guac, I'm so sorry to read about your accident! I hope your recovery is as easy as possible. It sounds very difficult to go through...

Thanks for the love, ladies! I go to the doctor today for another X-ray to see how things are doing. I hope I don't fall on my face trying to get there and back. Wish me luck!

FYI - went with family to a restaurant for lunch and had a big meal, but it was my only meal for the day. Wasn't hungry otherwise. Probably ate around 1600 calories. Restaurants are horrible for dieting!

I had a very good "food" weekend, and scale rewarded me with a small loss.

Sw 152.8
Cw 150.6
Gw 144

oh Sum you are so close. Keep up the good work.

The scale was kind to me today too. 152.5. I think it must be all the herbal tea I have been drinking for my nerves. My eating habits, while not as bad as they could be, haven't been ideal.

Is it too late to join this challenge? I want to weigh 139 ..I want to finally get out of the 140s!!!!!!!

Never too late Zumba!

I had another nice OP day. 4th one in a row :)

Meals
Bfast Green Tea
Lunch Tabbouleh
Dinner Smoked salmon w/ cream cheese and crackers
Snacks Carrots and apple
Cals 1200

Exercise
Walk 4.7 miles
Weight Lifting 45 min (yay)

Weight 150.4
Down 0.2 lbs

Zumba. Hey chica, join us. Glad you had fun camping.

Yesterday was ok. I am noting that I do a lot of snacking. I also note that it is hard to know the calories in food cooked from scratch, like my beef gravy, or the chicken legs (which I coated lightly w herbs and panko crumbs, and baked). Additional factoid I discovered is that 4 oz of beer is only 55 calories, and just enough to enjoy a taste.

Here's how yesterdays eating breaks down.
Bfast
Coffee and Half n half -2 cups
Lunch
Hot dog and bun and relish
Snacks
Left over squash w beef gravy
Pumpkin seeds
2 saltines
Dinner
Chicken leg
Roast potatoes
Salad
Cranberry juice
Late evening
4 oz beer (DH is only too happy to drink the other 8 oz.)

Hello all! Trying to stay on track, despite a large platter of get well cookies sent by family! So far I have stayed away! :)

Hope you are all doing well.

Guacamole, are the pain meds making you lose your appetite? When I broke my ankle, I lost my appetite completely and lost 11 pounds in 3-4 weeks.

OMGOSH Guac!!!! so sorry to hear about your leg...you sound like you have a great attitude.....
I hope your healing is speedy....

Well I had a pretty bad day today. Succumbed to some emotional eating that included cookies...and Chinese fried rice...I feel really bloated and gross right now....

This Thanksgiving I do not have my children....so I'm a bit sad about it......but want to reach this goal by that date because I don't want to be sad and also disgusted about my weight.....

I am new here and ready to challenge myself. I plan to get down to 155 (from 162) before Thanksgiving.

:welcome3: jennykay

Yesterday, calories ~1850. I think/know this is too many. I offset it somewhat by running 30 minutes and walking 15 more. I don't like the pattern of my eating yesterday, and it is a pretty typical pattern for me.
Basically, only coffee for bfast. Then several snacks midday instead of one proper lunch. I had a few bites of leftovers ~noon and told myself that was lunch. DH came home for lunch, but not until 1:30, I had a few bites of his lunch. Then I had crackers and lunch meat as a snack at 3. So I kinda ate lunch 3 times. Pizza and salad for dinner. I make the pizza on a flatbread crust, load it w veggies and don't use much cheese, its pretty healthy. But then I had some chocolate for dessert and later I split a beer w DH. And later still I broke into the chips and salsa. TOOO MUCH SNACKING!!

Jennykay. Welcome! 162 to 155 by Thanksgiving, that's ~ 1 lb per week. That's an achievable goal. Go for it :)

GUAC. How sweet that your family sent cookies. Maybe have one for ceremony's sake and then stay away. Your willpower is an inspiration.

I had a sodium rich day yesterday. Scale stayed the same. And TOM arrived. I am hoping for a nice whoosh :)

Sw 152.8
Cw 150.4
Gw 144

Meals
Bfast Green Tea
Lunch Smoked salmon w/cream cheese and crackers, tomato
Dinner HM cheese and chicken nachos w/trimmings
Snack grapes and apple
Calories 1600

Exercise
4.7 mile walk
60 minutes of swimming

Weight
150.4
No Change

I was doing fine until the eggplant and tofu curry I made for dinner turned out so delicious. I went back for a 2nd huge helping. No idea how many calories.