Yest cals-1890 Ex-step class & yoga class at the Y.
I was so happy to return to my Y classes. My back is nearly back to my normal-it is always a little problematic. Also, today was my "official" weigh in day and I qualified to move the ticker down one notch. Yippee! My future daughter in law's mother called yesterday and told me not to worry about the dress. I sent my pics and she said they were all lovely. Plus, she still has not decided and does not want to hold me up. I thought that was very nice of her. I still have not decided either but I may go with the lace one since it just looks like something for a wedding.
Am2-Congrats on all those steps logged, they sure add up.That is quite an accomplishment.
Marie- Ha, ha on the back comment. My husband would concur. That was nice of you to stroll with the young ones and allow your DIL to shop. I hope your wrists recover quickly. Your calories are amazing. As Randy Jackson would say-"You are in it to win it!" Keep up the good work.
Tera, that is excellent news. I'm so happy for you. BTW, I enjoyed adding loads of smilies. Those employers are smart. They hired you so without a doubt they have know good when they meet it. So glad your back is back to your normal. Those Y exercises are great.
Am2, hope your day is fabulous! I do know you're walking about everywhere.
I did the hard elliptical workout today and did a decent job. Not a great distance but decent. The asthma sidetracked me so many times over the last 16 months, that since it's pretty good, I decided to attempt it. Used my inhaler before the high intervals and that made it possible. Food wise, I will end at 1402 cals. I have a routine I know I've probably shared, but I make a 250 cal hot fudge sundae as my nightly dose of yummy. Sort of a reward for when I'm good. That means I have to leave that many cals in my total. I didn't today. DH made homemade sourdough pizza and I had my little slices. Lunch I have one but this was dinner and I ate two. It was so good and I still had room in the cals with the sundae. But the dough recipe makes two crusts or a crust and a loaf of bread. He left the bread for me to bake so it could finish rising after he left for work. I couldn't resist. Fresh, hot sourdough bread. The ice cream is history tonight. So worth it. Now, up until I got on my strict limits I would have told myself, I don't care, I want it. But I do care and I want to lose weight more. The ice cream enjoyment would have lasted 10 minutes and the self-scolding would have lasted at least 24 hours. Probably longer. BTW, the pleasure in persevering is gonna last a bit too. I want when I eat more than my goal for it to be planned and thought out. Like the 28th when we do the 60 mile bike ride. I will overeat my plan and I'm okay with that. It won't fill me with any guilt. Today, giving into the I don't cares would have. I don't have to deal with that now.
Marie
Am2-Thx for the kind acknowledgments. I m very excited to start a new position and meet new people.
Marie-Thank you also for the hearty congrats. Your display of smilies are adorable. I know exactly how you feel about food choices, planning and avoiding guilt. Guilt discourages me from bad food choices. I truly dislike the weight and health consequences of poor eating choices. Consequently, I feel both guilt and regret when I indulge in junk food. However, those bad feelings are mitigated if I plan to eat something I truly enjoy. I try to leave room in the calorie count and I try not to eat it too often. I am all for enjoying yummy food though. I love your recognizing the pleasure in perserving. Choosing to revel in the warmth of making the right food choice is a great strategy.
Hi all, this morning I really struggled with the munches. I think it was a result of a nasty run in with my scale. I truly hate the thing. It fluctuates and the up fluctuation really mess with my subconscious thoughts. I don't let it get me on a conscious level but I think it does on the beneath level. I stayed with it, except the 7 CheeseIts of which I logged. My goal after work is to be angelic because I really want my ice cream treat tonight. Last night was hard but good for me.
Tera, I'm a tad envious of your calorie intakes. But you know what works for you and I know what works for me. Ok I'm very envious. I wish I was taller. My allotment is too low to have many pleasure eats. I have been known to give up healthy calories to get my treats. Fruit and verges are usually the first to go.
Am2, yuck on the dentist. I have to do that next month. Your activity level is fabulous. I wish my job was not a desk one like my DH. He uses work and just a little exercise to maintain or lose. Oh and he gets paid to exercise. Military....
Marie
Marie-my calorie totals are mainly guesses so I may be high. However, I am consistent so for my purposes it works. I know I will lose around my"1800". However that said, I have changed my diet quite a bit in the last year, particularly in the last few months. I avoid my "big three" problem areas- wheat, sugar and dairy and consequently I eat less and less processed or restaurant food. Since the change, it is much easier for me to hit my 1800. I eat lots and lots of vegetables and quite a bit of fruit and some meat, nuts, seeds, beans and other grains (not oatmeal, rice and wheat). This has been pretty easy since I was not working so we will see what happens next week!
Am2-Hope the dental appmt went well. I am very grateful for the work they do. My mother in law had to have all her teeth pulled when she was in her early sixties. Can you imagine?! We are so fortunate to have affordable and convenient care available.
Good morning, all! I am working tonight, long drive, so using day to get the steps in so I won't be worried about it, have not worked this job since August & wasn't step counting then but have become addicted to it & want to get my minimum of 12,000 done. I wear the tracker all the time when awake so will get more on the job, although it is a meeting & I mostly sit.
I think getting steps on the job does add satisfaction to working for money.
Marie, I used to lose at higher calorie averages but the weekly average right now that seems to be right for losing seems similar to yours. I calorie cycle so I can get treats in & eat low on non-hungry days.
I did have a massive gluten free brownie yesterday. Unlike wheat based treats I was able to just eat the brownie & not want another one. It was good, made by one of the best GF specialty bakeries sold at Sprouts. Awesome, really.
My dental appointment was stressful. I love my dentist but my decision on something is not what she recommends & because I do respect & need her, it stresses me but I always decide what is best for me.
Tera, for me, too, it has been easier since the change I made in my eating. It has been easier during the long period of not working & I also am not sure what working will do to my eating. I am being very vigilant lol.
That said, yesterday was a bit high at 1940.
Today did 15 mins of circuit training and have 4000 more steps to get done before work later.
I actually love the scale despite its demonic fluctuations. It better behave on Saturday, though, or I will turn it into a lamp.
Tera, eeks!!! I can't imagine having all my teeth pulled out. That must of been so difficult to adjust to. Not sure I can agree that dental care is affordable but it is nice to have so we can keep chewing... So when do you start your new job?
Am2 at making the scale a lamp. Yesterday I b!tched about it to DH and said I should just drown it in the pool. He asked if it would solve the problem. I'm thinking probably not but it sure would feel good.
I'm going to end the day at 1381 and had a good morning elliptical workout. I figured something out. I sort of thought I overindulged when I was mad or angry and that isn't the case. Rarely does that make me grab for food. I noted that it's in the mad/angry vain but it is really when I'm frustrated that I munch indiscriminately. I really didn't realize that before this week. And today was frustrating but I stayed true to my path. I also did a good thing for me and a couple of my co-workers. Yesterday one co-workers brought in a tray of cookies. Probably about 3 dozen left over from his wife's meeting. He set them on a table that is on the way to the restroom. I'm not the only one that fights munchies in my little office. We all do, including the co-worker. So he was going to a meeting this morning and I told him to take the cookies with him. Basically he said no and I said they needed to go. He said, put them on his desk. So I did and they were no longer tempting every time I walked by. I stood up for what I needed. I truly am sick of people sabotaging my efforts as well as my other co-workers. One of the has been staying on plan mostly for a couple months. Yesterday she succumbed to about 6 cookies. If they hadn't been in front of her face, she wouldn't have eaten them. That type of stuff just makes me mad. Anyway, I thought I did good. BTW, the co-worker that brought them had lost about 15 pounds this fall. This evening when I left there were less cookies than when I put them in his office. Work is not a good place for tempting treats. There's too much stress, frustrating and munching. But for me, it was a victory.
Marie
Marie, I want to munch for no reason at all sometimes. I just want food when any stressful or negative thought even crosses my mind.
It has gotten vastly better since I started on the no wheat thingie. Yesterday I sailed through a very stressful day, right up to midnight (when I mercifully fell asleep lol).
Woot! Working today but determined to get all the steps in and I hope some yoga!
Calories were 1190 for Thursday, April 19.
Exercise was 12,000+ steps and I do intend during this temporary work stint (which actually is at a previous job, so that was nice last night to see people I knew at the meeting I worked) to get the steps done as assignment number one. I also as stated yesterday did circuit training, although not a lot.
Have a good day all. I am feeling quite focused so better get going.
yest cals-1760 Ex-yoga. I have been doing a lot of running around lately trying to figure out what I can get done before going back to work. A lot of cleaning and errands and planting outdoors. I am so excited to be starting something new next week.
Am2-You are very vigilant and it is working. The brownie sounds yummy. My DH makes me buckwheat pancakes on Sunday. They actually have some wheat but at least it is supposedly whole grain. I apparently can still be successful losing weight when eating them so it is unnecessary for me to banish them to the party food list.
Marie-You are right about the cookies. Why do you think the wife sent them away? It is an interesting problem-almost like smoking used to be. On the one hand it is a personal thing but it could be argued it impinges on the well being of others. Besides it deragotory effect on dieters, a person could argue the sanitary aspects of bringing food into the workplace-were proper food prepartion procedures followed? Is it safe to eat? How many ungloved hands touched those cookies by then? Plus there is desk contamination to consider from the growth of bacteria from food accumulating on desk components. Okay, who wants to go there-I love eating at my desk and a little bacteria rarely hurts anyone and there are such things as wipes. However, in the end, it is pretty difficult to rock the boat at work and not cause bigger problems. So, one just has to try to be strong. But again, I do think you are right.
Hmmm, just to weigh in on people bringing food into offices to tempt coworkers, I have a different view. I used to work in places where eating was a serious part of the job culture. When losing my major weight I protested back then when people kept putting treats out until I realized it just made them do it more, so I learned to say nothing & just not eat it because I realized they would not change & the only way I could protect my weight loss was to not put any of it in my body, make the treats not exist. When I felt coworkers were just getting obnoxious with the treats sometime, I'd start bringing in big bags of candy & cookies for THEM & not eat it myself lol.
Because in the final analysis, it is a personal decision to eat something or not eat it. If someone else eats something not good for them, that is their business & not mine. I have no right to tell anyone what to eat & no one can make me eat something I do not intend to eat unless I am a 1900s Suffragette or something being force fed in a prison or unconscious in a hospital receiving nutrients in a feeding tube, or some such circumstance.
Last edited by Amarantha2; 04-19-2013 at 09:48 PM.
Am2, woots on the steps. I loved you bringing candy and cookies in for the co-workers since they wouldn't help stop bringing in stuff. That was too funny and so right to do. I understand your point of view but 3 dozen cookies for 5 people was ridiculous.
Tera, I'd be like you if I were returning to work - seeing how much you could get done. I love the visual of how contaminated a workplace treat could and probably is. I think next time I see a ridiculous pile of cookies I'll envision the mucous cartoon characters that I've seen for cold medicine commercials. That should help.
So the funny part today, the co-worker stopped by my office carrying his tray of cookies to offer me one before he took the tray across the parking lot to the main office (we're a standalone satellite building). I shook my head and grinned after he left. He was sick of them tempting him too. I hope he never brings them again. But his wife seems intent on dumping the cookies on us. It wasn't the first time so I doubt it will be the last. But I did not have a single one.
I ended the day at 1300 cals +- 25. I hiked with the pups before work. Tomorrow DH and I are going on a 30 mile training ride. The saddle sore from last week hasn't healed but I plan to just deal with it. A friend that rides distances recommended chamois butter and said it was amazing. I bought some, especially after reading the reviews. So I'm hopeful.
Marie
:che er:
So worth it. Now, up until I got on my strict limits I would have told myself, I don't care, I want it. But I do care and I want to lose weight more. The ice cream enjoyment would have lasted 10 minutes and the self-scolding would have lasted at least 24 hours. Probably longer. BTW, the pleasure in persevering is gonna last a bit too. 
My allotment is too low to have many pleasure eats. I have been known to give up healthy calories to get my treats. Fruit and verges are usually the first to go. 
But I did not have a single one.
