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Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 5 2006, 08:39 AM

Ok, I will do a fresh start too. So far, the beginning of January sucked - I ate too many cookies and truffles and all that bad Holiday stuff... but today I haven't eaten anything yet - so it's as good a day as any to start. I've had about 5 ounces of water so far. I drink more water in the middle of the night it seems... My start weight is approximately 195. I gained a few over the Holidays. My first goal weight is 170. 25 pounds sounds a heck of a lot easier to lose than almost 60. I'm going to make an effort to go to the excercise room today. Even if it's only for 10 minutes of biking / treadmill... that's 10 minutes more than usual. I'm still feeling a litle sick.. so hopefully 10 minutes isn't going to get me exhausted! lol I'm planning on salad wih tuna for lunch, with italian dressing.

Posted by: moped Jan 5 2006, 08:42 AM

Great Plans!!!!!

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 6 2006, 06:25 AM

I had the salad yesterday, I skipped on the tuna - I wasn't feeling in the mood for tuna. For dinner, I had a chicken finger, some oven baked fries, and 2 homemade hamburger patties, with ketchup. Later at night - I got such a HUGE craving for chocolate... I had a small bite of it. Then another... and soon, I had eaten 4 strips of 5 pieces... I guess the size of 4 Aero bars.... I felt so sick afterwards. I felt like such a pig. To make matters worse, I had a pepsi too. At least I got my 10 minutes in at the gym.... I'm up early today - I've got a meeting with the person whose job I'll be taking over when I go back to work part-time in march... and then I'm stopping at the gym - and I'm going to stay there for a while, Naomie will be in the bodycarrier, so I'lls tay until she's REALLY fussy. She'll love the bouncing around, I'm sure... it's what we do here.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 8 2006, 09:17 AM

I pigged out last night... bread is a killer to me. Believe it or not.. I had EIGHT toast. i shouldn't eat for like 3 days now... lol good thing i'm drinking loads of water.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 9 2006, 09:31 AM

I have NO self control. Zip. Nada. NONE!!! DH bought ice cream sandwiches and cheddar sun chips... what a butt head. OF COURSE, I had to have some. DH said he wouldn't have any in front of me - but they're still HERE!! Mooooo. Anyhoo - last night I had some cross rib steak foir dinner... I shared my 4x4x1 piece with the kids.... so I had about 4 or 5 ounces of steak, with some sour cream & chives pasta. I did have some fruit yesterday though - 2 clementines, half an apple and a handful of grapes. I had 3 3-cup glasses of water during the day, and a hot chocolate while I took a hot bubblebath. Today - dh came home for lunch, so I had a bowl of the Kraft dinner he made, with some coffee. I'm gonna go to the gym around 4:30pm - anmd dh is going to walk by and "pick me up" so we can walk home together around 5. It's only up some stairs, through the overpsas and down some stairs... lol so it's not like i have very far to go.... no excuses.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 10 2006, 09:38 AM

I said no excuses... but I had a good one. I was online here all day - then when it came time to go to the gym, I had a meeting with the new sitter for Naomie. Well I could have gotten off my butt to go to the gym... but I didn't feel like it. I'm the only one to blame there. Will try again today. For dinner last night, since we got home so late from the meeting and pickingn up the kids etc... dinner wasn't alreayd made, so we stopped at McDicks. I had 2 bigmacs and some fries - I sharecd the fries with the kids. 2 big macs. I feel sick just thinking about it...but boy were they good. To make things worse - I had like 30 smarties last night. Then I had a pickle and cheese snadwich. I hope today is better.... I've drank about 2 cups of water so far, and I had chili macaroni noodles for lunch with some corn and dried beans (cooked of course) mixed it - kinda like a chili. It was pretty good. Off to chug-a-lug more water. I haven't GAINED any weight since last week, just haven't lost any yet.

Posted by: booey2 Jan 10 2006, 09:42 AM

Keep up the good work, remember you are still a nursing momma so you need to lose slow and steady so you can continue to nurse. It will come in time.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 10 2006, 10:35 AM

QUOTE (booey2 @ Jan 10 2006, 01:42 PM) Keep up the good work, remember you are still a nursing momma so you need to lose slow and steady so you can continue to nurse. It will come in time. yup - one of the reasons i'm doing this only half-4$$ed.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 10 2006, 07:30 PM

Well fir dinner I had about 2/3 of a 5 ounce steak again. Yum! With pan fried vegetables and some parmesan noodles. Then I had 3 sugar cookies, and snacked on about 6 chocolate cookies since then... But i drank about 60 ounces of water today. I'm having a coffee right now, cuz i havben't had one today and needed my fix. oh - i took down my christmas tree, picked up all the toys in the toyroom and rearranged my furniture to close the gap where the tree was. That's gotta count for something, right?

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 12 2006, 11:16 AM

Ok - I had 2 bowls of salad for dinner..... i put a bit of garlic, cheese, peach chunks and raisins in it, with balsamic vinaigrette.... sound weird, but it was yummy. Even dh said so. HE and the kids had spaghetti. then at like 11pm - i got really hungry - I had 4 slices of bread with light cheez whiz. and a peppermint patty. Today - so far I haven't had much - a coffee and a plum. I had a meeting at 11am to discuss my job tasks... and I got up late (10:30) so i didn't have time to eat, what with showering, dressing me, getting the baby ready to go etc... and so I got home at 12:30, thought DH was coming home for lunch... Naomie fell asleep so I put her down and started painting in zach's room... next thing i know it's almost 2... so i call dh and ask him when he's coming home - he tells me he went to burger king around 1... now i'm hungry. I could have some salad - but i was keeping what's left for dinner.... maybe I'll make tuna casserole for dinner and just make myself a small bowl of oatmeal, with an apple for now. Yep - that's what I'm going to do. Oh - ETA - I stopped at the gym an my way home... I only did 7 or 8 minutes of cycling - but it was at a resistance level of 4/4 (the hardest) and at a constant speed of over 15 miles per hour. (between 15 - 20) it's a start...

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 13 2006, 08:35 AM

I ended up npt having the oatmeal or apple... I just got into doing other stuff to keep distracted until dinnertime, since it was not far anyways. Since I had the casserole made by 4pm, when dh got home at 4:15 I had a bowl of it. He had one after... then we went grocery shopping and picked up the kids. Later that night, I had 2 peanut butter and nutella sandwiches... the second one also had sliced cheese on it. this morning - I'm drinking a Pepsi. Not the greatest thing, but lately I can't control my cravings. I just...gotta have it - or I get to be this raving lunatic. I'd better not be pregnant - cuz I'm gonna shoot myself.... well not really - just in the "catch phrase" type of way....dh said, jokingly: well it would be fuuuun idiot

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 17 2006, 11:16 AM

Yesterday for lunch I had 2 small pork chops (very small - both together was like a normal one) and some cooked beets, with some salad and a bun, and 2 cookies. For dinner, I had 4 chicken fingers and a few bites of noodles. Later on at night, I had a tomato sandwich and some mini meat pies. Hey - I don't have breakfast... so my meals are at 12:30, 5:30 and 11pm gotta cut that last one out and bring it earlier!!! Today for lunch I had a small bowl of vegetable and noodle soup, with some Boeuf bourgignon, half a boiled potato, some cooked carrots and a bun. To dip in the leftover sauce. I don't know what to make for dinner tonight... I really have no idea. I've been drinking more coffee though... I have to get up earlier - like 8am earlier... i usually get up close to noon!! This is tough. So i drink a pot of coffee. Granted the pot only makes 2 1/2 mugs worth... so I have 1 1/2 in the morning, and 1 after dinner. Mugs that is, not pot. It's thermal.

Posted by: coasterqueen Jan 17 2006, 11:50 AM

Ooh Rocky, is that coffee decaf? How does Emilie handle that? My girls would have been wired to the next planet with that much caffeine at once.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 17 2006, 08:27 PM

QUOTE (boogabearzmom @ Jan 17 2006, 02:50 PM) Ooh Rocky, is that coffee decaf? How does Emilie handle that? My girls would have been wired to the next planet with that much caffeine at once. Nope... and NAOMIE (lol!! ) handles it just fine. It doesn't prevent her from sleeping, doesn't keep her up, no reactions... lol I don't make it very strong though, so it might as well be decaf.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 18 2006, 08:39 PM

Last nigh for dinner we had macaroni with sauce - no meat though. I had something else late at night, I just don't remember what. Probably meat pie. Today for lunch I had Smoked Meat sandwich and fries, with a pepsi. For dinner, I had some salmon, some mushroom rice, and some green beans with cooked pieces of onion. It was so goooood... that I had a secomd SMALL helping. I made plain muffins with peach chunks in them today, so I had a few bite sized onews and a regular sized one with some icing on it. I drank a pot of coffee, and 3 big 3 cup glasses of water, mixed at 2/3 water to 1/3 cranberry-raspberry juice. Oh and I re-weighed myself a little while ago... scale said 195.4 Figures it goes down after the weigh in... lolol

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 19 2006, 08:07 AM

I had a plain muffin with peach chunks in it this morning at 7am... I haven't gotten up that early in months!!! Then I went to get my hair cut. What a mistake. Then I came home, had a coffee and 2 slices of bread with Peanut butter. I don't know what lunch is yet, I don't think I'm going to the dining hall today... and I think I'm going to make Potato Soup for dinner. Yum. With bacon.

Posted by: booey2 Jan 19 2006, 08:12 AM

Good job Rocky and by the way you look mar-ve-lous.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 19 2006, 08:36 AM

Aww thanks Terri!

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 20 2006, 04:56 PM

I ended up not havig lunch yesterday - had 2 bowls of potato soup though. Today for lunch I had 2 hotdogs and fries... and for dinner a small piece of teriyaki chicken, a small piece of stewing beef with onions, some rice and green beans. Off to cut up some fruit for a chocolate fondue - the outlaws are here.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 21 2006, 02:33 PM

Had some KFC with the trimmings for lunch today... having macaroni with meat sauce for dinner.

Posted by: Maddie&EthansMom Jan 21 2006, 06:31 PM

Hey Rocky...do you mind some constructive criticism?

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 21 2006, 07:25 PM

go for it! (lemme guess - the bread? )

Posted by: Maddie&EthansMom Jan 22 2006, 08:31 AM

QUOTE (ZEN Mommy @ Jan 21 2006, 09:25 PM) go for it! (lemme guess - the bread? ) Well, I did notice a lot of carbs in your diet. I know you want to lose weight and I just saw a few ways to help you. For instance: They make fat free hot dogs and whole wheat hot dog buns. I buy these b/c I happen to LOVE hot dogs. And, they really do taste good. I also love potato soup (which is loaded with fat and calories), but I have a low fat version that I make and you really can't tell it's low fat. I'm not sure what kind of bread you are eating, but wheat is always the best choice. You want to get as much fiber in your diet as possible. TRY to avoid anything fried. And, be sure and check the fat and calorie content on everything you put into your mouth. How are you doing your diet currently? Are you watching calories? counting points?

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 22 2006, 04:52 PM

carbs are my weakness... especially toasted bread. we buy white and whole wheat, we mix it up... wanna share the recipe for low fat potato soup? lol I try not to eat too much fried food.. but it's sooo easy and takes sooo little time... it's hard not to. I'm not counting points, since I'm practically clueless about WW... but I sort of check calories. If it's a snack and it's over 150 cal, I won't eat it. Meals I don't check. I'm trying to lose a little - but I'm not REALLY trying that hard, since I don't want to compromise my miks supply. It's a big deal to me - I've never gotten this far with my other kids. So she comes first... but I am toning up slowly, I bought a new tighter pair of pants today. I don't have the self-discipline NOT to eat snacks. I'm trying though, I really really am. We have more fruit around the house and less crackers etc... so now my snacks are usually grapes or an apple... I'm good all day until the late evening around 11pm... then I go nuts.

Posted by: Maddie&EthansMom Jan 23 2006, 06:31 AM

I think we all fight the same battles. I will get that recipe to you and if you need anything else or have any questions just don't be afraid to ask.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 23 2006, 06:33 AM

Had some jambalaya for dinner (rice with italian saudage and veggies and spiced, mixed) and I had some cookies around 12am. I made pancakes last night too, to freeze, but the kids wanted some for dinner - they didn't want to wait for the rice. Oh well! I had one as well, without any syrup. I'm having coffee right now - I had 2 silces of toast earlier and a few swallows of cranberry juice.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 23 2006, 11:56 AM

Awesome, thanks Aimee! I had a piece of fish for lunch, with tartar sauce, some yellow string beans, some rice, and some salad - with italian dressing. I also had a small piece of cake...i'm not sure what kind. Didn't tast elike much. ETA - for dinner, I had some pasta with ground beef, the sauce was mushroom soup mized with tomato soup. It was actually pretty good... funny how things work out when you actually use stuff from your cupboard and make stuff from "scratch" instead of prepackaged... I haven't snacked yet... but then again, it's not late enough. Actually - I bought some more apples... I will have an apple. Later. It's on the counter, with a knife... and I feel guilty when I think about cookies.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 24 2006, 05:18 AM

I had a pear instead of the apple. I have not yet had breakfast - I'm having coffee... and I'm going to go to the dining hall to eat breakfast. That way, I'm SURE not to go overboard...

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 24 2006, 05:10 PM

I had two slices of toast this morning. I had a small bowl of noodle and veggies soup for lunch, a scoop of mashed potatos, some pork with sauce and pineapple chunks, and some steamed zuchini with red pepper. I had a bun woth no butter to clean off the sauce from my plate... lol I couldn't help it!! For dinner I had 4 breakfast sausages (the small ones) and a small bit of beans and chicken flavored noodles. Including the sausages, I could have fit everything I ate in my cupped hands. Which, I learned, is the amount of food ytou're supposed to eat at mealtime... your cupped hands' worth. I'm going to have another fruit as a snack tonight... it was tasty yesterday. Othwise, I have yogurt or applesauce I can have a bit of. I haven't drank my water these last 2 days though, and 2 cups of coffee a day, if not three.... so maybe my weight will be up a bit. ETA: I ended up having a pear and a clementine around 8:30. Then I gave in and had a serving of crackers... so about 13 crackers... and then Emilie woke up around 9 because she was hungry so I gave her those cheddare goldfish... and had a handful or two myself. They looked tasty.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 25 2006, 07:21 PM

I had 2 slices of whole wheat toast with pb and strawberry jam, some cranberry juice and some coffee for breakfast. Lunch, carrot and onion soup, and a hotdog with french fries. I had a small piece of cake too... a thin slice. bu I did have 2 glasses of ice water instead of pop. Dinner was a bowl of mac n cheese with ground beef I had 8 sesame seed crackers (serving is 8 crackers = 62 cals) as a snack, then an apple. I drank lots of water today.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 26 2006, 05:20 AM

I had a 4 ounce glass of milk, a small cup of coffee (about 1/3 my mugs at home... ) and 2 slices of whole wheat toast with pb and strawberry jam. I had 2 carrot sticks, 2 celery sticks, and 2 slices of cucumber, with some dip, with a small slice of roast porc, some fried beets and onions, and some potatoes boiled in tea. I also had about 4 tablespoons of raspberry yogurt. Going to pee pink tonight!!! I had a cup of coffee that I brought with me to my meeting at 2...I just came back. For dinner: I had one hamburger patty (homemade) smothered in Cream of celeir soup. I'm not that hungry... wierd, huh? lol Later on tonight I'm making oatmeal apple cookies for the kids, so I'm likely going to have one or two... with milk... and I will probably have something else, maybe some cereal.

Posted by: Maddie&EthansMom Jan 26 2006, 05:55 PM

Potatoes boiled in tea?

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 27 2006, 07:28 AM

QUOTE (Maddie&EthansMom @ Jan 26 2006, 08:55 PM) Potatoes boiled in tea? yep - really good. (take cut up potatoes, boil them like you would normally... but add a teabag. It turns them a yellow/brown color, adds a little taste... it's actually really good.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 27 2006, 07:32 AM

I had 2 toasts with margarine, a 4 ounce glass of cranberry juice, a small coffee, and this morning I was extra hungry since I didn't re-eat last night - so I had about 1/2 cup of Muslix. I didn'tr get to make the cookies last night... it will have to wait until saturday - today i'm working until 9pm... we're doing a bazaar at wrk, and with put up/put down, it's from 8:30 to 5:30.... then at 7, I have to go back to do the monthly birthday party... yeehaw. I put my foot down though... lol I go home to pump when I need to. Which is what I'm doing right now. ETA - for lunch, I had some cream of cerely soup, some salad with hardly any italian dressing on it, and about 1/3 plate pasta with spaghetti sauce and melted cheese. Then I had a potato candy, and a 1x1 inch piece of nanaimo bar. I also had a decent glass of 2% milk.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 28 2006, 09:47 AM

For dinner last night, a chicken burgewr and fries from McDees... with a big coke. I was in a hurry.... and I had an apple before bed. For breakfast this morning I had a pb and jelly sandwich, with a 900 something ml bottle of water. For lunch, a small bowl of rice and barley soup - with a small portion of mashed potatoes (small scoop) some steamed veggies and a small slice of roast pork with gravy. Then i had a 2x2 piece of nanaimo bar, and a bite of peanut butter fudge. Dang old people and their sweets....

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 28 2006, 03:30 PM

Oh I blew dinner... I had four..yep...FOUR!! pieces of pizza. With a Pepsi. but it was sooo dang good.... Around 2 I had a little blood sugar drop... I NEEDED sugar...so I had two small packages of those typical hallopween candies... the little chalky ones... dont know the name... lol

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Jan 31 2006, 06:48 AM

Well, I ate at home ONCE since Friday... it's just so much EASIER to eat out... less stress, and we can enjoy time with our kids. Last night, I had a chicken drumstick, mushroom wild rice and some corn. That was my meal at home. Today, nothing yet, except a coffee... I'm gonna have an apple oatmeal cookie before leaving in a few minutes. PS - my scale is still at the same number.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Feb 1 2006, 07:19 AM

I had a nice serving of Spaghetti Bolognaise (basically ground porc instead of ground beef, a couple different spices...) and 2 small biscuits left over from the other day that I made. DH took the 2 older kids grocery shopping yesterday after picking them up from the sitters, they got the milk, bread, cheese and eggs we were out of, but they also got pepsi and Neopolitan ice cream. DH is learning though - he brought back 50$ of meat that was on special.... he KNOWS I would have yelled at him if he's bought it regular price. We are trying to pay off debt... we agreed on certain things - he is actually following them, for the most part, I'm proud of him. We're running out of organic meat... we only have ground porc, bacon, a ham and a couple of roasts left... there may be a few packages of chicken somewhere in my freezer, but I have been to lazy to take everything out to check. I totally prefer feeding my kids organic meat... but I'm not anal about it.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Feb 1 2006, 05:38 PM

I'm such a pig. I had a drumstick of chicken for dinner, with aq big scoop of sidekicks noodles, with some broiled pineapple... then I had SIX slices of toast. Then I had some macaroons. seems like when i dont have bread for a couple days i go nuts when i do. plus i'm stressed about my milk supply - i need to get it up again... and i eat when i'm stressed.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Feb 2 2006, 05:43 AM

I am sooooooo tired today. I don't know why, I slept from 11pm to 7:30am, Naomie only woke up twice to nurse. I need to be serious about getting fit. I've been doing so many stairs these lasr 2 weeks, it's un-real. The good thing is, though, that yesterday my legs weren't feeling so much like jello.... so it must be doing them some good... lol I'm having oatmeal this morning. With some fenugreek cpsules.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Feb 4 2006, 09:54 AM

I've been bad for food the last few days... Thusrday night I had a sausage plate - it had 3 different type of sausages, a baked potato and cloe slaw... and I had 3 beers. Then Friday for lunch I had a little bit of boeuf bourgignon, with some mashed potatoes (a small scoup) and some carrots, wit a small piece of mille-feuilles cake. mmmmmm!! For dinner lat night I had a chicken drumstick, some corn, and some tomato-basil rice. Then I had 4 slices of toast later in the evening... and a big 8 ounce glass of chocolate milk. This morning, dh got me to make eggs and bacon.... so while I was at it, I made pancakes too. dang that stuff is soooo good once in a while.... The plus side is I think the excersise is finally paying off - I weighed 193 this morning on the scale.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Feb 6 2006, 05:36 AM

Still at 193 this morning... and that was with full boobs. I had spaghetti last night, with chunks of beef and carrots mixed into it. And toast. Lots of toast. Anyways - since I hardly ever eat breakfast, I figured it couldn't hurt to get some slim fast shake stuff for breakfast instead of just having coffee. I got vanilla dna chocolate flavors, I just had the vanilla one - not bad. You're supposed to mix it with 1 cup of milk to make like a shake - but I don't like drinking "thick" stuff, so I added 1 cup of water - it makes it about as "creamy" as 2% milk. I drink skim milk when I do drink milk, so to go from skim milk to just about 2% is like drinking cold margarine. but it was alright... went down smoothly. I may add more water next time though. I don't know what's for lunk today - but I know I'm gonna just have a small portion of it, and have salad too. ETA: Lunch was a small piece of chicken breast with mashed potatoes and frozen carrots/peas medley I had salad with italian dressing, and some yogurt. Then I had some milk, and some water. When I got home at 2 something, I had some garlic and cheese, an orange and a slice of bread with nutella. I was HUNGRY...but I think I as just compensating for lack of coffee today - I still haven't had one. Dinner is beans / potatoes stew with porc chops, and water water water!

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Feb 7 2006, 06:20 AM

Mmmm the beans/potato stew I made last night was so yummy - I had a second portion of it. After I dset the kids portioms aside, I added some hotness to it... then once it was on our plates, I put grated cheddar chees over it - OMG! Who knew! so I over ate. AND - to make matters worse... I had a "craving" for something rich in chocolate... I had a few bites of neapolitan ice cram - but it just wasn't the same. DH went out to get some chocolate cheesecake frim Tim's........ droooooool.......... so i ha that (him too) and then had a bowl of salt and vinegar chips, then a bowl of all dressed chips. OMG. I was complainihg to dh this morning that he should have STOPPED ME. I almost feel nautios this morning from the mix.

Posted by: coasterqueen Feb 7 2006, 06:43 AM

Ok Rocky, I can't read your journal anymore. You are making me hungry.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Feb 8 2006, 05:15 AM

I'm so sorry Karen!!! I had some more all dressed and s&V chips last night.... after we came back from the mcdicks at walmart that is. But I had a chicken burger, so that's a step up at least... I wanted a big mac. We did walk around walmart for about 1.5 hours though... so I got some walking done, on top of all the stairs I've been doing, so ha! I've started taking less sugar in my coffee too - so I take 2 teaspoons less in a day. Becuase I usually have about 2 teaspoons in a cip - and have 2 cups (12 ounce mugs really) so I cut it down to half now, down from from 1 1/2 tsp. I have some leftover cooked drmsticks that I froze a few days ago.. I think that is what will be for dinner, with a rice dish and cooked beets... gonna pee pink tonight! and of course, water water water!

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Feb 10 2006, 07:57 AM

Well, dh went out for dinner last night and left me home with the 3 kids, which of course, were absolute terrors. Dinner was all nicely prepared (chicken again) and was cooling off for them when they got home - so I make dh a plate and he tells me he's taking 20$ out of our change box (ehich we aren't supposed to be touching at ALL) and going out. He COULD have asked me to go along - they're my friends too, and we could have gotten a sitter. So I ate his plate - his portion sizes... lol but it as good. I'm having right now 2 small pancakes (cold from the fridge) with peanut butter and nutella spead on them... I was lazy... and I'm hungrier today - because I had a cup of oatmeal around 8:30. But I did go to an aquaform class offered here at 9 am every friday - i figuredi might as ewll attend...i'm not working today until 2 - 4 and again from 7-10pm... and besides - I have to give the course starting in June for the summer break. I could have stayed for the one given at 10am... but I didn't feel like it. There's one on Tuesdays at 10am too. It's the same woman giving the courses for all 3 - so I'm gonna have to take over all 3 for 3 months this summer. yay. One thing I was happy about this morning is that my weight was at 192.4, so down 0.5 since wednesday. This whole drikning water thing actually works. On eof my problems is that I really don't like having sweet food late at night... unless I'm craving chocolate - so it's harder for me to have, say, a fruit. I'm more likely to want something crunchy and salty - maybe I should start buying low fat popcorn.... Man - from the time I started this post to rigt now - I finished my food - and now I have the hiccups. GREEEEEEAAAAAT - something I enjoy tremendously. my dh tries to tell me that you can train your body to not get hiccups... because *he* only gets one - then he "stops himself from having more". What a load of.... Now it's just about 11am - I'm gonna go paint some more in Zach's room... I'm not quite done the green stripes that go around his room, and I'd like to git er done!

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Feb 13 2006, 10:44 AM

I didn't quite get the paint finished in zach's room. I had a bowl of KD for lunch - Dh came home and made it. I did, though, finish putting up the tape to separate the stripes... and I only have one stripe left on one wall, plus a whole wall of stripes to do....then that's it for the green. I think I'm going to leave the lilac in between the green stripes... cuz they look grey with the green there. I bought truck decals - I'm going to do those, at some point... The girls' room is still sky blue - I think I'm going to leave it blue - and just paint big fushia daisies on the wall. i don't know. I'm iffy... I just really don't feel like moving all the furniture, you know? It takes too much time... and I don't have long periods of time - I have a couple hour-long breaks... but that's not nearly enough time to get anything productive done. My mom and grandmother are visiting this weekend though - so maybe they can help. I had a piece of sheppard's pie at lunch - with a bread roll and homemade ketchup. I had a small bowl of noodle soup too. I just had a handful of goldfish crackers, and am having a PC Cola. I've started counting calories - and I wasn't too far from what I should be eating. In order to maintain body weight - I should be eating about 2700 calories... and since it takes 3500 cals to lose one pound of fat, I need to reduce my daily intake of calories by 1000, in order to lose 2 pounds a week. So - my daily goal for calories should be about 1700. I was averaging in the last week at about 2100 calories, give or take 100.... I started counting calories last week. Wednesday, I think... anyways - it's really showing me all the junk I can easily eliminate. Like today - I usually have 2 pats of butter for the roll (its a big roll) but today I used only one... that's like 50 calories... lol Anyways - it seems to be helping. I'm just keeping track now - and I'm going to slice at my "journal" to track exactly how many calories I eat every day. Wish me luck... I'm getting serious about this.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Feb 14 2006, 05:42 AM

Yesterday I ate: Sheppards pie (400) with a bread rool (140) and margarine (50), with soup (98), a small piece of cheesecake (250) a coffee (10) and a pc cola (160). I also had a handful of crackers (50), and for dinner 2 grilled cheese sandwiches (537) So I had 3 calories to spare last night. Ha! (the numbers in the () are the amount of calories in the foods I ate... lol) Hopeflly today will go as well. Oh yeah - and I'm going to eliminate the bread and margarine (140 +50) and the cheesecake (250) so today's food shold be a little better for me - I can eat more healthier stuff.

Posted by: booey2 Feb 14 2006, 06:39 AM

Great outlook and work Rocky, you are well on your way to a healthier you.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Feb 16 2006, 06:44 AM

ooooh yesterday was awful. DH stayed home sick.... and was a butthead ALL day about food. We'd forgotten, for some reason, Zach's scarf and mittens on the tble this morning - so dh went to go bring them at lunchtime, since they wre only going outside after lunch. He brought back Whoppers from Burger King. Of course, I had to have it, So that was my breakfast/lunch, with the fries and coke, and my dinner was a small bowl of raisin bran, and later on some chips. oh well.... today is another day. I went grocery shopping yesterday and bought a bunch of fresh stuff...we don't usually get so much, but alll the prices hd been chpped... so why not! Saturday, we're going to have fajitas while my mom and grandmother are here - we got a fajita grill for our wedding and never got to use it yet... so i bought all the stuff we'll need for that. I also bought a ton of fresh fruit... cuz the last time my outlaws were over, we had chocolate fondue with fruit - and my mom complained that we never make it when she's down... so now we are. Knowing her, she'll be on a diet and won't want any anyways.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Feb 22 2006, 06:01 PM

Not doing so bad! I've had lots of fresh fruit and veggies lately. Only one bowl of ice cream (sinbe Em has tonsilitis, we picked her up some Rolo ice cream. At least she'll eat that...soothes her throat. Today, for example - I had a bowl of salad for lunch wirth garlic, xheese, cucumber, cauliflower, tomatoes and green pepper. Dinner was 2 tomato sandwiches Evening snack was veggies with ranch dressing.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Feb 23 2006, 01:10 PM

I really didn't have much to eat today. I don'ty have an appetite... I had about 3/4 cup of chicken flavored noodles. and 2 coffees. and I just opened a Pepsi... lol *sigh* Going to a restaurant tonight though... i'll probably have like Quesadillas or something like that.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Feb 27 2006, 02:30 PM

I went to restaurants for pretty much every meal since Thursday...baaaad!! At least I ate good though - I didn't go overbeaord with the junk. This morning - I was pleasantly surprised - I dropped some weight along the way. Maybe I shold eat out more.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Feb 28 2006, 05:22 AM

OMG - my dh made dinner. He made skinless boneless chicken breasts (huge ones!!), and a sidekicks - greek pasta. He put a can of mushroom soup in with the pan of chicken... and added some chopped broccoli. I only had half a chicken breast... those things were mutated chickens, I swear... I don't think I've seen chicken breasts that big before. Then I had a few small handfuls of regular chips, 3 chocolate cookies and a glass of ice cream. Actually, half a glass of ice cream... those darn kids were all over me and my ice cream like a fat kid on cake. So I shared.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Mar 1 2006, 04:52 AM

Yesterday, lunch was a chicken vol-au-vent with veggies and a scoop of mashed potatoes. Dinner was a porc chop, a spoonful of bacon carbonara noodles, a spoonful of yellow string beans, and some salad with Greek salad dressing. I drank loads and loads of water, too.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Mar 1 2006, 12:13 PM

Ièm trying to figure out what I ate toay... and nothing comes to mind. I know dh came home for lunch with the baby, and I left to do something... I donèt think I ate. It would definitely explain why I'm starving. Good thing we have leftovers... off to have a little snacky-poo, since it IS 3pm and dinner is in just a few hours. Probably some veggies and dip. Yup - veggies and dip.

Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Mar 2 2006, 05:36 AM

I had my veggies and dip yesterday around 3 somthing, since I hadn't eaten anything yet... and I get a phone call from DH telling me he's on his way with the older kids, and is bringing home dinner. I asked him what, he said "a surprise!" He walks in with BURGER KING. Stupidly enough, I ate what he brought me. I won't even mention what it was, and how much of it I ate. But this mornign I'm still at 189. Actually the digital scale was faltering between 188.4, 188.7 and 189. I was kinda hoping it would end lower. Oh well... tomorrow is another day!

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