February!! A step closer to nicer weather!
How'd last week go? Did the weather cramp your style?
Well? What'll it be this week? A little more intense cardio? a little more protein? an extra day of weigh lifting? What small change can you make this week to keep you on a straighter path to slim fitness?

I am going to tweak my food this week. After going for a walk along the beach (almost 2 hours!) and then going dancing (another hour and a half) and then grocery shopping, followed by carrying my groceries about 12 blocks, I have also concluded that tweaking my sleeping patterns might be in order too.

All that random wandering/dancing around was a little tiring. I am pleased to announce though, that I bought fat free cottage cheese of my very own (no more cafeteria cc for me!).

Goals:
-keep to my exercise plan
-drink 2L of water daily
-use fitday for accountability
-measure food portions (since I'll actually be able to do something more than "eyeball"(ing) it)
-get enough sleep
-proooooteeeeeinnnnn

I'm going home on the weekend though, and I'm soooo excited. But that also means lots of delcious food to battle with. The thing is, though, it's my birthday, so I'm allowing myself a little more room than usual

Hope you gals are doing well

My goal for February is to work out regularly. At the moment I've been going to the gym twice a week, but starting this week I'm adding an extra workout. I also need to work out at home occasionally - we have everything (weights, exercise bike, rowing machine, Swiss ball, resistance bands, DVDs etc) and it's silly to not use it.

I need to focus on healthy snacking. My main meals are great - well balanced, yummy, healthy ... but then I ruin it all by snacking on junk.

I noticed that everyone has really cool tickers - where do I find one? Is it okay for me to add one to my siggy even though I'm a newbie?

I found the tickers

Jenfrus got TOP MARKS in her Brown belt this weekend

*BEAM*

And I got a new bikey!

AND I ate healthily most of the weekend (I was mistaken into ordering a eggplant and goat's cheese burger, thought it would be regular goat's cheese, but it was breaded and deep fried goats cheese! )

Aim for this week is MORE SLEEP! Which should be easy to do since I won't be worrying about my belt test! I also need more sleep since we are off to Caen on the bike next Saturday and have to leave the house at 5am Fortunately the ferry ride is 6 hours so I will have plenty of time to doze! I must pack some lovely food for the ferry - no cafeteria style muck!

Pink Pirate - I think the tickers are under "User CP" so click on that and I think they're in the left hand side menu, then create one, copy and paste the right code into your signature (under User CP - edit signature)

Which reminds me - I must move mine back down since the antibiotic-bloat has gone

My goal for this week is to workout for at least 5 days. If I use about 40 minutes of Level 5 of the Fat Burner program on my treadmill, that's challenging enough to keep in a high heart rate range and work up a good sweat. When I'm lazy, I keep my workouts easy enough to read a magazine while on the treadmill: Must not allow that this week!

My food intake has been spotty. Not too much bad stuff, but I must concentrate of having enough good choices in the house so that I don't resort to questionable snacks. During the day I graze, so I need to have yogurt, fruit and cut up veggies close at hand (otherwise it's crackers, cheese, ..... you know the drill!)

Like 2frustrated, I mistakenly add badly this weekend. I had some homemade meat pastries at home in the freezer - I heated up and ate 10 of them (they're fairly small). Only later did I try to work out the approx. calories - maybe as much as 100 each! I had no idea!

My weight is up again today, so I'm going to ignore it as a fluke or bloating (138.2, after being 135.8 on weekend). But I also don't entirely trust my scale. So here is a question: What type of scale do you use? Digital or analog? Do you like it - is it reliable?

Thanks!

Not had a great few days I'm afraid. Friday was a disaster - a very drunken but enjoyable evening. That would have been OK in isolation but , um, had a weekend long family party and I was the antithesis of willpower. Basically I was pants and ate and drank everything my greedy hands could pick up. I have large hands.

Anyway, I feel truly terrible and have given into my water and fruit cravings which can only be a good thing. My plan therefore is to be totally angelic until Saturday but then Italy awaits me for one glorious week and I have to say I won't worry about it too much.

Um - i keep seeing a reference to Jenfrus. Who or what is Jenfrus?

2frustrated's real name is Jennifer so we sometimes call her Jenfrus. And she's awesome about exercise!

Welcome to the newbies!

sweet talker ... that sounds like a lovely bunch of calorie burning you did!

thistimeforreal ... you get to do some planning and grocery shopping! I quite enjoy that!

And Doughnut ... don't sweat a bad weekend. Stuff happens and we learn as we go. Italy ... mmmm!

I'm off to work ... got called ... kinda interrupts my day!
The lesson is ... I've done no planning! I'll have to have cafeteria lunch and I guess I'll reassess my kitchen and buy some healthy food later!

I can't BELIEVE it's almost February. Normally I can't stand January...it just lingers...but I have been so busy with my senior year of college and internship that I hardly noticed how fast time was passing. This is a good reminder that I really need to step it up! I want to reach my goal and then some by my birthday, July (the big 30).

My goal, which I started yesterday, is to walk/run every day. I became a runner last summer, but I am now out of shape again. I know it will take some time to get back to running, but as long as I get out there and get moving that is what matters. I'm also doing the 10lb challenge/race. I am also weighing in on Saturday for the first time in a few weeks. Wish me luck!Bring it on February, bring it on!!!!

Be good to yourselves ladies! You deserve it

My day started off great. Exercising in, lunches made, all showered and ready to go and.......I got sick. I managed to get DS off to school and I turned around to go back home rather than to work. Got sick in the car (thankfully I had brown bagged my lunch!). I went home and curled up in bed and shivered for an hour. Got up and had some yogurt and here I am at work. I don't know what brought all that on.

My weekend eating was the pits. I haven't been tracking my weekend food for quite some time, and I did this weekend. If I were calorie cycling perhaps I could justify myself, but I have discovered the reason that I have not lost weight in over 4 weeks--Saturday, 1900 calories, Sunday 2500. I shoot for between 1200 and 1400. I think my weekend lunches are to blame--fast food with a beer.......

Everyone have a great day!

Hey everyone! I'm new, and my goals for this week may be small for yall, but they will be huge to me! I am going to work out M-W, doing the ellpitical for an hour and since my main goal is to tone up my stomach, lots and lots of crunches!

As for my diet, I need to increase my water intake a lot! And not eat as gross as I usually do! (I'm in college and eat SO much fast food and junk!)

So in short, I'm going to work out and start tweaking my diet as each day goes on!

I'll check back tonight with my progess, hope everyone is doing great!!

I actually did pretty well over the weekend. DH had to work most of Saturday so that helped me stay home and on track. He's started training for his spring race schedule and wanting to lose a bit so I should stay on track as long as I don't bring any extras home with me. (I have a bad habit of grabbing a chocolate bar here and there).

Ilene and SusanB-my DH makes homemade wine. We have a basement full. Unfortunatly I'm currently on a med. that I'm worried about mixing with the occasional glass. Hopefully that'll get changed on Wed. cuz I'm past overdue for a glass.

Allison-I sure hope you get back to feeling better quickly. As for the weekend eating at least now you're aware of a potential source for your static weight. Now you can work to change it. Good luck.

jblossom-I started running last spring. Unfortunatly the slippery ice/snow is making getting my runs in difficult. I feel secure enough to walk on the stuff, but nervous to try to run. Good luck doing it everyday.

Doughnut-Wow Italy!!! That's a dream of mine. I hope you have a great time.

Have a great, healthy day everyone!!

Well, that's that then. Four hours. I did have soup in the cafeteria for lunch. I just wasn't hungry and of course now I feel thick headed and directionless. Usually when that happens, a nap helps. I'll go lay my head down and either sleep or formulate a plan of action for the rest of the day.

Hope you had a nice kip Susan.

Thanks Brandy - I really can't wait to go. I must admit I've been there before, a few times, but this time I'm going to a part I haven't been to before so very excited. My only weight related challenge whilst there is not to put back on the 6 pounds I lost this month cos if I come back with it all back on i don't think I'll find the motivation to start again. A couple of pounds I could live with.

Well my day's gone way better than the weekend so not too bad. One thing about having just bought a bigger and way more expensive house is that I can't afford to go out as much as before which is saving calories - this weekend excepted.

Anyone seen Su-Bee?