female, 41 years old
Maple Ridge, BC Canada
| Recent Journal Entry ArchiveNovember 15, 2009, 10:10 am Doing okay! | I have been avoiding the scale for the last couple of weeks, thinking that I've not been doing well.
Finally I had a big talk with myself. I've always said I refuse to be a statistic. I refuse to gain the weight back.
I decided that I was happy between 145 and 155. And to be frank, I've been worried that I'm over 160. So today I decided to pull my head out of my ass and face the scale.
154.6
Okay!! Phew!! Okay, so I can lose a couple of pounds. But reality is, do you know what this means?
I've got this ... |
continue reading 7 comments November 15, 2009, 10:00 am I made the best dinner (recipe sorta) | I cooked a two chicken breasts half way (dinner was just hubby and I). While they were baking, seasoned with Keg Steak Spice, I prepped the rest.
I took two portobello mushrooms, and ripped the stems off. I seasoned them with salt and pepper and a sprinkle of Garlic Plus. I sliced up some black olives and lined the mushrooms with them. Then I topped it with a couple of tablespoons of PC Blue Menu Primavera sauce.
When the chicken was half done, I layed them over the mushrooms, and scooped on some more primavera sauce and popped them in the oven. ... |
continue reading 8 comments October 28, 2009, 2:17 pm My poor dog | Out walking my Cairn Terrier and Weiner dogs last night, when we were attacked by a lab/pitbull/shepard cross that has issues with little dogs, having been bullied as a pup by one (so I found out after talking to her owner).
She literally picked up my Cairn by the back and shook her. Twice. She skinned her, and punctured her repeatedly. Two hours of emergency surgery, and I'm home with Frankendog. It's awful awful awful.
I actually was not hungry last night for dinner. I ate popcorn while watching biggest loser, but that was purely an emotional need.
Today i'm struggling with ... |
continue reading 47 comments October 17, 2009, 9:23 am Jim, did you delete... | ... your post about "why they leave"?
I commented on it, and was wondering if anyone commented after me, but cannot find it anywhere!
I thought it was a great post, with interesting responses.
Feel free to email me if you don't want to publicly respond. ... |
continue reading 8 comments October 17, 2009, 8:42 am Happy Saturday! | Nothing to really report, just wanted to say hi.
*waves* ... |
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October 5, 2009, 12:22 pm Game On! | Last week was insane. Both a death and a birth on the same day. The death made us have to jump in the car and drive 14 hours to the next province. Crazy amounts of visiting, then the service, and the drive home made for NO workout time. And eating? Well, I did my best, but man, there were not a ton of good choices. I actually cooked dinner for our hosts one night, just to have a healthy meal, lol.
The scale was at 158 (healthy for me is 147), so I'm "game on" lemme tellya. Shootin for the green. ... |
continue reading 6 comments September 17, 2009, 10:36 am Calories from Fat? | Curious... why is this important? No, seriously... if it's here, it's a tool, and I don't know how to use it.
Educate me!!
:) ... |
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September 5, 2009, 11:56 am Just For Today: Saturday | JFT:
I will NOT indulge just because it's the weekend.
I WILL drink all my water.
I will NOT overdrink coffee.
I WILL make healthy choices.
I MAY or MAY NOT excercise. *cheeky grin* ... |
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August 25, 2009, 4:44 pm I was approached via my blog | I got this in my email today:
Hi there,
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We’d love to send you a FREE 3-month Sensa Starter Kit (a $197 value) to review and hope you will share your thoughts and experiences with your readers. We also will give you a unique code ... |
continue reading 36 comments August 20, 2009, 5:09 pm The Experiment... cont'd | I've been googling like mad and found that I burned around 660 calories while I slept (according to this: http://www.fitwatch.com/phpscripts/viewexercise.php?descr=sleeping&mets=0.9 )
Does that seem high to anyone else? Mind you, another site said we burn approximately 77 calories an hour whilewe sleep, which (yes I slept ten hours) would be 770, so maybe not.
That puts my grand total during a non excercise day at ... 2200 calories??? Really??? Whoa! To maintain!!
I don't think that's right. It seems much too high. That would mean that to lose a pound a week I should be eating 1600 calories, without excercise (plus any ... |
continue reading 8 comments August 20, 2009, 11:15 am The Experiment... Results | The result: After 24 hours the HRM reads 1540 calories burned.
Factors:
- No excercise.
- Average work day.
- Sensors dried and don't know how long it went without recoding while I slept. Probably not more than 300 calories. During the day was 1300, so what do you think... a third the calorie burn while sleeping? Anyone know? ... |
continue reading 5 comments August 19, 2009, 11:21 am An experiment... | I'm running an experiment with my heart rate moniter. I'm wearing if for a 24 hour period of normal activity with no excercise, just to see what my caloric burn is. Interesting, huh?
The only thing is that the sensors dried out while I was sleeping, so it didn't register, but I have no idea for how long! So I may be off by a couple or a couple of hundred.
My thought is I'll have to do it again, without the sleeping part, and work out the difference... no, that won't work. Hrmph. Any suggestions? Can I stick wet cotton balls ... |
continue reading 8 comments August 6, 2009, 8:44 am Measure EVERYTHING | This morning I had raspberries with my breakfast.
According to the database:
21 berries = 21 calories
98 grams = 51 calories
On my plate 98 grams = 21 berries.
Doesn't add up.
I've gone back to measuring EVERYTHING, so that I know I'm getting an accurate measure. Sure it's only a 30 calorie difference, but how many times a day was I underestimating, and by how much?
What I didn't take into account was that maybe the berries here are gigantic compared to the ones wherever the database was taken from are. There are factors like that all over the place. ... |
continue reading 5 comments July 28, 2009, 11:07 am Just For Today... | - I will have no extra treats.
- I will stick to my meal plan.
- I will drink all my water.
- I will do 30 minutes of excercise. ... |
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July 14, 2009, 11:24 am I'm Still Here! | Hi All,
I just wanted to let you know that I am still around... and I'm trying to keep up with all the journal entry's, but holy banana feathers, has this place been hopping!
I have my sister in town from Taiwan for seven weeks, so I don't have the time to sit and veg on the comp like I usually do. I miss my blog reading!
I'm not doing great on the maintenance thing. Having a houseguest seems to be a big trigger for me. And while I'm a meatavor, my sis is an even bigger one. And since she's on ... |
continue reading 10 comments June 22, 2009, 7:17 pm The Beauty of Balance | Today was a great day for eating. Except that I went a little overboard with some potato chips.
But then after dinner I indulged in a little ciruit training, which brought me back into the green (except a bit of fat).
Ahhh, the beauty of balance! ... |
continue reading 5 comments June 11, 2009, 1:09 pm My Blog Yesterday | I find myself at a crossroad in life. And I'm not really sure what I'm going to do. I'm kinda standing here, scuffing my toe back and forth, wondering if I'm going insane, or if the world is sending me a message, or what.
I think the word I keep coming back to is "balance". In life we try and always find the right balance in everything. In work vs home. In play vs serious. In OCD clean vs Disgustinly slovenliness. In healthy eating and excercising. In pretty much everything we do, we strive for a balance.
When you go through a ... |
continue reading 14 comments June 1, 2009, 3:38 pm Scary | 156.2
That is the number on the scale this morning. I gave myself a food vacation from Wednesday to Sunday. I didn't work out. I drank. I ate chips. I ate caesar salad. I ate ridiculous portions.
I feel like shit. I've been in a food hangover for days. I feel like my body is full of toxins. My clothes are tight. My muffin top is so pronounced that I cannot wear 2/3 of my wardrobe.
I feel fat.
What is scary is how QUICKLY that weight comes back on. This is why it's so easy to get fat again. This is why ... |
continue reading 11 comments May 21, 2009, 8:41 am Feeling Reflective | No reason. I'm not really "in a slump". I'm watching my intake, mostley. I'm excercising ferociously. But I'm up to 150 pounds still and it's bugging me. I keep having to look in the mirror to see if that fat bitch is back, because sometimes it feels like it.
You ever have a day where you swear you wake up in the morning and all the weight is back on? Maybe you had a binge the day before and your tummy is upset. Maybe you have been off the wagon for a day or two. Doesn't it feel like you have ... |
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updated May 16, 2009, 11:52 am Letter I just received... :) | Wow! and I'll say it again . . . WOW! I've heard you mention Nutrimirror quite a few times and just thought, hey, whatever, I'll check it out sometime. Well, sometime is here and am I ever impressed! Talk about an anal retentive, organized, OCD person's dream!!! I'm spending my Friday night logging foods and nutritional content (and I'm excited!). Anyway, I love it and thanks for mentioning it.
By the way, I thought I'd been eating pretty good all week. After I put in today's food and exercise, I was OVER in my calories! Wake up call! It's easier to ... |
continue reading 7 comments May 9, 2009, 4:53 pm Holy Red Batman!! | I'm going to the Keg for dinner tonight. I've been a good girl and looked up the menu and made my choices as healthy as possible. But holy CRAP is my day red!!! ... |
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May 8, 2009, 8:52 am New Focus... Dammit! | Okay, I've been hovering between 148 and 150 for the last week, and I've just about had enough.
Time to get my head out of the sand before I pull a Kirstie. I know what the issues are. In fact there are three of them:
1). I don't get my allotment of freggies in each day.
2) Too many bread products, even if I am within my caloric budget.
3) Not listening to hunger / satisfied body signals even if I am within my caloric budget.
There's the crux. I stay within my caloric budget, and I shoot for green, but I am seriously FULL. ... |
continue reading 5 comments May 6, 2009, 8:53 am Sigh | I had passport photos done yesterday.
I didn't really look at them before she put them in the envelope. She had held one up and said "best passport photo I've seen in a very long time". I paid and left.
I got home, and pulled out the photo. Shocking. Who is that old woman with the saggy neck??
Back in the day, I used to look for pictures that made me look skinny. Now I look for pictures that make me look young.
Will I ever be satisfied with where I am today? Will any of us?
I think it's a matter of accepting ... |
continue reading 9 comments May 5, 2009, 7:57 am Mike is my total hero! | Anyone else notice that Tuesday is now available for preplanning?
The only thing is, watch the dates. Currently it defaults to tomorrow. You'll have to put the calendar back to today.
I asked Mike about this a couple of months back as it was the only thing I thought was missing from this system. I love having the ability to sit down the night before and plan how I'm going to spend my calories the next day. I've adjusted to not having that capability, but I haven't liked it!
Mike is my hero and he totally ROCKS!!! ... |
continue reading 25 comments April 30, 2009, 12:26 pm Welcome Pisces_Friction! | That's my friend! She signed up on here after reading my blog!
Woot!! ... |
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April 30, 2009, 8:46 am NSV - I Beat Her!! | This week I have to drive my son to his volunteer job, and this morning he tells me that he didn't have breakfast. So I decide to drive him through McDonald's. Sure it's crap calories, but seriously, the kid is doing heavy construction. He's going to burn it off. And he needs fuel of SOME sort.
I head for McDonald's. Already, she is in my head "an egg mcmuffin is not a bad choice". No. I have oatmeal prepped IN the pot already, waiting for me at home. I pull into the drive thru, and thank goodness it's empty. No time ... |
continue reading 9 comments April 27, 2009, 10:51 am Just For today - Monday | Just for Today means letting go of yesterday, focusing on today, and letting tomorrow take care of itself.
JFT I will:
- eat within my caloric budget
- drink at least 2 litres of water
- excercise hard for at least 30 minutes ... |
continue reading 5 comments April 24, 2009, 8:51 am Eggplant Casserole |
 Holy CRAP was this good! Thanks to Mouseroo (fellow blogger) for the link to her post on a dish when I posted a question on my blog of what to do with an eggplant, having impulse bought my first one. I also got from someone (damned if I can remember who right now, sorry) for a core (WW term) version of the same dish.
From these two dishes I decided to create a lasagna. I had some ground beef in the fridge that needed to be used today.
I gotta tell ya... I was worried. I have only had eggplant in ... |
continue reading 7 comments April 24, 2009, 8:50 am tra la la la la | I double posted and cannot delete this one, so move along... nothing to see here! ... |
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April 20, 2009, 9:30 am Vancouver Sun Run 10 Km | #47347, Dee Sicklesteel, Maple Ridge
1:11:44, 7:11/km, Place: 22475
I did it! With no training! I lived! AND I did a better time than I did last year, when I trained perfectly in a couch to 10k 14 week training schedule. Plus, I had to wait in line for a porta-potty for a good 5 minutes, so my time was actually even better if you minus that.
This is a testement to treating your body well. I am in top physical shape this year, compared to last year. Last year I was still losing weight, and focused on excercising for loss. ... |
continue reading 15 comments April 17, 2009, 12:36 pm Portion Control for Ice Cream | I keep seeing the issue come up of portion control for ice cream.
I actually have no problem with this, because of the tools I use. It may work for you, it may not. But here's what I do:
If the portion is a half cup, I literally measure out one half cup into the measuring spoon. Then I leave it IN the measuring spoon (because my reality is that if I transfer that into a bowl it's going to look smaller). I eat it using a baby spoon. Yup, a tiny little baby spoon. You know the ones... the ones we ... |
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