HOLD MY FEET TO THE FIRE! ACCOUNTABILITY THURSDAY

Accountability Mission: No Mercy and No Excuses 

Come out wherever you are BAF, we need each other.  We are stronger together.  

You know how to do this. Tell the whole truth and be accountable.  Are you living up to your own objectives?  Are you doing what needs doing? 

Many days we will do poorly.  Most days we will do well.  Overall how we average will decide our progress.  Let's average so we make our goals.  Let's thrive today.  Should we slip, we can still thrive this week.   

    ...All are welcome, jump in at anytime.


For reference:
5 Day Pouch Test (5DPT) website
http://www.5daypouchtest.com/plan/theplan.html
5 Day Pouch Test Instructions
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/black_american/3995048/Hold-my-feet-to-the-fire-please-Accountability-Mision/

Protein Train Instructions http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/black_american/3993571/Protein-Train-Educate-me-please/#32309205

Wagon Plan Instructions
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/black_american/3650242/The-Wagon-Plan-Get-back-on-the-wagon

Overeaters Anonymous
Online Meetings Around the Clock * Information on changing eating behavior 

Protein Sparing Modified Fast (PSMF)
The no op version.  This version is still severe but far more liberal than the one many pre ops are given.   
http://www.holisticmd.org/downloads/ProteinSparingModifiedFast.pdf  

Daily calorie needs calculator
A more advanced calculator that's still easy to use.   
Advanced option lets you choose from  3 different calculation methods.  Enter data once for calorie needs at maintenance;  plus calorie needs for 2 different levels of weight loss; and, results include a week long calorie cycling plan.  Calculator  takes into account age and gender as well as activity level.  Links to other calculators are on the same page. 
http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm

I am really trying to thrive this week but the head games are trying to do me in.  Cir****tances are thwarting my efforts to fix this week's mistakes too. 

First like a fool I blew off my workout plan figuring I will do it later.  Then came reality which stopped me cold.  To thrive I have to find another way to get it done.  Next I felt really bad seeing the pic in my siggy with my legs looking like overstuffed sausages in these jeans.  They will be my loose jeans again only if I make it my mission to thrive and once again look like I did in these pants last summer. 

BIG SIGH 

Well yesterday, too many calories came from protein bars but in order to thrive I've kept calories below each day's calorie goal.  Those sugar alcohols blew my total carbs straight to hell but my net carbs remain on point.  Protein, water all good.

I am at the point where breaking through to the next level is a major struggle.  What I want is to get back to my low then minus at least five.  I'll settle for my low right now and fitting all my clothes again.  The point where my body flips that swithch to weight gain is about here and just the thought is working me over.  It only takes a few pounds to get me out of my clothing as I expand fast these days. 

Despite feeling down I will force myself to thrive.  No matter what the scale does or the camel toe in my jeans I will stay on plan.  There will be no negative self fulfilling prophesies for me. 

I've said it.  I need to actually do it.  In doing it I will grow to believe it, then create my own positive self fulfilling prophecy. 

BIG SIGH,   --I KNOW I CAN...  --I KNOW I CAN...   --I KNOW I CAN...

Looks like once again our lives have taken on parallel paths.  

My frustration is high, my motivation is low, and i'm trying to get my positive back.   I have been eating great for the past 2 days and my workouts have been stellar  BUT MY BIG FAT ASS IS STILL THE SAME.

I will probably not be going to my family reunion as much as it breaks my heart, I can't take the humiliation.

MsLee PUHLEEESE just keep at what you're doing until you come up with a revised plan.  This time around we both need to switch up the paradigm.  We will make only positive adjustments. 

No switching back to maintenance.  No taking time off.  Plan's not working but we stick with it until we implement the new plan.

View it like having insurance.  We can't afford gaps in coverage.  We will make only POSITIVE self fulfilling prophesies this time around.   

We are not feeling it but we will fake it until w get there.  You will get there and make your reunion too.  There are what 120? days to go am I right?  That's four months to get it done.  You will look better than slamming in nearly four month's time. DO IT MsLEE!   

128 DAYS,  128 days and i'm feeling a bit more hopeful at this moment, but my mood changes moment by moment and I am going to try to stretch the good feeling out as long as possible without the use of chocolate.

I really don't have a back up plan Marcia, I didn't even have a first plan I was and still am just eating healthy and not eating candy.  I am so sick of nothing really happening.  Yes my jeans got loose but that is what always happens, my jeans get loose but I never go down to the next size or I never lose a freaking pound.

So here I stand once again, I am going to try my very best to fight pass this because I need to see my family and I need them to see me BUT not like this.

I got bupkiss as a backup plan also.  I'm talking to you and to mysel*****ta make a plan B too but I also I really had no plan A except for my workout plan and the usual carb control.  Perhaps Becca is right and our exercise focus throws us off.   

You can do this.  Four months is a long time.  We can't see all the possibilities because we're just so used to major dissapointment after long periods of hard work. 

What blew me straight to hell was logging in on myfitnesspal.com.  Between July 09 and this week I've only lost 33 lbs.  More than a year and a half later and as a 'honeymooner' no less.  Its not like I lost a lot in the first 5 mo either as it took near that to loose the first 50 lbs.  Even at a pound a week I should be at goal minus a really nice ten pound cushion. 

Glad you're sticking with it.  So am I.  The positive outcomes are there for both of us but not if we let this mood drag us down.  We need to analyze our past, review our endless research, then do something different that works for some segment of the fat loss population.  

I'm sticking to the body builder sites as they focus on fat loss with muscle preservation.  We know we will keep exercising and Lord knows we need to.  Imagine where we'd be without the workouts.  

You will be so much better at that reunion.  Visualize looking how you know you can and will look as a success.  I'm just going to wear what I wore last summer with a little more wiggle room.   I'm trying not to think about tthe scale just fitting in my clothes.  However, I can'd deny the correlation.   

Well, yesterday with great for me.  Documenting what I ate, really got me mentally.  So, here I am doing it again today.    Today going to be rough getting the gym in because of kids but, I am hoping I can squeeze it in.


I am trying to drop some pounds to look great for the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans.   I have never been before, so it should be exciting.   Hoping to drop 10 pounds a month, total 40 before then, if I can do it.

Got to get on my game.

I hope you both find your motivation and  for what I can read you both are really on it.   I might need to get some lesson on sugar carbs.   I don't even look at that.  

If I make the gym, I want to do 30 min cardio and arm and sit up.

Holding myself accountable.
Ann

Documenting food puts it all out there.  Nowhere to hide. 

When you can't make the gym have a back up.  It may not be what you want but it will get you what you need.  Half hour cardio is at home is a breeze.   Strength is as easy as some hard core calisthenics. 

I had so many alternate workouts I realized that all the gym held for me was the elliptical.  I can buy one.  Plus, the whirlpool/ steam room / sauna which I'm not supposed to use. 

You just hit me cold in the lip.  

I own an elliptical at home, too.   I could of got up early an got on it.

I have no excuse, I will work out today.

Now you holding me accoutable.

  That's why I'm here.  Like MsKim told me: No mercy and no excuses. 

Damn I want an elliptical.  I'm filling my penny jar...