Accoutability TUESDAY

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 -

1. 1229 calories, 45 g carbs, 107 g protien 2. 220 - upper body workout. Also went for a 15 minute walk which isn't figured in to the calories burned. 3. See my "sugar everywhere" post earlier today for my massive challenge today. I managed to not eat anything more than the bite of cake and the one biscotti. I posted to you guys, I e-mailed my boyfriend and then called one of my best friends and talked on the phone for 20 minutes. By the time I got off my lunch had digested and I wasn't feeling hungry anymore so I was able to stay out of the kitchen. But boy there were a few scary minutes where I seriously just wanted to sit there and inhale everything. It wasn't so pretty. 4. 50 oz 5. took them all! 6. drink more water, spaced out. I managed to get a little more in today. It still has to be a constant reminder to myself to take sips every few minutes. 7. Maintain my weight and current eating plan. As said above today was a difficult day and I definitely went over my carbs. But I did get my protien up today so that was good and my calories maintained below 1300. I notice that I am definitely more hungry when I'm working out. Last week I was fine to only be eating 800-1000 calories but this week I am pretty hungry by mid morning (I work out first thing in the morning). The protien shake I do for breakfast doesn't cut it past about 9:30.

Corinna - you had a huge challenge with all of that SUGAR - I think you did pretty darn good considering hugs, Britt

Corinna, I think you had a MAJOR victory by not eating MORE of the samples! I admire your strength and determination! Just a word about your feeling hungrier this week, do you think it's hormonal or is there extra stress? I know I've gone on and on about how I could easily recognize my hormonal issues prior WLS and those are the same. Keep some kind of info on your feelings, you hunger level and all of that and see if you see a pattern. CeCe

1) 1500 - higher than I wanted tp take in - did not make the bestr choices today 2) 300 - cardio and upper body 3) not a great day - couldn't resist PIZZA (almost 2 slices) 4) 100 5) yes 6) mini goal this week - Take it a day at a time - WORK MY RESISTANCE MUSCLE 7) get back to 142 - exercised and drank my water note - I really have a hard time passing up things sometimes. When i am ON (track) I am ON and I am so strong and feel so good saying no THANK YOU when I am off track ... passing things up is a VERY challenging task. I need to have a a good week. A FULL GOOD week. That is what I need. hugs, Britt

I totally know what you mean! And once I do give in it's even harder to stop. I have to keep telling myself that at least I am having the discussions with my weaker self. Before I wouldn't have even thought about it other than a passing, oh I probably shouldn't eat this, and would have eaten it. So if I win a good percentage of these battles with myself I have to figure I'm doing pretty good. We all knew WLS wasn't a magic pill that would make the mental side of our problem go away *sigh*. So one day at a time is a good plan! Good job on the working out and water!! Corinna Q

Britt, I think you are like me and beat yourself up when you are not perfect! You know, it all seemed much easier a year or so ago but I'll bet we didn't have many PERFECT days then either. We probably kicked ourselves in the butt for eating a bite or two too much. These days, our FEAR of regaining, of messing this up has some of us in a panic and I am certainly one of those. I'm not saying you and I, Britt, should not worry about it but I think we have a personality trait that puts so much pressure on ourselves to be perfect or feel like we've failed that we set ourselves up. Please, please don't think I'm criticising you, Britt, I'm only writing this at all because your posts always seem to reflect exactly how I'm feelng about myself and my progress. I see you are very hard on yourself. While I know I'm hard on myself, it's always easier to see when someone else is and I have such empathy for you. Britt, you are a SHINING star on OH. You are a wonderful mother and wife. You are an athlete!!! You are strong and you ARE ALREADY A SUCCESS!!! Please post more positives about your journey along with the challenges!! I challenge you to do that and I'll do the same, ok?! Hey, I just reread your post and see a mini-goal is to take it one take at a time. How about ONE HOUR AT A TIME as a mini-mini-goal?!!! It would work for me too!!! Now, gather the 3 girls (and hubby if he's home while you are reading this) and have a BIG FAMILY group hug and internalize some of that love for BRITT! CeCe CeCe

thanks Cece! Oh - I know - I know .... still *that* is me thanks for your post you made me tear up onto the next hour love ya, Britt

Since I'm writing this on Wednesday afternoon and I was out of town all yesterday, I'm not going to post all the info. Eating out, I don't know all the totals but I did try to eat healthy and not too much. Still, I'm sure it was over the calorie limit I would have liked! The scale went down 1/4 pound and I got in lots of fluids so I'm just going to go from there! I could have gotten online last night to post but I was just too pooped! This morning I got up and ate grilled chicken for breakfast and that kept me going strong til noon. Today is another day! Mini goal is to take it an hour or a day at a time and be conscious and consistent! Big goal is to do the same and not go backwards! CeCe