No more Mondays or tomorrows for me! It's NOW that counts. I'm not putting off until tomorrow (or Monday) what I can do today.
I've been reluctant to start a journal but here I am. It's another step in the commitment to get healthy. I'll come here to pat myself on the back, kick myself, hug myself.....whatever I need to stay focused on my goal.
I bought a treadmill yesterday - another major step in this commitment (and another major step toward depleting my bank account). However, I stopped smoking 3 months ago and the money I've saved on cigarettes is just about as much as the TM cost. What a perfect use for those dollars saved.
So far today, I've had 2 hardboiled eggs and 1/2 of a small, wholewheat pita, a cup of cottage cheese, an apple and two Ryvita crackers. Planning to fix corned beef for dinner...which may not be wise. I'll have to walk a little more.
All for now.
Delph is PROUD!

Congratulations on quitting smoking! and welcome to DT!!
I hope you love your TM as much as I do. It is great, because I LOVE to make excuses not to walk...I'ts too cold out, the snow is too deep, it's raining, it's too hot, blah blah blah... :D
Keep up the great work Delph, you have alot to be proud of!
Lucky %%-

Thanks Lucky!

Exercise today: 37 minutes total in two times on the treadmill
Food total: @1200 calories (tracking on fitday.com)
My challenge: To get to bed without eating anything more
But I'm committed tonight and I think I'll be successful.

:D :D Heya:

Good minds think alike. You know with the names of our journals. I just figured I had put it of enough. That tomorrow was here and it was time.

Thanks for posting in my journal. I will try to get in and post when I can, My mom is coming form Montana Sat. So I will be quite busy. (SHE IS A SPOILED BRAT). I try to keep her that way. We only get to see each other once a year. So I try to give her all the attention I can. She will be 79 so you know, there won't be allot of visits we will have. It is getting hard on her to fly down. Hb and I always fly her down for her B-day. Thats her B-day present.

I am so glad you started Dt. I feel a great friendship starting. I must warn you I am a very moody girl. Somedays are Diamonds and somedays we won't talk about at this time.

As Always Your Bud K.

P.S. Keep fighting the good fight. We will do this!!!!

Hi and :welcome: to DT and to the Journal's forum.

You've taken the first step on your weight loss journey. Be patient with yourself ... and BE KIND TO YOURSELF. Speaking for myself this journey has taught me a great deal ...

I have learned that it takes time and patience to achieve goals ... and I AM WELL WORTH THE TIME AND PATIENCE IT TAKES.

I know you will benefit from your journey to success. Always, Monica

Hi Delph
how is it going with the treadmill.I think it is great giving up smoking and putting the money into good use that way, you can see its worthwhile not smoking anymore.
The only thing most of us can do is try to stay committed each day and chip away at the bad habits exchanging them for habits which are going to give us a better quality of life.
Good luck on your journey.
Take care

Welcome to DT! You're going to really like keeping a journal I think. It's helped me very much - the people here are so thoughtful and caring. :wave:

Hi Kaye, Monica, Ellie and Badger!! Wow! This is so great. I came to my journal at my hardest time of the day and I was greeted by your messages. They took away ALL desire to eat and made me really feel like a part of DT. I've been a little shy about getting started but now I'm HERE and THANK YOU for making me feel so welcome.
I had another good day today:
1480 calories tracked on fitday.com - I've been lighter than usual with carbs for the last two days and I can tell it makes such adifference. I have so much more energy.
2 walks on my treadmill (I LOVE my treadmill) for 1 mile/20 minutes each time.
Actually, I've only done one so far - saving the other one for The Apprentice....due to start in 20 minutes. It's my latest addiction and NOTHING can interfere with it. I should be so serious about my diet!!! And maybe I'm becoming so.
Thank you DT and thank you my new friends.

Hi Delph - welcome aboard! I hope you like to journal here and enjoy your treadmill..

My husband loves the apprentice.. He'd be walking with you, if we had a treadmill. Hehehe

Corinna

Hi Delph.
great job on quitting smoking! how wonderful that the money saved paid for the treadmill :)
I saw on tv here last night that the tv show you mention starts here soon. Australia is always a little behind in getting the US shows...i am a reality tv junkie so no doubt i will be watching!
Keep up the great work and welcome to the journals forum!
hugs bell :)

Hi Corinna and Bell and thanks for visiting my journal. The Apprentice was a bit of a disappointment last night -just a recap of earlier shows. (Oh my....what is my world coming to....I measure my Thursday evenings by who gets fired by Donald Trump!!)
I snacked last night before bedtime.:c( I didn't do a tremendous amount of damage but I ate pretzels when I wasn't hungry. The big thing is that I am trying to break myself of the habit of eating after dinner. It helps to come here and make a commitment not to eat and I'll do that tonight.
Another snowy day in the northeast! I'm coming to the end of my spring break and I still have a long list of things I wanted to get done. One of the big things that I need to do is develop a food plan for the week. I know that planning is critical for me so I'll work on that today. I seem to have lose my creativity when it comes to meals so I'll spend a little time looking at cookbooks today and try to come up with some new ideas.
Till later...

Delph,

I would like to suggest that you plan an after dinner snack that will satisfy the munchies .... for example

Eating raw vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and green pepper .... and you can make a dip using plain nonfat yogurt with salad dressing mix (like Good Season's Italian or Hidden Ranch Blue Cheese)

Or make sliced apples and oranges topped with fruit flavored yogurt ...

Or put a container of Yoplait Light or Dannon Light n Fit in your freezer and get it to the soft freeze stage ... top with bran cereal ..

That way you can snack and not feel as you are doing damage to your weight loss plan. Make it a great day. As always, Monica

Thanks Monica - I bought the yogurt and the dip mix yesterday and I am prepared!
I didn't have such a great day yesterday and when I finally finished recording it all in fitday, I realized why. I ate about 1000 more calories than I should have. Today I have already recorded everything I will eat and I'm going to try to do that for the next few days. My fitday journal is http://www.fitday.com/WebFit/PublicJournals.html?Owner=Emom1
It's a comfortable feeling knowing that my food is all planned for the day and all I have to do is follow the plan. I will take time during today to plan at least two more days.
There is finally sun here in Connecticut. The end of my spring break seems to have coincided with the end of the snow! Hmmmm....doesn't seem quite right! I have two big jobs to finish before going back to work tomorrow: the Income Tax and cleaning out the garage. I don't know which one is worse. Yes, I do. THere's nothing worse than doing the income tax. I'd have someone else do it except that by the time everything is put in order for the person doing it, the worst part of the job is done! May as well save myself a couple of hundred bucks and do it myself.
Here I am blathering on about these awful jobs I have to do....anything to keep from doing them! So ENOUGH! I'm going to work. Well......maybe I'll just walk on my treadmill first.......

:D

Hi Delph.. wow on the quiting smoking! I just gave up coffee and my next adventure is to quit smoking.. I dont want anything hindering my freedom lol
I ran out of coffee during a blizzard thats what helped me quit lol

I like your signature by the way!!

Nice having you at DT..

I didn't see the quitting smoking thing.. Congrats! Sorry about the extra cals. You'll have a better today! Fail to plan then you plan to fail and all that other corny stuff.. Have a great Sunday!

Corinna

Delph? If you were thirsty, what would you do?

You would get something to drink wouldnt you? Your body is talking to you.. But you dont feel guilty when you body gets thirsty do you?

Same with hunger, your body is telling you something.

Hi Delph, Just stop by to welcome you! i wish you all the best on your weight loss journey. Congrats on getting your TM. I am sure you will love it. I like to walk on mine while listening to my oldies cd's. I sing right along with it and my kids walk by and shake there heads,like there she goes trying to sing again. I do sound like a sick dog,but oh well I am enjoying it.
Well keep up the good work ! You have a great start already!

....Your friend .Millie

Here I am - tail between my legs...thinking I'd start a new journal....how 'bout even a new name! A fresh start! But that would be to repeat the past. I've done that before. Start fresh....forget the past. But I have to remember that everything from the past is what leads me to my present. All of this is part of my journey. I can try to hide it, beat myself up over it - and that's been my MO. But for now, I'm just going to embrace my past and throw myself into today!

This morning - a beautiful morning - I am sitting with my journal and planning my meals for the week. That is hard for me.....probably because I'm not very experienced at it!! But I'm not going to do anything else till that is done.

I have to just say this: I feel like I've let down a lot of people. I've posted, made friends, disappeared. I need to remember that by doing that, I'm sending the message that they don't matter to me. And that is so far from the truth of the matter. I don't want to appear that way and I'm going to make every effort not to send that message.....

There - I've put into words one of the things that was bothering me. So I'll go work on that plan now! :o

Way To Go Mary, :up: .... each step will bring you closer to your goal.

You haven't lost us .... we're here for you ..... Make this a great day. Have and make it a fantastic weekend. As always, Monica

Thank you Monica!!! I had a wonderful day yesterday. Ate just what I said I would and no more. I was short on exercise and spent most of the day on the computer. Today and tomorrow are going to be difficult days too because of evening meetings but I've got it all planned.....thanks to you! :)

I am having a great week and it is because I took the time, with a little push, ahem, to plan my food for the whole week. I had never done that. I might have made some notes to myself but this time I really planned my menues and that is what has saved me at my worst time of the day - 4:00 when I start thinking I'm too tired for cooking....I'll just order out. And why not a pizza - and I'll start my diet tomorrow. I should call it my 4:00 refrain because it was daily! Having taken the time on the weekend to plan the week - and to plan for the days that would be the busiest - and then to shop accordingly made all the difference this week. That - plus the Support Group and Monica. I feel like I'm finally on my way. Can't get too confident - but I'm just putting one foot in front of the other and for me, it's one step at a time. I'm tracking my foods on fitday which is so great because I know just exactly where I can add a little something or cut back.
So I'm feeling good today......down 4.5 pounds in the last two weeks.....just got off my treadmill and I'm ready to start my day!!!
Mary

Just stopped by to say YOU'RE DOING :super: terrific .... Keep moving forward THIS IS SOMETHING YOU CAN AND WILL ACHIEVE ... Make it a great day. As always, Monica

Today is my planning day - and not a moment too soon! I slipped a little in my resolve over the last two days and I believe it was because I didn't stick to my plan. Or, I should say, I didn't plan well enough to allow for a little semi-crisis that occurred that threw me off-kilter a bit. However - I tracked it all on Fitday and found that the damage wasn't as bad as I thought.
Peanut butter is my downfall......I should not have it in the house. I think I purposefully chose a recipe that had peanut butter in it......so I COULD have it in the house. It was safe for five days and then I went after it!!!

Back on track today and I'm just getting ready for breakfast with dh. Then more planning. It's a beautiful day here in the Northeast - so much to be thankful for on this lovely day. :)

Mmmmm.. peanut butter.

Maybe you could buy the single serving sizes? I don't know about you.. But when I'm in a rush in the morning and need to go to the gym, I think a pb foldover and a banana is an EXCELLENT breakfast!

Corinna - you've given me a wonderful idea. Perhaps if I have a PLAN for that peanut butter, I will keep myself from getting into it when I shouldn't!! SO.....Breakfast tomorrow will be a peanut butter and banana on a pita! Knowing that I have that to look forward to might just keep me out of it tonight! Thanks!!

Peanut butter is such a glorious thing, one should be allowed it. It's full of the really good fats, so it's a great breakfast food.

My husband spreads like 6 inches on a slice of bread (now that he owns his own house, he spreads it as thick as he wants and when his folks visit, they HAVE to have it that thick and they have to eat it in front of the fridge with the door open).

I'm glad I could help!

Corinna

Mary,

I know you have a food processor .... why not make your own peanut butter .... that way you can regulate the ingredients .... I have made my own peanut butter using roasted peanuts (lol skins and shells removed) using approx 2 teaspoons vegetable oil ... and I use sweetener (instead of sugar) ... you can make it very smooth or crunchy ... just a thought. Make it a great weekend. As always, Monica

I must be in heaven! Two Tablespoons of PB, a banana and an English muffin!!! Glorious is the perfect word to describe my relationship with peanut butter this morning!!!

lol about PB - lol ;)

i too love PB and have found the low calorie and low fat ones to taste pretty good -

PB on a celery stick - now thats yummy! :)

Beth :not:

The fact that I had to go back 5 pages to find my journal might be my first clue as to why I haven't done so well this week. And in looking at my fitday journal, some days only have 800 calories recorded. Hmmmmm.....now is that because I was eating especially light those days? I don't think so!!!
My weight is just where it was last week - so I should be grateful that I'm not up. But I DO need a good swift kick in the ole rear end!
Now - today needs to be my planning and shopping day since I didn't do it yesterday.....(I'm noticing a familiar pattern here...). Gotta get back on track. (I HAVE been faithful with the treadmill this week - every day but one.)
So - for today:
Plan the week
Treadmill
Get caught up with housework so I can stop feeling so guilty
Record EVERYTHING in my fitday journal

Isn't is amazing how quickly we can let just a couple of things slip and then the whole thing snowballs out of control? But look at you!!! You caught yourself! You saw what you were doing in your fitday journal and that you weren't being as diligent with your treadmill as you wanted and you caught yourself! Way to go I say! :jn

I love your planning idea. I'm the same way. If I don't have a plan, I fall into that trap of "I'll just eat something fast/easy now and I'll be good again tomorrow." That's how I got to my heaviest weight. Too many tomorrows. Now I have a plan. What is that saying? Something like, "Fail to plan, and you'll plan to fail." So we need a plan. Mine includes having only healthy food, and plenty of it, around me at work so that I'm not tempted to sneak off and cheat.

BTW, peanut butter doesn't thrill me at all. Maybe I ate too much of it as a kid? But DH has this secret recipe for pb cookies that calls for just eggs/sugar/pb (no flour) that gets me every time. Therefore, pb is no longer allowed in our house! Keep the evil temptation away from me! I'm glad you like it in a more healthy version! :D

Have a great day today! :wave:

This is a wonderful place. Badger, your note to me was just the push I needed. Had a great day yesterday. I feel like I'm back on track. Now - I just wish I could figure out how to post here and have it appear at the end of my journal instead of right smack dab in the middle!!!! :D