Bethy

[SBMike]

You're just lucky I didn't send you a dozen pecan pies. Or a gross of those cute key lime and coconut chocolate things.

Hey, this is a competition. I have to do SOMETHING to slow you down.

[bethy]

Weekly Weigh-in.
Stepped on the scale with dread. Still said 217! (I think)
Leaned forward to make sure because I hadn't had my coffee yet, which was a bad idea. Leaning forward make the needle move the wrong way. So I stepped off.
Don't lean; squint.
I'm aware that it might take two more months to get to 215. I have the 223 to 220 data to prove it.
And even more aware that I could fly back to 230 with the greatest of ease.

Thinking about 210 is Ridiculous.
Just go to the pool.

[SuW]

I read your earlier post with such sympathy. I too absolutely suck at throwing things out. I was brought up to believe that wasting food was a crime and one of the reasons I'm this big is that if any of the family leave anything I used to eat it rather than chuck it out. I would also hoover up things that were close to 'best by'.

I'm getting better - but it's still really hard.

And I utterly sympathise about the leaning forward. In the end my husband bought digital scales with a HUGE readout. I know they are enormously accurate - but I really sometimes wish they weren't. My old scales weighed me lighter on different parts of the bathroom floor and it wasn't an uncommon sight to see me moving the scales and weighing and then moving the scales and weighing until I got the result I wanted!

I shall keep my fingers crossed for you - 215 here you come!!

[bethy]

well, you could take the top half-loaf of bread off your pittsburgh sandwich.
Or you could send me a box of cheezits. That would do it. Game over.
(ate a camel , i liked that)

Huge Digital Readout That's terrible, what if someone barged in?

[bethy]

b- spinach thing half cup of milk
L-spinach thing and sm coffee cup of the cucumber soup stuff. it's getting thicker by the day. by friday I might be having it by the slice.
s-slice of provolone cheese
S- cup of taco soup w/ fage, and a little later a huge salad w/ blue cheese and hb meat on top.
d-two chocolate squares

Never thought I'd be saying this but I need to eat more carbs. If I had a triscuit I'd eat it right now. If I had a box of triscuits I'd be in the other kind of trouble.

[SuW]

Hahahaha! If someone barged in they'd see me nekkid and that would entirely take their mind off the readout!!

[Chris55]

Bethy, time to change up the menu a bit. Spinach thing and hamburger patties day in and day out would make me reach for the triscuits, too. And the martinis and praline pecans. Deprivation leads to binges. Not healthy. Make yourself some chicken with the cucumber soup as a sauce

[bethy]

Sigh. I know variety is supposed to be the spice of life. Serial monogamy is just so much easier. (ask my exes)
Today I'll drag out the (sure to be inferior, non-costco) frozen Salmon burgers and throw them on the grill with the zucchini. The soup sauce will make a good cloak for them. And I'm making pimento cheese and another batch of that evil dip today, to take to my father tomorrow. I ought to be able to get some grain in, with all that good stuff to put on top of it. Maybe egg salad too.

b-spinach thing (before spinach thing I ate egg muffin thing for about two and a half years, spinach thing may have a long way to go)
L-another spinach thing, a tablespoon of egg salad
s-2T PB on a rye wasa
S- grilled salmon burger patty, 1T ranch/taco dip, 1 medium size zucchini w/ olive oil.
s-another salmon burger patty
bedtime- 2 chocolate squares

[bethy]

b-spinach thing
L-taco soup

Off to Delaware to visit the aged P.

S-He wanted Red Lobster. Coulda been worse. Coulda been Olive Garden. Had a pound of crab legs, broccoli, garden salad (iceberg and mondo cucumber slices)
and 3 fried clams. My Dad used to know from good food. His taste buds must have went senile.

Sat
b-three of Dad's leftover fried shrimp and a piece of fish
L-3 mini-peppers (large mini-peppers) and dip.
s-on the way home-ice dream from chikfila (a day too late for the kiss-in,darn, not that I had another female with me to kiss, but still. I'd like to demonstrate that I'm all for girl-on-girl AND fundamentalist soft serve ice cream), three chocolate covered pecans.
S-two wasa crackers with a Lot of egg salad on one and a Medium Lot of pimento cheese on the other. A leftover slightly burnt salmon pattie I found in the fridge. Then about 10 more chocolate covered pecans. No veggies, there aren't any
I think this is the most beachless eating I've done in a long time. I'm dying for a salad. and a spinach thing. I just went looking for the celery but threw it away for being floppy. I'd eat a tomato but I'd have to peel it. Visiting my father makes me too tired to peel.
omg-I could have had a
v-8!

[Chris55]

Did you bonk yourself in the head when you said you should have had a V-8??

Fried shrimp for breakfast - I think we must at least be distant cousins. They actually opened a Red Lobster here in Maine about 15 years ago. Didn't last a year, then they turned it into an Olive Garden. What kills me is my Italian sister-in-law who grew up in Brooklyn eats at Olive Garden. She should be ashamed. Granted, this is the side of the family where they can't cook but my MIL did make fantastic "gravy" and meatballs. It was the ONLY thing she could cook, but still. I've only eaten at Olive Garden twice, I think both times with the same sister-in-law, and it was awful both times. Narrowly escaped eating there last time we were at a family function. Phew!

So, you did well with crab legs and salad. Did you neglect to mention the butter for dipping???

[bethy]

waves @ Chris
I've been to Olive Garden twice too, both times with my father. I don't get it. Hated the salad dressing.
I only dipped into the butter about 3x. Unlike the almonds.

Yesterday..well..Lost Weekend springs to mind.
There weren't any meals. There weren't any veggies. I'd rather not think about it.
Okay, I'll think about it:
I had
Fage on a spoon,
Pimento cheese on a wasa,
a v-8,
egg salad on a spoon and on a wasa,
almost a whole can of almonds,
the rest of the chocolate covered pecans (bout a dozen),
a stomachache,
umm
I guess that's all.

I was feeling perkier before I thought about it.
Today, though.
Today I have a plan that starts with making spinach things, includes my new, Olympically improved backstroke, and ends with steaks on the grill. Free steaks, hopefully not freezer burned beyond recognition , bonus from visiting the Dad.
b-two fried eggs
L-salad w/ half hb patty, blue cheese, oil and vinegar
s-wasa w/ pimento cheese
s-one slice of bacon. oink
S-steak, about 8 oz.
bedtime- two chocolate squares

Very good pool day. Did not even think about thinking about excuses and got the penultimate prize: pool to myself for the first half hour.

[Chris55]

Sounds like you grazed all weekend! Speaking of grazing, I'm getting concerned about the increasing cost of beef. Wonder if chicken and pork will go up a lot, too. Thinking about buying a pig share from my farmers but I think I wouldn't have room for anything else in my freezer.

I swam in the ocean twice today! Swimming slowly, not kicking a whole lot to see if it helps my lower back. Not sure about olympian strokes here, but feeling good in the salt water. I must have burned some calories 'cause I was starving by the time I got home - ate all my snacks/lunch early and didn't want to go to the snack bar. I only bring healthy things to the beach because the seagulls don't steal fruit or veggies - they go right for the sandwiches, chips, and fries that people are eating. They would do really badly on P1.

[bethy]

Hey, Chris. The first thing I saw when I got home from the pool today was a slice of bacon, dived on it like a seagull. When people at the pool complain of back pain the PT's always tell them to do their laps on their backs and skip the front ones. (and they tell them to bicycle on their noodle ) Thinking about going whole hog, huh? I bought Half a hog once, for a party. Took up the whole back of a pick-up truck. You might have to get it it's own private freezer. Mike's got that extra one now. I honestly believe that because of McDonalds french fries, seagulls are expanding their habitat ALL the way across the continent. Our great grandchildren will learn in school that, prior to the invention of the super-size fry, McBuzzards were only found in coastal regions.

[Chris55]

My son worked at our local tiny McD's when he was in high school. The staff chased the seagulls away from the outside seats all the time. When we first moved here we were fans of seagulls until we found out that they're really the pigeons of the coast - eat everything, attack other birds on islands, etc. Unfortunately, stupid people make matters worse by feeding them. The cafeteria at the hospital where my husband works has one seagull that comes and pecks at the door because people feed him.

My back seems happy today, so I think toning down my kicking has helped. If I'm in a pool I usually alternate laps, doing a crawl one way and backstroke the other. I prefer floating in my noodle - actually saw someone yesterday at the ocean who had one with a seat like mine. Weaning myself off my NSAID's for a few days now that it's dried out and not crazy humid. I'm thinking I may just need to take the stuff whenever the humidity soars.

I'd only go half-hog if I do a pig share. Since I don't have much info yet from my farmers, I've been looking at other places that offer shares and it seems like I'm looking at 100+lb of meat Not sure if 100 lb. hog actually translates into 100lb. of pork. Need to research some more. Maybe I can find someone to share my share and go quarter hog! Or maybe I'll rent Mike's freezer, the one he keeps plugged in!

[SBMike]

Make you a deal - you buy the oink and store it here, we'll cook it for you twice a week. Just remember to wipe your feet as you come in the back door. (All our family and friends use the back door.) But take the trotters home with you -- we are not so far south as to willingly eat pigs feet.