Hellooooooooooooooo All You Beautiful People!

Thanks for showing me the love with getting back on track!

So far this is day #4 and I'm doing pretty well.

I had a wicked stressful day today. I was in expense hell with one of my bosses who has been traveling back and forth to Zurich and London. Needless to say his expenses were a friggon train wreck and I spent 4 miserable hours getting them situated.

By the third hour I started craving bad things due to my stress level. I had 2 twizzlers rather than anything really bad like chocolate. I also didn't get a chance to eat lunch because I wanted to clear up the bad situation and didn't want to take one minute away from my desk. I know it's not good to do that, but I had some fruit on my desk so I ate that. And I said to myself "fuck that, I'm not going to sabotage myself because of Mr. Dickhead waiting until the last minute to give me all his unorganized shit". In any case, I finished everything in a fashionable manner and I overcame the temptation of eating bad and I'm so glad I did!

Dinner was great! Had 3 oz. of chicken breast seasoned nicely on the Foreman and a baked sweet potato. So I'm pretty full right about now.

However, when I start to get hungry later and want to snack, I still have 15 points left, since I was unable to eat breakfast and lunch...Woo hoo!!!

Anyway, it's great to be back in this thread and again, thanks to everyone who welcomed me back with open arms and sent me messages.

Be well!

Best,
Scorp

:byebye:

Scorp's Yummy Omlette...
 

Howdy Folks,

Was looking forward to breakfast for din din tonight and came up with my own omlette concoction I suck at making breakfast so my hot stuff wifey cooked it for me:

- 1/2 cup egg beaters
- 3 slices of turkey bacon (diced up)
- 1 wedge laughing cow french onion cheese
- Cooking Spray (butter flavored)

Pour the egg into the pan (heat on medium)
Once the egg isn't liquidity (on top) add the turkey bacon and cheese.
Fold over and there's your omlette.

It was sooo good!

And it was a total of 4 points!!!

:hangloose:

Congratulations!!! Keep up the good work!

[QUOTE=Scorp;542880]Howdy Folks,

Was looking forward to breakfast for din din tonight and came up with my own omlette concoction I suck at making breakfast so my hot stuff wifey cooked it for me:

- 1/2 cup egg beaters
- 3 slices of turkey bacon (diced up)
- 1 wedge laughing cow french onion cheese
- Cooking Spray (butter flavored)

Pour the egg into the pan (heat on medium)
Once the egg isn't liquidity (on top) add the turkey bacon and cheese.
Fold over and there's your omlette.

It was sooo good!

And it was a total of 4 points!!!

This reminded me how truly versatile eggs can be. I'm not fond of the yolks so I "share" those with my dog. I just recently took 1/2 doz and boiled them all about medium, then kept them in the fridge as quick pure protein snacks and/or additives to salads, veggie spreads, or other veggie dishes.

IHOP Bound!!!
 

Good Morning Folks...

I weighed-in this morning and....

LOST 5 lbs!!!!! :cheer: :clap:

Let the journey continue on!!

Woo hoo! You go Jo!!!

Congratulations!!!!!!

Zimmeh

I give up!
 

I spent 20 minutes trying to find my first post which stated why I wanted to join this thread. I wanted to have a place to confess whether or not I was following through with exercise per doctor's orders due to a past health condition where it is especially important that I exercise daily. Even though weight loss was not my goal you all said it was cool for me to join this thread, so I did!

Anyway, I actually ended up gaining 10 lbs since that time ('cause I didn't follow through on exercising and chemo seemed to have changed my metabolism which was higher before treatment), which moved me outside my healthy weight zone. So now I am on the weight loss journey!

I am happy to say that I did decrease my portions that I mentioned was my plan a week or so ago and dropped 4lbs this week. Yippee! So, I would like to lose about another 9lbs to hit my goal weight.

Congrats to everyone who has dropped some weight recently through HEALTHY living!

Great Thread
 

First of all, this is a great thread! I commend each and every one of you on your efforts and support of each other. I'm very impressed.

I am fortunate to be a little taller than average. And broad shouldered. So when I've had extra weight, most folks didn't notice it. I'm just a big person that has been involved in some sort of athletics all my life. However, when I was laid up after a wreck and gained weight - I felt like crap. Also, high cholesterol runs in my family regardless of what weight you're carrying. I am unable to take statins - they make me really, really sick...frankly i believe that's a good thing because they are really toxic even for those that tolerate them well. Just to share a few things that have worked for me...

Eat fresh foods - veggies, fruits, etc. The less packaging / processing the better. There's a lot of chemicals added to processed foods that make it addictive, can cause cancer or other maladies, etc. i sometimes buy frozen not only for the convenience but it is picked at the height of ripeness. you also don't have to worry about it going bad.

Protein - that's important. you may be vegan / vegetarian. whatever you are you need to make sure you eat plenty of protein animal, plant-based...you need it for lean muscle mass and lean muscle mass keeps your body's metabolism running on a more consistent basis throughout the day. i shoot for a gram per target body weight. i have two brother's that have done some serious body building off and on thru the years. i got that tip from them and some of these others.

Exercise - ease into it or you'll burn out quick. mix it up. your body will acclimate to an exercise you do every day and the return on investment will diminish. i like the gym and things i can do outdoors. spinning / cycling is a great way to burn calories fast and can be done indoors or out. don't forget that the rest of your body needs to be strong. and you always want to make sure you work opposing muscle groups equally to avoid injury. your core is just that - the core of what everything else plays off of. whatever exercise you do, make sure you are keeping your core engaged. suck in that tummy, tighten those glutes, etc.

Body Type / Ethnicity - we're all different. accept who you are and go for the best you! not everyone is meant to be a supermodel or a big muscle beast. be realistic. talk to your doctor about it. there's total hotness in all body types - at least i think so!

that's my start. gotta get ready for the day. feel free to shoot me off any questions or comments.

Later Champs!!!

My clothes have gotten a bit frumpy but I am not ready to go out and buy anything yet. I figured I would wait until summer.

I found a couple of boxes in storage this week that were filled with "the clothes that i can't bear to give away cuz I might just fit into them someday" clothes. Guess what??? I FIT.

All size 20's. Started at 28. Haven't been here for close to 10 years.

(The clothes are 10 years old thank goodness. Just bought most of them "wishful thinking" lol)

Good evening to all!!! Had interveiw with a new trainer this afternoon. I think its gonna be good!!! He seemed very impressed with my journey so far. Not sure what he was expecting for a 55 yr old female, but im pretty sure it wasn't me!!! LoL Said I had very good skin tone, and posture for my age....ummm (whatever that means).
Gonna have some baked chicken breast , and spinach for dinner tonight.

Happy Monday Y'all!!!

Hello Healthy People!

Just a quick check in 'cause I'm so bloody proud of myself at the moment, I've finished the C25k program and today I ran my first 30-minute run post-program, I also upped my pace just a little bit so I feel like I'm finally making progress again! Hoorah!

Other than that I am still in plateau-land in terms of weight loss, it was driving me crazy so I've jammed my scale in the back my closet (with my iron) and I don't intend on looking at it for awhile (and if it suffers the same fate as my iron, a reallllllly looooooong while).

I've decided I'm just going to carry on running 3x a week, cycling a little here and there and trying to get to 2 pilates classes a week. Once I've mastered that I'll increase my running to 4x a week.

I think I may start doing WW again too since I saw good results with that and I am not been such a conscientious calorie counter (WW points are just a bit easier to deal with, I think). I will continue to take my nutritionists advice regarding several small meals and trying to have 1 high protein item per meal/snack.

And I am hoping, eventually, I'll start to see the pounds diminishing again.

Keep keeping on, everyone!

Gold sparkly stars all around!

Hi ya'll.It's been a while since I really went back to the weight loss program in ernest,the reason is my back has been a reall bad nasty jerk the last fue weeks to the point i've been useing pain meds a bit more than useual just to get through the day.The doc had given me a shot of antinflatory meds to help with the inflamation in my hip then gave me another shot of steriods to help as well,evreytime I get one of those in a couple of days the scale jumps up a fue pounds,if I had known he was going to give me a shot of steroids I wouldnt have taken it cause of the weight gain factor.Today I fely well enough to try working out for a bit and did a fairly good work out,even rode the bike for ten minits before my hip hollered to stop.Another thing that helped a lot was geting a couple of pair of spandex thights that suport my lower back and left thigh comfortably,I hadnt found any before that fit but I got some today ...worked really well.So im back to the grind stone takeing it one day at the time.