Weekly Workout Thread--July 10-15

[Mara]

i was kind of thinking that too coda...my sister is about 5''5" and 105 lbs and she is rail thin...but then again she''s also only 15!!! she is already worrying about her weight and her looks because she goes to school with all these small asian girls, i am like GIRL you look FINE...just keep eating! hehee. i don''t want her to get a complex.

 

[TravelingGal]

Normally I would say that 5''5" and 107 is pretty darn thin, but my cousin was that height and weight and didn''t look too thin at all. Lots of asians have tiny bone structure (hence the teeny ring sizes!). Eleguin is Asian too, I believe.

That being said, when I was 117 and 5''5" a couple of years ago, I started to think I was a bit too thin (I have good size hips for a asian, so I can''t get down too low). Now of course I would kill to be back at that weight. Actually, my goal weight for my wedding is the mid 120''s!

 

[eleguin]

Yes I am Asian and I guess my frame would be considered pretty small. It''s really weird, if I don''t look at the numbers on the scale, I don''t think I necessarily look too thin. I look slim, but definitely not what I would consider "too skinny" (ie: Calista Flockhart, Nicole Richie). After working out and dieting for about 6 months, I do feel lighter on my feet and that''s been a nice feeling especially in the summer. It''s taken a lot of discipline though, as I really love carbs (must be an Asian thing) and most foods in general. I am looking more into how to maintain a steady weight instead of losing weight. Sometimes it''s hard to figure out what I really should be eating to just maintain it. I feel like every time my fiance visits me in DC for a weekend, I am 2-3 pounds more after he leaves because we eat out (restaurants in general, and not even junk food!). Sometimes I feel like it''s not even worth the trouble to diet. I had eaten whatever my heart desired for the last 10 yrs and always stayed around 125 pounds, which wasn''t too bad. But now that I have seen myself look more athletic and slim, I''d sure to like to keep it that way!

 

[TravelingGal]

No kidding about the carbs and asians. White rice is a killer (and I think it is linked to type 2 diabetes in asians, as we are one of the races where weight doesn''t seem to be as much of a factor - my dad is thin and has it) but I love white rice! Fortunately I don''t make it much at home, but when we go out for Korean food it''s tough to resist. I actually really like brown rice but it''s much tougher to make at home...I don''t think the rice cooker handles it well. I only know how to make rice in the rice cooker by pressing the little button! Hee hee...

Trader Joes has a great Bruschetta Sauce (in the green package, NOT the see the one that says "Italian Bruschetta") which makes for a fantastic salad dressing. Just had it right now. Only 20 calories for 2 tablespoons which totally is enough to dress a big salad. It''s my new thing!

 

[eleguin]

Yeah I love anything that has carbs in it. Korean food is among my favorite, especially their rice pots. But I''m also hooked on noodles, pasta, dumplings, the more carbs the better. But I also think that many Asian people can handle carbs better because they grew up eating a bowl of rice with almost every meal. I guess one of the main reasons I don''t considered myself overly thin is that I have a lot of Asian friends who are size 0 and eat everything and anything! My one friend eats multiple full meals a day. One time a group of us went to a steakhouse in midtown Manhattan where we pigged out and were so stuffed. We took the train back up to Columbia to the dorms and she said she was hungry again before we got off the train. We ended up going to Papayas where she got 2 hotdogs. This was just an hour after we had dinner. She has always eaten like that, has stayed a size 0, and rarely exercises. I don''t know how come I didn''t get that cool Asian gene

 

[TravelingGal]

Date: 7/11/2006 4:27:39 PM
Author: eleguin
Yeah I love anything that has carbs in it. Korean food is among my favorite, especially their rice pots. But I''m also hooked on noodles, pasta, dumplings, the more carbs the better. But I also think that many Asian people can handle carbs better because they grew up eating a bowl of rice with almost every meal. I guess one of the main reasons I don''t considered myself overly thin is that I have a lot of Asian friends who are size 0 and eat everything and anything! My one friend eats multiple full meals a day. One time a group of us went to a steakhouse in midtown Manhattan where we pigged out and were so stuffed. We took the train back up to Columbia to the dorms and she said she was hungry again before we got off the train. We ended up going to Papayas where she got 2 hotdogs. This was just an hour after we had dinner. She has always eaten like that, has stayed a size 0, and rarely exercises. I don''t know how come I didn''t get that cool Asian gene

Um, have you looked at some of the older portly asian women around? That gene does not last forever!!!!

And you say "dorms" so I have to guess you are/were in college. Well, this little duck used to have the same gene in college. Not a size zero, but always a 2 or a 4. It really does have a way of catching up to you...not to mention it''s just not healthy internally to eat that way.

I always wondered what it meant when people said metabolism slows down. Now I know. Argh.

 

[eleguin]

Date: 7/11/2006 4:31:31 PM
Author: TravelingGal

Date: 7/11/2006 4:27:39 PM
Author: eleguin
Yeah I love anything that has carbs in it. Korean food is among my favorite, especially their rice pots. But I''m also hooked on noodles, pasta, dumplings, the more carbs the better. But I also think that many Asian people can handle carbs better because they grew up eating a bowl of rice with almost every meal. I guess one of the main reasons I don''t considered myself overly thin is that I have a lot of Asian friends who are size 0 and eat everything and anything! My one friend eats multiple full meals a day. One time a group of us went to a steakhouse in midtown Manhattan where we pigged out and were so stuffed. We took the train back up to Columbia to the dorms and she said she was hungry again before we got off the train. We ended up going to Papayas where she got 2 hotdogs. This was just an hour after we had dinner. She has always eaten like that, has stayed a size 0, and rarely exercises. I don''t know how come I didn''t get that cool Asian gene

Um, have you looked at some of the older portly asian women around? That gene does not last forever!!!!

And you say ''dorms'' so I have to guess you are/were in college. Well, this little duck used to have the same gene in college. Not a size zero, but always a 2 or a 4. It really does have a way of catching up to you...not to mention it''s just not healthy internally to eat that way.

I always wondered what it meant when people said metabolism slows down. Now I know. Argh.

Yes that was back in college. We are 3 yrs out of college now and I haven''t seen her since. But I remember her mom was rail thin also, so maybe she really lucked out with the genes. As for most other people, metabolism sure does slow down. We''ll have to keep working harder and harder to maintain our figures

 

[akw94]

Wow, it is great to see so many people posting on here! I have actually been doing better this week. The last few weeks really were pretty bad. I had good intentions last week but just never actually worked out. My eating wasn''t as bad as previous weeks but still needed so much work. So anyway...this week i''ve worked out 3 times so far. I''m very happy about that. Sunday I rode my bike (which I haven''t done in forever) to the highschool track near my house which is outside. Then I walked/jogged around that 5 times and rode home. It was different, so that was nice. Then Monday to the gym and this morning I did a tape.
Blenheim, I really like the various Tae Bo tapes w/Billy Blanks and the various step tapes, especially the Reebok step tapes. I have access to a library that has a great network w/other libraries where I can order tapes. Given that it''s connected to so many other libraries, there are many, many tapes to choose from. I try to constantly have at least 1 tape so that 2-3 days a week, I can do a tape and the other 2 days I can go to the gym.
As far as eating, this week is going pretty good. I continue to try and talk myself out of eating bad. It sure is hard to stop once you have started again. It gets very frustrating sometimes b/c I feel it just shouldn''t be so hard to work out and eat right, but for me, it really, really is.
Monarch, glad you had a good vacation. I had a great one too and felt so much better when I got back.
Mara, I definitely understand your dislike of the scale. It is so inconsistent and never seems to be an accurate measurement, however I do like my bf''s better though b/c it has a body fat percentage.

Anyway, I have had an extremely busy day so I''m on my way home.

Talk to you ladies later.

 

[Fancy605]

Sigh, I am going on vacation, so I bet this is going to put a damper on my newly formed good habbits. (And I won''t be able to play with fit day!) Oh well. C''est la vie.

 

[coda72]

Well, my workout went pretty well last night, so let''s hope that continues. I ran for a few miles then lifted weights. I will probably just run tonight and give my muscles a rest from the weights. Hopefully the weather will cooperate, and I will get to run outside.

I hope everyone''s workouts go well today, and if you''ve already done your workout for the day, I''m jealous!

 

[akw94]

Good afternoon,
I haven''t done my workout yet today but i''m pretty happy w/myself anyway. It was a co-worker''s bday and I passed up brownies. They kept tempting me too.

I wish people wouldn''t do that but I managed to refrain. Tonight, I go to the gym to workout. Last night, I was watching Made, this MTV show that happened to be on when I should''ve been asleep. Anyway, the guy''s wanted to be "made" into the Prom King of his school and he was very overweight so his Made Coach was some football player. He told the kid to repeat this as a mantra, "You are the maker of your fate and the captain of your soul." Ok, I think that was it or something else like it. I kind of liked that b/c sometimes I feel like something is taking over me when I am deciding what to eat. I am not making an actual conscious decision. It felt good today to tell myself I wasn''t going to eat the brownies and follow through. Kind of corny but it helped me. Tomorrow we''re having another celebration so I am going to try to keep up my willpower.
Fancy, have fun on vacation!
Coda, good job on getting in a workout last night. I haven''t been incorporating any strength training into my workouts lately, but i''m going to have to start doing that again soon.

 

[Mara]

walked 2 miles yesterday but then we went out to dinner and i had a basil melt (!) and a mexican mocha for dessert..hehee.

today i''m going to kbox...and had my high fiber cereal for breakfast and a LC for lunch. dinner is going to be some sort of chicken grilled most likely.

hang in there ladies, wednesday is hard!

 

[bookworm21]

I guess I''m not your typical Asian. I''m not small framed, and I tend to tower over most my friends. (I''m 5''7", which, apparently, is quite tall for an Asian.) I don''t have that super-metabolism gene either.

Mara, good for you for keeping an eye on your sister. There''s so much pressure during the teen years to be too skinny and fit in. Being to skinny seems to be a fashionable thing, and stars like Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton just aren''t helping matters.

Well, after my several-day junk food binge, I''ve finally stopped with the junk after I ate the last bag of popcorn. I wound up throwing the cookies away, because they were just too tempting in my pantry. I''ve gone back to eating a balanced breakfast, a sensible lunch and a sensible dinner. Plus, I''ve taken up kickboxing again and I am SORE. It''s been more than 6 months since I''ve gone to a class, so it feels great to start up again and know that I have an option to either do kickboxing or go jogging. I now weigh 141, down from 149 last September, so another 6 pounds and I''ll be at my ideal weight!

I''ll be going to another kickboxing class tonight and am eating a light lunch. Hopefully, the last 6 pounds will melt away relatively quickly.

 

[TravelingGal]

Spinning class today for an hour and weights for 30 minutes. Ate pretty darn well too.

Weekdays are OK...but I''m afraid of this weekend. We have a cake tasting to go to!

 

[Mara]

went to kickboxing class tonite and we had a sub since there is some big karate test thing going on elsewhere, and this gal kicked our butts!!!! i was like oh she's not going to give us a good workout but in the end we were all sweating and crying...hehee. typically i don't get all shiny with sweat on my chest and arms and stuff but i could see myself in the mirror and man was i shiny. so i know at least i worked out hard! she'll be there tomorrow too and i am going then as well since there is no class on saturday, yikes!!!

the interesting thing now that i have kicked up the workouts a notch and started walking that extra 20-30 minutes a day, i am not AS concerned about what i am eating. i am not counting calories as religiously..and it seems to be okay. i kind of feel like since i am working out pretty hard enough times...that i can eat something other than just fish and veggies. but i'm still trying to be good for lunches and breakfasts...and for a few weeknight dinners of course. but i don't feel as worried about it. which is good!

tonite for dinner is halibut burgers from whole foods with some peppers and paprika in them (yum!) with some herbed dijon mustard and a tomato on a wheat bun; grilled green beans with portabellos from whole foos (yum!) and small servings of those yummy herbed olive oil frozen fries i get at whole foods, i swear if you ever need a healthy potato fix, this is the way to go. they are baked and have herbs and olive oil on them and they get really crispy and yummy and a serving is only 120 calories and 3g of fat! great way to curb my carb cravings.

anyway..hang in there gals! it's almost the end of the week. traveling...cake tasting sounds yum!

cinderella, i already know what i am having at max's...hehee i don't go there very often but it's sooo easy to get overwhelmed by their huge 900 page menu, but i was there with a friend a few months ago and i had the most awesome baked potato with veggies and cheese! yum. so that's done. i figure then i can have some dessert with you gals!

and it gives me more time to take pictures of the bling if i am not studying the menu. hehee.

 

[monarch64]

Go Mara! You are the KB queen! I hope your arm is still holding up and doing well.

Well, I am happy to report that I weighed myself today and I have lost almost 19 lbs since I started posting on this thread about 4-5 months ago! I actually fit into a pair of jeans I wore before I got married almost 3 years ago--what a great feeling! I was also looking through some old photo albums tonight and found some pics of me in the same jeans (dark wash, notch tab flared ankle Silvers--I know, I''m showing my age, lol!)and I can''t believe how thin I was then! I still don''t feel that thin now but if they fit I obviously am as small as I appear to myself in those pictures, right? Right.

So anyway, I am by no means dropping out of the workout thread--G. knows there is always SOMETHING to improve upon, hee hee. I WOULD like to thank Mara, Lorelei, Coda, hmmm...Bee, Dixie, and everyone else I''m forgetting of course who have participated in these threads for motivating me practically every day for the last 6 months or so! You all have been a huge source of motivation in my daily thoughts/workouts/nutrition, etc.

Now please everyone discourage me from breaking out my wedding gown and trying it on...I know I was at least 5-6 pounds lighter (from a Dr. appt. before the wedding) and I don''t want to go ripping seams, lol!

I know I sound ridiculous in this post but I wanted to share my success. If you look at previous workout threads you all will know I have been pretty diligent (sp?--that''s the first time I''ve ever questioned my spelling here!) and have been very resolute regarding exercise, slow but steady weightloss, and nutrition. I am definitely NOT an advocate of dropping weight quickly, and I want to state for the record that my success wasn''t based on a fad diet or exercise plan. (Disclaimer, lol!)

Example: tonight I walked the dog for 30 minutes at a moderate pace--about 1.8 miles, and had a 1400 calorie day. I''m 5''10", 152 lbs now...still looking at walking off 5-6 lbs over the next 2 months. I lift 10lb weights at home and do lunges in the bathroom while brushing my teeth twice a day, and stay fairly active around the house, and btw, I''m 29. I can''t believe I felt the need to put a "disclaimer" on this post! I just remember what I was like 5 years ago thinking I could starve myself and lose weight (and it worked) and still be healthy (but I wasn''t!

)

OK, I''m done. Thanks for reading!

 

[Mara]

YAY MONARCH congrats! i was wondering how you were doing!! it''s amazing sometimes how we view ourselves vs how we really look. i saw some pictures of me at our engagement party in summer 2003 and i looked so thin! and i was thinking wow i didn''t realize that i was that in shape then! i always felt like i had to improve...but when i saw that picture recently i thought WOW i was fine! but your mind always feels like there''s more.

anyway, i tried that dress on a few weeks ago and it looked really good...yay! so i know i am very close to being where i want to be...but it''s hard to gauge it exactly. i am kind of going for a hopeful tight bikini bod because we are going to palm springs in early august. so i have about 3 more weeks! i think i can do it, my belly is definitely slowly getting there, my belly button is stretching more, i am getting more of a curve right above my butt (rather than a flat area)...my hips are shrinking slightly. slowly but surely, definitely. i''ve been at this a while and i think the extra kbox classes i have added have really notched it up a bit for me.

funny but back when i was looking good in that engagement party dress i was doing the same kickbox class i am doing now, the more cardio aerobic one...and i was going 3x a week like i am now. i just wasn''t seeing those same results with the other class i went to after we moved in jan 2004, the one where we hit the bags. so i think this class is the key. i am totally going to keep up with it!

stick around!! i love posting the articles and stuff for people on here though i don''t know if anyone really reads them but me. lol. oh are you still doing jump rope?? i have been doing the jumping jacks and man does it do great things for the legs. i can totally see my legs getting even more defined and it makes me feel good too....i figure the jacks are kind of like the rope. wow do the calves burn after a while. anyway, keep us posted!!! and KUDOS GAL!

 

[bookworm21]

You girls are doing great! Monarch, good job! That takes some major discipline, something that I sadly lack. *Sigh*

Mara, I think I''ll have to start shopping at Whole Foods. You keep listing yummy foods that I want to try. I''m going to pick up the halibut steaks next week; do they come marinated, or do you have to marinate them yourself?

As for today''s workout, I did nothing. We''re having a new dresser delivered tomorrow (I broke the old one) and a new bedframe, so I''m in the process of moving ALL of our clothes out of the bedroom and figured all that bending and walking back and forth is enough cardio for a day. I hate chores. But I AM excited about the new bedroom set though.

I''ll be hitting the cardio kickboxing class tomorrow. Hopefully, my arms and legs won''t be as sore as today when I go tomorrow.

 

[Mara]

Cinderella, the ones we got tonite were AMAZING halibut BURGERS and they seasoned them with some yummy stuff. we ate them on whole wheat toasted hamburger buns with sliced tomatoes and a mix of herbed chardonnay dijon and a bit of mayo. they were GOOD. and the potatoes. YUM. now i am eating a tiny square of scharffen berger nibby bar for a little treat.

Whole Foods does have some amazing stuff especially when we are feeling lazy!!! I swear those frozen fries are the best and they have all these different flavors like garlic rosemary olive oil and herbed garlic...I love fries so they are the best and healthy too! They also have tons of already marinated meats and fish and stuff, they do alot of varieties of burgers in meat and also fish, they have salmon burgers, cajun salmon burgers, these halibut ones...they had a really yummy looking lemon pepper halibut marinating today but I didn''t feel like spending $20 on fish today...hehe. It can be pricey but their fish and meats are REALLY fresh and definitely some of the best. Also if they don''t have something marinating that sounds good, you can ask them to marinate in like one of 6 things they always have on hand. They will totally do it for you. They have even put together stuffed chicken for me and stuff if they didn''t have the flavor I wanted out in front. hehe. They are VERY accommodating which is a perk, and sometimes it''s worth it to pay more for the service. hehee.

Anyway I ADORE WF...they are going to have one in 2007 right near our house so I can walk there, woo hoo I can''t WAIT.

 

[monarch64]

Cinderella, you know what? Slow and steady wins the race was my attitude, and it remains the same. Back in my earlier 20''s I was waaayyy more about the starve-n-lose concept every time 5 lbs. crept up on me. Since I''ve gotten a little age on me (lol

) I''ve realized that I need to do this the healthy way (dammit, it sucks!), and I have really made myself look at it more in terms of health than of weight loss. That has really been the key for me, I swear. I know I could''ve done it the easy way and been dizzy getting out of bed every morning for lack of calories/nutrition, but I no longer wish to feel that way. It was a hard process getting myself to think that way, but with a husband to feed and no room to "get out of meals" I had to do it the hard way, and I''m really glad I did. And you know what? I didn''t devote every single day or every waking minute to thinking about food or working out. I joined a team from my gym to do a breast cancer walk and pretty much worked up to it, while eating healthy and watching my caloric intake. I promise you, it didn''t take THAT much effort! As I said in my previous post, it took me almost 5 months to lose ALMOST 19 lbs. That''s about 4 lbs. a month, or a pound a week ( I know you didn''t need the math there, but I thought I''d state it anyway.

) Point is, you can do it. It''s definitely been more of a lifestyle change for me than anything. Trust me, I HATE to exercise, always have, and I grew up in southern IN where people were always asking me (because I''m tall)"do you play basketball?" Me:"no", them: "why not, you''re so tall!" them: "because I hate to sweat!"

So my point is, finding a low-impact form of exercise really did it for me. To me, it wasn''t about the workout, or finding my fat-burning range, as much as it was sticking to something I actually LIKED doing for the long term. I also lucked into finding a group of people who liked to do the same thing. I will be walking with some of them this Saturday morning for 10 miles! After completeing a 39 mile marathon walk with them, 10 miles doesn''t sound bad at all, can you believe that?! I know Mara is probably rolling her eyes right now, lol!!!

Anyway, I just wanted to convey to you that I''m certainly no fitness instructor, nor am I someone who really likes to work out. I am just a normal girl who finally realized that I had to at least move around some on a daily basis to try to avoid some or all of the many maladies we as a society face nowadays. Plus I love clothes and couldn''t stand to part with some of my favorite pairs of jeans, even though they don''t carry an up-to-date designer label, LOL!!!

MARA!!! You are most impressive. Your kickboxing skills must be about up to Jackie Chan-par by now! I always look forward to hearing about your day, workout wise and food wise--you dine on the most interesting things, and even though I don''t eat meat or fish anymore I take note because I like to make my DH some interesting dishes once in a while! Thanks again for your support and good wishes, and I will definitely stick with this thread! It really is a lifestyle change, and as long as I have a computer in front of me I will post...maybe my DH will get tired of buying me jewelry but I will always be aware of my health!!!

 

[Lorelei]

Yippee Monarch!

I have done some walking this weekend with a little running and been to the gym, Tues, Weds and this morning. I am aiming for 40 mins and am doing 25 mins crosstrainer and 15 treadmill with the incline at max! I am really seeing results now at 5 weeks in, my upper body shape is much more defined and my lower half aint bad either! Also I am really having to push it to get my heart rate up now which is good!

So all in all very pleased with my progress! Mr Lorelei has lost 20 pounds and now weighs 194

 

[bee*]

Yay Monarch! Thats great news. I agree with you on the slow and steady thing-every other time Ive tried to lose weight I would starve myself and it came back on straight away when I ate normally again. This time Im taking it nice and slow and I dont mind how much I lose a week as long as its still coming off

 

[Lorelei]

Definitely slow and steady wins the race. It took me years of hating my body and having a "bad" relationship with food and exercise to learn this. As I have said before in other posts, I was always obsessed with being thin and having a " model" look, that I would do anything to get it and maintain it to the point of hurting myself physically with too much exercise and not eating enough, to feeling so deprived and hungry that I would throw in the towel for the day, overeat and then exist on very little to "make up" for it. I was certainly on a destructive course with my body and food for years. I only ever thought I was worthy if I was thin, due to a parental influence being one, to feeling that I was so weak and lacking in self control if I was a few pounds over and that others would see me that way too.

This changed once I hit 40 a little while ago. I woke up. I realised that to be able to maintain a healthy weight and fitness had to start inside my head. No more would I binge and starve and beat myself up for failing - ANY MORE! I WAS DONE! I knew that I was a worthwhile person due to my Husband's love and support, the work I do for animals, the goodness that was in me and the things I try to do to help others. It was about time I sent some self love MY way for a change! So I knew that in order to truly get healthy and fit in order to do my work, I needed to stop punishing my body and start looking at it as a machine which needed respect and care. To do this, I needed to stop my incessant scale hopping, letting myself get too hungry and start exercise for me, that I could stick too. I also needed a food plan which would help me to sustain energy to do the physical work I do. Above all, I needed to realize that this would have to be a way of life, not a flash in the pan where it would be too much and I would fall off the wagon, but a plan that I could stick too for life, with a few modifications as I needed it. This removed the pressure of " I need to lose 8 pounds in 2 weeks - if I don't I will look horrile and I have failed...etc etc..."

So my plan started a couple of years ago, with the workouts recently. As many of you know, I do a lot of physical work at home with the animals which keeps me fit, but the workouts at the gym were needed too and have been so successful. My main motivation hasn't been thinness for once, but to get healthy and fit so I can do more at home to benefit all the furry residents, so I won't tire easily and have more stamina. Thanks to ladies like yourselves who fit their workouts into their busy lives, you inspired ME to try also! Thank you all for that.

These days I like what I see in the mirror. I see a healthy fit and trim body which works well for me and looks good in clothes. I stand straighter as it has helped my back. I get compliments all the time from people who say how great I look and many compliments from my Husband, who has been inspired to get in shape too.

THAT was the difference this time, in as much as I wasn't in a rush, and saw my regime as a lifestyle change which I would try to carry out long term. Being thin no longer interests me which is a revelation. Being trim and healthy does and it feels good!

So well done to all of you ladies who post here! It is good to do something great for yourselves

 

[Mara]

good for you lorelei, i think much of fitness and being healthy has to do with one's 'head'...it's so easy to let your head get out of control with what you should look like. there are times i admit to thinking, gosh if only my hips were that size while staring at lindsay lohan or nicole richie and then i look at my self and thing oh like that would ever happen! it's just not in the body cards!!! i am not 22 and i don't have that shape that i had in HIGH SCHOOL anymore. i'm 31 with a woman's body! hehe. but yes it can definitely mess with your head. i even sometimes compare myself to my 15 year old sister because we look very much alike but she is super skinny...and i am always thinking, wow i never looked that good when i was her age. when i think i looked just like her!

anyway....monarch i woke up last nite to go to the bathroom and thought about you and your skinny jeans....and i thought you know i have a pair or two of those around here that i have not been able to comfortably get into for about 2 years! so this morning when i got up (at my thinnest in the morning!)....i dug out a pair that i last wore *comfortably* before our wedding and put them on and lo and behold there was no struggling to get anything closed and they fit perfectly!! these jeans i bought back before the wedding when i was in that engagement party dress 'shape' and i kind of only had a small window where i was able to wear them as they are a size smaller than i used to buy (i buy 30's and they were 29's) and they are awesome jeans and super soft, but the waist part is really unyielding...they don't stretch at all. so it's like either you can wear them or you have the waistband digging into your belly all night..yak. so then i tried on this other pair of jeans, also in a 29 that i got LAST YEAR, from shopbop on sale for $30 but could never really comfortably wear them either!! i think this was when i was in denial that i was still a 29. so i wore them like 2ce and then put them away as they were soooo painful to wear after i stuffed myself into them. they fit great too. and THAT surprised me because again i was never really able to wear these darn things.

i don't wear a lot of jeans during the summer as the material is too heavy, so i folded them both and put them back away but YAY for me too. it's not quite 19 lbs but i feel pretty good about knowing that it's all working, even if that EVIL SCALE was telling me not. so anyway....yay for skinny jeans. yay for high fiber breakfasts. i better go have mine now!!

 

[bee*]

thats great news Mara! Roll on the day when I can get into my skinny jeans in the wardrope

 

[TravelingGal]

Wow, I am so glad I joined this thread! You ladies are very inspiring, and this is pretty darn fun.

I just keep checking in during the day, and am reminded to eat well and exercise...how groovy is that? I never thought I''d be so fascinated with a thread about what people eat daily. Hee hee...

Speaking of, I actually got my ass down to the kitchen today and made a bigger breakfast. 1 egg/2whites scrambled up with a few bits of broccoli, red peppers, mushrooms, asparagus and 1 oz of leftover broiled salmon from last night. Pretty good and very filling. 200 calories, not bad!

I have to thank you gals for that fitday recommendation. I''m having lots of fun with it calculating what I really do put in my mouth!

 

[Mara]

TG i really have to recommend a high fiber high protein breakfast on some mornings too....it helps keep you full for hours until lunch (my big problem!)...and it''s not too bad on calories either. i mix cereals together for some variety...and eat about 200 calories in cereal which gives me about 7g of protein and about 8g of fiber for the morning...keeps me full for about 3-4 hours til lunch.

sometimes i shake it up and do the egg white scrambled with cheese and turkey on a tortilla or something which is great for protein but not so much on fiber. i find that fiber really kind of helps me stay ''regular'' too (hee hee TMI!)...which is key for not having that stomach bloat thing going on. anyway...i love experimenting with foods for mornings and lunches because i get really bored if i eat the same thing all the time. mixing cereals is my new thing and it''s rather fun. i can take a fairly tasteless super high fiber/protein cereal and mix it with something like honey bunches of oats for a better TASTE and still get high amounts of f/p.

anyway just some babbling.

 

[TravelingGal]

My FI lives on honey bunches of oats...so we always have it around. But I don''t eat it because it''s so much sugar. Which breakfast cereal do you eat? I''ve never really looked at cereals for nutritional info before. I''ll go look at Trader Joe''s to see what they have.

If I could lose 1 lb a week between now and my wedding (pretty challenging goal, but realistic if I work hard) I will definitely be able to fit into my $50 wedding dress. Otherwise I have to go spend more money! Actually, I could probably fit into it if I lost 5 more pounds, but 10 pounds is my goal.

Also in the evenings if my FI has wine, I just put Pellegrino in a wine class with a lemon. Feels kind of like a treat, but guilt free.

This has been fun this week...I don''t feel like I am doing it by myself, which is great.

 

[Mara]

i eat a variety of cereals....i eat alot of kashi cereals...the one i have now is some blueberry and wheat flake one, also kashi go lean has tons of fiber and protein but it''s not super TASTY...so i like to mix things with that one. also i found one at whole foods called something like low-fat maple crunch by some ''golden'' company...and it is kind of like a honey bunches of oats but with less sugar. basically i just try to have one or two high fiber/protein cereals on hand and then mix in some more tasty things like honey bunches of oats. i have basically a cup of cereal every morning so we''re not talking adding alot of honey bunches of oats or anything, it''s more like 3/4 the f/p cereal and then 1/4 the more fun tasty cereal. that way i don''t get the sugar from the other one but i do get some of the taste and still make my f/p for the morning. some cereals like fiber one have something like 12g of fiber (wow!) which is a little much for me...hehee...but you could probably mix that with something fun and get it to be more tasty.

also kashi heart to heart warm oatmeals are pretty yummy, they are of course not as tasty as the old quaker favorites from childhood but they also have less sugar as well and way more fiber and protein. sometimes i eat 1.5 packets of that for breakfast. and then some mornings i do the egg white thang. on the weekends it''s fun to make egg white omelets (greg gets a regular one and sometimes extra yolks from mine) with different things in them, last weekend we did fresh avocado, jack cheese and tomatoes in them. yum! i actually like egg whites in general because they are pretty mild tasting so you can get to taste some of the other flavors going on there rather than just being overwhelmed by the yolky taste..which i don''t love anyway. but i do throw in one regular egg too.

 

[TravelingGal]

Excellent, thanks! Never heard of Kashi, but I''ve also never looked. I''ll go looking for those cereals now that I know. I''ve got to mix things up a bit, or I will get bored. Fortunately I love being in the kitchen and whipping things up, so the food prepation is actually enjoyable.