Tomorrow is my first weigh in and I am really looking forward to it! I think I have lost right about 5 lbs which I think is a great 1st week loss! I also get to buy my new ideal protein foods and am hoping I can have a few more interesting things.
I'm happy with the crispy cereal in the mornings and prefer it over the fine herb omelet. The omelette's not bad but I like cereal. Before this diet, I ate either shredded wheat & bran or steel cut oats most mornings w/ berries, and once in awhile, I'd have a yogurt and fruit.
I definitely miss my regular breakfast but I can deal!
I totally enjoyed my cheat of 2 glasses of Cabernet last night and have a glass next to me right now but I haven't had any yet. Right now I am drinking the Ideal Protein Vanilla Drink which is yummy and tastes like dessert!
I will have the wine in a few minutes, tho, and it will be yummy, as well!
I guess I will find out how badly it messes up the diet. I am trying to good but I am not a saint!
Ok, tis 'pue is issing me off!!-that was supposed to say, "Ok this 'puter is pissing me off!" It was bad enough when it was just the space bar but now the keys are crapping out on me, too! This laptop is slightly over 1 year old and it sucks!
bye for now!(before I throw it across the room!)
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
where the hell is day 5?.....this is day 6-the weekend!
I didn't post yesterday. Too busy.
We had a major blizzard Thurs & Fri and ended up with about 18" of snow. Damn, I hate winter!
The diet is going pretty well. I think I am down about 5 lbs. now which is great!
This is a tough diet and you have to stick to it exactly. If you cheat, your losses will be less....that said...bring me a glass of Cabernet dammit!
So far, the only cheating I have done is I had a little red pepper a couple days ago and today I made red and green peppers and vidalia onions sauteed, served w/ london broil. I am not supposed to have red peppers or cooked onions. I guess they have a lot of sugar, but I am not throwing away perfectly good veggies and they were delish w/ the beef; which I did with a dry rub of garlic, pepper and chili powder.
And seriously, my cheating was effing vegetables! Not Twizzlers which my bastard of a fiance ate right in front of me! The smell of Twizzlers was killing me! He is very lucky I like him b/c it was hard to take and I sorta wanted to strangle him w/ them...that naturally thin bastard! Ok, he isn't really a bastard. I am jealous of how easy it is for him to stay thin and fit.
He really doesn't get the whole concept of having food issues. Once we watched a documentary about teens w/ weight issues at a fat camp. One of the kids-an obviously gay kid who wasn't ready to be out. He had hardly any friends, just a couple girls from school and he was crying saying how he turns to food when he is sad and he was so clearly eating his feelings away. My fiance seriously said-why would anyone eat when they weren't hungry? Oh, my!
I explained that people turn to food when bored, or sad, or many other reasons b/c food is comforting and then you feel guilty and gain weight and get even more sad..and then you eat to comfort yourself...vicious vicious cycle.
Another time he told me that if I just ate less and exercised more, I would not have a weight problem.....NEWS FLASH, did you hear that?!? If you eat less and move more, you will lose weight!
aaaaarrrggghhhhhh!
It's a good thing I love him, huh? He really does have so many good points, but understanding food and my food issues, not so much! I actually have to, once in awhile, hear him say after getting on the scale, "oh, no, I've lost 7 lbs, I have to try to take in more calories!" He actually looses weight by accident sometimes b/c he's so active...dammit, I wish I was him sometimes!
We had a major blizzard Thurs & Fri and ended up with about 18" of snow. Damn, I hate winter!
The diet is going pretty well. I think I am down about 5 lbs. now which is great!
This is a tough diet and you have to stick to it exactly. If you cheat, your losses will be less....that said...bring me a glass of Cabernet dammit!
So far, the only cheating I have done is I had a little red pepper a couple days ago and today I made red and green peppers and vidalia onions sauteed, served w/ london broil. I am not supposed to have red peppers or cooked onions. I guess they have a lot of sugar, but I am not throwing away perfectly good veggies and they were delish w/ the beef; which I did with a dry rub of garlic, pepper and chili powder.
And seriously, my cheating was effing vegetables! Not Twizzlers which my bastard of a fiance ate right in front of me! The smell of Twizzlers was killing me! He is very lucky I like him b/c it was hard to take and I sorta wanted to strangle him w/ them...that naturally thin bastard! Ok, he isn't really a bastard. I am jealous of how easy it is for him to stay thin and fit.
He really doesn't get the whole concept of having food issues. Once we watched a documentary about teens w/ weight issues at a fat camp. One of the kids-an obviously gay kid who wasn't ready to be out. He had hardly any friends, just a couple girls from school and he was crying saying how he turns to food when he is sad and he was so clearly eating his feelings away. My fiance seriously said-why would anyone eat when they weren't hungry? Oh, my!
I explained that people turn to food when bored, or sad, or many other reasons b/c food is comforting and then you feel guilty and gain weight and get even more sad..and then you eat to comfort yourself...vicious vicious cycle.
Another time he told me that if I just ate less and exercised more, I would not have a weight problem.....NEWS FLASH, did you hear that?!? If you eat less and move more, you will lose weight!
aaaaarrrggghhhhhh!
It's a good thing I love him, huh? He really does have so many good points, but understanding food and my food issues, not so much! I actually have to, once in awhile, hear him say after getting on the scale, "oh, no, I've lost 7 lbs, I have to try to take in more calories!" He actually looses weight by accident sometimes b/c he's so active...dammit, I wish I was him sometimes!
Thursday, February 25, 2010
not a very good day
Okey dokey, day 4 is not going very well.
We are having a blizzard today and about noonish we went out to shovel and it was the heaviest wettest snow! Thank god my sweetheart did most of it but I did plenty, as well. We are still getting way more snow and 50-60 mph winds so I am hoping he does the rest of the shoveling....and I wish we lived somewhere warm, dammit!
I suddenly got very dizzy and nauseous and headachey and it hasn't really passed and it's 5pm now.
I read the Ideal Protein info and some of my symptoms can happen in the 1st few days following the protocol. Headaches are common, especially for people who are insulin dependant or ate a very high carb diet before-I don't fit these criteria. Nausea is common with people who never eat breakfast or because of the sudden decrease in sugar intake-I fit the sugar decrease part( I miss fruit!) It doesn't say anything about dizziness....so I guess that's just me!
I haven't been using enough sea salt-less than they say so twice I did try the salt in a glass of water to help with the nausea that they recommend.
So, still feeling crappy and hoping at passes after dinner.
Today I tried the Blueberry Pomegranate drink from Ideal and YUCK, I do not recommend it! It smells yucky and tastes yucky and when you smell it as you drink it, the yucky smell is different than the yucky taste so yuckiness all around! Thank goodness I can return the other packet I bought! Won't be buying that one again!
So far that is the only bad tasting Ideal Protein food I have tried so I can't complain. Last night my 9pm snack was their pina colada drink which was pretty good but could have been made better w/ a shot of rum, but alas, I cannot imbibe!
I am down between 3-4 lbs so I am happy with my week so far. I look forward to my Monday weigh in to see where I am by then officially.
We are having a blizzard today and about noonish we went out to shovel and it was the heaviest wettest snow! Thank god my sweetheart did most of it but I did plenty, as well. We are still getting way more snow and 50-60 mph winds so I am hoping he does the rest of the shoveling....and I wish we lived somewhere warm, dammit!
I suddenly got very dizzy and nauseous and headachey and it hasn't really passed and it's 5pm now.
I read the Ideal Protein info and some of my symptoms can happen in the 1st few days following the protocol. Headaches are common, especially for people who are insulin dependant or ate a very high carb diet before-I don't fit these criteria. Nausea is common with people who never eat breakfast or because of the sudden decrease in sugar intake-I fit the sugar decrease part( I miss fruit!) It doesn't say anything about dizziness....so I guess that's just me!
I haven't been using enough sea salt-less than they say so twice I did try the salt in a glass of water to help with the nausea that they recommend.
So, still feeling crappy and hoping at passes after dinner.
Today I tried the Blueberry Pomegranate drink from Ideal and YUCK, I do not recommend it! It smells yucky and tastes yucky and when you smell it as you drink it, the yucky smell is different than the yucky taste so yuckiness all around! Thank goodness I can return the other packet I bought! Won't be buying that one again!
So far that is the only bad tasting Ideal Protein food I have tried so I can't complain. Last night my 9pm snack was their pina colada drink which was pretty good but could have been made better w/ a shot of rum, but alas, I cannot imbibe!
I am down between 3-4 lbs so I am happy with my week so far. I look forward to my Monday weigh in to see where I am by then officially.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Day 3
YAY! I lost a little more weight already! I am under the 190 mark, just slightly, but under! Haven't seen that in a year or more, so even tho I am only .4 under, I am going in the right direction.
AND already did 25 minutes on the cross-country ski machine while my thin and fit sweetheart was out walking. This way I don't have to look all sweaty & out of shape in front of him.
It's only day 3 but I have so far, done everything I should...oh, wait, I did not exercise on day 1 but did all the foods correctly. I don't think I will ever exercise every single day, but will do my best to do 4 days per week.
And being I am unemployed right now, I really can't make the excuse that I can't fit it into my busy life.
Oddly, the thinnest and most fit I ever was, was at a point in my life when I was the busiest I have ever been! I was working 6 days a week, going to school 4 nights per week and weighed between 128-132. Of course I was 30 and not 48 & menopausal, but I was in better shape at 30 than I was at 10 or at 20! I must admit...I...was...hot! I looked about 24, I got a lot of attention from men. I actually had someone tell me they asked me out b/c of my body and great ass!
So, I know most women would have been insulted but I was thrilled! I am shaped like a pear-big butt, big thighs and before I gained weight I was quite flat chested. I always felt like if a guy was attracted to me it was my brains or my bubbly personality or my sarcastic quick wit and here was a guy who just thought I looked hot & sexy and he was a super fit weight lifter!
The really sad thing about my body at that point is how I saw it! I would wear bike shorts under regular shorts or short skirts to hide the flab. What flab?! When I look back at pictures of myself from that time, I realize I looked too thin. My face was very thin and my collar bones stuck way out. I had not yet come to grips with the fact that I am pear shaped and fat or thin, I will still be pear shaped.
I went back and forth thinking, I am hot & can get any guy I want to oh, no, my butt is huuuuge! I do realize now that if you are fit and have a nice big round butt, it is sexy as all get out! Thank you, JLo, not a big fan but I do appreciate what you have done for my butt & thank you Sir-Mix-A-Lot for that song!
Ideal Protein crunchy cereal for breakfast and will have one of their soups for lunch with a salad, a dinner of stir-fry chicken(in 2 tsp olive oil) with veggies and my Ideal Protein snack at 9 pm.
So far, I also tried their vanilla drink which was also good, altho I won't spend the money to buy the already mixed one again as I am quite capable of mixing water & the packet & shaking it in their blender! This stuff is not cheap and as I said I am unemployed, so counting those pennies.
bfn!(you do know that means bye for now, right?)
AND already did 25 minutes on the cross-country ski machine while my thin and fit sweetheart was out walking. This way I don't have to look all sweaty & out of shape in front of him.
It's only day 3 but I have so far, done everything I should...oh, wait, I did not exercise on day 1 but did all the foods correctly. I don't think I will ever exercise every single day, but will do my best to do 4 days per week.
And being I am unemployed right now, I really can't make the excuse that I can't fit it into my busy life.
Oddly, the thinnest and most fit I ever was, was at a point in my life when I was the busiest I have ever been! I was working 6 days a week, going to school 4 nights per week and weighed between 128-132. Of course I was 30 and not 48 & menopausal, but I was in better shape at 30 than I was at 10 or at 20! I must admit...I...was...hot! I looked about 24, I got a lot of attention from men. I actually had someone tell me they asked me out b/c of my body and great ass!
So, I know most women would have been insulted but I was thrilled! I am shaped like a pear-big butt, big thighs and before I gained weight I was quite flat chested. I always felt like if a guy was attracted to me it was my brains or my bubbly personality or my sarcastic quick wit and here was a guy who just thought I looked hot & sexy and he was a super fit weight lifter!
The really sad thing about my body at that point is how I saw it! I would wear bike shorts under regular shorts or short skirts to hide the flab. What flab?! When I look back at pictures of myself from that time, I realize I looked too thin. My face was very thin and my collar bones stuck way out. I had not yet come to grips with the fact that I am pear shaped and fat or thin, I will still be pear shaped.
I went back and forth thinking, I am hot & can get any guy I want to oh, no, my butt is huuuuge! I do realize now that if you are fit and have a nice big round butt, it is sexy as all get out! Thank you, JLo, not a big fan but I do appreciate what you have done for my butt & thank you Sir-Mix-A-Lot for that song!
Ideal Protein crunchy cereal for breakfast and will have one of their soups for lunch with a salad, a dinner of stir-fry chicken(in 2 tsp olive oil) with veggies and my Ideal Protein snack at 9 pm.
So far, I also tried their vanilla drink which was also good, altho I won't spend the money to buy the already mixed one again as I am quite capable of mixing water & the packet & shaking it in their blender! This stuff is not cheap and as I said I am unemployed, so counting those pennies.
bfn!(you do know that means bye for now, right?)
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Day 2
Ok, so I got on the scale this morning. I know I shouldn't but if I see a loss, it keeps me excited and motivated. I was down almost 2.5! My belly actually feels and looks flatter already. I really will try to not get on the scale every day...but I'm not making any promises!
And I already exercised so that is out of the way. I did 2 10 minute sessions on the cross-country ski machine with a short water break in between and then did 18 minutes of shoveling heavy wet slushy snow.
For my snack last night I had the Ideal Protein wildberry yogurt drink and it was yummy! This morning I had their Fine Herb & Cheese Omelet and added 1/2 cup of broccoli to it. I let it get a little overcooked so it was dry but the flavor was very good.
So far I am surprised at the flavors of the Ideal Protein foods being so good! I wasn't expecting it really. Their site says they are "gourmet" but I did not believe it because all sorts of crappy foods call themself gourmet! This stuff is so far, surprisingly good. I have only tried 4 so far but will keep you posted to their taste as I try more.
I can be picky about good food. I always think it's part of my problem with my love-hate relaysh with food! I lived in a restaurant (Italian) until I was 14, a chef for a dad, my mom was the sort who, if I was good, she fed me Snickers bars and junk(apparently I was always very good!), we had a restaurant full of all sorts of yummy foods, I like to cook, my friends like to cook, and food is always part of socializing. We were always about food food food all the time! I like to drink red wine, which sometimes makes me decide at 9:00PM that I need a snack!
No wine on this diet(or other alcohol)which I will try not to whine about, but I know I will cheat on a Sat. night and have a couple of glasses because I enjoy it and don't want to deprive myself entirely.
My sweetheart should be home from school shortly(he's in college) and I need to figure out lunch. Salad and chicken soup today I think.
About my fiance-he's 46, 6'3", 175 lbs, he is super active(a soccer coach), exercises daily, he can eat whatever he wants and is the type who "accidentally" loses weight and complains about it. Argh! Sometimes I want to smack him in the head! He is a naturally thin type and I aspire to be one of those!
I haven't 'splained much about this diet I guess so I will post a little explanation soon...or just go to their website and look it up if you are interested because I might get lazy and not! idealprotein.com
ttyl! Oh yeah, if my words have no spaces sometimes it's because my spacebar isn't quite right and I miss it because I am not much for editing!
Tried the chicken soup-I must say-Yum! It was very creamy, as was the mushroom. Seems weird because I never eat anything with a cream base so it seems very rich and decadent. I really am pretty darn impressed with this food.
My rant for the day(I will try and keep them at a minimum):
It doesn't seem fair that I always eat so healthy and am still overweight! I do have portion control issues and will power control issues, I admit. I was eating a weight watcher style diet for the most part for the last 4 years or so and still gained a lot of weight back from the last time I did WW. I had lost 40 lbs and have put back on 30-35. I know I also am a lazy slug when it comes to exercise. It pisses me off that it realy is all about diet and exercise! Where is that magic pill dammit?!?
Ok, I'm over it, that pill doesn't exist apparently and I have to do the work. argh! Reminds me of Oprah-I have heard so many people exclaim: If I had Oprah's money I would never gain the weight back..she has cooks,trainers....blahdeyblahblah. It is still Oprah who has to eat the right food and get her butt on that treadmill and all the money in the world can't buy her willpower. At least she's not going the plastic surgery route and is keeping it real!
People who have drinking and drug problems can go into treatment and not do those things ever again but people with food issues have to keep eating several times each day and each time is a challenge to do it right.
And I already exercised so that is out of the way. I did 2 10 minute sessions on the cross-country ski machine with a short water break in between and then did 18 minutes of shoveling heavy wet slushy snow.
For my snack last night I had the Ideal Protein wildberry yogurt drink and it was yummy! This morning I had their Fine Herb & Cheese Omelet and added 1/2 cup of broccoli to it. I let it get a little overcooked so it was dry but the flavor was very good.
So far I am surprised at the flavors of the Ideal Protein foods being so good! I wasn't expecting it really. Their site says they are "gourmet" but I did not believe it because all sorts of crappy foods call themself gourmet! This stuff is so far, surprisingly good. I have only tried 4 so far but will keep you posted to their taste as I try more.
I can be picky about good food. I always think it's part of my problem with my love-hate relaysh with food! I lived in a restaurant (Italian) until I was 14, a chef for a dad, my mom was the sort who, if I was good, she fed me Snickers bars and junk(apparently I was always very good!), we had a restaurant full of all sorts of yummy foods, I like to cook, my friends like to cook, and food is always part of socializing. We were always about food food food all the time! I like to drink red wine, which sometimes makes me decide at 9:00PM that I need a snack!
No wine on this diet(or other alcohol)which I will try not to whine about, but I know I will cheat on a Sat. night and have a couple of glasses because I enjoy it and don't want to deprive myself entirely.
My sweetheart should be home from school shortly(he's in college) and I need to figure out lunch. Salad and chicken soup today I think.
About my fiance-he's 46, 6'3", 175 lbs, he is super active(a soccer coach), exercises daily, he can eat whatever he wants and is the type who "accidentally" loses weight and complains about it. Argh! Sometimes I want to smack him in the head! He is a naturally thin type and I aspire to be one of those!
I haven't 'splained much about this diet I guess so I will post a little explanation soon...or just go to their website and look it up if you are interested because I might get lazy and not! idealprotein.com
ttyl! Oh yeah, if my words have no spaces sometimes it's because my spacebar isn't quite right and I miss it because I am not much for editing!
Tried the chicken soup-I must say-Yum! It was very creamy, as was the mushroom. Seems weird because I never eat anything with a cream base so it seems very rich and decadent. I really am pretty darn impressed with this food.
My rant for the day(I will try and keep them at a minimum):
It doesn't seem fair that I always eat so healthy and am still overweight! I do have portion control issues and will power control issues, I admit. I was eating a weight watcher style diet for the most part for the last 4 years or so and still gained a lot of weight back from the last time I did WW. I had lost 40 lbs and have put back on 30-35. I know I also am a lazy slug when it comes to exercise. It pisses me off that it realy is all about diet and exercise! Where is that magic pill dammit?!?
Ok, I'm over it, that pill doesn't exist apparently and I have to do the work. argh! Reminds me of Oprah-I have heard so many people exclaim: If I had Oprah's money I would never gain the weight back..she has cooks,trainers....blahdeyblahblah. It is still Oprah who has to eat the right food and get her butt on that treadmill and all the money in the world can't buy her willpower. At least she's not going the plastic surgery route and is keeping it real!
People who have drinking and drug problems can go into treatment and not do those things ever again but people with food issues have to keep eating several times each day and each time is a challenge to do it right.
Monday, February 22, 2010
in the beginning....there was Ideal Protein
Okay okay, first things first. I do not actually plan to get skinny! I plan to lose some weight and get more fit...and I plan to do this once and one time only! That's because I have done it before but never have figured out how to get all the way to my goal or how to stay there. This time I plan to go all the way to my goal and to stay in that vicinity for the foreseeable future.
Today 2/22/2010 is my first day trying this plan called Ideal Protein which I found out about at my surgeon's office which is also a wellness center.
I am getting married at the end of May and had to buy a size 16W wedding dress. In regular dresses I am a 14 but wedding dresses fit differently. I love my dress, it's gorgeous. I tried it on for some friends and they took pictures and when I got home and looked at them....all I could see was a huuuuuge expanse of white! Did someone over expose these pictures somehow right on my digital camera because I am blinded by the white! Oh no, that's just big ole' me in a big ole' white dress! Ack!
How did I let this happen?!? This is even worse than relizing I am 48 and not 30 anymore and that there will be no going back and being young again! Apparently no do-overs with that age crap! But there are do-overs on losing weight you have regained and trying to stay healthy and keeping that pesky weight off.
I will post a picture of my big fat body so we have a "before" but I am in my jammies watching The Antiques Roadshow and fiddle dee dee I will think about it tomorrow.
I am new to this bogging crapola so have no idea who will ever read it. I would much rather complete strangers read it than people I know!
The plan is to get from 193 lbs to about 150 lbs which is a nice healthy weight for 5'7".
This is the 1st day on Ideal Protein and it wasn't as bad as I thought. I ate their crunchy cereal for breakfast, I ate 2 cups of veggies mixed into Ideal Protein Mushroom Soup and a salad for lunch and 2 cups of veggies and 5 oz. of beef for dinner. I was too full to have the salad for dinner as well and also still have to have a "snack" of my choice of Ideal Protein food.
The cereal was crunchy and had it's own milk product powdered in the package which tasted sort of like Carnation Instant Breakfast. Not bad really.The mushroom soup tasted pretty good and I put the 2 cups of veggies (steamed asparagus & watercress) into it. I will try one of their drinks for my snack I think.
I plan to blog along my way to my weight loss. I am thinking if I commit to writing about it, I may keep my commitment to weight loss and exercise.
Tomorrow I have to actually exercise....ick! I know it is good for me, but I sort of need the person w/ the gun to my head for the 1st couple months to make me do it. Once I start to see the results of the exercise and feel stronger, I start to enjoy it.....but I am in the need the threat of bodily harm stage now. I didn't even do any today and it was my first day! Great follow through, there Linnypoo!
I was too busy drinking 64 oz. of water and peeing every few minutes...yeah, that was it. You believe me, right??...because I don't!
Oh well, tomorrow is a new day(fiddle dee dee again I say!), at least I have stuck to the food part of the plan!
Today 2/22/2010 is my first day trying this plan called Ideal Protein which I found out about at my surgeon's office which is also a wellness center.
I am getting married at the end of May and had to buy a size 16W wedding dress. In regular dresses I am a 14 but wedding dresses fit differently. I love my dress, it's gorgeous. I tried it on for some friends and they took pictures and when I got home and looked at them....all I could see was a huuuuuge expanse of white! Did someone over expose these pictures somehow right on my digital camera because I am blinded by the white! Oh no, that's just big ole' me in a big ole' white dress! Ack!
How did I let this happen?!? This is even worse than relizing I am 48 and not 30 anymore and that there will be no going back and being young again! Apparently no do-overs with that age crap! But there are do-overs on losing weight you have regained and trying to stay healthy and keeping that pesky weight off.
I will post a picture of my big fat body so we have a "before" but I am in my jammies watching The Antiques Roadshow and fiddle dee dee I will think about it tomorrow.
I am new to this bogging crapola so have no idea who will ever read it. I would much rather complete strangers read it than people I know!
The plan is to get from 193 lbs to about 150 lbs which is a nice healthy weight for 5'7".
This is the 1st day on Ideal Protein and it wasn't as bad as I thought. I ate their crunchy cereal for breakfast, I ate 2 cups of veggies mixed into Ideal Protein Mushroom Soup and a salad for lunch and 2 cups of veggies and 5 oz. of beef for dinner. I was too full to have the salad for dinner as well and also still have to have a "snack" of my choice of Ideal Protein food.
The cereal was crunchy and had it's own milk product powdered in the package which tasted sort of like Carnation Instant Breakfast. Not bad really.The mushroom soup tasted pretty good and I put the 2 cups of veggies (steamed asparagus & watercress) into it. I will try one of their drinks for my snack I think.
I plan to blog along my way to my weight loss. I am thinking if I commit to writing about it, I may keep my commitment to weight loss and exercise.
Tomorrow I have to actually exercise....ick! I know it is good for me, but I sort of need the person w/ the gun to my head for the 1st couple months to make me do it. Once I start to see the results of the exercise and feel stronger, I start to enjoy it.....but I am in the need the threat of bodily harm stage now. I didn't even do any today and it was my first day! Great follow through, there Linnypoo!
I was too busy drinking 64 oz. of water and peeing every few minutes...yeah, that was it. You believe me, right??...because I don't!
Oh well, tomorrow is a new day(fiddle dee dee again I say!), at least I have stuck to the food part of the plan!
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