Wish me luck this time. weight loss!

Here's a question. What sorts of things do you have arounf the house that you need to consume?

 

we have pasta canned tomatoes a bag of beans, a little rice, some really old red peppers (which I don't think I'll eat), some boca burger brand "ground meat" (eewww), and possibly some old cucumbers or zucchinis(sp)..

 

theres also nuts and some apples

 

Ooh beans and rice sounds really good right now.

 

The Rice and beans, or beans and pasta ould be pretty good for a different combo. But I see your difficulty. it's all food that's a bit more labour intensive to prepare. Are you Vegetarian?

Pepers if they we / are edible wwould also go well if steams with rice.
I find a lot of cooking is using the things i don;t want to in a diffferent way. Also I recently pcked up a rice cooker from Zellers for 20$, I never thought a home appliance could so drasticly increase my intake of grains.

 

mmm rice... I want alot of it.... I think I'm gonna buy a rice cooker sometime... what should I do? should I just bite the bullet and buy my own food? the problem is that once I do that mom will totally relinquish all responsibility to buying food.

 

There's got to be a way to come to an agreement about this. I remember you saying your mom has had problems with her weight too. Then, if you start being the sole food-buyer of the house, then maybe you can help both of you by buying healthy food. Just an idea. Could you afford to do the shopping for the two of you?

 

Yeah meep, why not just buy all of the groceries yourself? That is what I ended up doing when I was about 17 right before I moved out on my own. I used my own money and only bought food for myself, but if your mom doesn't want to do the grocery shopping anyway, maybe she could just give you the money and you could do the shopping for the house. That way you'd be in control.

Do you have any cook books? I find them to be quite handy. I have a Weight Watchers cookbook, it was only $10 and some others, a vegetarian cook book, a low fat cook book and a deadhead cook book (hehehe) and a betty crocker big red cook book and rachael ray 30 minute meals (I love her!!). That is it, and then I get stuff from the Internet and just pretty much take everyone else's ideas and make up my own.

If you can do the shopping though, I'm sure all of us could come up with excellent meals for you to prepare. And even snacks and fun stuff. I'm all about making it fun!

And don't knock the veggie meat... it's good if you cook it right.

Take care and keep us updated so we can help!

Jen

 

hi there all,
so I lost a pound... I weigh 157 now... I have decided that I will not buy all the food for the house..... I really don't have enough money for all that and theres more things that i'd like to spend my money on... I don't even have a job and I live on a rather pitiful allowance. I think I might go buy some dry goods that I can keep in my room so I can survive... I am gonna try to get mom to go shopping soon... I wonder if she's aware that its been as long as it has since we last went... She's kind of starting to scare me.. its not like theres really been any other problems..its just weird.

 

also-
I am going to try to start doing tai chi/yoga/rebounding/light weight lifting for 30 mins-an hour a day 5 days a week. It seems like those are the only exercises that I should do when I don't really have the amount or quality of food that my body needs for vigorous exercise... I am very confused as to why I continue losing weight though I do nothing.

 

so i'm not sure how much longer it'll be until mom will go/take me food shopping.... she's a mad woman... I asked her about it cos she's been going to the grocery store and buying ice cream and chips and yogurts and bread but she hasn't bought anything else...she tells me I need to go to the store with her or else I'll be complaining... she keeps trying to pawn it off on me that it is my fault that there is no food because "i'm never home" even though I'm often home...ARG!!! why can't she just buy whats on my fucking list instead of requiring my presence.. I haven't had a vegetable thats not a potato or tomato sauce in days... I've been living on an almost all meat and carb diet...

 

Is it possible that your mother has her own issues that prevent her frm purchasing healthier foods, or alternatly, promotes the purchase of comfort foods?

 

i wouldn't put it past her... it looks like we may be going food shopping soon. Though I dunno when.. the plan is to go on my cleanse just as soon as I have all the food and spices I need for it the I will do the panchakarma. I'm going to try to eat a very natural and pure diet after my panchakarma and hopefully I can do it all.... i've been having problems controling myself as far as sleeping on time goes and smoking too much weed... I haven't been smoking a ton but its more than enough to anger my system. I just want to stop my sinus problems.

 

we went shopping yesterday which is exciting...but I didn't get everything I wanted, thats ok though. I am happy. I have lately been feeling very powerless as far as making life changes goes and just plain impotent. It kind of upsets me because there are so many things I would like to be doing that I am not. I am not sure what to do... I just hope that the days bring resolve... wish me luck... also I would be pleased to have email contact with my weight loss buddy- I believe it is lace and feet?

 

hihi all,
I am in need of motivation... I am very glad to have food again and so I am eating like usual again. I am going to work on eating more vegetables... I may just have to go to the grocery store once or twice a week besides when mom shops and pick up vegetables and fruit...we'll see.

 

vegetables and fruits sounds good to me...

 

Hey Meep, I don't think we ever officially became 'weight loss buddies', though I've kept up with your threads. In what ways are you feeling unmotivated?

 

Im feeling unmotivated in that I haven't really done anything to make my life better and healthier and I'm not quite sure how... I have been bitching and bitching on here and in my journals about the issues but feeling powerless and directionless as far a implementing changes goes. I feel like I am going forward now though...or at least i hope so. I am going to try to put things in place... more later...

Tracy

 

you've gone shopping that maakes a hell of a difference.
Any luck with a rice cooker?

 

ya...its weird...we buy food then its gone quick...I wonder if mom will buy me more... No rice cooker yet... I could probably use more food. I haven't been eating enough. I don't feel as cruddy as I have been though which is very good. I might even actually do something... I've been REALLY loving my tai chi... Life in general has been weird cos I'm going through come funky relationship transitions. not bad just weird..