Archive for October, 2007

I had to get a belt……

My jeans are getting so loose that I can pull them off with out unzipping them! I don’t want to spend a lot of money on clothes until I really need to so for now I will get by wearing a belt to hold them up! I have not had time for my thrift store shopping lately! I need to make some time for that hopefully this coming weekend!

My diet is going good, but need to get more on the ball with the excercise!

I hope you are all having a great Monday!

Not sure how I did it…….

After a four day binge and a visit from Tom, I am surprised to see any loss. I lost 2.5 lbs.  I have been totaly back on track since Monday! I write down everything I eat. I am writing it down instead of using the food journal on here, because I find it is too time comsuming. I know if I don’t write it down, I am not totaly honest with myself.

I bought lots of winter squash when I went shopping on Friday and I plan on freezing some. I love squash and I really didn’t realize how low in calories it is. It is so filling and tastes so good.

I hope all my buddies are having a great weekend!

Busy day ahead……..

I have to make this quick this morning! I have to go into work on my break today! I hate to do this, I love coming home inbetween my runs. I am on a committee at work, with two drivers and one monitor (me) that are suppose to represent our co-workers. Today is to settle things about our company Christmas Party and I have a few issues that I have to bring up that will probably not make people happy, but after all the company issues affect everyone that work there. That is the problem sometimes I represent the monitors who never get raises, but the drivers get them all the time. It angers me that the monitors don’t get the credit they deserve. It is alot of responsibility to be in charge of 5 or more children with special needs.

I went to my grandsons Open House at his school last night and he is doing awesome! The little sneak took us out the wrong door last night and we had to walk around his whole school to get back to our vehicle so I got in an extra workout last night. Last year I would never have made it….LOL….

By the way, my spaggetti squash was awesome, the only other one who would try it was my 2 year old grandaughter Morgan. She loved it! Here is a great site for information all about spaggetti squash!

http://www.fabulousfoods.com/features/featuring/spagsquash.html

Have a good day!

Spaggetti -V-Spaggetti Squash

My daughter-in-law just called me! She wanted us to come over tonight for dinner! It is going to be spaggetti again as usual. This never use to be a problem before I began my weight loss journey, because I love pasta! I am going to cook up some spaggetti squash to take with me. It is a great alternitive to spaggetti. I am the only one here who eats it, but maybe my son and grandkids will give it a try! There is a big difference in calories spaggetti squash has 23 calories in a 1/2 cup and only 5 carbs. Reg. spaggetti has 197 calories and 40 carbs in 1 cup! Whole wheat spaggetti has 174 calories and 37  carbs in 1  cup. The texture is different, but I love it! I recommend you hit the farmers stands and buy some and give it a try!!

I have been back on track since Monday and I am not going to mess up things now!

I hope everyone is having a good week!

I am so lucky to have such amazing buddies…

I am back on track! I am not saying I will not fall off the wagon again on this journey, but if I do I know I will be able to get back on and continue!

Last night when we took our grandaughter home, hubby and son decide they want Burger King! I tell hubby go ahead get it, but I don’t want anything. Well they got their Burger King and I came home and made a turkey cheese burger with no fat cheese light mayo, lettuce, tomato, pickles on 12 grain bread, it was better than Burger King. I also had low fat cottage cheese and lite peaches.

Hubby and I did have our talk and he said he was really sorry, I think he just felt like he had to invite them because they were there! I told him the next time we have something I will do invitation so there is no misunderstanding about who is invited and who is not!

It really su#*s being a stress eater! I know I am doing it the whole time I am doing it, and I know how crappy I am going to feel both emotionally and physically yet I do it anyways! I am so glad I have so many buddies here that give me motivation, inspiration and support!

Have a good one my friends!

Take my mother-in-law, Please!

Okay, I had a bad four days! It is not all my m-i-l fault, but thought it was a catchy title! Lets see my start to falling off the wagon began on Thursday! Thursday was the chinese buffett, Friday it was pizza and wings at my son’s, on Saturday we had our bon-fire! I was so good all day Saturday then I got upset with my hubby! He hadn’t told me who all from work he had invited to our bon-fire! He knows that I have issues with some of our co-workers. I was really upset when some of them starting showing up that I had no idea where coming! Then I answer the phone and it is a driver that I have issues with because she shares to much personal info at work with my hubby! Any ways it goes like this I answer the phone and she asks for him and I say he is not here, she goes is this his wife? I tell her yes, she tells me oh, honey could you tell him I won’t be able to make it to your bon-fire, my car broke down. I tell her, sure thing but you know what he didn’t mention he invited you! She tells me oh, yes he invited me the other day! Okay so he gets back home from running to the store and I say hey so and so called and she isn’t coming, why didn’t you tell me you invited her, you know I don’t like the way she acts around you, sharing her personal life with her supervisor/dispatcher, (things she should be sharing with a friend if she could find one)! He claims he invited others and she took it upon herself to think she was invited. Then another co-worker I knew was coming shows up with another one of those type woman who think they are special and don’t have to follow the rules. Yes, I am a rule follower, and we have a dress code that says, no tank tops or sandals. This skinny little b#&ch wears slinky little tank tops and sandals (not a very proffesional way to dress for a bus monitor for special needs kids), and gets away with it because all  the guys want to look at her! Hubby thinks I am just being petty, but I am tired of the rules not being for everyone! Anyhow hubby pulls me aside and tells me he did not invite her, she just came as another co-workers date!! I am okay, whatever!! Then I decide I am having a couple low carb low calorie beers (ultra lites). My mother-in-law was watching me like a hawk. Need I say she has never accepted me, I have never done anything right in that womans eyes. My house was never clean enough, I never took care of my kids right. She use to tell my hubby I was rude to her and he would try to make me apologize to her. He knows better about this now, but she is his mother so I try to deal with her the best I can! I made sure she saw every frikin beer I had and I could see her counting each one of them, I sure hope she could count that high. Did I mention she has not once made one comment to me about the weight I have lost! Well, yesterday I was determined to get back on track, and I started the day really good! I was doing fine and then I started feeling sorry for myself, and feeling like my hubby betrayed my feelings by inviting people I have issues with. I couldn’t talk with him about my feelings because he was at work! I reverted back to my old ways of dealing with my feelings! I ate junk! Hubby came home and I didn’t get a chance to talk with him because I had our four year old grandaughter. When she went to bed, I tried to talk to him about it, but he still says he never invited the ones I have issues with that they just took it upon themselves that they were invited! I still feel hurt and betrayed, but I am going to have to deal with those feelings another way! Eating is not going to make it go away, it is going to make feel crappier!!

I know I have done some major venting here, but sometimes venting is the only thing I can do! I am getting back on track today after a four day fall off the wagon! I have come to far on this journey and I will succeed!

I hope everyone had a good weekend and that your week ahead is awesome!

((((((HUGS))))))

I will never again go to a buffet!!

I was so bad! I pigged out! I knew it……and then I felt like crap both physically and mentally! I needn’t worry I won’t be going to Ling Lings again for awhile! Hubby tried a few things and he still does not like chinese food! His dinner consisted mainly of desserts!

I am back on track! Now tomorrow night we are having a bon-fire and a cookout! I am going to make sure I have some good things to eat for that!

Have a good weekend!

Sabatoge???????

Okay this is the story! I love chinese food, hubby hates it. We went once about 20 year ago out for chinese, he didn’t like it and has refused to try it again! The only time I go out for chinese is with my sister or brother for lunch. Now all of a sudden he comes up with “do you want to go to Ling-Ling’s my favorite chinese place) for dinner”? He saw my sister yesterday and she asked if we wanted to meet her there tonight for dinner. I wanted to say “NO”, but how could I when I have bugged him so much over the years about giving it another try! I gave in and we are going out for chinese tonight! The thing is we went out to eat on Tuesday at Applebees! I was pretty good I didn’t even eat all of my food, I brought home half of that for my son! I use to love eating out and now I hate it! I have tons of self control at home and very little when I eat out! It will be even worse tonight! Ling-Ling’s is buffet style! I have not eaten at a buffet since I began my weight loss journey! I think hubby is trying to sabatoge me!! I hope I have the strength to just have a little of this and that of the bad things and eat lots of veggies! I am so looking forward to eating chinese and hubby wanting to give it another try, but I am worried that I am going to pig out!! 

This week I have pretty much stayed on plan except for Applebees, but like I said I only ate half of that and brought the rest home.

I hope everyone is having a great week!

« Previous Page