I forgot about my experiment and overate protein on Sunday. My BGL's were outta whack and I caved and had something carby.

*sigh*

So what? I'm right back on the hamster wheel today and continuing with my adjusted eating regimen of not eating until hungry and then only until NOT hungry.

I'm going to hafta find a moniker for that way of eating. I'm getting tired of typing that many words each time. Hmmm. About 'bout: "Controlled Eating Plan" (CEP), or....oh, I dunno. Somebody interject something clever for me, preferably with an appropriate acronym.

I worked out in the yard yesterdy for 3 1/2 hours. I was draggin', I tell ya', when I rolled up the last extension cord and put the rake and broom away. I whacked weeds until I couldn't whack another. The stupid #@$%! cicadas were swarming me. I've been told they don't bite, but they were pinching me or SOMETHING because they left marks on my bare arms and legs like you wouldn't believe. I whacked a few in half with the weedeater and took great pleasure in doing so.

Sorry, you bug's rights activists....these creatures are a nuisance and serve no purpose in my world.

I didn't get on the scale this morning. Quite frankly, I forgot. I'll weigh tomorrow. Somehow lately, it doesn't really matter to me that I weigh daily. I've got this new attitude going on which I like. This is life. This is my life and my way of eating. I own it. This ain't a race, and I'm doing just fine.

I like me today. How many people can say that? (About themselves, not me. You get the drift.)

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LOVE your attitude these days. This is really what you have been needing!
I can't think of any appropriate name/acornym - but I do wonder -

since I'm trying to get calories and keep the protein down - what kind of calorie count are you getting with this. I know you probably aren't tracking exactly, but do you get enough this way. I'm always afraid of undereating as much as overeating.

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Mary Kay
2009 WW - 228 / 204

I want a Christmas Onederland!!

Um...a rough estimate is about 1,200 to 1,500 calories per day. About three times a week, or every other day, I'll eat about 2,000 calories.

You've got me wondering for sure now. I'm going to track a few days on FitDay and I'll let you know.

******* UPDATE *********

I tracked on FitDay what I've been eating recently. About 3 days out of each week, I'm eating roughly 600 - 700 calories per day. The other days, I'm eating about 1,300 - 1,400 calories per day.

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April

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April--how about the "Not Hungry" way of LCing! since you wait til you are to eat and tehn stop when you are not any longer! I not only like me--I love me!!!! How many can say that honestly??? I can!!!

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Lori

232/190/130
My other journal http://www.lowcarbeating.com/bb/showthread.php?t=1130

Well, I dunno if this constitutes "exercise", but each day of my week includes some type of heavy duty housework, and the weekends include yard work.

For instance, when I get home from work each night during the week, the first thing I do before I even change out of my work clothes is to prepare dinner, empty the dishwasher, fill the dishwasher with the sink(s) full of dirty dishes the kids have used all day (I hate it when school's out for summer), and while dinner is cooking I grab the broom and spot sweep the kitchen floor. After the kids are all settled in eating their dinner, I change clothes and then do various things such as: washing a load or two of clothes, dry them, hang and fold them, run upstairs to put them away, take out garbage, clean one of the three bathrooms, prepare food to pack in mine and John's lunches for the next few days/nights (he works 3rd shift), dusting, et cetera.

The weekends are reserved for the "heavy" stuff such as this past weekend. Sweep entire kitchen, vacuum entire house, swiffer kitchen and bathrooms, mop kitchen and bathrooms, cut the front grass and side yards with the hand mower, mow the back yard (1-acre lot) with the riding mower, weed whack everything, including edging the sidewalks and flower gardens, lay fertilzer in stages on various parts of the lawn, and then sweep up all of the grass trimings everywhere.

My arms a literally aching just now from all of the sweeping and mopping and cleaning I've done this past weekend, but it's a "good ache" because I know I accomplished a lot. I also put together a wooden shelf and painted it for Abby's room, completely re-arranged her bedroom, and cleaned and vaccuumed every square inch of it yesterday.

I think all of this constitutes exercise. I plan on starting back to Curves this week. The stitches came out of my hand Friday and I think I'm able to go back now.

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I think it constitues exhausting. A heck of a workout this weekend!!!

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Mary Kay
2009 WW - 228 / 204

I want a Christmas Onederland!!

Yeah, I guess it was a good workout. According to this site, I burned 1,200 calories Saturday morning just doing the yard work.

Kewl.

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April

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Wow. I just read a post elsewhere on these boards concerning lack of support on the homefront. It hit home -- hard.

I've been on both sides of that fence. In my previous marriage, when I mentioned wanting to walk each day with some other ladies, that notion was met with severe opposition. In fact, my husband forbid me to go. So, in order not to make waves, I didn't go. Then, when I mentioned wanting to go to college, that was okay with him as long as I stayed in the area and just attended the 2-year local college and left enough time for my wifely and motherly duties at home. When the time came for me to finish my degree and attend a 4-year university, a 2-hour commute there and 2 hours home, my husband forbid me to go. I went anyhow amid protests from him that I was being selfish. I also started my weight-loss regimen and walked 3 miles per day -- but he insisted on going with me to the local park where he could keep his eye on me and make sure that I was actually doing what I said I was doing, and not wasting time or doing something else "wrong". In retrospect, I know that his insecurities were at the root of his problem. And, it was HIS problem, not mine.

Now I'm married to someone who is super supportive. He's constantly telling me that I need to relax and make time for myself. He tells me things like: "April, at the end of the day, you are accountable only to yourself and you have to live with yourself. If you don't make time for you, who will?"

So, after reading that post this morning, I felt awful. Simply awful. Here I am with all of the tools, knowledge, time, and support available to make my choice to be healthy a reality. If I don't go to Curves or take my daily walks, then that's my fault. No one is holding me back, and I have the support of my husband in whatever plans I have in life. Having known the other side of the coin, and seeing that others are not getting the support from within their own homes and from people who purport to love them, my excuses for not being healthy are just that -- excuses.

Wow. What a paradigm shift I've had this morning just from being reminded of how it used to be, how it is now, and what could be if only I'd just DO IT. There's nothing holding me back except excuses.

It's time. I'm going to Curves right after work, and I'm taking my walks on the days I don't go to Curves.

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April

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Great journal entry April. It has inspired me this morning after a week or 2 of slacking off a bit o my exercise and a too much cheating. Thanks!

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Great Entry !!!! I've Been There Too, And I Too Have All The Support Of Someone Who Loves Me For Me Not My Looks, Just For Me And Who I Am. It Is Wonderful After Years Of Being D------'s Possesion.

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I know this morning that I posted that I'm going to Curves tonight. I'm already sitting here coming up with excuses as to why I shouldn't go. I know what it is. I'm tired from working all day.

Yet, I will be held accountable for it. I knew that I'd feel this way towards the end of the work day, so I left a note on the kitchen counter this morning for the kids and told them to tell me to go to Curves tonight, no matter what excuse I came up with for not going.

So, I'm going. <grumble, grumble>

I've also contemplated going to the local Overeaters Anonymous meetings in my neighborhood on Saturday mornings. Just another way to be held accountable. Anyone have any experience with that group? Feedback would be appreciated.

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April

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I always feel that way about exercising. I think the hardest part its getting started each day because I always feel great once i'm out there doing it and when I am done. I am on summer break now so it is easier for me. During the school year I always have the best intenetions but rarely follow though.

You are doing great!

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Seesko


242/217/135 (pre-pregnancy)

254/234/150 (current)

Go Cubbies!!!

"What my mind can envision; my body can master!"

I've been eating on plan for the past two days now and I feel great. I'm hyped about the 4-week challenge. It will REALLY be a challenge for me, since we're leaving on July 1st to go to New York, and we won't be back until the night of the 6th. I'm going to have computer withdrawl, I know that. Last time we went, there was a small refrigerator and a microwave in our motel room. I plan on eating just the low carb things that I can when we're in restaurants or with John's folks at their house. The rest of the time, I plan on having a stash of items in our motel room to heat and eat. At least we'll have refrigeration and a cooking source. I'm luckier than most in that respect. The REAL trick will be how to keep two teenagers and a 10-year-old entertained in a strange, Mayberry-type town for 6 days. HA!

The Sunday Morning Weigh-In is on in our household. I sprung the idea on John, and he's all for it. Sunday mornings, when I get up (and he's still at work), I'll weigh myself and record the weight on a chart. Sunday afternoons, when he wakes up around 5:00pm, he'll weigh himself and record the number. The following Sunday, we'll both weigh in the same manner and we'll see who "wins".

His ex-wife sent home some homemade stromboli last night with the kids -- one of his FAVORITE dishes -- and he passed it up completely. I packed his "lunch" for work at 9:15 last night consisting of two grilled hamburger patties, two grilled chicken breasts, a salad with shredded cheese and Ranch dressing, and a little bggie of pork rinds, and bottled water. (He usually only eats one hamburger and one chicken breast, but takes extra just in case he has to pull a double shift.) I asked him if he wanted some stromboli and he said he couldn't because of our weigh-in "contest".

Kudos, John!

Gotta get ready for work now.

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Last night was stressful. These teenage boys have no consideration for anyone but themselves. I don't remember being so inconsiderate at that age. My Mom would have skinned me if I had been.

I won't go into the morbid details, but I was stressed, to say the least.

I instantly went to the pantry and almost ate some snack cakes. Instead, I went upstairs, locked my bedroom door, called their father at work, told John what had just happened, and then I finally fell asleep at midnight.

I'm glad I didn't eat the snack cakes because when I weighed this morning, I weighed 212.5. That makes 4 pounds that I've lost since Wednesday when I joined the 4-week challenge.

Stress. Kids. Teenagers. ARRRGGGGGHH!!!

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April

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Monday morning and I weigh 211.5.

I didn't cave in to stress and I didn't eat carby foods this past weekend.

I'm breaking my arm patting myself on the back here.

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April

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