GettinFit good job - sugar cravings are hard to beat.
Hoopty & Junebug sounds like you both had a great weekend

Hope everyone else has a great start to their week. I ate too much last night and felt a bit ick today. Mostly veggies but definitely overdid it. Went a bit easier today and I'm feeling better. And I'm starting to notice the difference with the healthy eating - I do feel better in myself

June - that swim sounds like a lot of fun!

Hoopty - that dessert sounds amazing...wow!

GettinFit - good on you for staying away from the sugar, it is really hard the first day or two but after a while you will find (at least I did) that you really don't crave it.

Lilmiss - Glad to know you are feeling better as a result of healthy eating. That's building positive momentum!

So I did in fact weigh myself yesterday after not weighing for a week and a half and was at 195 - a tad bit up, but I consider it basically maintaining, which isn't bad since we were traveling and eating in restaurants/hotels for three days last week. I am OP so far today - veg omelette for breakfast, beef and lots of veggies for lunch, cottage cheese for a snack, planning to get a workout in after my 3 pm meeting before my 6:30 pm massage (yay, massage!).

If I can stay on track this week, perhaps I can get to 193 and hit the 25 pounds gone mark by the end of June?!?!? Looking at the week ahead and it looks like it shouldn't be too busy or stressful. Also, yesterday we watched a documentary about the human body and it actually showed some footage of the inside of the human body and how fat can cover different internal organs...ewwww. Gross, yet motivating at the same time.

Wasn't totally OP yesterday - DBF and I went out to a local vineyard where there was some live music and we split a bottle of white wine. It was a beautiful afternoon, the music was great, it was romantic and relaxed...so it definitely felt the splurge on wine was worth it. Good to celebrate summer!

I know there's only a week left in June, but I'd like to stay accountable for those days.

1. Update my journal every day
2. Visit the forum every day
5. Drink 8 glasses of water
6. Do NOT drink Red Bull (this is day 2 without one)
7. Don't cave in at night and eat bad
8. Go to bed at a decent time (9pm)

So, hello to everyone! Hope it's okay I join this thread.

Hello ladies,

to the challenge Loch. I hope you finish the month strong.

Cecilia - I hope you make your goal of 193 and 25 pounds.

Lil miss - I hope your day went as you planned.

I had another good day and I did a WATP DVD after work. I'm finally not stressed about my WW weigh in this week.

Have a great evening everyone.

Good Evening Everyone! 3 more days til summer vacation!!! WAHOO!!!!

OP for the day and did 60 minutes of wfp. I've been staying up way too late doing genealogy...but once you catch a lead you just have to follow through or you'll forget where you were!

Anyway, happy, happy, joy, joy! Have a great Tuesday!

Kaitie - so glad that summer vacation is close. Woohoo! You deserve a break.

Welcome Loch! Yes, there's only a week left in June, but you can make it count. Your goals sound great.

GettinFit - glad you are feeling good about your weigh-in! Keep up the great work.

I have been OP with eating today except for one small cookie (which doesn't seem like a deal-breaker!) but I have been sitting on my bum all day. Arrgh! Work is either sitting in meetings or sitting at a computer. I need to find a way to create a standing desk for myself and build in more movement. I will go for a run this evening when it cools down outside later on.

I had an exciting conversation with my boss about a promotion this afternoon. Not totally a surprise, but encouraging nonetheless in terms of giving me more flexibility and pay. It will take several months to take place but the wheels are turning! My only concern is that taking on greater responsibility = greater stress, so want to be conscious of that.

Oh my lord I want a red bull so bad. I think part of it has to do with boredom. I also feel tired. So I think, hey, I'll have a RB and then power through this work and surf the net. Instead, I'm taking breaks sitting down behind the counter at work and trying to get through the day.

It's harder than I thought to drink this water. I might have to look into some kind of flavoring I could add.

Yesterday was good, ate a good meal, went to bed at a good time. Today is bad for cravings! Ah well.

Hello ladies,

Loch - I hope you made it through your boredom today.

Cecilia - I hope your new position want mean too much stress. I know what you mean by sitting on your bum all day that's me too. Today I did force myself to get up and take 2 10 minute walks.

Kaitie - Great job on having a good day.

I too had another good one. I ate as planned, drank lots of water and did my workout when I got home. Tonight I was wanting to snack so I brushed my teeth and that means nothig else goes in my mouth tonight except water.

Enjoy the rest of the evening everyone.

Good Evening Everyone!

I'm pooped! OP for the day but I had to use my last rest day of the month, I'm exhausted. I need vacation to start so that I can play with my genealogy AND exercise AND still sleep. Tomorrow will be torture. A full day of professional development--why do we need PD on the second to last day of school when we won't have kids until September? I have no idea.

Happy Wednesday Everyone...even though my scale is misbehaving, let's power through the last week of June!!!

Bad bad bad day yesterday. Abysmal day. Small amount of emotional eating this afternoon although hopefully not too damaging = pretzels and corn chips.

I've got a dinner out tonight for a work seminar thing. It's a buffet dinner so I'm hoping they'll have a nice healthy selection and I can keep myself under control and not do any more damage.

Grr to being an emotional eater

Hello friends,

I'm happy to share that as I am typing this in my office, I am standing up! I've put my laptop on a box on the top of my desk and...voila! A standing desk! Of course, I'm still sitting a lot in meetings, but I've also been trying to walk more and to be conscious of my posture. Hey, every little burns calories and helps my muscles not get stuck in the same position. I was OP for the rest of yesterday - awesome beet and fennel salad with greens for dinner, mmm. And went for a three mile jog yesterday - even at 8:30 it was muggy, but at least the temperature was lower. Still feeling a bit excited/freaked out/anxious about this possible job promotion, but as DBF told me, I have time to think about it, weigh my options. One day at a time!

I am planning to not weigh this week and just focusing on eating OP, and then planning to weigh Sunday or Monday for my official end-of-June weigh-in.

Lilmiss - Sorry to hear about your bad day. What can you learn from the experience. I read it here on 3FC and like to repeat it - there are no mistakes, only learning opportunities. Good luck at your buffet dinner.

Kaitie - hang in there with the PD day - ugh! You're almost there!

GettinFit - nice use of the brushing teeth trick. I've heard of that but have never tried it.

Loch - have you tried adding stuff to your water? I like to add lime juice, lemon juice, or unsweetened cranberry juice. It mixes it up a bit.

Hello ladies,

Cecilia - the tooth brushing tip works wonders for me when I don't want to eat anymore for the night.

Kaitie - I'm with you on powering through the rest of June and ending strong.

Lilmiss - I hope you survived your dinner tonight.

I've had a good day and I lost 2.6 at my weigh in today. I'm hoping to have a loss each week from now on. I got in a 20 min walk at work an I've been drinking lots of water.

Have a great evening everyone.

Ewww, I just had takeaway and I totally regret it. It tasted fatty and gross and not worth going off plan for. I'm not sure if I worry about weighing tomorrow which is my "official" weigh in day... I'm not sure I can handle the disappointment i'm pretty sure I'll be seeing reading up on those scales!!

But otherwise a pretty good day. Only a few more days til end June!! This thread has been great! I hope we're doing a July one!!

So ever since the weekend when I ate a few "regular" foods, off plan, I have been struggling with motivation & willpower. I keep just mindlessly eating food. Feels like I will have to start over. I have lost a lot of weight but I probably gained back 3-4 pounds over this week. I don't want to weigh in, don't want to have to explain myself because there is no explanation for what happened.

I'm going at this like its a giant mountain I need to climb over... and its a really slow climb!

I'm trying to stop and count to 10 before I eat something and really think about if I really really want it... I hope my resolve comes back!!

Took the boys to the Zoo yesterday and we walked so much. I also did some leg exercises. Work tonight and tomorrow night so I know I will be walking a LOT. The trickiest part is to stay on plan in the afternoons while I'm trying to wake up or when I'm tired.

I should have came here and vented when I was starting to lose control....

Here's hoping I can get my mind back in the game this week and lose back what I most likely gained!

= 5 pounds lost.
Hopefully still holding strong at

Good morning friends,

I am working at my standing desk again today and trying to stretch, shift my weight and do heel raises - even if I don't get an official workout in today, I am building more activity into my day. And I am wearing my June Old Navy "goal" jeans and they are feeling and looking good. Yay! I was OP yesterday and took a yoga class after a busy, stressful day at work (too many meetings!) which was so good for both my physical and mental state. Not weighing these days but feel like I will be in a good place to weigh Sunday if I keep this up.

GettinFit - congrats on your loss! 2.6 lbs down is huge!

Lilmiss - if you had takeaway, it probably had lots of sodium so the scale would be up. Maybe wait a day or two and let the salt move through your system instead of having an artificially high scale number? That's what I do.

June - I used to have an issue with feeling tired and hungry and wanting carbs/sugar mid-afternoon (which often coincided with going into a meeting where there were cake or cookies passed around...) and I have found that if I have more protein earlier in the day and eat a mid-morning snack (even if I don't really feel like I need it) that it helps a LOT and keeps me from eating, like, half a box of triscuits or wheat thins. Look at all your dancing bananas! You have already accomplished so much and you are on the cusp of BMI under 30! Just keep making one good choice at a time!