DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! (Page 23)

As soon as I sit down at my computer at work I open the myfitnesspal page and just leave it open while I work on other things. When I eat anything I log it immediately or else I will forget. I also have the phone app but I only use that on the weekends.  

You can set your self-reminders on a google calendar as well to remind you 2-3 times a day to log  your food. I am not saying I do that but it can be done

Among the many other benefits of logging, I think I am saving a ton of money!  I never want to pick up lunch or dinner on the way home, cause it would be too hard to figure out how to log a bought meal.  So instead I stick with the simple stuff I make at home.  Yeay for lazy!  And no more expensive packaged snacks, a trip to Costco on the weekend for a boatload of fruits and veggies and I'm set.  Looking forward to our little local farmers market starting up this spring too, in the past all I ever bought there was kettle corn.   

I'm thinking of trying to figure out how much $ I'm saving here, and start a new bike fund.   Figure that will add to the incentive to keep up the logging too.

So March is just about here, any new mini-goals?  I'm going to stick with what I've got going, keep logging everything I eat every day, and try to keep around 1500 cals/day.

Lots of good things happening for everyone this week!

x53 on the logging. When you make it a habit, it isn't a chore. It is part of your day. I use www.sparkpeople.com for logging. Very easy to use online and there is also an app. FREE. I have tried several others. I like that I can create a grouping of foods to make logging favorite meals a 1-click instead of search and select each individual food. Really speeds up logging my "usuals" like lunch salads and omelets.

The scale I use has disappeared, so I have no idea where my weight is.  May have to spring for one for the house.  I'm sure I'm sitting at 230 or slightly under, though.  No biggie... my pants are still growing, so all is well.

I've been on a small hiatus.  Didn't run Sunday due to duty.  Didn't run Monday due to being in pain.  Didn't run Tuesday due to torrential down pours.  Didn't run today due to duty.  Tomorrow and Friday are looking to be 7 mile days, with duty Saturday and a 10+ miler on Sunday.

I'm thinking about throttleing back on mileage in an attempt to improve my ability to hold a sub 9 minute pace for an entire 10K.  I really need to get to doing a sub 8 minute pace, but I've gotta take small steps toward being better than yesterday.

Up  1 lb for the month to 215.4  - considering I saw over 220 for a while during the month, I will take the Pyrrhic victory.

Hopefully March is better.

Today's weight in - 183.6.  Next stop, 180.  End goal = 170.

Travelling today so no chance of vendor pizza messing up this Friday, unlike last.  Will be away all weekend so it could go either way for eating habits this weekend.

146

Yay!!!  So glad to see the scale move appropriately!

204!  

Down two from last week.  I am pumped.  I've kind of upped my training over the past few weeks with the weather warming up.  Additionally I haven't had cause to completely wreck my diet so even though I have been over a few days here and there, I've been under more often.  Great results.  I hope I can continue to repeat them.

I am stuck at 243lbs again this week but at the beginning of Febuary my waist (at belly button ) was 44"! As of tihs morning it is at 42 1/2". I will take that but would love to see the pounds start to drop soon as well.

baby steps towards the goal

Wow, lots of people down!  CONGRATS!

I'm still avoiding the scale...hate the thought of seeing a bigger number than 2 months ago when I started all of this.  Frustration does not begin to describe how I'm feeling.

Maybe you need to buy one of those new scales like Judi just got?  Seems to be working for her.   Seriously though, just move forward.  Forget what was 2 months ago, today is here now.  My wife's favorite saying, that I've sort of adopted lately, is "the best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago.  The second best time is now."  ok sorry, I don't mean to sound all preachy.  Just know you can do it, cause you can!  And did.  And are.

NEVER sweat your weight.  Your waist is going in the right direction; that's for more beneficial.

Thanks!!

Lots of success here, congrats everyone.

Sadly, after the stress of seeing family and the trip for my grandma's funeral, all the family dinners and lunches and eating on the road...then coming home and getting a chest cold and not working out in 7 days....eek. It all added up. Gained a pound and weighed in at 126 lbs today.

I'm trying not to bum about it and doing ok. I know I had a bad week, plus I've been eating salty things and soups because it makes my throat feel better. I should probably be gargling with hot salt water instead of downing salty soups hahahaha. On the tail end of things, should be good to start exercising in another day or two. (Still in the chest, not above the neck.)

Good work everyone!!