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Hello!

Can someone help me decipher this from NutriDiary?
I know the percentages are fat, protein and carbs...but for the life of me I have no clue which is which!

Help anyone?

Hello Mokster! Welcome.

Have you been doing any sort of exercise in the past few months? If not, you may not be able to exercise for 30-minutes straight. I am saying this because one the worst things I've done to myself is set myself up with an expectation so high that I cannot meet it. Then i beat myself up about it and use it as proof positive that I cannot lose weight because i have no commitment or whatever BS is going through my head at the moment.

So, I congratulate you on buying the bike. Good for you! And, now i suggest you get on it and see how far you can go at one time. If that is only 5 minutes, then so be it. So, for the first week commit to doing what you can realistically do (yes, even 5 minutes is better than nothing) - 5 min in the morning and 5 minutes in the evening is good enough if that is all you can do right now. Stick with that commitment for a week and then try to see if you can make it to 8 minutes or 10 minutes. Increase gradually, listening to your body and not the excuses in your head.

When I started doing my bike at home I could only do 15 minutes. I am not kidding you - today I did a 70-minute session (which felt too easy) and on most Saturdays (those when I'm not spinning my life out of control ROLF) I do a 90 minute session. I've had to build to that. And if can do it being a whole decade older than you and having arthritis in my knees, then so can you.

Best of luck. And, keep us posted. This group is great! And we are just as invested in you succeeding as we are in our own triumphs. So, let us support you by coming back every day and letting us know how you're doing. :-)

Oh yeah, and also, I find it really helpful to post my workout results in the exercise thread. Join us there too!

Hey thank you for that .. yea i remember going to the gym and feeling that way when i couldent do all i had planned.. its cool to see people that can relate to what im going through. Ive never had that....

Wow...so much going on.

Amy, I can totally understand how that would upset you. I remember when I was in college I got a call one night when my dad was out (I was home for the summer) that one of my dad's best friends had died of a heart attack. They had had breakfast together that morning. My dad was devastated and I was so thrown. If his friend could die of a heart attack...so could my dad. Death affects us all in different ways. I am sorry that this has you so upset.

MariaLucia...wow...that's a major decision. But if you can empower yourself to make that sort of pro-active choice for yourself that you know is better for you in the long run..then you can make other pro-active choices as well...like not running for the fridge to soothe your heart...although a little chocolate never hurt anyone...much. *HUGGGGS* to you and wishing you strength!!!

Kayley: read the comment I left you on MySpace.

So I have now been to the gym three times...my trial workout, and then Saturday and today. Yesterday was DISNEY all day...and wow did we walk!!! I wish I had brought my pedometer to see how much ground we covered. Next time for sure. I peed all day long...but when you drink roughly 120 oz. of water it's to be expected. My food was soooooo good too. We went to Denny's for breakfast and had veggie egg beater's omelettes, for lunch we had roasted chicken and veggie refried beans, we brought our own snacks (carrots, light string cheese, a Luna Bar), and for dinner I had soft tacos in steamed corn tortillas and a salad. All in all a very good day. The weather was great and we got the cutest bride and groom Mickey & Minnie ears. Mine are white sequins and are on a headband with a veil...I'll try to post pictures.

Jason totally threw me for a loop though during lunch. Out of nowhere he says "So, how many kids do you want to have?" HUH? I mean we've talked about kids..but that was random. I guess it's being around so many families all day..but whoah!

I more or less gave up on keeping Passover. It's not that I eat so much bread products but it's just getting to be a pain in my tail. I sort of feel bad...but just sort of.

My mother comes tomorrow. I have not seen her since November 1997 and our relationship has varied between on the mend and strained. I am pretty anxious about it and can only hope for the best. She wants to buy away the last umpteen years of bad blood between us. Who am I to say no?

Happy Monday...sorry I didn't have more personal replies.

p.s. I LOVE the elliptical machine..what have I done without it all these years?

I have been lurking here for about a month or so. This has been the most supportive group I've seen. I would love to join you all if you wouldn't mind. I have been trying to go it alone and that is not working well.

Hope you all are having a great day.

you will love this site very inspirational!

Why am i excited to start exerciseing tonight werid lol

Mokster~ good to see you are excited about excercising, perhaps you are Serious about your new life change,is why you are excited,, Keep me posted on how everything goes.. Take Care, what plan have you decided to go with?

I LOST 2 MORE POUNDS...

exercise is so important.. and now that i have started it i actually enjoy doing it.. most of the time any ways!

amy~ I had asked this a lonnnnnnnnnnnng time ago, I will try again,, what did you do at the Prison you worked at?

Zelma – I loved your post about your lifestyle! That is where I want to be someday! I think I am doing some things similarly to you, but other things differently. But the point is I want MY lifestyle to become second nature. I’m not really there yet (esp with the exercise) but I can envision a day when that’s the case for me too.

And yikes! A nearly 6 mile walk! I would HOPE that was your exercise for the day!

Maria Lucia -- again. It sounds like you are making the right decision for you, but that certainly does not make it easier. When you mentioned you didn’t love yourself enough before to leave I knew exactly what you meant. I was in a similar situation a number of years ago. I made the right decision to leave my relationship that was SO not right for me and am in a much better place now than I ever imagined I would be.

As for the nutridiary question, they are color coded: orange is fat, blue is carbs and green is protein. The order is always the same: fat, carb, protein. You can see this more clearly if you click on “full analysis” and you see the pretty pie graph with your percentages of each. You also see this on the “Start” page when it shows you the calorie distribution graph.

Mokster – congrats on the bike! I’d love to invite you (and anyone else who wants to!!) to join our monthly exercise thread. We use it as a way to keep ourselves accountable for exercise. We track the number of minutes we exercise AND keep track of the minutes the group has done. So far this month we are nearing 100 hours (6000 minutes) of exercise.

Seriously, join us – it’s stickied at the top of the 300+ forum.



I have some news to report – hubby got laid off from his job today.

It is not really a surprise in some ways, but then, of course it’s a surprise. We’re still figuring out what’s up with everything, but at least he has a bit of severance pay. We’ve been pretty conservative fiscally, and with everything can go awhile without fear of losing the house, but it’s still scary and stressful.

And I refuse to use this as an excuse to change my lifestyle (getting back to Zelma’s point). We had our planned healthy dinner and took the dogs for a nice walk.

I am so frustrated. In December I fell down the stairs and hurt my ankle. I had ahard time walking but was on my feet all the time as that was a really busy time at work. But I stoped working out and put back on some weight I lost.

I started walking on the trails around the city. i really like to be out side and walk. Last week I walked to work and it was farther than i thought and my foot hurt so I didi not walk a few days last week. Today i walked for about an hour and 15 minutes and it felt good while I did it. But now my foot/ankle hurts. I am worried, I feel like i should not walk tommorow but i really want to, on the other hand i know I could just walk less. Maybe I should go to the doctor and have them look at it. i hate going to the doctor. Just frustrating. I guess i can find a differnt exersize that is not putting all of this wieght on my foot/ankle. any suggestions on free out door exersizes that are easy on the ankles?