Lois, most weeks, I'd say, you hit me where I live. But last week--I got the burn up to 1852/day and the steps were over 7000/day. But I did go back to look at what went into the 1416 calories/day. I remember Timdad saying that over time, if the calories in are fewer than the calories out, you will lose. But I know that things like salt intake can fool the scale. So I looked at my composition and found that, on average, I ate 1416 calories a day, of which 21% were Protein, 46% were Carbs, 33% were Fat, and 0% were Alcohol. (Those are the four main BodyMedia categories.) It also shows average intake for other things, just not the percentage, and sodium was high (2,220 mg per day). So it looks like I need to watch salt and fat and move at least as much as I did the past week if not more. I guess that will be my goal for October 15-21.

Hi, Ladies. We made it to the weekend. Yah! All three of you are inspiring me with your losses.

We thought our Saturday would start with some activity. There's a juried craft fair at our fairgrounds that we love to do to, and it involves lots of walking and some stair climbing, too. But as we were drinking our coffee, hubby got a call from a older gentleman we know asking him to take him to the emergency room. He has grown children, and I think his wife still drives, so I'm not sure why he was reaching out to us--but he did, and so of course, plans had to change. This fellow has recently undergone extensive surgery for oral cancer. We visited him at the rehab last Sunday, and he went home on Tuesday, so some complication has occurred. Hopefully we can go to the craft fair later today, or we'll go tomorrow.

In the meantime, I'm taking some time to log food, check in with you, and I may take a walk up to the bank to get some cash. It's about a mile roundtrip, so just enough to get the blood circulating!

I, too, need to plan some meals, Lois. You are so good with that. I did do one good thing yesterday, eating-wise. Late last night, hubby and I were watching Top Chef, which I taped while he was way last week. I had had a light, early dinner and was truly hungry again by that time. My brain said "ice cream." My brain said "sundried tomato and basil cream cheese spread." Then my brain said "apple." And apple won.

Hi, everyone. I just logged dinner and popped over here to see if anyone had posted. Kelly, it's so good to hear from you. They admitted our friend yesterday, so hubby got home in time for us to get to the craft fair for a couple of hours, and--wait for it--we went walking last night, too. Did it around 9 p.m. and for the first time this year, I pulled out some gloves. It was nippy, but nice to smell the fall air.

Today we ran errands and slam dunked Costco. On the way home, hubby remembered that he had made plans for us to meet folks for an early dinner, and he forgot to tell me. I knew we had somewhere to be around 7, but I didn't realize that he also agreed to meet people at 5:30 at a restaurant that would take us 45 minutes to get to. We barely had time to get everything out of the car, quickly change clothes, and get out the door again. There was no time for the afternoon walk I had counted on.

We got back about 45 minutes ago and were quite alarmed to see our garage door open. It was not open when we left. In fact, our next door neighbor said that it was not open 20 minutes before we came home. We have no idea what happened. Hubby went through every nook and cranny in the house and there's no sign anyone was in here. The only thing we can think of is that someone nearby has a new garage door opener and the codes are similar enough to open ours, too. We had planned to go walking again tonight, but given this little incident, I think we'll stay in. Which means that I'll still have a small deficit, but not nearly what I had hoped.

Kelly, I'm also finding that steps alone won't cut it for me, and I know that I have to start focusing more on the quality, quantity, and timing of my food. Twice this week, I been really aware of how uncomfortable I am at my present weight. The latest was tonight when it seemed like everyone was taking pictures, and all I could think was, "Please do not post a full body shot of me on facebook!"

So let's all share what works (and what doesn't) and keep each other motivated. We can do it