Excellent idea. I can't actually remember everything I ate anyway which is not a good sign!

All I have to say about easter is "lots of gravy!" That about sums it up.

I drank 2 (very carefully measured 7 ounce) glasses of wine yesterday.

2 cookies. slice of banana bread. on plan otherwise.

I had strawberry-rhubarb pie for breakfast yesterday and it didn't get much better .... all day long.

Pie for breakfast is ok by my books! I had soya beans for breakfast on Friday! :T

post vacation unmotivation
 

I was SO on track... I lost 12 lbs in the 8 weeks leading up to my vacation in Hawaii. I even went running or hiking about half the time I was there. I didn't gain any weight back!!!
Then..... In the last 5 weeks I have been seriously slacking on both diet and exercise. I have let 4 lbs creep back on. :(
But, I'm back at the gym and am going to the store to stock my kitchen with healthy foods again.
Wish me luck!!!!

hmmmm thinking about yesterday.... I was happy to keep my diet rolling perfectly when a sweet attack made me drink a glass full of chocolate milk with real dark chocolate melted into it :( pathetic end of day.............

Wow, Bikini Dreader's post made me salavate.

Well, a whole lot a chocolate and some cookies too.

Several bites of my dd's macaroni and cheese while making lunch.

Feeling self sabotagey today. Tired, bored, cranky, unworthy

Big bowl of coffee ice-cream with hersheys syrup and almonds. Followed by another big bowl of same just to self sabotage a bit more.

Started out yesterday good with a bowl of healthy fiber cereal...fried chicken for lunch w/mashed potatoes and mac&cheese......later had hot wings w/blue cheese dip and snacked on lasagna!!!!! I moved my ticker back up to 149 since I haven't seen 147 this week!

Last night I had a half piece of some fat-laden cherry cheesecake and a piece of apple cake. Not good.

Help!
 

I need to back away from the Toaster Strudel!! I meant to buy the kind that has eggs and stuff for my husband's breakfast, but I accidentally got the sweet kind that DH won't eat and I can't help myself!! I've only had one each morning, but they're 200 calories and 100 calories are from FAT!! Somebody stop me!!!

I had a brie and tomato sandwhich with a cereal bar for lunch. But man was it good.

today was worse than yesterday ugh, I feel sick

Birthday Overload!!
 

Here's my confession:

Call me a pig, I'm ready to wallow in it. LOL. Today's my birthday and I ate A LOT! I just polished off bacon wrapped/ srimp stuffed jalepeno poppers, chips and guacamole, steak, salmon, roasted corn, honey baked beans, then german chocolate cake AND vanilla cake (my cake and my mom's---we share a birthday!), and now I'm finishing up a bottle of champagne from New Years that's miraculously still good!! I'm dying now, and I know I'll pay tomorrow, but it hurts so good!!:o

Gosh, I'm full just reading about all that food :lol: ...

Chinese food last night and martinis :cheers:

oy i was having such a good day...and then BAM 12:00 rolls around and my food habits become horrendous!! what is the deal??

its not good when you cant remember what you ate, right?

Bad all weekend again, but haven't had to move my ticker today (since I moved it up last week!). Mexican food twice (steak fajita nachos), chocolate chip cookies several times and a hamburger and fries!

This isn't so much a confession as an acknowledgment of reality. We had a little dinner party last night and made some calorific foods for our guests. I allow myself one really good meal each week, so no guilt on this end, just pure joy.

I made a delicious salad with baby greens, candied walnuts, roquefort, pear and 1 slice of bacon (split 4 ways). It was sooooo good! Then my bf had done a bbq beer can roasted chicken (I did not touch the crispy skin), with red potatoes roasted in roasted garlic oil, and some grilled asparagus. Finally, I had made the most delicious chocolate caramel tart. It was insanely divine. And we had 3 bottles of wine between the 4 of us. I say, when you're going to have a calorie-blow out, do it properly, with really good food, prepared really well, rather than going to McDonald's! Fortunately, I ate nothing other than some scrambled egg whites yesterday, prior to dinner. I'm guessing I nonetheless blew my calorie budget for the day.

The trouble is, there is still a big ole chunk of the chocolate caramel tart left. I gave half the remainders to our friends, but we got stuck with the other half. Intending to have a piece for dessert tonight, I entered the whole thing into Nutridiary. A 1/12th tart piece is 633 calories!!! And that is before the whipped cream served with it. Oy vey! Fortunately I'm 'losing-while-maintaining' at the moment, and I can actually fit a 633 cal dessert into my 1800 cal allowance. But wow. 633 calories!!!! For 1/12th of a tart! Still, I'll eat it slowly tonight, and enjoy every mouthful.

3 pieces of Toblerone :mad:

Seven pieces of black licorice. Dear heavens, what was I thinking?????

I just wanna say, not that you should throw off completely, that with one pound to go, you deserve to have a some good fun like that sometimes. I stress the SOMEtimes, because not doing that got me back up to my current weight! LOL!!:broc:

That's how I regained 12 pounds too over the winter, actually, from my original weight loss a couple of years ago. Not eating like that every night, obviously, but a general relaxation of my good habits (and the development of a fondness for a particular triple-cream french cheese, which I would eat each night with hunks of bread and a glass of wine while cooking dinner...so delicious, so conducive to weight gain...). This is why I'm trying to eat 1800-2000 calories a day at the moment. I'm still losing, but I mostly consider myself in-training for the rest of my life. And dinner parties with extravagant food are going to be a part of the rest of my life. The trick is balancing the occasional extravagance with solid healthy eating the rest of the time...

I STILL haven't worked out this week! Today I'm bloated and crampy and I know I need to, but I'm still groggy and unmotivated.:moo:

I had 12 graham crackers with peanut butter and jam last night after dinner. I wasn't hungry. Just felt like finishing them off. Tonight - no snack after dinner. Just tea.

Bikini, I've been drinking tea in the evenings this week to keep me from noshing, it's definitely helping.

Midearth, I'm having a tough time working out this week too! I skipped it totally on Monday, and yesterday and today I went to the gym but I was practially sleeping on the elliptical, I wonder what's up!

Oh and since this is a confession thread I had a Ben and Jerry's ice cream cone yesterday because it was free cone day! I also had a lemon poppyseed muffin that my mom gave me before leaving from visiting, but it was huge so I ate 3/4 of it and quickly tossed the rest.

sick today...couldnt deal with making lunch for me and dd. Did McD's drive thru...ick. At least she ate all the apples and milk, a few fries and maybe 1/3 of her burger...so mommy guilt isn't too bad. I on the other hand ate all my lunch so...

snowbunny2 -- I think the laziness, for me anyways, is definitely caused by the weather... Blay weather = blah Ilene = no exercise ....

Today I had 2 pieces of Toblerone :rolleyes: but my calories for the day are good... I've been drinking just hot water in the evenings to keep the munchies away...

Does hot water work for that Ilene. I do tea and that helps, but just curious on the water thing.

Not confessing eating, so far, so good today. I am confessing that I haven't been to the gym in two weeks! Ah! I was going to go at 5:30 in the morning during the week before fieldwork, but I tried it and I'm too exhausted throughout the day, I don't get home until 6:00pm, so it's a long day and fieldwork is pretty active. I do, on the other hand, have time on the weekends and I haven't been going. Sunny weather is here, no more excuses for me. Saturday I am going!

Dana

Dana I drink hot water alone or with a slice of lemon sometimes, it seems to help me with the munchies at night, in my head I think it's tea I guess :lol:

Vacation ... southern cooking ... beer ... lunch on the beach in Florida ... nuff said.

I've just been completely out of control lately ...sigh

:mad: Darn peanuts! Sometimes I just know that something I'm keeping around from a "mini-binge" should go in the green bin (wet recyclables) and out to the curb. Oh well, now we have nothing tempting in the house and hubby's starting his diet today. Onward! :)
Dagmar

Ooops. I just went to do my big grocery shop for the week, and as I was piling my cart high with vegetables and lean proteins, I started to get hungry. I gave in and ate a nasty, sugary doughnut thing, temptingly on display in the bakery aisle. It was reasonably tasty, but considering all the calories, not at all filling. I don't like to spend my calories that way.

Stopped for a lottery ticket with DS yesterday and bought us each a treat. I ate a 100 Grand bar (and it was grand!). Oh well, the scale didn't move in either direction so it must not have been a horrible cheat.

I've got to stop dickin' around with two scales. I use the good one at work and the crappy one here at home and of course post the lightest one. Who's kidding who?
This afternoon I weigh at work and that is the number!

Some pound cake and some cheesecake brownie bites..does it count if you just nibble off your hubby's plate? :p

This week I've only made it a point to exercise one day. Instead, I've just eliminated further calories from an already calorie restricted plan to compensate~~I guess it's okay as long as it doesn't last longer than this week. I've really got to get the exercise fever again. Maybe once I get booked with my new trainer (again~~grrr..)

Also, last night I played Bunco with the ladies & although I abstained from the drinks & snacks I DID have one brownie bite w/homemade whipped creme & a strawberry :) when the hostess was walking around offering them ~~ I can't be an ungracious guest, now can I? :)

That's all for now~