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: