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cportwine
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Posted: 18 December 2008 04:56 pm |
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Ok, I am doing well with the candy, haven't even given it a second thought. Now, the problem is cheese 
My husband best friend brought over a gift pack last night. He works here in town, at the local cheese factory.
So, he got us some cheese, sausage, and some beer.
And yep, my favorite kind of cheese is in there. I can't help my self. It's like a little piece of heaven. It even has the little chunks in it this time. God, help me...I hope I don't eat the whole block.
I can't wait for christmas to be over. All this good food around is getting the best of me...
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cportwine
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Posted: 18 December 2008 10:31 pm |
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Ok, I blew this challenge again today. But, I am shooting for tomorrow. It's almost like I made a list of things that I want to eat. geeezzzz 
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BJD74
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Posted: 20 December 2008 12:52 am |
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ok, i had a mountain dew. after dealing with a pounding headache all day, i caved for some pure caffeine junk and two ibuprofens to see if i could stir the ache away. now, i am sitting on the couch watching old csi's on spike and sipping a mountain dew.
truth be told, i dont know if i am really enjoying it.
that is kinda cool to consider. its tasting kinda funny? maybe my taste buds.
I ordered a pizza for the family with italian sausage, green chile and extra cheese. honestly, i will probably eat soup, i dont know if pizza sounds very good to me and i will definately blow my good two days...even if is was cuz i am sick....
hmm....tough call. i will advise as to my choices...but tomorrow is my official weigh in, so i dont want to salt up with chicken soup either....hmmm.....what to do!?!?!
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cportwine
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Posted: 20 December 2008 04:02 am |
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Well, I can report that I have done well today. With a slip up of three pieces of cheese. But, everything else was good stuff. Nothing bad! So, I think, I am doing good right now... 
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Butterfly_Hourglass
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Posted: 20 December 2008 04:25 am |
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I'm not doing too bad. Considering the fact I've had ALL of the food I didn't want to eat shoved into my face repeatedly.
Keep t up everyone!
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cportwine
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Posted: 21 December 2008 02:51 pm |
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Well, I totally blew it with eating healthy yesterday. I had a really good eating day on friday and then turned around and did bad on sat.
So, my list will be a little shaky until Christmas is over. And I am dieing for some pasta. I have been craving it every since I made the list.
Ok, so I had two mini piece of candy, one chocolate kiss and a mini snickers.
Also, had some cookies.
red meat- I had one piece of summer sausage
I had some cheese dip, it's not real cheese, but it's not low fat either. So, I am counting it as bad.
I think that's all that I ate that was on my NO NO list. So, going to try and get it back today, starting over.... 
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BJD74
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Posted: 22 December 2008 03:42 am |
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i baked cookies today, but i am happy to report that i only had about 2 small balls of dough. it didnt even taste that good to me. I MUST BE SICK!?????
other than that, my list has been doing an excellent job of keeping me in line!!!
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VegaObscura
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Posted: 22 December 2008 03:30 pm |
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I'm doing perfect so far.
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BJD74
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Posted: 26 December 2008 04:40 pm |
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CHRISTMAS EVE I HAD 1 WHOLE CANDY CANE AND THEN A HALF OF ANOTHER AND BAKED COOKIES THAT UNDOUBTEDLY I DID CONSUME.....I DIDNT GO OVERBOARD BUT I WASNT TOTALLY ABSTINATE EITHER. WE GOT A BOX OF "POT OF GOLD" CHOCOLATES AS WELL, AND I ATE 1 THAT NITE.
CHRISTMAS DAY I HAD CHOCOLATE WITH RED WINE, 3 PIECES TOTAL (175 CALORIES). DIDNT ENJOY VERY MUCH, CUZ ITS NOT SEE'S CANDIES.......ALSO ATE COOKIES, DONT KNOW HOW MANY THRU THE DAY? MAYBE 6-8 TOTAL? DRANK MOSTLY, AND ATE SOME BEEF SAUSAGE WITH RITZ AND CREAM CHEESE, HARD BOILED EGG.
DIDNT EAT DINNER SINCE THE WINE MADE ME FEEL UNWELL FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY, BUT THAT IS OK. I AM NOT WANTING TO EAT NOW, BUT I WILL EAT TODAY SO I DONT BINGE EAT LATER.
NOTHING SOUNDS GOOD TO ME RIGHT NOW, NOT EVEN PLAIN PASTA OR PIZZA OR ANYTHING......
IM IN THE DUMPS, THAT IS WHY I DONT WANT TO EAT. 
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VegaObscura
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Posted: 26 December 2008 05:17 pm |
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Well, Christmas has come and gone. I had no treats of any kind. No sweets, no ham (which my family was having for dinner), no grease, nothing. Just the same things I always eat.
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cportwine
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Posted: 29 December 2008 01:39 pm |
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Well, since we had christmas. I have not been doing to well with this challenge. I think the only things on my list that I have not had are pasta and ice cream. The candy, was over with right away. I didn't do to terrible with the red meats. Only twice this last week, which isn't to bad.
So, time to kick it in gear, and get busy.
Off to the store today. Going to get stocked up on the good stuff.....
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BJD74
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Posted: 29 December 2008 04:02 pm |
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yesterday i kinda went backwards again. just couldnt stay out of the junk. i had some of the crispy treats that were supposed to be gifts in the cookie tin....i had 3 pieces of chocolate candy that i dont even like.....umm, i had bran flakes for dinner?!?! yeah....not so great a day for me foood wise.....
its a new day today....why must it always be a struggle and why oh why do i want a chicken fried steak breakfast skillet??!@?!??!!?
 
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VegaObscura
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Posted: 30 December 2008 12:45 pm |
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cportwine wrote: The candy, was over with right away.
You're doing it again
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BJD74
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Posted: 30 December 2008 02:56 pm |
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what is cindy doing again????
we only have a few more days left guys!!! WE CAN DO IT!!!!!!
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cportwine
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Posted: 30 December 2008 09:30 pm |
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BJD74
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Posted: 31 December 2008 02:55 pm |
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ok, so since sunday i have had a few cookies (like 2?). i am steering clear of the coffee (which is a feat since I make a fresh pot for Davey every morning to drive into work with a hot cup) i have avoided all fast food, the candy canes left our house on Saturday and never came back, soda isnt even in my head anymore, BUT BUT BUT.......
I just reread my list. I apparently wrote Candy on this list, and on my fridge list is Candy Canes?!?!?!......HOW DID I MIX THAT UP ALL THIS TIME!!?!?!?!
I BLEW THAT ONE YESTERDAY GUYS. I bought some chocolates. I got mini candys like Cindy was eating before Christmas. I got some of the dark chocolate mint muskateers for when i get an itch for something chocolatey. BAD ME!!!! I didnt even second guess myself.....cuz i know how weak i get for those soft candy canes!!! HOW FUNNY! I HAVE TO LAUGH! I am defeating myself and not even trying! and 9 of them is 180 calories, who can eat 9 of them? i can take 1 and i am satisfied. Its the whitmans that i got for davey that are my nemesis. Ok, how about i take all the minis i bought and put them into the bags for the family? i only got one bag, and i can resist the whitmans, its not that big of a box. I really wanted the pretty tin it came in for my christmas jewelry anyway......when the candy is gone, no More. NO MORE.
Who am i kidding? i am my own nemesis!!!! Argh!
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cportwine
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Posted: 31 December 2008 03:56 pm |
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The only slip up for me yesterday was the noodles at the dinner party. I couldn't hardly turn them down. But, I didn't really eat that many anyway. Just not into pasta these days.
Oh yea, she had ice cream sundaes for dessert. Again, not allot... so I think I did good considering I had to eat somewhere else.
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BJD74
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Posted: 31 December 2008 04:18 pm |
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ha ha may i be that lucky tonite! as it is, daveys got a choice to work and make some extra hours, after hours...he may end up staying a little later tonite and we dont make it to the gathering anyway! that would be luckY! i am looking forward to eating posole though, i just love love love posole! I wish i knew just how fattening, or caloric it is!!! It depends on how you make it i suppose. Its only this time of year that i eat it....so if nothing else, i will engorge on posole and not sweets. That is always a better choice...or so i tell myself.!
I have been into hard boiled eggs lately, i eat them all the time. That and toast with butter. Simple pleasures. I can eat anything, but there are some things i just dont miss as much. I dont enjoy red meat that much anymore...prob since for two years at mom and dads trying to do atkins that was alot of what we ate. If i never ate a steak again, i would be fine...ha ha....well, ok, maybe not ever. I do enjoy those land and sea dinners when you go out to a fancy restaurant.....HA!!! Havent done that since we got married in July!!!
Argh...money, its tough!
Have a great day!!!
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cportwine
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Posted: 31 December 2008 09:38 pm |
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I use to love steak. Now, I can't hardly eat it. It takes to long to chew up and it really is more of a work out then it is worth. We have been off the steaks here for about two years. I will pick some up once in awhile for the family, but that is about it.
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Butterfly_Hourglass
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Posted: 1 January 2009 10:11 am |
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Gah, sorry I dropped off the face of the earth! Things have been rather crazy.
I've been slipping up here and there, and eating WAY too much, but hey, you know what?
It's a new year, and a new start. So, this year, I'm going to make some changes.
Good job to everyone doing this! You guys are awesome.
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BJD74
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Posted: 3 January 2009 02:48 pm |
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i had a diet pepsi last nite with dinner. i also had another piece of that whitmans chocolates. A dark chocolate fluff sort of thing, kinda like a noughat but more like a thick marshmellow? oh stop it sounds good just reading that! I put four into daveys lunch today, but i havent eaten all the caramel dark chocolates yet...spreading them out over the week so maybe one a day as a treat.
When its gona, no more. I promise!!! Other than the candy....i am doing well for my challenge. I havent had any of the other items on the list.......i make coffee every morning for Davey and still resisting as of today!!
little kudoes for me
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cportwine
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Posted: 3 January 2009 03:10 pm |
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I haven't been doing to bad with this. But, I still need to work on it some more. I screwed up yesterday and two pieces of pizza. UGH!
It's funny I start out the day good, then it just goes down hill. I need to correct that little problem. So, I think I will take a few minutes this morning to plan out my eating for today. Maybe if I have it in writing. It will make some sort of difference. It's worth a try...
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BJD74
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Posted: 3 January 2009 03:40 pm |
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hey cport, what do you think you need to do to keep yourself on track? for me, it would probably be to hide in the closet all day!!!! I write everything as i eat it, and i consciously think of the food i will prepare to have for whatever meal it is...but for me, its when i get that stress over something silly...whether its madeline ignoring me when i ask her repeatedly to do something, or the dogs knock a plant over playin in the house...or lately the refinance and parents....happily though, after the call from my brother yesterday to chide me about not talking to mom and dad...and i setting him straight as TO WHY i am not talking to them...I didnt go for the food. I went outside and moved the wood pile that we got for two hours. I barely ate yesterday at all. Its so funny but when the stress is lower, the intake is lower. The hard part is i just never know what will make me POP! you know?
Good luck planning it out, I try that but it is usually altered in some way, by seeing something better or more of what i am looking for that isnt what i wrote....i write healthier than i eat!!!
Ha ha thats pretty funny isnt it?!
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cportwine
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Posted: 3 January 2009 07:59 pm |
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Yea, I already blew that plan all to heck and back. I went to my diary wrote down what I was going to eat and then when lunch came totally ate something different. I have never been good at sticking to things like that. I need to eat what I want or I go way overboard trying to compensate for it.
So, I had a plate of ham and beans instead of eating the planned snacks and tuna sandwich. Oh well, I probably took in the same amount of calories. I just wish I could be more of a person that can stick to a plan. It's something that really ticks me off about myself.
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BJD74
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Posted: 4 January 2009 12:11 am |
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cportwine wrote: I just wish I could be more of a person that can stick to a plan. It's something that really ticks me off about myself.
i know what you mean cindy!............. its really difficult for me to do that as well! I can get an idea in the early morning about what i will do, eat, etc...and somehow i digress into other things. Like today, i took down half of our christmas decor in the house!{three days ago i was crying to sis' that i didnt want to take any of it down cuz its so blah afterwards....} I took down the ornaments, the stuff around the bathrooms, the extra stuff..and packed it all nicely! There is still the outside lights, and the tree with its lites....but that is all! I left up one of my small fir trees with blue lights next to my blue sky adobe painting cuz its pretty. We are already making light decorations for Valentines Day. Davey gets his work outfits cleaned with work, so we have a poop load of metal hangars. Well, on thursday we were talking about taking down all the pretty lites outside and i was sad so we discussed options for the next coming holidays. Next thing we know hes got out the hangars, wire ties and pylers to straighten them out as i began to shape them into a HUGE 7 ft around HEART! We even put an arrow thru it! It is totally cool! So, we will lite it up with red lites and maybe do a swirly of white lites in the tree near the heart. I am so lucky to have a considerate husband! And I cant wait to put out the heart! 
I digressed there, but that is the problem with me anyway....i had intentions to work out today after grocery shopping, but suddenly i was doing something totally different altogether. I havent eaten anything except carrot sticks and hard boiled eggs with sugar free kool aid today. Wierd how days go that way. I also ended up going thru all of my jewelry and rearranging it in boxes, hangings, etc.....totally not something i had in my mind this am.
So, my point you ask? dont feel bad for not always doing what you plan to do........usually it happens for some wierd reason......even with food! Your mind may tell you one thing, but usually your eyes see something and tell your tummy another!
NOW>>>>>>> what about dinner? I think we will have chef salads.....that is about all i feel like making tonite. Or left over pizza from last week for them and i will have more hard boiled eggs! (i am on a hb egg kick these days....i just lap em up like a puppy with milk!)
Dont be mad at yourself for choosing differently as long as you chose healthy. You are allowed to change your mind, all the time...every second.. or every minute...its all up to yoU!
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cportwine
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Posted: 4 January 2009 05:30 am |
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Thanks for the pep talk Bj. I just want to accomplish so much in my little short span of life and it gets upsetting for me when I don't follow the plan.
I get up and decide what I am going to do and then I do everything different, just like you said. But, tomorrow will be different. Even if I have to recruit everyone in the house. My house will be back in order and ready to go on Monday.
Also, exercise is taking top priority right now. I have been slacking with all the days off, and it's time to get back to business as usual.
By the way, I did pass up pizza at pizza hut tonight, so there is some hope.
So, back at it tomorrow... Hope everyone else is doing good...
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BJD74
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Posted: 4 January 2009 07:52 pm |
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hello! its sunday, gloomy here but not raining yet. we are thinking it wont..but i am hopeful.....i would like some snow. we are watching the dolphins play baltimore. baltimore is leading so far and we just went into the 3rd quarter. So our day is not so hot!!!
weighed in at 188 today. i am happy with that. last nite menu changed for me, i made d his chef salad and then i had a tuna fish sandwich and pineapple. so i still did great but i veered from what i had said i would eat! ha ha lol....creatures of habit!
as for the rest of the nite, i did good. today, started emotional with an email that was only 4 sentences from my parents.. i wrote back and still feel like #%@&!. d feels it too, he read the letter. he read my response and felt i made it about madeline just like them...and i did, because that is the forefront of my anger. he felt it should have been about how they treat me....us..our house, our feelings wishes etc.
I dont know how to express my unhappiness there. I blame myself for being childish..the drinking wine then getting brave enough to call him on xmas day and be strong, but end up in tears. Anyway, i dont know what to say there, he sees it and has his feelings, but i cant make them mine...so today, i had a bite of a chocolate. put half of it back. i then went back for a stale sugar cookie...ate that and hated it. i made sugar free cocoa..now my tooth hurts. i am hurting myself..
Davey was drinking a pepsi, i wanted a swig but i resisted. I will stop, that is why i came to make my report. No activity either, i have been chilled all day. I cant seem to get warm. Hence the cocoa. Hang in there! At least you are getting your workout in????? I cant even get that done, #%@&! i feel guilty just being on the computer. i snapped at him for his snapping at madeline, what am i mad at him for? he is just defending my honor with my parents.....i guess its just that maybe cuz noone ever does or did that for me before. So, why dont i let him and stop hurting myself over this?
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cportwine
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Posted: 5 January 2009 09:26 pm |
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I am going to try something new with this challenge. Maybe it will help, not sure. But, whenever I feel the need to eat one of the items on my list I am going to drink a bottled water.
If anything, it will make me more aware of what I am attempting to eat.
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BJD74
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Posted: 6 January 2009 03:13 pm |
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cportwine wrote: I am going to try something new with this challenge. Maybe it will help, not sure. But, whenever I feel the need to eat one of the items on my list I am going to drink a bottled water.
If anything, it will make me more aware of what I am attempting to eat.
hello! so how many bottles of water have you drank? i tease! but actually that is kinda like i do sometimes, though not always. I go for a glass of water then go do something else. At least you will get your daily intake of water correct? so either way its a good thing!
As for my eating well so far I am doing ok. I have only eaten a sugar free chocolate ice cream bar on sunday or maybe saturday nite...yesterday was not much of anything, made french toast for breakfast for davey, and i got my Aunt Flo as well, so I wasnt into eating alot, my tummy kinda ached..i had rice crispies cereal for dinner, then later a hard boiled egg and a string cheese. I had gotten davey a baileys liquor cheesecake for his birthday and he opened it last nite. I had one bite, but didnt care for it. I am not into cheesecake so much. Sure i could eat it, but just cuz its there, not cuz i crave it. I made him his pumpkin pie as well, very spicy and he loved it. I had a slice of that that was maybe the width of my finger? if that. Very tiny. Just enough to taste my homemade pumpkin pie! I didnt have anything on my list after saturday nite, i believe that i had a brownie....and milk. But no more cookies here, well there are but they are goin in the lunchbox with davey this week, and when they are gone that is it. Its back to his chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies etc that i dont ever eat. The sugar cookies are no mas until next christmas! I survived it!
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cportwine
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Posted: 6 January 2009 04:11 pm |
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I am liking the water thing. I drink way to much tea, and not enough water. So, working on that.
I don't think it really is helping with the bad stuff. But, at least like you said I am getting more of it.
I didn't do to bad yesterday. I had two mini reese's things, and some light ice cream. The light ice cream taste way to good, to be diet. So, not buying that anymore. Even if it is light, I could seriously eat the whole jug of it. lol
Besides that, I am doing good. Haven't messed up today yet. So, keeping my fingers crossed....
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VegaObscura
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Posted: 6 January 2009 05:37 pm |
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Not much to report. Still doing perfect. This is no fun if I'm never tempted to have anything on the list. It seems food never has any temptations for me. It makes me wonder how I got fat in the first place.
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CrimsonAnimus
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Posted: 6 January 2009 06:42 pm |
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VegaObscura wrote: This is no fun if I'm never tempted to have anything on the list. It seems food never has any temptations for me.
Interesting. OK, then, I have a challenge for you! I challenge you. to. make. a. post. with. lots. of. periods.
Butterfly, this was a great idea. Best of luck to you all!!!
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cportwine
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Posted: 6 January 2009 06:55 pm |
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CrimsonAnimus wrote: VegaObscura wrote: This is no fun if I'm never tempted to have anything on the list. It seems food never has any temptations for me.
Interesting. OK, then, I have a challenge for you! I challenge you. to. make. a. post. with. lots. of. periods.
Butterfly, this was a great idea. Best of luck to you all!!!
lol, hey I think I could do that...
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BJD74
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Posted: 6 January 2009 08:47 pm |
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cportwine wrote: CrimsonAnimus wrote: VegaObscura wrote: This is no fun if I'm never tempted to have anything on the list. It seems food never has any temptations for me.
Interesting. OK, then, I have a challenge for you! I challenge you. to. make. a. post. with. lots. of. periods.
Butterfly, this was a great idea. Best of luck to you all!!!
lol, hey I think I could do that...
UMMM>.........................what are we talking about here? a post with lots of periods????
fill me in please!
As for my food today, I have had a salad with oil and vinegar, peppers, leeks, cucumber, lettuce, feta cheese, carrots, a hard boiled egg, tomatoes and what else? i think that is all! I still havent worked out, and I said i would make a soup for dinner, but i am yet to do that!
NOW IF I COULD JUST GET UP AND WORK OUT!!!! We need to make a post for WORKING OUT CHALLENGES! if there isnt one already!
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BJD74
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Posted: 10 January 2009 12:29 am |
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its friday. i think i had a rougher day than i thought originally. i wrote about how well it went talking to someone about my debts. but suddenly i wanted to eat, anything sweet i could get my hands on. it started when i went to get some bacon to make blt's tonite and there was the half used chocolate frosting from the birthday...and so i opened it and plunged my finger into and ate up two fingertips full before putting it back quickly. ashamed. Then, it was a vienna finger (i dont even like them) which i saw fit to pass onto the 3 puppies and didnt finish, then i went for two slices of cooked ham, then back for 2 teaspons of peanut butter creamy, um, then it was time to get dinner started, so i took out the stuff to prep and i ended up eating rather quickly a slice of bread with mayo on it. DARN IT.
WHAT DID I DO THAT FOR? i started to write in my journal, since i had already written down the dinner counts to keep myself in check...and i wrote all the things i ate just now and ended up that i have to eat barely anything tonite, or i go over and tomorrow is my official weigh in and face the damage i do tonite. So here i am writing here, its faster than handwriting in the journal, esp when im moving a mile a minute. Could it be that pill i decided to take? Or i am just anxius cuz after the two emails i sent to vanessa the rep i talked to today...i never heard back?? um....my period? i dont know. DARN IT.
And i worked out today too...maybe that is making me hungry? arghhhhhh
Anyway, I guess i can say that this doesnt help keeping to the challenge! But i will stop now, i just made myself accountable and i will behave the rest of the nite. TOmorrow i will work out and eat good. :) Lets hope!
so, to make sure my no no list was violated with cookie, frosting is candy to me, and this am i swigged down some of daveys coffee to make room for the lid!!!! maybe that was the beginning....how do you ever know what stems a purge?
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BJD74
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Posted: 10 January 2009 08:15 pm |
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started strong today, came in solid at 183. I know its from my undoing yesterday. That was bad. But today i had it going, until i made cookies for davey. He loves his cookies, and even if i am trying to stay away i cant rob him, he needs the cookies. He loves em with milk. Its something that is known at his work about me, its special.
BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN I HAD TO EAT ANY OF IT!?!?!
I cant fall off the wagon, i cant. i can feel my grip slipping, and the scale climbing.
I cant do it I cant do it I cant do it......
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cportwine
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Posted: 10 January 2009 08:59 pm |
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I am thinking I should drop out of this challenge. I can't quit eating the things on my list even for a day.
I had some pasta and then some chocolates last night. Two of those little kisses and this pasta salad that they had at my hubby's work party. The pasta salad was nasty, so I didn't eat much of it.
So, today I am trying really hard not to eat stuff on my list. It would be nice to pull it off for just one day...
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BJD74
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Posted: 10 January 2009 09:16 pm |
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cportwine wrote: I am thinking I should drop out of this challenge. I can't quit eating the things on my list even for a day.
I had some pasta and then some chocolates last night. Two of those little kisses and this pasta salad that they had at my hubby's work party. The pasta salad was nasty, so I didn't eat much of it.
So, today I am trying really hard not to eat stuff on my list. It would be nice to pull it off for just one day...
AMEN SISTER! THAT IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT? what are we gonna do??? we just have to keep each other in check. DONT YOU DARE DROP OUT!!!!! You musnt! Here are some humourous one liners about dieting and weight loss and the struggles we face, hope to make you guys giggle...
I have gained and lost the same ten pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have déjà vu. ~Jane Wagner (thats me!)
When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because that Raid really doesn't taste that bad. ~Janette Barber (hmm...maybe i should try this!?!?)
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. ~Mark Twain (oh so true so true...right cindy?;-O)
If you hang your swimsuit
On the refrigerator door,
The goodies inside
Will be easier to ignore.
~The Quote Garden (something to try ladies...and gents???)
Happy rest of the weekend! Will check in later, esp if I eat something I shouldnt!!!
I think I can! I think I can! I think I can!!!!!
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Hiker
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Posted: 15 January 2009 03:47 pm |
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Hey, is this challenge still going on? I thought it was ending in early January but it looks like it's continuing?
If so I have a question. Can I join the group but not have list of foods I am not going to eat. My goal for this year is to learn to eat all things in moderation. I also want to try and give up most fat free/Low fat foods and eat the real thing again, if I am going to have a cookie then I am going to have a real cookie....I have to count the calories but I think it will be better for me in the long run. I will make an exception to that on dairy since everything I read seems to indicate the low fat dairy products are the better choice. I am also going to try and give up stuff with a lot of chemicals....but not my diet coke....I can't do it and I don't even want to think about doing it right now. Anyway can I join and just agree to try and eat health (the chocolate covered cream puff I had on Tuesday probably wouldn't be considered healthy ).
Anyway, I know the rules say you have to list 5 things to give up but is it a flexible rule?
Last edited on 15 January 2009 04:03 pm by Hiker
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BJD74
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Posted: 15 January 2009 04:46 pm |
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hey hiker...i dont know for sure, but it sounds to me that your goal is a good goal to have.....its just as hard to eat in moderation all things as it is to avoid certain things. I think this challenge is still on, I do hope so! I need it to keep myself accountable, though i have fallen as of last nite.
I had 4 homemade chocolate chip cookies. *and they were delicious*
I am doing well avoiding the rest of the items on my list, I have my zero coke and my diet cherry pepsi in the fridge, but i havent had any since last week. I wont give it up either, but when you stick to the sugar free stuff it seems that i wave at it as it passes me by. I dont need it quite as much.
I dont have alot of low fat or fat free food in the house. It would be a waste of money now, since I am so tightly budgetting. I dont buy separate foods for the 3 of us, I just try to implement healthy into all of it somehow.
I have the little things but for anything sugar free or low fat my list is minimal:
SF COCOA
South Beach chocolate Pudding
NO Sugar added tapioca and rice pudding
Diet sodas
Splenda for cereal etc, but barely used anymore. I go for real now, and just use enough to sweeten the taste.
SF Kool Aid or mixes to add to the water.
100 calorie pack Mister Saltys choco covered pretzels.
100 calorie yogurt, asst flavors.
low fat low skim mozarella string cheese
The rest of the stuff in our home is regular. I wont drink the 0% milk, or even the 2% i just dont like the taste and milk isnt something I drink alot of. I have 2 servings of dairy or less a day. I think I get my fix out of yogurt or cheese.
I am trying to allow myself all things, or alot of things as long as i do so in moderation. I have bad days, and then i have great days when i dont want anything that is not good for me.
I think you should keep using the thread, I am! Who cares if we passed the date of ending! Lets just use it, cuz its helping me more than i admit. If only to come and admit my binge....
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cportwine
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Posted: 15 January 2009 06:53 pm |
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Personally, I am giving up this challenge. I think I am do quite poorly on it. It's just to much to resist certain foods. I find that I just crave them more and then binge on them. So, I am going back to normal without my list of no no's. I am making a new list like hiker is doing. Mine is as follows:
1. To not eat unless I am hungry
2. to not eat something if I don't like it
3. To practice portion control
4. drink water
5. To stick with my eating healthy habits.
Ok, these are some very basic things that I started out with in the beginning of my dieting days. So, I am going to try it again. I have been doing so bad lately. I feel I need a fresh start... After off to make a new sheet for my refrigerator...
By the way Bj, I like the one quote about the cookies... Maybe you should try that, lol. JK
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BJD74
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Posted: 15 January 2009 07:55 pm |
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Good List Cindy!
So you arent going to use this thread? that is too bad, but again you have made a new list and that is an excellent list. I hope it works for you! I am not doing bad with my no no's aside from the cookies. One cookie is 100 calories.....that put me back into perspective and now i will choose something other than that to eat. One isnt enough. I will stick to the no no list while trying to do things in moderation... :)
Good luck all!
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cportwine
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Posted: 15 January 2009 08:04 pm |
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Oh I would love to stay in here and track my progress on the new list, as long as no one minds. I may even make a new food list later on, when I feel I can handle it better.
I am just really struggling lately and need to get back to the basics. After I do that, then I can move on to bigger things. Like focusing on certain foods and what not.
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Hiker
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Posted: 16 January 2009 11:44 am |
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Hey Cport and BJ, if you guys stay I will too since there seems to be no objection to not doing a list of forbidden foods. So here is my eating health list.
1. Avoid fat free foods (except dairy)
2. Stop eating when full
3. Journal....even on those really bad days
4. Replace coffee with tea
5. Avoid chemicals in food when possible ( I won't be a fanatic but I would like to reduce the amount I get).
So are we agreed, we will keep this one going?
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cportwine
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Posted: 16 January 2009 01:40 pm |
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Yep, I think we all should stay and do our list as we see fit. I think to that we should change our list as needs be....
lol, I printed my list off and I am putting it on the refrigerator...
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Hiker
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Posted: 16 January 2009 02:11 pm |
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Cport, printing the list for the fridge is a great idea, I'm going to do it too.
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BJD74
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Posted: 17 January 2009 08:22 pm |
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Here is my list of good things that I am going to do to manage my intake daily and be better overall health wise.
1. Eat three small meals a day.
2. Drink 64 oz of water a day.
3. Exercise for 45 minutes to 1 hour 3 days a week.
4. No coffee or regular soda since I simply cant stop at one of either beverage.
5. Compliment something about myself each day, no matter how badly I am feeling that day.
6. Be sure to eat plenty of veggies and fruits, fresh not canned.
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cportwine
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Posted: 17 January 2009 09:11 pm |
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That sounds like a good list. Are you still keeping your food list or not? I have been thinking maybe I was to quick to give up the food list. So, I think I might try and do both. I don't know...have to think on it...
Maybe I can just make a list with both things. Some good eating habit stuff and food stuff.
What you guys think?
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Hiker
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Posted: 17 January 2009 10:11 pm |
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Hey BJ, I like #5 on your list, we all should incorporate that one.
Cport, I'm not sure what you mean about your food list, do you mean the list of things you are not going to eat? If so I personally find it does not work for me, all I do is think about what I can't have and how much I want it but if it works for you then go for it.
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BJD74
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Posted: 17 January 2009 10:24 pm |
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yeah hiker, i think you are right. it is often we who forget to love ourselves during this challenging time. I certainly get loads of compliments from D each day, each hour sometimes depending on how i walk across the room! LOL he loves me. i know it is crazy what love can do to a man! and to think, I laugh sometimes when he calls me sexy...esp when i am in my now baggy velvet red sweatpants and a tank top!!! LOL some things are just that easy i guess. Its definately easier for Him to compliment me than for me to do it myself...hence adding it to the list. I thought, you know I am trying so hard to lose this weight...
what if i get down to like 150 and still think i am not that pretty or sexy? what if? so this is my way of starting to TRAIN my mind to see ME in a POSITIVE way. Its not easy, believe me. I had a really hard time saying something good today, esp after my weigh in earlier.
I think you all should put something like that into your list, unless you are already a champ at complimenting your daily endeavors!!!
I think too that Cindy was referring to the NO NO LIST that we had originally started over the holidays. I have mine up in the kitchen and today I just made a new one with my NEW LIST of items to refer to each time i am in the kitchen. Lets hope I can achieve what I say!
So far today:
1. I have complimented and I will do again in working out! I started with idea of doing 1 mile, then i pushed thru the 2nd and then here i am pushing thru the 3rd! So YOU GO GIRL! YOU DID 3 MILES!!! 2 more than you planned!! PLUS you pushed thru the YOGA workout too! YOU DID IT! Good Job Baby!
2. 64 oz of water down and its only 3pm! I have til 10 to drink even more! GJB!
3. I have complimented myself twice today!
4. Another day down without coffee or regular soda, or any diet soda for that matter!
hmm....that is all for now! I guess I am doing well for today! It helps to write it out! 
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