accountability Friday

1) Calories in (you can post your actual meal plan if you want to share) 2) Calories burned or time and movement / exercise (give us the details) here is a site that can give you an estimate of the calories you burned http://primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/jumpsite/calculat.htm 3) Successes / challenges (did you pass up a temptation? - do you have a challenege coming up?) 4) Water intake - how much? 5) Vtamin supplement taken? 6) Mini goal for this week - what did you do *today* to get there? 7) What is your Big goal? - what did you do *today* to get there? 8) notes -

BAD DAY FOR ME .... i REALLY DIDN'T EAT A LOT JUST crap - HIGH CALORIES junk ! ugh!!!!! too many calories, tooo much fat & carbs NOT ENOUGH water - protein 1) 1754 36%fat 49% carbs 14% protein 2) none 3) daughters b-day - I allowed that to be my EXCUSE for eating crap - STILL it is just an EXCUSE! 4) 32 WATER - 16 GREEN TEA ... NOT GOOD! ythis fews days of posting is really making me see I better start BUCKELING down and get SERIOUS again!!! 5) YES! 6) mini goal - NO GRAZING! - / NOT SO MUCH 7) BIG goal - get back to 142 - TRACKED AND POSTED MY INTAKE EVEN THOUGH i DIDN'T WANT TOO .... NO LIES! 8) I'VE decided that Monday is a better day for me to start and COMPLETE the 5dpt - too much going on this week / weekend for me ... hugs, Britt

Britt, I feel you do need to allow yourself a day here and there where you don't worry about what you eat and things like a daughter's birthday would be one of those occasions, I would think, so don't beat yourself up too badly. Just remember what you probably would have eaten before surgery. If it had been me I'm sure I would have hit the 3000 to 4000 calorie mark on a day that included things like birthday cake. To have stayed well under 2000 is great! Now, you're right, time to get back on track I agree that these postings are helpful, it really makes us take stock of what we're eating and doing. I know I was very surprised when I started tracking my food a few months ago at how much I was eating and how much of it was completely useless stuff that just added tons of calories. I will be honest that it took several weeks of journaling my food before I actually made a change. For some reason even though I was looking at the scary numbers everyday it didn't quite sink in and I kept making terrible choices. For me it was when my boyfriend looked at one of my day's entries and I was totally horrified to know that he saw my bad choices. Not only did I know what I ate but I was letting someone else see it too. It did the job and I got serious finally. The most important step was what you said on number 7...you tracked and posted and were honest even though it sucked. That's hard to do!!!!! Okay, I'll quit rambling on and on. Have a great weekend Britt!! Corinna Q

Thank Corina! I have been OFF for so long. I don't feel that I deserve VEER more off track for a special ocassion - ya know! Very frustrating!!!! If i was sailing thru doing great -- I'd be OK with a higher caloric day here or there ... but for me my eating has been so bad!!!! Thanks for your post -- and sharing your food journaling expierience with me. Still I am thankful for sharing this post with you ladies -- I do beleive it is a step in the right direction!!! hugs you ROCK!

1. 946 calories, 19 g carbs, 79 g protien 2. not yet *sigh* 3. I was bored out of my mind today and managed to restrain myself from eating everything in site! Oh wait, I saw my ex today, the one who LOVED to feed me, and he worked really hard to get me to try the chocolate covered strawberries his chef is making at his restaurant. I managed to decline. 4. 60 oz. 5. multi, calcium, B complex, iron, vit D 6. drink more water - did fairly well today. I kept finding that when I forced the water I'd get sick to my stomach. So I need to drink more slowly I think, but then I end up not drinking enough...so I have figure out a better system. 7. Get to 142 - I'm thinking this is never going to happen but I'll keep up the low carb because it does keep my eating in line, especially the snacking on junk like that darn trail mix that taunts me constantly 8. I'm very frustrated that I got on the scale today and I'm still at 155 even though I've totally behaved myself all week. I am definitely low on my protien today and probably on calories too and have been all week so that might have contributed but still it drives me nuts that I can't shed these pounds!!!

I hate when you know that you have done good and the scale doesn't show it YET! Hang in there and you will see the results! I understand your feelings on that one !!! you are doing so GREAT keep going girl!! TERRIFIC JOB ON DECLINING THE CHOCOLATE COVERED STRAWBERRIES! that must have felt awesome!!!

Hi 1) Am continuing with my eating and not tracking this week 2)18 minutes on the elliptical 162 calories 3) Very sore today could barely finish 18 minutes. 4) 85 ounces of water 5) I took them all 6) Day 4 of exercising I'm not getting my full 30 minutes in but at least I'm doing what I can. 7) Exercising is helping me to stay in my skinny clothes 8) Another baseball game tonight and I had to wash his uniform because we have pictures on Sunday. I won't be posting tomorrow because we're going up to the cabin and I have no computer there. I am going to swim up there if it's warm enough. Talk to you Sunday night. Deb

hAVE FUN AT THE GAME! GREAT JOB ON EXERCISING ... even though you were sore talk to you Sunday

) Calories in: Sorry to say that I'm still not tracking 2) Calories burned: Hmm...it looks like 45 minutes of INTENSE weight training only netted about 280 calories! 3) Successes / challenges: My co-workers enouraged me to order the wonderful chicken salad sandwich or wrap from Arby's. I had the foresight to look it up on the internet first. 736 calories! The sad thing is---I have eaten that before. 4) Water intake: 100 ounces--but I did have caffeine so that negates some of it. 5) Vtamin supplement taken: Always. 6) Mini goal for this week: I wanted to exercise every day and I did have a great exercise week. Very intense. 7) What is your Big goal: My big goal should be to track my intake. I really haven't even given it much thought. Wanda