Good morning everyone. I hope you all had stupendous weekend.

Sunday's calories - about 1300.

Today is my weigh-in day and I am down to 168 lbs. I've lost 5 lbs for the week!!!!!

Have a great Monday everyone.

Good Morning!
I took a two day vacation on calorie counting, I'm sure I was under 1200 on Saturday. Sunday I ate a tiny bit of everything including a slice of Lemon merange pie. I made those cute little coconut nests with 6 jelly beans in each for our place setting, I ate mine then preceded to eat my grandsons since he didn't want it. This morning my scale was up about a pound but we had ham yesterday and everyone knows how salty that is. I sent home with my grandsons all the extra candy that wouldn't fit in their Easter baskets. (Not that I would be tempted, candy isn't anything I'd waste my calories on)
I use a visual graph to document my daily weights and today I'll need to make my 3rd chart. I have 9 weeks on each one (18 weeks total), today I'm going to make my new graph with only Mondays on it. Since I'm below goal I don't need to weigh in every morning and it's become such a habit. It'll probably drive me crazy not knowing all week but I'm going try it anyway. It's back to calorie counting again today, that's something I'll probably always have to monitor. I should check into the maintainer's thread and see what they've done. I hate to start getting involved in another thread, I know you all so well and I spend enough time on the computer just trying to keep up with this thread. We're off to the Fitness center, catch ya all tomorrow.
Bobbi

I did not gain over Easter so very happy with that, I did not count Sunday but other than a very small piece of cake I did very well.

Back to the walking DVD today.....didn't do it this week-end.

Tomorrow is our 20th Wed. Anv. so that might be a though day but I just can't seem to eat as much anymore and "that is a good thing".

Phyllis

Hi everybody ... had an internet glitch here this weekend. I'm gonna try to go back and bumble thru my weekend at fitday. I don't like to leave a day blank ... messes up my averages.

Yeah! Robin.


Keep up the good work. You must have worked extra hard to keep away from all of the goodies that show up on a holiday like this one.
Those pounds of yous are smokin right off. Congrats.

Congrats to everyone, that has tried so hard.Even if you had 1-2 bad days this week, don't forget how hard you worked the rest of the week. Its one day at a time.

Lara
drink Water! all that salt from the week end is causing the swelling up. You will do great this week. convince your self.

Bobby
I tried the Ginger Asian salad dressing on Chicken, mmmmmmm Love it.
I will be doing more of that. Have not tried it on a salad yet.
Its such a difference from the same old thing ever day.
I agree with Lara, we enjoy your company, please stick around.


I stayed at my numbers so I did not gain. Yeah! me. I did not buy any candy for the holiday!

I have not been on a real scale yet today. I think I lost one pound over the week end. My family knows how hard I have been trying too. So they are being very supportive.
even my son said "he is proud of me... that is seems like a lot of work... the calorie counting and food planning."

well I must get off my butt. its time to move it.

Yay Robin!

I had a pretty bad week. ONE day was perfectly on plan, four days were slightly bad, and two days were VERY bad. Overall, I ate about 700 more calories than I burned. I hate to spend so much energy on something and get nothing out of it. This week, I'm going to try to remind myself of how frustrated I feel whenever I try to tell myself it's okay to go just a little bit over... or that it's ok to binge.

Theresa ~ Thank you so much for the words of encouragement. I am back on track today and as long as I have been dieting I am used to getting back up after falling on my face. Great job on staying on track.

GOSH!! I'm feeling so much better today...On track, a bit lighter on calories so far today, I feel good!!

....I tried to figuere out the damage from yesterday and I figuere somewhere between 2500-2900 maybe...It wasn't as bad as I thought when I sat down this afternoon and tried to add it all up.... THE WORST was when my SIL (whose 9 months pregnant) brother and I grabbed the kids Easter basket and munched on all the reeses and snickers mini's....and some gummy life savers....right there I have no idea how many we ate. Anyways, I normally weigh myself every morning...but decided I wont even step on the scale today...I'm used to the normal weight changes that happen day by day, but just dont want to face that bloated number, tomorrow it will look better!!

Justme ~ I kinda rough estimated my fall flate on my face to be around 3100 calories but today I am determined to keep it around 1500 calories. It was a huge slip and in reality that is how I used to eat each and every day of my life. I am so glad I no longer eat that way. I just totally felt out of control.

I'm glad i dont eat that way anymore either....I felt HORRIBLE last night, not from guilt but just so bad physically. Today, so far I've only ate 450 calories breakfast a bowl of oatmeal and lunch a lean cuisine....I'm not hungry at all, but I feel great!! The difference between being stuffed full and eating lightly...I so much rather eat 1500 calories a day...I feel better!!! I'll probably hit about 1000 calories today and be fine...2 snacks and dinner left to go....by the sounds of the other posts online today, I think we're not alone at falling off the wagon yesterday....YOU KNOW WHAT??? If we slip up only during the major holidays each year (Thanksgiving Christmas Easter....)Its only a couple days a YEAR, in the long run it wont make us fat....eating like that DAILY did!!

Hi all! I really missed checking in everyday while I was gone!

I don't think I did too bad this weekend calorie wise. I was under 1500 on Friday and just over 1500 yesterday. Saturday I was at approx 1800 calories, but there was lamb and I REALLY like lamb. Plus, we went out with my cousin that night and I had a glass of port.

I don't talk about this much, but I've had problems with depression at different points in my life and the big D is starting to rear it's ugly head again. This weekend was awful. What's confusing me is that this time around my personal life is great! I love my DH and he has been wonderful. My job sucks, but that's bound to happen time to time. I just don't understand why this is happening now? Is it possible that my body is having a hard time adjusting to the weight loss? I called and made a doctor's appointment today (I go in Wednesday morning.) I completely lost it at work this morning and had to come home. I was so embarrassed! I slept all afternoon. We'll see what the doctor says. I really hope that this doesn't effect my weight loss too much.

Congrats Robin on the loss!

Today my calories are low for me at around 1500. I'm just not hungry and I didn't pig out yesterday either. I'm afraid I'm coming down with something. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'm not.


I had a small victory today. I've been stretching and walking for a while before I started calorie counting. I have been within an inch of being able to touch the floor when I touch my toes, but I couldn't do it and it was making me crazy. Today, as I stretched I reached right down and did it like I'd been doing it all along! I'm so happy!

zenor~I hope everything is okay with you. You are not alone here--there are a lot of folks here on 3FC that suffer similar problems. Perhaps check out the other forums to see if you can get some insight there as well. Just don't leave us. We're here for you.