Hey ladies!
Silver, you would be appalled at how much junk food is around in health care offices and hospitals alone here. Drug rep lunches alone! Yikes!

Great job with the planning and the POP days guys! Ward, woohoo!!!

Megan, I'll be POP this weekend, how about you? (The reason I'll be POP is cause I inhaled about 20 pepperonis last night and I'm retaining so much water my fingers feel tight. I feel headachy, from the preservatives maybe? I don't usually buy pepperoni, I got them for the kids and friends to make pizza last weekend and they were leftover....Who needs overly processed pork? Not me and not the kids either....Lori, I know you are not amused by my behavior here!!!) So, I've already had my screw up for the week and therefore, no screw ups this weekend....

"No screw ups this weekend!" is not much of a battle cry but I'll take it.

It's funny, I had never heard of LinkedIn before this week and now I've heard references to it all week.

Well, yesterday went pretty good, I wasn't POP, but only a couple 100 over my limit, guess my new level of commitment isn't fool proof. My 10 year old DS and I did the Shred DVD yeaterday, and despite how good of shape I thought I was in, I about died before day 1 level 1 was over...but I made it though, and I sweat hard for the first time in weeks! My DS did level 1 and THEN wanted to check out level 3 and did that too back to back. His little head was sopping wet. He wants to start getting in shape for wrestling season. Yea for him. He's my hero!

Everyone is home today, DH started a week vacation, (from his real job, farming is more of a very expensive time consuming hobby) and the boys don't have school because it the end of the first quarter. It's raining AGAIN and I have a week of my junk-food loving hubby to deal with. He'll want to go into town and have lunch every day he's home...I need to remain tough.

I wish all you lovely ladies a POP (or at least a maintaining) weekend.

Hey Midwife, no worries, I've turned over a new leaf. After a couple PM's yeaterday about how I'm overly hard on people I have decided that I'll only shower people with compliments and praise. No more butt kickin from me...Everyone is totally welcome to eat anything, anytime, they want. After all, we're just humans.

Please, call me on the carpet anytime. I routinely employ bulls*** excuses and between my headache, puffy eyes, and sluggish feelings today, I am once again reminded that, to me, this stuff is not good for me.

OK, confession time. I just ate a 460-calorie cookie. I wasn't hungry, it wasn't planned, I didn't need it, I knew it was about 450 calories, and I ate it anyway.

Lori - call me on the carpet any time you want as well. I've read your posts over the last year and a half, we joined at about the same time, and it is obvious to me that everything you say is out of concern. Some people I've seen seem to be mean just to be mean, or always sound really judging, IMO your posts read differently. I try to be honest with myself, but sometimes I use the same BS excuses Midwife mentioned.

I had a teacher in grad school who used to make us write an essay if we missed a class on why we chose to miss his class. People would always say "I didn't choose to miss your class, I had to. I had no choice, xyz happened." He would always say "No, you chose to miss my class because xyz happened. Your boss asked you to work late? You had to pick you kid up from school? You were sick? Your mom, next door neighbor, goldfish died? You chose to take care of that over coming to my class. Was it the best choice? Maybe yes maybe no. Tell me why you chose it in 50 words or less. Have it to me next class." At first I found that bothersome, then I realized he was trying to make us be honest with ourselves over why we did things, and point out to us that everything is a choice, even if it doesn't always feel like one. I very seldom missed class, but I had him for a class every single semester of grad school so it did come up.

Okay, that got rambly.

What can you have been thinking??

Oh well, as Lori says with her New Attitude, we are just humans.

Good luck, paperclippy. And good luck to all of you, with your encounters with candy and cookies and cupcakes and obligatory baked goods!

Jay

"No screw ups this weekend!" There we go!

Lori, I've never noticed you being "mean"! There is also a big difference between constructive criticism given from a caring place and just saying something to be mean.

I do have my food planned, Jessica, so hopefully that will help. I went to the grocery store Wednesday night and got a bunch of sweet potatoes, squash, apples, a chicken to roast (which I did last night), and am also going to make a big pot of chili tomorrow. All foods that are healthy, I love, am in the mood for, and find "comforting" in the cooler weather.

We can do it everyone! Stay strong! Have a great weekend all.

No screwups for me today! I got up at 6 and ran my 10.4 miles. I went to breakfast with some girlfriends and while they ate their pancakes or french toast, I ordered the low carb platter, which was 3 scrambled egg whites, 3 turkey sausage patties, whole wheat toast and fruit. I left the toast on the plate but ate most everything else. I skipped lunch and had my normal snacks and dinner.

I went to the grocery store and ignored everything that wasn't on my list. I came home and baked cupcakes for our neighborhood fall festival tomorrow and did not have a single B, L, or T.

Tomorrow will be full of temptations too, but I want to be able to come back here and say, "No screwups this week-end!"

How is everyone else doing?

How was everyone's weekend? Mine was pretty good. Despite the 460-cal cookie I managed to come in just about on target for calories Friday by having a very small dinner. Saturday I went out for dinner to a Moroccan restaurant and it was delicious, but I have no idea how many calories. We skipped dessert. Yesterday I needed to have my dessert craving filled, so I bought single-serve frozen desserts at the grocery store and had one. Still came in just about on target for calories.

I cooked massive quantities of soup yesterday, so I will be eating soup all week. Red lentil chard soup, pumpkin corn chowder, carrot sweet potato soup, and baked potato soup. I'm anticipating that by the end of this week I won't want to eat soup for another month.

On the workout front, I set a new PR Friday night with 2 miles in 21:52. Woohoo!

Oh yeah, and the scale is down too so I've only got two pounds to go to meet my Thanksgiving goal!

And in NSV news, I fit into my teeny skirts that I have never fit into before. I thought it was weird since I'm 12 lbs over goal, but I took my waist measurement and it was about 27.5 inches, which is right about where it was when I was 130. That must mean that some of my weight is distributed in muscles instead of fat!

Wowzers, Ward! Congratulations! Bottle up some of that willpower and you'll be rich!!!

Papperclippy -- great recovery from that cookie... good job getting all that soup lined up!!! Congrats on the PR and skirt NSV, woohoo!!!

I was POP this weekend, despite having a pan of birthday brownies baked for me. Honestly, it might have been very tough for me to eat just one, but they were slightly overbaked instead of moist and gooey, so I wasn't even tempted.

I hope everyone else had a great weekend too!

I've been MIA from this subforum for a little while but I'm checking back in bc you guys are the best for accountability. I have still been having trouble with the Halloween candy; my weight loss isn't suffering but I'm sure my nutrition is. I am about a # away from goal...I will get this last # off if it's the last thing I do!

Sometimes you just need a 460 cal cookie. I hope it was delicious.

Shannon, I actually think that's kinda neat. I'm sure I can only say that because I'm not in school anymore!

I think it would be a fabulous story for folks posting about not having time to do XYZ for weight loss. Because it doesn't invalidate their reasons - XYZ might *be* more important at the moment. But I think it's so helpful to understand that you are nonetheless making a choice, and to understand that choice. Success is about finding your power.

Julie - I found myself appreciating it as well. Early on one of the days I missed was because my ex-SIL had tried to kill herself and was in the hospital. I remember being really mad that he made me write a paper about it at the time, but after I calmed down I realized that it made a lot of sense. He wanted to empower us to make our own choices and then to be able to explain them without making excuses. I still think about his policy at least once a week, especially when I have employees who tell me "I had to miss work yesterday, I didn't have a choice." I find myself telling them "No, you chose to miss work because what you were doing was more important to you at the time. Tell me why it deserves an excused absence."