Nov 17 Tuesday

Hi All!  I'm getting so much out of reading the posts for the past few days.  I'm so grateful for the honesty of this group!  Linda, sorry about your bike, but am so happy you're ok! 

My weight went up almost 2 lbs. the beginning of the weekend.  I felt that my food, though not perfect, didn't warrant such a gain.  So, instead of trying to look at things as objectively as possible to try to figure it out and make adjustments as needed, like an adult would do, I had a hissy fit, saying "I give up, I don't care, blah, blah, blah..." and ate too many carbs for Saturday and Sunday.  I luckily got over myself and had a much cleaner day yesterday, and the scale this morning was down to within 0.3 lbs of where it had been.  Today has been clean as well, though I must say I'm feeling hungry, which is what happens for awhile after a carb binge.  I will get over that too if I keep eating cleanly. 

Anyway, have a great evening and see you tomorrow!

Mary

Mary, I so understand the hissy fit and feeling of throwing in the towel. I spent a good part of the spring this year indulging in that sort of thinking which led to the rapid 13 pound gain from March to August. I'm so glad that you are able to kick the thinking after only two days and stop the carb cycle. I find that impressive. I always found it so easy to slip into the carb cycle and stay there for a long, long time living in a sense of denial. 

So congratulations on taking the carb monster by the horns and kicking her and your stinking thinking to the curb! 

153.9#

My fever finally broke and I'm feeling better...still coughing and have a smaller brick on my chest.  Hopefully, the antibiotic will kick in some more.  I don't do sick very well.  I've sat so much that today I got up and did a load of laundry...lol I see school in my future tomr.

Thanksgiving Break is in my near future....

Hang in there everyone!

Take care Steph! No need to hurry back to work

Checking in very late again today. As a matter of fact, I'm still at school. I have two more Parent Teacher Conferences to get through before I go home for the evening. (My choice to stay this late, btw. I like to offer evening conferences for parents *****ally can not take time off work.) 

Scale was down just a smidgeon more this morning. Not much, but I'll take it. 

I can't remember if I mentioned that I had a meeting with my NUT yesterday. One of the interesting things that came out of the session was I am realizing that I am not changing my eating behaviors drastically because of what the scale shows each day. I'm just sort of keeping on with my program and letting the scale do its thing over time. I still like the comfort of daily monitoring and I am getting some good information from the scale. 

We also talked about realistic expectations for the holiday season. I ended by breaking my expectations into categories: ideal, acceptable, and not acceptable. My ideal would be to be in a "new decade" by New Year's Day. Acceptable would be to be under the 5 of this decade. Unacceptable would be to maintain my current weight with the quicko weight gain from Friday and Saturday. 

Worked off site today (instructional rounds - observing student work in another school in the district). Breakfast and lunch was provided. Breakfast was quiche and cream cheese frosted gingerbread with fresh fruit. Lunch was from Panera Bread complete with giant chocolate chip cookie and a bag of chips. I am SO PLEASED WITH MYSELF! I stuck to my protein shake and Greek yogurt for my breakfast and morning snack. I packed a salad with chicken breast for lunch and ate that along with the avocado slices from half my sandwich and the paper thin strips of bacon on that same half. I left the sandwich, bag of chips and giant chocolate chip cookie alone. I just didn't want to deal with the consequences of eating the cookie. Today it just wasn't worth it. When we were all done for the day and leaving a colleague complimented me by telling me how impressed she was that I brought my own healthy lunch and chose to eat that instead of the box lunch the district provided. Talk about a boost! 

Feeling strong. 

So much progress. Very impressive my friend!