Cathie's One More Tim

[Cathie in UT]

Just a newbie to the boards but not to LCing. I really kicked myself in the rear and lost about 80 lbs 3 years ago but in the last two have managed to put about 50 of it back on again...sigh.
I am not sure what my weight is right now and I tend to be happier when I don't know except that it helps you feel like you are making progress doesn't it?
I have been back to a real Lc life about a month or so and exerciseing again which is what helps me keep losing. My goal is to be a size 10 or medium (and I know that for some of you that isn't good enough but for me it is) when I go on my 30th anniversary cruise in Nov 2006. I am a size 18 on bottom and 16 on top right now. I am sure I can loose it but it will be keeping it off that will really challenge me.
It has been interesting reading some of your successes and difficulties and also good to know that I am NOT the only one who has ups and downs.
Cathie in UT

[Cathie in UT]

Hi to anyone who cares LOL
Today is a great LC day so far
I made it to the Rec Center for a class that was cancelled but I did 25 min on the eliptical and then about 30 min in the weight room
Sweated and strained and feel pretty good
So far for meals:
Breakfast: Carbwise bar...didn't want to work out on an empty stomach
Snack: Polish sausage at Costco with mustard and light onions
Lunch: Ham and cheese rolled up with fried cheese chips
Dinner: (Not sure yet but will edit tonight)
Looked for the Frying Cheese in Wallyworld and we have the dipping kind but not the frying kind
Gotta get packed for my trip so better get busy
Cathie

[Cathie in UT]

Just an update on Aug 14
Meals
Lunch Turkey Slices rolled up with Guaq and Cheese chips
Dinner Golden Corral Fillet Mignion, pot roast (dry), baked chicken leg and thigh, 8 spicy shrimp (over cooked), 1/4 c green beans, 3 jumbo shrimp stripped of it's batter coating, 1 strawberry (it seemed to be soaked in some sort of sweetener) 1/4 c of sf pudding
Ate too much but at least I stayed LC and that is a good thing

[Cathie in UT]

Just had a chance to buy and read The Carbohydrate Addict's Lifespan Program and I am thinking of trying out this varriation of of LCing. I am hoping that maybe the change will help me get out of my slump since I dont' seem to be losing anyweight the way I had previously done.
I have stayed pretty much on task with the LC but not so regular with my exercise so that might be causing the problem also.
Let's see how it goes

[monet0329]

hello there and ...
so glad you decided to join us all here.. I just love this place.. and I hoep you do as well.. looks like you know what your doing with losing the 80 pounds hun.. I wish you the very best!!.. I will be checkin in on ya hehe.. I love to see what others are eating .. just might find something new..lol.. have a wonderful day hun..

[Cathie in UT]

weekly averaging 10-22-06
181- 180.6- 180.8- 181- 180.4- 179.4- 179
Mini Goal# 1 180 #2 170 11/17/06 #3 160 12/17/06
I decided I need to make a record of my weekly averaging totals since when I change the signature I loose the info from the week before. Iwish I had thought of this about 3 weeks earlier. I am also going to keep track of my daily meals and exercise as well since on the two threads I follow I don't get any feedback by listing them anyway.
So yesterdays food had mostly good but not enough with the family Halloween party I didn't get my RM salad so I am probably going to see that affect soon
B: two sides of eggs and sausages at McDs on the run
L: 15 pepperoni slices 1 babybel cheese and a 1/2 stalk celery
D: 3 chicken wings Heroin Wings sort of, two hard boiled eggs, 1 monster mouth which was two thick slices of granny smith apple spread with peanut butter...I removed the candy corn teeth LOL
Lots of water maybe 100 oz
weights class at the fitness center

[Cathie in UT]

Sunday Nov 29
Meals
B: 3 egg omlet with Spinich parm. cheese dip and 3 slices bacon
L: 2 left over wings and 2 cheese pumpkins
D: salmon, salad with mushrooms and 2 pear tomatos,1 cup carnival squash and one monster mouth
water aprox 100 oz
exercise none

[Cathie in UT]

Monday Oct 30
Meals:
B: 3 egg omlet with shredded cheese, two slices of bacon
L: Little Italy salad at Gandolfos
D: roasted chicken breast, 1 cup carnival squash and butter, tossed salad and italian dressing, 1/3 of a large Granny Smith Apple with about 2- 3 tbs peanut butter
Water 120 oz easy
Exercise 25 min treadmill, 20 min eliptical fitness center

[Cathie in UT]

Happy Halloween 2006!
Got my jacket for the wedding and it is beautiful...wish I could have gotten it a size smaller but a 16 is good and there is plenty of room just as usual it is very snugg if I try to button it across my belly...sigh. On the other hand I tried on that wild print size 18 skirt that I could never get even close to zipped before and it fits so well....I really have a big old belly sigh
Food today
B: 2 side eggs and 2 sausage patties at McD's
L: leftover roast chicken, celery stalk and 1 cheese pumpkin
D: 1/4 of a spaghetti squash, turkey chunks in a tomato italian sauce I made, salad,blue cheese dressing, and about 1/4 cup of mostly peanuts
Water: 100 oz
Exercise: Belle and I walked up to the temple and back

[Cathie in UT]

Forgot to post my menu yesterday
B: CALP Cinnamon Bread (kind of weird tasting sort of like a dry souffle
L Applebees Brick Chicken, Caesar salad no croutons
D: Salmon with a spicey mayo coating, salad w/blue cheese dressing, green beans 1 cheese pumpkin
Water Good 120+ oz
Exercise 25 min elliptical 30 min weight room

[Cathie in UT]

Sat Menu
B: CALP bread with pesto before weights class
Mushroom omlet and 2 slices bacon
L: pork rinds and spinich/artichoke dip and celery stalk
D: chicken breast with italian herbs topped with 6 slices pepperoni,alfredo sauch and parm cheese, green beans, salad with blue cheese dressing , 1 celery stalk with about 2 tbs peanutbutter
Water: about 120 oz
Exercise: weights class at fitness center

178.8
weekly averaging 10-29-06
179.6- 177.4- 179.4- 179.6- 178.8- 178.4- 178.6

[Cathie in UT]

Sheesh
I keep on forgetting to update each day's food
Sunday Nov 6
B: scrambled eggswith gouda cheese and large sausage patty
L/D salad with mushrooms and one cherry tomato with blue cheese dressing, chicken breast in italian tomato sauce and a few mushrooms, 1/3 of a sweet dumpling squash, 1/2 of a honey biscut
Water 90 oz
Exercise off

[Cathie in UT]

Monday Nov 7
B: supposed to be a lc version of hot cereal but I messed up the recipe and left out the ricotta so it was sort of a flax custard with carmel da vincis
L: left of chicken from last night and left over squash
S: cheese stick melted
D: fajita hamburger with cheese chunks, peppers and onion and 1/4 avacad.sliced, salad and blue cheese dressing, and mashed squash...new one tonight with a splash of cream and small pat of butter
water 100 oz
exercise 45 min treadmill fitness center

[Cathie in UT]

Tuesday Nov 7
B: left over hburger from dinner and omlet
L: leftover hburger with gouda cheese and two small stalks of celery with cream cheese
D: Wingers Caesar salad with dressing, loaded chicken( 2 small chicken breasts grilled with onion, mushroom and covered with cheese, about 1/4 cup steamed broccoli and two bites of a potato with sour cream and butter
water 90 oz
exercise Belle while delivering invites

[Cathie in UT]

Menu Thurs Nov 9
B: Mock Hot Cereal with cottage cheese, egg, cream, flax seed 1 tsp Caramel syrup with splenda, and cinn.
L Ruby Tuesdays Salad bar with "weed salad", shredded chedder cheese, bacon, ham, portobello mushrooms, chopped egg,2 cherry tomatos in a marinade possibly with balsamic vinegar, blue cheese dressing, hot wings 6 with celery sticks and dressing
D: Home made chicken cauliflower soup 1/2 med apple with 2 T peanut butter
Exercise 23 min cardio elliptical and 40 min weights
Water 120 oz

[Cathie in UT]

Friday Nov 10
B: Omlet with artichoke, parm.garlic dip, large sausage patty
L: 2 deluxe cheese slices crackers, 1 can tuna with 1.5 T mayo and 1 T dill relish
D: 3/4 cup mashed carnival squash with cream and butter, salad with one pear tomato, 1 chicken breast marinaded in Havana Lime,5 asparagas spears
Ex. Step and Sculpt class fitness center
Water 120 oz

trying to half diabetes meds to see how blood sugar reacts breakfast test 116

[Cathie in UT]

Sunday NOv 12
This was my weekly average last week
200 -193 -188 -(vacation) 190- 188.3- 186.1- 188.8-185.8-183.03- 180.3-178.8- 178.9
weekly averaging 11-5-06
179- 178.6- 178- 178.8- 178.8- 179.4-179.6
A very discouraging week is it not? I know that I am not doing the wrong things because my bs is staying low and I am fitting into smaller clothes I just don't understand what caused last weeks ups.
Hopefully it will be a thing of the past now. I think the thing that is so discouraging is that my plan was to be at 170 by the end of this week and if I had been losing like I did 3 years ago I would be there. 10 a month shouldn't be that hard considering I have NOT cheated since I returned home from the trip to PA. I have regularly exercised and am drinking tons of water and no soda pop at all. I am just hoping my body is adjusting again and will get back to losing again.
I also have decreased my Ameryl to only 1/2 a pill a day and it seems to be working out just fine if my meter isn't off today first thing my overnight fasting was 102 which should be acceptable.
yesterday's food
B: 1 babybel cheese, omlet with pepper bacon and cheese
L: leftover chicken thigh 2 celery stalks
D: McD's grilled Caesar salad with dressing, about 8 oz diet Coke which tasted awful and a pumpkin cake donut from Krispy Kreame
Exercise weights workout at the fitness center
Water about 100oz

[Cathie in UT]

MOnday Nov 13
Yesterdays food
B: omlet with shredding cheese and bacon
L: pork rinds wiht 3 T spin/artichoke dip. 2 small stalks celery
D: pork chop and 1 1/2 chicken thigh with havana lime marinade. about 3 small tomato halfs, romaine lettuce with blue cheese dressing, 1 stalk celerywith about 2 T peanut butter
water 70 oz
exercise off

[Cathie in UT]

Monday Nov 13
Meals
B: omlet with cheese and a large sausage patty
L: two Oscar Meyer light hotdogs two slices of Jarlsburg cheese
S: babybel cheese
D: omlet with cheese and large sausage patty
Water 100 oz
Exercise 15 min elipt 15 min treadmill

[Cathie in UT]

Dec 3, 2006

200 -193 -188 -(vacation) 190- 188.3- 186.1- 188.8-185.8-183.03- 180.3-178.8- 179.6- 179.4- 177.2
weekly averaging
11-26-06
178.6-179- 179.4- 176.2- 176.2- 175.4- 176.2
# 1 180 reached #2 170 11/17/06 #3 160 12/17/06

[Cathie in UT]

200 -193 -188 -(vacation) 190- 188.3- 186.1- 188.8-185.8-183.03- 180.3-178.8- 179.6- 179.4- 177.2-173.7
weekly averaging
12-3-06
175.6- 174.4- 172.6- 172.8- 173-174.2- 173.4
# 1 180 reached #2 170 11/17/06 #3 160 12/17/06

[Cathie in UT]

weekly averaging
12-10-06
173.8- 173.2- 174.2- 175- 172.4- 172.8- 172.4

[Cathie in UT]

I haven't been posting my menus lately...I guess I really should but it takes time and I have not wanted to spend the time writing it down.
I am so excited to see the 169.something on the scale this week...after that huge stall of 4 weeks it seemed I would never start losing again but finally it had happened. I am now 1/2 way to my goal of 140...I wonder how long it will take me. I was aiming for 10 a month but with stalls like I had before who knows what will happen. If it works out as I hope by April 1 I should be to 140 and since April 3 was my youngest sister's birthday it would be a nice rememberance of her to reach my goal on her birthday.
I won't won't wont give up and plan on doing this the rest of my life! I want to be slim and healthy and I deserve it!
Merry Christmas To Me!
200 -193 -188 -(vacation) 190- 188.3- 186.1- 188.8-185.8-183.03- 180.3-178.8- 179.6- 179.4- 177.2-173.7- 173.4-170.7
weekly averaging
12-17-06
170.6- 171.4- 173- 171.4- 169.8- 169.6- 169.2
# 1 180 reached #2 170 11/17/06 #3 160 12/17/06

[Cathie in UT]

Weight goals for 2007
1. Stay on plan for eating...that is a given but I am working on finding some foods that can be done ahead of time for lunches etc...gonna cruise the receipe section in the next few days
2. Drink at least 80 oz water each day Usually not hard for me but sometimes when I am away from home running here and there I forget my water mug then end up not drinking the way I should
3. Cut down on cheese. I am thinking I am eating way too much cheese and that might be holding me back a bit too. I love cheese and it makes a quick and easy addition to lunch and snacks
4. Only "dessert" twice a week until at goal That means AS stuff as well as regular stuff allowed on my WOE
5. Continue working out 5-6 days a week cardio and weights Continue with my classes at the fitness center
6. Expect STALLS and don't get discouraged...OK I can get discouraged but don't give up!
7. Try at least one new recipe a week to keep from getting bored of meals
Especially breakfast and lunch ideas

[Cathie in UT]

200 -193 -188 -(vacation) 190- 188.3- 186.1- 188.8-185.8-183.03- 180.3-178.8- 179.6- 179.4- 177.2-173.7- 173.4-170.7- 170.2- 168.1-166.3
weekly averaging
1-7-07
166.8- 168.2- 166.2- 165.8- 166.8- 166.2- 166
# 1 180 reached #2 170 Reached 12-25-06 #3 160

[Cathie in UT]

200 -193 -188 -(vacation) 190- 188.3- 186.1- 188.8-185.8-183.03- 180.3-178.8- 179.6- 179.4- 177.2-173.7- 173.4-170.7- 170.2- 168.1-166.3- 167.3
weekly averaging
1-14-07
166.8- 167.6- 168.2- 168.2- 167- 166.8- 166.8
# 1 180 reached #2 170 Reached 12-25-06 #3 160