Archive for February, 2010
Day 170 – Week 24 Weigh In – 0.0 lbs.
02/25/2010Day 170 – Week 24
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Date
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Week
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Weight
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Change
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Total Lost
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02/18/10
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23
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342.0
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- 0.9
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- 23.1
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02/25/10
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24
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342.0
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- 0.0
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- 23.1
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Let me know what you think leave a comment!
Day 166 – Green Smoothies
02/21/2010 
I’ve had some “miss adventures” with healthy eating these past few weeks. I’ve started drinking green smoothies as a way to curve my appetite, to get a strong dosage of veggies and to have a healthy treat. I first heard about these drinks from some friends who drink them everyday for breakfast. My response was “yeah but its green.” Green is sometimes not the most appetizing color. Then I started reading about the drink and the many benefits. Here’s a link for some facts. I was more interested in the convenience. I need things to be quick and easy right now. I also tend to purchase the food that I’m suppose to eat but only for it to go bad because I don’t eat it as quickly as I should. I can’t tell you how many bananas are in my freezer right now for that elusive banana bread recipe.
(Me cook banana bread yeah right)?
Well on to the miss adventures…
So I had been pretty successful making the smoothies. I had found that the bananas were overpowering the taste so I came up with the perfect remedy; apples and cucumbers. I was becoming very creative by adding parsley and even raspberries. Note if you add raspberries your drink is no longer green and the seeds are quite entertaining to pick out of your teeth. Anyway, as I began to experiment with recipes I was feeling more and more confident. Maybe it was all the health benefits kicking in such as: more energy, less body aches and pain, normalized blood sugar, and clearer thought. Notice how they didn’t mention anything about clumsiness. Yep that’s right, picture a full powered blender spinning on its side spewing my newest concoction in every direction. Oh the mess. I can’t believe how much of it seeped down in between the cupboard and the oven. Well at least calories are burned while you clean and clean and clean.
My next miss adventure involved FIBER. I was in a hurry to make it to jury duty and I was determined to have a quick healthy breakfast. I had thought about making the drink the night before but as usually I talked myself into putting it off. (Gotta stop doing that). So as I rushed around the kitchen throwing apples, cucumber, lemon, and frozen grapes into the blender I noticed that the blender wasn’t blending. So as I often have done in the past I stuck a spoon in to mixed things around. Well it was a wooden spoon. Thump! Thump! Thumb! MMMM FIBER!
This healthy eating can be a real hassle.
Have you had any healthy miss adventures?
Day 164 – Week 23 Weigh In – .9 lbs.
02/19/2010
Day 164 – Week 23
I lost .9 pounds this week.
Starting Weight : 365.1
Current Weight : 342.0
Total pounds lost: – 23.1 lb.
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I’ll take it! Whew things are getting back to my new normal. That cold crud really threw me for a loop for awhile. So I’m excited for the next week.
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Date
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Week
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Weight
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Change
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Total Lost
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02/11/10
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22
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342.9
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- 5.0
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- 22.2
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02/18/10
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23
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342.0
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- 0.9
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- 23.1
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Let me know what you think leave a comment!
‘Too Fat’ to Fly Southwest
02/17/2010Day 162 -
Recently, actor and director Kevin Smith was asked to leave a Southwest Airline flight because he was deemed too fat to fly. He has since begun a Twitter campaign to boycott Southwest.
The story hit me really hard when Kevin mentioned that as he was leaving the plane he made eye contact with a fellow “fatty” who was trying to sink into his seat as to not to be exposed. Who among us has not asked for a seat extender or sat for 5 hours with ankles crossed and arms folded about the chest? I have often recited to myself, “Next time I fly I’ll be skinnier.” There is a careful choreography played out while on a plane put the armrest up, think small thoughts, pray that the person in front of you will not put their seat back and lean only into the aisle when the coast is clear. I’ve cried many times on planes. The tears just come. I don’t want to cause any discomfort for other passengers.
Once on a plane I assumed the position and the lady in the middle seat asked me to relax into the seat because she “loved chubby women. Her momma was chubby and her whole family was chubby.” She even said she always wanted to be chubby but to no avail. It was the best flight ever. Most of all when I fly it is another mirror moment. I am once again disappointed with my efforts in this area of my life. For hours I sit there uncomfortable and thinking of nothing else. Oh how could I let this happen. This world is just not made for people of my size but, I do believe there needs to be a little more compassion. It’s as if it has become socially acceptable to be mean or derogate obese people (I can’t believe I used the “o” word).
I personally can’t wait to use my Companion Fare for a friend and not an additional seat. When I fly with two tickets in hand I do find it entertaining to read the expressions of other passengers as I walk down the aisle. I just know they are thinking to themselves, “Please don’t sit here! Please don’t sit here!”
Since the “Too Fat To Fly” story broke the media has made it seem that we are this united group of people and as a group we think that we’re entitled to special treatment or allocations. But I believe that the airlines have negated many other populations of passengers that are not only large but in my friend’s case “freakishly tall.” Yes on his last flight he overheard a flight attendant use those words to describe him to a passenger in an effort to free up a seat for him in the Emergency Row. We as a society are just supposed to deal. Squeeze into the seats with both armrests down or as in my friend’s case put your knees up to your chest and deal. Whatever happened to customer service?
In the days since the incident the most recent angle that has transpired with this story is how not only do large people infringe on the rights of other passengers but we also create an emergency hazard if we have to disembark the plane. Give me a break.
We’ll deal and accept your disdain as a group of people whom you can still pick on but, in the mean time I’ll keep on keeping on. I’ll board the airplane, sit next to you at movie theatres, scan the room for armless chairs and walk in your gym all the while knowing that you have no idea what it’s like to walk a mile in my shoes carrying 100 pounds.
Let me know what you think leave a comment!
Happy that ….
02/15/2010Day 160 -
1. I am happy that I am going swimming this afternoon.
2. I am happy that I made good food choices today.
3. I am happy that I have a plan for dinner.
4. I am happy even though I have been without the internet I have kept a food journal and my Bodybugg stats.
5. I am happy that I have a frig full of veggies.
6. I am happy that tearing down my classroom so that the painters could paint did not spin me into an out of control eating binge.
7. I am happy that a student talked to me first before
“taking matters into his own hands.”
8. I am happy that I took the time to allow 4 girls to get creative with my hair for crazy hair day at school today.
9. I am happy that I have to many blessings to count.
10. I am happy that who I am and what I have done or not done has lead me to this moment.
Now it’s your turn …… I am happy that ……
Day 156 – Week 22 Weigh In – 5.0 lbs.
02/11/2010
I lost 5.0 pounds this week.
Starting Weight : 365.1
Current Weight : 342.9
Total pounds lost: – 22.2 lb.
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Well I feel like I’m back to it again. Boy I was flown for a loop in the last few weeks. You really need to read Day 149′s Post. It explains why this week doesn’t feel like a 5 lbs loss but a 2 lbs loss. (I explain everything a little clearer than in this following sentence). With good choices one week and a very little loss and then a “who cares week” and a gain and then a week of sickness and no excercise but a loss, You can see how I just can’t figure this out. I’ll just have to keep reminding myself that it’s not about the # on the scale but patterns and routines that are being established from day-to-day.
So I will CHEER — A NEW LOW — 22 in 22!
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Date
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Week
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Weight
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Change
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Total Lost
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01/27/10
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20
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344.8
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- 1.0
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- 20.3
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02/04/10
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21
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347.9
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+ 3.1
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- 17.2
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02/11/10
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22
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342.9
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- 5.0
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- 22.2
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Loretta, thank you for your blog post on Monday it helped me to refocus.
Day 149 – Week 21 Weigh In + 3.1 lb.
02/11/2010
I gained 3.1 pounds this week.
Starting Weight : 365.1
Current Weight : 347.9
Total pounds lost: – 17.2 lb.
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What a maddening couple of weeks. The scale held too much power over me. I allowed it to be the final verdict as to my progress. Arg I hate that. So in Week 20 I was making so many great decisions. I was eating within my 1500 calorie count, excersing, and very determined. But the scale read a 1 pound loss. GOOD GREIF! I knew it was a fluke. I should have weighed in the next day because I knew it was incorrect ie. stress – hormones – sleep, something. But no! I told myself “Well then you might as well eat!” So then Week 21 hits with a massive schedule collision with Jury Duty, Head Cold, chipped tooth, Parent Teacher Conferences, LIFE, Period. Thus the 3 lbs gain. So as if it hadn’t happened I shamefully didn’t officially report the weight gain on the blog, but in order to stay truthful I hid the result on Twitter and the Perfect 10 recap. Oh the games we play.
I am happy to report a loss for Week 22 but the lessons learned in Week 20 & 21 will help to remind me why I’m on this journey. It’s not about the # on the scale it’s about the patterns and routines that will last in this new life.
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Date
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Week
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Weight
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Change
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Total Lost
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01/27/10
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20
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344.8
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- 1.0
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- 20.3
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02/04/10
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21
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347.9
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+ 3.1
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- 17.2
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02/11/10
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22
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342.9
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- 5.0
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- 22.2
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Loretta, thank you for your blog post on Monday it helped me to refocus.
