Drumroll please.
And the winners of the first maybe annual huckablubber off are………ShoeShe wins first and JHJ comes in second. Congratulations!! Your Zune and gift card are on their way to you. Keep up the good work everyone else, just cause the contest is over does not mean that you can go back to eating Fritos for breakfast.
Filed under huckablubber | Comment (1)Huckablubber: week (HOLY CRAP) six of six
That’s all folks! It is over! Well, sorta. I have had a very impassioned request to let people post their results tomorrow because they only have Internet at work. Good point. So you now have until 5pm CST TOMORROW (Monday) ((July 14th)) to email me the total amount of pounds you have lost in the past six weeks. That gives you the chance for a couple of more workouts, and a salad for dinner.
I will be chasing around a herd of elementary schoolers and eating whatever they eat at Vacation Bible School 2008 – Welcome to the E.R.
Filed under huckablubber | Comments (5)Huckablubber Update: week four of six
Eh. Why is this so hard? Why do I have no self control when it comes to eating healthy and exercise? I am not an idiot. I know that if you eat crap you will be fat and sick. I understand that if you never get up off of your ass you will be tired and stiff. I still choose ice cream over veggies. I still pick a nap instead of a walk. I want to win a Zune! But I won’t. Because I make unhealthy choices.
I thought, “Hey, Hey You, if you publish your intentions on the internet, then you will have a ton of people holding you accountable.” It does not work if your support system brings you ice cream, or makes you banana pudding, or wants to take a nap with you, or comes to visit and brings a ginormas bowl of cookies. Why does my social circle always revolve around food? Why do we invite each other over for dinner instead of something else? Is it everyone? Or are there people out there that do not focus around food the way we do?
I guess this is the week of our contest that finds me feeling dejected. Dejected and lazy. Dejected and lazy and fat. Does anyone have a pep talk for me? Is everyone feeling this way? Maybe I should just go finish off the Phish Food.
Two weeks to go.
Filed under huckablubber, lexapro lexplains it | Comments (3)Huckablubber Update: week 3 of 6
How’s it going my chubby pals? Is everyone staying on track? Yeah…me either. Today I ate out three times. But on the plus side, I only ate three times. That is good right? No snacking? Anyway, my exercise has been consisting of a lot of swimming, walking, and um, pilates. Has anyone started to notice a difference? I have in one pair of jeans and maybe a couple of bras, but that is all. It did not help when ShoeShe brought cookie/brownie/muffin thingies with her. She looks fab by the way. She has been much better than me obviously. She even ordered a garden egg globy wrap for breakfast. I tried to toss candy in her mouth while she slept, but it did not work.
We have a prize nailed down! First prize is a Microsoft Zune MP3 player. It is to be used for inspiration while working out only. If I find out the winner is just ENJOYING it, than I take it back. Second prize is a Subway gift card of not yet determined denomination. So, get cracking!
This is your last chance to join us, so if you do not either email me or say so in the comments, you will not be eligible. Of course if you have agreed already, than you are fine.
Keep up the good work!
So you may know already, but Chocolate in all forms is my weakness. Here is a recipe for some Low-fat, low-cal brownies. The Son and I are going to try to make these this week, we will let you know how they turn out.
1/2 C flour
1/3 C cocoa
1/4 tap. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
4 oz jar of baby food prunes
2/3 C sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs or equivalent of non-fat egg substitute
Makes 12 Brownies
Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray an 8 inch square baking pan with cooking spray.
Mix flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt together.
Beat remaining ingredients together, then blend in dry ingredients just until mixed. Pour into prepared pan and bake for 20-25 minutes or until the edges look dry and start to pull away from the pan.
Filed under huckablubber | Comments (8)Proper alignment of your whine.
In an effort to do more to win thehuckablubber off than contract various breeds of intestinal parasites, I went to the gym tonight. Right next to the gym daycare there was a classroom marked Pilates, 5:45. Seeing as how it was 5:46, and I was so not feeling the elliptical, I took off my shoes, grabbed a mat, and sat down. Upon glancing around, I got THAT feeling. You know the one, or lucky you, maybe not, but that feeling of knowing you weigh about fifty pounds more than anyone in the room. Yikes. So then I looked up at the front of the room and saw written on the white board: ADVANCED Pilates, Monday 5:45. Oh shi–cough, cough, shoot. I totally said shoot. I actually stood up to leave because I was thinking that my prenatal pilates video I half-heartedly did two years ago did not make me ADVANCED. The instructor asked where I was going, and I explained that I was not ready for ADVANCED, “Oh don’t worry Sugar! You will be just fine! It is mostly just stretching and deep breathing.” I stayed.
It started with some gentle stretching and the expected inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale in tune to Enya. It progressed to some high leg lifts, and pointy toe misery. This is where it started to get really bad. I think this pose was called trussed pig.
This is also about the point that my spine started to whimper. I wondered if I could leave without anyone noticing, but my shoes were against the wall right behind the ever malleable instructor. I soldiered on, and prayed that those creaks and groans my back was making were supposed to happen. Then this happened.
Seriously. Every single other person in the room had their friggin toes touching the friggin mat behind their head! AND THEY WERE NOT EVEN SWEATING!! I was apparently supposed to “gently stack my spine as I rolled over in a fluid motion.” Uh. Yeah. I thought they were going to have to get a wheelchair for me, and when I actually (stupidly) tried this position, my gut and boobs smashed into my double chin and then I fell over. Finally we ended with a position I could do.
When it was over, no one could look me in the eye. Or at least I don’t think so, the flashes of light I was seeing from my blinding pain, MAY have kept me from noticing. Next week, I try pilates for the elderly and arthritic instead. Twenty-eight counts as elderly right?
Filed under Boy is my face red, huckablubber | Comments (10)Huckablubber update: Week two of six
How is going this week people? I have finally kicked this stomach bug, I got my self nice a dehydrated from all of the ….well you get the idea. After I got all re-hydrated, I gained back two of the seven total pounds I lost while sick. I confess, I have not gone to the gym. Yes, we do pay for it regardless, and yes it is a huge waste of money on weeks like these. I just did not quite feel up to it-but tomorrow! I swear! I have gone on several long walks, and pushing The Son in his car, or holding the dog’s leash is quite a workout. I have also been taking him to his swim class, which is much more work for me than him.
As far as food goes..well for the first part of this week it has still been whatever I could keep down, and I think it made my stomach shrink, because I just have not been all that hungry. Yesterday was the first day I felt like eating, but again, I do not want to win by pretending to be an Olsen. The Husband is either incredibly sweet or he is sabotaging me, because he keeps asking what I want to eat. What sounds good? Do you want me to buy you some ice cream? Gah, that is how I got in this problem to start with.
Anybody have any tips for us this week? Any inspirational stories? Great low-cal recipes? Anything but how to lose weight through eColi. Oh, and I think we have our super awesome cool prize nailed down, I will hopefully announce it during next week’s update.
Speaking of updates, we are still working on getting all of the pictures over from the old site, sorry about that! And what do we think of all of the lovely ads over to the left? Are you bored? Click on the ads on theHuckablog! Sad? Click on the ads at theHuckablog! Can’t sleep? Ads! Marriage problems? Ads! Worried about the election? Ads! Anyway, for everytime someone clicks on an ad from here, whole half-cents will come rolling into my pockets. I will have that pack of gum paid off in no time.
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Guess what. I have lost five pounds this week! Guess what else. I have not been to the gym once. One more, guess how! FoodpoisoneColirotoviruscholera! Oooooh. If I could put it in a pill I would be a bazillionaire. This is not what I had in mind when I started this contest. Please do not use Mary-Kate practices to win. The prize is good, but not that good.
Also, I hear through the grape vine that some of you were mighty disappointed with my big announcement. Seems they wanted another kind of announcement…the kind that makes me get fatter instead of thinner. Although, it also includes gratuitous vomiting. Yeah, sorry about that. Have I mentioned that we do not have HEALTH INSURANCE right now? So, you can pretty much keep on dreaming for that announcement anytime soon.
Post how you have been doing so far in the Huckablubber off. Have you lost any weight? Do you feel better? What have you done to win this week?
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