Feeling hungry today, looking at food labels and tracking my intake is helping me fight it...

Managed to get through work, had a nice salad for supper, along granola bar for dessert., feeling pretty good.

Hot as heck here, supposed to be a 5 day heat wave, we're in day 3 I think, this is the longest our air conditioner has been on nonstop!

Best to all

Hi again, well, I am doing good with exercise, but diet, not so much! I am counting calories, but getting so hungry, and then ending up going over my calories! Not a good thing, I know. Anyway, thanks again for all the warm welcomes, and I will continue to read/post. Lori

It's hot over here, too, so I try to get my exercising in as early in the a.m. As I can, especially since my walking buddy has gone away for a couple of weeks.

Struggling a bit at the moment to keep comparing myself to how I looked 6 months ago instead of how I think I should look. On the whole, though, not dieting for the last 10 years has done a lot towards stopping my binge problems and setting the stage for what I hope will now be a permanent and final life-style change.

Hope the rest of you aren't melting to badly!

Was a hot, hot weekend, finally cooled off a bit and humidity left.

Had a couple days off program food wise, but managed to get in my exercise, so counting as a positive.

I'm weighing in on Mondays now, I was lower Sunday but took Mondays weight, so up .2 which is like staying even, which is good BUT not my objective. Back on track today, hoping to get in a good week and see results!

Best to all

Generally I try to be intuitive with my eating and pay attention to how hungry or how full I feel. This has worked really well for a while. BUT ....The last few weeks my weight has been moving in the WRONG direction. First I was discouraged by TOM fluid retention, then I had a number of excuses to dine in good restaurants. Last week I consumed a bit much on the alcohol side. And I have been eating snacks and indulging in ice cream. So the weight gain post-TOM is no mystery.

The little coach voice in my head is starting to nag "Failure to plan is a plan to fail."

I need a plan. I need to menu plan. I need to go back to my one alcoholic drink per week rule. I need greater commitment. Planning and commitment go hand in hand.

Got a break from the high heat here, too, but it's been raining off and on all day - totally dreary! I would say the weather has prevented me from exercising, but I prefer to exercise inside and use the recumbent bike... which I'm currently using to hang my purse and I also put more laundry on it, lawd! I've only been on it once. For 10 minutes. I'm determined to get on it tomorrow and start some semblance of a routine.

My eating has been fine and I'm doing well on calorie consumption, whew.

junem, I like to have wine on occasion and I was aghast to see how many calories it has. Additionally I assume the cheese cubes and olives I would have with the wine is likely inadvisable -.- Your post was a reminder to me to plan for when I want a glass of wine or two, and to nix my usual accompaniments.

Failure to plan, indeed! Good words, good reminder,! Last week I was journaling like a little scribe and enjoying it, got off one day and can't get back into that mode even though I know it helps me a lot. It makes me pay more attention to what I'm eating, hopefully to get me to mindful eating without having to write down every thing.

Doing good on the exercises, OP today, so happy for that.

So I have my iPad here, make myself do some planks in between reading/posting! Crazy...c

Had a little win yesterday, was going to skip my exercises, but didn't, ended up same weight as day before, so feeling pretty good.

Going to a AA baseball game tonight, so that could be a challenge...going to try and get everything in before, if not I do get one day off so might take it today.

Popping in to say "hi". So HI

July has been a terrible month for me. Weather, hubby back to traveling....I gained some and now I am trying to lose some. Hopefully I will end up where I started at, yikes.

I've been around 165 for a few days now, 165.2 today so hoping to push through back to 160 and below, this has been the hardest decade for me by far. Hope everyone is doing well.

Getting a bit fed up with my clothes. I spent yesterday sporting a really dubious off the shoulder look- not a good look with a henley type shirt, but I've lost so much weight mostly through my torso that all my shirts are too big. The problem is that in spite of the tricep extensions and the skull crushers my bingo wings are still enormous. Don't know what to do and it's getting me down

August is going to be great, right guys? Right?!

August is going to be absolutely amazing! -- I am setting a goal to drop 1.5 pounds each week I have never done that, but I know I can do it

I had a very indulgent meal today at a Mexican restaurant. AND ICECREAM! I know I will be sorry tomorrow But the Mexican restaurant we went to, the chef; she is one of the Iron chef contestants and we could not pass this restaurant up. It was fabulous!!!

So not looking back but moving forward. August will be indulgement free month; the lean days.

I am posting this here and at the challenge thread.

I am challenging myself and my family to eat and eat well for only $75 per week. I have seen so many sad posts about poverty and not having enough money for food, that kids and I decided to eat for less. This means eating things that are not that palatable, no more grass fed ground beef or organic air chilled chicken, and forget about our weekly milet mignon. -- Anyone interested in joining me?

I will post each day what we ate and the cost.

MagicSusan. Tshirts too big is a good problem. Right?. Sounds like you need to give yourself permission to shop, maybe just for one or two key blouses or tshirts. Haha, bingo wings, I hadn't heard that term exactly, but I know what you mean. I have that problem too.

Sum. You have set out some interesting goals. Your budget should be do-able, as long as you are not averse to factory farm raised poultry and pasta carbs. I hate to buy cheap frozen chicken but I do it; Its economical and cash is tight. Can you do this while dropping pounds aggressively? I wont be joining you on your budget restriction, but I'll be interested and watching.