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Aim for this week: Made the Grade/Over, but okay/Maintenance /Over Maintenance

 

March 08 to March 14 2010

 

Day	Target	Actual	Summary	Burn	Deficit
Mon	1500	1928	Ok eats. 30 min cardio. Cooked a bit.	2820	892
Tue	1500	1224	Sick in bed all day.	2290	1066
Wed	1500	1612	Ditto. In bed most of the day.	2290	678
Thu	1800	1920	Work kicked my bum, but it’s good. :)	3630	1710
Fri	1500	1500	4.5 hours of cleaning. Yay burn!	3250	1750
Sat	1800	2662	8.45 hours of work. UBER busy. Damn.	4720	2058
Sun	1500	1580	Lazy day, but that’s okay.	2280	700

 

Thoughts: I’m totally kicking butt this month. May it continue until at LEAST the 31^st.  

 

This week:

 

Did I get 30 + minutes of exercise 5 days this week? Only 4 days, but def. got plenty. 

Did I eat relatively healthy? Yes.

Did I keep my “free” day around maintenance calories? Yes.  

Did I binge? No!

Aim for this week: Made the Grade/Over, but okay/Maintenance /Over Maintenance

 

March 01 to March 07 2010

 

Day	Target	Actual	Summary	Burn	Deficit
Mon	1500	1725	Exercised & did light cleaning. Ate well.	2840	1115
Tue	1500	1485	Walked & did light cleaning. Ok eats.	2770	1285
Wed	1500	1944	Exercised despite head cold. Go me.	2820	876
Thu	1800	2177	Worked an extra hour. Nice burn.	3710	1533
Fri	1500	1520	Walked 2.5 miles. Shopping. Playground.	2960	1441
Sat	1800	2550	Stupid beer consumption. Hooray work.	3820	1270
Sun	1500	1287	Took it easy today. Good week, though.	2290	1003

 

Thoughts:  I don’t know how many times I’ve said this since I started counting, but I really, REALLY want to have as close to a “perfect” month as humanly possible. I’m totally going for it. I have to try and make up for my dismal performance in February. Here we go! I’m actually excited. Hope I can keep this level of enthusiasm up for 31 days. ONE DAY AT A TIME! Additional: I think I can consider week one a total success. Even though my beer consumption Sat. was a bit ridiculous. I think I’m going to take the rest of the month off from beer. We’ll see. With two more gig nights this month not sure I’ll make it, but I might try.

 

This week:

 

Did I get 30 + minutes of exercise 5 days this week? Yes. (Got in 5 hours total, not to mention work days.)

Did I eat relatively healthy? Yes.

Did I keep my “free” day around maintenance calories? Yes.  

Did I binge? No!

I don't know how many times I've said this since I started counting back in '09... And it hasn't happened, yet... BUT... I am going to TRY and have a really great (as close to perfect) month as I can concerning food. I CAN DO THIS. I need to do this. It's time to have 31 days straight of perfect (or near perfect) behavior. Life happens, but it's time to ditch the excuses and just DO this thing.

Goals for March:

1. Having as close to a perfect month as humanly possible

2. Doing actual work-outs/walks at least 5 days a week.

3. Eat as "clean" as I can do.

4. Get my water drank, every single day.

5. NO BINGING.

6. No more then 4 (FOUR) maintenance days.

7. NO DAYS OVER MAINTENANCE. None. Zero. Zilch.

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Dear Self; 

I'm trying so hard to love you, but it's hard when you can't keep dedicated to something you say you want so badly. You have to prove to (and to you) that you can really, really behave and DO this thing. You've had very few months that you can look me in the eye and honestly tell me that you're proud of your progress. "2010 is going to be different", you said. The only way it's going to be different is if you MAKE it different. Get your head out of your arse and GET this thing. You know WHAT to do, so it's TIME to just bloody well do it. I'll help you along,. Just promise me that you're really going to get your ish together. Starting NOW. Okay?

Cheers and love...
Me 

Aim for this week: Made the Grade/Over, but okay/Maintenance /Over Maintenance

 

February 22nd to February 28^thd

 

Day	Target	Actual	Summary	Burn	Deficit
Mon	1500	1520	Not too bad, had a wonderful dinner.	2590	1070
Tue	1500	1900	Moved a bit today. Ate okay.	2700	800
Wed	1500	1457	A genuinely good food day. Moved, too.	2740	1283
Thu	1700	2088	Also a genuinely good food day. Work. :)	3560	1472
Fri	1500	2259	Moved some, but bit heavy on the eats.	2680	420
Sat	1500	****	Exercised. But went crazy w/beer, etc.	2670	****
Sun	1500	1286	Good food day, but lazy.	2300	1014

 

Thoughts: Really hoping to do well this week. Not promising anything, but would almost like to shoot for 1200 calories “fast” days and see if I can’t get a FEW pounds off. If I move at least 1-2 hours around the house 1500 is okay. Otherwise, 1200. We’ll see. :) Here we go!  

 

This week:

 

Did I get 30 + minutes of exercise 5 days this week? Yes.

Did I eat relatively healthy? Yes.

Did I keep my “free” day around maintenance calories? Yes.  

Did I binge? No!

Aim for this week: Made the Grade/Over, but okay/Maintenance /Over Maintenance

 

February 22nd to February 28^thd

 

Day	Target	Actual	Summary	Burn	Deficit
Mon	1500	1520	Not too bad, had a wonderful dinner.	2590	1070
Tue	1500	1900	Moved a bit today. Ate okay.	2700	800
Wed	1500	1457	A genuinely good food day. Moved, too.	2740	1283
Thu	1700	2088	Also a genuinely good food day. Work. :)	3560	1472
Fri	1500	2259	Moved some, but bit heavy on the eats.	2680	420
Sat	1500	****	Exercised. But went crazy w/beer, etc.	2670	****
Sun	1500	1286	Good food day, but lazy.	2300	1014

 

Thoughts: Really hoping to do well this week. Not promising anything, but would almost like to shoot for 1200 calories “fast” days and see if I can’t get a FEW pounds off. If I move at least 1-2 hours around the house 1500 is okay. Otherwise, 1200. We’ll see. :) Here we go!  

 

This week:

 

Did I get 30 + minutes of exercise 5 days this week? Yes.

Did I eat relatively healthy? Yes.

Did I keep my “free” day around maintenance calories? Yes.  

Did I binge? No!

Aim for this week: Made the Grade/Over, but okay/Maintenance /Over Maintenance

 

February 15^th to February 21^st

 

Day	Target	Actual	Summary	Burn	Deficit
Mon	1500	1623	Didn’t move a lot.	2450	823
Tue	1500	2007	Allowed a Main. Day. Sick and hungry.	2300	293
Wed	1500	2016	Slept all Day. Ate Jimmy John’s. Darn.	2300	284
Thu	1700	2768	Work Day. Hooray. :)	3760	992
Fri	1500	1559	Not bad.	2500	941
Sat	1500	****	No count day, but maybe ‘round main ?	****	****
Sun	1500	1156	An okay day.	2500	1344

 

Thoughts: Sick. AGAIN. Getting tired of all this. It needs to be spring, ASAP. Haven’t been moving, much. Just trying to rest. And not being totally crazy with eats, but, being ill I can’t be arsed too much to be honest. Lots of pre-packaged stuff (Lean Cuisine, etc.) and not getting as many fluids as I prolly need to flush out the salt, so expecting a bit of bloat on weigh-in day. Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised. Maybe not. We’ll see. :) Next week WILL be better.

 

*Next week MUST be better. I’m not too proud of myself this week. Slowly starting to feel better. I hope I can rock NEXT week OUT. Totally. So that I can report some sort of loss for this month. So far, not much of nothin’. And I've GOT to start getting more sleep. Last few days have been ridiculous. Let's get it on!! 

Aim for this week: Made the Grade/Over, but okay/Maintenance /Over Maintenance

 

February 8^th to February 14^th

 

Day	Target	Actual	Summary	Burn	Deficit
Mon	1500	1403	Good eats. Moved a little.	2640	1237
Tue	1500	1710	Casa Ramos Night. Went shopping.	2710	1000
Wed	1500	1375	A bit lazy today, but did some things.	2590	1215
Thu	1700	1917	Work Day #1. Yay!!	3630	1713
Fri	1700	2511	Work Day #2. Ate like a pig. Still okay.	3650	1139
Sat	1500	2356	At maintenance. That’s okay. :)	2550	194
Sun	1500	1660	A decent food day.	2500	840

 

Thoughts: Since week one of February was kind of flaky, I really want to rock out the rest of the month. I’m kind of excited, ‘cause I usually do okay on work days, and I have TWO days of work this week, so that should almost guarantee a kick-arse week. Yay!!  Actually, if every week ended up looking like this one, I’d be in tall cotton. Here’s to the rest of the month being decent.

Kind of lost track of some days, but here's most of the week...

Aim for this week: Made the Grade/Over, but okay/Maintenance /Over Maintenance

 

February 1^st to February 7^th

 

Day	Target	Actual	Summary	Burn	Deficit
Mon	1500	1535	Still sickly. Didn’t eat healthy.	2310	775
Tue	1500	1362	Feeling better, still craving comfort food.	2630	1268
Wed	1500	2292	Still eating “whatever”.	2310	18
Thu	1700	1324	Didn’t work today. Ate better.	2700	1376
Fri	1500	****	I don’t really know. Think close to main.	****	****
Sat	1500		I don’t know. Not too bad, but didn’t log
Sun	1500	****	Beer. Prolly over Maintenance

 

Thoughts: Despite dabbling with this thing for over a year, I’ve still never had a 10 lb loss month. Maybe I never will, but I’d sure like to TRY. One (almost) perfect month. Just to prove I can do it. We do have the dart tournament Sunday, so I know that’ll be a little crazy, but if that (could) be my ONLY red day… That would be brilliant. And I’ve got a deal going with Brit. So there you go. BUT, I’ve also been sick, so this first week I’ve been eating pretty much “whatever.” My month might have to be March. :)  

Aim for this week: Made the Grade/Over, but okay/Maintenance /Over Maintenance

 

January 25 to January 32

 

Day	Target	Actual	Summary	Burn	Deficit
Mon	1500	2338	At least it wasn’t a “red” day. :)	2650	312
Tue	1500	2300	Gotta blow out the rest of the week.	2590	290
Wed	1500	2231	Fairly busy day. Mini Binge. :(	2880	649
Thu	1700	1800	I love Thursdays.	3750	1950
Fri	1500	2300	Mini-Binge. Not too bad.	2970	670
Sat	1500	----	So sick. Didn’t Eat.	----	----
Sun	1500	----	Ditto.	----	----

 

Thoughts: Not my best week. Got sick at the end and didn’t eat for two or more days. Still, not a horrible week. Moved a bit, every day (except sick days.)…

Lost 7 lbs in January. Not too shabby at all.

This week:

 

Did I get 30 + minutes of exercise 5 days this week? Yes.

Did I eat relatively healthy? Sort Of.

Did I keep my “free” day around maintenance calories? Yes.

Did I binge? Mini-Binge. Didn’t get too out of hand.  

 

Aim for this week: Made the Grade/Over, but okay/Maintenance /Over Maintenance

 

January 11 to January 17

 

Day	Target	Actual	Summary	Burn	Deficit
Mon	1400	3144	This is ridiculous. Must do better.	2900	****
Tue	1400	1591	MUCH better rest of the month, I hope.	2820	1229
Wed	1400	1412	Good, good. Keep it up, girl!	2650	1238
Thu	1700	1720	Yay for work days. :) Go me.	3640	1920
Fri	1400	1671	Allowed myself an “okay” def day.	2310	639
Sat	1400	2271	Not too Shabby, considering.	2510	239
Sun	1400	1768	Good Healthy Eats Day. :)	2650	882

 

Thoughts: Feel like I’ve been off the wagon, forever. (It’s only been a few days, but still too many.) Need to get back on track, and STAY on track for the rest of this month. I’m going to try and keep around 1400 for the week. Maybe “make up” for last week a bit. We’ll see. If my deficit is still good, that’ll be okay. It’s frustrating that even if I green or blue out the rest of the month that I’ve still had FIVE over maintenance days and THREE maintain days. Means I basically blew a whole week. (And that’s IF I can behave the next two weeks.) BUT it could be so much worse. Onward to February!!   

 

This week:

 

Did I get 30 + minutes of exercise 5 days this week?  Yes.

Did I eat relatively healthy? Yes.

Did I keep my “free” day around maintenance calories? No. :(  

Did I binge? NO!