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ew... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 memo, me:don't buy the cheap chicken with the $2-off "manager's special" coupon stuck to it; it's almost certainly bad.oh, don't even ask how the diet's going. i need OA or something.
pigout 1970-01-01 00:59:59 sorry to say, i had a bit of a binge today. don't know what brought it on. i started the day well enough, with an omelet and turkey bacon and toast and then i went to the gym. then on the way home from the gym d and i stopped at the store and she wanted m&ms so i got her a bag, then one for big sis, then one for dad...wait a minute, its the same price for all those as it is for a big giant one-pound bag! so that's what we got. then i had a couple of m&ms, then a few more, then a few more and a cookie, then a couple more cookies, then ice cream with cookies crushed into it, then another bowl, then two lean cuisine panini sandwiches...soooo...back to the gym tomorrow, doubletime.hey does anyone out there use skype? is it any good? i'm checking out the website, trying to find out if it's worth downloading for a trial.
I'm back! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 When the hell was my last post, anyway? *checking*May! OK then! Why has it been so long?!Well, I'm back, and I'm still fat. ;) I can't write much now; I'm trying to get the kids ready to go food shopping and getting three kids ready and out the door? Little harder than two. Especially when one is a baby and can't, like, dress herself or nuthin.So real quick: the holidays are over (thank God) and the junk food is getting tossed. I weigh *checking this too, hold on* 176.5 and I'm only freakin 5-foot-2 so you do the math and that equals fat!Thanks to my loving spouse I feel pretty and sexy and confident at whatever size I am...but I think that's part of the problem. ;) So I'm posting pictures (soon! Like, maybe even today!) to face the reality of my fatness that is so easy for me to ignore in real life.I'm looking for you all to help. If you want to join this weight loss journey with me, please comment! We can share gym stories, food stories, weight stories, and support each othe
resolutions 1970-01-01 00:59:59 So...resolutions. I never make 'em. But this year I have a lot of stuff on my mind that I need to change. So here goes--my resolution list of 2007:No more junk food. I'm addicted. Some people are alcoholics and can never have another drink. Some people are hooked on cigarettes and can never have another smoke. My drug of choice is junk food and I am done with it. Done with it! I heard this funny quote on this resolutions show I watched last night: If you don't put it in, you don't have to take it out! Amen to that! ;)Prayer and quiet time, every single day. This is my first priority because every aspect of my life improves when I am right with God. So pretend like I put this in the number one spot. That just shows how much of a priority it's been for me lately! :PTake better care of myself; floss. Call the doctor, the chiropracter, the dentist, the dermatologist. Make those appointments I've been avoiding because I'm afraid of what will come of them. Jeez, what if I died of, lik
zumba hey! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 So I was all excited about the new Zumba class that started at the Y a few towns over."Yay!" said I. "Now I can zumba
my butt off twice a week!"So I went. I got there super late because the class was at 9, Jo gets on the bus at 8:40, and I woke up at 8:20. Not good math.So I got there at 9:25 (shh, at least I was there) and went to the back of the class. No! I was not shamed for being late (because I pretended I'd just came back from the water bubbler)! I just figured, you know, I've been doing this for a while and these people haven't so I'll let them get a good view. Plus I didn't want anyone fitter and musclier than me to fight me for a spot. :)So I got there and one of my favorite songs comes on and I start to jam to the beat thinking I know what moves are coming and?! Nothing! I mean, we did do something but it was really...lame!The whole class (you know, the part I was there for anyway) ended up being like, Zumba for Old People. It was awful! It wasn't even a workout!So I'
just a quickie 1970-01-01 00:59:59 ok just a quick post before bed. i know, i know, you thought it was something good. anyway...the last two days were bad for me, nutritionally, although i did manage to stay under 2000 calories both days, somehow. yesterday there were little brownie bites available at work and i told myself i could have just one...then just two...then well i had four. they were SO good though! and i had scarcely eaten the rest of the day.this morning i worked off the brownies on the arc trainer, then proceeded to eat my way through the junk food buffet at my baby shower. there were these amazing brownies that had marshmallow in them, so good! fortunately i had had just a smoothie and a salad the rest of the day so i was still ok. going back to the gym tomorrow though, to work everything off. juuust in case i miscalculated. :)
i so totally rock! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 go me, go me! as of yesterday, my weigh-in day, i weigh 169.5 lbs. that's down 5 lbs from a week ago! yayyy! and it hasn't even been that hard! of course i know it isn't all fat--after all, i would have had to burn roughly 17,500 calories above what i take in to burn 5 pounds of fat, but i'll take what i can get! :) it's great motivation to keep going.yesterday hubby and i went on a duck tour through boston. we've lived in the area all our lives so when hubby won 2 tickets to his professional association's social, including the tour and the union oyster house (oldest restaurant in the country, doncha know!) we were kinda like, ok, this is really touristy, but hey it's free so we'll go.so wouldn't you know it, it was actually pretty fun! the tour guide was a fast-talking, very knowledgeable, very funny guy who was very adept at driving the huge duck boat though the streets of boston. i highly recommend the tour--and try to get on jailbird george's tour. he's in the rainbow b Read more:totally
misc. aka catching up 1970-01-01 00:59:59 wow, it's been a while since i've posted, huh? well things are getting pretty crazy around here: new bed for my little one came yesterday, i've got doctor appointments every week, the good news is last saturday was my last day at work for three whole months! yes! whoo hoo whoo hoo! i love love love being home with the kids and hubby, even though i have, like, nooo energy. it's kind of cruel: just when the nesting instinct is at its peak (must...clean...everything...) i can barely keep my eyes open. :)two more weeks! i'm so excited! next week i'm going to hit the treadmill every day in an effort to get things moving along. the nurse practitioner (oh yes, did i mention my doc is in india until, like, right before my due date?!) says the baby is still pretty high so i wanna see if a little walkin will take care of that.still no name. poor baby. it's not that we don't want to pick a name for you, dear baby, it's just that it doesn't seem very pressing. i have this feeling like we
carbs and protein and fat, oh my! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 ok so i'm recording everything i eat or drink in fitday.com so i can tell you all about it and so i can finally find out just what i'm consuming in a day. i went online and found a great article about breastfeeding and dieting. it says to consume between 1800-2000 calories a day, and for those calories to be split up into 45-65% carbohydrate, 10-35%protein
, and 20-35% fat.can i just tell you that when you are trying to eat healthfully, it's actually hard to get enough calories? and in the right categories? i just downed two huge glasses of milk to get the percentages right and to get at least near the calories i need. anyway here's what i ate today.breakfast:nutragrain whole wheat frozen waffle with peanut butterhalf a pear (can't eat the last pear without sharing it with miss d!)coffee with coffeemate (the coffeemate has tons of sugar but i love love love its hazelnutty goodness.)lunch:homemade salad with chicken, romaine, red pepper, crispy noodles (another indulgence), almond s
link to my fitday 1970-01-01 00:59:59 ok you know what i realized? posting everything i eat in fitday, which i have to do in order to see calories and where they came from and all, and then coming over here and posting what i ate again is going to be a big pain in the patinka so if you want to see what i eat (if you are really that interested!) you can see it here. so there. :)
must...go...to bed... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 ugh it's eleven past eleven. i just got home from my stupid-but-necessary job and ate some salad and now, having entered all my meals for the day in fitday, i need to go to bed before i do something stupid like go eat some chocolate chips. for God's sake, why on earth do i still have these in my house? it's like i'm TRYING to do myself in!baby had her dr.s appointment today. she had three shots. i HATE when my poor babies have to get shots! and she screamed! poor thing; this afternoon her leg swelled a little and was red and she was really warm. she woke up from her nap screaming like she's never screamed before in her short life so far. so i gave her baby tylenol (thank you God that i stopped at target on the way home!) and nursed her and rocked her and nursed her and rocked her and burped her and rocked her and FINALLY she fell asleep. i called hubby from work around 8 and he said she was still asleep! poor thing must have tuckered herself out. neither of the other girls had rea
did you get that memo? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Memo: meRe: new years' resolutionsThis is just a memo reminding you of the new years resolutions made on new year's eve. In light of certain recent events it is evident that you need reminding of a couple of them so here they are again: No More Junk Food. That means, no picking up a bag of Ghiradelli's Holiday Assortment, even if you promise yourself you will only eat one a day, and only if you have spent the rest of the day eating healthy and exercising. It also means no more Green & Blacks chocolate bars. I don't care if it's the best chocolate you've ever had. I don't care if it does have espresso beans or mexican spices or even if it's organic and helps poor people in Argentina feed their families. We don't need it right now. Chocolate, in all its forms, is dead to us. Exercise Every Day. That means every. day. Even when you don't have a class to go to or a class to take the girls to. And if the girls are too sick to leave in the childwatch room at the Y then that means y
zzzzz 1970-01-01 00:59:59 it's almost 2 am and i'm on ebay, trying to get an mp3 player for cheap bucks.i can barely keep my eyes open.don't these people have better things to do than bid on electronics at this time of night?like, sleep?i don't care. i'll stay up all night if it means getting this thing for less than forty bucks. i'm aiming for 25.oh, ebayed the zumba dvds earlier. they should be here in a couple of days i hope. came with a cd of the music too, cool.ok see you bye.
if not now, when? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 According to google, this phrase gets around.It'spart of the Talmuda vaguely-remembered 2005 Doritos ad campaignseveral booksa song And now? It's my own personal motto. :)Seriously--I was thinking about this phrase, turning it around in my mind one night, when I decided to adopt it as my own. I'm not even sure where it came from, just sprung forth from that inner well your thoughts brew in. See, I keep saying yeah, I'll lose weight, I'll exercise, I'll eat right. Starting...Monday. Or after the holidays. Or when I'm not pregnant, or nursing, or when I'm back to work. Tomorrow. Next week.And now I look back and think that if I had just stuck to something then, where might I be now?!So now whenever the temptations comes to skip a workout or eat a donut or have a ginormous Dunkin Donuts white hot chocolate with whipped cream instead of the Starbucks Iced Green Tea Lemonade, no sweetner please, because Hey! It's cheaper! Better value for my money! I'm going to remind myself of th
so far 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Last night I went to the Tuesday night Zumba class (as opposed to my usual Friday morning) since I was home and hadn't gotten to the gym all day. Or, y'know, the day or two before that.It was in the little studio instead of the nice roomy gym, and man was it packed. The next time you want to try an aerobics class in 2 square inches of space head on over to my Tuesday night Zumba class.Another interesting (read Scary!! Very scary!!) aspect of this class is because it's in the studio you can watch yourself in the big wall mirror.Me: Wow! I really am fat! And I don't look as good doing this stuff as I thought! Wow, how eyeopening!And to make matters worse there were these totally hot chicks in front of me who had everything: the cute little bodies, the cute clothes (I want purple pants!!) and totally had the moves down cold.I got through the class though, and without stopping a single time to catch my breath or nurse a stitch. So, y'know, that was good. And the class was full of youn
i'm almost too afraid to hope this is might be right but... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 In the last two weeks or so since I first measured I have lost:two inches in my chest (always the first to go, am I right?)two inches in my waistone inch in my hipsand one inch in my thighsThe one place I actually gained an inch was my upper arms, which I'm hoping is from muscle. But man! Does that not rock?!I'm afraid
to put too much stock in it because I'm always wondering if I'm measuring in the same spot every time. I think maybe I'll get tattoos--a ring around my upper arm, a ring around my thigh, and a ring around my waist and hips and then I'll just set up the tape measure right around the tattoo. :)But wow, that definitely is motivating. Maybe I'll actually fit in a workout today instead of relying on pushing carts of heavy returns around the store (hey don't tell me it's not a workout--my bum is killing me today thankyouverymuch).
the scale is my friend 1970-01-01 00:59:59 So, I was down to 172 this week. I say "was" because today, thanks to a general feeling of bloatiness, I'm at 173. So of course I'm counting the 172 as this week's weigh-in. :)Haven't been to the gym in about a week, thanks in part to Bek's cold. I plan on going tonight, with no kids, after dinner. Just me, my mp3 player, and my beloved arc trainer. Maybe some weights if I'm feeling crazy. Gotta get back on my streak.Nothing much to write about. I'm not feeling so good so I might not check in for a few days. All I wanna do is curl up in bed with some tea but as you mommies know, Mommy takes care of everyone. When Mommy is sick there's no one to take care of her. *sigh* ;) [/martyr's rant] Read more:friend
sigh..... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I did stuff yesterday that I don't do very often anymore. Things that, if I continue doing them, are going to keep me right where I am with my weight loss and make me very disappointed in myself. So here I am, flashing the internets with my terrible food-sins so you all can know what I have done. ;)I pretty much pigged out all day yesterday, popping cookies like vitamins. I don't even know why I bought the stinkin things. Oh, wait, that's right. They were for the kids lunches. Riiiight. I told myself all day that, since I didn't have to work last night, I was going to get myself to the gym for a couple hours' worth of cardio and weight training, to make up for the week or so I haven't been. Hubby came home, we had dinner, we curled up on the bed and watched a movie, then we put the kids to bed and then hubby and I, um..."went to bed". Fun, yes. Needed every once in a while, yes. But I really needed some exercise and I just excused it away.For some reason I ate so much at dinner t
On My Own, by BarlowGirl 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I can't believe that I'm here in this place againHow did I manage to mess up one more timeThis pattern seems to be the story of my lifeShould have learned this lesson by the thousandth timeCause I promised myself I wouldn't fallBut here I've fallenAnd I guess I'm not as strong as I thoughtAll I can doIs cry to YouOh God, You have to save meYou're my last and only hopeAll my right answers fail meI can't seem to make itOn my ownI always thought that I would be strong enoughWhat made all of them fall couldn't take me downYeah, did I think that I was above it allI have learned that pride comes before the fallI can't promise myslef that I won't fall'Cause here I've fallenAnd I know I'm not as strong as I thoughtAll I can doIs cry to You
stuff i eat and do 1970-01-01 00:59:59 See over there to the right? Where it says "stuff
i ate yesterday" and "stuff i did yesterday"? Well, it used to say "today" instead of "yesterday" but I'm really bad at updating during the day so by the end of the day you'd only see the one thing I had for breakfast. That gave me license to eat whatever I wanted the rest of the day, because I knew I'd never get back to the computer to update until tomorrow.As you can see, that's pretty much what I did yesterday. Had one slimfast shake and then it all went to hell. :)So now I'm updating the next day, all at once. I don't know if it will work, because in order to remember what I eat all day long I'm going to have to write it down on paper during the day and I kind of suck at that, but I'll give it a shot. I really want to have that as a tool to show the world what I'm eating. For better or for worse. :)So after work last night I tried out my Zumba videos. I was up using them until almost 1am. The beginner one is incredibly simp
well rested 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Haha, see what I did there? I named this post well rested even though I'm not, see, it's funny.So I stayed up til 5 o'clock in the morning bidding on mp3 players and ended up getting one for $42. That's more than I wanted to pay but still pretty cheap. My thinking was that as the morning went on, people would have to go to sleep eventually (right?!) and the bidding would stay low but that didn't pan out so much. ;) Anyway here it is:You know, I really hope I didn't get ripped off. I hate buying on ebay. I would much rather pay more to know it's coming from a bona fide website with customer service should something go wrong. But hubby is a big fan of getting things cheaper and I can't really knock that, so here goes. We've bought (and sold) plenty of stuff on ebay and never really had a problem but I'm always worried that this will be the bad one. :)I'm looking forward to loading it up with tons of workout music for when I'm on the arc trainer at the Y. A couple of my favori
pictures 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Sigh...this is me--about 25 pounds ago. I still had 20lbs to lose but I would kill to be there now. Let's see what else I can find in the computer archives...bear with me because back then all we had was a 35mm camera and the results aren't pretty. ;)Here is me skinny with cleavage. ;) That's Devy with me. We were at King Richard's Faire and yes, I am dorky enough to have my own costume.Just not one that fits at this time. ;) So there you have some pictures of me skinny. After Bek's nap I'll try to scan some really old pictures of me PK--that's pre-kids for you uninitiated. :) *edited to add: check out my photostream at flickr!By the way, had a great time at Zumba, although I was 20!! minutes late (gah, I hate being late) and I think my lack of sleep took its toll on my energy (y'think?!) and I need to get some decent zumba-ing shoes before I totally twist the bottom half of my leg out of my knee socket. But hey, I sweated and that's what really matters. ;)***edited again to a
new diet, hooray. 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Tomorrow I start back on Slim-Fast. I did it back in September or something and lost weight pretty easily so I think I'll try it again. I know it's not a long-time deal. I imagine at some point I'll have to start eating regular food, and if I'm not careful I'll just gain all the weight back. But I have to do something for a little kick-start. Then in the meantime I'll re-read the South Beach Diet book.All these diets. You know, I just wish I could just eat whatever I wanted. Who the heck wants to police every little thing that goes into her mouth?! But I guess I just have to deal with the fact that I don't stop eating when I should, and that makes eating "whatever I want" kind of difficult. Maybe if I didn't have to eat everything in sight...My goal--my far-off goal--is to be able to eat pretty much whatever I want, naturally balancing the not-so-healthy stuff with healthier stuff, stopping when I'm satisfied and not stuffing myself to incomprehension. You know, eat normally.I
zumba's here! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Whee, my set of Zumba DVDs are here! I'm so excited, I can't wait to break them out of the box. I'm getting ready for hubby's birthday though (he's turning the big 3-0) so they'll have to wait. I do have the song CD that came with it on the little player in my kitchen and I'm dancing as I clean and stuff.I went grocery shopping today and got my slim-fast. Yay. I didn't go right away this morning so I won't actually start them til tomorrow. Fun fun!! :)I'd write more but the internets seem to be slow today. :P Yeah, that's a good excuse to get back to my music. :) Read more:zumba
love myself better than you 1970-01-01 00:59:59 So...after (lemme count here) one...two...well, several days of pigout mode, I hereby officially re-commit myself
to losing weight and being healthy and all that jazz.Starting tomorrow.Hm? What happened to "If not now, when?" Well, that's still my motto, but, see, there is this bag of Hershey's cherry cordial kisses in the pantry, and spinach-and-cheese pizza in the freezer, and yummy wine that tastes like blackberries, and... and... American Idol to watch, and...Tomorrow. I swear. I'll come update for y'all by noon at the latest, OK? And it will be an update of the slim-fast-and-gym-workout variety, as opposed to the pigged-out-again variety you've gotten lately. ;) Read more:better
Haha! I just accidently posted this in my normal b... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Haha! I just accidently posted this in my normal blog too. So here it is again:Go me! I have been to the gym, working out hard, for the last three days. Today will make four days in a row. Yay!The only thing is...I hurt! All weekend I moaned around work like a lame-ass going "Ow. Ow! Oahhh. Wahhh. Ohh. Oww! Oh."I'm pretty sure everyone there wanted to put me out of my misery.I swear, I stretched and everything! That's what hubby asks me every time I complain about being sore. "Did you stretch?" And I say, "No," just like that, all condescending because why am I going to take the time out to actually stretch?! But this time I really did and I still hurt everywhere! Why the hell am I going to keep working out if it makes me feel like this afterwards?!But the good news is I'm really proud of how hard I've been working. I've been, like, jogging and stuff. (Note to self: buy better jogging bra.)There is a girl at work who is studying sports therapy and I keep bugging her with questions
4 days and counting 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Yesterday I went to the gym and I tried to jog on the treadmill--I really did!--but my treadmill was in a sunny spot by the windows and the sun was coming through and it was hot! so all I could do was walk. But I walked fast! :)By the time hubby came home last night I was pretty much fed up with the kids and the house and the cold weather so I said "C'mon! We're going to Friendly's for dinner!" so we did and I had a ginormous salad with buffalo chicken and a humongous brownie sundae with oreo cookie ice cream and peanut butter AND caramel topping.It was fabulous.But so I'm thinking. Since I've been working out I've been super duper hungry (y'think?!) so I think maybe I'm going to finish up whatever Slim-Fast I have left and maybe go on over to South Beach. I really think I need the additional food. I'm starving all the time! Like, last night, after I ate all that, I wasn't even full! And the other day I went out after work with a couple of girlfriends and we had drinks and di
awwww... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 My five-day exercise streak ended yesterday. I'm not ashamed though, for two reasons:Big, bad, icy nasty storm! I couldn't get to the gym, I couldn't get outside, I couldn't get out of bed...hehe OK I did get out of bed but you know those days when all you want to do is just vegetate in bed with some cocoa and a book?Valentine's day!!! Normally on days when I can't get to the gym or on an exercise video during the day I head out to the gym at night but I couldn't leave my hubby, my favoritest valentine! :) We had a very nice night in. Put the girls in to be early. Watched TV. Snuggled. :)So my streak is over, but I will be back at the gym tonight. Provided I can get my car out of the driveway.
zumba friday 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I was all excited to get to Zumba class today, and I wanted to make sure my car would make it out of the driveway (thanks to all the ice from this week's storm, being stuck in one's driveway is a distinct possibility) so I got up an hour earlier than usual and got all the kids dressed and into the car and to the bus stop and to the Y and into their respective childwatch rooms at least 10 minutes early. And it paid off cuz there was plenty of room, whereas most Friday mornings find me running in five minutes after class has started, pushing my way into a spot at the back of the class.Oh, and speaking of my spot in the class, guess what!?!!/!??!/1?My girlfriend T, who teaches the class, told me she wanted me up front because I can move.Hee!*side note: My baby has this cute new thing she does when she's excited or upset or at any other sudden onset of emotion: she tucks her little fists up under her chin. That might be what I did just then. :)So I was in front for today, which felt pre Read more:zumba
hey guess what! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I'm totally off my diet and up about 6 pounds! Go me!Anyway, that's not what I want to write about. I want to write about aerobics classes and the art of choosing your spot.You know what I mean. You go to aerobics class for the first time right as the class starts, only to have to fight for a spot. So the next time you get there early. And that's where the population splits into two types: the people who get in front so they can see the instructor, and the people who get way in the back because they're afraid they're going to look stupid.After a while you don't have to show up so early because you've established your spot. Everyone knows where you go (because everyone goes to their own same spot every time, it's like human nature or pack thinking or something) and they stay out of your spot.Then, as you continue to go and you start to figure out what the heck you're doing, you have to renegotiate your spot. You don't want to be in front because you don't want to block anyone
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