Good morning everyone! Another new month.

New diet, same old diet with new motivation, new menus? Trying to lose a couple of lbs. for the Christmas season?

What will we all be doing this month?

Have a great week!

Dagmar

I'm continuing with the calorie counting but I'm not writing stuff down. I know what I have to eat every day to lose/maintain and I'm sticking to that.

I am down to 133.4 - a loss of 1 lb. from last week . Slow and steady seems to be what works for me.

I was just looking at a beautiful vista when driving down the Rosedale Valley yesterday - the fall colours are a little late this year but they're coming along.
It made me appreciate being back in Toronto and being where I am at this point in my life .

My year of being 50 has been a good one and I have 4 months left. I'm detemined to lose the last 4 lbs and start year 51 at a maintenance weight of under 130 lbs.

Have a great week everyone!

Dagmar

Well, I'm still struggling desperately to control my eating. Whoa, what a surprise. I seem to be back in the "I'm getting serious" THIS WEEK pattern again and it scares me to death. I'm down nothing from last week...in fact up a couple lbs, though I'm starting TOM so hopefully that's why. Hopefully it's not b/c of the 23 lbs of Halloween candy I ate last week. *sigh* Yes, I gave away the rest of the Halloween candy after spending an entire day binging on it! Yesterday I threw out half a lemon meringue pie that my MIL baked (I swear she's trying to make me gain weight). I simply can't have stuff in the house. She also sent up chocolate cheesecake the day after the pie, luckily I don't like that stuff or it would have ended up in the trash too.

I'm so jealous by the way that you're so close to goal!! CONGRATS!!! Can you send me some of your willpower?? *grin*

Not sure which thread for this week we're supposed to be posting in, but this thread seems to have more replies so I'll go with this one. However, to pull over from the other thread about too many restaurant meals...


I think that is really my downfall. When I cook for myself, I do a great job eating healthy. However, when I'm in a group situation where we have catered food at the office or go out to dinner, I have so much trouble getting myself to eat healthy. I know all the tricks - ask for your meats dry, ask for salad dressing on the side and then dip your fork into it, etc - but it's hard to do in practice. I seem to be the only one at my office who's really concerned about being healthy (in fact, my coworkers always remark how impressed they are with my workout schedule and the healthy lunches I bring), which makes it tough. Also, I'm new in my job and at the very bottom of the totem pole, so I don't want to commit the faux pas of being a picky eater or causing problems by asking for my food to be specially-prepared. Anyone have any suggestions? My current way of managing it is just to try to eat extra healthy the day before and after I have to go out to eat with people from the office, and limit how many times I eat out, but that can be a bit tough in NYC with all the yummy restaurants to try!

As for my goals, I'd like to get down to 125 by December 1. This is doable IF it turns out that my gain last week was water retention. Otherwise, I'll prob be a pound over. I'll still take that though!

Good morning ladies

Well after my little speech last week, I didn't do so well over the weekend .

But, I am determined to stay on that wagon this time, so this morning I packed myself a healthy lunch (rare for me, I usually eat out) and I plan on going to the mall on my lunch hour and walking before I eat. I hope this sets up a pattern for the rest of the week

Oh, by the way, my goal is to hit that 140 mark by Christmas. I'm pretty sure I can do it if I just keep working at it.

Hope everyone has a great OP Day!

Good morning,

New week = new start.
I made a huge mistake of asking DH to bring the leftover box of Halloween candy to work. He just wanted some tout sweet. So there it was a box of my favorite assorted mini bars......and sadly many (10+??) slid down my gullet. Sigh
This does not bode well for the season ahead - there are temptations at every turn, and I am not even capable of avoiding cheap chocolate.

Pardon the ramble - I needed to indulge in a public self rant!
Happy Monday all.

-S

Hi all -- I'm new here and hope you don't mind my jumping in. I can totally relate to the temptation of cheap chocolate! I spent the weekend at my BFs (who lives in another state) and he had seriously overbought for Halloween. He doesn't have a sweet tooth, so his candy stash will probably last him a year. But for me...ugh...I couldn't stop! And when I got home last night, I found that he had hidden some king sized candy bars in my bag. I know he's not trying to undermine me, but really!

As for my goals this month, I did a half marathon a few weeks ago and am determined to keep on training and improve my time. Daylight savings isn't going to help too much, but there's always the treadmill...

Hope you all have a great day!

veerie

Welcome Veerie

I'm not really fond of Day Light Savings Time. I live in Indiana where we have only been switching time for a year. It really stinks. I'm originally from Ohio and had switched time my whole life so I was happy to move here where we didn't have to. Gotta love that Government .

I had a really good day today. Did my walking at lunch and actually am pretty low on calories for the day (under 1100) so maybe I can have a little treat later .

Hope everyone stayed on plan today

Gonna jump in here before the thread gets too long.

Whoa, what a day. Not much happened really. I'm just super tired. I just wanted to get on 3FC before I head off to dream land...

What am I doing this month? Ugh... I don't know. I'm not recording stuff like I have been and I have to admit the fact that my scale is moving (slowly) downward despite the horrible food that enters my mouth makes me unmotivated to "diet". That said I know what I'm doing differently this fall compared to last fall (not binging. My eating disorder isn't here right now. ).
Still I want to get in some serious exercise and try to keep my sugar intake to a bare minimum.

mudpie - wow. You are so close to goal. Awesome. You know you can be a maintainer for next year.

This might sound weird but for Jan 2008 I'm looking forward to taking some more full body pics. Last year as a motivator I took some "Before Pics"... And let's just say I've been noticing a difference this month in my body and I can't wait to see the difference a whole year will have made.

abbyin - one weekend does not a diet end. And as for daylight savings time... meh. I do like having the sun up when I get up in the morning. But i hate how everything later is then done in the dark...

scenestealer - eating out is such a huge hurtle for weightloss. It's so easy for me to just say, meh I'll buy myself some lunch today.... And there's always a chocolate bar or something to go along with that lunch.

sznn - I love chocolate. expensive and cheap. Halloween chocolate = bad idea for my house.

Veerie - WELCOME!!!!!!

Alright night all. I'll probably be back on tomorrow... avoiding my chem studying (I have a big midterm friday. AHHH!!!).

I'm gonna continue calorie counting. I like it
I'm gonna continue with my cardio. I also like it
I didnt work out this past weekend and felt awful about it. Luckily (since I work as a wedding singer) I have wedding this Friday which means, 5 hours of nonstop cardio. AND todays rehearsal was really tough, way too much dancing for my feet, though. Or maybe too high a-heels? lol... anyway, this week is starting to look pretty wonderful. hope you all have a good one, too!!

Good morning!
I'm not sure if it's the time change or sneaky bad habits or what ... but I'm tired too.
I got a good nights sleep so today I'm going to try to remember to take my vitamins and eat cleaner. Can't be walkin' around dragging all the time!

Whoa, I hear you on the Halloween candy! I spent an entire day eating nothing but...I started at 7:30 in the morning!! Man, I felt sick! I ended up giving all of the rest of it to my friend the next day.

I had a great day yesterday...my eating was really good, that's two days in a row! Yay, I pray I'm back on track!!

I also biked for 6 miles, ran for 3 miles, then did my strength training DVD for 40 minutes and then tried a new exotic dance DVD I got. Admittedly, I'm a little stiff today. LOL

I did the mini chocolate bars down the gullet and then put the leftover ones in the food bank donation box the next day. That felt right.

And, being so close to goal after Halloween and before Christmas (the next big eating hurdle), I then decided to help out the Girl Guides and buy a box of their cookies. That got hidden in my filing cabinet drawer .

I knew I was gonna eat the darn things - they're chocolate and not very good but I had them stashed. So I ate them all (probably about 36) last night. 3 of them are 190 calories and I really don't want to know what the total was. I felt sick all night long and am just dragging my (probably bigger) butt today.

Now I have to figure out WHY? WHY? why did I do this stupid thing. I'm really annoyed by my behaviour now. I know better but I keep doing this. I'm not even beating myself up or feeling like a failure. I'm just annoyed .

I quit smoking. I quit drinking. Why the heck can't I give this stuff up?

Dagmar