It's Sunday again. Tomorrow is the beginning of a bright and shining new week.

Toward the end of last weeks thread, I read some hints of increasing optimism. Are we ready to roll?

I, personally, kinda floundered toward the end of last week and am looking forward to being a little bit more of a ... captain of my own ship???

Last week was terrible for me. I had a bunch of off-plan days (yes, entire days, not just meals! ) This week I start anew. I have no events scheduled which will require me to eat off-plan and I'm making the chocolate covered espresso beans off limits entirely.

If I can just manage to stick with this plan, I'll be feeling pretty good. Those espresso beans are evil and they just sit in the cupboard and call my name over and over again. I think I just need to treat them like the rest of my SO's food and make them off-limits. I was allowing myself two per day, but lately two keeps turning into six, which turns into a handful, which turns into another handful plus some chololate chips... Well, you get the idea.

Hi Everybody!

Well I am back in gear, after a week or so of unhealthy choices. I chose not to weigh myself, because I think that seeing that I gained weight (I'm sure I must have gained a pound or so) would just depress me. In any case, I am ready to start anew. I've decided to do a two week challenge:

- no weighing myself...I get too obsessive about that
- OP every day! No cheating!
- get in gear with running again

I've decided to start training for a 10K (taking place October 13th). When I was running on a regular basis I could do about 5K at a time, so I figure 10K is not too much of a stretch.

I'm feeling kind of depressed tonight...I'm missing my Mom...still kind of worried about her. BUT, I'm going to go out for a run now (going to run to work to set up an experiment, and then run back), then have a healthy dinner...possibly do some work (or read Harry Potter!) and go to bed.

Hope everyone has a good week!

Hi all!

I had a good weekend -- always the toughest days for me -- and am looking forward to wrapping up week three. I'll weigh in on Tuesday, and post my progress.

In the mean time, happy Monday, everyone! Hope your weeks go well.

Kim

Hi all,

I finally got in gear today... had a great hour and 15 minute walk/run at the park with my friend. The weather has been gorgeous the last couple of days .. not the usually sweltering hot and humid. I also did very well with eating... FINALLY. I'm under 1,000 calories, so I'm going to have some berries and yogurt and call it a day. I really needed a good day to get back on track. Actually, yesterday was a good day too, so that's two in a row. I'm writing off the rest of last week... onward!

Nic - hope your mom's condition is improving. Is she actually still in the hospital? I didn't read back too far.

Barbara -- That's a really cute new avatar pic! You are so teeny and cute.

This past week went pretty well for me ... Sorry to hear of the others who had such a tough week .. BUT this week will be GRRRREAT !!!! Right??

Have a fantabulous week everyone!!

Am dogsitting again so no scale. Funny how all of these skinny people I work for don't own a scale - is there a connection?

I do have the "goddess" mirror ( a full length large mirror in which I look just fabulous naked) so I will look at myself every morning as a reminder to not slack off.

Had my first really happy weekend of this summer. I now finally know what the government's doing to me so I can start to deal instead of anxiously obsessing/overeating.

And I have two cats here with the dogs. The new cat is 4 months old and I'm just loving him up like crazy. He's too cute!

have a great week everyone!

Dagmar

good morning!

Claire - my Mom is resting at home now She's feeling much better, although still weak and not quite up to her usual self. Thanks for asking!

Dagmar - don't you love those kinds of mirrors? I'm sorry to hear about all of the trouble with your business, but congrats on dealing with it in a non-foo d related way!

please post the recipe

Whittlin -- on the loss

Very hot day here today and for the next few days... Just back from the gym, it was a SUPER lazy workout, I hate those days ...

How did it get to be noon already? Having one day off is the pits!
I've got a load of laundry on the go. The kitchen looks better. I've made funeral sandwiches and delivered them. My protein pancakes are in the blender. I returned the excess porch materials. Quite disappointed that I couldn't lift a bundle of shingles. Slippery darned paper wrappers! If they had handles I coulda done it.
I'm starving and haven't done any food planning yet!

Hi all,

I'm having a good day so far. I'm biking this evening with a girl friend of mine who I don't get to see often, so I'm looking forward to that. It'll be fun and a good workout.

Calories came in last night under 1300... yea! I have healthy foods and am ready to have a good week. I need to have a loss here one of the days, and I know that it's fully in my power. I get so complacent, especially when I'm tired like I was last week.

Nic - so glad she's home now! Sounds like last week was pretty stressful

Have a great Monday everyone!

Hello y'all!

Whittlin I have to say, I felt better after I posted. I went back to eating just fruit and it was not a challenge anymore. Mind you, I was back on the emotional rollercoaster as I crawled into bed! But, I simply had a good cry and woke up ready to face the day. This support group is just so helpful! Thanks for being there, all of you!

As to the all fruit day...The Fit For Life book I have has a 28 day menu plan in it. I like to follow it as there are Main Course Salad Days every 3rd day which means you only eat fruit up until dinner time at which time you have a large salad with either 30% carbs or 30% protein to 70% salad. Twice a month, the Main Course Salad Days are substituted by an All Fruit Day. It's basically a system that keeps flushing toxins from the body on a regular basis. I was thinking that may be another reason for the mood swing yesterday. My body was doing its second serious detoxing in a very long time!

I weighed in today, (a weekly event), and I am still holding at 157 lbs. This is the 3rd week in a row now!! Thankfully, I took my measurements and they are reducing, so something is happening. I was quite shocked to see the scale at the same place because I doubled my exercise this week and increased my water intake.

I was wondering if anyone had any advice or experience with measuring body fat. With one system, I have reduced from 41% to 37% in the past 3 weeks. But today, I did another similar test, but it had me measuring a whole lot more body parts and I came out at 20.7% body fat!!!! A big difference! Any thoughts?!

Sorry to be so long winded. A shout out to everyone!

I've never had my body fat % checked but I understand that you should get it done professionally by the same person all the time so that they measure with calipers at the same spots every time... And just stick to one type of measurement. The most accurate way is underwater but is extremely expensive.

Was starving by the time I got back to dog sit. Walking mutts from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and one more walk to go later with these guys.

Micro waved dinner tonite - too beat to cook. Discovered chopsticks came with this particular dinner. I'm quite spastic with the stix but decided to give them a whirl. Slowed me down to the point I actually felt kinda full by the time I was done.

Now I'm just trying to think of all the non-Asian food I can eat with chopsticks. Nothing springs immediately to mind - any suggestions?

Dagmar