Doreen's New Way of Life (comments are welcome)

[DoeWDW]

My WISH-friends, you all are WONDERFUL!

You all lift my spirits daily and I am so thankful to know each and every one of you!

Get out the trumpets - TOM has arrived!! Who would ever think I'd be announcing that??? No wonder I'm feeling sunnier today!!

Goals:
1. Meds and vitamins taken.
2. Water - 4 mugs of water and 1 mug of decaf green tea down!!
3. Food - B protein bar (3g) & packet of Splenda (1g), L Subway wrap (15g) and stick of Trident (1g). Total so far = 20g and I'm not craving anything!!
4. Exercise - Pilates 20 minute deluxe workout this morning and a mile walk at lunch (to get that yummy Subway wrap!).

Tonight - DS has a play rehearsal, DD has a friend sleeping over.
Tomorrow - DS has a play rehearsal, DD & her friend & I may go see Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen if it's still playing, I need another library trip.
Sunday - church, DS has a play rehearsal.

I'm hoping to get lots of reading time in. I've started "Thin Tastes Better" - the book Erin was reading. I'm also hoping to get lots of walking in with the puppy. I want to prepare some food ahead for next week. All in all, it should be a relaxing laid back weekend.

Only one more hour and I can head home to the family!! YAY!

 

[honeymo78]

Doreen - I'm so glad that you are feeling sunnier today! It sounds like you have a good weekend planned. I hope you have a good time at the movies and library (if you go). I also need to get back to the library but I don't think I'll make it until Monday. Hopefully the weather will cooperate enough for you to get in some walking with the puppy.

 

[lulu201]

You have walked through to the other side, Doreen, 'cause Aunt Flo is in the house! Whew! I'm sharing your sigh of relief.
Aren't women's bodies weird? It's like TOM can pick us up like a tornado and toss us all around and then plop us down somewhere and we're left seeing stars and wondering how we got there! Yep, it's a crazy ride.

It sounds like you have a good weekend planned--lots of fun stuff. I've got to work tomorrow, but I'm planning a trip over to the mall afterwards. Maybe I'll get to VS? DD has a concert tomorrow night, so that'll be fun. Sunday will be church and laundry. I becoming a slave to that darn washer.

"We are family. . .I got all my sisters with me.

Here's what we call our golden rule:
Have faith in you and the things you do,
You won't go wrong, oh no,
This is our family jewel.

We are family. . .I got all my sisters with me!"

Keep the faith, Doe-Doe.

Talk to you tomorrow,
Erin

 

[cinmell]

Hi Doreen!

Just popping in to say hello and see how you are doing. I hope you are able to get your walking and reading in this weekend.

 

[DoeWDW]

Final recap for Friday 3/19:
1. Meds & vitamins taken 19/19 100%
2. Water - 4 mugs + 1 mug decaf green tea 19/19 100%
3. Food - 20g + a CarbSmart ice cream bar (5g) + ice cream (25g) - gee I really overdid the ice cream but it was what I was hungry for! 50g total 13/19 68%
4. Exercise - Pilates deluxe + 1 mile walk 17/19 89%

I was craving ice cream last night. I tried to eat the CarbSmart bar but that just didn't cut it. I wasn't hungry for anything else and the ice cream I ate satisfied me so I'm calling it cheat free!

Goals for today:
1. Meds & vitamins already taken.
2. Water - 2 mugs down, and 3 more to go
3. Food - B was a protein bar (3g). I'll be making chicken for lunch today and using the leftovers to make my yummy chicken waldorf salad. Dinner may be out with my family, my brother and my parents to celebrate their 47th anniversary - if everyone can get together tonight. Otherwise, I'll be making something at home - probably a pork roast w/ sauerkraut.
4. Exercise - Pilates deluxe workout is already done - YAY!

All I have to do is drink 3 mugs of water and watch my food. Sounds like an easy day!

 

[ZerasPride]

Hi Doe!

I just wanted to check on you and see how you are doing. I'm so glad the sunshine has broken through for you.

I also admire your 17 day cheat free clippie!

 

[DoeWDW]

Final recap for Saturday 3/20:
1. Meds & vitamins taken 20/20 100%
2. Water - 5 mugs 20/20 100%
3. Food - B=3g, L=chicken quesadillas a la Amanda (6g), D=chicken waldorf salad (12g) + 1 Dove chocolate (3.5g) Total for today = 24.5g 14/20 70%
4. Exercise - Pilates deluxe 18/20 90%

Another cheat free day for me! Time to roll the bear and head to bed.

 

[R_Judy]

Hi Doe I think your new goal program is working very well for you. I am so glad. I think I may have to adopt your program. Perfection in life is impossible to attain. Realistic goals are the ticket. Have a terrific weekend.

 

[Castillo Mom]

Hi Doreen! Glad to see some sunshine finally came your way. You stayed pretty low on the carbs today, good job! That waldorf salad sounds yummy, I'll have to try that. Time to add a little more variety and that's sounds like a good addition. Enjoy your Sunday Doreen. Take care!

 

[lulu201]

Good morning, Doreen. I wanted to stop by and say Happy Spring (can't believe I didn't say it yesterday). We've survived the winter, Doe-Doe. Let the light shine!

You had an awesome day yesterday; I hope that today goes just as smoothly. If things start to go downhill at any point, stop and do the New Attitude or We Are Family Jive and you'll come around.

Peace for your day, dear WISH-sis,
Erin

 

[Desiree]

Wow you had a great day yesterday! I do hope the weather is improving for you guys up north!

Have a wonderful Sunday Doreen!

 

[DoeWDW]

It is 12:30 in the afternoon and I am finally allowing myself to DIS!! My weekend rule of DIS until the exercise is finished is working! If left to my own devices I would have skipped exercise today out of sheer laziness but I can't live without the DIS!!

Goals so far today:
1. Meds & vitamins taken with breakfast.
2. Water - working on my 4th mug already!
3. Food - B was leftover chicken waldorf salad (8g). S was 2 Dove dark chocolates (7g). Lunch will be later - still full from breakfast. I have a pork roast & sauerkraut in the crock-pot for dinner. I may just skip lunch and have a snack and an early dinner, if my body isn't very hungry.
4. Exercise - Pilates 20 minute deluxe workout already finished.

I've spent lots of time reading this weekend. I finished an interesting book called "Alkalize or Die" - will have to do some more research in this area. I'm reading "Thin Tastes Better" and taking the quizzes twice - once for the way I used to eat and once for the way I eat now. Turns out I'm already doing lots of things to help myself stay on track as far as healthy eating but I'm learning even more good stuff that I can use. I've started "The Lake House" by James Patterson (fiction). There are several more books that I'd like to get to that my DH & DS checked out from the library, including Anne Rice's "Interveiw with a Vampire" and a book about Stephen Hawking. Boy, my reading tastes really run the gamut!!

The worst of TOM will be over today and I'll be sailing into my work week tomorrow with a happy heart and a sunny attitude.

 

[marsh0013]

doe, i'm so glad to see you're in such a great mood! you have definitely broken through to the other side for the month, and you're exuding such confidence!! it's infectious

that's a really good idea to make yourself get in your exercise before dis-***. what's a better reward than the dis anyway?? whatever works for you, and this definitely does

hope the rest of your sunday goes smoothly and that you have a wonderful evening

 

[Strings]

Doe,

It sounds like you had a great weekend. You certainly deserve some . Winter is officially over. You are doing such a great job of meeting your goals this month. I'm proud of you. Let me know how the Lakehouse is. That and the Jester are the only Patterson books I've missed. 3rd degree was very good.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Beth

 

[R_Judy]

Morning Doe,

Just wanted to stop by and wish you a good week. Sounds like you had a busy weekend. What ever happened to having a day off? I work harder on the weekends than I do during the week. Smile

 

[DoeWDW]

Final recap for Sunday 3/21:
1. Meds & vitamins taken 21/21 100%
2. Water - 5 mugs 21/21 100%
3. Food - I fell apart.... 14/21 67%
4. Exercise - Pilates deluxe 19/21 90%

I met 3 of my goals yesterday. The food goal was going well until these armed men broke into my house, tied me up and forced M&Ms down my throat..... OK, let's be honest here. I CHOSE to eat the M&Ms that were sitting on the kitchen table. No one MADE me. Why???? Wish I could answer that one. No rolling my clippie for yesterday - I've already used up all my food cheat days for the month of March. Hard to believe out of 3 weeks (21 days), I've cheated away 1 whole week of them (7 days). But this is reality and I'd better learn from it and move on. Thank goodness I have my other 3 goals to help me feel successful!!

I'm already struggling this morning. I was really hungry when I got to the office, so for breakfast I ate my chicken waldorf salad AND my pbj sandwich.

Goals for today:
1. Meds taken, vitamins are next.
2. Water - 1 mug down. I have decaf green tea and water - I'll get 4 more mugs down!
3. Food - B chicken waldorf salad (8g) and pbj (30g).
4. Exercise - Pilates deluxe already finished this morning!

I've already eaten 38g carbs out of my 60g goal for the day. Part of me just wants to call today another cheat day and give up. Another part of me says I've got 22g left and that's more than some people eat in a whole day so I should suck it up and make it work. Which side will win??? I have to remember that it's my choice. Whatever I choose to do, my body has to live with. If I overdo it with poor food choices, I have to WEAR the results on my hips, thighs, etc. I think as I approach each food choice today, I'll ask myself if the food is going to help me meet my longterm goals of being healthy and fit or if it's going to set me back.

I'm going to take today as it comes, minute by minute, knowing that I can CHOOSE to eat anything I want to eat, but I have to acknowledge that my choices will either help me move forward on my path to healthy living or they will hold me back. It's up to me.

 

[lulu201]

Hey, where are you? I'd thought I'd pop over here
from my journal and I'd find that you'd written about your vitamins and meds on your desk and your mugs of water that you'd had. . .this is the stuff I like to know about in the morning! What gives?? Yeah, I know, you're a and you do things in your own sweet time. That's what makes being es like us so wonderfully unpredictable and special!

Here's some for your own cold PA day. You know what? I couldn't care less how cold it is--Spring has sprung and the rest will follow. We can shiver through the day knowing, like you said, warm temps are coming! Someday, when we're living in Florida, we'll open our patio doors and yell across our back lawns to each other and say, "Remember back in the day when it was COLD in March?"

Yep, I've got a little Monday morning silliness going on, but I think that's probably the best way to start the week. I hope your heart is light, Doreen, and your day is filled with smiles, , and .

,
Erin

 

[lulu201]

Aww, geez, we cross posted again and missed each other. I do have to smile, though, 'cause now I can start my day knowing what's going on with you, but I am a little worried about your Monday morning.

So I have to say this: STOP! and think a second about this. It would seem to me that you're on an M and M sugar high from yesterday (ooh, I'll bet it was good while it was going down) and that is dramatically messing with your hunger and your cravings (hence eating salad and the PB sandwich). IF you choose to make it a cheating day, will you be happy with that tonight? Ummmmm, I'm not sure you will. IF you choose to correct the situation at hand, how will you feel then at the end of the day? Maybe you could jot down a sketchy plan for how you can save the day carb-wise, if you want to, and that could guide you through?

Like you said, you have the decision to make, and either one is OK with me and all your WISH buddies. We're here for you no matter what. We all know what those tough days are like.

, WISH-sis,
Erin

 

[DoeWDW]

Erin, you're right! If I want to get back on track, then a food plan for the rest of the day would be a great idea!

L will be a cheeseburger - no bun (2g). I have a protein bar (3g) stashed in my drawer if I need a snack this afternoon. I have lots of Trident gum if I need it. OK, that takes me to 43-45 g by the end of the workday. I'll have 15g for dinner. I have leftover pork & sauerkraut and leftover chicken so I'll do something low carb with one or the other. I have sf jello & whipped cream for dessert if I need it. I can do this!

 

[Strings]

What a way to recover the day, Doe!

Your plan for the rest of your day sounds very good. I think Erin is right about the M&M carb attack. Be extra gentle with yourself today, and you will stay cheat free today. Try to flush those carbs out of your system with lots of water. I'll be thinking about you today Doe.

Enjoy your .
Beth