Daily Challenge to Stay "On Plan"
 

I have been struggling now for 3 months to get back on track and stay on track. I'll have a good day and then fall off. This month I am trying my hardest to stick to my plan for the entire month. Last year I did so good from June-Dec and I want to get back to that place.

I will take it one day at a time.

My plan is to:

1. Exercise at least 4 times each week
2. Drink at least 6 glasses of water each day
3. Stay within my calorie range and eat more whole foods and less processed foods
4. Limit my sugar intake
5. Post on 3FC daily and write down everything I eat

Monday March 2 Plan

B: Belvita Breakfast bars, banana, tea
L: Turkey & sl cheese on Wheat roll, SF Jello Pudding
S: banana, 10 Saltines
D: Lean Cuisine Spaghetti & Meat sauce, 10 Thin Mints :(
Exercise: Walked 40 mins

1700 Calories total

Day 2

B: Belvita Breakfast Bars, orange, tea
L: Healthy Choice Café Steamer, 5 Thin Mints
S: 100 Cal pack of almonds/walnuts, banana
D: Turkey sandwich w/baby greens, hot chocolate w/skim milk
Exercise: WATP DVD

Starting day 3 - Each day is getting easier to stay OP

Wednesday

B: Belvita bar, coffee w/creamer, banana
L: Chicken & wild rice soup, mini Mounds bar
S: orange
D: Turkey sandwich w/baby greens
Exercise: Walk 2 miles

Day 4 and going strong.

B: Greek 100 Calorie Yogurt, banana, tea
L: Lean Cuisine, mini Mounds bar
S: orange
D: Lean Cuisine, 5 Hershey dark choc kisses
Exercise: Walk 15 mins, Ab work

Day 5

B: Greek yogurt, banana
L: Sesame chicken, shrimp & broccoli, rice, green beans, Coke Zero
S: orange
D: TBD
Exercise: Walk 15 mins

GettingFit May I join you? Question: When the ice and cold weather hit, how did you get your exercise in?

MY PLAN:

1. Exercise aerobic 10 min a day, every day for this month.
2. Drink at least 6 glasses of water each day
3. Stay within my calorie range and eat more whole foods and less processed foods
4. Strength training at Gym twice a week.
5. Post on 3FC daily and write down everything I eat
6. Follow Beck Diet Plan to modify my thinking so I can improve my behavior.

See, I borrowed some of your items "on plan" and simply added what I'm trying to do each day, or week.

Mini Goal? Get out of the 220's very soon. 9 pounds to go.

Good morning love2garden, why of course you are more than welcome to join it. I could use the encouragement :)

When it's cold and I can't get outdoors to walk, I have a ton of DVDs that I use or I walk at work. Sometimes I put on some good dance music and I'll dance for 30-45 mins. Now that the time has changed and it's getting warmer, I will be able to get more outdoor walking in.

My weekend was ok but Sunday was a little off. I did get lots of activity by working in the yard and in the house over the weekend.

Today's plan:

B: Greek yogurt, blueberries, banana, tea
L: Lean Cuisine, decaf coffee
S: orange
D: Subway Turkey/Ham sub, baked Lay's
Exercise: Walk

Bet you really enjoyed being outside in the yard!!! Seems easier to me to work outside than to try to use tredmill, etc inside.

I like the time change and can get outside to walk early before it gets too hot in the summer time.

All my meals were good, with lots of fantastic asparagus for dinner with small steak.
Exercise walk.

Supper is what DH fixes, but he cooks healthy. I just have to watch my portions.

love2garden - Great job on a successful day! Yes I love working in the yard just as it's starting to warm up and things start to bloom.

I had a pretty good day yesterday. I'm having work done in my kitchen so I'm having to eat out for a few days and I have company coming in from Thursday-Monday so things may be a little crazy for me. I plan to stick as close to my plan as possible over the weekend.

Today's plan:

B: banana
L: Turkey on flat bread w/spinach, baked chips
S: orange, sesame sticks
D: TBD
Exercise: House work

Today's log

B: Greek yogurt, banana
L: Chicken & wild rice soup, baked chips
S: Nuts, blueberries
D: TBD
Exercise: 20 min walk & painting

Back on track today.

B: WW String cheese, V8 juice, coffee
L: Lean Cuisine 6 Hershey's dark choc kisses
S: orange
D: Salad, grilled chicken breast, feta cheese, Honey mustard dressing, 4 dark choc kisses
Exercise: Walked 20 mins & yard work

March 19

B: Greek yogurt, strawberries, coffee w/creamer
L: Lean Cuisine
S: orange
D: salad, grilled chicken breast, 5 dark choc kisses
Exercise: Walk 20 mins

Back on track and working on day 5. Started Weight Watchers and have been tracking religiously.

B: Belvita bars, coffee w/1 tbsp. creamer, orange
L: Lean Cuisine, 2 pcs choc
S: oz sesame sticks, orange
D: Salad, shrimp, dressing
Exercise: Walk 30 mins

I'm always so happy when I come back to 3FC and find familiar faces (figuratively of course). How are you doing GettinFit?!

A lot has change for me since the last time I was on here. I don't live in Alaska anymore thank goodness! My husband is out of the Army so we are adjusting back to civilian life. I had a new baby who arrived in February. =) Everything is settling down so I'm back to trying to focus on my health again of course.

It's great to see you still here fighting the good fight!

Hi Kim :wave:

It's so nice to hear from you and congrats on your new baby!!! How exciting. I'm happy that everything is settling down for you and now you are focusing on you again.

Yep, I'm still fighting the fight. I started Weight Watchers a couple weeks ago and have been doing very good.

I hope to see your posts around and I will you much success. You did it before so you can do it again.

Have a great week!

My challenge to stay OP is going very well. I am starting my 3rd week of being back OP. I'm finally back in the groove.

Going into my 4th week of being OP. I'm finally back in my groove. Been doing extremely well with Weight Watchers and am down 10.2 pounds in 3 weeks. Gotta keep it going.

So i'd like to join this. My issue is little cheats here and there. So for me its more about staying away from those. Here is my list of rules. I get once cheat day a week.

My rules


No IHOP
No Fridays
No hamburgers
No eating out at work salad is OK breakfast is ok
No bread except breakfast
No alcohol
No Breaded chicken
no white carbs (no rice, potatoes, pasta)

Hi Obsidianbbw :wave: Your rules are great! I hope you are having a great week so far.

So far so good with me. I have been following the Weight Watchers plan since April 11. I have lost a total of 15 pounds since then and I am feeling great. In the past 30 days, I have worked out 21 days. I have tracked all my food and drank my water. I just gotta stay motivated and committed and keep going. I usually start slipping around now but this time I am going to force myself to keep going. I must keep my eye on the prize!!!

nice Job Gettingfit. :bravo:

Down 2 lbs...and I have 2 more days on my 21 day exercise challenge.

I'm low carbing and finding I need to eat more to stay fuller longer. I was sluggish late in the afternoon and I realized I hadn't eaten lunch I had some chicken and I'm good. I was grumpy about going to water aerobics tonight, but feeling better about it. I need to plan some of snack. I'm 1 lbs away from 10 lbs...I think its a mental thing..and I keep obsessing about it.

Good morning Obsidianbbw, Great job :cp: on your loss and on completing your exercise challenge. I hope you're having a great Friday. I'm noticing that when I eat less carbs and more lean meats, veggies & friuts, I'm not as hungry. On Wed for lunch I had a Lean Cuisine that had pasta and I was so hungry and had the munchies for the rest of the day. I fought to stick to my Points for the day. Yesterday I had salad w/grilled chicken for lunch and I was not hungry at all.

Have a great OP weekend!

I've not been as diligent with my journaling and working out these past few weeks and my weight is stuck between 213-215. It's time to get it going down again so I am re-committing to checking in daily. I need to hunker down and get back to working out no matter how hot it is. My excuse has been that it's too hot but I will focus more on workout DVDs now.

Weekly goals:
1. Check in here daily
2. Journal what I eat
3. At least 30 mins of activity 5 times a week
4. Limit the sugary processed foods
5. Drink 6-8 glasses of water a day

Today's Journal

B: Belvita Bars, banana, coffee w/creamer
L: Lean Cuisine, Weight Watchers snack bar
S: Peach
D: Turkey sandwich w/baby greens, 1 tsp mayo, 3 Hershey dark choc kisses
Exercise: Walk 30 mins inside
Water: XXXX