Well, I think I will jump on the Journal bandwagon now. This is great! I think this will help me. A goal was to have a website journal starting January 1, 2001. I work two jobs and two small children.. who has the time?

I am in a challenge with Junie to do as well as we can each day. I think of her when I go to reach for food and think of a) how I will be disappointing her and b) how I will be danged if I let her beat me to the finish line! :D

How will I be proud of myself today?

1. I will stay within my points
2. I will do some ab work and upper arm strength training since my heel is still sore
3. I will drink my water

3 is enough for one day, right? I like the gratitude journal thing too.. But I will post that at the end of a day if I can.

I will be SO grateful tomorrow if my foot is healed enough for cardio kick. :)

Corinna

Corinna, I think 3 is enough.... it's a plan and a plan is what'll get you to that finish line! You're doing great!

well personally..........
i'm very partial to the number 3 *S*
so i say its just perfect

sounds like a good healthy competition with junie!

Corrina,

I think the journal will really help you. It has certainly helped me and I post even on my bad days. I just read through my journal again, and it is so interesting to see how external things can cause you to eat. I hope you meet your 3 goals today! Good Luck! You're an inspiration! I know that if I had 2 jobs/2 kids, I would use every excuse to just stay fat. You go mamma!

Well, yesterday went fine. I found my inserts and I did two workouts. One was RS Groovin in the House with my kids (someone should teach him how to be a real aerobics instructor and that a good one INSTRUCTS). Then I did abs and back stuff.

I was fine with my food and I always drink my water. Well, I wasn't FINE with my food. I went to the max-max of my points. But that's ok.

Today will be another story. Some guy on his cell played chicken with me so I went off the road and then another woman who was going to turn went straight when I was turning left and she honked at me even though I didn't cut her off. This all before 8am. Lovely, eh? Hehehehehe..

I have only eaten some oatmeal thus far and am about to have a banana and some green tea. I will have wendy's chili and half a sandwich for lunch and an apple and some lowfat cheese/crackers for snack. Dinner is undecided. I need to go to cardio kick today, so I will have a light dinner and then a luna bar afterwars. :)

1. stay within my points
2. exercise (it's Tuesday, not much of a challenge for me)
3. drink my water

Thanks for the replies, Dj, Janet and Neek. You guys ROCK! :)

Neek, I seem to have been using it as an excuse since I got my second job. :( It's a job I HATE too. :(

Corinna

Corrina,

I think your menu looks very healthy! Sounds like you have had an eventful morning. I hope the rest of your day was calmer!

Ah, the icon says it all. I didn't make it to cardio kick, it was full.. So I took it out in food. I felt compulsive being Shrove Tuesday (duh). But then I was still mad and I went home and scrubbed my house! I feel cleansed and my housework definately counts as exercise!! :)

Today is a bit of a challenge since I'll be working until 10pm getting home around 11. That sucks. I did do my ab work this morning, which is good too.

What am I going to do that I am proud of today?

1. Drink my water
2. Eat a light dinner (I have about 3/4 of a Wendy's Chilli and I will get a high fibre sandwich, I think).
3. Hmmmmmm.. Try not to kill anyone. LOL

Corinna

My husband was really nice yesterday, which made the day good. :)

You're doing the right thing. Just keep moving on! Good luck!

Things I am grateful for today:

1. I received the book Simple Abundance today from the coupon I got for www.Indigo.ca (http://www.Indigo.ca) that made the book only cost me $6.
2. Gun laws are strict in Canada and I don't own one.
3. I have the best family in the world
4. I am intelligent enough to handle any situation despite not owning a gun.
5. To love working out!

Corinna

Let's not go into what I ate yesterday. It was a long, hard day.

A friend recently told me: "Compulive Eaters do not have an eating
problem, they have a calming problem" in that, they eat to calm themselves,
instead of to fuel themselves. Compulsive eaters need to learn other ways to
calm themselves. " That makes alot of sense to me. It is DEFINATELY what I did yesterday. I eat healthy except when I need to calm myself. I haven't lost much since I started my second job because I don't have much time to calm down period! I am thinking of getting a few of the books on the subject, since there are a few. I will do so after I get into the Simple Abundance book I got yesterday.

What will I be proud of today:

1. I will workout to a Firm video this evening
2. I will eat within my points (dag nabbit!)
3. I will drink my water
4. I will allow myself to tape ER and go to bed early!

What shall I eat today? I brought a bad of salad and i have some low fat soup here too.. I always get half of a sandwich to eat. I wish I had brought fruit though. DOH! It's 10am. I should have breakfast too. Hmmmmmm..

Corinna

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No journal yesterday. I was in the corner licking my wounds. I will be OK. I had a reeeeeeeeeeeally harsh week. Something we've been sort of expecting but no one expects it in the end and it sucks for me.

I'm a positive person and it is REALLY hard for me to feel bitter, etc. I know I am just tired and I will feel less numb after being rested, but for now I'm not in a very good place.

Anyway, today there will no more of this compulsive eating crap. I will get back on track RIGHT NOW. I have a plan.. I will adapt a diet I saw recently. which reminds me, what the heck in a pinto bean?

What are my goals today?

1. Stay within my points.
2. Drink my water.
3. Workout.

That's it.. That and find 5 things to be grateful for in my bitter mood.

Corinna

sooz stands in front of corinna and keeps all evil away....~SNARL~ ... you have had enough!! pat pat, pat pat, there there..the worst is OVER...i predict something will come along that you like even BETTER..maybe even with an in house gym and free child care...at least you arent going to let the rat b******** get you down!! yayayayay!!

Hmmmm..

I haven't written in two days. Not been feeling well. Stressed big time! It has given me the need to go on the brat diet.

So, foodwise, I've been doing GREAT.. Hehehehe.. Exercise on the other hand is icky. I have no energy! I did shovel the snow for 40 minutes today. Alot of snow out there and we should have the same amount in the morning as well. JOY! Neat thing is that I shovelled my butt off (wouldn't it be amazing if that were true?!) and while I was sweating, I wasn't dying. I am STRONG! LOL

Why am I in such a good mood? I have one of the most stressful things happening to me right now in life besides marriage and death and divorce.. I'm listening to my music. Dang I am a prime example of conditioned response.

5 things to be grateful today:

1. I am alive
2. I have the CUTEST kids
3. I have the best husband (ask Gep)
4. I got to leave work early today
5. I have the ability and power to control my life. I have control over what I let get to me and what I choose to dismiss.

Corinna

Sooz, thanks for your kind words. I appreciate it. The one place I'm applying to right now has a fitness facility onsite. :)

Corinna

Ok, I have made a decision.. And it is my decision but won't go into it because it may not be taken properly. Not that it's a big deal at all.. Which is why I'm not sharing..

I'm tired today. I guess that comes from going to bed at 2am anbd getting up at 7am. Not my choice of waking times, but I have kids so what are you going to do?

My eating has been ok this week since I was sick. I am feeling 100% better now! Yippy! Now I have to keep working on my eating.

So, I am going to make that soup I have been meaning to make and make that dish to go with that diet I saw at www.goddessdiet.com (http://www.goddessdiet.com) It's not enough calories, but I figure if I work on something like it.. It'll be good for me. I need to occasionally remind myself that I eat too many carbs. I do try to keep them whole, but I would eat carbs 99% of the time if I could. :(

I think the diet would be ok with some added salads and a couple of fruits.

Ok, usually I list a few things I will be proud of that day. Today I will list 10 things I have done this year that I am proud of:

1. I fired the old babysitter
2. I am a great mother
3. I am a great wife
4. I workout to the best of my ability when I am working out
5. I am a great listener
6. I am a good online friend
7. I am not taking being laid off personally
8. I am allowing myself to very much consider taking the summer off
9. When life has been giving me lemons, I make lemonaid.. I ***** about it, but I make it.
10. I am proudest to be the best person I can be and standing up for what I believe in

What will I do today to be proud of myself?

1. Eat within my points
2. Exercise (I am planning on doing Firm Cardio just so Ann and Jessie know if they are reading)..
3. Drink my water

Corinna

Very mysterious....as for your list..correction...you are a TERRIFIC online friend!! Sounds like you are planning a great weekend, but try to get some rest!!

Hehehehe, it's no biggie.. I'll tell you all about it.. Just don't feel like posting it for the unstable to form an unstable opinion. LOL

Rest? What the 'eck is that?!?!

Corinna

I haven't been in here for awhile, Corinna.... I'm very behind here at DT but expect to start reading lots again here real soon. I'm sorry you've been having some rough spots. But it's really great to see and hear the positive notes in amongst all that. You are a great on-line friend and am looking forward to us getting together this summer!! It's going to be so much fun!!!

Keep your chin up and keep on doing what you are doing. I think you are doing great!

(I think taking the summer off sounds like something really good to do for yourself.)

Aw, thanks Dj.. :)

I'm ok. As you said in Chit Chat, there are negative things that happen everyday. Some are just worse than others.. I just have to buck up, which I think I have done. :D I love that face. LOL

Corinna

Wow corinna buddy.. I didn't know you had your own journal here. If I would have known that I would have started supporting you here right from the start. I hope you are feeling better soon.

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Joanne, where you been woman? I started this on February 26th. :D

Ok, so here we are, Sunday March 11th and what have I done to be proud of myself?

I DID prove to myself that Ann and Jessie truly hate me. I did Firm Cardio and OY! It was a doozy. My arms hurt and my back quads are sore. My abs are better, though.. It's too windy and too bright to go for a walk like I was thinking about and I am at work all day, so I think I will do a stretching workout tonight when I get home, then go de-louse myself. I have decided that if you have to re-check in 7 days, then I will just treat everyone again and that should take care of anything! (I hope!)

Anyhoo, my eating yesterday was *just* within my points. I need to eat less carbs. Have you ever noticed that when you see a person who is regular weight, the eat alot less carbs? That is my problem.. Ugh. I do NOT do lowcarb well but I eat way too many. What is one to do? I did exercise and I did drink my water. Yay Corinna!

I babble alot..

I am really getting into the idea of fixing why I overeat rather than focusing on when I overeat and those choices, since it seems that it is more emotional than about food.

I need a thought of the day.. Hmmmm..

Here is what Tawni Gomes had to say today.. "Let's face it we're all busy. We all have 24 hours in a day, 7 days a
week
it's how we CHOOSE to spend those hours that count.

It's perfectly ok to be frustrated, disappointed or even feel that
everyone else has it easier than you. Ok, now what? Even if that
is true, so what? You are you and we all get to work with what
we have. How can you make things easier for yourself?

What I try and do is learn from the masters! If I admire some quality
about someone else, I really try and study how and what they do
in a certain situation. SUCCESS leaves clues. I've learned not
to reinvent the wheel, just do what works!

Believe that you will come out of any disappointments and frustrations
a better (not bitter) person!"

This is so very true. I choose and I can do this. NO EXCUSES! :)

Corinna

YOU GO GIRL>>> I know you can do this....and I do believe too many carbs can have a bad effect on a person. I know. Some days when I've had over my limit I sure suffer.. And my biggest side effect is GAS>>> rofl..actually just plain bloated feeling and icky and tired.