Justdoit09

Okay, I am back.  Having a good day today.  Have really been slacking the last month.  I was so gungho the first couple of months, going through recipes and such, planning ahead and making sure I kept my food journal every day.  In February I joined Curves to make sure I would get in the exercise I need and then here I am.  It seems like something always gets in my way.  Sickness or something.  Sometimes I wonder am I using it as an excuse or what.  There are lots of people out there that have much more serious issues going on than I do, and they seem to just keep plugging away.  Maybe, I don’t want it as badly as I think I do, for if I did I wouldn’t be in this situation.  I am having a minor surgery next week, you would think I would be trying to get ready for it by loosing a few pounds but NO!  The good thing is that I know it is still in my head.  I still think about how many points something is when I eat it and so on.  I have really been paying attention the past couple of days, so maybe there is hope.  Has anyone seen the show “The Drs” .  The episode last night was about spring cleaning for your body, they were talking about metabolism and how they differ.  I took the test on their website www.thdrstv.com and it said that I am Carbohydrate Efficient, which means my body can use carbohydrates best.   I am not really sure, I don’t pay much attention to carbs since I do the WW points system, but I think maybe I will start watching a little and see what happens.  You know when you start looking at all these things that they tell you that you need, that is when it gets to complicated to figure out.  Maybe I am just bogging my mind with to many things right now.  I know I can loose the weight, but my challenge comes in keeping it off once I loose it.  That is what I need to figure out.  Oh well, I guess I have been babbling enough, so I will close this blog.  Don’t know if it will help anyone, but maybe someone will be able to help me.  Have a great week-end everyone.

Okay, they went and did it, put a White Castle a mile from my work.  I have been doing so good, so I promised myself that if I lost on weigh in day (today) I would treat myself to a couple White Castles.  Treat Right!!.  I got a #1=4 White Castles, a fry and a small drink, but that wasn’t enough I asked for two extra White Castles.  Then I said by the way add on an order of those cheese sticks.  I haven’t eaten like that in so long, that I am miserable.  Why is it that you can eat and eat and don’t feel full until about a half hour later, and then it is too late.  I am not only miserable because I ate to much, I am ashamed that I could not control this urge.    Back on track now, I see that maybe I will have to find a new route to and from work, haha for those of you that know where I live that is the only route to work, no matter how I try to avoid it I will have to drive past that White Castle.  Please tell me that I can do this, maybe I can treat myself in another year, maybe by then I will have the control that I need.  Thanks for listening, now I feel like I need to go get sick to feel better for bed.

I have noticed that there are a lot less people visiting this site lately.  We are a month into the new year and the resolutions are fading or have faded.  Basically, I guess it depends on how hard you want to work or how diligent you are willing to be to get to what you want to accomplish.  Good things do not come easy, you have to work long and hard to get the results that you are looking for.  If it were easy we would not need to have a buddy website for motivation, or to be able to cry on each others shoulders.  This is a lifelong commitment that does not stop in a month or even a year the key word is lifelong.  Yes, at times we will want to stop all the planning and decisions on what is healthy for us, and in truth that is okay, but please remember that when you continue to do this, you are only defeating all the work that you have put into your new self.  Yes, you are becoming a new person, a healthy person, a person full of energy.  Don’t you just feel better knowing that you are being good to yourself.

Become inventive, yes I started out with all the Weight Watchers and Hungry Girl recipes and others that I have picked up along the way.   I have also learned to become inventive and create my own versions or just being able to try my own imagination on what is healthy and will taste good.  When I really am craving chocolate, I open a container of Hunts Snack pack Chocolate Pudding put it in a bowl with 2 Tbsp of Fat Free Shop N Save Cool whip and crush some Fiber one 1Tbsp of Caramel crunch cereal on top, it is really good and takes away that chocolate craving.  The best part is it is only two points.  Try a Flat Out bread chicken roll.  I use baked chicken, salad mix, and a sweet salad dressing (Nonna’s) and rolled it up in the Flat bread and it was awesome.   I also made grilled potatoes, used small potatoes quartered and pour some extra virgin olive oil with basil over them, sprinkled them with Mrs Dash and a little sea salt,  they were wonderful.  This whole meal was 11 pts.  Now how can you go wrong with that.    It was healthy and tasted sooooo good.

Wishing everyone a good month and hope to see you all back next month.

Just sitting here listening to music. Would like to wish everyone a good day.  Today was my third weigh in and I lost 1.6 pounds.  Compared to other times I have lost weight it is coming off slow, but that is okay, because I have always heard that when you loose slow it stays off.  I am going to try really hard this time not to slip back into my old habits.  It has actually fun going through recipes and looking at websites finding all kinds of new stuff including coupons.  I have been trying new things and cooking like never before.  I am freezing extra servings so that way, I have something in the freezer if I run short or just don’t feel like making something.  It has been working for me thus far.  I have been making mini goals every 21 days, the first was to keep a food journal, have done really good on that one, the next one is to make sure I get all of my veggies in has been a little harder for me.  I feel like I am eating plenty of them, but when I count them up at the end of the day, I find that I only have 3 at the most, I need to be getting 5 serv in, so this is something that I am going to have to really work hard on.

My goal for the year is that when I go to visit my daughters in December, that I will not have to use a seat belt extender.  It is so embracing asking the flight attendant for one of those.  Even though they are not, you feel like everyone is staring at you.  Wish me luck.

Have a blessed day.

Well, it is Monday, I know a lot of people start their Lifestyle changes on Mondays.  Here are what I hope will be encouraging words.  Everyday is a new day, Never give up!  Determination today leads to SUCCESS tomorrow!   We don’t become what we want, we become what we believe.   Just a few words for you to chew on this week.   Everyone have a wonderful week, remember if you slip up, just pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again, immediately not next day or even next week.

Good morning to all.  You know as I was laying there this morning trying to convince myself to get out of bed, this Just Beat it came to me.  I felt like I was supposed to get up and write, well I have had several distractions, but I am going to put it down now.   Years ago when I was doing the Weigh Down Program, Gwen would say when you get tempted or the strong urge to eat and you know you are not hungry, then chew on this (she would hold up a Bible).  You know I really think there is something to that.  If you are really feeling challenged, pick up a book, write out your grocery list, take a walk or just do something that will take your mind off wanting to eat.   Right now, I am reading a book of Proverbs everyday and I have a devotional book called “Streams in the Desert”,  when I am feeling like I want to eat and know that I don’t really need to, I pick up one of these books and read for today.   I also used to keep a little book of motivational saying that I ran across the other day, and there was one in particular that stood out to me.  It goes like this:  IF YOU ALWAYS DO WHAT YOU ALWAYS DID, YOU’LL ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU GOT.  NOT EVERYTHING THAT IS FACED CAN BE CHANGED, BUT NOTHING CAN BE CHANGED UNTIL IT IS FACED.   I think this is a really good saying, sometimes it is really hard to face that you are not in control.  Seems like there is this small voice in your head that keeps telling you that you need to eat or maybe you don’t need to to exercise or anything to keep you from doing what you know you need to do.    You know I am not sure what I needed to write but this is what came to me.  I am hoping that there is someone out there that will get motivated from this.  Just keep up the good work and remember that you are working toward something and if you work this hard to get there, then why not keep working to keep what you have earned.

Anita

Hey guys, I am down 3.2 pounds this week.

 Okay, I am really happy, today was my first weigh in and I lost 4lbs.  I had little signs that I was doing good, like being able to zip my coat without any problems.  I am now sitting here planning my meals for the next few days.  Does anyone know where you can buy House food Shirataki noodles?  I have the Happy Girl cook book and several of her recipes call for them.  Not a plug for the cook book, but most of the recipes are for one person, which makes it nice, you don’t get to overeat.  Gonna eat breakfast and off the to grocery store.  Every one have a great and blessed day.

I was reading through some of the blogs yesterday and read some really great stories.  There are a lot of ideas and suggestions available, if we just take the time to read them.  I read two stories that really touched me.   One was a call for help titled “Emergency Shutoff Valve”  and the other was titled “Giggles.”  I would really like to send a message to the first person’s story, but I don’t know who it was  and Giggles literally made me fall off my chair.  I was reading this blog at work and had everyone and my desk, I was laughing so hard I could hardly catch my breath, they had to see what I was reading and they all laughed as well.  I also read a story called “Anyone want to play quarters”,  this intrigued me and I think it is an excellent idea.  If this person reads my blog, I would like her to know that I am doing the quarters game.  I am doing it a little different, but still the same concept.  I will be adding a new goal every twenty-one days.   So this will make it really interesting to see if I can meet all of my goals.  I like the response she got from one reader, that she would give her husband the money if she doesn’t meet  her goal for the day.  That would be an extra incentive.

I started my lifestyle change on 1/1/09 and have had a very good week so far.  I weight in tomorrow.  I am hopeful that whatever I weigh it will encourage me into the next week.    I have had a few good encouraging comments from Buddies that I have invited.  I hope to keep this going, As I see a lot of people start and don’t keep up with this site.  It is an awesome site so far, I am sure there are a lot of things I need to learn about it.

Could someone tell me how to get a recipe into your food journal?