Motivation

RANTING BURNS CALORIES!

This is an open, ongoing, support-encourage-motivational-RANTING thread. Feel free to skip to the end, or spend days reading through all of this ...

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I have decided that "Diet" is a 4-letter word.

I find myself muttering and uttering the word around my house these days with loathing and vehemence previously reserved only for comments directed toward liberal politicians. In fact, I seem to be talking to myself a lot more these days .... sort of a running, sarcastic commentary on all the foods I can't eat, or on various other related topics. I wonder if there is a link between calorie-deprivation and Tourettes Syndrome? Grrrrrrrrr.....

I am now on Day 8 of the dreaded D-word. This is already the longest period of time that I have ever successfully remained on a diet. And I seem to be growing grouchier and feistier each day..... at least when I am alone and no one is around to hear my running rants. (My wonderful DH has heard some of my more memorable rants on the subject of broccolli and reports that I am hysterically funny when I am hungry!) I am counting carbs. I am counting calories. I am counting fat grams. Sheesh ... now my math anxiety is about to kick-in!

Mini Rant #1 .... what masochist decided that the serving size of cereal was anything less than 2 cups? Have you ever measured out 2/3 a cup of cereal? Or even a full cup? And placed it in a bowl? Those few little flakes and pieces just sit forlornly at the bottom of the bowl, shivering and lonely, even when we dribble on a few meager droplets of skim milk! Sheesh. Well, I can tell you that there is simply no way that my oversized body is going to be happy with that tiny amount of cereal ... so I have been eating TWO servings for breakfast. SIGH. And while the side of the box says that I can supplement the cereal with some fruit, they probably don't mean eat 45 cherries with your cereal -- much less 1/2 a watermelon, huh?

Mini Rant #2 .... Things NOT to say to someone who has told you that they have just started on a diet:

1.Good, you sure needed it.
2. It's about time.
3. Really? It doesn't look like it.
4. Again? Haven't we heard this before?
5. Gosh, how much weight do you need to lose?
6. What do you weigh? I've always wondered.
7. I never need to diet, I have a fast metabolism.
8. Really? I can eat all I want and never gain weight.
9. Is THAT why you are so grouchy?
10. I sure hope you plan to exercise a lot more.

AAAUGGH! All of these responses are just the thing to make me even grouchier .... so just smile and say something encouraging and supportive, ok? I will let you know how it is going.

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=^..^=  Molly 

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Now you see that persperation counts as calories burned......right??  Am I getting this down??

LOVE this thread!!!

I just HAD to have my 'Molly-Fix'!!!!

Everything seems a bit better after lurking here a while!

Wonder how many lurkers visit here???

* looks around uneasily, then grins, realising she is a lurker, too! *

I'd love a 'counter' like Ebay item pages have, that shows how many times a page/thread has been visited...? I'd guess this would show thousands...!!!

I just lurked too!!

* Sprays a can of Lurk-R-B-Gone around the thread, giggling *

I am retaining water, too. Grrrrrr. And, in case you're wondering, poking yourself with a pin (as if you were an oversized water balloon) does NOT let the excess water dribble out slowly ... I've tried THAT! (OK, I was actually pricking my finger to test my blood sugar, but it's the same basic idea, ya know?)  And it's pouring rain outside, which means the clouds AREN'T retaining water ... I am in this all alone.

And our silly, wussy, little doglets just LOOK at me when I try to get them to go outside to ... piddle. Seems puddles and piddling just don't compute, a puzzle to ponder in wonder as I wander.  And I have to stand watch on our covered concrete patio to ensure that the little miscreants don't decide to piddle there, since it's so nice and dry. Sheesh. We have wussy doglets.  The kittens, on the other hand, LOVE the water and seem to be CONSTANTLY in the kitchen sink, making clinking noises and splashing around. Great, dry dogs and wet cats.

=^..^-= MOLLY

Original Post by mollymouser:

* Sprays a can of Lurk-R-B-Gone around the thread, giggling *

I am retaining water, too. Grrrrrr. And, in case you're wondering, poking yourself with a pin (as if you were an oversized water balloon) does NOT let the excess water dribble out slowly ... I've tried THAT! (OK, I was actually pricking my finger to test my blood sugar, but it's the same basic idea, ya know?)  And it's pouring rain outside, which means the clouds AREN'T retaining water ... I am in this all alone.

uh oh! lurk-r-b-gone must have forced me to post again!  That and I'm also retaining water and I refuse to weigh myself until my wedding ring fits normally again. 

I found out my favorite vegetarian soup has 700 mg of sodium per serving and I usually eat 1.5 servings.   Curses to my new found label reading knowledge.  No wonder I'm retaining water

*raises hand and waves it around* OOH OOHH I have a rant!! Pick me Pick me!!

Okay, well today this guy comes in the office (he must have been a vendor because he just walks in w/out acknowledging me as they always do) and he brought in some cookies to the sales manager. Who is so over weight that he looks like he's 9 mo. pregnant... seriously. Anyhow the sales manager, we'll call him... Steve, says oh no I can't have cookies, I'm diabetic.... but Nani will eat them!! I instantly yell out "No I won't!" even though cookies are one of my biggest weakness and I know I will! Anyhow this really pisses me off because it's like he's saying "yea, she's fat she'll eat em!" Well, anyhow he leaves the cookies in the break area and then Steve leaves and I run for the cookies grab one and eat it before he comes back. He still wasn't back so I go and grab another! Now, I'm sitting here feeling guilty because I just proved him right! Ugh, I have no willpower sometimes! On the other hand, I very well know that 2 cookies have not ruined my efforts and I will still lose weight! So THERE!

I once threw donuts at someone who kept leaving them on my desk when I was trying to diet. After she spent 15 minutes arguing with me to "just have one", I asked to see the entire pink box of festively be-sprinkled donuts so I could pick out the "best" one. She stood there, with a smug grin on her skinny size 2 face, as I rummaged around in the box and selected TWO of the oo-eyest, gooeyest JELLY donuts... and then triumphantly FLUNG both of them at her.

SPLAT! SPLAT!

She screamed and ran and I tossed the ENTIRE box of donuts into the hallway after her.

Yet one more reason why I don't work any more, LOL!

:: giggle::

=^..^= MOLLY

Laughing laughing hee hee flying donuts! 

Molly I think you've just revealed to us a new dimension of your personality...

Molly's got a crazy side!  LOL!

You brought up a point that may just bring out a mini-rant from me, Molly!

Gotta love it when your size 2 friends are shoving pastries in your face..."Noooo! You have to have one!". No, I don't have to have one. I have to agonize in order to stay at a sensible weight, but I have a couple of friends who eat cheese danishes all day and manage to stay at a BMI of 18. They DON'T GET IT. They will harass me with a piece of 800 calorie coffee cake or whatever other chocolate covered fried lard balls that they're eating. Grrrr!

 

Original Post by mollymouser:

I once threw donuts at someone who kept leaving them on my desk when I was trying to diet. After she spent 15 minutes arguing with me to "just have one", I asked to see the entire pink box of festively be-sprinkled donuts so I could pick out the "best" one. She stood there, with a smug grin on her skinny size 2 face, as I rummaged around in the box and selected TWO of the oo-eyest, gooeyest JELLY donuts... and then triumphantly FLUNG both of them at her.

SPLAT! SPLAT!

She screamed and ran and I tossed the ENTIRE box of donuts into the hallway after her.

Yet one more reason why I don't work any more, LOL!

:: giggle::

=^..^= MOLLY

My Hero! I've SO WANTED to do that to some people.

I must say that I'm much better NOW, and haven't pelted anyone with food in .... weeks.

(grin)

=^..^= MOLLY

ahhhhhh!  My wonderful DH just told me after I sat here laughing at Molly's donut incident, that he ate 2 muffins and three donuts at work today!!  I can't believe that he led me to believe that he was in a calorie deficit when he probably consumed around 1,500 calories in JUNK!  Oh well, gotta love my preacherboy!!  I am just amazed that he forgot about 1,500 calories that he consumed.  Oh, now he is going over to the scales and now he claims he lost a pound and a half today.  Oops no he gained .6 lbs with more clothing on plus after eating all that yucky stuff!!  He said he earned it today, an hour of his day was in an insurance meeting eating a donut and then the others were eaten during the next 6 hours.  All of this after I felt bad because he worked 14 hrs. today and was afraid he didn't eat enough.

Wow, we're having a donut-themed rant day.

(snort)

heh heh heh!

=^..^= MOLLY

Molly, I was just reading about lurkers, well, I'm a lurker, too.  I've enjoyed your rants so much that I even had a dream about you!!!  Kinda strange don't you think? 

My rant is that I'm taking some medicine that says it may cause you to lose weight, so how come when I ran out of it for about a week I LOST weight and now that I'm back on it again, I'm GAINING it all back! 

Ok, I'm off the donut theme here, but my rant is about driving directions.  Aargh!  I don't have a sat nav and had to drive to the middle of nowhere to see a friend last night (in the dark, sniff).  I got directions off the internet and my friend added a few VERY important details to help at the end.  Did the directions work?  NO!  I think I must have gone by the longest route ever and actually ended up approaching her house from the wrong direction!  I hate the fact that if you're in the car on your own it's almost impossible to successfully read and obey written directions.  Grrrrrrrrr.  On the plus side, I think my dad might be giving me a sat nav for Christmas :-D  Fingers crossed!

Hey, I ranted for the first time in ages!  I'm BACK and I've just burnt some calories, smug grin.

Caro

edit - apparently I can't spell calories ;-)

Original Post by a-emom:

Molly, I was just reading about lurkers, well, I'm a lurker, too.  I've enjoyed your rants so much that I even had a dream about you!!!  Kinda strange don't you think? 

My rant is that I'm taking some medicine that says it may cause you to lose weight, so how come when I ran out of it for about a week I LOST weight and now that I'm back on it again, I'm GAINING it all back! 

Wow ... was I skinny in your dream? (Wouldn't that be nice? Heck, I'd settle at this point for merely being "non-huge!")

Hmmm... that's weird about your medicine weight gain/weight loss thingy. Right now, I'm pretty much convinced that EVERYTHING OUT THERE makes me either (a) gain weight; (b) retain water; or (c) spend money I don't want to spend.

Oh, my. I am pretty feisty for 1:00am, huh? I'm up at this hour because we're having an urban flash flood advisory and our backyard and swimming pool are (once again) filling up/near overflowing.  It seems that this city just isn't prepared for rain. (And a whopping 1.5 inches in the last 2 days, which really isn't all THAT much! But apparently all the storm drains are blocked by autumn leaves!)  Anyway, I am up watching the Doppler radar, and when this particular storm cell has passed, I'm going to bed. (DH is already there, since he has to fly two missions tomorrow.)

=^..^= MOLLY THE GROUCH

Original Post by shrinking_caro:

Ok, I'm off the donut theme here, but my rant is about driving directions.  Aargh!  I don't have a sat nav and had to drive to the middle of nowhere to see a friend last night (in the dark, sniff).  I got directions off the internet and my friend added a few VERY important details to help at the end.  Did the directions work?  NO!  I think I must have gone by the longest route ever and actually ended up approaching her house from the wrong direction!  I hate the fact that if you're in the car on your own it's almost impossible to successfully read and obey written directions.  Grrrrrrrrr.  On the plus side, I think my dad might be giving me a sat nav for Christmas :-D  Fingers crossed!

Hey, I ranted for the first time in ages!  I'm BACK and I've just burnt some calories, smug grin.

Caro

edit - apparently I can't spell calories ;-)

When we were in Hawaii last December, our rental car had this nifty talking directions thingie. We'd plug in where we wanted to go, and our starting address, and this very calm female voice would say... "Proceed straight. Turn left. Merge onto the Freeway."  When my wonderful DH was driving, it worked perfectly. But the few times I was driving, I think that the computer got the hiccups or something, because I'd get maybe 1/10th of a second's notice to "Turn right immediately" followed by a stern "You missed your turn. Please follow our directions or be delayed." Sheesh. If I listened to that voice, I'd be constantly jumping curbs and careening into bushes. How can I turn right when there's no street, Ms. Computer Voice Lady? So I would talk back and argue with her, and my wonderful DH would laugh so hard that he was absolutely no help whatsoever. It's a good thing we were on an island and couldn't get any MORE lost than we already were!

And don't even get me started on the time I got hopelessly lost driving from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Stillwater, Oklahoma and kept having to stop and ask for directions at the world's scariest dive bars! (In fact, the exotic roadkill I kept driving over with loud THUMP-THUMPS could be a rant unto it's own....)

=^..^= MOLLY

Just have to comment here, non-rant, about GPS systems. We love ours! And we've nick-named the lovely voice inside it as "Miss Righteous" because, no matter what we may think, she's always right about directions given!! We can ask for routes with or without Hiways/tool-roads, shortest or fastest routes, etc. We have discovered some wonderful back roads because of using our GPS...even an Amish furniture maker!!

Isn't technology wonderful??!!

Donut assult: I'm still trembling at the thought!

Just in case anyone thought I was just making noise about water retention --I weighed 4 pounds less this morning than yesterday. That's 3% of my weight! (and I think there's still more to go.) It's sooo hard to avoid salt for me. I find it much easier to eat low fat, or low carb, or low cal...pick a low...it's easier!