Apple, thanks. I'm glad I was able to hold out too. Good going on your exercise. Well, as you say, you can still do it wit h the calories, but more importantly, you are learning how they add up and that is huge. Really, over time, the booze calories make a difference. It's just that it doesn't show up quickly enough to register in a big way, I've found. Well, here's to new revelations!
I'm at Day 14 for eating breakfast. Wowsers! I never thought this would happen.
And Day 2 of following the exercise plan. Getting new running shoes and coming down to sea level from elevation has done wonders for my will to run. Now I just have to keep it up
You guys are doing great!
Today is dancing day 12! I had fun yesterday with my song choices. Today, I'm going to pick something fast and fun.
I seem to be able to make time for this and time is always a factor for me.
Stick to exercise schedule Day 6 completed, 0 pauses left.
Calorie bank: 5085 Well, at least it went down a little.
Didn't exercise yesterday because we went to SF for the day. Then I went to Boot Camp at 5:30 this morning, and it turns out they had changed the time to 7:00!!! The instructor left a message on my home phone, but I didn't listen to the messages when we got home last night. OOps. So I did the weight circuit and went out for coffee until 7. Bleh.
Auger, glad to see you are 2/3 of the way there with your challenge! Personally, I love breakfast, it's my favorite meal of the day.
Derry, you are doing great too! So how many songs are you dancing to these days?
Hi Red! Jolly, where are you?
Well, the no smoking is fine but the sugar is already wavering. Yesterday, I just didn't seem to care and accepted it when offered, then actively sought some out. But I didn't binge and I'm resolved again today to stay off it completely. I am really horrible with sugar and even a little bit sets me off.
I have a lot of work now with some big races here and also have taken in two cats that someone rescued. They are adding to the mix of unpleasantries but what could I do? This woman, an American here on a tourist visa, came across them the day she arrived. They were starving and she later found out they, along with three other cats and a dog, had simply been thrown out in the street when the family who had owned them moved out. The new people wanted nothing to do with them and chased them away, throwing rocks at them as the starving and bewildered cats tried to come back to what had been their home.
The others were killed or disappeared. These two were left and the American found them and was able to trap them and take them to the vet. She wasn't allowed to keep them in the home she is staying in so had been paying for them to stay at the vet's for about two months!
I saw her plea on the Net and offered to help if she absolutely couldn't find anyone else and here I am. The one had her eye so badly damaged by a rock or something that it had to be taken out. She is extremely aggressive and attacks me. I have them in a cage because of my other cat and because she is free to go outside. The one is positive for feline leukemia and the other may get infected before I can get her vaccinated, which won't be for another month because she just had other shots.
In any case, it's a pain and having a cat attack is not nice. But, she is probably the smarter one. They both eat like they are still starving. The things humans do....
No smoking -- Round 3 -- 9 days completed
No sugar -- 4 days completed 1 pause taken
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Apple -- Hurrah on the exercise! What a bummer that you got to camp so early only to find it was later! I don't know if they could have reached you on a cell phone but I absolutely hate when people think a mere message dropped in a phone is sufficient. It's why I keep my answering phones OFF! Though it may mean I miss some work it feels better to keep the responsibility in their court than have it in mine because when they leave a message they think that obligates me to reply or act on it. No thank you!
auger -- Good to see you back and still hanging in there. I'm with Apple in that I love breakfast, can't understand people who can't or don't want to eat it. And the thought of exercising without eating breakfast to me is like crazy and yet lots of people do it! No wonder I'm so svelte!
derry -- I'm really glad to hear that the dancing is helping and that it's something you can find time for. Protect your interests like a mother bear her cubs!
Didn't get a chance to post yesterday, but I did get a chance to dance!
So, today is day 14... I'm on a roll!
Let's hope those rolls of fat are diminished? Ha Ha!
Red, you are such a good person taking in those cats. I hope it works out. I have two cats that I love dearly, my best buddies.
So sore and tired today after all the Thanksgiving work, but it's over and done now. I have the demons here now, though, the leftovers.....
Calorie bank is at 5380. I didn't get a chance to exercise yesterday either, so that challenge has beaten me. Bleh. I'll start it up again, but I know I can't exercise tomorrow either, so I'll wait until Monday. I'm going to plan out a more specific schedule this time too. I don't know what to do about the calorie bank either. Do I roll it over or do I start fresh? I guess it just depends on how next week goes.
Red, your story about the cats is so sad. I have a chubby furball on my lap right now, he is patiently waiting for breakfast. He is soooo lucky.
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
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Got to run but I blew sugar again and have used up all the pauses. I probably should just start over but for now I'll just tally it....
No smoking -- Round 3 -- 11 days completed
No sugar -- 4 days completed 3 pauses taken
Was so busy at the track yesterday I didn't even think of eating sugar. Still, I may redo that challenge and make it into something a bit more effective....But, for now, it stands. Where is everyone?
No smoking -- Round 3 -- 13 days completed
No sugar -- 1 day completed 0 pauses taken
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Day 20!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't have time to come here and post but I did have time to dance. Woo Hoo! So, there is nothing to prevent me from dancing tomorrow and I'll have made it.
Red, congratulations that you have gone so long without smoking. Are you planning to reward yourself with a non-food thing? I'm cheering you on here! Great job!
Thanks, derry, for the congratulations. I hadn't thought of rewarding myself with anything. Don't have any money for anything these days and can't think of anything I can do without it.... Whatever, I'm glad I have stayed off the cigs. Even did it the other night out for some beers after the horserace. I DO need to learn how to "reward" myself though. I need to learn how to plan enjoyable things and DO them. I often do not at all feel like doing something, but am glad I did once I push myself to do it, but that pushing seems like torture up to a certain point. I think I overthink things or something. Don't know but it's a problem.
I am stopping the no-sugar challenge and in the process of coming up with something else.
No smoking -- Round 3 -- 15 days completed
Red, I think a special reward is a good thing. There are non-monetary rewards as well. What about taking time for a long bubble bath? What about making time to visit an exhibit? What about just doing your nails or if you can spring for it, having them done, etc.
I'm such a bad girl (tee hee!) I went Christmas shopping yesterday and bought myself two expensive shirts while I was buying stuff for others. Not necessarily what I planned on doing when I was out and it wasn't deliberately that reward for my dancing, but now I'm going to call that my reward.
Today, my dancing will be the 21st day, I even did it on Thanksgiving when I was wildly busy. That felt good when I took the time to make it happen.
So, I have never been to this point of actually finishing one of my challenges. If I choose to do it again, it that referred to as "round 2"?
Or, is round 2 if you fail and start it over again?
Good going on your exercise. Well, as you say, you can still do it wit h the calories, but more importantly, you are learning how they add up and that is huge. Really, over time, the booze calories make a difference. It's just that it doesn't show up quickly enough to register in a big way, I've found. Well, here's to new revelations! 
This woman, an American here on a tourist visa, came across them the day she arrived. They were starving and she later found out they, along with three other cats and a dog, had simply been thrown out in the street when the family who had owned them moved out. The new people wanted nothing to do with them and chased them away, throwing rocks at them as the starving and bewildered cats tried to come back to what had been their home.
What a bummer that you got to camp so early only to find it was later! I don't know if they could have reached you on a cell phone but I absolutely hate when people think a mere message dropped in a phone is sufficient. It's why I keep my answering phones OFF! Though it may mean I miss some work it feels better to keep the responsibility in their court than have it in mine because when they leave a message they think that obligates me to reply or act on it. No thank you!
And the thought of exercising without eating breakfast to me is like crazy and yet lots of people do it! 
No wonder I'm so svelte!
