Posts by leelee14

Hi everyone,

Thank you to everyone for being so enouraging with helping me get back on track.

Welcome Victoria and Palmetto!

Gracie, as much as the buffet can be intimidating on the cruise, they do have a lot of healthy options too.  Also, there is so much to do that you almost find you want to hurry up and finish eating to go do an activity! 

I'm heading out now for a walk on the trail in the Park.  We've finally had a couple of days here in NY without rain, so I need to enjoy it while it lasts, LOL!

LeeLee

Hi everyone,

Hope everybody enjoyed the July 4th weekend.

Welcome crazyquilt. As Jodi and Penny said this is a great group. I agree with Jodi that it is the most supportive group I;ve found on cc.

Jodi - the cruise is to the Bahama's and I think we stop in a couple of other islands too. Can't wait. I'm glad to hear that there are a lot of healthy options on the cruise. I've been worried about it, because I want to enjoy myself, but I don't want to come away gaining a bunch of weight. I've heard about the dreaded Midnight buffet, LOL, and plan to stay away!!

leelee

Hi everyone,

Penny, we are having the opposite here in NY with the rain.  It is raining at least every other day.

Martoon - glad to see you!  Congrats on the new flat!

Penny, Jodi, Bonnie, I agree with you that being part of this thread and getting to know everyone on it, is such a big help. Thanks to all!

leelee

Hi everyone!

Bonnie - keep up the great attitude!  As Jodi said, it a good reminder.  I find it fustrating that it is so easy to gain, yet such a battle for the smallest loss. However, it doesn't help to get fustrated about it, I just have to accept it!

leelee

Hi everyone,

I'm glad it is Friday.  It's been a very stressful week at work.  My Dept. was down 2 people, plus we had a big project to do.  I'm proud to say, I stuck to my food plan even though I was ready to scream, LOL.  I did give in at one point and asked a co-worker to pick me up chocolate covered grahm cracker cookies at Starbucks (love them:), but believe it or not turned out they didn't have them!!!

Justluckie - congrats on the weight loss!!

Penny - Good to see you!  Good for you with the swimming.  I've heard it's excellent cardio.

Bonnie - have fun at the graduation!

Enjoy the weekend everyone!

leelee

Hi everyone.  I hope everybody is enjoying the weekend.  It is kind of a dreary day here in NY.  However, I've had a pretty enjoyable relaxing day.  Got together with some friends last night and got home late, so I'm enjoying doing not much of anything today.  

Gracie, I just went through a gain recently too.  I'm back on track now, sounds like you are too.  Like Jodi said, a lot of it could have been water gain that will go away. 

Jodi - why is it that the slightest slip ups have to show on the scale, yet it takes so much to see the scale go down even just a little!! 

leelee

Hi everyone,

I'm back. It's just been a crazy time at work, and I just haven't had time to login. I didn't read all of the posts yet to see what has been going on, but I do see all of the familiar faces!! I'm glad to see everyone is still in the group!

Hope everybody enjoyed the holiday weekend. Mine was great! Didn't do much, some shopping and a couple of barbeques; but it was very relaxing. Also, I really felt I did well with my food choices; which was great.

Talk to you soon!

leelee

Hi everyone,

Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays!

I am spending today (the last day of my 4 day weekend) relaxing.  Although I did manage to get to the track at the park for a long walk.  I was able to get through Easter without indulging too much, yet still fully enjoying it.  Not even a Jelly bean!!  I did have a piece of cake last night, but only a small slice and filled the rest of my plate with fruit salad.  On top of not overeating, I have also really stuck to my exercise regimen.   

Ice - You still lost 22 pds.  That is absolutely phenomenal.  You're right; it does sometimes feel that it takes a long time.  It doesn't seem to take nearly as much time to gain it.  However, as they say, nothing worth having comes easily.  Just stick with it. 

Welcome Lola and Raisedoncoffe.  I think you'll find this group very helpful!!

Leelee

Hope everyone had a great weekend! We had a beautiful Saturday in NY, but now it's been raining all day today!

Gracie, LOL about the black socks & sandals!! Don't worry, this NY'r would never, LOL!

Jodi - Don't worry you'll get back on track. There's nothing we can do about the hormone related part. Unfortunately, it can really affect weight loss sometimes. However, now that you've got back on your plan, I'm sure you'll start seeing the scale move in the right direction again.

leelee

Hi everyone,

I hope everybody had a good weekend. I almost had a slip up this weekend, but diverted it in the end. As I was walking to an appointment at the hairdresser, of all things, I came across a girl scout cookie stand!!! What's a girl to do, I had to support the kids, LOL. I ended up buying two boxes of cookies with every intention of eating them within the day. However, all of a sudden I had a brief moment of clarity & gave them away!

ice - don't give up. I went through something similar a few weeks ago. I was so stressed I just wanted to eat what I wanted and enjoy it. Once I admitted that it really wasn't helping relieve my stress at all I was able to get back on track.

Penny - as I said above, I went off track too recently, and gained a little weight back. While I was doing this, I wasn't logging on to cc too often and wasn't keeping up with the postings. Getting back to doing that helped me get back on track. Don't be too hard on yourself for going off, you've been under a lot of stress, just remind yourself of all the hard work you've put into this and how important it is to you to reach your goals.

leelee

Hi everyone,

Laney - I agree that it does often seem like you spend more on healthy food, but as mad4moon mentioned, when you are paying more attention to how much you are eating, you tend to buy less in general, which can help with not spending more.  Also, whenever a product I like that fits in with my food plan is on sale, I always stock up.  One time recently a whole shelf of my fridge was full of 60 cal pudding snacks, LOL. 

leelee

Hi everyone,

Happy Friday!!

Well, here in the NY area we had a last blast of winter...SNOW!!!

dramaqun - Welcome and good luck!  It sounds like you are starting with a great attitude and a plan of action, good for you!!

Jodi - forget about last night, today is a new day!!

Gracie - glad your knee is feeling better. 

Have a good weekend!!

leelee

Katiemae - living in Italy...sounds wonderful! I just love it there. I have family there and I stayed with them, when I went to visit. I found that even though you eat more indulgently, somehow I didn't gain weight, and even lost slightly. I think it is that the food is less processed.

As Neslis mentioned, maybe you can try walking around exploring. Since I was there on vacation we walked endlessly, and as I mentioned, unbelievably, I lost a couple of pounds.

51Karen - you're right, if you can just win the battle of not bringing the food in, it make things alot easier.  Unfortunately, once in a while I give in and convince myself that I'll just eat it sparingly, like have 1 cookie a day.  Every time I do this though, I end up eating way more than I had planned. 

Mockingbird - "you're a girl after my own heart" LOL...cheese is also my favorite food.  Unfortunately, although somewhat nutritious, it is very high in calories/fat and very easy to eat several portions.  I can't tell you how often I was having cheese and crackers as an evening snack, and eating much more cheese verses crackers.  I stopped keeping it in the house, because it just wasn't worth ruining my goals.  It might be easier to address each of your weight loss obstacles one by one, instead of taking them all on at once.  As 5327 mentioned, looking into activities with your child sounds like a good way to start getting active.  Also, I wouldn't worry so much about having smaller meals throughout the day.  That doesn't work for everyone, you need to find the best approach for you.  Good luck!

Leelee

Hi mad4moon - thanks for the great advice!

Carrie_annie, Jim - Welcome!!  I am not new to the CC site, but I am new to this forum. 

Carrie_annie - what is making you think you are eating too little; are you eating under your calories? 

leelee

Hi,

Hope everyone had a great weekend! Even though I went out to eat Saturday I really stuck to my eating plan. I enjoyed what I ate, and didn't have the guilt from over doing it. I missed my spin class Saturday. However, I went to visit my cousin yesterday and we went walking at the park she works out in and it was an intense workout, lots of hills & stuff (even some steps). It was great!!

Penny - glad to hear your husband is ok!!

Jodi - great recipe/idea for the homemade chai latte; I'm going to try it!

Leelee