Checking in for 12/23

1. Lose 5 lbs before 12/31/19 [doing good]
2. Stay under carb goal (< 35) and under calorie goal (<1,500) every day [successful today, being nervous for Xmas eve and Xmas day]
3. Exercise every day at least 30 minutes, walking on treadmill or outside if weather permits [only had time for 30 minutes on the treadmill for 1.8 miles]
4. Plan ahead every day which is challenging with so many potluck opportunities and I love to socialize. [I was able to keep out of the fudge and Christmas cookies knowing that I have planned to eat some on Christmas]

Happy Holidays to everyone and have a Merry Christmas.
Whatever happens over the next couple days know that we can get back on schedule, we've done it before.

Vicki

Yesterday was great for NEAT and water intake but then I had drinks and pizza so hopefully all the activity and exercise balanced that out. Today I plan to skip the potatoes and cheesecake and stick with meat and salad, plus a nice fast. Happy holidays everyone!

Day 25 is done for us. Not a great day, but we got thru it. 😼 We missed our carb goal by like 500% lol... someone just had to have pizza for breakfast again. 😾

MFP says we just squeaked under the calorie goal but with all the carbs I feel like we overate so I marked an X. 😾 We did log everything tho.

And we tried to make it up with some extra activity today too - did our regular morning workout, then also went for a walk & did some more NEAT and stuff.

1) Carbs < 30g - ❌
2) 1000 < Calories < 1500 - ❌
3) Log Everything! - ✅
4) Hit our activity goal every day - ✅
5) At least 5 workouts/week - ◼️◼️◼️◼️◻️

Tomorrow we gotta see the family for the holiday meal & stuff. We'll be trying extra hard to stay on track for that. 😼

Hope everyone else is having a good day today! Its the home stretch now, last 7 days of December! 😸

Doing so so these last few days. The 23rd my husband took me to one of my favorite restaurants so I went well over carbs. Yesterday wasn’t bad and today I stayed under my top end by a smidge. Activity has been mainly hauling babies around. One of the twins had a bad cold these past three days. I also did a good bit of housecleaning yesterday. I have not tried a new recipe yet. I’ve actually not cooked much in days other than our traditional Christmas omelets.

@anglyn1 I made the https://joyfilledeats.com/white-lazy-lasagna/ for Xmas eve and it was really really good. I didn't allow the spinach to thaw all the way so there was some extra runniness in the corner that I spooned out. I am going to make the recipe again this weekend and take it to a church potluck.

Thanks again for the recipe!

Checking in for Dec 26th. 😺

Today was our family's big get-together dinner thing. There was ham, potato caserole, corn, & i forget what else... and our sister's a great baker & made a big cheesecake for desert... and our mother had candies and chocolates & stuff out too. 🙀

But we stayed on plan. Just had some ham & skipped everything else. 😸

1) Carbs < 30g - ✅
2) 1000 < Calories < 1500 - ✅
3) Log Everything! - ✅
4) Hit our activity goal every day - ✅
5) At least 5 workouts/week - ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️

Hope everyone's having a good day! 😸

Week 4 - this week has been a mess...I actually kind of expected the holidays to throw a wrench in things...but what actually happened was lucifer's waterfall throwing a wrench into the holidays...so stomach unhappy and cramping, so not fun, starting on Tuesday evening...my food intake has been crazy low...Wed looks impressive, but it's not, it's mostly 2 bottles of Ballatore because my stomach is less argumentative about liquid than anything even remotely solid...yesterday it had a whole fit about peanut butter...and dinner was some mashed potatoes which it also had a cow about...feeling like this I haven't been doing any of my scheduled workouts, though I did get quite a few rounds on the elliptical that I didn't log at all before it hit...but that's ok, they still count...nothing since Tuesday when I did a full hour and was feeling amazing, right up until the cramps hit...ugh...it's not super uncommon for me to miss some workouts this time of month, but this is a really bad one even by my standards...hopefully it will all be over soon...tonight we are going bowling...which I am super not feeling up to, but the teen boy is excited, and his girlfriend is coming so there's no just staying in bed with tea and a heat pad...<sigh>...on the bright side - I didn't dive into the holiday food at all this year...and my measurements were ok when I did them last weekend, though I just did the tape measure and not calipers yet...I'll get back to working out in a few more days when all of this runs it's course...and, at least it's just that monthly time, not anything really dangerous or long-term...a few more days of hell and then I'll be back to some semblance of normality.

Hang in there!

check in for December 26.
Not as bad as I thought for craving carbs. The scale was up a bit but that is to be expected since I ate nothing but cookies for Christmas night supper.

1. Lose 5 lbs before 12/31/19 [If I can finish strong I'll be able to record 10 lb loss]
2. Stay under carb goal (< 35) and under calorie goal (<1,500) every day [carbs 24 and calories 1,135]
3. Exercise every day at least 30 minutes, walking on treadmill or outside if weather permits [2.1 mile walk on treadmill]
4. Plan ahead every day which is challenging with so many potluck opportunities and I love to socialize. [good planning for after Christmas, all the cookies are gone in the house and I have left over low carb lazy white lasagna]

We just have a handful of days left, hope everyone is doing well.

Check in for December 27.

Good day, on target for carbs and calories and exercise.

I got a fitbit for Christmas and I'm having a lot of fun figuring it out. I haven't been able to get to 10,000 steps yet but I'm trying to. It's difficult because I have a sedentary job all day.

I'm not sure that it's tracking the steps accurately when I'm on the treadmill.

Vicki

I’ve had a couple of good fasts the last two days with little snacking. Water intake has been good with lots of activity and exercise. Today is a rest day so I need to watch that I don’t overeat. I meant to get on the scale this morning and forgot so I’ll check tomorrow to see how I did last week on balancing the splurges with the plan. I can’t believe this year is nearly over! While I maintained for most of the year I have some pounds I’d like to shed moving forward. Here’s to looking forward to the new year!

We forgot to check in last night. It was a "very bad brain day" yesterday. However, we did stick to our goals.

Dec 29th:
1) Carbs < 30g - ✅
2) 1000 < Calories < 1500 - ✅
3) Log Everything! - ✅
4) Hit our activity goal every day - ✅
5) At least 5 workouts/week - ◼️◻️◻️ (last three days of the month)

@chickencereal good job staying determined & keeping to your plan.

@vkrenz if your fitbit works like ours, it goes by hand/arm movement. So if your arms are moving with a normal walking rythm that should pick up steps. OTOH if your hands are resting on a bar or similar, then the fitbit would likely not detect the steps. FWIW ours sometimes picks up 'steps' when we are on the indoor bicycle, as we tend to move our arms as if walking rather than holding the handlebars.