thanks. but it's soo hard to stay on plan! i'm trying my best

It's a journey, not everyday is easy as I am sure you know. You'll get there I am certain. BTW I love your motto: If you don't quit, you can't fail.

Just wanted to share something with everyone. I went for a hike up the mountain tonight with one of my co-teachers. We hiked to the top in about 1 hr and another 30 min coming down. I can't believe I did it! It is such a great step in the right direction for me! I'm so happy.

GO RED TEAM!!!!

Okay, so here is the plan for today.

Breakfast - 1c Total Cinnamon Crunch, 1c 2% milk - 310 calories
Morning Snack - apple - 80 calories
Lunch - French Bread Pizza & yogurt - 430 calories
Dinner - Chicken Soup & wheat thins- 446 calories
Total - 1266 calories

Exercise - 50 minutes walking


Since I didn't do any exercise yesterday, I am going to walk 60 minutes today instead of my usual 40. That way it will only take me a couple of days to catch up.

sorry i havent checked in, in the last few days, the weekends are hard for me to do anything. I work graveyard most weekends and have so much to do i never get to sleep so i sleep monday after another day of work lol. i havent been doing that well in the calorie depatment, i am staying under except saturday... my brother is having a baby!!! so we celebrated with chips!! lol. but sunday and monday i was eating a lot of whole wheat crackers and things that arnt exactly bad for you but not that great either lol. i have to go to the gym since i didnt go yesterday, on top the the sleepless nights tom has come early, which makes me happy since i am going on vaca next week!!! yaya ill still be able to record the first week of tbl i hope... i know i will. ok enough of me going on and on. i hope everyone is doing well!!

Good Morning RED Team,

Breakfast
210 3 hard bolied eggs
80 1 slice of toast
100 1 tbsp of butter
Total calories
390

Snack
70 boiled eggs
Total calories
70

Lunch
400 Chicken with Brown rice and onions
52 1 cup of tea with sugar
Total calories
452

Snack
60 1 apple
Total calories
60

Exercise
3 sessions of 45 minutes on the stationary bike at high intensity.

MrsVegan00 - What do you do? I read that you said graveyard shift. No worries I think weekends are hard on all of us.

MonteCristo - Great job today!

shan84 - Sounds like you had a great time.

One more hour until I get to see TBL on TV, I am so excited!

Shan- great job on the hike. How long have you been in SK? I lived in Japan for 2 years. It was a great experience.

Today I walked 11,733 steps, but none counted as aerobic (oh well)...Tomorrow is another day.

Hey Mel. Good job on the steps. Thats such a high number! I'm loving SK. I actually live on an island off of the southern tip of SK. It's about an hour to the mainland by ferry. My weeks are pretty repetitive but I like having the routine. I teach M-F 8:30am-5:00pm and I spend the weekends relaxing and exploring the island. I live right on the beach so that was a big draw originally too. I actually came to SK 7 months ago, but lost my first job when the school closed. I've been with this job now for 3 months almost.

Sorry for the long answer.

GO RED TEAM!!!!!

I was at about 2025 for calories on Monday, and then was at 1835 yesterday. Not too bad.

Good Morning RED Team,

Breakfast
210 3 hard bolied eggs
52 1 cup of tea with sugar
Total calories
262

Snack
60 1 apple
Total calories
60

Lunch
400 Chicken with Brown rice and onions & mixed veggies
52 1 cup of tea with sugar
Total calories
452

Snack
60 1 apple
Total calories
60

Dinner
350 Egg salad
160 2 slices of bread
52 1 cup of tea with sugar
Total calories
562

Exercise
3 sessions of 45 minutes on the stationary bike at high intensity.

Ran 1 mile (11:45), Walked/Ran .5 mile (6:55) and then biked for 55 mins with my husband. We did 2 mt biking trails, and had to ride about a mile on the road to get there.

Just in case anyone hasn't figured it out, I'm posing my plan in italics, and then I come back and bold what I actually did.

Early Breakfast - 1c Total Cinnamon & 1c 2% milk - 310 calories
Late Breakfast - sausage biscuit with jam - 333 calories
Morning Snack - 1 slice coconut cake - 456 calories
Lunch - Macaroni & Cheese and 1/2 sweet potato - 316 calories
Dinner - 1 slice stuffed crust pizza - 380 calories
Total - 1795 calories

Exercise - 55 minutes walking

That is horrible! I can hardly bear to post it. I knew today was going to be bad with the cake at work and pizza for dinner, so I ate a bit lighter the last two days, but why did I eat a second breakfast?!?!? Ugh! Fortunately I am still under my average of 1500 per day, but I'm still not happy with myself.