Daily Accountability/Lifestyle Change - September 2013 - Everyone Welcome!
Hello Everyone! Welcome to the Check-In! Let's make it a great month!
I want to welcome everyone to the Daily Accountability Check-In. Our goal is to stay accountable and on track by posting our daily food and exercise choices. All food and exercise programs are welcome. Consistency is the key to reaching our weight loss goals.
Introduce yourself or jump right in and tell us what you have been doing.
New month. Hopefully I'll be able to lose a couple of pounds this month, unlike the last month that I did absolutely terrible in. I might boost my gym days to 4 days a week and try to work on more cardio.
Goals for the month:
Stick to 1450 net calories a day.
Lose 2+ pounds and reach the 160s.
Go to the gym more.
Breakfast: 2 pieces of toasted low calorie bread with raw mushrooms and mayo lite. Some olives. 1 coffee, milk no sugar.
Lunch: Salad with octopus, a small piece of lunch herring, a small piece of salted mackeral, pickled garlic, garlic hummus, lettuce, tomato, mushrooms, red onion, corn, blueberries, olives, pickled onions.
Dinner: Will drink beer (Green Flash Palate Wrecker).
Last night I added on:
7 Minute Premix from Strong Knees
Cleanse from Sara Ivanhoe's Taste
Breathing Exercises to Calm the Mind from Yoga for Stress Relief
The other thread will probably get shut down because of the amount of posts. We can finish out the month here.
Calories for yesterday: 1480 +
Weigh In: 159.6
Up: .2
up a pound on my weekly weigh in. i'm so inconsistent, or rather, inconsistently consistent - as in after a great week I get slack and then have a crap week and get mad again and the cycle continues. I really need to work on finding a happy middle ground. this September I am getting through this block I have here around 220, gained and lost these pounds way to much. focus on the big picture.
Yesterday I pulled myself back from the precipice of a tailspin, and ended up down 0.6 today. The scale hovered, both times, at 152.9, but settled, both times, at 153.0. I'll take it!
B - Hard Boiled Eggs + Diet Dr Pepper
S - Fiber One Lemon Bar
L - Buffalo Chicken Sandwich + Frozen Mocha Frappe
D - Taco Salad w/ Nacho Cheese Doritos, Ground Venison, Lettuce, Green Olives, Sour Cream, and Shredded Colby Jack
S - Homemade Zucchini Bread w/ Margarine
Exercise: 20 Minutes Cardio & 20 Minutes Strength
I was really craving frozen coffee yesterday. Other than what I had for lunch, yesterday was okay. I have a cookout to go to tonight, so I'm trying to keep things light this morning.
Breakfast: 2 pieces of toasted low calorie bread with raw mushrooms and mayo lite. Some olives. 1 coffee, milk no sugar.
Lunch: Salad with pan-seared scallops, a small piece of lunch herring, a small piece of salted mackeral, pickled garlic, spicy hummus, tsatsiki, lettuce, tomato, mushrooms, red onion, corn, kidney beans, blueberries, olives, pickled onions, sun-dried tomato.
Dinner: Will drink beer (Stone 17th Anniversary Götterdämmerung IPA).
Yes! It worked! Thanks to keeping my calories down earlier in the week, I was able to eat, drink, & be merry last night and I showed no gain this morning! Finally, I won't have to spend the next few days ridding myself of party weight, but can instead actually drop some true weight.
Yesterday
Calories: 2200
Exercise: rest day
ETA: I did a modified Ian Diet last night. I ate dinner early, a few hours before drinking. With my beer, I only ate about a serving of chips.
And welcome Mrs Snark. And why not drink the same amount of beer as I do? It won't add any weight. Of course, you might get tipsy which might be a good reason to drink less!
But beer and weight gain don't go together.
Beer, food and weight gain do, however.
Can't get fat on beer calories alone.
Skip dinner. Drink beer. Lose weight. 107lbs down does not lie. And I drink the good stuff.
Psychic Last month was an adjustment month for you since you were working out at the gym on a regular basis.
Ian Congrats on the .8. Is that a new beer for you? I haven't seen you post that one before.
Change for me Keep analyzing and tweaking your program. You will figure out what works best for you.
Newleaf Congrats on the .6 and for working through things.
Mrs Snark Hi and Welcome to the check-in!
Crispin Good job figuring out how to make it all work for you.
Breakfast (395 Calories + coffee)
spritz oil in pan
egg 70 cal
egg whites from carton 60 calories
Vegetable of choice
1/8 cup feta cheese 40 calories
Rudi's Whole Wheat English muffin 130 calories
1 teaspoon jam 20 calories
juice 75 calories
coffee w/sugar and cream
Lunch (500 Calories)
Mediterranean wrap 400 calories
fruit cup 100 calories
I was a busy bee today! paid bills, ran errands, took teenager places, helped younger son roll all the change in his piggybank ($55!) and made a delicious potato soup in the crockpot....also did weights at the gym and some other things that I've forgotten about already
I was at 550 calories for the day by dinnertime...I had 1 1/2 pieces of cornbread, 3 very little bowls of potato soup and 2 bowls of ice cream....i'm on the fence as to whether that took me TO 1500 calories or OVER 1500 calories....either way i'm done eating for the day and am actually headed to bed next
tomorrow I do laundry and go to the gym and beyond that, hope to just plant my butt in my chair by the fireplace and read a book
Daily Accountability/Lifestyle Change - September 2013 - Everyone Welcome!
Welcome to the Check-In! Let's make it a great month! 
Here's to the start of a great month! 
