Play-doh = McDonald's Milkshake

[mousapelli]

i went from normal school to running a union meeting back to Latin Club (which i probably shouldn't leave alone like that but OH WELL since I am moving from being double-booked to be being triple-booked half the time) to baby-sitting nephew for the second time this week, and then i was supposed to go to the gym, but I just couldn't do a late-night trip for a second time in a row after yesterday.

Not that I don't enjoy nephew and his sudden obsession with the alphabet (he still won't talk, but he'll spell whatever you want and also can put all 26 letters in order by himself), because I do, and he never gives me any trouble about bedtime or anything. But I definitely should have been at the gym instead of there since the dentist meant I couldn't go monday, and then tomorrow is out because if I do that the day before Biggest Loser weigh-in at school Friday morning, that is always bad. But B1 and SiL were out until 9:30pm and then this occurred:

B1 and SiL: We felt bad for doing this to you twice this week, so we brought you a chocolate milkshake!! :D :D :D
me: that's...great *and then hopefully my game face was a lot better than Fujigaya's*

ps McDonald's chocolate shakes are 580 calories. and there was no way on the earth my willpower was going to stand up to that because I was hungry enough earlier (like always, lately) that nephew's play-doh smelled so good. I know it's weird okay. I didn't eat any play-doh, in case you were concerned about that (the internet reports that play-doh has about as many calories as the milkshake). At least I had only had half an avocado and some olives before I went over there so i was over by 200 calories for the day instead of ten million like I would have been if i had eaten actual food.

hair appointment + more pay freeze meetings tomorrow D: why won't this week END D: D: D: also i swear to god if i break even at weigh-in Friday morning AGAIN after all of this bullshit I am 100% going to throw a tantrum in front of god and everybody.

Comments

[chiharu.livejournal.com]

They're doing a biggest loser challenge @ your work? :OO

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

yeah, about 20 of us. we all threw in five bucks at the beginning and weigh in every friday for six fridays, and if you gain weight you have to put in a dollar a pound. whoever loses the most percent body weight at the end gets the money.

the one spanish teacher is a fucking stick though, so she's cheating because when she loses one pound it's like 23302379% of her body weight.

[elij-0650.livejournal.com]

I've dieted for 20+ years and if I don't eat "real food" I can guarantee that's when the weight goes on.
Does your gym have a nutrition guidance person?
Sounds like whatever eating plan you're following isn't helping you succeed. Time for some fine tuning/rethink?

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

it's not that I'm not eating things, it's that yesterday i had planned to eat on the way home from their house, but then surprise milkshake occurred. It's compounded with the fact that it was a non-gym day so i didn't have the four or five hundred extra calories to play with.

it also doesn't help that you probably consider a salad real food, when I 100% do not, because I hate them. I don't need nutritional guidance, it's just the situation that everything I like eating is bad for me in the quantity that any normal person would eat of it, and so i have to stop eating all of those things and eat stuff like halves of avocados and olives instead.

it is also the situation that at wing night tonight I had a salad while the math teacher sitting across from me who likely weighs 95 pounds had ten honey bbq wings and an order of cheese fries. so there's essentially no way i could be sicker of doing all of this crap.

[elij-0650.livejournal.com]

Totally understand. I spent 6 months in the 90's eating rabbit food (salad?! Ptoohie!) on a protein modified fast and lost 20kg. Which freaked me so much I put it all back on, and an extra 10kg just to show I could.
I guess I am the last person to advise you, because I fail so spectacularly myself, I just worry that you can mess up your metabolism by restricting food and still not achieve your goals.

I spent the last year trying vegan and vegetarian food, with no sugar, salt or fat/oil. Lost 15kg then my well honed self destruct button kicked in and I started eating peanut butter and nutella out of the jar with a spoon. If I could get my head right about losing weight it wouldn't be so hard, but having watched my parents and other close family members waste away from cancer I have a lot of difficulty accepting that weight loss doesn't equal dying horribly.
That's my excuse anyway.

Stay strong, good luck and remember: you are beautiful to me because I get to see through your eyes by reading your fics.

[elij-0650.livejournal.com]

Just picked up this book from the Library:
The don't go hungry diet / Amanda Sainsbury-Salis.

Amazing stuff, especially as she once dieted herself fat as I have.
Her web page is:
www.dramandaonline.com

See what you think and maybe try to track down the book. A different way of getting real benefits from changing diet & exercise which sounds like it works. And without some of the pain you're experiencing now.

[shimizumiki.livejournal.com]

Oh the terror that is family foiling any plan of anything...

Me: I'm trying to eat healthy so I stop feeling sick all the time!
Mother: Okay? -thirty minutes later- HERE EAT MCDONALDS.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

well it's fine for SiL because she's on the diet plan where you order whatever food you want and then your two year old eats more than half of it because he is a black hole of food eating.

he can eat more pizza than either me or my dad, for serious.

[yabamena]

At least Play-Doh is edible in a pinch? Though, over 500 calories, wtf?

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

right? I was 100% shocked at the caloric content of the play-doh. must be whatever secret ingredient makes it smell like that.

[yabamena]

Well, I do know there's a lot of sugar and salt in the mix (thank you, How It's Made), but still!

[fantomeq.livejournal.com]

Starbucks drinks with whipped cream are even worse than milkshakes. I used to pretend they weren't, and that the caffeine would make up for the extra fat and calories, but nope. They're worse than a whole meal. So yum milkshakes?

My personal downfall is alfredo sauce. I would eat it every day if I could.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

It's real soda for me, because i hold off and hold off for ages and then when I finally break down and have just one, then i want ALL OF THEM ALL THE TIME.

but yeah, those frozen mint chocolate things they have around christmas? oh man, I love those like crazy.

[hostilecrayon.livejournal.com]

So if I'm ever starving and have some Play-doh on hand, I'm totally set. XD

Oh man, losing weight. I need to. Having a baby kind of threw off my weight loss. And now I kinda have no time ever, haha. I mostly write online because I can manage that while holding baby. XD

...Now I'm hungry. >.>;