I am going to begin with baby steps.

My mini goal this week is to drink water each day. (I usually only drink tea)
Log food.

1. Stop weighing myself every day. Weight fluctuates too much Only weigh in on Thursdays.
2. Log everything, even if I go over my calories. Not every day can be perfect.
3. Begin working out with weights and start upper body and squats.
4. Cardio at least 3 days a week and try for 45 minutes this week.

I like the mini goal - I'm still having troubles getting in water 8 times a day.

My goal this week is small since I'm just starting, but a small goal is better then no goal right.

1. No fast food

Shayla: One step at a time helps.
HLaR: Good work keep going.

My goals are getting their. However this week I'm finding harder to say no to Kraft Service. In the afternoons I've been having the Chicago Mix Popcorn. But staying within my calories.

As mentioned, Monday I didn't go for my walk, but today I did. I did the incline 2x2 times. So getting better.

Mini Goal, most days I have enough water (weekends are harder) because I have .75-1 liter of water while getting ready in the morning to get my system going. Then I try and drink one more through the day at least. Today I'm down, so I'll try and make up for it tonight.

Ok, well here goes!
Since I am only on day two, I am keeping my goals simple, so as not to overwhelm myself.
So, this week's goal: Track all the things! If it's going in my mouth I will track it!
Seems a bit simple, but the times I have been doing this and fall off the wagon almost immediatley it's been because I set all these crazy goals and then get overwhelmed. I am definitely a baby steps kind of girl
Good luck to everyone on their goals!

I set myself up to fail without even realizing it. My nieces bday party is planned for Saturday and dinner will be eating out. So I will go for no fast food next week and go with ..

Eat a new veggie this week

HLaR I hear you on the heat, not fun.

As far as food today, I did fairly well resisting Kraft service. I did pack some snacks and ended up having some trail mix for the afternoon, along with yogurt and berries. I was avoiding the veggies I had packed. I wasn't in the mood, but I was board at work and eating to fill the void and so I caved into the carrots for munching.

I feel like all I've done today is eat lol I am horrible at eating regularly. I don't get hungry so I will go all day with nothing but water and then by dinner time I'm nauseous from no food. Well since I've been focused on eating better and being more active that also means I'm more aware of setting regular meals. When you go from eating once a day to 3 times a day and a snack, that's a lot more chewing lol. It was yummy food and good for me food which was even better and I was under my cals by a few 100. I kicked today's *kitten*!!!

With kids, eating regularly can be a challenge. I'm a serious coffee drinker so I add Premier Protein to my coffee when I can't get food in. Good for you for tracking, even if it wasn't ideal. That was a huge hurdle for me. Either I wouldn't track my binges or cheats or higher calorie foods or I would give up all together...and you still were under cals? Awesome!

Last night was a bad night.

Start of the story, day before yesterday, my MIL (who we are moving in with to only have to care for one house) made puffed wheat squares, one of my favorites. I didn't have the calories left that day, so I didn't have one. Yesterday I watched carefully what I had so if I had a normal dinner I would have enough calories to have one. What does my wife make for dinner.......Pizza and potato salad. I ended up eating half of what everyone else did, and still felt like I was being left out, because that put me over, and if I ate anything else, I was just eating any exercise calories I may get packing boxes. Needless to say I had a slight meltdown over this. I still didn't get a puffed square and ended up over my calories and went to bed hungry. Not a good day. I'm still in a bit of a foul mood because of it. I understand why she did pizza, as we are in the middle of a move so quick and easy meals are required with ingredients that aren't packed, so running to the store to grab through in pizza, is a reasonable thing usually, but if your doing that, don't do potato salad (with full fat Mayo), get a bagged salad that is reasonable. So this was my own internal melt down, but somewhat with good reason.

My MIL was trying to say, well why don't you go to superstore every day and get what you want for dinner. That isn't a helpful idea, not only does that cost more, I all ready work long hours, and barely get to see my babies, and then I have to cook when I get home after everyone else eats, in a kitchen that is still a disaster as it is half merged/moved and barely any counter space.

My wife is doing most of the move and it is a lot on her shoulders, and I feel bad that I had a melt down over this, she is the one that has full right to have a melt down, but she keeps going. I would like to note this is not your typical move. This is a merge move. Step one, clear out basement, step two set up space for Inlaws to move downstairs into a "suite" type space, step three, move them down there. Ideally everything would have moved down, and the upstairs cleared out, but that isn't quite what happened. And so everything seems to take that much longer.

Based on this vent, I'm still a little bitter about last night, my wife knows I'm logging and trying really hard, especially having to resist the bad for you foods here at work, then she goes and does this.

Thanks for listening. Sorry for a long post.

jltheis7 wrote: »

Well one bad day isn't so bad. This is a stressful time for your family which makes it all the harder to not fall into the quick fix stress relievers that surround you which creates, yep more stress. It does sound like maybe you increase your calories right now, create a timeline for all the steps to be completed and choose a date to return to your current calories. And make it an absolute at every meal to have salads, veggies, etc. to fill you up. Spending time caring for yourself sounds really important right now so you can be the less-stressed parent and wife you want to be for your family.

I appreciate that you turned to us to support you through this. I admit freely that I just am not good at reaching out to others when emotions get the best of me and it makes my struggle harder than it needs to be. Keeping that stuff bottled up makes it that much easier to turn to the false emotional fix I get from food rather than deal with the source of the distress directly. Hopefully, you have a better day today than yesterday.

I chatted a bit with my wife, and in the end my wife understands that I am very serious about this this time (and hopefully it sticks). With that being said she will take that into consideration when we are doing the meals getting through this move, and hopefully using our healthy freezer slow cooker meals we had previously make with extra fresh veggies to go with them. Today I am doing better. eating a bit more today and making sure I brought an adequate lunch to make sure I'm not too far under my calorie goals that fuels grumpy.

I would like to say, sure just keep on maintenance or up my calories for now, but in the end I can come up with a million excuses not to start a change in diet, a move is just one of them. After the move, I could say, well, after I finish this job, then I can try then I don't have to resist the temptation of the food provided by work, but then after that would be, well it is Christmas, no one can effectively diet during the holidays, then New Year...resolutions never stick....etc. If I don't keep with it now, I fear I would be 350 pounds by the end of this year, so start now or continue avoiding it.

Thank you. I do think it is stress manifesting that I normally just eat away, but this time I need to work through it instead of feeding it.

It has been along time since I have been in this group. I once again loss track of me. I am starting a new.

This week for me was aweful! I don't know what got into me but I just wanted to eat and eat and eat and none of it good. I did get my water in a little bit at least most of the week. We will see what the scale says tomorrow. I'm kind of dreading it though.