DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! (Page 7)

RANT!!!  F-ING COLD!!!  I'm at 138, up 3 pounds since Saturday!  I'm hoping this is just the sodium in the soups, so I'm giving those up and still not feeling great.  Soooo pissed!  Tired of no training...walked on the dreadmill for a bit this morning and did some body weight stuff.  

LindaKC - 2013-01-11 10:18 AM Does that stand for peanut butter???? I think my husband would drop three pounds a week if he cut peanut butter out of his diet.

Yeah, I have been know to eat peanut butter like ice cream.  We will test the theory and see if I drop another 2.8 this week

Abbie, sorry to hear about the week.  Sometime when it rains it pours.  Illness is a definite curse to maintaining or losing.  I think mostly because it robs your will to care about it.  You don't feel good, and nothing else really matters other than feeling better.  I know I have been sick before where I would have eaten a dozen donuts if it would have cured me.

Jim, plateus suck.  But extending your runs while maintaining your pace IS something to get excited about.  The weight can't hold out forever.

Kristen, sorry to hear about your daughter, hope the finger is okay.  I've had days like that before.  Mine usually start out with "oh I'll just eat this one such and such, and run a little longer tonight....and before I know it I've fallen down the rabbit hole and have blown my caloric goal to bits in the process."  Personally I always log it, painful....yes, irritating.....you bet, but in my opinion absolutely necessary if for no other reason than to see how snap judgements in the spur of the moment lead to nutritional failures on a massive scale.

Its a new week though folks and time to bear down once again.  Train strong, stay strong.

enders_shadow - 2013-01-11 12:12 PM What happens when you get smug about losing weight and being good about food tracking...life comes and bites you in the bottom. Normal protein breakfast and then went to a meeting at daughters' schools. A couple of the moms are going out for bagels after the meeting and I join them and I foolishly engage in bagel eating. (Now, going out for bagels with the moms actually turned out to be a blessing, because I was only 5 minutes from the school instead of the 30 minutes I normally am ...keep reading) During the bagel eating, my phone rings - it's the school. Younger daughter has slammed finger in door, very deep, won't stop bleeding. Thank goodness I'm only 5 minutes away instead of 30. Drive to ER and spend the next 2 hours - xrays, skin glue, the works. And now I'm ravenous and poor daughter #2 has been a trooper...so we stop for Chic-Fil-A which is like crack to me. (And I can promise you I'll have a glass of wine or a beer tonight...) So, after my normal breakfast, I ended up eating both bagels AND Chic-Fil-A. Holey crap. I'm skipping logging my food today in my blog and on MFP because it's just too painful. I know how painful it is. And I can't do it. So. I vow to no longer be smug when I lose weight. Because I can't have another one of these days.

Sounds Like a big Time CHEAT DAY today.  Let it go and do well tomorrow!!!

May your daughters healing spring forth speedily!!

Thanks Don!!!

Kirsten, wow, I hope she is ok....but damn Chik-fil-A....we don;t have that here, thankfully!

Oh, believe me, I know.  I'm not so much worried about losing weight as I am about losing fat.  Find a guy who stands 6' tall and weighs 233lbs at 10 to 12 %BF.  Stand him next to me at my 6', 233lbs, and 18ish %BF.  Display us in front of a group of women and see which of us gets stared at the most.  I'd lose.  That's what I intend to fix.  Where I would like to weigh in around 225lbs, I'd rather be at about 10 to 12% body fat and be able to kick a$$ and take names in the Clydesdale division of any triathlon I enter.  Whether I'm accomplishing these while weighing 225lbs or 2225lbs is of no concern to me; just that I'm doing them.

:-)

I am going to jump on board here, I have been weighin in on Sundays...but ill switch it up to Wednesdays.

Jan 1 - 242

Jan 6 - 235.6

Jan 13 - 231 !!

Pretty happy so far on the "Squeaky Clean Paleo" meal  plan from the 'Practical Paleo' book. Going to keep that going for a month, and then start incorporating a cheat meal or two/ week, but still remaining mainly paleo.

I am really liking how full I feel, and how cravings seem to have disapeared. Still have to cut back on the Caffeine though.

Love it!....not that you had to drink moldy G2....but that you are off it for life!

I am the same way with Diet Pepsi something....got to find a can with half a finger in it, or a mouse head or something....

Ewwww!!!! Did you take it back to the Store?  

I'm still dealing with illness.  Staying off of the sweets, but have been having some bread.  Body is craving odd things during this plague.  I want pizza!  I don't even eat cheese,so no clue what is going on.  I have not eaten a salad in a week, I usually eat salad 2x a day!  With this illness I just want hot food, the thought of cold food is just not appetizing.  Such a bummer.

Homemade Roasted red pepper soup, with lots of garlic...that'll knock the bugs out of you! and it is nice and hot for this chilly time of year..

I thought this quote was amusing....although not really true for me as I like eating most healthy things!

Mark Twain...."The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not"