Lulu201's Healthy Living Log (comments welcome!)

[lulu201]

Review of yesterday: took vitamin , drank water (but it was tough 'cause I was busy) , avoided candy , counted my blessings , ate 26 points and MORE! What can I say--thank goodness it's a new day.

Goals for 10/22

1. I'll take my vitamins. For some reason, I hate doing this!
2. I'll drink my water.
3. I'll get on the treadmill and walk for as long as I can (20-30 min.)
4. I'll eat NO MORE THAN 26 points.
5. I'll take food with me to work.
6. I'll pray for lots of inner strength to help me stay within those points!

Here I go. . .

 

[lulu201]

Yesterday was OK goal-wise. My greatest area of weakness was eating within the points when I got home from work at 8:30 p.m.
By then I'm tired and hungry and just don't care! Tonight I'll do better--new plan is as follows:

1. Drink lots of water today.
2. Take the vitamin.
3. Stay within 26 points.
4. Have soup and a little rice pudding cup for dessert when I get home at 8 p.m.

Exercised yesterday; plan to get on the treadmill again on Friday.
I'm off to get DD ready for school. . .

Erin

 

[DoeWDW]

Good morning, Erin!!

Don't forget your TRE-DEE, TRE-DEE, TRE-DEE!! I can see ya boppin' along to those tunes on your walking music tapes!! It doesn't feel like exercise, does it?? It feels like a treat to your body and mind!

I hope you ate well after your long day yesterday. Planning ahead and knowing what to eat when you walk in the door is so good!

I hope you have a great day, Erin! See ya tomorrow!!!

 

[lulu201]

Well. . . let's just say that it could have been worse. . .
when I got home last night at 8:30 I had a peanut butter sandwich and a little bit of Capt. Crunch cereal I know, quite a combination. TOM is fast approaching and I know that my cravings are tough during this time, so I'm giving in to them a little. Not much, but a little. No beating myself up. Oh, and as far as my beloved treadie goes. . .this morning I'm giving up my time on it so that I can visit with a friend who just lost her husband in July. I hope that I can get to it before this afternoon, but we've got a recital tonight and I sincerely doubt I'll have myself together enough to walk on it. BUT, there's always TOMORROW! Now that will be exercise!! I can't wait to walk my first 10K and to meet my WISH friends.

Onward and downward,
Erin

 

[DoeWDW]

Erin, it sounds like you have your priorities straight. Being with your friend is more important! Besides, you'll get enough exercise tomorrow to make up for today! I promise we'll take it slow and easy with stops to rest.

By the way, I had Cocoa Puffs last night....if it makes you feel any better about your Captain Crunch.

 

[DoeWDW]

Erin, it sounds like you have your priorities straight. Being with your friend is more important! Besides, you'll get enough exercise tomorrow to make up for today! I promise we'll take it slow and easy with stops to rest.

By the way, I had Cocoa Puffs last night....if it makes you feel any better about your Captain Crunch.

 

[DoeWDW]

Sorry for the double post - OOPS!!

It was so great to meet you yesterday, Erin! You are as wonderful in person as you are here on WISH!

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!!!! Wish I had known yesterday - we would have arranged a surprise for you! Well, there's always next year! I hope we're still here on WISH and still good friends!

It sounds like you had a great time last evening with your sweetie! I bet that margarita tasted good - you earned it!! I hope you're feeling OK today. I know my legs are a bit sore but I'm stretching them and they're feeling pretty good.

Here we go, Erin! Onward and downward! I gotta start eating right and getting more walking in so we can do our next walk a bit faster. I'm not ready to give up on training for the half marathon even though I doubt I'll make it to the 2005 Disney race if my kids go with the marching band over Christmas break. However, ya never know - maybe the money and time will be there so I might as well keep training and getting healthier, right?

If you decide to do any more walks, even at the last minute, let me know! We often wait until the day before to decide to walk - gotta see what the weather's going to be like!

I'm going to make it a cheat free day! How about you??? If those evil munchkins are still there, make sure DH or DD eat them or throw them away! They're POISON!! Let's start back with our cheat free stars, OK????

 

[lulu201]

Ok. . .I'll throw away the munchkins. It's a new day and I know I have to do it--no waiting for Monday.

I had such a good time yesterday, I came home all psyched to walk again and get my AVA book stamped! I sent Ron my email address and expected him to get back to me with the walking club info by now!! After all, it's been more than 12 hours!! I'll be letting everyone know when I'm going--maybe you and I can meet up again, Doreen. I'd love to get together. I'm glad we're friends.

This morning I feel good--retaining a lot of water (just didn't drink enough yesterday and then had Mexican food! ), but I'll drink a lot today to offset it. By the end of the 10K my hips were sore, but today they're not bothering me.

Cheat free. . .I'll give it a whirl, but I'll be honest: I hate counting those points sometimes. Still, it does help me to be very precise and accurate. DH and I talked about having chicken wings for dinner which would put me off the chart point-wise, so I may have to make tomorrow my date to start. If we're not going to, I'll try for today. I'll keep you all posted! I'd really like to make my goal to be cheat-free until Thanksgiving.

Well, I'm going to start the laundry. Maybe I'll check in later. . .
Erin

 

[lulu201]

This is how today went:

b--Eng. muffin w/pb plus coffee=6
l--cheese and crackers and olives=10
s--4 oz. fresh pineapple=.35
d--1 cup pasta=4
2.5 oz. chicken=2.5
1/4 cup sauce=3
dessert--sugar free jello=0

total--25.85 points.

I'm cheat-free! Yay! Here's to Day #1

I'm going to try and get my clippie back tonight; if I eat anything else, I'll erase it, but I know I won't. I'm back in the game. Hooray!

Oh, exercise: Walked one mile with Mickey the Westie. It was a good stroll for us both.

Now I'm going to check the AVA website and see if I can get some ideas for our next walk. . .details to follow.

 

[DoeWDW]

Erin, you ARE back in the game! WOW! You sure have some beautiful clippies! That cheat free star is lookin' good!!!

I'm finished eating for the evening also and am heading to my profile to put my cheat free star in my signature. We did it, Erin!! We both had a cheat free day!

 

[DoeWDW]

Good morning, Erin!

I hope the scale wasn't too bad this morning. Don't worry - we're gonna be extra good this week so our scales are gonna look GREAT next week!!

Have a wonderful, cheat free day!!

 

[lulu201]

Here I am on a brand new Monday. My goals for the week are as follows:

1. Take those darn vitamins every day. I don't know why it's so hard for me to remember, but this week I'm going to do it.
2. Drink 6-8 glasses of water a day.
3. Eat within the points (including my bank)
4. Exercise M, W, F, S, and Sun. To "count," walk must be at least 1 mile.
5. Oh, this is a biggie: cut back on coffee. I'm going to have coffee in the only in the a.m., and hopefully, not every day. I'm going to drink more green tea instead. Yesterday I saw Nicholas Perricone on PBS talking about how if you gave up coffee (regular or decaf, it doesn't matter) you'd lose weight even if you didn't do anything else. He talked about how coffee increases your cortisol levels which increases carb cravings, etc., so I'm going to give it a try.

I'll check back in at the end of the day and log in my food and exercise.

Doreen, I can hear you yelling "TRED-DEE" from here--thanks!

Oh, I've been thinking that maybe I should reduce the size of my clippies--I've got quite a long row of them. Doreen, how do I do that?? I think you tried to explain it to me once. . .

 

[DoeWDW]

Erin, your journal keeps inspiring me!! I know you're writing it to inspire YOU but I always find it helpful.

So far today I am meeting "your" goals....LOL!!
1. Took my meds AND a vitamin.
2. I've had 48 oz. water already and it's not even 1:30 PM.
3. I'm on my way to an under 60 carb day (my version of points).
4. Did my Pilates tape this morning.
5. Well, this one doesn't apply to me because I never drank coffee, tea or soda on a regular basis. However, I know that caffeine withdrawal can bring on terrible headaches so make sure you taper off slowly, OK?? Mr. Perricone has some interesting theories about coffee - wish I would have caught the show - I'll have to do some research on this!

About those clippies....you must be using an IMG tag to show your clippies. Is the IMG surrounded by "[]" or does it have a "<" in front of it? If you want to change the size you start with a "<" followed by "img height=100 src=http://whatever.jpg" and then end it with a ">". Make sure you do not hit the ENTER key while entering all this - just the spacebar. Sorry it looks so strange but if I type it all together, you won't be able to see it. You can change the value of the height until the clippie is the size you want.

Also, if you want to put two clippies on the same line, take out any carriage controls / returns between the two clippies. You can use spaces between them so they are not right against each other, but you CANNOT hit the enter key between them.

Hope this helps with the clippies. If not, let me know and I'll try to explain it differently. I'm sure we can get your siggie the way you want it!

 

[lulu201]

Wow, Doreen, you never fail to amaze me when you talk that computer-ese. I'm too tired tonight to try it, but tomorrow I'll try to downsize. Tomorrow my clippies, the next day maybe my hips? Oh, BTW, anytime you want to share my goals it's OK with me. . .what are friends for anyway?

Here's my rundown of the day, 10/27

1. Took my vitamins.
2. Drank my water.
3. Walked 2 miles on the treadmill, but I was off my time a bit--took me 31 min.
4. Stayed within my points.
5. Only drank coffee in the a.m., and only one med. large cup.
Did have two cups of green tea. Dr. Perricone says that, not only does it help you with your skin, the chemicals in them help you to be alert but not hyper--more calm and centered. Hey, that works for me.

The food:
b--eng. muffin w/nonfat cream cheese=3
coffee w/cream=1
s--2 slices fresh pineapple (ahh, for a moment I was back on the cruise!)=.5
l--4.5 oz. of chicken salad=6.5
1/2 serving of wheat thins=1.5
s--carrot sticks, celery, red/green pepper strips. I forgot these at home, but DH brought them down to the studio for me so I wouldn't be ravenous and HAVE to eat a candy bar.=0
d--veggie soup=4
more wheat thins=3
tuna salad=4.5
sugar-free cherry jello made with lemon selzer (refreshing!)=0
Total for the day=23.5/in the bank 35.5

I did it! Another cheat free day! I know that I hope to have many cheat free days before Thanksgiving, but I can't even think of them. I can only do this one day at a time. I started thinking about the "what ifs"--what if I can't do it and I let people down, what if I slide down into the TOM pit and have to eat everything in sight, what if. . .and I said STOP, YOU CRAZY THING! IT'S JUST ONE DAY AT A TIME! And so it is, onward and downward.

As you can see, I'm getting a bit silly in my fatigue. . .off to check Doreen's journal and then to dreamland.

 

[lulu201]

No time to do the clippie down-sizing yet, but will get around to it soon.

Plan for 10/28

1. Take vitamins. Did that.
2. Drink 6-8 glasses of water. As of 8 a.m., have only had 1.
3. Stay within the points. 24+
4. No exercise today.
5. One cup of coffee (about 12 oz.); green tea after that.

So far (8 a.m.)
b--eng. muffin with cr. cheese and pineapple=3.5
coffee w/cream=1

Got on the scale this a.m., one pound down from yesterday! Weighing in at 186.

Continuing on (10 something p.m.)
l--pb sandwich and veggies=8
s--strawberries=1
d--two taco supremes (T. Bell night)=12
dessert--more pinepple=.5

Total for day=25 (33.5 left in bank)

Goal-wise I did OK: points were good and I managed the coffee thing (though I was headache-y), but I think I was a little under on the water. Will try again tomorrow.

Off to bed; will check journals tomorrow when I'm fresh
Erin

 

[DoeWDW]

Look at that beautiful star clippie, Erin!! Two bounces for your two cheat free days!!

What a great day you had yesterday! You met all your goals and walked 2 miles - WOW!!

Your DH was so sweet to bring your snacks to you!! He sounds like a keeper!!

You are right about taking things one day at a time. I was thinking the same things yesterday - what if I mess up and let Erin down? Then I realized that it's not a race or a competition and we are NOT going to be cheat free forever. But each day that we are cheat free helps our bodies to shed some of this extra baggage and be healthier. As long as the majority of our days are cheat free, we'll be just fine! And besides, if and when we cheat, we'll just dust ourselves off and help each other to get back on track again - that's what friends are for!

Have a wonderful day today, Erin! I'll be thinking good thoughts for ya!!

 

[DoeWDW]

Just popped in to say good night, Erin! I hope your day was a good one.

Congratulations on that one pound loss - COOL!!

 

[lulu201]

Ooooh, very rainy day in Bucks County today. It's the kind of morning that would be very nice if I were in bed all cozied up!
Can't do that, though, have to get up and face the new day. DD's off to school with her model of the sun and I'm planning my goals:

1. Take the vitamins. (Haven't done this yet.)
2. Drink lots of water--6-8 glasses. Only one glass in so far.
3. Coffee only in the a.m. Had my cup already; thought about opting out and having green tea, but was too headachey yesterday. Like Doreen says, I have to cut back gradually.
4. Exercise--TRED-DEE!
5. Stay within my points.
6. Pack lunch and snacks to take to work. Long day today.

b--eng. muffin w/real cream cheese, coffee w/cr.=5

Now I'm off to try and downsize my clippies. . .will edit back here later.

Oh, more good news. Dropped another pound. . .guess the old Whoosh Fairy has been hanging out at my house! Thank you, WF!

Edit: 8:58 p.m.

Took the vitamins, drank the water, avoided coffee and candy, and exercised. Had a few more points than I bargained for, but I was hungry and didn't graze around the kitchen.

Here it is:
l--salad w/drsg. 11.5
s--yellow and red peppers, banana=2
d--soup and crackers=10

Total: 28.5/30 left in the bank (I think)

I'm really beat. Have to go to go crash.

 

[lulu201]

CLIPPIE SUCCESS Thanks, Doreen!

 

[DoeWDW]

WOW!!! Another pound gone - say bye-bye to it Erin, cuz it ain't comin' back!

You are doing so great! Your food, your exercise (TRED-DEE!!), your new habits (green tea gets you a green bounce! ), and even your clippies!!

It's going to be another good day! I wish you happy smiles, laughter, and a real sense of success when the day is done!