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Nice, Thumper!!! What’s GW?</p>
<p>As for baby carrots, well, they may be be higher in sugar but if you have to have guacamole then they are better than chips. And sometimes I just have to have guacamole.</p>
<p>I eat baby carrots every day. I don’t like guacamole but do love hummus with them.<br>
Mostly, I just grab a few and eat them plain for a quick snack…keeps me from eating other stuff.</p>
<p>Way to go Thumper. I’m headed to GW today to look for some smaller size sweaters…all my old ones fr. last winter are too big…yah! Yesterday, every piece of my outfit was from GW.
EPTR…GW = Goodwill…my favorite shopping haunt (and thumper’s too).
DH joked this weekend that weight loss was costing a lot of money due to needing to buy so many new clothes. I immediately pointed out that I had bought 5 pairs of pants from GW for a whopping $25.</p>
<p>I have never frequented the thrift shops in my area. I should really give it a try.
A reason to weigh yourself a few times a week. I weighed in yesterday at one weight. It is a weight I have been hovering around for about 2 1/2 weeks. Stepped on the scale this morning just because it was there. I don’t usually weigh myself daily. Up 3 lbs from yesterday. My only break from my routine was dinner out with friends at a place that is billed as Natural Cafe. I felt I ordered decently. A salad with black beans, avocado, jicama, shredded carrots, lettuce and grilled chicken and salsa. I used a lemon herb dressing. I passed on the delicious smelling corn bread. I am assuming the meal must have been high in sodium. If this morning had been my only weigh in this week I would be pretty sad. No more meals out this week for me!</p>
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<p>I like using crinkle carrot chips–holds more dip. Also like cuke slices to avoid the carrot sugar problem.</p>
<p>Eating meals out is a struggle. I have some set things that I order at certain restaurants that fit my calorie parameters–and try to keep to those restaurants when it comes to eating out.</p>
<p>But some things will have changed, even when I reach target weight. For example, I’ll probably never order the 2 cheese enchilada plate again…</p>
<p>ellemenope- I am below my original target weight. I am at a weight I never thought I would see again. It has given me hope that I can lose more. I don’t want to get back to my weight in my 20’s but the weight I was at 30 would be nice. I let myself have whatever I want on the menu if I go out on a weekend. I have done this for the 20 months I have been trying to change my eating habits. So if I am at my favorite mexican place I will order two chicken enchilada verde or one enchilada with a beef hardshell taco but now I usually tell them to hold the rice and beans. What I do have to make an effort in is avoiding eating out during the week.</p>
<p>Just a bit of advice to those of you who go to thrift shops. I had a problem with bed bugs this summer and when I say problem, I mean PROBLEM! Whenever you buy anything at a thrift store, throw it in the dryer on high for an hour before you put it away. If you buy furniture there…well, don’t buy furniture there.</p>
<p>I wash everything I buy at GW. EVERYTHING. I don’t buy things that have to be dry cleaned. The nice thing about our GW is that there are a lot of normally pricey higher end clothes there for a fraction of the cost (think Loft, Chicos, Coldwater Creek, Talbots, JCrew, JJill, etc). It’s a great place to get those “interim” sizes that you really do NOT want to stay in for a long time.</p>
<p>My favorite jeans (the ones upstream a bit) are Ann Taylor Loft jeans…$4 at GW…and they really are great.</p>
<p>Getting new clothes while on a diet is a lot more fun when you are NOT spending a fortune on them.</p>
<p>Thumper, It’s good to wash the clothes but bed bugs won’t die from a washing unless it’s in hot, hot water. If you dry the clothes after in whatever way is recommended on the label and then put them DRY in the dryer on high for an hour, it won’t damage the clothes. Don’t mean to belabor a point, especially since it has nothing to do with weight loss but I was traumatized by the whole thing and don’t want anyone else to go through it!</p>
<p>And now back to our regularly scheduled programming :)</p>
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<p>Good point, mom60…eating a caloric meal out once in a while isn’t going to upset the apple cart. (I admit to eating a Flatbread Greek Pizza at Daphne’s on occasion.) But doing it 3 or 4 times a week will lead to disaster! </p>
<p>I think that I could definitely eat one cheese enchilada with a big salad instead of rice and beans. [Who knew that a cheese enchilada is often almost 400 calories (without the beans and rice)?] </p>
<p>My neighbor, who is very much into healthy eating and exercise, opines that I can get back down to a weight I last saw in the early 1990s. You have to love a guy with that much optimism!</p>
<p>I usually wash and dry all my GW stuff as soon as I bring it in the house. </p>
<p>I’m watching Biggest Loser. Here’s a question they just asked the contestants…
Which vegetable has the most calories? broccoli,asparagus,mushrooms or onions?
the answer? Onions. Drat, I love onions.</p>
<p>EPTR…I don’t have a clothesline. When I wash the clothes…they HAVE to go in the dryer. It’s not an issue.</p>
<p>I love onions too! Raw vidalias dipped in hummus - the BEST!!!</p>
<p>It may have the most calories of all those, but bet it’s still not much!</p>
<p>Yeah! The gym just got in 2 new computerized bikes. An intense 50 min workout in prep for RAGBRI next year if my cardiologist gives the okay. My trainer evaluation indicates that I need to loose 20 pounds in order to get to the low 170’s.</p>
<p>Bump and Friday report - down 1.8 in a week (not sure how that happened) and over 29 in total. Wait til next Friday’s report - I fully intend to go up over Thanksgiving based on my menu! The only thing that will save me is that I fill up so much more easily these days that I won’t be able to eat large portions.</p>
<p>So I went into a garment bag in the back of my son’s closet that I thought only held old nostalgia dresses and found five pairs of jeans/pants that apparently I outgrew a few years ago and stored just in case - they all fit! And one pair is really too loose. Three jeans, one casual pants, and one black dress pants that will be perfect to wear on Thanksgiving. I don’t care if they’re out of style -they fit great right now! Can’t believe shopping my own closets are coming up with so much that I forgot about! :D</p>
<p>Marilyn, black pants NEVER go out of style! Congratulations…you’ll look GREAT for the holidays. </p>
<p>I feel good that I haven’t gained weight in the last two days…ate dinner out TWICE. YIKES. I don’t expect to lose weight when I weigh in on Tuesday…I’ll be happy to be the same.</p>
<p>Today’s weigh in put me at a weight that is below my first intermediate weight goal…so my 88 year old neighbor and I went for a banana split! I ate my half and then felt like a slug…now on to the second intermediate goal, which is about 27 pounds from here.</p>
<p>I’ve reached a milestone this week…50 lbs. lost. Now I need to concentrate on tightening up the flabby,jiggly parts that are left behind. </p>
<p>An added bonus is that DH has been forced to change his diet since I am the chief cook/grocery shopper around here. He’s lost almost 20 lbs. Always a skeptic, even he has been amazed at how much difference dropping the “bad carbs” from our diet has made.</p>
<p>Wow, Packmom!!! Congratulations to you!!!</p>
<p>Those big milestones are great!</p>
<p>I am finding that I am suddenly much more sensitive to food that that is high in sodium. This morning my weight was up a pound and when i went for a long walk I came back with very puffy fingers. I’m thinking it was the canned soup I ate yesterday in a moment of empty cupboard desperation and the slice of pizza at last nights dinner. Yuck.</p>