I'm not foolin...

So I'm a day late for the April Fool's reference...but I couldn't resist...

The diet update is this:  I've been off of JC for 2 weeks now, the last time I posted, I believe I had gained a pound - 132.5.  Last week I weighed, and was sitting pretty at 131.5, but with my parents visit I did loads of cheating - aka no portion control - so that put me at 132 this week. With everything that I ate and drank (and boy, do I mean drink!) I am happy with the 132.  I'm really hoping that I can get back to a negative by next Wednesday, and stay on track.  I'm obsessed with getting to 130, but also a little tired of dieting...

You know...it's not supposed to be that way.  Every single diet talks about making a "lifestyle" change and changing your lifestyle for the better.  Learning to eat more healthy.  Doing your body good.  But, isn't that why we call them DIETS?  And how come we get tired of 'dieting'?  I know why, cause there's so many good things to eat.  Hello KFC!  Yummy MSG...I love it.  There's a reason we call it all comfort food, cause it's yummy and comforting!  And I like to eat LOTS of it.  My mom has always said, "I like to chew, and I like how it tastes".  Meee tooo.

Anyways...I'm not going to fall off the wagon.  I believe I understand appropriate portions - it's just making the decision to follow them, which I know I need to if I want to shed lbs.  I wish I was one of those people who can eat a ton of food and never gain a pound.  I like quality AND QUANTITY!

BTW,  I watched about 30 minutes of the Biggest Loser and I'm throughly DISGUSTED that stupid Red girl got back on the show!!  I HATE THAT!!   It's not fair!!  I suppose that the stupid producers see that she's such a 'villain' that it makes for good TV, but I can't BELIEVE that they manufactured a challenge to let her back on.  ROAR!  AND she has immunity this week...hello throwing the weigh-in!  Wanna bet??  I haven't finished the episode yet, but I think it sucks that someone ELSE is going to have to go home, and not her.

POSITIVE?!!

So my weigh in was not the best this week.  I gained a pound.  BOOOOOO!!!!!  Back to 132.5.  Ugh!  I guess I splurged a little too much this week...I had a few days of chips and salsa with matt along with some beers...  My consultant was very nice and it was possibly water weight from the added salt...let's hope she's right.

It's going to be a hard week though...my parents are coming for a visit (yay!) but we LOVE to eat and drink when they are here.  Hopefully mom and I can get out for some walks and curb the weight gain...

JC Week 9?!

Has it really been 9 weeks?  Ugh!!  It's shocking for me to think that...but also shocking that I can't lose weight a little more quickly!!  So the weigh in this week wasn't great - just down .5 - putting me at 131.5.  I was really hoping it'd be more than that, but apparently not.  I'm also starting on my last week of food...which means convenient lunch and dessert are coming quickly to an end.

I think one of the hardest things about dieting and weightloss is the planning.  You just HAVE to have some sort of plan for what you're going to eat, especially if you work and have to figure out meals away from your house.  Actually, I take that back, you also have to have some sort of plan at home too, if it just means that you need to run to the grocery store to make sure that you have good choices at home.

I've never been much of a menu planner.  For years, Matt and I have figured out what we're going to have for dinner by talking about it at 3:30 that afternoon and he stops by the store on his way home from work.  Plan a menu for an entire week?  I've never done it.  I get burnt out at "Burritos on Monday...umm....I dunno...steak on Tuesday?  Ummm let's decide what we're having Wednesday later..."  One of the questions I always ask people is "What are you having for dinner", I'm not trying to make you uncomfortable, I'm trying to find some inspiration for my next meal.  Now that I'm on my last week of JC lunches, I'm struck with a slight panic of "what am I going to eat?!"

I need a live-in cook/grocery shopper.  Any volunteers?

10.

It's WEDNESDAY!!  And it's weigh in day!!  (I'm picturing everyone saying this in their Oprah voice - You get a car, and you get a car, and you get a car - everyone gets a car!! (Ok, so I stole that from an Ace of Cakes episode, but it was hilarious)).

Anyways.

I weighed in this morning and if you haven't guessed it already, it was a record low of 132!!!!!!!!!!!  I lost another pound this weekend bringing me to a grand total of -10!  I'm a little surprised that I lost anything at all - beings that I was having a hard time following the diet this weekend - I got sick on Saturday and haven't been doing a very good job of dieting since then, meaning that I haven't been getting my fruits and veggies in.  But maybe the lack of appetite helped and that's what  made a loss. I won't be too surprised if I gain next week though.  Just 2 more lbs to go!

..I wanna scream at the top of my lungs...

A little John Mayer this morning to help commemorate this weeks weigh in.  Drum roll please....133! 133!  133!  YES!  I'm thrilled.  This means I'm just 3 lbs away from my goal of 130, and a total weight loss of 9 lbs! Wee!!  I'm starting week 8 of Jenny Craig, and I'm on my last week of food.  I'm tempted to buy another couple weeks of food, for the convenience and the variety (and snacks!), but I honestly believe at this point that I get it.  I think I can probably do this on my own.  I think one of the big parts to this weight-loss business is, of course, portion control, which in our day to day lives is very hard, but with a little guidance, it gets a little easier.

One of the things this diet teaches, is how to visualize a plate of food.  They say to visualize servings by cutting the plate in half, filling that half with vegetables - like a huge mound of salad - and filling a 1/4 with a protein, and the other 1/4 with a starch, but making sure you can still see the plate between everything.  That alone has been a huge helper in cooking dinner.  There are some other visual hints that I've been paying attention to, like the appropriate size of meat - the size of your palm.  My eyes are always bigger than my stomach, but adhering to a few simple ideas of how to portion food does seem to help.  And shockingly enough, by the time I finish my plate of food that I've been a little more careful about filling, I'm satisfied.  Do I WANT to go back for 2nds?...well, yes, because I'm not stuffed and miserable yet, but after a few more minutes I'm happy that I stopped and feel good.

The other thing I wanted to mention about this journey-to-smaller-clothes are the little 'splurges'...JC encourages a 250 calorie splurge a week, and I have to say that is probably what kept me sane, not to mention their desserts...yum!  But they say to take that 250 calories and do whatever you want with them, and for me, it was 1 glass of wine on Friday and Saturday night with dinner or even with my chocolate cheesecake dessert.  I don't think I would have survived this long without that!  ha!  So I say, if you are trying to diet, go ahead and give yourself a little splurge to keep yourself sane.

And don't forget to have a glass of milk and a cookie before bed.

Gotta love dessert.


UPDATE:
I decided to wean myself off of JC a little more slowly, and I ordered 2 more weeks of food - just lunches and dessert.  I figure by next week I should be able to make good decisions about breakfast...plus I think that's the easiest meal!  Muffins, cereal, pancakes, french toast.  I can do that!

Mo please.

I'm not feeling too clever this morning...seemed like baby was waking up a lot last night.  Anyhoo, here I am, starting week 7! of JC.  I can't believe that it's been 7! weeks.  My weigh-in this morning was still negative, just down 1 lb.  BUT, down 1 lb puts me at 134.5, and I have officially lost 7.5 lbs.  I got my new shipment of food last night, and have gone off of JC dinners...although I have a few left over from doing a few meals on my own this past 2 weeks.  I'm a little nervous about starting this part of the diet - actually cooking something healthy, good and something that will still help me lose weight.  The nice thing will be eating dinner with Matt again.  And he needs it!  Matt has lost 10 lbs on my diet.  AND HE STILL GETS DONUTS FOR BREAKFAST!!  Grr...

It's good to be negative.

And finally....drum roll please....I weighed this morning, and I was NEGATIVE!!  That's right -2 pounds for me!!  Woot!!  So really that's only a net of 1.5 lbs over the 2 weeks, but hey, I'll take it.  My reward is to go to the mall today (I have today off) and buy some jeans!!  Yes!  So, current weight:  135.5

Ba-bum-bu-daaa....Waaahhhh.

You know the sound that they make on the Price is Right - when they lose a game?  That's the tune of this week's post.  My diet took a big ol digger this week, and I GAINED weight.  Somebody call the wahmbulance cause I'm SAD!  I weighed in this morning at 137.5, gaining a 1/2 pound for the week.  I'm sure I will be accused of cheating, but I honestly don't think I did. I did a couple of substitutions this week for snacks.  Instead of having the Jenny Craig snack at night, for 2 nights I substituted a very small piece of flour-less chocolate cake, (they would have been smaller than the cheese cake slices that come with JC) and on Saturday afternoon I had an apple, fennel, celery root salad that had a vinegarette on it...but something that I thought was well within the rules of fruit and vegetables...  UGH! So sad.

Well, there's nothing I can do about it now.  Just suck it up.

Survivability

I'm working on something at work today that cracks me up.  How to survive:  Don't be killed.  No kidding?

Here I am starting week 4 of the Jenny Craig diet.  Weight update:  I've lost another 1.5 lbs this week!  I was worried that I wasn't going to lose anything this week - I weighed Sunday morning with my jammies still on, and there was 0 loss!  Talk about panic!  My jammies must weigh more than I think!  Ha ha!  I have to do another food order tonight - that's the bad part...is the $$ - I'm worth it though, right?  At least our Safeway bill has been less this past month.

I started watching Biggest Loser last night but haven't finished last night's episode yet.  All I can say is I hate the red team.  And I hate the green team.  The green team is SO negative, and the red team is SO conniving!  Ugh!  I don't have a favorite yet, but I'd really like to see what's left of the white team to go all the way - although the guy (I can't think of his name right now) is SO big, that he has to lose SO much weight to get good numbers.  He needs to though - 500 lbs is way too big.  Hopefully I can finish it up tonight on the treadmill.

Oh, and baby update:  we've been teaching my baby the sign for 'all done', and we think she was doing it last night!  I'd hand her off to my hubby, Matt, she'd give the 'all done' and want to come back to me!!  We're not entirely sure that she means 'all done', but we think it's hilarious!!  And it makes us BEAM and talk about how smart and gifted she is...but aren't they all??