Morning!

I remember Robsia from a while ago and it's sooo cute to hear her say the baby is fussing :hug:

If it keeps raining DH is going to take me to Costco ... apparently it's a big big store that's overwelmingly fabulous. Hopefully they have fabulous deals on lean grilling meats.

I should tackle my kitchen and bathrooms before someone calls the board of healthy :o. And if I tidied and rearrange my cabinets, DH could install my dishwasher!

Good morning, girls!

Welcome to all the new featherweights! I'm a little late on that, I think, but I haven't been posting much lately... welcome, anyway, and it's so nice to get the thread nice and chatty!

Ok, regarding the logging food discussion... I used fitday for about a year - it was last year, and I lost about 8 lbs. I feel totally off the wagon, and essentially gained all of it back over the fall/winter (07/08). I got serious again, but this time switched to dailyplate...

I like the options much better on dailyplate (once I got used to it). I had lots of custom foods entered in fitday, but I got so tired of entering a simple thing like chicken and finding everything from chicken feet to fried chicken beak -- but NO skinless chicken breast - yeah, I know it's there, but good lord, stuff can be hard to find on fitday!!!!

Anyhoo, a couple weeks ago when I was rolling along... exercising, staying OP, entering foods I got a 2 week badge from dailyplate. It was a cool eye opener because it made me realize I had never gone 14 days straight - always skipped a day here and there (bad!). During these few weeks, I was losing.

Well, as I've posted, I've had a bad week - not horrid eating, but not exactly OP either, and I haven't been logging food nor exercising. So, this morn. I got an email from Dailyplate basically kicking me in the a** and saying, "HELLO!!!! You were doing so great, what the heck happened to you???"

Frankly, I needed that, and I was glad they cared enough to kick my butt (I know I'm taking it way to personally ;) ), but for me, when I'm logging I'm much more inclined to be losing.

So, today is another recommit day - I have a super busy weekend with the shower and all, but I need to devote some time to ME... eating properly and within my losing range (I MUST POST TO KNOW THAT!!!!) and exercising.

Off I go for a walk/run, lest I get busy and run out of time to do it.

Ladies, let's have a healthy weekend... and please kick my butt a little :kickbutt: when I come here saying I'm too busy to do or do that. I WANT TO MEET MY GOAL and I know I need to step up to the plate and do it!!!!!

Be healthy!

Walking2lose - I actually have a bridal shower luncheon on Sunday to go to as well; will have to "watch it" as I'm sure there will be all sorts of goodies there....should be fun though! Good luck with yours!

Wow - you guys have been busy :)

Susan - so you have never been to Costco?

Kitegirl - I hope you have a good weekend with all your fitness plans and the shower you are attending.

walking2lose - oh I hope the shower is beautiful - you will have to let us know. That is cool about logging your food for 14 days.

Robsia- oh boy do I remember the fussy baby days :hug:

I began the day with a walk! Which is good. I am feeling a bit overly hungry today though - which I have come to realize means I could fall into a binge today, but I truly hope not. I went for Chinese food last night and was really great about my choices and portions.

I am debating whether to give myself a small, 5-lb reward or not. Normally I would, but I have to go check our account and see if I've gone a bit overboard with the spending this month - there were lots of unexpected gifts and stuff I had to buy this month and we also were in Mexico for our 6th anniversary the beginning of the month.

just got back from a wedding, not much food and not very tasty so I guess that was good. I also managed to squeeze 5 miles in this morning so calories-wise I'm sitting pretty.

Leigh I hope you can find a way to reward yourself, even if it's not monetary. 5lbs is an awesome marker.

another season...
 

Congrat's on eating well at the shower and weddings
it is the season - I think many people think it is only the nov. - dec-jan holidays that can do in a diet but late spring & summer showers, weddings and anniversaries can keep one dodging too!

I haven't budged a pound off in 3 weeks! I chart food & exercise and on paper it looks great - on me no change!

hope everyone has a fab sunday!

Thanks, Batmomm :) I will try and figure something out. 5 miles is awesome :) It has always been in the way, way back of my mind that I'd like to work up to power walking a 1/2 marathon and eventually a marathon.

Today, DH and I have a date brunch :) The sitter is coming to watch DS - so I researched some options for things I can order at brunch.

mmmm brunch!! yum! Leigh, look into gallowalking. It's a run walk plan that people are very successful with in completing longer distances.

Trailgroomer, why not post your stuff here and maybe somebody will see something that you're overlooking??

I ran a 10k race today, my previous best time was 55:11 and today I got 54:34 so whoo hoo, I got a smidgen faster :D Off to coach my son's football and then start work on the tree fort...have a lovely day!

Dog and I are reading
 

We're just catching up on our periodicals :p and a book called "Verbal Judo" that DH kindly got out of the library for me. Interesting things about interpersonal communication. Very common sense but I just don't talk to that many people every day. Most of the dogs will not have much of a response to
"Is there anything else I can suggest or do to get your co-operation?" :dizzy:

The dog (Casey is his name) has a sore leg so we've been exercising in a rather limited way. I have all of the stuff I need to do the strength training here and I also now have an extra bit of time in the morning. Hope to be able to breathe properly by tomorrow and get some workouts in next week.

No scale so I'm just trying to eat what I eat at home. Except there are no extras or treats :devil: here. The dog's people are both very stringent dieters now and I think that might benefit me this coming week.

I will go home for dinner only if DH is willing to cook it and, having 3 days off a week now, he better be willing!

Dagmar (SATC movie's coming!)

trailgroomer- sounds like the dreaded plateau :( I have heard others advise to change up your exercise a bit, and I am sure the others will have good advice.

Batmomm - Congratulations on getting a better run time!!! I've never heard of gallowalking - I will look it up online.

Dagmar- your posts always have me :lol: I hope DH has a delectable meal awaiting you :hun:

Interestingly, today I have been doing very well and have a whole bunch of points left to use. I'm not sure how or why that happens sometimes, but I guess it is just par for the course.

Hey everyone! Guess what - I just weighed myself this evening and the scale said 118 (down 2lbs!). I'm not sure how accurate our scale is but I think it's safe to say I lost at least 1lb this week, which is good because although I was watching what I ate, I don't feel as though I deprived myself at all. I wasn't expecting a change at all when I stepped on the scale, since I indulged a bit today at the bridal shower (who can resist cookie cake and homemade goodies?) but I didn't let myself go as I would have done before.

Another thing I am happy about is getting up early this morning to work out; usually I sleep in on Sundays while my parents go to spinning class (my dad actually teaches it). I got up at 8am and was at the gym by 9, woohoo! :) After re-loading my mp3 player with some new music, I was ready to go, and my dad said he was really proud of me for going on my own and sticking to my plan.

Hope everyone's weekend went well - here's to a new week! Make it a good one! ;)