Check in May 28, 2014
julieworley376
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Good morning!!!
I have all my food tracked, breakfast eaten, swallowing coffee and checking in here before going off and getting dressed for work which really should have happened 10 minutes ago! I am hoping that my Boss let's me not go to an event tonight so that I can get to the gym for Aqua Zumba.. in the water I can move.
Is there anything you do to prepare for the day everyday? Track food? Pack and prepare food? Anything else?
I have all my food tracked, breakfast eaten, swallowing coffee and checking in here before going off and getting dressed for work which really should have happened 10 minutes ago! I am hoping that my Boss let's me not go to an event tonight so that I can get to the gym for Aqua Zumba.. in the water I can move.
Is there anything you do to prepare for the day everyday? Track food? Pack and prepare food? Anything else?
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I do more mental preparation than anything...if I make a loose mental plan, I'm more likely to stick with it. If I plan everything out, my subconscious is rebellious, as if from another generation, and being boxed in leads to very unscrupulous behavior. Because I have learned this about myself, I tend to set loose goals that guide me the direction I plan to go, rather than force myself to that path. These days, I tend to make healthy decisions on my own, but having healthy backup plans never goes awry...
I am lucky to have a workplace that allows me the time to quickly prepare snacks (5 minutes or less) and to eat them, apart from meal times. (Thanks for that!) So, aside from just making sure I'm in a good mental place, and making sure I have a few snack options in my corner, I don't spend a lot of time worrying about the rest - oh, and I live close enough that I usually go home for lunch, so I don't have to pack that either.
Happy Hump Day, everyone!0 -
Gooood morning!
I don't do much to prepare for every day... I don't track my food before I eat it,I have breakfast (or at least coffee) at work, and I buy lunch for the week at the grocery store across from work on Monday, so basically my morning routine is 1) get dressed and 2) hop out the door. I guess I've added getting my gym clothes together so I can't use "well I don't have the right clothes" as an excuse not to walk or work out. I think that is honestly what's helped me keep on track most of all. If I don't head home before walking or going to the gym, I don't have that extra opportunity to realize I'm tired and sit "just for a minute" which of course turns into the whole night.0 -
I generally try to track my food as soon as I know what I'm going to have. If I've already put in the time to type up a recipe and put it into the tracker, I'm less likely to want to have to do the same thing for something else. Plus, that lets me see how many calories I have left over for snacks and motivates me to exercise if I see that I'm out of calories but am likely to still be hungry.
Sadly, I do not yet know what I'm eating today (apart from my breakfast smoothie, which I already had). I got back from the beach late Monday/early Tuesday. The first two days were great. I exercised a lot (3+ hours of walking around Savannah the first day and hours of swimming the second day), and the exercise and food balanced out.
But the last day was horrible. I had pasta and a bagel for breakfast. I had a sandwich for lunch, even though I wasn't hungry, just because others were eating. I kept eating the dessert bars I made, again when I wasn't hungry. Then yesterday I had a job fair, and I ended up missing breakfast, so I went to Taco Bell after and got two things even though one would have been plenty. Then my boyfriend and I went to a pizza buffet, and I'm sure you can all guess what a terrible idea that was. I'm back up 1.8 pounds since Friday.
Still, I'm not letting it get me down too much. I made stupid choices, but I can start making good choices again now.0 -
Good Morning my loverlies! :flowerforyou:
I do SO much better when I prepare!
I am about a week behind in life right now. Ok, maybe about 2 days behind. I need to get paid, go grocery shopping and stock up on some of my healthy staples. (Like Salad mix)
I DID pack my 1.5 Liter bottle of water half frozen to take with me to work.. I should get some points for that. But - 3 points for no breakfast, lunch or snacks. :grumble:
I need today to be lively around here. I am ALL caught up on my month from hell at work and I have decided I am going to give myself a play day. Or at least a play morning if possible. So....entertain me. :bigsmile:
Where's Karen? She always has good stories to tell.0 -
Still, I'm not letting it get me down too much. I made stupid choices, but I can start making good choices again now.
Don't get down! I was HORRIBLE over the weekend! I am up too! Oh well. We move on, right?0 -
I am so much better when I am prepared - today I am "armed" with good food to get back on track. Last night I went into the bag of candy my daughter had on table and she said"DONT EAT IT - stop eating hte twizzxerls you said today you were going to eat candy, mom did you not hear the woman on chooped who said she almost died from diabetes and now she is a size 2, I dont want you to wind up in the hosptial" as I stood there I kept eating the candy and fast so she didnt come and get it" I told her to get it out of the house and she sai d"no, you just to have to eat it"
I did feel very bad - I told her she hurt my feelings. But I will say I packed all my food for today - I thru out the eggplant parm left over instead of taking it with me..I have hard bolied eggs, salad, fruit and carrots...I am hopeful again today "Not in my stregth but His"0 -
Kali, I did horrible over the weekend too!! But we all are going to be fine and recover from it because we all took the steps of getting right back on here. I was really hard on myself yesterday about it all, but then I realized that the rest of the world isn't going to stand still for me, so that I can stay on plan. I have to be the one to do that, and if I fall off here and there it is ok, because I WILL be right back up and moving past it. I thought alot yesterday about this board and some things I have learned. I KNOW I can not give up chocolate forever, so I need to start being smart about that and work it in my plan if I feel like I HAVE to have it. Camping was definitely not the way I thought it would be and the temptations were just way too much for me so I gave in to them. I think if we go again, we will still make smores, but I will limit how many I take period. Honestly, two each was more than plenty even for the kids. But in my head, I think I set myself up for failure by taking SOOOO much junk with us; thinking I HAD to make sure the kids had a good time and I centered that "good" time around food instead of activities. So next time, I WILL take precautions for myself AND for my family, because they do not "need" all of those treats either, when they would have been just as happy with a few.
I do not track my food before I eat it either. And I plan on the fly, which is sometimes bad for me lol. It is just hard for me to plan for food daily, when there are some days I am just not hungry so it is hard to make myself eat just because it is mealtime.0 -
Good morning, duckies. It's another lovely November day here in Maine. I swear, I am still wearing WOOL SWEATERS. What the heck????
My day plan has to include what food and when and where. I try to do it the night before. I may not always follow my exact food plan, but if I don't have healthy choices, I will hit the drive-thru in a heartbeat.
Yesterday wasn't a good food day for me, I still haven't logged, and mostly I justified it by saying I haven't had a cheat day in so long... but I think there's more of a self sabotage going on. When I weighed myself and discovered I was down 31 pounds, I was so excited to weigh in at the bariatric center on Friday. Then I stuffed myself yesterday and now I'm back in that familiar panic place, that I'm Not good enough place. Well I'm not having that. I will weigh what I weigh, self-flagellation or not. Might as well approve of myself.0 -
Honestly this is what I find the most exciting here. It is the number of us who are having bad days but getting right back up and getting on with it again. I have spent so long in that place where you start with great determination, then hit a holiday day or a moment or whatever.. and that moment turns into days, weeks, months and I end up heavier than I started.
What I see happening here is everyone saying.. hey it's okay.. no guilt, just do better today, eat healthy, move a little and don't let the bad days trip you up.
This to my mind is what makes this group particularly powerful. Agree?0 -
Good morning, duckies. It's another lovely November day here in Maine. I swear, I am still wearing WOOL SWEATERS. What the heck????
My day plan has to include what food and when and where. I try to do it the night before. I may not always follow my exact food plan, but if I don't have healthy choices, I will hit the drive-thru in a heartbeat.
Yesterday wasn't a good food day for me, I still haven't logged, and mostly I justified it by saying I haven't had a cheat day in so long... but I think there's more of a self sabotage going on. When I weighed myself and discovered I was down 31 pounds, I was so excited to weigh in at the bariatric center on Friday. Then I stuffed myself yesterday and now I'm back in that familiar panic place, that I'm Not good enough place. Well I'm not having that. I will weigh what I weigh, self-flagellation or not. Might as well approve of myself.
1. JEALOUS of your weather.
2. What the heck! Not logging? That doesn't sound like you. :noway:
I say log it so you can move on. Put it behind you and done and done! :smooched:
3. Get back to that GOOD place. :flowerforyou:0 -
Makes me feel so much better to know I am not alone! I was off camping all weekend and did OK but not great...I was missing my exercise that is for sure...I am hoping to recover this week! Off again!!0
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That's our strength here momofthree, we are not alone, our whole group is in the same category and fully understands each other.. it's very powerful.0
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There's another online community that I'm a part of that encourages folks not to respond to troll-ish or negative comments. The mantra is "FIAMO" -- "flag it and move on."
I've started telling myself LIAMO whenever I make a choice that I feel isn't in line with my goals -- log it and move on!
It does feel like a big step to be honest about all of it.0 -
Ladies, the thing I keep having to remind myself when I have a day of less than stellar food choices is that you actually have to eat 3500 calories OVER your MAINTENANCE calories, not your daily calories with weight loss included that MFP assigns you - but 3500 over your maintenance (which is usually around 700-1000 over your MFP number), so unless you have eaten 4500 extra calories, it is likely that any "weekend gain" is more likely to be water weight from extra sodium or carbs! When I remember that, and that if I don't drink enough water for me (everyone's number is different), then my weight can easily go up and down 5 pounds or more in one single day! I had a doctor tell me that your urine should be between the color of lemonade and clear. If it isn't, you aren't getting enough water. So, my challenge to you, if you aren't already taking life's lemons and making your own "lemonade" *WINK*, drink one more glass of water today...what can it hurt?
For those of us using the scale as measurement - despite the fact that we don't want to celebrate those fat rolls (and believe me, I have enough of them for 3 people!), are you taking pictures? Are you taking measurements? Those things, plus the calories, plus the exercise, plus the numbers on the scale - they are all just data. Why do we let them be an emotional sucker punch? Because I know I do. I am working to distance myself from the emotional up and downs. If today, I feel pretty good, I get in some good steps and water, then today is a success, right? There is more than one way to measure success.... Anything you do today that you didn't do yesterday is a success. I find guilt to be one of the absolute worst things for me on my journey. If I make less than stellar decision, I just have to own that choice, accept the consequence, and refuse to carry that guilt around with me. Why weigh myself down further?
Will one choice undo everything I have worked for? Heck, no. Will one (or ten, for that matter) smores mean I don't deserve to smile today? I have to make absurd comparisons sometimes to let me know how silly or obsessive I am being about something that isn't as important as I'm making it out to be. If in one day, I make more decent choices that poorer ones, I'm winning. How about you - will you win with me today? Even if you have to choose the lesser of two evils?
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I absolutely love this! LIAMO!! My new version of LMAO! I am so stealing that. Thanks, @NorahCait!0
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I've started telling myself LIAMO whenever I make a choice that I feel isn't in line with my goals -- log it and move on!
It does feel like a big step to be honest about all of it.
Love it! I struggled with that this weekend. I was going back and forth whether to log all the crap I put in my mouth or just chalk it up to a free day, and finally the going back and forth was driving me nuts, once I decided to just log it, I felt so much better. Even seeing it all added up, it still didn't bug me that much although it was higher than what I had added in my head, I just felt like I could really move on and the going back and forth was over.0 -
Ladies, the thing I keep having to remind myself when I have a day of less than stellar food choices is that you actually have to eat 3500 calories OVER your MAINTENANCE calories, not your daily calories with weight loss included that MFP assigns you - but 3500 over your maintenance (which is usually around 700-1000 over your MFP number), so unless you have eaten 4500 extra calories, it is likely that any "weekend gain" is more likely to be water weight from extra sodium or carbs! When I remember that, and that if I don't drink enough water for me (everyone's number is different), then my weight can easily go up and down 5 pounds or more in one single day! I had a doctor tell me that your urine should be between the color of lemonade and clear. If it isn't, you aren't getting enough water. So, my challenge to you, if you aren't already taking life's lemons and making your own "lemonade" *WINK*, drink one more glass of water today...what can it hurt?
For those of us using the scale as measurement - despite the fact that we don't want to celebrate those fat rolls (and believe me, I have enough of them for 3 people!), are you taking pictures? Are you taking measurements? Those things, plus the calories, plus the exercise, plus the numbers on the scale - they are all just data. Why do we let them be an emotional sucker punch? Because I know I do. I am working to distance myself from the emotional up and downs. If today, I feel pretty good, I get in some good steps and water, then today is a success, right? There is more than one way to measure success.... Anything you do today that you didn't do yesterday is a success. I find guilt to be one of the absolute worst things for me on my journey. If I make less than stellar decision, I just have to own that choice, accept the consequence, and refuse to carry that guilt around with me. Why weigh myself down further?
Will one choice undo everything I have worked for? Heck, no. Will one (or ten, for that matter) smores mean I don't deserve to smile today? I have to make absurd comparisons sometimes to let me know how silly or obsessive I am being about something that isn't as important as I'm making it out to be. If in one day, I make more decent choices that poorer ones, I'm winning. How about you - will you win with me today? Even if you have to choose the lesser of two evils?
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GO TEAM!! That was one of the best half-time locker room pep talks ever!! I really felt like my head is in the game now. Thanks coach!! *pats butts all around* :drinker:0 -
I think tracking it all is a really good thing to do unless you can't! LOL. At the Graduation Party I ate way too much of two different cakes.. I couldn't log that if I tried because there were no set portions and one was home made. Call me picky but to track I have to have it exact. When that kind of thing happens I just have to write it off and carry on. I think the difference now is that when I have to do something like that I AM getting back on that horse and eating healthy again.0
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I am horrible about guesstimating. I try to over-guesstimate, but it does drive me nuts not knowing for sure. I need to be a little better about that. Especially lately.0
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I am better if I have "good" choices around me, but I can not pre-plan anything. It's like I am being told what to do, even though it was me telling me what to do! It's also a case of if I pre-plan and then whatever it is that I planned doesn't fit my mood, I am likely to start grabbing little things here and there to compensate for what I really felt like having. Not sure if that all makes as much sense written out as it does in my head! lol
I will admit too that I don't always log my "bad" days. The reason for this is because I don't want to remember what I ate, especially if I know I ate "bad" and the scale still goes down. My head will then think that I can eat that bad more often and still lose weight. It is such a mental game to me some times.
Karen, I am so sick of this weather. I might be able to open the pool by August the way we are going! When I took the kids to school this morning it was 42! Grrrrrr.
Heather, I was thinking the same thing about KnitorMiss and her pep talk! Go Team is right!
Knit, great advice on the pictures and measurements. I haven't done either in a while and maybe it is time that I should again.
It's so nice to know that I am not alone. Thank you all for allowing me to be part of this wonderful group.
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Karen, I am so sick of this weather. I might be able to open the pool by August the way we are going! When I took the kids to school this morning it was 42! Grrrrrr.
Hugs!! :flowerforyou:
Yup! 46 degrees here right now... 1:00 p.m.
I'm staring at the beautiful lake outside my front door and I swear I see a skim of ice on it again.0 -
I had a doctor tell me that your urine should be between the color of lemonade and clear. If it isn't, you aren't getting enough water. So, my challenge to you, if you aren't already taking life's lemons and making your own "lemonade" *WINK*, drink one more glass of water today...what can it hurt?
Hahahahahahaha!!!! I LOVE this.0 -
Thanks, y'all! Oh, and I realized that I didn't finish out that calculation - that is 3500-4500 calories to gain 1 single pound! So I doubt any of us are there... Water weight, when our body is almost all water-based - is such a huge deal. I struggle to get my water almost every day, but I can tell you it helps - it helps with water weight, it helps with craving, and it helps with getting me moving - even if I'm only increasing my steps by doubling my daily trips to the bathroom!
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Good afternoon pals! Whew what a busy week it's been already and it's only Wed! I have made so many phone calls to make appts for the month of June and between sports camps/practices, I might cry!
So anywho, yesterday was my hubby and I's 14 yr anniversary but I had to take my 9 yr old to her end of season softball party. They had pizza & cake and I did not eat a single bite! Mostly because I had mexican lasagne waiting on me at home, and I knew I could have a slice of cake and fit it in, but I had no desire too. That's a win for me! It was chocolate cake y'all!
My plans for each day are usually about the same, I meal plan every 2 weeks for dinner, so when I shop I mostly only buy what is on my list. We typically eat a "normal" dinner meaning I don't always make everything lowfat or low calorie but we eat generally low cal breakfast & lunches so it works out OK for us. My biggest issue is getting my butt in gear to exercise, I just got 30 day shred I need to try and we bought a total gym type of equipment for $20!!!! on a yard sale site WOOT!
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Well gang, I decided to celebrate my 30 pound victory with a "spa day," but since I can't afford a spa day right now, instead I spent $10 on a jar of VO5 deep conditioner for my hair and a tube of dead sea mask for my face. Sitting at the computer right now, deep conditioning and masking. When i figure out how to do the picture posting thing that Heather and Pat do, I'll post one of my glorious bright blue face!
On the way home from my grocery run this morning, I had one of those out of control moments with a carton of slim-a-bear no sugar added icecream bars. I ate one in the parking lot of the grocery store. Ate another driving down the first road, Ate a third on the second road. When I found myself unwrapping the fourth and knew I would eat the whole package of six, I decided to do some hucking. Yes, folks, the squirrels and possums of Maine are eating slim-a-bear bars today. I'm very happy for them... Finally at their morbid obesity support group meetings they can talk about something other than the donuts and french fries I usually huck at them. In total, I only ingested an extra 300 calories and will easily swim that off tonight, but I'd like to get to a point in my battle with food where I don't have this type of compulsion. Maybe I never will be able to control it... maybe, like an alcoholic or drug addict, I need to just not put my substance in reach, especially when I am alone.
I have a busy day today and won't be posting my usual volumes, but I'm with you all in spirit!
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I think tracking it all is a really good thing to do unless you can't! LOL. At the Graduation Party I ate way too much of two different cakes.. I couldn't log that if I tried because there were no set portions and one was home made. Call me picky but to track I have to have it exact. When that kind of thing happens I just have to write it off and carry on. I think the difference now is that when I have to do something like that I AM getting back on that horse and eating healthy again.
Julie, I do a lot of "guessing" with the tracker. It's way, way too much of a bother to type in all my recipes and get exact calorie counts, so I dig around and try a few different ones. You can search "homemade chocolate cake with vanilla frosting", check the calorie count on a few, and take the average. You won't get the exact, calories or macros, but you WILL have a record to look back on, and I'm finding that's just as useful and revealing. I few days ago, I scrolled back over all of my food diaries and was really shocked by the number of times I grab something from a drive-thru. Usually it's a pretty good choice, like a Dunkin Donuts eggwhite flatbread, but still, I know it's healthier for my body if I make something at home that's fresh. Seeing that record just solidified for me one of the changes I can make. I know Patrick challenged you to record everything last week. I'd like to challenge you for today through next Wednesday to do the same. I'll do it too! And go back and log that cake and I'll go back and try to recreate the mess of yesterday, including the icecream cone I ate on the DRIVE TO THE GYM!!! Yes, I ate icecream in the gym parking lot.0 -
I try to track my food for the next day the night before. I typically eat the same things for breakfasts and lunches so it's not too difficult. Unfortunately today I chucked my normal 300-ish calorie salad for a 7 layer Mexican wrap, baked chips and 8oz of Coke. But I LIAMO (love the expression, btw).
I also have to get my food ready the night before, or I won't have time in the morning. It usually works.
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On the way home from my grocery run this morning, I had one of those out of control moments with a carton of slim-a-bear no sugar added icecream bars. I ate one in the parking lot of the grocery store. Ate another driving down the first road, Ate a third on the second road. When I found myself unwrapping the andfourth and knew I would eat the whole package of six, I decided to do some hucking. Yes, folks, the squirrels and possums of Maine are eating slim-a-bear bars today. I'm very happy for them... Finally at their morbid obesity support group meetings they can talk about something other than the donuts and french fries I usually huck at them. In total, I only ingested an extra 300 calories and will easily swim that off tonight, but I'd like to get to a point in my battle with food where I don't have this type of compulsion. Maybe I never will be able to control it... maybe, like an alcoholic or drug addict, I need to just not put my substance in reach, especially when I am alone.
Hi Karen, you just let use know when you need to bailed out of jail for all those littering fines .
Your right that you may never be able to control your food urges. The conclusion I cam to early on with foods like that and other items I can't seem to control myself around was simply to not have them int he house. I'm not cutting them out of my life all together but I don't bring temptation food in the house unless its in a single serving. If i want a soda i walk to the gas station and buy a single bottle, if i want ice-cream i go get a single serving, chips only in single serving bags that I might buy with a sandwich. It's just the way it has to bee for me. I can have these things but I can be in control of them. it makes it a lot easier to deal with temptation and desire. If I have a craving while shopping a go around to all the items and look at their nutritional label and i go the math, wich usually helps reassure me that the pitiful serving size for that amount of calories wouldn't be something I found satisfying. Granted now you have me thinking about It's-it.0 -
:laugh: Oh lordy, Karen. I had to share your feeding the Squirrel's stories with my husband at lunch. And the eating the ice cream in the gym parking lot..too funny. Hey, no one can ever accuse us of not being honest. The best part is you were AT the gym! Which is a lot more than I can say. :laugh:
I so need to see blue face!
You need to sign up for a free account here: http://tinypic.com/ or www.photobucket.com and just upload your pictures to one of those sites. Then, copy the image tags to here to share. For example, my pictures are uploaded to photobucket.
The link to these pictures is here: http://s140.photobucket.com/user/BlondageH/story/34827
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It sounds confusing at first, but once you do it a few times, it's easy.0 -
Hi Karen, you just let use know when you need to bailed out of jail for all those littering fines .
Your right that you may never be able to control your food urges. The conclusion I cam to early on with foods like that and other items I can't seem to control myself around was simply to not have them int he house. I'm not cutting them out of my life all together but I don't bring temptation food in the house unless its in a single serving. If i want a soda i walk to the gas station and buy a single bottle, if i want ice-cream i go get a single serving, chips only in single serving bags that I might buy with a sandwich. It's just the way it has to bee for me. I can have these things but I can be in control of them. it makes it a lot easier to deal with temptation and desire. If I have a craving while shopping a go around to all the items and look at their nutritional label and i go the math, wich usually helps reassure me that the pitiful serving size for that amount of calories wouldn't be something I found satisfying. Granted now you have me thinking about It's-it.
Me thinks RatsPats has been tippin' a few back today....:drinker: :drinker: :drinker:
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