MOLLY'S DIET RANTS! (ranting, raving, motivating & more)
RANTING BURNS CALORIES!
This is an open, ongoing, support-encourage-motivational-RANTING thread. Feel free to skip to the end, or spend days reading through all of this ...
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I have decided that "Diet" is a 4-letter word.
I find myself muttering and uttering the word around my house these days with loathing and vehemence previously reserved only for comments directed toward liberal politicians. In fact, I seem to be talking to myself a lot more these days .... sort of a running, sarcastic commentary on all the foods I can't eat, or on various other related topics. I wonder if there is a link between calorie-deprivation and Tourettes Syndrome? Grrrrrrrrr.....
I am now on Day 8 of the dreaded D-word. This is already the longest period of time that I have ever successfully remained on a diet. And I seem to be growing grouchier and feistier each day..... at least when I am alone and no one is around to hear my running rants. (My wonderful DH has heard some of my more memorable rants on the subject of broccolli and reports that I am hysterically funny when I am hungry!) I am counting carbs. I am counting calories. I am counting fat grams. Sheesh ... now my math anxiety is about to kick-in!
Mini Rant #1 .... what masochist decided that the serving size of cereal was anything less than 2 cups? Have you ever measured out 2/3 a cup of cereal? Or even a full cup? And placed it in a bowl? Those few little flakes and pieces just sit forlornly at the bottom of the bowl, shivering and lonely, even when we dribble on a few meager droplets of skim milk! Sheesh. Well, I can tell you that there is simply no way that my oversized body is going to be happy with that tiny amount of cereal ... so I have been eating TWO servings for breakfast. SIGH. And while the side of the box says that I can supplement the cereal with some fruit, they probably don't mean eat 45 cherries with your cereal -- much less 1/2 a watermelon, huh?
Mini Rant #2 .... Things NOT to say to someone who has told you that they have just started on a diet:
1.Good, you sure needed it.
2. It's about time.
3. Really? It doesn't look like it.
4. Again? Haven't we heard this before?
5. Gosh, how much weight do you need to lose?
6. What do you weigh? I've always wondered.
7. I never need to diet, I have a fast metabolism.
8. Really? I can eat all I want and never gain weight.
9. Is THAT why you are so grouchy?
10. I sure hope you plan to exercise a lot more.
AAAUGGH! All of these responses are just the thing to make me even grouchier .... so just smile and say something encouraging and supportive, ok? I will let you know how it is going.
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=^..^= Molly
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Reason: Removed sticky 9/12, had been up since 9/4
A place I shop at used to have nut butters available, you just put how much you want in various sized cups. They had a few different nuts, but my favorite was the almond butter. It was just ground almonds.
So along these lines, my rant! Why do I want to eat everything in sight, foods that I would never even think about, just because I am in the office? The office is boring, so I lurk around looking for food that I would never think about otherwise, candy, cake, random stuff people bring from home. My cubicle neighbor is also a good friend of mine. She always has snacks and stuff at work, so I eat that too. I have recently told her to hide her food, because I get into it even when she isn't there (with her permission of course). I am finally realizing that all the extra nibbles are probably what helped me get to the point where I need to lose weight... Duh! I count the nibbles now, so I am more conscious of what is going into my mouth.
Angela, glad I made you smile!
=^..^= MOLLY
Ho, ho, ho: I think I am a secret subversive, as the amount of pleasure I have had from knowing I have flummoxed CC's censoring algorithms with my pornographic cooking ingredient is completely disproportionate! It probably goes well with my food-filching habits (but I do try to count their calories). I thought only the Chinese government censored the internet! But now I realise that they (CC) are really BB (Big Brother) and are protecting us harmless fatties on here from talking about calorie-burning pleasures aka Bedroom Athletics.
Okay - bad girl here: here's some of what really turns me on:
- Dark (85% cocoa) chocolate
- A glass of red wine
- Smoked salmon
- Fresh, crusty bread
- Strong cheeses (British - e.g. Stilton, Gorgonzola, mature cheddar or a nice French goat's cheese)
- Chorizo (Spanish spicy sausage)
- Vanilla Ice-cream - not B&J or H-D, but the ersatz kinds with loads of chemicals in them, piled up in a big dish with strawberry jam on top and crushed biscuits (especially McVitie's digestives). Also, whipped ice-cream in a cone.
- Tate and Lyle's Golden syrup (probably can't get that in the USA).
- Green and Black's chocolate and organge organic ice-cream
- Marks and Spencer's Capuccino Chocolate-covered swiss roll
- Marks and Spencer's Victoria Sandwich cake
- Jam and cream biscuits ("cookies" in US Eng.)
- Pate (don't know how to type a circumflex over the 'a' and an acute accent over the 'e' so please don't think I'm illiterate!)
.... well you get the picture - all the above are binge-foods for me and feel much more sinful than what some call pornography.
But I am trying to wean myself off them. Today is my 4th binge-free day. My personal best is 24 binge-free days (though I had pneumonia at the time, so not sure if it counts). I've struggled with this stupid habit for 34 years now, since I was 18 and went on my first diet. Back then, I was 5 foot 7 inches tall and 9 stone 7lbs (133lbs to our transatlantic cousins). I am still 5 foot 7 (thankfully), and today I weigh 8 stone 11 lbs (123 lbs). "Not a very successful diet" you might observe. But on the other hand, many women my age, with 2 children, weigh much more than they did when they were 18 years old, so I count that a modest achievement, even though I am not the 8 stone 5lbs which I regard as my ideal racing weight. The struggle continues...
.. and my continued trying to lose weight is for much the same reason as why I still run, some 24 years after I took it up. I can't bear to think I've lost the battle to stay fit and slim. And now and again, my running goes really well and then I train too hard and get injured. Last year I was top-ranked in Britain among women over 50 at 20 miles; 4th at 10 miles, etc etc. One of my best-ever running years - loads of prizes, plaudits and trophies. But since summer 2006, I have been struggling with injury, brought on by an excess of optimism about what my poor aged body could cope with. I could rant forever about the injustices of the ageing process! But I'm never going to give up trying.
But despite that, like runnergirl, running keeps me sane. Even a short, slow 5-miler lifts my mood. If I didn't run (or do alternatives when I am injured), I would be in a psychiatric hospital by now!
Sorry - hope that wasn't too much info!
Slow-coach ..."run for your life..."
Slow-coach, it's amazing what running can do for (and, at times to) you mentally. I picked it up only a few years ago during my first year of law school--I just needed the outlet. I soon signed up for my very first marathon and trained with a group. I've since graduated from law school, run several more marathons, and been sidelined by several injuries--but I always come back for more. I can have the worst day ever at the office, but once I get home, throw on my running shoes, and get in a few miles--it's like I can breathe normally again. It's hard to explain to anyone who's never experienced, but it's this overwhelming sense of peace.
But the injuries--what a nightmare. There's nothing worse than sitting in a doctors office being told you have a stress fracture and that you can't run for however long. I've actually cried--not from the pain of the injury but from knowing that I have months without runs stretching in front of me. In fact, I'm just coming off an injury now and slowly easing back into the race circuit, but the time off and cross training seems to have helped--I placed for the first time in a 5-miler last weekend!
Oh, and here's my rant of the day: I went to the gym before work this morning (as I do many mornings). I went to my spinning class, spent some time doing abs, and I head back to the locker room. My gym is nice enough to provide hiar dryers and the like. So I take my shower, get dressed, and go off in search of a hair dryer, and they are all "taken." When I say taken, not a SINGLE one of them was being used--people had just claimed them by laying out all their stuff next to them and then disappeared. You should not be able to monopolize hairdryers in the morning! We are ALL trying to get ready and get to work on time. So, irritated, I moved someones stuff to use the hair dryer, and she actually showed up (10 minutes later mind you--apparently she'd staked out her claim prior to getting into the shower) and screamed at me. WTF? People need to chill out. Sorry--just left a bad taste in my mouth, which is the last thing anyone wants at 7 am on a Friday morning...
Fellow Ranters ....
I must, I confess, spend most of today at Macy's. (hee hee hee ... I will not shop! I will not shop! I will not shop!) One of the local no-kill animal rescues that I volunteer for is having a charity shopping day at Macy's today, and I will be there, staffing an information table, and trying to adopt out kittens. I should be back briefly this afternoon, before (insert theme from "JAWS" here), I head to the Fitness Center for Day #2. They told me to expect to be exercising the WHOLE time I am there ..... EEEEEK.
I will save my best rants for when I get back online.
Slow-coach, I love English cheese and Stilton is my all-time favorite! (wistful sigh). The fat free bland rubbery singles I am now eating that they call "cheese" is a poor imitation.
It's Friday ... HAPPY RANTING!
=^..^= MOLLY
awwwwwwwwwwwwstilton with apricots.. i would kill for some stilton
ive been eating fat free feta and pretending its delicious..
Alas, my friends, the cheeses...have all but been bannished from my food plan! I never met a cheese I didn't like. And Limburger is one of my favorites!!!
But I have to choose not to partake, because I'm powerless to stop once I start 
Looking forward to a lovely weekend visiting my best friend and her hubby, and she's throwing a "Ball & Chain" couples party for us...rather a "grown-up" version of bridal shower with a lot of silliness thrown in 
Have a great weekend,all! Remeber:"A rant a day keeps the pounds away!"
Sorry everyone - didn't mean to start us all off on a mass mourning for missed goodies.
Runnergirl - gym changing rooms can be very trying. I am lucky enough to wear my hair very short (my head has been chopped off in my forum pic for some reason), so I don't even own a hairdryer - I just wash and go. Most men seem to prefer long hair however. I just hate how sweaty it gets when one is sporty.
My rant of the day: firms that promise to deliver on a given day, so you organise yourself to work from home that day, and you wait, and wait and wait, and then by 3pm you ring the courier who informs you that it's not even in the van for today! (I name DHL as the guilty courier). Doesn't that get you all frustrated and angry? Well it has me today. Just as well I ran 8.5 miles at 6:30 am, followed by another 8.5 on the bike. Without the calming effect of that exercise, I'd be chewing the carpet by now.
However, I do confess to half a bar of dark chocolate Toblerone...eaten out of boredom while waiting (the rest is tucked away at the back of the fridge).
It was a gift my my BF - he is always buying me little sweet treats, and he's a lovely man, so I don't like to be ungracious. I just wish he could understand that I cannot share my house with temptation (I live alone), so prefer to keep my naughty treats for more public settings. He just laughs when I tell him I am trying to lose weight, so it's no use trying that excuse.
I must say that I do miss REAL cheese. Alas, high-fat cheeses, high-fat salami, high-fat potato chips and high-fat foods are exactly how I got to my present condition.... I've never really had an overactive sweet tooth. Fortunately for me, the sorts of cheeses that my DH likes to keep in the house (Monterey Jack, Meunster and Colby) are NOT the type of cheeses I've always loved .... I've always loved STRONG and SHARP cheeses .... Stilton and Gloucester and Shropshire Blue and Brie and Sharp Cheddar ..... sigh. We now have low-fat salami in the fridge, along with turkey pepperoni .... both of which are much more reasonably caloried/fatted.
Ahhh, the good ol' days.
I used to really love this wonderful garlic-cheddar sourdough bread, too. I'd toast up a HUGE piece (you had to cut a slice in half to fit it in the toaster) and then just slather it with butter .... and crunch into it all warm and buttery and cheesy and garlicky and crispy and crunchy. Ahhhhhhhh...... Squirting some I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Spray on two slices of toasted, organic sprouted flax seed bread is .... JUST ...... NOT ..... THE..... SAME!!!
But I am eating healthier, which is more important. And I am losing weight -- which is helping my cholesterol, my diabetes, my heart, and my body (not to mention my ravishing good looks) .... which is also more important!
** wandering off, thinking of buttered garlic-cheese sourdough toast .... **
=^..^= MOLLY
OK, I exercised and burned 338 calories PLUS whatever I burned lifting weights. I wrote about my exercise plan in my journal (if anyone is interested), my hands and arms and fingers are tooooo tired to re-write it here.
*THUDS TO THE FLOOR*
=^..^= MOLLY
P.S. Do all exercise physiologists HAVE to be short and skinny and look about 16 years old? I feel like an Ancient Amazon next to these kids.... and I probably sweat on the poor little guys!
molly im eatting your cabbage meal idea with the sauce and boca burgers broken up for dinner. in the middle of boiling my cabbage. thanks for the tips. can't wait to eat.
rant: i hate my clothes. someone please invent clothes that shrink with us. when i like the way i look naked better than i do clothed i know its time to go shopping again. but for the time being my shopping allowance has been cut off in favor of bills that need paid. i agree thats more important, i really do, but whats the fun of losing weight if i feel ugly? after going threw my clothes, i finally grabbed one of my hubbies shirts to wear. mind you hes about um..one foot taller, and 70 lbs heavier than me. i figure if i feel like im wearing a tent anyways, i should just wear something comfy that covers to my knees and call it a nightshirt.
to be honest, now i kinda feel dumb about ranting about this. should i really be complaining? do i want to fit those clothes, or know they are too big. i should be happy, but i guess im just frustrated.
BUT ... my DH at the ripe old age of 50, has just been told that he has to drastically change his diet and cut out sodium. I have very low blood pressure, so that is the ONE thing I've never worried about.
So now I have to teach my DH how to read a food label; and finding low-sodium food is SO much harder than finding low-fat, low-cal, low-sugar healthy foods I don't know what to do! Even a PBJ sandwich, which you would not normally consider high-sodium, is more than 25% of what he should have. It's also amazing how few low-sodium quick foods exist in a typical supermarket. And I have no nearby "healthy" stores except one Trader Joe's about 1/2 hour away - has anyone tried their no-sodium bread? It's ... not good with PBJ. And SO MUCH of the food we eat has sodium in it - unless you cook everything from raw (which is time consuming) - what is there to eat?
So DH is having an existential crisis. Food is a great pleasure in his life (he's never had a real weight problem, so has never had to diet). And now, he tells me, he is resigned - "I'll eat it, but I won't enjoy it!" he claims. I've tried telling him his taste buds will adjust to the lack of salt, but I wonder if that's true? That is the one taste that completely changes food, in my opinion.
Anyway, sorry for the long rant ... was just shopping on the internet trying to find low-sodium food to get shipped to us. Is anyone near a Safeway? :) They seem to have the only low-sodium white bread in the universe.
Zarelha ... check your mail!
=^..^= MOLLY
Where Can I get commercially produced low sodium bread?
The Baker A Salt Free Honey Whole Wheat Bread is available via shipment by calling 1-800-995-3989, or check out their web site at http://www.the-baker.com/Default.aspx
Toufayan Bakeries An especially good no salt added pita bread. They are located in North Bergen N.J. Telephone number 201-861-4131.
Food For Life Baking Company Ezekiel 4:9 Low Sodium Sprouted Grain Bread; This bread is available throughout the country including at Whole Foods.
Alvarado St. Bakery Also under the Trader Joe's label. No salt bread from Alvarado St. Bakery is whole grain and 100% delicious when fresh. Store in zip locked bags. Breaks up easily, better when toasted. Their website is http://www.alvaradostreetbakery.com/
Garden of Good Eatin' Low sodium pita bread (30 mg). Can be frozen.
=^..^= MOLLY
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