Rikki's Losing it!

[Rikki]

Good Morning! What a brisk morning it is outside, but not for long... Today's agenda is to get all the tile up with the mastic... But first a trip to Home Depot is in order to get a mini trowel... and before that some kind of breakfast, I think I will have some leftover chili-I really need to bake some more potatoes too but tiling in the kitchen I really don't want to heat it up! Here is my plan for today!

B: leftover chili, brown rice pasta
S: grapes
L: stirfry or veggie soup with brown rice pasta(leftover from this morning)
S: brown rice cake, carrots
D: ?

[Anna Green]

Hi. So you are joining in on Boots' challenge? Good deal. I love Boots. She gets me motivated. Your food looks good. I want the enchiladas you threw together. Sometimes that's the best food isn't it?

[Rikki]

Im not sure what the Boots challenge is?

[Anna Green]

Sorry about that, I thought it was you that said you'd like to join sksamboots challenge to me to lose 20 by the end of Jan. I looked back and realized my mistake.

[Rikki]

No biggie! I am all into challenges, but since I just started I am hoping to lose 20lbs before Thanksgiving I sure hope I can do it! but I won't get discouraged if I can't... The holidays are always a tough time of year. As long as I know I am eating healthy and feeling better thats most important!

Well, Last night I ended up just making potatoes, green beans, carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower with nurtitional yeast gravy on the side. YUM...

Today's plan is:
B: leftovers(see above)
S: rice cake
L: stirfry
S: leftover veggies
D: maybe the enchiladas I keep meaning to make! lol

One more wall to go on the tiling and I will finally have it all up!

[Rikki]

Good Sunday Morning! What a beautiful morning it is! Sunday is my official WI day and I am down 4.2lbs! whooo! That puts me at 7.8 for my first 14 days McDougalling.... with the exception of alcohol I have been OP the whole time. I feel really good about it and don't see myself going back to eating other fatty stuff.... I have made the "its not food" mental note and am sticking to it! Vacation in another 2 weeks and I hope I can lose at least 5 more lbs by then... More than that would be great too though, but I know the loss typically slows after the first couple weeks, and I am ok with that... I just want to be healthy first and then, trim! My plan is to keep doing the plan like I have been, and I have been keeping up with my calories, but not really restricting them, more just keeping a food log. I know myself and can't give up alcohol completely- or I don't want to anyway! so I plan to just have a couple drinks on the weekend. I really enjoy my wine.
Today I will be eating leftovers for breakfast and lunch, unsure about dinner- probably brown rice spaghetti...
hopefully trying to use my new dehydrator today! I need more hours in the day! or less sleeping through it!

[Rikki]

I drank coffee this morning and apparently shouldn't have. I am sooo jittery but I guess maybe thats helping with the housework ;0) I don't have much on the agenda other than that... been doing well... have been drinking a couple glasses of wine a night but last night was the last of it so I will not be buying any for a while... and when I do no more than one bottle... I just can't keep the stuff in the house! Lunch is on the stove now, making a brown rice pasta and veggie salad. breakfast was a yukon gold potato with onion, garlic and mushroom along with that coffee... whew- no more of that, at least not that much. I feel so high strung right now! not sure of dinner yet- always depends on what dh is in the mood for too:)

LOVING Mcdougalling!

[Rikki]

I was doing soooooo well today... and then I drank 6 beers. good grief! What happened to not having it in the house =not drinking it? well, I shouldn't be drinking beer in the first place! normally it doesn't tempt me I am not sure what happened today.

I cleaned alllllll day long. house is nice and sparkling my back was hurting, I think the idea of a beer made me think it would feel better, and it does, but in the long run- that won't help... losing weight will.

So, tomorrow's plan is going to Trader Joes in the morning, grocery shopping at publix, heading to walmart for the kitty litter and some socks for dh and then the bathrooms are the only thing left to be cleaned in the house... I may work in the garden a bit if its not too hot!

Hope everyone has a great day!

[Rikki]

So all that beer prompted me to have a bad eating day yesterday. Ugh. vicious cycle. and I know all about it. I have been on it for years. Yesterday I had vegan sushi from whole foods with brown rice that was absolutely delish... it was just the miso dressing that was probably not OP... I also had this and that from their buffet- stayed vegan but not totally gluten free... then I had made veggie spring rolls last night which I think are fine diet wise(raw not fried) but all the sodium in the boullion I used and the braggs I think are catching up with me today... I will drink lots of water today as the scale was way up- and I am pretty sure its all the sodium. I didn't eat THAT much yesterday! I am also having coffee this morning, with pumpkin spice. Found some pumpkin at walmart yesterday- and didn't buy it because it was 3 bucks a can!!!! on clearance!!! anywho-
Plan for today is grouting the tile(scary)
Mowing the yard(Ugh, but that gets the workout in!) and working in the garden.
I also need to pull the bedsheets and wash them... allergies were really bugging me and seems that if I was them every few days it helps a lot... all the cat fur where they lay just kills me... Planning my food:
B: leftover rice noodles and veggies, coffee with almond milk
S: -
L: leftovers again
S:rice cake
D: brown rice shells stuffed with white beans, zucchini, spinach and mushrooms OR veggie enchiladas

[bunsofaluminum]

I drank coffee this morning and apparently shouldn't have. I am sooo jittery but I guess maybe thats helping with the housework ;0)
LOVING Mcdougalling!

Heh. I eventually gave up coffee altogether. I think mcDougalling makes our bodies so healthy we don't need the extra ooomph of high caffeine. it was gradual, going down from half a pot a day, to one cup in the morning, none in the afternoon, and soon enough, even one sip set me off REAL bad, jittery, stomachy, and I just stopped drinking it.

[Rikki]

buns- I am not a "regular" coffee drinker in the first place so that sure doesn't help either! lol... But I agree, this WOE seems to lend itself to not needing those extras and having ill effects when we have them!

Well, I have been starving this week and idk why... Just hanging in there... cleaning up the grout today and hopefully kitchen will be back in order!

[Rikki]

Well, I fell of the wagon. Back on today. Gained back all I had lost, but I will try and try again until I get it right!!!

Plan for today:
B: 2 servings potatoes(140), coffee with rice dream(60)
S: brown rice cake(90)
L: brown rice pasta salad with ff italian, tomatoes, cukes
S: white bean ff hummus, carrots
D: Chili