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Pea Pod Party

Michelle — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:17:37 +0000

Yesterday Simon and I went grocery shopping and I’m just amazed at the change that we’ve made in our diet the last few months. We found the pea pods here that we’d found in PG, who knew that one day I would actually be excited to find pea pods. You should have seen the big grin I my face, what a putz. I had a nice big bowl of them today with lunch and it was great. Aside from the pea pods we came out of Save-On with what I would call a very successful shopping trip. A whole lot of veggies and not junk, yeah go us. We got zucchini, butternut squash, PEA PODS, baby carrots, mushrooms, broccoli, but what we didn’t get what even more amazing. We passed on all the chocolate, sugar, and other assorted bad for you nasty stuff we used to buy.

Now if it wasn’t so fricking hot out we might actually feel like cooking it.

The Pea Pod Progess

Michelle — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:19:39 +0000

Still loving me some pea pods at night, it’s amazing to know I’ve found something healthy to replace the chocolate snacking a night. Might want to check outside and see if there’s any pigs flying about. Hehe. Of course I did eat a whole bag of chips yesterday at work because I was feeling snacky, still I didn’t get any big bags of chocolate to go with it.

Yeah, go me.

That is a lot of damned calories folks!!!

Michelle — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:53:37 +0000

The Enemies:

Total Calories = 947

Total Calories = 1082

Total Calories (stand up bag) = 1333

Total Calories (stand up bag) = 1298

After being astounded to find out how many calories I was stuffing into my face on a daily basis, eating one of these per night is no longer an option, not even close!!!

The Alternative: (started tonight)

Total Calories = negligible

Day 1 = Success, Woohoo!!

One Pop

Lorraine — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:29:15 +0000

Well I made the challenge (no pop for 2 weeks) it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. Last night, being Friday, I had a treat – cheezies and a pop. Really didn’t do too much for me (diet coke/no caffeine) So I think I will continue on “no pop”. Water suits me just fine. Also I didn’t need the cheezies but I had been so good lately I thought I would splurge. I had an IceCap also. Ears a buzzing, so I will forgo that also.

I realized that I don’t need the junk food, don’t really miss it and if I crave chocolate once in awhile I will buy a chocolate bar, enjoy it and then go back to water. I’m ot losing weight but not gaining either. I tried once health snack and it tasted like cardboard. I am crocheting while watching T.V. during the day but night time – where I am sitting, the light bothers hubby. Sometimes, I go back to my computer room and watch a movie. Changing lifestyle, isn’t hard, once you put your mind to it. I want to increase my area of walking, but still pretty slippery outside first think in the morning, so still us the same old route. Weather warming up, so will try to increase circumference. Big word first thing in the morning. This week I have lots to do for the Auxiliary so will concentrate on doing that – don’t have time to snack. Walk the dog, feed the husband and prepare AGM. Tried GeoCaching but too much snow in some of the caches – so I will wait until later in the spring to start looking.

Well that’s it for me today – reading Daniel Steel (for a change) book club book finished and waiting for next one.

Week One

Michelle — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:59:14 +0000

Well I survived the first week with no pop, actually I guess survived is too strong of a word as it wasn’t really that difficult. I’ve only been drinking water this past week and I have to say it hasn’t been that bad. Only today did I really think that I could use a nice glass of pop. I’m pretty sure that my body went through a caffeine withdrawal but it’s hard to say as I also started three new medications the same day I quite the diet coke. It’s impossible to know which changes are from what.

I still haven’t completed the third goal for this week but then again Sunday isn’t over yet and I plan to work on that once we get back from shopping. This is just a quick post, more to come later this evening.

Off to do some shopping out in Richmond.

No Pop Challenge: Day Two

Michelle — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:04:20 +0000

Well day one went really smooth, today was not quite so pleasant. I woke up with a nagging headache that has plagued me most of the day. It’s not painful, just a gentle reminder to say “can we get some caffeine in here today?” I never really thought about how much caffeine I was drinking but now that I think about it, I’m glad to be getting it out of my system.

I managed both goals one and two for the week, Simon and I both took all our measurements this weekend and today I made the appropriate doctors appointments that I needed to make.

I’ve got to say that not drinking the diet coke hasn’t really been that big of a challenge, I don’t think I was all that addicted to it, it was just more of a habit. Replacing it with water seems to be working just fine.

Challenge

Lorraine — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:58:56 +0000

Well, so glad to see you back on Blogga. I have accepted the Coke Challenge from my sister (bless her for her support) and it’s not as bad as I thought it would be. Okay, their is no sugar or caffeine in the pop that I drink but it shows me that I can give up a habit – bad or good. I haven’t lost weight, only ben 5 days but it has inspired me to try other challenges. As I walk every day, as soon as the roads are clearer, I will push myself to go farther. Once I did the Labor Day Classic in Prince George and manage to do it. Okay I came in last but at least I finished. My first challenge for spring will be to walk up to Save-on-foods (uphill all the way both ways – just kidding) but that will be my next step. I’m so encouraged by Michelle’s new way of life. The changes she and Simon will be doing. At first it may not seem a lot but at the end, the changes will show dramatically. Her parents are behind her and Simon all the way. Let’s leave the smoking issue for now. So let’s keep blogging, as I know this is good for all of us who use it. Looking forward to hearing from our new member – Sue

Goals for the Week

Michelle — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:25:06 +0000

I think it’s time to make some goals from now on, so here’s the first of many

Take body measurements (do today)
Make appointments with doc’s (dietitian, doctor and one other) (Monday)
Sit down with myself and lay out an exercise plan that is going to work for me. (work on today)

Well Walka has been all upgraded in spiffed up (I know it looks exactly the same but a lot of background stuff was fixed) Time for get my collected shit together and really truly make an effort into changing my lifestyle.

Today is day one of the two week no pop challenge for me (Simon too). Although Simon and I don’t drink regular coke I still think that cutting out the aspartame and caffeine that goes along with Diet Coke could definitely be beneficial to us. Going good so far, don’t really have any desires to run out and buy diet coke, water is working fine so far.

We’re also adding another new walka bloggerer to the family, Aunt Suzanne, woohoo, cheers all around. Sue has been the one largely responsible for this latest push into healthy land (thank you, thank you) so we look forward to having her with us.

That’s all for today folks, must go find measuring tape, or something to take measurements with. How come that thing has been underfoot for years until I actually want to use the darned thing, then it’s nowhere to be found.

Water

Michelle — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 02:11:56 +0000

Woohoo I fixed it. Back to business!!

Things are changing around here, walks everyday, exercise and food plans, finding a doctor. Phew it’s tiring. Today I wanted to focus on how I have FINALLY managed to figure out how to drink enough water and a daily basis. It’s really simple and can’t for the life of me figure out why I didn’t start this before. Warning: if you have an aversion to tap water or can’t handle using water from the bathroom this plan will not work.

So having always been an avid bathroom reader I probably spend more time in there that is necessary. So one day I decided that why not have a glass in here and every time I’m “reading” have a couple glasses of water. It’s been working great since I brought that blue plastic cup into the bathroom. I still can’t get over how simple it’s been, I manage to drink between 4-8 glasses a day depending. Now that I’m done working it’s been a little tougher due to a lack of consistency but I’d say I still get a least 4 glasses down.

Onto the benefits: about a week our two after I started the new water program a couple of people at work made comments about how good my skin was looking lately, that I’d developed a glow. Although I still have some dry skin issues it’s amazing how good my skin feels, it’s not as tight as it’s been for so long.
Now of course it’s gotten to the point where if I don’t have enough water during the day I can tell right away, usually my lips feel it first. Speaking of which I think they’re a little dry right now, need to go have some water. Later.

One more thing: chugging down 2-3 glasses of water after dinner, not a smart idea. Learned that one the hard way. Wait a couple of hours for dinner to settle.

Temporary Update

Michelle — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:06:30 +0000

Simon and Our web server got hit by some sort of phishing attack and the template for my theme got totally screwed up. I’ve changed it back the the classic theme for now until I can fix things up around here.