And be wasted away to nuthin’ too, right? Which reminds me, I’ve got a magnet on my fridge that says, “Wouldn’t it be great if you really could work your ass off?”
Since I have no hope of earning virtue points, y’all have to help me figure out how to survive the weekend…
My two sisters and I are getting together for a “no hubands, no kids” weekend. Staying in a “suite” hotel.
Challenge #1: My oldest sister, Liz, says “Friday night, we’ll probably all be tired, so let’s just hang out and eat junk food and order pizza.” GAAAAH!
Challenge #2: We’ve got a mini-fridge and a microwave in the suite, and oldest sister and I are definitely breakfast eaters. (For the middle sister, breakfast is Pepsi and donuts.) I want to bring some healthy but not totally pedestrian breakfast things. Liz and I have very fond memories of the room service continental breakfast at the Manilla Hotel, with incredible mangoes and croissants. I’m thinking some wondeful local bakery whole grain rolls, fresh fruit, and some reasonably healthy cheese (i.e., not Saga, wonderful as that is.)
Take my advice and DON’T have the pizza - I had it at the weekend and I really, really felt ill afterwards, not through guilt but I’m just not used to that amount of fat. It was gross!
As to the breakfast, can I suggest you chop up some really lovely fruit (mangoes are fantastic, can you get berries too? or try banana but not the really spotty ones) any combo of fruit you like is good. Cover with a low fat fruit yogurt, your choice again. Sprinkle with pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds (or a combo) but again, not too much. EAT! It’s really lovely - I had it for my breakfast most mornings I was away and didn’t need to eat til lunch time. If you put in apple and pear too, they are both very low GI meaning they will fill you up and keep you fuller for longer (compared to melon, for instance).
freckafree, if you do eat pizza, make it cheese only, or better yet, veggie pizza. Blot the extra oil off with a paper towel. Only eat one slice, and fill up on salad with fat-free dressing. This is an old WW trick of mine (no, I don’t remember how many points). For breakfast, as Honeydew suggested, treat yourself to some wonderful exotic fruit you don’t usually lay out the money for. Berries are pretty low-carb if you’re concerned about that at all.
I have been doing WW for long enough to have a feeling for how much weight I should lose per week, based on how well I have behaved.
Normally I weigh in on Mondays, but I was at the gym and thewater fountain is right next to the scales. What the heck right? I was probably down a pound for the week a that point, right?
I had gained half a pound. WTF? This is why you only weigh once a week. So you don’t experience this stuff!
This week I have had a bag of nacho cheese sunflower seeds in my car, which are about 5 points a serving. I love them and when I have to drive a long way, they are good for the ride. But imagine the sodium. The things taste like a salt lick. I say the weight gain is water retention from all of the sodium. I wonder how long before my body decides to release all this fluid so I can be rewarded with happy scales? Think it will be ok by Monday?
As counter-intuitive as it seems, make sure you keep on drinking water. When you’re retaining water because of sodium intake, all that peeing helps get your sodium level back to where it should be.
I’m a huge fan of nonfat plain yogurt these days. I top it with applesauce and it’s delicious (I crave it like ice cream). I think a half-cup serving of the kind I buy has about 70 calories and, of course, no fat! I’m sure it would be wonderful with fresh fruit too. I usually have it for lunch but it would be a great breakfast. They do make sweetened and vanilla too if you want to splurge a little. Everyone could make their own fruit and yogurt parfaits!
I sincerely try to avoid the scales at any time except when I weigh myself which is once a month. I would guess that it’s water weight (just like when you diet first time and you lose so much, it’s all water weight). I would also bet that it’ll be gone by next Monday… but I’d suggest not to each the nacho cheese flavour seeds, try the plain regular ones, they’re really good and full of nutrients but won’t dry you out like jerky!
A minor triumph - I threw away a brownie someone kindly gave me last night, and this morning I still have no regrets!
At 10 days on the diet, I really seem to have lost the physical craving for sugar and bread. If I think about it, I know it would taste good, but there is no real desire in my soul anymore. And ladies, get this - I started my period yesterday, too!
A small woo-hoo, and a sigh of relief. Maybe I can actually do this lifestyle change and make it last!
Nicely done! The funny thing is, I never have any regrest, either, about food I decide to pass up. But knowing that doesn’t always help me decide to pass it up.
It is always difficult for me to throw away food. It’s that clean plate club/waste not, want not mentality that was instilled in me as a child.
But on Monday a coworker offered me Tootsie Rolls. I politely took one thinking I’d give it away but she dumped about 7 on my desk saying “oh, you have to take more than that”. I can’t blame her too much, I doubt anyone knows that I’m “trying” to lose weight.
They taunted me most of the day but as soon as I heard my coworker leave I tossed them in my trash can.
Meanwhile I’m learning things. Walking everyday is good. I’ve been holding steady at around 176 despite some unrestrained eating and I think it’s because I haven’t abandoned my morning walk (about 3 miles)
I’m also learning to stop eating when I feel full even if my mouth wants to taste more. That is a huge step. Maybe there’s hope for me after all.
Having now been able to fit into the one pair of jeans I owned with a smaller waist, I’ve now bought two more pairs and have decided to wear them exclusively (especially since Mrs. AG told me how unflattering the other ones look on me now). So I guess I’m committed…
I have nothing new to report. I have been able to keep away from chocolate and cookies and am pleased with how that is working for me. I have continued my weight training. I need to get back into some sort of aerobic training.
I think I am still losing, but have not yet weighed myself.
Overall though, I can honestly say that I have made long-term changes in my lifestyle and that is one of the things I wanted to be able to say.
Well, I hit the gym three times this week, twice for cycling class. I’ve been weighing myself every week…is that recommended, or should I do it monthly? I should also measure myself, since I haven’t done that yet. What do I measure?
I weighed myself once a week. I found the daily fluctuations maddening and my emotions went up and down with my weight (when the scale was down, I was motivated and positive when the scale was up I felt like a loser). Weighing myself weekly, same time (Sunday morning, naked, after going to the br) gave me consistency.
I measured myself monthly. I measured:
Left Arm
Right Arm
Left Wrist
Right Wrist
Chest (across largest point of bust)
Ribcage (right under the bust)
Waist (at smallest point)
Hips (at widest point)
Right Thigh
Left Thigh
Measurements were a great motivator, it is wonderful to know that I lost 10 inches from my waist! In hindsight, I kind of wish I had measured in both centimeters and inches, seems like progress would have been easier to see in centimeters
180.4 pounds this morning, so I am now down 26.2 pounds from my start weight!
Our group leader gave everyone a ‘bravo’ star just for making the time to come to the meeting, since its both Thanksgiving weekend and the Stones weekend (concerts last night and tomorrow).
Now I really need to get exercising.
And** Yay!! ** for everyone and their losses this week!
