I can understand what you mean here - I have found exactly the same thing - just another incentive to eat properly!!!

Sunshine - thanks for the support. I know I should try to make exercise or going for a walk my feel good thing - it's just not the first thing I feel like doing - lol!

Good morning everybody.

Just a quick check in. I missed posting yesterday but nevertheless stuck to my mental commitments.

Sunshine, that sandwich sounds yummy. And you could have done A LOT worse. Just think you're making progres. And you and Lifeguard were talking about food wreaking havoc on your stomachs, well EVERY day of my life, each and EVERY day I had heartburn before I started this new way of life. And from Day #1, September 4th, till now, I have never, ever had it. Not even once. Have a great time in Maine. It sounds sooo lovely. I love when we all play games together, we do it so rarely these days. I love Scabble and all those board games, or "bored" games as my family calls them. Oh well I for one miss it terribly. But I'm gonna give it a try, see if I can get everyone to play a game, you've definitely given me the desire.

CC, don't fret about the exercise. EVERYBODY skips a day from time to time. Except for me of course, I exercise everyday, many, many times during the day. For a real long time.I would never even think of missing a day. I even get up in the middle of the night to exercise. I'm even exercising right now. All right I'll confess - that was a BIG FAT LIE. But you guys knew that already.

Caseygail, that's what I always do - search for the veggie tray.

For all these upcoming holiday meals and get togethers, I plan on asking myself before each and every bite if the food is worth it? And that really helps me to slow down and to make better choices and to keep the high calorie foods to a minimum. For the first time in my life, I actually THINK before I take a bite. And this is progress for me, big time. But I will be very, very glad when JAnuary 2nd rolls around. This is just too hard. Too much stress and too many parties and tempting foods.

Today's commitments

-Drink lots of water
-Choose food wisely, I have 2 parties, it's going to be hard, very hard.
-Some kind of exercise, for some decent amount of time.
-Remeber that I want to be thin more then I want the food.

Have a great day everyone. Good luck with sticking to your commitments.

Hi everybody!

I ate well yesterday and skipped the exercise. It's so stupid that I do that. So what I want to do is not commit to doing it so I don't fail, but that's totally not the point, right? What I want to do is walk, and it's the one thing I can't do (foot). The elliptical just feels daunting sometimes. At least with a walk, I just have to walk out far enough that I'm forced to walk the same distance home - voila 30+ minutes. With the elliptical, I can always step off the machine and the time is just ticking away right in from of my face. Second by painful second. Maybe next time I'll try throwing a towel over the timer so I can't watch it. I'll commit to that!

I am going to eat sensibly up to Christmas dinner and after, but I'm giving myself permission to enjoy the dinner. One meal doesn't hurt you, a month of overdoing it does. Anyway, I'm off to my parent's today, so I won't be posting for a few days.

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!!! :gift2: :xcheer: :wreath: :rudolph: :candy: :clause: :shocksn: :ginger: :tree:

Man, I will be ready for the next few days to be over with!! Tonight was the christmas party at my parents house. My mom made my favorite enchilada's and they were delicious! Once I plugged everything into my fitday I was way over on my calories. But, I have made progress because, once I got done eating I wasn't completely stuffed. Before, I would've went crazy and ate and ate and ate until I couldn't eat anymore. So while I didn't eat the healthiest food in the world at least I'm learning when to stop!
My boyfriend got me "You on a Diet" for christmas!! I've been flipping through it, I can't wait to read it. He also got me a beautiful diamond ring :) I hate to brag but I'm really proud of it hehe.
Anyway, I hope everyone has a merry christmas and I wish you all luck through the next couple of days- I know I will need it!
My commitments for tomorrow:
-Get in a run (I should have plenty of time)
-Don't over-do it at christsmas eve dinner!!
-Eat fruit for snacks!

Today was not too bad. I ate moderately and even got in my water. Our godson came to visit for a bit this aft and I played soccer with him outside for half an hour - lol - we looked ridiculous because he insisted we wear santa hats and we had to dodge all the dog poop (there's supposed to be snow to cover that up by now!!). But fun none the less.

Tomorrow:
- Raise some more money for girl guides by wrapping a whole lot of gifts (I hope!)
- Drink lots of water
- Relax and not allow my in-laws to drive me nutty!

Wow, it is eerily quiet around here and I don't like it not even a little bit. I miss everyone. I am really looking forward for things to get back to normal. I just hope everyone is enjoying themselves. That's all.

Caseygail, your ring sounds lovely, do enjoy it!!! And let us know how you like the book, I'm thinking of getting it.

Lifeguard I think it's GREAT that you played soccer in Santa hats, too precious.

I had a really good day commitment wise in spite of my 2 parties, or maybe because of it. I notice I really am not comfortable eating in front of others. I ate very, very little, passed up on some scrumptious looking food. Although I did have 2 bites of a marzipan covered vanilla cream cake. It was so sweet, it gave me an instant headache.

Today's commitment:
-Eat and drink well
-Exercise
-Remeber that I want to be thin more then I want the food

I wish you all the very merriest of Christmas'.

Hi girls,
Sorry I've been MIA... though we have a wireless card for my dad's computer up in maine the connection is weak and I couldn't get onto the boards. I suppose that the holiday could have been worse. I snacked more than I have in months and consumed more calories but half of it was being around the stuff. Granted it was just me and my parents but still I was out of my strict enviornment that I have when I am at home alone. No day was over 2000 calories... even with the christmas dinner....went average on the turkey and heavy on the plain veggies and tried to stay low on the stuffing, potatoes and gravy but in the end it still all adds up...not to mention I like to have some hard cider when we are in maine...and before this weekend i never bothered to notice that its 200 calories a bottle! Phew, I'm thankful I don't buy that at home since I know my extra calories were from them! I also kept my desserts in line, and limited it to 2 hersey's kisses and the christmas morning coffee cake.

My parents were as supportative as they could be which is good. The weather was rainy 2 of the 4 days I was there which made our road to be at least 10 inches-1 foot deep with mud in most sections so walking or running it was impossible. We did go on sunday to a little town called hallowell and did a 4 mile stint to augusta and back on the 'rail trail'... which is really pretty along the tracks and the kennebeck river and is actually 25 miles long. I'm thrilled that now I know where it is so I can do more of it as the weather gets nice again. We did 4 miles on Sunday, and though that was my only exercise for the past few days I kept it at a good clip and even ran about 1/2 mile...which is a first for me!

I actually came home a day early so that I can get back on track...so today I'm getting the apartment cleaned and all my new toys put away (horray for new rugs and a new rice cooker and smoothie maker!) My friend Amanda called, and she is home from London for the next week (she lives there in sin with her beautiful british boyfriend and is going to grad school) and she will be comming over tonight. We are going to make dinner in and catch up. Its great because she is such a healthy eater and a good influence without even knowing it so I feel no pressure...grilled chicken and brown rice for us! Anyway I didn't see a new thread for this week yet and didn't have time to get one started so I'll keep an eye out, as well as hopefully getting through everyones posts from the past few days!
My goals for today
Get this apartment in order and prepare to get back to my normal schedule
for tomorrow
gym
healthy eating
water...I've been wayyyyy lacking the past few days.

L