Good Morning all!

I put my scale away last night!!! I was getting WAY too obsessed! I will bring it back out in a week or so!

Planning on picking up new key card today!

Have a lot to do today at work and it's a short day!!! Woo Hoo!

Have a great day everyone!

I'm a scale *kitten*! I had to put it in the attic.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: This cracked me up!

Hello good people of the Thirty Something group and a happy Friday to you.all. It's been an overly dramatic week for moi and now I can sort of sit and take stock of things. The old me would have couch surfed while boosting the share price of nestle by a few points. But somehow I remain strong of focus and i'm getting closer to my goal. Off to the cimena tonight to see The Avengers which is my treat for the week. Hope to get plenty of exercise in this weekend and a gym session as well. If my bike holds up i'll be going cycling too and at some point i have to go shopping for something to wear on my stag night in a weeks time. Thank god i have energy these days.
I was a total scale manwhore for ages. I just had to make myself only weigh myself once a week. I still cheat as that little white box is very tempting as i know how good i'll feel if i get on there and there's a loss. My fiance really struggles with hers and i've had to talk her off the ledge a couple of times. She uses MFP now and is seeing some good results.

Happy Friday!

I am not inclined to be scale obsessed. Though this week I did get on the scale on Tuesday too just to make sure Monday was an anomaly. I usually weigh in once a week but now I am trying for twice because I am wondering if the hiking on Sundays isn't throwing off my Monday number.

I did a number of crazy things that Monday culminating in researching Tracy Anderson's weight loss program. The reviews were so encouraging! Women were seeing results like never before! Then I started to notice something wasn't quite right. One woman commented that she doubled the amount of food you were allotted and still didn't top 1200 calories... WHAT! Then I read some samples of the book and some reviews. Basically the diet has you eating 700 calories a day and exercising an hour and half! *Sigh* Top that all off with her discussion of auxiliary muscles (she thinks that you can strengthen them without strengthening your major muscles groups to give you lean muscles) and I was cured of my desire to seek out a crazypants diet. Seriously, the things she was suggesting you muscles would do are physiologically impossible.

I'd like to make a proposal:

We should stop calling everything not scale related in weight loss a NSV. Why is our world divided into scale success and everything else? Isn't the actual point of all of this to be healthier, to wear smaller pants or fit in our pants better, to have people say "wow you look great" or "Your such an inspiration", to look at yourself in photos and think "Nice", and/or to go to the doctor and know that your blood pressure or blood sugar will be better because of the work you put in? The numbers on the scale represent a measure of how things are going but they do not represent everything we are working for. I think that all the other things should just be called capital V, Victories. Submitted for your consideration. :-)

I went ahead last night and upped my daily calories. It is a little scary because the diet gremlin tells me that it will be too much but I have to at least try. My body and the scale seem to be saying that more is better. I'll give it a couple of weeks and see where that leaves me.

Bye for now,
Sara Grace

haha that is funny, I like the term Scale *kitten*! That is what I am! It is under my bed and staying there for at least a week, maybe more! Baby steps away from the scale!

My treat for weekend was the Chipotle I just had for dinner. I haven't had Chipotle is such a LONG time! Will go and work out later on, once I don't feel so full! Yes, picked up key card today after work.

I am proud of myself! Today, I made 2 fruit bouquets at work and had to dip strawberries and pineapple in chocolate and I DIDN'T eat a single bite!!! I usually am tempted to at least have 1 and I really wasn't tempted either! I knew that my "treat" was the Chipotle and that was enough! YAY! Two days in a row of not eating chocolate at work!!! Yes!!! Chocolate is my BIGGEST weakness! I did have a little bit of melon and the grapes I brought to work, not knowing I would get an order today!

I decided that I will no longer log the time it takes me to make a fruit bouquet at exercise. Seems like cheating the more I think about it.

Shorty- jealous about your massage! Hope that helps!

oh and Sara Grace, I agree! People loss inches and are able to do activities that they weren't able to do before and those are victories! Loss of weight isn't the only victory! I've been wondering this whole time what NSV stood for? lol, yes, I don't know!

i am not really that grumbly about it that little face just cracks me up!

I am not so much a scale *kitten* as I am addicted to my HRM. I accidentally left it at work yesterday and I can not gt it back until Monday and I am stressing the heck out.....

I'm curious about calories too. I started here at 1200 for 2-3 weeks, and did reading on BMR TDEE, etc. The part where I get confused is that MFP's BMR for me is 1328, and every other site is more like 1412, which is a big difference if you are only at 250/day deficit! So I set it to 1450 to at least be above BMR...but wondering if I'm still too low. I figure when I stall I'll up again. I think? I'm at a desk job, jogging 3x/week, lifting about 30 min 3x/week (when the neck is healed) and week after next I'm adding 1 hr yoga/week. Me thinks I possibly need more, any thoughts?

My BMR is 1328 according to F2F, putting the sedentary "slimmer" me at 1600-ish maintenance. Currently trying to hit 1550 daily, eating back exercise cals to at least hit BMR (most days). The active slim me is supposed to get 2080 cals/day which sounded like a lot, especially since I didn't truly become a regularly active person until about 5 weeks ago. Almost the same regimen as you: desk job, strength 3x, cardio 3-5x . . . on workout days, eating back exercise calories (when I am hungry enough for them) puts me right around 1800-1900 total, not net. Sooo . . . I guess my point is, I think you'd be fine going up a bit more.

P.S. All the *kitten* talk is making me giggle. :laugh:

Haha, though I just calculated what I ate today. Blew that new calorie goal away!! It was rough going since we went out to dinner and movie with my husbands boss and his daughter. Not only did they buy us a giant tub of popcorn (popcorn is my weakness) but he also INSISTED that we get a milkshake at dinner.

Oh, well tomorrow is another day.

Carrie - I forgot to mention, I am a total HRM *kitten*! Mine gives me a little trophy if I hit my weekly exercise calorie goal. I will beg borrow and steal to get that stupid trophy.

Ok, now it is 2am and I should really be asleep. Night!