How many calories are we working on for, say 100 lbs to lose? There will come a time when I know I will need to analyse more closely, but I figure, if I can lose with the way things are now, then stay with that for now. Have ordered in a delivery of diet meals as it is school holidays over Easter and I know that being out of routine can lead to snacking and I need to keep things under control or at least try. So I have 4 weeks of the diet plan.
You shouldn't base your daily calories on how much you have to LOSE, but rather what your weight is right now. I couldn't give you a formula, but I'm sure that you could find one on the web.
Love to hear more about your food delivery!
I take a very intensive fitness class 3-5 time a week before work. My hints...I eat a greek yogurt about 45 minutes before class. Now that 45 minute holding pattern means I have to get up 45 minutes earlier, but it is worth it. I get up, eat my yogurt, vitamins and 2 cups of water. Then take the dog for a 45 minute walk and then go to class. The protein and sugar in the yogurt combined with the water really seem to help me and the 45 minutes makes it somewhat digested so I don't feel like I have two throw up.
What a great plan.... and you get a double workout with the dog walking!
I have an app called trendweight. It is linked to something (MFP or fitbit). I don't remember which. I only have to put my weight in MFP and trend weight grabs it automatically. I only go on there every few weeks to see my graph. I just went on and it estimates I will be at my ideal weight November 10th based on my trends. Not sure if that makes me
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That sounds great.... goal weight right before the holiday season!
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Pretty good day today. I weighed the same this morning as yesterday, I am expecting my period this weekend, so I expected to be a little bloated and heavier this morning. Maybe I will avoid the bloat this month! Outside of that, I actually have a few hundred calories to eat still today and the day is almost over. I was flawless with my eating today and my dinner was really low cal. I buy into a fresh meal service, so I had them prepare lunch and dinner today and it was steamed veggies and a very small serving of mac and cheese. Dh is going to opening day for our local baseball team, so I also bought lunch and dinner for tomorrow. They are in the fridge. Lunch is some type of chicken salad. Dinner is either shrimp fettucini or turkey tenderloin (I bought both). Its a bit pricey but so convenient to have premeasured "homemade" food in the fridge and not have to think about what to eat or how much I can't eat or if I am eating a healthy balance of nutrients. And just grabbing a lunch pack from the fridge on the way to work really cuts down on time and stress in the morning!
Those fresh healthy meals sound delicious!
Haha, no recipe! Just cut up squash and put it in a sauce pan with water until it was tender and ate it. And now I can't stop!
Okay, but what kind of squash? Summer squash, zucchini, butternut????
That was fabulous! Thanks for all the info! I don't know that I could ever do what you do, but just reading about it was amazing! And so sorry about your husband - what an amazing recovery, and it only makes your family even more impressive and inspiring.
We all do what we MUST when put in a situation, right??? I'm not so amazing... I mostly just cried and prayed in the waiting room while DH was in intensive care! My parents and kids were the amazing ones! They kept life on track at home and.... my parents have always been so wonderful, but they were truly our guardian angels at that point. They moved into my house for nearly 3 weeks to take care of the kids... laundry, dishes, school lunches, drives to swim practice, YOU NAME IT! And meanwhile they did all kinds of chores around the house (touch-up painting. yard work) and made sure that my car was running smoothly and they both made several trips back and forth (90 minutes each way) to the hospital to keep me company and to bring the kids a few times. It was CRAZY!
Also - HOLY MOLEY THAT IT S A LOT OF FRUIT! WOW!
Yeah, it was! It was more than I would normally eat in a WEEK, never mind just 3 days! I don't think I also mentioned the 16 oz. container of baby spinach and the 4 bananas I finished off (in the smoothies) as well! One of my more expensive juicing escapades!
WW, baby! Through the website or the iPhone app. It helps me to keep to my routine and to stay on track, but I honestly don't "learn" a lot from my data. As I lose weight, I'm finding that my metabolism is always changing, and a splurge meal of a slice of pizza does not affect me and my weight the same way it used to. While I feel grosser than I used to, I don't gain as much from one splurge meal.
Don't forget your metabolism is probably working better now too, with all of that muscle your gaining from your workouts.... so the splurge pizza WILL burn off faster. BTW, if I order pizza out for myself, I order thin crust (whole wheat if possible), loaded with veggies and LIGHT on the cheese. Most places with do this for you. All of the pizza yumminess but less fat and calories!
Cutting this short as I am falling asleep on the keyboard! Tried to stay up to watch Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and Parenthood, and in the process, I'm up way past my usual 10:00 bedtime!
Went to a trade show today and all that walking, holding all of that SWAG was exhausting!
Sending lots of love to everyone for W/I tomorrow!
Ooohh...hope you got lots of goodies at the show!!
Qotd: I am using my fitness pal. That and bits of paper I leave all over the kitchen/ dining rooms! I'm tracking my exercise on it as well as mapmywalk and of course I have spreadsheet to keep track of total minutes for the exercise challenge thread.
Magdalene--sorry about the yuckiness. Dh has the same problem with morning workouts.
So LOTS of tracking methods!!
Morning all!
Here is your QOTD for Friday April 4, 2014:
This will be a FUN FRIDAY question!
Name your TOP 10 Disney "experiences" (rides, shows, parade, etc) in priority order!
1. Soarin'
2. Wishes
3. MK evening parade (preferably SpectroMagic, but Electrical parade is okay too).
4. Rockin' Rollercoaster!!
5. Meeting characters! Love to have my picture taken with anyone!
6. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
7. Tower of Terror
8. Soaking in the sights and sounds of Main Street USA
9. Snacking around the World Showcase and checking out the countries!
10. Strolling along the "secret" pathway between the Fantasyland RR station and Space Mountain and feeling like I know a secret!
Disneyland/California Adventure:
POTC
Radiator Springs Racers
Haunted Mansion
Buzz Lightyear
Toy Story Mania
WDW:
Mine Train (when it opens!)
Spaceship Earth
Test Track
Kilimanjaro Safaris
PeopleMover
DD and I love People Mover too! Great spot to rest and relax!
Wow that's a difficult one!! I guess I can't chose
DCL as my number 1 Disney experience?
1) Original Space Mountain DLP (not the Mission II they have now)
2) big Thunder Mountain DLP
3) Indiana Jones DL
4) Splash Mountain WDW
5) Tower of Terror WDW
6) Kilimanjaro Safari WDW
7) Soarin WDW/DL
8) Haunted Mansion WDW
9) Hallowishes WDW (during Halloween party at MK)
10) Peter Pan DLP
I have not experienced World of Colorado and Radiator Springs Racers at DCA yet and do expect them to make the top 10 once I have seen them.
So glad to get an INTERNATIONAL list!! I"m guessing your device auto-corrected "World of Color" to "World of Colorado"!
I haven't Pm'd you at all. I guess I should get on that, huh?
NBD!!
Hmm, I refuse to answer the QOTD today. We are taking a Royal Caribbean cruise in May out of Port Canaveral. We were planning on a night or two at WDW since we will be so close, but $500 for 2 days is just too expensive! So we are now going to spend the night before in a cheapish place in Cocoa Beach. I am sooo excited about our cruise, but disappointed about flying into MCO and yet not getting on the magical express.
DS and I were in Orlando last November for MineCon and actually parked at the Contemporary and took the monorail to the MK just to stand outside the gates for a few minutes... how pathetic is THAT???!! We really didn't have a day to visit the park and it made NO sense to buy tix for just a short evening visit.
That being said, I've never been there during Halloween time so at least I could see some of the decorations!
Hi everyone
I just joined the challenge. I did horrible the last few months.
I hope everyone is having a great day.
SO glad to have you aboard with us!! Go ahead and send me a PM with your starting weight and goal for the month and you'll be good to go!!
Well the scale was kind today. I think my big silly poster I made helped! The kids liked pointing out the slots that did not have a smiley face where I did not eat OP
and my oldest liked being the one to draw the smiley so I let him.
How sweet!! 
Had so much fun the Queen sing-a-long but I think the dude next to me was dragged by his girlfriend! Well that didn't stop me and my GF's from belting out Queen Classics! Not the best choices on the menu but I chose a baked soft pretzel. Everything also was big or cheesy!
I'll bet all of that loud singing burned some calories!!
I'm so unmotivated today! I got my workout in so that's good. Actually increased my time to 41min on the bike but since then I'm just being lazy! Think I'm already starting the weekend - which actually stresses me. After my weigh-in I have a bad tendency to splurge and I ate some Easter candy I had stashed
So 260 calories down the drain. I keep telling myself be strong for now to lose the weight and THEN I can snack and exercise and maintain but I just don't seem to listen
OK this splitting headache and pms is also not helping the lazy factor!
Have great weekend!!!
Maybe you could start planning a splurge meal or day? That way, if the candy or whatever is calling to you on Tuesday, you could just remind yourself that your splurge evening will be on XXX night and you can have the ___________ then (if you even still want it). I find it easier to say "not right now" rather than "NO!" or "NEVER AGAIN!" . And often, by splurge time, I don't really even want the junk that was originally tempting me. I've really learned over the years what a GOOD splurge really is and is not.... take-out pizza and fast food burgers and fries RARELY make the cut (although occasionally a handful of 5 Guys fries to sneak in!!
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1. Country Bear Jamboree - the only thing the DH has ever actually WANTED to go see (alas, he is a non Disney Dork
)
2. Afternoon margaritas at La Cava del Tequila
3. Seeing how many times we can watch British Revolution during any given 8 hour time period
4. Illuminations
5. Mickey's Jingle Jungle Parade
6. Festival of the Lion King
7. Great Movie Ride (can't get enough of Casablanca)
8. Snarfing down a cream cheese pretzel in America while watching the Spirit of America Guys
9. Screaming my head off on the Rockin' Roller Coaster
10. Seeing the fireworks from our hotel balcony
I love that your list is SO different from mine! I haven't been on Great Movie Ride since 2002! And I haven't watched Country Bear Jamboree since.....
(wait for it......) 1974!!!!!!!!!!! Jeez, I'm OLD!!
If you press the button on the BodyFit device, it simultaneously updates the BodyFit phone app and MFP. MFP shows the calories burned to me, it just does not put them in my feed. Therefore, all my friends think I just sit around all day!
As for the QOTD, I cannot answer this! Our upcoming trip in Oct is our first trip! I love reading about everyone else's top things to do, though, as I am currently in crazy planning mode. ADR reservations come up on Monday morning!
WOOHOO for a "Disney virgin"!!
Welcome to our new members! You will enjoy your time here.
I hope they will!
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Evening all! You are going to HATE ME, but I'm putting off updating the first page until the morning. For those of you who know me, I am NOT an evening person.... plus I had a nightmare last night that woke me up and kept me awake for an hour +, so I'm ready to crash already! I started cutting and pasting participant names into a Word document and got myself all confused and rather than start again, I'm giving up for tonight! It sucks to get old!!
Today was okay. Weigh-in was NOT what I was hoping for, but again, I think my scale is acting weird because it showed me UP 2.5 pounds yesterday after 3 days of juicing. Going to give it 24 hours and have a "do-over" weigh-in tomorrow and will take the better of the two numbers as my official weigh-in for this week.
Fridge is BARE since DH never made it to the market for me yesterday, so after tomorrow morning's workout (assuming it will be decent enough outside for a morning walk/run) I will be heading to the market with next week's meal plan in hand! My folks return from a winter in Florida on Wednesday and I may try to make a few meals to stash in their fridge for when they return.... but they live 2 hours away, so that will depend on whether I have Wednesday off next week.
I PROMISE, cross my heart, that page one WILL be updated tomorrow! G'night all!....................P
to you! 
I lived there for 30 years before getting so sick of the winters that I got the heck out of Dodge and moved to the land of the Mouse. Well, almost...
Think I'll go and just use the jacuzzi and sauna today and I can do a full workout tomorrow.
That is sooo exciting. 
