Nor me! I haven't had such a stretch of on plan eating in a long while! I'm hoping the doctor's scales will have a good number for me tomorrow morning!

I did very well yesterday right up until I walked in the door last night and I was tired, hungry and didn't have anything planned for DH's dinner. I have no excuse for how the rest of the evening went. However, instead of giving up on myself I came and read this thread and have been 100% so far today and will make it through dinner tonight. I actually think I didn't plan on enough to eat yesterday during the day and my energy slumped way to much so today I included a serving of yogurt and berries with my bkfast and an apple with my second. This very moment I am not hungry but I will eat my 3rd meal of some cottage cheese and raisins around 4:00 and hopefully be fueled enough to carry me through fixing dinner.

I was very tempted to go back into lurking again but I was doing so wonderfully last week that I just didn't want to let last night screw that up.

Thx,

Yay, Evangeline! Keep coming back.

Another good day in the bag. We leave early tomorrow for Columbus. I have car food cooked, but nothing is packed yet :faint: Gotta go pack and try on clothes :lol3:

Lydia- :wave: I'll see YOU at the gym!

Mel

Lunch - ordered a "naked chicken fajita bowl"...mmm! Brown rice, beans, grilled chicken, FAT FREE sour cream, and grilled veggies. Per DWLZ, it was around 450 calories. I am ROCKING this travel thing!

Made it through the first week. I gave up my newest addiction--sugar free caramel lozenges--after I realized how many I was eating. At 9 cal/ each, they must add up. Today is the end of week 1 for me. I didn't have a single caramel candy and I didn't replace it with other caramel candies, so I'm pleased. It's definitely not that I don't want them, I DO! I'm just not having them.
For this next week, I'm in again. This time, I want to start my days out with a walk. If the weather is bad, I'll do an indoor bike ride instead. Again, no excuses. I know I feel better when I start my day out with movement. I only have to do 20 minutes to either walk to work or instead do the bike ride. I think by reporting to you guys whether I'm making it or not, I'm much more likely to stick with it, so daily walk (or ride), here I come! Today, I did walk to work--got there 40 minutes early and decided I may as well keep walking. For today, I've walked over 13,000 steps. The morning hour long walk made a big difference and walking back and forth to work was easy but walk 2 miles just in and of itself. Looking forward to doing my morning walk and cutting back on my daily cardio at the gym--it was time for a switch! :)

Everyone please have me in your thoughts and prayers Thursday morning. It's quite possible that I may "meet my maker" at some point during this workout.:fr:


Goalsuccess: It's great that you have been able to put the caramel candies down. It's so easy for me to make a habit out of "little nothings" like these too when I am focusing upon not eating the really big things. The problem is I can make a habit out of eating anything in the house. Last summer I cleared the house of all crackers, pretzels, etc but still made a mini meal out of chocolate chip morsels and peanuts, or parmesean cheese. I'm better now but I still won't have the chocolate chips in the house just in case. The last two weeks I actually look forward to taking all of my vitamins and supplements as if they were my mini meal. :crazy: Hey, the big vitamin C tablets are quite yummy. :D

I have another challenge to face tomorrow. Please tell me to stay strong because I feel the will power caving.....
I am a school librarian and we sold a "Librarian for the Day" at our auction. I have an adorable third grader who will be librarian tomorrow. She is so excited and will read to the kids and help me during the day. Part of what she will get is to eat in the library (normally taboo!). She has chosen a really yummy fast food restaurant (In and Out if you're familiar with N. Cal) and I have my dd going to pick it up. They also want ice cream and I don't know if I can resist both. I'm sorely tempted to have the hamburger/fries (I think it is 14 points total and even less if I skip the bread-- I'll check DWLZ) and work it off at the gym.
I am truly torn! I haven't had a (fast food) hamburger in probably close to a year.

By the time I get to this point, I can't remember who said what!!!

Yes, these threads are great. And yes, the easiest way out is to go into lurk mode. But we're not going to do that, right? Because we're accountable chicks, right?

I'm right around 1300 cals today and I'm sipping water. Feel quite virtuous really.

Ah, wrapping up the day with a nice cup of tea. I changed out my dinner a little, as my CSA box which came today had fresh green beans, and zucchini. I put the zucchini on the grill with the salmon and steamed the beans. Then because we were running late, I made some couscous instead of sweet potatoes. But I only had 1/2 cup, so still in good shape. :) I need to go make a plan for tomorrow.

Doing well still! Dinner was salad with nonfat dressing, light beef stroganoff (about a cup and a quarter), and brussels sprouts, a glass of wine, and a small portion (3/4 cup or so) of light vanilla ice cream with fresh strawberries.

So on plan! So rocking it. And I'm so glad I have all of you here keeping me on track.

Today came in POP at right around 1700 calories:
B: FF plain Greek yogurt with High Fiber Cereal and raspberries
S: Decaf coffee with FF half and half and SF Torani
L: Pastrami with Alouette light spreadable cheese, sauerkraut, and low cal Thousand Island on flax seed bread; marinated mushrooms; pickles; light string cheese; four sesame coated walnut pieces.
S: Oat bran with FF cream cheese, an apricot, and SF Torani
S: Kippered herring on Waterwheel wafers, Fiber One Muffin with FF cream cheese, pepitas
D: Red Banana Chicken with brown rice, green salad with low cal dressing
S: Banana-Chocolate-Cherry Muffin with FF cream cheese, 2 chocolate covered espresso beans, tea with FF half and half and SF Torani

Exercise: 15 min on step mill (10 min of intervals), 20 min intervals on TM, 15 min abs

Michele: I don't know, the last time I had an In-n-Out burger, it wasn't as good as I remembered. I think I've sort of lost my taste for fast food hamburgers. Maybe if you have one, you'll find the same thing. I hate it when I splurge on calories and then what I eat ends up not being that good. :mad: On the ice cream, maybe you could get light ice cream or frozen yogurt. The kids probably wouldn't even notice (or you could just get some light ice cream for yourself and regular for them).

Still motivated by this thread. My husband asked me if I wanted the other half of his Pepsi. I'm not a big soda drinker, but was mildly tested because I sort of wanted the caffeine. But I know that sugar - especially when I'm tired - can so often lead to unlimited quantities of sugar for me - so I turned him down. Then when he left the bottle anyway, I poured it down the sink to avoid having to make the decision again and again and again.

Very nice thread.

Wait, Lydia -- you get to work out with Mel? I'm so jealous. Not, of course, of the DOMS you're going to be feeling for the two weeks after she leaves... :)

I mastered the happy hour last night. Crushed it like a little bug. I had carrots, celery, some fruit, and sparkling water. And then I came home to a chicken breast with veggies. I'm feeling pretty darned proud of myself, but really it's because of this thread -- I wanted to be able to come here this morning and brag. :)

"No excuses" day 3, here I come...

Be strong,
Kim

Laurie -- :high: I can't tell you how much food I've dumped in the past seven years (and often poured dish liquid over!) but I don't feel the least bit guilty about it. Better than turning myself into a trash can or garbage disposal. :p

Barbara, I have the same reaction to foods I've been craving. Very rarely are they as good as I remember! And very rarely are they worth the calories.

Michele, it sounds like you've got the situation under control. Even if you make the choice to have the burger and fries, you're planning on counting it and being accountable. If you do it, I hope it's fabulous! :T Nice work on giving up the candies! :cp:

Lydia, I'll be thinking of you! The only time I've met Mel in a gym, she and I both did BB squats in dress clothes with high heels on. Kind of like elevating your heels on a plate, right? :lol: It wasn't a real workout though, so I envy you!

Megan, I'm so glad you like the salmon salad! I'm addicted.

:woohoo: to everyone else! Isn't it a great feeling? Amanda, you are AWESOME!!

Yesterday was a perfect food day, so I can do it again, right? :)

M1: Protein shake w/blueberries
M2: Turkey sausage and oatmeal
M3: Salad w/salmon, strawberries, and LF dressing
M4: 12-bean soup
M5: Either cottage cheese or apple and PB
M6: 95% lean burger and roasted asparagus (didn't have this last night -- had bean soup instead)

Off to the gym in a bit for arms and cardio. :carrot:

No excuses, plain & simple...
 

I went about 300 calories over my planned allotment.

Yes, lots and I do mean LOTS of stuff that happened yesterday that totally screwed me up, one being I absolutely could not eat my midmorning meal (long story)and therefore when it was time for me to make my lunch I was ravenous and as I was waiting for it to cook, actually even before I started to cook it, - I had me some BLT's. No excuses. I could have and should have handled it better. I feel good though. Not beating myself up and looking forward to today.

Without a doubt, it was this thread that stopped it from being worse then the 300 calories. Without a doubt. That and something Jay(ell) mentioned on the support thread last week or so. It really, REALLY stuck with me. Something to the effect of: "If you had a flat tire would you go and puncture the other 3?" & "If you tripped on a step would you throw yourself down the entire staircase?" I can't tell you how grateful I am for these words and this thread.

Goalsuccess,so glad to hear you've kicked the candy habit. I need to follow in your footsteps as I definitely had too many sugar free candies yesterday. I will not buy them again. There, I said it. Only problem is, I've got tons in the house. Hmmmm.... where's the dish liquid & the trash can?????

Pat, your dinner sounds SOOO yummy.

Amanda, you really DO rock!!!

You are all doing so fantastic!!!! You are all inspiring me to have a perfectly on plan day. :smug: