Awesome 4 days...

I am so proud of myself. I have remained OP so far the past four days. Now this is pretty awesome for me b/c I have tracked (through email) and gotten in my water, passed up cake, passed up french fries and just feel sooo great. Thanks to my new WW friend Christie and my weigh in friend Jen I know I can do this. It seems as if my life has finally settled down. School is going good, not much tension there anymore. We got rid of Emma's bottle last weekend. Greg and I are doing good. My house is somewhat clean. All of these things attribute to my doing bad and eating like a crazy person. I weighed in at Jen's Wednesday morning, another gain. This time I weighed 233.2, which is 1.2 pounds up from when we first started. I have been OP for 4 days and got on the scale this morning and it read 229.0. That was without any clothes, but it was so nice to see the 220's I have been struggling with the 230's for so long I'm just used to being that. I just want to stay in the 220's for right now and then focus on the 210's. One step at a time, baby steps. If I take on too much, I know I'm only setting myself up for failure.

Food journal from last night
B - 3 egg whites scrambled, 2 pieces of bread, 4 pieces of precooked bacon - 5 pts
L - Wendy's - grilled chicken sandwich (8) chili (4) - 12 pts
S - smores granola bar - 2 pts
D - 3 tortillas (4) 2 oz chicken (2) cheese (3) sour cream (1) taco sauce (0) - 10 pts

29 points, but I've only used 1 flex this weekend.

It's been a while...

Since I've last posted. Jen and I are still weighing each other and I'm 1.2 lbs up from when we started but at least we seem to have gotten our act together. I also have a new friend Christie that is going to join me in emailing me to keep each other on track. She and I seem to have very similar stats and weigh loss/gain patterns. I'm really excited about this. Today I did really well. I did forget my breakfast, but Jen came to my rescue and gave me an oatmeal bar so I avoided going to McDonald's. I drank 6 bottles of water. I think my stressful time is over. A is not at work for the rest of the week so I won't have to think about how she pissed me off last week. I ate a new tv dinner today and it was really good - 6 points but worth it. I went to Subway for dinner and of all nights, the girl put 4 triangles of cheese, which added more points to my sandwich, but what am I gonna say... HEY put those cheese triangles back... So here's my menu for today

B - oatmeal bar - 4 pts

L - smart ones chicken suiza - (6) banana (2) kudos bar (2) - 10 pts

D - subway chicken teriyaki (8) baked lays (3) chocolate pudding (1) - 12 pts

S - 1/4 of world finest chocolate almond bar (2) grapes (not even worth counting)

Total for the day 28 pts.

I did have a NSV - We all got a world's finest chocolate bar this afternoon and I went to my ILs house and gave everyone a piece and only ate one small part. Another NSV was that I avoided the candy jar that is filled with hershery mini bars....

Until tomorrow...
JTP

More on track...

After the weekend I usually do good on Monday and today I did relatively okay. I had semi planned out my food for today but just had a change in dinner.

B - oatmeal bar and a banana (6)

L - hot pocket (6)

D - subway bread 3.5, pepperjack cheese 1.5, meats 2.5, mayo 1 (8 1/2)
baked doritos (1)
baked carrots and potatoes (1) - (10 .5)

Snacks - birthday cake (4)
breakfast sausage (2)
ritz 100 cal pack (2)

Total for the day - 30.5 - over by 1.5, but I haven't eaten all of my flexies for the week. I am going to have a chocolate candy before I go to bed. I did drink 5 bottles of water, which means I achieved my goal for today.

Weigh in is Wednesday, I'm still not counting on losing...
Until tomorrow,
JTP

Stress eating..

I know I am a stress eater and it seems like the days are getting fuller and fuller. Last week I was out Monday and Tuesday from school with what I thought to be a stomach virus, but I now know it was food poisoning from Craig's wedding. Yes, food poisoning from a wedding... That in itself had me stressed b/c missing school is a big thing for me. I went the rest of the week but continued to walk around in a fog. My other issue right now is Greg. He has been sick since Tuesday and has done NOTHING to help me out around here. Oh wait he did do dishes Friday night. Other ethan that he works, comes home, sits on the couch, goes to bed, sleeps, goes to work... You get the pattern.... I have had Emma everyday and I enjoy being with her, but you know lend a momma a hand sometimes... Then I'm trying to diet on top of all of this, I'm lucky I haven't eaten the entire house seeing the circumstances. I am hoping that blogging about it will ease my pain. I cannot go to bed b/c Greg is coughing and snoring that it is keeping me up, plus all the new shows started this week. I've been at my mom's all day today and really didn't eat that bad. I ate 7 crabs, which crabmeat isn't all that many points. We did go eat at McDonalds and I got a grilled chicken sandwich. Greg has worked every day since Thursday and it is about to drive me crazy. Tomorrow he's going play golf which equals intoxication plus it is also his mom's bday, which means I have to figure out what to do for her. I have no gift, no card, no cake. I suck suck suck and I'm about to lose my mind. Emma is in bed at 8:15 b/c she had a slight nap and was whiney whiney whiney. I told Greg he has to go to the doctor tomorrow b/c I hope it doesn't turn out to be pneumonia or bronchitis. I just need some help. I cannot eat properly and make it through the day. At least in the back of my mind I have been conscious of what I'm putting in my mouth and haven't eaten that nestle crunch in my mom's fridge or opened her cabinet with the snickers bar or eaten the ice cream bars that I know are in the freezer. Okay so I've rambled on enough. I'm off to take a bath, wash my hair, and talk to Jen about her weekend. Sounds like she did really good and I need to commend her to sticking to it. She's a newbie and is still on the first week high and will probably be and then once she gets on teh scale she'll be escastic and I'll be moaning b/c I gained instead of losing... But I digress....

Until tomorrow,
JTP

Two days...

Two days ago Jen and I started doing this together. Two days I have had success and feel good. Minus the stomach bug I had Monday I'm wondering how I'll do this week. I know Jen will lose weight but I'm not sure about myself.

Yesterday's menu
B - Waffle House waffle, butter, syrup - 12
L - flat bread sandwich - 7, banana - 2 (9)
D - tilapa (2) pear (1) green beans and almonds (2) dirty rice (2) - 7

Total - 28 pts.

Today's menu - 9/25
B - bagelful (4) - 4
L - tilapa (2), plum (1/2) pineapples (2) - 5 1/2
D - pizza - crust (8) cheese (4) canadian bacon (2) mushrooms (0) sauce (0)
dirty rice (2) yogurt (1/2) - 16 1/2
3 candies (3)

Total - 29 - 1 over oops!

Found a partner...

Well we're back in the saddle again....

This time I have a partner and I think we'll be successful if we can work together. Jen and I are going to start Wednesday although I may go by her house tomorrow and weigh in just so we can get a kick in the pants. Both of us are overweight and need to get ourselves healthy for our families. Wish me luck....

Tomorrow's menu

B - Oatmeal bar - 4

L - Buffalo chicken flat bread sandwich - 7
banana - 2
popcorn - 2

D - hotdogs - 2
bun - 2
chili - 1
cheese - 2

20 total - 8 to play around with

This is my game plan again - plan the night before :)

Until tomorrow...
JTP

September 17

Breakfast
Oatmeal bar - (4)

Lunch
lean pocket chicken, spinach, and artichoke (5)
banana (2)

Snacks
chicken enchilada soup - (3)
grapes (2)
crackers (3)
dip (3)
popcorn (2)

4 left, I might go have some ice cream :P