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
:: giggles at the thought of a veggie boot camp! ::
Hey, all of these streamers are VERY festive!
Speaking of festive, do any of you have cats who keep eating your home decor? Pillows, silk plants, lampshades, baskets? Seriously, we ARE feeding them!
=^..^= MOLLY
New Years Eve rant. Stupid ex boyfriend who invited me to his boss huge holday bash called today (new years Eve) at 11:00am to tell me that his new girlfriend is going with him. And wants to know if this makes me uncomfortable.
Hell yes it does! Don't invite me to be your date then bail at the last minute!!
But I really want to go to this party and I have nowhere else to go on short notice, so I just hope she is nice.
(I have no problem with him dating..there's a reason he's my ex, but he asked me weeks ago. He met her last weekend!) He is such a dummy.
Original Post by pygirl:New Years Eve rant. Stupid ex boyfriend who invited me to his boss huge holday bash called today (new years Eve) at 11:00am to tell me that his new girlfriend is going with him. And wants to know if this makes me uncomfortable.
Hell yes it does! Don't invite me to be your date then bail at the last minute!!
But I really want to go to this party and I have nowhere else to go on short notice, so I just hope she is nice.
(I have no problem with him dating..there's a reason he's my ex, but he asked me weeks ago. He met her last weekend!) He is such a dummy.
Awww, I'm sorry .... I can see why you describe him as your "stupid, ex-boyfriend." Hope you had fun and made the best of things.
=^..^= MOLLY
Original Post by baker45678:
First post in the new year!! Yeah!!! My mini rant~ could not do fireworks tonight bc of a burn ban... But some retards near me did and now there are a couple of fires burning (not to close to my house though) Think people would get a clue and and not do it.. Oh well, hope they get put out quickly!! Happy New Year everybody!!!!
Happy New Year! Fireworks here would've been much preferred over bullets from rifles, handguns and who-know-what-else!!!
=^..^= MOLLY
Fireworks here woke us up at midnight, which was nice so we could smooch and wish each other Happy New Year before falling back asleep!
I've happily uploaded some new photos from Christmas! Can you tell this Gramma is totally head-over-heels in love with her 2 yr old grandson, Lucas??
Rant....that I can only have 12 photos in the Gallery! I love using my camera, and my grandkids, and Holidays!
Lucas is just a cutie pie, and I am sure that Gramma Krismasself wants LOTS of photos of him everywhere!
You know, you can also post photos in your profile .... for when the Gallery 12 limit is too ... limiting! (Happy posting!)
(and Happy New Year!)
=^..^= MOLLY
Rant ....
I recently subscribed to a magazine called "Diet and Nutrition" and most of the recipes are anything BUT diet-friendly!!! And most don't even give you a calorie count or nutritional breakdown! Seriously, they had a multiple page article on cooking with chocolate that contained TWO recipes ... one for an alchoholic chocolate drink called a Chocotini, and one for watermelon sorbet with chocolate chips added. Apart from the obvious non-diet aspect of these recipes, neither one actually involved COOKING with chocolate. Grrrrr. And almost every single recipe called for multiple types of oils/butter (and only sometimes healthy oils), plus added sugars, added salt, etc. In fact, the ONLY redeeming thing about the magazine are the ads for "diet foods."
I want my money back!
=^..^= MOLLY
Okay I saw my family this past weekend had to drive to see them and everything. All of them talked about how great I looked and the fact that I had to have lost weight. I'm like yes I have and left it at that. They saw me in Sept and from Sept to this weekend I've lost 1lb that's right 1lb they missed the whole other 50lbs I lost when they saw me in Sept.
Rant 2 loving DH bought me some celery and cawiflower was proudn of himself and everything actually so was I he even cut me off a little bit of celery and put PB on them for my snack today at work well that was nice but the item he put the celery and PB was too big for it I have celery and PB but the PB is stuck to the lid. Yep nothing like scraping PB off items at your desk.
Molly I"m so happy you are in the 200's I hated not being able to get online to see if you done it or not. But it was a great motivation this morning when I got online.
awww... thanks, dawnder.
I feel your pain about the 50 pounds of weight loss they missed... I saw DH's sisters 2 days before Christmas and neither one mentioned the fact that I'd lost nearly 70 pounds. Sheesh ... maybe they saw and were just speechless? That's my hope for both of us!
Frankly, peanut butter is one of those food items that ONLY seems to stick where I don't want it to stick, and never sticks properly to what I want it to stick to! My hair? It sticks. The knife? It sticks. My fingers? It sticks. Apple slices? Slides right off. Celery sticks? Slides right off. Toast with jelly? Slides right off. Small fuzzy kittens? Boy, does it stick!
Some days, I rather wish it came in a tube, like toothpaste.
MOLLY
NOTE TO SELF: Don't ask your military husband to remind you to drink more water unless you want telephone calls every 2 hours all day long requesting "Water Consumption Reports."
(RING)
Me: Hello?
Him: Hello. I am calling for the 1400 WCR.
Me: You have 1400 vcrs?
Him: No, the 2 o'clock WCR.
Me: I give up, what's a WCR?
Him: Water Consumption Report.
Me: Ummmm.... so what's a Water Consumption Report?
Him: A report on how much water you've consumed since we spoke at 1200 hours.
Me: We didn't talk at 1200 hours.
Him: OK... (sighs) ... the amount of water you've consumed since we spoke at 11:40 hours.
Me: Ummm... I dunno. a few sips, maybe. Maybe more.
Him: You need to consume more water, per your instructions last night.
Me: I take it back.
Him: You take what back?
Me: My instructions.
Him: Oh no, no countermanding the intructions vis a vis the WCR.
(I'm not making this up, this is how our silly conversation went!)
Me: I deny manding any counters about 1400 vcr's or any other electronic appliances.
Him: (silence .... once I turn silly, he has a hard time responding.)
Me: But I will go drink some water, k?
Him: Affirmative. Next C-I in 120 minutes.
Me: C-I?
Him: Check in.
Me: You can't just say "Check in?"
Him: CI is more efficient.
Me: Not if we spend 10 minutes discussing your mysterious abbreviations.
Him: They aren't mysterious, they are standard.
Me: (SNORT) Bye dear, love you bunches!
Him: Love you, kiddo.
(CLICK)
=^..^= MOLLY
Molly, I must do a bit of a rant in jest. I was innocently browsing through the forums yesterday evening, when someone mentioned about a funny story of you throwing doughnuts. They only mentioned the name of the thread, so I went searching, and found it in about 15 minutes. I saw it was 62 pages, but I was determined to find this doughnut story! So I read, and read, and read until 11:30, then got up this morning at 7:00 and read, and read, and read, and read, then ate lunch, then read, and read, and read, then ate dinner, then read, and read, then read...came across the story around page 55 or so, but decided I may as well finish this gargantuan thread. I just finished it! :D
I must say, you are such a motivation. I remember your first few posts saying how you hated vegetables and diets and such, and here you are over three months later still going as strongly as ever!
By the way, I saw a Dr. Phil show today (don't laugh at me please :P), where there was a lady who was 375 pounds, going to McDonald's every day for nearly all meals, and now begging Dr. Phil for help. I thought of you, and how so far you've lost 70 pounds now with no help, and pretty much did a total 180 with eating.
And my final little story...you inspired me to try to eat healthier for dinner. I tried...*drumroll*...brussels sprouts! I can't remember if they are on your list of vegetables you like, but we just happened to have them and I thought I'd try some steamed, along with some good fish. OK I don't think I can jump in like you, but I'm going to work on eating more vegetables at least.
Original Post by mollymouser:I once threw donuts at someone who kept leaving them on my desk when I was trying to diet. After she spent 15 minutes arguing with me to "just have one", I asked to see the entire pink box of festively be-sprinkled donuts so I could pick out the "best" one. She stood there, with a smug grin on her skinny size 2 face, as I rummaged around in the box and selected TWO of the oo-eyest, gooeyest JELLY donuts... and then triumphantly FLUNG both of them at her.
SPLAT! SPLAT!
She screamed and ran and I tossed the ENTIRE box of donuts into the hallway after her.
Yet one more reason why I don't work any more, LOL!
:: giggle::
=^..^= MOLLY
I HAD to find this as well, just like devbanana, and I'm going to become a quiet lurker and read and be inspired and just plain have a quiet lurking good time watching this hilarious thread.
Thank you ^_^
good morning and Happy New Year to all!
My rant for the day:
I know I've only lost 7 lbs and I'm one of those people who gain and lose weight all over evenly so it's hard to tell, but this morning I weighed in the kitchen and the number stayed on the scale even after I got off and a family member looked at the number and said
"Whoah getting fat huh?"
I want to kill that scale for keeping that number there for so long. I'm going to go read the scale killer thread. 
Welcome new lurkers! I must admit that I lurk more than I participate. Good to have you.
Original Post by chunkyprogrammer:good morning and Happy New Year to all!
My rant for the day:
I know I've only lost 7 lbs and I'm one of those people who gain and lose weight all over evenly so it's hard to tell, but this morning I weighed in the kitchen and the number stayed on the scale even after I got off and a family member looked at the number and said
"Whoah getting fat huh?"
I want to kill that scale for keeping that number there for so long. I'm going to go read the scale killer thread.
No one who knows me well has EVER been foolish enough to say something like that to me, especially since I have a known history of pelting people with donuts. (OK, and .... um .... tomatoes .... and tater tots ..... and really-hard rolls ..... and Oreo cookies with the white inside licked out .....)
I suppose the best response is just to burst into tears in front of them and make them feel REALLY bad (I tried that once and it worked really well) .... but usually I make some sort of sarcastic response like "Whoah, still rude and stipid, huh?"
Note to self: Work on diplomacy skills in 2008. :: giggle::
MOLLY
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