I love that you are here and honest about everything. I don't need to see perfection to feel inspired or challenged! What I want is the real struggle and to hear about what is/isn't working. I love that you are always trying new ways to curb the snack demon. As we have heard a million times, if you are really hungry, you'll eat the chicken. Your slaying the exercise and building muscle is awesome. That is a goal I have too yet I am blocked but seeing you doing it consistently, I know will find a way! I also love reading your menu- I drool!

You have the 'just do it' no matter what that I wish I had! You schedule yourself everything and follow through, everyday! I am in awe of your dedication and the routine that keeps you going. I look up to you and all you do, fighting the good fight!

Good morning! I think our Indian summer is officially over. YAY!!! Also, is that a bad thing to say. Matt called it Indigenous Person Summer and it made me think I might be being disrespectful to Native Americans. Any input there? I am here to learn and grow. Back to the yay part. Sweater Season is upon us! So excited.

I did not exercise yesterday. Not at all. I did eat well and drink lots of water. I choose to have leftover pasta for dinner last night instead of fish. Good. That's all gone. I'm making a concentrated effort to move this week into more protein, aiming for 120 grams a day and I'm going to try to accomplish that by eating 4-5 meals a day. Every three hours or so from 9 am to 9 pm. Turns out my Costco rotisserie chicken is the perfect thing to support this. I broke it all down and last night when my tummy started talking at 9, I pulled out 2 ounces and ate that. I realized that I have been very hungry at night, and making impulse decisions for a snack. Lets see how that works out for me this week. For accountability, yesterday I had 5 exercise minutes and 4,245 steps. I'm supposed to be at HIIT class right now, but my trainer is getting a brand new hip as I type this. I am going to need to stay focused to keep on track so when she comes back I have not lost any ground.

QoTD -- Mel 1970 Datsun pickup truck. Burgundy. Loved that truck but the back end was so light if I put too much gas in it going round a corner it would swing out and into a donut. Eeek! Young, new drive, dumb girl equals no bueno. Dad replaced it with a 1972 Datsun 510 that I drove until my 2nd kid was born.

QoTD -- Amy. I posted prolifically about this on Saturday if you'd like to see where I am. Looking forward to the real conversations about the struggles we are all having. I'm here for the support and friendship.

Bites today

B: 3 oz chicken, cottage cheese, EBTB seasoning

L: chicken and cheese

3 pm snack: greek yogurt with sugar free chocolate pudding mix stirred in

D: the Cod today for sure

9 pm 2-3 oz chicken

All water, all day!

Peace!

G'morning all!

The weekend went as planned. The house is ready for Halloween. We even ordered one more animatronic (mechanical puppets that are controlled by machines to move in a realistic way) which will be delivered today or tomorrow. It's a doll on a swing, a very creepy doll on a very squeaky swing.

QOTD1: FIAT panda, red. All I cared that it was red.

QOTD2: Wow, deep diving here. I'm here for the support, it's my daily AA meeting. I love hearing what's going on in people's lives but I also wanna see what everybody is doing to be successful and/or learn from mistakes. When there were more vets around and would say be careful with regrain after year 3-4, or the seventh year is the hardest one, I took them to heart. I've been on a tight and narrow path. There have been days or periods of time that I wobbled and wasn't following the "rules", but by coming here and reading all of the posts I got my kick in the rear and got back on. The main reason I post about my day before meals so that I am accountable to all of you and not go off plan. There have been days that I wanted something and would refrain only because I knew I had to post it on my menu. In short this thread has helped me keeping it together.

My meals yesterday:

• Coffee
• Avocado egg salad with home made protein naan (naan is a flatbread widely used in south and mid Asian cuisines, it's similar to pita, but softer, thicker, and airier.)
• Protein Diet Coke float, apple, 1 choc brittle
• Other half of egg salad with naan
• E: rest day

Happy start of the week!

That little girl was trying to imitate the dancers, so cute.