yet another boring day in the life of me

So i've had me yet another boring day.. not much to do when your not working and school wont start for another week. I did however get into an argument with my father first thing in the morning which was a great way to start the day. Then i went to the doctors to get a form filled for my brother.. My brother is special needs and a funding form he has to get signed every year basically has the doctor saying that he is still mentally challenged. Its very annoying because my brother has a genetic condition called Fragile X which causes the mental impairment and thats never going away... you'd think the govt would clue into that rather than have us fill that in every year. Its no biggy i guess but it just gets on my nerves.

So i was also thinking of what to give my mom for mothers day because its just around the corner.. it comes so very fast... and i was thinking that i dont have alot of money right now but that it would be nice if i had a photo taken of my sister brother and i... the last time we had a nice one done was at least 5 years ago if not more, so it would be good i guess... so tomorrow i am going to check out some local places and hope that they dont cost a small fortune. we'll see.

oh and a question for those of you who've done the Wendies plan... how long did you stay on it before going back or did you just stay on it? just wondering...

and as for my WI today...only .5 of a pound but i guess its better than nothing.. its just that i was hoping to have lost a whole pound so that i could offically say that i've lost 40 pounds... i cant wait to say that to people!
as for my meals for the day...

Midday
1 serving subway white bread - 4pts
1 serving subway cheese - 1pts
1 oz chicken breast, boneless - 1pts
1 serving Subway ranch dressing - 3pts

Evening
8 large pieces california roll sushi - 6pts
1/2 cup vegetable tempura - 4pts
Coke - 3pts

Snacks
2 serving subway chocolate cookie - 9.5pts
1 serving Breyers 100 Calorie Cup Chocolate Fudge Brownie - 2pts


total 33.5

my goal today was supposed to be 31 but i needed that ice cream today so oh well... :)

I was away.....shopping!

so i went to seattle on thursday night and it was not easy to keep up with blogging bc i was with the family doing some shopping and hanging out etc.. i knew there was a reason why i love the US, better clothes, more variety for plus size women, shoes, cheap everything! gotta love it! i came back with jeans, capris, two very cool tops and sizes in the US are so much more generious so going down a size is so great for the ego.

so i've not been the best record keeper for this trip ( i was good, but i didnt keep a tally) so I will post again tomorrow with my meals and how my WI goes. hope everyone is having a great weekend!

nothing much to say today

I really dont have much to say today.. i did some driving downtown which was a bad idea seeing as they are doing nothing but construction... nuts nuts nuts!!! and i couldnt find parking which made it worse. oh well.

Tomorrow i am going to Seattle with the family for a break before i go back to school... can we say shopping??? woooo hooo... i've lost weight and what an excuse to get new clothes... Plus today i went and put on my older jeans and they dont work on my waist anymore too large... i need to work on loosing weight around my hips now...

so for Lunch

California rolls - 12 - 9 pts
water - 0 pts

Diner

Roast beef 4oz - 6.5pts
Scalloped potatoes 1 cup - 6.5
Green Beans 1/2 cup - 0
Milk 2 cups - 5.5pts

Snack

Cake Donut - 5

total 32.5 pts

goal 32 pts

tomorrow is my large points day 46 of them so i am going to take advantage of them and have diner on the way to seattle at Black Angus (mmmmmmm steak)

Welcome to temptation

So had some major running around to do today,

first it was off to the insurance place so that i could get one days insurance and air care my car so that in the end i could sell it off to my cousins. Then i drove it around to get the old gunk out of it because it hadnt been used in a year and a half. Then i panicked as i watched my car go through air care thinking it might fail and then all the money i spent today would have been waisted. It passed though... so all is good.

Then it was rushing home to make sure i got my brother off his school bus... which i even forgot about as i was sitting at home waiting for it to arrive, because i got so into dr phil. That show can be addicting! and has anyone else seen his line up for may...hmm some interesting topics.

Then i quickly checked how much my university over the summer was going to cost me... sigh... just over 3000.00 but i kinda expected it. not to mention that my books are going to cost me another 300. it never comes cheep any more, i remember when i started and it only cost me 1500. for taking the same amount of courses. then again gas was only just turning 50cents and even then i was panicking about that price...sad that now it is almost 1.20 here.

Then after that i had to drop off my family at diner because i had a meeting to attend for the board of directors that i sit on ( we run a summer program for special needs children ) from 6:30 to 9. Though diner was included so that wasnt bad! plus i split this really tasty desert called Sticky Toffee Bread Pudding... so worth every bit of it.

So i am going to attempt this week to eat some breakfast though its not always possible. we'll see.

Breakfast

Danissimo yogurt - 3pts

Lunch

White Pita - 3pts
Tandori Chicken - 4 pts
Tzatziki - 1pts

Diner

Chicken Broccoli and Cheese - 7pts
Rice 2/3 cup - 2.5pts
Caesar Salad 1/2 cup - 1.5pts
Sticky Toffee Bread Pudding - 6.5 pts (this is a guess i went by bread pudding bc this exact one isnt on the menu)


total 36.5

Goal for today36....

so not bad today only .5 over (cant hurt right?)

WOOOOOO HOOOOOOO

Its about time!!!! I lost two pounds today... even with the ice cream mistake yesterday there is some hope after all.. yes yes yes yes yes!!!!

so today i moved a bunch of boxed from my moms office to her house (some exercise) loading and unloading... then i had to run around for my ex boss and get him a new cell phone Palm Treo for his business trip becuase he didnt want to take his computer with him...

and now i am watching the ever stressfull Canucks hockey game... its 2 to 1 for us and 9 mins to go...aggg stress... i dont do well during these events. I was even worse during the olympic canada hockey game. And i think i have lost my voice from yelling at the screen... OMG!

anyways

lunch

rice pilaf 1/2 cup - 2.5
beef - 2.5
greek salad - 1.5
small pita- 1

diner

Chicken Cordonblu - 13
corn 2/3cup - 1.5
mashed potatoes 1 cup- 7

total 29
could still have a 2 pt bryers icecream

trying to get to 31 pts today we'll see if i feel like eating it later


ok ok 5 mins left now.......

neven again Dairy Queen

I've come to the conclusion that the world is such that it is determined to make my weight loss impossible.

I was good today... had a cobb salad for lunch and for diner i had teriyaki chicken, scallop potatoes and water, felt good and went to dairy queen with my family... thought ok maybe i'll have something ... perhaps not the best choice because i had a peanut buster parfait and didnt have clue just how bad it was... i think that i am going to cry its 17 pts. WHY WHY WHY?. Its like lets take all the fun out of having ice cream on a summers night right? and as i look through it, even a small cone isnt worth it.

And now that i am going to post my points meal today i am ashamed to say that i had 47pts because i was stupid enough to eat the dumb ice cream. the only good thing is that by the grace of god i've not gone over my flex points but i've successfully used them all up.

i guess i fell as if i've let myself down because i wasnt thinking when i made the choice to eat the junk i did today... i really didnt think that it would be that many points? i mean who would? what an eye opener...

agg now i am frustrated and want to go run for the next hour...


lunch

cobb salad - 18pts (stupid cheese and dressing, turkey, ham etc)
coke - 3pts

diner

teriyaki chicken - 7pts
scalloped potatoes - 5.5 pts
water - 0

STUPID INDULGENCE 17PTS

total 47.5


kill me now..... :(

basement clean out.. not as fun as it sounds

So today i spent about 2 hours cleaning out the basement and after all was said and done i swear that it looked as if nothing at all had been cleaned out of it. It looked as if all i did was rearrange all the mess...slightly disheartening.

Then it was out to walmart because my sister had jet to get a birthday present for her friends party tonight and it was only 3 hours away and she hadnt eaten yet (though i hadnt either) so the whole family traveled out to north delta and had brunch at dennys. I had breakfast eggs, pancakes, sausage, mmmmm it was sooo good and filling that i didnt want any dinner which didnt hurt because the amount of points for that meal is shocking..though i shouldn't be surprised.

My mom saved her pancakes to take home and when we were in the mall the puppy decided that he wanted a snack and ate them even though they were hidden...sigh...i think that we are going to have to get him a muzle. We've never used them before on our other dog but this one just wont stop chewing and finding stuff to get into. They say that puppys get over this but he's 4 months now and nothing...maybe its just too soon to expect him to stop.

anyways on to the meal count down...

lunch.

eggs 2 - 4pts
pork sausage 3 - 9.5pts (can you say OH MY GOD...note to self stop eating sausage)
bacon 2 - 2pts
Pancakes 3
coke - 3pts

snack

Jello - 0pts
7 layer dip 1/3 cup - 2pts
12 tortilla chips - 3pts
coke - 3pts

total of.... 34

today was a 35 point day...not bad tomorrow is a 33 point day so i'll factor in some walking and hope that monday will show some weight loss...i swear though if i gain i am going to be soo angry!

kinda went crazy at Diner

So today i spent the day getting my grandmothers car ready to sell. She passed away two years ago and we've not really been able to sell it. Its a 1992 mercury topaz but it has a new engine and new brakes and we finally got my close family friends daughters (twins) to buy it from us. I washed it, vaccumed it, and waxed it...plus played with the dog in the water. does that count as exercise? hmmmm... lol. I didnt make it to exercising today didnt really had the time we had to make the trip twice to get the right forms signed before transfering the papers, but tomorrow i have to help clean and move around the stuff in my mothers basement so that has to count for something right? I hope so...but i'll also take the pup for a walk too..

I was just thinking that I might test myself by going to the gym this weekend and then this evening at diner my broken toe started to throb for no goood reason.. kinda felt like it did when i was growing so i am assuming that i am having growing pains and that i might not yet be ready to go the gym...so walking it is for right now...

as for my meals for the day... kinda went crazy at diner (its a friday what ya gonna do)

lunch

Chicken Broccoli and Cheese - 7pts
Coke - 3pts

Dinner (at a greek restaurant)

Pita - 2.5pts
Hummus 1/3 cup - 3.5pts
Lamb 2.5 oz - 5pts
half baked potato - 1.5
creme caramel - 7pts
Coke - 3

Total: 32.5

so I only went over by 1.5 so thats not tooo bad i guess...right?

the 46 pt day

So I went out for a walk with the puppy today... that was an experience...he's learning that I walk him and not the other way around...but he almost had it by the time we got home. Maybe he will do better tomorrow. So I tried my best but I was just not able to eat the full 46 points, its sooooo much and I added on stuff at meals trying to fill it up so here it goes... and I know that I should have eaten breakfast but I just cant alway do it.

Lunch:

Shrimp 10 - 1.5pt
White Rice 1/2 cup - 2
Greek Salad w dressing 1/2 cup - 1.5pt
Tzatziki 1/4 cup - 0.5
Fruit salad 1 cup - 2pts


Diner:

Cheese Burger with bacon and bun - 14pts
Caesar Salad 1 cup - 2pts
Coke 16oz - 6pts

Dessert:

Hot Fudge Brownie - 10
Ice Cream 1/2 cup - 4

total: 43.5


Let me just say that I hope that this works or I have just packed on the pounds... thankfully tomorrow is a low day again.

sunny day but bad day

So its rather nice out today...gonna go for a walk tonight with the puppy i think... a rather crappy end to my day though I found out that I got laid off from my job becuase sales arent going so well and they have to cut back on hours. So now I dont know what I am going to do for money and I have to worry about school tuition for May..aggg... as for my meals today

Lunch:

leftovers mmmmmm...

Curry Chicken Sauce 1 cup - 10pts
white rice 1 cup - 4pts

Diner:

Roast Beef 4oz - 6.5pts

Green Peas 1/2 cup - 0.5 pts

Mashed Potatos 1 cup - 4.5 pts

total 25.5

dont know if i can get up to the 31 i am supposed to eat today... I dont want to start to binge on crap and I might if I start to eat now with how my days ending.

tomorrow is my large day for eating...somehow 46 pts ya right... we'll see

Thank You!

So, many thanks for your posts...i've looked at Wendies plan and I think I am going to give it a go. Seeing as I only had my WI yesterday I can start on day 2 becuase day 1 is a low day. so according to WW I get currently 31 points...seems sooo very high to be but ok... therefore i guess i go by the following

• Day 1 - 31 points
• Day 2 - 36 points
• Day 3 - 32 points
• Day 4 - 46 points Super High Day (SHD)
• Day 5 - 31 points
• Day 6 - 35 points
• Day 7 - 33 points

the only question i have is becuase this plan goes by diff figures than current ww stats do i go by my weight or by the points i am supposed to have? for today i am going to assume points. so the above.. the only problem i can see is how i am supposed to get to the 46 points when there are days i cant even eat the 31 i am supposed to...

And I think like many of you I am going to start posting what I am eating for the day. so as of right now...

Todays Goal: 36

Brunch:

French toast 3 slices - 11pts
Syrup - 4pts
water- 0pts

Diner:

M&M Stuffed Turkey 250g - 5.5pts
Corn 2/3cup - 1.5pts
Cheddar Broccoli rice 1 cup - 6pts
Milk 2% 2cups - 5.5pts

Snack:

Breyers 100cal chocolate fudge brownie ice cream - 2pts (yummy)

Total Points: 35pts

I gotta find more points to eat... so maybe a snack between now and diner.... guess tomorrow i am going to have to eat a real breakfast and lunch if i am going to make this whole points target.

Sigh another weigh in

So yet again another wi comes and goes and nothing...no weight loss... this is getting fustrating. I dont know what to do... i'm exercising more, back on plan, aggggg... I'm just starting to wonder when I am going to loose something.. even one pound would be great right now. I also dont want to over do it with the exercising becuase of my foot. Right now I am just trying to stay positive about this... that i know not gaining is just as good as not loosing but I'm getting discourraged. Any ideas of how to kick this in the butt?

sigh :(

Photos of me Then and Now

Ok so I finally got around to taking some photos of me less 37 pounds of which I started with back in November. I've clipped together two photos of me wearing the same summer outfit, the one on the left was taken tonight the other (with the lovely helmet) was taken in Aug 2006 (I dont know how much i weighed then but it was at least where I was when I started in Nov.



Oggg... Sigh I cant stand to look at this...AGGGGGG!!!!!!!



ok ok so now for a better photo...

SO this is me now... 37 less and still going...

Sit Ups'

ok so who decided that sit ups were good for you? i've been doing them for the past 3 days... nothing big 3 reps of 10...and my non existant abs hurt like you wouldnt believe. Throw in some leg lifts and i couldnt be more sore right now... and tomorrow i am having my dad throw away all my easter chocolate left over becuase its just a really bad temptation for me. i've have this chocolate fix for the past two weeks and its not healthy and i know it.. plus i need to get back on the water train... not being at school has thrown me off my plan. now i am going to get back on it... check back with me and i hope to break this plateau by next week.

Canucks

Anyone watching this Canucks game? its 11:45 and they are in their 3rd overtime with 6 mins to go... I cant believe this game is still going on...wow... how tired i would be if i was them..

anyways just checking in for the night... i spent the day cleaning my room (it took 3 hours) i know i know but i had totally let it go over the past school semester and promised myself and my father that i would get it done when i was out of classes... so that had to be some exercise right? lol...

have a good night all

School is done... for now

Sigh....

Thank god school is done for now... I am on a break until may 8th and then i am back again for a summer semester. The crappy thing is that because it has been such a rough past 3 months being sick and all i've not been able to exercise to the level that i had wished to... that has meant that i have recently plateaued and have not gained but not lost any weight either... its not horrible i know that it could be worse in that i could be gaining right now. But now that school is done i was planning to get back into the exercising routine but then get this.... a week ago saturday i turned around to get the phone and i slammed my toe between the up stairs banister and i broke it. So once again ( at least for right now) i am sidelined and not able to do very much walking let alone exercise.

does anyone have some ideas as to what i can do exercise wise that wont involve much walking on my toe? not that that is easy.. but any help would be great!