Hi everyone! I have been feeling icky since Tues night. I stayed home yesterday and pretty much slept all day. I feel SO much better today, but I HAVE to go to work today. I'll catch up with you soon!

Hi...quickie hello. I am in between performances at a school. Here's my plan for today:

breakfast - english muffin with almond butter, strawberries
lunch - egg white scramble with turkey pepperoni & lite provelone cheese, rice cake, cold beet salad
snack - fiber bar, ornage
dinner - bean soup, corn bread, asparagus
snack - cereal, blueberries, milk

Have a great day.

Hi everyone! I feel so much better today. I am not going to the gym today, I don't want to overdo it, but I will make healthy food choices and drink lots of water (so far, so good!)

Hi all. Better day for me too. Last night I didn't even feel good, so I realize that I don't do myself any favors by not working out and by making poor food choices. But, today I went to spin class and it felt good. I'm on plan for food and I plan to stay there!!

Brandi - Good to see you! Good luck on the house purchase!

MJ - Glad you are feeling better!

Beverly - Good plan! Have fun with the performances!


To everyone else: we miss you! Check in!

Hi - yesterday I stayed in my calorie range. I am grateful. I am running out the door.

I am taking my mom to have a colonoscopy this am. I will need to have an early breakfast.

breakfast - ww english muffin, almond butter
snack - orange
lunch - rice cakes with turkey pepperoni and cheese, green beans
snack - fiber cereal, milk, blueberries
dinner - ww noodles, crock pot chicken, asparagus,
snack - cheese, apple, milk

have a great day everyone

Hi everyone! Still feeling good, although I plan to take it easy this weekend, just to be sure. The next few weeks are going to be SUPER DUPER busy at work and I cannot afford to get sick again.

The scale was down 1lb this am...SO close to my ticker weight....I don't want to have to bump it up, but I will if I'm not back to it soon.

Have a great day everyone!

OK seriously now. I am back. I can't be held accountable if I don't post here, now can I? No more easter candy from the boss's desk. No more "I'm so busy I can barely think" mentality -- take a deep breath, and make time for logging food. It is vitally important otherwise I will negate all of my efforts to this point. Likewise for exercising... even if I have to do it at 9pm at night, move it! Of course if I could get my butt in gear, it would be better to start my day with it but I'm not sure it is possible at this point. I am working on going to bed earlier, but it may be awhile before I can get up before 8am.

And, I resolve to stop working 80% of the day. I am not in the habit of turning down any web and graphic design business, but everyone needs something yesterday which is really difficult for me to cope with at my full time job and at home freelancing. One of my freelance clients asked me today, "Do you ever sleep?" No. I am a web and graphic design robot. Now if I could just fuel with gasoline rather than sweets, all would be well with the world :P

Consider this a formal kick in my own butt. I will start by logging all of my food and exercising TODAY. Then, I will work on it for tomorrow... day by day.

Thankfully I am still around 309/308, but I could be down in the 290s by now if I had my act together! No sense on focusing on what could have been... I now have a goal. I have about 2 months before I am flying to Denver to visit my sister and her new baby girl. Right now, I KNOW it is going to be a tight fit, and although 10lbs (and hopefully more) might not make a huge difference, it would be better than what I am now.

I hope all of you are doing well... and succeeding more than I am on this journey

Hi chicks....yesterday was a really good day...wow....am grateful. Today I need to clean up my office. It's the pits since I was going through 'stuff' for completing my taxes. I will tidy it up today.

Mom's colonoscopy was good. Always good news because she's a colon cancer survivor.

lots of water
log food
stretches and strengthening
fork down between bites, no seconds, eat seated only
slow/mindful eating - really tasting the food
feel fullness
remind myself why and how
leave a bite of food on plate

breakfast - cornbread, icbinbs, egg white scramble, ketchp, blueberries
lunch - turkey and lite cheese with mayo on lite bread, mashed cauliflower
snack - fiber cereal, almond milk, cottage cheese
dinner - grilled pork chop, big veggie salad, lite dressing, ww noodles
snack - rice cake with pnb, honey, orange, milk

Have a great day.

Things are going great.Im feeling great...its amazing what 1 OP week can do. I am also pleased to report I am down 2lbs since monday. Im making sat my weigh day.
breakfast- 3 boiled eggs whites and banana
lunch- tacos( homemade with turkey )
dinner- huge salad
snack - cheese stick and fruit

Hi Ya'll!

Pretty good week over all......I bounce around (usually up and down a variation of 3 lbs a week) Happy to say my 'high' bounce now is my current weight, so hopefully I should be adjusting my ticker soon and looking forward to being DOWN 10 lbs.

I have lost 5 inches to date in my waist and hip area - and I can tell, my clothes are VERY loose. (nice feeling).

I ate on plan all week - had one 'ADULT' beverage last night but that was all of my 'off plan' for last week.

This week it's GYM Mon - Friday (so excited to go too) (my family and I joined a gym on wed., aprl 7th) for $30 a month for the WHOLE family. A steel, compared to the big mega beautiful $180 a month gym (we don't need a pool we have one).

So this coming week I need to REALLY step up my Cardio, that's my goal as well as doing 3 / 30 min 'circut' workouts - excited to see how I do for the week and what my weightloss is.

Oh and I NEED TO DRINK MORE WATER (I am bad with that)
I feel like I have been loosing pretty slowly....but for ONCE I do not want to give up.

Thanks for letting me ramble - HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND YA'LL!

Yesterday was a healthy day - I am grateful. I cleaned up my office. It's amazing how more cheerful it is to go in it or even walk by! YAY

Today I need to write som€e thank you notes to my clients and confirmation letters for later this year.

breakfast - cornbread, icbinbs, egg white scramble, ketchup, blackberries
lunch - turkey and lite cheese on bread with mustard, red pepper strips, dip
snack - 1/2 serving cereal, milk, strawberries
dinner - one grilled pork chop, 1 T bbq sauce for dipping, garlic bread, big salad with evoo, balsamic vinegar
snack - ff cottage cheese, strawberries

Have a great day.

I'm so glad I came here. I've been having a bad weekend and needed some inspiration and a little compassion.
I have been stuck at 265 for forever. I am trying to make better food choices, with limited success. For example, Saturday I had raisin bran with blackberries for breakfast and then had some baked tortilla chips with 1 c cheddar cheese for lunch. Met the dude for dinner at Cheesecake FActory and had.. a salad with grilled salmon, figs and goat cheese, wtih a side of mashed potatoes. When we got home, we split some chocolate covered pretzels - about 10 each about two hours later.
Are those better choices than I would have made a month ago? Yes. I would have had full fried chips. I would have had one of the Cheesecake Factory Pastas or the chicken parm, with fries and cheesecake.
Today I got home and, instead of making microwave popcorn, I popped it myself, still with 1/3 stick of butter. Had baked sea bass for dinner.
So it's like I can never do things right, I always have to screw it up somehow.
Sigh.

Hi everyone! I just finished packing my healthy lunch for tomorrow. My gym clothes are in the car. I am getting my biometric testing done tomorrow am (my work is offering it for free). I am very happy to be back on track. Last night we made grilled chicken for dinner and I cooked the whole big package so I would have leftovers to add to my salad for lunch this week....my salad looks SO yummy! I am seriously thinking about buying chicken just to grill and cut up for this purpose. MUCH cheeper and healthier than ordering it out, that's for sure! I ran into a friend who goes to the Thurs night zumba class and she encouraged me to go, so I promised I would be there. I can't wait! She said they are adding a Monday class too, if people are interested. That might be just the way to shake up my workout routine.

I know work is going to get super busy--we are due for our certification from the state next month, BUT I will not let that derail me. I CAN do this!!! We ALL can!