My week has been okay. I stuffed my face on Tuesday with some amazing chocolates my boss brought back from his holiday, I have no friggin self control with sweets. The chocolate was right in my line of sight at my desk so like the sneaky *kitten* I am, I moved it to the area where the interns are. They fully devoured it within a day, so I'm no longer tempted by it. Mwahaha.

Aside from that I was well within range for the rest of the week, and my physio gave me permission yesterday to up my time on the stationary bike if it doesn't cause me pain in my knee. It's not quite the same satisfaction/burn I get from HIIT or lifting but at least it means I can get some exercise. The rehab exercises are boring as **** though, I hate doing them and they take forever.

We ordered pizza for lunch in the office today so I looked up the nutritional info and factored two slices into my daily allowance and I'll have my packed lunch for dinner instead.

My mother and brother are visiting for the weekend so it's going to be tough sticking to a routine. That woman can drink me under the table and we're also going to a burger place for dinner tomorrow that also serves alcohol based milkshakes, I'm not sure how easy it'll be to resist THAT kind of temptation but we'll also be doing lots of touristy stuff so I should get tons of walking in.

Hope everyone else's weekend is going well! Anyone have anything fun planned for the weekend?

This week was pretty good! Stayed mostly on track, had a few bites of ice cream and a couple of chips which are the things that usually send me into a tail spin where I find myself at the bottom of the chip bag/pint of ice cream wondering what the hell just happened.
I've been eating this way for almost a month now, which I think might be the longest I've gone. It's been almost like an awakening to be able to have a handful of chips and realize it's not the end of the world.
I keep reminding myself to focus on small 5lbs goals instead of the end goal, when I think "oh **** I still have 40 pounds to go" I feel helpless and want to give up.

I'm trying to focus on the small 5 lb goals also. I started at 150 so I want to be close to 145 by 1 Sep and then lose another 5 and then it will just seem easier and more likely to get to the final goal.

My week was pretty good. I ate out more than planned, but I made decent choices (opting for fruit or grilled vegetables as a side instead of fries, halfing or thirding my entree). I'm 1 pound away from 20 pounds lost so I'm very excited about that. I mentioned in the forum that I went down a size in jeans this week. First time in 4 or 5 years!

I'm down a tiny .4 of a lb. :grumble: BUT the scale said 173.8 which is exactly 10lbs down from when I started a month ago. So yay!
:happy: Only have to do that...4 more times!
After logging my food on Friday I am questioning if I am eating enough. I need to get a bit more militant about keeping track. I'm not hungry and every meal I have is filling and substantial, to the point where my big salads are hard to finish.

Saturday I did a few hours of yard work, moving rocks etc. Sunday I ended up walking for over 5 hours. I'm feeling a bit sore today from it all.

I'm going to weigh myself tomorrow morning bc that's when my week started. I did really good with eating -especially over the weekend when it rained and the power went out every day for several hrs each time. Normally, I would have said let's go eat or do something bc I'm bored, but I resisted. Well, I did eat my 1 cheat meal for the week on Saturday night. It was all junk food pizza, chips, candy bar, and a drink. Usually, I'm absolutely all or nothing, but I needed to do that to prove to myself that I can eat a "bad" meal and that's it -not use it as an excuse to just go crazy. That's the only time this week I've counted calories -bc they were all on the packaging -1600ish for that one meal. Yikes! Everything else I've eaten this week has been home made.
As far as exercise (my T/W/Thurs is in my earlier post), I ran 1.8 miles on Fri (17 min) so I could say I did some cardio. Did 20 min weights/machines and 20 min cardio at the gym on Sat. Sunday was a rest today. And I'm about to go the gym for a CXW and do some cardio.
Hoping to see about a 2 lbs loss in the morning. I have to be realistic and not expect to lose much more than that per week.
Maybe if I was doing it Biggest Loser style and working out 6-8 hrs/day and eating 1200 calories, but that's not going to happen.
*no offense to anyone who is eating 1200 calories, I'm just using that as a #, I have no idea how many calories I eat/day* If I don't lose weight as I like, I may have to start trying to figure it out.

My weekend was... not great. Not terrible (you know how sometimes you have a weekend and you look at it and it just COMPLETELY undid the entire week that came before?) but I got cranky that I was working and that I kept eating in restaurants and that I wasn't at him and just didn't give a *kitten*. I was going to have something warm for dinner, damnit!

But, what can you do? I still got up and moving at least half the days while out of town (elliptical and walks). And now I'm HOME and can actually make some of my own meals! So I think this upcoming week is going to be a looooot better and I am most excited.

Oh, and I had my physical for conductor training today and I might be down 2 lbs from the last time I weighed myself. Eh. Too many variables to trust it.

I'm petrified to get on the scale! In the past 3 years it has ONLY gone up. So it is hard for me to set weight goals, but I am going to go by the way my clothes feel. Although, I'll admit that even that is hard because I still haven't bought new clothes so I wear a lot of running shorts/yoga pants to avoid having to face the weight gain.

Novezero- When I drink too much crystal light I get ulcers. They suck.

Yeah, as I expected my weekend was not so healthy. On the plus side I didn't gorge myself beyond the point of full like I usually would. I tried listening to my hunger cues for once (zomg intuitive eating!!) and ended up skipping lunch both days and having larger breakfasts and dinner out. 3 nights of booze though, ugh. According to my Fitbit I got 30,000 steps in across Saturday/Sunday which was pretty decent!

So yeah, still need to work on not going crazy when it comes to routine, alcohol and eating out. It really doesn't help that I'm a recent convert to meat after being a vegetarian for a long time so I still haven't quite gotten over the novelty of how damn delicious burgers, bacon and buffalo wings are.

Yesterday went smoothly (I did have 2 biscuits/cookies watching TV with the housemates but I had calories to spare and 2 biscuits is a definite improvement over eating half the packet) and I'm feeling pretty good about today as well.

Wow there's a lot of people on here. And you're all real people, not just people who post on GOMI for my entertainment.

I weighed last Friday and I weighed again today - no difference, but I'm not worried about it. Especially since, like I said on GOMI, my husband made homemade ice cream on Sunday and uh.. we've been eating it.

I think I'm going to hide the scale under the bed for awhile. I can't seem to stop myself from weighing multiple times a day and I get bummed out if the number goes up, even though I know that's dumb. I'm in another MFP group for people who are trying to lose 30-40 lbs and we weigh in on Fridays so I'll try taking it out of the bathroom and only checking in once a week.

I'm down to 212. One more pound and I'll have lost 30 pounds in ~3 months.

I feel weird. I'm definitely stronger and definitely losing weight, but I don't look much different (if any) and my clothes still fit okay -- I have a couple pairs of pants that are way too big, but they were moderately too big to begin with. My bras are maybe a little looser, or maybe just getting worn out. If there's any difference in fit, it's just not enough to be sure of.

I really think I should buy a tape measure, because I'm starting to think I have scale-related hallucinations. I'm seeing the numbers drop steadily, but I don't feel like it's made any physical difference.

In other news, I managed to squeeze in time to do a small grocery shop yesterday, so healthy meals are going to be easier.

I'm down to 212. One more pound and I'll have lost 30 pounds in ~3 months.

I feel weird. I'm definitely stronger and definitely losing weight, but I don't look much different (if any) and my clothes still fit okay -- I have a couple pairs of pants that are way too big, but they were moderately too big to begin with. My bras are maybe a little looser, or maybe just getting worn out. If there's any difference in fit, it's just not enough to be sure of.

I really think I should buy a tape measure, because I'm starting to think I have scale-related hallucinations. I'm seeing the numbers drop steadily, but I don't feel like it's made any physical difference.

In other news, I managed to squeeze in time to do a small grocery shop yesterday, so healthy meals are going to be easier.

Congrats on 30 in 3 months! Inspiring! You've probably gained some muscle if your feeling stronger. Measure yourself for sure!

Grr. I ended up snacking on chocolate biscuits and chocolate squares while vegging out with the housemates yesterday. It's so silly, logically I KNOW I'm not hungry and I KNOW I don't need to be eating sweets but I just can't say no to the junk.

I threw out the biscuits (I don't normally buy them but they were left over from visitors at the weekend) so at least I don't have those hanging around tempting me any more. I've identified a definite danger zone, between about 8pm and bed time when I'm bored, I start getting snacky/craving sweet things, especially if my housemates are around because they always break out the chocolate and sweets at this time when we're all sitting around watching TV and drinking tea. I'm so busy from waking up to getting home, it's this one two hour window after dinner where everything just goes to hell and I seem to have no willpower.

Oh well, today's another day.

If I knew how snacks worked, I wouldn't be in this position :laugh: thanks avskk, I'll give that approach a try. Part of my problem is that I usually do have around 200 calories to spare at the end of the evening but I try to resist using them for some reason. But 200 calories on a healthy snack makes more sense than 400+ calories on sugary crap. And I happen to have some single serving popcorn too!