i had a good food day and good exercise day. but i am tired, to be honest. i need to be super aware of what fatigue does to me or the Friday_meltdown will get the better of me.

I had a good food day. I am especially happy about it as I worked part of today and was generally pretty busy, but I still stayed present to my plan.

I had a good exercise today too. I walked 4 miles and did 15 minutes of weight work. Probably about 400 calories burned through intentional exercise.

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My resisting muscle took a major break today.

"The only way to get rid of a tempation is to yield to it." -Oscar Wilde

I had Nibble Creep during the winter, but am trying to be more conscious of my eating.

good on food. good on exercise. i need to sleep more deeply though.
it has been a busy busy week. next week will not be better so i better brace myself and enjoy the garden on saturday.

My exercise has been great, my food-not so great. Need to work on the food thing seriously!

Jill

My food was good today-
YIPEE!

that is intersting what you guys write about thursday. i seem to have a melt down about friday or saturday. i have had it with packing lunches, and i am wiped out exhausted from getting my butt to the gym since monday, and dealing with work stress, and dd...

for a while there, i had a stretch where friday night...it was ugly. with a capital "U". but i have been pretty good for the last few months or so. i still have to be super aware of what is happening because when the exhaustion starts....i have to brace myself.

this week, i started out struggling with TOM. fatigue, and then added stress at work. but i feel much better today, and i hope the rest of the week is ok.

My resisting muscle is getting a massive workout. I have been really, really hungry for several days. I was sooo hungry last night that my 3 pretzels immediately before bed didn't fool my stomach one bit. I ended up with a 1/2 pb sandwich.

Today, I'm just as extremely hungry, and it was made worse by my eating schedule getting thrown off by needing to not eat until after my 9:20 cholesterol check appt. I tried eating more protein tonight than I did last night, but don't hold out much hope that I'll be able to trick my stomach tonight, either.

My resisting muscle took a major break today. I ate 600 calories more than I planned. 400 of those calories were loaded with sat fat and sugar!

Tomorrow...

Last time I saw my resisting muscle it was headed for the South Pole, whistling as it went. It didn't even send me a Christmas card.

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Originally posted by Coaster Girl:


I've been really good during the week, upto about Thursday nights. I'll maybe resist stress eating on Thursday, to ruin a whole good week by eating out far more thoughtlessly than I would when I'm not so stressed.

I can soooooo relate! For some reason by Thursday I am so worn out and stressed from my week I totally blow it. We have been ending up with take-out on thursdays due to a lack of planning/laziness/and lack of time. I have a class at 7PM and usually am running in the door around 6. Hang in there Laura! Best of luck with that half marathon-you inspire me!

Jill

Judy,

Sorry to hear you were under the weather, glad you are getting better.

Sheri-great job with those goals!!

Jill

My goal for this week is to get over whatever crud I have had for the past week.

I escaped to Dena's apartment friday night where I could stay in bed all weekend and not have mother calling 911 on me .

And I did stay in bed all day Sat. & Sun except for about 2 hours when my sister and Dena's godmother came over to meet the new doggies . Boy was I glad when they left. Dena brought me my food in bed and I did not have to get up for anything except to go to the bathroom .

Feel better today but still not 100%.

I'm just trying to get myself back under control. I'm off schedule this week due to spring break, but still have a ton of stuff to do, school work wise. Being out of my normal routine just begs for problems and freak outs.

I've been really good during the week, upto about Thursday nights. I'll maybe resist stress eating on Thursday, to ruin a whole good week by eating out far more thoughtlessly than I would when I'm not so stressed. Then I spend the weekend and a day or two of the following week trying to undo the damage. Or, even worse, blow Thursday night and then things really go downhill from there.

So I'm trying to make good choices, have pulled out the old Beck cards again, and am "relearning" the old habits yet again.

Thankfully my exercise has been good, but that is pretty much because I'm committed to 2 half marathons between now and September, and can't skip any training runs right now because I'm just under 6 weeks from the first one. My non-running day exercise is suffering, but some days it's either ditch the homework and stress out because I am then behind, or reverse it.

I'm going back to beating my head against the wall, now.

I'm up from going way off plan on Sunday night. Plus, I just starting having all kinds of pms symptoms. I got in 9 miles this afternoon (in short sleeves and capris : ) and my fingers look like sausages.

I need to have a low sodium, on plan, increased exercise week!

We're going out tomorrow for St. Patty's day but the pub we're going to has a veggie wrap and I'll replace the fries with a side salad (dressing on the side for the salad and no dressing, no cheese on the wrap). That should be OK.

I also have a lunch date on Friday but lunch seems to be easier for me to make good choices.

Sheri, great work building up that resisting muscle.

Way to go Sheri!

Reviewing my goal sheet for the first two weeks of my personal challenge, I am pretty pleased. I wasn't perfect by any means, but I really flexed my restraint muscle in staying within my self-imposed limits on my food goals. For example:

1. I have a goal of eating out no more than 1x week. I ate breakfast out on Wednesday morning after my new volunteer gig reading to the kidlets. I wish I hadn't, it wasn't very satisfying, but I did it. Then yesterday when I REALLY wanted to eat out, I didn't...I ALMOST gave in, but I kept driving. I was REALLY proud of myself for that, given my past history of giving in to my urges.

2. I have a goal of having a soda no more than 1x week. I had one on Wednesday evening. I REALLY wanted one yesterday after I'd been out hoofing it shopping for a long while. I knew I'd already had my 1 this week, so I resisted and did not have a soda.

3. Before I started this challenge on March 1, I had gone from always eating healthy for breakfast to sliding back into bagels every day, having egg & cheese bagels several times a week and WAY too much white flour (it is an issue with me addiction-wise). I let myself get too loosey-goosey with "the rules" over the winter, so my personal challenge goals are:

a. Egg & cheese bagel no more than 1x week. I have achieved this goal both weeks so far.

b. Bagels no more than 4x week and at least 3 of those must be wholegrain. I have achieved this goal both weeks so far.

c. Re-introduce oatmeal and wholegrain cold cereal at least twice a week. I have achieved this goal both weeks so far.

we are having very cold rain for the weekend so i am grateful i belong to a gym.

way to go sandy. i have turned my nose (upwards) to the brownie monster and i feelgreat about that because Aunt Flo is here, and i know my cramping will be decreased if i avoid the sugar and processed foods i crave. i bought some dates for sugar cravings and i will stick to those.

am going to a volunteer training at an animal shelter today so i look forward to seeing doggies and kitties.

I had a good day yesterday. I did forego half of my dinner because I wanted to try chocolate cake that I am making for a party- no frosting- just the cake. (I made the cake with EVOO and oat flour- it was super moist and delicious, but still high in calories.)

Today needs to be clean. We have a party tomorrow and I want a super clean day today so that I have some wiggle room tomorrow.

Jill, great job with the increased exercise. Are you following the running plan Laura provided? I thought about run/walking this AM, but it still feels a bit cold so I decided to hit the elliptical when I log off.