Oct. Challenge Week 1 Open!

TGIF is right!!! Hoping for 3 days of nothing mentally stressing!!!:ohwell:

Did great with my eating until yesterday....felt like poop with these stupid allergies
and ran from call to call until 2030hrs without a chance to eat
....what was in front of me with a rumbling,grumbling tummy as I went back to the station??
Jack in the Box.....yup...caved in, got 2 99c tacos....

Today is another day....still have the allergy probs this am, but not as bad as yesterday.

Have a great day everyone!

Pam:flowerforyou:

Good morning, everyone! Just wanted to drop by and say so far so good! I weighed myself (I weigh twice a week to make sure I'm on track) and I lost 1.8 lbs! This puts me officially past the half way mark to my goal. WOOHOO!!!

Also, I've made an exercise schedule to make sure I get in my strength training. Cardio is easy because I work out at the gym at school twice a week. My plan for strength training is to do the strength and abs part of 30 Day Shred, 3 times a week. This will put me at 36 minutes of strength training for the week.

So far so good on giving up my drinkable calories. We'll have to see if I can give it up for the whole month... I may have to allow myself 2 cheats a week so I can drink coffee on school days (I commute an hour and a half to get to campus twice a week and my first class is at 9 AM... I am not an early bird... Lol).

A tip for those struggling with staying under calories... I used to have that problem a lot, too. So now I plan my day the night before and stick to it. I usually overestimate how much I will want to eat (like, I plan for 2-3 snacks but may only end up eating 1-2) so that I don't get stuck hungry at some point during the day. If I end up not needing one of my snacks and am too far under calories, I will up a portion at dinner or get to enjoy a surprise dessert.

Hope everyone is having a great Monday!

my comfort zone was wearing a dress to a wessing this weedend. Something I have not done in 10 years. But I think I looked good, Im down to a size 12 from a size 22 (that was the size of the last dress I put on)

I had two GREAT workouts today! One with my trainer and the second on my own at an old stadium in town. Stairs are tough, but I really feel it in my butt now!

My vice is Jolly Rancher candies. There is a bowl on my desk and I didn't eat any today. I grabbed one and put it back and grabbed my cucumbers and bell peppers instead!

Trying to figure out what to do to step out of my comfort zone...

Wow! I am blown away by all of you willing to exit your comfort zone. Some of you have taken on awesome challenges. You are all incredible. My comfort zone challenge will be not always comparing myself to other people. I hate judging myself by how other people look.As for what I will try to do without chips. After yesterday, this is a no-brainer. If you check my food diary, you will see that I ate what I think amounted to 800 calories of chips just snacking last night. I had to log them in today and exercise a bit more than usual to burn them off.

Keep up the excellent work you are all doing. I promise to read everyone's entry each day and smile at your successes.

This is going to sound horrible and it will really speak about my addiction to food BUT...
I have a 45 minute drive home from work. I pass through 4 towns. 6 gas stations. I have been stopping at one of those gas stations on the way home at an increasing frequency to where it became every single day. i would stagger which one I went to be cause I did not want the people working there to see how often I came in for a slice of pizza, candy bar, burger, whatever, and start thinking bad about me. (Isnt the first sign of addiction the compulsion to hide your behavior?) I would justify it to myself by saying 1) I can't eat this in front of my husband because he will be mad so I will just have to eat it now while I have the chance (although that chance was coming 5 days a week) and 2)If I eat little snack now then I wont be so hungry at supper and I will be satisfied with a normal portion and he will be happy. (So basically everything circled around making my husband think I was eating good but that does not get me results! ACTUALLY eating good gets results.)

But today, for the first time in months, I did not stop at all! I did waited until I got home to eat supper like a normal person! It sucked when I drove by the places and thought about the food that I felt I was entitled to stop and get but I felt good when I got home and for once I did not feel guilty.

And now that I have gotten this all out in the open I am going to stick it into a blog because it is very much a part of me and how I think and have thought for many years and I want to change my thinking.

This is going to sound horrible and it will really speak about my addiction to food BUT...
I have a 45 minute drive home from work. I pass through 4 towns. 6 gas stations. I have been stopping at one of those gas stations on the way home at an increasing frequency to where it became every single day. i would stagger which one I went to be cause I did not want the people working there to see how often I came in for a slice of pizza, candy bar, burger, whatever, and start thinking bad about me. (Isnt the first sign of addiction the compulsion to hide your behavior?) I would justify it to myself by saying 1) I can't eat this in front of my husband because he will be mad so I will just have to eat it now while I have the chance (although that chance was coming 5 days a week) and 2)If I eat little snack now then I wont be so hungry at supper and I will be satisfied with a normal portion and he will be happy. (So basically everything circled around making my husband think I was eating good but that does not get me results! ACTUALLY eating good gets results.)

But today, for the first time in months, I did not stop at all! I did waited until I got home to eat supper like a normal person! It sucked when I drove by the places and thought about the food that I felt I was entitled to stop and get but I felt good when I got home and for once I did not feel guilty.

And now that I have gotten this all out in the open I am going to stick it into a blog because it is very much a part of me and how I think and have thought for many years and I want to change my thinking.

I'm proud of you for sharing!! &for changing

Hello!

So far, I am off to a 50/50 start for this week. I haven't got to logging like I should this week, but that will change today. I'm logging it ALL as of this moment. Water too, thought I do drink lots of it regardless. I have so far got in my "out of comfort zone" goal this week... I ran my first 5k! ..Which gave me another partial goal, I got in 36 mins of cardio doing it. I have curves today at lunch time, so there is another half hour of good solid cardio. Now, to do some strength stuff! haha.
To answer you Jen, I haven't measured... but I'll forgo the first week and measure when I weigh this week.
I am from Nova Scotia, anyone else here that can say the same?

Happy Tuesday all!! ...and you can check out my new blog post if you like, it's about running my first race!
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/warriorprincessdi/view/i-ran-for-the-cure-the-story-of-my-first-5k-154700

@warriorprincessdi - Great job running a 5K. This is quite a challenge and a real test of who can and who can't commit. You should be soo proud of your self. Thank you for the blog also. It is helpful to get inside someone's head. It really motivates me.


@tsvamp - do you mix the egg whites and watermelon? LOL This sounds like such a strange combo. Good for you losing weight.


@Caz2678 - You have jumped the first hurdle and realized the balance between exercise and calories - good for you keeping up with watching and doing both. You should feel good about yourself.

Yesterday and Today I reached 2 miles in my Walking/Jogging routine. 2 weeks ago it was all I could do to reach 1 mile. I am proud of that.

For the comfort zone...ever since I had my daughter( 3 months ago) I have always worn my hair up in a bun. I guess I just feel so overweight and unattractive that I didn't think it was worth styling. It is very long and wavy. So this week I will style it every morning after my workout.

I just joined on. Came back a few days ago from a month away visiting my kids and friends. Ate out a lot and had many family dinners. I only gained 1/2 lb whole month because I did hike, bike, walk, while I was there. I drove two states to do this. On way home last week I got sick and got stuck in the next state for 3 days too sick to drive. It was a scarey time sick alone like that.

Since I came back I am trying to rest up so I can work out again, I want to get back to eating healthy, and I look forward to this challenge.

Comfort zone: a friend just called while I was writing this to ask me to do ski hills mini hike by my house. I wanted to say no I am not ready but I said sure, see you in an hour!

I just figured how to step out of my comfort zone!
I promise to look in a full length mirror for at least one minute every day this week (and not think bad thoughts!)

That is a really good comfort zone challenge!! That would make me very uncomfortable!!!!

Comfort zone: a friend just called while I was writing this to ask me to do ski hills mini hike by my house. I wanted to say no I am not ready but I said sure, see you in an hour!

WTG Maria!!! Have fun!!