Here we go again folks!
My plan is 12-1300 cals 40% protein/ 40% carbs/ 20% fats
I will have my shake for breakfast and four other meals, each with protein.
I'm going to do a half hour each of weights and cardio.

I'm going to stop in to this thread regularly to see how everyone else is doing.

My plan is simple : no chocolate, no milk - both my recent weak points. I'll try to throw in about 20 minutes of DDR.

Holy cow! I gotta go grocery shopping!
After this past weekend, If I can keep it under 1400, it will be a success.

I gotta go shopping too! Tomorrow is no weight training but I do need to do cardio. I think I'll force myself to do the dreaded eliptical. I hate it so much it must be good for me! LOL

I'll eat on plan. I really haven't even felt tempted to cheat at this point. I'm just cruising along in the zone. I think one thing I'll try to strive for tomorrow is not sitting on my butt so much. Sure, I do my exersize, but then I'm here in front of the computer most of the day. Defeats the purpose probably.

Karma

(Day three of this journey)

breakfast: 1/2 C cottage cheese and orange

I'll have leftover lentil soup for lunch, and probably a salad.

Turkey, brown rice and a veggie for dinner

75oz of water

30 minutes of treadmill (didn't do it yesterday)

Well.... I personally don't believe in "perfect" days, because to me a day is a day. Unless I'm working out 60 minutes and eating 11 servings of vegetables and sticking to the food pyramid religiously and keeping to my exact calorie amount and getting the RDA of every nutrient that exists, no day of mine is going to be perfect, nor do I expect it to be.

Sorry to sound so technical, but I simply can't use the word "perfect" to describe my daily rituals. I do the best I can, whether it's perfect or not, and that's all I can do.

Just wanted to add that real quick, hope nobody minds. Because telling myself I'll have a "perfect" day is how I set myself up for feeling disappointed with myself if I'd stray from this perfect plan and eat 2 M&M's. Then I'd kick myself the rest of the day assuming I totally screwed up and it's just not worth it to me. So I stopped thinking that way.

Sorry to sound like such a party pooper on this subject, but I tend to just take life one day a time and don't expect perfection

Maybe I'm being too technical about the whole thing, but I'm in a technical mood. Just ignore me, lol.

That's why it's called "nearly" perfect day

Anywho... Yesterday was "nearly" perfect, just ate a cracker that I probably shouldn't have, oh and I was a bit low on fat, but what the heck! I figure I can make the fat up today right??

Today, I'm planning a run at lunch and weights after work. Eating is ok so far, I just hope I can fit my gammon steaks in there without too much shuffling around of things!

Brekky - one egg & 2 egg whites omlette with 2 bacon medallions and 1oz mozzarella

Snack - cottage cheese in a pita (wholewheat) with cherries and/or pear

Lunch - 6oz chicken breast with 1/2 C cooked brown rice and scoop of roast veggies

Snack - yoghurt with satsuma and mixed nuts

Dinner - 2 gammon steaks with a dry fried egg and BIG salad

Plenty of Pepsi Max and squash

GORSH! That's such a lot of food! I feel so full already and I've just had breakfast!

My plan is to:

eat 1200-1300 calories and eat more protein
do 1 hour of allstar workouts
walk 1 mile

LLV--YES, you ARE being a party pooper! Who said "perfect" had to mean following dietary guidelines or working out 60+ minutes or meeting all of your RDA requirements? A day can be PERFECT for me as long as I reach my own PERSONAL goals. Maybe drinking more water makes it my perfect day, maybe walking a mile makes it my perfect day, or maybe simply NOT eating frosted sugar cookies makes it a perfect day. You make your own guidelines and, whatever they may be, as long as you stick to them, then why shouldn't you consider your day "perfect?"

Anyway...

Nope, didn't stick to plan yesterday either. Added a no-sugar-added fudgesicle, 1% fat cottage cheese with peaches, and changed dinner to bbq chicken quesedillas (REALLY good, and not too horrible--my grocery store FINALLY started carrying La Tortilla tortillas, so I bought the wheat ones that only have 50 cals each!). Anyway, I'm guessing yesterday came in at about 2400 calories.

Here's today's plan:

• yogurt
• instant oatmeal
• Special K bar
• 2 Morningstar Farms tomato-basil pizza veggie burgers on wheat buns w/spinach and Miracle Whip
• chicken in ginger marinade w/side of pasta and veggies

Should be around 1200 calories. I'll be sure to confess tomorrow if I mess it up yet again --Although, just to be clear, my day will still be nearly perfect even if I add a few things since my personal goal is simply to stay at or below 1800 calories a day

Ahh, see, now that makes more sense than the "perfect" day threads

I know, I understand what you all mean. My apologies. Like I said, I was just being technical about the whole thing.

My day today (hopefully one where I'm in a better mood!) is going to be a desperate try to STOP NIBBLING!

The whole idea, Linda, was that to 'fail to plan is to plan to fail'. A few of us believe that the best weapon in this weight loss battle is to plan carefully and try hard to follow our plan. Knowledge is power and so on ...

And as for nibbling ... go ahead ... just make sure it's good stuff. If nibbling stops you from diving into a box of donuts ... go for it!

I know

I was basically making that post for myself and how *I* personally think. I didn't mean to sound critical or anything, I was just speaking in terms of how I look at things. That and I've not been in the greatest of moods the last couple of days, I've been majorly stressed out. So that doesn't help.

As for my nibbling, it's just a bad habit that's hard for me to break. Sure, I nibble on healthy things, but sometimes I nibble when I'm making meals or picking up "just one or two" pieces of food off my son's plate that he hasn't eaten, things like that. I suppose it hasn't really hurt me any because I haven't gained any weight, but I've been at 141 for over a month now and that nibbling may very well be what's keeping me stalled

Ah Linda ... when you're having a few bad days it's easy to see everything in a poor light. But like you said, you haven't gained so try to think of it this way .... you're learning some lessons in maintaining.
When you have time to relax and think a bit ... have a look at the last month. Find a few little things that you can tweak. It's small changes that will get you started again. And you can get to that 130 lbs

That's for sure. I'm driving my husband crazy. Little things that don't normally bother me are p'ing me off royally. And I cried over breaking a glass last night of all things, lol.

I think part of my problem (of not only being frustrated over everything but my weight stall as well) is because it's been too cold to get out and take my walks. I NEED to start walking every day like I used to. I think that will help me bust through this, but it's just been too cold. I hate the cold. Funny, I used to be able to wander around outside in winter without even wearing a coat and it wouldn't bother me. Now since I've lost this weight, I'm always freezing my butt off. I even have a space heater I keep right here beside my desk and run it most of the day. So me brave the cold to take a walk? No way.

I guess maybe I just have cabin fever, on top of everything else that's going on. Being stressed out all the time isn't helping me at all.