One dietary indiscretion today - which for me means one thing off plan that has gluten or sugar. In this case, a Three Musketeers bar. It's over. I own it. I gave up one of my planned meals to eat it. So I did go over my 100 g net carb limit, but not as far as I had expected. Tomorrow I will do better!

As for exercise today, walked 12 flights of stairs and did over 10,000 steps thanks to my fellow students deciding we should walk as a group during our breaks. Yay! Otherwise, might not have met my goal today.

Ok, to bed for me, early morning at the gym, early day at work, and then some massages scheduled for my clinic hours late afternoon tomorrow. Talk to y'all soon!

I will do this with your help , and GODS help. Thank you for starting.:happy:

Hi everybody! I'm back to MFP thanks to Hambone's invite. Nice to see you all again! I'm WAY up in weight. No excuses ... things got a bit stressed around here since November and I've been a little piggy. Back on track now. I have finished 5 days of my plan and I'm down 8.2 lbs so I'm off and running. I'll post as often as I can, but I'm in school and really busy with classes, writing a dissertation, and my mundane household chores ... so I'll check in as often as possible. It's really good to 'see' you guys again!

Happy Losing!

I will do this with your help , and GODS help. Thank you for starting.:happy:

Hi nanabannana And what a cute sugar babe she is too.
good seeing you again.
callie

i know what you are tslking about for i have 2 too
calie

What data do you have to enter into a fitbit about yourself ?

Phil
(yarwell is just a username)

HAMBONE - I am all about the heated seats, seriously! In fact, the temp dropped like a stone today and had to dig out my winter coat and commuted to school with the heated seats on high - ah, divine!

PHIL - you can check out the Fitbit Ultra at www.fitbit.com. Fitbit is somewhere between a simple pedometer and an HRM. It is more of an activity tracker - has the same technology in it as they use in the WII - so it tracks elevation and equates that to the number of "floors" you climb in a day, keeps track of your total steps. If you get one, and go through the set up, you will enter your basic physical stats and it then will keep track of your calories burned based on your activity and your BMR. If you decide to, you can also wear it on your nondominant wrist at night, and it will also track your basic sleep patterns - how long it takes you to fall asleep, how long you slept, and how many times you awakened. MFP and the Fitbit website talk to each other too - so when the Fitbit says you have done 10,000 steps, it send that activity to MFP, so those additional activity calories will show up for you to use if you want to use them.

I love my Fitbit. It is so motivating to see how far I've come during the day - and sometimes just before bed, I see I"m about to hit a milestone and it encourages me to get in one more flight of stairs or another 100 steps for the day.

Yesterday, I got in almost 11,000 steps, and I climbed 22 floors, or the "Wicked Twister" which I am assuming is a roller coaster. Today I am at school in clinic doing massages throughout the day, and plan on doing laps around the block and doing stairs in between studying for two tests and oh - actually massing people, LOL.

Y'all have a wonderful ACTIVE day!

Hi Phil,
You pretty much enter the standard stuff- height, weight, date of birth, goal weight and how much you want to lose each week. I set mine up as close to MFP as I could. It seems to be working out pretty well. I just wish the activity would transfer over to MFP without me entering it in. But as Long as the time and calories burned match, it synchs from MFP to fitbit. I think fitbit's program is still a little buggy, but it works for me.


So, I wasn't going to do anymore stairs last night - fate had other plans - well, at 2am our fire alarm went off and had to grab both kitties and my hubby and I had to evacuate down 6 floors. It turned out to be a false alarm, so instead of waiting to get back on crowded elevators, we walked back up to the 6th floor. So, I got my stairs in! Ha!

Hammbone - you are doing so well with your carb counts! WTG!

Fireswan - Ummm, I think you would have burned more calories from the adrenaline rush alone. Ohmygoodness - I'm so glad it was just a false alarm!!!!

I am a bit bummed on one hand and totally excited on the other. I forgot to put my fitbit on this morning, and I had already done like 4 trips up and down from the 2nd floor to the basement - so missed out on it counting those steps and floors.

But this totally makes up for that bummer - my hubby has committed to lifting weights with my every morning before work. So I cleaned up the workout room and just have to sweep/mop - and pick up another weight bench at Walmart and we're good to go. I will still do my cardio at the gym over my lunch breaks, but strength training will be at home with my hubby. I'm so excited to get him motivated to working out with me again. We are both so much more dedicated when we do it together. On the days I don't wanna get outta bed, he kicks me out - and vice versa. So this is a WONDERFUL thing!

Ok, I gotta get busy, got a ton of stuff to accomplish today. Y'all have a wonderful LOSING day!

It looks yummy Callie!

that looks delicious, Calie! mmmmm