7 Day Motivational Thread Starting 7-8-2013: What have you got to lose?
 

I thought at the onset of last week it would be a difficult to reach my goals, and so it was. So I'd like to approach this week with a new attitude. So I'm mod'ing my goals a bit this week.

• Lose 1/2 inch from waist:
• Sugar < 40g / day:
• Vegetables > 3 / day:
• Cholesterol < 200mg:
• Calorie deficit every day:
• Workout > 150 mins/wk:

I had a bad dream last night... dreamed that I had made a promise to some online "buddies" to go 7 days w/ no alcohol, starting this morning. :(

(Not that I am used to drinking every day, but a glass of wine at night or a beer in the afternoon sometimes is an enjoyable way to wind down.)

Good morning all. Six pound loss last week so everyone do the happy dance!:D Since the goals worked so well they'll stay the same this week.

Goals:

1. log food every day
2. keep calories between 1400-1600
3. exercise on my lunch hour at least three times

Good Morning Everyone!

Continuing to recover far ahead of schedule. Still trying to find that "magic line" of pushing myself as much as I can without overdoing it. Did my longest walk last night without any issues, so I think the worst is over. Making the long trip tomorrow for my follow-up appointment with my surgeon and am hoping to get a good report. Have to find out why surgeon won't let me drive for 6 weeks when it's my left leg... Grrrrrrrrrr.......

On to goals:

1. Add at least 2 blocks per day until I regain my 4 mile routine.
2. Continue to eat nothing but healthy, nutrient-rich food.
3. Resist the urge to over-do.
4. Work on strengthening weak leg; do something each day that I couldn't do the day before.
5. STAY POSITIVE!!! Don't let negative thoughts (or people) derail my recovery.

Good morning!

To finish up from last week, I did okay on calories yesterday but I didn't get my run in. Honestly, I probably could have, but I wimped out near the end of waiting for the rain to pass because I was so hungry and just done waiting.

My goals are going to stay as usual:
1.) Be pleased with my calories
2.) Drink 64 oz water/day
3.) Exercise:
M: Gym
T: Run 4 miles
W: Gym
Th: Run 4 miles
F: off
S: off
Su: Run 6 miles :eek:
4.) Make a lot of headway on this paper

I'm going camping this weekend, which I'm looking forward to but also not sure how well I'll stay on plan. Hopefully I can counteract any overindulgence by hiking and whatnot.

Morning everyone!

Goals will be simple this week
1. Keep to carb limit
2. 4 servings fruits and veggies (focus on more veggies!)
3. 6 glasses of water!!
4. Lose 1lb

Personal goals
1. Clean out storage room
2. Read more (borrowed from Robin's goals last week)

Jenn

Ha! I am experiencing a bad case of second thoughts already - it won't take much arm-twisting to persuade me to at least postpone the endeavor... (fingers crossed....) ;)

I lost 5 pounds, so I am really thrilled right now. My total weight loss is now 40 pounds. :) I am definitely keeping baked sweet potatoes in my diet. I will post this weeks goals a bit later. I need to start exercising more.

Dmartz: Switching up goals is a good idea. I am actually going to start changing mine, too. Good luck this week.

Mel-Mc: Great weight loss! I bet your super happy about the six pound loss. Good luck this week!

Quinn: Your recovery is going great. You are putting a lot of effort into it, which is making you way ahead of schedule with recovering. I admire your determination. :)

Bojibridge: Good luck this week with your goals. Camping time is a hard time passing up temptations for me. Smores are evil. :D

Jenn, Dad_in_Fl, & Kocialapcia: Good luck with your goals this week.

Woo hoo! So impressive! Have fun increasing exercise. If you keep eating like you do and add more exercise, you will need to shop for smaller and smaller clothes every week! :)

Well, despite not meeting all of my goals, I lost quite a bit last week. Now I'm imagining what I can do if I actually meet them this week.

1. Swim at least twice.
2. Continue logging everything.
3. Be happy!

@ Dad and Ian:

I know I am more of an enabler than a supporter... I have to work harder on that part. However...

...it's 3:30 pm in New York and I'll be going home in 20 minutes and I guess I need to know really soon what you guys are planning to do about our little seven-day abstinence... (SEVEN (!) :eek:) I would really need to know, like, within two hours?! By 5:30 the whole plan might become a mere memory! :(

You go ahead with the plan and I'll watch in awe and learn from you and maybe join you next time, but for now... Too scary! :confused: Please?

geez... talk about performing under pressure. ;)

Ok - I'll stick with my original answer. I'm in - no booze for a week.

Besides - I need to punish myself after being pretty bad over the long 4 day weekend.

:eek::D

Had trouble logging in today. Had to log out and log back in.

Goals
1. Keep to carb limit yes
2. 4 servings fruits and veggies (focus on more veggies!)3
3. 6 glasses of water!! probably not
4. Lose 1lb

Personal goals
1. Clean out storage room
2. Read more (borrowed from Robin's goals last week)

Exercise consisted of going up and down the stairs doing laundry today.
Jenn

Stay strong, you can do it. Don't let my downfall get the best of you!

Good job on the loss this week Claire. Here are my goals for the week.

Week goals:

1. Try out new treadmill I borrowed from a friend every night
2. Log all food and drinks
3. Stay under 1,200 calories a day
4. Do sit-ups everyday
5. Lose 2 pounds

I am really struggling with setting goals this week. I don't really want to wait til Sunday to weigh in again, I am only 2 pounds from my goal weight, I'm pretty sure that waiting til Sunday is going to drive me crazy. I think I'll weigh everyday til I see the magic number.

Mel-Mc, Renewed soul, Claire.......the weight loss, see logging and posting really supports you :)


Because I am traveling this week:

1. At least one work out while away
2. Weekly deficit over 3000
3. Make healthy food choices while away.
4. At least 5 bags of stuff to leave the house this week, charity, garbage, whatever.

Today I walked 2 miles and I would like to have another walking challenge if anyone is in.

Good luck to you alcohol abstainers!

Hey Mern!
 

Hey Mern, Thank you for asking last week if my high cholesterol number was a typo. It turns out it was a bad value! I had a little cheese today and when I entered it I checked the value with the package. It was Much lower than expected. So I made the four goals I hoped to last week after all.

I certainly hope you are enjoying your new fridge by now!

- D.

Kocia and Dad - OK no booze, I almost failed yesterday when I bought 2 bottles but I restrained myself and didn't drink it, it's going to be tough.

Goals for the week:

1. Over 2000 calories for the week (I've given up on the 3500 for now)
2. Under 12000 calories for the week
3. Under 280g fat for the week
4. Over 21 fruit/veg for the week
5. 0 alcohol

Monday update:

Goals:

1. log food every day M=Y
2. keep calories between 1400-1600 M= 1575
3. exercise on my lunch hour at least three times 1 done

Robingen, logging is the only way it works for me. I'm hoping that coming here every day will keep me on track. I did very well when I had to show food logs to the dietician. Until I realized she had very serious food issues of her own and told my doctor I wouldn't go back to her. (At our third visit I asked her for strategies for dining out with friends with whom you might not want to share that you are dieting. She went off onto this wild rant about how I had to explain to them that they were all going to die young from bad food choices and that I didn't want to join them in the grave.)

Goals for the week:

1. Over 2000 calories for the week (I've given up on the 3500 for now)
2. Under 12000 calories for the week
3. Under 280g fat for the week
4. Over 21 fruit/veg for the week
5. 0 alcohol

1. M-147
2. M-2561
3. M-72.2
4. M-4
5. M-0

Well there's a poor start to the week, it can really only get better though.

Hi, everyone. Busy day yesterday and didn't have time to log on. Going to daughter's house today so I probably won't be able to check back in until tonight. Yesterday I did fine, but no formal exercise. Same goals as always.

Wishing everyone a great day.

Mel-Mc: I hear you! I went to a dietician, twice, in 2002. The first visit she gave me nutrition materials and told me to write down what I ate. The second visit, I told her I had found FitDay, that she could view my log on her computer, and she didn't need to calculate the nutrition info because Fitday already did that. Then ... I fixed her computer. She told me I was doing well, that I owed her $ 100(!) and that I should come back next week. As if... Long story short, I lost some weight, quit Fitday, gained it back, and rejoined in 2010. Hoping not to re-gain this time.

There may be some who can find a good dietitian they can work with (thinking of you Mern!), or need the 'throw money at the problem' approach. But by and large I think dietitians: meh. Then I don't have an 'analyst' either...

- Donna

Mon. report
 

• Lose 1/2 inch from waist: (pending)
• Sugar < 40g / day: 28
• Vegetables > 3 / day: 3 (including beets!)
• Cholesterol < 200mg: 64
• Calorie deficit every day: -1065 (unsustainable)
• Workout > 150 mins/wk: 65

Would go in for the abstinence challenge, but I know that I'd fail this coming Friday night. So, I'm rooting from the stands.

Also, got a Fitbit, a fancy pedometer [ehem, "Activity Tracker"]. The wristband model. So far, I like that it records your sleep pattern if you wear it to bed. Will try it out for a week or two and will report back other impressions.

- Donna

For yesterday:
1.) Be pleased with my calories - M: I should be pleased because it wasn't bad at all, but I'm annoyed I couldn't do better
2.) Drink 64 oz water/day - M: N
3.) Exercise:
M: Gym - Done
T: Run 4 miles
W: Gym
Th: Run 4 miles
F: off
S: off
Su: Run 6 miles
4.) Make a lot of headway on this paper - M: meh

You should be pleased! You're here, and you're doing it!

Keep up the good work!

-D

P.S. I think I stole your meh.

Dmartz:

I'm sure there are wonderful dieticians out there, but I'm not including any of the three I saw. The first was the one I referenced above who I'm guessing has food and body image issues that she is acting out on her clients, the second was burned out and didn't care, and the third was enthusiastic but clueless. At least numbers two and three weren't actively bad. The first dietician is so negative and fatphobic that I fear for her patients. She just pissed me off but others might believe her negative comments.

Example: She asked me what my goal weight was. I told her I didn't have a clue as medical professionals had given me goals ranging from 110 to 170. She pursed her lips at me, looked me up and down and said "I'm writing down 170, but it will only be dumb luck if you get that low." Yeah, way to encourage your clients.

Second visit, one month later, I presented her with a completely filled out food log, staying under the calorie target 90% of the time, and having a 12lb weight loss. She hissed at me, "You people (yup, I'm a subspecies) NEVER fill these things out. I was supposed to lecture you on the importance of the food log. What am I supposed to talk to you about now?"

The only reason I didn't report her was that the hospital shuffled her off somewhere else and I figured they knew all about her. I later found out they put her back in her old position within a few months.

Wow, Mel, that's awful! A few years ago, I was really struggling to wrangle my diabetes into line (I'm type 1, diagnosed about 17 years ago) and I saw a nutritionist who was like basically part nutritionist, part therapist for me. She was really encouraging without catering to my bad attitude (which I totally had regarding food.) I was there for diabetes, but she really helped me in all areas of my eating.

I've seen a nutritionist recently who is very nice, but I have a hard time with her because I have very strict goals for my blood sugars, and she thinks I'm too strict. That's fine, but if I'm going to pay someone to help me with my food management, I need them to be on board with me, you know?

Had to go for fasting bloodwork this morning. I have deep veins and it took 3 people (a total of 5 pokes) to get 2 vials of blood. It's a rule that they are only allowed to try twice and then they have to get someone else. They gave me a heat pack and a glass of water. UGH!! Thankfully I don't have to fast for kidney specialist.

I go to a dietican every 6 months. They are nice people (there is also nurse too) but we don't really have anything to talk about since I know--eat healthy (watch carbs), exercise and drink water. The last time I went she didn't even look at the food log. I told them I had lost weight and the nurse said "oh, how did you do that?" Not "good for you". I really wish Drs and dieticans focused more on healthy eating than taking a pill.

Jenn

It really does. I'm back up a few pounds, but since I've been pretty good on the calorie front, I think it's related to *ahem* other things this week.:(

Thanks, Donna :) I'm just so desperate to see below 160 on the scale again, and I've really been fighting cravings for fatty comfort food the last few days. These are the times when we get to see what we're made of, I guess.

Mel-Mc: Sorry to hear about your bad experience with a dietitian. That type of behavior and attitude can turn someone away from healthy eating.

Mern: Good luck this week with your goals! It sounds like your busy but if your like me, busy keeps my goals on target. :)

Week goals:

1. Try out new treadmill: I borrowed from a friend every night (I can't get it all together yet, and my husband hasn't had time to fix it) no
2. Log all food and drinks: Yes
3. Stay under 1,200 calories a day: Yes
4. Do sit-ups everyday: No
5. Lose 2 pounds: Hopefully!

New to this thread
 

Hi There!

I'm new to this thread. I'm back on my journey to lose 100 lbs. Keeping that big number in the back of my mind is a given, it's always there. However, this time I'm breaking it down into smaller goals. I think that may help to make it less daunting.

My plan is simple and straight forward. Increase my physical activity slowly, watch what I eat closely in an effort to lower my blood sugar.

My goals:
Walk every day for 100 days.
Lose between 30 and 50 lbs by October 12.
Get off my diabetes meds
Walk a 10k by Thanksgiving

Here's a little about me:

53 year old grandmother of 3
245 lbs, 5'5"
type II diabetic
cholesterol is fine
blood pressure is fine
I drive a cement truck for a living.

Tuesday update:

Goals:

1. log food every day M=Y T=Y
2. keep calories between 1400-1600 M= 1575, T=1290
3. exercise on my lunch hour at least three times 2 done

Calories are a bit below my target today but I haven't decided if I'll find a snack to bring it up.

My pretty vague goals:

1. At least one work out while away (W&Th)
2. Weekly deficit over 3000
3. Make healthy food choices while away.
4. At least 5 bags of stuff to leave the house this week, charity, garbage, whatever. M-Y

Walking challenge: M-2m, T-1m.

Joanna, why are you having cravings? That's what I would be asking myself. If I eat any sugar, I have cravings (I don't know about artificial sweetener because I hardly ever use it but I have heard that). Anyway, I just think that there's a reason you are having cravings.

Weenapo welcome, glad you took me up on the invite :)

I am walking 2 miles a day with 2 lb hand weights 5 days a week. The other 2 days I'm walking 3 miles with 2 lb hand weights. After 2 weeks, I'll increase my 3 mile days to 3 days a week. I'll increase every 2 weeks. Once this has little affect on my heart rate, I'll start adding weight with my weighted vest.

Weenap06 welcome and glad to see you on here. :) Good luck with your goals. :)

Week goals:

1. Try out new treadmill I borrowed from a friend every night:grrr husband still hasn't fixed it No, No
2. Log all food and drinks: Yes, Yes
3. Stay under 1,200 calories a day: Yes, Yes
4. Do sit-ups everyday: No, Yes
5. Lose 2 pounds: Hopefully

Goals
1. Keep to carb limit Mon yes, Tues no
2. 4 servings fruits and veggies (focus on more veggies!) Mon and Tues no
3. 6 glasses of water!! probably not Tues no
4. Lose 1lb

Personal goals
1. Clean out storage room
2. Read more (borrowed from Robin's goals last week)

Jenn

Tues.
 

• Lose 1/2 inch from waist: (pending)
• Sugar < 40g / day: 28, 32
• Vegetables > 3 / day: 3, 4
• Cholesterol < 200mg: 64, 155
• Calorie deficit every day: -1065, -505
• Workout > 150 mins/wk: 65, 15

Not Bad.

For yesterday:
1.) Be pleased with my calories - M: I should be pleased because it wasn't bad at all, but I'm annoyed I couldn't do better, T: Y
2.) Drink 64 oz water/day - M: N, T: N
3.) Exercise:
M: Gym - Done
T: Run 4 miles - Done
W: Gym
Th: Run 4 miles
F: off
S: off
Su: Run 6 miles
4.) Make a lot of headway on this paper - M: meh, T: Better

Oh Robin, I think I'm craving fat food because I like butter and salt. I don't know that there's more to it than that. Also, comfort food makes me feel comfortable.