Tuesday Check-In

Well, today was an okay day foodwise. B 1 egg with cheese and 1 whole wheat waffle with sf syryp S kashi snack bar L Chinese- 3 shrimp (steamed), 1 bite of chicken, 1 bite of a pork dumpling, 1 bite of a crab ragoon, 1/2 egg roll, 3 broccoli florets S apple D broiled mahi mahi with a citrus sauce, brown rice with green peas and chives cooked in, 2 tbs fresh green beans with 1/2 a new potato, a little fried okra left over from last night when my Nana was here cooking S Nothing - ate enough at dinner Exercise - 3 mile Leslie Sansone walking workout and some free weights after Melissa

thanks melissa for posting....i have been busy and just sat down for a second to post and here you are! thanks! my day was pretty good too!! 10 miles WATP and only low carb stuff for me. 5 miles WATP B-protein bar, banana w/peanut butter 2 peanut butter crackers (low blood sugar) 3 miles WATP S-fruit smoothie L-Chicken tortilla rollup 2 miles WATP S-apple D-eggplant w/pizza sauce and mozzarella in a low carb tortilla maybe pudding or a protein bar later how'd you all do???

Wow, how do you have time to get all that walking in????? I work 10-14 hour days and it is sure tough! I manage 3-4.5 per day and that is pushing it. Summers are always tooooo busy. B- green chili and cheese eggs. S- 18 pretzels L- forgot to eat.. too busy S- salsa and a couple of tortilla chips D- Roasted chicken (4 oz) 1/2 C green beans, 1/2 C raspberries S- string cheese Trisha

well luck for me i don't work right now and i just have the dog to take care of...so i keep myself busy 3 hours a day working out. i have a schedule i follow during the week. it's really rather scary for a person with no job to have a schedule but i do and i follow it almost to the minute. i'm weird like that though...i need structure. but if i have other things to do during the day i work them around my workout schedule.

Hi Trisha, good seeing you posting, isn't it amazing how life gets so busy and we just don't have time to do everything we want now? Hope you're doing well. Dana

You did have a good day. Mine will be better today. Nana has gone home and all the left over okra is gone. LOL. Melissa

i'm really trying hard to get this carb thing under control and get my weight off. i don't get it though...my weight isn't budging. i know i'm not eating as many calories as i'm burning...there's no way! but i'm at a loss....i have tried to get advice from that jeremy gentles or whatever his name is that does the exercise boards and he'll ask me a bunch of questions but never gets back to me. i've asked him a couple times and he's asked me the same questions both times and yet never gets back to me except to tell me that he'll get back to me soon....doesn't make sense to me!! my nut is no help either! i just want to know how many calories i should be taking in...is that so hard? and i don't really like those charts because they are all different and i don't know which one to follow. it frustrating!

I was going to do a post about this, but I will share it with you right here. I read in one of my magazines that if you have gained a few pounds or are trying really hard and doing great but the scales just won't go down it could be your exercise program. It said in there that if you have been doing a certain workout routine for a long time that the body gets used to it and no longer goes into lose mode. It is like oh she does this every day. It said to shake things up and keep the body wondering what you are doing so that is goes into the fight or flight response mode which helps us to lose. So, I have been trying to do something different each day I exercise. I will do WATP one night and then do step aerobics another night or Billy Blanks boot camp or taebo. I was the worst about doing the same thing every day. I am like that. I get in my little routine and get my schedule going and I am hard to make changes. But I have been trying. And it seemed to help the scales go the right way. So, spice things up a bit and throw your body for a loop and change up your exercise and see if that helps because you are absolutely right about you are definitely not eating more than you are burning. You are eating really good and exercising to the max. Melissa

I've read if you're expending more calories than you've taking in your body will go into starvation mode, the body then stops losing weight as a way of keeping you alive. Unfortunately when this happens the metabolism slows down too. I've also read that exercise routines should be changed so the body doesn't grow use to them. Example: Try only doing one workout a day for a few days or only work out every other day for a couple of weeks and see what happens. You've done a great job of losing your weight, but unfortunately sometimes being so perfect works against us. Best of luck!

B-yogurt, string cheese S-Cantelope, cashews L-1/2 turkey&cheese cup of chicken soup S- string cheese, two cookies about 100 calories there were six servings for a total of 320 calories, I took two pieces and gave the other 4 away quickly! D- leftover top of thin crust chicken garlic pizza S- probably kettlecorn or watermelon or both Had to work late today so ne exercise, I need more water and vitamins before bed. Hope everyone else has a good night!