I hope it's okay that I join you girls ! Just started about 5 days ago. Been good and on track besides inability to exersize (raining like crazy. going tomorrow !)
Today was kind of a hard day, it seems like I just can't get full which was weird because I'd been doing so well. I didn't do bad, at least..
Breakfast: 1 1/2 cup honey nut Scooters (cherrio knock off), 1/2 cup skim milk
Snack: Fiberone 90 calorie chocolate & PB granola bar
I have totally been off course....really don't want to see the damage when I get home.
3/16-3/20 we had total of 3 families come and pick up their babies they adopted, of course we have to take them out, and sometimes, well ALOT of times being overseas they still want American food. So we had lots of hamburgers our church's 30th anniversary was the 18th and can we just say Baptist potluck is the same anywhere in the world...way too much food!!
Top all that off with migraine attack after the stress of everything and everyone went home. AND my knees have been killing me. I think doing 30DS and then walking 2miles just exhuasted my knees. One is feeling better the other is ok now I think.
NOW Thursday we traveled 6hrs for a wedding and in Taiwan weddings are 13 course meals!! but alot of seafood which I don't eat, so that wasn't too bad. But we are staying with family and go back home on Monday.
So, next week I have to get better into a routine. I tried Jillian Michael's Yoga dvd only to find that I am not a pretzel....totally not flexible!!! goodness!!! But I don't know what to do.....just do walking and add my own strength routine or walking and yoga.
So ladies.....I gotta get back on the wagon and work at this again.....totally discouraged by all the events messing things up.
I started out okay. I had some fruit...but that lead to pasta...twice, lunch and dinner, and not a small amount...and later that night I had some Bailey's Irish Cream which was soooo good but soooo not what I needed at that point.
I don't think working out helped a single bit after that...but today I'm doing well, had some doughnuts because that's all I had access to but my calorie intake is fine for the time of day. I was on my feet lifting heavy stuff for 4 hours and I might still work out tonight if I can so yaya!
Yesterday's calorie count was probably hitting on like 3000...I blame the drinks!
This week had been a little higher calorie wise for me, plus I hadn't exercised for a few days due to my surgery. Nothing outrageous, though. Overall I think I've done pretty well.
Breakfast: Muffin=320
Snack: Reduced fat Ritz crackers w/ cheese=130
Lunch: Cheese sandwich w/ pickles and mustard, slice of lemon cake=360
Supper: Cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles, light mayo on flatbread, banana=700
Total: 1510
Exercise: Turbo Jam Cardio Party 3 (50 min) - finally back to exercising & it feels good!
Today was GREAT! I resisted almost having some fried fish (long johns) shoved in my mouth, I went to the movies armed with my OWN popcorn & didn't even eat it (too busy watching the movie to sneak it out!), and I still have 50-150 calories to eat and I'm not hungry. I even treated myself to a glass of milk & coffee cake to bring my calories up. I'm about to do my strength training, will probably have a sugar free Popsicle after. To top it off I weighed in 6lbs lighter than when I started this. Great day.
B; 1.5c Honey but scooters
1/2c Skim Milk
Teaspoon cinnamon
S; 1/2 A natures own thin cinnamon & raisin bagel w/ 1 serving laughing cow cheese.
L; 5oz Chicken breast cooked in skillet w/ Pam & spices. Cut into a nice big salad w/ two tablespoons Italian dressing.
D; 4oz Tuna w/ 1/2 teaspoon miracle whip, 1/2 teaspoon honey mustard, chopped pickle. 2 slices sarahlee wheat delight 45 cal bread. 1 WW string cheese. 1/2 can healthy choice Campbell's tomato soup. 1/2 of a half a piece of a buttered French bread roll.
I decided to go for a 750-calorie deficit instead of 500 (and to forgive myself if I only do 500 some days), because I think sometimes I'm eating more calories just because I can.
I'm keeping an eye on the Fitbit website, which tells me how many calories I can eat (according to how active I've been). Most days I earn a pretty good surplus. I need to be less eager to eat those calories back in chocolate!
Right now it says I can only have 591 more calories (out of 1303). I'm going to build my allowance up to at least 2,000, and try to eat only 1,750 total.
The weather here is beautiful -- it's almost a sin to be indoors today!
Scalewise, I'm doing fine. Still in the low 130s. (125 is my goal, and no lower). Two people told me today that if I lost any more weight, the wind would blow me away. (I'm a long way from that, but it was nice to hear anyway. I really am close to the goal that I would've thought was impossible a year ago!)
I've been out of town over the weekend. I plan to catch back up with everyone Monday. In the meantime, I uploaded some before/after pics if anyone is interested "Slow Dancing with a Stranger"
I ate a plant based diet with some fish and poultry, (I ran out of eggs). I felt satisfied most every meal. I resisted most urges of foods that are bad for me. All in all I’m a success this week and I feel that I can continue down this road.
I've been out of town over the weekend. I plan to catch back up with everyone Monday. In the meantime, I uploaded some before/after pics if anyone is interested "Slow Dancing with a Stranger"
Enjoy
Wow, you look terrific! What a difference a 17-22 lb loss makes! Did you lose most of that 17 lbs (165 to 148) by running or were you doing weights at that time as well? Keep up the fantastic work!
Oh and you mentioned in that thread about your cravings/hunger hit hardest about a week before TOM then taper as it approaches? GET OUT! We must be dopple gangers cause you just described me to a T.