Over 200 new me part 53 (open group)

Saturday's Numbers

Calories: Under, not by much. Thank god I changed the settings from 1290 to 1490. I think that helped with my loss as well. Gonna keep it there until I see that it needs to be changed.

Exercise: None...was my off day. And I sure needed to clean my apartment.....however, I decided to lay in bed today, was just to exhausted from the hectic week.

Water...next....not one bottle of water today

Today, I am proud that I stayed ithin my caloric content, and got all my school work done.

I know this is starting into the last week of October, but can I still join in?

Sundays Numbers:

Calories...stayed within my limits
Exercise....none, will be exercising twice tomorrow, one in the morning and in the afternoon
water....oh boy.....a big fat zero again......the weekends seem more difficutl for me to consume water....why?


Tonight with dinner, I had rice....it felt so foreign seeing it on my plate! It has been almost a month since I have eaten rice. Though it is high in carbs, I am sure that it will not affect my weight loss. I mean I did stay within my calorie content.

I had ice cream tonight with dinner, the sugar free kind. I just wonder is there is a real difference between the sugar free and the regular kind....something I may have to research.

Welcome to Tinkerbella, Ehlertmartha and Windchild!

Melinda (mstahl): I'm glad you didn't have any trouble eating the rooster. Yesterday during our drive in the country, we saw a farmer using a forklift to dump a HUGE dead hog into a dumpster. Part of me was a little grossed out, but the other part know it's just part of farm life, especially when raising hundreds of animals for meat. The dog was running next to the forklift trying with all of his might to get the hog...I'm sure he wanted to chew on some pig ears!

This weekend I didn't do any exercising, unless I can count two days walking around the mall and trying clothes on in an effort to find something to wear to a friend's wedding. I'll have to hit it hard early this week, then taper so I have fresh legs for Saturday's 10 Miler. I also need to finish making my Halloween costume!

Checking in for the weekend:
Friday:
Calories: Close to target
Water: 48 oz.
Exercise: None
Proud: Chose a delicious sandwich with lots of veggies and beans for dinner instead of pizza.

Saturday:
Calories: Over...friend's wedding had awesome cupcakes in lieu of cake.
Water: None
Exercise: None
Proud: Made the effort to chat with some people I don't typically talk to much.

Sunday:
Calories: Over
Water: None
Exercise: None
Proud: The boyfriend and I split a burrito entree and each had some soup (just a small cup for me) for dinner. It was the perfect amount of food and much cheaper that way!

Hope you all had a good weekend and Happy Monday.

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Good Morning Ladies,

I am sick with a tummy flu of some sort. Feeling a little better than yesterday. My youngest daughter brought it home from a slumber party and she is home from school sick. Ryan (6yo son) has some other kinda flu with congestion coughing and fever. Really? My kids have 2 different kinds of flu and they are both home sick. The highschooler went to school well hopefully, she stays that way. I ran out of cereal and can't go to the store with sick kids until the hubby gets home tonight. Sorry I needed to vent at least it hurts to eat so I will be keeping the calories down today. Did I mention I need to clean my house and I don't feel up to it. I just think changing sheets and airing out the house will help get rid of my flu bugs I got going on here. It will be in the upper 70"s so I think airing out is a good idea. I need to bleach the toilets and mop some floors. grrrrr...I do not feel like it. By the way last night we watched something about Autism and it made me cry. I need to focus on the fact that my son communicates with me even if it is not up to his age level. He tells me he loves me and he tries to talk to me about movies that he loves(over and over and over:laugh: ). It was just a reminder to my husband and myself that it could have been worse. We are blessed!

Sure hope everyone feels better soon! I know it is hard. Just take care of yourself!

My first real post to this thread. Hi everyone!

Monday:
Calories: Was under. MFP says I was too far under.
Exercise: Good.
Water: Not so good. I need to drink more.
Proud: I was able to resist temptation at work when my co-workers wanted to go out to eat.

Hello ladies! It's awesome to see new friends! YAY!!! :flowerforyou:

I've been off and on sick for the past week or so - not anything that's helped with weight-loss of course!

Checking in for the weekend-
Saturday:
Calories- Over but not too bad
Water - just
Exercise - nothing (and yeah- I said I was going to swim)
Proud - family gathering and I didn't inhale all of the dessert table! We went over to my sister's house afterward and we had an amazing Thai Curry dinner YUM! Caroline is 38 weeks and she's so beautiful! Her wife EB and I started the meal but somehow Ken and EB and I were all sitting down and Caroline finished the cooking and basically served us a meal - poor thing! She's tall and THIN and all baby bump in the middle - so CUTE! :smooched:

Sunday:
Calories - Under
Water - not so much
Exercise - nope (and YEAH should have SWAM!)
Proud - I was hungry but had a healthy egg sandwich for dinner on toasted sprouted grain bread (and our own fresh eggs!)

Monday:
Calories - I didn't eat all of my exercise calories so I'm happy!
Water - fine now that I'm home (I count the green tea I drink as water)
Exercise - 5K101 Week Two - I am back to walking and jogging rather than jogging slow then fast but I'm REALLY pushing the jogging part to go faster than my usual snail pace. I also added a 15 minute bike ride to the end where I kept my heart rate up in the peak range the whole 15 minutes and even after the cool down and shower, and dressing and coffee I think I was still panting LOL!

Proud - Poop hit the fan at work around 1:30 - just after I had woofed down a healthy lunch. I inhaled a Reese's cup and a fun sized kit-cat both dipped in the Trader Joe's flaxseed peanut butter in like 20 minutes of work stress. Why am I proud? Because I stopped and other than one more little snicker bar I had an apple and a healthy dinner and I'm going to be fine. Normally I'd be all "eff this day" and eat a ton but I stopped the madness :bigsmile:

NOW I need to sleep because I started out at 5:45 this morning and I've not stopped or even slowed down once! Gah! so much for our best laid plans! :ohwell:

Hi gals! So nice to see so many new faces, it's bringing life back into our thread yeah!

Well I was MIA over the weekend because I was just plain bad... bad with food and feeling bad about it. But I got mostly back on track yesteday (didn't do so hot last night - but ok). I was so happy at the beginning of the month that the scale had finally moved after 2 months, but now I've gained the 2 pounds back that I had lost. I'm leaving my ticker alone in hopes that I will be able to lose those 2 lbs before our next weigh-in on Friday. NO MORE SWEETS AND EXTRA CARBS!

checking in for yesterday:
calories: over after eating the WHOLE taco salad when I intended to skip the shell
exercise: good - 45 minutes of step class
water: not so good, didn't track
proud: trying to get back on track again and get out of this slump

Oh sea salt how I love thee... The fall apples are so yummy and I have been enjoying sea salt on the sliced wedges. m-m-m-m I have got to watch out I had huge sodium numbers for today. Like way over the recommended. This weeks water challenge will help flush out the salt.

Tuesday

Calories: yes, but just barely and that includes ALL of my exercise calories.
Water: yes, gulp, gulp, gulp!
Exercise: yes, my tushie is letting me know that I'm using different muscles climbing the steep inclines.
Proud: Went to lunch with friends and we didn't share a dessert.

Have a terrific evening all.

Great job, Windchild! Getting those first workouts in is hard but you did it!!!