fall foods

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

I am so thinking fall foods. I can't get enough. I am eating apples like they are going out of style. Good choice. But..now I REALLY want baked goods made out of pumpkin. found a recipe on here that looks great for pumpkin pancakes and have DH working on those as we speak. The problem will be to not eat too many. At 79 calories a piece, that is not so bad...but how many can I eat? I hate to think..with..apple butter spread on them...oh dear. Just in the mood to think apples and pumpkin.

  

What a day! God is ALWAYS there.

Tuesday, October 05, 2010

I have about decided I have a serious mood swing problem. (I am 51..Could it be?) One day I am happy with the world and the next I am ready to explode. Often within the same day.

OK..I take care of 3 children, a 2 month old, a 1 year old and a 2 year old. they are my grandchildren and I ADORE them. But they are more than two hands full. I need at least 4. Soo...some days are stressful. Today was one of them. We have tried to hire help for in the morning and it is hard, for what my kids can afford to pay. We found some great college students but schedules and other jobs make it challenging to say the least.

Today, as once again, I was formulating a way to make myself tell my kids I can not do this.....my daughter IMed me from work. (slow day). I was told her how I was feeling. She said she would figure out a way to make this work. When I checked up later..she said "READ YOUR MAIL> READ IT NOW". So I checked and found that daughter in law had written us both to tell us that a friend of the family was looking for part time work that was flexible enough for her to go on school outings with her own children. This lady is already my back up and we totally trust her.

This is what I call a God Siting. He never lets me down.

And..while I am searching the house, frantically, trying to find something sweet and junky to eat, all this transpires. I eventually found a little peanutbutter fudge, ate just a little anded handed it to my son whom I knew would remove my temptation by inhaling it.

Thank God, I keep the junk out of the house. I ate within my calories after all. I thought it was a lost cause.

I did squeeze in a 30 minute work out and i think I can manage another one tonight. WOO HOO!!!!

  

free spark goodie....for help.

Monday, October 04, 2010

I am blowing it day after day...for 3 days. I just get tired of counting, tired of exercising, I strart the day decently and then give it up.

I don't want to go back to old fatty self. I want to reach my goals. Why am I doing this? I really thought I had incorporated a new lifetsyle.

How can I get back on track and enthused? I didn't eat cookies or icecream yesterday, but I ate 6 breakfast bars. yes I did.

The other thing..I would like to get off soda's. It is diet soda, but I drink so much that I think that all those chemicals can't be good for me.

Spark goodie for the one that gives me help. LOL I know you all will help anyway.

  

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CITYGIRL27 10/4/2010 11:13AM

We've all been there. Don't expect perfection. Don't beat yourself up for slipping. Just get back to business. Bottom line: "Losing weight is hard. Being fat is hard. Choose your hard." ~~ author unknown Report Inappropriate Comment

TREASURINGLIFE 10/4/2010 11:07AM

Well, you just have to remember that you are in the midst of a lifestyle change - not a diet - so there is no failing, or being "on" or "off" the wagon. It's just about choosing wisely as often as possible, and remembering that YOU ARE WORTHY of all the good that life has to offer - and one of those "goods" is GOOD HEALTH! It's hard to have good health when you're overweight, eating crappy foods, drinking chemical-filled drinks, and not moving your body. You know? Once you accept that this about becoming healthier, and happier, and fitter, and not about just losing weight, or hitting a certain number on the scale, the easier it'll be to make wise choices on a more regular basis. Also finding something to "train" for will make it easier to continue exercising. And educating yourself on the "bad" aspects of processed foods, and the chemicals in diet pops might help you when it comes to making healthier food and drink choices. You know? Good luck!!! - Michelle Report Inappropriate Comment

ONICAM 10/4/2010 9:29AM

I am like you in that I do slide back. I am also have been with diet sodas for a while. It depends on what you need from the soda, if it is cafine it depends on what you drink in order to tell exactly and how your body is. If it is possible change off from soda to flavored water. If you are the kind of person that gets headaches if you do not have cafine then you need to go from one down to a part of one and then eventually stop.I have started drinking the SoBE lifewater and it is somewhat sweet, but not bad. I cannot stand plain water and this is cafine free. I still have bad days with this here and there, but it had only been one or two weeks and I only had one bad day. Knowing that I used to have Mountain Dew or Pepsi Max this was good.It was also good because I did coke instead so there was less than normal. One way to reduce the amount of breakfast bars is to stay out of the isle that they are at in the store. You can pack food like nuts, fruit, bread, veggables and some other things and bring it with you. Depending on the time and where you are you can eat while you are there or you can put the food near you pull out one thing and eat it in the car. Report Inappropriate Comment

MRE1956 10/4/2010 9:27AM

Well, I gave up regular sodas many years ago after seeing the ill effect on my siblings (figuring that the shared DNA thing could come into play, I saw that as a red flag and stopped pretty quickly, and with no side effects or anything like that)..... I got turned off from the diet sodas about a year or so ago after reading one of those many health-related articles that appear on the web from time to time (and it wasn't from SP) where it went to some unpleasant detail on how diet sodas "behaved" once consumed (let's face it, the minute I read the word "formaldehyde", let's just say the "honeymoon" ended immediately!)....... As far as the enthusiasm goes, just think back to the reason why you started this journey in the first place......was it for a specific goal? To be your best for your family? To get control of health issues? Bottom line is - you really have to be, for want of a better word, "hungry" enough and want your desired goal strongly enough to commit to whatever it takes to keep your spirit and "spark" going! Never forget that you're in a wonderful place for support and information! Report Inappropriate Comment

New food scale!

Friday, October 01, 2010

I am excited. I just bought the first food scale I have ever owned. Looks super simple. By Tayler "the biggest loser" one. I hope it is sufficient. Seemed good for the price. I haven't had a reason to reward myself for a while..as far as a goal met. I have lost the same 2 pounds over and over. I just decided that since i am still doing what I need to do, I will reward myself for that. And maybe I will see if I have a problem with my serving sizes or something to explain the bouncing of these few pounds.

Other than that I am hanging in there. still 5 pounds to go (for 2 months now) but I feel good, look alright, have energy, so I will stick it out.

I have decided on a new goal I have been counting all liquids as water. From now on I am only going to count water. see if I am retaining any..although I don't really think so.

Hope all of you are doing well! love my sparkbuddies.

  

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MEYLOSE 10/1/2010 10:44PM

Great choice for a reward and now you can be more accurate with your calories and portions, WELL DONE!!!! Report Inappropriate Comment

BUTTERFLYBLUE67 10/1/2010 9:21PM

Food scale is a great tool for losing weight. It has helped me tremendously, treat yourself to measuring cups and spoons also if you don't have any. Report Inappropriate Comment

PERSISTANT123 10/1/2010 7:13PM

Oh, a consistency reward. GREAT IDEA! I might have to consider that too, as I keep working on the same 3 pounds since May. Report Inappropriate Comment

SPARKGIRL285 10/1/2010 1:39PM

Food Scales are awesome! I got a Taylor one as well and when I started using it I was amazed at how much I overestimated my serving sizes. The scale is a really great weight loss tool. Report Inappropriate Comment

something new for me

Thursday, September 30, 2010

I got a new (used) elliptical. It is a fairly nice one and I have been using it. Since I got it, the rain has been NONSTOP, so timing was great (we brought it home in the rain) I get on for two minutes and it seems soooo hard so I vow to make it at least 10 minutes..then I can more easily to 15, but then I decide that sounds puny so I force myself to do 20..then 30...the 40...45.. in the end I have complete an hour of the elliptical. I am soaking wet, worn out legs, but WOW the calorie burn. I am loving it, but looking forward to taking a nice easy 4-6 mile walk like I used to think was hard. LOL I am still doing my strength but not enthusiastically.

And now I am sleeping great at night.

  

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BSEXTON3 9/30/2010 5:25PM

Great job!. Isn't it nice to realize that you really can do something you set your mind to. Report Inappropriate Comment