Wootness, lost TWO pounds and that is unheard of for these recent months. Although it really isn't reflected on my tracker because I kept changing up goals and starting points for some time earlier this year, I was 10 pounds higher than this on my birthday, which is in the first month of the year. So am really happy I seem to be on the right track now.

Also lost 2.5 overall in inches but that really just reflects rearrangement of the relevant areas measured. And that IS due mainly to exercise.

So, yea, Marie, I am not givin' up the streakity, just changing it up. I like thy points and think you are right and that exercise is also what helps my DBFs lol. Think I'd die without the workouts and not meaning the lifestyle exercise (doing my own yard this year, no small task), but the exercise that is purely for joy and fitness. It does aid the weight journey but not in the calorie by calorie way the dieticians insist upon with their net calorie plans (I am not a fan of the idea of net calories but rather that consistent exercise keeps the metabolism humming and aids weight loss in that fashion; I believe in calories in/out but there are a lot of factors and metabolism is chief among those factors; I don't think you can count estimated calories burnt in a workout and add it to your calorie budget as my smart phone tracker does, I disregard those extra calories as far as eating goes).

Maryea: Huzzah on that good calorie count. I am fighting the battle of control of carbs also, won't tell ye about the visions of cinnamon rolls currently in my head.

Glynne: Your flowers look so pretty and perky and are so motivating. Huzzah and congrats on how well ye are doin' !!

Deelee: Lol, I also eat for every emotion as Marie mentioned.

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Actually I find the blues make me not eat as much, though. I am a happy eater. I just like food. I don't apologize for that, just try to corral it some.

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To all, mentioned or un- I JUST HAVE A FEELIN' THIS IS GOIN' TO BE THE BEST WEEK EVER ON THE GOAL FRONT!

Woot!

I really like my scale today. I know we are not supposed to let the scale rule our emotions but there t'is!

Should I celebrate with a cinnamon roll?

Probably.

I didn't do so good again today. I munched mindlessly again. And did have some stuff that would probably be considered junk, so I don't think I can even give myself a 1/2 today. So, here is what I have as of today.

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Back to work tomorrow ~ things always (usually) go better eating wise when I am back to my work routine. Gotta come up with some kind of plan to deal with the difficult time I have on my days off.

Am2 ~ way to go on the 2 pound loss and the loss of inches ~

Mary, Marie, Deelee ~ hope you all have had a good weekend.

Take care

Glynne: You are doing great, everyone miss a daisy day once in a while! Woot!

I am just the opposite about work. I am only working Thursday night and then Friday and the weekend only if I have too much to do that I'll not make my deadlines the following week. If I have too much to do on Monday, I invariably binge and since t'is Monday and I DON'T have anything much to do (still on vacation) I did eat more yesterday as I am already ambivalent about Monday.

I shared some of my status on my blog and with apologies for the laziness, am just reposting it here!

I love this group, btw. Thank ye for being so nice to moi!

Here is what I posted in my 3FC bloggety blog and don't worry I won't do this all the time. It just kind of explains my ticker as I have started and restarted different weight goals but the ticker I have on here now will get me to 125, however, I had shot up in January so am SO happy and SO going to succeed this week.

"Hocus pocus, focus, focus!

MONDAY, June 4, 2012, Day 254 of streakity streak of no day missed of daily exercise, 45 min walk (with weights), 15 min walk, total streakity streak minutes so far 19,195 (Previous: 288 consecutive days of exercise, 18000 exercise minutes!)

Wootness, because of scheduling this week of someone I want to spend time with and of my schedule also, I will be doing the walking with weights a lot and cut back on the C25K running program and the formal strength sessions. Working Thursday night and whatever parts of the day I have job tasks to perform but before that vacation mode continues.

The truth is that on my birthday in January I was at my highest in some time. I have lost more than 140 pounds and kept it off in the past two decades or so but the KEEPING IT OFF includes some highs and lows and LOTS of slow periods of just hanging at one weight. My ORIGINAL weight loss goal was the 130s and I stayed there for a long, long time and that was the decade I felt most myself. Then I dropped to 117 after an accident in 2010 and some surgery and a long period of recovery that really isn’t over, but 117 was a bit too fragile and hard to maintain. I am now TEN POUNDS LESS than that January weight and if I get one more pound off will be back in the 130s and heading to THE ULTIMATE GOAL of 125!

But if I hit the 130s, I will be BAAAACCCK, the real me, older, wiser, but back!

Huzzah! A teeny piece of white cake with icing DID mess up the calorie count yesterday but I CAN DO THIS!"

Am2 ~ I'm glad you shared your blog entry for today. It is inspiring ~ the many days in a row of exercise and the weight loss and maintenance ~ is like WOW ~ awesome.

Gayle, I know you have it in you to earn more Just keep working at it. I like the one week segments. Because none of us are perfect and you get to see your wins and start anew each week.

Am2, I’m glad you posted from your Blog. I’m too lazy to post on mine or to click on others. You have quite a success story going there. Great job on the 2 pound and inches lost. Your scale knew you needed positive WOOTS so your streakity would go uninterrupted. BTW, I’m darn fond of this group as well. The other thread is great friendship yet I still need the camaraderie about food struggles. Since it rules my life.

Yesterday I did not do great but not awful either. I wanted and made chocolate chip cookies. They were worth the cals. I ended the day at 1650 cals and only the doggie hike for exercise. When I write only – know most people can’t keep up with me going of the hills since I live in the mountains. But for me, it’s only a doggie hike. Today, I’ve logged and pre-logged dinner so I will end the day at 1450 cals and I ellipticalled. First exercise without the knee brace since the long bike ride. I can tell it is still a tad angry. Hence why I’m sitting in my recliner playing on 3FC instead of quilting.
Marie

1404 calories today which is really good but I was over by 2 on the carbs still. I have to learn to focus on that, I get to thinking about calories and forget carbs.

I love Lose It! because I have it on my phone and ipad as well as desktop and it is pretty easy to work with but one thing I don't like about it is that it adds all the nutrition numbers up rather than stating each meals nutrition separately. Also I wish they'd allow us to put the snacks where we eat them rather than all at the end. My old software, Calorie King, does this and I loved it..not the online version but the independent software... but unfortunately they don't have a good app for iphone/ipad.

I have emailed Loseit! and they say they will consider these things with next update, but who knows. These changes would make it easier for diabetics as we could see at a glance how many carbs we got with each meal rather than having to click on each food and add them up. I've asked them twice to do this, so I may start looking for another one that also has a mobile app and these features. Although sparkpeople is not exactly like I'd like it I can add in extra meals (for me snacks) to it and organize them in order even though not between meals. The program is a little touchy not quite as user friendly and I find the online tracking personal page way too busy, I used to use it so I do have a lot of foods in there...but of course I dread having to enter those that are not. But I'm considering going back to it until I can find the "perfect" program. I used it tonight (as well as Loseit!) and it said my calories/carbs were just a bit high but that's probably because I used some of the other user data that was slightly different than mine. If anyone knows a good program that is both for desktop and iphone/ipad that has these features, please let me know.

ETA: I think I will start using My Fitness Pal. I already have the mobile app on my phone and can get it for my ipad. And it seems to meet my needs.

Late entry for 6-4-12 Not off to a very good start for my 3rd week. I guess I'd have to give it a

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I don't seem to do well when there is a bump in the road to my regular routine. Gotta work on some kind of plan for dealing with those kind of situations.

Maryea, I did LoseIt for awhile and it is great but I searched for an app that showed me the food eaten and food left calories in a separate line from the net calories left, by which they mean exercise calories they've added to your food budget and theoretically can eat. I do not go by net calories so that bugged me.

I own almost all the apps on iTunes and the best one for me is My Net Diary, which does give me that info on a separate line at a glance. It does show calories eaten by meal and there is also an option to turn on the time eaten so you can differentiate if you have more than four meals.

There is a free version and a paid version of the phone and website and a separate paid app for ipad, which they discount or something. They also have apps for Android and Blackberry. The system does work on the premise of net calories but separates out the food calories, too, so I am happy.

I'm going to continue checking all the apps and if I ever find anything I like as well as my old Fitday PC (which I can't use on this computer and it has an app that appears to not work, judging by the reviews), I'll switch but for now My Net Diary is the best for me of all the similar products. It is also the one that protects my privacy the most.

Marie, My Net Diary does that also, it turns red when you have eaten all the food and exercise calories and I do think that helps but it also works the other way as I seem to take it as permission to continuing eating as long as there are net calories left and the graphic for that is green lol.

I have ended the calorie day at 1630, exercise was an hour of walking and 40 minutes extra walking with weights, plus 15 min of heavy lifting.

Congrats on not blowing off the day cal wise, Marie! Huzzah!

Hello all,

Yippee ~ I get a today

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So Far MFP is working ok for me. I have not had too add any more of my own foods as everything has been there. I'll admit I did not figure out the nutrition in my mac & cheese I made for lunch today, but I used the one they had in there as it seemed about right. My mouse is driving me crazy still so I don't enjoy being online even though I can use touch. I still miss my mouse for somethings as my touch is not so accurate sometimes. My calories today are 1372 and my carb serv are 12 so I'm happy with that. Hopefully I will not eat any more tonight. I ate a lot of fruit (fresh cherries! yummy!!) but only had one vegetable...a small salad at lunch. Still need to work at getting more veggies back into my diet. I like MFP because at the end of your day's entry it tells you what you'll be in 5 weeks if you eat every day like you ate today. Can either motivate you or depress you I should think....definiteliy makes you think at least.

Amara and Marie - I would put exercise in MFP if I ever get some...it works the same way as your programs. I've missed the gym so far this week and only went one time last week! Today our dd and the gk were here. That's why I fixed my mac and cheese....forgot how yummy it is but I ate only a little. Will not get to the gym tomorrow either...maybe Thurs or Fri.

Had an amazingly uplifting career and personal day in which it came to my attention that many more people approved of moi than moi had previously thought.

But THEN came the dark side (horrors) ... couldn't stop eating today, happens every now and then lol. Not a binge because I am at a confident stage of life where I don't need to binge, just hungry and wanted the enjoyment of food to an extent that does not track with my weight aspirations for this week.

Ending eating day at 2580! Don't regret a bite of it! Life goes on. Woot!

Exercise was C25K, W2D1, followed by 30 minutes of just walking. So pleasant.

Work is catching up with tomorrow with the night meeting thingie and must NOT use that as a reason to eat extra food. Soldierin' on ...

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Maryea, thanks for the info on how you like MFP. I am constantly seeking the perfect diet/fitness tracker app ... love apps!

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Glynne!!! Woot on the perky new flower ye earned yesterday. Ye are doin' great!

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To all, good morrow!

Good evening all,

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Having a headache tonight, often times when I don't feel good, I just don't feel any desire to be bothered with trying to do the "right" thing eating wise. But, made it through tonight without going that route. Sometimes, ice cream (I had read and experienced) would help a headache, but these headaches lately, even ice cream didn't help, so no use wasting calories on that method of headache relief. I guess these headaches are having a different cause than ones in the past. I think my cervical spine is messed up. My neck hurts pretty much all the time now. Not sure if it is due to the crummy ergonomic arrangement of my work station, or from the strap on my c-pap mask being tight at the back of my neck. I have made changes to the set up of my work station ~ it has sort of helped ~ the sciatic pain is somewhat better ~ or at least not as bothersome as it had been. But it seems that as I fix things and help one painful place, I get pain somewhere else. I have tried to loosen the strap on my c-pap mask, but when I do that, I get bad air leaks. Just can't win. Pain, pain, go away, come again some other day. Sorry for whining ~ thank you for listening.

Take care