Hey ladies!

Well this is the longest I have been tracking my food and exercising and I feel unstoppable. I have been weighing myself daily and have lost 8 lbs since Dec.31 and I am being greedy because I feel like that isn't enough. I usually hear in the beginning it's much faster but we'll see. I started school again yesterday and feel pretty good about it no hard classed this semester (Sociology, BCIS, & Drama: Film Appreciation) for the same reason I don't want to stress too much like I have past semester and be a lot more focused on my weight lose goal. Today I am more concerned because Mrs. Flow has not paid her visit yet and was supposed to come yesterday, that is all I have been thinking about today and hope she is just running a little late because this is not the time. Other than that MFP has been great I have made new friends and everyone is so encouraging (wish the important people in my life were as encouraging as the ones here) but I look forward to actually logging in my food and exercise daily. Hope this attitude continues! Hope you all are doing great!

So far my week is going really well. I started half marathon training and my semester started back up yesterday. But both days I have been back to my normal efficient self that slacked off over winter break. I also haven't been able to train for any race since last winter due to an injury and haven't trained for just a half (usually been marathons with halves worked in) in years. It's exciting and a little daunting at the same time!

I'm also trying to lose 2 more pounds by the end of the month and have also been stuck lately. I think if I succeed I will get the massage my husband told me to get in........October!

I'll be interested to see if you incorporating crossfit into your workouts gives you a little boost! What tattoo are you going to get BTW?

have you tried prelogging before? I normally just pre log the food I bring to work as I know my bored hands are going to want to eat it lol

I weigh 5lbs less than I did at Christmas. Since, I've started pre-logging my food and measuring everything, I've noticed a real difference. The resistance level on my elliptical is up and so I've been feeling real good about my work outs. Tomorrow, I'll start using light hand weights while Ii'm on the elliptical to start working my upper arms.

My husband and I have a kid-free weekend and we are going to friends house for dinner and drinks. I've already decided to work out extra and eat light to make room for those extra calories.

I am on my final 4lb to loosened it's very slow and feels like such hard work

I am doing ok, but the hardest thing is not turning to food when I am anxious. I am teaching a class on top of my job this spring and I get so nervous about public speaking -- I want to medicate with food. Fortunately, I have not gone overboard, but it's just tough when I am at home and feeling stressed, either about teaching or issues with my kids.

Hi Ladies!

i'm doing good this week...Been logging on MFP for a month now. I'm down 7.6lbs. Very excited since I lose weight slowly! My initial goal was to be -10lb by 2/14. I may hit it sooner!!

Like all of you have mentioned, I find it easier to pre-log and track breakfast and lunch then I know how much i have left and what I can make for dinner /snacks.

Hope you all have a great day...tomorrow is Friday yay!

A couple people also mentioned pre logging - I started "half" doing this and then today I entered what I'm anticipating for dinner because I"m so excited. Don't laugh - it's just oatmeal with pb and a strawberry protein shake. BUT seeing everything entered, I already feel super full/satiated and I am still going to the gym and my calorie exercises will be uploaded. This is so helpful for me to either meet or exceed my claorie goal.... and to see if I can enjoy some air pop popcorn or an extra bite size snickers

OMG I am sooo glad tomorrow is Friday!! This week work wise has just been horrible. Ugh.

Jill-yeah I hear you! Work pretty much always sucks. We are chronically understaffed and everyone is so stressed out.

How was everyone's weekend? Mine was good-nothing exciting but good. Sundays are my splurge day-went a little overboard though! Had Chinese for lunch and then DH got Mexican for dinner. Chimichanga! OMG, so good.

We had a 4 day weekend, and I don't log or track on the weekends, but I don't overeat either. I painted my bedroom on Friday (had almost the whole thing done before hubby got home) and then Saturday we moved my all my stuff back in and I rearranged and I love it! Did't do much on Sunday.... Watched football.... it was a great lazy day and then Sunday we went and spent the day with my parents, my dad needed help building a ramp and my mom needed help shopping! So all in all we had a great weekend.

So jealous of the chick that only has 4lbs to lose. I have about 30-35 before I think I'll be happy with my jean size.

About the pre-logging, I wasn't doing it at first, but when I read about it, I thought I would give it a try. It really helps me see where I can add (or subtract) calories at a snack or dinner time. It also helps me see where I need to adjust what I'm eating to meet my macros.

Dinner with friends Saturday was a blast. She initially said we were having fajitas, which can totally be low cal, but we ended up having gourmet pizza. Very tasty, but I went over my allotment by quite a bit. So I jumped right back up on Sunday and will keep trucking along. We all need a cheat meal every now and then!

BTW Elmunque - that's an extremely amazing thing you would do for your friend

To those of you who pre-log... let me ask you something my sister asked me about logging. We got into a very healthy discussion about logging and if I should be doing it. I tend to obsess and can get into an unhealthy place with it (which I'm wroking on). But she also mentioned that if I'm logging and see I have x amount of calories, do I just eat them because I can or because I"m legitimately hungry.

I prelogged almost all my food today except the few items, ilke a banana and cucumber, that had to be weighed. I saw where I was and felt good so I treated myself to a 260 calorie brownie. It was amazing. But I don't think I would have done it if I didn't feel like there was such a big "cushion" as the rest of my stuff for today, combined wiht my calorie burn, would have been a nice deficit.

Do you e ver think like that? Like now I have X amount of calories to eat whatever I want so I will?
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Before I got on MFP, I used to try to use a meal plan to plan out dinners at home, not so much for healthy eating but just to help with general organization and getting food on the table at a reasonable hour at dinner time after a busy day at work and with the kids. I haven't been doing the meal planner as much for the past several months but I do think planning ahead, whether it is on paper, on MFP, or just in your own mind helps a lot for a variety of reasons (make better choices throughout the day, easier to get dinner on the table if you know what you need to do when you get home from work, etc).

Also, I absolutely eat whatever I want with calories left over at the end of the day. Or throughout the day if I know that dinner is going to keep me within my budget. I'm not a big sweets person but I almost always have at least one glass of wine at the end of the night after I get the kids to bed. Even if that puts me over my daily goal.