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Topic: Is this a joke?
Ok I have been trying for months now to get to Onederland! As you all know. So today I get on the scale and for the first time EVER since my surgery, I have actually GAINED weight! AAAARRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
I went from 205 to 208! WTH?????? I am hoping it is water weight as I have been eating alot of salt lately. I sure hope this is a fluke, cause I just can't possible gain weight on such low calorie intake, can I?
I shouldn't gripe, because I know that I am only within 20 lbs of my goal, but it is so frustrating!!!!!
Ok guys sorry for the ***** session, just feeling irritated!
On a happy note, I am leaving for Orlando tomorrow morning to visit my sisters, brother in law and niece! I'm gonna get to color in a Nemo coloring book and do 2 year old stuff for a few days!! Talk about liberating LOL!
But Friday night is adult night and we have a babysitter, so I told my hubby that I'm gonna dance with any man that asks me!!!! LOL!!! I loved the jealousy on his face, I had to tell him I was just kidding...........but secretly don't know if I am LOL!! Hey, no harm in just dancing right?
See you all in a few days, and wish me lots of whooshie!
Wendy
Topic: OWN UP - It's Tuesdays ACCOUNTABILITY
Good Morning,
Got back on track Monday and managed to stay on the track again on Tuesday...I do water aerobics on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday - really starting to notice when I have a gym day, the next day weight is always down 1 - 1/2 lbs if my eating is good...definate pattern here, weekends no gym, more bad food choices, Monday morning weight at the higher end of my comfort range (125-126), by Thursday better eating choices and weight back down to bottom of range (122-123) : hummmm 
, could there be a connection...
Tuesday:
B - 3 protein balls
S - 1 oz lf cheddar cheese, 10 sm butter pretzels, & 1 protein ball
L- 1/2 c wendys chili, 1/2 side caesar salad, & 2 chocolate wafer cookie bites
S - 1 sf reeses minicup, 1 oz dry roasted peanuts
S - 1 sugar cookie (stopped at the grocery on the way home from the gym, the bakery snack box got me again)
D - 1 scrambled egg, 1 slice bacon, 1 sausage link, & 1 sm yeast roll with pumpkin butter
S - 1 2x2 piece of sf strawberry birthday cake (finally finished it off from my celebration last friday)
Hope everyone has a good Wednesday, see you in the a.m. to post for today (Wednesday)...
Alesia
, could there be a connection...
Tuesday:
B - 3 protein balls
S - 1 oz lf cheddar cheese, 10 sm butter pretzels, & 1 protein ball
L- 1/2 c wendys chili, 1/2 side caesar salad, & 2 chocolate wafer cookie bites
S - 1 sf reeses minicup, 1 oz dry roasted peanuts
S - 1 sugar cookie (stopped at the grocery on the way home from the gym, the bakery snack box got me again)
D - 1 scrambled egg, 1 slice bacon, 1 sausage link, & 1 sm yeast roll with pumpkin butter
S - 1 2x2 piece of sf strawberry birthday cake (finally finished it off from my celebration last friday)
Hope everyone has a good Wednesday, see you in the a.m. to post for today (Wednesday)...
Alesia Topic: RE: IT'S MONDAY - Accountability
Lucy,
I have to say, the 2nd most amazing thing about this surgery is realization...1st at least for me is the greatly improved body image/physical health...but really amazing to me is the other thing this surgery brought, it was totally unexpected - realization...The last year has made me look, I mean really LOOK!!! at the whats and why's of my eating past...Its hard to put into words everything I feel about what has changed in me - better self esteem/self-worth...better understanding of what the food I eat is made of...better physical health & mental health...better understanding of myself and what drives me...These words don't begin to touch everything I feel and know is different - I rejoice in these differences, I cannot say too many times how AMAZING it is or how GREATFUL I am that I finally found the courage to ask for this surgery, it has changed my life beyond measure
Alesia 
Topic: RE: IT'S MONDAY - Accountability
Hi Alesia and everyone else 
I finally got my head together after a support meeting last night 
I realized that I was eating to push down and numb my painful feelings about the man I was going to date. Whatever I ate, it nevers satisfied me or numbed my pain like the old days when I could eat and eat! I would feel sick from eating the wrong foods and amounts and was headed in the wrong direction.
I am in the process of resolving this painful memory and put closure to it. Nothing I eat will take the pain away. Nothing! I've been going through this for the past two and a half weeks. This could lead me into big time trouble. I have to find another way to deal with my emotional pains. My pouchie can't take it anymore. I can't take it anymore!
I've denied, I've grieved, I've realized, I've been depressed and now I'm in the 5th stage, resolution. I've got to get through this stage and will by tomorrow.
In the meantime, I'm feeling very good this morning, eating the right way and the right foods. I'm following pouch rules.
Say to myself: I am eating properly to feel healthy and I am following pouch rules no matter what happens today!!
Thanks for starting this post Alesia!
Hugs,
Lucy 
I finally got my head together after a support meeting last night
I realized that I was eating to push down and numb my painful feelings about the man I was going to date. Whatever I ate, it nevers satisfied me or numbed my pain like the old days when I could eat and eat! I would feel sick from eating the wrong foods and amounts and was headed in the wrong direction.
I am in the process of resolving this painful memory and put closure to it. Nothing I eat will take the pain away. Nothing! I've been going through this for the past two and a half weeks. This could lead me into big time trouble. I have to find another way to deal with my emotional pains. My pouchie can't take it anymore. I can't take it anymore!
I've denied, I've grieved, I've realized, I've been depressed and now I'm in the 5th stage, resolution. I've got to get through this stage and will by tomorrow.
In the meantime, I'm feeling very good this morning, eating the right way and the right foods. I'm following pouch rules.
Say to myself: I am eating properly to feel healthy and I am following pouch rules no matter what happens today!!
Thanks for starting this post Alesia!
Hugs,
Lucy Topic: IT'S MONDAY - Accountability
OK, Did better today... Except when we went to BINGO, snacked the whole time on these little rice cracker bites 
...Resolution, back on track today, I can do it ...
Monday:
B - fruit protein smoothie
S - 1 oz lf cheddar, 10 sm butter pretzels
L - 1/4 c egg salad on 1 piece of WASA multi grain cracker-bread, 2 pieces tiger butter (p/b swirled with a little chocolate)
S - 1/3 c avocado and tomato salad, 2 bites filet mignon
D - protein coffee frappachino
S - 3/4 c rice cracker bites (probably 3 servings of carbs 
), handful of peanuts & cashew nut mix
Hope everyone is trying to stay on the track...I know I'm struggling, was up an extra lb from the weekend on Monday morning, still in my 5 lb comfort zone, but pushing the edge...Back on track today, promise, promise, promise...
Alesia
...Resolution, back on track today, I can do it ...
Monday:
B - fruit protein smoothie
S - 1 oz lf cheddar, 10 sm butter pretzels
L - 1/4 c egg salad on 1 piece of WASA multi grain cracker-bread, 2 pieces tiger butter (p/b swirled with a little chocolate)
S - 1/3 c avocado and tomato salad, 2 bites filet mignon
D - protein coffee frappachino
S - 3/4 c rice cracker bites (probably 3 servings of carbs ), handful of peanuts & cashew nut mix
Hope everyone is trying to stay on the track...I know I'm struggling, was up an extra lb from the weekend on Monday morning, still in my 5 lb comfort zone, but pushing the edge...Back on track today, promise, promise, promise...
Alesia Topic: RE: Sunday Accountability
Hi Girls,
Ready to report in for Sunday, good job staying away from the chocolate kisses Pam, maybe the toothache will last long enough for the craving to die a natural death (LOL)...
B - coffee frappachino protein drink
S - 1 oz lf cheddar cheese
L - 1.5 oz grilled pot roast from Crackerbarrel
1 biscuit with butter & honey
1/2 corn muffin with butter
4 bites macaroni and cheese
1/4 c green beans
S - sf vanilla caramel
2.5x2.5 piece of strawberry birthday cake
D - 2.5 oz fried chicken breast
1/2 c. tomato & avocado salad
1 sm roasted red potato
S - 5 sf fudge stripe cookies
a bite of carmel apple
the usual liquids and vitamins
OK, at first I thought I did pretty good for Sunday, but now that I'm really looking at it the carbs don't look very good...Monday (today) I will do better...
Alesia
Topic: RE: Sunday Accountability
hey pam! your post has me in mourning... i am FLAT BROKE til i get my unemployment, so i could not go to starbucks at all today! today is the first day in probably months that i have not had my latte. no wonder i'm such a moody biotch today!
i drank a couple iced coffees today that i made at home with my sf vanilla
i ate a couple handfuls of rice krispies
i ate 2 TBL brocolli and cheese rice, 1/2 smoked pork chop
i ate a banana
and i just made me some more coffee. i need to give that stuff up!
hugsssssssss
i am FLAT BROKE til i get my unemployment, so i could not go to starbucks at all today! today is the first day in probably months that i have not had my latte. no wonder i'm such a moody biotch today!
i drank a couple iced coffees today that i made at home with my sf vanilla
i ate a couple handfuls of rice krispies
i ate 2 TBL brocolli and cheese rice, 1/2 smoked pork chop
i ate a banana
and i just made me some more coffee. i need to give that stuff up!
hugsssssssss 
Topic: Sunday Accountability
I'm trying really hard to do better today. That darn toothache all night was enough to make me snub that tub of hershey kisses sitting over by my T.V. - No kisses for me today... at least not the chocolate kind! 
24 oz hot tea with milk from SHEETZ
(cleaned my living room/kitchen and made my shopping list)
Venti triple decaff sugar free vanilla latte on the way to pick-up my son and take his friend home
(grocery shopping)
Cinamon Raisin mini-bagel
1/2 -3/4 cup of leftover crockpot chicken (like green bean casserole with shredded chicken all in it)
AND in the oven for dinner is Breakfast casserole
(O'brien hashbrowns with cream of chicken, sour cream, cheese, and diced ham - topped with crumbled special K protein cereal)
If I get hungy after that, I'm gonna have a low carb low sugar yogurt.
WOW would ya look at that! I actually got three meals in here today! NO CHOCOLATE.... and only ONE latte! Go me.... 
Go me....
I'm hoping to have enough leftovers to take some to work for lunch tomorrow.
Hey!! I tried something new today. Diet Pepsi Jazz Dark Cherry/French Vanilla - I poured it over a glass full of ice and let it sit for a while so it would go flat. OMG 
that stuff is YUMMY! Not something i would do everyday - but a good calorie free treat every now and then.
How's everyone else hanging in there?
Hugs,
Pam
24 oz hot tea with milk from SHEETZ
(cleaned my living room/kitchen and made my shopping list)
Venti triple decaff sugar free vanilla latte on the way to pick-up my son and take his friend home
(grocery shopping)
Cinamon Raisin mini-bagel
1/2 -3/4 cup of leftover crockpot chicken (like green bean casserole with shredded chicken all in it)
AND in the oven for dinner is Breakfast casserole
(O'brien hashbrowns with cream of chicken, sour cream, cheese, and diced ham - topped with crumbled special K protein cereal)
If I get hungy after that, I'm gonna have a low carb low sugar yogurt.
WOW would ya look at that! I actually got three meals in here today! NO CHOCOLATE.... and only ONE latte! Go me.... Go me....
I'm hoping to have enough leftovers to take some to work for lunch tomorrow.
Hey!! I tried something new today. Diet Pepsi Jazz Dark Cherry/French Vanilla - I poured it over a glass full of ice and let it sit for a while so it would go flat. OMG that stuff is YUMMY! Not something i would do everyday - but a good calorie free treat every now and then.
How's everyone else hanging in there?
Hugs,
Pam Topic: RE: ACCOUNTABILITY - Saturday
Well I'm not doing very well with the eating. The job stress... financial stress....kid stress - oh excuses, excuses....
here's the damage...
Venti triple decaff vanilla latte and 3 hershey kisses on the way to take my son to counseling....
Venti triple decaff vanilla latte on the way to get my hubby's duck hunting stamp and drop my son off at his friend's house
Probably five more hershey kisses.... I gotta get these damn things out of my house!!
Hot tea.... hot tea..... and MORE hot tea.... (probably 60 ounces worth!!)
One lonely 20 oz bottle of water....
Venti triple decaff vanilla latte.... AGAIN
About 1/2 -3/4 cup of crockpot chicken with green beans and cream of soups mixed together with a sprinkle of those canned crunchy onions on top....
And probably 10 more freaking kisses over the course of the evening.
THEN I paid dearly for it by having a toothache ALLLLLLLLL night long. I actually got out of bed at 1 a.m. to brush my teeth.....drink plain black decaff and take pain killers. YEP I still haven't made that dentist appt. Now it's gonna cost me a fortune!
You know what I realized when I ate the crockpot chicken????? All this living off latte's (liquids) and grazing must have shrunk my pouch size down quite a bit! Because I had a hard time eating all of it and it took me almost an hour to eat it. While it's not cool the way I've been eating.... it IS cool to know that the pouch can be shrunk back down. Interesting....
Hugs,
Pam
Topic: RE: ACCOUNTABILITY - Saturday
Good morning Alesia!
Well, as I promised I am back on track today. My first thoughts this morning were... cookies??? 
I stopped that right away! 
I remembered a post where someone said the first few days are the toughest in order to detox from carbs and eating too much. Then it gets better.
So here I am. I know what I must do. Will it be easy? No! Is it important to me? Yes, very much so.
I got a quote from an inspirational website to share, "If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end. (Julius Erving)" How true are his words! I have to do what is best for my body. I don't want to come up on the short end. Nooooo! 
Please keep me in your thoughts that I get through today. One day at a time!!
Hugs,
Lucy
I stopped that right away! I remembered a post where someone said the first few days are the toughest in order to detox from carbs and eating too much. Then it gets better.
So here I am. I know what I must do. Will it be easy? No! Is it important to me? Yes, very much so.
I got a quote from an inspirational website to share, "If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end. (Julius Erving)" How true are his words! I have to do what is best for my body. I don't want to come up on the short end. Nooooo! Please keep me in your thoughts that I get through today. One day at a time!!
Hugs,
Lucy Most Active
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