Oh my goodness, what has happened to my day?! I think this is the most calories I've eaten in a day for months! I'm at almost 2500 right now, hopefully I'm done gorging. Goodness! I will say one thing, I remember feeling like this a lot before I decided I could lose weight - you know, that gross feeling when you've eaten waaay too much and just want to go into a coma lying on the couch? Yeah, that's what I'm feeling - at the very least, it's good to have a reminder about why it's not as much fun to eat so much as you think it might be! Better luck tomorrow, I'm sure...

Yeah but 20 pounds ago it probably took more than 2500 cals to feel that gross.

Monday Report

Goals

1. Calories 1,400 M-Th & Sun, 1,600 F&S. 1,397
2. Water 100oz. Y
3. Deficit 4,000 for the week. -1,452
4. Exercise 7 hours. 75 min
5. Protein 25% or higher. 23%

Other stuff:

1. Pick the rest of the garden and deal with the veggies. Garden Picked!
2. Plant odds and ends in flower garden. N
3. Work on Halloween costumes. N
4. Prep for October Girl Scout meetings. N
5. Call Grans. N
6. Make appointments for orthodontist and car. N
7. Pick up apples at Farmer's market. Wednesday or Saturday
8. Housework 45 min/daily + 1 load of laundry. NNN

I spent the afternoon out at the garden picking my little heart out, so I didn't make any of my "other" goals today. The weather was gorgeous, so I'm glad I was outside in that instead of freezing drizzle, which is how it usually goes for me. The deer have been munching away at all the veggies out there so it was getting rather necessary to bring everything in. I still need to dig up the rest of the beets, some potatoes and carrots, but I managed to get everything above the ground: squash, peppers, pumpkins, string beans and lima beans all picked. I think the deer have pretty much eaten all the popcorn, so we'll hope for next year on that one I guess. Oh well, every harvest has it's own bumper crops, this was the year for acorn squash, beets and zucchini. Who am I kidding, every year is the year for zucchini. Good grief they look like Bam-Bam's club they are so big. I've been handing them to my friends right and left and saying, "you can either eat it or use it to cause blunt force trauma, your choice". Then I make them hold out their arms like they are going to carry firewood and load them up. It's hilarious.

Terri, I can so feel your pain on the financial front. Been there, done that, revisit often. Although I can't complain about the pantry cupboards, which are filled to overflowing this time of year. If you lived closer, you would have a big fat pile of squash outside your door that appeared mysteriously overnight and probably some tomatoes too. I know it's really hard in an apartment to grow a garden and stock a deep freezer, but some of that will come in time (well the deep freezer anyway). It sounds like you are doing all the right things, going without the extras, staying on budget, paying for things up front rather than on credit. I highly recommend the book "Financial Peace", it helped DH and I get on the same page financially and helped us pay off a lot of annoying little debts that kept us from having enough to make ends meet. The author is a guy named Dave Ramsey, he's maybe more on the religious end of things than you typically would expect from a financial adviser, but still 90-95% of his info is spot on. BTW CONGRATULATIONS ON THE 52LBS!!!! A little choked up here, sniff sniff.

Mike sorry to hear that you and GF are fighting, domestic tranquility is a delicate balancing act. And glad to hear that you got DD's toe fixed up with a beauty treatment to boot! That was a serious score on your part, very resourceful. My grandmother had that ingrown toenail surgery, it's still pretty ugly. You made the right call.

April, I'm so glad your dad is visiting, you're so revved up! It's really cute, and well if you're still feeling wired after he goes home, my house is a disaster, so come on over, I'll help you burn it off. Just kidding, have fun honey and CONGRATULATIONS ON THE 50LBS!!!! I'm so proud of you.

Mern, glad you're back on track, this thread wouldn't be right without you. And just so you know, you could not have been worse than me this past weekend, unless of course you ate whatever you wanted and poured a quart of beer down after it (which is what I did).

I've come to the conclusion that she hasn't eaten enough crow. I usually don't let stuff get to me but for some reason I'm still mad.

As far as food I have eaten clean today but haven't logged much b/c I wasn't concerned about calorie amount.

My ex still hasn't made a pledge and probably won't (knowing her), so I still need 3 pledges.

I had that feeling myself just after lunch today. Normally I have 1 1/2 cups of chili, but I packed a lunch with 2 cups in it today because I went to mom & dad's to work on the garden. I always have trouble there, the cupboards are a diet landmine. Anyway after eating the full 2 cups, I felt like I might chuck for a little while after. In fact I still have heartburn, which used to be my constant companion. So from now on it's 1-1.5 cups for me no matter what I'm doing, 2 cups is just more than my body needs (even if my inner fat girl disagrees).

When do you need them by?

I have a food dryer, love it. If you can lay your hands on one cheap (less than $30) just do it. You can dry enough herbs to pay for it in about a week. On the flip side I used to take my herbs, put them in bunches and tie the stalks together. Then stick the bunch, leaves down into a paper sack, tie the sack around the stalks and hang the whole thing upside down in the basement until it dried (couple of weeks). Then just crunch the leaves inside the bag and untie the bag. Ta-da, dried herbs in a bag. You can also lay the herbs out on a cookie sheet, let them dry in the sun. I never had much luck drying them in the oven, it's just too hot for most herbs. Good luck, keep me posted.

The rosemary I would just bring in the house and water it through the winter snipping off what you need when you need it. It's not hardy but generally will survive year after year as long as you protect it from freezing.

I'm off to bed now, my sinuses are having a race to see which side can drip to my chin first. Ugh, I hate seasonal allergies!!!

Wow this thread is busy.

Amy I missed your post before my last and all the posts since. I think the money is due by the 22nd BUT I made it one of my goals this week to get 3 this week, so by Sunday.

I'm currently at $410, the 2:1 company match should hit on the 15th. I quite possibly could pull off my $1,000 goal if I keep pushing hard!

Check-in:

1.) Stay under 1550 calories/day: 2539
2.) Drink more water than I normally would: OK
3.) Take multivitamin: Yes
4.) Work out 3 times:
5.) Finish Astro 502 HW by Wed: Close
6.) Finish Astro 542, 501 HW by Fri

Yeah, so, about today... Ha, I suppose there's always tomorrow!