Anyone ready to ring in the new year...and lose weight/get fit?

[vfem]

wildorchid053, Wow... the idea someone on BYC hasn't eaten a good old boring chicken breast shocks me!?

Thank you all for making me feel good about all I've done, I do feel accomplished in many ways.... I never thought I'd even get this far, so I made little goals in between so when I quit (I know that sounds terrible) that at least I had the chance of meeting just 1 of my goals so I didn't feel like a complete failure!

What I've found is that I have a number of great recipes, and things that I will not or do not eat or drink at all. Removing certain things from even my vision makes a difference!

1st, I buy only 1 box of pasta (enough for 1 dinner) and that's it. One pasta meal a week MAX (something we have none at all). Hubby is the only one who drinks soda anymore. So I buy him his nasty Mountain Dew I hate, so I never sneak any. Though occasionally I do buy a diet cherry pepsi on a weekend when we have company as a little treat for me. We only have rice or potatoes as a 'side' dish once a week either. So we can have french fries as that side, or rice with peas or rosemary mashed potatoes.... but that's it, just 1 time max. The rest of the time is easy... we can have meat (no red meat for me, I haven't had pork or beef since I was 15 anyways), then 1 side of veggies or 2 sides of veggies. Portion control is easy. If its one veggie then it takes up 1/2 my plate, if its two veggies they take up 2/3 of my plate leaving the rest for meat. Simply making carrot and celery sticks as sides with a turkey burger is one of our favorites, and its excellent for us. Tonight we're having artichoke and turkey pepperoni calzones. I'm making mini ones so I don't over stuff myself and eating a side salad.

I am more then happy to come back and share some of my recipes with you guys, I have a lot of vegetarian dishes as well as chicken.... LOTS of chicken! LOL

Wildorchid053, I like to do the white breast meat in the slow cooker with some BBQ sauce and cook real slow until it falls apart when you take it out, and treat it like pulled pork. Then pile it on a home baked roll or whole wheat roll... a couple piece of dill pickle and some cole slaw on top, a real health version of a southern BBQ sandwich. YUM!

 

[vfem]

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I'm glad to hear you're feeling better! That's a lot of pain to have dealt with... I've done that to myself laying brick! I said it was worth the pain, but you don't see me laying brick again any time soon! HAHAHAHA

 

[Kassaundra]

vfem and 3goodeggs, so glad to hear both of you are feelling better. I have made similar changes to you vfem, I used to think one serving of starchy carb per day was good, but now I too measure my starchy carbs by the week, and then make sure it is a good one, brown rice, lentils, beans, sweet potato occasionally a white potato. And especailly my carbs are ALWAYS measured to a real serving size.

 

[vfem]

I think that's the problem with carbs, we ALL get too many or the wrong ones. Its the one thing I think matter most to watch. More so then fat, more so then calories. We can burn the calories, we can store and pass through the fats. The carbs need to be useful or they are a waste!

Today, we're making chocolate chip cookies.... but I'm having a salad with carmalized onions and sautees mushrooms for lunch.

Mmmmm

So now those cookies I'll have won't look too bad. I may end up having 2! HAHAHAHA

 

[Wink]

Im a little late on this thread, better late than never. I had three kids in the span of 7 years...each time about 6 months postpartum, I would have a hyperthyroid problem. For those of you don't know what that includes, it's like your body is always "on".... I would consume mass quantities of food, but my body ripped right through it. Eventually, I experienced muscle loss since the thyroid was still on. I would have a resting heart rate of 120, my thighs were lean but merely walking stairs had me hunched over, exhausted. Eventually, for me, it burns out, but then there are the series of months following where my muscles were rebuilding themselves, and I was still eating a ton, but my body wasn't burning it off. So then the inevevitable weight gain.... Man talk about a lot of up and down!

Well, I'm done having any more kids. My littlest is now 18 months and I've been really trying to up my intensity at the gym. It really works, that magic combination of exercise and calorie counting. One of my suggestions that works for me? Fitness pal (free app) to count calories! And accountability forums like this. I loved reading this thread, and seeing people's progress.

I'd like to shed another 10 lbs, but I'm already getting stronger and faster....I get to keep this muscle Im slowly earning! I also am trying a meal replacement, (Shakeology), which is created to be so nutritionally dense that one shake equals a meal for less calories! I drink the chocolate version, so it cut my sweet tooth, too, cuz after Easter, i was heavily digging into the kids Easter baskets and hopping into ice cream containers.

Keep up the good work, people!

 

[Kassaundra]

Glad to have you on board wink.

 

[Wink]

Thanks, accountability is key, right? I gotta say, I was just typing my calories in my fitness pal app (it's free)... Who knew that some things have so many calories and others not? Like I found out that 2.5 cups of spinach= 1 serving = 17 calories!!

 

[Kassaundra]

I've used the calorie/nurtition counter on fit day too. I like that it does vitamins as well as calories, carbs, protien etc...

 

[Kassaundra]

I know this isn't my official weigh in day, but today I unofficially, officially weigh less then I have in 10 years!!!!!

 

[Wink]

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Well heck yeah, great job! Especially since we tend to gain weight as we age, and you're taking the pounds off, awesome! Have you hit your goal yet?

It's my tenth wedding anniversary this year. I loathed doing it, but I put up some Before pics of me on a weight loss site, using my wedding pictures. I get a little sad, seeing that I was carrying so much extra weight at that time. I'm down to the 10 or so last pounds, but they're the hard ones to move along....but I figure by October (wedding anniversary), I'll be looking much more trim than ten years ago!