Okay this is going up later than i thought it would but today seems to be full of constant interruptions but I should be getting this one written the same time as the Saturday one so that shouldn't continue.
As of right now I've been on my "diet" for almost a month and I've only gotten two weigh ins and so far things are looking quite positive
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As this graph shows I've lost 2 pounds and am down to 239.2. the problem being that I know full well that statistically that 2 pounds doesn't mean that much and it's possible that i haven't really lost any real weight. It could just be fluids and likely is as I've tried to cut out a lot of processed (ie salty) foods.
Frankly i would be surprised if I had lost more than that as right now I've only made minor changes to make things more manageable.
The first thing I've done is tried to cut back on my portion sizes. Most of the time I don't need seconds and if I am feeling still a little peckish I'll only take seconds of veggies. Oddly though a strange thing seems to be happening that when I eat less I feel more satisfied with the food I did eat. It seems so much of our modern world is built on excess and I've found that a lot of times I can over eat without even realizing it. I'm not starving myself by no means but listening to my body more about when I'm full and not assuming I have to finish everything on my plate because it's there even if I'll make myself sick doing so.
The second thing I've started doing is grazing more. In the past I know I've just had two big meals and that's it. I'm making a point to have breakfast even if it's just a yogurt or a few almonds and two to three sensible snacks a day. Little bags of popcorn, granola bars, nuts, fruit and if I want to really treat myself a small bowl of animal crackers as they have no where near the sugar or fat as other cookies and can be quite filling.
When it comes to drink it's something I haven't had too much trouble with. I don't like water but i do like crystal light and other sugar free drink mixes and I'm not a huge fan of sodas of any kind or alcoholic drinks so it's not much to cut those out but for as a rare treat.
One thing I have been having trouble with is exercise as I leave a very stationary life and something like a gym membership is simply out of my budget right now. I have been doing simple things to try to move a bit more. when I get a drink I only get a tiny amount then I have to get up and get more sooner or later. I also worked up quite a sweat dealing with the water leakage from the AC and that has motivated me to try to get my home organized. I have so much crud around the house that I don't need and never use just collecting dust and i do need to go through it all and get ready for a garage sale.
Well just to finish this on another recipe I have another simple one for a good snack that will make you feel like you're totally cheating. Hehe.
Chocolate Mouse (It's like a Moose only lighter)
- 2 boxes of sugar free chocolate pudding mix I tend to use the Jello kind but store brands work too they need to be sugar free though and i find you can't really taste that big a difference.
- 4 cups 1% milk (or 2% if you don't like 1% I don't taste a big difference between the two but don't use whole or skim milk. one has too much fat, the other is white water masquerading as milk)
- 1 tub of cool whip (light or sugar free)
Mix together the pudding mix and milk either with a hand mixer on low or a whisk. It will take 1-2 minutes for everything to be blended and lump free. A fork or spoon could be used too but it's more likely that you will have lumps. (or you could make in a big container with and air tight lid and shake the daylights out of it to get it mixed good. Fun job for the kids to do as long as you know it won't leak)
Stir in the cool whip with a spoon or the whisk but be a little gentle with it.
Spoon into individual serving cups or a nice serving bowl (if you didn't make it in the serving bowl) and chill in the refrigerator for at least an hour but preferably overnight.
Perfect for family or Church gatherings and any pot luck particularly if there are diabetics in the group. it makes quite a bit so if you want you can half the recipe and then use the other half a tub of cool whip to put on top of the cups.
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Friday, July 20, 2012
Sunday, July 8, 2012
You haven't seen.....
Well this one is going up much later than I wanted to mainly because I've been without power for most of the afternoon and evening.
Saturday is my day for random musings that pop into my head and perhaps from time to time extra craft or health posts. Today i want to talk about the oddity of the words "I can't believe you haven't seen..." usually followed by some movie or TV show.
Really there is nothing out there that everyone has seen so it shouldn't surprise us but I don't know how many times I've uttered those words myself or had them uttered to me.
Today's word is one of sub-sub cultures and there are very few things no mater how popular or good that are truly universal. As a child growing up my sister loved the Princess Bride and we watched that movie to the point that we both had it memorized. For me the thought of someone not having seen that movie is just bazaar. Watership down was a favorite movie as a child that only got better as an adult as I could appreciate it more and after reading the book. Yet when I learned that my movie buff and general geeky husband hadn't seen it i was shocked. I lamented this fact to a mutual friend of ours who as a general rule loved all the same things that I did and she had never even heard of the movie or the book.
It can get even worse for TV shows I grew up in Canada and my husband in the US. Some of the shows he remembers fondly I'm quite sure were never shown back home or at least not on a station that we had. I get the strangest looks trying to explain things like Mr. Dressup, the Beachcombers, the Littlest Hobo, The adventures of Tintin or even more recent stuff like This hour has 22 minutes or Just for Laughs.
Of course this can be something of an opportunity because I've noticed that though this might happen a lot when you're dealing with something very common or popular most of the time when you say it is because you know that this is something that this person would like. I couldn't believe that my husband hadn't seen Schindler's List because he is a movie buff and a history buff. To list all the movies he's exposed me to because he couldn't believe i hadn't seen them would have me here all day
"I can't believe you've never seen this." may be a strange thing to say as logically no one can see everything even all the things they might wind up loving if they did see it. But keeping watch of when you say those words is a pretty clear gauge of what is important to you, the media that didn't just entertain us but became a part of our lives.
Well i don't know if that made sense to anyone but me but to finish up I'm going to put an update on the diet progress. I have been able to get a 9volt battery and now have functioning scales though I was not pleased with what they wound up telling me and want to insist that they are broken.
My starting weight for this endeavor is 241.2 which is easily the heaviest I've been in my whole life as normally I've only been around 200-210 but I knew from how I was feeling that things couldn't be right. So now my first goal is to get back under 200 preferably by end of the year. Once I reach that goal I'll set a second one though i think my ideal weight would be 140-160. I am a short woman at 5'1" and this weight is making it hard to move, hard to sleep and I have no energy. I dont' really want to try to reach a certain dress size or anything like that because this is not about how i look but how i feel. the numbers don't really matter as much of how i think I'll feel if I can hit them. If i never make it to 160 but i can get in a shape where I can sleep good and have energy and am not hurting all the time then I'll be happy with that.
Saturday is my day for random musings that pop into my head and perhaps from time to time extra craft or health posts. Today i want to talk about the oddity of the words "I can't believe you haven't seen..." usually followed by some movie or TV show.
Really there is nothing out there that everyone has seen so it shouldn't surprise us but I don't know how many times I've uttered those words myself or had them uttered to me.
Today's word is one of sub-sub cultures and there are very few things no mater how popular or good that are truly universal. As a child growing up my sister loved the Princess Bride and we watched that movie to the point that we both had it memorized. For me the thought of someone not having seen that movie is just bazaar. Watership down was a favorite movie as a child that only got better as an adult as I could appreciate it more and after reading the book. Yet when I learned that my movie buff and general geeky husband hadn't seen it i was shocked. I lamented this fact to a mutual friend of ours who as a general rule loved all the same things that I did and she had never even heard of the movie or the book.
It can get even worse for TV shows I grew up in Canada and my husband in the US. Some of the shows he remembers fondly I'm quite sure were never shown back home or at least not on a station that we had. I get the strangest looks trying to explain things like Mr. Dressup, the Beachcombers, the Littlest Hobo, The adventures of Tintin or even more recent stuff like This hour has 22 minutes or Just for Laughs.
Of course this can be something of an opportunity because I've noticed that though this might happen a lot when you're dealing with something very common or popular most of the time when you say it is because you know that this is something that this person would like. I couldn't believe that my husband hadn't seen Schindler's List because he is a movie buff and a history buff. To list all the movies he's exposed me to because he couldn't believe i hadn't seen them would have me here all day
"I can't believe you've never seen this." may be a strange thing to say as logically no one can see everything even all the things they might wind up loving if they did see it. But keeping watch of when you say those words is a pretty clear gauge of what is important to you, the media that didn't just entertain us but became a part of our lives.
Well i don't know if that made sense to anyone but me but to finish up I'm going to put an update on the diet progress. I have been able to get a 9volt battery and now have functioning scales though I was not pleased with what they wound up telling me and want to insist that they are broken.
My starting weight for this endeavor is 241.2 which is easily the heaviest I've been in my whole life as normally I've only been around 200-210 but I knew from how I was feeling that things couldn't be right. So now my first goal is to get back under 200 preferably by end of the year. Once I reach that goal I'll set a second one though i think my ideal weight would be 140-160. I am a short woman at 5'1" and this weight is making it hard to move, hard to sleep and I have no energy. I dont' really want to try to reach a certain dress size or anything like that because this is not about how i look but how i feel. the numbers don't really matter as much of how i think I'll feel if I can hit them. If i never make it to 160 but i can get in a shape where I can sleep good and have energy and am not hurting all the time then I'll be happy with that.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Best laid plans
Well this post is going up much later than I wanted though still on Thursday.
The plans for this post were to go over my starting point in terms of weight and health before going into what changes I managed to do. First I needed to get my current weight. Only the battery is dead in my scales. (yeah I haven't really been using them so the battery was likely wore down for some time.) As we tend to have AA and AAA around the house i was hopeful that we had the right battery only to open it up and find that it was a 9 volt battery. No one keeps 9v in the house because it seems like almost nothing uses them any more.
So i went out shopping for batteries and could only find the 9v in a back of 8 that cost around $15. I wouldn't pay that when I only needed one battery and it would be cheaper to buy a new scale most likely. I've never understood the reason that we have so many different kinds of batteries and 9v seem particularly useless as I'm sure the job could be done just as well by 2 or even 4 AA.
So this post is not a total waste I'm going to talk about a few healthy choices that I did make when shopping that I'm hoping are steps in the right directions. Particularly since they deal with my biggest down fall:
Snacks.
First thing I did was not even go down the chocolate, candy and cookie aisles. I know I have weakness with those things and if I saw them I'd get a chocolate covered something or other with a million calories in it.
The first thing I picked up was some Cocoa roasted Almond. Now chocolate almonds was something I liked but didn't love as a child. When Hershey had the Christmas story books of three candy bars and my friend would always give me her milk chocolate with almond as she was allergic to nuts. I'd break it up to get the nuts and eat them first then savor the chocolate, the good part. However as an adult chocolate covered almonds have become a favorite of mine to the point that guy at the concession of our local movie theater knows that's what I want every time i come to the movies.
However what I got today is not chocolate almonds but almonds with a light dusting of cocoa powder. they have little fat or calories and almonds are full of all kinds of good things for you. not only that but a handful really does full you up and make you want to snack less.
The second snack I got was first for the nostalgia and second for the health. Blueberries. I grew up in an area where the late summer and early fall has blueberries growing all over the place wild. I have fond memories of picking the berries with my sister and parents. Of sitting in a blueberry patch with my cup to put my berries in. One berry for the cup, one for me, On for the cup, two for me. when my cup was finally full I'd dump it in the bucket that my parents had half full by now and go right back to things with even less berries winding up in the cup.
Well i plan to finish each of these with a light recipe that is simple to make and thinking of blueberries made me think of one of my old childhood favorites
Blueberries, Milk and Sugar
Ingredients:
- Blueberries (about 1 cup)
- Milk (about 1/4 of a cup)
- Sugar or low cal. sweetener to taste
Put berries in a bowl then pour milk in until just vi sable through the berries. Lightly sprinkle with sugar until you get it to your taste though you don't need much as the berries have a lot of natural sugars. Eat like cereal.
Yes I know that his is a super easy recipe, almost like something a child would make and it is that simple and more delicious than it has any reason to be. Antioxidant rich blueberries with 1% milk and a touch of splendia or even sugar is a light snack that will make you feel like a kid again. Or at least it does for me.
The plans for this post were to go over my starting point in terms of weight and health before going into what changes I managed to do. First I needed to get my current weight. Only the battery is dead in my scales. (yeah I haven't really been using them so the battery was likely wore down for some time.) As we tend to have AA and AAA around the house i was hopeful that we had the right battery only to open it up and find that it was a 9 volt battery. No one keeps 9v in the house because it seems like almost nothing uses them any more.
So i went out shopping for batteries and could only find the 9v in a back of 8 that cost around $15. I wouldn't pay that when I only needed one battery and it would be cheaper to buy a new scale most likely. I've never understood the reason that we have so many different kinds of batteries and 9v seem particularly useless as I'm sure the job could be done just as well by 2 or even 4 AA.
So this post is not a total waste I'm going to talk about a few healthy choices that I did make when shopping that I'm hoping are steps in the right directions. Particularly since they deal with my biggest down fall:
Snacks.
First thing I did was not even go down the chocolate, candy and cookie aisles. I know I have weakness with those things and if I saw them I'd get a chocolate covered something or other with a million calories in it.
The first thing I picked up was some Cocoa roasted Almond. Now chocolate almonds was something I liked but didn't love as a child. When Hershey had the Christmas story books of three candy bars and my friend would always give me her milk chocolate with almond as she was allergic to nuts. I'd break it up to get the nuts and eat them first then savor the chocolate, the good part. However as an adult chocolate covered almonds have become a favorite of mine to the point that guy at the concession of our local movie theater knows that's what I want every time i come to the movies.
However what I got today is not chocolate almonds but almonds with a light dusting of cocoa powder. they have little fat or calories and almonds are full of all kinds of good things for you. not only that but a handful really does full you up and make you want to snack less.
The second snack I got was first for the nostalgia and second for the health. Blueberries. I grew up in an area where the late summer and early fall has blueberries growing all over the place wild. I have fond memories of picking the berries with my sister and parents. Of sitting in a blueberry patch with my cup to put my berries in. One berry for the cup, one for me, On for the cup, two for me. when my cup was finally full I'd dump it in the bucket that my parents had half full by now and go right back to things with even less berries winding up in the cup.
Well i plan to finish each of these with a light recipe that is simple to make and thinking of blueberries made me think of one of my old childhood favorites
Blueberries, Milk and Sugar
Ingredients:
- Blueberries (about 1 cup)
- Milk (about 1/4 of a cup)
- Sugar or low cal. sweetener to taste
Put berries in a bowl then pour milk in until just vi sable through the berries. Lightly sprinkle with sugar until you get it to your taste though you don't need much as the berries have a lot of natural sugars. Eat like cereal.
Yes I know that his is a super easy recipe, almost like something a child would make and it is that simple and more delicious than it has any reason to be. Antioxidant rich blueberries with 1% milk and a touch of splendia or even sugar is a light snack that will make you feel like a kid again. Or at least it does for me.
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