2 granola bars-200
sliced ham, cheese, miracle wheat on whole wheat pita -210
3 big slices of ham+veggie pizza - 750

1160 calories
no workout,,,(((

b/l: coffee, picante/cheese omelet, grapefruit - 325

I NEED to do better with my water intake. I want to drink 5 16oz glasses/day and am not doing that. I really find it makes a difference . . .at least I think my face looks less 'dry' (read that as wrinkly!) when I drink that much.

lol, I forgot to post the rest of my cals from yesterday. Weekends!\

s: greek yogurt -160; goldfishies - 200
d: baked chicken and mashed potatoes, 4 hershey kisses - 500

Total: 1300

I need to do better with water, too! I get into caffeine kicks, and I end up drinking coffee or Diet Dr Pepper, and I stop keeping track of how much water I've had. I have no idea whether I've had enough. I do have a reusable plastic drinking glass with a straw, and it holds 24 oz. I try to fill that several times a day. Maybe I should start reporting my water here along with the calories.

Oh, I met my goal of at least 599 calorie deficit yesterday. It took a little extra jogging in place on the trampoline, though!

Hi ladies, well: Saturday did NOT fair well for Spike Day for me. So, I made it for Sunday.
I went out Saturday night to a party, and I will post my food choices--this is another example of WHAT NOT TO DO, but, hopefully by Wednesday or Thursday, I will see another drop in the scale.

Saturday's Menu
Cheese Pizza (1 slice), 1/2 Chicken Wrap w/Broccoli Slaw, Cottage Cheese w/Pineapple, Ice Cream, Diet Coke: 914
PB2 Greek Yogurt w/granola: 176
1/2 Chicken Wrap w/broccoli slaw, 1 bottle of Beringer White Merlot: 803
Total: 1893
Water: 64 oz

3 hours of dancing that I didn't include in my exercise log.


Sunday (Spike Day)
1/2 bottle of Moet Champagne, Taco Bell Nacho Supreme & Grilled Stuffed Chicken Burrito: 1339
Bites of a cafe Cheese Omelet, 1 buttermilk pancake w/SF syrup: 273
**This was really GROSS to me, so I didn't eat the majority of breakfast**
Zuzana's Triple Berry Pancakes, Whipped Cream 4TBS, Gatorade: 620
Broccoli Potato Mash, Grapes: 181
1/2 Chicken Wrap w/broccoli slaw, Kefir Frozen Yogurt (2cups): 745
Total: 3158

Water: 72 oz
Exercise: K9 walk ~85

Eating fast food for me SUX. However, I am expecting to see a loss on Wednesday or Thursday of this week.
**Step away from the vino

Looking back on my week,
Monday and Tuesday, meh -- slight calorie deficit
Wednesday and Thursday, -- ate more calories than I burned.
Friday -- went completely off the rails, eating nuts like it was popcorn. No idea how many calories I ate that day. But it was not pretty, and I paid for it in more ways than one. Had to stay close to the bathroom for two days. TMI, sorry.
Saturday and Sunday -- excellent! I burned 613 and 570 more than I ate, and most of it was in my apartment, jogging on the mini trampoline between studying. Big drop in my weight, with a solid 2-lb loss since the beginning of the year. That's wonderful, since I'm not even trying very hard. I'd be happy with maintaining for right now!

Hello all. I feel like I should re-introduce myself, since I feel like I am re-starting! Since I think, pretty much thursday I have been off, probably waaaay off. Worst part is I haven't even been tracking these last days. That was the one stable thing to my weightloss attempt. At least I was tracking! Anyways I am angry with myself and frustrated, and am quite sure I have undone any loss I accrued previously. Quite frankly I dont feel too assured that I can do this. I will keep trying however, I am crawling back onto the horse and I am going to get back to tracking everything I eat and drink, and I am going to get back to being accountable to you ladies. The plan is the same. I am trying to zig zag my calories.

Breakfast- Large apple- 120 cals
Lunch- 2 veggie sausage patties, slice daves killer bread with 2tbps adams natural peanut butter and 1 tbsp homemade raspberry jam-520 cals
Snack- 1/2 bag microwave popcorn-180 cals
Dinner- Grilled shrimp, black beans and cheddar cheese, tomatos, salsa-452 cals
Snack- 1/2 bag microwave popcorn-180 cals

Total: 1452 calories

On a happier note, eeryone is still here and seems to be doing well for the most part.

Queen Sarah- Congrats on 2 lbs. Thats awesome!

You will do this ma! Don't look back. Every day is the first day of this endeavor.

We are watching for you to post! Even if it's far from perfect, please post, because that will make it easier to get back on track when you fail (and we all fail, as you can see by our posts!)

Always keep an eye on the long term, and congratulate yourself whenever you see a downward trend! Sometimes the occasional failures get so overblown in our minds, when the big picture is really looking good. Five years from now, you will be exactly where you want to be, if you keep starting over each day.

b: picante/cheese omelet, banana w/p. butter, coffee, 16oz aqua - 400
l: blueberry greek yogurt and goldfish - 400

The banana and p. butter w/b-fast stuck w/me way longer than having a grapefruit. Wasn't overly hungry for lunch but ate because I knew I'd be chewing my arm off later if I didn't. Am good till dinner.

d: turkey burger (no bun) w/ peppers, goya tomate rice, carrots - 600

Total: 1400

REALLY wanting something sweet . . . and not a freakin' jolly rancher either! Aaahhhhh . . . I'm 1 lb. away from my end of January goal and don't want to screw that up but I want something sweetttt!

Ended up noshing on some HN Cherrios. That did the trick.

Total: 1500 - a bit more than I wanted today but considering I was close to shoving many cookies down my throat . . not too shabby!

Overall, I had a VERY disappointing weekend. I planned my shopping trip and food items and I thought everything went well (at the store). I bought a lot of veggies, wraps for quick sandwiches, etc. Well, I decided to eat a wrap for lunch which consisted of a veggie burger, spinach, tomatoes and (grilled onions). Well, lo and behold when my weight watcher education kicked in, I realized that the calories in onions change when you cook them (the same as an egg). I was so upset because I love onions and I had a bunch of them and that boosted up the calorie count. The wrap that I bought was HORRIBLE. Well that was the first disappointment.

The 2nd disappointment was the BROWN rice that I bought. It was gosh awful terrible. It was HORRIBLE. So, that ruined my lunch.

I was disappointed all weekend. Today is new day.

Queen Sarah- Thanks for the encouragment. It actually REALLY struck a cord. I keep telling myself that I am not looking for fast results, but I think I really am. I see a big initial woosh, and then a slight gain back and I stalled. I was still down to 176 from 179, thats good! But it had gone up from seeing 175 a few days and I totally took that as failure. Sure I wasn't staying as low in calories as I had planned. But I was building good habits. I was tracking daily and I wasn't popping right back up to my start weight.
I first signed up for 3fc in 2010! I really didnt come on here much back then, but if I had been having even 1 lb of weightloss per month since then I would be awfully close to goal right now.

You saying "Always keep an eye on the long term, and congratulate yourself whenever you see a downward trend! Sometimes the occasional failures get so overblown in our minds, when the big picture is really looking good. Five years from now, you will be exactly where you want to be, if you keep starting over each day."
-Was like the epiphany I needed. Thank you thank you thank you! If I go with the status quo, what I have been doing now for years, then I will slowly be losing and gaining a little weight at a time, and in five years I'll probably be about 10 lbs heavier and losing five then gaining five, losing five then gaining six. My wieght has been a very slow climb overall. And that is all the result I will get if I dont learn to trust the process and teach myself how to moderate what I eat, and commit to move. This is about life right? It's not about this June and the desire to wear a cute swimsuit, and its not about this next fall and the wedding your a bridesmadi in. It's about conquering the constant fight and learning to do whats healthy for ones body so even if you don't wear the perfect size, you know you are not hurting your health, and your insuring that in the longterm you remain healthy and at a happier (not continually growing, and likely shirnking to your right) size.

*sorry this was long*

What?? Eggs and onions change calorie counts when cooked? Never heard that before.

The egg carton says 70 cals per egg so that's what I count. Onions are veggies and I frequently don't even bother counting them. I would NOT sweat the onion thing, LA. AT ALL.

The wraps I buy are called Tumaros's Gourmet Tortillas, multi-grain low in carbs, 95% fat free'. They're right underneath the display at the deli counter (I shop at Giant here.) Quite tasty, only 60 cals per tortilla and they're big. I shove TONS of veggies into them, some chicken or leftover steak or pork, sometimes a little shredded cheese, some l.f. sour cream . . good to go! You can try taking a little taco seasoning mix, mixing in a little water (couple of tspns) and mixing that into the veggies/meat. Especially good if you sautee/stir fry the veggies. Yum.

Brown rice. I tried that. Once. Ewwww. I eat white rice (yeah, yeah I know it's not as good for you) but I don't eat it all the time, I watch my portion and I try to keep the rest of day on the lower end of the carb scale to offset the starchiness of the rice.

I haven't heard that about eggs (and how many people eat raw eggs anyway?) -- but vegetables -- I have heard something similar. When you cook certain vegetables, your body converts it to sugar more readily. So when I was on Nutrisystem, something like broccoli would be considered "unlimited" if it was raw, and limited to one serving if it was cooked. I chose to ignore that. No one is going to get fat eating too many vegetables -- especially onions!

I count everything the same whether raw or cooked, and I hardly ever even count onions. I count any non-starchy vegetable as "1 serving" no matter how many tons of it I put on my plate. I've lost 30 lbs doing this. I wouldn't worry if I were you!!

LA: I'm going to have to go with the majority here and say "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff", unless it's nuts or trail mix. However, onions can be fattening--if they are Onion RINGS or a Blooming Onion from Outback. As far as the rice thing...it's one lunch...how will you know you will like something new if you don't try new things? There are plenty of foods that I've bought and just simply could not MAKE myself like or even eat...take that Kashi cereal & oatmeal for example!

Awesome OP day for me today. I have some water weight, but hoping that dissipates by the end of the week.

Monday's Menu
Ezekiel Bread w/PB, PB2 Greek Yogurt w/Agave: 310
15 Bean Stew w/Laura's Lean, Almonds: 300
SBD Lazy Cabbage, Grapes, Granola: 214
Chicken Salad w/FF Raspberry Pecan Dsg, TFM Happy Heart Mix: 404
Total: 1228

Exercise: BodyRock, Plateau Challenge Arms & Abs, K9 Walk: 338
Water: 88 oz

Work tomorrow night. for an uneventful, quiet evening!!

NOW you have the concept!!
Weight loss is NOT linear! Just because you do A, B, & C right this week will NOT necessarily guarantee weight loss for you. Many factors contribute to scale loss.
I was hoping to be at goal in September--I mean how long does it take to lose 20 friggin pounds--GEEZ!! & look at me...it's almost been a year and I have 5 lbs to go! Talk about SLOOOOOOOW weight loss! But, I've learned so many new things & the discovery of new foods! I cannot say it has all been for nothing.

The goal is defo to look great in a swimsuit this summer, but if I don't--I didn't last summer & made it to the pool a couple of times a week, the beach for a week, Jamiaca, the Cayman's, and Cozumel, & I didn't allow the extra mid-section flab keep me from having a great time. I swam almost every day of my cruise!

The point is, we are all a work in progress. Do you think when you lose the extra pounds the work of it all will stop?? Try it. You'll be back at your current weight and then some in no time flat! Sorry, that's kinda mean, but it really is the truth. I know because this is the THIRD time I've lost the same 20 lbs in about 15 yrs!

to you!! We are here for you! You can do it! We will help!