Its 2010...Please Join Me

Keltinator

ps i like the carb ideafor next week's challenge. i almost always go over on carbs everyday by a little bit...

and for the olympics... lol chipgal. this january has been the warmest in vancouver ever documented, due to the fact it's an el nino year. there wasn't been even one snowflake in vancouver this january! and since it's so mild here anyways, it's pretty much like early spring right now, honestly. the poor mountains are probably shipping snow to cover the ski hills and such!

Myth

Amanda,

Congratulations on hyour weightloss. Every little bit counts. As far as measurments go I have not measured mine yet but I can tell in the way my clothes fit. Good luck and I hope your new job goes well this week. I think at every job there are people we all get along with and dont get along with. Especially us women, someitmes we are our own worst enemy when it comes to other women,lol. SO I hope you love it! I also hope you got your room switched with your kids today. I remember doing that with my mom when my sister and I were younger. It was always fun to change things up. This is the first time over the last few times when I have tried to lose weight that I started working out right off the bat with weights and cardio as well. I totally I agree I like the way muscle looks! lol I know it helps burn fat more efficiently so I am excited about it. I also eat 1200 calories as well, and my body seems to do well with 12 carbs, just like you I noticed the days my fiber is up more then normal I realized I do feel more full all day. Good luck this week.

Myth

Nebegining,

I think tha tis fine about droping the 30 cal, btu I say do it if you want and see if it makes a difference. Your call. But I think it is ok.

Myth

Eek,

I wish I could have slept in today or at all this weekend! lol It sounds like you did great at the party! COngrats! But I must join you,lol my son went to a bday party today, they had Pizza from a place I have never had pizza frombefore and i have wanted to try but I DIDNT! I also DID NOT have any cake! I also chose chicken noodle soup over a pastry from panera! SO yayy usss!!! WTG! Also good job on the fiber just getting it up is good. WTG on the salad and fruits, you did better then I! I only had 1 salad and 2 fruits. Any way that is awsome that you get to go ot the olympics! You are the second person I sort of know,(lol) that is going.

Myth

CHip,

WTG on the salad and fruit, like I told Eek you to did better then I did. I got one salad and 2 fruit.

Myth

last Weeks challange

OK all for those of you who have not checked in.. here is your reminder!

I only had 1 salad and 2 fruits but my fiber was up every day but 1 think. My water was also very good this past week. I actually even thought this week a couple times about slowing down my eating.. the funny thing was at one point I almost told my son to slow down so he could taste his food cause I was thinking it for my self ROFL!

Myth

This weeks challange GOOD LUCK!!!!


1) WATCH YOUR CARBS (since a few of you liked it) Its your fault lol. I want to try to keep mine under a 100 I know this from past expierence with Atkins! lol
2) watch your fiber
3) 2 salads
4) 2 fruits
5) DRINK YOUR WATER!
6) pay attention to what you are eating maybe ask "why am I eating this??"

amandaja

Hello everyone! Checking in really quick. I had at least one salad a day as well as tried to get in two other servings of greens and/or veggies. I think I got it done everyday this week.

Eating has been on one day, sketchy the next. I will chock it up to hormones and lack of planning. I missed supper yesterday. Just wasn't hungry and don't like eating late. Plus had hit my calories due to the two cookies I ate while baking. I know better than to bake baked goods on the weekend. They are my weakness. Missed breakfast this morning due to sleeping in, working on a paper, and then spending an hour or more on the phone with my bank and itunes after finding out some idiot stole my itunes id and password and went on a shopping spree. Ugh! Luckily they couldn't get my whole card number and could only use it on itunes. It still is a major hassle. Anyways, I am short on calories, but not hungry. Might make me a protein shake just to get closer to my 1200. I am short by about 320. I would much rather go over a little than got below.

Water has been at least half a gallon on most days. I will do 3 quarts this week. My ultimate goal is to get back to 1 gallon a day. Fiber has been good when I really focused on it. I averaged 20 g each day except for today. I will continue to bump it up. Would like to see it in the upper 20's lower 30's.

Excited about the carb challenge. This is a great one for me for the next two weeks because of where I am in my cycle. It is fat burning time baby! Whooohoo! Now to keep the eats clean and get some movement in.

I read a great article in Oxygen magazine yesterday that stated that breaking up exercise/cardio into segments does just as much or is better than trying to do it all in one lump. It also stated that some of your cardio needs to be some sort of interval workout. So my goal is to get in 3 lifting workouts and also 3 cardio workouts that are at least 15 minutes each. This will be a challenge mainly due to scheduling, but I am up for it! I want to see some major weightloss for this week.

Ok, off to finish another paper. Everyone have a great night and a productive start of the week! Stay focused! Imagine how you will feel when you have obtained your goal. Hear people congratulating you. Feel the pride and satisfaction as you put on a certain outfit. Imagine it so much that it seems very real. Do this and you will be able to easily rise above any challenge that comes your way!

turin

Hi Folks,

I had my weigh-in this morning and the scales didn't move ...yet again :frown:

I am having a proper swing pattern in my diet since I started. Week 1 I lost 3.25 pounds, Week 2 the scales didn't move, Week 3 I lost 3.4 pounds, this week again the scales didn't move.

I've been trying to make some sense of the pattern, using pure statistics. I don't know if anyone else does this kind of analysis too, but I have been maintaining my own excel spreadsheet with numbers input from MFP to keep track on the big picture. These are the facts in a nutshell :

Calorie Intake Exercise Calories Net Calories Net Calories per day Weight loss

Week 1 - 9822 2189 7633 1090 3.25
Week 2 - 10464 1413 9051 1293 0.00
Week 3 - 8825 990 7835 1119 3.37
Week 4 - 10100 1078 9022 1288 0.00

The conclusion I am drawing from the above is that I need to keep my net calories in the 1200's in order to see losses happening (Week 1 is probably an exception due to it being the first week and the water loss etc). Obviously, four weeks isn't enough to make very definite trend conclusions, but I think I'll take the cue from this and act on this. The next few weeks should confirm whether it was a valid conclusion or not.

Any thoughts, anyone? Any suggestions welcome !!

Best Regards,

Turin

Jaymie

Hi Everyone!!!!

I am back from Holiday!!!! I had a great time in Australia visiting my mum and family. I took my BF across to meet the family and guess what... HE PROPOSED!!!! so we are now engaged!!!!!!!!

So I have a huge motivation to lose weight.. Wedding next March (2012)!!

But amongst the celebrations and wining and dining!!! I put on 2kilos which is 4 pounds!!! argghhhh!!!!

I have a lot of catching up to do here! I see new faces and lots of posts and challenges!!! I am so ready to lose this weight and learn more from everyone!!!!

gees it feels uncomfortable carrying around this extra weight!!!!

Nicmc8

HE PROPOSED!!!! so we are now engaged!!!!!!!!

Jaymie CONGRATS!!!!! Glad to hear you had a fabulous holiday.

-Nicole

chipgal

Congradulations Jaymie, sounds like a keeper if he flew to Ausie land with you.

Myth, This week may be hard to keep track of everything, but I'll try.:bigsmile:

Jaymie

Thalia

Hang in there. Dont give up the fight!!! Life is not always kind but at least you can be kind to your body!!

:flowerforyou:

Jaymie

THANKS Nicole Chipgal

Yeh he really is a KEEPER this one!!! Im over the moon!! but there is so much planning to do now

Hopefully this will keep me occupied and not wanting to eat all the time!!

I hope everyone is doing well and keeping on top of there calorie limits.... or at least MAKING THE EFFORT!!!

As long as your trying eh!!! and don't beat yourself up if you slip now and then. Its OK!! just get back into it!

NewBeginning2010

CONGRATS JAYMIE I WISH I COULD HAVE SUCH BLISS.

Keltinator

Jaymie--omg congrats!!

today was a good start to the week. had an orange at lunch, and half an apple for a snack later on. now let's see if i can get a salad in? lol.

turin--that's such a good idea to look at all the data like that. now, if only my computer was working well enough to let me use excel. (if any of you are computer geeks, i can only use my computer in various types of safe mode at the moment. it sucks, the audio configuration is all screwed up. no sound... :sad: )

i was surprised that there was 3 grams of fiber in the orange i ate today. pleasantly surprised and my personal carb challenge for me this week is to not go over the amount MFP gives me! it seems everything i eat is a carb. if anyone has some delicious food ideas that are low-carb and don't involve TOO much meat, could you enlighten me? (i'm not a meat fan. especially seafood, too. i know it's not a good thing, but fish are my enemy. i can't stand eating them)

well, hope everyone else had a decent monday.

Myth

Turin,

I say go with your instinct. If you noticed some amount works fo ryou try it. Allof our bodys are different. Keep us up to date and what you do, I totally like looking back at trends and seeing how things work. Good luck

Myth

Jaymie CONGRATS!!!!! YAYy!! Glad it was a great holiday for you! You are right now youreally have a goal to work towards lol. Congrats and dont worry in 4 short weeks or less that 4 pounds you put on will be gone again! Welcome home and congrats hun!

Myth

Chip I agree it will be hard to keep track of it all,lol. It will be worth it i the end I think.

Myth

Eek to hear someone say fish are my enemy just sounds funny! lol I will think on the low carb food list and let you know. I eat a lot fo chicken. But ill try to think on it.

Nicmc8

Calorie Intake Exercise Calories Net Calories Net Calories per day Weight loss

Week 1 - 9822 2189 7633 1090 3.25
Week 2 - 10464 1413 9051 1293 0.00
Week 3 - 8825 990 7835 1119 3.37
Week 4 - 10100 1078 9022 1288 0.00

The conclusion I am drawing from the above is that I need to keep my net calories in the 1200's in order to see losses happening

The conclusion I would draw is that when you go over 1200 calories you see no weight loss results for the week. From what I see in your data you lost wieght on the weeks you averaged under 1200 calories per day. How are you doing on water in take and sodium?

chipgal

My fiber is up to 25g but so is my carbs (147g). Had a fruit but no salad yet this week. I will add more later.

Keltinator

even though i have very little to say today i thought i'd check in

today the carbs are lookin' pretty good for moi i had chicken at lunch, instead of bread. but i went over on my calories a little! the only thing i can say is that if 1500 calories today is over my limit, it's okay, because i bet this time last year, i would have been eating over 2000 or something like that!

p.s. i had a salad at lunch, too! so the count (i'm keeping track for me lol) is 1 salad, 2 fruits, and 1 day under carbs this week so far!

hope everyone is having a good day

Myth

Eek,

I have to report I wanted to keep my carbs as close to 100 as possible and I am not happy with what I have done. I am gonna try better tommorow! I agree with you though, all my count are 100% better then anythign last year at this time,lol. I was also excited that I got on the treadmill at the gym tonight when I normally dont do anything at night. But my daughter goes to tae kwon do there so I was like what they hey! I was also surprised at my energy had.

amandaja

Hey girls! Wanted to check in and then it is off to bed for me. This week has been interesting so far. Just trying to get used to the longer work days. I think this job is a keeper. LOL. It better be! Seriously, the people have been great and very welcoming. that is always a plus.

So I was hoping to really hit it hard, and I can still clean it up to get a great rest of the week. I haven't been cooking like in the past; DH has been doing that. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! Picking up the kiddos too! I have been pleasantly shocked!! But the small downside to that is that he cooks his way which is heavier in carbs than how I cook. That is okay. I will figure out how to deal with it....just don't eat them if I can...and always have a salad!

So I have not been logging because it just has been crazy and I know they aren't where they need to be. I will refocus for tomorrow. Need to go and clean the kitchen up really quick and figure something out for a lunch and snacks. I will do better then.

Workouts are just not happening right now. I need to remember to take some walking shoes to work with me so I can join them on their little jaunts around the facility. Plus I need to check out what is going on during lunch. They have all kinds of cool things like boot camp, yoga, walks, etc. No reason to not take full advantage of these FREE offerings!

g'night ladies!

NewBeginning2010

Well i dont know what is happening to me and my motivation i seem to have lost myself in this past week or so. Calories are over almost daily and yesterday and today were horrible. I woke yesterday am feeling so sick to my stomach....pain just right under my bra smack dab in the middle.

I tried everything soup tums liquids and nothing... the only thing that seems to help is the crackers. I had crackers and gave in and had to have a regular sierramist they dont have anything other than pepsi in diet at work for my stomach. What i thought was very little food turned out to put me 600 calories over. The 200 calories on the sierra mist didnt help but i had to do what i could to keep from throwing up. So needless to say my no soda thing has gone out the window yesterday and today as i have been drinking nothing but diet sprite and diet 7up i just had some water.

I made some receipes from hungry girl cook book for us for dinner hoping to be able to keep it down. I only have 8 calories left and I dont know what to do with this stomach pain or what will happen calorie wise the rest of the night. I put out a post on the forums on what do you do when your sick.They told me to get better and i tried because the last thing i have wanted to do these last 2 days feeling like this is right down calories.... especially after feeling this way for 15 hours at work yesterday. However i continued to log and now i am in major disappointment as i am way over on calories and fear for fridays weigh in. I havent stepped foot in the gym like i had planned to and my stomach pain is still there.

Hope everyone else is having a good week.

Jaymie

Thanks Buddies!!!

My love life seems to be going well!! Cant say too much about work or the lack of work. Ive been thinking of setting up my own practice Im an optometrist. But the legal and financial side of things are sooooo stressful. I have no idea what all the legal jargon means.

Anyway...

Ive been reading everyones post and it seems like alot of us are going slightly over on our daily calories. Myself as well. My calorie total today was 1600 my goal is 1200. However (which you will like to hear MYTH) is my carbs is down.

I wonder if I have logged this in correctly I had cereal for breakfast, a salad sandwhich for lunch and moussaka for dinner. I think for my sandwhich I might have to log in every item in the sandwhich (ie whole grain bread plus egg plus lettuce...) so I can get the correct calorie log. I just find some days I don't have the time to log every single item so I just look up other members foods they have saved and use there information. Maybe I shouldn't be so stroppy and do it myself... just not enough time in one day!!!!

EEk - Im not a big meat eater too. I sometimes get tummy aches after eating red meat. But I do like white meat which luckily is lower in calorie than red. Have you tried crumbing or breading your fish? I find this improves the flavour and removes the fishy smell.

Amanda -Its great that your enjoying this new work place. Its not always easy starting up new with different people.

Myth - Thanks for your support. I always like to read your post! keep it up!!

Everyone else including any new members - Welcome and 'don't give up' we can all do this.

Night night everyone

Jaymie

Well i dont know what is happening to me and my motivation i seem to have lost myself in this past week or so. Calories are over almost daily and yesterday and today were horrible. I woke yesterday am feeling so sick to my stomach....pain just right under my bra smack dab in the middle.

Thalia - I think understand what your going through. I was with someone (before my fiancee) for 6 years. After the break up - I was a mess. Sometimes we just have to allow ourselves to feel these emotions (as aweful as that sounds) but thats the healing process. Be patient with yourself - You will get through this.

We are all here for you!!

Jaymie

My Goal for tomorrow : Will not goal over my daily calorie allowance
Will do 45mins of cardio at the gym!!

chipgal

Wondered what had happened to you Thalia. I am still facing snow storms and it is hard to get a good internet connection.

I keep a small calendar in my purse to write down what I eat so I have a record to update my diary when I'm able to.

My carbs are my downfall, they still hover around 200g. Had a salad and 2 fruit for the weekr. Fiber is around 20g.

Hope the week gets better for everyone.

Chipgal