Did badly with the food yesterday. Kind of a mini-binge - was eating stuff I knew I shouldn't but kept eating. Had some Italian bread and butter, fruit juice, ice cream(although I did measure out a half-cup), and some trail mix. and one Newman's cookie. Trying to estimate, probably about 2000. So not terrible, but unplanned and unnecessary. Had been between 1400-1600 the 3days before that. Must remember that calorie cycing means low days as well as high days.

Did 20 minutes on the Elliptical and an hour body sculpting class. Class was particularly tough - everyone felt it. It was unseasonably warm and rainy and humid here - I think that was it.

Struggled with the water again yesterday. 4 cups so far today, so doing better.

Official weigh-in is Friday, and will have no results for the week if I don't get my butt in shape NOW.

half way there mayness! keep trucking :)
welcome back, katiepony! Slow and steady wins the race, right? zYay for losing!
maenad, the snow will soon melt away for good. don't beat yourself up too much, it's all about moving forward!

No real news from me, I'm a bit sore from yesterday's workout and I kept my calories around 1490. Will weigh tomorrow!

ah crap, i just ate 5 oreos. That puts me at 1175 for the day already, and i'll be up for another 7hrs or so! poo

natamars, you're always so thorough in your accountability-ness. it's inspirational :) i would think all that working out you do compensates at least a little for a 2000 cal day. Chin up, back on track today!

So, in the spirit of natamars... i finished out my calories for the day (around 1450 again), but then for some reason, my silly self kept craving those stupid oreos... i finished off the box, another 3 cookies. I would have eaten another 10, i swear, but they were gone. so i turned to a few bites of ice cream. ugh! So I actually ended up around 1800. blah blah blah

despite the binge, I'm down to 162.2. Official weigh-in is not till Saturday, but my dad is coming into town tonight. Hopefully I can eek out a another pound while he's here, but I always go at least a little off track whenever there's a disruption to my norm!

Today is week 2, day 2 of my challenges! Today I do a total of 71 push ups, 96 squats, and 107 sit ups (find all 3 challenges here: http://www.hundredpushups.com/)!! wish me luck...

150.2 today. Feeling good with I'm going to call in conscious eating rather than intuitive. I'm eating pretty much what I would eat when counting calories. I'm just not counting. I'm currently finding craving satisfied with less because I am honoring them.

shasha, that is AWESOME on the exercise challenge. you are so inspiring.

ennay, the conscious eating sounds good. sometimes i won't even remember having eaten something, until i see the empty wrapper - it freaks me out.

was at about 1100 calories today. i did go to the vending machine for a bag of raisinets(18 cal, 32 g carbs) because i just could not get chocolate off my mind. anyway, they did help, and i didn't need to eat anything after that.

did 32 min on the elliptical - kind of mad b/c i couldn't make it to sculpting class b/c of dh's work schedule.

2 more days until official weigh-in - hoping for at least a 1 lb. loss.

yesterday was pretty good. It was my BF and my 2 year anniversary. we had some wine and got t-bone steaks, but it didn't feel like too much. i had had a pretty light day before dinner!

haven't weighed myself yet, think i will tomorrow, but i am feeling good about the next few days.

Well, the work out was successful :) But sometimes i'm so dumb!!

Dad got in last night and we stayed in and ordered pizza, but instead of eating something healthy beforehand, i was starving by the time the pizza came... aaand i ate 4 slices. Not all at once, but i definitely did. And had 4 vodka drinks and played wii bowling. I mean it was fun, but I really need to figure out how to stay on track when something fun and exciting happens, like Dad coming to town! Teach me how, maenad! haha

We're going to breakfast this morning. I will not cave!

I had a good week staying on plan. Lots of veggies :) But last night was my best friend's birthday, and of course she wanted to go to a pizza joint, haha. I allowed myself to splurge (shoot, I didn't even splurge over the holidays) and had two pieces of pizza at dinner. I didn't feel too guilty about it, but I was afraid it would sabotage my weigh in this morning. Not too bad...1.5lbs lost this week! I'll take it :)

Starting: 163.6
Current: 156.8
Remaining: 3.2

Hmmm...I might be cuttin' it close, but I think I can do it!!

Happy Friday, everyone! Today is my official weigh-in day and I was at 142.9, down 1.1 this week, and I'm happy with that. It is definitely the slowest I've ever lost when I was working so hard, but I'm also older now, so I can accept it. I'm just happy the scale is going down. I haven't seen 142 in probably a year.

Prett happy with yesterday - 1127 calories, 11 glasses of water, and an hour of Zumba. I did have more carbs than I would have liked in the form of honey and sugar. I am getting sick of eggs in the morning, so I'm thinking about doing oatmeal some days and varying both my carbs and my calories. I just have to watch my additions to the oatmeal - by the time I add walnuts, flax seed, raisins, soy milk, and honey I can end up with almost a 500-calorie bowl.

Hope everyone has a great day.

Mkendrick and Natamars! :carrot: Good for both of you!!!!

I weighed in today. 163.2. Dad's visit put me off plan a little bit, what with all the eating out and drinking booze. Other than pizza night, I stuck to 1500 cals (including the vodka, ha), so I think I'm holding on to a little water. But I'm not totally disappointed (even though I have been creeping back up since I hit a low of 160.8--2 weeks ago).

Nothing to disrupt my plan this week. I will drink lots of water and eat many vegetables. I WILL SEE THE SCALE DROP!!!

According to my V-day challenge goal, I'm supposed to be 157 by Feb 14th... I'd like that to be a steady 157. Need to step it up!

Hope everyone's having a great weekend :)

124 again. at least my little slip ups didn't cost me too much. I got 30 Day Shred in the mail today. I didn't have time to do it today (I work all day and night on weekends without a break) so i am starting it on the First of Feb. I am very excited! My BF is getting me a mat on the 1st while i'm at work, and when i get home i can start! can't wait! I am going to try to do it at least 3 days a wek to start (heard it is really hard at first) then go up to 5 days a week.

shasha, you sound so determined - I KNOW you will have a great week!

Friday was my high calorie day - ended up at just under 2000. Really wanted to keep it about 1800. Yesterday was low cal low carb - about 1160 calories and 46 carbs. Today will be moderate on both - aiming for 1400-1500 calories. I made oatmeal for breakfast for the first time in forever(used to have it every day) and could only eat half. Odd.

My period started today - I would SO love a whoosh at Friday's weigh-in.

Still keeping up 5x/week at the gym. Trying to do body sculpting 2-3 X/week and am getting in some cardio even on sculpting days. Did my measurements today - not much change from 1/18. Hoping some of it is due to my period and muscle work yesterday.

today is my birthday, which means that i have had 3 slices of cake ver the past two days...both my classes brought me cake yesterday and my class this morning got me a cake as well. I ate light yesterday and today to make up for it. I know there will be another cake this evening in my class! My birthday party is on Thursday, I don't plan to drink until then this week. I want to try to not drink in Feb again, but it is sort of hard.

I was up a half pound this morning, but i have been a bit irregular (if you know what i mean!) and am getting my period either today or tomorrow, so i'm not letting myself be disappointed by this.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAENAD!!!!! :D

I was down to 161 this morning. I knew I was holding water!

14 MORE DAYS!!!!!!!