Avoiding whole coconut cakes...bowls of Hershey miniatures...OMG what will power, ladies! and congrats to those down pounds!!
I did not have any sweets today!! that is my downfall, at work. After the last person leaves and I'm unsupervised (I never eat a sweet thing in front of a co-worker, they're all skinny and make fun of 'fat' people) ...with 5 or 6 trays of huge cookies on the display case right under my nose...the pastry case with the cheesecake slices, bars, and whoopie pies...the racks of chocolate bars! the Lindt individual truffles...didn't have a speck of sugar/carby crap! I brought my lunch (tuna on salad greens) and a snack (full cup of yogurt with cut up orange) YAY.
Here's to tackling tomorrow the same way!
Last edited by VermontMom; 04-08-2011 at 10:25 PM.
...with 5 or 6 trays of huge cookies on the display case right under my nose...the pastry case with the cheesecake slices, bars, and whoopie pies...the racks of chocolate bars! the Lindt individual truffles...
Good God Woman! Talk about will power! That is an amazing amount of daily temptation. Do you ever just get numb to it? I just put a post-it on the bowl that said 43 calories each with a sad face on it to remind myself it wasn't worth it.
Thanks Arctic Mama, if you can believe it, one of my coworkers even made the- "come on, you know you want one" taunt to me. A grown man, with his own minor weight issue. After repeating this several times to me I just gave him the "shut up" look and stated that I'd rather drop 2 pant sizes than eat a bowl of minis.
Good God Woman! Talk about will power! That is an amazing amount of daily temptation. Do you ever just get numb to it? I just put a post-it on the bowl that said 43 calories each with a sad face on it to remind myself it wasn't worth it.
Thanks Arctic Mama, if you can believe it, one of my coworkers even made the- "come on, you know you want one" taunt to me. A grown man, with his own minor weight issue. After repeating this several times to me I just gave him the "shut up" look and stated that I'd rather drop 2 pant sizes than eat a bowl of minis.
Blinky - thanks for the recognition that it is a horrible daily temptation! and I don't get numb to it, unfortunately...I CAN resist when I am not feeling my stomach growling from hunger. But the problem is getting sensible food in my stomach before the growling starts.
OH! How could that co-worker taunt you like that?! what a jerk. I think I'd peg a Miniature at the back of his head as he was leaving and be all like, 'huh? what's the matter?'
I had a slight Fail day...but I will try my best again tomorrow.
Last edited by VermontMom; 04-09-2011 at 07:40 PM.
All of a sudden I am 27 years old and I have been looking at pictures of myself and I cannot recognize myself. I teach middle school so I am on my feet for most of the day and am always exhausted when I get home. It is hard to be motivated to get outside and exercise. I thought if I joined an online journal and a blog it would help me to be motivated. Does anybody have advice on what has worked for them? I love food, but I don't feel that I eat enough bad stuff to justify the weight I have gained over the last few years. I plan on getting outside to walk/jog 5/7 days a week. Today was day one, I walked/powerwalked for an hour. Then while I was making some yummy homemade minestrone soup I went for a 10 minute jog/run.
Like I said, yesterday was a slight fail..today was a very good day! It has really helped that I'm committing to this thread. I went back and saw some pics of me a couple years ago, and really, really want to get back to where I was at that point (some nice muscles and low enough body fat for my abs to show) and I must have been around 145.
VermontMom, if I had your job I'd just give up and wallow in it all day long! Wow, talk about self-restraint.
This weekend was good, food wise, and I never did succumb to that cake. Scale reward this morning: up one pound. For no apparent reason.
Water weight fluctuations, just like the 3 I took off last week. I want to lose some FAT. If I can get under 200 I will feel like I'm back into fat territory, and not just water/waste.
Woke up to my refrigerator broken yesterday morning. We had a cookout with 2 weeks worth of meat from my freezer. Hopefully a new one will be installed today, then I can go broke restocking it. Today's lunch is salad with grilled chicken breast, breakfast is yogurt and a fiber bar, and dinner is going to be leftover grilled something with veggies.
I have discovered a pattern. I should have seen it eons ago, but I guess that's the way it goes.
I do great during the week, as a rule. I stay on plan and although I may slip in the evenings sometimes it's usually not huge. The weekends, however, are a completely different animal. It's like I give up and don't care anymore. I ate pizza this weekend (twice!!), had wine, cake, cookies, etc... (sorry, this is approaching food porn territory.) I will spend the week going down 5 lbs and then the weekend going back up the same 5 lbs. I've been doing this since December.
The weekend eating is a problem. Another problem is that my weekends are all 3 days long. DH is working 4 10's right now so he's off Fri-Sun. Which means I'm only OP a little more than half the time if I'm perfect during the week.
I've turned into a relaxation eater. In the evening after the kids are in bed and on the weekends I tend to eat a lot more (and always junk) because I've been using it to relax. I don't know how to break the cycle.
Well, I didn't manage to stay on plan for thirty straight days. It's so weird, because I have stayed on plan for a hundred and more days in succession, and yet, now I whole week seems like a challenge. I guess it's just the sense of urgency that is lacking....
Saturday was good and I was happy that my fitness is rebounding quickly. After slacking for more than a month, just a few days of running have me near back up to speed and feeling back in the game.
Foodwise, I made a fatal error. I only got 4 hours of sleep on Saturday night because I couldn't sleep and had to get up at 6 am to do something at work on Sunday. Got home around 1:30 and I was TOTALLY exhausted... and very hungry....that moment left me vulnerable and instead of eating a perfectly on plan lunch, I ate a bigger and less planned lunch-- but still nothing unreasonable-- about 500 calories total. But then, later in the day, I just lost it. Ended up eating six big peanut butter cookies. Crazy right?
Back on plan this morning, but feeling sort of discouraged.... I have this big important event coming up on Friday in NYC and for the first time since I started, I'm sort of worried about my weight and whether my clothes are going to fit....
Forgot to weigh when I woke up, and my after breakfast weigh-in gave me a net gain for the week. I doubt that's really "accurate" as I don't think even the peanut butter cookies would give me a one-day four pound gain.
Still plugging away. I'm so mad about the stupid cookies. They had been sitting in the house all week and I never even thought about them until all of a sudden inhaled six in row.
Uber and Gale, ya'll don't run me out of town on a rail for saying this, but weekends *usually* don't give me nearly as much trouble as weekdays. I know, I know! At home I'm surrounded by temptation, but I'm also able to keep busy doing things that aren't conducive to eating, I can take time to prepare meals/snacks that are OP, and if we occasionally go out to eat, well, that's my treat for the week. Weekdays, on the other hand, I spend stressed out, anxious, furious at someone or other, stuck at my computer all day, too busy (read: slept late) to make proper breakfast or pack lunch, surrounded by temptation (break room plus restaurants within walking distance) and running very low on willpower. So I know how you feel, 5 days a week.
I'm here. Overall I had a good weekend. Food choices so-so, but fine on calorie threshhold. Lots of exercise, too. Nice ride Saturday for an hour, bike/run yesterday for a little over an hour.
I got a new bike! It's the first new bike that I bought since I was a child and saved up money to buy a bike to ride.
I'm here. Overall I had a good weekend. Food choices so-so, but fine on calorie threshhold. Lots of exercise, too. Nice ride Saturday for an hour, bike/run yesterday for a little over an hour.
I got a new bike! It's the first new bike that I bought since I was a child and saved up money to buy a bike to ride.
Congratulations on your new bike! How exciting, I haven't ridden in years. I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to do it anymore. . .even though they say you remember it, I'm not sure that applies to me!
Yesterday was so totally off plan that I stopped keeping track of the calories. Got angry (read: snacky) at lunchtime, ate my planned lunch then pop-tarts, a candy bar, a lollipop (!) and had pizza for dinner. No use crying over it now, but the scale sure paid me back this morning. Almost back up to last Monday's starting weight again.
So, today, came to work with no cash. Can't use vending machines with no cash. Breakfast, lunch, and snack are all packed and managed to come in to work with me. Coffee's hot, water is in the fridge waiting on me, and even if I have to white-knuckle it all day long, I REFUSE to waiver. I deserve better than this. . .
So, today, came to work with no cash. Can't use vending machines with no cash. Breakfast, lunch, and snack are all packed and managed to come in to work with me. Coffee's hot, water is in the fridge waiting on me, and even if I have to white-knuckle it all day long, I REFUSE to waiver. I deserve better than this. . .
I'm with you!! I stopped bringing my wallet to work with me a month ago. I was on a downward spiral of "diet soda, can of pringles, and a twix bar" for lunch. LUNCH- knowing all that I know I was calling this FOOD.
I have been POP calorie wise this past week but could amp up my activity. I'm going into the gym in about a half hour to get my cardio done. Tuesdays are my weekly weigh in day and I'm down 2.6# for the week!
Pft. This challenge isn't working, and I've been doing really well!! I am up FIVE freaking pounds now!! I was thinking this morning, now this can't be fat. Can't be! I can not work out an hour and half every morning and eat 1200 calories and gain five pounds of fat. No, its not fat. I suppose it COULD be muscle, but I also know enough to know with that kind of calorie deficit I'm likely losing muscle, not gaining it.
Urgh!! I keep thinking every day I'm going to see a whoosh, but every day that scale is up.
Eliana- not to be risque... but what about taking a diurex and seeing about flushing the excess water out of your system quickly and then figuring out what is going on? I do that every once in awhile when I have gains for no reason.
I went to the gym today but my trainer insisted on me taking the day off. I have terrible shin splints and a slight injury in my hip from running my first 5K. I guess I didn't train well enough but I did it and I am proud. So at the gym he did my measurements and we did 50 crunches and that was it... but since January 4 I have lost 20.5 inches!
and congrats to those down pounds!! 
to remind myself it wasn't worth it. 
and be all like, 'huh? what's the matter?' 
Got angry (read: snacky) at lunchtime, ate my planned lunch then pop-tarts, a candy bar, a lollipop (!) and had pizza for dinner. No use crying over it now, but the scale sure paid me back this morning. Almost back up to last Monday's starting weight again.
Can't be! I can not work out an hour and half every morning and eat 1200 calories and gain five pounds of fat. 
