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Thursday Oct.. 11th

GOOD MORNING LADIES!!

Today's post starts at #703: 
http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/page /35/41495.html#712

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DRINK LOTS OF WATER!!!!!!!!!


Stick with the calorie counting, it will all be worth it in the end!!!  Let's be healthy together!!




 

Hi Everyone,

I got up this moring and weighed, gained a pound, but I think it is water weight from tooo much salt, yuk. I have walked briskly for an hour, then rode my bike (some hills even) for about 50 minutes. I had a nice breakfast of small baked potato and some chipotle pinto beans (more salt, darn).

Ann, well done to get out to the gym, hope your training goes well. Eat lots of fruits and veg everyone

Laura

Hi ladies,

Well today is going to be my first test day since I started counting calories on this website about 5 weeks ago - a going away party for a coworker.  This is a dangerous territory for me.  This is the first time I've had to negotiate someone else's cooking and temptations just laying there in front of me.  Plus I know the hostess is a good cook and will have worked hard on the menu.  My plan is to focus on the protein, small spoonfuls of any carb heavy offerings, and hope there is a vegetable.  Or if the dessert looks really good, skip the carb dishes altogether and have a small dessert helping.  I'm also thinking I'll have to have one beer to get through this (parties with my coworkers are usually not my favorite)!  By thinking about what I plan to do and writing it here, my hope is that I'll up my odds of not having a binge!  Good job Flo in getting a workout in, I plan to exercise hard tomorrow to feel like I'm back in the mode.  So much of this is mental I think.

My paypal account is in fine working order (thanks to too much ebaying over the years!) and I can send in my registration money anytime.  Sherry

Happy Thursday!  All that's getting me through today is knowing that tomorrow is Friday...  =)

Ann, I hope you did those three miles as you had planned!  Intervals are so great to help with fat burning... plus, they take away some of the boredom of only walking or only running on a treadmill!

Arnoldn5, kudos for pushing through even with cramps!  You're so motivated... I'm jealous!

Laura, I hate water weight!  Great job with eating a healthy breakfast and getting your workouts in early!

Sherry, I know that feeling!  Parties ALWAYS ruin it for me... but you're already planning ahead, which makes me confident that you'll do fine.  Let us know how it goes!

My body is sore today from my workout last night, but a GOOD sore, thankfully!  Work is so boring today that I just want to bang my head against my desk, but I'll try to refrain.  =)  For breakfast, I had three kiwis and a 2% cheese stick and for lunch I had a 6" turkey sub from Subway with no cheese, but LOTS of veggies!  If I've calculated everything correctly, I've only consumed 600 calories so far today, and it's already 3:15!  Yes!

I have to go over to my boyfriend's house tonight because his aunt and uncle are visiting from Pennsylvania, and I'm supposed to meet and visit with them, so I don't know if I'll get a chance to go to the gym today, since I have two hours of work left.  Drats! 

Keep up the AWESOME work though, ladies.  We can do this!!!!

Fruit and veg, yes!!  I figured out that all the cheese was pushing out the fiber. 

I am officially STEPPING AWAY FROM THE CHEESE.  Even non-fat dairy seems to put on the pounds for me.  Same with breads and beer, and sugar just sets off bad cravings. 

I hope to get out to get some more artichokes today!  I have a craving....a good one.  :D

Yesterday afternoon, I went out with ittybitty on her run.  Ok, I had to walk most of the way, but I was plenty sore, and the sunshine felt great! 

Keep up the good work, everyone!

Hi All,

Looks like everyone had a decent day. I did an hour on the elliptical machine. No weights. Hopefully I'll have time to stick around the gym tomorrow and hit the weights. Food intake was so so in quality but at the right calories. 1300.

Have a good night.

Hello.  I had one of the busiest days yet!  It was non-stop for myself and the kids up until about 30 minutes ago we just got home and it's LATE! (late for kids that is!)  It's 10:45 p.m. right now.

Arnold, good job on the calorie counting.  Have fun on your gymnastics trip, sounds like it will be.

Laura, WOW, good for you, almost 2 hours of exercise, that's awesome!

Sherry, I like how you thought ahead for your party, I hope that it all turned out well for you!

Pretty, it's Friday tomorrow! :)  If you didn't get a workout in today that's okay, it sounds like your body needed to heal its sore muscles back together anyway.  Yes, my intervals turned out rather well.  I was pretty pleased with my time.  I have to do them on the treadmill since I have my kids, I drop them off at the kids space while I workout.  so, being that I'm on the treadmill, it's a little different pushing buttons for your pace, but it's good training.  I ended up doing the first 2 miles at 8 minute mile pace, which felt pretty good.  then the last mile in the 7:50's.  I'm not really sure if I could have gone faster and maintained it for all 3 miles or not.  It felt about right though.  It would be fun though to be able to go to a track and see how fast I would naturally run it.

Susannah, good job getting some exercise in!  Artichokes sound yummy to me right now too :)

missK, an hour on the eliptical is very good exercise, way to go! 

Okay, so hopefully I will have a second to go check out my paypal thing right now and see if I even still have an account :) 

Good work today team! lol  You all are great!  Keep it up!

Ann

 

Wow, that was a lot easier than I thought it would be.  I just created a paypal account! 
Where are we going to send our registration fee to?  What's the vote on that one?  Once we decide that we can then set the deadline.

Ann

Friday June 22
Morning Ladies!! 

Just starting the thread for the day!  Happy Anniversary to me and my husband, it's been 5 years today! :)

I'll check you all later :)

Ann

Happy Annniversary wanto be fit! I hope you're celebrating big! No calorie counting! (but be sensible :).

My husband isn't actually here anyway.  No celebrations until he gets home in a while!  (He's deployed for a few months).

Hope all you ladies are doing well today!!  Enjoy your Friday's!

Ann

Happy Anniversary.

Happy Anniversary, Ann!!!!!!! =)

I went to the gym last night for only 30 minutes, but it's still 30 minutes of cardio nevertheless! Been eating super healthy yesterday and so far today... lots of fruits and veggies! Hoping to hit the gym for 45-60 minutes tonight... I'll figure it out once I get there!

happy anniversary! that's a long time, congratulations!

Here, I'm doing ok, vacation gives me a lot of time to walk around, all this talk about biking has inspired me! I think I'm gonna go for a bike ride and steal my mom's bike for a bit :)
The healthy food with relatives around is still a struggle, but now that I know what is coming, they are getting better at planning, I know what to expect. See you guys later, thanks for the constant inspiration, this group is amazing!

I did good at the party!  Well, good and bad!  Good in that I didn't take in tooo many calories.  And bad in that I drank most of my calories!  I had 3 beers, which is a lot for me as I rarely drink except at family reunions - haha.  It was fun though!  I ended up the day at about 1550 calories, but I had to estimate the calories and for example try to remember how big that hunk of chicken was.  I ate a small chicken breast portion, about 1/2 cup of chicken salad, about 3/4 cup pasta, a slice of mozz cheese, and about 5 sun chips.  Proud of myself for not having store bought apple pie and ice cream (easy to resist pie made at the grocery store!).  Proud of myself for skipping a hamburger and the big buns! 

I missed my regular every-other-day hard workout yesterday, but walked for 40 minutes.  I might be too woozy to do my hard routine today after work, but I'm going to try...

Happy anniversary Ann!  Good job everyone on their exercising, I'm going to use you guys for inspiration to get some in today even though I'm a little woozy.  I vote for sending the registration money to Ann and within a week or so I guess?  Sherry

schandler- Wait to go at the party! I salute your willpower!
prettypinktress- Taking your example tomorrow with the fruits and veggies, nice job, hope you had a great workout!

Ha, I'm in a wonderful mood since my bike ride, I haven't been on a bike in at least a year (a real one I mean, stationary bikes not included), and it was a lot of fun. Thanks to everyone who kept posting about biking, it inspired me to get out and try something new (or rather almost forgotten, I forgot how much fun it could be!) I'm about to go cook dinner (a healthy one, yay!) Hope everyone has a great dinner, and an awesome Friday night!
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a few hours later, and i've hit higher than i have in a week in cals... apparently, my healthy dinner was ok, but the snacking that followed it was not, i'm almost at 1700... but luckily, i worked out hard enough today that i still have a tiny deficit, not that much, but something...before i rush to the snacks like that again, i'll be coming back here, reading this message, realizing it's a bad idea, and having an apple then taking a walk :-)

thanks for all the happy anniversary wishes :) 

It sounds like you all are doing really well.  Isn't it great?!  I haven't felt this healthy in a LONG time.  It's been almost 3 weeks for me that I have started counting my calories.  I must say the sense of accomplishment that comes from this type of healthy living has a positive affect on everything and everyone around me!  I'm really loving it.  I'm really hoping that this time around I can really make it a way of life.  I haven't weighed 115 (that's my goal weight) since highschool.  the lowest I've weighed since highschool was around 123 and I felt great there.  I just can't wait to see where my body will healthily allow my weight to go!  Today was my off day for exercise.  I took the kids to the pool and met their cousins there and my brother and sister.  Fun day.  Oh, by the way I'm very proud of myself because we went out to a burger joint after the pool with everyone.  They didn't have anything healthy on the menu, it was a very basic local burger restaurant.  I didn't succumb to eating anything bad!  I was a bit hungry too.  My sister ordered a big thing of fries for everyone to snack on and I didn't eat one of them!  I just kept myself busy with the kids so it didn't seem obvious that I wasn't really eating, I hate to make anyone feel badly if I don't eat in those settings. Okay, well I've rambled enough:)

Oh tomorrow I wake up early to do a 9-10 mile jog.  It should be fun.  I love the feeling I have when I complete my workouts, it's such a great feeling!

Keep up the good work everyone!

Ann

Wow, what a lot of great posts today. Ann--Happy anniversary, I'm glad you had a nice day, even though your hubby is away right now. So good that you were strong willed when you were at the burger place--such a temptation when we are around friends and family.

Anetta, I'm glad you had a good time on your bike ride. I didn't ride today, but I think I'll nip out for a quick one as soon as I finish this post. I'm loving riding my bike.

Sherry, well done at the party. The beers sound good to me, and you did a great job to keep the munching to a minimum.

All the pizza talk earlier this week made me want some, so I made up some dough and had cheeseless pizza with veggies, and a few olives. It boosted my calories up to 1441 for the day, but I guess that is not too bad. The crust was what added up to so much--guess it was kind of a big pizza. I'll let you know tomorrow if it was worth it.

Off to ride my bike. Keep up the momentum everyone!

Laura

Saturday June 23, 2007

Morning All!  Hope your Saturday's treat you well.  I love reading about all the bike riding, it sounds so enjoyable.  I plan to buy myself a bike in a few months when I complete my marathon, thanks to reading your guys posts it's made me really want a bike.

I was able to have a very nice run this morning!  I did about 9 miles.  It was soo beautiful outside.  I was up early before many people were out and I ran around this lake that just looked beautiful.  There was some fog covering just above the water on the lake, and it just added to the nice scenery. 

Have a good SKINNY day everyone!  :)

Ann

GOOD MORNING, LADIES!

SO, this morning, I stepped on the scale (I weigh myself daily for motivation), and I'm BACK IN THE 120's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AH!!! I'm so happy. I actually screamed out loud for like two minutes this morning! Haha... Just goes to show you that it's possible to get back on track after four bad days in a row!

AH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, I'm elated. =) I haven't been in the 120's since my whole thyroid thing started.

Ann, you run a LOT! Did you used to be a cross country runner or something? How have you trained to run the distance that you do?!?

Flo

Morning, ladies!

I?ve been sick the last few days with a cold that?s got me doing zero activity.  It sucks!  On the up side (and the only up side to being sick) I have lost a couple of pounds.  I?m just hoping they?re not the coming-right-back-on-once-I-get-my-appetite-b ack kind.

Ann ? your running is inspirational!  9 miles?  You rock! 

Congrats on the downward moving scale, Flo!  What a cool feeling.  Scream all you want, girl!

Robin