Good morning! Hope everyone is doing well. Pop in when you get to let us know what's new.
I am doing well. Eating well, workingout hard. My running is progressing nicely. Last night I ran 5.5mi. It was hot and humid, so slow and steady pace, but I did it!
Hhhheeeeelllllloooooo???? Wow. Pretty darn quiet here. Just popping in to say hi!
My husband and I are doing his very first 5k tomorrow morning. I am SO excited. We will be walking (he doesn't run) and that is completely fine. I am just excited to be doing this with him.
I am taking measurements and update pics this weekend too. Can't wait to see what they show...the scale is all over the place right now, which is frustrating, but it is just a number.
Hi Beverlyjoy, nice to 'see' you! Hope you are doing well! Me, running...still sounds funny to me! But...I AM doing it! Last night was 5.5mi in the pouring rain (wasn't raining when I left...).
I've been amazed lately......usually after a month of "eating right" I "fall off the wagon," but it's been 1 1/2months and the thought hasn't even crossed my mind. Usually I give into those wonderful temptations of cake and other sweat goodness.
This week my goal is to do 3 miles on the treadmill each day I don't work; so far 2 days down, 2 more to go! (I work 12-16hour shifts 3 days a week. When at work you hardly sit down, and rarely get lunch, thus don't exercise above and beyond the constant walking at work).
Well, I ended up only exercising 3 out of the 4 days I was off because "life happened," BUT I've kept to my meal plan and am feeling better every day. I can tell my scrubs are fitting looser just a month and a half into this!! Yay!!!!
Location: The beautiful Pacific Northwest! Tacoma, Washington
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Hi, I'm Laura. I'm new to this thread.
I gave into a craving for a Mcdonalds double cheeseburger, lemonade, and small fry today. But I had only 1756 calories for the day which is within my daily range. And I only did 2 hrs and 10 mins of cardio today instead of my usual 3+ hrs (plus 20 mins strength training) but I'm not going to worry about it too much.
Today was my weigh day and I lost another 4 lbs. Yay! I hope that mcdonalds meal doesn't hurt me next time I weigh in. Tomorrow I'll make sure to get as much exercise as I can since I fell a bit short of my goal today.
DarkBlue, I don't think that's in anyway small! That's major. It's the sticking to the small things that will get you to goal! Congratulations on sticking to it. It's NOT easy at all.
I lurk here on these accountability threads but don't really post. But you guys are doing great! Today, I ate reasonably well (1448 calories), a little over the 1300s where I wanted to be but I also went for a run for about 63 minutes (I do long intervals 25R/5W). I consider getting that workout in my NSV of the day because I have several work deadlines and I made the workout happen.
What was your scale victory or non-scale victory of the day?
I was a little tired today but I still went and got my run in. And then I came home and wanted to gorge on pancakes and syrup, but restrained myself to a muffin and some chicken instead. And then my victory of the day is that I ate half a chocolate bar. It's fancy, nice dark chocolate but even though I wanted the whole bar, I broke it in half and gave the rest away. So I got my chocolate fix, said no to my inner child, AND got to be generous all in one fell swoop!
I'm trying so hard to make it to 250. I am doing better. But yesterday I made poor food choices and was way over my calorie limit. Today I will do better. I started by fixing my water to drink already. I think a lot of what we do is habit. I will be visiting this thread often now that I'm here.
This week has kind of been a mixed bag for me also. Some "too much days" and some "so so days." I'm kind of ready for an "on track day" and that day is today!
Accountability, Menus, Workouts, Plans...Stuff! August 2012
