Yea Robin!!! I LOVE watching your ticker go down! I believe when I started on 3FC you were over 200... it is truly cool to see you have such consistent and sometimes BIG (like 5 lbs) losses!!! Great job!
And Allison -- you are doing EXCELLENT too! You are so close to goal!!!
Sorry to follow your uplifting posts with my confession -- I got all off program over spring break. Between lots of eating out and Easter dinner (feast!), I checked the damage this morning and am up 2lbs. I can't lie to myself (I do think that's the worst LIE of all - denial), so I moved that blasted ticker up... AGAIN. Feel free to give me a swift kick too ... I evidently need it!
Needless to say, this will be a strict week for me... I have four weeks till my goal, and it's a BEACH goal no less! So, there's my confession and my plan.
Great job to ALL who held their own over Easter and maintained... or BETTER... who LOST!!! AWESOME! I plan to use all of you for my inspiration this week!
Good Morning! I took a two day vacation on calorie counting, I'm sure I was under 1200 on Saturday. Sunday I ate a tiny bit of everything including a slice of Lemon merange pie. I made those cute little coconut nests with 6 jelly beans in each for our place setting, I ate mine then preceded to eat my grandsons since he didn't want it. This morning my scale was up about a pound but we had ham yesterday and everyone knows how salty that is. I sent home with my grandsons all the extra candy that wouldn't fit in their Easter baskets. (Not that I would be tempted, candy isn't anything I'd waste my calories on) I use a visual graph to document my daily weights and today I'll need to make my 3rd chart. I have 9 weeks on each one (18 weeks total), today I'm going to make my new graph with only Mondays on it. Since I'm below goal I don't need to weigh in every morning and it's become such a habit. It'll probably drive me crazy not knowing all week but I'm going try it anyway. It's back to calorie counting again today, that's something I'll probably always have to monitor. I should check into the maintainer's thread and see what they've done. I hate to start getting involved in another thread, I know you all so well and I spend enough time on the computer just trying to keep up with this thread. We're off to the Fitness center, catch ya all tomorrow. Bobbi
Justme ~ My DH and I quit smoking and have the same problem with the smell. I am wondering how much longer he will be willing to bowl because he had almost a month away from bowling and Saturday night he said the smoke was almost suffocating to him. Great job at the circus.
Theresa ~ I regret buying the candy, well one in particular. I will not be buying those again for a while. I should know that I have never been able to resist eating that particular candy but everyone likes them in my family including DGS. If he saw me open one he was right their to eat half.
Zoe ~ I totally lost it Sunday. I felt the stuffing the face come on and lost all self control. I normally am very controlled but I just snapped on Sunday. I would have been better off if we did have a normal Easter dinner because I am not a fan of ham. Good job with keeping your calories that low on a holiday.
Allison ~ Your are doing fantastic. Keep up the good work and you will be at your goal soon.
Lovemyboy ~ WTG at staying in your range on a holiday. Congrats.
Claire ~ Brush yourself off and just get going again. You can reach your goal, we all know you can.
Bobbi ~ I hope you have time to stick around but if you don’t I totally understand you needing to. You have reached your goal and the last thing we want to see is you gain any of it back and the best place to learn how to maintain is with a group that is maintaining. I am sure its just water weight gain. If you think about it, you know you didn’t eat enough to really gain two pounds, that would be a lot of food.
Phyllis ~ Congrats on the wedding anniversary and doing so well on Easter.
I totally agree with Bobbi, I don’t want to waste anymore calories on candy. I am going to put DH’s in his closet, ODD/DGS candy is at her house and YDD can keep hers in her room. I really want to continue to see the scale drop each week. This week is particularly frustrating because of water but the way I look at it, as long as I continue to keep my calorie counts down I am really losing even if it doesn’t show on the scale yet. Maybe I will see a huge loss when the water leaves.
I was so horrible yesterday and totally out of control. I was so out of control I was trying to get my DH to help me get my binge back under control but he just he just stayed out of it. I can’t even imagine what my calorie count was but I am right back at it today 100%. DH’s Step-mom ended up not cooking us lunch after all. We took out sandwich fixings, chips, cake and a salad because she had nothing to offer us. She had ham in the oven for her kids who were coming out later. Needless to say I was hot since we were invited out and had to bring the meal. I told DH she has a rude awakening when something happens to his Dad because I can deal with these double standards anymore. I ate almost twice what I should have for lunch and the finished the day out that way. I couldn’t speak my mind so I think my eating monster was awakened.
I won’t be weighing until probably Thursday because I don’t want to see what TOM and my Easter Sunday binge have done to my weight. Shoes and rings are tight and my legs feel stiff, that tells me enough. I realize its nothing permanent but I still don’t want to see or face it.
Well I better get going for now and I will check back in later.
Hi everybody ... had an internet glitch here this weekend. I'm gonna try to go back and bumble thru my weekend at fitday. I don't like to leave a day blank ... messes up my averages.
Keep up the good work. You must have worked extra hard to keep away from all of the goodies that show up on a holiday like this one. Those pounds of yous are smokin right off.Congrats.
Congrats to everyone, that has tried so hard.Even if you had 1-2 bad days this week, don't forget how hard you worked the rest of the week. Its one day at a time.
Lara
drink Water! all that salt from the week end is causing the swelling up. You will do great this week. convince your self.
Bobby
I tried the Ginger Asian salad dressing on Chicken, mmmmmmm Love it.
I will be doing more of that. Have not tried it on a salad yet.
Its such a difference from the same old thing ever day.
I agree with Lara, we enjoy your company, please stick around.
I stayed at my numbers so I did not gain. Yeah! me. I did not buy any candy for the holiday!
I have not been on a real scale yet today. I think I lost one pound over the week end. My family knows how hard I have been trying too. So they are being very supportive.
even my son said "he is proud of me... that is seems like a lot of work... the calorie counting and food planning."
I had a pretty bad week. ONE day was perfectly on plan, four days were slightly bad, and two days were VERY bad. Overall, I ate about 700 more calories than I burned. I hate to spend so much energy on something and get nothing out of it. This week, I'm going to try to remind myself of how frustrated I feel whenever I try to tell myself it's okay to go just a little bit over... or that it's ok to binge.
Theresa ~ Thank you so much for the words of encouragement. I am back on track today and as long as I have been dieting I am used to getting back up after falling on my face. Great job on staying on track.
GOSH!! I'm feeling so much better today...On track, a bit lighter on calories so far today, I feel good!!
....I tried to figuere out the damage from yesterday and I figuere somewhere between 2500-2900 maybe...It wasn't as bad as I thought when I sat down this afternoon and tried to add it all up.... THE WORST was when my SIL (whose 9 months pregnant) brother and I grabbed the kids Easter basket and munched on all the reeses and snickers mini's....and some gummy life savers....right there I have no idea how many we ate. Anyways, I normally weigh myself every morning...but decided I wont even step on the scale today...I'm used to the normal weight changes that happen day by day, but just dont want to face that bloated number, tomorrow it will look better!!
Justme ~ I kinda rough estimated my fall flate on my face to be around 3100 calories but today I am determined to keep it around 1500 calories. It was a huge slip and in reality that is how I used to eat each and every day of my life. I am so glad I no longer eat that way. I just totally felt out of control.
Justme ~ I kinda rough estimated my fall flate on my face to be around 3100 calories but today I am determined to keep it around 1500 calories. It was a huge slip and in reality that is how I used to eat each and every day of my life. I am so glad I no longer eat that way. I just totally felt out of control.
I'm glad i dont eat that way anymore either....I felt HORRIBLE last night, not from guilt but just so bad physically. Today, so far I've only ate 450 calories breakfast a bowl of oatmeal and lunch a lean cuisine....I'm not hungry at all, but I feel great!! The difference between being stuffed full and eating lightly...I so much rather eat 1500 calories a day...I feel better!!! I'll probably hit about 1000 calories today and be fine...2 snacks and dinner left to go....by the sounds of the other posts online today, I think we're not alone at falling off the wagon yesterday....YOU KNOW WHAT??? If we slip up only during the major holidays each year (Thanksgiving Christmas Easter....)Its only a couple days a YEAR, in the long run it wont make us fat....eating like that DAILY did!!
Hi all! I really missed checking in everyday while I was gone!
I don't think I did too bad this weekend calorie wise. I was under 1500 on Friday and just over 1500 yesterday. Saturday I was at approx 1800 calories, but there was lamb and I REALLY like lamb. Plus, we went out with my cousin that night and I had a glass of port.
I don't talk about this much, but I've had problems with depression at different points in my life and the big D is starting to rear it's ugly head again. This weekend was awful. What's confusing me is that this time around my personal life is great! I love my DH and he has been wonderful. My job sucks, but that's bound to happen time to time. I just don't understand why this is happening now? Is it possible that my body is having a hard time adjusting to the weight loss? I called and made a doctor's appointment today (I go in Wednesday morning.) I completely lost it at work this morning and had to come home. I was so embarrassed! I slept all afternoon. We'll see what the doctor says. I really hope that this doesn't effect my weight loss too much.
Today my calories are low for me at around 1500. I'm just not hungry and I didn't pig out yesterday either. I'm afraid I'm coming down with something. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'm not.
I had a small victory today. I've been stretching and walking for a while before I started calorie counting. I have been within an inch of being able to touch the floor when I touch my toes, but I couldn't do it and it was making me crazy. Today, as I stretched I reached right down and did it like I'd been doing it all along! I'm so happy!
I don't talk about this much, but I've had problems with depression at different points in my life and the big D is starting to rear it's ugly head again. This weekend was awful.
zenor~I hope everything is okay with you. You are not alone here--there are a lot of folks here on 3FC that suffer similar problems. Perhaps check out the other forums to see if you can get some insight there as well. Just don't leave us. We're here for you.
Feel free to give me a swift kick too ... I evidently need it!
I hate to spend so much energy on something and get nothing out of it. 
This week, I'm going to try to remind myself of how frustrated I feel whenever I try to tell myself it's okay to go just a little bit over... or that it's ok to binge.
I was so embarrassed! I slept all afternoon. We'll see what the doctor says. I really hope that this doesn't effect my weight loss too much.
