Lauren I am so glad to hear that your back is better. Do you think those back muscles needed strengthening? Did they find something specifically wrong with your back?
Dterminedone Congrats on the 7.7 pounds!
Still I'm sure some of the 2 pounds is water weight. Have you ever tried thedailyplate.com?
Pint It's good to see you check in. It sounds like you had a nice weekend!
Mamakat Congrats on that pound! I hope it sticks and takes another one with it.
Approx 1230 Calories +
Calories are low for today, but I am full and satisfied. I also had 4 days of not counting calories.
Breakfast (365 Calories + coffee)
spritz oil in pan
egg 70 cal
egg whites from carton 60 calories
Vegetable of choice
2% Reduced Fat Cheese 40 calories
high fiber English muffin 100 calories
1 teaspoon jam 20 calories
juice 75 calories
coffee w/sugar and cream
Dinner (490 calories)
(These calories come from the Ouback website. I ordered my food Lite Style, without the added butter)
1/3 bread w/butter 160 calories
6 ounce sirloin (wood fire grilled w/out butter) 230 calories
2 orders green beans w/out butter or seasoning 100 calories
Exercise:
I did an extra workout since I didn't workout yesterday
~30 MTF Circuit Burn (combined workouts (59 min) w/weighted gloves & #8's & #10's)
~TF Fire 30 w/weighted gloves
Darn! Just getting ready to work out and my heart rate monitor is out of juice. I forgot to charge it last night! Wah! Guess it means I'll go deal with the bread I'm making while it charges and workout even later. Good thing I had that long nap today! I won't be in bed until about midnight.
OFF Plan today, maybe I can get myself in gear after 3pm today. I never start anything tomorrow, Monday, or New Year’s! I started at 3pm this afternoon. Hopefully I can stay OP for a few days. I have 3 birthday’s this month, with 2 being this week!!! DH is turning the BIG 4-0, just what I need—birthday cake!
Would believe that I forgot to press start on the heart rate monitor when I stopped in the middle to punch down and shape the bread I'm baking? After waiting for it to charge so I could record this workout? Argh!!! Well, what I do know is that this workout used to get my heart rate around 150-160 and I felt like I was giving it my all. Now it keeps it around 135-145 and it feels like a good work out, just not a killer workout. I've only done it twice, but will keep doing it. Love this one. Reebok step. The video.
Bread is now baking and when it is done I might go attack my husband if he's still awake. ;-)
morning all! happy 1st day of June! im hoping for 10 pounds down this month =)
larry~ just curious, ive been here for 3 weeks, and you've yet to slip and get OFF plan. do you ever slip? or have you been OP since jan?
aggie2006 ,
Yes I slip. I try hard not to slip and when I do I try hard to limit how much I slipped. I will detail below. In January no slips, February 3 slips, March 2 slips, April 2 slips and May no slips. My daily plan is 1500 calories.
Feb 6th 1810 calories 310 over
Feb 7th 1528 calories 28 over
Feb 21st 1517 calories 17 over
Mar 28th 1527 calories 27 over
Mar 30th 1615 calories 115 over
April 8th 1573 calories 73 over
April 27th 1528 calories 28 over
I have struggled a lot more with being out of plan due to low daily calories as outlined below. I finally got a grasp on it in May and had no low days and no high days. Being human a perfect month is unlikely to happen again but I intend to be as close as possible.
January was OK - no days were too low or too high
Feb 17th 817 calories 683 low
Feb 18th 907 calories 593 low
Feb 23rd 965 calories 535 low
Mar 15th 890 calories 610 low
Mar 21st 997 calories 503 low
Mar 25th 931 calories 569 low
Mar 31st 988 calories 512 low
Apr 1st 550 calories 950 low
Apr 2nd 941 calories 559 low
Apr 3rd 726 calories 774 low
Apr 9th 842 calories 658 low
Apr 24th 974 calories 526 low
May was OK - no days were too low or too high
As you see I am having difficulties at times. Getting my food intake on plan consistantly has proved to be a lot like trying to herd a couple hundred cats and get them all going in the same direction.
Good morning! I waited until this morning to calculate my May loss, since I really felt watered down yesterday and to the best of my calculations (due to computer crashing), I lost 8 pounds in May. A great month for me since I have been slowing waaaaaaaay down with the weight loss, but secretly I was hoping for more since I ran my a$$ off this month. But when I figured the calories I burned each run, it comes out to burning about a pound a week, so without running, I may have only lost 4 pounds this month. I am happy with 8. Now to focus on June.
Wish me luck, I have to go to the track banquet tonight which is a dessert potluck, Luckily, I don't have much of a sweet tooth unless I am craving chocolate. I just have to make sure I eat dinner before we go, which will probably be a challenge.
Diana, I ran 90 miles in May, not lost 90 pounds I think you knew that, but just posted the wrong thing.
Berry, congrats on your whoosh! Wish I could join you, but I have a feeling I am stuck now until TOM, whaaaa.
I am wondering about Stacy now, it's not like her to not check in for so long. And DianaLa usually checks in after her weigh in, course, maybe there was no weigh in due to the holiday.
Larry, great job with the out to eat choices!
CatholicCajun,
K9, you can do this!
Aggie, Mamakat, Pint, Still, Lauren, DTermined, and everyone else, Hello!
Berry, congrats on your whoosh! Wish I could join you, but I have a feeling I am stuck now until TOM, whaaaa.
I am wondering about Stacy now, it's not like her to not check in for so long. And DianaLa usually checks in after her weigh in, course, maybe there was no weigh in due to the holiday.
Thanks! This took me past 50 pounds lost which is now officially the most I've ever lost before. Though, last time, I wasn't as heavy ( stopped at 185 last time).
And Stacy is on vacation which is probably why she's not checking in. But I am worried about DianaLA.
LARRY: Herding cats??? Now this is a new one on me
Love your photos! You’re doing so well! Keep up the marvelous job!!
I am surprised by the # of people I meet who love to shop at Goodwill as much as I do!
It seriously is my fave store and if I could even locate a Super Goddwill! AH, I’d be in business!
DIANA32: So glad you had a great time on your trip and that you were
able to keep your calories at bay. for and for making new friends!
I love those “never meet a stranger” opportunities! Similar thing happened to me when I went to Cancun, Mexico on a bus ride to Xpu Ha!
RACHAEL: Have a great time traveling to Detroit. WOW, what a looooong drive! sent to you to help keep you on track!
ZOODOO: WTG on not gaining a pound on your trip. Can’t say I was as lucky!
Down is DEFO down!! Of course, aren’t we our worst critics??
MELISSA: On your WHOOSH!! Celebrating with you since I obviously cannot celebrate with myself!
Hi Aggie
LAUREN: So glad to see you’re back and getting on track again. Enjoy the while he’s here!!!
WTG on the No pain, No gain, right?? You can do it!!
DTermined: on your 7.7lbs Good Luck with your Challenge.
STILL: Hope you get your iPod fixed, what a bummer. IDK what I’d do without my iPhone for a day, probably
PINT: I hear ya on the small achievable goal of 2 lbs! At this point I’d take that too!
VIXSIN: on your 6.4!! WTG girlie! Impressive after all the stress you’ve had for the month! I’m proud of you!!
JO: AWESOME You’ll need new sneakers pretty soon if you keep that up, gf!! That’s a GOOD THING!!
MAMAKAT: for walks on the beach! I would love to be able to live near a beach to walk on!
I wanted to stay at the lake Monday morning and run instead of returning so early for work.
Beautiful sky early in the mornings!
MILESAWAY: I think we may have been in the same boat over the weekend!
I am really beginning to hate the weekends b/c I get so far off track.
CatholicCajun, Choo, and all the newcomers to this thread!
Missing you Stacy and DianaLA, hope you are just enjoying summer and are choosing to stay OP for the most part!
I broke past the 50 pounds lost today. I am so stinking excited! I am so close to onederland now I can taste it! In this past month I lost 13.4 pounds and lost an inch off my chest, waist and hips and 1.5 off my thighs (nothing off my arms).
I was going to make the rest of the brats for supper tonight. Now I'm thinking MAYBE NOT! I don't want to add sodium weight just as I got to under 50 pounds lost! I want it to stick! That 50 pounds lost is kind of a huge milestone for me since it's the weight lost when I started to fall apart 13 years ago. Though that might have more to do with the 185 pounds than the 50 pounds lost. I'll be nervous about that weight for no good reason too. (Notice I just KNOW I'll get there!)
My goal for this month is the same as always - exercising 6 days a week and losing 8 pounds.
OK, off for the day. SOOOOOOO happy!
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Breakfast:
2 slices bacon, 1/2 scrambled egg (Hosptial Cafeteria food, I couldn't eat all of them despite me trying) 180 calories
Lunch: Chicken Fajita Quesadilla 1/4 of it. Shared it with my daughter A whole one would have been 250 calories so I'm guessing that since I only ate a wedge it would have been 60ish calories but I'll add 40 since I'm skeptical.
Dinner: Indulgence...Chick Fila 6 piece Nugget Kids meal (small waffle fries and a lemonade) 620 calories according to Chick-fila's website
Dessert: Popsicle 80
Water: 120 ounces
Excercise: None
My food choices weren't the greatest yesterday and I hadn't excercised. I may have stayed within calorie range but slightly over or just under. I did get my water in though so I'm pleased with that.
Today will be very busy also, since I'm leaving in the wee hours of the morning for our road trip. Hoping to fit in at least 30 minutes of walking or something today.
Do you think those back muscles needed strengthening? Did they find something specifically wrong with your back? 
I hope you have a fantastic day!
and to the best of my calculations (due to computer crashing), I lost 8 pounds in May. A great month for me since I have been slowing waaaaaaaay down with the weight loss, but secretly I was hoping for more since I ran my a$$ off this month. But when I figured the calories I burned each run, it comes out to burning about a pound a week, so without running, I may have only lost 4 pounds this month. I am happy with 8. Now to focus on June. 
Luckily, I don't have much of a sweet tooth unless I am craving chocolate. I just have to make sure I eat dinner before we go, which will probably be a challenge. 
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sent to you to help keep you on track!
while he’s here!!!
No pain, No gain, right?? 
on your 7.7lbs 
Good Luck with your Challenge. 
on your 6.4!! WTG girlie! Impressive after all the stress you’ve had for the month! I’m proud of you!!
