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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Healthy Eating Check-in
Sorry for being late today, it was a busy morning. How did everyone do on their weekly goals? Any successes you want to share? What are your goals for this coming week?
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| From December 29, 2011 |
Re: Healthy Eating Check-in
I mostly started my stuff on Monday since with houseguests it was difficult. I have actually been great on calories all week and really pacing myself throughout the day. I hold off on any snack until about 3PM or so which is the time when I pretty much want to eat everything in sight. Luckily my current job has nothing to offer in that dept unless I bring it or want to get in my car.
The eating part where I am struggling is at night. Usually we feed the kids then do bath, and bedtime routine and THEN eat our dinner. It is that waiting period when I am home and there are all these awful kid friendly snacks around that I really just want to eat something. I need to factor in maybe an apple on the way home or something to account for this.
I really need help with the exercise though. Basically I need to get up at 5:30 and do it before the kids get up and I just cannot make myself get up early.
I do this, it's really helpful. It definitely takes the edge off of my hunger and makes me a more pleasant person for the craziness that is getting home, making dinner, feeding family, bath and bedtime.
My goals this past week was to up my water intake (which I was moderately successful at, I have a ways to go) and to actively play with the LOs this past weekend. That I was great at because the weather was so incredibly beautiful. I even taught DD how to play tag and we've been playing it inside after dinner most evenings. Every little bit helps right?
On the eating side, I have a serious sugar addiction from the holidays. This week I am focusing on stepping it down. The holiday goodies are finally out of the house (I threw them away this weekend), I immediately froze the leftover birthday cupcakes from Monday so I would not be tempted by them, and thankfully there are no more Harry and David's gift baskets at work. I do have DS's birthday party on Saturday, so I am aiming to just be reasonable on what I choose to eat.
As to successes, this morning weigh-in put me 2 lbs down from last week. Hopefully the remaining three holiday pounds will come off soon.
I've been tracking in Spark People since Christmas and the scale just isn't budging. (I'm not asking for much-- just a pound to keep me going.) This isn't NEARLY as easy as it was 12 years ago doing WW when I was 23. The weight dropped off, especially the first week. I hate getting old.
I will take comfort in everyone else's success :-)
My Food Blog
I've been on WW since October and I've almost lost 10 lbs (I was at 9.4 at my last weigh in). Yippee! I'm now back to my pre-pregnancy weight which was my first goal. Now I want to lose 5 lb more. I've been doing pretty well in keeping with my points and I worked out on Monday morning and this morning.
One of my goals has been to get better at meal planning. I've stocked the kitchen with a few easy breakfast ideas and last night I made a chicken vegetable soup which will be my lunch until the end of next week. So, I'm feeling pretty good about that.
I do this and it really helps. I have tried various combinations, but what seems to work for me is a fruit (apple or whatever) and a few almonds. If I don't have some kind of protien, it just spins me up a little more!
1) Train for my half-marathon in March
2) Snack less (and eat healthier snacks)
I've been failing miserably at #2, so I really need to focus. I think #1 will be ok, but I need to get my butt in gear and start doing some longer runs starting this weekend.
I have really been trying to eat better (and meal plan) since Thanksgiving and so far, so good. I actually lost 2 pounds over the holidays :-) Besides the meal planning, I have added more fruit and veggies. A big help is that my office now has free, fresh fruit so when I am starving at 3pm- I don't grab junk but pick up a banana or apple or both.
Anyone have any good, easy, middle of the week recipes they want to share?
my DH loves this app: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/
I still havent had any soda for over a week
I still need to work on eliminating fried food. I need to not eat french fries with a hamburger, or eat the tempura when I'm eating sushi, etc. I wanted to make it a once a week but I ended up eating fried food maybe 3-4 times! OMG. Addicted.
This past week I did really well on eating and didn't even drink this weekend as I figured my liver still needed to recover from New Orleans last week. On Monday I started tracking all my food on spark people again and I am down 3 pounds since last week.
Exercise has not gone very well, I am coming down with a cold and 2 months ago I tried to push through it and ended up sick for a month with bronchitis and an infection, so I have been taking it easy this week. We were suppose to start our 1/2 marathon training this week for the R&R National 1/2 in March this week and I was going to start my weight lifting routine. Hopefully this cold blows over quickly...