Losin' the Baby Fat ~ Thursday, June 2nd

[metroames]

Mornin' ladies. Just getting us started this morning. Not much going on here.

I do have a small rant though.....Why is it so dang hard to have good boiled eggs. I try to buy them a week before I make them, but rarely do I get a good batch that isn't hard to peel. I hate it! I've been eating a lot more boiled and deviled eggs because they're easy to grab during the week and I can make them up relatively quickly on my nights off....but I'm beginning to loathe making them because they are so hard to peel. I wonder since I am using the free range eggs if they have to age longer than regular eggs to be good for peeling? It seems that if the expiration date goes past they usually come out ok. But since I am eating so many eggs there is not enough room in the fridge to put a lot of eggs to age and the grocery store usually doesn't have that many on hand either, so they are usually very fresh when I go. I guess I'll just have to put up with it.

Rant over. Have a great day ladies!

Ames

[sjoy76]

Morning mommies!

Hi Ames! I am so bad at making boiled eggs that I just buy them at the salad bar at our local grocery store. Mine always come out underdone or overdone and they always smell funny. Something about the salad bar ones is just perfect. If you figure it out let me know.

Well, yesterday was a nice day. My SIL, MIL, DH and I took Kelsey and my SIL's two boys to the Children's Museum on Navy Pier (here in Chicago). It was an absolutely GORGEOUS day! The Museum was awesome. Kelsey loved everything. BUT....I was a bad girl! It was going so well and I had a chicken caesar salad for lunch and (gasp!) a margarita and (yes, it gets worse) then a vanilla milkshake. It was so good but I feel so guilty! I really wanted to hit 165 before my nephew's christening this weekend but I don't think that's gonna happen. So, if anyone is with me...I am going to drink 100 oz of water today (after my coffee, that is!). DH's family is all so skinny and perfect I am going to be the only fat one at the christening . I mean, I love my SIL, but I hate her for being back to a size 6 when her latest is only 11 weeks old! She just snaps back to her old self in no time. She swears by that book, "french women don't get fat," but I told her that just wouldn't work for me cuz one croissant would turn into 5 by the time I was done.

Hi to everyone that follows!

[Jefinner]

AMES - Have you tried salting the water??? Here's what I do. I start boiling the water first, then I carefully put the eggs in the boiling, salted water with a slotted spoon. Turn the heat to medium high, and I leave them in there for 10 minutes. After that, I throw them in ice water to cool. The only thing is that if you aren't careful, the eggs will crack, but not usually.

SUMMER - Just remember - People who are eternally skinny go to hell anyway... LOL! (I don't remember where I heard that, but it makes me laugh.) And I've seen your pictures. Unless you've suddenly put on a ton of weight, YOU ARE NOT FAT!!!! You are gorgeous.

Speaking of fat, I just took some "before" type shots. I really didn't realize it was that bad. EEK. At least I have something to look back on when I'm thin damnit!!! LOL!

[BMmommy]

Good Morning!!!
Ames- I have figured out how to cook mine right, but you are right they have to be aged......I don't know if I have any advice for ya

Summer- Sounds like you had a great time yesterday!!! Today is a new day!!! I am with you on t he water today....so far I have only had coffee though I have friends like your sil.......man we work so hard and it just falls off of them...I have a neighbor like that, but still complains she is fat....then when I say somethin she says you don't need to lose weight you look great.....ummmm ya your just saying that to be nice!!! anyhoo....
Well, this morning Madison offocially bit me!!! Yikes that hurt!!! She stopped looked up at me and gave me a big smile, then CHOMP!!!! MAn, I had to check to make sure everything was still intact LOL!!! We will see if this continues.......guess the fussiness she has been having is her teeth!!!

Hope everyone has a good morning....will try to check back in later!!

[Friendship]

Summer- Okay, just a question, did you have all of that bad food within an hour timeframe? and if yes, is this your first "cheat" in a while? If so, you probably never left ketosis (honestly!!).

Ames- I can un-shell my eggs about 80% of the time without a problem. I put the eggs in cold water and then bring them to to a boil. Once the water is boiling I let them cook for about 15 mins and then take them right out and cool them off. We get our eggs from Wal-Mart so they are not anything "special"

Well, I am so looking forward to my "once a month cheat day" this Saturday. We are meeting a bunch of people from the "Playground board" at the restaurant across the street from us. It is a BBQ place called Firefly's!!! Mmmmmmmmmmm :-) Just a couple more days!

Hope all you mommies are feeling well, drinking your water, and loosin that weight today!

B- String Cheese
S- String Cheese
L- Wings, SF Jello, Veggies
S- Peanuts
D- Chicken of some sorts, tomato

[BMmommy]

Jen- HI!!! Just think how great you will feel, when you can show your before pictures and be all skinny......

[BMmommy]

Hi Mel.....drink your water....so are you saying if you eat a whole bunch of "bad" food in an hour it won't hurt???? HAHAHA!!!! Saturday sounds like fun

[Friendship]

Jenn- Hmmm, your way to make eggs sounds good also. I'll have to try your approach. As for your before shots, I am right there with you. I have mine on a disposable camera that I am reluctant to get developed and have put on a picture CD. I know that I should do it to see the difference that I have already achieved. But part of me is so scared that it won't be as much as I want.

Beth- I had pains just reading that....Hunter was notorious for doing that. He would also start to laugh afterwards. Yes, start drinking your water girl also, I'm at 16 oz so far this morning.

Oh! So, this morning I declaired it sippy cup war....Andrew got some of the Hershey's Syrup with 50% less sugar. I mixed up a nice 8 oz worth and he ate about 1/2 of it!!! He did have a big breakfast so I'm not that worried, but I told Andrew to not let Hunter see a bottle if at all possible today. Once he is totoally on the sippy cup, I am going to start to reduce the amount of chocolate in it until it is all milk!

[boodsadel]

Morning mommas... nothing exciting to report here! I'm eating terribly, and will start clean this weekend after my dad leaves. It's just too hard with them here. And I went for a walk yesterday, but that's about it since I got back from FL. So much for 12 straight weeks of BFL!

Ames... I hate eggs, so I'm no help!

Summer... Yeah, what are you talking about? You look great!! But I know what you mean.. my skinny little sister had Ivy on the 4th of May and already is back to normal.. our bellys look pretty much the same. No fair!!

Jenn... You are doing so good though, kickin' it in gear so quickly! I suppose I'd have the itch to diet, too, having been preggo for so long with only a short little break!! You are my hero!!

Alright.. laundry time... lets see if I have a little "helper"!

[sjoy76]

Thanks guys! Yes, Jenn that makes me feel better to know that hell is full of all those eternally skinny people.

Beth: Water, yeah!!!! Kelsey went through a biting phase. It's hard not to react cuz as soon as they know it makes you react they want to keep doing it.

Melissa: It was probably close to an hour timeframe so that makes me feel a lot better! Hopefully not to much damage was done. I was too chicken to weigh myself this morning cuz I didn't want to be depressed all day.

[Friendship]

Originally Posted by BMmommy

Hi Mel.....drink your water....so are you saying if you eat a whole bunch of "bad" food in an hour it won't hurt???? HAHAHA!!!! Saturday sounds like fun

I knew that I should have clarified that a bit more.

Basically when you have been really, really, really good with no cheats for a long period of time if you have something bad for you within a one hour time period it isn't normally enought to jolt you out of ketosis (I'm sure people on the Main Lobby would fight with me over this.) If Summer was in a deep ketosis state and then had her "cheat" and then went right back on the band wagon, I would bet money that she never left Ketosis.

[sjoy76]

Originally Posted by boodsadel

Summer... Yeah, what are you talking about? You look great!! But I know what you mean.. my skinny little sister had Ivy on the 4th of May and already is back to normal.. our bellys look pretty much the same. No fair!!

Thanks! I hate to be a whiner but I just get so jealous of people that it comes so easy for. I mean, I have to be so careful or I just gain, gain, gain.

[sjoy76]

Originally Posted by Friendship

Oh! So, this morning I declaired it sippy cup war....Andrew got some of the Hershey's Syrup with 50% less sugar. I mixed up a nice 8 oz worth and he ate about 1/2 of it!!! He did have a big breakfast so I'm not that worried, but I told Andrew to not let Hunter see a bottle if at all possible today. Once he is totoally on the sippy cup, I am going to start to reduce the amount of chocolate in it until it is all milk!

Good idea! Sounds like its working!

[LivnLGNOmore]

Moring All!
Feeling pretty good here considering it's my first real TOM in a year. I used to get pretty bad cramps, but none this time I'm gonna get my h2o done a.s.a.p. 100oz or bust!

Ames ~ When I do eggs, I put them in the pot with cold h2o, turn them on high. after they start to boil I give them 10 minutes. When they are done I drain the h2o, then run cold over them while still in the pot, and peel them right away, under the running h2o. Does that make sense? It almost always works for me, I've never heard of the after date thing

Summer ~ I know how you feel about being the 'fat' one in the family. However, I hardly think you are fat! This isn't very nice but there is a girl at work who is 'rather large' and I admit I like standing next to her, then I can be the 'skinny' one

Jen ~ I haven't done that yet this time, but in the faces gallery I have pics of myself I posted last year before I got preg, 2 of them are larger then I am now, and 2 are 25lbs less then I am right now. Infact that might be my next goal-to get back to 274lbs like I am in the pics. One of these days I'll get around to taking measurments.

Alright all this talk about eggs is making me hungry, I've gotta grab some breakfast before all the kiddos get here!

Drink up!

[boodsadel]

whoa.. you guys snuck in on me!

Beth... YIKES! I remember those days all too well! This little deviant of mine would chomp on so hard I'd literally scream and check for blood! Then he'd have the nerve to get all sad and cry and play the baby card!! (J/K!)

Melissa... Your cheat sounds like fun! Does everyone cheat? That's kinda funny... if ya think about it! Hope your sippy war goes well!!! Man, these kids get attitudes fast, huh?!

[BMmommy]

Mel- Sounds like the sippy thing is working, hey whatever it takes!! Thanks for clarifying the "okay to cheat in an hour statement"!! Totally kidding!!! Makes sense to me

Hi Dawn!!!!

[BMmommy]

Hi Liz- Glad you are feeling okay....I don't get cramps anymore, BUT it is really heavy!! And that really sucks...sorry TMI...will check in with water counts....as soon as I drink some HA!

[Friendship]

Beth- I just wanted to make sure that if anyone was lurking didn't think I meant it was okay to do it all the time, etc!! Sometimes I wonder how we can get 500 views :-)

Dawn- Hey there!! There are a couple LC'ish things that they can get if they don't want to "cheat" but when we set it up we let everyone know that it isn't a Low Carb type of place! I think that most of the people in the "playground" are on again, off again.

[sjoy76]

Originally Posted by LivnLGNOmore

Summer ~ I know how you feel about being the 'fat' one in the family. However, I hardly think you are fat! This isn't very nice but there is a girl at work who is 'rather large' and I admit I like standing next to her, then I can be the 'skinny' one
Drink up!

Thanks Liz!

Wow, everyone has such great advice about the hard boiled eggs but how do you get that rotten smelly smell to go away? Maybe I am just to picky about it.

[boodsadel]

Hey Liz!! Glad your TOM isn't too bad. Mine all vary so much now...

Ok.. couple more pics!

Nekked baby time..







Did I post those already?! I can't remember!!

[Friendship]

Originally Posted by sjoy76

rotten smelly smell

[metroames]

Originally Posted by Jefinner

AMES - Have you tried salting the water??? Here's what I do. I start boiling the water first, then I carefully put the eggs in the boiling, salted water with a slotted spoon. Turn the heat to medium high, and I leave them in there for 10 minutes. After that, I throw them in ice water to cool. The only thing is that if you aren't careful, the eggs will crack, but not usually.

I do the put eggs in cold water, boil 15 minutes, run under cold water and peel approach. Must be the hard shell of the free range eggs that are giving me fits. I'll have to try your approach Jefinner.

Ames

[Friendship]

Dawn- I think we saw the bottom one, but I don't mind seeing it again!!!!! Eli is so, so cute! How big is he now?

[BMmommy]

Dawn...YOU ARE SOOO CUTE!!! And so is Eli!! Love the flower in your hair!!

[LivnLGNOmore]

I knew that would happen!

Mel ~ Congrats on the sippy cup war! Have you already decided what you will cheeting with? Have fun

Dawn ~ I totally know how you feel about eating clean with others. Mark started LCing with me in the begining of May, needless to say he didn't make it very far. I love and miss him dearly but it's so much eaiser now that he's gone, and he's only been gone since Sunday. Good luck with the laundry, I'm having big laundry problems, all of the sudden I can't use the washer & dryer at the same time. When I run them both the main fuse blows and I have to go outside to fix it

Beth ~ Hope your bite feels better, maybe if you drink lots of h2o it will help

[LivnLGNOmore]

Originally Posted by sjoy76

Thanks Liz!

Wow, everyone has such great advice about the hard boiled eggs but how do you get that rotten smelly smell to go away? Maybe I am just to picky about it.

I've got three words for ya

LIGHT A CANDLE I know, I know I'm such a big help

[sjoy76]

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