Afternoon all

My.goals this tine around are
A) Make inroads to my protein goal. Ideally hitting 120-140 g most days
Carry on mindful eating
C) Start eating cleaner
D) Joining you.on those maintenance activities. Sounds like a really good idea
E) Get through week two of C25K

So for today I have hit my protein goal of 142g. I have eaten home made stuff with minimal processing unless you count the cheese or beans. I am going to eat my dinner tonight mindfully after tiredly and mindlessly ploughing through lunch. Maintenance today is hard it's swimming club day but.I think I will take kids to soft play for an hour after school and just wander through the forums at my leisure. Tonight I'm too tired to run so am just boxing and lifting. It's a start

Just popping in for a sec to say Woohooo! I just fed the troops homemade chili. Time for me to suit up and swim. I am definitely more alert today without that ridiculous amitriptyline in my system, but the trade-off is more back pain. Can't wait to shoot that sucker full of cortisone next week!

Nancy, when I get a chance, I'll post the recipe for Jim's garlic dressing. Very good, very light.

Everyone's goals look great!

Melissa, I kayaked every day in summer at 350 pounds. You'll be FINE!

K.

Hey Carly---glad you are joining us!

We'll still do a hard-core, boot-camp type challenge now and then, but most of us are intent on healthy skill and habit building. And Zac has us all working on broader life goals. I know that for me, stress and anxiety are eating triggers, so it makes sense to address some of the life issues that cause my stress and anxiety (thus my "maintenance" category this round... in 10 days I'll have completed 10 things that are "should do" and that I'm always stressing out or beating myself up over not getting done). In fact, I think before doing the supper dishes, I may just work on my goals!

K.

I had a good challenge Day 1---all food logged, lots of swimming time (easy to do with a 15 year old, 11 year old, and 7 year old full of boundless energy).

My decision to drop to a low dose amitriptyline (spell check keeps trying to change that word to "pantyliner" bwahahahaha) was good--I could actually focus on things again, hold conversations, keep the drool INSIDE my mouth, you know... that sort of thing, hahahaa! And after all the bull, I was able to pick up a new script for vicodin today. Such a pain in the butt... after ten years of a disease with chronic pain, you would think my doctor would understand that I know my own body. I'm definitely a weirdo when it comes to meds. I have a crazy powerful immune system, and when I go off my immunosuppressants, I can kick strep throat or pneumonia in two days. I have such a high tolerance for pain that I've actually passed kidney and gallstones just by deep breathing and doing some yoga. So yes, I need to manage this nerve pain until that ruptured disc either retracts and heals or until I give up on it and get surgery, and my personal cocktail that seems to work best is a combo of a very low dose of a muscle relaxant, a very low dose of amitriptyline, and a low of vicodin. That dulls the pain enough for me to function, get a workout in the water, and get a good night's sleep. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

The women in here over 40 will appreciate my "maintenance goal" today... I had to wait at the pharmacy for 40 minutes, so I parked in the corner of the parking lot in full sun, whipped the tweezers and magnifying mirror out of my purse, and plucked the stray hairs out of my eyebrows and various other parts of my face (where the frig do these hairs come from??? like the one growing out of my frigging EARLOBE? really???). Natural light is just awesome for this kind of maintenance!

I'm actually geared up for a second maintenance round tonight as I have my goals list here with me and may start a goals thread and make it sticky if I can figure that out again.

On the "not so good" part of the day, there was a lot of junk food in the house today, and I ate a few things I would like to go back in time and take out of my mouth. I did record everything, and calorie-wise, I did okay because of the swimming, but boy is it tough to think that I've got my food compulsions under control and then find that I don't completely. I will, however, give myself some credit. Compared to what I would have done in the past, today's little excusion off plan was NOTHING. So gold star for that. And gold star for this morning when I went to pick up my grocery order (I place the order online then drive to the store to pick it up--awesome system!!!) and asked the grocery clerk to re-shelve the two quarts of ice cream I'd ordered on impulse because god knows if you have company over, you need ice cream, right?

Okay, other than starting Day 2's thread with a quick note and trying to post a goals thread, I think that's enough babbling for today. Nice to see so many participants in this round with some great goals. I haven't seen too many posts about awards, though. For the last challenge I awarded myself some awesome skin care products from Dermalogica. (Their anti-aging kit.) Very excited to try the mask tomorrow as a maintenance goal. I'm not sure about this challenge. I may just put $20 into a jar and start a challenge reward fund for myself!

What are you all going to do?
K.

Good day everyone!!! I could have sworn I posted goals somewhere, but where did they go (George?????). Hahaha. Not sure what I posted either which is really bad, but these, I have written down.

1. Maintain at 75g of net carbs a day. Last week was harder then expected, so I am giving this another week.
2. 80-120oz water min a day, with 40oz of water with lemon or lime instead of mix-ins.
3. Enjoy my food and company instead of plowing through the food as quick as possible.

I love everyone's goals. They look awesome.

My reward is just going to be "be kind to yourself." My birthday will be right after the wrap of this "challenge," but payday is further off, so not likely to be celebrating soon... So, being loving, kind, and forgiving for myself, right now, that's my reward.