Today is day 1 of my plan! Best wishes to you all on this beautiful weekend! Stay safe, and make smart choices!

Good morning!


I hope everyone is having a great morning.

bigjoe - congrats! a pound is a pound in the right direction. good job!


Deana509 - hello and welcome! looking forward to having you join this group. :)


I've started off the day well. This weekend will be a test for me. The weekend is what usually really throws me off, and I end up messing up for weeks. I'm just gonna do what I'm doing and keep going strong.

My fiancee got me an early birthday present -- a bike! I'm so excited to go riding with him this weekend. I haven't been on a real, non stationary bike in so many years so I'm a little bit, or rather a lot a bit nervous. Hoping it won't take too long for me to get the hang of it again.


Here's my plan for the day:

Breakfast: 8oz orange juice, a yogurt, and a cup of pineapple. ( until a couple months ago, you couldn't get me to touch pineapple. I don't know what happened but I love it now.)


Snack: string cheese, an apple and a serving of walnuts


Lunch: turkey sandwich on Arnold's flat bread and mustard


Snack: ?

Dinner: ?


I will fill the rest in when I figure it out!

Hope you all have a wonderful, healthy day and enjoy your weekend. I know I'm looking forward to this beautiful weather.

Good luck, Deana509!

Hope everyone is having a great day! 3 more days until my decided monthly weigh in so I'm being extra mindful right now. Had some delicious tomato soup for lunch today....me and my tomatoes! Of course, what is tomato soup without a grilled cheese? I think that is my new treat meal, even though the sandwich itself only comes to 125 cals (about 150 if you include the ketchup....because, tomatoes!) :D. Going to make some chicken with mushrooms and mashed potatoes for dinner! I daresay I'm starting to get the hang of this whole cooking thing :lol:

Good morning everyone :)

BigJoe - Im with Lost .. a pound is a pound :) Besides slow and steady is always a good thing :)

Deana - Yay for Day 1 :) Just reading it sounded like such a positive thing :)

Lost - Wonderful about the bike! I used to love riding it .. unfortunately due to my balance going off and dizzy spells Im not allowed to ride a non-static one anymore in case of accidents .. but hopefully that will change when I lose more weight .. well .. thats that thought anyway lol. I think weekends are the hardest for a lot of people really .. I know its the same for me too. When is your birthday?? I know what you mean about the back pain .. my legs arent so bad other than my ankles (as they have each been broken a few times). I have a couple of fitness discs depending on how I am feeling on the day I do the exercise .. Disco with Richard Simmons when I am having a low pain day (love dancing lol), and then Walk Away the Pounds on a day Im feeling a bit sore. At the moment I am just trying to incorporate more movement in my days rather than a set exercise regime .. keep it up :)

Burg - Good luck on your weigh in ... you are gonna turn red with all those tomatoes lol .. I would prob turn orange cos I have so many carrots lol. Yay on the cooking thing too :)


Wasnt a good food day yesterday .. I am just losing interest in food .. having to think of it all the time is just putting me off it .... but Im not giving up .. just thinking of it as a bump in the road :) I had a protein shake for breakfast .. but then nothing else all day until dinner time ... I made a lovely meal for us with chicken, potato, carrot, beans, broccoli in a lite cream honey mustard sauce ... a new recipe for me to try ... we had a movie night last night so I popped some popcorn which I quite enjoyed :) Still missed my calories by about 4-500 ... but felt very full.

Todays plan is going to be a good one ... Weigh in day for me is Monday .. but had a peek yesterday and its looking good so far :) Spending the day doing some more wedding shopping .. need to find some shoes, getting my ring (yay!), buying the bits I need to make our invitations ... and we are having lunch out too .. so have a sort of plan in mind food wise today ..

B - Chai Latte with a muffin (will be a late breakfast ..)
L - Pita Pit Chicken Caesar
S - Fruit (Oranges probably .. maybe a couple of Strawberries)
D - Same as last night (Chicken & Veg in Honey Mustard)
S - Green Tea with Strawberries.

Thats the plan anyway lol

Stay w/ us Deana509 and check in ....

Happy B'day- Lost -

Nightkatt - Weekends are hard meals days for me ..that's because wife and I are home....I tend to eat a little different then she does , but sometimes I will eat out of the zone because she cooks and I try to find a balance....
During the week I just tend to eat what I want.. there are days I struggle at work because of pot lucks etc,,,, It I don't participate I am called anti-social...I choose not to participate because it keeps me away from temptation.

Burg = Good luck on the weight in... for me I have to weight in daily- It just a thing I done forever and works for me....

Todays meal:

b- Coffee
L- 1 Jamaican patty
s- 1 cup of kettle corn
d- chicken fried steak/ potato soup/ green beens/ Ice teas raspberry ( I was hungry due to working in the garage all day)

bigjoe - I am the exact opposite of that! If I weigh in daily I get really frustrated with myself even though I know the scale isn't always indicative of exactly what's happening. Ideally, I wouldn't be weighing at all but I know I need to check in every now and then....and I must admit curiosity is starting to get the better of me! 2 more days!

Good morning all, sorry for the late posting.

NightKatt- my birthday is at the end of October. However, my fiancée figured because the weather was getting nice and he knows I want to get in shape he decided to get one for me now. We didn't get around to riding yesterday. :( we found two baby kittens outside of my house in the bushes and we took the day to take care of them. I'm hoping we will get to go today. I'm sorry you're unable to ride a non-stationary bike. :( Hoping one day that will change. It's great that you can get some exercise in though :)

Bigjoe- thank you for the birthday wishes :)



Yesterday wasn't perfect. We wound up getting pizza for dinner. I didn't overdo it but I felt gross after eating. Today I'm going to get back on track so I don't mess myself up completely. One accomplishment though, is that I didn't give in to soda although I wanted to very badly. I stuck with my water and will continue to do so. I'm not looking forward to my weigh in on Monday. (Forgive me any gentlemen reading this) but, it's that TOM, and I'm bloated and just don't want to care. I usually give in really bad when I feel this way so I'm trying so hard not to. I know the scale is going to be affected :( but at least I know that it's temporary. Hopefully that'll mean an even bigger loss the following week. :)

Here is my plan for today :

Breakfast: eggs, one piece of pork roll, and a protein shake

Snack: an apple and string cheese.

Lunch: ?

Snack: ?

Dinner: ?

Here's to a better day than yesterday, and hopefully some good bike riding.


How is everybody enjoying their weekend?

Good Morning all:

b- Coffee


Going to be a busy day- with the floodings in Colorado heard water was headed our way.. Going to get some bottle drinking water and other small things ... I should be fine since I live away from the river but it may effect stores/ residents in town and near the river...

Burg - Yea its just a thing I have I knew my weight was going to go up because of the raspberry ice tea and large dinner... normally I just drink water and I have been keep my food intake to about 5-6 oz....

Wow ... so many things happening ..

BIG JOE - I too sneak in a peek each day .. I try to not do it .. but my hunny does it and comments all the time so it makes me wonder what mine is doing lol .. I had planned not to jump on all weekend so I could be surprised today for my weigh in .. but that didnt work lol. .. Im lucky for food at home as my hunny eats pretty much what I do .. although yesterday I had a treat of cheese on crumpets which I havent had for months .. but it meant my lunch was almost what I have been having most days for the day! lol .. fortunately I have been having bad calorie days anyway missing my cal intake on average by about 600 cal .. so still had room for dinner .. and I made my hunny French Toasted Cheese Sandwiches (When you make french toast after you cook them you put cheese on one half then put the other slice of toast on top and heat it through .. wayyyyy too many cal for me lol). He gets more frustrated with his weight than me .. even though he is like 80 pounds less than me lol ... he has been playing with the same 5kg since I restarted ...
Hope you stay safe with the floods .. scary .. we just get earthquakes (at least recently lol).

BURG - Im getting excited for you :) Cant wait to see what your results are .. so you dont weigh in weekly then? Are you on a plan or anything or just making healthy choices?

LOST - PIZZAA!!! ooooh .. missing and jealous lol .. but its interesting your reaction to it .. chances are I will be the same, its that guilty pleasure when you're having it .. but then later the guilt builds and the pleasure goes ... you question if it was worth the treat .. but then you go and do it again in a different way later lol .. I have learnt to enjoy the treat, take on board how I feel and see if I can adapt it to reduce the after-guilt. I know what you mean about TOM .. I had him for a week and dreaded my weigh in as I have NEVER lost weight with him hanging round .. but I did!! A little admittedly .. but I didnt care .. I was just happy I didnt go up .. and it was the hardest week for me in regards to my chocolate .. its usually when I would consume a block a day so OMG .. the counters in the supermarkets with all those chocolate bars made me want to scream lol .. drooled sooooo much ... keep your chin up and just acknowledge the result and start the new week ready to give TOM a kick in the pants :)

So weigh in today ... down 3.5 pounds! Happy with that result .. need to stick to around that for the next 12 weeks for my wedding to hit my wedding target .. but Im allowing a little leeway in there ... need to order my dress next month so its made in time and gets to NZ so I can get the alterations done (which I am sure will be needed).

B - Starbucks Trim Latte Grande
S - Almonds
L - Banana, Almonds
S - ?
D - ?
S - ?

Humm .. gonna be another one of those food days when Im not gonna hit my calorie intake .. but I just havent got an appetite now that TOM is gone ... hopefully when I get busier I will want to eat a bit more :)

Nightkatt - I think the closest thing to a plan for me is counting calories...but without the counting. So, I guess I'll call it approximating calories! I'm trying to do things with as few numbers as possible (hence the monthly weigh-in) because, with me, the second my numbers aren't exactly what they should be is when I start to spin out. This is what I get for being a mathy person :lol:

Im counting calories ... I use Calorie Counter online to keep track of what I am doing .. Im getting better at working it out without needing to use it through the day .. only updating in the evening ... definitely like the numbers .. As for the spin out I used to do that alot .. then would avoid sites like this so I didnt feel quite as bad as I probably could have :) So Im trying to get creative for when the urge strikes to go off plan ish ...

Hey everybody,
Hope you all had a nice weekend. Mine wasn't exactly how I had planned it. I went off plan a little bit. I'm not going to beat myself up about it like usual. Usually when I mess up, I give up completely. Not this time. My mess ups weren't completely terrible, so ill just have to work harder.

I was really looking forward to my bike ride, and my fiancée was pumping up the tires and the valve on the tire broke, ruining the inner tube. By the time we got to the store, bought new inner tubes and fixed it, it was getting dark so I haven't had the chance to ride it yet. Kinda bummed. :( soon I will get to.

I got weighed this morning and I'm up 0.8 pounds. It's not a loss but considering its that TOM I really expected it to be higher. So I'm hoping next week is a significant loss.

NightKatt- omg, I have to avoid the ice cream aisle during that time. I just wanna lay around, watch netflix and eat ice cream. It's terrible. I'm just waiting for it to be over. Lol. I never realized until recently just how gross the bad food makes me feel. I was so used to eating it that I went a while eating healthy and now I can see just how much bad food affects me. It's crazy.

Bigjoe- hoping everything is going okay for you with the flooding!


I hope you're all having a nice day. I'm looking forward to kicking some butt this week.

Today is going to be a rough day for me. Really depressed and honestly, I just don't care. Ill try my hardest but I just don't have it in me to give it my all today.

Sorry to hear you're so down! I hope the day has gotten better since you posted. How is everybody else doing?

I was like that on Tuesday ... and while it took me most of the day to snap out of it I kept myself aware .. didnt stop me buying the chocolate .. but it did make me look at the values of it .. so if I went ahead and binged I wasnt going to be doing as much damage as I could have ... I tend to stop eating and lose interest in food when Im depressed .. otherwise binging on chocolate and cookies .. so had to try to eat .. and eat well ... barely got half my calorie intake instead (and only because I popped a big pack of buttered popcorn!) ... but that means that Im fouling up my metabolism again so it slows down thinking Im not going to feed it .. which will in turn show up on the scales as either no loss, very minimal loss .. or eek .. an increase (which is the usual for me). Even Wednesday wasnt that good for me eating .. so today Im trying to get it right .. I actually had something to eat for breakfast instead of a shake .. so hun .. dont beat yourself up too much ... its just a day in a week (or two) .. its only a week in a month .. its only a month in a year .. and its only a year in your life ... its not like its the only day you have to work on this journey .. its one of many ... be proud of yourself for knowing how you feel, expressing it .. and not bottling it up acting as if its all ok which is when more damage gets done. I think you're great, even if you havent been on that bike .. you know its there .. and you know you will get on there .. so what if its not yesterday .. today .. or even this week ... its in your plan and it will happen :)



Todays eating going well so far .. and even planned well ..
B - 2x English Muffins with a little bit of lite butter
L - WW approved Muffin & Medium Trim Latte (Muffin Break Cafe)
S - Baked Oaty Slice - Afghan flavour
D - Vege stir-fry with a bit of pork
S - ? maybe popcorn .. or another bar :)