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Empty Cupboards!

26 Aug

You will notice farther down in my food list for the day I ate 63 grams of whole wheat pasta instead of 85 grams. This was not some great attempt to lower my points for dinner and still be full, this was because I ran out of healthy pasta…completely! The only pasta I now have is in the Sidekicks packages…you know, the really unhealthy kind. lol.

When digging out my last remaining bit of pasta I noticed the absence of food in the cupboard…now, I am not out of everything but I am out of a lot of things. No more soup, no more pasta, no more veggies…no more of most things. Oops. I went grocery shopping last weekend so I am not sure exactly how this happened, shrug, doesn’t really matter how it happened tho, just that it happened. lol.

I however did find something totally yummy and amazing in my treat drawer…Hershey’s Oh Henry Cookies…yup, cookies! Sooooooooo good! 😀

yumyumyumyumyum

I had 5 points left after dinner and wasn’t sure what to eat to use them up, I was wandering around the kitchen racking my brain when I remembered I have a cookie drawer. I don’t go in it very often anymore, sad, 😛 so I didn’t remember what was in it and wasn’t this finding a good one?! 😀 I mean come on, it’s a chocolate bar turned in to a cookie and I can eat 2 for only 3 points…that’s less then those Maple Cookies I had. In an attempt to keep them from going soft (unlike the maple cookies that become oh so soft) I put them in a plastic container so here’s hoping it works! I eat these things so slowly now, only 2 a day and how many are in that package anyways? Who needs that many cookies? Why can’t they sell cookies in say, a half size package? Some of us don’t need to buy food for an entire family here, eesh. And that was quite the ramble…sorry ’bout that!

So here I am, happily full with chocolate, trying to figure out what to make for lunch tomorrow…I don’t think I actually have anything to take for lunch…hmmm, oh wait! I think there was a can of beans in there…there we go, beans on toast it is! Crisis averted…must go grocery shopping soon…

For today I ate:

2 Weetabix = 2 points

1/2 cup 1% milk = 1 point

1 1/2 cup strawberries = 1 point

1 cup grapes = 1 point

1 Extreme Pita (grilled chicken) = 4 points

tzatziki sauce = 1 point

carrots = 0 points

63 grams whole wheat pasta = 4 points

1/4 cup Alfredo Roasted Tomato sauce = 2 points

grilled veggies = 0 points

1 cup blueberries = 1 point

1 cup 1% milk = 2 points

2 Hershey’s Oh Henry cookies = 3 points

Total points used = 22 , wOOt! 😀 Yet another day where I have managed to eat all my points, awesome-ness. Looks like I have managed to get back on the wagon which I am very glad about, and!, I was sitting in a different area of the office today and was offered various treats and saying no was easy, finally! The ease of saying No that I had managed to get and then lose is back again, phew. I guess if you just stick with it long enough the healthier choices become easier and easier to make. Easy is good! lol

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Battle of the Hunger Pangs

16 Jul

Ooooooh the hunger pangs; I feel  like my stomach is slowly (and painfully!) eating itself because it is deprived. lol. I don’t feel deprived with my diet normally; I eat a lot of fruit and veggies and I am getting better at eating protein but for some reason today I was hungry. I wanted to snack earlier then usual after meals and I wanted to eat larger meals then what I measured out.

If I had a hungry day like this before I started my weight loss regime I would have went out for lunch when at work and bought something large and not healthy and then come home and made a package of Sidekicks pasta and then eaten the entire package! Oh, and I would have partaken of all the available junk food at work too. I would have felt horrible at the end of the day and would have belittled myself; my head would have been filled with thoughts about how I deserve how I look because look at what I eat! It would have been a very low self esteem day; what’s scary is I wouldn’t have realized how wrong that behaviour was. Not even just the over eating and making poor food choice behaviour but the way I would have treated myself, the thoughts I would have had towards myself, the self loathing and disgust, the way I would have let my self esteem plummet all because of what I put in my mouth. The way I was silently giving up.

This weight loss is a war and in a war there are a lot of small battles; what’s that saying “they may have won this battle but I am going to win the war” – well, I am going to win this battle and win the war! This particular battle is my hungry day; I know that tomorrow will be better, that I won’t be hungry all the time and following my eating plan will be easier but getting through the rest of today is going to be hard. I still have some points left so that’s good; I will have to figure out the best choice for what to eat as an evening snack – it will have to be filling and fit in to my remaining 5 points, totally do-able! I also have to find a way to get my mind off my hunger!

So far today I have eaten:

3/4 cup Red Berry Special K = 2 points

1/2 cup 1% milk = 1 point

1 banana = 2 points

1/2 cup Maple Flavoured baked beans = 2 points

2 cut up baby potatoes = 0.5 points

1 piece toast = 1 point

1 cup blueberries = 1 point

1 cup grapes = 1 point

1 hamburger patty = 4 points

3 baby potatoes = 0.5 points

carrots = 0 points

1 Kraft cheese slice = 1 point

2 cups kettle corn = 3 points

So, my math up above was incorrect, I used 19 points so far so I have 4 points left. I had forgotten to add in my cheese slice, oops! That actually makes me happier, I am going to have a frozen fruit bar from M&M Meat Shop and two pieces of fruit, that’s 4 points and lots of food so hopefully it will keep my tummy happy for the rest of the night. All I need is to get through tonight, I know tomorrow will be better, easier, this is just a testing day – something to see if I have the willpower to stick with my plan and I’ll be damned if I am gonna crack and not make it!

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On My Way Down!

22 Jun

I am (hopefully) on my way down – weight wise that is!

I am constantly making amazingly great plans to lose weight and never manage to follow thru longer than a couple weeks, at most! I am lazy, and I like foods that are bad for me, and I have a horrible metabolism because of my food history – I don’t say this as an excuse (or three) but as an explanation. And yeah, I know lots of people don’t think there is much of a difference between the two but there is; one holds you back and one helps explain your actions and gives you something to overcome. I am hoping this time to finally overcome. 🙂

I don’t want to over burden anyone who may read this by blabbing about everything in the first post so let’s keep this first one simple shall we? My plan (this time around) is to write down everything I eat, and I mean everything – this could get ugly – also, I am going to keep track of all exercise I do – or don’t do – in the hopes keeping track will stop me from cheating.  A big part of this plan is I want to try to lose the weight in a healthy way, usually I dive into pills, powders, flushes, shakes anything that offers a quick fix. This dependency on quick fixes is based on experiences I had years ago with an amazingly awesome drug called Xenadrine with Ephedrine. The ephedrine is what made that pill the best, now it is sold without that active ingredient, what’s the point of that?? eesh. So, when I took those pills, they worked. I wasn’t using them for weight loss mind, I would take one about 15 minutes before I went to the gym (which was a daily experience) and it would give me so much energy (yeah I know, fake energy but who cares about that?) that I could exercise for a good solid 3 hrs. I’d do a minimum hour and a half intense cardio, then weights, then an exercise class of some kind then more weights, maybe a bit more cardio then stretching then home. I wasn’t doing that to lose weight, I was maintaining and paranoid that I was going to gain weight…I also thought I was horribly overweight which when I think of that now I want to bang my head against a wall because I am now 50lbs or so heavier. Ugh. 50 Pounds?!?! Thats horrible! I can’t believe I let that happen!

And I am starting to ramble, sorry!

Ok, trying to get back on track here, I am going to attempt to lose weight in a healthy way, to do this I need guidance so I am following Weight Watchers, keeping track of everything I eat and physically do and hopefully it will work. I have a timeline but I don’t know if it is realistic because I am not sure how quickly/slowly a healthy weight loss plan works. I think it is 2lbs a week, sooooo, I want to lose approx 50 lbs (I am scared to weigh myself so I don’t know exactly how much weight I need to lose, lol, I know! I am a wimp but I am gonna work up to standing on the scale – it will probably happen this saturday) 50lbs/2 = 25 weeks which is a little under 6 months, man, that’s depressing, I was hoping to have lost a noticeable amount by mid-August, at most that will be 18lbs, hmmm, that sounds like a good number.

Ok, little goal, by August 20, 2010 I will have lost 18 lbs.

Here is what I ate today and the corresponding Weight Watcher points:

1 whole wheat bagel with peanut butter – 6 + 2

1.5 cups of tea – o

1/2 a bowl of Weight Watcher Veg Soup – 0  (I will put the recipe on a page – it is uber yummy!)

1 orange – 1

1 kiwi – 1

1 whole wheat english muffin w/ butter – 2 + 1

1 Eating Right (fr Safeway) hamburger patty – 4

2 Kraft cheese slices – 2

7 sweet pickes – 1

Large serving mixed veggies – 0

1 Jaffa Bar – 3

My Total Points Eaten today is = 23

My Daily Total of Points allowed in one day  = 24

Oh, and I drank water, not the 8 glasses I am s’posed to have but I had about 3 and for me that is pretty good.

So yah! Didn’t go over! I am not sure what to do though, I don’t have anything in the house that is only 1 point so if I eat anything it will put me over my allowed points for the day. I don’t know which is worse, being one point under or being a bit over. Anybody?

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