Passing on the weigh in...

One thing i like about Weight Watcher meetings is that you can use a pass on a week when you don't want to get weighed in... i am using my pass this week. after the rough weekend, i am passing on weighing myself this week... the main reason being...

i am scared if i gained a lot of weight, my brain will give up and i will go back to eating junk again.

so there will be no weekly weigh in today. i had a rough long weekend and i am just feeling yucky today for another reason that i have no control over (thank you pms)

sometimes it is best to just stay away from the scale. i have a gut feeling that this is the week that i shouldn't stand on that guy.

hoping for a nice weekend... i am getting my very first massage on saturday morning at 10:00! it is fifty minutes long! can't wait!!

hope all is well with you.
love you.
treesa

Extra Easter Weight

oh boy. what a rough last four days. and i mean rough. i have eaten not a single healthy thing in the past few days... it was like my brain let it happen. and i was okay with it...and to be honest. i was. i might have done a little damage but hopefully i can bounce back from it. i ate my normal way today at school... just need to get back into the routine of it. i was almost ready to dive into the easter candy sitting around the house for dessert tonight... but instead i took a 100 calorie kudos chocolate m and m bar and called it a night. i am going to see my best friend in virginia at the end of april... my new short term goal. three weeks... wow... and then it will be only three months until the big day... time is flying...still aiming for 138 pounds by April 30th...til thursday weigh day...
love you!
treesa

Holy Moly!

Weigh day... New number is 139.5!!! I have not been in the 130s in four years... Feels good to be there again. Looking at my body, it seems like a lost most of these pounds in my legs and butt.... The place I need to lose the least...hoping the next nine pounds will be in my hips! Met the march goal... I need to be 138 by the end of April to stay on pace ... Down 16.5 pounds since January...so excited!!

115 more days ...
Love you.
Treesa

Foods I "didn't" Eat

Foods I didn't eat since Sunday night but was very tempted to do so...

cookies
potatoe chips
hamburger
cole slaw
pasta salad
chocoalate cake
butter cream egg
hot dog
gold fish crackers
sour cream and onion pretzel ritz crackers

I am getting nervous for easter sunday... i have a gut feeling that i will be losing control that day... any ideas to make me not eat everything in sight??

Hope everything went well with the colonoscopy. i was thinking about you...

love you.
treesa

Love it

Love the idea about writing down the foods that you *didn't* eat...what a great idea! Sounds like you're doing excellently in spite of the deluge of Easter goodies...especailly the jelly beans.

I'm hovering at the 10 lb mark but it's OK. Tmr I'm off all food except liquids in preparation for a colonoscopy - YUK! Can't wait til that's over. But one thing about being forced to eat nothing is that one realizes that eating only certain foods (like on a diet) is a piece of cake after that. I'll take this as an opportunity to detoxify. NO doubt will be losing a few lbs after that.

Nonni got me a Mediterranean Vegan cookbook - perfect! All kinds of wonderful meatless and dairy-less recipes to try.

Tonight we went to this Italian restaurant across the road - can't remember the name. I had pasta with marinara sauce and a salad and a roll. It's pretty impossible to stick to this meatless diet in a restaurant. Fortunately, it was the worst plate of pasta I've ever had. The sauce was terrible, the pasta overcooked so they did me a huge favor really - I mostly ate the bread. And we had cheese pizza at Paul's this afternoon which was far superior to this dinner tonight.

Anyway, keep up the good work. Love you.

AT

Educating Myself.

This weekend flew by... ugh... but only a four day week.. i think i can handle that!:)

I continue to research this weight loss stuff daily and found out some new information. I have calculated exactly how many grams of fat, carbs and protein i should consume in a day with my caloric intake.

42 grams of fat---383 calories
71 grams of protein---284 calories
216 grams of carbs---886 calories

I am figuring out how to read labels on food and how to apply it to my life and what i put in my mouth. pretty amazing. it is all math. i also learned what kind of carbs i should be eating...complex carbs(fruit, veggies, wheat). they take longer to burn... hence staying full longer... all those simple carbs (junk food, sugars, white bread, pasta) makes you feel hungry because you burn them off so fast!

Starting this week i am going to add one day of exercise. lately i have been getting the itch to go and run in this beautiful weather. no more then a half an hour and i want to do it because I "want to" and "love to" run not because i "have" to run to lose weight.

one last great idea--- Keep a food log of foods i didn't eat!! LOVE THIS! so for all those times I turned away food i love, I write it in a log... how motivating... it will show me how strong my will power... maybe i will just post it on this blog. today i turned town sour cream, cheese, tortilla chips, and jelly beans! On Friday, i turned down french fries and yesterday i turned down french fries too!

on to the week.

Hope all is well. love you.

Treesa

Weight Update

Happy Friday! Weighed in yesterday at 142.5... lost 0 but gained 0. i guess i will take... hoping to be 141 by the end of march... still aiming...

You look mahvelous, Dahling!

That dress is a stunner and you look so good in it. You're an inspiration to me. Can't wait to see you in the wedding dress! I love you.

Last weekend, I watched 2 DVD's - both about the food industry and how horribly we're treating food animals - I was sobbing at the images and haven't eaten meat, chicken or fish since. ALso, they talked about the evils of eating these mass produced meats because of the inherent disease caused by the conditions in which the animals (and fish)are kept, etc. Anyway, it made a believer out of me and I'm on a veggie diet now. My girlfriend, Debra, has been eating this way her whole life and she has lots of tips for me.


I'm easing into it by still using organic cheese & free range organic eggs. I just found out that one can use plant based cheese & egg substitutes. In fact, I tried a cream cheese (Tofutti) that is simply delicious (tastes better then real cream cheese...really!). I don't think I'll have too much trouble with this new way of eating. I LOVE veggies and I've been discovering that meat has not been tasting that good to me lately, certainly not the way it tasted years ago.

Per the DVD "Eating", a vegetarian diet is a really good way to lose weight - no measuring, no weighing, you just have to somewhat limit the fat which is not a problem. I've noticed that I'm not nearly as hungry on this diet as I thought I would be. And I can still have a sweet once in a while - sugar comes from a PLANT! So does coffee. So does wine. So does whiskey. So does...but I digress.

This Sunday is Palm Sunday, I hear. I think we're having dinner at your Mom & Dad's house.

Four months to go, right?

Love you. AT