Sunday night checkin... on point for food, limited walking (4000 steps today) for exercise. Diary closed.

Have a 7 hour drive tomorrow tobget back home, Dad's reunion was a success and he is looking forward to the next one. I am looking forward to my wife, daughter and my own bed!

Target for the week is to hit the gym each day (weights/cardio) and stay on point with my eating.

Keep up the good work folks!

I really love having a fitness tracker. Personally I find it ever so helpful. Probably not terribly accurate. But if nothing else they are consistent and thus allow you to measure your own performance against your own benchmark.

Anyway, this is my Monday night check in. My Sunday night one turned into that little rant over in last weeks thread lol.

So for clarity. Exercise done for both days. Sun was a walk and a ride. And the calories were all within ideal range.
Monday marks a routine change for me. Having established that my treadmill can't take 1/2 an hour of me at a time, I'm going back to two walking cardio sessions, but I've raised the bar to 2x20min. And I've decided to lock in 3 weight sessions per week on Mon/Wed/Fri. So today I got my first 20min session done, push mowed a decently large lawn for 1/2 an hour which I'm counting as my 2nd session since I do have a ride on mower if I choose lol. And got my weights done. About to have dinner and will lock down the diary within range.

Have a great week everyone.

Huh, glove weights sound interesting, I've never seen those before. (Off to google glove weights)

I had a late night catastrophe. It was pretty bad. Sometime near 1am, still not sleepy, the snack fairy came and twisted my arm. Just one slice of leftover pizza I thought. It's only 189cal I told myself.. I'll just put it on Tuesdays snack section of my diary.. 5 pieces and 943calories later I'm sitting here asking myself dude wtf have you done. And went to bed full of pizza and deep, deep remorse.

Anyway, so yeah today's challenge is only consume 600calories lol. I think I'd better get that cover off the pool quick smart.

Hey everyone, checking in. Kinda stressed. I have been averaging about 1.5-2 lbs loss a week, up until 2 weeks ago. I've stalled, and it's stressing me out like no other. I have 26 days left until my surgery and I was really hoping to get another 5 lbs down. I don't know if it's stress that is keeping my weight up or what. My family and I are taking a mini vacation to California next week - a get away before surgery, and although I know I'll be more active and getting more steps in, there will also be more food temptations.

Also I haven't weighed myself at home since Saturday. The damn battery ran out and when we went to change them last night they are the round lithium ones (like watch batteries) which of course we didn't have on had. I've been weighing myself here at work, but I weigh 3 lbs more here than I usually do at home.

Going to literally take it one day at a time. I need to make the best choices today and worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.

Question: And I'm pretty sure I know the answer, but I'll ask the experts: So MFP says I should be eating 1650 calories a day. With my surgery coming up, and the need to see some real weight loss in the next few weeks, should I aim more for 1200 or will that stall me even more?

Desperate...

Hey everyone! I'm checking in. Pretty good day - food wise and exercise wise. Got 16k steps. One of my goals was to eat more mindfully and stop eating in the car. So far so good. Never realized how much I was eating until I slowed down. Still have trouble snacking, but it's better..

Weight wise I'm pretty consistent. Haven't lost a lot (this month), but measured my BF % and have gone down 3% since the beginning of September. No loss of muscle either. I'll take that any day.

Hopefully tomorrow will be good too. Work is a bit stressful and I'm always rewarded with food. They also ridicule me for how I eat. "You eat like a gerbil." "I bet you want some cake right now." "Eat something with some sustenance - cornbread." Lmao it's ridiculous, but I still stuck with it. Overall a good day! I hope everyone else is sticking with it too!

Hi all, checking in for Wednesday. Calories are under control. Really wasn't feeling the exercise today, but I didn't want to break the pattern so I got into the gym anyway. Felt ok by the end of the session too.

Hey everyone - sorry for not checking in yesterday; it was a very...VERY off day. I stayed up way too late Monday night (lost track of time playing video games with the boyfriend, whoops) and then forgot to take my ADHD meds...the result was not fun. I was fatigued and felt hollow-headed all day - in my last class of the day, we had a practice test for our first exam next week and I fell asleep in the middle of it. The teacher noticed I looked tired but had no idea I was asleep because I was still writing the whole time. That's not really relevant to anything here beyond just being an illustration of how out of it I was...but it's one of the most humorous illustrations of being unmedicated on a bad day that I've ever ended up with. So, I was way too wiped out to do any deliberate workouts outside of the yoga session in my stress management class. At least I managed to get that one in, though - and it was pretty intense; it was mostly hips and core and balance and other stuff that I really need to work on (whether because its a weakness, because it's important to something I love doing, or both). But then after that, the blerch visited me, because of course it did - it had a golden opportunity, after all; my meds not only improve my executive functions (such as SELF-CONTROL), but they reduce my appetite. Without them it was easy to fall for the little voice going "hey, I know you closed out your diary, but listen. Listen. Have some chips. And take that last brownie your boyfriend couldn't finish; you don't want it to go to waste, do you? It doesn't matter, it's not that much~!" But I'm pretty sure it actually wiped out most of my deficit for the day.

I'm trying not to beat myself up for it. I'll just try to stay on the low end of my target calorie range for today and tomorrow, get my workouts in today, all that good stuff...and possibly find myself a good weekly pill case. When I get home I'm also going to separate all the big bags of snacks into single-serving bags so it's harder to lose track of quantities, and when payday rolls around I'll be getting a snack safe so I can't listen to the blerch no matter how badly weakened I am against it.

Speaking of buying stuff, there's a delay on getting my fitness tracker and I am frustrated. Boyfriend put it on his card because the sale was going to expire before I got paid next, as we do for each other pretty often, and...it got flagged into verification limbo. Ah well...this kind of thing is to be expected, but it's still annoying.

And, in additional frustrating news, I had to drop one of my classes because the teacher, as nice as he is, is not very good at actually...teaching. He pretty much just reads from the book, and the book was chosen because it was cheap rather than because it was good. I thought I'd be able to keep up okay by using outside materials, but two quizzes and one exam have proven me wrong about that - because even though I usually get the material, I can't always tell what he's asking for. But I can turn this one partially into a positive, at least - it was my middle of three classes on those days; using that time to go home would just be a waste of gas, but my gym has a location right next to my first campus...the solution for what to do with that time is obvious.

And, I'm getting antsy waiting for my next race. It's at the end of this month, its my first obstacle race, and I'm anxious about the possibility of missing the start time again - on top of the fact that I don't want to wait that long! I'm gonna need to find ways to keep myself busy before I get too stir-crazy.

So, long update, and not that much to it despite that, but it is kind of for two days.

Yesterday was a good day but over did it, and had to take things slower today. I feel like I’m making progress though. I’m learning some new moves from Daily Burn 365, the app I use. I can almost do a decent lunge and squat now. (almost).

Last week I did something huge for me. I gave up my morning coffee. Not that you have to give up your morning joe - I would never ever be that cruel. I absolutely adore coffee and spend a lot of time in coffee houses with my family, it’s the social hang out here on the coast ... but it upset my stomach and I was on Prilosec, I have kidney disease and prilosec is linked to making kidney disease worse. I would probably have continued to ignore it anyway but I broke out in an itchy rash and started retaining a lot of water and not feeling well which is usually a very bad sign for kidneys.

Well, so far I’ve done it. Had a bit of decaf here and there but no espresso shots, no cup after cup in the a.m.

Having gone off Prilosec though I have wicked heartburn now kinda all the darn time. I’m in a lot of pain, if you know of any home remedies or help that would be great. I’m using Zantac help mitigate it but it’s not working as well as the Prilosec.

Feeling very tired tonight, would like to comment to everyone, really like reading all the posts. Will try to post in the morning when I have more oomph!

@OregonRunner - some people swear by ACV (apple cider vinegar) - just a tablespoon in water to help with acid reflux and heartburn. Be warned tho, for some people the addition of ACV makes the problem worse, so YMMV.

@burly_man308 - gout sux, I used to work with a guy that would come in to the office about once a quarter limping and grimacing because he was having a flare-up. Take care of you and don't push it too fast or hard.

I closed my diary last night and was under for calories for the day - this is getting easier now that I am back in the swing of logging food and keeping up with what I actually eat. While on the subject, my coffee intake has stayed about the same. I do IF on weekdays with my first meal occurring after noon, so the coffee helps keeps me from feeling hunger in the morning.

I have been a lazy slug for the last 3-4 months and haven't been doing a lot of exercise, but today that changes. I am going to do push-ups and squats every hour as a break away from the computer. Today's challenge is to do 20 push-ups and 30 squats every hour that I work at the computer - I will reply to this thread tomorrow with the total number accomplished for the day.