Wednesday Weigh In - Ya Baby!

Last Wednesday’s Weight: 171lbs

This Wednesday’s Weight: 169lbs

Ya Baby I am in the 160's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm super excited!  

Sorry my pic had a glare it kinda looks like a 5 but it's def a 9! 

So since I am ahead of my own goal my new goal is 168lbs for my cousins bridal shower on 4/9!


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Food Find!

This pulled pork is the best and it’s so quick and easy to make not to mention it’s not that high in calorie! Inside the packaging that you see in the picture is a compact pouch of pork. You boil a big pot of water and stick the entire pouch in for about 15 minutes. When 15 minutes is up you take the pouch out, cut it open and I like to take a couple forks and just kind of pull it apart because it stays compacted if you don’t. It’s so delicious just like this you really don’t even need to add anything to it but it really doesn’t up the calorie intake to anything too huge if you wanted to add BBQ sauce.

The packaging says 2oz is a serving but I always eat 3 ounces which is by itself 225 calories. If you add a tbsp of BBQ (sweet baby rays) it brings it up to 260 calories and if you are feeling rather saucy and want a full serving of BBQ which is 2 tbsp it still only brings it to 295 calories. Under 300 calories for pulled pork, yum!

You get so much of it too! You can feed an army! You all should definitely try this! You can find it at Costco!

On another note I have 40 days from today until my cruise and I really want to challenge myself to work out everyday until then. Anyone doing really great with working out lately? I need some words of wisdom to be able to keep myself going when I don’t want to do it! =)

Progess Picture Updated - 171lbs

Sorry it took me so long!!

Only a Bandster

haha so I was eating (perhaps a little too fast) and I started to feel a build up of a lot of pressure so you know what time it was - and out pops my tylenol I took 15 minutes ago. lol it just cracked me up and I had to share. Clearly only a bandster would find this amusing. =)

Tight - urg!

So I was suppose to be moving soon (like May), but now the home needs all new electrical. Therefore, walls that were suppose to be up are now down. I can't complain because really it works out to my benefit but it just means that it might not be until like June that I can move in finally. It's all good I guess that was what was meant to be, right?

I have lost about 10lbs since I came back from my Florida trip the beginning of February, but is it weird that I really don't feel it? Nor do I think I look it. I feel really good but other than that everything seems to be the same for the most part. 

Side note I am trying to eat lunch right now and I am just so tight I can't really get any of it down - urg! I'm like on this health kick of eat really well and it just figures that when I try to do that I can't physically eat anything. 

So my goal is to loose 1lb by next Wednesday 3/30 and than 1 more lb by 4/6 so that will get me to 169lbs by my cousins bridal shower on April 9.  

I went to Costco last night to pick up some of the Premier Nutrition Protein Drinks. I bought a case a long time ago, drank them and never picked them up again. I decided to go back and get them because for like a year I have not been eating breakfast (because I can't) and I really want to start putting something of nutritional value in myself in the morning other than coffee. 30g of protein in these babies should do it. =)

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Wednesday Weigh In

Last Wednesday’s Weight: 173lbs (3/9/11)

This Wednesday’s Weight: 171lbs

I can taste the 160's baby!!! I am so so so excited to get into the 160's! I've practically lived my whole like in the 170's - 180's so to get back there was cool but it felt normal to me. I was in the 160's for a very short time when I was 16 and on weight watchers and that was 8 years ago! Wow that is such a long time since I've been there. The most exciting part about being there this time is I know I won't back backwards again which is the best part of all. 

On a different note.....I LOVE baking - I always have but I stopped doing it because I ate too much of what I baked and lots of things I baked just break down into sugar and go right through my band. So I was thinking about what I could bake that I could not really eat a lot of and the answer is.....MUFFINS!!! I can take like a bit of a muffin but legit it would take me all day to eat a single muffin if I could at all! I've come up with a really good recipe and am loving to bake again! I would not suggest baking for a brand new bandster as that would be a little like torture but after a year or so if you like to bake....bake on!

Thanks for all your comments regarding me getting better! I really appreciate it and am feeling much better now! =)

Im Okay!

Hi everyone! Okay, so I did not die I've just been sick! I had a fever for a while and was out of work and just felt awful. I am back to work and am left with a yucky congested head cold feeling. I did not think spring was suppose to bring sickness. Heck, it isn't suppose to bring snow either but it snowed in Massachusetts yesterday. Gotta love unpredictability. 

There has been good things happening and bad things happening while I've been under the weather. Bad = I have not exercised. Good = I've had some super duper restriction. Weird? I'm hoping for a good weigh in tomorrow! My cousin's bridal shower is April 9th and my goal is to be in the 160's by then which I am positive I can do. 

How are you all doing? Has anyone else been sick because it seems like something if definetly going around. 

Well I will end this here seeing tomorrow is Wednesday Weigh In - stay tuned! =)

Monday Mornings

Monday mornings, I'm no a huge fan. However, I am super thrilled that we just Sprung ahead as that is my favorite time of the year. I get depressed when it is so dark out so early. When we get to this time of the year I feel like we are back at the "right time" and I love it! The only draw back is that my sleep schedule is a little off wack and it will probably take me a few days to adjust. 

So last week I had a text book bandsters week. I was just awesome for the first time in a long time and then the weekend happened. Okay my weekend wasn't like wicked bad but it was compared to the awesome week I had. I ate some junk and was not good on my water in take at all and I physically don't feel well from the junk I put in my body. Why do I do that? Why do any of us do it?? Oh well what do I always say? So long as you always get back on the wagon every time you fall off you are good to go, no can be perfect even though we think we should be able to be. =)

I'm excited to get on the treadmill today I want to see if I can push myself to run a 5k, I'll report back tomorrow if I was able to do it or not. Mind other matter, mind over matter. =)

My husband and I have been married for just over 2 1/2 years and we have been living with my parents since. My parents own a home across the street from where we live now and they have been renting it out. Well, the tenants just moved out and my husband and I have decided that now is the time to move in. There is lots of work to be done, the tenants were pigs! So much cleaning. My dad is actually a master carpenter and he is going to redo the kitchen before we move in, it's so old. So hopefully in May we will be moving in. I am so excited. The best part about it is the food preparation. Right now I am eating lots of frozen meals but I hope to do a lot  of cooking once we get in there and a lot less take out. When you don't have a kitchen of your own it's just hard to prepare a lot of your own things.  If anyone knows of any really yummy bandster recipes please send them my way!!

I hope you all have a great week!!!

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Wednesday Weigh In

Last Wednesday’s Weight: 175lbs

This Wednesday’s Weight: 173lbs

Happy Wednesday!

I'm super duper impressed with myself =) I don't think I've lost 2lbs in a week in a long time! It all makes sense though, I'm working the tripod theory! I've been eating right and the right amount of calories and working out! Last night I went running outside which I never do and the night before I ran on the treadmill. I RAN 2 WHOLE MILES - WITHOUT STOPPING!!!!!!!!!! Can you believe it, because I'm still not sure I do haha. I don't know why I did it, I just decided I was going to give it a go and it worked out. 

My goal was to be 150lbs by my cruise which is just about 2 months away, but I'm not so sure I can get there now. That is close to 3lbs per week, not going to happen. Well I mean it could if I lived in the gym but I'm not realistically going to do that now am I? Maybe I can loose 2lbs per week though, that would bring me to 157 which is almost my next mini goal of 156 so let's just say my goal for the cruise is 156 now. Maybe I can do it. I'm sure you have all figured out by now that I set high goals but don't often make them lol Oh well got to dream big! =) 

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Skinny Dont Get It

I was reading a post on Lap Band Talk and the poster stated that when they told an individual they were getting the Lap Band that person said, and I quote "it's for lazy people".

Now hands up, how many people does that not sit right with?? I can just imagine because it doesn't sit well with me. People like this are the reason I decided not to disclose my decision. If you are still debating getting the Lap Band please don't like uninformed people like this change your mind.

Just like people who don't have a drug addiction or an alcohol addiction and therefore don't get why people can't just stop, they don't understand a food addiction either.  I mean, how could they if they have never struggled with their weight?? I think people with addictions have empathy for other people with addictions regardless of the type, I do at least. 

On a completely different note...I cannot believe I didn't realize this when it happened but I am OVERWEIGHT!!! Isn't that exciting?? hahaha I find it so funny that I am excited about that just like I did when I went from Morbidly Obese to just Obese. 25lbs to go until I am "Normal" which would be the first time ever I was in the normal category - wicked cool =)

Triumphs & Struggles

I once read that typically people who log what they eat are the people who tend to eat less and weigh less overall and I think it's true. When I don't log my food I don't really loose weight but I always maintain. That is good to know because when I hit my gaol someday I think I will be able to maintain with the aide of the band but until then if I want to hit my goal I think I need to log what I am eating. I do so much mindless eating throughout the day. I put my bodybugg back on at the beginning of the week and I had a pretty successful week as far as calorie intake goes - I had a deficit each day.

My struggles have been with chocolate....I can't get enough of it lol and I am not sure what the heck is going on. Like legit I ate a whole bag of those reeses chocolate eggs in like 2 days. I don't know how to talk myself out of eating things......like I get fixated on food if I know it's there I pretty much can't stop thinking about it until I've eaten it. Anyone else like this??

Wednesday Weigh In

Last Wednesday’s Weight: 175lbs

This Wednesday’s Weight: 175lbs

I'm such a loser I totally forgot to post a new pic....partly because I have not even had a second to take one. I promise I will do that within a couple of days.

So no loss this week....I had a bad Friday/Saturday, I ate a lot of things I should not have but I'm exactly 175 still so at least I didn't gain anything! I have taken some time off from wearing my bodybugg lately so I slapped that sucker back on yesterday morning, no more games haha. 

Did you all hear about the BOOBS event? They are getting together again in Sept. in Chicago. I want to go, we will see how much vacation time I have by then. 

I was thinking of having a New England Event someday in Portland Maine. The reason I was thinking Portland is because from the Northern Most town in New England to the Southern Most town in New England – Portland is smack in the middle at 5 hours which does not seem excessive for anyone to drive. What do you all think?? Would anyone from New England even be interested in something like that??