Daily Accountability Challenge!

Hello everyone, I'm going to see how consistent I am with posting on this thread, as well as losing weight. Yesterday I had a revelation. I've never had a girlfriend who is slimmer than me. Until now. I want her to be proud of the way I look so it's time to speed up my weight loss.

I decided to have a system of always being one year away from goal weight. Meaning as I get lighter my weight loss slows down. Once I hit 12 kg above goal weight I want to lose a kilogram a month. So yesterday my spreadsheet tells me I'm about 1250 days away from goal weight, based on the last month. I need to speed things up.

I treated myself yesterday but that's fine. I always do that when I do a restart.

Being the 12th of the month I ran for 12 minutes on the treadmill.

I calculated that I'll reach goal weight on 1st August 2024. That's far away but it's almost 12 years after I was last at goal weight.

Hanging in there......so far I have stayed within my calories and exercised almost every day. Sunday we have a family meal, hubs normally does all the cooking so it is going to be tough but I am planning to eat everything in small portions to stay within my calorie count. Have a wonderful day and keep up the good work all!!!

I fell off the wagon last night, hit the leftovers plus some chips and went over maintenance. However, I am giving myself grace on that since we had events and visitors from Thursday's chili cookoff through yesterday and I only really messed up over a 2 hour period of time at the end of everything. Today is another fresh start for the work week and I'm doing well so far.

@threewins That's fabulous! Great job.

@DawnCumm How did the family dinner go?

@DawnCumm I'm so sorry about getting Covid! I hope you feel better quickly.

I saw a new doctor yesterday so I didn't eat very much. I tend to be an emotional eater so it felt like I could overeat or I could avoid eating until the appointment. Thankfully I love my new doctor and it went so well. I'm so glad I made the move.

Today I have ladies bible study and so no control over what might be served. Hopefully there is something healthy or soup tonight but we shall see.

Last night at bible study the ladies brought in subway sandwiches, chips and cookies. Thankfully, the subs were footlong cut into thirds so they were a more normal sized sandwich and the condiments were all on the side so I didn't have to worry about all of that either. I just kept my chips to less than a serving and ate just half a cookie. Then I filled up on water, diet ginger ale and hot herbal tea.

Tonight I have my office departmental dinner. We're meeting at a local restaurant that has on site games and I hear we're breaking into teams for darts, billiards, trivia, etc. I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone and having some fun. I am concerned with the menu though because almost every work dinner I've attended with this company is pulled pork, mac & cheese, rolls, desserts, etc. Other than the protein it's almost nothing healthy so I'll have to keep my calories under control for today again since I don't know what options I'll have there. I'm almost desperate for a salad or green beans to show up at dinner this time. Just a little something to keep me from eating too many other things.

@DawnCumm I hope your bedroom jail isn't too bad. When I had Covid my husband brought me cereal, pasta, potatoes, etc.... I'm type 2 diabetic. But he doesn't actually cook so it was about all he knew how to make. He did go pick me up chicken noodle soup from Chick-Fil-A as well and brought some fruit so it wasn't all too crazy.

@threewins How are things going this week? I love your countdown to goal.

looks like you are doing well @pamperedlinny
I am hanging in there, a few more days of bedroom jail and then if I test negative I am free. I have not been eating well at all, plus hubs came down with COVID and he is not sicker than me. Good news though is we can now share our house. I did weigh in today and did not gain (yet) so that is good news. The bad news is we may have to delay TG with my family due to this damn virus. Keep on truckin'.

Good morning!

I had a rougher eating day on Thursday but I still logged everything so I feel it's a win in just being accountable there. On Friday I hosted my monthly pot luck ladies movie night and we had a Friendsgiving style meal this time. I never log on that day of the month because all the ladies essentially made a deal about having that one night a month to leave all our worries about everything at the door unless you had a specific health or big challenge in the way. However, I still didn't do as badly as I have some months in the past.

Over the weekend my daughter had her volleyball tournament on Saturday and I had a quick one day girls trip on Sunday to go to dinner and see a concert a few hours away. I managed to stay on track through all of that crazy and that feels fabulous to say.

I hope you have an amazing day!

Happy pre-Turkey day!

I learned something about myself yesterday. I have finally figured out one of my big triggers. Some background.... I was considering what I'm taking to Thanksgiving tomorrow at my friend's home. They have essentially adopted us since we moved to South Carolina and we go to their family events since we don't have any family close by. I always make things and bring cinnamon rolls, sweet potatoes, maybe another side dish, etc. While stressing over if I should bring something green to Thanksgiving (healthy! no!!!) and doing my internal debate I started eating a lot of junk. It was like I couldn't stop. It then occured to me that last week on Thursday, while prepping for Friday's Friendsgiving movie night, I also fell and ate a ton a stuff I wasn't planning to eat.

What I've learned? I tend to overeat or over-indulge while worrying about making food for events. It doesn't seem to matter if I'm taking food to an event or hosting the event. Normally I don't cook for big events except maybe once a month or so and I never really put it together that those weeks I fall off the wagon easier. With the events being back to back it finally clicked in my brain. I'm hoping now that I've figured this out about myself I can watch and prepare for those trigger days. Prep myself some veggies or healthier crunchy snacks.

I do always realize that I fall off the wagon around events but I never really noticed that it's while I'm thinking about what to take or make, if I will have enough food, if people will like the choice, etc. I just thought it was while I stressed in general or while I got too busy to pay attention. It definitely has been while worrying specifically about food though. I guess thinking about food plans plus emotional eating means I'm all over all the food in the house.

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃

I did really well today. I was at my friend's house all day. From before 9am until after 8pm. I helped prep and cook. I ate within portion control. I'm not afraid to weigh in tomorrow and that's a first after a holiday. I also went for 3 small walks today. One around noon. One before dinner. One after dinner. Doing that also helped keep my blood sugar in good shape all day.

Ladies, should we challenge each other to a Delightful December? See how we do by the end of the month? Weigh on the 1st and see how much we can lose by the 31st. Like everyone I have dinners with friends/family, etc....so it will be a challenging month!