Good Luck!

Wishing Tara, myself, and anyone else who weighs in on Thursdays some GOOD LUCK!!

i will return later today with my (hopefully) good news.

You know what tomorrow is! (and I love Bok Choy)

Today is hump day... that means tomorrow is THE day... the day of truth... Thursday... T-DAY!

Today was uneventful... so let's get right to it. i made it on the treadmill this morning before work!

BF - weight control oatmeal (2), 8 almonds (2)
Lunch - organic baby romaine (0), allegro cheese (1), salmon (2). apple (1). yogurt (1). granola bar (2)
Dinner - mahi mahi (i don't know how many ounces my fish was... so i will over estimate and guess it was 6oz, which means it was 4pts), steamed boy choy (0), mango salsa (1). diet coke (0)

so, i'm under points again.

I saved so many points for dinner because i wasn't sure what i would have... turns out, when we got there i felt strong and got the mahi mahi and on top of that, asked them to hold the rice pilaf and got more bok choy with it instead (loving bok choy by the way - never had it!). and i didn't get home until now (well, 8:30) so it's too late to have a snack. oddly enough though, i'm not hungry. dinner was fun too - my friend got a hamburger with sweet potato fries... i found myself almost reaching over and grabbing one of her fries (because that is what i would do if it were alex!)

that's my day in a nutshell!! good luck to all weighing in tomorrow!!

I am strong. I am WOMAN!

I think I need to download that Helen Reddy song. my mom used to play that record all the time when we were kids "I am woman, hear me roar". I'm going to do that right now in fact (while I type my blog).

do you ever get those McDonalds flyers in the mail? the ones with the delicious looking fries? those get me every time... especially when i have a 24hr drive thru around the corner. luckily i don't have enough desire to LEAVE to go get them now that i'm finally home. mcdonalds always makes me think of highschool. back in the day there wasn't many options for where go head out to on spare and lunch in Lindsay... sometimes we would head to McDonalds... and TARA loved ketchup as much as me and would always get more than one (or two) containers full of ketchup. Ahhh memories!

Anyway, no treadmill this morning. I actually DID attempt it... but my stomach was having issues and would not cooperate (I think I had nerves due to my new parent group starting tonight). BUT I didn't go back to bed... i forced myself to try it at least. SOOOO, today was my day off (treadmill has happened sat, sun, and mon... and will now happen wed and thurs too!).

my food was fine today
BF - oatmeal (2), almonds (2), and flaxseed meal (0)
Lunch - lettuce (0), salmon (3), tomato and cucumber (0), hellman's spritzer (0), allegro cheese (1). ff cottage cheese fruit cup (2)
Dinner - ww bagel (2), BOCA cheeseburger (2), cheese slice (1). carrots and radish (0), ff sour cream dip (1)

okay, i know i've eaten more than 16 points today... but i'm drawing a blank about what. typically i do eat less on tuesdays when i'm not home for dinner and have to rely on packing lunch and dinner though...

damn presidential stuff... i also missed the biggest loser tonight because of it! saw who went home on the east coast time zone channel... but i missed all the good working out and diet tips! oh well, next week maybe!

Tomorrow I'm going out for dinner... hopefully it all goes well considering it's the day before WI!!

Routine. It does a WW person good.

Back to the grind. Back to 5 day work weeks (or 5.5 to 6.5 day work weeks for me, depending on if it's a week I'm working at sickkids).

I was productive today and it felt GREAT! (note to self - try to remember this when your alarm goes off at 5:30 tomorrow and the holidays are over and you cannot keep hitting SNOOZE!). I have Monday mornings off... so i slept in until 9am (this sleeping in phase has just started to develop since Christmas. i HATE my alarm clock right now). i got up, had breakfast, hit the treadmill, made dinner to take to work, made lunch, and headed to work! That's my day in a nutshell. I came home from work and made my lunch and dinner for tomorrow, since it's a longer day again.

Today's menu:
BF- weight control oatmeal (2), 6 almonds (1), a few raisins (1)
Lunch - ww tortilla (1), cheese slice (1), lettuce (0), ff cottage cheese and fruit cup (2)
Dinner - lettuce (0), 2 oz chicken breast (2), allegro cheese 30g (1), 2 tbsp ff Italian (0), cucumber (0), grape tomatoes (0), red onion (0). carrots and radishes (0), ff sour cream dip 2 tbsp (1). yogurt (1). pear (1)

Damn... I just realized I got busy when I got home and didn't end up eating a snack... I guess I could have packed more for dinner. Typically I would eat more for lunch but I was in such a hurry today!

Time for bed so that I WILL get up and go on the treadmill tomorrow!!

Me vs the EVIL 100 calorie bars!

well, unfortunately what you DIDN'T read about last night was me waking up CRAVING those 100 calorie bars I had bought. I gave in. Want to know how many I ate? Believe me... you DON'T. But I will tell you it was more than 4 but less than 6. This is on TOP of the 2 I had eaten earlier in the night. Those boxes are now safely hidden out of my sight. Hopefully I can forget they are there. Honestly, I don't know WHY i buy these things... they really only cause me problems.

The GOOD news is I've been on the treadmill today for longer than I had planned... what was initially going to be a half hour walk turned into a 1hr jog... so I'm pleased with that.

Tonight I have to start calling the parents for my next parent group. I've committed to 12 more weeks... why do i do that? MONEY. Honestly, that's the only reason. SickKids is also calling... I better start taking shifts there again too if I want to keep that job!

Here's what I've had today:
Brunch - ww bagel (2), 2 BOCA patties (2), 1 egg (2), egg whites (1), 2 ff cheese slices (1), blue menu ketchup (0), organic apple (1)
Snack mid-afternoon: 2 100 calorie bars (4), ff cottage cheese fruit cup (2), 10 whole grain triscuits (2), cheese string (1)
Dinner - 2 oz chicken breast (2), broccolini (0), peas (0). yogurt (1), pudding (1), mousse (1). 100 cal chips ahoy (2)

DONE for the DAY now... for REAL this time!!!!
I ask myself WHY I am so hungry... I think I have to train myself to have a decreased appetite... I had become conditioned to eating a LOT more over the holidays.


I was sitting on my butt looking through my US magazine last night and came across some jewelry I'd like to buy myself. I'm SURE it's supposed to be an engagement ring, but I don't care. It's too pretty NOT to be in my possession.

New food finds!

so, I totally forgot when I was shopping at the Walmart Supercentre on new years eve day... I found vitalicious muffins in the frozen organic/health food section that are only 100 calories. So, I decided to buy them and bring them home... I remembered about them today (while curled up on the couch watching the movie "the queen") and went to check them out. they have 5 friggin' grams of fibre folks! (READ - ONLY 1PT PER MUFFIN!). I bought the cranberry bran muffin but they also had blueberry bran. Here is their website: Vitalicious Canada. It appears you can shop online even, but I haven't explored that any further.

Here's what I've eaten so far today (and I'll be back to update throughout the day!)
BF - quaker weight control oatmeal (2), 2 clementines (1), vitalicious muffin (1), 1/2 tbsp flaxseed meal on the oatmeal (0)
Snack - 8 organic baby carrots (0), 2 tbsp ff sour cream dip (1), cheese string (1)
Lunch - smart ones lasagna florentine (6)
Dinner - no official dinner. I've done nothing but snack all afternoon. pudding (2), 2pc ww bread (1), 2 ff cheese slices (1), granola bar (2), 3 triscuits and cream cheese (2), ff cottage cheese and fruit cup (2), 2 100 cal packs (4)

That is IT! I am DONE eating for today!!! I'm cut off!

Also - check out the new Walmart ad! We NOW have NEW 100 cal products here in Canada! Hershey's york mint patties, reese bars, and hershey bars!!!!! I'm going to head to Walmart at some point and check them out!

*ETA* Went to Walmart and got the 100 calorie bars. They had the wafter bars and the reese peanut butter bars. No york mint bars, but that's okay! I'm just glad we have these things coming to Canada! When are the WW bagels coming??

Last night Alex and I did a bunch of running around and were FINALLY heading to the food court to grab some dinner (poor Alex hadn't eaten all day and it was 8pm and he was STARVING). I happened to notice a new place in the food court called "grill it up!" As soon as I see "grill" in a name, i'm drawn to it. So, Alex and I went to check it out and while we were standing there looking at the menu I noticed a man waving, but assumed he was waving at someone else. Turns out, he was waving at my Alex... he's a former client and he owns the new grill it up! stores. He stood and chatted with Alex for a while and sold us on his restaurant... Alex gave him a business card (he didn't know Alex had his own firm now) and we were FINALLY able to order and get out of there and go EAT! I got 2 chicken skewers, basmati rice (with some butter chicken sauce - sooo good, but not healthy), and channa chick pea stuff. Since I had the owner there I took advantage of asking about the food... NOTHING is deep fried. it's all grilled and baked. He let me try the potatoes - YUM (although Alex thinks they should be baked a little longer). The chicken/steak/shrimp is precooked, but then they warm it on the grill for you as you order it... it smells like BBQ and looked so good (yes, by 8pm i was HUNGRY!).

Finally Friday!

I am so ready for the weekend! It's going to be somewhat QUIET and I cannot wait!! I have to do some work from home for my parent groups and that's the extent of it... I believe I have Saturday to myself and I fully intend on parking myself on the couch and watching chick flicks!!

You know you're ready for the weekend when your LAST appointment of the day starts off by telling you "I want to kill myself right now". (and you just KNOW that's what you should expect when you pick up this appointment at last minute as a favour to your coworker!). Regardless, I left work on time and here I am, waiting for Alex to get home so we can go run errands (helloooo treadmill oil!) and grab some dinner.

Also, I've decided something. One day I'm going to head up a better child/adolescent psychiatry program (in patient AND out patient) at the ROSS in LINDSAY! I was born there, I have a friend who works there... what could be better? I won't tell Alex of my plan... I don't think I'll get him to move any further east than Durham region! I will recruit my friend Irfan to be the child psychiatrist too.

Okay, now that my future is planned... let's discuss what I ate today.

BF (slept in!) - FF cottage cheese and fruit cup (2)
Lunch - cup a soup spring veg (1), organic romaine (0), tuna (2), allegro cheese 30g (1), grape tomato and cucumber (0), red wine hellman's spritzer (0), 2 baby dills (0), organic pear (1)
Dinner - FOOD COURT at FAIRVIEW MALL! woohoo! I actually don't mind this... I can make pretty healthy choices there really.

Happy weekend to all! I will be checking in... and posting often! I have T-13 days to lose my 5.2 holiday pounds!

No surprises here...

I was up 5.2lbs. Actually, I did expect to be up a bit more than that. My leader was telling me she weighed in a lady at her meeting last night and the lady gained 5lbs over the holidays and then told the leader it would be okay, that she would have the weight back off by the end of FEBRUARY. I told her (my leader) I'll have this weight off in 2 weeks. I could be extreme and get it off in a week... but I'm not willing to starve myself. I do like food too much for that!

I didn't bother getting a sub tonight... there's too many things in my fridge I need to eat up!

BF - cottage cheese and fruit (2)
L - lettuce and cheese and tuna salad (4), apple (1), cup a soup (1)
Snack - 2pc ww bread (1), cheese slices (2)
Dinner - 8 perogies (8), 14 low fat fries (2), SF puddings (2)

I doubt I'll have a snack later now... it's back to not eating after 8pm for me!!

Treadmill = down for the count

My treadmill is sick. I can't use it again until I get some oil on the track. It keeps stopping while I am still MOVING. Me moving + treadmill stopping = me falling and banging my head against the wall. That is not an outcome I would like to have happen. TOMORROW i will go to the store and get some oil! The good news is I have done planks in the mean time.

In a final ditch effort to see what I can lose before the dreaded WI tomorrow, I have eaten less today. Partially intentional... but partially because my alarm clock appears to be on vacation still and did not wake me up this morning, so I didn't have time to make lunch. Here's what I mean:

BF = ff cottage cheese orchard fruit (2) - you know the singles containers you can buy of cottage cheese and fruit? now they finally have one with FF COTTAGE CHEESE! It's soooo yummy! I bought a pkg of 4 and FULLY intend on buying a BUNCH more!
Lunch = french onion cup a soup (2). yep. that was my whole lunch.
Snack = 1/2 tbsp light garden cream cheese (1), 3 low fat triscuits (1)
Dinner = broccolini (0), carrots (0), ff sour cream dip (1), cucumber and grape tomatoes (0), 1/2c ff cottage cheese (2), 2 baby dills (0), 60g allegro cheese (2). TWO jello pudding cups (2), TWO candy canes (2). Apple (1).
Snack = organic pear (1), all bran bites (1)

Here's my dinner (the cheese did not make it into the photo. It was actually consumed while I was steaming the broccolini)


While I'm here. Has anyone heard of weightview.com? A website you can submit a photo of yourself and they'll send you an email back showing you how you'll look 5-50lbs lighter. I submitted a photo and requested to see what I'd look like 50lbs lighter. Here's what they came up with:

Before:
After:


Does anyone else think I look like some top-heavy football player? It looks terrible! Man, I better lose some boobs when this weight comes off. I don't want to look like that photo!!! (but it's not enough to stop me from losing weight of course!) Also, I don't have any CURVES in the photo. They cropped down my stomach but didn't give me a waist... I'm glad that site is free!

2008: The year of the GOAL WEIGHT!

It's going to happen this year, I can feel it!

I hope everyone had a safe new years... and now, on to the year ahead! So far 2008 has been a productive year for me (think I can keep it up?). I have spent the entire day taking down decorations and cleaning (and yet have sooooo much more cleaning to do... as well as unpacking from Christmas yet!).

My food is officially BACK ON TRACK. It was a rough week... but it's time to recover. So, let's get right into what we're all here for. MENU CHALLENGE!

Breakfast: Quaker Weight Control oatmeal, maple and brown sugar (2pts - in the states it's 3pts, but here it's only 2!)

Snack: 2 baby dills (0)

Lunch: 2pc ww toast (1) w/ 1/2c FF cottage cheese (2) and grape tomato (0), 8 PC organic baby carrots (0), radishes (0), 2tbsp ff sour cream and onion dip (1), 1c broccolini and garlic (0), 2 baby dills (0), apple (1), no sugar added chocolate jello pudding cup (1)

Dinner: more broccolini (0), ww bagel (2), ff cheese slice (1), morningstar farms tomato and basil pizza burger pattie (3? i forget right now!). source yogurt (1).

Snack during biggest loser (planned): all bran bites (1), pudding cup (1), dessert tea (0)

*I know I haven't eaten all of my points today, but I've been busy cleaning and didn't snack and actually am not that hungry. I probably ate more than enough over the holidays that it all balances out now anyway*

Lunch:

Dinner:

Where are you Tara? I'm watching for your return to the blogisphere and getting back on track!!

ETA - I went on the treadmill tonight! I felt tired from cleaning all day but remembered I have told myself even when I'm tired I MUST go on... even if just walking fast on an incline for 30min (which is exactly what I did). I'm going to have to do that tomorrow as well until I can get out and get some treadmill oil for the track!