It is official!  My husband is getting downright skinny!  You know you are losing weight when people you see everyday, ask if you have lost weight since they saw you last.  His sister saw him Wednesday then Friday and said she could not believe how skinny he was looking.  Of course he don't see it, but I think he secretly loves it when others tell him they can see the loss.  I think it is about time for some new photos.  Then maybe he will be able to see it too.

My last couple of weigh ins have been a bit disappointing to say the least.  I lost 0 pounds then 1 pound.  I know it is from not working out.  I have to make time, but it seems as if I have to make time for so much right now that working out is the last thing that gets this "time" that doesn't exist.  Hopefully soon I can get enough time to exercise.

Marcia

Sorry it has been so long since I blogged.  I have been super bust preparing for neuro and physio exams.

John is down to a 38 pants.  I am so proud of him ,  He continues to amaze me everyday.

I bought an elliptical last week, but have only had a few opportunities to use it.  Hopefully I can use it more in the coming week.

I bought an elliptical today.  I am so excited.  I was on it for about 30 minutes and my legs were killing me.  John tried it out.  I think he likes it, but he also prefers going outside and walking.  It is supposed to SNOW here all weekend.  I just cannot believe it.  It was so beautiful yesterday and today.  Oh well, such is life. 

John made the most delicious dinner tonight.  He bought a chicken at the store that was already seasoned and in a bag.  All we had to do was throw it in the oven.  It was so tasty!  It was juicy and just great.  I loved it.  He is such a good cook.

He is going to have to go shopping soon for another pair of pants.  I swear his pants are getting baggier by the day. He is my Hot Tamale!

John and I lost seven pounds this week.  He lost 4 and I lost 3.  He has lost a total of 18.5 pounds.  Isn't that amazing?  I am so proud of him.  I know I say that a lot on here, but it is so true.  He has always loved to eat sweets.  After every dinner, he had to have a "tasty dessert".  Now he has apples with cinnamon in his Healthy Choice meal at lunch, and maybe some salsa after dinner.  I never thought he would be able to go without his sweets, but he has really done a fantastic job of sticking with his commitment to get healthy.  Now if I could do something about the parts of me that are shrinking that I do not necessarily want to shrink.

John and I went to do our regular Saturday shopping trip.  We always go eat breakfast and get veggie omelets.  I get egg whites and John gets eggbeaters.  Today we were eating and it was tasty and then John bit into an eggshell.  Which means it was not eggbeaters that .he was eating, it was regular eggs.  He was very upset, and hungry.  He could not reorder the omelet because he had already had so many calories from the real eggs.  I felt so bad for him and really upset with the cook.  Oh well such is life.

After we get groceries we always get our kids lunch out.  Today was so hard driving in the car and smelling Burger King.  I am not a huge burger fan, but today I could have eaten about 3 whoppers I think.  They smelled so good.  Instead we came home and cooked our Weight Watcher meals.  I really do love those little dinners.  John really loves the Healthy Choice meals with a dessert.

John has gone down 2 pant sizes.  It took a lot of convincing to make him even try his "skinny" shorts on.  I told hem it was one size smaller, then when he put them on, and they fit, I told him they were actually 2 sizes smaller.  He didn't believe me..LOL, he had to look at th tag himself.  I am so darn proud of him.

We tried the one cheat meal thing that Bob talked about on Tuesday.  John says we will see if he loses weight this week to decide if we will have a cheat meal every week or not.  It is so funny to hear him be concerned about his weight.  He really has never said anything about it, until we started this contest.  He is doing so awesome, and always so strong willed.

Well I gotta run, time to study.

Marcia

Well my week has gone great so far.  John and I are doing great with our calories.  I have not worked out as much as I would have liked.  I have a lot of studying to do this week so I have not had time to post everyday, hopefully I will get back in the groove soon.

M

Well John lost 2 more pounds.  I am so proud of him.  I did not lose weight this week, but that is okay at least I did not gain.  Next week will be better.I know this contest officially ends tomorrow, right?  I plan on continuing until I reach my goal.  John is also going to finish.  I really see no reason to quit.  We need and want to lose weight and that is what we are going to do. 

Good Luck to all on your weigh ins this week.

Marcia

John and I gave our son a party yesterday.  He is going to boot camp on March 24th.  He is a US Marine.  The family and friends came over to say goodbye.  I was worried about what food to fix and what John and I would be able to eat.  We decided on Beef sandwiches, mostacholi, and sausage and kraut.  Well I knew that the beef would be okay, but I really love sausage.  We went to Sam's to pick up the cake.  You know those people that are there....the ones that stand there shoving food at you.  Well one of them had some sausage...grr.  But this was chicken sausage with spinach and asagio.  It had a fraction of tha fat and less than half the calories of regular sausage.  And best of all....it was DELICIOUS.  So of course I bought it, and we had it at the party.  It was a hit.  It is a little spicy, but it is so good.  So yesterday I did not over do it on calories.  I passed that hurdle.  We always have a party for one reason or the other, well with 5 children it seems almost a requirement.  Anyway, now I know that I can still have parties and not be hungry.

Marcia

It has been a long week.  I have been trying to get back into the swing of school. 

It is kind of weird, but I was not hungry at all during the week that I was off school.  Now that I am back, it seems as if I am starving to death.  It really seems as if it would be the opposite, but that has not been the case.  Maybe it is because I am a little nervous with all of my new classes, or excited because it is my last quarter.  In any case, I need to figure out how to stop it.

On a good note, I have been working out since I went back this week.  Boy were my legs sore yesterday.  I am really proud of myself for making myself go, even when I do not want to.

John has been doing fabulous as usual.  He kind of laughed when I told him how hungry I had become, and said, "That is how I have felt from the beginning."  I do not think I am really hungry though, I think it is more of a comfort or habit thing with me, because I truly eat a lot of food with my 1200 calories.

Our cruise is only 73 days away.  Woo Hoo!  I am so excited.  I hope John loves it as much as I do.

Well I had way to many carbs today.  I usually have an omelet in the morning for breakfast, but I did not have spinach, so I had grape nuts instead.  That was the start of a long day of too much for me.  On the other hand, I had plenty of fiber and protein.

I am going to the gym in the morning.  I wish John could go too, but it is too far for him to drive out there and back, not to mention the cost of gas and tolls. I am back to school in the am from spring break.  I am actually looking forward to starting neuro, physio, and embryology.  We have a lot of new classes this quarter.

Tomorrow is weigh in day.  I can't wait to see how much John has lost.  He is looking so Hot!

Good Night All!

My dream has come true.  Well maybe not my dream, but a wish.  The gym at my school has always opened at 6:30am.  Which is usually too late for me to work out, shower and get to class on time.  They have decided to open at 5:30am next quarter.  WooHoo!  Now I have no excuses for not working out.  Oh wait!  Yeah that is a good thing..LOL. 

Today, my energy has been restored.  I do not know why, but I just feel so sure of my self .  I am not afraid of failing this time.  I know I can do it.  I think John is a huge factor.  He really hates this "diet", but he just keeps going and going.  So, if he can do it, then gosh darn it so can I.

I go back to class on Monday.  I wish I had another week off.  It was so fun to play on my computer and sleep in, and do nothing.  I do enjoy school very much though.  I have learned so many amazing things since I started last August.  I had no idea my brain could hold that much information.

I am going to add more recipes to my page later tonight or tomorrow sometime.  I hope someone can use them.

Good Luck at your next weigh in!

It has been a week hasn't it?  I have not had a lot to do, yet it seems like I am always running behind.  John and I have been doing great with our calories and fat intake.

I love Boca Burgers and FF cottage cheese for lunch.  I made some homemade salsa and put a few tablespoons on my burger or cottage cheese.  It is really good.  I guess if you like cottage cheese, if you don't then it might not be so tasty to you.  I am still lovin my omelet breakfast too. 

I have been wandering around looking at everyone else's space and there are some truly amazing and wonderful people.  I wish I had time to read every blog entry and look at every picture.  I think it is wonderful that we can get support, not only from our partners, but the hundreds of people who are going through the same struggles.  Then we can celebrate each others victories. 

Night All!

I had the most awesome breakfast this morning.  An eggbeaters omelet with spinach, mushrooms, and onions with two pieces of dry healthy choice toast.  I used 1/2 cup of eggbeaters and 3 cups of fresh spinach (cooks down to about a cup).  It was only 180 calories and so filling and delicious.  It was full of protein and fiber, and not fat.....What more can you ask for.

I am starting to see John's weight loss.  His face is slimming down.  He says I am crazy, but I can definitely see it.  I feel mine, not so much can I see it.. I just feel somehow "lighter".

I have finally figured out how to see other Biggest Loser teams.  There are so many inspiring teams out there.  Good Luck and Good Health to you all!

 

Well today was weigh in day.  I lost 2 pounds and John lost 2 pounds. I am so proud of both of us. 

The hardest time for me is when I am studying.  It has become such a habit for me to have something to munch while I study, that I go to grab something every time.  I am not even hungry. It just became such a habit.  I am trying really hard to get out of that one. 

John and I went for a quick walk today, before it started snowing.  Well it was snowing a little, but not so much that we couldn't walk.  It was nice to get and breath some fresh air.  Hopefully after this storm tonight, it will be getting warmer.  Well, at least that is what the groundhog said.  The azaleas are blooming at my parents house.  I can hardly wait to see flowers here.

One more day of finals!  I have 2 more exams tomorrow and then I am off for a week.  I am either going to do so much or absolutely nothing for a week.  I haven't decided yet.

Dieting has not been very good for my digestion.  It is like my body is rebelling against no fat.  I need it, I want it, I gotta have it....okay so maybe I don't need it, but it would like it..LOL. 

My friend has tried several times to get me to eat things I should not be eating, I always say no. He asks me to eat things that he would be missing, fortunately for me, I do not miss those things.  If he were to ask about a bag of Baked Lay's or a sub from Jimmy Johns, I would be way more tempted, but cookies...Who needs em.

John made breakfast for dinner tonight.  It was great.  We had veggie omelets made with egg whites, turkey bacon, and toast.  Well John used eggbeaters and had no toast.  I think he may have had a pancake with sugar free syrup instead.  It was nice to have something different.  John really does not like the turkey bacon, but he is being a real sport about it.

Well as I said one more day and 2 more tests.  I am off to study.

What a day!  It was long and miserable.  I had an anatomy written exam this morning and then a lab practical this afternoon.  I changed several correct answers to wrong answers and completely brain farted on a couple that I know the answer to.  Oh Well, in the words of Mark McGuire's manager.."It is what it is."  LOL.

I did not eat much today, have not had time or the appetite for it.  Well. I gained weight this week, which was a bummer, but it will be okay next week.  I am so looking forward to having a week to actually think about exercising.  I will be able to think more about it if it were to ever warm up. 

Sunday afternoon, the temperature warmed up to a sultry 40 degrees and the wind was blowing.  It started hailing outside, about the size of marbles.  I opened the door, and I swear it was about 50- 60 degrees and the air smelled just like spring.  It was so wonderful for about 10 minutes, then alas, the temp dropped to single digits today.  Spring will be here soon, and maybe John and I can get out for a few walks or bike rides.  I can hardly wait.

John is doing great on his "diet". I laughed the other day....He said, "Getting older is just a series of things you have to give up, I am glad it was 40 years before I had to go on a diet."  He is so funny.  I try to tell him that we should have been eating better our whole lives and we wouldn't have to diet, but I understand where he is coming from too.  It is hard to not eat fries and burgers, or fried chicken, or cake and ice cream.  Every time we turn on the television, someone is telling us how great it would be to run out at 2am to grab a taco or something.  You know, just in case you awake and really need a taco or something.  It is amazing how we get programmed to think about food at all hours of the day and night.  I mean really, does anyone really need to eat in the middle of the night? Oh well.  The urges we must overcome.

Well I am off to study OMM.  I have 2 more finals this week, then I am off for a week.  WooHoo!