Not Your Mama's Diet Not Your Mama's Diet We're a fat married couple in our mid-thirties with four skinny kids who just moved from the suburbs to the country. Dying young isn't in the master plan, so we're going to grow organic food and raise chickens and find our inner Brad and Angela! Articles
Peeking Out
2007-11-26 20:12:00 I'm starting... just starting... to feel human again. I've been SO sick. Eating popsicles, mostly. Sugar-free though. *patting self on back* The kids still have vacation today (must be nice to be a teacher!) and Harley went back to work, so we're all alone in the house together, and all I want to do is sleep. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Sick
2007-11-24 13:03:00 Okay, I really AM sick.Ironic that I was at the doctor's just yesterday. But I didn't feel this bad. Just had a little congestion. That's not usual for me. I'm ALWAYS congested! But today my throat's on fire, I have a fever of 102 and I'm shaking like a blind lesbian at a weenie roast... Both the Prince and the Princess had strep last week, so I'm SURE that's what it is. Of course, there's no doc open. I'd have to go the ER to get antibiotics. The good news is, I have some leftover from... something. A toothache, I think? Yay! The other good news is it hurts to swallow. Which means I don't feel like eating. At all. And if I did, I couldn't taste it. Honestly, I think the docs who are doing weight loss surgery have missed the boat. All you'd have to do is take away my sense of taste, and I'd stop the whole overeating thing. Trust me. Okay, I'm getting delirious. I'm going to bed! More About: Sick
Thanksgiving
2007-11-23 04:33:00 Everyone loved the pumpkin-orange cheesecake. And the chocolate peanut butter fudge. And the pumpkin bread. I know, I know, but I had to make them. I felt like I was in the middle of that Steven Wright joke. "I poured a bowl of cereal, but I added too much milk, so I added more cereal, but then there was too much cereal, so I poured in some more milk, but then I needed more cereal...""An hour later..."I had half a can of pumpkin left after making the cheesecake, so I had to do something with it, and so I made the pumpkin bread. Then, I had half a can of evaporated milk left. So I made the chocolate peanut butter fudge. I took the leftover chocolate orange coconut carrot cake with us for Thanksgiving , too. The good news is I left at least half of it all there! And I only had a sliver of cheesecake and a taste of the fudge. But I did eat lots of yummy turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy and sweet potatoes. And, as she is wont to do, my mother-in-law sent home Gladware containers stuf... More About: Hank
Avoiding
2007-11-21 14:37:00 Well somehow I ate less calories yesterday, according to Fit Day, than the day before, even though I had a piece of chocolate cake. Weird, huh?I keep trying to remind myself, "There's nothing wrong with chocolate cake." A piece won't kill you. It's eating the whole damned cake--and then baking and eating another one--that will kill you. Right? Right. So now the trick is not eating cake TODAY. Yesterday was a special occasion. We had a friend for dinner. (Well, not FOR dinner... we didn't cook and eat her or anything! I'm not THAT bad!) But now it's the day before Thanksgiving, I'm looking at the looming food-filled holiday days ahead, and wondering how in the hell people do this every day. How do you NOT eat chocolate cake if half a cake is sitting on your counter, the kids are home from school and driving you insane, you have a house to clean, food to cook for Thanksgiving tomorrow, a husband on his way to a job interview insisting you "did something" with the envelope he le...
Having Your Cake and Eating it Too?
2007-11-20 15:10:00 Well according to Fitday (where I'm keeping track of what I eat every day) I consumed 1,406 calories yesterday. Not a bad start. The best part was, none of it was junk. There was more fat that I'd like to ultimately have and less protein (45% fat, 33% carbs and 23% protein) but I didn't pick up a Kit Kat. Or a potato chip. Or even desperately break open the chocolate chips I bought for the cake I'm baking today.I forgot I was baking a cake. On top of the orange pumpkin cheesecake I'm making for Thanksgiving, I said I'd make dinner and dessert for a friend of ours who's coming to watch the rugrats tonight. It's parent-teacher conferences, and we have to go find out how our two kindergarteners are doing. Princess is our oldest, she's six, but she's in kindergarten with her brother, the little Prince, who's five, because I homeschooled rather lazily up until this year, when we decided to try out public schools. So far I'm hating public school, but they kids aren't. They'r... More About: Cake , Eating
We've Only Just Begun...
2007-11-19 18:11:00 I was kidding when I posted we were going to "start Monday." Because, you know, that's when you start diets. Monday. After a "last supper" of course. Ha. Some last supper we had. Somehow I don't think Jesus made Taco Bell out of wine and fishes..But Harley, he went and took me seriously about the "starting Monday" thing! So now we're starting...!? Ack! I guess there's no better time than the present. And since I had to run to the doctor's this morning for fasting blood work, it wasn't a bad day to begin. I didn't eat anything until eleven, when I was done shopping for Thanksgiving, and by then I was shaking with hunger...I know, I know, fat people shouldn't experience hunger. Isn't that the perception? Actually, I'm terrible about eating in the morning, which I know isn't good for metabolism, and I need to stop. Well, start. Eating, that is. And not chocolate or donuts, either. *sigh* Darnit. So I had an apple out of the bag I bought while I was driving home from the stor...
K Harley's Weekly Progress
2007-11-19 11:57:00 Height: 5'10"Current Weight: 390 lbs Goal Weight: 180 lbsBMI: 54.39 (according to skinnyr who says I'm super obese) BMI Goal: 25 More About: Weekly , Progress
Queen B's Weekly Progress
2007-11-19 11:45:00 Height: 5'5"Current Weight: 277 lbsGoal Weight: 120 lbsBMI: 46.09 (according to skinnyr who says I'm morbidly obese)BMI Goal: 22 More About: Queen , Weekly , Progress
Queen B's Story
More articles from this author:2007-11-19 01:42:00 There has been a war raging in my heart since before I can remember. I have spent my life feeling split right down the middle, and I have always carried with me the message ?There is something wrong with me.? When I was born, the family story goes like this: my father desperately wanted a boy to carry on the family name, but when I was born a girl, he went home and splintered the kitchen chairs against the wall. That was my welcome to the world. So I got that message early: there is something wrong with me.When I was very young, maybe four or five, I remember my parents arguing one night, I remember him hitting her, and I remember feeling very scared. I crawled to the back of my closet and I fell asleep, and when I woke up, it was morning. No one had come to look for me. No one even noticed that I was ?missing.? And I got the message: no one wants me? there is something wrong with me.When I was seven, my father checked into an inpatient mental health facility and was diagnosed as bi... More About: Story , Queen 1, 2, 3 |
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