Welcome aboard Mindy. The calorie stuff can be confusing at first but soon you'll get the hang of it. I think it may have been Carolyn that gave a good explanation of it a while back. I'll see if I can find her post.

found it >> http://www.fitday.com/fitness/forums...-confused.html

Goodness, the board is flying this week!!! After a couple of slower weeks, this activity is great to see! I'm going to try to catch up, but it may take me a few posts, so bear with me, please.

First off, a hearty Hello and welcome aboard to Mindy!!! And congratulations on your precious new little one! I'm sure some of what you're carrying is still baby weight, so don't be hard on yourself. I see one of your goals is to fit in more exercise... so bench press that baby!!! (Just kidding, s/he is still a little young for that :)). Seriously, great looking, very doable goals. You're off to a great start!

Carolynn, I'm using Pimsleur, too! Great stuff, although they go a little fast sometimes, not leaving me enough time to answer. Today, for example, I found myself saying "yeah, what he said" instead of actually saying the proper sentence :). What a beautiful reason you have for studying Tagalog, that's really sweet and thoughtful.

With regard to dinner with SIL, I like your idea of planning a strategy. Sounds like you've got it under control. Don't beat yourself up if it doesn't go exactly to plan, though. Be as kind to yourself as you always are to others. Enjoy the movie!

Ian, am I correct in assuming that's Korean? It must be wonderful to be immersed in the language. I'm sure you're learning more than you think you are. And you're learning not only textbook, but how the language is actually used. Reading, writing, speaking, listening, you have it all!

With regard to staying in the blue, it's only been these past two weeks, really. I've tried to set myself up for success by giving myself goals that aren't toooo much of a stretch. Take the fiber, for example: technically, I should be getting 21g or more per day but I found that was too much to ask right off the bat. So, after a disastrous fiber week, I started over with a goal of just 10g. Now I'm up to a goal of average 16. Eventually, I hope to get it up to average 21 but I'm not ready for that yet. Baby steps.

Posting updates is a great motivator for me, too. I hate having to report bad news. I can't tell you how many things I've bypassed over the past couple of weeks, simply because I knew they'd end up in The Report (Goal 1: Log everything) :D.

Mike, you crack me up. Sounds like you and your kids have a fun relationship! And as for beignets, it's always a good time for beignets, with or without kids! Wish I had one right now!

That's it for the moment -- back later, once I've had time to review more posts! Keep up the good work, everyone, nutritionally, activity-wise and posting!

Ok, part 2:

Oh, Robin! I winced just reading about your back and that was before I looked up exactly what it was :eek:. It just sounds painful. And yet, you continue on, modifying your workouts to accommodate. My hat is off to you!

Debbie and Libby, I'm impressed with your walking/running. Heck, I doubt I could run 5m, let alone 5km, and I'd have to be being chased by a car to do that much!

Donna, adding in chicken broth, garlic and onion sounds delightful for the blackeyed peas and rice. Definitely for the next batch!

As far as how much studying I do, Ian, I try to get in 30 minutes to an hour per evening. You'd think I'd be fluent by now but sadly, not so. I've been at it off and on for a few years (few months on, more months off). I'm better than I was, but no where near what I'd like. I doubt I could even read a kid's book. Oh well, it's still fun.

On a completely different note, I just found a Youtube video of a dance I'd like to learn. I mentioned it on another post in a different thread, but thought I'd mention it here, too (I'll tell you why in a sec). The video is How to Bollywood Dance: Navrai Majhi and it comes in four parts. The instructor seems great! She breaks the dance down into very simple movements and shows them and explains them well. It looks like fun!

The reason I mention it is that I thought it might be fun to learn with friends. Wouldn't it be a hoot if, one day, we were all in the same place at the same time and we could do it together! Hey, it could happen!

Mindy welcome! So glad you joined us. The thread is busy this week, that's so exciting. I'm hoping us "oldbies" can inspire the "newbies".

For those that are new and not sure what to do, my suggestion is to simply log for a week and figure out what is going on. At first I could only restrict my calories but now I am learning to pay attention to my sat fat, fiber, protein, etc. and the eating is getting healthier and healthier, with new recipes etc. In the first weeks my goals were to bring my lunch to work and stop buying take out. I don't have to have those goals now. 21 days to make a new habit :) I firmly believe that everyone's weight struggles are unique and that you have to adapt it to your own circumstances.

Logging and posting goals are working for me.

Epixi, holy moly my back feels great! One adjustment and I feel so much better. I have to continue of course, this didn't fix it, but I am feeling so hopeful. I have gone the chiropractic route years ago and it worked, don't ask me why it took me so long this time. I might even be able to do your Bollywood dance lol. Just kidding, dancing is not my thing. Seriously I might run in this year, we'll see how this goes.

In a word, leftovers. Tuesday May 28, 2013 :

Whole Grain Cereal With Raisins, Dates, and Pecans, 1 cup: 280
Turkey breast meat, 100 g: 104
Pork - Fresh, loin, broiled, 150 g: 281
Homemade - Cole Slaw, 1 Cup: 55
7 Grain Crackers, 12 crackers 142
Total: 862

+ 1 hour aggressive workout between the turkey and the pork. The crackers to keep from being hungry overnight.

Tisk tisk. :o

Goals this week:

1. Maintain a rolling average between 1200 and 1400 calories: 1231, 1264, 1239
2. Walk 10k this week: M-2k. W-3k
3. Swim 1x
4. Weight training 1x: T
5. Increase Omega 3: M-Y, T-Y, W-Y
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Tomorrow is insanely busy, but I am going for a swim if I can get up by 6:) otherwise it will be a no exercise day.

Tsk yourself!
 

It wasn't all peanut butter & jelly!

I don't know. I thought about learning belly dancing, or maybe hula ... never thought about Bollywood.

- Donna

that wasn't what I was talking about. ;) Just messing with you.

Mike - a 3# loss is a 3# loss. I don't care why my scale goes down.

Robin - so glad your back is feeling better.

I know what you mean. You just have to take it one day at a time. At the beginning, every day seemed so hard. But it did get easier. I try to focus more on making my goals rather than the weight loss itself. So if I make my goals for the day, I can feel successful and give myself a pat on the back. Very glad you joined in here!

And...now I can tell if my DIL and her mother or siblings are talking about me! ;)

LOL. I'll check that out. Maybe we could do a flash mob dance somewhere!

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Goals for the week:
1. Avg 1400 calories a day: 1032, 1236, 1278
2. Avg 45 min exercise a day: 45, 60, 10
3. Small bites, slower eating: sometimes
4. No sugar, white flour: Y, Y, N (hamburger bun)

re-start
 

Okay I am restarting, refreshing to see I'm not the only one who drops off the get healthy bus. :D Okay this weeks goals:

Drink more h2o
Exercise at least once a day (not focusing on times yet)
Get out of the house 3 times this week

5ft 9in 253lbs goals weight between 130-144

Hey! But I still log every day!

Wed:

• Calories Avg. < 1400 /day: 2271, 862, 1171
• Cholesterol < 200mg: 259, 184. 141
• Vegetables > 3 / day: 2, 1, 1
• Protein > 50 g / day: 97, 73, 62
• Sugar < 50 g / day: 56, 30, 78
• Workout > 150 min/wk: 0, 60, 15

True dat. :D

Hehe that's ok, I get it. Running is not my thing -- between the knees (they are perfectly happy dancing but not running, for some odd reason), the whole concept of getting sweaty (ick) and having to deal with *ahem* the girls (they will. not. be. tamed), running is out of the question for me :).

And do you let on that you know? ;)

Welcome aboard, Laura! Interesting thing about the Get-Healthy bus -- no matter how many times you jump off, there's always room when you want to jump back on!

Zing!

Hi,

Glad to come back to Fitday Forums ... here are my goals for this week!

1. Eat a maximum of 1,800 calories per day
2. Exercise for one hour six days a week (Sunday is my rest day)
3. Eat at least five servings of fruit and veggies every day
4. Have only 12 fl oz of sugary drinks per week

There you go ... Behlor
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Age 32, Height 5'7", Gender Female
Current weight: 235 lbs
Goal weight: 130 lbs
Sub-goal: 220 lbs

Welcome back, long time no see!If you wanted to, you could put that info in your signature. Do you know how to do that?

Thanks so much 01gt4.6 for the link I completely understand now. Don't feel so confused if I'm losing or gaining, lol.:o

Wow you guys are chatty cathys today. It took we a while to get caught up. It's been a hectic day. I haven't had a chance to breath let along exercise and I haven't eaten much either. Tomorrow my life will be back to normal.
It's day 4 and I am still going strong. Whoo Hoo.

I was half way through eating supper in front of the tv when one of my dogs needed to go out. When I got back there was nothing left on my plate but carrots with dog slobber. That's one way to reduce calories. Ha Ha

Rover to Spot: Haha you drew the short straw. Now go on, get her out of here so I can eat in peace!

Welcome, Laura. Glad you joined in here. I think most of us here have gotten off (or fallen off) the healthy bus a few times.

Peachtrees - good goals!

epixi - I tried a 5-min Bollywood dance workout - it was just the first one I found. I felt so uncoordinated. I'll try yours later tonight - I need to get some more exercise minutes in to make up for my shortfall yesterday. My DIL & her mom know I can speak & understand some Tagalog - I never really thought they were talking about me anyway. My DIL says my accent is better than my son's, even though he lived in the Philippines for a year - I'm a good mimic.

Laura - I think it's good to have non-specific exercise goals at first so you get a feel for what you can reasonably do. I try to shoot for a certain # of minutes a day, but it varies from week to week. I don't specify what form of exercise, so I can vary it up by whatever I feel like.

LOL. When people start noticing you're losing weight, you can tell them you're on the Dog Diet! Glad things are going well for you!

Goals this week:

1. Maintain a rolling average between 1200 and 1400 calories: 1231, 1264, 1239, 1233
2. Walk 10k this week: M-2k. W-3k
3. Swim 1x: Th
4. Weight training 1x: T
5. Increase Omega 3: M-Y, T-Y, W-Y, Th-Y
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Made it to early bird swimming this am. 25 mins lap swim. Just a brief post, should be in bed, internet's been down today until now.

Week 2 Progress:

Under 2000 calories per day 1897, 1353, 2008, 1304
Cardio 3x
Walk 20 miles 1, 0, 0, 0
Situps 1k 0, 50, 0, 0
Pushups 250 0, 75, 0, 0

Looks like I'm going to need to spend all day Friday doing exercise to get back on track :(

Nice thread... I will post some weekly goals on Sunday :).

You have to be eating more calories than that. You need to FUEL your body for your workouts to be successful. Great job being active but you have got to maintain a higher caloric intake to see real results.

Thur
 

• Calories Avg. < 1400 /day: 2271, 862, 1171, 1173
• Cholesterol < 200mg: 259, 184. 141, 148
• Vegetables > 3 / day: 2, 1, 1, 0
• Protein > 50 g / day: 97, 73, 62, 57
• Sugar < 50 g / day: 56, 30, 78, 54
• Workout > 150 min/wk: 0, 60, 15, 60

Hum, I see some trends here ... Calories: Good, Veggies: not so good.

Welcome back, Behlor! Glad you're here!

Look at our Robin go! On the road to a solid blue week! Fly, Robin, fly!!!

Make sure you're getting enough calories, Ian, especially if you're going to up your activity. You don't want to get lightheaded (that's exactly what happened to me at yoga class) and, as Alexis points out, you'll need enough to fuel your workouts. I love your enthusiasm!

So glad you've joined us, Amrn! A new thread usually starts every Monday, so if you post up your goals on Sunday (and that's perfectly fine!), don't forget to transfer that info onto the Monday thread!

Nice recovery from Monday, Donna! That's really what it's all about, isn't it -- a one day blip doesn't have to set the tone for the entire week. Well done!

Goals for the Week:

• Log everything, no exceptions (nibbles and "tastes" count!): yes, yes, yes, yes
• Maintain adequate daily hydration: yes, yes, yes, yes
• Maintain a 7-day rolling average between 1200-1550 calories: 1407, 1363, 1381, 1397
• Maintain a 7-day rolling average between 800-1300mg sodium: 1023, 932, 989, 1086
• Maintain a 7-day rolling average of at least 16g fiber: 19, 19, 18, 17
• Some sort of physical activity 4x during the week: M=Tai Chi/Yoga, T=Taiko Class, W=Navrai, Th=Yoga Class
• Study every day: yes, yes, yes, yes

A lesson reinforced yesterday: I wasn't necessarily hungry during the day, so by the time I got to yoga class, I had only had coffee, a 1/2 ounce of almonds and an apple (with dip) for the day. NOT ENOUGH! Halfway through, I was quite lightheaded. The fact that it was nearly 90 degrees F (~31-32 degrees celsius) outside (meaning the studio was also warm) didn't help. Although I thoroughly enjoyed the class, I was so glad when it was time for the final pose, the one where you lie peacefully on your back.

Other than that, my week is humming right along. Can't complain. Well, I *could* complain. I mean, seriously, I'm still not losing 10 pounds a week and I'm still not independently wealthy...

TGIF everyone!

Maybe you can inspire me to get my ass back in the gym on a regular basis.:cool:

Week 2 Progress:

Under 2000 calories per day 1897, 1353, 2008, 1304, 1926
Cardio 3x
Walk 20 miles 1, 0, 0, 0, 2
Situps 1k 0, 50, 0, 0, 900
Pushups 250 0, 75, 0, 0, 300

Awesome job on the situps and pushups! Do you think you'll be able to pull off the trifecta?

Thanks, but I don't see anyway of pulling off the 20 miles, will probably only get to 5 :(

Oh well, that can be reavaluated next week. Just hope my stomache isn't feeling too bad in the next few days

Pffft, slacker... week ain't over yet -- get out there and go :p!

Just kidding :D. Holy cow, I wouldn't have thought that many pushups and situps were possible in a week, much less in a day!!! I don't know how you do it, Ian, but I'm not going to count you out for the 20 yet :). Awesome!

Yes I agree with Epixi, those numbers are astounding Ian.

We've had a family tragedy today, I won't go into it we lost someone special unexpectedly today. Shocking and sad. Nonetheless I will still keep posting.

Goals this week:

1. Maintain a rolling average between 1200 and 1400 calories: 1231, 1264, 1239, 1233, 1244
2. Walk 10k this week: M-2k. W-3k, Th-1.5K
3. Swim 1x: Th
4. Weight training 1x: T
5. Increase Omega 3: M-Y, T-Y, W-Y, Th-Y, F-Y

Oh, Robin, I'm so sorry to hear that. My condolences to you and to your family.

My calorie count was high today but it was all healthy food. I haven't walked in two days because I have been too busy. I might make it to 5K by Monday but not 10. So glad to see others doing well. Keep up the good work and have a good week end.
Robin, my thoughts and prayers are with you at this sad time.

Robin: So sorry to hear of your loss.

• Calories Avg. < 1400 /day: 2271, 862, 1171, 1173, 2210
• Cholesterol < 200mg: 259, 184. 141, 148, 124
• Vegetables > 3 / day: 2, 1, 1, 0, 3
• Protein > 50 g / day: 97, 73, 62, 57, 66
• Sugar < 50 g / day: 56, 30, 78, 54, 64
• Workout > 150 min/wk: 0, 60, 15, 60, 10

After work blowout. (Is Cherry Pie considered healthy?)

I mentioned that my calorie count was high yesterday 1263, my weight is up this morning. I think I found my tipping point. Keep calories at or under 1000.

Hi everyone. Wow, busy thread this week!! Looks like everyone is doing well.
Sorry I've been awol. Busy week with dinner out, repairman for a/c (and still isn't fixed--rrr!!!) and doing yardwork.

Very humid here so I haven't had the energy to exercise but I am maintaining so that's good. Have definetely been eating lighter lately as it's too hot to cook much. I would love to lose 3lbs before my birthday which would be a lb a week--doable.
I have to make sure I keep my carbs in check!

Have a good weekend everyone.
Jenn