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Today I worked so couldn't do any exercising during the day. Man, I hate my job. I wish I had a job that I was moving all day. It really cripples me when I'm sitting at my desk all day, looking outside to all the beautiful sunshine, just wishing I could burn a few calories on a good 2 mile walk, especially when I'm trying to burn as many calories as possible these days. I sit and type all day, are there any calories burned when your fingers are going a mile a minute. (Should be)! 

Came home had supper and went down to burn some calories on the treadmill.

Boss brought all his leftover Halloween candy in for us all to enjoy (yeah right), just what I needed to look at chocolate bars all day ( Reece's pieces, Peanut Butter Cups and Oh Henry bars). I was a good girl today. Not one I just kept thinking about how many more steps I'd have to do on the treadmill, besides I ate enough on the weekend to do me for awhile.

Breakfast: Instant Oatmeal, rye bread with Jam, tea with 1% mild and 1/2 tsp of sugar (281 calories).

Lunch: Small bowl of homemade chili, Yogurt (Source) and two small pieces of multi grain bread (455 calories)

Dinner: 1 chicken breast, 1/2 cup of penne, spaghetti sauce (486 calories)

Snacks: Raw baby carrots, Raisins ( mini-snacks), Jello and 2 cups of air popped popcorn.

( Need to work on eating a few more fruits and veggies)

Total Calories: 1358         &n bsp;   Total Calories Burned: 1870  = 512 Deficit

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Well not sure what's happening here. Finished my TOTM.  Got my calories down to 1200 a day and I gain weight. 1200 +500 deficit is=1700. My burn meter is set to 1640, you'd think I would loose something, not gain. I am gaining about .20 a day. I have run out of ideas here. I have tried every scenario that could be tried and very little happens. Getting very discouraged. The scales have still not moved off of the 170's. Been hovering around 78 kgs. (171.60) since September 5th.

Two weeks ago increased my calories to 1300 to see if it would make a difference, only gained, so I have been trying for the past two weeks to loose that weight I gained and got it down to 170.10, but right back up again.

We'll see what tomorrow's weigh in shows.  It's just so frustrating. I just wish one week I could see 1 lb. loss. Haven't seen that since last spring.

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Not feeling great these days. Kind of feeling down about alot of things. #1 being my weight loss, #2 daughter lost her job, #3 weight loss, #4 tired all the time, #5 Did I mention my weight !!!

Feeling really lazy these days. Trying to read so much about calories, how much I should be eating, zig zagging my calories, scales, trying anything to move the scales a bit. It is also TOTM for me so that always makes things worse.

Don't really feel like going to my Zumba Classes tonight, but I've eaten 1222 calories today and I have to get that Burn meter up to show a deficit. Have been concentrating on that alot also.

Dr. Oz says with my age, I should be eating about 1,000 calories, but I just can't do it. It's just not enough food for me and I'm starving all the time. I'm also snacking a bit more because of the TOTM. Also ways need a little bit of something sweet. Drinking lots of water, so much that my bladder hurts. Ha

Well guess i better get ready for my dancing classes. Started them thinking they would reall jump start my metabolism big time and make a difference in inches on the waist, but it's been a month and nothing has changed. Not sure if I will continue with them or not. It's hard and I am jumping the whole time I am there, I have to be burning at least 350 calories for the hour. She has us going and moving for the whole hour.

Then heading home to watch "Biggest Looser" my favorite show these days. Kind of gives me incentive to go on when I feel this way. Yuck, I feel like crap. Hope tomorrow is a better day !!!

 

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Scales read 170.10 lbs. this morning. I just couldn't hold onto the 160's. It sucks. I really though I had exercised lots this week. I know I'll see it again in a couple of days though. Had a piece of pizza last night around 10:00, I just felt soo hungry the last few days. Not sure why! But really hungry, one that water does not fill me with. So hubby was out and asked him to bring me some home. ( Never felt guilty one bit). I had my piece while I watched him chow down on 4 pieces. ( Lucky guy)

Trying to switch up my menu a bit by bringing my fat up to about 20%, but lowering my carbs to about 55%. A couple of days there I was over 63% and still only 1200 carbs, so I think that's a little much for my body. I'm working on lowering them and trying to bring in a few new foods into my menu's.

This week I have snuck in a few things that my body is certainly not used to. Had a small reeces pieces (small halloween pack) 10 little ones, had some chocolate in them of course, not used to that, pizza last night (can't remember the last time I had pizza), even had a small piece of pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving ( pie) my stomache hasn't seen pie in a year. So that might play a part in the .20 gain. Who cares, I've gone a long time without those little treats, stay right on my scheduled food and don't usually go off my plan, guess I got a little brave this week. I'm on my treadmill more than ever now, so I think I can treat myself to a piece of pizza.

Hope everyone has a super week !!

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I did it !  I weighed in this morning and now officially are in the 160's.  It's just the beginning, but I did it! I have waited so long. I weighed in at 169.90 lbs. That's a 1.70 loss this week. Beginning of the week nothing, but the last three days, wow, the scales started to move.

I did change my fat intake. I tried to keep it around 20% and never went over. I had a low day in there, but that was a fluke and still don't know how that happended. My carbs are pretty high somedays, but didn't seem to bother my results. I try and exercise more than usual. Started up again on my treadmill. Some nights all I could do was 30 minutes, but I still did it. Haven't taken my measurments in a while, but next Wednesday is my offical 1 year anniversary at CC, so will have to give you all a report then.

Tonight I have a birthday party to go to. Thanksgiving tomorrow, oh I have to find a way to hold onto this loss. ( I'm scared). I am cooking for 16 people on Sunday, so maybe I will be too stressed out to eat. I doubt it, I love my turkey and gravy and potatoes. I have to keep telling myself the more I eat the more time I have to commit to that treadmill and that might be a little hard to do this weekend with so much going on. I'm gonna do my best.

Happy Thanksgiving to you Canadian's out there! I'll be thinking about you all on turkey day!

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  Fat - 9% (11 grams)
Protein - 22.3% (64 grams)
Carbohydrates - 68.7% (196 grams)
Alcohol - 0%
Other - 0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 1,345 mg
Daily Sugar Intake - 56 grams
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 80 mg
Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 1 grams
Daily Fiber Intake - 22 grams

So today I think I did pretty good, although the scales will tell the tale tomorrow. 

Breakfast:  1 cup All bran Cereal (110 calories) , 1 cup of 1% milk (108 calories) , Tea with 1 % milk and tiny bit of sugar. ( 50 calories)

Lunch:  Low Fat oven roasted chicken breast (2 slices) (30 calories)on 2 pieces of Body Wise Multigrain Bread ( 90 calories), FF Yogurt (35 calories), 1 cup of watermelon (46 calories)

Dinner: 1 fillet of salmon (110 calories), 1 cup mixed veggies (118 calories),  3/4  cup of Minute Rice (150 calories) FF Yogurt (35 calories), 1 cup of watermelon (46 calories) sprinkled with Kashi Go Lean (20 calories)

Snacks:  Celery (3 calories), Cucumber (4 calories), cherry tomatoes (7 calories), even had a piece of Angel Food Cake ( small piece) (129 calories).

Carbs are a little higher than usual, usually can get them to about 55%, all this for 1,089 calories. Have to fit about 200 more in before bed. Hmmm. Going to burn 200 calories on the treadmill and probably finish the day out with a smoothie. Hopefully the scales will love the day I had also. 

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Still no weight loss, still at 171.60, so at least I'm holding. Went to my Zumba class last night and danced my &&&& off. Boy when I leave there I feel like I could run a marathon I have so much energy. CC says I burn 545 calories going steady for an hour as they say it's "high impact", whatever that means, but I'll take it. I think I am the only one with the face as red as Santa when I leave there.  But it feel so good to sweat a good sweat, sick eh!

Today did some shopping  ( burned 110 calories by my pedometer) and then came home and burned another 300 calories on the treadmill.  LUnch was 3 chicken fingers (small) and ceasar salad, not real heathly, but trust me there was nothing else on that stupid menu that I could order that was healthy. I'm gonna try and pick up my socks and burn more calories than normal. Daily, I have to stick to this exercise thing DAILY. No excuses. Have so much going on this weekend, birthday's, parties and of course Thanksgiving where I will be hostess to 12 family members. I don't mind, I like when the family gets together.

My calories are averaging daily about 1200 - 1250, so I'm sure to loose a lb. with all this exercising. Well, maybe not, I'm not expecting anything, that way I won't be too disappointed. Hopefully I will loose this week as I know next week will be a gain for sure. Yum Yum, turkey & ham and pumpkin pie.  

Stay Focused !!!

Just checked in my journal haven't lost a thing since September 12. I think I'm overdue.

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  Fat - 12.7% (18 grams)
Protein - 25.1% (80 grams)
Carbohydrates - 62.2% (199 grams)
Alcohol - 0%
Other - 0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 1,223 mg
Daily Sugar Intake - 56 grams
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 35 mg
Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 4 grams
Daily Fiber Intake - 25 grams

 Today was another good day, although no exercise tonight. Came home from work with good intentions, had supper, had to make a birthday cake for my boss (angel food cake). Somehow the night just got away from me and here I am checking messages just before bed.

Pretty happy about the fat intake today, maybe even a little low, but I'm not really hungry.  Just can't win, you get your fat low and your carbs are high.  Haven't mastered that yet.

Tomorrow night is my Zumba classes so I'll get enough workout to do me for the week. I am excited to go back to it again, but hope she takes the steps a little slower, can't seem to get that hip motion going.  Hope tomorrow was as good as today, still haven't weighed myself. I think I'm gonna step on those scales tomorrow and see if there kind to me or not.

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Don't mean to sound so down in the dumps all the time, but it's been a year and I still haven't figured his thing out. It has got to be my age. But have made friends with CC's my age and they seem to be doing just fine.  My weight does come off eventually, but it takes a month to loose 1 lb. Now co'mon. I do have patience, but this is ridiculous.  I weight myself every morning and it goes up a lb. down a lb. Some days are better than others, but on the whole usually weeks later I am back to where I started again. I am happy for one weigh-in a month, cuase that is when I see progress. Since September 5th, I have been changing things. Taking a very close look at my fat, carbs, protein, especially my protein. Reading every night on the computer, watching tv shows on how to speed up metabolism, pre-planning my meals, cut up my veggies and fruit, joining dance classes, walking a bit more now, exercising to video's, back on my treadmill on rainy days and drinking water continuously. I somehow think I am drinking to much water, but I keep drinking. I make sure at every meal I have a protein, veggie and fruit. Carbs are low 50-52%, fat is fairly low 20-22%, protein 25-30%. Sodium is always below 2400 and sugar is 30-40. I am on the go continuously, maybe not walking 3 miles a day, but I am always on the go doing something. i hate to sit.

So this is pretty much how my months go. Then like today I get fed up and want a cheat day, but I'm scared. Cause I can't have a cheat day like many others, if I take a cheat day and eat maybe 1800-1900 calories, ( which is a big day for me) I will gain 2-3 lbs. and it will take me another 1-2 months to get back down again, so it's just not worth it. Been reading lots about "south beach" sounds similar to Atkins, so I might try that for 2 weeks or so. I have last month tried to follow "In the Zone", but that only worked for 1 lb. and then just gained it back anyway.

I really had my heart on hitting the 40 lb. mark for my 1 year anniversary with CC. But there is no way I can do it now. I have been at about a 36 lb. loss since July. So there is no way I'm gonna loose 4 lbs. in 2 weeks. I'm disappointed in myself. If I wasn't trying so hard, I don't think I would be so disappointed.

If I knew what I was doing wrong, or haven't tried, I wold be so pumped to try something new. But I am out of ideas. Finally got my sister tojoint Weight Watcher's, thought maybe I would go with her to see if there is something I am missng here, doesn't hurt to get some new information. There isn't a magazine or a talk show (Dr. Oz) that gives me any more information than what I am already doing and these people have lost like 50-80 lbs. It's crazy.

I am happy about the loss I have had, but at a snail's pace and I have read that's good also, but I would think with everything I am doing, my eating that 1/2 lb. every two weeks isn't much to ask.

Well gonna go get some breaky, I'm starving, breakfast will be Go Lean cereal with 1 % milk. Lunch will be 1 whole grain tortillo with 3 slices of low fat chicken breast, lettuce, watermelon with yogurt. For supper, to hell with it, I'm gonna let hubby take me out for supper tonight. It certainly isn't going to affect my weight loss. Think I'll have a big fat plate of spaghetti with meatballs or big plate of poutine with a greasy hamburg.  Hee Hee. My body hasn't seen that food in months. I think I'd have to go to the emerg with "carb overload". 

Oh well now were off to another week. It kind of makes you loose interest, feel like you've disappointed yourself. I'll get over it, I always do. Hmmm, that spaghetti and meatballs is making my mouth water and it's only 10:00 in the morning.

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Okay, so I am frustrated again. I feel like I have been at 171-173 lbs. for months now. The scales have just not moved. I have treid everthing I know. Lower fat%, lower carbs %, lower sodium %, up my protein % and it worked for about a week, but nothing since then. I have started but only in the last few days to exercise again, not vigorously, just about a 1/2 - 1 hr. to try and get things moving again. Have run out of idea's. Keeping my calories at 1200 - 1250, anymore and I would have no deficit. It's strange cause my carbs are only around 50% and usually when carbs are low you loose. Isn't that what Atkins is all about. Hmmmm. I hate when it gets t this point, cause I have run out of ideas.

I guess I will just keep doing what I'm doing and hope for the best. I know I can't lower my % anymore or I'll be starving myself. Funny, cause usually at this time of the month I can get the scales to move a tiny bit, but not this month. Saturday morning will be my weigh in for my challenge, then I think I am going to have one hell of a big treat day on Saturday! Maybe my body needs it.

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