PLUS 1/2 A POUND 220.8

I'm a little dissapointed I gained 1/2 a pound. These are the things I did wrong last week. I didn't walk at all. I ate too many blackberries and probably too much oil and I did not drink nearly enough water. I also had a meltdown and ate popcorn, icecream, and bread yesterday. Not to mention I did not take any appetite suprresants. So this week I am not going to eat any berries, I'm going to drink plenty of water and try my best to walk every day and I forgive myself for being week and eating crap but next time that happens I don't need to eat all that crap that is just stupid. Didn't really follow the diet right besides the point. I started eating vegan burgers, veggie sausage etc, all low in calories and carbs but definately not on the diet.

PF Mike's

So mike found PH Chang's lettuce wraps recipe. they were very yumy and even diet friendly

Ingredients:
Servings:
2 2 2-3 Servings Size

Update


3 tablespoons oil
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 cup water chestnut
2/3 cup mushroom
3 tablespoons chopped onions
1 teaspoon minced garlic
4 -5 leaves iceberg lettuce


Special Sauce
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
2 tablespoons ketchup
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon hot mustard
2 teaspoons water
1 -2 teaspoon garlic and red chile paste


Stir Fry Sauce
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon rice wine vinegar


Directions:
Prep Time: 10 mins

Total Time: 25 mins
1 Make the special sauce by dissolving the sugar in water in a small bowl.
2 Add soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, ketchup, lemon juice and sesame oil.
3 Mix well and refrigerate this sauce until you're ready to serve.
4 Combine the hot water with the hot mustard and set this aside as well.
5 Eventually add your desired measurement of mustard and garlic chili sauce to the special sauce mixture to pour over the wraps.
6 Bring oil to high heat in a wok or large frying pan.
7 Saute chicken breasts for 4 to 5 minutes per side or done.
8 Remove chicken from the pan and cool.
9 Keep oil in the pan, keep hot.
10 As chicken cools mince water chestnuts and mushrooms to about the size of small peas.
11 Prepare the stir fry sauce by mixing the soy sauce, brown sugar, and rice vinegar together in a small bowl.
12 When chicken is cool, mince it as the mushrooms and water chestnuts are.
13 With the pan still on high heat, add another Tbsp of vegetable oil.
14 Add chicken, garlic, onions, water chestnuts and mushrooms to the pan.
15 Add the stir fry sauce to the pan and saute the mixture for a couple minutes then serve it in the lettuce"cups".
16 Top with"Special Sauce".

Banquets and such

A big shout out goes to the CCCTA's council President thanks to her frugality, the plate that the waiter plopped down in front of me was the exact same thing that we had at last years banquet (as I remembered it the chicken fried steak wasn't very good) It wasn't hard to pass. I immediately removed the chocolate cake from in front of me and gave it away. It didn't even piss me off when everyone raved about the cake. It was the same damn cake that we had last year and as I remember it sucked. I told them that apparently they didn't know good cake because it looked like the same cake from last year and it was nothing special. I took a bite of the cheesy mashed potatoes and discovered they were big surprise from a box. What the hell kind of place uses boxed potatoes. Twenty bucks a plate for this REALLY? I skipped those too. I did eat all of my salad, and drizzled a tiny bit of ranch on it. I also had seconds on my veggies. I have to admit I was really dreading going to the banquet, I am not particularly social (even though I consider myself to be friendly). I just knew that I would stuff my face in order to get through it. It was not so bad, it was nice actually, I was seated with people that I knew and did not despise. The conversation was pleasant. I am pretty sure I can do this!

BAD BAD BAD ME

Heres Lydia being all motivated and here I am making cookies with Emily. So 4 of them later and the hamberger and frys I would say the day was a loss. O well there is always the next day. Also going on a litle vacation to Austin so I would say rest the week till next Tuesday is a bust. I am however going on about a 10-15 mile walk so i hope that will off set it a little tiny bit.

Change

Geez I have so much to say I hardly know where to begin. I'll probably ramble and jump from one topic to the next. I have been thinking about change lately, and it is not enough to just want some things to change in order for change to occur you have to work for it. You also have to know what it is exactly that you want to change. One of the things that I want to change is the way that feel and look. (I'll enlighten you on the rest later) I want to transform myself from the soft mass of flesh I have become to a slimmer fitter me. I don't have a spell that it is going to melt the fat off my body and allow me to slip into a pair of size 7 jeans and I suspect that no one else does either. What I do have is the ability to consistently make good choices. This isn't always going to be easy, but if I keep in mind my goals, I may find the strength to stay on track. I'll remind myself what the purpose of my actions are. This applies to so many things in my life. More on that later.

I have a Banquet to go to tonight and rather than try and find something to wear in my very sad sad sad closet I decided to buy something new. So I go to the fat girl store. I don't normally shop at the fat girl store and not because I don't need to either. I just didn't ever really want to admit that I had joined THAT club. I have joined it in a BIG way believe me. I am this moment trying to get my membership revoked. I bought a sweater which I don't need because it is not at all cold. But it was sooo sooo soft and comfy and it flattered me. I am hoping to wear it in Nasville next month, it will still be cool there (Maybe). I also purchased a very nice pair of black pants that were somewhat flattering. They were more flattering after I bought some tight like gut sucker things. Also picked up a couple pairs of shoes size 10 wide. Then I decided to wear a dress I already had and my new boots to the banquet. I figure I have artistic license when it comes to my clothing choice because I am the Arts and Education chair. My Batik printed turquoise dress may b a little on the loud side. Where was I? I saw myself in the 3 sizes too small outfit that I picked out to wear shopping and I decided that it needed to go away along with ALOT of other clothes in my closet. Here was my criteria for keepsies, If it fits and I don't hate it keep it til I grow out of it. If it doesn't fit and it's not something that I love and would motivate me to lose weight so I can wear it, then ditch it. I got rid of alot of stuff and I haven't even done the massive amount of laundry that I have. I am keeping a couple of ratty tees and some ugly ass pants so that I can paint in them. I do that occasionally.
Oh jokes on me, apparently the eight pounds I lost came almost entirely from my back so now my bras that didn't fit too good in the first place really don't fit me. Notice I did not say lost weigh in the breasts. This is a cruel joke if you ask me, not even Catherines has my size 36H. Yes go ahead and laugh, it's freaking hilarious. I had to order bras from England who apparently love boobies more than the US. I am currently wearing a 38DDDD and it sorta almost fits uncomfortable with the band as tight as it goes. If the breasts don't leave me I am getting a breast reduction if they do leave I am getting a breast lift. Probably a tummy tuck too while I am at it. I'll go to Mexico and have it done. I DO NOT CARE!!!!
Weighed myself yesterday at the grocery store and it said I had gained 2 ounces. Stupid lying bastard HEB pharmacy scale.

Week 1

Im glad you enjoyed the photos I had so much fun making diet food that still looked
good to eat. While it has nothing to do with the diet, I bought me first real set of dishes and silverwear. So now my preaty food will be sitting on nice looking plates. I only lost a total of 3 pounds for the first week which was not all that fantastic but a start. I too need to do better on the exercise front. Im skipping the gym tonight but I am so sore form walking for 3.5 hours at the outlet mall I think its a trade of.

A little lighter 220.8

Not bad for my first week but I could have done better. I need to walk no matter what, no excuses! When I said I ate slices of cheese as snacks, that was a bit of an understatement. More like cheese wedges, I was really really bad. I'll do better next week. I realize that I can't expect to lose as much next week but I am moving forward. I have decided that my longterm goal weight will be 145 pounds, which is on the heavy side of my ideal weight. My body type can carry off a few extra pounds quite well,just not 100 extra pounds. I don't know if any one can do that. I certainly have enjoyed April's food pictures, I'll try and post a few myself this week.

Be Strong

HOLD ON LYDIA -----
Im so proud of you for holding up. I however have not been so good. We consider
sunday a free day. I had eggs benedict some popcorn at the movies and Chicken
alfredo with whole wheat pasta. which really over all none of it was that bad
dinner was approved and right out of the diet book. Tomorrow were off to the
outlet malls I'm hoping to be able to withstand the overkill of food.

So is there any way you can cut these said pills in half maybe that would be less hard on you.

Either way good luck, I also need to start walking/gym again but my guess it will
be tuesday as we have tomorrow off and ill be walking miles at the mall anyways.

Cheese Please

I had a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch today. Made with a high fiber low carb bread. I have been eating alot of vegetables and honestly I am getting a little bored. I bought some shrimp to put on my salads but I have not started doing that yet. The weekend was incredibly hard for me as I am cooking multiple meals a day for the kids and just seeing thier food makes me hungry but I have not succombed to temptation not even for a taste. I have however snacked on slices of cheese, in between meals which is a no no and I haven't walked in a few days. I will do better tomorrow. I called the Dr and they are unwilling to change my prescription, they said that I should take the pills a week and then decide. So I am going to give it another try. Honestly I need the help. I have no will power, this weekend has been tremendously hard. My family has a rude awakening, they are going to be eating alot healthier. There are no cookies, or sweets in the house whatsoever. Tomorrow I go to the clinic for another B-12 shot and an official weigh in. Anything lower than 222 will be fine with me. I am so so so tired of being FAT!!!

Diet Friendly Chicken Tacos

So it turns out corn tortillas are GI Diet friendly
which worked just fine for my Mexican dinner night.

TACOS
- Chicken boneless skinless tenders
- re fried beans (home made)
- Cilantro (topping)
- lettuce (topping)
- tomato's (topping)

Beans
- dried pinto beans (wash and sort)
- fill pan with water an inch or two above beans
- 1 chicken bullion cube
- 1/4 to 1/2 C Cilantro ( to your liking)
- 1 - 2 roman tomato's
- 1/2 onion
- 2TBS of chopped garlic

put all in water and let simmer for 2 - 3 hours till tender

mash part of the beans once finished to use as refried beans.

Grown-Up Grilled Cheese

Thanks to fun trip to The Raven with my Mrs Alydia and Lindy we
ran across this very yummy take on grilled cheese. I am now way
a vegitarian but if i could find more meals like this one I sure
could become one. To enjoy one of your own.

- 2 slices of sourdough bread
- Roman tomatos
- three or four slices of freash mozzarella cheese
- pesto
- 1tsp olive oil / Pam Spray

On one slice of bread spread pesto not to thick a little goes a long way. add
think slices of tomato, thicker if you like. add mozzaralla on next. Not to thick
as they made of fat. add other slice of bread. Heat a pan and add olive oil or pam and brown bread on both side. I served with salad and low fat dressing.

Check-In Day 221.5

Im going to make saturday my check in day.
So far I have lost 3.5 pounds. Im sure its all
water weight but ill take it. Nothing fits better
and over all everything is the same. However if
the scale keeps moving down I'll be happy. I did
make if for a walk yesterday and plan to go to the
gym today without Mike as he does not want to go.
Why we are paying for his membership is he does not
want to go is beyond me. I am going to get his starting
weight today. I know he thinks he is in such great shape
but he is not and its unsafe to have all the beer belly
fat around his organs.

Fantastic Foods

Dinner was fantastic so I must share.

Grilled steak with Horseradish Sauce

- 2 lbs. extra lean steak
- 1 TB olive oil
- 1tsp dried rosemary crushed
- 1/2 tsp. coarse sea salt
- Sauteed baby bella mushrooms

Horseradish Sause

- 1/4C mayo
- 1TB horseradish
- 1tb. chopped or dried parsley
- 1/2 tsp ground black pepper

Cheese Sweet potato sticks ( for two people)

- 1 Lg sweet potato
- 1tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 - 1 tsp cayenne Pepper powder
- 1/4C butter or olive oil
- 1/4C Parmesan Cheese

Pre Heat oven to 450 degrees
Cut potatos in to frys do not peal place in bowl.
coat frys in oil saving tiny bit for pan. toss with
garlic and cayenne place on baking pan lined with tin
foil and oiled in a single layer. cook each side about
10-15 mins. when browned remove and coat with cheese.

223 and going (down we hope)

Lost two pounds so far. Today I have been very good. Apple with almond butter for breakfast. Left over chilli for lunch and we are having steak and Vegs with baked sweet potatos. Never got to my strawberrys yesterday so I plan to tonight. I also have wrote out a meal plan for the next 7 days all low GI and GL. I am going to try to go for a walk today but not sure its going to happen as I feel like crap yet again today. O how i just love being a girl. GRRRRR. Tomorrow should be better. Mike is already trying to get out of the gym for the rest of the week so I think I'll go on my own tomrrow as long as I dont fall over when I stand like today.

Phntermine NO THANK YOU

The verdict on the appetite suppresant is NO! I tried it today and it was for shit, sure it kills your appetite, food will taste like a foreign object in your mouth and not in a good way either. I could probably deal with that but it is making me uncomfortably warm. So I am going to skip the pills. I didn't walk today.

Sorta Kinda Going

Today in general sucked. I didnt feel good at all. I had a low fat smoothie for breakfast, Lunch was a chesse crips while not supper good for my better then pizza which was my only other left over choice in the fridge. Dinner was chili a very small bowl. I am going to have some fresh strawberrys for dessert. I had planned to walk around a bit today after work however my loving child decied to ruin a $400 TV and the dresser my mother bought for my by carving in to both. After doing my best not to want to hurt her. She is now doing math homework and will be till she goes to bed. Im not sure why kids think messing things up is a good idea. I really think that there brain is just half off. I do know that if she thinks I am buying her anything before her B-day she is crazy. I also know that her gifts are going to be small and not all that great. I have come to the idea if you give a kid nothing they will love nothing all the more. Other then making em do math and clean my house for the next few days i am looking forward to going shoping the fridge is getting more and more empty and ill be able to re stock with some healthy options. GOOD JOB LYDIA.
I have not weighed my self yet but im sure i lost nothing lol.

For Rosa

Rosa I am so glad that you got online. I just wanted ot encourage you and let you know that you can do this. I have gained 10 pounds a year for the last 10 years and without making a major lifestyle change I can only see myself getting heavier in the future. I don't know if this is something that anyone else does but as soon as I feel even a little stress, I turn to food for comfort. I need this to change! I am working on developing healthier habits. One thing that I can do instead of eat is write. So write with us Rosa.

222.2!!!!!

I went in to pick up my appetite suppressant at the clinic today and I just had to weigh myself. 222.2 WTF? I lost six pounds in just 3 full days REALLY? WOW! I didn't get to walk for 45 minutes yesterday as planned because their was a change in L's schedule and that sabotaged my walk during lil K's clas plan. Then because I took lil K with me and he was crying after 30 minutes,and saying that his legs hurt I ended my evening walk after 30 minutes. Last night I had the munchies and ate celery and cream cheese and a few slices of jalapeno jack cheese after 6 pm which is a big no no. I made myself feel better by reminding myself that these things are on my diet. I made a fried egg sandwich for breakfast(and I buttered both pieces of toast). I put some fresh roasted jalepenos in my sandwich. They were not hot at all and that was a little dissapointing. I love heat, the hotter the better. I am going to try to eat a bigger dinner tonight and hopefully that will help curb my evening appetite. I think I am going to eat a stuffed bell pepper, not sure what I am going to stuff it with probably a sauteed vegetable and some eggs. I really believe that I can do this diet and stay vegetarian but we shall see. Right before I weighed myself I was mentally preparing myself for the facr that I may not have lost any weight at all. Towards the end of my last go round with weight loss I was only losing a pound a week and that was a bit disapointing. I want to be healthy and strong for my children. Ranger loves to run and he said that he wants t o join the running club at school. He is so fast big K can't even keep up with him. I want to be able to run with him someday. The lobster and crab and even the butter is not terrible for you April, just skip the potatos.

Day Two and Three

So for day two I had a smoothie for breakfast and chicken and vegs on pita for lunch. After work Mike and I joined a Gym and promptly messed up the days hard work with going out to eat at red lobster. I decided it was a meal for mom as she was the true love of crab and lobster but it sure was good none the less. I had to figure out how crack the crab on my own as mom has always done it for me. with a little help and a lot of laughter from mike we got there. Today we are going to actually work out at the gym. What really nice is they have a play area for Emily so she gets time away from us and we get time away from her. They offer Zumba as a group class and I am thinking about trying it out but not tonight. As for meals I was bad and skipped breakfast. Kept thinking I would get to it and it never happened for lunch we had left over Chinese food. Which I sure is in no way good for me, but I am also not about to toss all the food in my house so were just going to work on buying healthier. For dinner we having butterfly pork chop with so left over potato au gratin again not 100% good for us but some one has to eat or we throw it away.

Day 3 for Ying

Astonishingly enough I actually walked 45 minutes yesterday. My son informed me that 45 minutes of walking is nothing to which I replied, "It's a lot compared to nothing". So today I am prepared to move forward which either means walk 45 minutes again or walk an hour. I haven't started taking the appetite suprressant yet. Todays breakfast was an egg fried in a tiny bit of real butter, low carb bread, and Sun Harvest Pepper Jack cheese. All of which fit within my diet guidelines. For lunch I am going to have celery and cream cheese. Dinner will involve boiled eggs and salad for sure. Yesterday I bought all of the vegetables on my approved list so I have plenty to choose from. I considered buyig fish but just could not bring myself to do it. I will have to wait until Kelly comes home and we can catch something. I have the perfect plan for walking this afternoon. I am going to try and walk while lil Kel is in his class. A different area will be a nice change as well, although I don't really mind walking here around the park. There are always people walking the same route as me.

Day 2

One of the main points of my new healthy eating is no eating after six, this will be hard for me as I love eating after six o'clock. I was good lastnight and when I started getting the munchies I made a cup of raspberry hibiscus herbal tea. It was a little on the weak side for some reason, either I didn't let it steep long enough or it is just not a very good brand. I reread my diet paperwork and it said a minumum of 30 minutes of continuos excercise a day. I might just try and add 15 minutes on to my walk today. We shall see. My biggest challenge yesterday was when I went to the bank to fax 30 pages of loan paperwork. They were having a Valentine's celebration and they had cupcakes and punch for all the customers. the cupcalkes were so pretty. They were white with Hot pink frosting and chocolate with red frosting. The chocolate with red frosting reminded me of the red velvet pancakes that I had at the Lux Cafe on Sunday. So there I was sitting near cupckes near cupcakes for 1/2 an hour, I just know that Brandy was laughing somwhere. She probably arranged fore the scent of vanilla to linger beneath my nose. I was good though, the only thing that got me through it was knowing that my husband will kill mw for spending money on a diet plan and immediately after eating cupcakes. I really feel that I may be saving money in the long run because I won't be buying or eating a bunch of crap. That is just a theory though. I think that I will go for my walk at 9 am. I need to establish some kind of a routine.

225 =!

Well like Lydia Im sick of being fat. Unlike her I have been sick of it for a long time, but to lazy to do anything about it. I however am not starting today but tomorrow. I am having a big serving of pizza for love day with the hubby and I refuse to give up love day. I can not put much money for any special advice so we have bought some books on the GI Diet and Mike and I are going to start fallowing that. the other big help is today my dad left for AZ while ill miss him lots it will make having only vags for a meal from time to time not a problem. I am thinking about joining a gym but might just try to walk 30 mins a day. Lydia you need an ipod nothing better to have when working out is to have your ipod talk to you. I plan to post several times a week and hope to share yumy things I have to eat that are good for us and dont suck. I also plan to log my weight. thats all for now my pizza showed up and Im going to enjoy it tons yum yum.

228 :(

I have been uncomfortable with my appearance at times but I have never been physically uncomfortable with my weight until now. Some people may be just fine at 228 lbs but for me it is taxing on my body as well as spirit. I used to have so much energy but these days I am just so drained. I am ready for some change so I decided to put my money where my mouth is. I went to the internet medical clinic here in town an plopped down 200 for my first two months of b-12 injections and appetite suppressants. I also got a custom made diet plan which consists of mostly protein and some select veggies. I love vegetables so there will be no problem there. I am going to try and learn to eat fish (maybe). Part of my weight loss plan also includes 30 minutes of walking 5-6 times per week. The weather was lovely today and it was not a problem. I will however need to get a new MP3 player as Lindy demolished the nice one that Kelly bought me for my birthday last year. This was pretty sad for me because it is probably the only birthday present he has ever given me. Walking without anytrhing to listen to is really boring for me, that is probably the thing that I hate most about excercise, how boring it is. I love to bicycle. When I lived in Germany, I bicycled for 1.5 to 2 hours daily and it is one of my fondest memories.Of course I had a kick ass bike. It was a K-2 mountain bike. I don't know if they sell them here. I have a 60 dollar Walmart job now and it is piece of shit. At the time that I bought it I was just grateful to have a bicycle. It is about 8 years old now but it has not gotten alot of use. I may try and go out bike riding this afternoon. I would like to bicycle to the duck pond and feed the ducks. I have a lot of stale bread that I need to get rid of. The other reason that I haven';t been particularly excited about bicycling when I used to be passionate about it is that there is rewally no safe place to do so here in Corpus. Cars are rather inconsiderate of bicyclists here. Walking is probably better for my weight loss though.

New Starts

well today I sent an invite to my Rosa, It will be nice to have some company on here and maybe motivate me to get back on track. As of today Im 225 and really need to work on this darn weight. So come on rosa log on and let us both lose lots of weight =)