Oh hell

So i really messed up last night

I was doing so well with the diet and then after eating all my bannanas and milk, my husband decides to suprise me with a huge salad and garlic bread

Well of course i ate it but i know it threw my day off completely.

This sucks cause i was really hoping to loose the most my first time.  Oh well, i am continuing on the diet so i am on day 5 right now and boy do i have a headache  LOL


so my goal is to continue through this one and restart on Tuesday with day 1.  With that in mind, Fathers day is Sunday so this weekend will be ok for me to eat meat with the dads

so i guess instead of 6 pound weight loss like i was hoping its going to stay around 3  but thats better than nothing

Hey Sunny!  I have bumped it up in the past but let me just tell you where to find it. 
There is a old post something like "if you hate the soup" or whatever, but this guy franky started it and the #2 reply was by this guy that lost like 60 pounds on this diet without the soup!  Now he was really heavy so it's easier to loose but at least we know it's possible.  He puts his daily meals out there so you may want to do a search for it.  Just go up to the search line above and put in those related words.  I would just bump it up for you but every time I do that for someone, it's gone by the time they get back on here to look for it!   Anyway I think the soup is just to keep us full and there is no magic to it, it's just full of all the negative calorie foods, so just make sure the fruits and veggies you eat are on the list of negative foods.

Also if you go to the Hungry Girl website, I just got todays newsletter and it's got a bunch of info about salad bars and ingreds. and stuff, if you go out to lunch alot!

Maybe I will reiterate that in our "Party Girls" thread cuz I have some other info for that too!
Anyway, you did great, 5 pounds is great and you had a few curveballs in there this week too didn't you?  So very good!

and I totally agree about the old lady stretchy clothes!  Give me denim or give me death!  (and I AM an old lady, but super young at heart! as you know...I can party with the best of them!)

Last edited by twilight (2007-06-08 11:54:32)

Yeah Marie!!  Good for you and I'm sure you are exstatic with the good results!  Darn it, I wish I could have a Screwdrver with you (My Usual and favorite drink) but I'm trying to be true to the diet this time!
Congrats and good luck.  Right now any diet results are probably the last thing you're thinking about, right?  Good for you and you know we've all been behind you all th way!

Thanks Twilight I found it.

I think I'll try it starting Monday

If I don't talk to you all until Monday you know I had a great weekend

Have a great one yourselves!

Hey Jill,  I don't really have a connection to the Ducks, other than my oldest son is a huge fan.  We still can't really figure out why!  We live in WNY and have basically all been Sabres fans since birth!  Anyway, other than the fact that Brad May played in Buffalo for years and he is a Duck now, we don't really have a connection.  But how cool for you to have your own "hometown hero"!  And congrats for giving up the smoking!  My husband has been wanting us to quit for about a year now and I keep putting it off....always a reason not to quit, always a party where so many people will be smoking, always a diet to be on and I just CANNOT diet AND quit smoking at once!!!  So many excuses...  I know I just have to make up my mind and do it!  But good for you, I bet you feel so much better!

Brittany, just keep on checking in, even just to say hey!  It gets to weird if too much time goes by without hearing anything from you!  And I think it is very cool that your friend is going to cabbage soup with you!  Good luck to you, I'm sure you will have a great week!

Miss Pink Meow, a salad and a breadstick is not the end of the world!  Don't give up! Seriously, that is not a bad cheat, as cheats go.  I'm sure you will still have great results for your weigh in!  And, 3 pounds is a lot so if it is 3 pounds than be proud of yourself and keep going!

Rottingoak, you are my hero with those workouts!  I did not do my exercise minutes as pledged this week.    Bitch of it is I know I would feel better if I did!  I'm so glad for you though, for being on the right track and for feeling better!  And it doesn't sound like you did any damage food wise to me!  Just keep up the good work!  I am so anxious to see your overall results after the five weeks!

Beachykeen, I don't think it's where you live, I think that clothes problem is everywhere!  And then if you try to buy a bigger size so it's not tight around your stomach, it just doesn't fit right in the shoulders/chest!  No win situation.  Enjoy your weekend off!

Twilight,  I'm so proud!  Still going strong with that soup!  I am very anxious to hear your overall results because that is about how I want to tweak the diet too!  I don't remember though, are you doing day 7?  I think I was going to repeat day three there cause I can't stand brown rice!  Well, keep us posted!

Marie, Hope you enjoyed that screwdriver!  You really deserved it!

Hope everyone else is doing well!

I hope you are all enjoying your weekend!

Keep up the good work everyone!

Mandy

Brittany: I think it sounds fine, try to make the plan best suit your lifestyle, we know our own capabilities. Let us know how it goes though.

misspinkmeow: the stuff you ate is actually healthy.. salad is good for you, garlic gets rid of toxins and we all need bread to balance out the other stuff we eat!

CSD Queen: Yess, it's so crazy there. My bro lives 5 minutes away from one of the bigger shopping malls in the place!! I remember trying so many things on last summer, and thought to myself... if only I was skinnier. I know, I don't know how I'm going to keep up with the dieting stuff while I'm there and I'll be there for like 2 months. There's so much food there that we don't have here and I love this seafood buffet place they got!! AHHHH. Maybe I'll try to keep those on my cheat days.

Mandy: aww, it's okay. You really have to start slow. As I mentioned before, I barely did my cardio stuff, only 5 minutes when I started let alone jog for so long. I still struggle with it now. I have today off but I wanted to go jogging anyway and had great trouble when I first started, physically and mentally. I was like today is my day off why am I working out? My body isn't feeling up to it either. But I said to myself, you have to wait for the morphine to kick in, just hold on a little longer (jogging has become a drug to me..lol) I started getting huge bursts of energy. And even after I get these bursts of energy, I still have to fight the negative connotations related to exercising, like how it's so hard, it's so troublesome etc. It's also great because I jog with my dad; he's so discouraging. He thinks I am incapable of losing weight, working out. I took a different route today, the one he jogs every morning, it's about 5 miles or so? He kept saying oh you should go home, we're not even half way there yet, the sun is out you don't want to get burnt etc etc. In the end, I jogged a few extra blocks longer than him. I think I have even more willpower when I want to prove to someone they're wrong and I can do it! Sorry, I'm rambling on... just take it slowly one second at a time and you'll make it! Soon, it'll become an addiction. and I'm starting my 4th week this Sunday, two more weeks to go. I can't wait for my results either. I see some extra loose skin on my tummy. You know how after you lose weight.. the skin is all loose? yikes.

Charito, Sally, and others, how are you guys doing? Keep us updated!

Last edited by rottingoak (2007-06-09 08:57:28)

Ok girls, here is a pretty decent post from me, lol. So far I failed day one of the CSD, but today is a new day. Im ready to FINALLY get through day one!!! thats been my problem the last couple weeks. But I actually have the soup to get me through this time. I faltered yesterday because I didnt have that something "salty" that i needed in time and picked up two cheeseburgers from mcdonalds and rallys fries. I know horrible! Even more so because I took the time to go to TWO different places to get that meal!

  So last night i made my soup (which my husband burned!!! but ill eat it for today). I went over and helped my friend make her first batch too. So we both start today! I am looking for a 9 pound weight loss. I didnt do any workouts this week like i pledged, but I will be doing 30 minutes as soon as I get done with this! I am making my husband make more soup for me today without burning it this time lol. Hopefully he gets it right because last time he went seasoning crazy and it turned out like a FIRE in your mouth LOL!But what a sweet gy for trying lol.

Marie, Im so glad to hear that your test results came out all right. I a worried about you when you said that you even had to go in for them. I know how tough those are my mom goes through all kinds of things like that. Just recently she had a mamogram for a huge lump in her breast and that came back benign, but she got told that ANOTHER area in the other breast might not be benign so she is going in for a biopsy on the 20th. I am very worried about her because she has fibromylgia, ovarian cysts, a liver tumor and now the breast thing. I dont know how much more my mom can take. she is truly my hero. SO that is why I am so glad everything with you turned out ok, because no woman needs to go through something so horrible.


Twilight, Hey girl! Where on earth is this party girl thread eh? I looked but I didnt find. I will need to look a little harder. I missed you how is your week going so far on your CSD on day 5 correct? Im going to start coming on here more, my time has opened up much and I shouldnt be as busy anymore.

Beechykeen, congrats on the 4.4 pounds loss and you are definetely 175! disinclude that .6 lol. and who cares if the percentage isnt that accurate if you have been weight in at 40% and now are 38% then thats still 2%  that had to go away, right?

Jill (if i might be so bold), I love reading your posts you are so entertaining lol! Great job on quiting smoking that is a really hard feet and yes gaining the weight is attributed to that...I gained like 80 lol but i dont think i can attribute that to quitting smoking lol!!

kpmr, that is a really great pound loss that is wonderful! Just keep going I am sure you will hit your goal in no time!

Mandy! I miss you too girl! I know it must be weird wondering where someone is. Im sorry about that! and quiting smoking is really hard  so just take little baby steps to your goal of quiting. I quit cold turkey, but some arent that lucky! I took up sugarless gum instead. I was a pack a day girl too! But my husband was more important to me than cigarettes (he hated it and never knew i did lol).

anyways I couldnt find out how to sen pictures through email to you  but I am going to post these here. they are my now pictures so we will call them the BEFORE pictures yea? and yes I know i look 12 months pregnant LOL!






look I carry everything up on top!! and have little legs and hips isnt that odd?? thats why my measure ments look so odd!

Brittany: you're beautiful hun!

I just wanted to do a quick post to remind everyone to weigh themselves tomorrow morning! (Monday) and I will update the stats. Please give me the hours you exercised as well.

Thanks!

Hi all!  I'm here but made a point NOT to turn on the computer all day yesterday so I could spend the dy with  my husband.  Also decided to tke te weekends off from the CSD as I had contemplated, but feared.  I mean we HAVE to have a life right?  So hubby and I decided I can do whatever I want during the week but on the weekends we have tospend together and have decent meals etc.   So that's wht's happening on this end!  I guess I am going to follow Super Cabbage Queens diet of 5 days on and cheats on the weekend.  I really wish I had weighed myself on friday though, now I really won't know for sure!  But tomorrow I am going to do day 2 and day 3 over and over then the weekend off, etc. 
I really didn't eat badly, but had to celebrate with Marie, so got some Tropicana "LIGHT" orange juice for some screwdrivers!! 
We had Pork tenderloin and brocolli Friday night and a whole chicken on the grill last night with lettuc, tomatoes, low carb tortillas and (now this it the bad part) roasted whole green chilie, the skinned and the seeds taken out of the inside and then i stuffed them with that mexican cheese and back in the oven to melt the cheese.  yummy but I shouldn't have had any cheese!  Oh well, you know what happens to common sense after a few drinks right?
So I am a BAD girl, but life goes on and Monday I will be back at it strong!! just for the week days though!
Glad you are all back around and doing fine!

Hi Guys,

Charito & Sally ... remember me?

I will start again tomorrow. Came back from my honeymoon in Scotland and gained 4 lbs but i will loose them again,.

can i join the challenge? i will post my measurements tomorrow.

cya and take care... will also post some pictures

Hey girls - Just sitting here enjoying a fabulous Sunday evening.  It was super sunny and hot here in Southwestern Ontario today - summers here - FINALLY!!!  Ready to weigh in tomorrow and restart the CSD again for week 2. 

Misspinkmeow - In my opinion husbands are really hard to love when you on a diet of any kind.  My husband thinks that dieting means skipping lunch or only having pizza 3 times a week instead of 5 times.  And of, course he's trim.  He went on Atkins one time and lost like 8 pounds in three days.  Then he decided he'd lost enough and went and got a Souvlaki.  I'm sure your hubby had the best of intentions when he picked up that salad and low fat garlic bread with cheese.  My does the same thing to me.  I  still have not been able to convince him that Nachos are not are vegetable!!!

Beechykeen - Sunny - I LOVE LOVE LOVE Empire waste shirts!!!  And the best part is they are all the RAGE now.  No longer are they reserved for preggers or for women trying to hide a belly.  I think they look and feel great on.  In fact I went to my beloved Winners and bought like 4 of them last week!

36toGoal - Mandy - Hockey is a religion almost here in Ontario - (it's a bit crazy I think
).  Quitting smoking is hard.  A few friends of mine tried laser therapy.  One folded like a deck of cards after a week - but the two others did really well.  There is also this extra thing you can get that helps you lose weight too.  I say focus on one thing at a time.  You don't need to be superwoman and do everything at once.  Also - try to get your rest - exhaustion can make you thirsty and thirst is often misinterpretted as hunger. 

Fiddy - Diana - YES!  I am from London GO KNIGHTS GO!

Hope everyone else had a good week.  Can't wait to see everyones successes tomorrow. 

Talk soon - Jill 

Hey ladies,

Well guess what? I failed on the second day of the diet I hate doing that!! I got through day one only to end on the end of day two~!! I am so mad at myself! I think the reason why was because the soup was burnt and I had no soup to eat. ACK! So i just finished making my new batch of soup so I am not going to let this setback keep me down. Right back to the diet I go. I am just going to continue onto day 3 and keep going through day 7 ( i was going to take out day four but decided not to) I have to go to a fair on saturday and I am planning on trying the friend stuff that I never have so I have to be really strict now. I plan to get below 222 by friday! I am at 226 right now. So 4-6 pounds to lose would be great! If i get these results I am going to take that saturday and sunday off (fathers day dinner) and then start back up on the csd on monday! Hopefully i can stop screwing around and get this weight off finally. I have come to far (ten pounds) to let myself gain it back again! anyways girls that was me checking in I have a lot to do the rest of the night so I will talk to you all later!! Thanks to all who said I was pretty and ok maybe I dont look 12 months pregnant just a meer 8??? lol.


have a great night everyone!

Brittany

It's 6:30 AM and I just weighed in - my stats for end of week one are:

Start:  159
End of week 1:  154.5
Total loss:  4.5

Workout hours:  um...yeah...NONE!

I'm happy that I lost 4.5 pounds but my goal for this week it to get back to the gym!!!  I can actually see the place from my living room window - it looks nice - maybe one day I'll go there.  Seriously, I'm going to try and get there today. 

I just qucikly read some of your other posts and I'm sensing some discouragement amounst of few.  "(DISCLAIMER:  BEFORE YOU READ BELOW PLEASE REALIZE THAT I SINCERELY WANT YOU TO SUCCEED AND DO NOT MEAN TO JUDGE).  Here goes:

- Let's make this week a NO EXCUSE WEEK!!  There is NO EXCUSE TO OVER EAT!!  This diet is simple and it works if you just follow it.  BABY STEPS.  Start with this morning.  Make it your GOAL to get thru to lunch just eating the fruit and soup ONLY.  Do the same in the afternoon and the same in the evening.  Stressing ourselves out over EVERYDAY DAILY challenges with food IS WHAT GOT US ALL HERE!   If something stressful happens just stay focused.  It's tough - I know - but keep your EYES ON THE PRIZE.  Next Monday is only 7 little days away.  Life's gonna happen anyways so you might as well do something good for yourself.  NO CHEAT
ING THIS WEEK - (as a show of solidarity I am even willing to apply this to myself).

Have a good Monday - talk to you all Wednesday.  Jill

ALL THAT DOES NOT FOLLOW THE CABBAGE TEACHINGS!!!