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Barb -- I saw your post from last night. Welcome back!! I find vacation too easy to trip up my careful eating. Getting right back on plan IS very important!!!! Good luck!
My weekend was bookmarked by very sad and surprising news about people I know, and it might be a strange week. But I didn't overeat, and have a food plan for today. So, onward!
I am happy to report that I lost 2lbs last week.I wish it came back off as fast as it can go on. Im 7lbs from my lowest. I can do this!
Dont you love it when eating is easy and simple. I even had pizza last night and only ate 2 slices and counted every calorie.
Breakfast was a yummy bowl of yogurt, blueberries and granola. 250 calories and very filling.
Hope everyone weeks starts off great!
Happy Monday morning to everyone. It's going to get hot in Northern CA this week, so I'm going to be quick so I can get some work done outside this morning.
Heather, thanks for starting us off for the week again. So sorry for your sadness. I'm glad you are moving forward with your focus.
Barb, welcome home! Hope getting back into your routine is a welcomed thing. You sound like the break did you some good.
Debi, I'm excited for your progress! Way to go!
I spent yesterday troubleshooting laptop issues for my son. I don't like spending the day clearing out viruses, etc. I thought computers were supposed to save time for us! It doesn't feel like it.
Today I'm focused on my plan to stay soy free for the next 60 days. I've been letting it creep back in to my diet and it's not been good. It's a very difficult ingredient to weed out. But the more distance I get from it, the better I feel, which leads me to want to exercise again.
I've decided I don't want to track calories any longer. I need a break from the dieting obsession. I'm going to be more intuitive in my eating for awhile, keeping to the right nutrition available in my home, not going out at all, eating when I'm genuinely hungry, eating slowly and stopping when I'm satisfied. I've spent so much of my life worried about diet and being fat. I want to spend some time living!
The giant project is done and gone! We had an Internet outage this weekend that unexpectedly delayed its departure, but it's gone, gone, gone! Of course, at this point, I'm not feeling really excited -- especially after delay caused by the Internet issue -- but mostly exhausted. I know my husband's tired, too -- he's getting a little overwhelmed at work, which is leaving him drained every day. I'm hopefully going to persuade him to go for a walk before dinner tonight, though to be honest, a nap sounds just as good...
It's been a hard day at work today -- lots of little projects one after the other, and I'm starting to make stupid mistakes -- the kind that when someone points it out to you, you feel like a moron. Tomorrow will be better!
I'm sure I have a positive in here somewhere, and I'm not feeling negative, really...just blaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh...
Are you working as a contractor? Can you just take a day off and put it all behind you. Just unwind? May be hubby could too. Take a midweek 1 day break and you'llbe ready to go back to work on all cylinders.
Here we are at Monday again. The weekend flew by but I do love Monday and getting back to my routine.
Heather - hugs to you. I'm sorry for your sadness - take a deep breath. We're here and we will behave this week.
Barb - so great to see you. I so hear you about food on vacation - I have a plan and don't know what happens in the execution of it. Back at it today - you're strong and driven.
Debbie - I hate losing these up and down pounds over and over. I am one pound over my low after this weeks WI. We headed the right direction.
Georgia - wow now that would be a challenge for me. I don't suffer from the soy allergy but a friend does. I was never aware until she developed it how hard it is to find soy free foods.
Walrus - hugs to you too! I hope you got your walk in - fresh air can be so refreshing and healing. It's always good to step away.
Judy - how's it going? Have a great week!
I've had a great day - the challenge for today in the 60 day challenge was to push yourself harder during your workout. I did! Felt great. Came home and fixed a grilled chicken salad with tons of fresh veggies.
Lurkers - let us know you're OK - very quiet around here.
Thanks everyone for your kind thoughts I think the worst of it is behind me -- I've got one more day of filling in for someone who's out (so doing their work as well as mine) and then about a week and a half (!!!!!!) of regular work until I go visit my family in Minnesota again. I can't imagine that this trip won't go better! I'm still going to overeat, I'm betting, but at least I'll have more control over what's on offer, unlike when I was visiting family in Chicago earlier this fall. And hopefully we'll have lots of time for walking!!! This is my absolute favorite time of year, when the air is cool and crisp and DRY, and I don't want to waste any more of it working! So there!
I'm hoping that I'm back to "normal" at weigh-in this week. I know that I've been sticking to my calorie counts, but I'm feeling large and not-so-in-charge tonight...our training session tomorrow should help with that
HI..Im a bit sore this morning..well alot sore! I increased my weights on sunday night and then in the 60 day challenge was to increase intensity of your workout. Well yesterday was my day to jump on the minitramp.I jumped for 30 min using hand weights the whole time.I can sure feel it today! What a great feeling!!
HOw can we forget??? I love love love a stirfry made with chicken and a bag of frozen veggies.How can I just stop eating it. ITs a huge plate of food for only 250-300 calories and so filling.
Carol- I plan to never see these lbs again. I plan on going down down down.I would love to be at goal by spring.
walrus- I love fall also.Im so ready for some cooler temps.
geo- I spend the day yesterday trying to help my daughter get her laptop set up. lol
heather- hi and how did you do with your food plan yesterday.I know its so easy to turn to food for comfort.WAY to go on not doing it over the weekend!!
barb- welcome back..we missed you!
judy- hi and how are you doing?
Since Thurs I've managed to stay OP everyday. Tonight I got home late and it threw my schedule off. I needed to EAT! So I trashed my plan to cook from scratch and threw something cold, and fast, together. I scarfed down the first three bites then was able to convince my self to s..l..o..w.. down and enjoy (ie: taste) the rest of my meal. Challenge met. I didn't stop at the Archs and pig out. I didn't grab the first thing in the kitchen and shove it in my mouth and then proceed to the next thing. I THOUGHT about it and avoided disaster and learned something about me as well.
Heather. Hugs. I'm sorry for your sadness.
dgramie: Congrats on meeting your exercise goals.
Hi to everyone else. Gotta run. The dog wants out.
Thanks, Heather and everyone else who's sending good wishes my way.
Not to go into too much detail, but we're dealing with life-changing dramas on several branches of both our families, as well as those of our friends, plus working too much and too hard right now. I know it will all get better eventually -- ok, soon -- it will all get better soon -- but right now, it just feels like I'm being ground down.
Tonight was our last training session with our trainer before she moves, but I didn't get to come home for lunch today, so I didn't get to eat until 5 pm and was unfortunately shaky, so I took a little nap on the sofa while waiting for my husband to get home from work (he has a much longer commute than I do). Well, I woke up at 7:30 (when our session was supposed to start), and he'd actually sat on the floor next to the sofa and then fallen asleep himself. So we both just gave up tonight and skipped the gym and ate dinner. We also ended up ordering in rather than eating our Tuesday night sushi, so I was over calories today. So now I'm tired, mentally exhausted, unprepared for tomorrow, unexercised, and feeling fat and slacker-y. Plus anxious and unsettled about the family dramas. Plus worried about people and work and whether I'm budgeting/scheduling/etc. the best way possible. Plus, plus, plus.
To be honest, I think that when our trainer told us that she was leaving us, we both kind of gave up on the gym. However, she's set us up with a new trainer who's a professional power-lifter, about which I'm totally psyched. So that's a good plus! And we're bringing the exercise bike back into the living room tomorrow (it went away for Sunday's party), which means that we can get back at it, even though it's dark out at night now. Another good plus!
I think October's going to be a great month! And November's always been one of my favorite months. And then December -- who doesn't love December
So, yeah, we'll get back to it, but right now, I'm overwhelmed and exhausted and just trying to get through another day...
Walrus- hugs on yesterday and hoping today is much better for you.
judy- great job on staying on track with your eating
heather- way to go getting right back on the exercise wagon
Carol- how is your week going?
geo- where are you?
Barb_ how is your week back at home going?
Yesterday was a good day for me except that my sodium content was a bit high. I am also proud to report I lifted weights even though my brain kept telling me to take the day off. I also jumped on the minitramp. I am proud of myself for doing 2 forms of exercise in one day.LOL
Had to send a kid home sick yesterday so not sure what that will mean for today. Hopefully no one else will end up sick today.
have a great tuesday everyone!
Hi girls! I'm here! I spent another day fussing with my son's laptop. (I can't believe how many games he had on there!) I couldn't bring myself to be on the computer at all yesterday.
Today I'm going in for a facial! It's been a few months, so I'm due.
It sounds like everyone is on track and doing pretty well. Except Walrus, who needs a break! Wish I could bring you to the spa with me today. But I'm glad you've got a new trainer who offers something you really want.
Since backing off the soy, I've been feeling better and better, although there are still times when I feel achy all over. I hope that goes away as I find and eliminate more soy from my life.
I've been off dairy for some time now and have been drinking Almond Breeze (unsweetened) instead. I've enjoyed it so much...until yesterday when I discovered it had soy in it! So I now have a carafe in which I can make my own almond milk. Just got to go get a lot of almonds! Maybe its time to renew that Costco membership so I can buy big bags of almonds.
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