Trail Blazers and Path Takers

[dazygyrl]

now that I'm not sure about as JUDDD is about cals. but I don't know why you couldn't still do that with UD/DD rotation. maybe make your DDs higher cal, lower cal, higher carb and UDs lower carb.

worth a shot anyway.

[TerriMM]

Huh?

[dazygyrl]

LOL!! i'm sorry...i was on my phone last night at the track meet.

what i meant was...

on DDs do lower cal, higher carb....since there are lots of higher carb, lower cal things to eat for DDs

on UDs do higher cal, lower carb....this would be more like a fat/protein day.

sorry to confuse.

so after chinese for lunch and a big super nacho thingy at the meet last night, i was only up 1.4....that's excellent for me as i thought for sure the chinese would stick it to me but good!! so am looking forward to a good DD today. trying something different. instead of my one meal in the afternoon and high fat...i just had a bowl of steel cut oats for breakfast. lunch will be 2 mini pizzas with 2 mini pita breads (joseph's brand) with turkey pepperoni, hunt's sf sauce, shredded cheese. and later i have some cream of wheat of the menu. we'll see....hope it don't regret it. oh, and lots of water too.

total cals: 667
fat: 31g
protein: 33g
net carbs: 56g

[TerriMM]

Okay, I get it. I'm going to have to do some planning and figuring here.

Not a bad gain for such a great day of "living". Hope your experimental DD is fruitful.

Well I've decided one thing; I'm really going to focus on exercise and toning. I've been doing my 15 minute lift and squat routines a couple times a week. Today I embarked on an amped up version, 45 minutes, multiple circuits and heavier weights. I'm going to try and do this every other day and interval cardio the other days. The cardio will actually be the hardest for me. I hate cardio. I'm going to work on finding some kind of cardio I like. Maybe a new tape or something. I'm going to start with reading while I Nordic Track. I have been wanting to do some more reading so maybe that will help.

I'm trying to talk myself into only weighing once or twice a week so the exercise gain doesn't tweak me. But I'm not sure I can.

[dazygyrl]

hmmm.....don't know if chinese caught up with me or what. i was only down .4 this morning. cals were in range. i did end up tweaking my menu and had less carbs than i was planning....so not sure what the deal is....and i did drink lots and got rid of lots. only other thing i can think of is weigh less the later in the morning i weigh...yesterday i slept in so didn't weigh till 7...today i weighed at 5:45

i wish some of your desire for exercise would trickle eastward.... dh has weight set in the barn...i really should make use of it...i hope you get the results you're after!

ah, weighing once a week....now that i have been weighing everyday for as long as i have, i too find it hard to start that once a week weigh. you do it first and tell me how it is... heehee...

EDITED: down 0.8 not 0.4...meh...a little better.

[TerriMM]

I'd be willing to bet on a two day effect from the Chinese. "LIL" Loss is loss What's the plan today.

Yeah once a week, maybe I'll start that tomorrow Actually my exercise bump was only .30. Since it's usually 1+ and I REALLY worked out, I feel pretty good about that. Hopefully it will be downhill from here. Now to keep up the commitment to cardio. If I can get the power walks at work going again, that would just about take care of it.

Hope you have a great day!!

[dazygyrl]

it's an UD today. just had a little breakfast. lunch with a friend. love to have lunch, but eating out and the scale is for the birds.

congrats on only .3!! that's awesome!

[TerriMM]

Morning Bud!
Well I didn't talk myself into cardio yesterday, but I actually got up early today and did 21.5 minutes on the Nordic Track

No formal exercise yesterday but I'm down my .30 bump plus another .90. This is definitely the motivation I needed! 1611 calories, 111 grams fat, 110 grams protein, 36 grams carbs. I finally hit the balance. Using varying fat levels of Greek Yogurt as a tool. Will attempt to keep this up as well.

Hope your day went well and you enjoyed your lunch with your friend!

[dazygyrl]

Oh that's awesome...on all fronts! so glad you found your woe sweet spot.

Lunch was very yummy. Was up 1.8 but so goes the bounciness of juddd. Just so hard to track restaurant food...don't even try unless it's a big chain store, kwim?

Hospital treatment for Noah today...I feel really good about sticking to my DD today. And can I just say again what an absolute BLESSING Noah's dr is....just leaves me so amazed how God has provided thru this journey.

Have a blessed day, bud.

[TerriMM]

Big & being sent your's and Noah's way!

[privatediva]

I hope Noah's doing ok after his treatment.

Terri, happy you're having a good go with balancing the fat and protein. Sure does work for me. I can push the carbs up to 90-100...even more if I keep them in balance.

Here's what I've been up to. The show is tomorrow, so I will soon be changing gears and making a concerted effort to find my floor under the thick coat of threads and scraps. This is the Swan Corps tutu. There are 16 of them and they look so pretty all together:



This is Odette...the Swan Queen. This is Merry's tutu:



This is Odile, the bad Black Swan:



I am seriously tired of net

[TerriMM]

Wow Deb, you really do some beautiful work! Glad your time to relax and enjoy it is coming!

I've done really well with the balancing before. I was just still trying to shave off a few so I was trying to outsmart myself So I'm going to try and keep up with the balancing and see if the exercising will get me where I want to go.

Hey Bud how's our little trouper doing?

[dazygyrl]

beautiful work, deb!

hi, there bud. noah's good. we got home yesterday afternoon. it was an ok treatment. but he did throw a monkey wrench at them and spiked a fever out of the blue just prior to getting his treatment. so they drew blood cultures and proceeded...the temp didn't stick around. but was just sorta weird. he and i are staying home from church today to chill.

hope you all have a great Mother's Day!

[privatediva]

Happy Mother's Day!

We had church for the first time in a community center rather than someone's house. That was kind of cool/exciting. David and Will have to work this afternoon/evening, so Merry and I went shopping and are going to watch movies and snuggle tonight. Perfect Mother's Day for me. The best part of all is I don't have to getup in the morning

[TerriMM]

Happy Mother's Day my friends!!!!!!!!!!!

[TerriMM]

Whoa Doggie! In case anyone is not sure, Red Robin, Red Wine and Warm Temps do not make for a good weigh in. Can't tell you how glad I am that I did succumb to the freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. Today is beef day. Tomorrow

How was everyone’s Mother’s day?

[privatediva]

I've got a few pics of them on stage now. The girls really looked beautiful

[dazygyrl]

very cool pictures, deb. thank you for sharing them.

i had a good mother's day. noah and i stayed home from church. just had a very relaxed day. my sister and her fam and another mom and her 2 boys (the boys are living with my sister for the time being) came over to play and ride 4-wheeler. roasted hot dogs...PERFECT weather.

the only incredibly sad thing about the day...I FORGOT TO CALL MY MOM!! i can't even believe it...it dawned on me at 6am today. i felt sick the moment i realized that. i had the phone in my hand to call her at 1030 yesterday morning, but then remembered she was most likely still in church so i'd do it in the afternoon. i called the minute i thought she was up this morning and just sobbed on the phone. my brother didn't call her either which doesn't surprise me in least i don't know if my sisters called her or not, she didn't say. i can't tell you how awful i felt...

terri, i hope your beef day does it's magic for you. a DD for me. yesterday was supposed to, and it was till supper time, then i made it an UD (meal) since my sister was out. but this is good as i am supposed to go out for supper on tues and THAT was going to be a DD, so isssalllgood!

[TerriMM]

And probably the worst thing was she totally forgave you and justified on your behalf how much you've had on your mind. Oh no wait, that's the best thing. Because she really meant it The most incredible thing about moms is they love you no matter what, will always give you the benefit of the doubt and defend you to the death. I really miss mine. When I took mine flowers I was a little surprised to see it's been six years. She passed a week after mother's day.

Beef day went pretty good. I'm really hoping for a big drop. I really didn't go that overboard and I was up 4.6. I don't get it. Hope your DD went well.

[TerriMM]

Beautiful pictures Deb. Thanks for sharing!

[dazygyrl]

thanks, terri.... so sorry about your mom. next month will be bitter sweet for me like sunday was for you.

i get you on the bump up...i stuck to my DD in the hospital friday and saturday had, ahem, plenty on my UD. i was up almost 5 lbs! i was down 2.4 from my DD yesterday, but still hanging on to some from sat. TOM arrived sunday too...i still can't decide if actual TOM affects my weight. i'm inclined to say not really, but who knows. UD today.

going out with some girls tonight to celebrate with one of them. she is single mom of 4 who graduated from LPN school.

i really need to change something. i am sitting 10 lbs too high. grr.... i'm thinking i need to stick to LC. knowing that juddd is more about calories than what is eaten has caused me to give myself to much freedom with carbs....seeing how i have struggled with these 10 lbs helps me see WHY i went lc to begin with. they obviously are what kept me at a higher weight. once i get to maintenance, i may try again to add some carbs...but if i want to GET to maintenance i think i need to really cut them. sigh....

[TerriMM]

Well Beef day dropped me 1.5, but that still leaves me with a 3.1 bump from Sunday.

I'm right with ya Bud, 10 lbs over, 12 if I want to be down to my all time low. I want to drop it but I'm having trouble being very strict with myself. LC is a way of life I can live with; I'm probably going to hang here too and try to keep up the exercise for a bit. I don't think TOM actually makes me gain; it just puts me into a more volatile spot, easier to retain water, harder to just drop (on HCG) and more cravey for sure. I'm not ready yet, but I am thinking of another round. Aside from being not ready to do it right, I think my body is getting a little too used to it and therefore resistant. But I would entertain other bright ideas

[dazygyrl]

i really think i shouldn't do hcg. i desperately want to be able to get to a weight without an aid like that. it served it purpose for me when i first used it, but it's run it's course.

so will do juddd with low(er) carb.

[TerriMM]

Yeah I know what you mean. It's probably because I didn't respect the loss enough, thinking I could do it again anytime, but it didn't seem to stick for me as well as other traditional ways. But relying on an aid so much is getting a little scary.

I've been thinking about Atkins (by the book) and even Weight Watchers. Atkins because I'm just having trouble making myself go hungry, WW because you can eat anything (like carbs). But for now I'm really going to focus on getting a regular exercise thing going because even though I'm technically "normal" weight, I really need some toning to make shorts weather attractive. But of course that's not exactly going as well as I'd like either. Just keep pluggin’, right?

[privatediva]

I saw my mom on Saturday at the ballet, and wrote her an email (short) on Sunday. It is too frustrating to call her on the phone. She can't hear and won't do anything about it (hearing aids) so everything is repeated and repeated and repeated again and she still has no idea what anyone says. I'm going to go down to Tulsa in a couple weeks (if my car gets fixed. It's in the shop now making awful noises). I hope to talk her into doing something about a hearing aid. She has to feel isolated because she never knows what's going on. But sheesh...she also has to know what the problem is! It's a little aggravating.

[TerriMM]

I had to think about this one Deb. My mom was the perfect loving mom. She married her college sweetheart and planned on forever. She pulled herself up by her bootstraps when my father, who she almost never had a cross word with, abruptly left after 24 years of marriage for a barmaid. She advocated my continued relationship with him, even forcing the issue with him, trained herself to earn a living, remarried a loving man, my dad, and spent the rest of her life piecing together her broken heart, with her head held high, determined to never let anyone take advantage of her again. As she got older and her health deteriorated, she allowed herself to become dependent and stopped trying to help herself overcome things like depression. She asked me once if I felt sorry for her. It was so out of character, I surprisingly asked her if she wanted me to feel sorry for her and she said yes. I didn’t even know how to respond. I’m still not sure after all these years how I should have responded or what need she needed me to fulfill. But the older I get, the more I think that she had been so strong for so long that maybe she just needed to be weak and taken care of. As I tell you this story I ask myself if this wasn’t her way of compensating for a daughter she raised to be a little too independent. I guess all I’m saying is things may not be what they seem. I hope you’re able to figure it out better and timelier then I.

[dazygyrl]

good morning, ladies. i sense the sadness in your post, terri... i'm sure your mom knew you loved her don't doubt that.

had a good lower carb UD. low carb all day then went out with some girlfriends and had mexican. only up .8 which is totally tolerable. i also kept up with my water yesterday, sometimes i let that slip on UDs. DD today.

[TerriMM]

Good Morning Bud, thanks
That's a totally tolerable UD/Mexican day
I did pretty good as well. Just focused on low carb and power walked everywhere I went. Down 1.3, still chipping away at Sunday's major bump. Got up early to exercise this morning.

[privatediva]

Wow, your mom sounds wonderful Terri. Mine has always been emotionally distant and manipulative. It took me years to figure out what was going on as well. There isn't a way to fix it.

[dazygyrl]

on your 1.3!