Thursday 29 November 2012

"Get out of jail free"

Dr. Poon post recently in his blog the following post:

“If you have to cheat, cheat small”
This is one of my sayings.

Holidays are fast approaching and there will be lots of eating opportunities. On the Phase Three handout there is a list of foods that are banned. They are banned because they has either too much sugar, starch, fat and/or salt. I do not necessarily mean that you can never taste it again in your life; but rather, do not eat the whole serving of those products at once. If you wish to taste, have a bite or two and stop. I’ve had many people tell me that they just had a “small” piece of the cake during the party, and subsequently gained weight. How do you define small? A single bite or spoonful is a small piece to me.

Most of our patients have medical issues related to their weight, so remember another saying of mine, “Disease does not take holidays.”

In my mind this is like a get out of jail free card from Monopoly.


This is giving me permission for the BLT's that posted about the other day.  I read it as "I can take a whole bunch of little bites and it won't matter."  I also reminds me of a poster I saw about calories that said stuff like a broken cookie has no calories since the all leak out or if you share a dessert it is half the calories etc.

I am just concerned that if I start thinking like this, subconsciously the nibbles will turn into huge, ugly cheek puffing bites and I would have been better off ordering one for myself and taking the time to eat a small mouthful.

So I am not going travel down this path, an just stick to my all or nothing mantra right now.

 

Wednesday 28 November 2012

I have to admit it has been hard……

Since corporate has taken over I have been trying to the “team player" and helping out where I could so that I will be memorable when it comes the time for them to sell it again.  This means I have been working off my butt (figuratively) since I have picked up a 4th shift and the kitchen staff has taken some of the roles I use to do around the driver’s area.   I have to say that the money has been okay since I have been able to pay for most of the treadmill mill and I still need $100 to cover it and I have been able to pay for my gas in cash.  Now I am saving up for some new tires, but I think that they will take precedence over the last little bit for my treadmill. 

I also have been struggling again with passing all the fast food joints coming and going from the day job.  I can be sitting at a set of lights and I will notice people eating in their cars.  Things can range from an apple to full blown burgers and pop.  That will usually start my mind turning on what I want to eat for supper.  And of course the power of suggestion kicks in as I am driving past a location but I am usually running late and need to get Nikki home before my shift starts. 

Also being at the store for 5 ½ hours at a time, and you are able to take a sit down makes for idle hands and idle mouth.  I am afraid that I have started a trend of BLT’s (bites, licks and tastes) instead of eating.   But I have noticed that a series of BLT’s might be a cause for more food consumption.  So I need to slow down on my eating and really enjoy what I am eating.  I have been in a rush and I am eating for the sake of eating.  I have been eating Poon-friendly stuff….but not enjoying it. 

I was at a brunch for C’s 50th on Sunday and I ordered the steak and 3 poached eggs and the steak and mushrooms on it.  I was too busy with chatting and worrying about my time line in getting back, I honestly can’t tell you if the steak was good or not.  But I do remember watching C enjoy her chocolate chip pancakes since she is putting Poon on hold until after her surgery and her sister STR enjoying hash browns and hash.  The meal was a blur but I think I ate LOL. 

This morning I took the bulls by the horns and decided that I had packed a sufficient amount of food for today that there was no need to stop at Tim’s for an egg white and a tea, or to stop at McD’s for an egg and ham with a diet coke.  I will admit it took all I could to keep on the straight and narrow, but I needed to start again. 

The weather was Nikki friendly in Barrie so she was having her first romp of the season LOL
 
 
 

Friday 23 November 2012

Gotta push through.......

No more excuses!!!!!!

I have a free night to spend it with the DH and what I am going to do???????  I was thinking to myself that I should take the time to relax with him since we are like 2 ships in the night recently between my other job, feeling drained of energy and he is now part of the on-call rotation for his work.

I also have had an "meh" day of eating and what they say is true....Garbage in...garbage out. I have felt great all morning with my egg whites and water in me and then I had an okay build my own salad from Longo's with Miss A and I picked up few things to make for supper and then I discovered sugar free wafers from Vortmans......I have had a couple of these wafers this afternoon to treat myself and now I feel like I am going to drift off for a nap!

 
I have noticed on the FB page that the newbies will go nuts on the store/packaged stuff and then complain about energy levels being low.  I guess the Daddy Poon smarts have struck again! LOL

The more I think about the more I think that I can't come up with excuses not to get on the treadmill.  That was the whole reason for getting it was not to have excuses.  I am sure I could have used the weather, the wind or even a crack in the sidewalk as an excuse not to leave the house.

So I am going to get a start on the supper and while it is in the oven for 30 minutes I plan on taking my 20 minutes on the treadmill.  It is only 20 minutes right?  I am sure that the DH can find some emails to reply to while I am gone LOL

Thursday 22 November 2012

Wow!

What a time I have had in the past few days!

The treadmill was lugged and set up by the greatest DH in the world!!!!  It was set up and working by 10 pm Friday night.  I am glad that he helped since there was some electronics involved that I know i was going to screw up LOL

The day job is getting good since they have hired some more ladies to help lighten the load and fill  in some holes for ladies that are like Snow White.  I just know she had back issues and then she was off.  DoxyLover has been taking over her desk since Snow White left.  I found out that DoxyLover was getting "lamb basted" by few of Snow White's clients and that is why DoxyLover was in a funk last week.  She seems to be back to her good old self and really wants to have dinner with the DH and at some point at her place.  I can just her Nikki and her new boyfriend Cooter having fun in their back yard.

The other job have been crazy!  Corporate has taken over and I have been asked to fill in some shift of the drivers that the old owner stole to take to his only store.  So I have been working 4 nights a week at until 11 and I am thinking that I can't keep going on like I am.  So I talked to the store supervisor and mentioned to him that I can help him out next week for 4 shifts, but after that I need to cut back.  At least that gives them a week and half to get a new driver in.

Saturday I decided to give the treadmill a 20 minute cardio walk in bare feet.  I just did, not rhyme or reason so don't ask :)  Well I went 5 pin bowling against the Klingons and I did horribly because of the 2 blisters I got on the balls of meet from the treadmill.  My fault I know.  My feet are all better, so I am hoping to get back on the treadmill this weekend (with sneakers) so that I can go with Ohio on the Frosty 5K in March in Burlington.

My game and frame was sucking big time so I had some fun and granny bowled the rest if the frame:

 
 

 
This is the Feddie side of the Challenge and we are looking to redeem ourselves next year!!
 
 I saw the MD this morning and she is pleased as punch about my weight loss and she is glad to see that I have lost 14 kgs (or 31 pounds) in the year since my last visit.  I am no further ahead with the stitch in my side since the report from my scan said that all is well.  So I am off to see the surgeon again in the middle of December.  Until then, I will just keep a note of when the pain hits and what I am doing and eating.
 
We got a few pictures back from Halloween so her is Nikki and I.  I was the vet and she was my patient.
 
 
 
 
 


 
 

Friday 16 November 2012

Maybe it is psychosomatic.

I am getting excited about my treadmill that I am getting tonight and I think might have set me up for the rest of the day.....I have honestly haven't looked past 6 pm tonight even though I have some Klingon vs Feddie bowling and a girls night this weekend but I seem like I can conquer the day!

-I stepped on the scale in the bathroom this morning to find that is had creeped downward.  I was little concerned about this since I ate a spinach salad at work last night with their dressing and some croutons.  Corporate is being really nice to again last night and I have heard the new manager that is coming in this weekend is a bit of a hard nose.  Suuuuuure corporate butters us up and then snaps us back into reality LOL
-I get into the office the morning to find that there are treats brought in by the DeNada and they are cookies that I really don't enjoy so I give them a pass.
-I have enjoyed my new found water in Miss A's SF Hawaiian punch to the point I have had almost a litre of water and it isn't even lunchtime yet!
-I have email from a US client that said (and I quote) "Thanks for being a wonderful company with whom to work!"
-I made the Princess' day a bit better by telling her that her jeans and heels make her legs look really thin and long.  I thought for sure I would have received the "Yah I know" but she was self-conscious herself and needed a boost too.

I am sure that there is going to be some negativity that I might come across today but it won't seem that bad.

Now if I can just figure out why DoxyLover an odd mood........

Thursday 15 November 2012

Caught up to speed.....


Let’s see since Halloween……..
 
I had my weekly check in and I think I am getting into the groove of them.  I find that I am not doing the “I have 3 days left before my weigh in…..” type of attitude.  I have been able to look at it one snack at a time and I was hoping the scale would reflect that…..Nope.  Apparently I can gain 8 pounds of fat in a week since that is what the scale said.  O_o  I tried to figure out where it came from and I am glad that I went to dinner with P since she thought it was odd to.  It was nice to eat at a restaurant with another Poon’er so that we can compare notes on the menu LOL  It doesn’t help that she is on Phase 2, but we swapped ideas over some fat free ice cream at Marble Slab.

A friend (I will call “Mini”) had her 40th so we headed to Boston Pizza and some bowling.  I am kind of glad that Boston Pizza is getting the healthier band wagon so I was going to order the steak and veggies.  It also sme with a salad on the plate and instead of getting a wilted salad I asked if they could bring the salad portion out as a starter.  My salad came and I was a good girl and picked out the onions and gave them to Mini and I put the carrots aside.  She ordered the pulled pork and I was looking at it and in a past life that would have made me drool.  I looked at it this time and thought of the salt in the sauce and how the bun would have sit like lead in my tummy.  My steak came out and it too had salad with it.  I mentioned to the waitress I was going to grow bunny ears!  So I just ate the cucumbers that were in it and carried on.

Miss A here at work has taken over for Ohio and she is fitting in really nicely.  She has me hooked on sugar free Hawaiian punch!  She has found it at the dollar store and offered me a packet.  Well I tell you…..I am definitely getting in my water in now!  She makes mention of carbs at work, and it is interesting to be the outside looking on what others eat.  She had rice cakes today and I did the math that I could eat just 1/9th of one.  Not worth it in my mind.

I had my other weekly weigh in last night and whichever documentation you look at I am down either way.  If we go by last week, I am down 10.5…….if you look at 2 weeks ago, I am down 2.5.  Needless to say I have added 2 more pink jewels to my bracelet!!!!!!  I just could get rid of that other half pound for an even three LOL  Dr. Merchie wanted me to go to Phase 2 for 3 days of the week.  For those of you that were wondering, that introduces whole fruits and other veggies as well as some dairy back into the diet.  I have almost lost 10% of my initial body weight and I guess it is the next step.  I decided to keep to Phase 1 for another week since I have an appointment with Dr. Ferguson and I want to show a big number for here than I was less than a year ago.  So who knows….I guess I got comfortable with Phase one and made it work (kind of) for me.

I have been able to make a deal with the DH for a treadmill.  Yes a treadmill. The DH said that if I made the space that he would help get it.  I also have asked him to give a kick in the butt to get on it too.  I plan on getting on it on Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday.   If I get called into Topper’s on Tuesday, I will bump it to Friday.  I also told him that if it sat for a month not being used, he is more than happy to Kijiji it.  So Mom was over last weekend and we went through my room (the spare bed and sewing room) together and donated box of stuff and threw out 3 bags of garbage to make room.  So I have saved my Topper’s money and been able to get almost $300 for it and I have asked for the rest of the treadmill for Christmas. 


This is the one I am hoping to get (Gold Gym's 410) and the price isn’t that bad either …..
 
 
 

Thursday 1 November 2012

Made it!!!!


Yesterday was Halloween and I made it!  It was an overall good....no a great day!

Being the chair social committee for work, I was running around getting stuff done for the costume contest and the pot luck lunch.  I am happy to say, I eat very Poon friendly foods and still enjoyed my self.  I did breakdown in the afternoon while I was cleaning up and mindlessly ate a cookie.  My mouth has sores on the inside of it, so I guess it really wasn't worth it :)

I left the office and headed off to see Dr. Merchie at the Brampton office.  I fond that some of the staff that weigh you really don't seem to share in the enthusiasm when we lose weight or even really chat with us.  So that is what I was expecting this time around too.  So I stepped on the scale and I really didn't want to see the number since I felt like I had gained again.....I lifted my hand up slowly to see that I was down 7 pounds!!!!!!  I am a new high of weight loss and that now puts from the Category 2 Obese into the Category 1 Obese!  So I am on the way from being Obese to be being fat LOL  The nurse gave me a high five and congratulated me.  I was first shocked at the weight and then at the fact she was excited with me!  Dr Merchie heard us high fiving and asked what it was all about.  I actually enjoyed the walk down the hall to his office.  As I walked out I saw the same gal again and she gave me a sincere "see you next time" and a wave.

When I got home, I unloaded the car and was beginning to think about supper.  Dave wanted to go out to get some more oil for the smoke machines so I just had him grab me a salad at McD's.  I did bring him home some chili and desserts from the pot luck so I knew he was taken care of.  I was shelling out the candy for a good hour and half and I wasn't even tempted to eat a single one!  I brought the bowl back into the house and left it there.

There were pics take around the office and once I get a few more in I will post them.  For the here and now, here is Nikki with DoxyLover's headband on.