I'm going to have to call yesterday a wash. Too many things to do ... left supper up to the guys and ate their pizza. Napped instead of walking.

I think I left some wiggle room in my plan for days like that.

This is day #2 for me. I haven't had a sip of Coke or DP. It's been hard, but I'm not missing it as much as I thought I would. And so far, no headache. Yay!

I bought the WATP DVD yesterday and am going to start that today. I'm so excited to see if I can do it. I really want to find a good cardio DVD next. Any suggestions? Any that I should avoid?

I haven't been to the store, so no junk food has been bought. And what was in the house was thrown out. I went a little over 1500 calories yesterday, but not by a lot. I was very happy. Not hungry at all.

Ugggghhh. I am so sore this morning! The weights really did a number on my muscles..that's a good thing, but I'm not appreciating it today!

Dinner last night was ok. We had cheese fondue for dinner so I tried to stick to the veggies and fruits. I only ate about half of the pie she had for dessert and not even half a glass of wine. Somehow I'm up 2 lbs this morning... LOL!

Any tips for surviving the weekend? We have dinner out tonight and I'm just planning on getting a salad. Looks like we should be eating in the rest of the weekend, so that will make things a bit easier. I've already got my healthy meals for next week planned out so I can grocery shop accordingly!

It's been a great week for me! I've managed to stay on track with my food plan Mon-Thurs. Except for one chocolate covered strawberry that I ate yesterday. I immediately felt guilty for eating it and promptly got myself back on track for the rest of the day! I've slacked off slightly with my water intake -- I think it's dropped to 6 glasses instead of 8. I have to fix that asap!

As far as my fitness goals, I managed to workout for at least an hour Mon-Thurs. And for all my hard work, I stepped on the scale this morning and found that I had LOST 1lb!! I swear I heard a choir of angels sing!

Good luck to everyone this weekend...try to stay strong!

Fat Pants someone in the Exercise forum was asking what kind of home elliptical to buy... What kind is it? Maybe you can go post and recommend something to her...

Stella -- sometimes when I run I have to walk because of icy conditions too, but as long as I'm exercising I really don't mind, at least I'm out there doing something... How far did you get in 1.5 hrs?

I ran for 45 minutes today...It's bright and sunny I love it -9c....

According to mapmyrun.com* it was about 6.5 miles. My dog was very, very happy!

*Sorry, it's not letting me post a link

Fat Pants...here's a tip on dinner...don't get a creamy salad dressing. I got honey mustard yesterday from Quiznos and when i looked on the website it said one little side of dressing was 500 calories!!!! And i ended up eating the whole little dish of dressing. You want to go with some sort of vinegarette dressing. I don't know what i thinking.

I'm not sure how today is really looking. I had 3 home made taco's for lunch today, a serving of animal crackers and a low fat, low cal yogurt for breakfast and tonight is mexican out. No excersize because my gym is closing early tonight and i just have too much else to do tonight.

I tend to be so gung ho for these challenges and then just can't stick to them.

I find I have to maintain on some winter days and diet on others. And it's totally dependent on the weather which, at least here in Ontario, has been biblical this winter (I'm expecting a rain of frogs any day now).

So I will have to bow out of this challenge. If there is one when spring weather is here I will try again.

Good luck to everyone!

Dagmar

Aww Dagmar, perfection is not expected at all... I certainly ain't ... But if it isn't the right time for you, we'll still be her in the Spring that's for sure ...

I am in -

Averaging under 1500 cals per day including lots of superfoods.

Spin that actually gets my heart rate up six days per week

Weights/resistance five days per week

Yoga - 3 times a week

Take my vitamins!

Oh yes Dagmar! If we were looking for perfection, I'd be looong gone. I'm not sure I've had a particularly good day yet.

It's another round of 'who knows what causes that'. Yesterday there wasn't enough food in town for me. Today, I'm way under calories and don't care.
My superfoods are OK.
I took my vitamins.
I sproinged my achilles the other day. Limped a bit later on in my shift yesterday. So today, I snugged up my shoes and did lower impact cardio than usual. I swung my arms around more

So I had a good day ... flawed but good.

I had a bad, bad day... ate candy, yelled at my kids, went way over my calories when we went out to dinner and hardly moved at all.

I am so sick of winter.

Can I still join the challenge too

Where as my challenges
1. Eat Breakfast (not a morning person)
2. Drink my 8 glasses
3. Some form of extra movement every day.
4. Plan my meals ahead of time and stick with the plan!

I think that's enough for this time around.

Em

Oh yes Em, you are very welcome!

Good morning!

I was going to do a little weekly round up today because I have a few minutes before work but, I find, I didn't track my food last weekend. Sooo ... I guess I'll be doing a weekly assessment on Monday.

What do you all think about how long this thread is going to get?

Do you want to start new each Monday -or- do two halves -or- we really could just stay here -or- what?

I have an idea for an assessment thread! Trust me?