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This week:

Did I get 30 + minutes of exercise 5 days this week? Yes.
Did I eat relatively healthy? Yes. (A and B nutrition ratings all days.)
Did I keep my “free” day around maintenance calories? Had one main. and one only slightly over main.
Did I binge? No.

Thoughts: Did fairly well through the week. One “red” day but it was really barely over maintenance calories. Think Sunday might have been another maintenance day, but had a 900+ deficit all other days. Pretty nice. This week is going to be a bit rough with the mini vacation for two days, but hopefully that won’t derail me too much. Just have to see how it goes. Hope this bloat will pass in another day or two. Am still terribly excited to start the South Beach program next week. 

Had a good week.

This week:

Did I get 30 + minutes of exercise 5 days this week? Yes.
Did I eat relatively healthy? Yes.
Did I keep my “free” day around maintenance calories? Yes.
Did I binge? No.

AVERAGED a little over 1000 calorie deficit per day for the week. Very nice. Somehow haven't lost anything. Trying not to get discouraged. Know hormones are playing a part. It's still frustrating. I *know* I put in the work for at least a pound, and prob. closer to two, but just got to keep on keeping on.  

I had three minor dairy "slip ups"...Can hopefully do even better, next week. Been 90% dairy free if not more. Had MAYBE three ounces of cheese (high-end guesstimate) throughout the entire week and one scoop of ice-cream. Other then that, no dairy. Don't know if I'm going to make it through the rest of the month or not. I knew this was going to be hard but I didn't think it would be THIS hard. My biggest fear is that "depriving" myself is going to trigger a binge, but hopefully, I can be better/stronger then that. 

Feeling a little frustrated, but also determined. If nothing else, it's good for me to be back on track. It's too bad the scale isn't cooperating, but I should still be doing right by my body and that's the most important thing, really. 

Had a good solid week with the eats. 700-1000 deficits all days.

Movement was somewhat limited. Been sickly with the virus/rash that's going around town and another bout of tonsillitis. 

Temporarily going off dairy in a couple weeks. For as long as I can stand it. Trying to get my immune system built back up. Multi Vitamin daily, Exercise. Healthy eats. Sunshine and fresh air. And going to start remembering to gargle when I can do after (all) meals but esp. before bed. EVERY night. Even when I'm "healthy". Also want to try to use the neti pot at least a few times a week.

I'm hoping ALL of these things will help, because I'm SOOO tired of being just constantly sick with one thing or another.  

Aim for this week: Made the Grade/Over, but okay/Maintenance /Over Maintenance

 

June 14^th June 20^th

 

Day	Target	Actual	Summary	Burn	Deficit
Mon	1500	2180	Work 4 hours. Shopping. Ok eats.	3470	1290
Tue	2000	2280	Work. Drank a bit. Good eats.	3470	1190
Wed	1500	2300	Emo day. Heavy on eats, but not insane.	2600	300
Thu	2000	2270	Work. Okay eats.	3450	1180
Fri	1500	????	Swam, but ate and drank tons.	????	----
Sat	2000	1800	Light work. Ok eats.	2600	800
Sun	1500	????	Swam, but ate ridiculous.	????	----

 

Thoughts Really am hoping to knock this week out of the park. Self: Knock this week out of the park!! Edit to add: Had two shaky days. Want to work on doing really well for the rest of the month. Hope I do well. If I DO rock out the month, it’ll be a good one.

 

This week:

 

Did I get 30 + minutes of exercise 5 days this week? Yes.

Did I eat relatively healthy? Yes.

Did I keep my “free” day around maintenance calories? No. :(

Did I binge?  No.

June 7th to June 13th

Thoughts: Not posting snapshot. Don’t have a lot of actual numbers for the week. I’ve not been strictly counting for a few days. Not intentional. Just been busy. Fairly sure "colors" are fairly accurate for the month, even if I don’t have actual numbers. Been doing fairly okay, I think. Only one (known) bad day. And I’m calling two maintenance days but I was probably actually better then maintenance. Better to err on the side of caution, I suppose. :) Feeling pretty good. Hope to really KILL next week. This week’s been a little rough around the edges, but again… Think I’m “okay.”

This week:

Did I get 30 + minutes of exercise 5 days this week? Yes.
Did I eat relatively healthy? Yes.
Did I keep my “free” day around maintenance calories? No. Pizza Pig-Out.
Did I binge? No. 

Aim for this week: Made the Grade/Over, but okay/Maintenance /Over Maintenance

 

May 31, 2010 to June 6, 2010

 

Day	Target	Actual	Summary	Burn	Deficit
Mon	1500	2040	Yard Work/Swimming. Mediocre eats.	3600	1560
Tue	2000	1915	Work. Nice burn. Ok eats.	3490	1575
Wed	1500	1960	Cleaning. Shopping. Good burn. Ok eats.	3000	1040
Thu	2000	1750	Work. Decent burn. Okay eats.	3370	1620
Fri	1500	1955	Swam. Ate a bit heavy.	2800	845
Sat	2000	1650	Swam. Ok eats.	2700	1050
Sun	1500	1945	Work. Good eats.	3200	1255

Thoughts: May was a maintenance month. I've made peace with that, but would like to really knock June out of the park. First week has been the best week EVER. Really. Did great on exercise, deficits, etc. Feeling very proud. Would like to do something similar for the next 3 weeks, but can’t really imagine an entire month without a couple maintenance days. We’ll see. If I have to have one, I hope I can save them for Saturdays. Hit my 30 lbs down goal, finally. That’s awesome, too. Yay. :)

This week:

 

Did I get 30 + minutes of exercise 5 days this week? Yes.

Did I eat relatively healthy? Yes.

Did I keep my “free” day around maintenance calories? Yes.

Did I binge?  No.

Aim for this week: Made the Grade/Over, but okay/Maintenance /Over Maintenance

 

May 31, 2010 to June 6, 2010

 

Day	Target	Actual	Summary	Burn	Deficit
Mon	1500	2040	Yard Work/Swimming. Mediocre eats.	3600	1560
Tue	2000	1915	Work. Nice burn. Ok eats.	3490	1575
Wed	1500	1960	Cleaning. Shopping. Good burn. Ok eats.	3000	1040
Thu	2000	1750	Work. Decent burn. Okay eats.	3370	1620
Fri	1500	1955	Swam. Ate a bit heavy.	2800	845
Sat	2000	1650	Swam. Ok eats.	2700	1050
Sun	1500	1945	Work. Good eats.	3200	1255

Thoughts: May was a maintenance month. I've made peace with that, but would like to really knock June out of the park. First week has been the best week EVER. Really. Did great on exercise, deficits, etc. Feeling very proud. Would like to do something similar for the next 3 weeks, but can’t really imagine an entire month without a couple maintenance days. We’ll see. If I have to have one, I hope I can save them for Saturdays. Hit my 30 lbs down goal, finally. That’s awesome, too. Yay. :)

This week:

 

Did I get 30 + minutes of exercise 5 days this week? Yes.

Did I eat relatively healthy? Yes.

Did I keep my “free” day around maintenance calories? Yes.

Did I binge?  No.

 Had a cute funny, this evening.

Lucy got up on the living room table while David was having bites and she wasn't bothering his food or anything just laying up there.

David told her, "Get down, Lucy." She ignored him. "Get DOWN, Lucy." She ignored him. So then he got all t exasperated and said...

"LUCY ADAIR..."

*lol*

Go David. .  

Aim for this week: Made the Grade/Over, but okay/Maintenance /Over Maintenance

 

April 5 to April 11 2010

 

Day	Target	Actual	Summary	Burn	Deficit
Mon	1600	1655	Okay eats. Cardio/Mowing/Jog. Yay.	3400	1745
Tue	1800	1773	Healthy Eats. Shopping. Took it easy.	2620	847
Wed	1500	1515	Healthy Eats. 30 min cardio.	2600	1085
Thu	1900	1939	Good eats. Work.	3480	1541
Fri	1700	1619	Cardio/Walk/8 hrs work. Ouch.	4170	2551
Sat	2000	3058	Crap. Hoped to do better.	2770	****
Sun	1800	****	Kinda lost count, but should be okayish.	2710	****

 

Thoughts: Going to try zig-zagging cals this week and try to break through the dratted plateau. It’s not quite been a full month, yet, but it’s been darn close, and while I’m nowhere near “giving up” I do need the scale to cooperate for a minute. So. Zig-Zag and 30-60 minutes of exercise EVERY DAY this week. We’ll see what that does for me. Hope it helps. Friday: I know I should have eaten more, but just couldn’t. Too tired, sore, etc. Will NOT feel guilty if I have a maintenance day Saturday. Edit: However, I’m a bit pissed I decided to go OVER calories, but I guess that shouldn’t be a big shock at this stage in the game. :( It wasn’t TOO much over. That’s something. Zig-Zagging… Still haven’t lost, but it can’t hurt and it was easy enough, so giving it another go next week.

 

This week:

 

Did I get 30 + minutes of exercise 5 days this week? Yes.

Did I eat relatively healthy? Yes.

Did I keep my “free” day around maintenance calories? No. Unfortunately.

Did I binge?  No.

Aim for this week: Made the Grade/Over, but okay/Maintenance /Over Maintenance

March 29 to April 4, 2010

Day Target Actual Summary Burn Deficit
Mon 1500 1950 Walked/Jogged. Did well at the movie. :) 2960 1010
Tue 1500 2400 Was doing well, but recreated. Darn. 2900 500
Wed 1500 1750 Fairly busy day. Ok eats. 2830 1080
Thu 1900 2142 Cleaning/Walk/Work. Ok eats. 4050 1908
Fri 1500 1397 Cardio. Took it easy. Ok cals/lots o’ salt. 2600 1203
Sat 1900 **** Went out to eat (Topeka). Beer. Etc. **** ****
Sun 1500 1589 Lawn Work, Ok eats. 3250 1661

Thoughts: Can’t help feeling a little hopeful with the new month and all. I just love the feeling of a “fresh start”. Here’s hoping I can really (REALLY) rock this month. I don’t want to wait until May, to do my “best” so I’m just going to do the best I can do with my birthday weekend. Hope I can do brilliantly and still keep the vacay weekend around maintenance. Ish. Am hoping the swimming, etc. will help. Maybe. We’ll see how I do. I do NOT want to ruin my entire month with just a few days, which is sort of what I’m feeling I did to March. I started so strong, but it just kind of went to hell with just four days. *Crosses Fingers* Of course, the longer I look at March, the more it seems like it was a pretty decent month. Room for improvement? Of course. Always. But March is the first month ever I’ve really started exercising (almost daily). And I only had three really (bad) days and a couple of maintenance days. So I’m beginning to wonder if I’m truly in my first plateau. Only time will tell. Only 4 lbs down this month. But I’m going to keep trying.

THE WEEKENDS MUST NOT BE MY UNDOING.

I can do this thing. So let’s DO it.
Goals For April:
• Maximum of ONE (and trying for zero) over maintenance days
• Maximum of FOUR (and trying for two) maintenance days
• 600-1000 calorie deficit every other day of the month
• Real exercise SIX days a week (and trying for seven)
• No binges
• Keeping the eats clean(er) and on the healthy(er) side.