Ariel's Journal

parkerhouse · 08-03-2008, 09:36 PM

I'm feeling fine - just hard to tell if it's the meds or the "I just started a diet and I am super-motivated" feeling

I'm actually finding it a bit hard to "get all the food in." When you eliminate the bad food, it harder to make time for good food! Meaning, not so easy to be "on the go" and eat healthy. Well, I guess that attitude is how I got myself here in the first place. We all need to learn to eat healthy and lead busy lives!

ariel31 · 08-03-2008, 10:08 PM

It is hard to eat healthy especially when you are gone from home a lot. There's not much to pick from that's good for you that you can eat and drive...and afford. There's so much bad rap on overweight Americans, but they make it so expensive to buy healthy foods. You can buy a burger for a dollar or a salad for 5-7 dollars. That's crazy.

ariel31 · 08-07-2008, 03:12 AM

I'm down two more pounds! Yea!!! My total is now 16 pounds. I'll give my week 4 stats in the next day or two. And if any of you like to pull a good trick on the family or your friends, be checking back. My family loves to pull jokes on each other.

**sahmof4** · 08-07-2008, 05:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ariel31

I'm down two more pounds! Yea!!! My total is now 16 pounds. I'll give my week 4 stats in the next day or two. And if any of you like to pull a good trick on the family or your friends, be checking back. My family loves to pull jokes on each other.

WOO !!!!!!

HOO !!!!!

16 lbs YAY !!!!

Oh I'll be checking back then Iam a total prankster wannabe

but I love to read funny stuff like that though .

Thanks for the journal visit.

ttyl c.c.

parkerhouse · 08-07-2008, 05:58 PM

Great job on the 2 pounds!!!!! I think that is so awesome because so many times when I used to be on weight watchers, I'd lose .4 or .2 ,etc....it was so frustrating. On the weeks I'd actually lose 2 whole pounds I was so happy it may as well have been 10!!!!

ariel31 · 08-10-2008, 08:33 PM

Okay, here's my calorie summary for Week Four.

Total for Week: 7409
Daily Avg. 1058
Weight loss this weeks: 2.5 pounds
Total Weight loss: 16 pounds

ariel31 · 08-10-2008, 08:43 PM

My Mom is known for her chocolate pies. Every year for every get-to-gether, she has to make the pies. In the past, we had exchanged "gag" gifts, but that year, I wanted something different. I decided that I would make the chocolate pie. I carefully followed the instructions..well most of them anyway. Instead of putting a tad of salt and lots of sugar, I skipped the sugar and put tons of salt. I asked my husband to try it out, he said that it was really salty. I said good and poured more in. While Mom was gone, I switched my pie for her pie. The looks on everyone's faces when they took a bite was hilarious! Mom was freaking out over what could have possibly gone wrong. She eventually figured out that that wasn't her merangue, and she went straight to my car to get her pie.
The next year, my sister-in-law showed up with a chocolate covered dessert. I asked her what it was, and she said it was some marshmallow thing. It looked really good...sprinkled with powdered sugar and nuts. My mom and I both got one. I took a small bite, and my s-i-l asked me how it was. I said it was a little tough. I pulled it out and looked at it, and it was a chocolate covered cotton ball! I started laughing. My Mom was still trying to bite off a big piece of it. That was really funny. I told my brother and s-i-l that was a good one. They did it to several other people. One guy almost pulled out his false teeth. We decided this year that everyone would bring their own t.v dinners. No one said anything about the drinks though!

ariel31 · 08-10-2008, 08:50 PM

BTW. I have lost 3 more pounds since my weigh in on Wednesday. Any weight loss now will put me back in the 100 somethings. I haven't been below 204 in a year or a little longer. I was excited to see this morning that I was 200. I can't wait to look at the scale and the first digit be a 1!