Wednesday health/fitness check in

[HoneySpider]

How's everyone doing? Successes? Challenges?

I am down a total of 6.2 lbs since the beginning of the year! I finally saw a big drop on the scale and feel that my eating & exercise habits are now being accurately reflected. 

[Skyesthelimit1212]

Good For you HoneySpider! WTG

Not so good today. My social anxiety came out today at the gym. The gym I go to is small considering. The workout area is two rooms, both the size of what you might find at a hotel. So when I came in there were 3 new women. My brain started freaking out, what if I have to wait to use a machine or someone needs to use the one I'm on, what if there aren't any mats left, what happens if I go into the locker room and all the showers are being used (3 showers) and I just couldn't concentrate on my workout. I did 2 sets of abs, and 1min of planking and I had to leave. My food intake today hasn't been bad though, so I'm proud of that.

[travelbug]

Nice work HoneySpider!

Eating has been pretty darn good. My lunches especially! I've been getting into using my new exercise ball I got for Christmas. I've failed doing other things... Bad!

[HoneySpider]

For those who are counting calories/watching your diet - what are some of your favorite places to eat out and be able to stay on track?

[wanderingenough]

I keep typing stuff out and erasing it. It all sounds whiny and I need to be more positive.

Gym tonight and tomorrow and I'll finally be back to my normal >4x/week routine.

[wanderingenough]

HoneySpider - I always feel like I can get a good amount of food within my macros at Qdoba/Chipotle, Panera, etc.

Anywhere I can get them to add protein to a salad is good too - salmon, chicken, etc. A quality salad + meat or fish tastes good with just balsamic vinegar.

[megkat]

I do my "official" weigh ins on Friday- as of today though, the scale hasn't budged since my last weigh in, which is annoying. I have 3.5 more pounds to lose for my diet bet, and I really want to make it. I've been sticking to my calories too, which is frustrating me even more. I keep trying to tell myself that at least it isn't going up! Sometimes my body will hold onto the weight and then I'll have a big loss, so I'm hoping that's what's happening here. I have Zumba tonight too, so I feel good about that.

Also my BFF called me last weekend to tell me she's engaged and asked me to be her MOH- so now I have even more motivation to lose the weight!

[HoneySpider]

Jan 21, 2015 14:12:33 GMT -5 wanderingenough said:

HoneySpider - I always feel like I can get a good amount of food within my macros at Qdoba/Chipotle, Panera, etc.

Anywhere I can get them to add protein to a salad is good too - salmon, chicken, etc. A quality salad + meat or fish tastes good with just balsamic vinegar.

We ate at Au Bon Pain today and I did the make your own salad option which was pretty good. There's a Chipotle right across from it so I might have to look into that for our next lunch date.

[megkat]

For chain places, Panera or Subway are my go-to's. If I'm going to a sit down place, I like Applebee's, Red Lobster or Longhorn Steakhouse. Oh, and I can usually do ok at Moe's

For local places, there's a great Thai restaurant down the road from me, and I can always find something there that seems reasonable healthy. I also think Chinese food is pretty easy to customize and keep somewhat healthy.

[HoneySpider]

megkat I would not be able to go to Red Lobster without devouring at least 3 biscuits. I have no self control.

[Skyesthelimit1212]

I've done WW for so long that if I go out to eat I just try to find the find a healthy item on the menu, try to get veggies or a baked potato instead of fries or rice.

[luv2rn4fun]

I'm within 10 lbs of my pee-pg weight! I have somehow managed to exercise every day (including 4 runs since last thurs). Diet wise...it's not horrible but I'm not keeping track since it's always "I have 5 min to eat, let's get something (already cooked) fast"

[HoneySpider]

luv2rn4fun nice job on getting the exercise in, I'm impressed!

[Deleted]

I'm getting much better with my eating and working out. I've been eating 80% clean. I've been getting a minimum of 30 minutes of exercise 5 days a week.

I am starting to feel pretty darn good. I have more energy.

[luv2rn4fun]

jjwritergirl- we have ZERO routine! I have tried but it's not realistic yet. We'll get there. But, getting outside is a must; otherwise, I tend to get down and go nuts.

[travelbug]

luv2rn4fun I'm SO impressed! Go you

[Deleted]

jjwritergirl no. I bring all my food with me to work. I also keep a Lara bar in my pocket so if we are busy I have something to eat that is a better choice then fast food. DH is starting to complain less about the cleaner meals I am making. He really enjoyed the chili I made today.

I'm really missing my wine though. Only 19 more days to reach my wineless goal lol.

[megkat]

Jan 21, 2015 14:18:20 GMT -5 HoneySpider said:

megkat I would not be able to go to Red Lobster without devouring at least 3 biscuits. I have no self control.

Yeah, that's always the tough part! I try to limit myself to one, but sometimes an extra one sneaks in

[grover]

I avoided RL for months because at a visit last year I choked on one. We just went back over winter break for the first time in a long time. Then I only ate like one or one and a half.


Been tracking every weekday on MFP and hitting my step goal most days. I had 60,000 steps for the last 7 days, so just 10k short of my 70,000 weekly goal. I made frosted sugar cookies for work, and I only had two out of the batch. That is good because I had eaten pretty much every single extra cookie at Christmas time.

Today is CD1 so now I want to eat all the chocolate and drink all the Dew. I will settle for one extra Dew tonight and an orange creamsicle (though I really really want chocolate but have none in the house).

[estrellita]

I haven't been doing as great this week. I've been having donuts as a snack at night, haha. Seriously though, I checked the label and they DO fit into my carb guidelines, but really, we just shouldn't have bought them. I also had a high reading for lunch today (was experimenting with getting a teriyaki chicken bowl that I haven't had in forever.. nope! Bad idea!) and then proceeded to have some ice cream at an event that was going on at my work today (although I was "good" and didn't put as much chocolate/sprinkles on as I would have liked!). Tomorrow we have a pizza lunch/meeting so I decided I don't want to starve myself and I'm going to have 2 pieces unless they have something non-carbs on the side. I probably won't test anyways because I'll be stuck in this meeting. Sigh. Not to mention I haven't been super active because I've been so damn tired. I purposely didn't change into PJs when I got home so I can maybe motivate myself to walk after dinner tonight. Other than that lunch number, they've all been good though, so I just need to keep myself on track and stop straying! I'm measuring a week behind now so hopefully next week I'm not like a week ahead or something, haha.

[mac08]

Well, I have lost 4 lbs since Jan 5, so that is something.  But I haven't been doing too well sticking to my diet and I haven't worked out at all.  I really need to get myself in gear!

[estrellita]

Woot, I kept myself motivated enough to walk tonight Only did 15 min though (wanted to do 20) because I was getting a slight pain in my side, but it's better than nothing!

[jennybee1018]

I'm jumping in a few days late :-)

I'm down about 4 pounds since the beginning of the year! Christmas plus lots of eating out at work with no exercise has been a bad combo.

Luckily I'm back on track - I do morning workouts with some friends (circuit raining) 3 days a week, and I teach Zumba 3 days a week, so the scale should keep moving down.

I'll be eating out every day this week since we have a work visitor but I'm going to try & stick to light apps, mezze platters, etc. so hopefully I'll at least maintain this week!!