Weigh In Day Update

So, it would seem not getting all my points in is a VERY BAD THING. I gained 6 lbs this week. WTF?

Upon reviewing my week I see a lot of things I did wrong. I didn't however EAT anything I shouldn't have. I didn't even eat everything I SHOULD have. Meh.

I was a lot more inactive this week. I had a headache for 4 days. 4 DAYS!!!! I felt like crap in general as well. I also had a problem of the... female variety. (Guys, you can stop reading if you'd like. I know this kinda stuff is... Icky for you heh) My last cycle ended on Dec 31, 2007. Niiiiiiiice right? I started AGAIN this past Monday. January 6, 2008. WTF? I dunno how much of the weight gain is due to some sort of hormonal thing I have going on or what but I DO NOT LIKE IT. I KNOW its the reason I felt like warmed over dog shit for 4 days though. Anyone have any ideas on what may be causing that?

This week I'm going to move around more and be more active. I'm going to EAT ALL MY FRAKKIN' POINTS. I'm going to drink my water and my dairy. Hopefully those things will make a difference. If not, I'll be going on the Core Plan shortly.

How was your week?

Daily Menu for Saturday 1-12-2008

Breakfast:

2 High Fiber Cinnamon Eggo's (3 points)
1 T Steens Syrup (1 point)
1 Cup Skim Milk (2 points) Total Meal: 6 points

Lunch:

1 Can Chicken Vienna Sausage (6 points)
8 Cubes Colby Jack Cheese (3 points)
1 Small Banana (1 point) Total Meal: 10 points

Dinner:

6oz Turkey Sausage (6 points)
1/2 Cup New Orleans Style Spicy Cream Navy Beans (2 points)
1/2 Cup Cooked Baby Carrots (1 point) Total Meal: 9 points

Snacks:

1 HUGE Dill Pickle
1 Cup SF/97% FF Brownie Fudge Sundae Ice Cream by Blue Bunny (3 points)

Total Points for Day: 28 points.

Short again. Grrrrr.


This post was actually written yesterday and I forgot to hit publish. I'm told this still counts for Blog365. heheh.

Daily Menu for Friday 1-11-2008

Breakfast:

2 Eggs, Scrambled (4 points)
1 Slice 2% American Cheese (1 point)
Salsa (0 points)
1 Cup Fruit Salad (2 points) Total Meal: 7 Points

Lunch:

1 Can Honey Mustard Vienna Sausages (7 points)
1 Banana (1 point) Total Meal: 8 Points

Dinner:

1 Cup Spaghetti Noodles (4 points)
1 Cup White Clam Sauce (3 points)
2 Slices Sunbeam Bread (2 points)
ICBINB spray (0 points)
Garlic Powder (0 points)
1 Cup Skim Milk (2 points) Total Meal: 11 Points

Snack:

1 Skinny Cow Chocolate Ice Cream Sandwich (2 points)

Total Daily Points: 28

I'm 2 short again today. Crap! Why am I all of a sudden having trouble getting em all in???

Daily Menu for Thursday 1-10-2008

Breakfast:

1 1/4 C Rice Chex Cereal (2 points)
3/4 C Skim Milk (1 point)
Splenda (0 Points) Total Meal Points: 3 points

Lunch:

2 Slices Sunbeam Texas Giant Bread (2 points)
2 Tablespoons Peanut Butter (5 points)
1 Small Banana (1 point)
1 Tablespoon Steen's Syrup (1 point) Total Meal Points: 9 points

Dinner:

6 oz Smoked Turkey Sausage in Tomato and Onion Gravy (6 points)
9 oz Baked Potato (4 points)
1 Slice 2% Pepper Jack Cheese (1 point)
1/2 C Peas and Carrots (1 point) Total Meal Points: 12 points

Total Daily Points: 24 points.

I was 6 points short today. Not too good but I was feeling like ass and food was NOT really on my mind.

Blogger ...

is trying to make me insane. I missed blogging yesterday cause Blogger wouldn't let me log in. Grrrrr. I'll be blogging on Feb 29th to make up for it and still qualify for Blog365!

Today's Menu

Breakfast

1 C Oatmeal (4 points)
1 C Pineapple (2 points) Total Meal Points 6

Lunch

1 C Spaghetti (4 points)
1/2 C Spaghetti Sauce - No Sugar Added (0 points)
3 Meatballs - 4 OZ Lean Ground Beef (4 points)
2 Slices Sunbeam Texas Giant Bread with ICBINB Spray (2 points) Total Meal Points 10

Dinner

1 C Mom's Turkey a la King (6 points)
2 Slices Sunbeam Texas Giant Bread (2 points) Total Meal Points 8

Snacks

1 C Fruit Salad (2 points)
1 Skinny Cow Ice Cream Sandwich (2 points)
8 Sugar Free Short Bread Cookies (2 points)

Total Points For The Day:

30

If anyone wants a recipe for anything I post on a menu hollah at me and I'll get it to you.

New Stuffs

Just a quickie update for you guys.

I've been out of town for the last 10 days or so visiting the in-laws. It was a nice vacation but basically I ate like crap. I'm scared to weigh tomorrow to be honest.

Tomorrow I go back on program hard core. I'll be posting my daily menu and points counts as I did in the past. I've had a couple of requests to begin doing that again and, to be honest, it really helped me stay on track with my eating. It made it much less tempting for me to cheat a lil here or there when I had to post what I was eating. Heh. Vanity thy name is NotAMeanGirl.

I'm not sure how you guys feel about this though. Lemme know what you think. Should I do this here or take my weight loss stuff to a 2nd blog. (God help me I dunno if I can keep up with 2 blogs but I'll try if you guys would rather have it separate.)

Now that the holidays and vacation are over and my 39th birthday is JUST around the corner ::Whimper:: its time for me to re-commit to my weight loss efforts. The exercise pool should be up and ready for me to use shortly (Thank God) and I'll be exercising more as well. I actually MISS the exercise. Man... how weird is THAT? (So very, VERY weird... heh)

Shecky goes back to school tomorrow as well. Its a new year and a new start for everyone. :)

Silence...

is golden they say... Yeah.... Not so much when you are a blogger. Sorry for being so quiet lately. We've been going crazy trying to get ready for Thanksgiving.

I have a couple of updates on my weight loss/health issues. I gained .3 lbs this week. POINT THREE. Damn it. It couldn't have just stayed the SAME yanno? lol

I was much more immobile last week. Spent a lot of time at the dinning room table baking. Bleh.

I DID manage a milestone today though. I BEAT THE WALMART MONSTER. We went into town today and I managed to do the shopping, for an hour, walking. NO SCOOTER! WOOT! I'm tired and sore but it was so worth it!

Eating to Survive...

I have something really... odd... going on. My blood sugars are LOW. Yesterday I crashed twice. Today I crashed again. Its been like this for a week... and its getting ... old.

Last night I had to eat a waffle and syrup before bed just so I could take my insulin. I mean.. COME ON! That's not terribly conducive to loosing weight.

We had BBQ hamburgers tonight. One patty, two slices of bread and a slice of 2% cheese is 6 points. I just had to eat a 2nd one so I could take my insulin... I've NEVER had to work this hard to keep my sugars up... its neat and a pain in the ass all at the same time. I'll be interested to see what my weight is tomorrow and I'll be calling the Dr. Monday to see what gives!

And We Were Dancin'.. Dancin' In The Streets!

WOOT! Weigh In Day is today. I'm down another 3.9 lbs. I've lost a total of 52.1 lbs so far. I BROKE THE 50 lb. mark!!!!! Another 12 lbs and I'll be below 4oo and well on my way to driving a car again. (I was driving my Taurus at 380ish).

Holy Pete Moses!!!! I'm stoked folks. I am doing a few things differently. I'm not exercising. I'm being more active around the house. It would seem I wasn't eating enough points to counterbalance the activity I was doing in my exercise. That actually makes my head hurt.

Hi. My name is Tessa and I weight 411.9 lbs. ... and I'm excited about that! ::Dances through the Blogaverse::

Mmmmmm Fall

Today has been a really nice day thus far. I was up till 3am.. ish. Which sucked. Husband was driving to Fort Worth for his monthly USAF Reserve duty. The traffic, due to the start of hunting season which... yanno... I TOTALLY DON'T GET!, was HORRENDOUS. It was bumper to bumper going out of town. Husband decided to go home and sleep for a couple of hours and head out around 9pm. Great idea except since he was driving so late I din sleep. I never do when someone I care about is traveling. I called him every thirty minutes to an hour to make sure he was still awake and not yanno... laying on the road somewhere after smashing into an 18 wheeler ... cough... (And I wonder where Shecky's imagination comes from heh).

I slept till almost 10am. Holy crap. That's unusual. I feel really great today because I actually got some sleep! I got up and Shecky and I made Caramel apples together. That was actually REALLY fun. The kiddo was drooling over them... hehehe... I made him wait till after lunch to have one. Evil Mama that I am.

Now I'm just kinda... chillin. Surfing the web, gonna read a bit, having just a lazy kinda day.

Weight loss wise its going pretty well. I was kinda bad at 2am. I had a donut. I wanted the sugar to help keep me awake. I counted the 5 points as my breakfast. Heh. Whut? It was after midnight and EVERYONE knows your points start over at midnight!!!!

For lunch I had 6 oz turkey sausage in a tomato sauce and onion gravy with 1 cup of rice. I've had a total of 16 points. Tonight for dinner it'll be Meatball Stew (ZOMG do I LOVE that crap! My Mom is the bestest cook EVAH!) with Cous Cous and some sort of veggies. I need to eat some yogurt and fruit today as well. I'm not feeling terribly organized food-wise today. Heh. Its kinda nice really.

Hope you're all having a great Saturday as well!

10% Off!!!!

That's right my friends. I have finally lost 10% of myself! Today's weigh in shows a loss of 3.4 lbs for a total of 48.2 lbs. I hit my 10% goal at 46.3 lbs!!!!! I will have hit a 50 lbs loss in another 1.8 lbs. 14 lbs after that... My friends... I will be BELOW 400 lbs. I'm so STOKED!!!!! ::bounces in chair::

How was YOUR weekend?

Daily Menu for Thursday 10-11-2007

Breakfast:

• 1 C Oatmeal 2 points
• 1 C Skim Milk 2 points
• 1 C Diced Sliced Peaches 2 points (6 Total Points)

Lunch:

• 3 oz Braunshwager 6 points
• 12 Saltine Crackers 2 points
• 2 C Green Seedless Grapes 2 points (10 Total Points)

Dinner:

• 6 oz Mom's Meatloaf 6 points
• 1 C Cous Cous 4 points
• 1/2 C Corn 1 point
• 1/2 C Green Beans 0 points (11 total Points)

Snack:

• 8 Sugar Free Shortbread Cookies 4 points
• 1 C Skim Milk 2 points (6 Total Points)

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Total Points for the Day 33

Daily Menu for Weds 10-10-2007

Breakfast:

• 1 C Oatmeal 2 points
• 1 C Skim Milk 2 points
• 1 C Diced Canned Pears 2 points (6 Total Points)

Lunch:

• 1 Novrosky's Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich 13 points (13 Total Points)

Dinner:

• 1 Taco Bell Take Home Santa Fe Beef Bowl 7 points (This was actually VERY Tasty!)
• 1 Slice 2 % Pepper Jack Cheese 1 points (8 Total Points)

Snacks:

• 2 Cups Green Seedless Grapes 2 points
• 1 Starbucks Frapp Dark Chocolate Peppermint Drink 4 points (6 Total Points)

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Total Daily Points 33

I did NOT have the Frapp last night so I only had 27 points yesterday!

Daily Menu for Weds 10-9-2007

Breakfast:

• 1 Frozen Biscuit 4 points
• 3 Slices Bacon 3 points
• I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Spray 0 points
• 1 Small Banana 1 points (8 Total Points)

Lunch:

• 2 Slices Delightfully Wheat Bread 1 point
• 2 Slices Lean Turkey Breast Lunch Meat 2 points
• 1 Slice 2% Pepper Jack Cheese 1 point
• Dijon Mustard 0 points
• 2tsp FF Mayo 0 points
• 1 oz Doritos 3 points (7 Total Points)

Dinner:

• 1 Sunbeam Hamburger Bun 3 points
• 7 oz Super Lean Hamburger Patty 7 points
• 6 oz Oven Fries 2 points (12 Total Points)

Snack:

• Starbucks Frapp. Dark Chocolate and Peppermint 4 points (4 Total Points)

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Total Daily Points 31

Daily Menu for Monday 10-8-07

Breakfast:

• 2 Soft Boiled Eggs 4 points
• 1 Package Instant Grits 2 points
• I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Spray 0 points
• 1 Slice 2% American Cheese 1 point (7 Total Points)

Lunch:

• 1 Can Honey Mustard Chicken Vienna Sausages 7 points
• 1 100 Calorie Pack Hostess Cupcakes- Yellow 2 points (9 Total Points)

Dinner:

• 10 oz Oven Fried Pork Chops 10 points
• 1/2 C Peas and Carrots 0 points
• 1/2 C Lima Beans 1 points (11 Total Points)

Snack:

• 1 Piece Core Cornbread 2 points
• 2 T Steens Syrup 2 points
• I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Spray 0 points (4 Total Points)

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Total Points Today 31

I was really craving protein today for some reason. I did horrible on my fruits and veggies and milk. ALL I WANTED was protein. How weird is THAT? I'll do bettah tomorrow....

Update and Links I'd Like You To Visit

Good Morning! Happy Columbus Day! I have some things I wanna talk about today but its nothing terribly important.

Here's a quick update on the weight loss scene. I lost 5.2 lbs this week. I'm at my lowest weight in AGES. I now weigh 420 lbs. I'm getting so close to breaking the 400 lb mark I can freaking TASTE it. AIIIIIIGH. I found out last week I actually only gained 3 lbs not 5. Mom rounded up when she told me verbally. I yelled a long time about THAT one. Heh.

My walk today was really good. I managed 7 minute cycles of walking rather than 5 and I got in 10 laps per cycle rather than 7. It was sort of a power walk... for me. LOL. A REAL power walked would have looked and said... "Ummm... lady... yer CRAWLING" but I feel good about having managed to increase my time, speed and number of laps. Gonna aim for the same for the rest of the week.

My friend Jess over at Oh, The Joys is having a rough time. Her grandmother passed away very suddenly this weekend. She's got a very moving tribute to her up on her site. Please go by and check it out. Give her some support and love from the Blogaverse!

Another friend of mine, Wendy, over at One Day At A Time... is asking the Blog Community to stand up and help her support a really great cause. If you can afford to donate I encourage you to do so. If you can't, like me, perhaps linking to her and giving her more exposure for the cause would be a nice way to help out. Her email to me follows and it contains a link:

Tessa,

Hunger is an issue that has become very important to me and I have decided to get involved! I am walking in the CROP Hunger Walk and I need your help. Please consider making a donation to my efforts. Your donation supports programs that work to solve this world-wide challenge.You can help me by making a donation online. Click on the link below and you will be taken to my personal donation page where you can make a secure online credit card donation. Thank you,Follow This Link to visit my personal web page and help me in my efforts to support Church World Service.

Wendy

That's it for now. I'll be back tonight with today's Menu.

OH! Shecky is FINALLY off restriction and can go play. PRAISE JEBUS I made it through! errr HE MADE IT THROUGH... heh.

Daily Menu for Friday 10-05-2007

Breakfast:

• 1 C Oatmeal 2 points
• 1 C Skim Milk 2 points
• 1 Ham Steak 2 points
• 2 Servings Diced Pear 2 points (8 Total Points)

Snack:

• 1 Fat Free Cranberry Apple Muffin 2 points (2 Total Points)

Lunch:

• 1 Lean Cuisine Chicken Club Panini Sandwich 7 points
• 1 100 Cal Pack Carrot Cake Cupcakes by Hostess 2 points (9 Total Points)

Dinner:

• 1 Cup Cous Cous 4 points
• 4 oz Chicken w/ Lite Spaghetti Sauce 4 points
• Squash and Zucchini 0 points
• 1/2 C Green Beans 0 points
• 1 C Skim Milk 2 points (10 Total Points)

Snack:

• 1 Dark Chocolate and Peppermint Frappiccino 4 points
• 2 Slices Delightful White Bread 2 points
• I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Spray 0 points (6 Total Points)

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Total Points for the Day 35

Daily Menu for Thursday 10-04-2007

Breakfast:

• 2 Scrambled Eggs 4 points
• 2 Slices Bacon 2 points
• 2 Slices Delightful White Bread 1 point
• 1 Slice 2% Pepper Jack Cheese 1 point (8 Total Points)

Lunch:

• 2C Green Seedless Grapes 2 points (2 Total Points)

Dinner:

• 1 Piece Core Cornbread 2 points
• 1 C Black Eyed Peas 3 points
• 8 oz Venison and Pork Smoked Sausage 10 points (15 Total Points)

Snacks:

• 1 WW Cookies and Cream Ice Cream Bar 2 points
• 1 Starbucks Peppermint and Dark Chocolate Frappaccino Drink 4 points (6 total Points)

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Total Points for the Day 31

Daily Menu for Weds 10-03-2007

Breakfast:

• 3 Pieces Bacon 3 points


• 1 C Cheerio's Cereal 2 points


• 1/2 C Skim Milk 1 point


• 1 Small Banana 1 point (7 Total Points)

Lunch:

• Salad (Iceberg Lettuce, Carrot, Cabbage) 0 points


• 2T Lite Honey Dijon Dressing 1 point


• 2 Slices Delightful White Bread 1 point


• 2 Slices 2% Pepper Jack Cheese 3 points


• I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Spray 0 points (5 Total Points)

Dinner:

• 6oz Super Lean Ground Meat Hamburger 6 points
• 1 Slice 2% American Cheese 1 point
• 1 Sunbeam Hamburger Bun 3 points
• 4oz Oven Fries 2 points (12 Total Points)

Snack:

• 1 WW Cookies and Cream Ice Cream Bar 2 points
• 1 Starbucks Peppermint and Dark Chocolate Frappachino Drink 4 points (6 Total Points)

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Total Points for the Day 30

Daily Menu for Tuesday 10-02-2007

Sorry I'm late with this.

Breakfast:

• 2 Eggs 4 points


• 1 package Instant Grits 2 points


• 1 Slice 2% Pepper Jack Cheese 2 points (8 Points Total)

Lunch:

• 2 oz Turkey Breast Lunch Meat 2 points


• 1 Slice 2% American Cheese 2 points


• 2 Slices Delightfully White Bread 1 point


• 1 WW Cookies & Cream Ice Cream Bar 2 points


• 1 oz Doritos 3 points (10 Points Total)

Snack:

• 2 C Green Seedless Grapes 2 points (2 Points Total)

Dinner:

• 6 oz Chicken Breast 6 points


• 1/2 C Cous Cous 2 points


• 1/2 C Lima Beans 1 point


• 1/2 C Corn 1 points (10 Points Total)

Snack:

• 1 Small Banana 1 point (1 Point Total)

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Total Points 31