Lose the L

How to lose weight whilst sitting on your ass all day

rootie2t — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:50:33 +0000

Let my mother cook!

rootie2t — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:22:42 +0000

I’m trying to decide if I should continue, for the time being, with the whole lose-the-weight plan, or put it on hold until after I recover from the hip surgery. The biggest part says keep it up until then, then put it on hold immediately after, just because I’m going to have enough to deal with without having to explain to all my caretakers that I want balsamic vinegar on my salad and not creamy ranch. Experience tells me that the painkillers I’ll be taking (lorcet) will effectively nullify my appetite, but healing takes calories and if I know my mother, she’ll be putting cheese smothered lentil loaf in front of me every day. Maybe I should hide cans of vienna sausages in the bedside table. Blech. ok, here’s what I’d like. Suggestions for super easy, good for you, tasty food that can be prepared by the culinarily challenged. I’m thinking Lean Cuisine.

How to Eat Less at Dinner

rootie2t — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:39:46 +0000

I started doing this about a week ago, and darned if it doesn’t work.

Instead of eating a salad or veggies *with* your meat and potatoes, eat it an hour or so before. Last week I was STARVING at 5, dinner wasn’t ’til whenever Terry got home (6:30 or so), and I didn’t want to eat cheese or peanut butter, so I filled a big bowl with greens and carrots and all, threw on some lite vinagrette, and ate it. When we sat down for dinner (spaghetti, bread, blah blah) I was too full, and ate about half what I normally have, and it was plenty. I guess it’s a logical extention of the ’6 meals a day’ concept. Maybe when you’re fixing dinner, have a bowl of salad there to eat on while you work. I absolutely swear by the chopped greens in a bag. They cost a bit more, but how easy is it to just dump them in a bowl and go?

Changes

jerseychik — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:33:33 +0000

Hey, Rootie! Are you gonna weigh less, or more, with a new hip?

rootie2t — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:07:05 +0000

Salad: lettuce from a bag, spinach from a bag. Mandarin oranges, toasted almonds, mozzerella cheese shreds. Raspberry vinagrette dressing. Yum. This Curves diet book I have says eat a honkin’ huge salad for lunch every day, with a sprinkle of nuts (ok, a handful. Or two) and skim milk cheese for calcium. I’ve been buying bags of sliced almonds and toasting the whole bag, so they’re available to throw on whenever. Same with the cheese. I reckon you could add meat to it if you wanted to, we just never have lunch meat or whatever around. I highly recommend the bagged salads, simply because it makes it so easy to make one when you dont have to go washing or chopping.

Terry commented yesterday that my (size 18) pants are falling off. “Your ass is disappearing” said he, romantic that he is. Size 16 would be an amazing thing to behold. One can buy regular clothes in size 16. Even J. Peterman (yeah right, like I can afford that) has size 16. And talbots (right). I’m almost afraid to try stuff on, tho. Let’s get past all the doctors and potential medical issues first.

Double Vision

jerseychik — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:59:44 +0000

I must be doing something right with portion size- Mr. Wonderful is losing weight.

Scales

imflabulous — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:37:57 +0000

I like my parents scale. It’s digital. And, it weighs me in a few pounds less than my scale at home. That’s always a good thing. Especially when it makes me go from one tens unit to the next lower. Excellent. I’m sure it’s because I was sweating it all out since our air conditioner went out during Alabama’s heat wave with heat indexes into 112. I hate being hot. But that was a nice benefit. And right now I find it most refreshing to eat a lot of fruit. However, when we arrived at my parents they ordered pizza and I had a few slices! Totally the worst meal I’ve had since we’ve started this dieting thing (or at least since I joined). I enjoyed every morsel of the pepperoni and sausage with extra cheese. However, I did feel rather bloated after it was said and done. My husband did the appropriate “honey?” to me as I finished my last piece and I told him thank you for his concern, but it was all I was going to have. I know I shouldn’t have, but I did. I felt I had deserved it after the week we had without air, spending $600 on a car repair and finding a snake in our laundry room. Crappy week. I ate the pizza. I even had a beer! Sue me. I know, I know. I’m justifying….it was wrong….but….

rootie2t — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:16:57 +0000

I’m hungry. Yes, I am.I’ve been SO Good recently, with my eating and all, now I want to sit down to a huge plate of chicken fried steak and cream gravy and fried okra and a biscuit. But I’m not going to because it’s too hot to cook anything like that, let alone eat it. So instead, I’ll eat a popsicle.

Mercy it’s hot. The thermometer says 103, and that’s in the shade.

jerseychik — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:18:35 +0000

Aaah, I love the structure of the School Year. Thursday we did indeed stretch with Richard Simmons and the Silver Foxes for 20 minutes, Tuesday we did indeed low-impact aerobics with same. I have a month’s worth of breakfasts, lunches and dinners in the house and absolutely no money for the next 6 weeks to buy anything, so portion size cannot get out of control.

A swimming pool would make everything perfect. It’s that hot, humid, sun-bleached time of year when I would gladly do laps morning, noon and night. Two friends have offered “open pool”, but I cannot bear the thought of them seeing me in either of my cleavage-fest bathing suits. No, I don’t own a large T-shirt.

Maybe this time next year!

Nearly Nothing

rootie2t — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:50:09 +0000

That’s what this is called, and while it’s not *quite* as satisfying as say, one made from Breyers Double Cream and Barq’s, it is cold and kinda sweet and all. Even tho it does have fake sweeteners. I’m not advocating you have one every night, or make one in a 4 quart pot and eat it all at once, but, when you must, it works. For me anyway.

Nearly Nothing:

Diet root beer or coke

fat-free sugar free ice cream or frozen yogurt. Maybe low fat instead, so you don’t feel so ridiculous.

Make a float.