Sassy Thank you! I'm going to print that out and read it whenever I get overwhelmed.

I've been putting garbage into my body for two days now to try to deal with all the new horrible stuff the City is throwing at us, and to also deal with all the *sshole dog owners who are ruining whatever we have left for the dogs with their irresponsilbe "me first I'm special" behaviour.

While pigging out yesterday I did note something. It's called "junk" food for many reasons but it really struck me just how artificial and horrible most overprocessed food tastes.

I had a bunch of crap to eat in the late afternoon (I tend to binge now after I get home and before dinner) and then ate my healthy dinner. The dinner tasted so good and felt really good in my mouth too. The crap I had before was just awful.

That's another lesson I'm going to remember from now on.

I'm off to find my snow shovel. The dogs will be thrilled to be out today. I'm going to try to pick up some of their happiness and try to get out of this slump today.

Dagmar (sulking and whining in TO)

The weather people have changed their minds for today. Now it's supposed to rain. I don't really care as long as the roads are bare and I can see. I'm going to get DD and the baby to stay with us for a few days! So I will be driving and I'd like the weather to cooperate.

I did get my head and my heart back in order yesterday. I wish I could say I'd exercised but I only did a few minutes for hamstrings. But I did straighten up my intake (after the chips) and my fitday turned out not too bad.

I know EXACTLY how you feel. But the only person you're cheating on is yourself.

That's not obsessive - that's just sensible.

Is what your family and roommate think of you more important to you than losing weight is?

Yes, they do!

Sassy - great song!!

I'm doing pretty well actually - hit my lowest weight ever yesterday - 137.8.

I'm not logging my food as such - I'm rebelling against logging right now - but I'm eating well and I know if I eat three sensible meals and three snacks with the occasional treat, Voilà - I maintain, and even lose a little bit.

Great song Sassy!

Dagmar - Sounds like you had the same kind of day I did yesterday.

Well, moving on, today is a new day. I have all my food planned out and lots of activity today, so I guess I better get going.

Have a great day everyone!

Very cute, Sassy! Thanks!

omg! that is awesome! Very creative.. I love it. Yesterday was not good for me, it was my hubby's b-day and well i ate icecream cake from dairy queen and pizza for lunch and then pasta for dinner.. talk about carb overload!! OHHH and breadsticks with butter (to die for). So I am surprised the scale was't up higher this morning than it was. I got lucky...

I was going to keep putting junk into my mouth today but then decided to give myself a break.

There is now a two-day limit on "sulking" eating at my house.

I'm surprised at myself re sulking/eating limit as today things went from bad to worse re dogs. I was "caught" by Animal Services with 4 dogs off leash in a questionable area. I have two "problem" dogs (who run up to people howling at them) and I've been taking their group to a little beach where I can gate them in and let them run. They are both hunting dogs and love to bomb around this beach.

Not allowed apparently. Luckily the AS guy just wanted to "educate" me so I got away without any tickets and with my permit intact. But poor Scout and Bauer are now sentenced to be on leash everywhere. These are going to be two mightily frustrated dogs from now on.

I fell so sad for all "my" dogs. The only place they can now go off leash in their area of Toronto is less than half an acre in size and has no shade in the summer. And anyone with any aggression problem can't go off leash at all. No muzzled dogs allowed in the off leash areas.

Dagmar

Mudpie, can you take the furry guys to a hiking area not too far from where you are in Toronto? Does such a place exist?

Off limits to dogs or all dogs have to be leashed in any hiking areas in the greater Toronto area and the entire province actually.

I do 5 walks a day so no time to drive everyone anyplace and back. I structured my business to take small groups, instead of large packs, and to use the (then) existing parks so the dogs don't have to spend a lot of time in my little Toyota Corolla. I'm not one of those dogwalkers who pulls up with a van and unloads 12 dogs. We are now limited to 6 per walk anyway, and I never have that many.

I guess I'll just buy some really well-padded shoes and start using bigger weights to further strengthen my upper body. I'm hoping my DH is wrong and that Toronto doesn't ban all dogs from all parks. That would mean the poor things have to walk on concrete sidewalks.

I never considered leaving Toronto before this, but I'm really starting to hate what the municipal goverment is doing to the City I used to love. They're prohibiting or destroying everything that makes it liveable.

Dagmar

That would really be inhumane, IMO. They gotta have someplace!?

There have been times where I have considered moving to Toronto. I [used to] think it is a wonderful city---

hello feathers!! I have been following along but not doing to much posting b/c that would interrupt my post dinner sweet tooth. Alas, I have worked thru our first holiday plate of goodies-- yet still managed to get .5lb away from original lowest weight on Halloween night.

TOM whoosh and excercise-- hurrah!
and logging logging logging, even as i veered off plan i logged (each little funsize bar and kiss and cookie...) and it did boost my butt out of the kitchen earlier than otherwise.


I'm off for my long run for the week. My now stated weekend goal--
GET THAT .5LB OFF AND KEEP IT OFF THRU MONDAY and dare I say it?? THE REST OF NEXT WEEK!!

TGIF!!

Good morning ladies

Well this morning was my weekly weigh in and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. I lost 3 lbs. this week

Maybe my one bad day was kind of a zig zag and helped. Who knows, but I'll take it. Finally a motivator to keep me going

Sorry to hear about all your problems with the city, Dagmar. Maybe you could get together with some other dog walkers and organize some kind of meeting with the city to discuss these issues. Dogs have to be able to play somewhere.

I was going to make this a "free day" with the food, but I think I'll stay on plan and see what next week brings.

Have a great day everyone!

Way to go! 3 lbs down is great! And trading in a free day for an OP day, sounds like your in the zone.

Dagmar, I like abbyin's idea about getting together with some other dog people and talking to the city. Would that be possible? What a shame for the dogs...

Well, I've been away from 3fc for a couple days. Tom is here and I went into a serious sugar frenzy. Not my usual behavior, but I really had no desire to stop myself. It involved snack-sized chocolate bars, it wasn't pretty, lol! So, now I'm over it. I went for a long power walk this morning and I'm ready to clean up my act. I'm going to work my tush off this weekend to fix any damage I've done.

Hope your all having a great Friday!

Kittycat-
I just realized we were in the same place! TOM and those darn candy bars! But at least you logged them, lol.

just hold on tight and wait for the whoosh of water weight gogirl!

Just one further note on the situation that's stressing me out and then I'm done for this week.

It seems the Toronto municipal government now does what it wants, when it wants, without any regard for the citizens who elected them.

Commercial dog walkers met 6 times with the City. We presented carefully thought out arguments for all of our points, discussed what our industry had to do to comply with the City, proposed many good ideas for harmony between dog owenrs and other park users, etc. etc.

Dog owenrs also met with the City in two rounds of consultations and presented their ideas.

The City ignored all of this. The consultations were a sham, designed so that the City could say "well we asked your opinions and now are acting on them". No "official" records were kept of the meetings and the City refuses to recognize our "minutes" as legitimate records.

They also refuse to give any reason for banning dogs from the beach during the winter. They are acting without any accountability whatsoever to the people who live in the City.

Dagmar