Gooood morning!

I don't do much to prepare for every day... I don't track my food before I eat it,I have breakfast (or at least coffee) at work, and I buy lunch for the week at the grocery store across from work on Monday, so basically my morning routine is 1) get dressed and 2) hop out the door. I guess I've added getting my gym clothes together so I can't use "well I don't have the right clothes" as an excuse not to walk or work out. I think that is honestly what's helped me keep on track most of all. If I don't head home before walking or going to the gym, I don't have that extra opportunity to realize I'm tired and sit "just for a minute" which of course turns into the whole night.

Good Morning my loverlies! :flowerforyou:

I do SO much better when I prepare!

I am about a week behind in life right now. Ok, maybe about 2 days behind. I need to get paid, go grocery shopping and stock up on some of my healthy staples. (Like Salad mix)

I DID pack my 1.5 Liter bottle of water half frozen to take with me to work.. I should get some points for that. But - 3 points for no breakfast, lunch or snacks. :grumble:

I need today to be lively around here. I am ALL caught up on my month from hell at work and I have decided I am going to give myself a play day. Or at least a play morning if possible. So....entertain me. :bigsmile:

Where's Karen? She always has good stories to tell.

I am so much better when I am prepared - today I am "armed" with good food to get back on track. Last night I went into the bag of candy my daughter had on table and she said"DONT EAT IT - stop eating hte twizzxerls you said today you were going to eat candy, mom did you not hear the woman on chooped who said she almost died from diabetes and now she is a size 2, I dont want you to wind up in the hosptial" as I stood there I kept eating the candy and fast so she didnt come and get it" I told her to get it out of the house and she sai d"no, you just to have to eat it"
I did feel very bad - I told her she hurt my feelings. But I will say I packed all my food for today - I thru out the eggplant parm left over instead of taking it with me..I have hard bolied eggs, salad, fruit and carrots...I am hopeful again today "Not in my stregth but His"

Good morning, duckies. It's another lovely November day here in Maine. I swear, I am still wearing WOOL SWEATERS. What the heck????

My day plan has to include what food and when and where. I try to do it the night before. I may not always follow my exact food plan, but if I don't have healthy choices, I will hit the drive-thru in a heartbeat.

Yesterday wasn't a good food day for me, I still haven't logged, and mostly I justified it by saying I haven't had a cheat day in so long... but I think there's more of a self sabotage going on. When I weighed myself and discovered I was down 31 pounds, I was so excited to weigh in at the bariatric center on Friday. Then I stuffed myself yesterday and now I'm back in that familiar panic place, that I'm Not good enough place. Well I'm not having that. I will weigh what I weigh, self-flagellation or not. Might as well approve of myself.

Good morning, duckies. It's another lovely November day here in Maine. I swear, I am still wearing WOOL SWEATERS. What the heck????

My day plan has to include what food and when and where. I try to do it the night before. I may not always follow my exact food plan, but if I don't have healthy choices, I will hit the drive-thru in a heartbeat.

Yesterday wasn't a good food day for me, I still haven't logged, and mostly I justified it by saying I haven't had a cheat day in so long... but I think there's more of a self sabotage going on. When I weighed myself and discovered I was down 31 pounds, I was so excited to weigh in at the bariatric center on Friday. Then I stuffed myself yesterday and now I'm back in that familiar panic place, that I'm Not good enough place. Well I'm not having that. I will weigh what I weigh, self-flagellation or not. Might as well approve of myself.

1. JEALOUS of your weather.
2. What the heck! Not logging? That doesn't sound like you. :noway:

I say log it so you can move on. Put it behind you and done and done! :smooched:

3. Get back to that GOOD place. :flowerforyou:

Ladies, the thing I keep having to remind myself when I have a day of less than stellar food choices is that you actually have to eat 3500 calories OVER your MAINTENANCE calories, not your daily calories with weight loss included that MFP assigns you - but 3500 over your maintenance (which is usually around 700-1000 over your MFP number), so unless you have eaten 4500 extra calories, it is likely that any "weekend gain" is more likely to be water weight from extra sodium or carbs! When I remember that, and that if I don't drink enough water for me (everyone's number is different), then my weight can easily go up and down 5 pounds or more in one single day! I had a doctor tell me that your urine should be between the color of lemonade and clear. If it isn't, you aren't getting enough water. So, my challenge to you, if you aren't already taking life's lemons and making your own "lemonade" *WINK*, drink one more glass of water today...what can it hurt?

For those of us using the scale as measurement - despite the fact that we don't want to celebrate those fat rolls (and believe me, I have enough of them for 3 people!), are you taking pictures? Are you taking measurements? Those things, plus the calories, plus the exercise, plus the numbers on the scale - they are all just data. Why do we let them be an emotional sucker punch? Because I know I do. I am working to distance myself from the emotional up and downs. If today, I feel pretty good, I get in some good steps and water, then today is a success, right? There is more than one way to measure success.... Anything you do today that you didn't do yesterday is a success. I find guilt to be one of the absolute worst things for me on my journey. If I make less than stellar decision, I just have to own that choice, accept the consequence, and refuse to carry that guilt around with me. Why weigh myself down further?

Will one choice undo everything I have worked for? Heck, no. Will one (or ten, for that matter) smores mean I don't deserve to smile today? I have to make absurd comparisons sometimes to let me know how silly or obsessive I am being about something that isn't as important as I'm making it out to be. If in one day, I make more decent choices that poorer ones, I'm winning. How about you - will you win with me today? Even if you have to choose the lesser of two evils?

(HUGS)

I've started telling myself LIAMO whenever I make a choice that I feel isn't in line with my goals -- log it and move on!

It does feel like a big step to be honest about all of it.

Love it! I struggled with that this weekend. I was going back and forth whether to log all the crap I put in my mouth or just chalk it up to a free day, and finally the going back and forth was driving me nuts, once I decided to just log it, I felt so much better. Even seeing it all added up, it still didn't bug me that much although it was higher than what I had added in my head, I just felt like I could really move on and the going back and forth was over.

I am better if I have "good" choices around me, but I can not pre-plan anything. It's like I am being told what to do, even though it was me telling me what to do! It's also a case of if I pre-plan and then whatever it is that I planned doesn't fit my mood, I am likely to start grabbing little things here and there to compensate for what I really felt like having. Not sure if that all makes as much sense written out as it does in my head! lol

I will admit too that I don't always log my "bad" days. The reason for this is because I don't want to remember what I ate, especially if I know I ate "bad" and the scale still goes down. My head will then think that I can eat that bad more often and still lose weight. It is such a mental game to me some times.

Karen, I am so sick of this weather. I might be able to open the pool by August the way we are going! When I took the kids to school this morning it was 42! Grrrrrr.

Heather, I was thinking the same thing about KnitorMiss and her pep talk! Go Team is right!

Knit, great advice on the pictures and measurements. I haven't done either in a while and maybe it is time that I should again.

It's so nice to know that I am not alone. Thank you all for allowing me to be part of this wonderful group.

Hugs!! :flowerforyou:

I had a doctor tell me that your urine should be between the color of lemonade and clear. If it isn't, you aren't getting enough water. So, my challenge to you, if you aren't already taking life's lemons and making your own "lemonade" *WINK*, drink one more glass of water today...what can it hurt?

Hahahahahahaha!!!! I LOVE this.

Good afternoon pals! Whew what a busy week it's been already and it's only Wed! I have made so many phone calls to make appts for the month of June and between sports camps/practices, I might cry!

So anywho, yesterday was my hubby and I's 14 yr anniversary but I had to take my 9 yr old to her end of season softball party. They had pizza & cake and I did not eat a single bite! Mostly because I had mexican lasagne waiting on me at home, and I knew I could have a slice of cake and fit it in, but I had no desire too. That's a win for me! It was chocolate cake y'all!

My plans for each day are usually about the same, I meal plan every 2 weeks for dinner, so when I shop I mostly only buy what is on my list. We typically eat a "normal" dinner meaning I don't always make everything lowfat or low calorie but we eat generally low cal breakfast & lunches so it works out OK for us. My biggest issue is getting my butt in gear to exercise, I just got 30 day shred I need to try and we bought a total gym type of equipment for $20!!!! on a yard sale site WOOT!

I want to catch up on everyone individually but I have to run right now, but I"ll be back to check in on you

I think tracking it all is a really good thing to do unless you can't! LOL. At the Graduation Party I ate way too much of two different cakes.. I couldn't log that if I tried because there were no set portions and one was home made. Call me picky but to track I have to have it exact. When that kind of thing happens I just have to write it off and carry on. I think the difference now is that when I have to do something like that I AM getting back on that horse and eating healthy again.

Julie, I do a lot of "guessing" with the tracker. It's way, way too much of a bother to type in all my recipes and get exact calorie counts, so I dig around and try a few different ones. You can search "homemade chocolate cake with vanilla frosting", check the calorie count on a few, and take the average. You won't get the exact, calories or macros, but you WILL have a record to look back on, and I'm finding that's just as useful and revealing. I few days ago, I scrolled back over all of my food diaries and was really shocked by the number of times I grab something from a drive-thru. Usually it's a pretty good choice, like a Dunkin Donuts eggwhite flatbread, but still, I know it's healthier for my body if I make something at home that's fresh. Seeing that record just solidified for me one of the changes I can make. I know Patrick challenged you to record everything last week. I'd like to challenge you for today through next Wednesday to do the same. I'll do it too! And go back and log that cake and I'll go back and try to recreate the mess of yesterday, including the icecream cone I ate on the DRIVE TO THE GYM!!! Yes, I ate icecream in the gym parking lot.

On the way home from my grocery run this morning, I had one of those out of control moments with a carton of slim-a-bear no sugar added icecream bars. I ate one in the parking lot of the grocery store. Ate another driving down the first road, Ate a third on the second road. When I found myself unwrapping the andfourth and knew I would eat the whole package of six, I decided to do some hucking. Yes, folks, the squirrels and possums of Maine are eating slim-a-bear bars today. I'm very happy for them... Finally at their morbid obesity support group meetings they can talk about something other than the donuts and french fries I usually huck at them. In total, I only ingested an extra 300 calories and will easily swim that off tonight, but I'd like to get to a point in my battle with food where I don't have this type of compulsion. Maybe I never will be able to control it... maybe, like an alcoholic or drug addict, I need to just not put my substance in reach, especially when I am alone.

Hi Karen, you just let use know when you need to bailed out of jail for all those littering fines .

Your right that you may never be able to control your food urges. The conclusion I cam to early on with foods like that and other items I can't seem to control myself around was simply to not have them int he house. I'm not cutting them out of my life all together but I don't bring temptation food in the house unless its in a single serving. If i want a soda i walk to the gas station and buy a single bottle, if i want ice-cream i go get a single serving, chips only in single serving bags that I might buy with a sandwich. It's just the way it has to bee for me. I can have these things but I can be in control of them. it makes it a lot easier to deal with temptation and desire. If I have a craving while shopping a go around to all the items and look at their nutritional label and i go the math, wich usually helps reassure me that the pitiful serving size for that amount of calories wouldn't be something I found satisfying. Granted now you have me thinking about It's-it.

Hi Karen, you just let use know when you need to bailed out of jail for all those littering fines .

Your right that you may never be able to control your food urges. The conclusion I cam to early on with foods like that and other items I can't seem to control myself around was simply to not have them int he house. I'm not cutting them out of my life all together but I don't bring temptation food in the house unless its in a single serving. If i want a soda i walk to the gas station and buy a single bottle, if i want ice-cream i go get a single serving, chips only in single serving bags that I might buy with a sandwich. It's just the way it has to bee for me. I can have these things but I can be in control of them. it makes it a lot easier to deal with temptation and desire. If I have a craving while shopping a go around to all the items and look at their nutritional label and i go the math, wich usually helps reassure me that the pitiful serving size for that amount of calories wouldn't be something I found satisfying. Granted now you have me thinking about It's-it.

Me thinks RatsPats has been tippin' a few back today....:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: