Have a free moment so I figured I'd post an update.

Didn't do well with avoiding dessert last night but shared with two other people and we still didn't finish it all. I also had two beers.

I did measure my dressing though and report in the "what's for dinner thread".

Today I got my dressing on the side at lunch, am about to report in the thread but it's a planned for splurge tonight and dessert and wine are on the agenda (plus Friday night is no longer "during the week" ; ). I am planning though on really checking in with myself if the desserts really sounds worth it or not. I'm also hoping that dh will want to split something.

I'm still here. Nobody touched the kitchen at all yesterday.

I didn't load dishes. I said to dh, "If you load, I'll unload" (he usually likes that plan... but not last night)

Kitchen is a yucky mess and it is HOT here and I have to go to work and schlep 50 lbs rubber made tubs of music stands across town. I have a bad attitude, today. I want to get in car and go to Tahoe where it is 70 degrees, but I can't... Waaaaaaa!

But Fitday is current.

Thursday update: I did pretty well. I am trying to stay low-carb right now, this seems to be what works best for me. For breakfast I had some thinly sliced pastrami(yes, for breakfast) and a bowl of cherries, lunch was a salad and a small chicken steak with a little cheese, no roll. I had a few almonds and last night for dinner I stuck to my plan. I had a piece of steak and a handful of shrimp, I did drink one beer(not in my plan) but I skipped the Parmesan noodles and had two small slices of cake(one of each kind). I did yoga in the morning yesterday and got in 4 glasses of water. If you read my reply to Trigirl you will know that we know have two halves of cake in the house. Since it was Jason's birthday i couldn't very well tell him no cake in the house but quite honestly I don't want any today. Now that could change and at any moment I could be standing over the container with a fork in each hand, or maybe no forks, just shoveling it in with my hands, LOL!
I feel like I did well yesterday, I stuck to my plan pretty well and for once i don't feel guilty for eating the cake.

Jill

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Originally posted by TriGirl:

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Originally posted by jillybean:
Wednesday update:

I am going to skip the alcohol and the potato which will save me some calories for the cake.

Jill

Sounds like a great plan. I wouldn't want to miss homemade pineapple/coconut cake! Want to mail me a slice?

I'll mail you the whole 1/2 of the cake she sent home with us!! It is sitting in the kitchen right now-along with 1/2 a Tandy Cake-this is a cake that tastes just like-well, actually better-than Tastykake Tandy Kakes(I do know how to spell, but I think they use K's not C's for the Tandy Kakes, LOL)!

Jill

Weighed in today. Gained 1.4.....not good. BUT at least I know why. A friend and I went out last night and had buffalo wings, a margarita and dessert. Used all my points for the day in that one little meal, worth it? Well, I won't be doing that for a long time! Now I have 7.4 left to my 10%. So my goal for this week is to get back to that place by next Thursday. I go in for a check on t he shingles tomorrow, and then we shall see about swimming.

Life will go on, and I will live through it, just a matter of how I chose to do it.

i have to re-think this...or maybe it was just not a great week. today I noshed all day....nothing bad and not a lot. I started jotting down what I was eating and then...well... so I'm not all that hungry and going to skip dinner. I just had a peach. I think I might mix up some soup quickly but my kitchen is TRASHED. On the upside- I really really am more aware of what I'm eating so that in itself probably means I'm eating less. Do I REALLY want that chip? (Today it was yes..all day.) I need to add 'FLYing' to my goals. I was spending 15 min / day on my house- getting rid of stuff. And when it is cleaned up i'm under less stress and eat less. But I LOVE to play w/ DS. And he is like an appendage- always there. (he just wanted to 'play chemist' and get some lemon juice and vinegar and mix it together to see what would happen. what the heck..my kitchen can't get any worse..) I wanted for him to interact for soooo long (he is 'somewhere' on the autism spectrum.) and am so thankful that he does- but it means less me time...less cleaning time... but I have to get back to a smidgen of that. Anyway- I guess that isn't totally what this topic is for but is why I have such a hard time keeping my goals in mind.

I'm good so far today although I am planning on a beer tonight at the Irish pub.

Crap...I've just been told I have to go to a meeting at 4:30 and we don't know what time it will be done (it's a debate on capital expenditures). That my throw off my plans for this evening....oh well, I'll just try to do the "good, better, best" choice plan and if it doesn't work out - that means more time at the gym tomorrow. The only good news is that I have to walk a 1/2 mile each way to the meeting - so that gets a little exercise in for me.

Mel

I too completed my weekly goal of going to the gym twice this week. I even tried one of the new elliptical machines today.

I have made more of an effort to watch what is going inside me as far as food. But, still need to really work on the water thing.

I have been to the gym 2 times, so getting in one (or even two) more will be easy. Tonight is going to be tough - we are going to a comedy club for "date night". DH is working nights and Wed and Thur are his off days. We're not seeing much of each other, so we're trying to do a date night each week. This week was his choice. Since they have a two drink minimum, I'll do a glass of wine and a bottled water, but it will be hard to resist the second glass of wine. I'll cook dinner so I can control those calories rather than eat at the club which will most likely be "bar food".

I'm still working on getting out of bed without the snooze. It's been a strange adjustment to DH working nights for me. But that will be over (at least temporarily) on July 1.

Mel

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Originally posted by jillybean:
Wednesday update:

I am going to skip the alcohol and the potato which will save me some calories for the cake.

Jill

Sounds like a great plan. I wouldn't want to miss homemade pineapple/coconut cake! Want to mail me a slice?

Wednesday update:

Yoga done, had a salad w/lunch and there was some lettuce and a tomato on my over-sized Cowboy burger( ) from Applebees, LOL!! I drank two or three glasses of water yesterday. Even though I didn't do so great with the fruit/vegetable thing I am giving myself big credit for doing yoga and drinking more water. I am really trying to focus on what I did right rather than what I didn't do. Tonight will be a challenge-my b/f's birthday is today and his mom is making dinner-steak and shrimp, baked potatoes, etc. and the cake(she is an amazing baker) is going to be pineapple/coconut with cream cheese icing. There will most likely be beer or something as well. I am going to skip the alcohol and the potato which will save me some calories for the cake. My plan for today is to do yoga and eat very clean for breakfast and lunch and lots of water.

Jill

I need to type out today's plan, because when I feel overwhelmed (like I do now), I have a tendency to withdraw and do nothing.

Work: 6-2:30
Garden time: 3:15-3:45
Workout: 4-5
Shower, get ready: 5:15-6
Dinner out: 6-?

I'm off tomorrow, so staying out later than normal isn't a big problem, but I'm SO TIRED by this time of the week. And dinner is with a friend we haven't seen in several years, a real sweetheart of a guy, so I'm looking forward to it. I just don't do well with back-to-back scheduling.

It was a good on plan day all around.

Tomorrow though starts our long weekend. While I won't be doing dessert, I will be having a beer, possibly two at the Irish pub we're going to.

I probably won't be posting very much this weekend.

Still need to work on the chips thing. I am now conscious of it. I am drinking more water.... i am in 'that time of the month' so perhaps it will be a tad easier in a few days. I did just sit down to a snack of rice crackers w/ basil, tomatoes and hummus vs. noshing. I think i did Ok since we took DS to the dentist which is a HIGH stress type of day for us. One day at a time.

Amy

Whoops, thought I had the right one. Oh well.

Bumping this thread up since we seem to have some cross-posting beetween this journal thread and the original "Who wants to do a challenge?" thread. Sorry for the confusion--the names of the threads are similar.

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Originally posted by GoingSkiing:
I unloaded the dishwasher before even turning on the computer today!

WOOHOO! There ya go.

I unloaded the dishwasher before even turning on the computer today!

Got my second workout of the challenge in this morning. I haven't gotten up at 5:20 a.m. to work out on a workday in quite a long while, so I was REALLY bleary-eyed this morning, but I got up and did it. I picked something really easy for my first workday morning in a long time--the Beginner's Balance Ball Workout. I hadn't done that workout in about 2 years and was sure I would fall off the ball from not having done it in so long, but I didn't.

Status so far on goals this week:
2 of 3X exercise done, 1 to go.
Have not eaten out.
Have not done any solo FLY time yet--thought of it last night at dinner but then forgot.