mommakitty's Journal

I am so close to the 150's it's scary.  Lots of fiber and lots of water today.  Wish me luck. 

Lot's of sewing today.  I'll post a picture of a "new" shirt that I restyled and give details when I get my new (to me) computer monitor.  It turned out so good.  It impressed BU; she helped and insisted in being in the picture. 

I got the new computer last week, but my monitor isn't compatable with it.  The monitor is a Compaq, stupid older thing that is not compatible to the newer Dell.  I guess Compaq made them that way so you had to buy their products.    I told my wonderful daughter, Mia about this and she and my wonderful son-in-law, Aaron are sending me their perfectly good monitor along with all the cords and everything needed to hook me up into the 21st century!  Mia recently got a new monitor for herself, so this one was just laying around her home office.  I don't even know how to begin to thank them for their generosity.  Now I can download, upload and sideways (ha!) load my pictures from my camera.  The new monitor is supposed to arrive Monday.   

Mia has been redecorating their master bedroom while Aaron is on a business trip.  Surprise for Aaron.  She's keeping me updated on her progress and should be finished by tomorrow.  I have made her something for her new bedroom,  but can't tell you here,  because she reads my logs and it's a surprise for her.  (Sorry Mia-my lips are sealed) I will post a picture of it when all the pieces of this computer come together on Monday.  I think I'm worse than a child waiting for Christmas!

I'm donating my old computer to my roommate so he can do whatever he wants to on it, and moving my new treasure into my sewing room with super secret passwords, so he won't have access.  Now he can play his poker tourney's and look at his X sites and won't infect my computer.  Mine new one is still a virgin ! Aaron is even sending everything needed to hook up the roommates computer.

Dinner is ready.  As I said earlier, high fiber.  So it's black beans, brown rice. mixed broccoli and cauliflower.  I actually exceeded my calories today by 35 to include the vegetables.  I am not stressed by 35 calories.   Hope it does some good.  Eat well, have positive thoughts for yourselves as well.  God Bless.

 

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This was the title of our sermon in church today.  I thought it was appropriate-it made me laugh because I thought of how many people justify poor eating with extra exercise.  Pastor Keith actually brought a treadmill up on stage and ate a Twinky while walking on it.  At one point he had a Twinky in both hands and had the treadmill up to a slow run, all the while giving the sermon.  I think it got a lot of peoples attention; I know it got mine.  The whole congregation was laughing at the idiocracy of the situation. 

I think he was trying to get a point across about things we do in normal life and then justify it by attending church.  That's what I got out of it. 

Same weight, different day.  I hope I'm not in for another 15 day stretch of no loss.  I boosted my moral by trying on a pair of jeans that I had taken in too much a week ago and couldn't wear them then.  I got them up and on and zipped without laying on the bed.    I giess it's time to go size shopping again.  Go try on some 14's.  Last time I tried them on, nope!  Maybe Tuesday!

I hope everyone is having a nice weekend.  I'm not doing anything exciting.  Just sewing and some house cleaning.  My roiommate left the vacuum out in the middle of the living room before he went to work this morning.  I suppose that was a rude hint to me.  His sister and brother-in-law are supposed to stop by today and pick up a Ford Ranger that his wife/GF left when she was here 2 weeks ago when little TerrorLynn visited.  She had borrowed it from his parents while she was out west, and the sister and brother-in-law are going to drive it back to Clellum (Cle-l-um) to return it.  It's a strange family.  They were afraid if they left it unlocked that my roommate would drive it, so they didn't leave the keys here, but at another brothers house near-by.  Norm, the roommate, has had 7 DUI's including one on a bicycle!  Seems like he has no problem with taking a vehicle without permissiion.  So sad to have that problem.  He just doesn't recognize it.  I wonder what it's going to take.

Our weather has taken a cold streak on.  I'm all dressed with long sleeves, but I've got my fluffy robe on top.  I hate to turn on the heat.  We've enjoyed the lower electric bills this summer.  It was a relief from the high ones last winter.

Eat well my friends.  God Bless ~Tonnie

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Today was a struggle to eat right.  I don't know what causes a brain to malfunction in an area that has been so important to me.  But, I did regain control.  It's not like I was out smelling bakery foods or mexican food or chocolate.  I've been home all day.  I just wanted to eat something rich, ooey, gooey, chocolatey, sinfully fattening and disgustingly satisfying.

I had some black beans in the refrig that needed to be portioned out and frozen for future meals.  I had cut up a Hillshire farms Smoked Turkey sausage and added lots and lots of carrots and onions.  I told my roommate to help himself, but he left an odd number of pieces of sausage (1 oz portions).  I decided to eat it.  But I did log it and didn't feel so bad.  I was freezing the beans with 2 oz of the sausage and 1 cup of the beans together.  I got down to the last of scoop of beans and there was another piece of sausage.  I thought I had checked really well.  If I had found it earlier I wouldn't have eaten the first one.  I logged that one too, plus the 1 T of BBQ sauce.  That pretty much did me in on calories for the day, and it was only 3:00 in the afternoon.  I log food I haven't eaten yet so I get my pudding with Bran Buds mixed in for my nightly treat.  About the only thing I've got left to eat is salad for dinner.  My cal intake goal is 1200 +/-.  I've got some salad shrimp in the freezer that I will pull out and thaw (already portioned out to 3 oz) and skip the FF Ranch, but add 1/4 cup homemade salsa.  This only puts me at 1235 cals. 

I don't know why I wrote this.  Having that 2 oz of sausage as a snack cured my craving for ooey, gooey, bad stuff.  I don't have any of that in the house.  I'm lucky my roommate isn't a sweets eater, or I could have been in real danger.  Day 3 same weight.  That's okay.  Eat well.  You guys are great!

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I knew it would happen, but I wasn't too optimistic this morning before I stepped on the scale.  I won!  I had a SV (for those that don't know me, that's a Scale Victory in my world.  I weighed 161.4 (2.8lb from yesterday).  That's only 2.4 pounds heavier than my lowest adult weight ever (I was 17).  So this is me offering encouragement to anyone that has been through a dry spell (and really is trying, hang in there.  It will happen.  Thank you God. 

I have a whole gallery of pictures for you all if you care to see BU, and me at 190 lbs.  I didn't know how the whole gallery thing worked, but if you double click on the first one it shows the picture, plus a caption and you can just click on next to move on.  It was a struggle to add some of those pictures.  Before, when I tried I kept getting a statement in bold red letters telling me there was an error somewhere.  I went to my 2nd fav web site (Allrecipes.com) and tried to upload there and got the same error message, but it came with an explination:  My pictures were too many (large) GB's or MG's or whatever the terminology is.  I had Mia resize them to 15 gb's and resend them (email) and they uploaded just fine.   I had went to a thread in the posts and found several others that had had the same problem, but there was no reply to anyone.  I'm so glad that my daughter is so smart!

I'm buying baby carrots in the 2 lb bags now.  1 lb doesn't last long enough.  I had run out last night, and since I was kind of down about my plateau, I just about caved in and ate something really horrible.  Well, horrible, only because I didn't have any calories to spare.  I'm sure the Good Lord was with me because I found a package of sliced apples in the fridge that were left over from my roommates daughters' visit.  That saved me.  Tomorrow I'm getting some granny smiths.  I could barely carry all that I had bought today.  (oops! I actually forgot).   

I got the "senior" discount again today  (no one asks my age!), only buying a pair of shoes and a couple of other misc items.  No clothes though.  My friend, Karen said she just about didn't recognize me as I was walking up to her shop today.  She has been such a great moral support for me, always encouraging me and complimenting me.  I'm a jeans, sneaker and whatever top sort of gal, but I've been dressing lately in slacks and nice tops, and today even a simple blazer.  I have started to care about how I look now.  If you looked at the picture of me at 190 lbs I was wearing that getup because that's all that fit that day.  This is a metamorphisis for me of sorts.  I like me.

I hope you liked the picture of BU.  That's my baby.  Eat well, it's worth it so very much.  You have  to look at it with an attitude that it will pay off in the end instead of thinking of your food sacrifices and crying about it now.  I'll cry all the way to a size 8  Sorry this is so long.  God Bless you all ~Tonnie

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See my crooked smile?  Just for fun you need to go to www.mylifetime.com  and have a virtual makeover done.  If for no other reason you can get all glammed up for free.  I didn't realize until it was too late that I could have slimmed up my face so it's not so round.  I think I'll try again tonight now knowing what to do. 

This is unbelieveable, but I'm still at the same weight (164.2)  I lost count, but I think that's 14 days here now.  The picture I posted was mid-July while visiting with my parents for their anniversary.  I've lost another 8 lbs since that was taken.

Hope you all are eating well.  Dinner's ready, and as usual I'm hungry.  God Bless!

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Thank you Jamie and Nicole. My weight is still the same today. :\

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I'm a little frustrated with my body.  I swear I am eating only what I should.  I have to keep in mind that my clothes are becoming looser by the day, so that's encouraging.  I altered 2 shirts 2 weeks ago and thought I would wear one of them today, but it hung like a sack!  I am smiling right now because that is a good feeling.  I just wish the scale would reflect what my body is doing!!

I'm sorry, I haven't written in a while.  My roommate had a little visitor this week.  His 4 year old daughter, TaraLynn (I affectionately refer to her as Terror-Lynn).  I just kept to myself, cleaning my room and sewing, because I did not want to WAKE her from her nappy time.  Today is the first day my cat has been able to walk around the house without feeling spooked by little TL. 

Tomorrow my roommate goes back to work.  He took 9 days off and has managed to drive me up the wall.  I can't wait!  I always thought that I was married to the laziest man alive, but I am soooo wrong. 

We've had lots of wierd weather lately.  Last week it was in the low 100's, and this week it barely gets up to the low 70's.  I am much happier now.  I had a great day today, out thrift store shopping.  I did that Tuesday also for the half price stuff.  I was informed that it's half price for SENIORS.  No one has ever asked my age, I just got the discount.  That's okay, they still give me the discount and I have decided that some of the employees must think I'm just well preserved.  Eat well.  This week should be back to normal, whatever that is.  ~Tonnie

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I've had this craving for chorizo.  I even made some back in March and it's been in the freezer since then.  Chorizo is very high in fat and calories.  126 per oz.  I've also wanted to try using phyllo.  So, I cooked the chorizo, drained the fat as best as possible, used greased (sprayed) muffin cups.  Put in the chorizo (1 oz each cup, 1/4 cup corn per tin.  2 oz egg beaters over the top of the chorizo and corn (about 2 T), then topped each tin with a round of phyllo cut using the empty corn can- fits perfectly and baked for 15 minutes at 400 degrees.  They look fantastic.  I haven't eaten one yet.  The amazing part is that one muffin tin is only 276 calories.  I analyzed the recipe and it gave me a C+.  (Most frozen dinners only get that rating, so I feel good.  Like I said, it wasn't easy getting the calorie count down.  It started off being  almost 400 calories. 

I didn't mean for this journal entry to turn into the Betty Crocker recipe exchange.  I am so happy that I was able to do that.  I try to keep my dinners down to around 300 calories.  I will have salad, 2 T ff Italian dressing and green beans.  I can't wait!  I like watching the Food Network and this is a variation of something I saw on Emeril once (but not this low in calories for his. 

Time to fix some food.  Hope everyone had a great day.  I broke my plateau, but went up, not down.  Go figure!  It was very tempting today to throw up my hands in disgust, because there's no reason for a weight gain.  I'm drinking lots of water and today I can feel the water in my fingers and wrist (watch is tight).  I'm sure what I'm having for dinner won't help.  It's hot, hot today.  I even worked up a sweat pulling weeds this morning.  I'm sweating right now just here at the computer.  I think I'll eat dinner outside with my cat in the shade.   

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I'm at the public library using their computer, killing time until my bus arrives.  I brought some lunch with me today.  That's a good thing.  I ate all the quite food before I got here and am left with crunchy carrots.  It's amazing how loud they can be wher there's silence all around you.  I'm trying to take little bitty bites and not be obnoxious.  I don't think it's working as the man on the right of me keeps looking at me. 

Day 4 of 164.2.  I know I'm due for a loss.  Tomorrow would be great; this morning would have been better.  I spent all my grocery money earlier today so I don't have to worry about walking by the candy counter and have a bag of M & M's jump out at me.  I did my grocery with a nutrition bar in hand, and left the store completely guilt free, and penniless too!

I need to check my email and get ready for the bus (gather up my bags of food).  It's HOT today.  The weather guy said it could be a record breaker (101 degrees.)  I sure hope not.  I just might melt.  At least it cools down around 7:00 at night so it's bearable.  The fan that Mia bought for me is a blessing.  In fact, I wake up and have to crawl under the covers most nights.  My bedroom window gets the afternoon sun, so it (the fan) doesn't do any good until sunset.    Hope you all are eating well.  I'm for sure drinking lots of water today.  I don't want a heat wave from today (water rentention) to deter my anticipated loss for tomorrow.  Adam, I will write--I didn't forget you.  ~T

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I hauled my last load of lava rocks this morning--that rocks!!  Bad play on words.  The weeds are still there.  I figure they're a perpetual exercise vehicle as I do a lot of bending and stretching, and they keep coming back.  Plus, it's peaceful.  I chew out a lot of people if I need to when I'm weeding.  Babyuggie (cat) is my only audience. 

I'm heading for the 150's.  I weighed 164.2 this morning.  I remember when I was looking forward to getting into the 160's just about a month ago.  I can't wait for Mia (daughter) to get home from her trip to Idaho.  I have missed our daily internet conversations.  I pray she had a safe trip.  I'm glad I have all of you out there to listen to me rant and rave when necessary.  

I am going to figure out how to get a before (yuk) picture of me posted.  My computer is old and there's not a lot of space left on it to download pictures from my camera.  I can open and save attachments sent to me (which is one that Mia sent after our trip.)

I'm having a blended iced coffee right now.  I'll probably regret that about midnight when I still can't sleep.  I did a couple more jeans restyling today.  I have more clothes that I ever had before right now.  The jeans that I altered today are for after another 10 or so lb loss.  I'm not really sure what size they became.  I can't zip them up (that's a good thing-something to look forward to).  I should just go clothes browsing this week and try on new stuff to see where I am.  I'm rambling on now.  I think I'm caffeine buzzed.  Good night to all.  God Bless   

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