Posts by nautywave

Thanks for all the posts on Eat To Live diet.  I have the book at home, and totally forgot about it.  I am starting that tomorrow now!  I really liked Treebyleaf's reason of doing it as a "mental-reset of what a healthy diet looks like".  Great description. 

I need to lose about 10-15 pounds by the end of June for a trip to Italy, where I will NOT be eating doing the Eat to Live plan, but will be a great plan for both before and after. 

Thanks again for the reminder about that book!  Best of luck to you all!!

I rarely have soy milk anymore, I usually have almond milk or rice milk. I like almond milk for the low calories and taste, but I like rice milk because it can be organic.

Has anyone seen an organic almond milk brand?

In order to recover from yesterday, today I had:

Blueberry/banan smoothie with som rice milk and rice protein powder.

"Appetizer" lunch of baby carrots, zucchini and lettuce dipped in hummus (took every ounce of will power to put down the pita chips at the store!! haha!)

snack will be fruit.

tonight i will have lightly steamed veggies, black beans and some quinoa!!  Veggies sprayed with liquid aminos.  yum!

Hey smmca,

Another challenge after this one would be great!! I'm sorry to say that I'm one of those that haven't been weighing in.  It was really bad timing (I know, excuses) and I am kind of having to start over this week, which sucks, because I probably won't make it to my goal, but I'm still going to do what I can, since my goal is actually a week after the 19th! 

If we could weigh in only once a week, that would be a lot better, I think.  I don't want to be discouraged to see little if not no weight change after 3-4 days.  It would be better to get bigger differences with once a week weigh ins. 

Anyways, I would love another challenge.  And I would definitely weigh in this time.  I'm definitely going to weigh in on Saturday!

Thanks!

I totally started asking some of my coworkers what they would think if I brought in that ball and started sitting on it, and they totally laughed at me. But they already think I'm weird, so that's ok.

So I read on here that some people sit on it all day, and some only for about an hour. Can people please give feedback of what they did when they first started to use it?

I may have to go buy a bigger one since I'm tall, and my desk is set up tal as well. I don't want my arms to hurt like one of the posters in here was complaining about.

I'd love to get the chair, maybe I should see if my work will pay for it. My coworker had to have a $700 chair ordered for her since she's short and petite! $100 doesn't sound like so much after that!

Edit*  Has anyone seen that episode of The Office where Dwight brings one in, and he's being overly annoying with it and bouncing all around while boasting the affects of it?  And then Jim asks him how much the ball was, and when he discovers that it's cheap, he stabs it with scissors!!!  It's hilarious!

I'vedone slim in 6 before.  It's usually the staple exercise routine when getting ready for wedding season!  haha!  I never even made it to the Burn it Up routine (it's really hard!), but the Ramp it up is a great workout.  I know that people say that there is not a single exercise that takes the weight off of your midsection, and I agree with that, but my midsection was one of the first places I saw fat leave me!  That's why I never made it to Burn It Up, because I made my goal with just ramp it up. 

I don't think that I would do it as a six week plan again, I'm really bored with it, I know the whole DVD by heart and I always talk along with the lady, saying what she's saying when she says it!!  I am starting to alternate between swimming and Ramp It Up, or maybe keep it up.  Don't be fooled by how easy start it up is.  Ramp it up and Burn it up are much much different in time and intensity!! 

Great exercise program for home, though!

Oh, and I never got the supplements.  They're no different then what you can buy at the store.  If you're eating healthy, then you shouldn't necessarily need supplements anyways. 

I also don't really agree with their diet plan either, usually fasting isn't very good for you right before starting a new exercise routine.  It would be a shame to think that you're getting results from the program when in actuality you may be getting results from not eating anything for a few days!

I hate that too.  They say the amount of calories or whatever per serving, but then fail to mention that there are actually 1.5, or 2 or even 3 servings in what you're eating, except in the nutritional information box on the back! 

I've seen some products, like gourmet ice cream (Ben & Jerry's, Haagandaz (sp?)) say that they have 5+ servings per container!!  So I'll look at it and think, oh great, so I can have one spoonful in order to get the calories per serving!! 

I saw on a newer bottle of coke that they had two different nutritional information boxes, and one said "Per serving (8 ounces)", and the other one said "In this bottle", or something like that, so it had both so that you didn't have to multiply the per serving info by 1.786735648 or whatever to get the information for that container.  Hopefully more companies will start to do that to eliminate the confusion.

I had to watch The Bachelor online last night, it is hilarious.  I don't have cable, so I catch up on all the shows online the next day.  Then, after that it was catching up on The Hills. Which is really a dumb show.  I hate it when  before they cut to a different scene or commercial, they have what seems to feel like an eternity of Lauren, Heidi or Audrina just looking at the person they just had a conversation with.   It's so annoying!

But I always go back for more, tonight it'll be more Hills keeping me up.

Wow, I really sound like I'm 12 right now..... too bad I'm an MBA student!!

Some people know this, but it isn't very apparant from the cartoon, but Nana from Peter Pan was a Newfoundland! It was funny because I read an article about a real Newfie that would do chores for their disabled owner.  She would put laundry in the washer, start it, put it in the dryer and start it, and pull it out into a basket!  It would also put things away, and run errands for her!  It was an awesome article!!

They are such sweet and gentle beasts. One of the best breeds ever.  I plan on getting one once we get a bigger house for 2 dogs.  The one in Finding Neverland is soooo cute.

I'm surprised that people complain about their smell when they're wet, when there are so many dogs that have a distinct and disgusting smell when they're dry too: Black labs, yellow labs, boxers, pit bulls, and almost all dogs with shorter hair and dander.  Yuck, I hate petting them and then you can feel the grime left on your hand. 

that one worked! Thanks!  Yah, I must have copied the underscores. Oops

Yah, I was saving my giftcards to Bloomingdale's for two reasons.  First because I don't want to buy an expensive pair of jeans until I will look good in them and get the size that I want to get, and second because everything is so expensive there that when I got my first $50 giftcard there, I wanted something more than a pair of socks, so I had to ask for more and save them all for something bigger!!  haha! 

They are going to be my "skinny" jeans that I'm going to always try to fit into, and use that as a measurement of if I'm falling off the wagon and gaining weight back.  I'm not going to spend all that money to yoyo back to my original weight!!

Ok, I'm in! I hope it's not too late!

5'8"

SW 150

CW 150

GW 145 (by April 19)

UGW 130 (by June 29- my anniversary!)

I went vegan after reading SB in October 07, and have been vegan ever since. I lost some weight and was down to ~143, but then my taste buds changed and I fell in love with vegan cookies and soy ice cream!! I have since cut that out. ;) haha!

I'll be back for the next weigh in! Thanks for starting this challenge!

3/29- 150- surprise no, change from sw on Wednesday. I don't have a digital scale, so I can't count any smaller than whole pounds. Hopefully I'll see a change this Wednesday!

4/2- 149 (-1.0)

4/5- OUt of town and eating bad... no weigh in!!

4/9

4/12

4/15

4/19

Mini goal: massage and facial (It's spa week that week, I think)

Main goal: A new pair of jeans/outfit (I've been saving my Bloomingdale's giftcards for the last year for this!!)

You get it in both ways.  You get the people who are offended, but then you get the people who kind of agree, but won't ever make the change themselves. 

I think that it's hilarious when I tell people that I'm vegan, and they immediately try to explain how they don't eat "that much" meat, and they go on and on about how they have cut back on the red meat and pork and mainly only eat chicken and fish!

I know that every bit counts, but all I hear is "I've cut back on the meat and the meat, and I mainly only eat meat and meat."  haha!

But it's like people know that meat is bad for them, but they look away and forget about what they've heard and will eat it anyways because it's what is comfortable and convenient for them.   Not saying that I don't do that once in a while when I'm eating something that's unhealthy, but it's only once in awhile, not every meal.

I would love to raise my kids vegan, and my husband has no problem with this, but I read the story from a teacher or somebody (it could've been a post on here!), about a kid who was raised vegan, and would stay on the outskirts of the other kids eating candy, cake, etc, and when he saw something he could take without anyone looking, he would grab it and go eat it in the corner where no one could see him!!  Talk about sad, he's like this little caveman kid stealing the scraps from other kids!!

I get so much crap about me being vegan, I don't want my kids to be raised with that harassement all their lives!  I'm totally prepared to supply them with alternatives at birthday parties, etc, but I wish that I could just lie to people and tell them that my kids are allergic to animal products, and then they'll be left alone for the most part.  I know this is wrong, and I won't do it, but I'm really concerned how they're going to be treated by other kids in the future.  I'm just hoping the increase in veg*ns will keep rising, and there will be more kids like mine! 

Another way this would be better is if I homeschooled my kids, but I'd go crazy, so that's out too.  Besides, my husband was homeschooled, and he's a little bit of a freak because of it!!  Haha, (only kinda kidding!)!

Is there anyone here who is currently raising their kids vegan and have had better experiences then I'm imagining?  I just couldn't imagine feeding them dairy, eggs or meat, even if I wanted to!  I want the best for them, and that includes the best diet.

I forgot to mention this in my previous post, but steponme reminded me.  The Skinny Bitch book recommends a lot of soy products.  LIke one of their quotes is something like..."These chikn nuggets are so f*ing good you'll do cartwheels in your living room naked!". 

The best thing to take away from this book is the part where they say to not trust what any body says about food, including themselves.  This is the most important part!  Research all the food for yourself! When I did that I decided to not include any of the soy fake meat products in my diet.  So, although it is an awesome book, they could've gone one step further. 

Do the research yourself.  There's a lot of topics in here debating soy, so start there and go check them out.