I've been so concerned with encouraging others to eat sugar...I really don't want to trigger anyone...but it sounds like you all aren't too bothered by me...LOL.........If my menus ( or grazing items bother anyone just let me know) ......My plan is to just maintain until after the holidays....On new years day I plan to make some serious demands on myself....food wise, weight wise and otherwise....until then......I will continue to post foods. I just don't want to bug anyone......
Thanksgiving day was quite traditional with turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, cranberries, stuffing , rolls and pie. The breakfast was our usual. And candy as a snack
Today...since I made Denny the last 2 eggs left in the house I had to eat pie for breakfast...I think I got the best deal and of course coffee
Lunch was turkey on rolls ( 2), green bean casserole, stuffing, cranberries and sweet potatoes and coffee
Did a little shopping for groceries in 2 stores this morning...no black friday in this tiny town...so it wasn't too busy.
Gun shots all aroung right now...maybe I shouldn't be sitting in front of a wiindow.......
Planning a little side trip to visit some of Dennys family tomorrow....looking forward to that.
Dinner was chicken salad, 2 small rolls, apple juice, 6 crackers and cake in a cup
Evening before bed snack.....mixed nuts and a kashi bar.....starving!!!!
Progress as of today: 19.4 lbs lost so far, only 106 lbs to go!
HOP made me start thinking about New Years Resolutions.......and starting to make my list. Lots of little things to do around here today.........tomorrows dinner is all planned and the ingredients bought...it will just be us this year but it will be traditional for the most part....from here on, begins the typical holiday season and it's foods.....I'm not technically planning on dieting now for the remainder of the year...holding at this weight will be my goal through the rest of november and through december. I think that I will probably not list my foods for the rest of the year...I'm afraid I may have triggered others in the past to eat more sugar ( that is something I will always eat because of my hypoglycemia)...and it's the only thing that really raises my sugar levels quickly because it really drops dangerously low quickly.....anyway.....I am here...I'll post and comment....but not list foods after today.
Breakfast = coffee, 1 egg, ham, toast
Snack = candy corn and mixed nuts
Lunch = big green salad and chop suey
Dinner = baked beans, pulled pork, pumpkin bar, cookies
Evening = tea
Progress as of today: 19.4 lbs lost so far, only 106 lbs to go!
If not dieting, which is prob smart, planning to maintain is a GREAT idea for holiday season when so many are gaining weight. I actually have the same goal of maintaining thru Wintertime into Spring (my goal). My own reason is bc i am very content at my current weight & i have more important goal (fitness-wise) which is to increase muscle. Basically, my weight is not the most important thing, as long as it's maintained & my goals have FINALLY, after over TEN YEARS, shifted from weightloss to finally weight maintanance.
i love to read what people it, but we'll still enjoy your presence here even if it's without listing your food! :)
Did you cook the chop suey? i love to order it an chinese restaurants! :) Full of cabbage and veggies.
also, the pumpkin bar! where's it from ? what brand?
you don't have to ever worry about listing foods and triggering anyone. but whatever you want is obviously ok with all of us here!
I hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving!?
I'm focusing on all things maintaining until the new year as well and would love a DD buddy (you) to come along for the ride...
Started the morning watching the Kilchers having Thanksgiving around their homestead , interesting family. Time to get the turkey out of the freezer.....I think it will be just us this year.....one son who is an assistant manager of a department store...will be working a double shift on Thanksgiving and Black friday...other son and daughter in law eat only organic ( both) and glutin free (her)....are getting harder and harder to cook for and they seem to rather just eat at home instead of taking the chance of making her sick.....and we are quite a distance apart anyway...so roads can be bad this time of year......got a letter from an aunt yesterday who is 90....she says there are 2 more cases of breast cancer in family now...one on chemo, one getting radiation.....sad. brother in law getting chemo too...all 3 going to the same cancer treatment place currently. 2 in their 60's and one in her 40's.........Enjoy every day....and as my Mom said at my dads funeral...."enjoy them while you have them."
Breakfast = 1 egg, 1 ounce ham, whole grain toast, coffee
Snack = mixed nuts, mini beef sticks, something called chocolate leather...like fruit leather but chocolate...interesting
Lunch = leftover lasagna
Evening = kashi bar and cheese and crackers
Progress as of today: 19.4 lbs lost so far, only 106 lbs to go!
and i second Donkey, congrats on 2 lb loss, that's wonderful!
Supposed to get into the 40's today....snow still on the ground here........after yesterdays day of sleeping...I'm finally caught up and raring to go today.....need to take these days when I get them and accomplish things.
Hearty breakfast of egg, ham and cheese scramble and fried potatoes with mocha coffee
Snack = low blood sugar so had a little chocolate
Lunch = homemade lasagna
We are in the midst of a power outage right now...but we have a generac so it started itself up like a charm....reported it...1,200 homes out...and they don't know why...it's a beautiful clear sunny day here.........well their power back on time went by....and now the new time is 6:30....got into the sugar and turned into a pig....so
snack = candy and cookies....guess it's stress.........oh well
Progress as of today: 17.4 lbs lost so far, only 108 lbs to go!
I'll try to propose to you substitutes that would be lower cal :) unless you tell me not to! It's fun for me...
Our weather has been in 50's which is wonderful. Yesterday is was VERY windy things blowing EVERYHWERE, but it wasn't a struggle bc it was around 50, not like 30 degrees.
enjoy your more productive day :)
yes, thank you for the support, i'll be taking the class as soon as it is available. and i'll be continuing my exercise because it's major enjoyment.
i've been very injured in the past due to overdoing, so, i know that when i'm involved in too much, not sleeping enough, etc., it will inhibit the exercise.
So, i'll try to make it all work...
kudos to you doing so much when your kids were young. it'd have made me sick...you are a strong woman.
i use stevia to sweeten both food and drinks. i love it. i sweeten my seltzers with it to make them taste like soda..much sweeter than a flavored seltzer, no sugar.
Agave has cals, but is healthy.
i currently do also use honey, because it has lots of antioxidants and has dimished my allergy symptoms in the Springtime. so even tho there's some cals in honey, it's benefits outweigh the calorie "burden."
good also using truvia.
when you are done with the truvia, i have scoured Amazon to find the best Stevia product for the lowest price i could find.
In the summertime, where i lived growing up, the lightning (and thunderstorms) were a big problem causing a few outages each summer!
anyways, the shrimp burger wasn't really a patty, well it looked like a patty though - but it was really just a bunch of shrimp like pushed into a patty and grilled. it tasted good but wasn't very unique. very healthy though!
Lots of snow today...and it's piling up.....it's beautiful...makes everything so nice and clean looking......I'm having a sleepy unmotivated day.......I just want to close my eyes and sleep the day away.
Breakfast = coffee, yogurt
snack = orange juice and 2 almond btter granola bars
Lunch baked potato, baked beans and ham
snack = cake in a cup
Dinner = tea, tuna salad and 6 crackers
evening = pop corn. annies gummies
Progress as of today: 17.4 lbs lost so far, only 108 lbs to go!
got on the scales this morning for the first time in a long time and was shocked.....Too much junk food lately for sure so I'm counting calories with fitday again...luckily I have their CD so it's easy....but man....it doesn't take me long to snap back to the old bad habits and put the pounds back on.
It's like starting over again..
coffee
oikos yogurt
False alarm...it was the scales...they have been weighing Denny heavy these last few days too.....now they died....so we got the old ones out and we are right where we thought we were...I coudn't figure out how my weight went up 17 pounds and I didn't feel it and my clothes still fit......well...it didn't...what a relief...so no calorie counting as long as I'm not gaining...I will keep doing what i'm doing. Don't know rather to try another new battery or toss them....hmmmm
Lunch = whole wheat roll with beef and mayo, grapefruit juice, almond butter bar and chocolate
Progress as of today: 17.4 lbs lost so far, only 108 lbs to go!
You must have been SO THANKFUL that it was the scale and not you!
Means that you are doing things right. Keep on. And if you want to make any more changes, and when you decide you want to lose more weight, simply make ONE SMALL CHANGE in your habits. Whether it's having an omelette with one less egg (i think you already only eat one egg - so that's not an option lol), or having one cookie instead of two, whatever it is - go for it, and the change will eventually help your weight loss.
That's for when and if you want to - but also, you are probably still learning to eat by intuition and without calorie counting, so if you are still learning these new things, you don't need to make any more changes yet, no matter how small :)
thanks for all the advice you've been giving me, i know i sound very lazy and i admit i have some kinda problem following thru with becoming actually good at any field i have worked in. it's because i didn't practice or put in enough effort. I'm better with active jobs, task oriented jobs...too bad i realized this really late in life, after injuries.
I'll for now have to settle with my job and hope to keep it. Signing up for the course my father wants me to take also. It's a LOT of commitments for this winter. I guess i'll learn to push thru, once again.
Tearing into the food closet and setting up new sheving system....I think this is going to work beautifully..........finally there will be a system and I will be able to find things when i need them and it will also allow me to use u[p older things first. Way too may past date cans and boxes in there...I'm not afraid to eat them...as long as they are not bulging or look different in some way......This is what we needed to prevent that from happening.
Breakfast = breakfast sandwich, coffee and grapefruit juice
Lunch= I'm planning to make a green salad, steak and pot stickers
Dinner will be yogurt and ?
Progress as of today: 17.4 lbs lost so far, only 108 lbs to go!
I am sorta afraid when it comes to eating old things, sometimes i do throw out.
Your food planning looks great. Do you always drink grapefruit juice? What makes you choose grapefruit?
Yum to the pot stickers!
and dinner sounds nice, light!
i'm going with a light dinner tonight also. A protein muffin, i think. with jello. maybe ice cream too. yep.
The rain finally stopped...they turned the overflow off at the dam......so maybe we can have some winter now......I'm ready. waiting for fed Ex again today...aparently one box had it's label ripped...and they had to correct it..so second day of deliveries here......coming.in today ( hopefully) is a shelving storage unit for a closet...I'm looking forward to that.
Breakfast, 1 egg, ham, english muffin, cheese, coffee
snack = a few chewy candies aand a zero cal flavored water
Lunch = big green salad with ginger dressing, pickled beets, 1 mini pizza and a few leftover fries
Dinner = yogurt, grapefruit juice, cookie and chocolate
Just got word that brother in law got his first chemo treatment and it went well....yesterday was a bummer for him though...his port had been put in too deep and it went all the way through his ventricle ( heart)....they replaced it...and he was good to go today. We just lost another brother in law to cancer last year.....this is getting to sound way to familiar.....a good frind's husband is fighting it now too....my Dad died of it after being diagnosed only 5 weeks before.......cancer....UGH!!!
Progress as of today: 17.4 lbs lost so far, only 108 lbs to go!
I hope you get your correct deliveries!
Then you can do your arranging.
Breakfast sounds great!!!!!! yum!
Pouring rain all night and apparently all day...i LOVE the rain...a little thunder would make me even happier...I am such a nester!!!! Lotsof odds and ends to do today.......and waiting for a fed ex delivery......I'm sure the deer hunters aren't happy today.....
Breakfast = egg, bacon, english muffin and coffee
a.m. snack = granola bar
Lunch = hamburger and fries
Snack = banana and almond butter bar ( now these could get addicting)
Progress as of today: 17.4 lbs lost so far, only 108 lbs to go!
Breakfast sounds great. I had a similar one: small wrap with cream cheese and salami. now just working on lessening my craving for candy this morning!...i was in a really bad habit, so i'm working to curb it...it started around my trips ... feeling i was constantly on the go i was craving carbs and sweets and sugar basically...getting back to reality now.
I hope you enjoy the day, i enjoy being home also and moving at my own pace.
Really, if you want to know how i want to help myself - it's by using my time at home to learn to do more things for myself. I will learn a few easy things to make this year...like how to bake fish...and get used to making fish at home...so i can get off of making chicken and turkey burgers. !!!
i also want to make the mashed cauliflower this year. and cauliflower fried rice.
i am the biggest procrastinator....and now i finally have the time to work on cooking.
it's not a job that i should be concerned with as much as cooking and doing things at home for myself at this time :)
Going to venture out into the wild today....hope the ice is off the roads.............I'm getting cabin fever a bit...not really seriously...but a bit.
Breakfast = coffee, egg, toast, bacon
Lunch = hamburger and fries and a pure organic bar
snack = chocolate
Dinner = banana, chicken and nudles alfredo, coffee ( decaf)
Went shopping and the car didn't seem to lock..it even beeped at me.....went into store...and came out and put things in back of car....opened drivers door and realized why it wouldn't lock before...I had never turned it off!!!! OMG........This car doesn't start with a key...and you push a button to turn it off....apparently it was unlocked and running for the whole time I was in the store...it is so quiet...and the steering wheel is so thick that it blocks my view of the start/stop button. I'm considering myself very lucky to still have a car this afternoon! Then I get home and the garage door opener won't open the door more than a foot......3rd try was a charm........I'm thinking I either need to get out more...or maybe they should just lock me up.....
Progress as of today: 17.4 lbs lost so far, only 108 lbs to go!
I am waiting for it to snow, we might get a measurable amount over the weekend.
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