Going4Gold GANG

Here at the Going4Gold Gang it's all about sharing what your doing as an individual then sharing with the rest of the gang. 

Everyone is Welcome 

Try this dressing: (you need a blender)

1 orange

stevia to taste

1 TBSP olive oil

1 clove garlic

a little pinch of salt

pour it over mixed greens with cubed apple and crumbled goat cheese or something.  NO NUTS.

One of the things that we did yesterday (Thursday) was go treasure hunting at the Clearance racks of some of my favorite stores. At one store, I found a great pair of casual knit pants in a dark aqua blue for just $9!!! They will be great this spring (and I got them in a size that should work for me for the next 3-4 months!) At another store, I found three tops ... a cute blue linen vertical striped tank top ($7), a pretty ribbed white t-shirt with lace ($7), and a hot pink mock neck sweater ($7!) Finally, in a third store I snatched up 2 pairs of festive undies (hot pink with white polka dots and lime green stripes), plus a light pink camisole ... all on clearance!

And I still have a $25 Amazon.com gift card to spend, plus a friend just gave us a $25 Applebee's Gift card (which we'll save for January!) Did I mention that we were able to successfully sell my nifty raspberry-colored trike that my wonderful DH bought me in September? (And replaced with a bike in December?) We'd listed on Craigslist for $200 (we'd spent close to $350 on the bike plus all the accessories, but once it's "used" the price goes down a lot) and somebody bought it! Not only that, when he came to check it out in person and saw it was so nice, he insisted on paying us $260 for it ... yep, $60 more than our asking price. All things considered, I thought that was a pretty cool thing!

My wonderful DH and I have some errands to run on Friday, and so I decided to survey my vegetable supply and plan my menu for the day ... especially after the fiasco of yesterday's menu! (EEEK!) Anyway, after a nice and normal breakfast will be a pretty traditional lunch of tuna on an english muffin, with a fresh artichoke, and a cucumber and tomato salad. For dinner, we're grilling some onions and lean ground turkey breast (and we'll save 1/2 for tomorrow night's dinner) ... which I will serve in a roasted acorn squash half. Accompanying my yummy turkey-onion combo will be fresh green beans, LOTS of fresh broccoli, and 7 Laughing Cow Light Gourmet Cheese Bites (which I plan to melt decadently over my green beans!) Doesn't that sound just delightful? And 12 servings of veggies for the day!

Ground turkey with onions is one of those great meal-time basics that make 2-day planning so much easier, especially since we end up cooking up 4 servings (2 nights for 2 people) at one time. In our case, we sprinkle on a little taco seasoning, garlic and chili powder for a wee bit of kick! Tonight, it gets served fresh and hot in a roasted acorn squash. Tomorrow night, we're adding it to a can of organic spicy vegetarian chili .... which my DH will probably eat over Fritos while I eat it with a mountain of vegetables! And the flavors from the two nights will be completely different, too! (And so will the fresh veggies!) By the way, one serving of lean ground turkey meat is just 150 calories ... and about 30g of protein! It also goes really well in the organic spicy sicilian pasta sauce I use, and I've even used it with Eggbeaters for a yummy scramble. (Keep in mind that ground turkey MEAT is higher in fat/calories than ground turkey BREAST, so read labels carefully if this matters to you!)

one toasted Thomas' light multigrain english muffin (100 calories)

two tablespoons of roasted red pepper hummus (64 calories)

one cup of Kashi Go Lean cereal (140 calories)

one-half cup of unsweetened vanilla almond breeze (20 calories)

one cube, Laughing Cow light gourmet mini bites (7 calories)

LUNCH

one toasted Thomas' light multigrain english muffin (100 calories)

one tablespoon of Miracle Whip Light (37 calories)

one six ounce can of Bumblebee Chunk White Tuna (150 calories)

one freshly steamed artichoke (60 calories)

one medium peeled cucumber, diced (24 calories)

two small whole tomatoes, diced (33 calories)

DINNER

one serving of ground turkey breast (150 calories)

one-half a roasted acorn squash (86 calories)

one-half cup onions, grilled (34 calories)

eight ounces of fresh green beans (50 calories)

four servings of steamed broccoli (100 calories)

7 cubes of Laughing Cow Light Gourmet Cheese Bites (48 calories)

TOTAL CALORIES: 1199 (not including snacks)

VEGGIE SERVINGS: 12

FIBER: 55 grams

NUTRITIONAL BREAKDOWN: (13.5% fats / 36.0% protein / 50.5% carbohydrates)

Original Post by danceswithforks:

yeah, Molly has the veggie thing down.  She drowns herself in them which is so smart.  It retards the aging process ladies and gents!!

right now I'm thinking of her RAW veggie salad of radishes and cucumbers.  I'm shaking my head yes gotta do that.  As I like them with out dressing.  Sea Salt.

I struggle with the salads as I want dressing on them. 
I won't use sprays.  I will be looking into healthy salad dressings
for the Class to consider.  Now if you tell me about a spray that is healthy I'll listen. 

Dances, you can whip yourself up a YUMMY dressing with some fresh lemon or lime juice, a little vinegar, some fresh pepper, garlic powder, chili powder and sea salt.  Just toss everything really well so you don't need very much!  You can even mix up a nice-sized batch and store it in your fridge in a spray bottle!!!

=^..^= MOLLY

Original Post by amy_blue:

Hi guys! I am back and trying to get motivated again.

So here's to re-motivating!!!

Woo hoo! Welcome back AmyBlue!!!!!!

=^..^= MOLLY

Beginning weight: 188.8

last weeks weight:  164.6

this week:  163.8

weight lost this week:  .8

total weight lost:  25 pounds.... * sings-Oh Happy Day- and does a happy jig!*

special comments:  TOM is the pits!!  I royally cheated on Sunday, the whole day the only thing I ate was some Fiber One cereal in the morning and then COOKIES the rest of the day.  I told everyone that my church was not too nice giving us sweets for Christmas.  Every other day I stuck within my calories but I guess eating too many cookies plus TOM is a BAD combination for my week.  Regardless of not even a pound lost I am happy I still lost and didn't gain

Ok folks, woke up this morning with clear sinuses but a sore throat.  I can do a sore throat with ease!  Makes me eat less... right!!

My first official weigh in with you guys!  I'll just copy 4squares format...

Beginning weight: 208

Last weeks weight: 186.1

This week: 182.8

Weight loss this week:  3.3

Weight loss total:  25.2 pounds  *singing and dancing with 4sq*

Next week will be TOM for me and not so friendly.  UGH!!!! 

Hey, everybody!!!

* waves wildly! *

I'm back to my lowest!!!

Beginning weight: 206.5

Last week: 174.10 (It was a temp. gain.)

Today: 172.25!!!

Lost a total of 34.25 lbs.

7 months, 3 weeks now. Going to gym today- may mess with scale, but I should be reaching new lows soon!!!

Maybe I should take my laptop into the bath with my scale and read Molly's "101 ways to murder a scale," to it! THAT oughta' be a good warning to it!!! Think it would be nicer about the muscle recovery/water gain???

Btw- Have I shared what I found out about salad dressings, etc? Pardon me, if I already did! The study took folks and fed them salad. Some had no fat dressing, some low-fat, some regular fat. ( You can google it, too.) They tested them several times and concluded that the no-fat folks absorbed "negligible" nutrition from their veggies, while the low-fat received "some" and the regular fat received good nutrition!

I knew some nutrition is fat-soluble and requires fat to be absorbed by our bodies... but I thought a daily amount would cover it! I didn't know it's actual presence was required together with the veggies!!! It was a cari-? type of vitamins, esp. being lost. I can't remember it's exact spelling.

Due to this, I'm using olive oil with my stir-fry veggies- sometimes spray- and marg. (small!) with my acorn squash and sweet potatoes, etc. I want the nutrition in these good veggies- so I'm figuring my calorie budget with healthy fats in mind. If you eat something fatty in the rest of the meal, they said you were ok, but dieters might not! I groan to think of years I've eaten fat-free salad (with vinegar/pickle juice) to get good veggies for my health!

Happy congratulations you 25 lb. losers!!!!!! Glad for you!!!!!!

Thanks for that good info, Dances- forgot to tell you earlier!  

See ya' later, everybody! Great to see folks coming back!!!! 

Gunna' be GREAT in 2008!!!!     Go Go Go- Going for Gold Gang!!!!

* wanders off yawning... Thinks to self- I'm NOT an early bird! How can I obey what I typed in my epic...? yawn... gotta' work on that...really do want to lose a little better! *

Dances:  I have been telling people that for years.  I have never understood why flying is so scary for people (probably just lack of control @ 10,000 ft).  I, personally, am scared to drive to my kid's dentist on the southeast side of Vegas (I live on NE side) because it requires me to either drive 70 mph on an interstate through the middle of the city with crazy people swerving and passing all around me..... OR I can take the sids roads and drive 45 mph with a bunch of crazy people trying to find their turns and slamming on the brakes.  Hmmm... I'll just stay home!  LOL  Give me a plane any day.  I'm not too sure about the little bitty prop planes (I definitely say a little prayer when I'm in one of those), but gotta love the Big'ens!

Wow!!! Thanks Forks!!!

435,000 each with overweight and smoking?

Vs. 85,000 drinking? (That got my sister.)

Glad I'm in charge of my health now!

Btw- I don't want to sound pushy in any way, or too strong in my opinions- I'm actually still forming those, as I try to learn all I can. I have to struggle- have had to all my life! What I've learned so far is helping, and I hate to waste things in simply not knowing! Grrr!!! What I wrote in my "epic" isn't something I'll judge folks with...!!! I'm trying to do it myself because the lady was very intelligent and experienced with clients she'd helped- with troubles like mine! I'll try it if it'll help me- but everybody is unique. I love other folk's ideas and special info and links, too!!! Sooo, Keep sharing, pleeaaasssseeeee!!! I LOVE it!

Edited: underlined "forming."

To be honest I don't care how you address me... maybe h.b. since it's shorter. It says I ate around 1,300 calories yesterday but I ate way more. We haven't had any fruits at the house and I was literally DIEING!! I need fruits, especially apples, 'cause they're sugary and fresh.

I made a new recipe if you see Cereal Granola Bar recipe (substitute for rolled oats) and ate like five bars! They're very chewy and I was going for crunchy. It's also sort of high in fat so anyone have any suggestions to change the recipe? Thanks!

How is everyone?  Ok so these are the people

RG comes to mind with her amazing exercises
Molly is eating herself thin with great Healthy food ideas
2BB is a sweetheart and I enjoy her discipline
4sq and her hubby Preacher boy who plans to join this new year?!
4sq is already participating and consistant
Tammy just joined yesterday I think it was which leads me to say anyone can join this group at any time!!!
Melanie has a great attitude with dieting and is good at the water drinking
Michelled67 is new and looking forward in hearing from her

Cereals and grainy foods always make me want to eat more. Does anyone notice that? What are some foods that make you want to eat more?

To be honest I don't care how you address me... maybe h.b. since it's shorter. It says I ate around 1,300 calories yesterday but I ate way more. We haven't had any fruits at the house and I was literally DIEING!! I need fruits, especially apples, 'cause they're sugary and fresh.

I made a new recipe if you see Cereal Granola Bar recipe (substitute for rolled oats) and ate like five bars! They're very chewy and I was going for crunchy. It's also sort of high in fat so anyone have any suggestions to change the recipe? Thanks!

How is everyone?  Ok so these are the people

RG comes to mind with her amazing exercises
Molly is eating herself thin with great Healthy food ideas
2BB is a sweetheart and I enjoy her discipline
4sq and her hubby Preacher boy who plans to join this new year?!
4sq is already participating and consistant
Tammy just joined yesterday I think it was which leads me to say anyone can join this group at any time!!!
Melanie has a great attitude with dieting and is good at the water drinking
Michelled67 is new and looking forward in hearing from her

Cereals and grainy foods always make me want to eat more. Does anyone notice that? What are some foods that make you want to eat more?

Hi!

Banana Girl...!

Cereals make me thirsty!!!! I like that, it helps me get my 2-3 quarts of water a day.

Starches, like white potatoes and rolls, make me hungry, (esp. potato salad- refused to make any this year!!!), as well as milk chocolate and roasted nuts. I avoid white starches because of this, and use high quality dark-plain, (Not caramel! It was TOO good! Lol!), 60% or more chocolate and raw nuts like almonds, walnuts and pecans.

Edited to add: Oh, Forks- I wasn't sure about the fat/veggie connection, so I 'ran it by' the Nutritionist while I had her! She agreed totally due to the fat-soluble-only vitamins. Most folks eat fatty stuff in the meal, but dieters hate the calories, so we have a greater need to know, and higher risk of mal-nutrition than most folks. Grrr! I wanted to take oil only if I had to! Lol!

Original Post by rivergrrrl:

Original Post by rivergrrrl:

Friday weigh-in report.
I did not lose any weight this week as of this morning.


SW overall weight = 290
SW of challenge (11/28/07) = 218
CW (12/14/07) = 215.5
week total = 0
Challenge total = 2.5
Overall loss = 74.5

 Friday 12/22 weigh in report:

(Houston, we have lift-off...)

SW overall weight = 290
SW of challenge (11/28/07) = 218
CW (12/22/07) = 213.5
week total = 2
Challenge total = 4.5
Overall loss = 76.5

 

 

 

 Friday 12/28 weigh-in report:

(I know we can beg off, but I do better when I'm disciplined about my stats...)

SW overall weight = 290
SW of Go4Gold (11/28/07) = 218
CW (12/28/07) = 213
week total = .5
Challenge total = 5
Overall loss = 77

Huh, lost .5 pound this week -- wasn't expecting that at all!  And I'm due to start TOM any moment.

Measurements are looking good too, .25 inches off of bust, waist, hip and calf (total loss 1 inch overall).  I hate gravity, it sucks!  (haha, didja get that Forks?)  I got some nice bra/pantie sets for xmas, keeping the girls high and proud!  Now if only my thighs would shrink some...stay tuned friends.

Welcome banana, Tammy, and our other new friends.  Post each day and we'll get to know you better.

Oh yeah, here's the beets recipe (balsamic vinegar is the flavor BOMB), I added some fresh ground pepper after peeling, and a pinch of sea salt, and mixed them up with a can of drained pineapple in it's own juice:

ROASTED BEETS with BALSAMIC VINEGAR

Hands-on time: 5 minutes

Time to table: 65 minutes or 95 minutes

Serves 4

1 pound fresh red beets

Olive oil, optional (I don't find it necessary, see NUTRITION ESTIMATE for calorie mpact) Balsamic vinegar

Slice off the greens but leave about a half inch of the stem end intact (this preserves the nutrients). Wash well. Place each beet on a sheet of foil or all the beets in a single layer in a casserole dish. If you're watching calories, MEASURE the olive oil (it's easy to use more than you want!) and drizzle onto the beets. Splash with balsamic vinegar.Roast at 400F for 1 hour OR at 375F for 90 minutes. Let cool, slip off skins. Slice or chop and serve immediately or refrigerate for later use.NUTRITION ESTIMATE

Beets with no oil, per Serving: 49 Cal (3% from Fat, 14% from Protein, 83% from Carb); 2 g Protein; 0 g Tot Fat; 0 g Sat Fat; 11 g Carb; 3 g Fiber; 18 mg Calcium; 1 mg Iron; 88 mg Sodium; 0 mg Cholesterol

With 1 tablespoon olive oil, per serving: 79 Cal (38% from Fat, 9% from Protein, 53% from Carb); 2 g Protein; 4 g Tot Fat; 0 g Sat Fat; 11 g Carb; 3 g Fiber; 18 mg Calcium; 1 mg Iron; 89 mg Sodium; 0 mg Cholesterol, Weight Watchers 1 point

With 2 tablespoons olive oil, per serving: 109 Cal (55% from Fat, 6% from Protein, 39% from Carb); 2 g Protein; 7 g Tot Fat; 1 g Sat Fat; 11 g Carb; 3 g Fiber; 18 mg Calcium; 1 mg Iron; 89 mg Sodium; 0 mg Cholesterol, Weight Watchers 2 points

With 4 tablespoons (1/4 cup) olive oil: 169 Cal (71% from Fat, 4% from Protein, 25% from Carb); 2 g Protein; 14 g Tot Fat; 2 g Sat Fat; 11 g Carb; 3 g Fiber; 19 mg Calcium; 1 mg Iron; 89 mg Sodium; 0 mg Cholesterol, Weight Watchers 4 points

Thanks, rivergrrrl!!!

I'm glad you peel 'em AFTER you cook 'em, lol!!!

( I'll spray oil 'em. I do that generously, and don't guess-i-mate? So my fats might be actually higher than they show to be!)

Lotta' good info, too! Thanks!!!

You're doing good!!!