i love that pic lol

 

HAHAHAHA That's Hilarious!!

 

glad yall like it!

 

ha ha ha funny--- :-) No candy for me- and even had a salad :-) yesterday we ate at the golden corral (Calistas choice) I had a huge salad and only 1 other 1/2 filled plate of chicken and a little roast beef :-)

 

I slow cooked dinner last night, the wonderful smell filled the house.. by the time we ate I couldn't control my appetite.

So was a little heavier yet again today.. Ugh..

 

that's my routine at buffets lol, i heap as much salad as I can on my first plate & then select just a few other items on round two!

 

Last night i managed to find myself gorging on the cashews again i cna't wait til they're gone! I hope the wife eats the rest of them lol

 

i do think eating all those cashews the last couple nights has really refueled my muscles thought, i had a great workout this morning!

 

Oh.. man... I am going completely in the wrong direction this week. It's so bad I can't even post it on here.. Eating normal people food is the devil... I probably better just eat morsels of lettuce from here on out.

 

Ate a couple of fried eggs in butter and a large sausage patty for breakfast yesterday, had a caesar salad w/bacon for lunch, steamed broccoli smothered in butter for snack, and for supper I had 2 hamburgers\1 cheesy brat on romaine buns with a side of steamed broccoli\cauliflower\carrots smothered in butter, evening snack was about half a cup of assorted nuts.

I was pretty stuffed by the end of the night and I thought I had gone overboard, but ended up still losing 2.5 pounds. Down to 230.2 this morning, really hoping I can crack into the 220's this week and stay there over the non-diet weekend.

 

No doubt, we had Pizza Hut with a side of boneless wings, sweet snacks, and chips\salsa at Rib Crib over the weekend and that was enough to shoot me up 2 lbs in a couple days. It's crazy to see how quick weight bounces back when you slip

 

I really can't wait to start working out again, I feel like my body is shriveling away and I feel like my muscles are quite what they were when I started the diet. Need to knock out one last project and then I'm going to start trying to dedicate an hour a day to work out and tear it up

 

I need to get on board with you guys and lose some weight. I've been going in the wrong direction for the last couple of months. Not a lot, but enough that it is starting to get me up there. There has to be a way to eat "normal" without feeling like you have to eat cardboard or like a sparrow all the time to get weight in a good range.

Eating should be a joy rather than something where you have to watch every mouth full. Other societies are not as fat and they manage to eat well. I think some of it is the whole way we approach eating. We eat "fast" food that is wolfed down without really even tasting it. At work lunch(dinner) is on the go or within a short time. At that point food is fuel not something to be enjoyed. In many homes it is hard even to get everyone around a table to eat a meal. Much of our food is processed and not scratch made and healthy foods such as salads, fish, vegetables are expensive.

 

every time I try to take it easy, i start losing strength so fast i hate that!

 

No joke on all of that, so many good points made. We did initially great on our diet but then grew tired of it after several months, so we got completely off and the weight started coming back on just as quick as it was previously falling off. From what I could tell it was because we were eating "convenience" foods. Fast food, chips, cookies, candy, bagged\boxed\processed foods that require little to no prep to get from the package to our mouths.

We're trying to find a happy medium now by dieting during the week and "relaxing" on the weekends by opening up our food options to comfort foods that will give us a break from the restricted selection during the week. It's great that we're losing weight from the diet, but more importantly it's forcing us to prepare fresh meals instead of living out of chip bags.

As for the expense part, I feel like most healthy foods are fairly priced. The dozen burgers and brats I cooked last night with veggie side was probably around $15 total and the meat portion will feed us for at least one more meal. If we went to a fast food place it would be closer to $20, $35+ at a sit down restaurant. The big difference is the time it takes to prepare it for consumption. We are strapped for time everyday and taking a full hour to prep, cook, eat, and clean up after a meal seems like a steep piece of time to give up in comparison to a 15 minute drive-thru stop.