Happy birthday, Penny! I hope you enjoy yourself. Something reminded me recently of reading an interview, a long time ago, with fitness legend/crank Jack LaLanne. He never eats any sugar in any form. The interviewer ask, "you never even have a little piece of cake?" and he said, "Well, a very little piece, on my birthday." So if Jack can splurge at least once a year, you can to--within moderation, of course.
Nikki, two pounds gone bye-bye, yaay! You are really good at this when you bear down and focus.
Elyn, re cravings--some people can have a just a taste of something they're jonesing for, and then they are done. Not me. Actually I learned through my experiments with lstrict ow-carb diets that if I stay away from trigger foods, I don't want them anymore, but once I try to have just a little, the genie won't go back into the bottle. This was my problem last month, as I ate stuff with houseguests that I don't normally eat. The guest were long gone, but the need to have french toast and ice cream stuck around . I haven't had anything sugary since i got back from my trip, and I haven't craved sugar for a week.
Carol, I hope the scale was good to you today, and you have fun at the wedding, and even dance a little bit.
Marie, I don't like all the math involved in counting up my food, so I'm still fiddling with FitDay, which does all that for me....for foods in its database. But today I had a cup of vegetarian lentil-spinach soup from the National Geographic's cafeteria. I just pick a lentil soup from FitDay's list and assume that if the numbers don't reflect what I actually ate, maybe everything will average out at the end of the day. The point for me mostly is the logging and reviewing...
Gotta go! Have great weekends, all. Keep making good choices!
Marie~ you're right, I better try to control my calories- I do tend to eat more when I exercise and it doesn't help that my diet software (diet power 4.0) is showing that I can eat more when I exercise. Weigh in is tomorrow but I took a peep at the scale this morning and sure enough I have gained 1.2 lbs. , and I didn't do any better today either; I was out shopping and I had chinese for lunch. I sure need a and
Judy~ I sure know about wanting more, huge problem for me. I can not just eat 10 peanuts- I want to eat a whole bag.
I'm taking a break from housecleaning....I haven't been doing a lot housework lately and boy, does it show! It will feel good to knock out all this dust and clutter, I feel so much more serene when I can see clean surfaces and don't have to root around looking for things amid piles of clothes and paper!
Marie, I wish I had you close by to help me buy and install a new home computer. Ol' Bessie here is just about to leave this vale of tears. I agonize over big money decisions so I hope our IT consultant at work will take pity on me and review the options I've "built" on Dell's website.
Elyn, I think that technically you can eat a few more calories if you're burning lots more. But I think that there are two reasons not to readjust immediately, one relating to metabolism and the other to the tendency to go a bit overboard (not that you would, of course!). I guess all you can do is experiment a bit and keep really careful records, to figure out what works for you.
I hope everyone is having a good weekend. Time to do more cleaning, then head out to enjoy a little sunshine.
Judy, first, I hate Dell. There customer service stinks once you buy the computer. And their parts are proprietary so that you can't usually just replace a part that goes bad. And lastly, they're overpriced. If you want, PM with what features you want and I'll take a gander. Personally, I really like HP/Compaq. Very good support. My mom was going to buy a Dell and I basically told her not to call me with problems. She asked what I recommended and I found an awesome laptop at Sam's Club that was just right down the road form her. BTW, in the year and half since she's had it, not one issue.
Elyn, I totally agree with Judy. Experiment with the calories. Best thing you can do.
DH and I took the doggies for a walk around the 3 mile block this morning and Kodiak was a pain in the butt. I had bought him the gentle leader collar since he pulls so hard. It worked for about two walks and he's figured out how to pull with it. I understand his need to pull (he's a sled dog) but I got really irritated with him. Finally I gave DH my other sled dog (who doesn't pull on the leash) and worked solely with Kody. He was better by the end, but most of the time when I walk the dogs, I have 3 to work with so he can't have individual attention. Okay, enough of my complaining.
Part of yesterday's post that was eaten was the weirdness of Friday's weighin. I knew is was supposed to be TOM that day but I weighed in anyway. I lost a pound. Very happy dance. Then an hour later TOM appeared. I have never lost weight on the TOM start day. That was so strange.
Well, I'm going to get going. I'll chat later.
Marie
Judy - I feel for you doing all that housework. I need to do some soon, it's getting crunchy underfoot and I feel guilty kicking the crumbs under the counters! I used to be very picky with housework and vacuumed and dusted every week. Nowadays, I tend to think it will need doing again almost as soon as I'm done, so why bother. I can think of a lot more enjoyable things to do.
Girlie - I hope the number on the scale goes down soon. Chinese tastes great, but I always retain water afterwards when I eat it for some reason.
Nikki - Ditto for me with the salty food. As I mentioned to Girlie, salty food like Chinese or anything with soy sauce in it really makes me bloat up.
Marie - Don't you hate it when you've just finished a wonderful post and it disappears into the ether for some reason??? I think it happens to all of us now and then. Congrats on the pound loss - especially as TOM was around . Maybe Kodiac needs a 'not so gentle' leader collar . I bet you get an extra workout in your arms holding onto him.
Carol - I hope your back is feeling better and that you had a nice time at the wedding.
I've been feeling like I've got some kind of bug since my birthday. I was kind of dizzy and bloated - maybe something I ate. I haven't walked the last couple of days because I felt so crummy but hope to get going again next week.
I decided to do a Christmas Challenge to hopefully get me motivated. I've been at a standstill for a couple of months now - up and down a pound, so I need to shake things up a bit. I'm going to cut out my morning snack as I don't really feel hungry in the a.m. I also need to eat out less - it's so easy to underestimate my calories.
Penny happy b day to you! A little cake isn't a bad thing and it is your birthday of course but becareful its hard to have just a little how well I know.
Nikki for some reason the computer was too slow to go back a day to read up. But sounds like there is reason to congradulate you on a 2lb. loss HURRAY FOR YOU! You deserve it girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep it up!
Judy how right you are about once we have a special something stopping is hard.. Sometimes it is better to not start. I have that trouble at times too. But I have gotten a bit better over the past 6 months having smaller portions etc. but have to walk away if its there I will get back into it. Good advice and reminder thanks. I have to try that fitday. I did it once before but it seemed to take longer than adding up myself. Maybe I was doing it wrong??? I will ck it out again.
Elyn that also happened to me during working out I used to have to take a apple or something to eat on my way home. It helped or to have something ready to snack that was healthy while I cooked dinner. It made me more hungry as well I think its natural to feel that way for the calories your burning off. Good luck.
Penny how about a thanksgiving challenge first. I will join you in that one as I need to do something a little closer. Let me know and I bet we'd get a few friends here to join in. The summer has gone so quickly. I am taking today off to take the grandkids to the water theme park. My hips are killing me I hope as the day goes on I feel better. What the heck! I am still suffering from lifting those pellets. I will pay someone next time without a doubt. I didn't feel bad doing them but since two days after I haven't felt great. I may have to go to get it ck'd out most likely just sore muscles... Dang! It! I am not happy. I don't like feeling like I can't do things. I will not let it stop me from having a good time with the kids. The drive is about 1.5 hrs in the beautiful moutain area called the Adirondacks. One of my favorite places. We are going camping there next week.
The wedding was nice lots of folks 240. Too many to be personalable though. My daughters will be around 150 thats a little easier to handle. The food was okay but not great. I had swordfish it was cold. The desserts were good a variety style little of this and that of course. I had a few peach whiskey sours and they were I am sure loaded with calories. I decided to hold off on the scale til friday. Give myself a break to jump back on. We also celebrated our 33 yr. anniversary another meal out. But I saved half for sundays dinner. Well gotta go pack a picnic lunch to take with us. We will stop for dinner on the way back home. Say a little prayer that I can do some fun stuff today. I think I will take a little muscle relaxer before going just a half cause I am driving too. We have to take two cars there are 10 of us going. It will be a fun day. I am taking my oldest grandson to the fair on thurs, after work. We will enjoy an evening together doing what ever he wants to do. Of course we will eat there too. So I need to be good inbetween. Have a super day.
Marie, perhaps you've convinced TOM to get with the program and cooperate with you on weigh-in day! Congratulations! Re the computer, it's not that I love Dell, but my job has a good relationship with them, and it's possible that I could buy one through work and pay it off through payroll deductions. But I may PM you with questions, so thanks so much for the offer.
Penny--I splurged on a Roomba, so in theory crunchy floors aren't the problem...mopping, dusting, scrubbing, etc., that's still a challenge. My new across-the-hall neighbor managed to lock herself out of her apartment yesterday morning, so I let her use my phone. I was embarassed by the state of my apartment, but she was only partially dressed, so maybe she was too mortified to notice .
Carol, please take it easy, slinging huge bags around like a dockworker! A sore back is no joke. Congrats on your anniversary. That's a good long time to be together, and a rarity these days.
I'm hanging in there, trying to stop thinking about the scale and just working my program. If I don't see some real progress by the end of the month, though, I will start casting around for alternatives. This week I will pay more attention to my calorie count, and cut back somewhere. I'm doing well with the workouts. The TurboJam challenge ends Wednesday, and I've been walking a lot. Soon it will be time to go through the closet and pull out my cooler-weather clothes. It will be difficult to look on the bright side if I'm essentially the same weight and measurements as last fall . I'll need you ladies to kick my ample butt when I get frustrated. Put your foot down, though, I don't need it yet!
Hi everyone, well another work week. The idiot is making my work environment horrible. At exactly 4:00, I was out the door. I'm not a clock watcher by nature, but she's so irritating that I want to strangle her. Why oh why did I hire her - especially when I can't fire her??? I'd really like a big piece of chocolate cake to ease the stress, but she's not going to get me to binge.
Now the nice part of the day, an evening home alone. No DS, GF or DGS. I love them all but time to myself. It's great. I tried to blast the stereo but I couldn't get the family room's speakers to work and I didn't want to be in the living room. So I'm listening to iTunes with the computer. Not quite the same.
I'm trying to decide what to do tonight. I have the whole night to myself. I thought of swimming. I thought of walking the doggies. And I thought of vegging for the evening. I think I'm leaning towards the 3rd.
I did the 2 mile strength/fat burning DVD this morning and I've been on calories all day. DH and I were talking the other day and since Apr. 25th when I started this journey, I've only gone over my calories of 1500 one time - on my birthday and I had 1800. Wow. I was sort of surprised by that. I don't think I've missed an exrecise day in months. I hope what they say about habits and taking 6 weeks for it to become a habit. Personally I don't believe it since my old habits are part of me. Just look at my desire for the cake. Anyway, I'm definitely on the right track.
Judy, what's a Roomba? Never heard of one. To be honest, what I'd like is a maid. That would be the best.
Penpal, Good luck on the challenge. I'm now at a point of just keeping on track, but I definitely needed a challenge to get going. I know that I can't lose 10 pounds in a month and I don't want to set myself up for failure. My body will lose what it will lose at its pace. My control is on what goes in and what I expend.
Carol, I sure hope you feel better. I love water parks. Water slides are my favorite pastime. I hope you had a good time. And Happy Anniversary. Congrats on 33 years.
Judy hey your mind sounds set for losing wt. keep up your good efforts. Maybe just juggling around your pattern of eating is all you need? Try to have a few more veggies or fiber it might do the trick. I know when I had pasta the other day it woke up some cravings. We used to have it more often and it was part of my problem. That and of course the italian bread which goes with it. If I am at home I measure out the pasta but in a restaurant just take half home. Then of course eat it again the next day. Judy I did more watching then slides etc. but the little ones had a great time. One wrong turn up there and that took us a few extra min. I was using back roads to save a half an hr. Oh well. Coming home wasn't bad at all. And my little grandson of 4 said it was my best day ever. Now that was worth it all. We did lose aunt Sandy for a bit. She walked the whole park for exercise. The slides were all over the park some quite a distance from one another. I got my exercise. I ate pretty healthy except for a few fries on the way home. They were all eating them so I had to have some too. But today I will jump back on track except for the going away dinner for my supervisor. We are going to Tullys. So I am sure that there will be a menu item to suit me. Then thurs to the fair with my oldest grandson after work. So once again I will be tempted but careful is the word and alert of what I am taking in. I will balance things out I hope.
Marie gee your work sounds alot like mine. My coworker is pretty sick and still out of work this week. So were all taking part of her case 4 each. It will be okay I really don't mind. They helped me when I was out but of course I heard it for a long time. I won't play that game. As I know it can happen to anyone. Last day for the supervisor today now lets see who they hire. Hopefully its someone fair and respectful. Oh and I wishing for the moon?????
Have a great day . Judy I am looking forward to my walks around the lake with the cooler weather and no charge after Labor day. I also have been thinking of changing my office at home with the other spare bedroom. Then it will be cleaning time for me. I did clean some of the home this weekend it felt good. I am going to hire my daughter once a month to do things I don't get to. Take care girls.
All the stress around here has got me feeling really achy so I have not been able to workout. I have a medical condition which is aggrivated by stress and that is whats going on now. In 2 weeks I start school again and I am hoping with school I wont have much time to overeat. I did not eat alot this weekend. However, yesterday I had a burger and split medium fries for lunch and a 2 slices of pizza for dinner. That had a ton of salt etc. So while its not alot of food its the wrong food. I am up again today just enough that I see it is most likely salt weight. I started the day today with green tea and some grapes. I will drink lots of water and hopefully tomorrow it will be gone !
Anyone have advice on non weight bearing exercises I can do while I'm not able to workout?
Nikki
Nikki, what are you studying in school? I hope that whatever it is, it will give you better things to focus on. I'm sorry to hear that you've been feeling achy. I highly recommend yoga! I loved tai chi, too, but the pivoting in some of the classic poses was horrible for my knees, so I had to give it up.
Carol, reading your post made me think of my mom, who took my nieces to an activity park last week. Mom won't do the slides, paint ball and more physical things, but the twins were very impressed by their Grandma's Skee-Bol skills! Thanks for the diet advice. I eat salads, fruit, cooked veggies, and one serving of whole grains every day, so I think I'm pretty well fibered up.
Marie, please don't murder anyone . I hear that prison diets are heavy on starch, and the only exercise options are weights and basketball. A Roomba is one of those new-fangled vacuum cleaners. I set it to work when I head out for work and it busily moves around the floors on its own, like a good-natured puppy looking for something interesting to play with or eat. It's not quite that robot that the Jetsons had but it's a good start!
I'm doing well, eating on program, and working out and walking every day. I'm going to a farewell party for a former colleague after work. It's in a bar, so there won't be food temptations but I will have to tell a white lie to avoid drinking beer. Ususally if you mutter something about antibiotics and yeast, people leave you alone . I'm going to another party on Saturday which will be much more of a challenge.
Elyn, Penny, Girlie, and everyone else out there, hope you're feeling good today!
Carol - It sounds like you had fun at the waterpark - it's great to see the little ones having such a good time. I'm glad you're still managing to be careful with the calories with so many temptations . Congratulation on your 33rd Anniversary!
Marie - Sorry to hear your co-worker is such a pill. I remember how bad office politics can get and I'm glad I work from home now. We never lose our taste for the "forbidden" foods. I just have to have a tiny bit of those foods now and then otherwise I feel deprived. The challenge is to keep the portion "tiny".
Nikki - I hope getting back into the swing of things at school will help take your mind off the trouble at home. I'm sending good thoughts your way that your aches and pains go away soon. I hope you can find a way to relax and avoid stress . As far as non-weight bearing exercise - maybe you can try swimming if you are near a pool. Does your school have a gym with recumbent bikes? I've found they are good for when my foot is too sore to bear weight.
Judy - Here's some willpower dust for your upcoming parties, etc. I like your excuse for not drinking beer . I always wondered if those Roombas get into the corners. Our cats would probably be terrified .
I'm trying to lose 9 lbs. by Christmas. That's 18 weeks at 1/2 lb. per week. Wish me luck!
Penpal -
.5 a week is very doable I know you will meet or exceed your goal. Keep doing what you are doing.
I had a pretty good day got in 128 ounces of water 3 small meals and 2 small snacks. As for the exercising moving to walk or reach hurts so I think for now I better just rest. Saturday we are heading to a rennisance faire in costume and I will bewalking miles so I don't want to push it.
You are really good at this when you bear down and focus.
. I haven't had anything sugary since i got back from my trip, and I haven't craved sugar for a week.
, and I didn't do any better today either; I was out shopping and I had chinese for lunch. I sure need a 
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I used to be very picky with housework and vacuumed and dusted every week. Nowadays, I tend to think it will need doing again almost as soon as I'm done, so why bother. I can think of a lot more enjoyable things to do.
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Thanks for the diet advice. I eat salads, fruit, cooked veggies, and one serving of whole grains every day, so I think I'm pretty well fibered up. 
. I hear that prison diets are heavy on starch, and the only exercise options are weights and basketball. A Roomba is one of those new-fangled vacuum cleaners. I set it to work when I head out for work and it busily moves around the floors on its own, like a good-natured puppy looking for something interesting to play with or eat. It's not quite that robot that the Jetsons had but it's a good start!
. I'm going to another party on Saturday which will be much more of a challenge.
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. As far as non-weight bearing exercise - maybe you can try swimming if you are near a pool. Does your school have a gym with recumbent bikes? I've found they are good for when my foot is too sore to bear weight.
I like your excuse for not drinking beer 
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