I am loving the Barbecue Soy Nuts! They take time to eat so end up being quite satisfying! That is; they take time to eat if you eat one or two at a time, not if you toss a handful down your throat!
Salt & Vinegar Chips are okay, as well, but not as good as the soy nuts.
My husband is a huuuuge fan of regular salt & vinegar potato chips (or "crisps," as he so adorably calls them!)so I have snacked on many a brand and these do not hold a candle to real salt & vinegar chips.
Buuuut, hey, we are on a freaking diet so we really can't expect them to be like real potato chips! Eating too much crap like potato chips is what put us here in the first place!
As snacks for a diet go, these will certainly do! The chips get a little aftertaste-ish as you get through the bag but it isn't that bad.
I will definitely get more of the soy nuts next week...like maybe a whole box! Which means doing a "clean" lunch like one of the drinks. I could use a break from the vegetarian chili, even though I enjoy it.
So, we went to a bunch of estate sales this morning and got some way cool stuff to sell on eBay! Some groovy 1960s luggage, some 1950s Florida souvenir scarves, some vintage melmac and an adorable little metal kitchen shelf thingie for potatoes and onions and stuff. It's probably from the 1930s and has an original decorative decal on it and is about 24" high or so and maybe 14" wide. That one's for us and looks so fabulous in our vintage/retro red & white kitchen! I stuck our vitamins on the top shelf and potatoes and onions on the middle shelf and I haven't decided what will go on the bottom shelf yet, other than my cute antique red handled wooden rolling pin.
And by the way...you know how I had recommended using seltzer with some of the drinks for a change of pace? Be careful!!!! I was shaking a Cappuccino drink in the Ideal Protein Shaker and KABOOOOM!
I certainly do not recommend doing that in your living room standing near your vintage mid-century modern cream colored sofa(or your poor husband who may have been sitting on said sofa wearing his very favorite white Umbro training pants!)....nope...I do NOT recommend that at all!
I spent so much time with a toothbrush, Resolve, a cup of warm water and soaking paper towels than I want to even think about! It's still a little damp but I think it might turn out okay-Thank God! I still have to take down my 1960s psychedelic black & white draperies although I am not worried about those. I bought those from an estate where I swear the people must have been chain smokers and I managed to get them back to black & white(instead of the black & tar they had been!)
Now that it's "Bathing Costume" Season(another of my husband's phrases)- I was invited to a friend's condos pool last Sunday...you know the day it was sunny until we actually got to the pool and then all of a sudden rained torrentially until it was time to drive home? Yeah, that day! So, I was getting ready and I put on my bathing suit and looked in the mirror. I had decided I was not going to buy a new one until I reached goal. Well, that went right out the window because I looked like a little girl playing dress-up in mommy's suit!
I often wear a size up in a one-piece bathing suit or just get a size larger for the bottom if I wear a tankini. I have such a long torso and big butt, if I want to keep it all covered, which I do, I need to go a little bigger than my regular size. So there I was in a size 18... I probably could have fit 4 of my current size boobs in one cup and it was so long it was halfway down my thighs!
So I ran to Target and tried on about a hundred bathing suits...okay, I might be exaggerating, it may have only been 20. I found the cutest suit! It's sort of retro pin-up looking in black & white polka-dots with a v-neck, halter straps and it does the coolest thing! It has ruching at the sides and you can pull it all the way down and it's like a little dress or ruch it up wherever you want and make it shorter and make the ruching cover a not perfectly flat yet belly. Super cute and only $40.
Keep up the good work everyone and have a great weekend!
Friday, June 25, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Weigh-In #17
I was down another pound. I am still not really back on the diet.
Summer is just not conducive to dieting for me.
I keep getting invited places and eat whatever they put in front of me(within reason of course)and an evening or two a week, I have a one or two glasses of wine.
Okay, and I may have had as all DQ Blizzard for lunch a few days ago when it was 90 degrees! Ack!
It was so hot and we were in my husband's car with the freaking broken air conditioning and he said he wanted to go to DQ and I didn't say no... What I actually said was, "It's not even close to being on my diet but okay, let's!"
So, as you can see he totally had to twist my arm and almost force me to go!
I am not even sure how I am still losing weight every week!
My size 12 pants are all getting too big, although 10s still seem too tight. Maybe if I just wore them anyway, they'd stretch out and fit alright. And if they didn't, I might stick to my diet that day b/c of not wanting them to feel any tighter!
On another subject...
We had no power yesterday from 11:55 am until 10:10 pm! Argh! Every summer since I moved to this apartment we have lost power at some point, once for almost 2 days!
The cul-de-sac we live on was built in around 1960 and the wiring under the street is just giving out but the powers that be are too cheap to okay the workers replace them all at once. So, every year they dig up the road in one or more places and re-wire just that area!
This had made the road a big mess so the town paved it a month or so ago....and now the power company is coming back to dig it up again and replace just another small portion of the old wiring. Effing stupid bureaucrats!
Okay, enough for my rantabout the inequity oflife in general!
I got some of the Ideal protein Salt & Vinegar Chips and the BBQ Soy Nuts this time around so I will let you know how they are. This is the first time I have tried a new food in ages! I really like the chili for lunch, so then have to have the other two foods be unrestricted or "clean" as they say.
The Nurse Practitioner and the other women who work at the Wellness Center gave us a lovely wedding gift, too! I was so surprised! They gave me very cute art glass wine bottle stoppers and Lenox wine glasses-that they said I can't use until I reach goal!
I love the ladies there! They are so nice! I will miss them when I am done dieting!
I will have Roy take a new picture of me for the blog soon being I haven't added one since the wedding.
Summer is just not conducive to dieting for me.
I keep getting invited places and eat whatever they put in front of me(within reason of course)and an evening or two a week, I have a one or two glasses of wine.
Okay, and I may have had as all DQ Blizzard for lunch a few days ago when it was 90 degrees! Ack!
It was so hot and we were in my husband's car with the freaking broken air conditioning and he said he wanted to go to DQ and I didn't say no... What I actually said was, "It's not even close to being on my diet but okay, let's!"
So, as you can see he totally had to twist my arm and almost force me to go!
I am not even sure how I am still losing weight every week!
My size 12 pants are all getting too big, although 10s still seem too tight. Maybe if I just wore them anyway, they'd stretch out and fit alright. And if they didn't, I might stick to my diet that day b/c of not wanting them to feel any tighter!
On another subject...
We had no power yesterday from 11:55 am until 10:10 pm! Argh! Every summer since I moved to this apartment we have lost power at some point, once for almost 2 days!
The cul-de-sac we live on was built in around 1960 and the wiring under the street is just giving out but the powers that be are too cheap to okay the workers replace them all at once. So, every year they dig up the road in one or more places and re-wire just that area!
This had made the road a big mess so the town paved it a month or so ago....and now the power company is coming back to dig it up again and replace just another small portion of the old wiring. Effing stupid bureaucrats!
Okay, enough for my rantabout the inequity oflife in general!
I got some of the Ideal protein Salt & Vinegar Chips and the BBQ Soy Nuts this time around so I will let you know how they are. This is the first time I have tried a new food in ages! I really like the chili for lunch, so then have to have the other two foods be unrestricted or "clean" as they say.
The Nurse Practitioner and the other women who work at the Wellness Center gave us a lovely wedding gift, too! I was so surprised! They gave me very cute art glass wine bottle stoppers and Lenox wine glasses-that they said I can't use until I reach goal!
I love the ladies there! They are so nice! I will miss them when I am done dieting!
I will have Roy take a new picture of me for the blog soon being I haven't added one since the wedding.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
weigh-in #16
So, I was down but not sure how much.
The nurse practitioner didn't say and then we took my measurements and I meant to ask afterwards but forgot.
When I went out to pay for my food, the admin said I was down 27 but I know it's more. It was 30 last week and I lost so it's definitely not 27!
My measurements were down in all catagories, as well.
I will weigh myself in the morning and we'll go w/ that weight!
Yup...that's the ticket!
The nurse practitioner didn't say and then we took my measurements and I meant to ask afterwards but forgot.
When I went out to pay for my food, the admin said I was down 27 but I know it's more. It was 30 last week and I lost so it's definitely not 27!
My measurements were down in all catagories, as well.
I will weigh myself in the morning and we'll go w/ that weight!
Yup...that's the ticket!
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Tuesday 6/15
Hey there everyone!
I have been rather absent lately.
I am not sticking to the diet as closely as I should so I think I feel sorta guilty.
Summer is a difficult time to diet...I want fruit! And I have been eating it....yum....nomnomnom! I just can't seem to help myself!
I want to be done w/dieting and be on maintenance!
Problem is I have about 12 more pounds to lose! If I could just knuckle down and get back on track completely, I would be there in no time.
I will get to my goal in the next month or so, I just have to get re-motivated. Now that the wedding happened I don't feel like I need to be that good anymore.
If I was better at sticking to the diet, I would already be at my goal and already be learning to maintain that goal weight so I only have myself to blame.
Ok, enough complaining, time to get serious again!
150 here I come!
I have been rather absent lately.
I am not sticking to the diet as closely as I should so I think I feel sorta guilty.
Summer is a difficult time to diet...I want fruit! And I have been eating it....yum....nomnomnom! I just can't seem to help myself!
I want to be done w/dieting and be on maintenance!
Problem is I have about 12 more pounds to lose! If I could just knuckle down and get back on track completely, I would be there in no time.
I will get to my goal in the next month or so, I just have to get re-motivated. Now that the wedding happened I don't feel like I need to be that good anymore.
If I was better at sticking to the diet, I would already be at my goal and already be learning to maintain that goal weight so I only have myself to blame.
Ok, enough complaining, time to get serious again!
150 here I come!
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
15 Week Weigh-In
I am down lower than I was before the wedding(prior to gaining that 4 lbs right before & not being on the diet for 9 days) so I am happy with that. I am right at the 30 pound mark which I was close to but never actually there until now.
Yay!
I have a healthy meatloaf in the oven-93% lean beef with green pepper & scallions & spices. It's a good day for comfort food being it's been raining all day. The weatherman said it would start at noon and go until midnight and he was right on because it started at 11:45am while I was on my way out to meet a friend for lunch. I had salad bar only and mostly stuck to the right things, although I did throw in 3 grape tomatoes, even though I had a few yesterday, and a tiny spoon of 3 bean salad(literally 5 or 6 beans!).
It was nice to be back after 2 weeks of no weigh-ins and see the nurse practitioner because we both had big events since last time we saw one another. (I know you are all probably sick of wedding stuff so I am barely mentioning it!) She gave birth to her 1st child- a beautiful little boy with lots of dark hair.
I am super tired so it's good to be back on track with the diet because I need the energy the protein gives me. I was sleeping so poorly before the wedding and had almost a week of decent sleep afterwards but now it's been 3 nights of taking forever to fall asleep and waking up often and then waking up for good super early.
The last 2 nights I have had the craziest dreams!
The night before last I dreamt that my new hubs & I were on vacation w/ some other people, one of whom was Brad Pitt and the others I don't know but they were our friends in the dream(as if I actually know Brad Pitt-lol!) I was mad at my husband(which is still so weird to type or say!) because he kept disappearing and Brad totally had a thing for me(must be the weight loss!)and we kept making out or almost making out(thank God he had gotten rid of that icky beard in my dream!)but either people would come in the room or I would stop him from kissing and holding me because I may have been mad at Roy for disappearing, but I knew we had just married and it was wrong. Ha ha-I am definitely too much of a nice girl if I can't even do Brad Pitt in a freaking dream! And thank God Angelina wasn't there because she could totally kick my ass!
And in last night's dream, we were also on vacation (which means I totally need one!) and I kept having to battle flesh eating zombies! Very scary and for some reason I prefer dreaming about making out with Brad Pitt, even if we don't get to 2nd base!
I do need a vacation(or a honeymoon dammit!)but we are waiting until we move to England in the fall(we changed it from July to November.) We will probably go to Spain or Portugal as soon as we get settled, get new jobs, and can get time off...so probably not until 2011! That's ok, weddings are expen$ive!...and so is moving to England!
Yay!
I have a healthy meatloaf in the oven-93% lean beef with green pepper & scallions & spices. It's a good day for comfort food being it's been raining all day. The weatherman said it would start at noon and go until midnight and he was right on because it started at 11:45am while I was on my way out to meet a friend for lunch. I had salad bar only and mostly stuck to the right things, although I did throw in 3 grape tomatoes, even though I had a few yesterday, and a tiny spoon of 3 bean salad(literally 5 or 6 beans!).
It was nice to be back after 2 weeks of no weigh-ins and see the nurse practitioner because we both had big events since last time we saw one another. (I know you are all probably sick of wedding stuff so I am barely mentioning it!) She gave birth to her 1st child- a beautiful little boy with lots of dark hair.
I am super tired so it's good to be back on track with the diet because I need the energy the protein gives me. I was sleeping so poorly before the wedding and had almost a week of decent sleep afterwards but now it's been 3 nights of taking forever to fall asleep and waking up often and then waking up for good super early.
The last 2 nights I have had the craziest dreams!
The night before last I dreamt that my new hubs & I were on vacation w/ some other people, one of whom was Brad Pitt and the others I don't know but they were our friends in the dream(as if I actually know Brad Pitt-lol!) I was mad at my husband(which is still so weird to type or say!) because he kept disappearing and Brad totally had a thing for me(must be the weight loss!)and we kept making out or almost making out(thank God he had gotten rid of that icky beard in my dream!)but either people would come in the room or I would stop him from kissing and holding me because I may have been mad at Roy for disappearing, but I knew we had just married and it was wrong. Ha ha-I am definitely too much of a nice girl if I can't even do Brad Pitt in a freaking dream! And thank God Angelina wasn't there because she could totally kick my ass!
And in last night's dream, we were also on vacation (which means I totally need one!) and I kept having to battle flesh eating zombies! Very scary and for some reason I prefer dreaming about making out with Brad Pitt, even if we don't get to 2nd base!
I do need a vacation(or a honeymoon dammit!)but we are waiting until we move to England in the fall(we changed it from July to November.) We will probably go to Spain or Portugal as soon as we get settled, get new jobs, and can get time off...so probably not until 2011! That's ok, weddings are expen$ive!...and so is moving to England!
Monday, June 7, 2010
Monday 6/7
Happy b-day to one of my very best friends, Sally!! Love ya, Sal!
I am doing ok so far back on IP. I have already lost what I had gained over the week of going to hell in a hand-basket plus 2 more pounds! Not sure how that happened so fast!
I have enough IP food packs to last until Wednesday so I can go back for my regular weigh-in. I much prefer Wednesday weigh-ins because if gives me enough time to recuperate from the weekend in case I had a glass of wine or something not approved!
Maybe by Wednesday I will have lost another pound!
I am doing ok so far back on IP. I have already lost what I had gained over the week of going to hell in a hand-basket plus 2 more pounds! Not sure how that happened so fast!
I have enough IP food packs to last until Wednesday so I can go back for my regular weigh-in. I much prefer Wednesday weigh-ins because if gives me enough time to recuperate from the weekend in case I had a glass of wine or something not approved!
Maybe by Wednesday I will have lost another pound!
Friday, June 4, 2010
back on IP
Ok, this is my first day back on IP after a 9 day lay-off. And I have the worst headache!
I don't know if it's the diet or the heat. I have had my salt and about 40 ounces of water so far.
We had 8 people from my new husband's family here from England and there was a lot of going out, quite a bit of drinking, barbecues, the wedding and wedding cake, more barbecues.
I ate what I wanted but didn't go bat-shit crazy, really. I have probably put on about 5 pounds or so, but now it'll be like the first week again maybe and I'll take it off right away....I hope! And then on to the last 15 and maintenance.
Congrats to my follower Melissa, who is down 30 pounds now, and another follower, Tina, who just recently started and is down 16 already. Way to go ladies!
And thank you for the lovely comments about our wedding pictures. I really did feel beautiful! And my husband looked gorgeous in his tux and long blond hair. His hair went all messy from the humidity because he wouldn't listen about using a little hairspray(do they ever listen?!)He is pretty damn adorable, though! All that and he has a British accent!
I had a loooong wait being we didn't meet until I was 45 (he was 42)but he was worth it!
I am thinking this is a migraine because I am sitting in the dark and am nauseous so maybe it has nothing to do with going back on the diet.
I will need to stop at the wellness center to pick up more food on Monday but want to wait until Wednesday to weigh in so I have more dieting days under my belt. I need to call and see if the nurse practitioner had a boy or girl and get all the deets, too!
What woman doesn't love to hear about weddings and babies!?....or food and dieting for that matter!
I don't know if it's the diet or the heat. I have had my salt and about 40 ounces of water so far.
We had 8 people from my new husband's family here from England and there was a lot of going out, quite a bit of drinking, barbecues, the wedding and wedding cake, more barbecues.
I ate what I wanted but didn't go bat-shit crazy, really. I have probably put on about 5 pounds or so, but now it'll be like the first week again maybe and I'll take it off right away....I hope! And then on to the last 15 and maintenance.
Congrats to my follower Melissa, who is down 30 pounds now, and another follower, Tina, who just recently started and is down 16 already. Way to go ladies!
And thank you for the lovely comments about our wedding pictures. I really did feel beautiful! And my husband looked gorgeous in his tux and long blond hair. His hair went all messy from the humidity because he wouldn't listen about using a little hairspray(do they ever listen?!)He is pretty damn adorable, though! All that and he has a British accent!
I had a loooong wait being we didn't meet until I was 45 (he was 42)but he was worth it!
I am thinking this is a migraine because I am sitting in the dark and am nauseous so maybe it has nothing to do with going back on the diet.
I will need to stop at the wellness center to pick up more food on Monday but want to wait until Wednesday to weigh in so I have more dieting days under my belt. I need to call and see if the nurse practitioner had a boy or girl and get all the deets, too!
What woman doesn't love to hear about weddings and babies!?....or food and dieting for that matter!
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