Posts by 20lbs2bodaciousbride

I just bought a house...  Not just any house, but a total FIXER UPPER and I've been totally nervous and crazy the past week...  Needless to say, my emotional eating problem reared it's ugly head and I'm terrified to weigh myself before getting back on track.  Hopefully by the end of the week I'll be more at peace with this craziness and able to cope without EATING.

Stacey- I'll send a sample meal plan sometime this week.

Yeah- this diet is basically a low-carb diet.  I just like being able to eat as much as I want AND looking forward to "cheat" days which is helping me stay motivated.

I'm 5"4 and was all the way up to 148 a couple weeks ago.  I'm down to about 143.  The past couple weeks I've just been dieting though and my goal is that this week will be the week I try to get back to my work-out routine.  It's going to be the hardest thing though because I have so many meetings and stuff scheduled that I don't have much time...  Come to think of it I'm pretty booked up this week with something going on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday night...  One I have all the big stuff taken care of for my wedding though, I should have a lot of time freed up and will be able to work out more often.  My wedding is September 6, 2009.  My goal is to get down to 125.

I'm actually doing really well right now, so let's not worry about me.  I hit a rough patch (and recently hit another) but I'm also wedding dress shopping and wedding planning so it is really keeping me mindful and motivated to lose the weight.  I'm down to 143 pounds as of this morning.  That's a 5 pound loss since I started this diet a couple weeks ago!!

Stacey- When I'm really busy, I'm a lot hungrier.  I would try to pick some healthy foods and plan out each day one day in advance.  If every night you spend one hour putting together your meals, and the meals and snacks are healthy/low-cal foods, you won't have to choose between cooking and eating when you're busy.  This diet has kind of forced me to put together all my meals for the next day and it has worked out great.  If you write it down and put it all together, the no-fuss of it will help you actually eat those foods instead of something else.  Pick things that are really easy and that you don't really have to limit yourself with.  Low-fat cottage cheese is great because you can totally eat it until you full and it goes well with fruit, or you can put salt and pepper on it.  Or tuna salad- I eat this all the time now.  I mix two cans of tuna with light mayo and put it in a tupperware container for the next day.  It's a decent sized meal that's filling, easy to make, high-protein and low-calorie.  Hmmm... what else...  Beans.  They can be high calorie, but the fiber and protein pretty much still makes it an awesome diet food.  A can of Bush's vegetarian baked beans is very filling and keeps me full longer.  The whole can comes out to less than 500 calories, too.  Another thing I've been making ahead of time to "snack" on is hard boiled eggs.  If I'm hungry between meals, I can easily grab a couple out of my fridge and the protein is very filling (for 140 calories) and the taste is more satisfying than pre-packaged diet snacks.  Hmmm... bowls of green beans, turkey bacon (20 cals a piece)...  Oh!  And I've also started making scrambled eggs a day ahead of time.  It sounds weird, but I'll scramble 3 or 4 eggs and put them in a tupperware container for the next day and microwave it for breakfast or lunch.

You get the idea, though.  I really think if you have three meals & snacks, ready to go and planned out (planned and made at night when you are not hungry and more apt to make healthy decisions) - it will make it easy to go through the next day actually eating those foods because all you have to do is grab them out of the fridge.

I apologize for being MIA for a long time.  I fell off the wagon because I hit a rough patch in my life and got really depressed.  I went on here looking for the motivation I needed, but I felt kind of passed over in the conversation.

Anyway, I'm back now.  I've been on the "11-day diet" for 3 days (I'm on my fourth) and it's going really well.  As of this morning I'm weighing in at 144 pounds which is only a couple pounds less than my starting weight in this group, but it's 4 pounds less than my starting weight as of my depression binge.

I'll definitely try to be more active in the group now that I'm finally finding my motivation again and my life seems to be coming back together.

How is everyone doing on their 15-20 goal?  Has anyone hit it yet?  Or getting close?

I have to "cheat" in some way or I lose my mind and get depressed and feel deprived.  I kind of go back and forth between an extra hundred calories or so each day or, be really good all week and have a "cheat" day on the weekend.  I have slower weight loss than the other time I dieted and was super dilligent about everything, but I'd rather have the slower weight loss and not be depressed than lose two pounds a week, but fall horribly off the wagon because I feel miserable.

My goal is to work out for an hour after work today.  I have to write that on here because "publishing" those goals kind of make me hold myself to them...

I kind of already had a "cheat" day this week, but tomorrow will be a boozey day that will pack on the calories... I'm hoping to balance it out by eating mostly low-calorie veggies.

Does anyone have much experience with logging mixed drinks on CC?  I make this alcoholic punch that has a variety of stuff in it and I have no clue how to log it.  Sometimes with foods I have to substitute items- like if I eat a vegetable burrito from a locally owned restaurant, I just log one from a chain on CC.  Is there something on here that you guys think might be a good calorie substitute to log my punch?  It is a big batch: one jug of pre-made hurricanes, two cartons of orange peach mango juice, one jug of rum, two bottles of champagne, one 2-liter bottle of sprite...  We put it all in a 5-gallon cooler and the whole party drinks off of it.  Any guesses as to the calories per glass?

I totally agree with the original subject of this post... Pleeeeaaaase, CC!!  Stop tempting us with pictures of high calorie foods!!!!

I just bought a digital scale on my lunch hour... I just really wanted something more accurate than me squinting at a little dial pointing somewhere between 124 and 145!!  Hopefully when I get it home and try it out I won't have any nasty surprises!!

Jessie-  You keep calling your fiance a "finance."  Is that a cute nickname you have for him because he's your moneybags???  LOL.

I'm going out to dinner tonight with some friends, so everyone wish me luck... I wish I knew where we were going so I could prepare, but the other couple is picking the restaurant.  Here's hoping they have some good veggie/fish dishes that aren't fried or smothered in creamy, cheesey goodness!!

Crisp!!!!

Tuna, Chicken or Seafood salad???

Tomorrow is weigh-in day!!!

It's hard to not weigh myself every day, but I try really hard to only do it once a week.  It's too easy for me to get frustrated with water weight or other factors when I weigh myself every day.

I am pretty proud of myself because last night the fiance wanted to get fast food for dinner.  We went to Jack in the Box and I got the Southwest Salad without chicken (I'm a pescatarian) and the low-fat balsamic dressing.  It was a HUGE salad and I was stuffed afterwards.  It only had about 300 calories, though.  Anyway, it was really hard to resist those stuffed jalapenos, french fries, breakfast sandwiches... BUT, I did it.

Now if I could only get myself to excersize...  I also think I need a new scale.  A digital one.  I don't trust the one I'm using right now...

Wish me luck- I'm meeting friends for dinner tonight and tomorrow night- EEK!

A little bit about me:  I'm engaged and will be getting married next September.  My 20 pounds goal is largely motivated by my wedding- specifically, I'd like to lose 20 pounds before dress shopping (and keep it off until the wedding).  My fiance and I do not live together because we decided a long time ago we didn't want to live together until we were married (something to look forward to), but he stays over Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights on most weeks.  He eats a lot more than I do AND he doesn't like most healthy foods (vegetables).  It gets frustrating because he'll be like, "Uh oh.  I gained 5 pounds." and then he'll use the stairs at work for a week and drop it lickity split.  Anyway, it does get hard to prepare healthy meals that he'll like (I should also mention that I'm a pescatarian and he loves his meat).  We LOVE going out to eat, so that is a challenge for me as well...  My job situation is good- I work 7am to 4pm which really works for me because I try to work out at home after work and then I still have time to make dinner and such.  In terms of losing weight:  I've gotten good at handling restaurants, good at revising recipes, good at following my calorie budget, BUT I am not very good at excersizing... it's my biggest challenge.  These groups tend to help motivate me, though.

My name is Laura... That's probably a lot easier than my "20 lbs. to bodacious bride" name!!  LOL.  I think we should try to keep this group relatively small if possible because one group I did got so big, no one really knew one another. 

I vote for Thursday morning weigh-ins.

My recent challenges: I went to a baseball game on Friday night and had 24 oz. of beerlicious pleasure (200 extra calories) plus, I had some bad calorie info on my dinner from quiznos that night and my sandwich ended up with more cals. than I had anticipated... eek!!

I should be back on track this week, so we'll see what the scale says on Thursday...

I would love to be in your group.  I did a group once before and it really helped motivate me.  I'm 24, 5'4" and about 145 lbs.  My goal is 125, so I have 20 lbs to lose to hit my goal.  I'd like to do it in 6 months.  I've been counting calories for two weeks and doing well with that, but for some reason I haven't lost any weight.  I hate my scale though and am going to Target during lunch to invest in a better one...  I vote for once a week weight ins, plus group support for anything else (ie- challenges, advice, recipes, etc...).  That is kind of the format of my last group and it was really wonderful...

This game is SOOOO fun!!

Definitely I'd pick fresh fruit!!

Pick your favorite flavor: Sweet, Salty, or Spicy?