Hello Everyone! Welcome to the Check-In! Let's make it a great week!

I want to welcome everyone to the Daily Accountability Check-In. Our goal is to stay accountable and on track by posting our daily food and exercise choices. All food and exercise programs are welcome. Consistency is the key to reaching our weight loss goals.

Introduce yourself or jump right in and tell us what you have been doing.


Here's to the start of a great week!

Down 2 more lbs today to 213

9/18/11 - Sun -goal 1201 calories - actual was 744 (457 under)

My sodium was 647 mg which is 653 mg under my goal of 1500 mg

Larry,

Hello, everyone! I hope we all have a great OP week!

Have had an awesome weekend! Had friends over Saturday, went to another family's place today... got on the elliptical for the first time in over a week today..when it came time to do the stretches, my body had forgotten what it knew and it burned... time to remind it now that the food poisoning has cleared out of system though Hope everyone has an OP week!

Hey, I just realized that it's been 4 months since I joined this thread! This is the longest I've ever stuck with losing weight. (And not coincidentally, the most I've ever lost on purpose )

Krystal

It sounds to me like you are very lucky to have a mother who is very very proud of you. You are sometimes uncomfortable with her comments? I sure can relate to that. You know that she says those things out of pride in her daughter's accomplishments and not out of malice. When you are truly proud of your family you want to tell the world. I have Children and grandchildren that I feel that way about.

Most of my uncomfortable social times are caused by my loving wife. I have posted before that I am a long time member of the original 12 step group and I have not drank for 35 years. So what happens very often? We will be out to dinner with people who do not know my background and the waitress will ask would you like to order a drink? Before I can say anything my loving DW will inform the waitress and our companions that "HE CAN'T HAVE THAT, HE IS AN ALCOHOLIC!! " This used to bother the crap out of me until I came to the realization that my DW was doing this as an act of love trying to protect me. She is not doing this as a malicious act at all. I love her and I have come to accept that I will never really have a private life.

You are blessed. There are so many people who were always being put down by their mother or their father all their lives.

Enjoy your cruise!! I used to go on cruises all the time, but the ships were painted haze grey, had guns and it was always a working cruise for me.

Larry,

Up pretty early for a Monday morning, before my alarm by an hour Not that I don't need the sleep and would like more sleep, that's for sure!

Still no change on the scale and that is to be expected right now, but still frustrating. I feel so much thinner, I just don't get it. I really hope I don't plateau 2 pounds below my last plateau, that would just break me.
I am so tempted to go low carb and/or low calorie listening to all you guys and your successes, but I know that is not a long term solution for me and I am trying to find what will work for me in the long run. I am already eating about half the recommended carbs in a day, so I do make pretty good carb choices. I don't know, I just have to keep at it and keep refining it. Ho hum.
Today is supposed to be a shorter run day and weights day. I hope I can pull out of this funk and get to it after I drop the kids to school. I guess I can just sit here and feel sorry for myself or get off my butt and do something about it. I guess my fear is it is all for nothing, that I will be stuck here forever. Sorry to be a downer.

Well, miraculously, the scale says the same this morning.

I was up until 3 am because I took my husband to the emergency room as we couldn't keep his fever down and yes, he has pneumonia too. Fever started Friday late afternoon. By Sunday evening it went from mild to an ER visit (per doctor's instructions).

All day today I have to take my son to the autism clinic for testing from 9 am to 3 pm and we'll need to leave at 8 am and won't get home until 4 pm. And before that I need to get my older son to school.

3.5 hours of sleep and no chance for a nap. I do NOT do well with so little sleep AND it's easy for me to make bad food decisions with so little sleep too! Please help me find some will power today!

Berry, here is some for you! Stay strong, don't eat away all of the success you have had this week. Pack some snacks/lunch just in case.

Good Morning Everyone,

Krystal I like Larry's POV on your mom. IDK about the 'she's always on a diet' thing and how she might be proud of that, other than she knows that her daughter is determined and health conscience. But I get the nurse thing...who wouldn't sing their daughter's praises. Just look at it from her POV, these other women friends or not, don't know what a wonderful, intelligent woman you are and as a mommy, we want to make sure everyone knows. I do it all the time, I've done on here! We live to embarrass our kids, but we do so lovingly. And let me know if you find a man (straight man) that notices a hair cut. I have done so many things to my hair and I RARELY get "did you do something new to your hair?" Yes, dear, it's blue. So don't hold that against him...it's a sign that they don't love us for our hair and that IS a good thing

Larry you are so funny...your cruising sounds like a free ride as long as you pull you own weight. I bet you had wear some sort of uniform too. I've heard of ships like that, even saw a couple in San Diego Bay (or near). I noticed though that a lot of the 'passengers' were men and they looked happier returning to dry land than they did when they shipped out.

Shish Four months! Awesome. I was thinking about how they say after a few days of stopping smoking your body starts to change for the better and life expectancy is greater/longer. Now replace that idea with losing weight, what a great thing you are doing for yourself and your children. I remember when my eldest started walking/running at the age of 2.5 and for some weird reason he'd run straight for the road. Ugh, it's a terrible thing to see your child running to danger and not being able to catch him. I wish I had more control back then. I'm so glad that you are doing this for yourself now, you will truly reap many benefits, both physically, mentally and even relationship wise (children). Once again you are doing marvelously. Keep it up.

ItsMyTurn glad to hear you are back in action. I hear you on stretching. Time to show your body whose the boss. You're doing great.

I knocked my hip out during core exercises yesterday. In between sets I stretched just a little because my lower back was hurting. I should know better. I should know that stretching especially after working out is a no no for me. I SHOULD know better, but alas I never learn. Although the hip slipped back it still hurts like heck so I'm out for another stinking day! Maybe the bike...maybe. Today is WI, I'll do it after I take the kids to school.

Hope you all have a wonderful and healthy day.

Take care of yourself mamakat!

K9owner

Sorry about your mom's message broadcast to all. The nurse thing was probably a praise thing. The diet thing was probably 'trying to cover for you thing" and both are her trying to show her support of you in her own weird way.

It's funny, how no matter what, people are different and they think they are doing the right thing, but end up doing the wrong thing.

My MIL won't share ANYTHING - keeps it all private. Which you would think it's great, but it's not. Like, my son's autism. She has a friend/family member she talks to every day. We hardly ever talk to this person. THis person met my son and it was during a time he was having a hard time (he was terrified of her as she was too pushy - when he was three).

So, my MIL listens to this family member say things like, "I don't know what was wrong with him." Always screaming - wouldn't eat anything. I could show those parents how to get him to eat." and so on. My MIL never once said, "X, he has autism and he was scared or overwhelmed.' It would explain so much.

But no, she didn't want to 'share' the autism as that should be something we do as parents, not her as grandma. She did the same with your neighbor. Neighbor asked my MIL, "Is there something wrong with your grandson? He was screaming one day (when he was 4)" She said, "I don't know." Like autism is some big secret!!! Why say, "I don't know what's wrong" when she KNOWS what's wrong and could inform people so that maybe they would be a bit more understanding!

But, she's doing what she thinks is best - thinking she's protecting him... when she's actually harming him. They can't win!

Berry what a summer! OMG I am so sorry for all of you, especially DH right now. I hope he gets better soon. I hope that you make it through today. I am sending you and your family all my best vibes ((best vibes)) and hoping beyond hoping that things get better very very soon.

Jomatho are you ready for Kat's famous lecture? I know that right now you want to see the scale move and I'm pretty sure it will, give it time. BUT you are not doing this for nothing. The scale isn't your only sign of success. Were you running last year? Were you eating well last year? Or for that matter the years before? Every day that is a success in meeting a healthy eating plan and/or exercise you are doing fabulous things that you can't see. Your heart is stronger, you lungs are stronger, your muscles are stronger. The organs inside your body and believe it or not your blood itself, thanks you every day by function better because you are functioning better.

Here's a little reality check, that has really worked for me. I walk to that boardwalk and then the boardwalk. At the beginning of the summer, I could barely make that boardwalk and that was with a cane. Now as I walk to the boardwalk I see a woman (an obese woman) who is in a motorized wheelchair. That could be us, without proper diet and exercise. BUT it's NOT. We are doing what we can do live a better life. I KNOW that we want to look thinner and be thinner, but weightloss and healthy living is SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT.

What you are doing now, may not be seen, but you are doing so much for yourself that you shouldn't be disheartened. I know we all want others to notice how much we've lost and we want to wear better clothes and feel all around better about ourselves, that's natural. And with all those feelings now look at your children...do they care, does their love change because you do? No. But they do care that you're healthy and that you'll be around a lot longer now that you are making a difference in your life.

Don't let the scale rule you. Let the knowledge that you are doing the right things and fighting for yourself motivate you. The numbers are really just the icing. All my best to you, my friend