Wow...here we are at week 5 already...time has flown! As promised when we began, I'm going to post another poll to see if people want to wrap this up at 6 weeks or continue on. Please look for that post separate from this one and vote.

I'd like to hear from everyone who has been doing the challenge--whether it's going GREAT or so-so or not so great. Let's hear from everyone this week!

Got in my exercise this week.

Portions: good (I didn't eat anything when I went to a pre-season football game on the spur of the moment--I found out we'd be leaving at halftime, so I decided I could wait until I got home and have something healthy!)

School: Gah. I need to purchase a study guide. I have been saying that I will, but haven't yet. I think we're going out today, so I'll get one.

I did pretty well this last week, 6 days of exercising. I'm still above where I was in weight, but that should go back to normal by tomorrow.

I need to sharpen up my not eating while standing rule, that is starting to become a little bit of a problem, and I need to also sharpen up my "Giada bites" and not have food ready on my fork before I'm done chewing.

But I do get lots of credit for not giving in to two very seriously rough patches where I wanted to eat everything in sight. And my exercise has been great!

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Same story for me...the exercise is good - the pressure of the triathlon coming up helps. But the eating - well, I'm not doing well at all - with logging or keeping the calories down. UGH.

Mel

I did fine with goals 2 - 4 but had too many extra bites a couple of times this week to say that I was successful at goal #1.

Thankfully I'm still in range weight wise though but I'd like to get to the very bottom which will require clean, on plan eating.

My end-of-week report isn't so good either.

1. Exercise Habit: ONCE--just now. Yikes.

2. Worknight FLY Habit: Nowhere near 15 mins. per night but I am at least getting more in the habit of jumping up to do things during commercials.

3. PM Sweet Snack Habit: Great except for the one day I bought caramel popcorn (and then gave away the rest after I'd sated my craving).

This is the first week in over a month when I have had monster cravings every afternoon at work. It wasn't because I wasn't prepared with fruit, because I was, but the cantaloupe I bought wasn't so good, so I was less excited about eating the fruit.

This week's results:

Exercise: zero (unless I come up with something for today that doesn't involve going out in the rain and storm)
Food: same as usual. I'm getting my veggies, not as much as I planned and not at every meal, but most times. Some goodies still manage to sneak in.
Moderation: Sigh. Need I say more? I'm beginning to think this is the least doable challenge of all.

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I didn't want to waste it so I gave it to a coworker and she was thrilled to have it. Yay for me!

whoo hooo! I have thrown stuff in the garbage before because I didn't want to snarf it down. I may have to do it w/ the gluten free brownies i made for ds bday. I am going to start by transferring them to the basement freezer first. I dont want to ditch them because it isn't like you can go BUY gf treats on every corner and I need to have them on hand for ds.
But good for you giving it away- a treat for you and a treat for someone else!

I am not bouncing back from my post-Ohio-trip slump as I intended and that's a disappointment.

Yesterday, I had both a "Darn it!" moment and a "Yay me!" moment. For the first time in over a month, I went to the snack bar for something sweet. I had fruit on my desk and ate a few bites, but I still went to the snack bar. I got a bag of caramel popcorn. I snarfed down some and it tasted really good but I just felt bad that I'd broken my no-sweets-in-the-afternoon streak.

I put the rest of the bag in my desk drawer. And then, I thought..."You know you'll get it back out and eat more...if not today, then another day. You need to get rid of it." Since there was still quite a lot left in the bag, I didn't want to waste it so I gave it to a coworker and she was thrilled to have it. Yay for me!

I've pretty much stunk the past few weeks...got busy.... got tired (which is s bigger trigger for me than stress) and ate brownies and chips. So i have not stepped on the scale. I also started drinking coffee again which for some reason does throw me off but I don't want to stop I also haven't had a chance to check in here which is like my 'weight watchers' meeting. So I'm back on the wagon today. I wouldn't think that an email group could help so much but it does! We have homeschool starting next week so getting on will be tougher even...but gonna try and log in on this topic and peek at the homework at least daily.

I've had a really good day, and a pretty good week overall so far. I was pretty worried with new classes, a new schedule (ie one less job) and the potential for getting myself into all kinds of food trouble.

Since Sunday, I've:

struggled valiantly against some major temptations to binge eat (and really came out pretty unscathed)

managed to ignore the donuts (which I've been craving for about a week) that are on the table behind my desk at work (and I lost the vote to move them)

exercised yesterday & today despite not feeling like it

kept myself on track today and yesterday after two tough days Saturday & Sunday

am getting better at stopping every 3 or 4 bites to put my fork down

practiced lots of giving myself credit for not falling into the binge trap, and for not falling to the donuts today

All I can say is thank goodness for the Beck book.

I'm doing good on dinner portions. Not so good on exercise. I could do better there, and could budget my time better so that I MAKE time for exercising.

I've decided that I'll apply to a Journalism program nearby after I take the GRE.

My weeks have gone from great to fair to ahem to blech. I want the challenge to continue so I can try and get a handle on things again.

I really want to make exercise a true habit. Foodwise, I'm doing all right - not great, but all right. I remember to eat my veggies and I remember to stay away from junk and cake. The moderation part isn't going very well. I wanted to save treat time for weekends but I find myself slipping. I don't binge, I just slip.

Despite my slips I haven't gained any weight, for which I'm thankful. The couple of pounds I gained last week came off after a couple of days and now I'm back to my current normal.

My exercise fell back to 3x last week because I wasn't feeling well. Yesterday, though, I got back into it and had a good workout. Eating is still a struggle. I need the challenge to last longer to try to focus on that goal (I voted on the other thread).

Mel

The last week and half were a total wash with me being so sick.

I didn't gain any weight though despite the ice cream and lack of exercise so at least I don't have any weight ground to make up.

I just need to get back to staying on my food plan and eating what's right for me.

I did super well today so far as I went for tea/coffee at a neighbors and skipped all the speciality breakfast breads that were offered and just stuck with drinking my tea (black).

I also have a one hour power walk date with my neighbor for the hour before the kids come home from school as I didn't get it in this morning. Now I can't talk myself out it if I'm feeling tired.