Danggit, I got it from Netflix and it's still sitting in it's sleeve. Grrr. I need to start that DVD sometime. Oh, I'm talking about Jillian's 30 Day Shred.

Echo!! Missed you, doll! Yeah, you and me both up a lb. Sucks, huh? I'm still not logging in to Fitday and recording it. I hate seeing that "up" blip. Boo. I'm hoping today's outdoor activities will bring the weight down. Yeah, barfis are my major weakness, especially the almond ones. We're on the cashew box right now, so I'm able to stay away from them. I've only eaten 3 in the past 3 days, not bad!

Confession so far:

Breffix - 3 figs (111 cals), 1 cup skim milk + 1 tbsp coca powder (125), um 1 burfi (125 cals)
Total: something. I can't add.

Ok, leaving now. Talk to you gals later on tonight!

SO FAR:
Breakfast (438 cal): Fiber 1 cereal (2 kinds), almond milk, diet OJ, fat free creamer in my coffee.

I like to have a big breakfast and then each subsequent meal is smaller, dinner being a salad or something small. Friday and Sat I was really bad....trying to take it each day at a time and not binge on anything today!! I'm working OT today....but will try to fit in a workout when I get home.

My new goals are no sugar in my tea or coffee, no adding extra salt & no more ice cream at night for a while, that's an extra 300 calories a day.

Breakfast

260 3 Organic eggs scambled cooking in a 1/2 tsbp of canola oil
30 2 Tbsp's of organic salsa
80 1 slice of Ezekiel bread (dry)
60 1 cup of Organic Watermelon
0 1 cup of tea
80 1 cup of Organic skim milk
0 8 ounces of water & loads of varies vitamins
Total calories
510

Alright, I'm back from my hike, so I can supply more info.

Welcome to our thread, Igetfit and Dogmom!

So we went for a 4.6 mile hike in the state park closeby and then came back and went out to lunch. I wasn't in the mood to cook anything and we were both hungry so neither of us were patient. We went to eat Thai. We got a fried rice with tofu and a thick noodle with chicken and chinese veggies. They were delicious AND *drumroll please* I ate slowly AND felt full after only eating maybe 1 cup of fried rice and 1.5 cups of the noodle thingie. I focused on chewing every bite. We also had calamari as an appy and I had only three of those. Man, those took a lot of chewing! I don't know how many calories that was, but I was very happy with my progress! So, I'll have a light dinner tonight maybe some soup and fruits to account for lunch today.

Echo - glad you like my avatar! I'm waiting to hit 160 before I change the pic. I have a few ideas for what I want it to be. It says "hehehehehehe" below the pic. I thought it was totally cute, so I put it up. When I get bored I look for animation gifs. Haven't found any worthwhile ones yet.

Cape - Excellent!! Is Turbo Jam by Billy Blanks? Holy crap, I used to do his ultimate butt & thighs (something like that) and it kicked my butt. Wow, I used to be SO sore afterward...

Alright, will check in later.

Hey Cape, Sunni, and welcome DogMomNp nice to have you join us!!! and IgetfitNStrongforme!! way hey you found us here!! welcome to the group! good luck on the ice cream fast hehe

thanks so much for the positive support Cape ! really appreciate it!!
i think you're right Cape, dont think the teams go by trainers.

aww thanks Sunni!! so sweet of you!!

cape - way to go on the exercise! you go girl!

way to go on the slow eating Sunni!!!! awesome and awwwwww i love your idea of changing avators based on weight loss!! that's so cool!!!!!!!

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my confession for today:

no breakfast/lunch (cause of fasting).

dinner: 1 small bowl of fruit salad.
vegetable rice, with mince lamb curry, salad, and coleslaw, yoghurt. Today I ate slowly and stopped eating - as soon as i SIGHED (involuntary deep breath that indicates to you , that you are full) which happened around the 15 minute mark.

i'm now having peppermint tea, as i heard that its not good to drink cold water after a meal as it solidified the oils in your food. so drinking something warm is recommended

i am so craving a chocolate brownie !! i saw it on the biggest loser (season 6 - when they have to eat as much as they can to gain control) i dont have any brownies in the house lol. so i might have a kitkat later on tonight hehe

exercise - 27 minutes of Yoga X (P90x).

hope you girls had a good day !!

Wait. What??? I thought the point of biggest loser was to um LOSE weight and stop overeating or something. This is what's wrong with the world today. Who shows delicious brownies on a weight loss show? WHO. That's totally sending people in the wrong direction. Le sigh.

Rest of confessions:

Snack - 3 figs, 1 banana

Dinner - 2 cups homemade wonton soup with 4 homemade wontons (I can't get over how cute they are - they're so small!) This tasted absolutely fabulous and it was not even that calorie-rich! About 300 cals total.

Dessert - Fruit, fruit and more fruit. I had a red bartlett pear (love those!) and some grapes. Might have some watermelon later.

More exercise - going to play 30 mins of tennis in an hour or so. This is what happens when you don't exercise consistently, folks. Actually, we really weren't tired/sore from our hike this morning, so we have some energy to get back into tennis.

Way to go, Cape!! Resisting homemade cake AND ice-cream? Good job!!! (two carrots 'cause you went above and beyond your call of duty, hehe)

I'm having a big helping of watermelon tonight instead of the other fruit. I had 2 burfis (250 extra cals) so I'm going to skip on the grapes and pear.

I also wanted to add that I threw out the remaining cinnarolls because it was just too much of a temptation for me. Out of sight, out of mind. Should've only made half the recipe, but oh well. I only ended up throwing out 3 or 4, so not a total loss. Argh. I need to kick my butt and get going with my self-control. Portions, portions, portions!!!

Way to go Ladies!!! Seems like everyone had a great Sunday! I really appreciate the encouragement as it is really helping me stay on track. In the 40s something thread I shared that I was able to squeeze into my jeans with a 40 inch waist, yay! I was unable to wear any of my jeans earlier this summer because I could not button them and I refused to go out and buy bigger sizes....I opted to start my weight less journey instead.

My day included:

coffee with 2% milk
water
one fruit and grain snack bar

water
2 slices of bread with tuna salad and onion
peas and onions with a pat of garlic butter
amish baked beans

water
large salad with reduced fat cheese and reduced fat french dressing
pear

more water, water, water

I still have a couple hundred calories left but I am not going to eat anything this late at night. I did exercise a bit and ran after and played with my granddaughter tonight!

Right? I would've done the same. I'm such an anti-waster. I had to let go of that kind of thinking and just throw out the bad stuff once I was done satisfying my craving.

Yup. I've done that too. Now my 12s are kinda stretched out so they fit me and it's hard to tell if I've truly lost weight because I've worn them at my highest and squeezed every inch of my bottom half into those jeans. Once I hit 155, I'm planning on going shopping for new jeans so we'll see how the fitting goes then!

Sundays tend to trip me up...and since I only started Friday...thats not good! Anyway, had a scoop of icecream, didnt exercise, and ate waaaayyyy too much for Dinner. I know I cant let it defeat me...so tomorrow I will do better. AND double up on the exercise!!. maybe by NEXT friday I can report a loss!! whoohoo