Today I did Group Ride + 45 min of cardio. Eating is on plan. I need to get busy organizing stuff ... off to check the weather so I'll have an idea what to pack! See you guys tomorrow.
It's been a tough couple of weeks for me. I am still sick! I went back to the doctor today and was told I now have tonsillitis on top of the bronchitis! I am now on a very high-power (and expensive) antibodic and steriods.
She told me no working out except gentle walks for the next two weeks. I guess when sickness is below the neck, like in my chest, it's best not to work out. She said I need to rest and get well and I have to listen to her this time--I leave for Texas on October 5 and I need to be well by then.
I worked from home today, ran the vaporizor and sat on the couch with my laptop. I actually started running the vaporizor 2 nights ago and it's starting to help move the congestion in my body out. My coughing has been a bit less today.
I'm not going to TOPS tonight or my sign-language class...I'm just taking it easy and going to bed early.
Ward: When are you leaving on vacation? Are you taking your kids out of school and where are you going? Day 16 of being on plan? You are half-way to achieving a new habit...very good job!
Mindy: I know how it can get crazy busy..just remember to keep making some time for you.
Well, with the limited exercise I really need to watch the food. Tomorrow I"ll start posting it here to help me stay on track.
Susie- wow!! Sorry to hear you are so sick. That really stinks. I hope you get to feeling better soon. Take care of yourself.
Wardhog- Have fun with the planning and packing.
I am taking Friday off for one of my planning days. It is big weigh-in day at school and on 3fc. It doesn't look good though. I am having my mid-cycle gain. I guess we'll see.
Susie, I hope you are feeling better soon. Get your rest and don't push it - doctor's orders!
Mindy, how did the weigh-in go?
I did Group Power and 45 min of cardio this morning. Eating is on plan, and I'm down to 123. I will probably come back from vacation 10 pounds heavier. I will try to work out at least a couple of times ... we'll see how it goes.
What a difference a day makes. This is the 1st day I have felt human. I didn't cough very much today. I guess the new antibodic and steriods are working?
No exercise today. Will try that walk on Monday.
My food for today:
Breakfast: 1 cheerio ceral bar, water
Lunch: 1 pbj (2 slices of bread), pretzals, grapes, water
Dinner: Bob Evans: garden salad with colonial dressing, loaded baked potato, carrots, stuffing, 1 roll, water
Mindy: How did the weigh-in go?
Ward: Enjoy your vacation--but I hope you don't gain 10 lbs!
I am actually in morbid shock today. I have gained 5 pounds this week. 5. Where did that come from? I know I usually gain a bit this time of the month, but 5 whole pounds. I gained 2 from yesterday to today. What the H***. I have worked out everyday. All I can think is I've had 2 days of low calories, like 1100. I don't know how that happened, it just did. Maybe that accounts for some it. I am going to eat to my hearts content today, workout and see what happens. Needless to say, I am quite depressed and out of sorts today.
Susie- Your eating looks pretty good for yesterday. So glad to hear you are feeling better. Hope you get to walk this weekend.
Wardhog- When do you leave again? Are you ready?
See ya tom. Hopefully with a few of those darn pounds gone.
What!!??? I can't believe you have gained 5 pounds this week after all that we have been doing Mindy! That is shocking!! I wonder if the workouts we have done this week have been super intense and our bodies are freaking out. They are hanging on to every bit of "food" they can. I am thinking this because out of everyone in the BL contest at work, you, me, and Micque are the only ones that had a gain this week. Obviously something is fishy about that. Maybe too much, too fast? I read in the BL fitness book that when you first start you should do steady levels of cardio, then later on add bursts of intensity. I wonder if I need to back off the heavy duty cardio like we've been doing, and alternate days of walking and Dvd's. Then you could do DVDs with me, and walk/jog the other days. Maybe that would work? It's got to be something, because all the other people at work can lose weight just by eating differently. I don't even think many of them work out!
Wardhog-- Good luck on your trip! You might gain while you're gone, but you'll get it right back off in a flash!
Susie-- I am so glad to hear you are feeling better! I know when I am miserable like that I just want to sit in a chair or lay on the couch and have everyone leave me alone. I really like the way you listed the things you ate the other day. It is nice to see the things other people are eating. Do you usually eat a morning snack and an afternoon snack, too? I've been trying to eat a couple snacks because my friend who is a nurse told me to, since it keeps your metabolism going. She lost 15 pounds last winter, and stopped losing once she stopped eating snacks. I definitely hope it works!!
I can't say the food was great today but I was able to stop a binge that I thought I wouldn't be able to. I just told myself no--a million times. Stopping it makes me feel more powerful
I was able to clean my house today. I feel so much better having things look the way I like them.
I'm still coughing a little but it's so much better.
Today's food:
Breakfast: 4 p of bacon, 2 scrambled eggs, 1 pancake with syrup, water
Binge: 4 orange slice candies, 1/2 can of coke, handful of crunch and munch
Lunch: 1/2 grilled chees sandwich with lettuce and onion. 1/4 cup of potato salad, water
Dinner: Olive Garden. salad with dressing, 2 breadsticks, 1/2 order of pasta with Alfredo. water
Very heavy foods today.
Mindy: Sorry to hear about the gain. I bet you loose BIG time after TOM is finished.
Kelly: No, I don't eat snacks but I think I should. I've heard that about the metabolism. What sort of snacks did your friend have.
Ward: How close is that vacation? Will you be able to work out when you are on vacation?
Kelly- Yep I think maybe it is a three fold problem. 1. It is my week to normally gain, 2 weeks before TOM. 2. I didn't get enough calories for 2 days in a row. 3.Our workouts have left me sore. I have read that when your muscles are sore you retain water to repair them. So I am going with this theory, although it is depressing as H***.
Susie- Yep we both eat snacks throughout the day (Kelly and I). Kelly and I had a huge discussion about PB&J last night. She thought that was a high calorie food choice, I disagreed. We decided it is all in how you make it. My bread is 80 cal. for 2 slices. 1 Tbsp. of PB- 95 calories and jam- 50 calories. Total= 225. Kelly's was about 400. My point is, you really need to know exactly what is going into your meals or you may be eating a lot more than you think. As for snacks, I am into the 100 calorie packs because they are easy. Also string cheese and fruit.
I am more annoyed today than yesterday. I thought for sure I would lose pretty good today. I only went from 208.6 to 208.2. Man, I just don't get it.I am going to get food in today and jog a couple of miles. Things need to change.
Kelly- Those are my dragons. Somebody else had them on their site and it looked like fun. Click on them and you can go get your own. Just something fun and silly.
Mindy, I think you'll lose big in the coming week. You have to!
Susie, I eat small meals all day, like every two hours. It's easy for me because I am at home, but this way I don't ever really get that hungry.
Today I did a slow run, 8.5 miles in 1:46. Eating is on plan.
We are leaving Wed. morning, if we can get some gas in the car before then. We have an awful gas shortage here. None of the stations have any, and when they do, there are 100 cars lined up to get it. The place we're staying has a tiny little exercise room so I will be able to work out some. The room is right next to where they keep the 24/7 supply of Otis Spunkmeyer cookies. Cross your fingers for me that it's oatmeal raisin week. I don't like them that much; I will eat them, but I won't empty the jar like I would if they're chocolate chip or peanut butter.
I try to eat snacks like Yoplait Light yogurt, granola bars (the 90 cal. ones), 100 calorie packs, fruit, sometimes trail mix. One of the teachers at school is raving about nuts and seeds because they are part of the "Flat Belly Diet" she is trying. I also like the South Beach Peanut Butter Cereal bars. They are 140 calories, but lots of protein so they really stick with me.
I have a pizza problem today. I want pizza, so nothing else sounds good. I had another (unsatisfying) ham sandwich today for lunch because I have nothing but junk in my house right now. It is not grocery week
Thank you for sharing your snack ideas with me. I will try some of them. Maybe I let myself get to hungry and then I eat to much at meals.
I will also start looking up my food so I get an idea if I'm having a 200 calorie pbj or a 500 pbj.
I'm about to go out and sweep out my car and clean the windows on the inside and also Armoral it. Since I eat my ceral bar and fruit on route to work, my car is needing cleaned out--a lot of crumbs. It also needs washed but there is no way I"m going to do that with the bronchitis cough I'm still dealing with. I'll take to to the Mr. Clean car wash tomorrow and let them do it.
Tomorrow I'm going to walk on the treadmill at lunch--just for 30 min. Starting back small here.
Today isn't finished but here is my food so far:
B=toaster studel, water
L=Leftover grilled cheese sand with lettuce and onion, mini pretzals, water
Snack= 4 fig newton cookies, water
Dinner=I'm planning on my left over pasta and a salad.
I don't know if you can tell or not but I'm not a big meat eater. It's a mental thing with me--when I think that it was a living THING, I just can't eat it. If I get it out of my head then I can but that doesn't seem to be something that I can do everyday. It's very annoying but I've been like that since I was 8 yrs old.
Kelly: I hope you can stay strong and avoid the pizza. I know you can!
Mindy: I hope you enjoyed your jog
Ward: When we didn't have power here that week after the wind storm from Ike the gas lines were like that. I hope the vacation spot only has oatmeal rasin cookies!
So glad to hear you are feeling better. Hope you get to walk this weekend.
As for snacks, I am into the 100 calorie packs because they are easy. Also string cheese and fruit.
