Posts by mykanosdelight

Have you tried checking out low glycemic foods?  I spent quite a while studying South Beach Diet and really wanted to know HOW low glycemic foods worked, how my body would react, etc.  It was worth the education.  Eating these foods will reduce your cravings for sweets and carbs in a big way, I encourage you to try it.   Good luck.

I'm going to be out of town on the 23rd for the bike ride but would really like to join another time!

The Island Soyaki sauce is great for marinating meats.  Also,  the vegie burgers (Tomato Mozzarella) and the one that has an Indian flavor to it are the best.  Hummus is the best Hummus I've tried (and I try a lot) and their marinated lamb in the bag is GREAT for kabobs.

Hey ladies, I am swamped at work and will also be traveling today and tomorrow then off camping over the weekend so I may be out of touch over the next few days but will drop in when I can to offer my encouragements to you all!!  LOVE YOU!!! MKD

PS, HUMMUS YUMMUS!!!  Other new foods - Baked Butternut Squash - roasty dark brown, so sweet and yummo.  Surimi is fake crab and lobster made with white fish protein, its yummy low fat and low cal.  Other new food to try is concocting a new maridade to use on chicken!

I did WOG this morning!!!  See how much you influence me, lol!!!  When I got back to my house I wasn't done yet with minutes so I wogged around my block one more time.  Did not do the whole block, just down to the next corner.  I was trying to see if my heart rate went up, boy did it, lol.

I've had TWO Fiber One Bars today, lol, we'll see what tomorrow brings.   The coffee usually sets things in motion nicely...hahah!  I have to get "that" out of the way before I can go walk.

Have you seen that new movie called "Constipation"?   NO?  It's not out yet. 

Mmmmmmwahahahahhahahahahhahahah!!!

Oh, and I have a confession to make....I went to the supermarket today to buy cat litter and to get some surimi, which was on sale for 1.50 per 8 ounce package of Crab or Lobster style surimi.  I decided that I could allow myself to buy some because I took one to work the other day and ate it with steamed broccoli and for 200 calories for the whole 8 ouces it was quite good and worked like a charm because all I had to do was take the package to work.  I have to eat protein/meat or I can't handle it, so this was a safe choice for future eats.  ANYWAY, I'm at the store and I bought 10 packages of this Lobster style surimi chunk and I notice that the chicken thighs are now marked down 30%.  THIRTY PERCENT and they were already on sale, so a package of four chicken thighs was roughly about $2 a package and I could not help myself and started envisioning (skinless, lowfat version) Chicken and Mushrooms or Chicken Cacciatore or Chicken Coq au Vin....Chicken Marsala, Chicken Piccata.  And I ended up buying 4 packages....

I just felt the need to confess.... Janay knows the story, I already have a freezer FULL of meat and I had comitted to eating my way through it before I started buying any more. 

Today I did GREAT on eating though.  When I joined back up I had decided to target 1850 calories but I have not been eating that much, in fact I have not been eating the full amount of calories that I alloted for breakfast so that's good.  There will be days when I have 400 or 450, I'm sure, but right now I have been eating a fiber one bar 140 cals and an orange 100.  and half and half 160, I consider that my mid morning snack, lol.

I love the shiratake noodles too.   If you close your eyes and think of Fettucine alfredo when you put them in your mouth, they actually taste like it!!  I sprinkle parmesan on them or use pesto sauce or low sugar spaghetti sauce and turkey meatballs.  Love them.

Yes, rinse well first!!  You can just microwave them too, no need to boil them.

I'm not doing so great on my water intake but I'm not stressing about it.  I am drinking one on the way into work and even had one on the drive home.  I slammed one bottle in the morning before I went for a walk and I tend to leave these halvsie (half finished) bottles laying around the house and I'll drink those when I come across them since I'm the only one in the house I know who's lips have been on them and that there's no kerosene or chemical in the bottle :)  And then last night I did have two big cups of hot tea and tea at work so I'm about 60 oz at most.  If I can squeeze in two more bottles, that would be great, i'll have to work on that.

I wanted to ask you ladies what kind of scale you use?  I have this older one that I bought about 18 years ago and it actually does weigh me consistently 4 lbs less than the doctor's office so I haven't worried about it too much since it is so consistently inaccurate.  Its funny though because I find myself squinting in the morning to actually see the number on the scale.  I'm thinkin I would like to get areally good digital, but afraid I'll get a lemon.  Suggestions?

Janay101, I did not intend to steal your Swimming Dory as my mantra!  In my head for years and years even since I was 16 on the cross country team in high school running for miles, I would have this little cadence in my head like the jogging Marines staying in formation "Keep, keep...keep on....Go-ING! Keep keep keep on...keep on gooooo ing!!!  You'd have to be inside my head, goofy I know.  So Janay101 has her little blue swimming Dory fish and I have my Marines marching to a cadence... hahah.  Okay carlyn, what makes you keep going?

Look Maz, I'z is Post It.

I was ravenously hungry and went to the supermarket and got a slab of ribs and some chow mein and it was really good so the next night I went back to the same supermarket and go the same ribs and chow mein but also happened to get the same check-out clerk who commented that I had that for dinner the night before.  I guess the look on my face told her she should just mind her own business but I was really mortified.

Another time, I was with a work group at a restaurant for lunch and I love to order breakfast for lunch and I had just asked the cute waiter dude if breakfast was still being served and I was totally expecting him to say "no" but he went on to say that breakfast was served til 2PM and since I thought he was about to say no, I said sweetly and flirtily "Not even for me?" and just looks at me like "you dummy I just said we served til 2PM"  So my co-workers gave me a really hard time about that for about a year.  Every time we were in a meeting and I would ask about something and the answer was "NO" my joker coworker would go "Not even for her?"  lol everyone got a big kick out of that one.  Even me, because I do have a sense of humor

I agree with tasha...  I had a boyfriend back when I weighed about 140 and over the course of the relatinship, gained about 40 lbs and it really really bothered him.  I was really crushed by many of his comments and I can remember one day when he told me my weight bothered him so much, he wanted me to move out.  I can still recall this clearly and it was about 14 years ago.  It still hurts a lot, even though he is long gone from my life.  He once also told me (when I was around 140) that "He would still love me even if I was 300 lbs.  We would not be together, but....I'd still love you"  Yeah right.  now that I am 267 lbs, for some reason this conversation pops into my head now and again.

So, the question I pose to you...are you secure in your self to withstand determining whether he really loves you and is supportive or whether your true stats will bother him so much he might not be deep enough of a person to accept you as you are?  I think telling him the truth about your former stats will set you free.

By the way, your 60 lb weight loss is AMAZING. 

My friend Patti cremated her Rottweiller and she keeps him in an urn.  She also looked into these little lockets that are specifically made to store the ashes of loved ones on a chain around your neck on on a bracelet, etc.  Sorry for your loss...that sucks.  I buried my 17 year old cat Libby at the last house I lived in and I loved that cat SO MUCH, the worse part about leaving the house was leaving the cat buried in the yard... 

So what will our goals be?  Since I'm starting all over again, I'm open.   Did you want to make personal goals or ones that we can compete with each other?  I was looking at Spring Breaky time frame myself because I might be going to Australia for a wedding.  

So for me, the basics will be important:  Exercise, staying within calorie range (1600-1800 for me) and I guess I can incorporate water consumption too, it makes sense!

I've started today, MAN was I faced with choices choices choices.  I had breakfast and started making an scramble but decided to use two egg whites and two whole eggs (I know it is still too much, shhhhhh) but I normally would have had 4 whole eggs.  Only 1 tortilla, not two and I used nonstick spray instead of a tablespoon of butter.  So I figured I cut back on about 320 calories that normally would have been in my breakfast.

Okay, I ADMIT I went to the grocery store today.....I needed toilet paper this time, but you know how it goes...  I spent nearly 15  minutes in the meat section and even picked up another leg of lamb because it was marked down....but then I PUT IT BACK!!! YAY ME!!!   I did the same thing with chicken thighs ($1.24 a lb!!) and Foster Farms Turkey Meatballs (BOGO!!).  I did not buy any meat!!  I did buy 8 more oranges though...they seem to really nip the hunger cravings.  And a butternut squash and two boxes of low calorie kettle corn and some fat free chili con carne.  NO MEAT!!!

And I walked for 25 minutes today.  Had to just go out the door, not think too much about it.

MY REWARDS?  If I lose 18.5, I will treat myself to a full body massage.  If I surpass the 18.5, I will also get a Facial at the same time...woo hoo!!

Yeah, I have an uncle that would come over and first thing out of his mouth was what a big butt I had (I was 16) and later on as an adult, he would come over and say "I keep forgetting how BIG you are".  My sister used to say mean things to me as a teen about the cellulite on the back of my legs and how "gross" it was and also that she had overheard above Uncle make above comment and that "its true, you know", etc..

My Mom has taken to making  backhanded comments that are somewhat disguised as encouragement.  The other day she mentioned that she saw a jacket in my closet with tags on it and she was wondering if she could have it.  She tried it on but it was too big for her.  I don't know why she thought it would fit her anyway.  So making the assumption that it did NOT fit me, she says "Well, you know give it time, it will fit you one of these days".  Oh man, did I ask for this? 

And then there is family friend Inez. about 90 years old.  I was visiting her in her home and she offered me some candy and I declined and she volunteers "Yeah, your Mamma says you're getting so big she doesn't know what to do about you but she can't say anything to you".  Now how am I supposed to react to that?  I can forgive a 90 year old for the comment but not for Mom smack talking behind my back.

Hey Nasuoni!  long time!

CD, try and Irish Car Bomb; they're fun and tasty.  Pint of Guinness in a glass, drink it down somewhat then put in a shot of Irish Whiskey and Bailey's Irish Cream (half and half to make the shot).  It will combust and boil up a bit, like it's blowing up.  Tasty, very tasty.