How are my weekend warriors doing??
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Robin, thanks for your lovely compliments. :D
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EEK - I have been sleeping extra on purpose because I need it and wow when I log "10 hours" sleep is really affects my daily cals. Can't wait to get back to working out.
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Weekend Update
w/ Apologies to SNL for cribbing their title ...
Robin: I agree. Mern is truly ingenuious when it comes to healthy eating, and an inspiration to us all! Mike: I think it may have been Emeril Lagasse who started the NOLA thing - when he used that for the name of a restaurant. I don't really go for all that 'BAM!' stuff, but whenever I'm looking online for a good recipe, Emeril's my go-to guy. His recipes always work, even when I muck with them a bunch. Hope: Wishing you a great time on your trip. Good luck keeping low cal! - Just don't call me Jane! |
Looking back at my goals I did ok for the week. Exercised 4X for 30min. I am doing well on drinking water and the fruits and veggies.
Still a little sore from shovelling yesterday but taking it easy today. Beautiful sunny day here. Jenn |
Hey y'all! I just wanted to let y'all know that I haven't went MIA. I've done really good this week, even though I didn't make goals. In fact, I think by NOT making goals, I wasn't setting myself up for failure. When I was making set in stone goals, and I missed one it defeated me. Instead of shaking it off, I saw it as "well, I've already screwed that up, so what's the point in going on?" By not having goals, I just did the best I could...and I did really good! As of this morning I was at a 5lb loss for the week. Most of it was water weight, but it's weight that's NOT on the scale, I'll take any kind of loss I can right now.
I logged everything Monday-Friday (food and activities) and gave myself the weekend off. I'm pretty sure this plan is going to work for me. Keep strict thru the week, and then live a little on the weekends. This weekend was pretty calorie heavy. We went out for my Daddy's 61st birthday last night, and there may have been a small slice of cake that made it to my plate. A cake that I made!! From scratch!! I have to say, I'll probably never buy a boxed cake mix or can of frosting again. It's so much better when made from scratch. Today we had a traditional Southern Sunday lunch....meatloaf, rice (cause I didn't have enough potatoes to mash to feed everyone so WHN and I ate the taters for supper), mac n cheese, peas, and biscuits. The only thing that wasn't scratch made was the mac n cheese, it did come from a box..but only because I didn't have the time to make that homemade too. Next weekend isn't going to be as heavy, food wise. I don't think WHN and I are going to do too much for Valentine's Day. We both have to work through the week, and the weekend will be too busy to go to a restaurant, so we'll probably stay in and cook here. Which is fine by me. Oh, and I did teach Mike a little too well with the blame game. I've told him that one day he might get as good as I am....but I highly doubt it. Hope--I'm so totatlly jealous that you're there and I'm not. I miss NOLA way too much. Eat lots of yummy food for me!! Mern--WOOHOOO 7 pounds is AWESOME!!!! Everybody else--hope you all had a great week!! |
Originally Posted by bojibridge
(Post 95285)
I have to be honest about what my biggest goal is - it's to be skinnier. I'm sick of being chunky, and having clothes not fit nicely or not being able to wear the cute outfits I see around me. I'm sick of not feeling very sexy or attractive. So yeah, it's great that I can run 20 minutes more than I could 6 weeks ago, but dang it, I just want to be a skinnier person. And I know that will happen, but I'm really a results driven person (I mean, aren't we all, a little bit?) and when I put in this effort and I don't *see* the results, I basically feel like I haven't gotten anywhere. And it's been so hard. This whole process is not making me a happier person. All I think about is, "When can I eat next? Is this going to fit into my calories? No, you can't have that, 'cause if you had even one bite, you'd eat the whole bag." At least before, I might have been sad that I wasn't skinny, but I didn't go around all day thinking in the back of my mind about what I was and wasn't allowed to eat and when the next food would be and how long I would have to wait to eat more. I know I have emotional attachment issues with food, but I don't know how to not feel this way. How do you go from just wanting to stuff your face to being like, "Oh I only eat to fuel my body!" I just feel like mentally exhausted at the end of the day. There's never a single day where it's easy to stay under my calorie limit.
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Tori congrats on your five pound loss this week. Goes to show how we are all different. Some need concrete goals, others better not to.
I could not ease up on the weekend like that. I have tried it before and it did not work for me. It works fine for maintenance (and I expect to be there someday) but I would not lose like that. Jenn and Donna congrats on meeting your goals. Mern I KNOW you are doing well. I'm ok with my modified goals this week I guess. I think my water was off again because of the cold. I wasn't actually tracking it because usually it's not an issue but I may actually track it next week. |
Originally Posted by 01gt4.6
(Post 95473)
How are my weekend warriors doing??
Starting to feel a little better and will go get the new thread started for this week. |
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