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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OK, in the whole entire world, is there anything cuter than fuzzy-wuzzy baby duckies? Sure, kittens are pretty cute, and puppies are pretty cute, and sushi-sampling hammies are pretty cute, but I definitely have a thing for duckies, rubber or otherwise. Did you know that we have a "Rubber Ducky" themed bathroom in our home? Yep, home to dozens and dozens of happy yellow rubber ducks, and the letters spelling out Q U A C K right on the bathroom wall! hee hee hee!! As many of you know, I am the proud owner of a shiny-new, 2006 Ford Mustang in "Screaming Yellow" (Ford does a nice job of naming car colors, huh?) ... and my personalized license plate reads RUBRDUX! There is even a rubber ducky on the custom yellow antenna, and a row of rubber duckies sitting in the rear window. My husband laughed at me last night when I brought a handful of rubber duckies out to the hot tub, so we could enjoy the crisp evening air and watch the owls swoop down with startling screeches and pick off unsuspecting mousies. (You'd think we lived out in the forest and not in the middle of town, huh!?)
YAY! YAY! YAY! My wonderful DH is back home after being gone for 10 days in Sacramento/San Diego to assist with the California wildfires .... and that followed right after he'd been gone for 6 days to Arizona. Right now, it looks like he may be in town for at least a few days .... but then he may need to go to Texas or Florida. AAUUUGGGH!! I am trying to keep a more upbeat and positive attitude about this, but I sure do miss him when he's gone, you know? It's hard having your best friend not snuggling next to you on cool Autumn nights. To celebrate his homecoming, he took me out last night to Applebees (french onion soup: 150 calories and lime-grilled tilapia: 310 calories), and then we went vegetable shopping since I'd eaten most of my yummy fresh produce. And I am encouraged -- he was perfectly willing to try grilled ostrich for dinner tonight, so I have some marinating in a delicious marinade (with extra garlic) already! I thought we would grill up some onions, peppers and mushrooms, too!
Oooo.... it was sooooo tempting to sleep in and stay snuggled under the covers this morning, but I hopped out of bed to help fix my DH breakfast on his way to work. (He's a trooper, and seems to like hummus and tomato on Thomas' light multigrain english muffins and my whole grain, high-fiber, tree-bark-n-twigs breakfast cereal!) I figured he could use some whole grains and fiber since I am sure he's been eating breakfast burritos, donuts and fast food for thew past 10 days! And I am now watching the kitties watching the birdies and squirrels outside in the front AND back yards..... it's Cat Tv! I need to check to see if the military paid us today (fingers crossed) and then get a few bills paid ....including the first installment of our annual property taxes ... eeek.
Then I'm heading back under the covers to snuggle with my kitties!
=^..^= Have an awesome, blessed day, Peeps!
Original Post by marc42968:1 rant, 1 humourous activity
Rant - Why is it that the pants with the longest inseam (for the tallest people) are always on the bottom shelf.
Found this activity in the CC list
http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/activity/510 .html
add your own punchline after you read what the activity is.
Oh my gosh ... too funny. Makes you wonder why they went to the trouble to figure THAT out, huh!? And I wonder if distance and weather is a factor?
(grin)
=^..^= MOLLY
Original Post by krismasself:And to match your rant, why do plus-size clothing stores have aisles that only a small child could get through??!!??
Oh my gosh, this is so absolutely TRUE! I get black and blue marks on my arms, hips, and thighs from crashing into metal clothes racks...ouch! ouch! ouch! At first I assumed it was part of a conspiracy to convince me to go on a diet and get smaller hips, but then I realized that wouldn't be in the best interest of a large size clothing store and that it was probably the fact that the salesgirls all wear size 8!!!! Seriously, just once I'd like to encounter a salesperson in my favorite large size clothing store who looked like she MIGHT, on a "fat day" during the middle of her period, fit into the smallest, petite size in the store ... but noooooo.... I get 5 ft tall elfin waifs who make me feel like a GIANT AMAZON CONSUMER.
But hey, at least I'm trying to be a glamorous Amazon. ("A Glamazon")
I am so unmotivated to go pay bills, but I must.
=^..^= MOLLY
The 'nice' lady from the Starbucks in my building just put a large platter of cookies (abeit broken ones) just outside my office. I can see them from here. Soft, chewy, chocolate chip engorged...
I guess this is my test for the day. I don't know if I'm up to it. I got very bad news about one of my kitties at the vet this morning. My DH took my son and me out to lunch so I wouldn't just sit around the house crying. I didn't really feel like it but thought it wasn't such a bad idea to have a slightly larger lunch today since I have class tonight. So here I am, no calories to spare and an inviting tray of free cookies just a few feet away. Did I mention that I'm an emotional eater? Argh.
(((chris1208))))
I am sorry to hear about the bad kitty news. You are in my thoughts and prayers.
The broken cookies just PM'd me, and wanted you to know that they are stale, over-salted, and were baked by a trainee who didn't wash her hands. They said to tell you that they were so not worth it.
"If hunger isn't the problem, food isn't the answer."
Hang in there, dear!!!
=^..^= MOLLY
THANK YOU! You got me with the hand washing!
One winter night my DH and I stopped at a donut shop and I saw an employee making donuts in the back through the window: she was licking her fingers!!! We haven't been back to it or any other donut shop since. [Maybe not fair to other donut shops but it works out well for me...]
Thanks for the consoling thoughts, as well.
Rant .... why do some veggies give me the hiccups? I had asparagus for dinner, and I've been hiccuping ever since.
How weird is this?
=^..^= MOLLY
alert! alert! alert!
The November daily Veggie Challenge thread has been moved to the Games Forum ... come on over and join us!
=^..^= MOLLY
A rantlet -- quality of clothing. Why oh why aren't swimsuits made to withstand immersion in chlorinated water? And, why are the ones that actually have some back to them so expensive? I have just killed my second suit for the year. This means a suit lasts about 4 months. there's something WRONG with that! I did buy a suit on clearance in September, but I hadn't planned on using it until January!
Of course, I don't want to have to pay $50 for a swimsuit, since they don't last! However, the inexpensive ones are either bikinis (not good for swimming laps or my rounded figure) or have a DEEEEEP scoop back.
I am also aggrevated at where my fat is coming off. The ONE area (my muffin top/tummy bulge) that I wanted to go away, is the area that seems to be taking the longest (along with my bat wings on my arms)!
ARRRGGGHHH!
"If hunger isn't the problem, food isn't the answer."
WOW - great words to live by!!!
I agree with the swimsuit rant! Wouldn't you think, since they're meant for swimming, and even "fresh" water and sea water is polluted, and they cost a samll mortgage to purchase, that manufacturer's would be a bit less profit minded and a bit more consumer friendly and make them chemical resistant??? And let's hav some styles that are suitable for exercise!!
Trick or treating is the same around here. My DH and I are what I like to call, Halloween scrooges. That means no candy, no matter how cute your costume is. :) We have a 7 month old, crazy boxer puppy, who goes absolutely bonkers when the doorbell rings or someone knocks on the door. All lights are turned off, there are a mere few candles burning, no jack o lanterns, no signs at all that there is a treat waiting if you knock on my door and make my dog crazy. But of course, they still do. But there weren't too many, so that was good. Kids just aren't into it like they were when we were kids. I didn't think it was THAT long ago, but times are a-changin.
Molly- I found my Thomas' Light Multigrain muffins at Target. I know, I couldn't believe it either. If you have one close that sells food, you may want to try to see if they have them.
I had to laugh at the outhouse calorie expenditure calculation. First of all, you would have to walk to and from the outhouse for an hour before you would actually burn that many calories. I don't know if anyone would need to walk back and forth for that long. However, Molly may, with all of her bazillions of veggies and fiber grams she takes in everyday! :) But I did have to laugh about it, because I have family in the serious back woods of Kentucky. It is beautiful country, but very poor and way behind the times. My great grandparents lived in a shack, with an outhouse. When I was a kid, they had no indoor plumbing, so the choice was to schlepp to the outhouse or hump over the hill to my aunts house, where there was a genuine toilet (inside the house). We got more exercise going to and from my aunts than we ever did going to the outhouse....
I am not ranting today... Molly (et al) are swearing off the scale until Christmas, and it takes everything I have to weigh myself more than once a month. Trying to get over the scale phobia and oddly enough, I do better during the week knowing I am going to weigh every week. I was letting myself slip up too much when I was only going month to month. I am patting myself on the back. I lost 2.5 pounds this week! Yay me. How many calories does patting myself on the back get me?
Original Post by rose_gil:I am also aggrevated at where my fat is coming off. The ONE area (my muffin top/tummy bulge) that I wanted to go away, is the area that seems to be taking the longest (along with my bat wings on my arms)!
ARRRGGGHHH!
Oh, I so understand and relate with this. I've lost 40 pounds so far. Great, right? Woo hoo and all that. Know where I've lost it from? My feet, my boobs, and my earlobes. I'm not kidding! I used to wear wide width shoes, now I can wear regular width. And I think I am leaving small B-cupland and heading back down to A-cupville. (sigh) Isn't there some way we can just shift the excess fat in our tummies, hips, thighs and upper arms and shift it where we want? (In my case, to my chest?) I wonder if I bought one of those inversion boot things (where you suspend from the ceiling like some sort of captive bat), would allow gravity to shift my thigh fat to my boobs? Hmmm?
Swimsuits? Don't get me started. First off, I have to say that I am, at home and at night, I am a clandestine "Chunky Dunker" and don't worry about swimsuits. (No, I don't "skinny" dip ... I chunky dunk!) Anyway, since that really isn't practical or appropriate during daylight hours or anywhere out in public, I bought a swimsuit in May for my 2.5 week trip to Florida's emerald coast. On Day #2, a small hole mysteriously appeared right above my belly button, and seemed to grow slowly each passing day. And I'm really NOT your bare-midriff kind of gal, you know? By the end of the first week, I had to wear a t-shirt over my swimsuit for fear of scaring people with some sort of Moby Dick-esque sighting of the great white whale. They just don't make things very durable these days, do they? (And whose bright idea was it for fat women to try to swim while wearing an oversized floral-print camping tent?)
By the way, patting yourself on the back burns 5 calories, of course!
Go log your veggies on the daily Veggie Challenge thread over in the Games/Challenges forum... go on, YOU CAN DO IT!
=^..^= MOLLY
Grocery rant ....
Once again three different grocery stores I tried today were out of Thomas' light multigrain english muffins (100 calories). How in the world am I supposed to obsess over my favorite high fiber food item if the stores won't cooperate!!??!
=^..^= MOLLY
I think I have accidentally developed a new exercise plan designed to boost your metabolism, get your heart racing, and burn those unwanted calories. I call it, simply, the "Huge Scary Spider in the Shower" Exercise Plan.
First, remove all your clothing and step into a luxurious, hot shower first thing in the morning. Take a nice deep breath, and relax as the hot water washes away all the cares of the prior day and relaxes your tense muscles. Soap up and get all sudsy as normal, making sure to get your hair all nice and shampoo-y. Then, happen to glance down and see a HUGE SCARY SPIDER on the pristine white tile, skittering around rather alarmingly as it seeks to avoid hot water and soap suds. Shriek with dismay and panic as it scuttles toward your feet to escape the water.
Fling yourself, shrieking (it's good for your lungs) OUT of the shower, only to realize that the darn HUGE SCARY SPIDER is still clinging rather athletically to your foot. Shake your foot vigorously as you continue to shriek. See it go whizzing off your foot SOMEWHERE in the bathroom, and then proceed to run OUT of the bathroom into the apparent safety of your bedroom to avoid further attacks by the now really pissed-off HUGE SCARY SPIDER. Stand, dripping and sudsy and panting for breath in your bedroom (the towels are still located in the spider-laden bathroom) and realize, to your horror, that there is someone in the backyard .... and that someone is NOT your lawfully wedded spouse. OH! MY! GOSH!
Suddenly realize that the man who comes once a month to fertilize your lawn is in your backyard, and further realize that (1) your blinds are not drawn; (2) you were just screaming like a banshee loud enough for people 2 blocks away to hear you; and (3) you are wearing a few last drippy suds and NOTHING ELSE! Shriek yet again and go diving behind the edge of the bed, embarrassed beyond all imagining. Lay there, red-faced and panting, for long enough to ensure that your backyard is once again free of visitors, or your husband FINALLY wanders down to the bedroom to see what all the screaming was about.
I am pretty sure that this burns LOTS of calories, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it. (And we still can't find that darn spider! EEEK! EEEK! EEEK! EEEK!)
=^..^= MOLLY
UPDATE: Mr. Spider is now dead.
=^..^= MOLLY
What a great visual:):) Your descriptive powers are incredible. I actually felt that I witnessed the entire scenario.:):)
I am sorry it happened to YOU but this is something one would see in a comedy :):) Thank you for sharing and giving me a 5 calorie burn:):)
AND where were your kitties when you needed them to defend you:):)
Wishing you a great rest of the night (spiderless) and a happy tomorrow:):)
I thought of you today as I went shopping in a Mexican supermarket (as it is known) where I buy frozen fruit pulp for my smoothies (yum - Guanabana, Tamarind, Guava, Passion Fruit, etc - all kinds of yummy fruits).
I meandered by the produce section, and since you seem to have a way with previously unknown vegetables, I thought maybe you'd like to try and find these and let us know how they taste! :)
All of the following were somewhat potato-y looking:
- Malanga Eddo
- Lila and White Yauta
- Mapuey
- Yellow Name
And then there was the Kabocha Squash, and the red and green "Tuna" (which looks like a cactus).
These are things I have never heard of; I'm sure they have English names, but the supermarket didn't share that with us.
Then you can season them with:
- Avocado leaves
- Shave grass
- Amica
- Edible Epazote
I wonder if CC has calorie counts for the above???
Zarelha, how very cool and interesting! This is as much fun as foraging for food, isn't it?
We wandered around an asian grocery store the other day (you can purchase an entire package of fresh chicken feet and all sorts of whole fishies and squiddies) because I was looking for straw mushrooms and oyster mushrooms and my wonderful DH wanted some jackfruit and lycheese. And, of course, I stocked up on shirataki noodles, too! One of these days I want to hit a Mexican grocery store so I can check out their spices and spice blends ... I found two great spice blends by a brand called Cholula (Chili-Garlic and Chili-Lime), but I can't recall which store I found them in and I've been looking for weeks!
It's actually amazing how many DIFFERENT grocery stores I now have to shop in. I buy spinach hummus and puffed millet and psyllium and bulgur and yellowfin tuna and radishes and ostrich burgers at Whole Foods. I buy Flax seed bread and baby asparagus and unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze and cereal and vitamins and frozen shrimp and egg white salad at Trader Joes. I buy english muffins and pasta sauce and Walden Farms products at Catalanos. I buy Laughing Cow Gourmet Cheese Bites at Vons. I buy shirataki noodles and exotic mushrooms at the asian grocery store. I buy these great organic potato crunchy things at Kristina's Natural Ranch Market. And I buy everything else at our regular grocery store, SaveMart.
Remember the good ol' days when grocery shopping was simple?
=^..^= MOLLY
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