I haven't noticed they've been sore, but I've been trying to ease into it gently. No point in doing stuff I'm not ready for. I suppose I should be happy I've only maintained and not gained.

But I can tell it's doing some good - my thighs especially have changed shape. The muscles are so much more defined and I have lost a LOT of flab from them.

It's a legs bums and tums workout, and I can't see my bum, and my tum is still VERY well-covered so I can't see much diff there yet. My SO says my bum is looking good but he always said that anyway, so no help there! ;)

Originally Posted by Robsia:
My SO says my bum is looking good but he always said that anyway, so no help there! ;)

He-he!! Sounds like my fab DH also!! I mean he's excited I'm working on getting healthy, but he's always been excited about my bum!

I have eaten sooo badly this weekend that I feel awful! I'm seriously nauseous. Monday can't come soon enough. I'd like to sleep from now til then.

1227 was my deficit yesterday. I need to bookmark this thread so I remember to put it in here.
I am very happy because I finally lost a half a pound. :carrot: Bummed though as I hear the ticker doesn't do halves.
I guess that roller skating I did helped.:D Maybe I need to rethink my calorie intake... 10x says I should eat 1300 and 12x says 1560. I am trying to stay between the 2 but I am not really having much luck losing the weight. I did up my aerobics to 1 hour yesterday. I am wondering though if Fitday is right about the calories burned. Can someone have a look for me?

http://www.fitday.com/WebFit/PublicJ...er=grapecoffee

Good morning, all :)

This is my first post to this thread, though I did put a post in the Support forum.

Just a quick introduction: My name is Jenny, and I'm 28. I am just shy of 5' tall, and currently weigh about 198 :o I am looking to become healthier and lose weight by counting calories and making smart changes that I can sustain for a lifetime.

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This weekend was pretty much a waste :( I didn't exercise, and I didn't eat all that well. I just don't know how to keep myself motivated on the weekends. I think the structure of work during the week keeps me in line, but on the weekends anything goes.

But now, it's a brand new day. At SusanB's suggestion, I'm trying to eat a bit more - healthier things. My fiance and I went grocery shopping last night, and I think we did really well. We bought lots of good, healthy stuff. I've filled in my FitDay with everything I'm going to eat today: http://www.fitday.com/WebFit/PublicJ...wner=BingleBug, take a look!

I'm making one small change: 3 sugares in my morning tea instead of 4. It sounds like such a tiny thing, but over the next 60 of so years that's 547500 calories! :D

I managed to drag myself out of bed and go on my walk this morning, and I'm sure I'm going to do one at lunchtime, too. I have one small dilema . . .

Monday evening's are very busy. After my full-time job I go directly to my second job. My fiance and I play poker, and have to fly downtown right after I get off work. So, no time to go home for a good dinner. I have about 500 calories to "spend", and we're on a tight budget. Any recommendations?

Hope everyone has a wonderful day. Susan, I'd love to continue our conversations from the other thread. Good luck, all.

If you can't pack a supper to take with you in the morning (like a sandwich, fruit, yogurt, etc.), a trip through McDonald's wouldn't KILL you, just don't order the Big Mac. A regular hamburger has 260 calories and a fruit and yogurt parfait (no granola) has 130 calories for a total of 390 calories. Or a hamburger and small fries would be 490 calories.

As long as it isn't a daily thing, you can still eat fast food.

Kimberly

PS. You play poker as a second job? You must be GOOD. (Note to self, don't ever play poker with BingleBug.)

Morning All :).

Thanks for looking at my Fitday SusanB, I'm not feeling overly tired although this past couple of days I've been really hungry on a morning even after breakfast. It is coming up to TOM though so that might be it.

I will listen to my body as you suggested, especially with me taking on this new plan at the gym. If I feel tired I'll up the cals!

I don't have a deficit for the weekend, my eating wasn't great or planned well so I wobbled about a bit for sure!

Have a good day all.

Originally Posted by KimberlyinMN:
You play poker as a second job? You must be GOOD. (Note to self, don't ever play poker with BingleBug.)

hehe Nooo, sorry, I said that badly. We go play poker AFTER my second job. I'd love to play for a living though :)

That's a good point, too, Kimberly, and one I need to remember. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. I could pack something to eat in the car, but my fiance wouldn't be happy with that. He's a growing boy lol

A friend at work just told me I'm looking slimmer. Woo hooo :D

I think I killed the thread :o

I just have to vent for a minute . . . I'M HUNGRY! :?: I was starving this morning, ate lunch, then was STUFFED. After lunch, I went for my 1/2 hour walk, and now I'm starving again. I must be defective lol

Well.... I have to say that I am NOT hungry. :) I had my normal breakfast of cheerios, yogurt and a banana. About mid-morning I was hungry for ice cream. The ONLY fast food place in town happens to be a Dairy Queen. So... I went out to their website and compared the calories of a small cone and a dilly bar. The dilly bar won with 10 calories less (220) plus it had the chocolate coating. At noon I drove there and got my dilly bar and came back home. I told myself that I had to eat lunch first. I had a ham sandwich with fat free cheese on light Italian bread plus one ounce of baked Cheetos. Yummy! I waited about 10 minutes and decided that I wanted the dilly bar. I have 1026 calories to spend for the rest of the day. I think we're going to have grilled chicken salads for supper tonight.

Maybe you should save 1/2 your lunch to eat after you walk?? Or a piece of fruit? I do NOT like being hungry. Some days I wait too long to have lunch and I start feeling all kitty-wonker - which is crazy because I work from home. I don't have to wait for any reason to have lunch. :)

Kimberly

mmmm Dilly Bar... Do they have Star Kisses at your DQ? When I moved to Mass. from Indiana I had to leave my sweet, sweet Star Kisses behind. Of course, FIL thinks I am making them up. DQ is his favorite place on Earth. When they are closing up shop for the winter he goes and buys out their Buster Bars.

Hmmm.. I don't know. They do have a HUGE freezer section of pre-wrapped stuff (like the dilly bars), so they might have them. I just went out to the Dairy Queen website... StarKisses only have 80 calories EACH!! I'm going to have to find out if our DQ has them. ;)

Kimberly

What exactly is a StarKiss? I always wondered what a Dilly Bar was until one day the kids got one. They like the butterscotch flavor.

I always loved the cheesecake blizzards until I started eating better. OMG those things are loaded with calories.

I haven't saw or thought of one until grapecoffee mentioned them... so I'll leave the description to her. :)

Kimberly

Meh - had a blip this morning. Scales went back up to to 200.4!! I'm womanfully ignoring it and putting it down to TOM. I did my exercise video this evening so hopefully will see a change for the better tomorrow.

My deficit yesterday was 1309 and today it was 1523.

I just had a thought as to why my weight loss is more during the week and seems to slow down at weekends. It's because I'm not working at weekends and I spend more time sitting around watching TV rather than running round a classroom and up and down stairs! But Nutridiary doesn't factor in that when it works out my average activity levels - it must average it out over the weekend. but it makes sense. I can lose 2.5 lbs from Monday to Thursday and then only 0.5 Friday to Monday! I'm not eating more so I must be burning less.

Still, so long as it's a loss overall, it doesn't matter - but it was puzzling me.