today sucked for me

I completely forgot that my folks wanted to take me out to dinner
tonight and for lunch i went with co-workers to Souplantation -- all you
can eat soup and salad. Sounds innocuous -- heck no! Somewhere between
choosing water over softdrink and skipping the sourcream in the chili, i
managed to rack up 1100 calories there. And then dinner, for which i
was completely not hungry for thanks to "soup and salad," was sooooo
good. Even tho I only picked and nibbled (yeah right), I still downed a
heroic 900 calories.

it's official -- i was a total diet-loser today. I should just roast a
turkey now and stuff it down my throat and get it over with.

oh! and the boss is taking our entire team to the cheesecake factory on
wednesday. f*ck, that's great. but seriously. that means between the
dinner i had with the folks today until wednesday, i really can't eat
ANYTHING. i mean seriously. i'm TRYING to keep a weekly calorie average
of 1200/day here, and today alone i went to 2100.

If somehow I manage to not eat too much tomorrow and thursday, i can
still keep this week's daily average to a respectable 1300 a day --which
is acceptable. man, it's gonna suck tomorrow. really really really
sucky. why did i go out to lunch today? why??!!! Soupplantation is the
worst thing that can ever happen to me -- it's like that sneaky girl at
QA who pretends to be your friend just to screw you over when you start
to feel safe. Souplantation pretends that it's healthy, but totally, it
is a calorie trap! Souplantation, i hate you -- if i knew i was going
to sink 1150 calories at your stupid table i would have ran for
McDonalds instead. argh!!!!

tomorrow! minithins and lots of water. and maybe a rice cake or 18...I
am now freaking out about the cheesecake factory -- did you know that
there is NO nutritional info on their website? I guess it's kind of like
how the nazi party don't brag about hitler being short, brown hair and
evil...

anyway, just wanted to vent about me being a total diet loser today.

You are not a loser/failure (insert word of choice) you made a mistake
so dust for self off and start again. Maybe you can get some extra
exercise or cut down on the cals for a day or two to make up or it. On
the dreaded cheesecake day try eat something just before going to fill
you up so you can just ttaste a little bit. Something filling like
fruit and a glass of milk, or a sandwich. If oyu go over calories
again it is not the end of the workd don't use it as an excuse to ruin
the whole week. 2 days are just that there are still 5 days to make
the week a good one. Good luck and let us know how you got on.
Michelle Ozzie in Switzerland
70.4/71/60 Starting again 24.11.04

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:37:45 GMT, Fairweather Princess
wrote:

I completely forgot that my folks wanted to take me out to dinner
tonight and for lunch i went with co-workers to Souplantation -- all you
can eat soup and salad. Sounds innocuous -- heck no! Somewhere between
choosing water over softdrink and skipping the sourcream in the chili, i
managed to rack up 1100 calories there. And then dinner, for which i
was completely not hungry for thanks to "soup and salad," was sooooo
good. Even tho I only picked and nibbled (yeah right), I still downed a
heroic 900 calories.

it's official -- i was a total diet-loser today. I should just roast a
turkey now and stuff it down my throat and get it over with.

oh! and the boss is taking our entire team to the cheesecake factory on
wednesday. f*ck, that's great. but seriously. that means between the
dinner i had with the folks today until wednesday, i really can't eat
ANYTHING. i mean seriously. i'm TRYING to keep a weekly calorie average
of 1200/day here, and today alone i went to 2100.

If somehow I manage to not eat too much tomorrow and thursday, i can
still keep this week's daily average to a respectable 1300 a day --which
is acceptable. man, it's gonna suck tomorrow. really really really
sucky. why did i go out to lunch today? why??!!! Soupplantation is the
worst thing that can ever happen to me -- it's like that sneaky girl at
QA who pretends to be your friend just to screw you over when you start
to feel safe. Souplantation pretends that it's healthy, but totally, it
is a calorie trap! Souplantation, i hate you -- if i knew i was going
to sink 1150 calories at your stupid table i would have ran for
McDonalds instead. argh!!!!

tomorrow! minithins and lots of water. and maybe a rice cake or 18...I
am now freaking out about the cheesecake factory -- did you know that
there is NO nutritional info on their website? I guess it's kind of like
how the nazi party don't brag about hitler being short, brown hair and
evil...

anyway, just wanted to vent about me being a total diet loser today.

Michelle Guy wrote:
You are not a loser/failure (insert word of choice)

this is why i love this ng, i knew i'd get some positive reinforcements.


you made a mistake
so dust for self off and start again. Maybe you can get some extra
exercise or cut down on the cals for a day or two to make up or it. On
the dreaded cheesecake day try eat something just before going to fill
you up so you can just ttaste a little bit. Something filling like
fruit and a glass of milk, or a sandwich.

yeah i think i will be a "fool" and stuff myself right before on frou
frou's like a sensible rice thing that ALWAYS fill me up.

If oyu go over calories
again it is not the end of the workd don't use it as an excuse to ruin
the whole week. 2 days are just that there are still 5 days to make
the week a good one. Good luck and let us know how you got on.

oh totally! expect another long rant on how good i was in two days.
you know me, i can't shut up about myself

Michelle Guy wrote:
You are not a loser/failure (insert word of choice)

this is why i love this ng, i knew i'd get some positive reinforcements.


you made a mistake
so dust for self off and start again. Maybe you can get some extra
exercise or cut down on the cals for a day or two to make up or it. On
the dreaded cheesecake day try eat something just before going to fill
you up so you can just ttaste a little bit. Something filling like
fruit and a glass of milk, or a sandwich.

yeah i think i will be a "fool" and stuff myself right before on frou
frou's like a sensible rice thing that ALWAYS fill me up.

If oyu go over calories
again it is not the end of the workd don't use it as an excuse to ruin
the whole week. 2 days are just that there are still 5 days to make
the week a good one. Good luck and let us know how you got on.

oh totally! expect another long rant on how good i was in two days.
you know me, i can't shut up about myself

Ignoramus29457 wrote:
It all boils down to how much you want to lose weight. Restaurant
visits may be inevitable, but overeating is not inevitable. Pick up a
dish that you like, in advance.

omg, you know what? that's what i did, i went on the website -- they
have this thing called "Miso Salmon" -- it's marinated in Miso and baked
and comes with a side of white rice and snow peas. well bend me over and
call me charlie -- that ALMOST sounds healthy! (of course, knowing how
that place is, i'm sure by "miso" they actually mean "lard." but i'll
let you know!

Eat half if necessary.

you know, HONESTLY that did not even occur to me (that is how retarded i
can be!), but I'm gonna give that a try for a change.


Free food at
buffets and company paid restaurants may be very expensive for you, if
you consider the effort to get rid of weight gain caused by that
food. So, free food does not mean you have to stuff yourself. As a
third worlder, I had a hard time grasping that concept.

oh god i know! what? all you can eat? omg...that means i can pay
$6.50...and eat all that i want??? omg!!! *tramples the entire senior
busline* -- needless to say, this mentality NEEDS to go.

Spend some
extra calorie exercising, even if you cannot completely make up for
that overeating.

You know, i hate to admit it but i think i might have to resort to
*gulp* excercise *gulp* this week -- man this is gonna suck -- but i
gotta do what i gotta do -- i can't go through another new year being
fat. (I'll be twenty-six in 2006 -- that's my chinese expiration date!
after that I'm just going to be an old maid! oh no! )

Losing weight by eating less is a game of
numbers. You cannot lose weight by having a great attitude, if you eat
too much. You can only lose weight by consistently doing the right
things most of the time and not doing wrong things very often. Butch
up and do the right thing, which is eat less despite temptations.


as stated in previous post -- will man up and refrain from stuffing
myself. and you guys will be posted. (haha, like you have a choice,
since i can't stop posting.)

Ignoramus29457 wrote:
It all boils down to how much you want to lose weight. Restaurant
visits may be inevitable, but overeating is not inevitable. Pick up a
dish that you like, in advance.

omg, you know what? that's what i did, i went on the website -- they
have this thing called "Miso Salmon" -- it's marinated in Miso and baked
and comes with a side of white rice and snow peas. well bend me over and
call me charlie -- that ALMOST sounds healthy! (of course, knowing how
that place is, i'm sure by "miso" they actually mean "lard." but i'll
let you know!

Eat half if necessary.

you know, HONESTLY that did not even occur to me (that is how retarded i
can be!), but I'm gonna give that a try for a change.


Free food at
buffets and company paid restaurants may be very expensive for you, if
you consider the effort to get rid of weight gain caused by that
food. So, free food does not mean you have to stuff yourself. As a
third worlder, I had a hard time grasping that concept.

oh god i know! what? all you can eat? omg...that means i can pay
$6.50...and eat all that i want??? omg!!! *tramples the entire senior
busline* -- needless to say, this mentality NEEDS to go.

Spend some
extra calorie exercising, even if you cannot completely make up for
that overeating.

You know, i hate to admit it but i think i might have to resort to
*gulp* excercise *gulp* this week -- man this is gonna suck -- but i
gotta do what i gotta do -- i can't go through another new year being
fat. (I'll be twenty-six in 2006 -- that's my chinese expiration date!
after that I'm just going to be an old maid! oh no! )

Losing weight by eating less is a game of
numbers. You cannot lose weight by having a great attitude, if you eat
too much. You can only lose weight by consistently doing the right
things most of the time and not doing wrong things very often. Butch
up and do the right thing, which is eat less despite temptations.


as stated in previous post -- will man up and refrain from stuffing
myself. and you guys will be posted. (haha, like you have a choice,
since i can't stop posting.)

In article ,
wrote:

it's official -- i was a total diet-loser today. I should just roast a
turkey now and stuff it down my throat and get it over with.

No, you're a human being. Your first mistake is thinking "diet" instead
of "this is the way I will eat for the rest of my life." Get rid of the
short-term thinking and look at the bigger picture.

One day of going over your calorie allowance will not make you gain
weight or blow your WOE. The secret is to incorporate those types of
days into your plan. Understand that you'll have days where you splurge
and days where you won't meet your calorie limit. Exercise to balance
out those days when you have *hit going on and plan to enjoy yourself.

Tthe "I blew it today, might as well eat this cheesecake" thinking will
bring you down everytime. Don't fall into that trap.

Have a good one,

Amy

168/115

On 12/21/2004 7:35 AM, Fairweather Princess wrote:

omg, you know what? that's what i did, i went on the website -- they
have this thing called "Miso Salmon" -- it's marinated in Miso and baked
and comes with a side of white rice and snow peas. well bend me over and
call me charlie -- that ALMOST sounds healthy! (of course, knowing how
that place is, i'm sure by "miso" they actually mean "lard." but i'll
let you know!

Miso is not lard. Miso is a fermeted soy paste. The bad part,
nutritionally speaking, is that it can be quite salty.

http://tinyurl.com/4zsno

If I ordered this, I'd ask 'how many ounces is the salmon' and cut the
fillet if necessary (placing leftover section on bread plate to bring
home). I'd probably also ask for no rice and extra veggies -- mostly
due to the fact that it is white rice and that I have a horrible time
estimating portion sizes of rice on restaurant plates!


--
jmk in NC

"Ignoramus29457" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:35:29 GMT, Fairweather Princess
wrote:
Ignoramus29457 wrote:
It all boils down to how much you want to lose weight. Restaurant
visits may be inevitable, but overeating is not inevitable. Pick up a
dish that you like, in advance.

omg, you know what? that's what i did, i went on the website -- they
have this thing called "Miso Salmon" -- it's marinated in Miso and
baked and comes with a side of white rice and snow peas. well bend
me over and call me charlie -- that ALMOST sounds healthy! (of
course, knowing how that place is, i'm sure by "miso" they actually
mean "lard." but i'll let you know!


Miso is not lard....
http://www.soyfoods.com/soyfoodsdescriptions/miso.html

Sounds like a great dish to me. Healthy salmon, healthy lard, what can
be better? Simply eat as much as you think is proper for your diet.

Lard is not one of the healthiest foods around and probably should be
avoided in most diets. It's high in saturated fat. Again saturated fat is
something most people try to limit in their diets.

http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-001-02s00df.html













Eat half if necessary.

you know, HONESTLY that did not even occur to me (that is how retarded i
can be!), but I'm gonna give that a try for a change.

It was a huge discovery for me also.


Free food at
buffets and company paid restaurants may be very expensive for you, if
you consider the effort to get rid of weight gain caused by that
food. So, free food does not mean you have to stuff yourself. As a
third worlder, I had a hard time grasping that concept.

oh god i know! what? all you can eat? omg...that means i can pay
$6.50...and eat all that i want??? omg!!! *tramples the entire senior
busline* -- needless to say, this mentality NEEDS to go.

I had exactly the same feelings about this.

Spend some
extra calorie exercising, even if you cannot completely make up for
that overeating.

You know, i hate to admit it but i think i might have to resort to
*gulp* excercise *gulp* this week -- man this is gonna suck -- but i
gotta do what i gotta do -- i can't go through another new year
being fat. (I'll be twenty-six in 2006 -- that's my chinese
expiration date! after that I'm just going to be an old maid! oh no!
)

Exercise, by the way, is known to improve mood in very many people.

Here's the opposite article that says that some -- but not the
majority -- of people get no benefit from exercise. Very interesting
stuff. Note though that most people do get benefits from exercise, but
some apparently do not, if we are to believe this article. Health
benefits aside, everyone spends calories exercising.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6735

``There is astounding variation in the response to exercise. The vast
majority will benefit in some way, but there will be a minority who
will not benefit at all,? says Claude Bouchard of Louisiana State
University in Baton Rouge, US.''

Losing weight by eating less is a game of
numbers. You cannot lose weight by having a great attitude, if you eat
too much. You can only lose weight by consistently doing the right
things most of the time and not doing wrong things very often. Butch
up and do the right thing, which is eat less despite temptations.


as stated in previous post -- will man up and refrain from stuffing
myself. and you guys will be posted. (haha, like you have a choice,
since i can't stop posting.)

Keep us posted, I am personally interested in how you will do at the
CF.
--
223/172.4/180

You need to stop beating yourself up. Just forget about yesterday and
get back on track today. Starving yourself for a couple of days is a
really bad idea. While it's a reasonable goal to aim for a weekly
average, you can't do it by a feast/famine approach. At the most, you
can cut 100-200 calories off your normal day's plan (and I'm not sure
about even that, given your low daily goal). Maybe this will be a
week that you come in a little over goal. So what? It's the long
term that counts. Instead, just think about how you might have
managed a little better today, and learn from it.

Look at the Cheesecake Factory trip as an opportunity to practice
eating healthily in a restaurant. This is a skill we all need to
learn. You don't actually even need to eat cheesecake there, you know
:-). They probably have some nice salads (with protein, please!) that
you can order with dressing on the side. And if you want dessert,
maybe someone would share a piece of cheesecake with you. Or order
one and eat half. Feel good about yourself doing this, not deprived!

The "I should just roast a turkey now and stuff it down my throat and
get it over with." thinking -- while I assume you meant this
facetiously -- is exactly why so many people fall off the wagon.
Yesterday has nothing to do with today. Just forget about it.

Chris
262/134/ (135-145)