Sliding gracefully to the end of Day 1.

Rosinante - Sliding and streaking - that's a winning pair-up for you. :)

Tess/Am - Avoid those dismal donuts if at all possible and enjoy your day #5.

I'm on Day #4 and it is ending up well. Focus is the name of my personal game, and I keep thinking those positive thoughts.

May we all continue to streak our way to VICTORY! Woot!!! :)

Woot to Rosinate, sliding gracefully! Woot! That is great, Day 1 is always the most fun (of any challenge, methinks)! Congratulations!

Congrats also to JJJ2 on Day 4! I am with ye on the positive thoughts. I think they are a good idea.

Was watching Wayne Dyer's Excuses Begone PBS program (for fund-raiser) for the zillioneth time. Really like it as he speaks of how we CAN change by changing our thoughts.

I enjoy him!

Had a so-so day 5, got all involved in changing out computers and doing things to software for my job, took all day, had a headache, will be good in the long run, though.

Huzzah, on to day 6!

Day 2 begins good and determined.

I had a small epiphany earlier this week: I was looking at a handbag on QVC, which I wanted, which was a good price (Today's Special Value), and which got as far as my online basket. It wouldn't have damaged my finances to buy it - but otoh I have big plans for another trip to London next year. So I deferred gratification, and removed it. I was Amazed at the buzz I got! from choosing the Better Option.

Throughout the week, even on Thursday when the Binge Monster came to call, I was pondering why I couldn't/whether I could train myself to feel that kind of a buzz by deferring gratification in my diet - choose not to eat something for the sake of a longer term benefit.

So that's what I did yesterday. I can't say the buzz was as good but I did have a little bit of smug, which I hope to build on today.

I know what you mean, Rosinate. I work on that, too. Congratulations, you are doing great.

Have a good day! :wave:

I am starting my count again tomorrow. DID have the Wally T Donut and enjoyed it, felt it helped me in numerous ways and that it is not my rule to start my challenges over but it is such a season of change for me that I want a new challenge. I will do another 14 day count with a different set of GWLBs (Good Weight Loss Behaviors), that I'll think up later.

I did this day bag work, was going to work all weekend and now think I need some wanderin' in the Hinterland time on my current favorite hobby, LOSING 10 POUNDS! Woot!

I will be back to this thread with Day 1 tomorrow!

Rosinante - I like your phrase - deferred gratification - and I think it is a very good choice of words for a weight-loss plan. Yes, putting off some gratification can pay off in the long run. I like the smug feeling too. :) Keep on streakin'.

Tess - Plans can be changed at any old time and wanderin' in the Hinterland can only be good for you. On to Day #1 for you tomorrow.

I'm just completing Day #5 today, but will be restarting to Day #1 myself tomorrow, for the more mundane reason that it is easier for me to keep track of myself when I follow the weekly calendar which tells me that Sunday is the first day of the week, and therefore a #1 Day. :)

So tomorrow will be Day #3 for Rosinante and Day #1 for JoJo and Tess. Woot! :wave:

Lol, I am like that also, JJJ2! I like Sunday to be the first day of everything.

Speakin' o' which, this is my Day 1 of what is going to be a series of open-ended 14 day challenges de facto but I may do an ongoing count as GUESS WHAT? Lol, I gained another two pounds!

Reframed everything. I essentially now am on the quest to relose 12 pounds (lol, thought it would be eight by today but the scale was evil and not in a good mood).

Right now I am formulating goals for this 14 day period but I have set a date of December 4 for the 12 pounds to be gone. I actually want to lose a little more back to my lowest weight this decade again but let's just say 12 for now lol.

I will do my count on this thread but it will be open ended and just acknowledging each two week period, if that makes sense.

Since I have been aging backwards (like Merlin) lately, I am going to have shakes for lunch for a few days, maybe even (I KNOW this probably isn't healthy, have heard it, have said it, but want to do it) Slimfast. Now I do know they had a wee health problem awhile back (they paid me $4 from a class action suit just recently), but they have fixed it and to be honest, I lost the majority of my weight using Slimfast once a day occasionally.

So anyhow, sing me no sad songs for the weight gain lol 'cause I can see by the data where it came from and we here in the Hinterlands just soldier on 'cause we ARE NOT GONNA GAIN ANY MORE WEIGHT!

Still the Witch, Not the Hag! (STWNTH!)

Rosinante - I hope your Day #3 is going well for you.

Tess/Am - Tweek whatever needs to be tweeked. Reformulating whatever needs to be reformulated is often necessary in our weight-loss travels and travails. Absolutely, positively and so forth.

My personal Day #1 has gone fairly well. I find that having a Day #1 on a Sunday works for me. Let's keep doing the absolutely, positively best we can do. :wave:

Thanks JJJ2!

Huzzah to Rosinate!

My day 1 was fun (rhymes) as I enjoyed my little Slimfast experiment and also had a processed meal for supper, one of the new Lean Cuisine larger meals in steam pouches, mushroom tortelloni and vegetables. It was huge but only 280 cals and tasted fresh (almost, at least no box taste).

On to Day 2!

Hello, fellow streakers -

My Day #2 has gone pretty well. Hope everyone is doing OK.

I've been trying to keep myself pretty busy so that I am not so apt to snack on stuff I really shouldn't snack on. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. :(

But we just have to keep doing the best we can. :wave:

Huzzah, JJJ2!!! Am looked on here last night and didn't see that anyone had posted. We must have been ships passin' in the night or somethin'!!

My Day 2 was a disaster but I am keepin' the count goin' as I said, not really 14-day anymore!

I was tryin' Slimfast for a couple of days but much as I loved it in the past, it didn't agree with me. I was up so early to work today that I was exhausted but did take a walk, went to store for fresh milk and chucked the Slimfast, so now I am feelin' better and my dentist even cancelled my appointment yesterday and I really have a free day to streak away at the diet count!

Thanks for bein' here, Friend JJJ2!

Hi, Tess/Am, and anyone else lurking around.

I'm just finishing up Day #3 for me, and I guess it is going OK. We have a houseful of company, so things are a bit hectic here. I'll keep on doing my best and we will see what happens. :)

Let's all keep doing our best. Actually, why not for goodness sake! :wave:

OK, maybe today will be day 1..... :(

Well, I am on Day 4 of what is kind of an open ended count that if I get to day 14 of lol, it'll be great! But then I will just repeat it. My plan is a kind of jumpstart thing, trying different "diets" and menus to get to where I can manage calories better. I ended at 1645 today and will repeat the same pattern and menu tomorrow. Lol, I am getting so streak mad, I called this Day 4, Jumpstart Day A. The menu was good and I ended the day in the 1400s but then someone asked me to work tonight and I got more stressed and just finished it and added a slice of sf cake and a sf fudgsicle so it was 1645. Lol, this postie is a little strange, really tired but happy with the calorie count, not hungry. On to Day 5, Jumpstart A.

HAPPY GIRL 4! Welcome!!! Sounds like a good plan ye have there. Happy you are here!

Also happy to see JJJ2 and Rosinate! Woot!

Let's streak on have a happy day tomorrow, or today if it is day where ye are!

Hi, Happygirl, welcome to our Streaking Party. So you live in Cairo? We actually visited Cairo 'way back in 1982. Enjoyed the visit very much. Glad to have you streakin' with us.

Rosinante and Tess - Keep streakin'. Woot!

I finished up Day #4 sort of in a "blur" since we had a houseful of company. The company has departed now, and life is returning to normal, whatever that is.

Anyway, let's just keep doing the best we can as we keep streakin' along on our journey through life. :wave:

I have bagged the jumpstart idea and am just counting calories my regular way, honestly I have lost track of the count and I am askin' self why am I countin' 'cause I need to work every single day on this losin' o' the now 12 extra pounds and that means watchin' calories!

Every single day, so no count but hope everyone will keep postin' on this thread.

My streakity streak o' daily exercise has looked like this since Sunday:

THURSDAY, Aug 11, Day 246 of streakity streak of no day missed of daily exercise, 30 min walk, total streakity streak minutes so far 15220!

WEDNESDAY, Aug 10, Day 245 of streakity streak of no day missed of daily exercise, 180 min walk, total streakity streak minutes so far 15190!

TUESDAY, Aug 9, Day 244 of streakity streak of no day missed of daily exercise, 30 min walk, 30 min jog/walk, total streakity streak minutes so far 15010!

MONDAY, Aug 8, Day 243 of streakity streak of no day missed of daily exercise, 2nd session, 60 min walk, walk, total streakity streak minutes so far 14950!

MONDAY, Aug 8, Day 243 of streakity streak of no day missed of daily exercise, 35 min walk, 25 min weights, total streakity streak minutes so far 14890!

SUNDAY, Aug 7, Day 242 of streakity streak of no day missed of daily exercise, 2nd session, 30 min walk, total streakity streak minutes so far 14830!

SUNDAY, Aug 7, Day 242 of streakity streak of no day missed of daily exercise, 60 min walk, 15 min abs/core, 15 min jog, 30 min jog/walk, total streakity streak minutes so far 14800!

Checking in -

Day #5 for me and I'm continuing on, doing the best I can.

Day 1 again. Totally wasted this week so far.

Lol, can I stay on this thread even though I bagged the 14 day count?

The only streak I am currently counting is the daily exercise (posted an update here but won't do that to ye every day, been at this for 246 days, with a previous record of more than a year, might have been two years lol).

Today I am giving myself an assignment to go out to lunch with just myself. I have been a hermit lately and need to work on that as being a hermit is not conducive, I have found, to a healthy weight.

If anyone knows a kindly passing Scale Angel who wants a nice visit to the southwest this Sunday, give her my address as I will be doin' my Sacred Ceremony o' the Golden Scale and could use the company of a good Scale Angel.

Scale Demons, go away, never come back another day!

Woot!

Warning - some intense thoughts. No, seriously, I hope I don't offend anyone.

Got to the end of Day 1.

This has been a funny old week, scary with the unrest not a million miles from me, lots of comfort eating.

I've been getting anxious all week and for longer about getting older, getting nearer being dead (sorry). I look people up on Wikipedia, and the first thing I do is see how old they were when they died. If I die in 20 years' time, it will still seem not a bad age to people. 20 years! It's not a lot. I've been fat for twice that time. So I eat more, despite being aware that being obese is shortening my life.
I discovered last night that I was thinking, What if I commit all this effort to losing weight and just when I reach goal, die anyway? I found I was really scared.
So it came to me: "Dare to take the risk". That's what I've done today, been daring. I feel better for it, I've succeeded. I've also cleaned the sitting room and it looks like a room now, not a laundry ironing room.
I will Dare again tomorrow.

Good luck to all.

:waves: Amarantha!

I noticed your post on the IF thread, and 3 meals a day is exactly what I'm aiming for - good old fashioned 3 meals a day. In its way, it's also fasting. I've enjoyed today's delayed gratification anyway.
Good luck!

Rosinante - I'm glad you are Daring to take the risk. And I am also glad that you are feeling good about Daring. :) Enjoy life today, each day is a gift and it is a very precious gift.

Tess - Glad you are still checking in with us.

Greetings to Happygirl and anyone else lurking around.

This is Day #6 for me, and it has gone well. But now we are into the "dreaded weekend" when it is more difficult to stay on plan. So let's just do the best we can with the weekend. :wave:

Rosinate, very glad you are daring to take the risk and that you shared your thoughts with us.

Random thoughts: I think about age and death also but as my friends, online and off, know, I have a life goal to live to be 120 (theoretically, and absolutely that is possible).

Ok, typed a long response here (deleted 'cause ramblin') but guess my point is, even if I don't make it to that age, thinking about life for me, makes all the difference, for all any of us know, we might just be the first people in history to live to be 200, 300, how do we know (don't think Social Security will cover that, but I'll worry 'bout it later).

So one of the reasons I have chosen to focus a lot on weight and fitness in my life (I used to weigh more than 100 pounds than I do now) is that not only will it without doubt help me reach the longest life I can achieve but I want that life in a fit body, or as fit as I can make it.

So, yea, understand. It frustrates me when I have a stupid regain after I worked so hard for so many years lol.

But we dare to keep goin' and keep the pressure on ourselves, I think, because the reward really is life itself, or a certain kind of life.

Thanks for the good luck wishes on the three meals! I don't mean that I am saying I should never have a snack or even a treat, just want to establish a more old-fashioned, peaceful three meal eating pattern, with occasional snack.

JJJ2!!!!! Woot! Congrats on Day 2! I actually have the opposite problem re the weekend in that I am only now learning to HAVE a weekend since the job change. I find it easier to stick to less calories on the weekend than when working and I really am trying to train myself to not work weekends.

Funny, was just watching a PBS fund-raiser about a doctor's books: "Younger Next Year." This guy (sorry, don't know his name and too lazy too google, have heard him speak before, would like to get the book) is talking about the new science of aging and he mentioned weight loss as being about eating portion controlled meals and not eating between meals.

He recommended exercise but said it is a separate issue than weight loss.

Woot!

I knew that!

Thanks for the kind wishes, both!

Day 2 dawns a bit more cheerful.....

Good luck, all.

Huzzah, Rosinate! Huzzah JJJ2! Let's do 'er!

I am pretty cheerful and actually this is KIND of a count thing as I am on really day 2 of the three meals a day with occasional snacks when needed (that's the best way I can define the pattern I wish to eat in). I did really well with my experimental Pizza Hut anti-binge lunch yesterday. Should explain that I am battling changes in career that have defined me for decades and feeling alienated and lonely as I used the career a lot for company and though working now, even seeing the same people, it is not permanent or the same. So the fun of going to Pizza Hut needs to be redefined and I was thinking that if I went there yesterday I would have a binge because I was going alone, not with coworkers or friends. But I did extremely well, did the lunch buffet and took slivers of everything I wanted and ended up with a 600 cal lunch (not 10,000 lol) and ate a few energy gels (my stop gap snack for now) in the car.

Let's go!!! I'm up for day 3 of the PATTERN, anyhow!

Scale BETTER be nice tomorrow or it is a lamp!

Congratulations on Patterning the pizza into its proper place!

I think I'm clearly daring to risk to Amaranth! because I'm eating 3 squares (actually, quite small squares) and a snack if it arises too.

So, the morning got away from me after I had a cup of coffee. I have to wait for an hour after meds before I eat, and suddenly it was 3 hours and lunch time.

Breakfast = a cup of instant coffee.
Lunch = a small chicken/lettuce sandwich and some canned fruit with yogurt and ground flaxseed.
Snack = a moderate piece of sponge cake ~ my churchwarden had made me one as a treat. The rest is in the fridge. The last time she made me one, I ate the whole thing, about 9" square, in a sitting.
Dinner = will be some kind of protein I haven't thought of yet on salad.
Evening = milky coffee

I can live with amaranthing!

Rosinante - You did get me to thinking, and my basic thought was that I would probably be dead by now if I hadn't gotten busy and lost the 65 lbs. I lost. I enjoy life, even at my age. Hey, life is good, let's enjoy it. Anyway, thanks for putting the thought in my head.

Tess - Whatever works, works!!! Personally I've always been a three meal a day gal. Occasionally I'll have a snack, but not every day. So whatever works for you, let it work for you.

Hi to any and all lurkers. Come on in. We are friendly folks here who seldom if ever bite anyone.

Today is my Day #7, so I've finished a week of my personal challenge. And I am forging onward into the second week. It's been a good week, and the scale is smiling at me. I smile right back at the silly thing, too. :)

Let's make each day count. :wave:

Huzzah, Rosinate!!! Huzzah JJJ2!!!

I did have an extra snackiepoo tonight as tomorrow is my weigh-in and I always seem to kind of self-destruct or something the night before. Not sure what that is about. But I was hungry so my snack was one of the little "to go" cups of pb and 11 pretzel thins (flat pretzel cracker/crisps). Not sure if the scale will like the extra or not but there it be.

Today did an anti-hermit training exercise at the mall and forced self to have lunch and stay two hours lol. Lunch was all sweet treat food, ye don't want to know but did ok with cals today, maybe a little high.

Tomorrow, I guess is Day 3 of this meal patterning exercise. Thanks for the support, ladies! Woot!

Let's us DO 'ER!

Day 3 dawns.
Day 2 successful.
Someone brought me a cake yesterday, and there's still 2/3 of it left in the fridge. If I'd been concentrating a bit harder, there'd have been 3/4 - but last month there would have been 0, so it's an improvement.

Good luck, all, for the day ahead.

Good work on the cake, Rosinate! (that rhymes, woot!)

I am going back to bed lol. :wave:

I gained another pound! May or may not have a second weigh-in ceremony tomorrow, haven't decided. Redoing goals and plans.

Woot! The turnaround has gotta take place soon!

Not unhappy, just dealin', will get there in the end! Woot!

Decided to start my count again. This be Day 1. Workin' tomorrow so not sure if I'll post much but tomorrow will be Day 2!

Had a wonderful shake for dinner with 1/2 cup frozen organic berries, green tea/water, scoop protein powder, 2 Laughing Cow Light cheese wedges.

Really full from this!

Rosinate - Good job with that cake!! The world is full of tempting treats, and we just have to deal with the temptation. You did just fine.

Tess - Goals and plans must be redone every so often. Life has to be dealt with, and you are doing just that.

My Day #8 went well today, and I'm on to Day #9 tomorrow. Weekends have always been a challenge for me. :( Tomorrow I will help serve a luncheon at our church which equals another challenge. But life is full of challenges, isn't it? Yep, challenges are just a part of life. :wave:

Let's keep smiling -

Huzzah, JJJ2, good job on the weekend and have fun at the luncheon!

Rosinate, how goeth it? Woot!

Sorry, I like to say woot! :)

Was restless so did another half hour walk 'round the neighborhood and now feel more like sleepin' ... see ye streakers!

Day #9 has come and gone on my personal 14 day challenge of reasonable eating. I worked at the church this morning preparing and serving a luncheon to a group of visiting pastors. Then I visited my friend in the nursing home. So it was a stressful day, but I managed to stick to my personal eating plan. :)

On to Day #10 tomorrow. Greetings to one and all - :wave:

I'm generally speaking still in here and fighting. :)

Woot, JJJ2 and Rosinate, congratulations on the positive reports!

I am on Day 3 of the new count, same ol' calorie control challenge, doin' well.

If I do a weigh-in today (it is still the middle of the night), I intend to change the weight I consider "official" for the week as that will help me keep to the behavioral goal. I sometimes do this although I am basically a once-a-week weigher!

For now, I shall go back to bed! Huzzah!