Over 200 New year New Me Part 34

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.

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.

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! ).
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:

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)

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:

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!

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!!!!!!!!

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!

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.

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!!

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!

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!

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.

xoxo

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:

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)

Happy Thursday everyone