Back to Basics Monday-who wants to join me?

Phyllis, I understand if you can't post but try really hard to cuz accountability is everything.  If you have to tell someone you ate that bag of chips-you might think twice about doing it.  Sounds like a great plan to work on "you".  With all your jobs I don't know how you have time for anything but sleep.  Glad to have you on board with us.

Hi Stephanie, I definitely want to follow your back to basics plan. I will use the tracker and definitely try to stop grazing. Hopefully, now that the kids are all going back to school I will do less stress eating. I will also try harder to be sure to get all my protein and water in.

ALICE!!!  It's been forever since I've seen you post.  I thought the timing on this was perfect with the kids back in school we can finally concentrate on US.  How have you done since your revision?  Can't wait to see you posting more.

School starts tomorrow and I find I snack more when I am working than I do at home.  I bought some grapes to take to work.  So maybe that will help.  I lost 6 pounds last month.  Now back at work 1 week and nearly 2 pounds are back because of the salty stuff I have been eating.

Okay after really letting myself go and not eating right, feeling like crap about it, beating myself up over it and doing it again and again.... I need to STOP and take some accountability. I see Bryan doing so well and being successful and I found myself getting cranky and angry-not at HIM but AT ME for not doing what I'm supposed to be doing. He's doing great-and I'm happy for him. It just brought home to me this afternoon, after I had time to think about a comment I made at lunch, that I am jealous because he's doing what he needs to do and I'm slacking-BIG TIME. And I've got the pounds to show for it. I'm tired of beating myself up. I need to get busy, not hide any longer.
SO, tomorrow- drink WATER, not soda-man I can't believe I got back into that habit! Walk at break, walk with Bryan at home-even if my foot hurts because laying off a few days didn't make it feel any better.
I got some frozen dinners for lunch-healthy choice and lean cuisine-they work for me and it keeps me from being tempted by Whataburger and mexican food next door!
I've still got alot of habits I need to quit, but I'm not one that can go cold turkey-the deprevation monster kicks in and I blow it big time. So one by one, slowly, I am going to work on my bad habits and replace them with better ones.

Thanks for getting this started Steph- hopefully I can stop feeling awful and start feeling great again!

O.K. Stephanie,
I'm glad you posted this.  I'm struggling too.  Not the scale, I weigh only on MOnday morning; not the liquids, I get 8 8oz. glasses per day, not  the protein, I make sure I get that everyday.; not soda's, I still haven't had any of that (except for an occasional cola ICEE).  My BIG thing lately has been SWEETS!!! This has ALWAYS been my area of weakness.  This week I made Charlotte's birthday cake, the traditional kind with deadly sweet decorator icing.  I LOVE that stuff.  There's no telling how many calories I've had  since making it on Fri.  I've really been slipping on the sweets lately.  The weight has not gone up ****il I get on the scale tomorrow a.m.), but I see myself getting back into that mindset.  Plus, no exercise (except running after these 3 grand daughters all day).  I need to have my head examined!!  Well, the birthday cake is gone, the M&M's (that she wanted on the cake) are eaten (I finished off that bag today!), so there's no reason I can't get with it now.  I know I'm going to be upset in the morning when I get on the scale.  I really dread it.  But I've got to get back to basics.  O.k., I feel better now,  tomorrow is a new committment.  Thanks for doing this.

Carol

Well I really need to take advantage of all the support and give it my all and be part of this challenge.  I haven't gained weight but I haven't been doing anything right either.  I am almost at a year post op and down 98.8 lbs... I went 11 months with no sodas and now all of a sudden that is all I drink.  I have for the last 11 months limited my sweets and bread and now I just have been eating what I want when I want... I graze all day... It is going to catch up with me.  I took the first step today to getting it under control I made a meal plan for the week.  Also I've been out of a couple vitamins for a week waiting for payday this past friday so ordered those today and bought some adult gumi vitamins to get me through till they get here.  So here are my goals...

Stick to my planned meals for the week and track my eating so I know what I am putting in my body. This is important because I haven't been tracking for months and I know I haven't been getting all my protein since my hair seems to be falling out again.  

Work out at least 3 days during the week

Drink water and DON'T drink soda

Take ALL my vitamins everyday. (I am good about my morning dose and my bedtime dose but can't seem to remember anything in between)

Thanks so much Steph for starting this I really needed the accountability too!

 Count me in Stephanie.  I've been struggling with my inner demons lately because they are all friends with the carb monsters running amok in the world.  I keep it all in check when I journal, but haven't been consistent with it recently, but one or two days is better than none.  

My running has slowed to 2 times per week and I'm sad I can't get myself in gear.  Somewhere in my head I justified it all out loud by saying "If this is all the weight I can lose, I could live with it".  WTF?  Really?  I must be insane.  That was a week ago and I decided I need to get myself back to basics.  The timing on this is perfect!  Thanks.

I will: 
1.  Log my daily intake on Sparkpeople (My site of choice because of the ease of loading a recipe and it auto loading to my daily meal planner)
2. Drink 90 ounces of water per day or more
3. Exercise 5 times per week
4. Keep carbs at or below 30% of my total caloric intake. (and since the only way to know this is to journal, I'll lose out on TWO goals if I don't do this one.)

Just one week back on track I've lost 2 pounds and it is just what I needed for motivation.  

hello everyone i am kinda new to this board i have been looking on it my whole time but i never talk i need some support  i have been see sawing with my wieght for a while now and i would love get back to the doctors goal which is llike 12 pounds but i would like to got 5 pounds that so i would have a liitle extra to work with its been almost  6 years since i had my it was  jan, 2004 . this years really  been hard  just found out my dad has cancer and there is no cure for it and he is really going down fast! any ways i have bben trying the 10 day protein thing i have lost like 7 but still need 12 more i have been trying to walk 2 miles everyday but some days i cant get it in any help is very thankful    Brenda