sheppards pies and doesn't eat it herself... i think she wants to keep me fat lol.

hiw's the pseudo boyfriend going blink?!

oops.... apparently my post WASN'T cut off lol. it just looked like it was on my screen a second ago for some reason... maybe it didn't download the page all the way???? sorry for repeating myself ladies :D

I have a very nice food weight scale, measuring cups, spoons. So my portions aren't that bad... i have bigger portions in the evening. but i have smaller ones in the morning. since i'm not hungry at all in the morning... i just eat because i know it's not good for you to not eat lol.

I'm back on meridia *sad days*... so far i've noticed nothing... except that my mouth is always dry now... i guess that's incentive to drink more water :) lol. but it's soooooo expensive... and i think i have a high tolerance for it. i go back to my doctors on the 27th to see if there's any real headway... if not then what??? iiii dunnnno.

i think working out with my trainer is really helping though. i ache all over all the time :) lol. that good working-out ache :)

hopefully i tone up real good under my fat. lol. and hopefully meridia... or prefereably something a lot cheaper helps me out.

big day today for you blink!!!

I love working out. I see my trainer again today. And i love weight training and getting that lovely muslce burn. But i'm still 215. Nothing doing ladies.. i'm not really eating that bad... i'm working out 4 times a week...  it's just so disheartening :( ... and my doctors appointment isn't even until the 27th, to see if there's some fat problem with me... lol... ok thyroid problem. but it's just so sad... it's almost like... what's the point if i'm going to work my butt off and eat healthy for a month and nothing is going to change? I know it's not good to think like that... but you can't help it. Especially since you're supposed to lose a chunk of weight right away due to water, and the fact your body doens't know what's going on.. and then it slows down after the first week or two to be healthy weight loss. but i've just got none :( ... i know it's not good... but i'm thinking i should start eating LESS than my recommended 1700 calories a day?? i mean... eating 1200 is practically starvation for a girl my size... especially if i'm working out every other day.. but what else am i supposed to do until i go to the docs??

i've been trying to do some research... and all i keep coming across is ppl on meridia (which is what my doc will proally put me back on).. and on phentermine?? or something like that. anyone ever heard of this stuff??

i'm a sad panda :( welcome back blink!!! missed you and your million posts!!! lol lol

i paid 68.15$ CAD today to find out my rabbit is a o k. perfectly healthy.

that's what? like 54 american?? lol i dunno.

hello all! Sorry I haven't been on here since monday. As you probably understand, I've been upset and just didn't want to have to deal with calorie count. I didn't even count my food stuffs since then. Although i've been eating pretty healthy and not really over my calorie count... i find i eat super healthy until about 630. then i just cave in lol. or rather... i get bored and eat. boredom is a very very bad thing... i'm hoping to spend more time visiting friends and trying out aqua fit at the gym and stuff... that way i spend less time at home alone... more time doing something. when my fiance is home i snack less. having social interaction keeps me less bored. So today i'm going to try out aqua fit!! maybe next week if my body is up to it (after my training session) i'll try out kick boxing or something. :) :) I also have to visit with my doctor... :S ... since i'm just not losing weight. i have to do the dreaded thyroid tests... boo.

in other news. i've booked an appointment on monday to have my rabbit go for an exam at a vet... get his nuts snipped off lol. lol.

where's blink at??

I have had a VERY bad week. I did not get back on the wagon at all. I even missed one workout session. It's been a trying week though.. tiring as well. I'm lacking motivation and the will right now. I think I've just given up until monday. New week... new start... new problems instead of old ones lol. Let's hope I haven't done serious damage this week though. *sighs*