Over 200 New year New Me Part 34
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Well girls, I've been super busy with work today and trying to catch up on posts and I still am not! But it's time to go home, so I'll finish tomorrow.
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Sooooo tired. Hosted a BBQ for 22 work people. Wish there was a calorie count for setting up, hosting, and cleaning up from a party. I would totally enter in those cals!!
So tired so I can't comment on lots. However, here's what I got.
Blue - way to resist the happy hour!
lstpaul - wlecome back lady!
Julie - TOM should be here any day for me. Hope he's kind to you.
Jess - way to meet/exceed both challenges!
Checking in for today
Cals - Over, but I'm ok with that. 1706
Water - 56 oz - too busy running around. Challenge FAIL
Fiber - 20 g - 6 g over - Challenge MET
Exercise - Hosting a party = tired Lauren, but not sure how much exercise that is
Proud - While the beer was flowing (BYOB of course!), I limited myself to one Bud Light. Could have hit the beer hard, but am happy I was too busy to drink.0 -
OMG DEB YOU LOOK FANTASTIC!
I am proud to say I have NOT attended a Happy Hour in two days and today I had a very good eating day! Whew! One day at a time!
Thank you Much !!
And wTG on not going to happy hour...
Check in for yesterday
Cals - 1887 (under by 35 with most of my exercise cals)
Exercise - 611 cals in spin class
Water - only 5 cups :sad:
Fiber - 45 g (over)
Proud - I made it through spin class i could of done better but was proud i made it through.0 -
Nancy: Great job on avoiding happy hour for two days!
Last night I did the Jillian Michaels Shred with Weights and it was HARD! I can't remember the last time I felt like passing out both before and after a workout. Even eating dinner about 15 minutes after working out, I twice had to leave the table and lay on the floor with a cold pack on my head. It's only a 30 minute workout (including warm up and cool down), but whew. The only place I'm sore is my hamstrings because there were several dead lift exercise. If anyone is thinking of trying this one, I cannot stress the importance of holding the abs in tight enough. I can see where it would be VERY easy to injure one's back working with kettlebells if the abs were not held tight. I burned 199 calories in 27 minutes and this included sitting down to breathe during the "Turkish Getups" in the third circuit.
As an FYI for you Jillian Michaels fans, she has yet another DVD coming out on November 30th called Six Week Six Pack.
Checking in for yesterday:
Calories: Under by 79 (exercise calories)
Sodium: On target
Fiber: 29...challenge met
Water: 108.5 oz (13.5 glasses)...challenge met
Exercise: Jillian Michaels Shred With Weights
Proud: That I worked out and gave the video my best effort even though I felt like dying!0 -
09.14.10
Calories: 1441 (goal 1500)
Exercise: None to speak of. I worked 8.30am-10pm
Water: 10 cups. Could have been better but I gave in to the diet soda monster right around 6pm and never looked back.
Fiber: I have 21g logged but the ice cream I ate wasn't in the database when I added my dinner this morning. I seriously doubt it had 4g fiber though. It was real ice cream (no pretense of being healthy in any way) so I doubt it contained any fiber at all. So... fail (my personal goal is 25g/day)
Proud: I'm learning not to hoard my calories until the end of the day. This is especially helpful and important on days I can't eat dinner until 11.30pm. Saving my calories until the end of the day has been been a big problem for me in the past. I guess I've been doing it to literally feed my urge to binge. No more!
Blue -- Hooray to no happy hours! That's so healthy in way more than one way.
IstPaul -- Glad to see you here!
Elmox -- Way to go on the light beer. Don't think I could've done it!
Jess -- Yes, the dark chocolate peanut butter is freaking delicious! So is the white chocolate, the cinnamon raisin, and the honey. I once owned all 3 jars at once for a very brief period of time (yeah, I didn't lose any weight that week!
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Purple -- Way to go on C25K! Fair warning -- too much fiber with not enough water to move along will often err.... clog the pipes. :laugh: Don't want you to learn the hard and painful way. Hope you feel better soon!
I have a new lowest weight ever! On day 2 of TOM to boot. :happy:0 -
My daughter is a junior this year too.Boy does the time fly!!just speed read pages 1 & 4 - missed everything in the middle.
momma: your daughter is lovely - is she graduating this year or was it last spring? my daughter is a junior - I can't believe how fast time is flying by!
lilebbie: I LOVE your pictures, you look great and are an inspiration!
I haven't been logging into MFP again for quite a few days ... I'm TRYING, TRYING, TRYING to get my motivation back. It's so hard to make this a priority but it HAS to be. I've been doing well with exercise every other day ... and packing lunches which is good ... but went out to lunch today fast food and have already eaten all my calories for the day ... including my exercise calories! :mad:
Tomorrow will be a new day. Although I will try my best tonight to keep it light to not go over my calories by too much.0 -
Employee #2 fired & arrested for embezzlement.
Much much less money this time. And unrelated to the last employee arrested. Our finance department is majorly shaking in their boots (seriously -- one of them had a panic attack yesterday afternoon when the media published the story about the latest arrest).
I love my job. (that's sarcasm, by the way)0 -
Lauren-I say hosting is definitely exercise!! You sounded like a busy beaver. Hope you got some rest.
Way to go on having a Bud Light and only 1. That's a great accomplishment.
Heather-I am now terrified to try that DVD. LOL I love the kettleball idea but now I'm scared. Hope you aren't too sore today.
Julie-Congrats on the lowest weight!! Wow ANOTHER one? That's just crazy!!
Okay so I know I agreeded to not go out to lunch. My friend called and wants to do lunch. We agreeded on Genghis Grill. This way I can control what goes into my food. For those of you who don't know what it is you basically choose from raw meat and pick veggies etc and take it to the grill where they cook it. I built my bowl online and it told me my calories. I'm going with mostly veggies, peppers, squash, zucchini and sugar snap peas. No rice no tortillas! I think this will keep my calories withint about 400. And I'm going to workout tonight. I figure it's better then fast food. At least I hope! And my manager text me to bring us breakfast and I politely declined the offer. I'll stick wtih my granola bar for today thank you very much! :drinker: :drinker:0 -
day 2 of Ryan staying home sick. This causes me so much stress because he has a cough with NO fever but he just does not feel that great. So I wonder should I have sent him to school? Am I making the right decision? I don't want him to go back to what he was doing in the beginning. On Monday he was having a harder time than usual and then I keep him out Tues. and Wed. NOw I have to wonder how is Thursday going to be? grrrr..... These types of decisions were so much easier with my daughters. I need to just relax and have some faith. He has made so much progress that even the teacher says she is absolutely amazed at his progress.
Lstpaul, my daughter is a Senior this year. We do the pictures at the beginning of the year so they can make it into the yearbook. They are expensive. I paid 85$ just for one 8x10. They asked to use her pics for a brochure and then gave me some pics for allowing that (I am sure by paying 85 for the 8x10 I actually pd for the extra pics) They rip you off because they know you want your senior pics real bad. Thankfully, my neighbor is a photographer and he did a whole spread for free, I only have to pay for them to be printed. But because we don't have the cap and gown yet I went ahead and purchased that from the studio. I am finding senior year is going to be quite expensive. Thankfully again, I have people willing to help me. Be prepared though, I had to keep myself from crying during the whole picture thing. As soon as she put on the cap and gown
. My baby my 23rd birthday present. By the way she will be 17 on Friday so guess what I will officially be OUT of my 30's:sad: :sad: :sad:
Julie, sounds like you work with a great group of citizens:laugh: Congrats on the lowest weight ever!!!!!!!!!!
Blue, good job on NO HAPPY HOUR:laugh: :flowerforyou:0 -
Jess: OMG, Genghis Grill sounds delicious. I'm guessing it's the same as the Mongolian Grill we have around here, which I LOVE but don't get to have very often. The bf hates when I eat garlic (he has a sensitive nose to it) and there isn't one real close to me. I'm so going to find someone to go there with next week. Yum!
Don't be scared of the Shred with Weights...I'm more scared of Insanity, so I'm eager to hear how that works for you. I'm only sore in the hamstrings and triceps today, which is good because they're probably the hardest muscle groups to work effectively (at least for me).
Julie: Congrats on a new lowest weight! I think you need to tell your employer that you deserve a raise for not embezzling. That's crazy stuff!
Apparently I'm procrastinating a little bit today, so I suppose I better get to work on my projects. Boo! I may stalk a bit later.0 -
Heather-I am scared of Insanity too. Part of me wants to do it because then I can workout at home and not have to shower at the gym. Hate doing that because I get so freaking hot and sweaty because it's so humid in the locker room. I feel nasty. But I still want to try the Shred With Weights. But I'm nervous. Always nervous with something new! And Genghis Grill is a Mongolian place so it's probably very similar. I just hope I have the right amount of calories set aside. I think 400 sounds about fair. I'm diggin the no starch idea. Just meat and veggies!
Momma-awww I'm sorry Ryan still isn't feeling well. I was feeling the same way last week. Sore throat but no fever. I think mine was just allergies. Could it be allergies for him maybe? I don't know about where you are but here in Texas they are TERRIBLE!! Hope he gets to feeling better! :flowerforyou: Great to hear he is seeing improvement in school though. And don't be sad, you are going to rock your 40's!! I just know it!0 -
hey girls,
NOT feling good today, on top of TOM ( yesterday's visit) I have some sort of virus...crap from both ends...yuck! My son has/had a fever yesterday evening and didn't want to eat...and today I feel the same way. I hope we both get better soon because I HATE being sick.
I have not read any post since my last post..sorry.
Check in (yesterday)
calories: way over...I HATE TOM!!!!
water: about 100 oz
exercise: elliptical
proud: nothing really...
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Thanks Jess, I wonder but I don't know. We live in what is know as the "Central Valley" in California. My town is smack dab in the middle of farm land. Near a River that flows from the high sierra all the way to the ocean. So we have a lot of junk that we grow. A lot of dust from the farms. I should not say junk since we are a very fertile valley that is able to grow everything. My husband has allergies really bad and he is not bothered right now. I just don't know. But Ryan feels good for a minute and wants to play then he is ready to lay down just as quick. Tomorrow is going to be better, I know it is!!!!!!!!0
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Momma-I hope tomorrow is better for him!
So my work just sent out an email they are offering free Zumba classes on Tuesday nights. I got my co worker here to go with me...and we registered. It's free! Gotta giveit a shot! I hear so many great things about it and they pay me $10 if I go to all 8 classes!0 -
Momma: Here's to hoping Ryan feels better soon. He is SO adorable! The kind of kid you just want to squeeze in a big hug.
Jess: That's so awesome that your work is giving free Zumba classes AND giving you $10 if you attend them all. Pretty sweet incentive. I went to one Zumba class through community ed and loved it. Unfortunately, it didn't really fit into my normal schedule so I haven't been able to go back, but I burned 600 calories in one hour! Don't worry about getting the exact steps down as long as you keep moving and have fun!0 -
Well I just blew the whole day at lunch. We're on a field trip in Richmond for the day and some friends and I went to lunch at a nice restaurant. The crab cake salad I ordered had nearly 1000 calories and 69 grams of fat!! :sad: My gallbladderless self is gonna be freaking out later. I couldn't find nutritional info online until after I'd eaten or I so would not have ordered that.
I hadn't planned to hit the gym today but now I'm def planning to go now to as soon as we get back to school.
Julie - the fiber will actually probably be good for me; after my surgery things have been...loose...if you will and tue doctor put me on the metamucil crackers and high fiber to get my system aligned.
Trying not to freak out, but am nervous that the high-fat nature of this food is going to really damage my system today. :sick:0 -
So you guys know that no matter how much I preach the "eat more" philosophy, I still struggle with wrapping my own head around it. I guess it takes a lot of proof & convincing to counteract 20+ years of ignorance.
Proof --
I ate close to maintenance calories for the majority of the last month. And then,
Calories (9/8 - 9/14):
Wednesday 1485 (net & total)
Thursday 1502 (net & total)
Friday 1872 total (1279 net)
Saturday 1833 total (1352 net)
Sunday 1937 (net & total)
Monday 1654 total (1356 net)
Tuesday 1441 (net & total)
Real --
I weigh 2.8 pounds less today than I weighed last Friday.0 -
MOmma - I hope ryan feels better...abby has had some junk for a while, one day she spiked a fever and then was better, like a fever only from 4 am - 8 am that was after waking up every hour crying :sad: that was a few weeks ago, she seems to get bad allergies like i do so who knows...hope he can go back to school tomorrow and do awesome !
So we have had bugs and our landlord had said he would send someone out so DH asked him and they had terminex out here on friday ..soo all is good he sprayed all outside and downstairs some, i said i hadn't seen anything up stairs so he didn't spray...welllll since friday we have an infestation of ants upstairs...liek all in abby's carpets (she likes to sleep on her floor sometimes so fighting with her that she can't do that has been fun , in addition or our normal bed time trauma)..and in our bathroom...so they are supposed to come out today and respray, they said 1-3 and i have a meeting from 2-3 i am really hoping they come like asap (it is 10 after 1 now ) or not till after 3
momma - I know i am going to be a mess ...i can't even imagine my girls graduating...i am having hard enough time imagining abby starting K in 2 years...she goes to day care now, but being in big kid school something else, i didn't have a hard time when serena started, but i think i may with abby...she is my baby :sad:0 -
purple-Hope you don't get sick from eating tha crab salad. Drink some water. I don't know what would help to prevent something like that. Sorry girl. Try not to fret.
Heather-I'm excited to try it out. We have a whole wellness department where we have events called "downsize" and they basically pay us to lose weight. Pay us cash at the end of the year. With all the walks and seminars and weight I've lost I'm already at over $200 for the year. Pretty sweet deal! I'm glad my co worker is going with me though.
I feel good about my decision on Genghis. I made it without having any starch. No rice and no tortillas! YES!!0 -
So you guys know that no matter how much I preach the "eat more" philosophy, I still struggle with wrapping my head around it.
Real --
Calories (9/8 - 9/14):
Wednesday 1485 (net & total)
Thursday 1502 (net & total)
Friday 1872 total (1279 net)
Saturday 1833 total (1352 net)
Sunday 1937 (net & total)
Monday 1654 total (1356 net)
Tuesday 1441 (net & total)
Real --
I weigh 2.8 pounds less today than I weighed last Friday.
Wow! It's working for you girl!!
Deb-I feel ya on the ants! I got them once and they were horrible to get rid of. Hope the bug guy comes soon!!0 -
Okay Julie. I'm giving it your approach. I'm going for the eating more band wagon here! Days I work out I want to net 1200 calories and days I don't I want to stick around 1400-1500 calories. Let's see what happens! Can't hurt to give it a shot!0
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momma: I hope Ryan is feeling better. Awestfall and I will be in the same boat next year that you are now with all the senior year costs! it's going to be hard emotionally too.
calories: I am proud of myself for ending my day well yesterday ... I went over on calories because I was out before I even left work ... but I had oatmeal and milk for my dinner so I was happy with that choice. I'm doing well so far today but getting hungry.
exercise: great yesterday - my usual step class but was late so only got in 45 minutes... none yet today
proud: that I packed a lunch today ... and a healthy and different lunch than usual - slice of deli chicken breast (that my husband said I paid way too much for), slice of gouda cheese, avacodo, lettuce, onion all on a whole wheat nut bread. It was yummy.
Have a great night all!0 -
oh ... and for those of you that have been following our complicated issues with our waterfront property that we are trying to sell(nasty neighbors) and the family farmhouse that I inherited 1/5th of and want to buyout my brothers and cousins for the rest:
1) the land hasn't sold ... no activity at all ... so that is a bummer - we will just continue to be patient
2) we are working on getting a loan to do the buyout of the farmhouse to have as our vacation home ... so cross your fingers everyone that we are able to get the loan approved!0 -
oh ... and for those of you that have been following our complicated issues with our waterfront property that we are trying to sell(nasty neighbors) and the family farmhouse that I inherited 1/5th of and want to buyout my brothers and cousins for the rest:
1) the land hasn't sold ... no activity at all ... so that is a bummer - we will just continue to be patient
2) we are working on getting a loan to do the buyout of the farmhouse to have as our vacation home ... so cross your fingers everyone that we are able to get the loan approved!
Oh I'm crossing my fingers for you girl!! Hope you get the approval! Know how badly you want it!:drinker: :flowerforyou:0 -
Quick hello - week is going OK but lots of drinking and partying for fashion week and I had a bit of a chocolate binge on Monday night ..... whoops.
I think I've managed the challenge every day so far though so yay for that.
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quick check in
calories - a little under ( 1128)
exercise - nothing, too sick
water - about 100oz
fiber- 31 grams
proud - I stayed within calorie range today, after that big overload..ok a binge
Have a great evening!0 -
Hey everyone, I'm caught up on posts and still logging but really not in the mood for all of this. I had such a long weekend trying to clean my parents upstairs and we didn't even get half way done. I've had some spats with my mom about leaving her stuff around with a baby in the house, which always leaves me in tears. I am just feeling overwhelmed right now. Tomorrow is my last day at my current job and I'm happy about it but also sad about the people I will miss. I'm nervous about starting my new job and depressed about living with my parents. And worried that we will be screwed financially until hubby gets another job up north..:frown:
So anyway, I may not be around much.:indifferent:0 -
Danielle - it's all going to work out, sweetie. Yes, it will be very different, but you will make it, girl! You are a strong woman!
Momma - is that RyRy on your profile pic? SO CUUUUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
check in:
cals: OK
water: 100
exercise: not much today - 15 minute walk
proud: Another good day of eating and no Happy Hour!!!!! :bigsmile:0 -
Morning ladies!
Checking in for yesterday:
Calories: Under
Water: Probably about 40 ounces, IE not good
Sodium: Under
Exercise: Couch25k Week 1 Day 2
Proud: See Exercise. Also I made tacos for dinner and despite being super munchy, I still ate only what I planned.
I turned my very first grad school homework on Tuesday. I hate to sound like a baby, but I'm pretty nervous about it. The class is so abstract (and the professor even more so!) it's hard to know what it is that he is looking for.
(PS - if anyone speaks a Non English or Non Spanish language as their first language and wants to help me out with a project, I would be SUPER grateful)
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I was offline all day yesterday at a conference, but I'm caught up. However, now I'm getting ready to leave for work, so I'm just going to check in for yesterday. I feel pretty lame this week with my posting, but I have been crazy busy!
9/15 Check-in
Cals - Over just a but w/exercise - 1756 (140 over)
Water - 88 oz - Challenge met.
Fiber - 19 g - Challenge met.
Exercise - Hot yoga for an hour
Proud - Bought new clothes today - feel comfortable and confident buying 10s. What a cool feeling!0
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