Accountability Monday

Alright ladies...let's get back to it 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. 951 calories, 25 grams carbs, 128 grams protien 2. 25 min cardio, 250 calories 3. I had planned to eat cherries today and managed to not do it. As you all have heard me say I crave fruit, which is why I had put it in my plan, but it put me a little too high in the carb world so I left them off and had a string cheese instead. 4. haven't a clue but it wasn't very much. 5. Took them all...yay! 6. pre plan my day of eating. I sat down this morning first thing when I got to work and planned out what I was going to eat. I followed it almost exactly. Only the times changed because I forgot I had a meeting starting at 2. and of course the cherries/string cheese exchange. 7. Maintain my current weight and eating plans. Doing good! 8. It was great to have a plan. It really took the edge off of the urge to snack. As soon as I felt like I wanted to I could look at the clock and say, only an hour until I can eat what I've planned, I can wait that long. It felt really good to be able to follow it too. Plus it really kept my calories down. At my first try (I entered my whole day in fitday to see where I was ending up with my plan) I was under 850 calories so I actually had to add a few things. I got this from the Beck book...by the way. I haven't made it past the first step because I haven't written down my reasons yet and put them in places to read twice a day. But the intro talked about planning. I've never done it before and it just seemed to make sense to me. Especially the part about being able to wait because I knew when my next planned meal was. I'm still pretty skeptical about the book/process but am determined to give it a try. After all the worse that can happen is nothing changes and I still have to struggle everyday with my choices...which is what I've done my whole life. You can't expect to change if you keep doing the same thing so it's certainly worth a try. Okay, enough babbling from me. Obviously I missed posting the last three days and am making up for it Corinna Q

Corinna, you are right about planning helping you to wait until your next planned meal or snack. It's like a budget can prevent impulse buying (says the woman who spent $2500 on a computer and iPod this weekend!)! I think everything in the Beck book makes sense because most of it is common sense!!! It's just humans have a hard time applying common sense!!!! Why is it we can accept planning or structure in most of our activities but we often resist planning our eating? I mentioned last week in our chat and in a post that I think my resistance to planning is fear of being accountable to myself. My success or failure to stick to the plan is there in black and white. After we fail to live up to our commitment to ourselves over time, we tend to accept that we "can't" do it. When we plan and follow through by exercising the resistance muscle, we honor ourselves and the positive feelings reinforce our motivation. Now, my own accountability! I did not plan and my excuse (and it is an excuse) is the new computer, etc! As I look back, my choices were pretty good because I was too busy to snack!!!! I did eat too much protein at one sitting last night though. Grilled steak. Those calories add up! 2. Exercise - strength training, walking Took my vitamins. Fluid was pretty good could always be better. Goals are to plan and be accountable! Negotiate with myself more and build the resistance muscle! CeCe