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Weinermr | Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 03:26 pm     I'm still tickled that Oregonfire called me a male member. Oh well, back to dieting...... |
Tess | Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 03:52 pm     Weiner!!!!! |
Weinermr | Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 04:03 pm     Yes, Tess?  |
Oregonfire | Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 05:02 pm     I thought about that innuendo later, MUCH later--too late for editing. Let's just hope that no dieting cocker spaniels wander in here...hey man, I get my kicks from FOOD--that's why I'm in this thread! Speaking of the amazingly seductive powers of food, you've just got try this yogurt spread. It's called Brummel and Brown Creamy Fruit Spread--I've got the Simply Strawberry variety. It's to die for, and not too fattening (1 tablespoon serving has 6% DV fat, 4% DV saturated fat). Today I walked for about 45 minutes up to campus and back. I also had beef noodle soup and some caramel corn rice cakes. The rice cakes and yogurt spread are pretty much empty calories--not that fattening, but not very nutritious either. |
Max | Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 09:39 pm     English muffin 2 Morningstar Farms breakfast patties (160 calories) 1 ounce cheddar cheese Lean Cuisine Chicken w/basil cream sauce (260 calories) granola bar (150 calories) banana Teddy Grahams (190 calories) soft pretzel w/mustard, no salt 2 Morningstar Farms Veggie Corndogs (300 calories) Maybe I should say Veggie corn-covered Weiners? applesauce 1 Frango Exercise: bowling league + 15 minutes on the bike for 3.6 miles |
Tess | Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 11:54 pm     Today: usual breakfast Lunch: some leftover casserole, half a banana and water Snack: 6 chocolate mini rice cakes, water Dinner: the rest of the left over casserole, water Snack: mcdonald's hotfudge sundae (they are VERY small) Late night snack: cereal and milk. exercise was 1 mile walking |
Weinermr | Friday, January 25, 2002 - 01:15 am     Thursday Morning - Apple, banana, 1/2 plain egg bagel Lunch - Steamed rice, vegetables, beef with broccoli Dinner - Chicken leg and thigh (no skin), coleslaw (very light on dressing), 2 1/2 flour tortillas, salsa 1.6 miles walking |
Resortgirl | Friday, January 25, 2002 - 05:04 am     I guess I should have eaten more during the day because the pizza looked too good and I had um... 4 1/2 pieces... oops! |
Twiggyish | Friday, January 25, 2002 - 05:30 am     (shuffling feet) I ate pizza yesterday, too. *sigh* |
Resortgirl | Friday, January 25, 2002 - 05:42 am     Aw Twiggy, we'll get back on track today, huh? I'm going to actually eat a healthy breakfast, which I rarely do and see if that keeps the junk food munchies away! |
Twiggyish | Friday, January 25, 2002 - 05:54 am     Good idea. I like to start with a bowl of shredded wheat cereal. |
Jewels | Friday, January 25, 2002 - 03:00 pm     Yesterday: (typical Thursday) Breakfast: breakfast, latte Lunch: 2 veggie dogs, salad, cookie Dinner: Left over taco meat on fat free tortilla, Snack: Small bowl low-fat ice cream with some chocolate sauce (We must have been on the same vibe, Tess!) I felt ill yesterday and have been having muscle pains in my shoulders and neck. I spent the evening on a hot pad on the couch. Hence, the ice cream...I needed comfort!! I have decided I am throwing my scale out the window. Gain 3, lose 3, gain 3 lose 3, it says one or the other everytime I get on it. I think it's broken. Oh wait, it's brand new...I guess it just wants to torment me. My last scale varied by 15 pounds depending on how I stood on it, I liked that one better because if I felt fat I could just lean to the right a bit and I was 15 pounds lighter! Max, how do you like the Morningstar Corn dogs? Were they the mini's? I really enjoyed them, I thought they were a little greasy, but still really good. I don't think I can buy them again because I wanted to eat the whole box! I finally was at a store today that actually sold Morningstar breakfast patties (Danielson's Thriftway) and they were out of them! I usually shop at Fred's and for some reason they don't carry them. Today I also saw what the called Veggie Strips (faux bacon) have you tried those? Hope you are all surviving better than I am!  |
Tess | Friday, January 25, 2002 - 03:12 pm     Sounds like most of us are having an off couple of days, Jewels, but it's just a couple of days and that won't undo all the hard work that's gone before. Let's just keep plugging away at it little by little. |
Max | Friday, January 25, 2002 - 04:02 pm     Jewels, I bought the Morningstar Farms full-size corndogs. Each one has 150 calories, so two for a meal is great. I really like them! Corndogs are one of my favorite things (especially when smeared with large amounts of yellow mustard), so it's nice to be able to enjoy them again! I haven't tried the faux bacon. Doesn't really appeal to me. If I'm gonna have bacon, I want the real thing! Guess I'm more "forgiving" about sausage. Hang in there! |
Knightpatti | Friday, January 25, 2002 - 05:54 pm     Jewels, I have had the bacon. It is awful. Love the patties, though. I eat them all the time. |
Oregonfire | Friday, January 25, 2002 - 06:16 pm     Hello all Breakfast: An apple, free strawberry minimuffin with my coffee Snack: Two Granola Bars Dinner: Ham and Cheese Lunchables (Aren't I terrible? It just looked so good in the grocery store. A whopping 45% DV of saturated fat, the evilest no no of them all). Snacks: One bagel, raw cauliflower and broccoli. Some items of clothing are noticably looser. Will work out tomorrow morning. BTW, I like tofu hot dogs basted in butter...but the brand name is important. One kind really didn't sit well on my stomach (will remember the brand later) |
Twiggyish | Friday, January 25, 2002 - 06:54 pm     I shouldn't post in here today. So I will return tomorrow..LOL |
Max | Friday, January 25, 2002 - 11:07 pm     Twiggy, you don't have to tell us ALL the gory details! Today: English muffin (120 calories) 2 breakfast patties (160 calories) 1 ounce cheddar cheese banana granola bar (140 calories) Healthy Choice Stuffed Shells (270 calories) 3 low-fat biscotti (120 calories) Baked potato w/salsa salad No exercise. Watched Mission Impossible 2 instead. Never did see it before. I liked it better than the first one, at least from a story perspective. Both are kinda cheesy. I miss Mr. Phelps! Yes, Lunchables are really good -- and REALLY bad! I hate how they pitch those things to kids. It's one of the top-10 bad foods for kids. My mail order shipment of new jeans finally arrived. Two different styles from the same catalog in the same style. One fits beautifully, the other I need to lose more before they fit. Go figure! Nice to be yet another size smaller (at least in one style), though. Keep goin', Oregonfire! |
Tess | Saturday, January 26, 2002 - 12:43 am     I didn't have so many calories today but wasn't as low in fat as I need to be. There was reduced-fat peanute butter thinly spread on oatnut toast and gravy with the chicken, potatoes, bicsuits and peas I made for dinner. Sometimes I just need to make the family very happy and they were very happy with dinner tonight. |
Gail | Saturday, January 26, 2002 - 09:22 am     I am checking in after nearly a week of joining up with ediets. Tomorrow is my weigh in day and hopefully i will be good today. I am down 4 pound for the week. I did pretty good at sticking to the diet plan. I also did pretty good at sticking to the exercise part of the plan too. The exercise was a little tough - i had surgery early last week and will be have a cast on my hand/arm for about 5 more weeks. But, I feel the motivation from ediets, here and my neighbor working. The dieting part is not too bad. Ediets is pretty flexible and in my opinion, pretty generous. My breakfast everyday was a chocolate protein shake (sometimes with half a banana blended in) and an english muffin with peanut butter and half a banana sliced on both halves. I absolutely love this breakfast so breakfast is pretty easy for me. Lunch, well the early part of the week I made smoked turkey sandwiches which where pretty terrific but at this point, I am having a hard enough time getting ready for work (the cast slows me down a lot)so I bought some lean cuisines and healthy choice dinners. I have never eaten a "diet" frozen meal in my life. Can't say that I like them. Though, I did love the Lean Cuisine Sante Fe Beans and Rice I had yesterday. I should elaborate - I don't do frozen dinners period (except stouffers mac and cheese in a crunch) I much prefer to cook my food from scratch. I also had a salad everyday for lunch but instead of 2 tablespoons of low or non fat dressing, I had 1 tablespoon of regular jalapeno ranch. Dinners, I was pretty watchful of the guidelines and mealplan at ediets. One night, I had chili. I have been craving cornbread with raspberry jam and in order to have it, I had a glass of water instead of beer, and I didn't put crackers or cheese in the chili. I don't think I felt deprived - it is a matter of knowing your limits and sticking to it. One big change for me is drinks. I decided to lay off of the coffee for a while - i love coffeemate. Instead, I did have a couple of chai teas this week. Now, under normal circumstances, you couldn't get me to get within 10 feet of skim milk but it is okay in chai tea. I usually like a small glass of red wine with dinner but for the past 2 weeks, switched to water for all meals - partly for dieting and partly because wine and painpills don't mix. It helps that I love the water where I live and normally drink close to a gallon everyday. My second favorite drink is milk and with ediets, it is allowable, along with fruit. Most diets forbid milk, peanut butter and sometimes fruits which has always been a problem. I have a friend at work who is on the adkins diet - she saw me eating a pear and was jealous. Same when I was heating up chicken strip and mac and cheese lunch the other day. I don't feel deprived and that is important to me for success. Today, I will try to do a whole mile on the treadmill. That's good for me - last year following a very similar surgery, I couldn't exercise at all for nearly 3 months. I am still a little wobbly but very motivated. Starting Feb 1st, I am going to keep a mileage chart up by the treadmill for my neighbor and I to compete with. I would like to do some weights but i can't strap the ankle weights on one handed and I can't hold weights in my right hand. I have been doing a bit with a 5 lb dumb bell with my left hand and will keep that up. In a way, it seems to take the same kind of will power here as it did to quit smoking. All in all, I will feel really proud of myself tomorrow when I see my stats on ediets. I love their tips! |
Weinermr | Saturday, January 26, 2002 - 09:48 am     Great going everyone! You don't always notice the difference in the weight. Sometimes the weight will plateau for days or weeks. But you can feel the clothes loosening at the same time. Several here have noted that. So watch the scales, but not ONLY the scales, because they don't tell the whole story. Friday Morning - Raisin bran muffin and a banana - lots of fiber! Lunch - Chinese vegetables, beef with green beans and onions - no rice. Snack - Apple Dinner - Baked red snapper, baked potato plain, sauteed vegetables (carrots, broccoli, cauliflower), and a glass of orange juice. I haven't mentioned that included in my intake everyday is about 76 Diet Cokes. I can't help it. They are my addiction, I know the caffeine is bad for me, but there we go. I got off of them for two years a couple years back, but I truly did not notice a difference in energy level, sleep habits, or weight. I just enjoy their taste, and except for the caffeine, they're virtually like colored water, so it keeps me drinking. I drink some Diet Sprite too, but mostly Diet Coke. Weekends are the hardest for me diet-wise, because the discipline of the workday keeps me eating on a more regular basis, so I will have to be careful this weekend. We're going out to dinner tonight, so it will be a good test today. So far, only 1 pound loss on the scale, but I feel "lighter". I've just started, so I'm not taking it all too seriously. Thanks for the support everyone, and you have mine too! |
Max | Saturday, January 26, 2002 - 12:40 pm     Great going,Gail! Glad you find eDiets easy to follow. I do, too, and that's what counts the most in my success so far. I've never had the chai tea stuff, but I was at a fundraiser luncheon when the owner of Oregon Chai Tea spoke. From what she said, the stuff is REALLY sweet. Do they make a sugar-free or low-cal version? Make sure to check the label, 'cause you might find that CoffeeMate has fewer calories. I'm not sure, just curious. Weiner, I used to be hooked on Diet Coke, too. When I started this in August, though, I stopped drinking them. I do drink coffee, but I used to drink both. I drank Diet Cokes instead of water. What I've found, for me, is that not drinking them seems to cut down my craving for sweets. I guess sugar (even substitute sugar) breeds the desire for more sugar, in my case. I'm sure my body doesn't miss all the chemicals, either. Anyway, remember to drink water, too. 16 ounces of diet soda only equals about 8 ounces (or less) of water as far as your body is concerned. Plus, the caffeine acts as a bit of a diuretic, so although you're drinking a lot, you don't get the hydration benefits plain water provides. Anyway, that's the theory! I truly believe that every BODY functions a bit uniquely, although there are of course many similiarities. What works for one won't necessarily work for another. Onward and downward (on the scale, that is)! |
Gail | Saturday, January 26, 2002 - 01:15 pm     Max, that Oregon Chai tea is the kind I drink - it has 80 calories per serving (before milk) but is fat free. I think my daily dose of coffee mate was close to that. If I only drink 2 or 3 cups a week that should be okay. Sometimes it is restful to have a hot drink. The carton that oregon chai tea comes in is pretty funny. You have to read the small print. For example: Below the nutrition facts it says " Manufactured for Oregon Chai without the consent of the Dahli Lama, but we sent him a case and some Three Stooges movies so we expect to hear from him soon. There's a few places on the carton like that. This tea is kind of sweet but it you mix it with half milk. My favorite one is the Cocoa Chai. It is high on the list for comfort foods. |
Spygirl | Saturday, January 26, 2002 - 04:18 pm     No one faint or anything.......but the founder of this thread has finally returned. Things have begun to settle into a routine -- or as much of a routine as I can manage in my last semester. The exercise fairy has delivered some much needed money for some weight-losing expenses! My new treadmill will be here sometime this week (has to be transferred in from another store). Also, the same exercise fairy paid for my memebership into eDiets! I went shopping today and bought my first week of groceries (p.s. I sure hope it won't cost that much every week!!). I also got some new workout shoes -- some Skechers -- and exercise mat. I think I'm set. Thanks for all your suggestions, Max! I knew today was "the day" to get back into it, but it was confirmed when I parked next to a PT Cruiser when going to make my purchases I'm very excited. I've already completed a shortened workout today to prepare for my first official day tomorrow. Great job to everyone! Glad that you all made it through the holidays. I let everything overwhelm me, but I'm back now. WHOOHOOO! |
Kady | Saturday, January 26, 2002 - 08:22 pm     Okay, darn it I'm here. I have been avoiding this thread like the plague. Just reading Max's post about the new jeans and about Gail's sucessful week has inspired me to join you.  |
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