You give all of us so much encouragement so here is some coming back to you - you are a very busy lady by the sounds of your posts, if you are eating too far under your calories is it possible your body is thinking 'hang on I need to hold on to some of that for energy' ? Are you sleeping well? Just trying to think of some of those other factors that affect weight loss apart from food and exercise
. Hugs
to you and I hope you have some movement before check-in on Sunday and a good next week.
Thanks.... I needed that hug! Overall I sleep well (other than last night.... I think the coffee I bought at 8pm was NOT a decaf, as ordered!).
Awesome loss - well done
Well done - I am also usually disorganised when it comes to taking food from home. But I have a goal to bring food from home to work this year for 2 reasons healthier food and saving money as I am also is debt dumping mode this year.
It seems so interesting to me that losing weight and losing debt and/or losing clutter seems to go hand in hand with many people! Mental baggage, body baggage, house baggage..... all related in some way I suppose!
I Sarah - you are not alone at 0% - I gained back my loss from the first week in time for last check-in and the numbers really haven't moved so I am expecting this week to be the same. You can change what you do today and tomorrow - even if it just one thing (big or small) that will help with your goals.
AMEN! We will all try to do at least ONE LITTLE THING to end February successfully, even if the scale doesn't show it!
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Uggh. So far, not a good day. We ran out of breakfast foods at home, so I skipped it (which I said I wouldn't do, but did). I was running errands and was hungry, so I stopped at Dunkin Donuts for a cup of coffee. I got a medium french vanilla coffee with milk and sugar. I logged it in MFP and I was shocked at the nutritional count! Talk about lots of calories with no nutrition. Remind me never to get one of those again!
Meanwhile, I'm the manager of an academic team for my daughter. School let out at noon so we held practice here today. One of the other moms dropped off boxed mac and cheese and cheese pizza for the kids to have for lunch. I fixed that for the kids, but there was no time to fix anything for me - so a cheese stick and a handful of goldfish crackers became my lunch.
"Grab and go" snack-like meals is an old bad habit of mine. I'm so mad that I didn't take a little longer to make myself something more substantial, filling and nutritious.
Too many empty calories today - the day before weigh in. Not good, not good, not good.
Must turn things around for dinner and fix something with lots of protein.
It takes practice to get used to having something healthy and OP handy all the time. I ended up needing to remind myself sometimes that a "meal" doesn't have to look like a dinner plate with meat, potatoes, greens. A healthy meal CAN look like an apple, a cheese stick, and a smoothie......... or pretzels, hummus, and a banana. Swap out those goldfish crackers for an apple and I think you would have felt differently about that "grab and go" lunch. So what are you doing this weekend to change things?
Note: the 6 mile run has been pushed back to Sunday should anyone want to join
@flvy and I in running. We're both obviously doing 6 miles, but any distance (1 mile or 100 miles) is awesome and gets you started on the path to a great week.
Are we doing a challenge on Sunday? How did I miss this? Hmmm..... that might be enough to motivate me to REALLY move tomorrow!
Question of the Weekend - February 20-21
Let's talk... EPCOT's Flower and Garden Festival
On weekends we take a break from the weight-loss chat and focus on an aspect of Disney Parks. This week's focus is on the
Flower and Garden Festival held annually at EPCOT. If you've ever been to EPCOT in the Spring time, you should be familiar
with the themed topiaries and yummy treats in the World Showcase, plus concerts and other programs through the months.
Share with us your experience(s) with the Flower and Garden Festival.
Favorite topiary? Favorite food? Favorite part?
If you haven't been, do you plan on going?
If you've been and hated it, what didn't you like?
Well.... I've been to the F&G two or three times.... but not intentionally. I took a Mother/Son trip in 2010, a Mother/Daughter trip in 2011, and another Mother/Daughter trip in 2013 that were all in May.... so they coincided with F&G, but just by coincidence. So while I enjoy the atmosphere, I'm not looking specifically for the F&G things.
In the effort of full disclosure..... I didn't realize that there were any special foods associated with the F&G Festival! As much as I love food, I am not what you would consider a Disney Foodie. I have eaten in VERY FEW of the TS restaurants. I prefer to spend my very brief and precious Disney time on rides and meeting characters. Spending an hour or two in a restaurant feels like a HUGE waste of time to me..... but that is JUST my opinion.... and I have no judgement of other folks who think differently.... because when they are sitting in a restaurant for 2 hours, that is LESS PEOPLE IN LINE for the rides!
The butterfly garden is always beautiful. I loved the Mike and Sully Monsters University topiaries.... but I couldn't get a decent picture in front of it because it was crowded with people most of the time.
Well.... I tried to share a few pictures but the Mother/Son photopass picture was too large a file to upload (and I have no clue how to change that) and I couldn't find a decent one that represented the F&G Festival of DD and I.... we don't stand still long enough to get good pictures I guess!
Anyhow, the festival and beautiful and I like the topiaries and all.... but I don't think I'd make a trip to WDW just specifically for that.
Ok I have nothing for the question of the weekend - never been to WDW and probably won't get there.
However - off topic I just ordered a new phone case its Disney related its pretty cute
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Walt-Dis...one-Case-Cover-/181559414917?var=480516994697
Have a great weekend everyone good luck with your progress reports for Sunday
NEVER say never! You never know when there might be Disney in your future! The phone case is great!
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Hey friends! Drove the men to robotics today because we are going to a movie together later..... Deadpool. Yes, I am a TERRIBLE MOTHER, letting my 18 year old DS see this "R" rated movie.... but as much as I do not really WANT him to see it, at 18 years old I need to let him make his own decisions (well, at least some of them). I am going along because it seemed better to make it a family event.... at least that way if it is REALLY objectionable, I can talk to him about it later. He knows I disapprove on many levels. In fact, the idea of spending $8 on a movie ticket for MYSELF to see a movie I don't really want to see is kind of killing me.
The men are talking about going for burgers either before or after the movie, so I'm trying to decided how my food will go for the rest of the day. I don't think I should have movie popcorn AND french fries AND a burger. I know they are talking about going to Five Guys and they don't have a veggie burger or salad option. Fries AND movie popcorn just seems like a salty carby load to eat all in one day. I think I'll pop my own popcorn here at home (this is what I usually do these days for movies) and bring it along with a seltzer from home..... 5 SP of a fat-free healthier-but-still-yummy popcorn treat.... then a small portion of fries... half of a "small" is 8 SP. That would be OVER a meal's worth of SP for me without any protein. Hmmmm.... in the past I've gotten a Chipotle salad or a Wendy's salad and carried it into Five Guys ..... may have to do that again.
Any ideas? Maybe I should try to talk them into skipping the Five Guys all together? I doubt that will work. I think if we go into the town that has the Chipotle near the Five Guys, I 'll get a Chipotle salad bowl (with guacamole as an extra treat!) and skip the fries and the burger. If we end up elsewhere I will have to adjust my plan. The other Five Guys has a Boloco near it so I could get my favorite salad bowl from there...... OKAY... that's the plan! Salad bowl from SOMEWHERE, no fries (okay... well maybe just 2 or 3
), homemade popcorn treat, seltzer. That may leave me enough SP to enjoy a few M&Ms!!
Thanks for bearing with me while I hashed that out!
Off to be productive!..............................P
It's my thigh and it doesn't hurt when I put weight on it but when I take weight off (so like shifting weight from one hip to the other) does hurt. It's not really bad at all but I'm afraid that if I push it then I could create a stress fracture (which I've had in my foot before) and I don't want to do that! So for the next week and this weekend I'm going to spend some cross training on the bike
It's sad when I feel like I'm finally starting to make some gains and get into the running groove but I'm still far enough out from my first race that if I take a week off now then it won't be a problem. So today is a boohoo Friday.
