100 POUNDS!

I finally hit the 100 pound mark on 2/23/09! It took me 13 months and 1 week! I'm turning into one of the disgustingly happy people who used to annoy the hell out of me. Hahahaha! I had no idea how miserable I was I guess. I feel great. I'm happy. I switched jobs, so I'm not miserable there either anymore! When I manage to quit smoking, I'll be so stinkingly buoyant and happy that nobody will be able to stand me!!!!!
I've cleaned my whole house. It was in pretty bad shape. When I was so overweight,I didn't have the energy. I do now. My next project is going through the tons of fat clothes that I have and getting them out of my closet. I started that yesterday. I found a bunch of size 1X pants that fit me now! Last winter, I was wearing size 5-6X! Whoa! 1X is much better!

Do's and Don'ts

Someone asked for a list of dos and don'ts. I hope these help! I've lost 100 pounds now, so I hope that can inspire some of you.



Don't:
Don't do a lot of eating out.
Don't give up all your favorites.(You will feel deprived!)
Don't use cooking oil if you can help it.
Don't cook a recipe that you don't have any idea what the fat content could be.
Don't lose too fast. ( You want your skin to remember where it lives!)
Don't give up if you slip!
Don't concentrate on calories. Just don't eat something that you know is loaded with them.
Don't skip meals,expecially breakfast!


DO:
Eat lots of veggies.
Keep your fat grams as low as possible in everything you buy.
Use no-fat cooking sprays instead of oil.
Buy a carton of egg whites.
Use fat-free milk.
Buy things that say heart-healthy because the fat will be lower.
Switch to a smaller size plate.
When you eat, make your plate HALF veggies, 1/4 protein and 1/4 should be like pasta,rice,potatoes, etc.
If you have sweets, buy the small size of anything. I buy lots of 100-calorie snacks because of portion control.
If you can eat them, use hot peppers in your cooking. They speed up metabolism!
Always eat breakfast..it starts your metabolism.
Eat a small snack halfway between meals to keep the metabolism going.
It's ok to eat a late snack before bedtime. Just make it something healthy....not a whole meal or a big slice of that bad,bad cake,etc.
Low-fat soups are a good thing.
Cooking with Healthy Request "cream of" soups is a good thing. They are your friends!
Trim off every visible spot of fat on meats.
Use skinless chicken. Breast cuts are best.
Turkey is a good thing.
Use the leanest hamburger you can get.
Buy a bottle of I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BUTTER spray.
Use fat-free products that are available in anything you like.
Keep your portions down.

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97.5!!!!!!!!

Yup! That's right! My habaneros worked again! Another pound and a half.Whoohoo! Ok, enough celebrating. Anew friend wants to know about how much to eat and since I don't actually count anything, the only thing I can think to do is tell her what I ate yesterday and hope it gives her some idea! Here goes, Tasha!
Breakfast:
1 egg+2 egg whites,scrambled
2 Jimmy Dean turkey sausage patties
1 English muffin-half with olive oil margarine & half with fruit spread
Diet Pepsi (this has the least sodium of all of them that I can find that actually taste good)

Small bag of Funyons cause I missed my snack and we were late for lunch and I thought I was dying!

Lunch:
Miracle Rice(I had about 2 cups of it)
Steamed cabbage with I can't believe it's not butter spray and salt and pepperAbout 3/4 cup
Corn on the cob-2 half ears with ICBINB spray
1 100-calorie Mrs.Freshley's swiss rolls(CHOCOLATE!!)
Diet Pepsi

Snack:
About a cup of my Miracle Rice

Dinner:
About a half cup of Red Steak( it's smothered steak with catsup in it)( yes,it's my recipe)
1/2 a medium baked potato with a little of the gravy off the steak on it
small can of English peas with ICBINB spray and lots of black pepper
small can of asparagus(nothing on it)
Diet Pepsi(do we detect a trend here?) hahaha!

1 more 100-calorie Mrs. Freshley's swiss rolls! (I DO love that chocolate!)

That's what I ate and I lost 1.5 pounds overnight!
I'm going to check now and see if the recipe for Red Steak is posted. If it's not, I'll post it! It's very good. My husband loves it and I have modified it to be lower fat.

Welcome to my new Inspire friends!

Starting next week when I switch over to my new job, I plan on posting more of my weirdness! More recipes,etc. If you come here, please click on the right side to become a follower.....I would love to know that you came here.

Back on track!

Yep, I seem to be losing again. Oh well, doesn't everybody need a hiatus from the battle during the holidays? I'm happy and that's good!

Whew!

I made it to 95 pounds! Happy,happy,happy!

OK..the holidays are over....

I can be normal again....Lordy, I hate the holidays! I'm planning on doing everything in my power to NOT spend another holiday season in retail. Anyway, I've been stuck on 93 pounds for over a month. I still consider myself successful though because although I haven't lost more, I haven't gained any either!

I'M ON VACATION..

and while sitting here on my butt, I've lost another 1/2 pound! I ate cake yesterday too! Went to Walmart and they had a marble butter sliced creme cake on the markdown rack. It only has 6 grams of fat in a slice. Boy, is it good?! I stay away from the bad cakes though. I don't even consider buying the ones with frosting etc. I read the label on this one before I bought it. My husband buys the evil cakes!! I don"t touch those!

SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING..

I really thought I had already posted this in here,but I went back and checked all my posts and apparently I didn't. I read awhile back in one of the magazines I get that for every pound you lose, it takes 7 pounds of pressure off your knees!!! I HAVE 630 LESS POUNDS OF PRESSURE ON MY KNEES!!! I can tell it too! My knees and feet feel great compared to last year.

IF YOU VISIT...

and decide to join me in low-fat living, you can comment here and post your goals,etc. Click on the word "COMMENT" under this post.

MY CELEBRATION!

I hit 90 pounds lost today and the way I chose to celebrate was to go get my flu shot and let my doctor feast his eyes on less me!Bwahahahahaha! He was rightfully impressed. Betcha money that he didn't think I could do it.Fooled him! I met a very nice lady who asked for my blog addy,but I forgot to ask who she was. So if you're the nice lady at the doctors office, please let me know if you come here.

Is there anything anyone wants to know? I'm sorting recipes. Hope to start adding more....maybe this week. I'm on vacation..... This means that I'm in a very big goof-off mode!
You can do this,people! Let me know when you start losing.

WOKE UP WITH MY TEETH CHATTERING...

Last night, I had my MIRACLE RICE for dinner with steamed cabbage and hominy(yes, I like hominy). Very,very low-fat meal.I think it must have been no more than half a gram of fat. I woke up at midnight with my teeth chattering...I was absolutely freezing! Ha! I haven't been cold at night in October in about 20 years. Anyway, due to reading that if you're chilly at night, your metabolism has to work to warm your body. I covered my feet better but not all of me so I'd stay on the chilly side. Yahoooooo! Got up this morning and had lost another half pound since yesterday morning! Boy, doesn't 89 pounds sound good? It sure does to me!

IF YOU VIEW MY SITE....

If you come to read my low-fat observations,etc.,I'm asking you to please join the followers list on the right below my old picture and let me know that you came. I would so love to know that you checked it out and if I convince anyone to try low-fat living and they start losing(yes,you will) I would love to know that you are trying and I would be more than happy to make a post where we can put other peoples successes! I am HALFWAY to my goal! It is 4 days short of 9 months since I started and I AM HALFWAY!!!!!!!! If I can do this...you can do this! WE can do this! My husband and I went to the local fair the other night. I had no trouble with my feet! Last year, my feet would have been screaming from just walking from where we had to park. It was a wonderful feeling to be able to walk around that place and not have any trouble doing it! If I can get some of you to go with this, I just might have to change the name to...THE WONDERFUL WOMEN OF WEIGHT LOSS! PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU COME HERE.

I'm adding a line here to say that it is now 10 months and 8 days and I have reached 90 pounds lost! Please join me. WE CAN DO THIS!

READ THOSE NUTRITION LABELS!

Don't forget,ladies, read those labels on everything you buy to eat! Glance at those calories if you must, but really pay attention to the fat grams per serving! Keep them as low as possible! Buy fat-free and low fat! Eat lots of salad..it fills you up! Use fat-free or at least low-fat or lite dressing! Switch from a dinner plate to a salad plate! You can't put as much on the smaller plate! Check out the Smart Ones frozen dinners..made by Weight Watchers....they are very good! I won't kid you...I used to do some BIG eating! These dinners are kinda small so I add a big salad and sometimes even a veggie if I'm really hungry! Read the labels though and then compare to some of the regular frozen dinners...oh brother! Here's some motivation for those who need it....go to the websites of some of the restaurants you would normally eat at...go to their nutrition page and read what you've been eating! If nothing else,check out the McDonald's one! I love Big Macs and Lord,help me, it's almost time for Mcribs to come back! I checked out those pages back in January when I started eating low-fat and haven't eaten a thing from since!

When you buy a magazine and see that recipe for a scrumptious looking cake etc., read the nutrition info at the bottom of the recipe before you make it!!! There was a recipe in one I saw awhile back that had around 2000 calories(!) and enough fat grams for 2 days in ONE SLICE!!!! I bought my husband a slice of German chocolate cake today. I had 3 bites(OMG...GOOOOD) Don't deny yourself everything..it will make you give up! Don't bake that scrumtious cake though if you don't have the willpower to stay away from it!

Vitamin B-12....

I read this morning that people who eat eggs in the morning lose more belly fat than those that eat things like bagels. It said it was because the eggs have B-12 and that makes your metabolism work harder. I have scrambled eggs every morning..ha...more good news!

DO YOU RECKON...

that eating the habanero peppers that I eat causes you to have wierd dreams? Before I started this diet, I hardly ever dreamed. I just went flat out asleep. Dead to the world! When I started the diet, I started dreaming! Very wierd dreams! I don't like to dream. I just want to sleep,but I guess I can live with it. I don't usually remember the dreams,just that they are very strange. Friday night though I ate my miracle rice with and extra load of habanero salsa. HOT,HOT,HOT! When I woke up from this dream, I made a conscious effort to remember it 'cause it was the wierdest one yet!
THE DREAM:
I was in my house telling George W. Bush how I've lost 85 pounds(i figure he was gonna appoint me as the national weight-loss guru or something) when it started to rain....and rain....and rain!The yard started filling up with water and getting deeper and deeper! Next all these Prairie Chickens started floating by. Then came the muskrats and they were catching the prairie chickens! My daughter let my superfat wienie dog and my itty bitty whatever-it-is dog out and they started trying to catch the prairie chickens too! George Bush and I were out in the rain and water trying to catch Lily and Sofie before they washed away. My daughter was laughing her butt off and my husband(he can't swim) was standing on the porch saying, G__damnit! Son-of-a b__ch! Then I woke up!
I weighed a half pound less Saturday morning! It must have been all that chasing dogs in the rain! My friend Joyce said I should post this dream because it was too good not to! She says shes more interested in my dreams now than in my weight loss! Ha!

I BOUGHT A BOOK...

last weekend at an estate sale called Low-fat Living written by a doctor. I've only read a little so far but he confirmed a couple things that I've read before. He says not to skip meals because it triggers your body to hoard fat and the other thing was to drink ice water because that triggers your metabolism because your body has to warm the water! Well, I've been drinking more water, so I guess you can say I'm exercising more cause your metabolism isn"t all that it triggers! I'm getting some exercise by running back and forth!

I'M BACK!

I haven't written much lately...had a bit of trouble...somebody hit my car in the parking lot at work and I've been concentrating on getting that straightened out! Everything is good now. I got a car I like 100% better!

I've lost 82.5 pounds now! I'm only 5 away from halfway now!! Exciting!

TIMELINE OF MY WEIGHT LOSS...

2008-
1/16-304 LBS (I didn't weigh for a month after I started cause I was afraid nothing was happening and I would be upset!)

Ok, I need to add a note here before putting down the amounts and when. When you first switch your style of eating, your body will think it's missing things it needs. Everu body has a certain amount of fat cells that you will never,ever get rid of,but when it starts making extra fat cells that's what gets you in trouble. This is terribly unfair but women have more of the permanent fat cells than men,too! So when you cut out all that stuff that is bad for you,e.g. fat,cupcakes, pie,candy bars,etc., your body will literally start eating itself! It goes after the extra fat cells and starts consuming them. The first 6 months of your diet change are the easiest. Although my body must have thought I was killing it because I'm still losing pretty good considering that it's past the 6 month mark. Ok,here goes....

2/6-294..10 lbs
2/13-282-22 lbs (12 lbs in ONE week!)
2/14-281-23 lbs (I got excited after the 22 in 1 week,so started weighing more)
2/15-278.5-25.5 lbs
2/17-277-27 lbs
2/18-274.5-29.5 lbs
2/24-272.5-31.5
This is when I had bronchitis and didnt eat peppers.
3/2-270.5-33.5
3/9-268.5-35.5 lbs
3/16-264.5.39.5 lbs
3/23-261.5-42.5 lbs
4/1-260-44 lbs
4/6-257-47 lbs
4/14-255-49 lbs
4/15-254-50 lbs!!!!
4/19-252-52 lbs
I must have hit a plateau here because nothing happened for about 3 weeks. I was sorta upset,but I know better now.
5/6-249-55 lbs
5/9-248-56 lbs
5/10-247.5-56.5 lbs
5/13-247-57 lbs
5/20-246-58 lbs
5/22-245.5-58.5 lbs
5/24-244.5-59.5 lbs
5/26-244-60 lbs!!!!
5/27-242.5-61.5
Another plateau!
6/4-241.5-63.5 lbs
6/10-240.5-64.5
6/20-238.5-65.5
6/23-238-66 lbs
6/28-236.5-67.5 lbs
7/2-236-68 lbs
7/9-234.5-69.5 lbs
7/15-233.5-70.5!!!!!
7/17-233-71 lbs
7/22-231-73 lbs
7/26-229.5-74.5 lbs
8/6-228-76 lbs
This is another week when I didn't eat peppers. Learned my lesson there.
8/16-227.5-76.5 lbs
8/19-226.5-77.5 lbs
8/20-225.5-78.5 lbs!!!!!!!!!!
*!*8/27-224.5-80 lbs!!!!!!!!!
9/16-221.5-82.5lbs!(This was 8 months.)
9/20-220 lbs-84 lbs!!!
9/23-219 lbs-85lbs!
9/27-218.5lbs-85.5 lbs!
10/2-218lbs-86lbs! (1.5 from halfway!!!!)
10/3-217 lbs-87 lbs!! (1/2 pound from halfway!)
10/11-216.5-87.5 lbs!!!!!!! (HALFWAY!!!!)
10/14-216 lbs-88lbs!
10/16-215.5 lbs-88.5 lbs!
10/18-215 lbs-89 lbs!!
10/23-214 lbs-90 lbs!!
10/25-213.5 lbs-90.5 lbs!!
11/29-213 lbs-91 lbs!
12/6-212 lbs-92 lbs!
12/7-211 lbs-93 lbs!! (Over the Plateau?)

2009!

1/25-209 lbs-95 lbs!!!!
2/4-208 lbs-96!!!!
2/15-206.5 lbs-97.5!!!
2/23-204 LBS-100 POUNDS!!!!!!!! WHOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4/8-203.4-100.6 lbs! Over the plateau again?

As you can see, I lost like gangbusters the first month or so. That was that deprived body.Bwahaha!
When I get to 87.5 pounds, that will be halfway to my goal!