Posts by makenasmom

My 9yr son gets slapped w/ the "F" word quite often, and he is by no means fat. The kid is built like a brick wall, and is my go-to guy to help me lift anything heavy (2 sheets of drywall at a time!) when my husband is not around.

He is however, not built like most of the skin and bones kids in his class either, so he gets called FAT.

Kids are cruel, and lets face it, many adults are just as cruel, some just have better brain to mouth filters than others

Well I don't know about you, but when I'm craving something, I can try 3 or 4 other things before I realize that if I had just satisfied my craving I probably would have eaten less calories!

So I always have Frozen Yogurt in my freezer; currently Cappucino Swirl & Caramel Pecan Crunch. Both come in at 100 cals & 1.5 g fat for a 1/2 cup serving. I just fill my measuring cup then sit down and savour every last bite!

Frozen yogurt has come a long way!

I love my fruit! But let's be honest, some days you just want something "bad"! lol

Those days I indulge in a 1/2 cup of some really tasty frozen yogurt. 100 cals & 1.5g fat. mmmmm

Black bean burgers! My kids love em and had no idea! They know now, but they eat what they like no matter what's in it.

We even use homemade guac on them instead of mayo, however, just the sight of guac turned my stomach until I was about 30yrs old and finally gave it a try, so you might want to avoid that one... lol

http://www.heartandstroke.on.ca/site/c.pvI3Ie NWJwE/b.3582181/k.4A86/Recipes__Beef_and_blac k_bean_burgers.htm

Original Post by nomorefattyfatgirl:

Went to the store and bought all sorts of healthy snack and fruits.  Menu is planned with dinners with lots of veggies and I'm going to try to eat salads for lunch.....not a fan of lettuce though.  Going to have a week of Self-control!

 I'm not a huge lettuce girl either, but I can eat bags & bags of spinach! A cup of mushrooms, some purple onions and I'm in heaven!

Well, it seems that thankfully my healthy eating habits may have in fact been inbedded in my brain already. I haven't been on the site to log food since last Monday, it's been hectic busy round here! Unfortunately, I also haven't done a single workout, but have been on my feet from 6am-9pm almost every day, so that ups my burn a bit.

Anyhoo, here's my results:

Last weeks weight- 203

This week- 201.4

Not the 2lbs/week that I have set for myself, but given the circumstances, not complaining in the least!

Happy Monday everyone!

Well I guess I'll go first, gotta get my day rollin'!

SW-214 (March 6)

CW- 203 (March 21)

Down 2lbs from Friday, which as I said yesterday is probably due to a decrease in my salt intake.

Just wanted to point out that I think this  group accountability thing is already working, because I had no intention of working out yesterday. But we had one of those sketchy suppers that you don't know how to log, Tex Mex casserole, and even tho I pulled mine out before the really "bad" stuff got added, I was still worried I had gone over my cals for the day so after obessing about it for an hour, at about 7pm I dragged my butt downstairs to my gym and put in a 1/2 on the eliptical! Didn't want to mess up my weigh in today.

Thanks everyone!

Unfortunately, these things happen... And it doesn't even have to be over the phone/online. Last summer we had a crew of guys, 3 or 4 of them, that were going door to door looking to refinish peoples driveways. They had pics of these beautiful peastone covered driveways that they had supposedly done, and for just $3000, they could make your cracked old driveway look just like that! Well, they managed to scam about 25 of the people in town ( some are very savy people) into doing it, and all they did was spread tar on the driveway, and press about $30 worth of pea gravel into it! The process took all of about 2hrs per house, and they told people not to use their driveway for a few days to make sure that it set properly, by which time this "crew" was long gone. All these poor people had weeds growing up through their driveways by the end of summer, and shoveling snow on it is next to impossible! 25 people X $3000 = $75,000.00 for what I would guess is less than $1500 worth of materials and 2 days work...

Sometimes, it's really hard to see the big picture until it's gone...

So I had an AHA! moment a couple days ago... I've been counting calories and exercising, and the scale has been moving in a downward direction, YAY! But given my deficits, it didn't seem to be moving quite as fast as I would have thought. Now I know what you're thinking, it's not as simple as the math leads you to believe, :oP but I knew it had to be more than just that. It had to be the dreaded <salt> she says in a whisper.

I am a salt-a-holic! Always have been, my DH says that I have gotten much better over the years, but I find that when I was losing weight last time, I kept telling myself- "You're cutting down the calories, and ditching so much fat, what's a little sodium to make things taste good?" I figured that I would worry about the cals/fat for now, and deal with that dreaded little mineral later. So, I blended up some spices and threw them in a shaker and tried that for the last 2 days. Read the Nutr. labels and made some choices based on sodium, and here I am, 2 days later, 2lbs lighter!

I know it's just my body finally letting go of the water weight, but now the math works, which for me is the linear answer that my OCD brain needed. lol!

Happy Sunday Everyone! TTY tomorrow.

Original Post by chrissy1988:

i would honestly want to vomit in my mouth if my fiance ordered a diet soda at a restaurant...not cool. i drink diet but part of being "manly" to me is hot having the same body image issues. yes a double standard but its just the way my mind works. 

 

 Too funny! My soda addict husband switched to diet cola because he refused to give it up and was drinking 4 litres a day. He did lose 20lbs in 6 weeks because of it, but now he also knows that it was the sugar in his pop that was causing his chronic heartburn. He has since converted many of his buddies to diet pop for that very reason and they all rave about his "revelation"