You're on Page 1 of 4
|
You're on Page 1 of 4
|
July Journalers: Let's Perk Up and Try Again Starting NOW!!!! Wow! Pow! Zam!
Ok, I think we had a little journaling "club" going here that was pretty successful in helping us focus! So why not try, try again? :coffee:
:write: I'm reminding myself that I did the best weight management work in years for the months that we did this journal ... something about the focusing and checking in with the group rather than just going it alone. I'm reminding myself that a "journal" entry can be a menu/exercise list or simply a notation of what I ate or did. Reminding myself that this thread does not need to be a long conversation, just a quick note posted on the wall here each day. Reminding myself that there's no time like the present to begin a new beginning. Hoping someone will join me in committing to journaling food and exercise here for the remainder of July and sharing our successes and setbacks as well. Please join me if ya wanna! :cofdate: Huzzah! :encore: |
July 1-2
Ok, Journal Club Member Amarantha! I see you are ready to focus again. I will join thee in a (more or less) commitment to the journal thread for the month of July. ~ Signed, er, Amarantha
Thursday, July 1: 2650 calories, 60 minutes jogwalking, did not log food, only calories Friday, July 2: Career gone haywire, ate every unhealthy thing in sight in order to feel better but felt worse, estimated calorie count 3000, exercise 25 min weights in gym Saturday, July 3: Giant Nestle caramel crunch bar 390 Dulce de leche milk 360 Whole wheat roll w/butter spray 130 Greek mini pizza 250 2 Shortcakes 200 Strawberries 60 4 scoops ff Cool Whip 120 2 low carb Slimfasts 360 low carb Slimfast 180 Total Calories 2050 Exercise: 10 min Wai Lana yoga, starting 21-day yoga challenge that I'll log on the 21-day challenge thread as well as here! Huzzah! Sick of the negativity, must do yoga! |
Saturday
Not sure I'll be steady here the next few days but I'll try - kept thinking all day that this or that would be a good choice to report - like several good things I passed up in grocery store that were ever so tempting. Anyway - exercise was walking an hour in the grocery store. may still get out for a little walk this evening. If I do, I'll report but here's my food so far. mix kashi cereal 2% milk (dh made breakfast and forgot I'm drinking skim) 8 fish stix broccoli carrot mix frozen yogurt (about 160 calories) one taco chip w/creamy dollop of something on it at grocery store 1/2 svg of cranberry/orange relish taco salad - no chips or sour cream Friday was higher 1/2 rye bagel w/pb 1 cup lowfat yogurt celery slimfast meal bar glass of zinfandel - first in months tuna panini (good size) several chips frozen yogurt I think that was it. Don't remember Thursday but recollect it was moderate. |
Yowza, Anagramatic's in the house!!! Huzzah! :cheers: Now we're cooking (metaphorically speaking)!
I'll be editing mine through the evening if anything comes up. Going to have another low carb shake to steady the ol' blood sugar! Huzzah! Will be working in mountains all day tomorrow and then covering fireworks, but WILL be journaling carefully and be back with a report tomorrow night! If I am not back, send the dogs out with brandy! Thanks!!! |
Thanks for starting the thread, Empress! I'm feeling a faint glimmer of hope--by golly, I've done it once and I'll do it again! I have some new "toys" to play with and I'm hoping that they'll get me going again. Garry bought a badminton set today and we've tried it already and it's a great workout, surprisingly. And I bought a set done by 'The Firm" at Target today. 3 videos and a weighted stick sorta thing. I'm still loving the 'Firm" videos I bought a few months ago--just haven't been using them as regularly. I highly recommend them!
Anyway, here's today's food intake: coffee w/ ff 1/2 and 1/2 [my giving up coffee didn't last long! :coffee: ] ww tortilla w/ cheese, egg sub, veg. sausage, lettuce Salad w/ ff raspberry dressing 3 pcs. veg pizza [small pieces!] root beer {Had this meal at a restaurant} Peppermint patty peanut butter-choc chip cookie 1 pc. veg. pizza ff pudding w/ raspberries 3 saltines w/ almond butter calories: ? Water: dismal--only excuse is we were gone all day Exercise: 3 mile walk AM 30 min. badminton |
Hooray, :queen: E is here and ready to go!!! Let's hocus, pocus, focus, focus like crazy this month, Eydie! :wizard:
|
Mind if I join in? Ill start posting tonight.
|
Welcome, Abbazabba!!!! :wave: See ya tonight!!!
|
Hi, abbazabba, welcome. I'm in PA too.
Add a sliver of lemon meringue pie to yesterday. Plus what started out to be a litle walk that ended being a long stand as I ran into my good friend (and she wasn't in her walking shoes) and we were just going to talk a few minutes and...........So it was a very little walk but a long chat. Well, Sunday -hmmm 2 sour cream donuts (auspicious start?) lo carb meal at Ruby Tuesday's - chopped steak (fairly small) broccoli mashed cauliflower (their menu lists it at 166 calories which I didn't read before I ordered - I think next time I'll get something else. their new menu is great as it lists all sorts of info on lots of menu items and includes a lot of healthy choices plus what they do fry now is fried w/canola oil) cream for 2 decafs 4 cherries ham sandwich on ww more cherries piece of cake (served by dh so it was 2-3 times my sliver but I ate it anyway) :o :o fr yogurt pretzels ' a little walk, enough water |
Welcome, Abbazabba!!!
SUNDAY
coffee w/ ff 1/2 and 1/2 2 ww toast w/ lite cream cheese, egg, lettuce, peppers, onion crackers and peanut butter wha guru chew lite caramel frappicino 1/2 dulche de leche bar bean burrito chocolate ice cream cone That's the damage so far----we were gone again all day, so I didn't get much water or exercise. Bad excuses and I must do better. The good news is my body's craving something really clean like fruit, so I'll probably have some tonight. By the way, Starbuck's has lite frappicinos now and they're great. Huge difference in fat and calories--they'll be glad to show you their nutritional info. Made with low-fat milk and sweetened with 1/2 sugar and 1/2 Splenda---it's a lovely treat, still as expensive as ever though! :lol: Don't forget to tell them to leave off the whipped cream on top---it's full of FAT! Calories: ? [must start counting again!!!!] exercise: 2 mile walk AM 15 min. yoga |
Well, this isn't pretty, but it was HOT out there in the Arizona sun covering a parade, fire, festival and fireworks on top of not feeling well all night, so:
EAS van carb control shake 100 Shortcake 100 2 poptarts 420 Slimfast low carb 180 Whole wheat roll w/btr spray 130 Slimfast low carb 180 Slimfast low carb 180 4 four-packs pb toast snack crackers 520 Popsicle 70 Lf banana milk 400 Lf banana milk 400 Slimfast low carb 180 Total: 2860 Exercise: Covering a parade qualifies as exercise! Did 5 min yoga for 21-day challenge! |
Thanks everyone for being so friendly!
I am not doing perfectly as I have my period and want to eat everything in sight, and we need to do some grocery shopping and all the healthy food (i.e. produce) is gone. There will always be excuses, though, so I have to learn to be more resilient. Here's Sunday, 7-4... 9:45 AM in the kitchen with my dad, kind of dissappoined (I missed my July 4 goal by half a pound) and very hungry. 3/4 cup Honey Bunches of Oats with "bananas." 120 calories. 12:30 PM at work with my assistant manager. A Wendy's frosty, small. I was hungry. I work in a mall and there are very few healthy alternatives at the food court. 3:10 pm lunch break at the food court. General Tso's chicken and fried rice from the Chinese place. It can't be good for you, but I like this place because the food isn't greasy or covered in syrup. 11:30 pm in the kitchen, a granola bar. This breaks my "no eating after nine" rule but when your stomach's growly that's okay! exercise: 20 minutes workout mode on Dance Dance Revolution, which is probably the only high-impact cardio I'd willingly do. Every time I do it I'm drenched. I'm trying to gradually increase my endurance and get to 25 minutes 30, and so on. Also, an upper-body focused yoga session. |
Monday--July 5
coffee w/ ff 1/2 and 1/2
peach 1 oz. cheddar low-fat apple-bran muffin 1 boiled potato small pc. cornbread 1 pc. pie [this was at my dad's house] 1 serving tortilla chips ww tortilla w/ lite cheese, egg, vegs wha guru chew**mango exercise: 3 mile walk 30 min. badminton water: 5 glasses Still have zero focus, but am sincerely working on it! :^: :^: :^: |
Hmmm. Abba, if you're not doing perfectly, you fit right in here! :lol3:
Er, didn't mean to imply that anyone else is not perfect, just me! My report is a narrative and, :queen: E, my focus is maybe at a minus 2! But I'm working on it, too! No more negativity. Anyhow, the narrative: After a 4th of July working until 10 p.m. or so in the grueling heat on what should have been my day off, I started the first of two production days in my new position ... hmmm, I think that was Monday ... wait, it IS still Monday and that means I still have Tuesday, anyhow, I digress. I woke early but gym is closed. Wanted to go and buy French toast sticks at BK but made healthy choice of a whole wheat chicken sandwich w/spinach. Drove to newspaper office ... it's in the mountains and there is a convenience store there with lots of stress food. Everything went black after that. At some point I came home but have to go back tomorrow. I will try to go to gym first and make healthy choices and keep calories down. I did do 10 minutes of Wai Lana yoga sometime in this endless day. That is all! :encore: |
anagram- what part of PA? I'm in the Philly suburbs... Bucks County.
Monday 7-5 9:45 AM in the kitchen with my dad, tired and very hungry. 1 1/2 cups of Honey Bunches of Oats "banana" flavor. 3:00 PM at my grandmother's house with my whole family. Feeling uncomfortable, a little hungry. A handful of "pub mix" (like chex mix). A handfful of cheese curls. 3 bite-sized brownies. 5:45 PM, same place, not very hungry but feeling obligated to eat. A few forkfuls of mashed potatoes, a big bowl of salad with nuts, grapes, goat cheese and a really light dressing, and half a slice of herb bread. exercise: I was planning on going for a walk today in my neighborhood but my boyfriend and I went to a shopping town instead and power-walked for a while. Not a great start to my posting here, but I have nowhere to go but up. Tomorrow, no seconds! |
| All times are GMT -4. The time now is 06:30 AM. |
You're on Page 1 of 4
|
Copyright © 2026 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. All rights reserved. Use of this site indicates your consent to the Terms of Use.