I am at 207 which is good, considering I haven't been exactly following the eating plan, lately. I have been under a bit of stress. I am going to go grocery shopping in a bit. I also have to transfer one of the rabbits to the new cage. I am not sure Rorschach will appreciate it, but, then again, he will be getting more room to himself.
This may seem odd to everyone reading this, but, I am not going to post before and after pictures of me.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
grinning a bit
this morning, went wii, then got on the scale. I am down one to 206. If I can keep this up, comfortably, at one pound every 4 days then by 2-9-2018 I should be down to 189.
right
tomorrow the family is going to a family get together for breakfast/lunch. I feel good. the pants I am wearing I had to take up, they are beautiful, bit snug, big deal, I have a belt. I think they are 36 inch waist, says 38 on the label, but, trust me, they feel a lot more like 36...brb...37 inch...damn...they still fit a bit snug, but it will give me a goal. They were 38, but, seeing the hems were taken up an inch and a half, looking at the waistline and an slight sign someone took the waist in as well as the inseam.
I am still geeked, though! They are not too tight. I am still a bit put off by how much fat is on my stomach, but, with patience, it, too, will be gone.
We are going to a nice restaurant...damn...I haven't been to one of those in ages. I know what to wear and how to act....I am just nervous when, when I order my meal, the waiter doesn't disembowel when I order eggs and ham with vegetables and fruit. I hope it is a buffet. Those are way easier to eat at. No one asks you why you are not having mashed potatoes, buns, cakes, stuffing...white rice...where all the bad nutrient structure is. maybe I will just have a cup of tea and side salad with chopped ham /\__/\
right
tomorrow the family is going to a family get together for breakfast/lunch. I feel good. the pants I am wearing I had to take up, they are beautiful, bit snug, big deal, I have a belt. I think they are 36 inch waist, says 38 on the label, but, trust me, they feel a lot more like 36...brb...37 inch...damn...they still fit a bit snug, but it will give me a goal. They were 38, but, seeing the hems were taken up an inch and a half, looking at the waistline and an slight sign someone took the waist in as well as the inseam.
I am still geeked, though! They are not too tight. I am still a bit put off by how much fat is on my stomach, but, with patience, it, too, will be gone.
We are going to a nice restaurant...damn...I haven't been to one of those in ages. I know what to wear and how to act....I am just nervous when, when I order my meal, the waiter doesn't disembowel when I order eggs and ham with vegetables and fruit. I hope it is a buffet. Those are way easier to eat at. No one asks you why you are not having mashed potatoes, buns, cakes, stuffing...white rice...where all the bad nutrient structure is. maybe I will just have a cup of tea and side salad with chopped ham /\__/\
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
sigh
yes, it's been a while. I am back down to 207 pounds, have kicked caffeinated coffee almost totally, am, after this last of the gin is gone, not going to get more. My headaches have lessened quite a bit and my problem with not being able to go has stopped. I firmly believe that coffee, and my love there of, was causing constipation, it was not fun. I had bad headaches from the craving of the coffee and not being able to go, double whammy.
I am using the pressure cooker a bit less than normal, but then, I am eating more beef, fried (chuck roast cut into steaks), fried ground turkey with seasonings, sometimes fried chicken and always with a pound of broccoli and cauliflower tossed in, sometimes as a stir fry veg mix, sometimes as a broccoli normandy. it is good.
Despite my fear of fruit being a bad sugar I am finding I am feeling psychologically better when I eat at least 3 to 5 fruits a day (unprocessed sugars and carbs) along with the one to two pounds of vegetables a day. I am eating, in the sinful white carb category, no bread any more, except for the occasional treat I do of a home made bisquick mix with frozen fruits thrown in for extra flavor. I am also tossing in a third a cup of long grain brown rice into a soup stock now and then for variety as well. I am also going through a lot of onions and celery. They are great items to fry and use with broccoli and cauliflower.
tomorrow, weather providing (HA! I kill me) I will be cleaning one of the rooms, probably the dishes, picking up the kitchen a bit, and removing the big items from the living room. Then, if it is as warm and sunny as predicted, I will pack some paint and go on an excursion. Not sure where, yet, or, really IF...I can't find any paynes grey and I know I have at least two in acrylic paint. I don't have any black, either, so painting clouds without one of those two will be fun. I have davy's grey, but, that is usually for sunsets, storm clouds that are yellowish and threatening with the sun in the back. I feel so naked with out black or payne's grey in acrylic, I know full well I should have some! (wait, just remembered something)....(nope, but I did use the payne's grey recently, so I know I have it in acrylic)
anyway, tomorrow, I start light cleaning (don't scoff)
I am using the pressure cooker a bit less than normal, but then, I am eating more beef, fried (chuck roast cut into steaks), fried ground turkey with seasonings, sometimes fried chicken and always with a pound of broccoli and cauliflower tossed in, sometimes as a stir fry veg mix, sometimes as a broccoli normandy. it is good.
Despite my fear of fruit being a bad sugar I am finding I am feeling psychologically better when I eat at least 3 to 5 fruits a day (unprocessed sugars and carbs) along with the one to two pounds of vegetables a day. I am eating, in the sinful white carb category, no bread any more, except for the occasional treat I do of a home made bisquick mix with frozen fruits thrown in for extra flavor. I am also tossing in a third a cup of long grain brown rice into a soup stock now and then for variety as well. I am also going through a lot of onions and celery. They are great items to fry and use with broccoli and cauliflower.
tomorrow, weather providing (HA! I kill me) I will be cleaning one of the rooms, probably the dishes, picking up the kitchen a bit, and removing the big items from the living room. Then, if it is as warm and sunny as predicted, I will pack some paint and go on an excursion. Not sure where, yet, or, really IF...I can't find any paynes grey and I know I have at least two in acrylic paint. I don't have any black, either, so painting clouds without one of those two will be fun. I have davy's grey, but, that is usually for sunsets, storm clouds that are yellowish and threatening with the sun in the back. I feel so naked with out black or payne's grey in acrylic, I know full well I should have some! (wait, just remembered something)....(nope, but I did use the payne's grey recently, so I know I have it in acrylic)
anyway, tomorrow, I start light cleaning (don't scoff)
Thursday, March 31, 2011
been out
I have not been following the diet well at all. I had an old acquaintance come back into my life. Not exactly thrilled. I forgot how tiring he is. He is nice. I am not sure I want him back. I realize he will read this, some time, he is nice, so are shots for antiviral. No one wants a shot, either. Especially where they give them. (usually arm or shoulder, sometimes the ass) (one doesn't want the shot, usually the best place for the shot is someone else)
I think I am maintaining the weight. This morning I had pork and an apple. Yesterday I had roast beef and a grapefruit. I think I will eat more vegetation and fewer apples, as much as I like them. Yesterday I walked to downtown, back, and biked a bit too. I was active, yesterday. I am glad that the snow is finally melting, I will be able to bike more. I miss biking.
I made/finished a greenhouse yesterday. It is nothing permanent, covered with the same plastic that one uses for a drop cloth, so it is light weight and, if it gets damaged, it will be easy to repair or replace. I put some of the apple seedlings in it, the two grape vines and a tomato plant in it, yesterday, when I brought them back in, they looked so much healthier than they had up to that point. I am going to bring them all in, tonight, take them out, tomorrow, bring in the tomatoes and peppers, leave the vines, apples and bulbs, just keep them watered. I love a good garden.
I saw Steel Magnolias, yesterday? day before? it was good. Better than I thought. I forgot what it was about. I thought it was about cannibalism, it was about pulling the plug. I was hoping for cannibalism. Maybe I am confusing it with Fried Green Tomatoes. I liked Eating Raul. That movie was a hoot. Speaking of B and lower movies, anyone in here want to see a virtually pointless movie that is funny but dark, make a LOT of popcorn, see Arnold (1973, staring Stella Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Jamie Farr and a few others, Jamie's character really loses his head) I need to watch Arnold this afternoon (yes, I have the DVD, one can find copies of it sometimes) and then watch Murder by Death then the remake Clue. (I have NO life!.)
I think I am maintaining the weight. This morning I had pork and an apple. Yesterday I had roast beef and a grapefruit. I think I will eat more vegetation and fewer apples, as much as I like them. Yesterday I walked to downtown, back, and biked a bit too. I was active, yesterday. I am glad that the snow is finally melting, I will be able to bike more. I miss biking.
I made/finished a greenhouse yesterday. It is nothing permanent, covered with the same plastic that one uses for a drop cloth, so it is light weight and, if it gets damaged, it will be easy to repair or replace. I put some of the apple seedlings in it, the two grape vines and a tomato plant in it, yesterday, when I brought them back in, they looked so much healthier than they had up to that point. I am going to bring them all in, tonight, take them out, tomorrow, bring in the tomatoes and peppers, leave the vines, apples and bulbs, just keep them watered. I love a good garden.
I saw Steel Magnolias, yesterday? day before? it was good. Better than I thought. I forgot what it was about. I thought it was about cannibalism, it was about pulling the plug. I was hoping for cannibalism. Maybe I am confusing it with Fried Green Tomatoes. I liked Eating Raul. That movie was a hoot. Speaking of B and lower movies, anyone in here want to see a virtually pointless movie that is funny but dark, make a LOT of popcorn, see Arnold (1973, staring Stella Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Jamie Farr and a few others, Jamie's character really loses his head) I need to watch Arnold this afternoon (yes, I have the DVD, one can find copies of it sometimes) and then watch Murder by Death then the remake Clue. (I have NO life!.)
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Saturday...
it is cold outside. I have been working on Madonna's "Hanky Panky" on a computer program I think I am about to make the final purchase for. I am nearing the end of the upgrade trial period, and, this is impressive. Finale PrintMusic is nice. Doesn't have all the instruments I realize, but what it does have is nice enough....for now...and believe me I am def considering upgrading to ultimate premium it offers when I have the money. It isn't really going to be cheap, but, had I purchased the PrintMusic from the start it wouldn't have been cheap, either. I have been trading up, seeing if I will like or use it. I forgot how much fun it is to take a piece of piano music and play with it. Right now it sounds almost like her original release without the drums. Almost. It needs a slightly bigger horn section, but, for a small jazz bar piece it is good.
I have decided that my free days will be the day after my weigh day, from now on, it would be like a rest day. Not huge, not really.
Today, so far, I have had five cups (5.5 oz per cup, english standard teacup measure) with 1 oz milk and 1 oz sobe pina colada. It is good in coffee, gives the effect of cheating and only using a small portion. I also had a grapefruit.
for lunch, probably a couple tablespoons peanut butter and an apple.
I have decided that my free days will be the day after my weigh day, from now on, it would be like a rest day. Not huge, not really.
Today, so far, I have had five cups (5.5 oz per cup, english standard teacup measure) with 1 oz milk and 1 oz sobe pina colada. It is good in coffee, gives the effect of cheating and only using a small portion. I also had a grapefruit.
for lunch, probably a couple tablespoons peanut butter and an apple.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
huge smile on my face
this morning I got on the scale after using the restroom and I am at 204. I am smiling again as I look at the numbers. What is weird is I can sort of see the weight loss when I look in the mirror. (one I hate looking in the mirror, two, the mirror hates it when I look in it)
Today, weather providing, I am going for a bike ride to something called "the tridge" It is a tri point bridge that connects where two rivers converge. My mom helped somewhat when it was being constructed, don't remember how, something to do with her being Norwegian and it having a tridge troll (must have been me).
One of my herbs from last year is coming up, don't know which, and I found some popcorn from last year still on the ear outside. I grabbed it, put it in an envelope and am going to grow it again, this year. IT is a really unique, tender, nutty actually sweet flavor. I didn't find that much, which will mean I will have to plant it inside, again, to avoid it being eaten by animals while it's in seed form. Last year I planted it in rows, this year I am going to plant it in a hex like pattern, maybe that is the more correct way, not sure, had a rather large harvest last year from them being in rows (only problem is is I am NOT finding the corn from last year, what happened to it????)
Today, weather providing, I am going for a bike ride to something called "the tridge" It is a tri point bridge that connects where two rivers converge. My mom helped somewhat when it was being constructed, don't remember how, something to do with her being Norwegian and it having a tridge troll (must have been me).
One of my herbs from last year is coming up, don't know which, and I found some popcorn from last year still on the ear outside. I grabbed it, put it in an envelope and am going to grow it again, this year. IT is a really unique, tender, nutty actually sweet flavor. I didn't find that much, which will mean I will have to plant it inside, again, to avoid it being eaten by animals while it's in seed form. Last year I planted it in rows, this year I am going to plant it in a hex like pattern, maybe that is the more correct way, not sure, had a rather large harvest last year from them being in rows (only problem is is I am NOT finding the corn from last year, what happened to it????)
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
today was interesting
went to Dow Gardens with mum, they have the butterfly exhibit going on. It was nice, got I bunch of nice photos in the butterfly chamber and outside. The melting snow and the small, man made river were nice.
I am not sure if I mentioned this but my rabbits have a friend. I fed it, gave it an apple quarter. It came up about 2 feet from me and showed less fear than this morning when I was outside.
But you didn't come here to read my day to day dribble.
breakfast was apple and grapefruit
coffee with whole milk and stevia
lunch more grapefruit
went to the Grace A Dow library and had some coffee with egg nog syrup and sweet and low.
for dinner...yes, I had actual food
one burrito
turkey with one ounce melted cream cheese
glass of milk
two boiled eggs
and something else that was "healthy" (I remembered it was one serving of popcorn, popped in beef fat, damn, I love that stuff. I found it pops bigger if it is kept in the freezer just before it is popped)
I almost had mom stop at Kroger on the way home so I could grab some fried chicken. I decided I have enough chicken in the freezer and I can probably make it a bit less "fast food breaded" (which I would have eaten the breading) and have all the same flavor. I am stocking up on some seasonings that are, from what I can tell, the same seasonings that KFC used in it's original recipe. I can put the seasonings on the raw, frozen chicken, toss them in the pressure cooker and have the exact (or super close) flavor with a lot less guilt.
tomorrow I weigh myself (I am doing the weigh self posts the same day I change the cat litter, every 5 days)
I am not sure if I mentioned this but my rabbits have a friend. I fed it, gave it an apple quarter. It came up about 2 feet from me and showed less fear than this morning when I was outside.
But you didn't come here to read my day to day dribble.
breakfast was apple and grapefruit
coffee with whole milk and stevia
lunch more grapefruit
went to the Grace A Dow library and had some coffee with egg nog syrup and sweet and low.
for dinner...yes, I had actual food
one burrito
turkey with one ounce melted cream cheese
glass of milk
two boiled eggs
and something else that was "healthy" (I remembered it was one serving of popcorn, popped in beef fat, damn, I love that stuff. I found it pops bigger if it is kept in the freezer just before it is popped)
I almost had mom stop at Kroger on the way home so I could grab some fried chicken. I decided I have enough chicken in the freezer and I can probably make it a bit less "fast food breaded" (which I would have eaten the breading) and have all the same flavor. I am stocking up on some seasonings that are, from what I can tell, the same seasonings that KFC used in it's original recipe. I can put the seasonings on the raw, frozen chicken, toss them in the pressure cooker and have the exact (or super close) flavor with a lot less guilt.
tomorrow I weigh myself (I am doing the weigh self posts the same day I change the cat litter, every 5 days)
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