Originally Posted By Tandelothien There is still no sign of the toad however tonight we lay in wait!!! Amazed I have a Lasagne recipe in my Symply Too Good To Be True cookbook and she uses a white sauce between the layers and then sprinkles 3/4 cup of grated reduced fat tasty cheese on the top. In case your interested the white sauce recipe is: 1 tablespoon reduced fat margarine 4 tablespoons plain flour 2&1/2 cups skim milk salt & pepper to taste Melt margarine in a medium size saucepan, add flour, mix well with a whisk to avoid lumps. Slowly add milk, stirring constantly till sauce boils, salt and pepper to taste. Remove from heat, leave for a few minutes to allow sauce to thicken. I am assuming you use your own recipe for the meat sauce but if you want the rest of the recipe and nutritional info just let me know and I will post it. Well I am proud to say that I am down 1.1 kilos today which puts me 100 grams under my pre-holiday/pre-christmas/pre-blowing-it-completely weight. So now I can continue counting in totals lost since November 2008 when I started on this wagon ride So, drum roll please, I have now officially lost a total of 41.1 kilograms or 90.6 pounds. That leaves me with 11 kilos or 24.25 pounds to go until I hit my goal weight (I wont say normal cause there ain't enough meds in the world lol). So Nancy, 11 pounds is nothing. You'll be there in no time at all. I'm spreading my happy, zoney vibes to you all today to help keep you hitched to the wagon
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon Well, got on the scale this morning and am down a pound! This is really slow going but as long as it's coming off, I'm not complaining. <<Thinking back I made it to that weight about 5/6 years ago and I did feel good. "Somehow" over the next 5/6 years I put on 32 lbs! What the heck????>> I hear you there amazed! I lost close to 60 lbs. about 7 or 8 years ago. Kept it off for about 2 years but in the years that followed it kept sneaking back on. Why do we let that happen?!? I finally got back to where I started from...major chub! And I felt so good at that lower weight! And it was great to go into a store and buy clothes right off the rack...they actually had my size! Now I have to try on twenty things to get something that "kinda sorta" fits and I just say "the heck with it". Surpised I haven't ended up on "What Not to Wear"! Aaack! So happy for you Tandelothien! I know you are really deserving it! You've worked hard! And good luck waiting out that toad!!
Originally Posted By smedley Tand!! Woo Hoo that is truely awesome and inspirational you go girl Good luck with 'The Toad Hunt' I am fully back on track, completely headache free, but apparently up 1.5lb *sigh* official weigh in isn't till Thursday, and to be honest I am still down from my last official weigh in and have time to go, but oh the frustration LOL! Looks like normal might have to wait another couple of weeks
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Tand, thanks for the white sauce recipe! I am determined to make a tasty lasagna that is to my liking Congrats on the loss! You are really committed to this aren't you? LOL!!! about the "normal"! For those of you without a Wii Fit, when you weigh in, it puts you in an "obese" "overweight" "normal" or "underweight" shading. It's calculated by your BMI score. I don't think any of us here will ever be "normal" that wouldn't be any fun! but we can reach a good BMI score Tinkeroon, 60 lbs? That is awesome! I don't know what your goal is this time but now we know that you CAN do it! A lb a week is great! Slow and frustrating at times but hey we can do this! smeds, that 1.5 lbs will be gone by Thursday for sure. It's so frustrating to see a stupid gain!! You'll be "normal" in no time at all. Then what will we all do without you?
Originally Posted By smedley Don't worry I will still be here, mostly to keep me (and you lol) on the straight and narrow ;D Speaking of which how is that water bottle looking hmmm? I actually have about another 8lb to lose after I hit normal so it won't be straight away anyway...
Originally Posted By gardenrooms Thanks for your welcoming words, everyone. Great job, Tand and Tinkeroon. Every pound counts. Sigh – that works both up and down. I’m another one who lost it and gained it back – lost 90 pounds (my quitting smoking gain), couldn’t lose the last 5, so gave up, and eventually went all the way back to where I started. Didn't even realize what I was doing! Won’t let that happen again. Only problem is I was WAY younger last time. It’s a lot harder this time – with not such good results. Was not so good yesterday – went to an A’s game (yes, I’m one of the dozen or so of us who are still fans - the stands were SO empty even though they're winning right now, and most have batting averages over 200 and quite a few still over 300, unlike last year) and had a soft pretzel, which I now discovered could run anywhere from 300 to 500 calories, not counting the mustard! No more pretzels for this season; will have to bring veggies or popcorn. The occasional beer I don’t think I need to give up, but those pretzels…I have got to plan ahead! (If I’d done that when I quit smoking, I’d never have gotten myself here.) Just won’t let myself eat anything unless I write it down FIRST, and if I don’t know the calories, I won’t eat it (unless it’s an unadorned veggie).
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Hey gardenrooms, DH is still an A's fan too! I'm not into sports but I do go to an occasional A's game and one of the best parts for me has been the food! This year I'll really have to plan ahead too. We had a GREAT time at the Winchester House Mini meet yesterday. We also went to lunch at Plutos (salads and sandwiches) and dinner at a historic BBQ restaurant. I thought I was making OK choices although my salad was HUGE I picked only healthy toppings and asked for 1/2 the amount of dressing. Dressing on the side at dinner, took the butter off the potato etc. but when I came back and input the points on the WW chart, um, whoops! Those portions catch up on you fast! We did walk a mile plus on the tour so that must help right? smeds, I drank my water and thought of you Yes Tand, we are waiting for the toad report We thought of you at a certain point of the tour yesterday
Originally Posted By smedley Gardenrooms, planning is the key! Take veggies or fruit sticks, even plain home popped corn. Just step away from those pretzels Amazed, the points might have been up but you made good choices, you could have gone the other way, battle won Well done on drinking the water I am back on track and feeling good, beautiful day here today so I went out and walked my 'route' punched it into google earth and it is 2.6 miles, doing it in about 45 mins, I am pretty happy with that, especially given my knee is still in rehab!
Originally Posted By gardenrooms amazed, if you like the food at the A's, DON'T go see the Giants - they have amazing ballpark food! The thing I loved at the A's was the Gordon Biersch Garlic Fries - they would always made them extra crispy for me - but with the low attendance, that stand was hardly ever open, and I haven't even checked this year, I assume it's gone. (And they're not so good in SF any more either - they changed to some "green" frying process, so they come out limp. Lucky for me, I guess.) (It was REALLY bad when they sold them in the frozen food section at Nob Hill. Whew!) The meet sounds fun. We have gone to Pluto's up in Davis, and their portobello mushroom sandwich is out of this world. Why do I think so much about food? I'd better go drink some water. My scale was not kind this morning. I MAY have lost a pound this week, or I may not have (sort of started back again mid week so not sure where I started). I worked really hard this week but don't seem to have anything to show for it. I am "used to" dropping big my first week on (you can tell I've done this before), but I think it's not happening because I'm, older now, and I just have to accept that. But still, I hate my scale! At least I can celebragte your successes while I'm waiting to see some results. But I'm anxious - I've got a pair of pants I want to set fire to ASAP! If I don't hurry up, I may not have anything to wear to work!
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon gardenrooms, count me in as another A's fan! I have a cousin who used to play for the A's in the 80's and still have a soft spot for the team. I, too, think entirely too much about food! And that portabello mushroom sandwich sounds like heaven! (I LOVE mushrooms!) amazed, I was so sorry that we didn't get to have lunch with everyone at Pluto's yesterday but when I saw the portion sizes we got for dinner at Henry's I was almost glad we didn't have any lunch at all! Only I was starving by then and sure I ate entirely too much. The ribs were great. The chicken ended up being pretty much left on the plate (no room in my belly!), and I also had my salad with dressing on the side. I did use a *little* of that butter on my potato but didn't eat all the potato either. I'm still blown away at how much food they gave us!! And I didn't have the guts to get on the scale today. At least we didn't have any dessert and we ate nothing else that day except oatmeal for breakfast.
Originally Posted By smedley Sounds like fun Tinkeroon! Gardenrooms. The scales *will* move, be patient, it may take a little time, but if you're honest with yourself about what you're eating then it will happen Going great here, sticking to plan, hoping any badness will be undone by Thursday and generally feeling great
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle *sigh* I'm up to my old tricks of not checking in very often. I WILL get less slack!!! Being on this thread really does help. I had a skim through alllllll the posts that had been written since I'd last checked in and felt guilty about my absence!! I desperately need to lose at least 10 kilos (22lbs) by my friend's wedding in September (I'm bridesmaid. I'm second-in-command out of 4 and the 1st bridesmaid is REALLY tiny!) I'm hoping it will be more than the 10kg, but we'll see. I also want to get back to the US and would like to not grimace in horror at my vacation photos. Of course, today is a bad day to be writing this because my birthday's tomorrow and you don't want to know how many calories I'll be consuming! But all in all I'm in a pretty good mindset and not even really tempted by the bad stuff anymore. (Of course, I'm feeling pretty tempted by tomorrow's food because I've been dreaming about it for the last week!) Keep going well and feeling good, everyone! (Great to hear, Smeds
Originally Posted By iamsally Well this weekend went pretty well even with two LP meets. And why may you ask? Goats!!!!! You heard me right. We have been in the market for a bit and it has been horrible. We finally found a good deal on the right herd and it was in the Bay Area. So we combined our meets with business. As a result we missed dinner both nights. (I am really sad we missed the company; I know everyone was having a blast.) But I know I would have caved with ribs. So, all we had out was one salad that Rod and I shared. For the Museum meet we took so long getting the truck ready to pick up said goats that we missed lunch and only had cereal bars and nuts before the tour. Final upshot, I am down a bit. Now, if I could just find a way to have all the fun of a dinner meet without the calories. I know it is posible but when everyone is laughing and having a good time I get weak.
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon And those ribs were soooo good!! Thankfully, after braving the scale this morning, I didn't add any weight! Such a relief! Getting back in the swing of things again. Tonight, it's fish and salad, so I should be okay.
Originally Posted By Tandelothien Liberty Belle I was just thinking about you yesterday and wondering where you had gotten to gardenrooms when I started on this weight loss gambit I worked so hard my first week and nothing! The scales never budged for me but my sister had lost a kilo doing the same thing!!! I just tried not to let it discourage me and sure enough the second week I lost 1.7 kilos. I still have that happen occasionally, some weeks not much loss but the next week I lose a bit extra to balance it out. So take heart. iamsally your goat story reminded me of a podcast I watched on the weekend called California Gold with Huell Houser featuring a story on Clementine the goat who goes to the Hollywood Farmers Markets Well the trap was laid out but so far there is no sign of the toad so I'm hoping it hopped back out the way it came in. I have been told that if it is still inside then it will go to the water so hopefully it's gone because the whole situation is starting to annoy me, lol. Oh and um, on the weight loss front...I have slipped My family decided to buy dinner from the local Fish & Chip shop on the weekend so I partook of the fried food. I did, however, talk them out of also buying treats from the Cheesecake Shop so yay me. That counts for something right? I snuck a peek on the scales this morning and by scaling back my food portions for the last couple of days and doing a bit of extra exercise, I think I've cancelled out the extra calories. Only Saturday will tell. Oh well them main point is we are all still here right?
Originally Posted By smedley Here and trying is right Tand! Well done on getting them not to buy the cheesecake Still going great again here, going to do some kettlebell later, the downside to all this weightloss is all the sagginess :-X
Originally Posted By mickeymeg the last few days have been a catastrophe of birthdays and playoff hockey. I am trying to be good, really. I am still trying to shake off being disappointed at my last weigh in. I was up.6 even though I was actually pretty good last week and even upped the exercise. Boo
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Just checking in. I'm still doing OK. I seem to have held my own this past weekend, I think with all the walking and talking I'm feeling uninspired though, sigh, maybe it's the lousy weather that has come back with a lot of wind. I buzzed over to the store today and bought everything to make a healthy stew but got home too late from the office (darned billing)to get it in the oven in time. I think I'll dump it all in the crock pot tomorrow. Hang in here everyone! I need your inspiring stories Not sure why I have the blahs..............
Originally Posted By smedley hey! I found your blah's too... Had a *really* bad day on Tuesday, today's weigh in is not going to be fun Wanted to say amazed just how great you're looking in the pics of the Winchester house meet, looking good
