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I have to drink 3 of these today to reach my goal!! This is my first bottle.. 2 more to go!!! Lol

kate it looks like your program is working

karla nice goals You will get there with your sugars

cbabie I had cantaloupe today too. I could eat a whole melon though by myself

peru Yaaay on no sweets. Me too. This will be a challenging week as I have lots of social engagements.

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Good morning ladies!!
So, yesterday I reached my goal of drinking 8 glasses of water. I actually had 9 lol.
I didn't have any sweets
And I did some cleaning for activity, but no Zumba

My goals for today:
Continue the water intake
Get some exercise in (was planning to go for a walk at the park, but it looks like it's raining ughhh)
No sweets
Limit the carbs and add more veggies to my food!!

@dankas001 yayyyy!! That's great news! I hope and pray all turns out well and you will not need radiology.
@theslightedgeforever you can do it!!! I have a birthday party on Saturday, so I need to watch to be careful, but we can do this!! Plan ahead and take something healthy with you, if you can, so you won't eat all the sweets that they might offer.
@bugmom92 My hubby is the same way when it comes to going to the Dr. He thinks they just want the insurance money and he doesn't trust them much. He hasn't been to the Dr in 2 years and I'm trying to convince him to go!!! I've been eating watermelon all week!! I love it!! And it really fills you up!! Have a great op day!!!
@cbabie Hope you have a great day!!!

danka woohoo what wonderful news. Here's to your goals

peru Yaaay on your water and no sweets. Today I took some brocolli cheddar bites and removed my bun from bbq beef and only ate the meat. Spit a piece of date cake with my friend and had one bite. second gathering I told her not to make anything but she had an unexpected guest and I are half piece

cbabie what can you turn to so you don't go overboard? You are doing well with your walking

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Good morning ladies!!!!
Ok, so I went overboard with the sweets yesterday. I had 1/2 of panera bread cookie and 1/2 Costco chocolate chip cookie and I had pizza for dinner ughhh! I did track it all!!
I didn't get all my water in, but I was able to go to the park and walk around.
Today's goals
Do my Zumba ( I'm going to do it as soon as I get out of this board lol)
Drink my 8-10 glasses of water
Low carbs
No cookies, cakes, etc lol

@cbabie I had a shake this morning. That's a good idea about having a shake for dinner too. I do that sometimes. Since I had cookies yesterday I'll do the shake for dinner today!!!

@theslightedgeforever Great job on splitting the cake!!' When I first read it I was like "she spit it out.. really? Lol lol) but then as I kept reading I got it!!!! Lol lol

Ok ladies have a great day!! I'll check back later!!!

Today I had to go for a pre-employment physical and TB test, and fingerprint/background check. It was a 25 mile drive and took forever. My friend's son asked her to walk with him tonight, and my hubby wanted to watch a show, so no walk for me. I got some gardening done at least. We didn't go kayaking yesterday because my daughter wasn't feeling good. And last night's Pokemon "walk" was 2 hours of standing around at a park with a bunch of other people...no walking...I think I need to set up some rules for hubby if he wants to go out hunting for Pokemon, there has to be some exercise involved! Tomorrow night I'm trying a recipe on the WW site for a Dill Yogurt dip and Pepper and Mushroom kabobs, to go with steak on the grill. I'll share it if it turns out good. Tomorrow morning is weigh in. I'll be down for the week, and for the month, but not anywhere near my goal. I have a goal I'm determined to make by the first weekend of September, which will make my clothes more comfortable. I've been doing a trick with my unsweetened iced tea...instead of lemon, which tastes good but has that sour taste, I put 2 drops of lemon essential oil in it. It tastes lemony without being sour, and really gives me a little energy and makes me not so hungry. I don't always remember to do it, but I'm making it more of a habit now. Sometimes I mix iced tea with La Croix to give it a little pizzazz...helps me get my fluids in!

cbabie and peru, your talking about shakes reminded me I need to get back to smoothies in the morning. Mine have fruit, greens, yogurt, and flax seed, and hold me over well for lunch. I've just been lazy lately.
dankas, your news is wonderful. Your goals are great...I need to get my 8000 steps in consistently so I can step it up. Baby steps...
slightedge, you really shouldn't spit cake at your friend, haha. It would definitely be a way to get her to not EVER feed you anything again! Nice choice to take the bun off the meat. It makes a difference.
jackie, hope you're feeling better now. Yeah, hard to believe July is done...I'm not sure where time is flying to, but I wish it would slow down just a bit. I need more time in my days and weeks to get stuff done!

Check in: Today's goals (Wednesday)
Water 6 out of 10 cups
Post here
Track everything
Sugars - ugh...soda...but it was Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper!
Activity - none

Until tomorrow,
Karla :-)

peru you ate only half

Hello ladies!!
Ok, confession time!! I didn't do so great today. I attended this mini retreat at a Church near me. It's a Christian mom's group. It was a great experience, but it did mess up my eating. I had my smoothie this morning. It held me up until lunch. I thought they were going to provide lunch. The retreat was from 10am to 2pm. All they had were bagels, crackers, cheese, mini muffins, cookies, coffee and tea. I was hungry, so I ate a few crackers, some cheese, a mini muffin, half a bagel with cream cheese and that's it!!
But here's my confession!! I had 2 cookies when I got home and some animal crackers ughhh!!! I did track it all!!
Hubby went to Costco and bought the cookies for the kids, but I need to be strong and stay away!!!!

@cbabie I stopped by the boards the other day and no one was there!! I agree and I'm so glad you started this board. I look forward to checking in with you ladies daily!!!
@dankas001 great job on the walking. I can never reach 10k. I only get halfway there lol
@bugmom92 that Pokemon thing has been all over the news and not for good things lol!! My hubby loves those essential oils. I drink a cup of warm water with lemon every morning. Hopefully tomorrow you'll get your walk in.
@theslightedgeforever so today I did bad with the cookies lol. I get the panera bread cookies for the kids. They love it. I usually get one and split it in half for both to share, but this day the girl at the register was someone I knew and she gave me an extra cookie. My daughter loves sweets, but my son not so much, so he didn't eat much of his cookie, so I ate some and threw away the test. As for the Costco cookies. Hubby got it!! I've told him many times not to get it. He doesn't understand the struggle it is for me because he's never had a weight problem. He doesn't get it!! My struggle!!!

Ok ladies have a good night. Sorry for the long post lol!!

Good morning ladies!!
Just a quick post to say hello. Gotta get ready for a birthday party that starts at 10am!! It's 8:20am and I need to leave by 9:00am to be there on time, but the kids are still sleeping and I want to go back to bed lol lol lol!!!
Have a great day everyone!! I'll try to do personals later today!!

peru Have fun at birthday party

cbabie well I ate lots of carbs yesterday but still managed to stay in my range yesterday. I was comparing last week with the week before stats. Protein increased from 58g to 61g. carbs increased too though 126 g to 168g. my fat dropped though which is maybe why I was HUNGRY for two days. So I will have to go back and examine what I was eating.

Has anyone figured out the net calories yet and what they should be? My thinking is that it should be 500 each day since it takes 3500 cals to lose a lb. I know I should move around more during the day. I will start there.

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Hello ladies!!!
Just a quick hello!! Where is everyone?
@dankas001 @jackie_van_d @bugmom92 : Where are you ladies???

@cbabie I've been doing bad with the carbs too. Had a gain this week, so I gotta get back on track. I lose 10 lbs and I keep getting stuck there!!
@theslightedgeforever I have to take a look at the article you sent. I skimmed through it, but I'll read the whole thing later. Gotta find out what this net calorie is.

Have a good night ladies!!!

peru when you have time go back and read the article. I found it interesting on how our body works each month. Plus it showed me I'm not really doing enough each week or I would get better results All from looking at one number. according to the article I need to be between 2000-5000 net calories to lose weight I was at 1777 last night. It's a rolling week so you are always looking at the last 7 days so like my protein, I will increase that number.

jackie woohoo on no junk. Your body will thank you. I wanted something sweet and thought about one reeses miniature. I'm lucky in that I won't sit and eat the whole bag. Now Doritos is a different story. But after seeing that stupid 1777 number I said don't need it. lol Had I eaten it that number would have been lower.

Tomorrow I go to dr to get my stitches out yaaaay.

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yogurt parfait