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Planning & Chat for May 5-11
It's the second week of May already! Spring is here!
How's everyone doing? What's shakin'? Have a great week! Dagmar :flow2: |
A hungry week for me
Good morning all!
One of those lbs from bingeing just won't go away so I'll have to change my ticker to 135 :ink:. That's at the upper limit of my warning :o zone. I'll have to cut back to cycling 1200 - 1400 cals this week. Hope it's a warm week 'cause otherwise I'll gonna be starving :drool:. Hope the stress goes down a bit too. DH did his yearly speech about leaving me and moving to another province yesterday so we're done with that for this year I hope. Have a great week all! Dagmar :flow2: |
Morning!
I work four evening shifts this week, so I'll be going to the gym each morning. I need to cut those calories back too! |
This is my last week of school (exams/final papers) so I don't have much time to exercise, unfortunately...but I am planning on hitting the gym every day next week once I get home! Also trying not to give into my period-induced cravings for chocolate this week (my downfall :P)
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hey super chicks!
I need to go grocery shopping today b/c we have very little in the house--good and bad...dh's schedule sucks this week so I'll be fitting in my exercise at odd times. I'm not currently training for anything 'til the end of the month so I don't really have a plan and that scares me. |
Hi everybody,
This week will be a good one, I think. I was so surprised when I weighed myself this morning and was down 0.5lbs because I had a mini-binge last night on Triscuits, a brownie, and half a ham sandwich (separate from my dinner). Sunday nights are dangerous for me... for some reason, I like to zone out in front of the TV and binge... :( I need to figure out a way to avoid that. BUT. new day. back on track. have a great week, everychickies! |
Originally Posted by chickennugget126: I play with dogs all day. What's not to like? Dagmar :flow2: |
[QUOTE=Mudpie;2187032]I play with dogs all day. What's not to like?QUOTE]
Where do I get a job like that??? That's got to be one of the coolest jobs. Well, my week's all about travel. Right now, I'm in Minneapolis, tomorrow its Chicago, then back to Minni Wednesday and then home to Dallas Thursday. That's a crazy week to try to fit exercise in and a healthy diet. I always struggle when on the road. But, tonight I did 30 minutes of cardio and tried a new core workout from Women's Health. Let's just say I didn't realize how weak I was till I tried that work out! I guess I have something to look forward to besides awesome abs! I weighed in before leaving home this morning and was at 148.5 so we'll see what the scale says when I weigh in Friday morning. Have a good week everyone! |
Is it Friday yet?
The combined stress whammy of the three men doing various things to my life is doing strange things to my body as well.
Yesterday I stayed under 1400 cals, did 5 hours of dogwalking and a 45 min. strength workout, and GAINED 1.5 lbs. :mad: It's gonna be a long, long month. I was so hoping to be under 130 by the end of it. I guess I'll just try again today, and the day after, and the day after that. Dagmar :( |
Dagmar - hang in there girl! Wish you could get away from the triumvirate of trouble - maybe a girls' weekend away with a couple of your girlfriends?
I had mexican restaurant food :devil: last night for nieces birthday. Yes, it was packed, being Cinco de Mayo (but a tradition on her birthday), so we got home and to bed LATE. So, no exercise yesterday, bad food (not terrible but certainly not OP), and now I'm exhausted. I vow to stay OP today and EXERCISE, even I have to squeeze it in! I gotta see 143 on the scale soon... I mean, like, FRIDAY!!!! Have a healthy day, gals! |
After being wonderful about the exercise last week, Monday started off with quite a fizzle as far as a concentrated effort goes. BUT...I was busy all day running errands and running after the kids...that has to count for something no?
My eating has been pretty good and I am thinking about stepping on that scale on Monday (the 12th?!) And have that be the last weigh in for May until the very last day. I have most likely just maintained. I'm trying to be ok with that. |
My belly fat is shaking that's what. I just wasted a couple hours looking at clothing. Soooooo disheartening!
I bought one top and a bigger scrub top, but that's all! I'll rewash my baggiest stuff until I can wear my real stuff again! (insert stomping foot here) Is it possible to feel demoralized and pizzed off all at the same time? Argh!! ... thanks for listening. |
Originally Posted by SusanB: Demoralized and pizzed off here too - 4 lbs gained in 2 weeks. Just can't seem to get back on track. Always happy to offer an ear to whine in/shoulder to weep on though ;) Anyone want to run off and join the foreign legion :p? Probably get lots of weight off quickly with that bunch! Dagmar ( CFC - cranky fat chick) |
Aw Dagmar, I can always count on you!
I feel much more optimistic now. I've been very good all day. |
Susan and Dagmar - commiserating right there with you.
I am demoralized to the hilt these days. Thought I was back on track with exercise, etc...and then the dam ankle (cankle it is right now) swells up like a fiend, rendering me inactive till further notice. If I can't start exercising soon - I may have to get my jaw wired shut, this isn't funny anymore. Still trying to pick up the pieces.:?: -S |
awww chickies sorry for all the struggling. I've been eating fairly well and think progress is being made but I get on the scale and it's good so I double check and it's instantly up 1.5lbs, so I get back on and it's still up, what the ****? so I think I need a new scale but I'm afraid to find out it's not the scale.
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Getting back OP
I'm going to try to tough out the rest of the week 'til Friday and just maintain my new lumpy self.
On the weekend I'm going to try a water/juice/soup regimen to flush all the crud out of my system and then restart the calorie counting on Monday. I think I have to give up the diet Pepsi. The caffeine is making me jittery and causing a major system crash in the afternoons. I think all the aspertame is affecting my sleep and that's making me so tired I'm eating to try to stay awake in the evenings. It's all just a big circle that keeps repeating itself. I have to break the pattern and the diet Pepsi is the way to start. Dagmar :sumo: |
Hi ya!
Sznn: hope the ankle mends - but in the meantime - do arm exercises and reach exercises from your chair & get the upper body workout. I am in a holding pattern myself - hope to see some of the extra winter layer move along. mudpie - diet pepsi is a great start - I have heard that it is a dehydrator anyway - how do you do that flush? I could use that about now! can't believe it is the second week of May either! |
dagmar - that flush sounds like something I need to ... I'm not doing anything official, but I am going to try to eat clean and drink lots of H2o the next few days. I ended up in the garden from 5:00 until dark. I knew I should've walked/run beforehand because by the time I was done, I was too pooped to go. On the plus side, the carrying, digging, hoeing, are exercise... just not the cardio I was planning on.
Have a healthy day! p.s. Bat - I think it's your scale!! An instant change means it has gotta be the scale. Maybe a mother's day gift idea - unexciting I know |
Morning!
As soon as I stuff the washer, I'm off to the gym. Be good today! |
Batmomm - I think that dreaded scale trick happens to everyone... I've gone as far as to move the scale to another surface - carpet, tile, etc... Yea... no budge.
Dagmar - you are so committed I commend you SusanB - you are the most honest Ticker Tracker person I know!! I always give myself a week to get back down on that thing... before I adjust it. Strangely - I run from the scale to the computer when the numbers drop on the scale. Irony huh? Hope everyone is having pretty weather today. We have 80's and sunny here. Hookey was calling my name... but I stayed strong. |
I get into trouble if I flub things. I learned how easy it is to cheat on fitday ... and gained weight. I learned how to hide a gain here at 3FC ... and gained more weight.
I do worry that I'm not a very good example and I don't know why ... regain and yoyoing are just about epidemic. Perserverance is not. |
I succumbed to another mini-binge session last night and honestly, I didn't realize it had started until I was hovering around the fridge/cabinets, searching for something to eat. Luckily, I don't keep much junk in the house, but I did manage to find 3 Fig Newtons, many many Triscuits, 3 sour patch kids, and a stick of cherry liquorice (egh, I hate cherry liquorice!).
Other than that slight slip up, I've been good with daily exercise and have been walking instead of taking the bus... and I decided to begin weight lifting regularly (2x a week enough?) to try and change my body. Dagmar- yes my name is Kanna :) Thanks. I'm half-Japanese. My dad has a mantra that he customizes for each situation: "Everyday, in every way, things are getting better and better." Mine: "Everyday, in every way, I am getting healthier and healthier." What's yours?? |
Kanna,
Every day, in every way, I'm getting stronger and stronger. Dagmar :cool: |
Originally Posted by Mudpie: That's going up on my quote wall in front of my treadmill. I"m going to try out waking up early to work out. Today was my first day. I know I can keep it up during the warmer months....Winter will be an issue I deal with when it rolls around again. In the mean time.... I was having a sugar craving this evening and succumbed to half a pbj sammich and a small cookie. The rest of the day went well. On to tomorrow. |
Stopped sulking, started planning
Originally Posted by Mudpie: And now, with two of the three stress situations on the way to being reasonably in control from my end, it's time to start seriously getting back OP. The first step is to limit my diet pepsi intake to one per day, before 1:30 p.m. And no more drinks with caffeine and/or aspertame after that. The second step is to get a new battery for my scale. I gained 4.5 lbs overnight and I know that's mechanical failure. Weekend Warriors my DH and I will be joining in this weekend for real! Dagmar (not sulking any more) :flow2: |
I never thought I'd be able to wean myself off diet colas...when I began my weight loss odyssey I was guzzling at least 2 liters a day. I stopped, frankly, because the kids started to want to drink the same thing. That stopped my habit. I love diet pepsi and still get it when we're out and allow the kids a sip here and there..but it isnt' in the house...
I tell you, it was hard.....harder than it was to quit smoking for me. |
Morning!
I think I had two diet cokes yesterday (at work). I joke about how I'm addicted to it but I don't really drink as much as I think I do. I'm doing a no excuses thread (it might be in maintainers) and it's being good for me. Gym in a few minutes. Be good everone! |
Susan, i think i might check out that no excuses thread. i'm waaaaay too good at finding excuses.
i haven't been on here in a while but i was reading through some of your posts and saw a bit of struggling and a lot of re-determination. i've definitely been struggling but now is the time to get going for me. I have ONE WEEK until my bf's parents are coming to town and i hate to be this vain but i really want to look good because i know his mother isn't too keen on the fact that i am not jewish. don't know why i feel like looking amazing will make up for that... but anyway! i know if i exercise and eat well for a week i may not drop a significant amount of weight but i will FEEL much better and i think that confidence exudes and makes you look better too. i recently STARTED drinking diet soda... BAD move. not often, just when i'm at work. we had a problem with our water softener last week and the tap tasted like ocean minus the dead fish. |
This is going to sound kind of ridiculous but I'm having a problem with salads. I eat a salad that I make myself at a salad bar in a grocery store and that part is great and super healthy... but I always end up getting way too much... today was a record weight of 1.5lbs. It's mostly veggies, but I still end up feeling stuffed afterwards (like 15 minutes after I eat it all) and then I'm uncomfortable for a while. I think that's my way of making a salad more appealing, instead of having carbs or a burrito or something unhealthy... to have MORE of it! :(
So I'm gonna work on decreasing the amount of salad I consume at lunch this week. I want to relearn portions and know that I don't "NEED" all that much food. I may WANT it, but I don't NEED it. Lekhika - I wish I had more motivation to work out in the winter time, too. I always feel like hibernating... and come spring, it's like, "ACK! All those cozy nights!! turned into LOVE HANDLES!!!" or my donut, I like to call it. I like that my donut is getting smaller these days, though. |
Diet soda is addictive
I have known for some time that the diet Pepsi (DP) had become an unhealthy habit :devil: with me. I was making sure I had it in the house at all times and buying extra bottles :o when I filled up for gas or went to the dollar store, just in case I didn't get home to my stash.
It seems so innocent :angel:. And so much better for you than regular soda with all it's sugar. Apsartame and other artificial sweeteners have changed the brains of rats in many studies done on their effects. The rats have literally become addicted to the sweetener and go into a type of withdrawal when they don't get it:eek:. And caffeine is another addictive substance. I have had my share of problems with coffee over the years and don't drink it any more. I thought the amount of caffeine in the DP would be pretty insignificant. Wrong :(. I've had the caffeine withdrawal headache for the two days now that I've cut back to one DP per day. And I feel really tired on the last walk. And I've got all sorts of weird muscle cramps and further sleep disturbances over my normal :dizzy: insomnia. And my appetite has increased. I have been starving for the last two days, all the time :drool:. I had an easy day today, another tomorrow, and not much work booked for the weekend. I hope to be over the physical DP withdrawal stuff (that sounds sooo ridiculous :p) by next week and then to resume my diet plan with just water to drink and one DP per day. Period. Dagmar (almost DP free) :p |
The wrong number?
Diet pop with caffeine is a diuretic. I've been drinking litres of the stuff every day for over a year now :o. I thought the water in it would keep me hydrated enough. And I've been posting my weights thinking they were hydrated weights :).
Maybe I was wrong about that - EEEKK!!! I haven't been consciously lying about my numbers but, after giving up the diet pop guzzling for two days and drinking 1.5 litres of plain water each day instead, I've gained 5 lbs. I'm going to replace the battery in my scale, just to make sure it's ok. If the 5 lbs. are still there then I've got quite the job ahead of me this summer :p. At least this time I will know the weight lost is real weight. Pin the big L on my shirt :o Dagmar :dizzy: |
chickennugget - i am also fighting those winter love handles. man do they frustrate me!
dagmar - alcohol is also a diuretic. this is why if i weigh myself after a night out drinking i am usually down a little bit in spite of the long term consequences of all the calories! don't worry too much about the 5lbs though - remember the relative amount of weight that you lost - if your starting point was also "dehydrated" weight you've still lost the same amount of lbs! |
Originally Posted by iriswhispers: Dagmar :D |
Morning! I'm off to see my Mom! Be good everyone!
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I used to be like you, dagmar, but with Diet Coke. We'd always keep one, even two litre bottles of it in the fridge and we'd drink it with meals like water. It was just so refreshing and "guilt-free." Somewhere along the line I switched over to plain water because I was worried I was drinking way too much... and only occasionally have one as a treat.
But I'm no angel... I have my medium latte from Peet's every morning with Splenda... which is basically the same thing! Caffeine + artificial sweetener. I wonder if it's better just to use real sugar? Artificial sweeteners are scary because we don't know enough about them and their long-term consequences... and I don't trust the FDA or any food brands because it's all about money with them. I sometimes use Stevia, which people in Japan have been using for a long time, which is a natural sweetener.. but it's having problems being approved here in the USA (or they may have approved it already). I think it's because big companies like Splenda and Equal are gonna be screwed and they don't want that. That is scary to me. |
Is Splenda sugar?
Splenda claims to be made from sugar. I also read about it in a women's magazine and some doctor's study claimed it was the best alternative to sugar.
I bought it, assumed it was made from sugar, without looking at the ingredients on the box. There are three chemicals listed on the box. So is it made from sugar or not? Beats me. Stevia is available here but I found my taste buds didn't think it was at all sweet, unless I used about 4 packets of it. I think the Splenda has intensified my "sweet" taste, making me want sweeter items - does that make any sense to anyone? Dagmar (one DP today - honest :p !) |
splenda is made from sugar. i took organic chemistry and the best way i can explain it is that a sugar molecule is normally kind of like a right hand. but then if they mess around with the molecule they can switch the positions of some of the functional groups on it around so that it's like a left hand, in which case it still has the taste of the "right hand" sugar but our bodies don't recognize it and hence won't break it down and digest it - it just gets filtered and excreted. i think the other chemicals might be stuff they have to treat the normal sugar with to get "left hand" sugar. don't know if that all makes any sense.
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Morning!
I still had two cokes yesterday. Driving ya know. My water got warm and when I stopped for gas ... diet coke. |
Have the warriors all been killed in battle?
No weekend warriors this weekend?
I put a brand new battery in my scale. The weight gain wasn't because of the battery - SIGH :(. I'm still the same size (in inches) but I feel so fat all of a sudden :sumo:. Know what I mean? And DH :devil: is starting his diet today so last night brought home all the pre-diet party stuff - chocolate, beer, etc. I avoided the chocolate but had one of the beers. And then another. And then popcorn. And, and, and :o. There are many reasons I don't drink alcohol anymore. Now there are 1.5 lbs of additional reasons. I can't face changing the ticker right now. Will try to get the motivation going again this weekend and weigh in on Monday. Dagmar (I'm really sulking now) |
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