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day 14------>
calories: 1126 carbs: 24 protein: 142 exercise: walk 2 miles circuit training: 30 min gazelle: 20 min |
'nother pause day today - laid low by the migraine monster. I think that uses up all my pause days, but if not then I've got one left....back on track in the morning. My eating's going pretty well, although the scale hasn't budged. I'm just hangin' in there waiting for the numbers to change.
Keep on Truckin! Erin :carrot: |
curly -- Sounds good. Just which elements are your challenge again?
chai -- So sorry to hear about the migraines. Is this a usual thing with you? I've never had a migraine...unless you can count excruciating hangovers. I mustn't have enough up there to feel pain... Hope you feel better. Good attitude there with the scale. What is your challenge again? I can't keep track of everyone's. |
Red,
Fortunately I don't get them very often at all (knock on wood) - today's was the worst that I have ever had, and the real kicker was that is is the second day of the new semester so I had to go to class like that. I am feeling much better now - it's just a sort of dull ache in the background. My challenge is 80 oz of water per day. Keep on Truckin! Erin :carrot: |
Okay on water, pause days for exercise (lead butt syndrome) and wine/sweets (no excuse). Nothing exciting to report, did nothing, boring life, boring person... Not depressed, just inert.
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A(1) Water Challenge- Day 10
B(2) SB1 Challenge- Day 10 C(3) The Firm Challenge- Day 10 Carla- I hope you are feeling better Wednesday! |
ah-hah! leaping on the distractions.....hee, hee, hee....
Oh, boy! Sitting in front of the computer hearing the bells ring, glass ting and other little purrs and bubbly sounds as my sound-coded emails come in, and with them, thread posts! Yeah! More fun distractions to pounce on as I further procrastinate on my stories...I AM doing them though....
carla -- Boring person?! I doubt it. Boring lives....well, I don't know...but, remember the curse..."May you live in interesting times." Ok, ok, I know it's not exactly pertinent but it follows the logic, however skewed, if you live in interesting times, you'll have an interesting life, which may not be desirable. Since you say you don't then we'll blame it on the times (or thank the times, whichever line of thought you choose to take at the time). The present times, for good or for bad -- and I'm saying good here as I'm trying to make you feel better -- are obviously boring ones. Ok? ;) You see what work does to me.... drives me friggin' nuts! :crazy: Well, as for the challenges, one out of three ain't bad. Go for three perfects tomorrow! :yes: Inertia, huh? I know something about that too. Kind of like the tortoise and the hare with me. But, I always say, the race was just too short... chai -- Glad to hear the migraine is better. That must have been hellish having to go to school like that. I think school is hellish in the best of times. :lol3: Guzzling water should help. Maybe you can try carla's humming trick. Carla, tell chai about that nifty little thing, will ya? Phys -- Glad to have you back. How's old Kentucky? I should be getting there myself one of these days. Have a standing invite to a horse retirement farm around there, I think it's around there. Sounds like a good challenge. Always nice to hear about people getting nutrition conscious. It is SO easy to slip into processed flour, white sugar ways. I know! :yes: stage -- Thumbs up for you! :cp: Just when is the Super Bowl, by the way? You going to make your challenge? Shad -- Last time we heard from you, you were headed for bed. Did you ever get up? Sushi -- Sounds good here too. So, you've got three challenges going now? Wow! Apple -- A beer challenge is commendable and something I should be following suit on...but....yeah, well. How's it going? jolly -- Ditto with you and the silence. Last peep was the begin of a no-caffeiner. Have you been arrested for assault with an empty coffee mug? :eek: :lol3: marble -- continuing weight loss! Way to go!! :woo: Zoe -- Crunches in the morning are the way to go. How are you doing? Zoe, everyone thinks I have an exciting life but I don't have one. I really don't. I just go looking for trouble. Glad I inspired you though. Can you send some of that inspiration back by way? No, just kidding. I'm doing okay. I feel the energy...or is it my blood pressure, which is so low I'm nearly dead....on the rise. Yowzah! |
Oh yes I got up. I have finished the ceiling sanding - well all bar the scrubby little bits I missed. Oh how tired I am of sanding dust and plastic sheets and the sound of the sander and getting up and down that blessed ladder. In the last two days I have taken off the entire paint coat of the ceiling of the dining room and kitchen. I refuse to use my kitchen tonight since it is still spitting dust everywhere. I have cleaned the rest of the house but still have 2/3 of the kitchen to go - therefore no dinner tonight. Everything will have to be taken out of the cupboards and washed or dusted and put back after the cupboards have been cleaned. If I ever get hold of that particulat painter, I will end up in jail. I think he is lucky I don't know his name but I still remember what he looked like!!!!! :mad:
Tomorrow will be to finish cleaning the kitchen. A good scrub from top to bottom. I have done my gym work for the week. Don't have to go back there until Saturday. Think I have the DB2 under control again - at least for now. The sheer volume of abuse must have done the trick last weekend. Anyway - for how long this 'remission' will last is anyones guess. For the time being I am counting the blessings. I have taken a pause day on the food today since I haven't been able to use the kitchen so eating has been sporadic and not great. Have no idea what I will have for dinner - maybe a tin of peaches will do the trick. Sorry I haven't been keeping up with folk and their challenges. I promise to take more interest in the new thread. Actually Red sounded so down last week I was very tempted to ring her and chat for a while Gotta go get some more water down me. Pause day 1 for food and water. Tomorrow is day 9 again. |
Goodness, Shad, did I sound that bad? Well, things have been bad, and are not likely to get better if I don't find some work and fast payment! But, I have put in more pleas...I am getting good at it! And today, I called a friend whose kids I used to teach for very good dinero, called about something I'd sent them that I'd had from other friends in Hong Kong....complicated sounding....and she said the kids..little devils though they are...may be ready for lessons again. That would be nice. That was money I could count on. Still, Shad, I would welcome a call anytime! How cool. Glad to hear the sanding is going well. Just what is the DB2? I missed something, I think. A brother? Under control? Abuse, remission? Hmm. Mysterious.
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The DB2 is my younger brother. DB1 is my older brother. Anyway DB2 has a gambling problem and it has been getting worse. We have finally wrestled his credit card and debit card away from him and are attempting to put him back together again. Financially he is in bad trouble but it is nothing that can't be fixed provided he is prepared to put in the effort. Hence the verbal abuse last weekend as he went off the rails with company money - not his.
I think my friend in Japan makes quite a reasonable amount of money through private lessons. While I was there we went to lessons for 2 lots of children and 3 evening classes attended by women who wanted to be able to speak English better or even start to learn it. They were lovely. Lots of fun to be had. |
Hi all. Sorry so silent. Been very busy at work, and just not feeling well last night when I got home. No, no assault with an empty coffee mug.
goal A - day 6. Did not buy any junk food for the office. This has actually crossed over into home too. I do have some low fat Pringles, but have not been binging on them. Goal B - day 1. Have to love the headaches when you cut out the caffeine. I have stocked up on some crystal light for work, and I am giving myself 3 days of diet decaffeinated soda to help with the headaches, then it will actually be NO SODA. MUST DRINK MORE WATER :D I did not get to work out yesterday. Didn't sleep well the night before, so didn't go in the morning, and the headache had kicked in after work with a stomachache besides, so I came straight home after. I really haven't even been "binging" on healthy foods. Still need some work on portion sizes, but making baby steps. Hello and good luck to everyone. I apologize for not writing more to each of you. This thread is SO popular, I have been having a hard time keeping up with all the posts. Soon I will have a bit more time though. Have a good day. |
no man's land....
Hello there, all. Still up though it's nearly bedtime. 9 p.m. Lights out for me, so I can be up and at 'em at 4:30. The kitten is home with me again, all tied up in some sort of strait jacket-like bandage. She is very happy, rolling around and snuggling up to one of the other cats, who then ran off.
Well, the story is coming along, but I still have a lot to do on it. At least there is something. That greatly takes the pressure off. I had to go to the vet's, which is a 50-min. walk away and near the gym, so I left early, jogged 5 K and did my crunches, even though I am still between challenges. Then I got the cat and took the bus home. Like, I said, give me another day or two. Yesterday, I did some pilates exercise called "breast stroke," where you lie on your stomach and pull your torso up and do what looks like a breast stroke. Works the back and shoulders I guess. I could feel it in my back today but don't know if it was from that or riding. Does anyone know or do this exercise? I am thinking of putting some pilates together in a little...emphasis on the little... and doing them as my next challenge, or an added part of it. Any ideas? jolly -- Don't say I didn't tell you!!!!! :nono: You cold turkeyer, you! Nah, how are those headaches? Hellish, eh? I know, sometimes you just want to do it the hard way, clearcut and gone! Is that you? How much caffeine do you think you were consuming each day? A lot? I really recommend the book, "Caffeine Blues." It also has information on what sort of natural herbal supplements you can take to help your beaten-to-a-pulp adrenal glands to recover. Are you interested? If I can find my copy, I can send you that part, if you want it. Well, good going on the challenges. No junk food at work would be huge. Is "work on portion sizes" like NOT eating the whole bag of popcorn...she says, licking the butter from her fingers. I can really go to work on portion sizes, let me tell you!! :lol3: Don't worry about keeping up. Most people are kind of in and out. There are some of us who hold open conference regularly. We make up for it. Speaking of long posters, where is CBETA? Yo! :listen: Shad -- Ok, clear on the acronyms now. Sorry to hear about the gambling problem. I know it can really get out of hand. I'm lucky not to have one..never bet for that reason actually, because I think if I did I might keep going to get back lost money. Oddly, well not really, it's never talked about here but there must be problems with it as racing is so big. In Hong Kong there were notices all around about "betting within your limits" and hotlines to call for help, but nothing here. I used to do tons of teaching, never really liked it. I used to travel all over the place like a nut giving lessons privately and in companies. The bubble years were good though. Now, I just travel all over the place like a nut.... :lol: Good students, meaning ones who actually take an interest in learning, are hard to find. Also, the more Japanese I know, the less in demand I am it seems. Even though I would not speak Japanese at all if a student doesn't want me too, they tend not to like it, get all clammed up, when they know your Japanese is better than their English. It's a shame because that's why they're paying, to learn, but they get so self-conscious. On the other hand, you do get the Japanese who NEED lessons and NEED to improve and insist on speaking English that you can barely understand, but they refuse to speak or hear a word of Japanese. Sigh. It would be nice to get some nice students though. They must exist. Maybe I should give it a try. Well, OK, it was a bit quiet today here. Where are you all? :dunno: And what about some of the people from back the beginning of this thread who we haven't heard from in ages? Whatever happened to eesabella, alteon, FishWoman, mina, IDGRL2005, trixie-o, derry!, justkeepswimming, vanessa6295?!?!?! :?: Get in and tell us what's up with ya, while I'm a slumbering.....snore. Ciao and good night! :wave: |
all quiet.....
What?!?! All night long and no posts?!?! :shrug: Where is everyone?!?!? :listen:
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at work
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a word from the silence...
Ok, curly. Thanks. :goodvibes
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