Over 200 Club Losing it for the Holidays!!!(Open Group)

Sorry it took me so long to weight in. The scale is telling me I gained 2 pounds this week. I of course had a terrible day of self loathing, and horrible eating to "celebrate" my gain. I am done feeling sorry for myself, and will be back on track tomorrow.

Calories: Hrm... bf started in on me about getting Mexican food the second I stepped in the door tonight. He won. :laugh: I ate half a spinach burrito & half a cheese enchilada. And pretty much way too much guacamole. I ate very well earlier so I'm probably still under 2000 calories for today. It's the sodium that's gonna get me. :ohwell:
Exercise: 20 minutes on the stationary bike so far. I may hop on for another 30 minutes. I may not.
Water: Over 100 ounces.
Proud: Oh, I guess that I didn't order any queso with dinner. Dinner could've easily been a lot worse. It's the first excessive meal I've had in well over a month so I don't feel bad about it at all and I don't feel like I've gone off track or anything. I've got my long walk with the dogs at the canal planned already for tomorrow morning.

Checkd out your pics...you do look great!!!!!!

I'm just getting to post my stats from yesterday:

Calories: 1250
exercise: yes - zumba
water: 48oz
proud of: making time for myself and getting to the gym

OMG jlb a HUGE DIFFERENCE in your pics! You go, girl! And it's REALLY important that you notice the difference. :happy:

Macurry - Be careful with the obsession - when I was anorexic I obsessed with working out after every meal. My thoughts would race in my head that whatever I ate was too much. Keeping track of your calorie intake is the best way to go. I noticed you wrote "when I 'feel' I have eaten too many..." When you feel this way, try to write down what you ate and see it for what it is worth. It may not have been as bad as you think. This is just a suggestion - I am not a doctor!

So my stats from yesterday were OK. I noticed I did not get in my water. I am almost to 8 glasses today so I feel better about it.

Stats today:

cals: under but I planned for more since I am going to a party tonight.
exercise: none
water: 8 glasses! :happy:
proud: that I am back on the horse

Calories: Yes
Water: Almost
Exercise: Yes - aerobic & weights
Proud: got myself into the gym even though it was raining out

So:
Calories: I am over almost 1000...but boy was that burger yummy
Exercise: From the parking lot to the stadium was a 10-15 min walk and we walked fast...so back and forth..about 20-30 min
Drink my 64 oz: not quite only 8oz off
Proud thing: that I drank 3 glasses of water during my meal....i normally get so consumed in eating my meal I leave out my drink...and I forced myself to drink water instead of soda and I drank it every couple bites...

I def. will not eat a Red Robin burger again...over 1,100 cal for one burger is not worth it. A lesson well learned....too bad I didn't see the cal. before I ingested it. :ohwell:

11.14.09
Calories: 1,267
Exercise: 60 minutes on stationary bike -- 774 cal burned (probably more - I didn't wear my HRM so I just logged my effort as "moderate" to be conservative)
Water: I think I made it to 64oz after my exercise. I didn't drink much during the first part of the day though.
Proud: I'm glad I was able to work my calories around (too much) beer. :embarassed: My bf was sick so bailed on me when it came time to see our friends' band play at the bar. I didn't feel up to going to a super crowded bar by myself so I went bowling with some other friends instead. We had so much fun! And I guess bowling is exercise, right?

And, wow! All of you talking about snow! I forget where I live sometimes. It's forecasted to be 78 and sunny here today. :laugh: Here I was thinking "Man, it's going to be a bit too warm to take the dogs for a long walk today."
I like snow (probably because it's like a special treat when we get it here) but I have a really hard time imagining what it's like to have to deal with snow for so many months out of the year like you all.

Good afternoon girls,

I have been bad this weekend. :grumble: I tend to give in on the weekends. My calories-toomuch water-not enough exercise-nope

jlb123, I live in CA and I only see snow if I drive to it.:laugh: :laugh: We have been in the 60's which is what we average this time of year. One thing is we have fog. The snowy places do not seem to have that much fog, that I am jealous about. I hate fog and it is almost that time of year. I am born and raised California girl and I am not fond of the cold either.


Hope everyone has a great rest of the weekend.

calories: yes 1339
exercise: no (always take Sunday off)
water: yes
proud of: we had a family dinner with the in-laws and I did great with my portions.

Macurry -- Just remember that eating well and exercising CAN'T be bad for you. Keep doing well and it will happen. A 3# loss is fantastic! It takes a while for the inches to come off. I tend to only measure myself once a month or so because otherwise it's hard to notice the difference.

11.15.09
Calories: 1,854 :grumble: I did fine. Then I had 2 beers. Then I stayed up too late with my best friend and my bf and we ended up eating again at 3am because we were all hungry again since we ate dinner early around 6pm. It could've been much worse, though!
Exercise: I scoured my house. I probably cleaned for 4 hours -- washing walls, dusting moldings and ceiling fans, etc) logged 90 minutes of "light moderate cleaning" and came up with 415 burned. I'm sure it was much more.
Water: I didn't keep up with it. I'm pretty sure I got 64 ounces though
Proud: My (thin) best friend ordered a fast food combo for dinner. I ordered a burger and fries from the dollar menu (much smaller portions). Then, she ordered another fast food combo. I ordered a sandwich with no mayo from the dollar menu. Her total calories: about 2500. My total calories: 1025. I think that's a win in that situation. :ohwell:

Really, the day wasn't a bust. According to MFP, my BMR is around 1800 calories, so even with all the horrible choices I made (which weren't as bad as they could've been), I still should've been at a pretty big calorie deficit for the day.

I'm not worried about it. I'm right back on track today. I just got back from a coworker's birthday party. Cake, cheese grits (yes, this is the South :laugh: ), sausage balls, and cheese biscuits. I had none of it. Even with all the food pushing -- "Why aren't you eating anything? C'mon, have a piece of cake!" Truth be told, I didn't even want any of it. It kind of grossed me out. And my stomach is a little off due to the fast food yesterday.

Here's to a great week! :drinker:

Hello ladies...

Well my weekend was a bust..Back on track ...yet again .

I am thinking i am off to a pretty good start today, ate my norms for breakfast and lunch and snack this morning...got my big butt on the elliptical for 20 minutes today (very proud since I haven't been too good about getting on it).

I like the idea of doing measurements 1x a month, i get frustrated when I do them weekly.

Excited my hubby is now off on thanksgiving, we thought he would have to work, so that is cool...now only if he can get of christmas too.

Well so far so good. Today is going quite well! Got up at 5:15am (my normal) got lunches packed, got dinner in the crock pot, the kids off to school, huby off to work, worked out, went to work, ate lunch, went shopping.. I did by a food scale today (the biggest loser digital scale at Bed Bath and Beyond for $20.00) and now am working on some paper work before my next two clients.. Whew.. that was a mouthful!

Water still drinking currently at 80oz
Exercise 1 hr this morning
Calories.. staying within and unless I go hog wild tonight for dinner (which is in the crockpot cooking as we speak).
I am proud that the temptations of eating the "crap" food is starting to dissipate!

How was everyones weekend?

Hi there.... I am a member of the over 300 group but have been below that number for a while now. I weigh 260.5 and the scale has been messing with me going up a couple/down a couple but never below the 260 mark. That is my target for this week.

I have stayed within my calories, drank more than the required water and exercised (half an hour elliptical, half an hour weights and will walk tonight). I am proud that I am keeping to my exercise plans and burning lots of calories with it.

Ouch on the dental costs awestfall!

Istpaul...small set back, get up, dust off, get back on!