kclynch - I'm staying "off" the scale for awhile. Because I have impending forced-exercise-breaks, I figure "what's the point"?? The scale will be there when I'm back at 'er in late-September!

I go to Hawaii on August 11. I have some tough weeks at the office to get through until then, though....

Ashely--you might still be able to find the Catalina on www.cwtv.com, I know they have full episodes of a lot of their shows online. It's blocked at work so I can't check.

Kelly--glad to hear you're feeling better! It's amazing how exercising and eating right can affect your mood. I definitely get grouchy when I don't get my workouts in and just feel like crap when I eat crap.

Beeps--going to Hawaii sounds lovely! I've never been. But eating fresh fish and fruit sounds wonderful and healthy. I'll try to post a new bump pic this weekend when I'm on my home computer. It has definitely taken on a life of its own.

I'm definitely ready for the weekend, I have no focus today. I have plans with friends most of the day tomorrow but I'm going to try to sneak in a quick workout in the morning. On Sunday I'm meeting some friends for yoga in the park, and I'm looking forward to that too, though it will be interesting how that all works with my big old belly (it's regular yoga, not prenatal yoga). Food should be okay, I'm going out to lunch tomorrow and brunch Sunday, but even if I spluge a bit the rest of my meals should be home-cooked, so I'm hoping that I'll be able to keep things under control.

For whatever reason, we tend to post "2-week-goals" on MONDAYS!

But, there's no "rule" against posting them any-old-time!

Have at 'er!

lamb - great success in San Fran!!!! Your job DOES sound fun and challenging for weight loss.

Amy- Glad you liked the dunes and enjoyed cross-fit

Welcome, Mamoon!

Beeps- I hope you enjoyed your weekend company.

Ris- How was yoga in the park? I want to see some new belly pics of you and Chloe!

As for me, I got in 3 16-18 hour fasts. I feel like my food choices are good, but I have't logged as much as I should. I did not workout all weekend. Regardless, I am feeling slimmer. I got all excited to step on the scale this morning, first time since Thurs, and I was EXACTLY where I was last Mon AND UP from Thurs. BOO!!!!! I haven't been this high since i joined MFP. I really thought it was bloat and what not and at least 2 or 3 pounds would come off not problem once I laid off the snacks. Guess not.

2 week Challenge
* 5 workouts this week - A MUST
* LOG everything - maybe my eating is not as good as I think.

I haven't been "logging" all month, frankly. July, at best, will be a "maintenance" month. And, this past weekend, I seemed to eat tons of crap - just went with it since my period is on the horizon. But (imagine that), after eating all that crap, I feel like crap!

And, I'm in Hawaii in 2 weeks!

So, my 2 week challenge:

1. LOG MY FOOD.
2. Stay within daily calories. Can't do "high days" and "low days" right now. If I keep them as "the same days", for 2 weeks, I have a CHANCE of dumping down 2 lbs to start off my vacation at a GOOD weight.
3. Get in my work-outs. My weight-training isn't a problem. But, I've skipped "scheduled" cardio 2 weeks in a row (not my fault - 1 week I was out of town and the 2nd week we had company!), and I need to GET that back-on-track.

That's enough. If I do THOSE 3 things well, I'll make it through TOM and feel WAY better than I have over the past couple of weeks.

Funny Kelly! We'll have to share about how they turn out. I'm thinking tacos Wednesday (since I'm off and can have something cooking in the crock pot all day and make tortillas during nap time) and pizza Tuesday or Thursday.

My co-worker just measured me. Turns out I'm actually 5' 2.5". I told him, "That means I can weigh more now."

Hey ladies!

Checking in from beautiful NC! The transition has been smooth so far. I start 'math camp' tomorrow (no...seriously, they call it math camp) and already have my first exam on Friday so happy first day to me! It's my last night of freedom and I enjoying it in front of the TV. I found a crossfit gym here and am loving my new kitchen for cooking healthy meals. Not trying to lose right now, just figure out my new life balance!

Hope all is well here! Miss you all!

Hi chuisle!! I'm Sooooooooo glad you posted! I'm sure you'll ace "math camp", and your exam and I'm really happy to read that you found a great new crossfit location and that "healthy" in YOUR kitchen is gonna happen! Yay!!

Chloe - yes, not drinking usually also means "not eating too much crap" - yay! Glad you had a good time.

I'm back-on-track with logging and it feels good. Feels do-able. I ate under my calories, yesterday, but only by about 37....likely not even an appropriate "buffer" for "margin of error". Today, because there's no work-out, I'm going to have to be a bit more vigilant!

It's shark-week, so I'm being VERY mindful as to whether I'm "hungry" or just "hormonal". By day 2, I'm usually over the "crap-binge-urgings"...and, today is Day 2!

Today is my husbands bday. I am making Chicago style deep dish pizza, cauliflower pizza for me, and carrot cake. I am sacing my carbs for s small slice of cake. My head hurts. What do you all think of dairy? I eat A LOT and think I should cut down. I eat greek yogurt everyday, 2% shredded cheese, fat free milk, and string cheese. I am going to try to limit myself to 2 servings a day.
Beeps-sorry your measurements are up, but there are many reasons why that could happen.
Chui- Glad you made it safely.
Chloe- good job on your weekend get away.

Hey ladies. Well my homemade tortillas and beef beerbacoa turned out wonderful. I was over on my calories yesterday, but it was worth it. I ate breakfast yesterday for the first time in a bit (on weekdays anyways) and I had some wine, so even my walking and running yesterday on my day off didn't save me from going over. Oh well.....

I hate the scale. I'm up AGAIN this week. I am blaming it on well....eating too much for one. Also extremely constipated which is making me feel just totally yucky, so hope that works itself out.

I've gotten some cardio done this week but only lifted once. Had set my alarm for this morning to lift, but was up from about 2:30 to nearly 4, so I turned it off and slept in. May try to get it done after my kiddo goes to bed, or convince Eric to watch her for 30 after he gets home from work.

I'm in a slight funk. July has not been my month. I've been in the 130's for all of it, and I don't like being in the 130's. My sister and her family come next Wednesday and they'll be here through part of Saturday so I know we'll be drinking and eating, but will try to get a good amount of activity in. Once August (and some traveling) is over, I need to FOCUS in September! I started crafting a new strength program to start week after next. Hopefully it will revitalize me. I'm thinking about buying a Zumba class card. I talked about doing that months ago, but did not. I'm sort of on the fence. I liked the class, but I have a hard time spending an hour plus on working days away from Daphne. I'd rather put her in the stroller for an hour and get nearly the same burn honestly....

Alright, rant over. Hope you all are doing well.

Kate--sounds like you're settling in nicely--found a crossfit gym already and everything! Hope you're having fun at math camp (well at least as much fun as you can have at a place like "math camp").

Chloe--welcome back!

Beeps--great job getting back to logging! Just take things one week at a time. You can do this!

Kelly--I recently decided to cut back on dairy. The Skinny B*tch books got to me. I'm not going to go strictly vegan or anything, it's just not practical (it's hard enough to find things that my husband and I can both enjoy given that I'm vegetarian and he has celiac), but I replaced my skim milk with almond milk and I've been avoiding dairy to the extent that I can without making myself miserable (I'm not giving up pizza or anything). My concerns with dairy are the claims that it has a lot of hormones in it (from the hormones injected in the cows to make them produce more milk) and pesticides (from the grass that cows eat). I haven't done any independent research on it so I'm not going to go around preaching to everyone that dairy is awful and everyone should avoid it or anything like that, but the points made in the Skinny B*tch book scared me enough that I don't see the point in taking unecessary risks given that I like almond milk as much as skim and I don't really need to put cheese on my sandwiches. I'm finding that I still get plenty of calcium, but I do need to try harder to get in my protein now that I'm not eating Greek yogurt.

Ashley--sounds like you've been eating well! It sucks that the scale is up, but it's good to acknowledge that it's due to your eating. There's nothing wrong with enjoying food, but it's important to be honest that there are consequences. Hopefully September will be a better month! I feel summer is a particularly hard time to eat healthy--there are so many social occassions where you want to be able to indulge that it's hard to balance everything. Once things quiet down it should get easier.


I've had a pretty good week so far. I've been good about doing weights regularly which I'm really happy about because that's been the hardest thing to work into my routine. The scale has actually been down for me, which I'd normally be happy about, but it's not really what I want right now given that I'm supposed to be slowly gaining. I think I might take next week off from logging while I'm on vacation and try to just focus on eating when I'm hungry and not eating when I'm not. If I feel like I'm overeating I can always go back to it. We'll see….

Beeps--Ha ha yeah I don't think I could cut out cheese completely either, and I'm not trying to. I'm just trying to cut back and save my dairy for times when I really want it.

I'm going to a little beach in North Carolina, just north of Myrtle Beach. We've gone with family and friends on and off since 1990. We actually do almost all of the cooking ourselves (we generally just go out to eat one night), and we tend to walk on the beach a lot, so it's usually not too unhealthy of a vacation, but there are generally a lot more snacks around than I would normally keep in the house. That's where I get into trouble.

I did a peak at my weight - my weigh in day is Monday. I was up 1.2 pounds! WHAT? Ok, 6 weeks after my youngest was born, I weighed 132. When we finally got married, a year and a half later, I was around 126. My current recorded weight is 132.5. My lowest MFP weight was 128. I just don't understand why my weight isn't going down. I will be sitting in a raining all day today.

Beeps, Enjoy Hawaii and don't even THINK about your weight!
Ris- you are going to lose all of your baby weight by 6 weeks. You are amazing.