accountability MONDAY

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 -

I have a meeting from 7-9:30 tonight .... so I am posting this early 1) 889 - I need a few lower calories days! 2) 434 - ran on the treadmill (it felt great) and did lower body - a great workout 3) I did great today - stuck to my plan NO grazing (Go Britty!) 4) 128 - ahhhhh 5) yup 6) mini goal this week - Take it a day at a time - WORK MY RESISTANCE MUSCLE 7) Big goal ... get back to 142 notes - I feel good and d*e*t*e*r*m*i*n*e*d TO GET BACK TO GOAL! hugs, Britty

) Calories in 1238 2) Calories burned: 300ish 3) Successes / challenges: Umm...I didn't really pig out today. 4) Water intake: 80 5) Vtamin supplement taken: Yep. Still loading up on iron too for my anemia too. Hope we find that it is resolved at my next appointment. 6) Mini goal for this week: Exercise 5 days 7) What is your Big goal: To stay below 140--and to look damn good doing it!

1. Hi, Gang! I'm going to post this but hopefully this is my highest calorie day. It's high for several reasons. One is that I ate 1/2 of a Panera breakfast souffle for breakfast and the other half at lunch. If anyone knows about these things, they are fairly small but high calorie. Almost 600 calories! So, they obviously cannot be a regular part of my menu!!! Dinner was a grilled chicken salad. It was good! Snacks were watermelon and a Klondike Slim a Bear that isn't low calorie or lowfat itself. I also had 1/2 banana with breakfast and the other at lunch and dropped by my favorite coffee shop for my skinny Cafe Au Lait (regular coffee with steamed skim milk). Darn, counting calories is NO FUN!!! My total ended up being 1465. Like I said, I hope this is the highest day. I'm not even going to tell Corinna how high the carbs were!!! Of course, some were the in the fruit in my salad and the watermelon. The souffle and the ice cream ran up the others. 2. Exercise: Aerobics and strength training, walking. Probably about 500 calories burned. 3. Challenges - like i said in an ealier post, I'm stressing about a situation. Success: We dropped by Wal Mart for bird seed and a few things. I was hungry and wanting just about everything I looked at - especially junky carbs. I carried on a conversation in my head and told myself I was determined to be accountable to you guys today so you guys helped me avoid a few hundred more calories. Thanks! 4. I'm still working on the water but I was very conscious to have it with me all the time and to make deals with myself like I had to fini**** (or my shaved iced) before I did something or the other! I usually do well with my fluid but I could do better. 5. Took all my vitamins - including the iron, Wanda!!! Mine is almost back to normal!!My PCP says I should take the Repliva until my next physical in December. Did I ever report that my white blood cell count was normal for the first time in about a year?! 6. Mini Goal for this week: Not to feed into the drams and to avoid feeding myself because of the drama. Sounds like you and I are very similar in this department, Corinna! In the last few years, I've made big steps in avoiding stepping into the middle of situations and getting myself wound up. Don't spend as many years falling into the same trap, Corinna! Learn the lesson early and well to avoid the wasted time! Being accountable to posting this nightly will help me get through the worst of this. Tracking the food, journaling, keeping it real will help too. 7. My big goal is to embrace a healthy lifestyle - eating well, avoiding self-induced stress, being accountable and not putting myself down as much. I want to be more accepting of others as well as myself and be at peace. Right now I am trying to deal with an all too familiar situation in an adult and mature manner to change my usual emotional and stress eating. My big goal is to view food as fuel and not abuse it, not use it to fill the emotional holes in my life and to deal with feelings and not stuff them. Big goals and an ongoing process. I'll never be perfect but I have to keep trying! I know I've been missing. I have been busy but even before this current situation, I have been fighting some feelings of depression that I hope are just hormonal and very temporary. Hormones can wreak havoc on me some months and this is either one of them or there's something else going on that I have yet to figure out! Thanks, Britt, for starting this! Tomorrow I'll be gone all day. It's another follow up appointment with my PS who is hours from me. I plan on eating Chinese but there's no MSG. I just looked on the website for nutrition info and wasn't able to find it but I'll try again or find something similar on LifeForm. CeCe

1. 958 calories, 38 g carbs, 68 g protien 2. 250 walking serious hills on the treadmill. Man did it feel good to get back to working out!!! It's a day early but nothing hurt so I think I'm okay 3. major snack attacks today. Some bakery person came and brought samples and I ended up eating half of an amazing white chocolate cranberry cookie. Then I just wanted to keep eating sugar sugar sugar. Managed to avoid anything else, ate most of an apple in desperation and that did helped but also helped bring my carbs above what I'm allowed. 4. probably only 40 today. 5. took them all!! 6. drink more water but spaced out - didn't work so well, kept forgetting that I was supposed to be drinking the water in the bottle sitting in front of me all day. Sheesh. 7. Maintain my weight and keep in line with my current eating habits. Although my carbs were a little high and protien a little low I did manage to keep myself mostly in line. 8. Monday's are hard for some reason with the snacking. especially when there are baked good sitting out all over the place!!! Ug! Tomorrow is another day.

Corinna, You sure are able to keep those calories low!!!! I don't think I've been able to keep them that low for MONTHS AND MONTHS!!!! Don't go TOO low though. As you know, that can slow down the metabolism. I'm always so shocked how fast my calories add up even when I think I'm doing well. Preplanning works wonders, of course!!! That's another goal.....!!!! CeCe

1) Total: 1071 Fat: 27 242 24% Sat: 5 44 4% Poly: 5 48 5% Mono: 10 94 9% Carbs: 99 346 34% Fiber: 13 0 0% Protein: 108 432 42% Alcohol: 0 0 0% I was a bit high on carbs but these included oatmeal an apple, squash and mixed green vegetables. So mostly good carbs except for the 100 cal packs of oreo's and popcorn, I know bad but at least controlled portions. 2) about 400 burned- I got back to the gym today! YEAH ME! I forgot how good it makes me feel. 3) Success today- stayed on track, tracked my food, skipped the doughnuts in the breakroom- YEAH ME! 4)Water- 80 oz- YEAH ME! 5)Yep- got em all 6)Mini goal for week- exercise 3 gym days and 2 abs days at home- 1 down, 4 to go- YEAH ME! 7)Big Goal- get to 145 lbs-today I was not perfect but I was GOOD. YEAH ME! 8)I hope you guys don't get tire of me cheering. Another of my big goals is to give myself more credit. It is so hard to be *nice* to me. Also wanted to share a WOW moment for me. This weekend I went shopping with a girlfriend. I haven't been shopping to buy clothing since before the fire. There was a huge sale at Goodies and I went straight to the racks. I was looking and picking up dresses when my girlfriend came over to ask what I was doing. Looking at her puzzled, I said duh, getting some clothes to try on. She then grabbed my arm and drug me out of the plus size section to the "regular" section. I had not even thought about it. I just automatically went to the "old me" clothes. Turns out, I picked up size 14 dresses. They were too big! Then I got size 12....they were too big. Then 10's....I am a size 10 with room to spare! Yeah Me! To borrow Wanda's expression....I am Lovin' My New Life! Thanks for letting me share. Hugs, Val;

Val, Please do cheer yourself on!!! We all need to do more of it. I think we tend to get fixated on the bad stuff and punishing ourselves and forget about praising ourselves for the great stuff we do. I'm still not a huge shopping fan but it is way more fun to be picking up size 10 dresses than size 24. And the dresses are way cuter!!! Keep up the great work. Corinna Q

Valorie, What a wonderful post!!! My smile got bigger and bigger the more I read of it!! YEA!!!!! YEA!!! Valorie, pat yourself on the back and give yourself a high 5!!! I'm so happy for you. Despite the horrible tragedy, you are doing fantastic! Stress be darned, huh? Great job on avoiding the doughnuts! Room to spare in a 10 (and I'll bet you could wear 8s if you had tried!) and FANTASTIC job on keeping track of your food, keeping the calories down AND getting almost all good carbs in (hey, we all need a little decadence - LOL, like 100 calories bags of snacks are decadent!!) CeCe