Ter - I made beef vegetable soup tonight and no crackers! There was a little potato in it though. Good job on your eating right and exercising!
I didn't track today but think I may have gone over on calories because I ate quite a bit of the chicken spread on crackers for lunch and I also finished off the cookies from last night's dinner. My dh did get a few of them though.
All those temptations are gone now and I'm glad.
I only went to yoga stretch class today so not a high calorie burning day but I did exercise during several commercials tonight. I do that a lot and don't usually track it. I did aerobics and got my heart rate up so perhaps that will help a bit plus I did 25 reps with my 5# weights. I can do heavier weights but when I do I stop sooner so thought might be better to stick with five for a while again. I feel better about it and so it motivates me more. I wasn't hungry tonight at least so didn't snack a lot. That's gotta mean I did something right! LOL
Still waiting on my MF meals. I know they will help me get more on-track. Doubt if I will ever go back as strictly to the MF plan though. I will use them like Rie does her supplements...to keep me on-track. I just can't be in "diet" mode all the time, I want to enjoy life and eat naturally. Sometimes that will be good and sometimes not so good. My goal has always been to keep my bs stable and to be in control of my eating rather than the opposite. I'm not there yet if there are certain foods around but I am doing much better.
After watching Biggest Loser I was wondering what my weight loss percentage is , so I calculated on today's weight..which was actually high for these days because of last night's dinner. It was 6.79%! That sounded pretty good to me, but then I calculated it on what it was at my lowest weight and it was 10.73%!! Really made me feel better! I know I can get back to the that 10.73% if I really try and I didn't realize my % could be that high (either %) as I'd never calculated the percentage of weight loss. Of course that's since Sept, not a weekly % like on Biggest Loser but still made me feel good. Try it, it's a great motivator!
Marie - My dh often forgets to eat or is just not hungry so won't eat. Not so great for a diabetic...his bs are good most of the time...but sometimes he will dip down too low and get shaky. I too only go for my calorie limit ...in my case no more than 1500 and really prefer to stay at no more than 1400..and my software subtracts the burn. Unlike Rie, (you disciplined person, you!) I do usually eat the burn esp if I'm less than 1400. It doesn't figure net carbs but it does track fiber and I just subtract 1/2 my fiber to get my diabetic net carb...so not like a really low-carber does. I rarely get alcohol sugars so I don't pay much attention to them but could subtract 1/2 of them too as a diabetic. My software does not track them though. I don't really worry as long as I don't go much over 1560 but I know to lose I really should keep it below that and to drop down faster I'd really like to go closer to 1400, but haven't been doing that much recently. I've been having too many days recently of too-high calories!
Congrats on the two pounds gone.
You can do it. I like you're doing small portions. I think that's the only way I can live with the plan the rest of my life. Of course I'd rather big portions.