Lindy!

I love the women on this thread, I'm so glad I found it! I'm sure you'll enjoy it as much as I do.

That's a bummer about the gain. It seems that when people do that, it's because they've deprived themselves pretty hard to get where they want to be, then go the opposite direction at some point.

I encourage the experimentation of calories. See what will let you lose a pound a week, and stick with that combo. I think the more calories you can consume while still losing, the best - because that's what you're more likely to stick with.

Good luck and glad to have you aboard!

Total calories for January 8 were 1302 with 35% coming from fat!

Calorie deficit since January 1 - 3216

Anyone else having problems with this website? Takes forever for the pages to load, and I cannot get to Page 6 of this thread for the life of me. It loads partway, and then it hangs! Frustrating!!!

I have hard wood floors at my house too. I ripped that carpet out at my mom's house. I forgot how much hard work it was.

I use the higher count. Which is usually my handwritten notes. I know that those are more accurate.

I've had occasional problems in the past of not being able to get to a certain page,and it going very, very slowly, but not today. I find it VERY frustrating when that happens. I mean I NEED my morning fix of 3FC!!! (and my afternoon fix and my evening fix)

Hi SlimLindy, really glad to have you here at this forum. Good luck with maintaining. I have no input on this front, because I haven't been to goal since I was in my early twenties. I'm 43 now. But I most certainly do look forward to getting to goal and being a maintainer. Although I know there will be new struggles to deal with when I do get there. It never gets any easier does it?

We were talking yesterday about the artificial sweetners, I know it's something that I should probably be eliminating all together, but for the time being I can't, okay won't is a better word. I try to keep it to a minimum. I should also try to eliminate a lot of the sodium I've been inhaling lately. I know this is no excuse whatsoever, but I guess at this point they're my only vices. I don't drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes or anything else for that matter. I don't drink coffee. I don't drink more then a glass or 2 of diet soda a week. So, I've told myself for the time being a little artificial sweetner and some extra sodium is okay for now. Would I be better off eliminating it? Yes. Am I going to? For now, no.

Monday's calories - about 1150, with NOT ENOUGH exercise. UNACCEPTABLE

Have a great day everyone.

1496 calories for Sunday, 1569 for Monday, and a whole lotta walking.

It snowed last night! That makes me feel cold. I want to find a cave somewhere and hibernate.

Julie

I had 1020 calories for Monday. I did 20 mins on the Gazelle then some stretching on the ball and some weights. This morning when I weighed myself I was down another lb.!!!!!! Which makes me very happy since the scale has not moved since Friday. I know that I shouldn't weigh myself every morning but it gives me motivation to keep going. Yah!!!!!

Hello Ladies...
I'm really frustrated because I feel so bloated and fat today. My AF is here which I know is contributing to this icky feeling, but I have been working so hard and so I hate it when I feel fat. I peeped on the scale this morning, which I told myself I wouldn't and I am still at 199, and thats before breakfast! I know I was really good last week so I think the reason for no movement is because I am bloated but still, it puts a damper on my day for sure. I feel so frustrated, I have so much to lose and I was hoping for at least a pound, even with the bloat...
Yesterdays calories were around 1000... I only ate B,L, and D no snacks. I had jury duty so it was stressful and I didnt feel like eating. For breakfast I had protein plus special K, for lunch I had 1/3 of a burrito, thats all I could down, and for dinner I had a turkey wrap.....
I hope you all have great days today, sorry for the downer post.

Imenonelse - I know how you feel! I think my T.O.M. is about here, and now that I've got my eating on track this week, I have a feeling I'm still not going to see the scale go down because of it. Do yourself a favor and don't weigh yourself again until it's over and you're not bloated. It's just punishment otherwise. Your body gets bloated at that time- not much we can do about it. Just keep up the good work and you'll see the results when the excess water bloatage is gone gone gone!

Ugh TOM. Yesterday we went to red lobster and I did good. I had 1/2 order of grilled salmon, with broccoli as a side. I didn't eat the veggies though since they were loaded with so much butter one bite made me gag, literally. I hate butter. ANYWAY, well I stupidly tried one of the cheddar bay bisquits and the salt made my body go WHEEEE (since it was TOM and my TOM loves salt!) and I ended up eating 3 of them. My body felt so good afterwards, but it brought my calorie count into the 1600s, which isn't that bad but I was aiming for lower.

As for artificial sweetners, I probably have too many of them too, but I don't care that much... I've been eating them all my life because my mom was all into the fat free sugar free crazes and that's what we ate. Therefore, I actually prefer fat free dairy and such, the other stuff just tastes gross to me. Go figure. I also like to put splenda in my cottage cheese, but I also add a little bit of vanilla extract. YUM! Sometimes I add a few strawberries too, which is even yummier!

Hi all - thanks again for the comments - well I weighed this morning and for my first full week - I went down 3 lbs!!! Get to change the ticker!!!
I want to be under 150 next!!!

Calories today will be around 1200 640 right now but I have no idea what will be for dinner yet - I think I may do tuna since I am low on protein....

Exercise will come later - DD has gymnastics at 4:30 so when we get home I will jump on the treadmill and do my ball crunches etc....

SlimLindy- sounds like we are in the same boat - I lost all my weight earlier last year and let it all come back - NEVER AGAIN!!!!

Talk to you gals later!!!

1,017 calories for the day with a whopping 36% coming from fat. I'm tempted to eat another 200 calories worth of carrots just to get that fat number down.

Instead, I'm curling into bed with David Caruso. I love CSI:Miami... even the reruns on A&E.

Total deficit for January - 3560 which means that tomorrow morning when I weigh myself, I will be one pound lighter than I was January 1. :-)

Thanks for the hello, guys! Today I had 1350 calories, lower than I usually do, but I'm content so I'll stop.

B: apple, cottage cheese
L: HUGE bowl roasted veggies with small quantity lean roast beef, 1 cup Healthy Choice Italian wedding soup
S: 4 clementines
S: ww tortilla with broccoli slaw, egg substitute, and laughing cow light cheese triangle (bizarre, but it was stuff I had on hand)
D: ww tortilla with broccoli slaw, egg substitute, and laughing cow light cheese triangle (Liked my odd snack so much I did it again!), salsa, 1 cup butternut-apple soup
S: dark chocolate, tea

Ran 3.9 miles, elliptical 2X (60 minutes each time).

FL-MOM-OF-2: Hi! Getting there then regaining... it is agonizing, isn't it? But it's a lot better now that I'm doing something about it. I was so emotionally distraught while I was gaining that this feels a million times better.

Sakuya: Nice to hear someone else does the splenda in cottage cheese! Today I added cinnamon too!

Lindy

Does anyone know how to update Fitday with the exercise? The Basal and all those things? How can you change those? Once I put in my workout stuff in does it automatically change the others? What are they for anyway?

Today was great. But I was way too low on calories. So when I was guilted into having a slice of my husbands birthday cake I did. 1756 calories for today, which is in my range to lose 1 lb a week so I guess it's still alright although it is high... After today though all holidays are over until my birthday in May. We are also starting school and I am still working so there will be no more going out for dinner every week!

Now I am officially starting my attempt to lose 10-20 lbs this year. I have no set goal, I'd just like to do it by the end of the year. But for now I'll make my goal 5 lbs by my birthday, May 7. Go me.

Breakfast: 2 banana pudding protein bars (homemade, always) (291)
Lunch: wrap with chicken romaine and a little dressing, sweet potato (271)
Dinner: Turkey chili, 1 cup ff frozen yogurt, 133g strawberries (575)
Birthday dessert: slice chocolate cake (610)

Calories deficit today: 403

Not a huge number, but a very stressful day. I just want to curl up and eat a 2 pound box of See's chocolate and sleep. But, I'll resist.