i had much better luck today. I exercised on the treadmill and logged in what I ate at the online WW site. It was my first day keeping track of what i eat an it is eyeopening to see how quickly the little nibbles can add up. I stayed within my points, using a few of my Flex points but not too many.

I’m hoping after a week of this I’ll start to feel at list a little lighter. That will help.

Thank you all for your very sweet support!!

I broke a sweat today. The world will end…now. The Spouse Thingy and I spent a good part of the day making space in the garage for my car (a convertible which turned out to not be 100% waterproof…we had some wicked storms the last week that soaked the interior) and I hauled boxes up and down and back and forth…that counts for a workout, I think!

Then I turned around and caved into the call from chocolate cake. When I wanted it after 2 hours and many errands run I decided I really wanted it and knew if I didn’t get it I’d have horrible munchies all night, so we went into Pizza Pucks (no cake kept in the house, nooo!) and split a small piece. So basically, I caved, and took him down with me!

I generally try to average 1200 calories a day; I hit 1330 today so I don’t feel too bad about the cake (ok, honestly, I don’t feel bad at all…) I need more protein and vegetables on a daily basis, definitely.
Oh, and I’m sitting here watching The Biggest Loser…the only reality show I’ve ever wanted to be on. I totally want their trainers to torture me. How sick is that…?:slaphappy:

I had a great day today.  I wrote everything down.  I drank my water like a good girl.  I stayed within my points.  My exercise is always my biggest challenge.  Not because I can’t do it, but because I never want to.  I told my husband to not let me go to bed if I am scheduled to work out and I don’t.  I was only half kidding.  But he isn’t.  He came home tonight and told me that I was going to the Y tonight or I am not going to bed.  I don’t know how he would keep me from it, but I appreciate his support.  I really appreciate it after what he had to go through to get me there.

First, I was blogging and he kept asking me if I was going to go soon, until I bit his head off and ate it for supper.  Then when I was finally ready to go, I couldn’t find my lock for my locker, my shorts to change into and I was surly and irritating, I am sure.  He volunteered his lock which was in his car in his gym bag.  I left and was going to get it on my way but when I looked, I couldn’t find it.  So, I went back in the house and told him I couldn’t find it and he got all dressed (it is winter here  in Minnesota and it is bleeping cold and wet outside) and came out to look for it and found it in 0.2 seconds.  Then I get in my truck as he goes back in the house and I turn the key and the truck makes a sick, grinding, slow-moaning sound and then, silence.  Repeat.  Silence.  I go back in the house and tell him that now my (insert expletive, because remember I am surly and irritating right now) truck won’t start.  I am thinking that maybe I am not supposed to go to the gym tonight or maybe it is the devil on my shoulder trying to make excuses to the angel on the other shoulder.  He gets his stuff back on so that he can give me a ride to the gym.  I get my stuff from the truck and get in the car and we head toward the gym.  As we pull in to the parking lot, I realize that I forgot my workout shorts in the damn dead truck.  At this point, I figure he doesn’t have time to take me back to get my shorts and bring me back to the gym because he has to go pick up our two youngest at Religion classes.   But, he does.  He drops me off and I work out.  When I am done, he comes and gets me.   I love him!:hug:

So I did 1-1/4 mi on the treadmill.  I kept a pretty good pace except for warm up and cool down.  The time went by fast and I am glad I went.  Now I just have to remember that the next time I am supposed to go and I am surly and whiny about it!

I promised myself this wouldn’t be a “diet” blog…yeah, I know it’s a support for dieters, but I didn’t want to post…I ate this today and I didn’t eat that. I can’t do that. It’s not me, not the type of person I am.

But….I did do something that I am proud of. I ordered lunch, chinese, and ate the soup for lunch and part of the meal for dinner. I DIDN’T EAT ALL THE WHITE RICE that’s in caps because that is a big deal. I am proud of myself for that :rofl:

Now, excersice is my problem. I did some today, running around after a one year old who is just learning to walk…ok, so I am not running around after her as much as holding her as she walks around…the girl learned to crawl last month and now refuses to because walking is fun.

I want to post a picture, but I don’t know how. I know how to do it in a post, but I want to do it as a member and update my profile under the members button….help.

I do want to mention how much I like this site and how great everyone is. I love the support, just knowing I can come here and read and stuff, knowing that others are feeling the same thing (sometimes at the same time) and understanding the feelings of frustration…it makes me feel like I can do it this time. thanks everyone.

That’s how long I’ve been out of the gym, and how many pounds I regained since my last workout.  Considering that’s all I regained over Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s, I’m not really complaining.  I’m still down 23 pounds–a feat never before accomplished by moi.

Though I was cringing as I walked into the locker room and approached the scale.  But then the hard part was over, and I headed out to the treadmill.  Thanks to some traffic backups, I had only 30 minutes to workout.  I popped in my Trace Adkins’ Comin On Strong CD–I love starting out my workout with One Hot Mama (my husband’s song for me :::giggle::::). 

My joints were aching from being away so long, but I remembered why I like going there, how it’s very motivational for me.  And I got my nice little ‘walker’s high’ as a reward for walking 3/4 of a mile.  Slow and steady, just fast enough to get my heartrate up, but not too fast that it causes me to limp out of there.

Ahh yes, it’s good to be back.

Pounds2Go: 162

My biggest weakness is the Woman’s World magazine sitting there in the rack in the checkout at Sprawl-Mart. There’s always some smiling woman proudly proclaiming she’s lost half her weight with these easy steps that take a page and a half to explain. I’m a sucker for it, I buy it every week. I take the magazine home, anxiously flipping to this week’s diet to see if somehow, some way I’d find the way to lose all my extra weight. And I’ll try some of them… for about a day and a half, and then I’m back to my own eating habits and the magazine lands itself in my basket. I probably have over a hundred of them sitting there.

I never go back to a diet I’ve started, I never stick with it. I’ve tried The Zone, South Beach, Weight Watcher’s, Carb Addict, Flylady’s Body Clutter, and a big pile of books I’ve read, but never retained. I don’t know if it’s the diet or it’s me. (probably me) But I need to find the thing that’s going to work… the thing that I can stick with.

I’ve read that it takes 21 days to form a habit. I’ve maintained SB for probably a couple of months, and yet, it still never stuck.

And each week, I start something new.

I need the trick that’s going to make me stick with this. And I’m pretty sure that trick is in my head. Not in a magazine. Not in a book. Not even in this really cool blog. I just need to figure out what it is.