Daily Weigh In: 194.8

Nutrition
- lf cc
- lf cc
- hummus & raw broccoli
- boca chili w/extra black beans, sour cream and shredded cheese
- cherry tomatoes w/wedge of laughing cow cheese
- organic burger w/veggie cheese, vine tomato

Water
3 liters

Vitamins/Supplements
Check

Training
30 mins elliptical - 2.19 miles
15 mins treadmill - .85 miles (5 min run/10 min walk)

Total cardio mins: 45
Total miles: 3.04

15 mins weights - Buns

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Wednesday is my official "rest day". What it really means no Golds but I do weights, ab work. Sunday is also my "rest" day. But a more sadistic kinda rest...

"People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else." - Unknown

• Walk and run 250 miles (20.8 miles per week in 12 weeks)

Week 1: 17.32
Week 2: 11.21
Week 3: 16.59
Miles to go: 204.88

Daily Weigh In: 195.4

Nutrition
- lf cc
- pancakes! psych! I started phase one of south beach today silly geese, it was flaxseed "pancakes" which actually looked like an omlette w/bits of grain in it
- celery w/hummus & wedge of laughing cow cheese
- boca chili w/extra black beans, sour cream and shredded cheese
- organic burger w/veggie cheese, vine tomato
- peanut butter cup...gotcha again! sugar free fudgsicle, natty pb topped w/cool whip

Water
4 liters

Vitamins/Supplements
Check

Training
22 mins recumbent bike - 8.04 miles
22 mins stationary bike - 7.92 miles
2 mins stairclimber - .19 miles/9 flights
22 mins elliptical - 1.6 miles
22 mins treadmill - 1.3 miles (5 min run/17 min walk)

Total cardio mins: 90
Total miles: 19.05

15 mins weights - Arms + 17 reps front raises & hammer curls, 10 reps shoulder raises & reverse bicep curls

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Gym day, it's like Christmas...in hell.

195.4lbs

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton

Daily Weigh In: 196

Nutrition
- pancakes, eggs, bacon, oj
- chicken sandwich, fries
- chocolate frap

Water
- 1.5 liters

Vitamins/Supplements
Check

Training
45 mins elliptical - 2.97 miles

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From the minute I left the gym I so did not want to go to today, I was out the rest of the day. Just getting back in. All of my eats was on the road, which I already knew. Hence the reason for the teeny bit of water, I don't count the frap towards my daily liquid consumption.

On a brighter note, grocery shopping for the upcoming week has been completed. (you can hear the gory deets on the podcast)

On a scary note, I think my camper from last week thinks Camp Renee is still in session. Oy yoy yoy!

Thank you Jeebus for the rain, but can you lay off on the thunder [small voice] and the lightning too?

PS for Elle: You didn't leave your email address so I can't reply directly. The charts and graphs you see are my own creation. I'm a web designer and do this for fun. Glad you like it and thanks for the compliments.

Two weeks ago I launched featured food friday: summer edition, w/my fave color, Red. This week is a color I rarely pay attention too...Blue.

Why Blue is Good
Fruits such as blueberries and plums contain phytochemicals, including anthocyanins and phenolics. Phytochemicals, substances found only in plants, may help your body fight disease and promote good health.

Daily Weigh In: 196.2 a gain again...get it? lest I go batshit crazy...I must . Besides, aren't I s'posed to be f.a.t. lbs?

Nutrition
- fiber 1, cheerios, vanilla soy milk, raisins
- cheerios, vanilla soy milk
- spaghetti, garlic bread, lasagna w/meat sauce, lemonade

Water
- 2 liters

Vitamins/Supplements
Check

Training
No workout

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To paraphrase one of my favorite quotes, when it becomes more difficult to suffer than change, one'll change.

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Since forever I tend to be all about doing things the pure way. Well some things. I think it's cuz I don't know how to ask for help, so I don't know how to accept help and have been let down and abandoned way too many times to count, I just walled up. I feel like I'll be a failure if I don't "man up" and do the weight loss thing the real way, eat less+move more. Rather than use certain tools that are proven to work, I harbor a dream in 6-12 months I can look back and say, "Voila, I did it the old fashion way." [insert self-satisfied smirk]

But you know what? Today is 6-12 months from summer of 05/early 06. Guess what the old fashion way has netted me. I mean it. Guess.

Ding ding ding ding!!

MORE EFFING LBS!!!

14 more lbs than the start of the year and don't make me dig thru the archives to find the stats from last summer.

I sit here feeling all superior that I'm "keeping it real" while I'm utterly repulsed I can feel flab under my arm pits. And when I lean forward to get my water bottle, the rolls on the side of my tummy crease up and move.

To hell w/keeping it real. I did it that way for many years and my ass kept getting real fat.

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Yesterday was trick #1. Today is trick #2.

"When solving problem, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

Daily Weigh In: 195.6

Nutrition
- fiber 1, cheerios, raisins, soy milk
- turkey sammich w/all the fixin's & raw veggies
- plain turkey & cheese on rye
- vanilla soy milk
- burger w/veggie cheese on ww tortilla and a bit of A1, corn on the cob w/ICBINB
- fruit leather

Water
3.5 liters

Vitamins/Supplements
Check

Training
30 mins elliptical - 2 miles

15 mins weights - Buns
15 mins weights - Arms

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Wow. Just. Wow.

Before I call uncle, I have 2 more tricks up my sleeve. *sigh*

Stay tuned...

"Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them." – Elbert Hubbard

Daily Weigh In: 194.8

Nutrition
- fiber 1, cheerios, raisins, vanilla soy milk
- walnuts
- swt po'-tah-toe w/lf cc & pineapple
- peach
- turkey sammich & raw sides (same as yesterday)
- strawberry flavored fruit leather
- slice of german chocolate cake w/frosting (durn my aunt!)

Water
3.5 liters

Vitamins/Supplements
Check

Training
Rest day. Hooray...Hoorah...Huzzah!

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For a long time I've had trouble sleeping. Back @ my old apartment, it was mainly due to what I was sleeping on. Let's just say it wasn't a bed. So every turn, I'd wake up and before long I perfected the art of sleeping perfectly still, on one side, for the entire night. When I went to visit my mom and slept in a *gasp* real bed, I slept like a log, but also didn't move.

Knowing I was moving and would have a bed and stuff, I made a conscious decision to make my space as peaceful as possible. First on the agenda, no sleeping w/the TV on.

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience." – Henry Miller

Daily Weigh In: 194.8

Nutrition
- fiber 1, cheerios, raisins, vanilla soy milk
- turkey sammich: smoked turkey breast, sliced veggie cheese, mayo, dijon mustard, spinach leaves & tomato on seeded rye bread. carrots & broccoli w/ranch dressing
- 2 slices pineapple
- peach
- chocolate soy milk
- burger w/veggie cheese & mushrooms sauteed w/A1 on a ww tortilla & corn on the cob w/ICBINB
- 2 sno-cream pops (it's hot as hades in the atl)

Water
4 liters

Vitamins/Supplements
Check

Training
45 mins elliptical - 3.31 miles
45 mins treadmill - 2.62 miles

Total cardio mins: 90
Total miles: 5.93

15 mins weights - Buns

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A group led by Cornell University marketing professor Brian Wansink looked at the eating habits of thousands of people and concluded the craving for something sweet spans both candy and fruit. The study published in the journal Appetite found people who eat candy, cakes and other sweet snacks eat more fruit than people who prefer salty snacks like nuts and chips.

"I think it shows there is some hope for the typical dieter," he said. "... Maybe you're not just a sugar-eating machine — that there are some redeeming traits to your diet." [source]

I have a terrible sweet tooth. The healthier/blander my food is, the stronger the urge is to have something sweet to cut the taste. And by bland, I don't mean horrible, I enjoy what I'm eating.

Like last night's dinner, bun-less burger. I meant to eat it w/a ww tortilla. Went so far as to put it on the plate, but for some reason, never touched it. I also skipped the condiments, mayo/mustard/ketchup. Matter of fact didn't even use season salt/hamburger seasoning/Worcestershire sauce or A1 and it was still pretty damn delish.

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Weigh In: 195.8

Nutrition
- blueberries w/non-fat plain yogurt
- swt potato w/lf cc
- 2 slices rye bread (w/seeds) w/natty pb
- blueberries w/non-fat plain yogurt (yes again!)
- plum
- vanilla soy milk
- swt potato w/bit of maple syrup, pineapples & raisins w/plain hamburger
- mango flavored fruit leather

Water
3.5 liters

Vitamins/Supplements
Check

Training
45 mins elliptical - 3.09 miles
45 mins treadmill - 2.6 miles

Total cardio mins: 90
Total miles: 5.69

15 mins weights - Arms

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Whatta weekend.

Friday night, took my godson to go see Monster House, GREAT MOVIE by the way. He liked it too. So much so, he wants to go see it again, in 3-D. Oy.

Saturday, spent most of the early evening riding my new mountain bike up and down the cul-de-sac. My girly bits are still throbbing. I haven't ridden a real bike since, um, high school. The entrance of the subdivision is weird. It goes down hill for a bit then sharply up hill. So we rode to the front, I'm all wobbly, he's all speedy. Then turn around and after two pedals, the bike took off.

• Walk and run 250 miles (20.8 miles per week in 12 weeks)

Week 1: 17.32
Week 2: 11.21
Miles to go: 221.47

Daily Weigh In: 194.6

Nutrition
- plum
- pancakes & eggs w/bacon, oj

Water
1 liter

Vitamins/Supplements
Check

Training
TBD

194.6lbs

Daily Weigh In: 195.6

Nutrition
- pancakes & eggs w/bacon, oj
- 3 bananas
- eggs on cinamon raisin bread w/slice of veggie cheese and turkey breast
- ginger slices
- 2 sno cream pops

Water
2.5 liters

Vitamins/Supplements
Check

Training
Nothing formal. Rode my mountain bike up and down the cul-de-sac w/my godson for about 30-45 mins

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Back dating this post.

Daily Weigh In: 194.6

Nutrition (ate on the road today)
- eggs, bacon, toast, potatoes
- burger w/grilled onions (ketchup, mustard, mayo) small fries & small coke

Water
1 liter

Vitamins/Supplements
Check

Training
None today, was on the road, all food plans were shot and going out later tonight. It's almost 6 and I'm still not hungry. Didn't eat a lot, kept portions low and other than the coke, my first soft drink in almost a month, opted for water instead of juice. Consumed a bit of condiments I normally don't like salt and pepper and grape jelly. One would think on a day like today, considering what I vented early in the AM, I'd be a goody-two-shoes all day. One would think.

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This has been a rough week. When sleepless nights and the heat keep weren't keeping me up, a pain poked in my chest, anxiety. The heat didn't help either. Overall I'm just feeling blah.

Weighing in daily during times like this sux too. I wish some of my thoughts weren't ones of utter frustration. Like...

"The only difference between stumbling blocks and steppingstones is the way in which we use them." - Unknown

Daily Weigh In: 194.8

Nutrition
- banana
- fiber one, cheerios, raisins, soy milk
- tuna melt on wheat w/baked lays
- snicker bar
- chocolate soy milk *yum*
- corn, burger w/slice of veggie cheese on cinamon raisin bread w/mayo, mustard & ketchup
- snow cream pop
- 3 shortbread cookies

Water
3 liters

Vitamins/Supplements
Check

Training
40 mins elliptical - 2.69 miles
20 mins treadmill - 1.16 miles

Total cardio mins: 60
Total miles: 3.8

15 mins weights - Legs

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Another upward tick, and it's up from last week too, coinky dink 7 days after I pondered carb bloat and figured it'd take 7 days to show a gain.

"It is easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own." – Jessamyn West

Daily Weigh In: 194

Nutrition*
- fiber one, cheerios, raisins, soy milk
- walnuts
- plain non-fat yogurt, lf cc, blueberries, blackberries, carrots, cauliflower w/ranch dressing
- natty pb w/crackers
- 4 baby-sized baby ruths (I think its the hormones)
- 2 veggie cheese sandwiches on cinamon raisin bread
- snow cream ice pop

Water
3 liters

Vitamins/Supplements
Check

Training*
Rest Day.

*When it's hot, I nosh. Plain and simple. No cooking, nothing heavy, small lite finger food. Factor in that I'm beat and conked out napping earlier I woke up a bit more hungry than usual. Bah. Not throwing in the towel for the rest of this week, but gonna play it by ear. I want to get in 2 more cardio sessions this week and @ least do lower body and abs else I end up being all lopsided @ the end of this challenge :\

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As you can tell from this AM's quote I'm debating whether or not to rest today since it's my official day and all. Thinking Sunday was rest day, and seeing a slight upward tick in the daily weigh in makes me feel like no.

But...

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid

Daily Weigh In: 193.4

Nutrition
- fiber one, cheerios, raisins, soy milk
- plum, walnuts, natty pb
- soy burger w/veggie cheese, raw broccoli, celery & carrots w/ranch dressing
- snickers bar
- plum
- vanilla soy milk
- swt potato, lf cc, pineapple, raisins
- snow cream bar 2 "baby-sized" baby ruths

Water
4 liters + 1 cup o' green tea

Vitamins/Supplements
Check

Training
30 mins elliptical - 1.74 miles
30 mins treadmill - 2.06 miles

Total cardio mins: 60
Total miles: 3.8

15 mins weights - Arms

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Yesterday AM I woke up and my throat was so parched it hurt to swallow. Not sure why, I got plenty of water Sunday. Who knows...I may have sweated it out during the night. To be safe I guzzled an extra liter. This morning it felt smooth as silk.

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"Your three best doctors are faith, time, and patience." - Fortune Cookie

Daily Weigh In: 194.6

Nutrition
- fiber one, cheerios, banana, soy milk
- buckwheat pancake w/natty pb
- chicken breast, buckwheat pancake w/syrup, broccoli
- 2 plums
- 2 egg & cheese sammichs on toasted cinamon raisin bread
- 2 ice cream pops, 1 soy fudgscicle (30 cals) 1 snowcream (100 cals)

Water
5 liters

Vitamins/Supplements
Check

Training
30 mins elliptical - 1.83 miles
30 mins treadmill - 1.73 miles

Total cardio mins: 60
Total miles: 3.56

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Times like this is where paranoia sets in. I mean yesterday's official weigh-in loss may have been reason to whoop it up, but I didn't. Today's upward motion makes my brain race...

"Maybe I should've went to Gold's after all"

"Why oh why did I eat potato salad and dinner roll as my last meal?!?!?"

"Is this carb bloat?"

"Did I drink enough water?"

"Man I haven't been to the gym since Saturday AM. Feels like forever. Is this the start of a not-going-to-the-gym streak?"

And on and on and on...

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying." – Friedrich Nietzsche

To keep the goals I'm working on accomplishing during Quater 3, each week I'll post a status report of how I'm doing to date.

There is only 1 stat I can track weekly, miles, the others get updated monthly. I do this so that unlike Q1 and Q2 where I posted the goals and didn't look @ them again till the end of the quarter. This way, on a weekly basis, I keep myself mindful of what I'm trying to do.

• Walk and run 250 miles (20.8 miles per week in 12 weeks)

Week 1: 17.32
Miles to go: 232.68

Daily Weigh In: 193.8

Nutrition
- 2 (homemade! and by homemade, I mean memade) buckwheat pancakes (1 had raisins) & maple syrup
- Leftovers: chicken leg & breast, dinner roll, salad w/ranch dressing, potato salad
- slice of carrot cake
- potato salad & dinner roll

Water
3 liters

Vitamins/Supplements
Check

Training
None today, spent the entire day getting room cleaned up, vacuuming, organizing, etc

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I tend to be cryptic when I write so the first part of yesterdays post may cause some to say WTF? I posted something, in the heat of emotion, and later in the day removed it.

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Slept like a log last nite. Sorta. I did wake up and put on the fan which in the dark of nite does NOT whisper as the directions stated. However, it lulled me to sleep. So much so that my alarm was going off for 4 mins before I heard it. Usually I hear the computer rev up, which wakes me up, before the alarms starts to chirp.

193.8lbs

It's been many moons since I dusted off this chart.

Ahh...my fave time of the week, # crunching. I swear in my 2nd life I was an accountant. Below the fold I'm going to list out mins spent sweating, miles clocked (not including biking) & water drank. It's enough to make any OCD person downright orgasmic

Determination

"What we hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence." - Anonymous

Daily Weigh In: 194.6

Nutrition
- banana & protein shake
- south beach diet pizza - deluxe
- 5 shortbread cookies
- **salad w/ranch dressing, 2 dinner rolls w/ICBINB spray, potato salad, ½ swt potato, baked chicken (leg & 2 wings)

(**You can hear the sordid details via the podcast)

Water
3 liters

Vitamins/Supplements
Check

Training
25 mins recumbent bike - 8.66 miles
25 mins elliptical - 1.68 miles
1:30 mins stairclimber
25 mins treadmill - 1.12 miles

Total cardio mins: 75
Total miles: 11.46

15 mins weights - Legs

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Don't mind me, I'm bitter and whiny today.

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Spent most of yesterday evening doing errands to free up my AM today. Hence no getting my $'s worth @ Golds. Sadly, I don't think driving from shopping center to shopping center counts as a full work out. Were that it did though, were that it did.

Got my food shopping done, super excited about next weeks menu.

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I don't really consider Friday a total loss. Shure there is a "gain" from yesterdays weigh-in, but barring me falling face first into a vat of ice cream today, I'm still trending towards a 1lb loss for tomorrows weekly weigh-in.

"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone." – Orison Swett Marden

For the next 5 Fridays this summer, I'm going to hijack the regularly posted, featured food, and focus on foods by color. I got the idea a few weeks back via the CDC site. Since then, I aim to have @ least one color represented in my daily eats. Each week, I'll highlight the color that got the most attention from me, this week it was my favorite color, Red.

Why Red is Good
When you add deep reds or bright pinks to your daily diet, you are also adding a powerful antioxidant called lycopene. Lycopene is found in tomatoes, red and pink grapefruit, watermelon, papaya and guava. Diets rich in lycopene are being studied for their ability to fight heart disease and some cancers.

Daily Weigh In: 193.4

Nutrition
- Breakfast: Soy Milk, Fiber One, Raisins, Banana
- toasted low-carb pita w/natty pb and 'nana
- 2 plums
- milk chocolate hershey bar
- 'nana
- Din Din: 1/4 - 1/2 of General Tso's Chicken, fried rice, 1/4 egg roll

Water – 2 liters + 20 oz

Vitamins/Supplements - Check

Training
Missed - ended up taking a 4 ½ hour detour in running errands...hence the chocolate bar and takeout dinner. Also went grocery shopping on an empty stomach. Still did good, went a bit nuts in the organic section and still *grits teeth* ended up spending $50 when my goal was to pick up no more than $15 worth of stuff...hunger made me by more. Even the things I bought, considering what I could've been tempted by, were pretty ok. 100 calorie ice cream pops and 30 calorie tofu pops, vs. decadant ice cream bars. Or lean hormone free ground beef vs. breaded sauced up chicken filets.

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Good thing I tend to go w/the higher # I see in the AM else today woulda been a . Yesterday I saw 193.2. Saw it again today, but 2 out of 3 tries ='s 193.4 as my final answer.

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." – Alexander Graham Bell

I know you were all waiting w/bated breath for the results of this AM's weigh in. Did the carby popcorn and kit kat do our heroine in?

Today you'll have to click below for the results

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." – John Ruskin

Way more than I hate paying for things I used to enjoy for free, I'm lQQking @ you Gold's gym, I LOVE getting free stuff!!

Normally, I get my water str8 from the water fountain and drink it @ room temperature or when I eat out, I ask them to hold the ice. My hook-up, Holly, gifted me the cutest looking water flavoring, Water Sensations®. She sent 4 flavors, Grape, Mixed Berry, Lemon & Strawberry Kiwi…I got giddy over which one to try first. Mixed Berry and Strawberry Kiwi fought for my attention. In the end, Strawberry Kiwi won.

W/o even tasting it, I'm already lovin' that it's 0 calories. That way I can combine the taste of having juice, which I sometimes crave but hate wasting money on, and still have the benefits of water.

I check out the back of the packet to see how I use it. It is shaped like a little water bottle…heh…nice job packaging design people...

According to the directions, for single use, pour 1 packet into a 16.9oz (why not say 17oz?) bottle of water or tall, 2 cups (much better), glass. For a ½ gallon (now that's what I'm talkin' bout) pitcher pour 4 packets.

No Stirring or Shaking Necessary

*slaps hands together*

Now we are in business…

Oh wait…there's more…what's this fine print?

Do not consume directly from liquid-pack ™!

Here I was, seconds away from ripping them all open pretending to knock back shots…rats...

Daily Weigh In: 194.2

Nutrition
- Breakfast: Soy Milk, Fiber 1, Strawberries
- AM Snack: Plain non-fat yogurt, more Strawberries w/fake kroger splenda I now find out is aspartame which means I'll no longer be eating it
- Lunch: Tuna Cheese, low-carb pita, dijon mustard and a delish cucumber grown by a friends neighbor. I ate the entire thing *burp*
- PM Snack: none, lunch was very filling
- Din Din: (This will be tricky as I'm going to catch a movie. I'll try and act as if I have sense.)

Update: Ok I wasn't great, but I was good. Took the rest of strawberries w/me (good) and polished that off during flick #1. Yes I ate an entire pkg of strawberries today. I got burned losing 2 pkgs over the weekend due to the heat, I wasn't letting this package get away from me too. By flick #2, I got a small popcorn w/butter (not good) and kit kat (not good), I like crunchy salty and soft sweet @ the same time. I didn't get a drink (great!). Instead I filled up the 1 liter water bottle I smuggled in (good). Didn't eat all the popcorn (good) but damn sure ate all the chocolate
- Final Meal: none tonight. Lets see the effects of the popcorn/chocolate combo in the AM, though I know it's not a weight gain, as I did not eat over 3500 calories today. More likely it'll be carb bloat and/or sodium...please oh please Zeus let the entire package of strawberries be loaded w/fiber so I can have a good AM wake up call. *wink wink*

Water – 66oz + 2 cups o' green tea

Vitamins/Supplements - Check

Training
Rest Day

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I have a hard time w/rest days. My pattern dictates that 1 day leads to 3 months off @ the gym. I know rest it needed, both mentally and physically, but I find myself going going going till I burn out. I'm going to work on balance too this quarter.

To work on keeping my Q3 goals front and center, I've employed a few public tactics. There are two new categories to get me to log my daily doings, eats & sweats, during the month of July challenge. If I can trust myself w/it, I'll keep it up in latter months.

There is a new chart in the far right column, under the daily pudge pic comparison shots. I'm not going for a streak, just trying to get my monies worth @ the gym...knowwhatImean?.

"Only by acceptance of the past can you alter it." – Mary Kay Ash

After not 1, but 2 quarters of dismal results I'm a bit gun-shy to post lofty goals. However, my pudgewatchers will be happy to know that the Renee Corporation has a strong outlook for Q3 which started on 7/7 and ends 2 days after her birthday (hint hint!), 10/4.

This quarter, since she's the Cheerleading Captain for the big F.A.T. Challenge, she shall refrain from posting any lb related goals. Shure she'll still track lbs on a daily basis and update various charts and graphs weekly, but her sole goal is to have a healthy Summer of '06 which involves being active and eating healthy all in an attempt to reduce and improve #'s that the media and society tends to ignore.

The year long health goals are to:

Lose 40-50lbs

• Reduce bodyfat 16%
  
• Lower resting ♥ rate to under 70 bpm (beats per minute)
  
• Lower BMI by 6pts
  
• Walk and run 1000 miles
  
• Drink a minimum of 64oz of water daily
  

I am going to concentrate on doing the 5 bulleted points, slightly modified to be doable in 3 months time:

Daily Weigh In: 195.2

Nutrition
- Post Cardio: Plum, Proten Shake
- Breakfast: 2% reduced fat Milk, Fiber 1, Raisins
- AM Snack: 'nana & walnuts
- *Lunch: low carb pita w/(don't gag) tuna cheese! (tuna + lf cc), cherry tomatoes & carrots w/ranch dressing
- PM Snack: none, lunch was vewwy vewwy filling
- Post Workout: Plum
- *Din Din: swt potato & chicken breat, 6 ginger slices
- Final Meal: 2/3rds protein bar, 6 shortbread cookies

*I may switch dinner w/lunch, by the end of the day I'm too pooped and too hot to eat such a heavy meal. I have to force myself to cook it, even though I'm hungry*

Water – 1 liter + 80oz + 2 cups o' green tea

Vitamins/Supplements - Check

Training
30 mins elliptical - 1.64 miles
30 mins treadmill - 1.4 miles

Total cardio mins: 60
Total miles: 3.04

30 mins weights - Arms & Abs

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I decided to take a pic of the grey bib I so proudly sported on Sunday. This is what I created yesterday:

Pre Bathroom weight: 196.6
Post Bathroom weight: 195.2

Release the bowels before you officially weigh yourself "And that's One to Grow On". *cue jingle*

"The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed." - Roger Houseden

Yes you!

Wanna get healthy this summer?

Daily Weigh In: 195.8

Nutrition
- Breakfast: Soy Milk, Fiber 1, Raisins
- AM Snack: 'nana
- Lunch: Tuna on low-carb pita w/a roma tomato mayo & mustard, 15 baby carrots w/ranch dressing
- PM Snack: LF CC w/Kroger brand fake splenda & Strawberries
- Post Workout: Plum, Protein Shake
- Din Din: Chicken breast w/swt potato
- Final Meal: 6 ginger slices, 1/3 protein bar

Water – 4 liters aka 1 gallon wÒÓ†!

Vitamins/Supplements - Check

Training
30 mins elliptical - 2.17 miles
30 mins treadmill - 1.4 miles

Total cardio mins: 60
Total miles: 3.57

15 mins weights - Buns

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Hrrrmmm...maybe I should do a daily countdown after all...I'm completely lost...

I think I'm going to give up trying to wake up @ insane AM on Mondays. No matter how beat I am, how much napping I avoid Sunday, how heavy my eyelids are that I can barely keep them open, the minute my head hits the pillow, my mind starts to race.

Only on Mondays.

"Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow is wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly." - Old Eskimo proverb

Daily Weigh In: 196.8

Nutrition
- Slice of pumpkin bread
- 'nana & plain non-fat yogurt
- soy burger on pita w/cauliflower, mayo, mustard and cherry tomatoes
- plum
- 2 'nanas w/natty peanut butter
- 7 ginger slices

Water – 2.5 liters

Vitamins/Supplements - Nope

Training
45 mins elliptical - 2.39 miles
45 mins treadmill - 2.25 miles

Total cardio mins: 90
Total miles: 4.64

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Man I spent most of today, tending to my sites. Their like plants, I always feel if I neglect them, well, traffic will die. But it was more than that feeling since I was still updating most of them in spite of the madness, but behind the scenes...lawdhavemercy, talk about email. One site, ONE, had over 1800 emails and that's not including spam.

Granted I do have 1500 or so close online buddies , ok more like 52 , Still. That much email was insane. I spent most of the afternoon getting that taken care of. I also updated my podcast, my training journal, and my pudge pic blog.

Made a few buttons for the newest peeps on the fitroll, charged up my iPod...oh and got in 90 mins in the gym clocking a bit over 4 miles thankyouverymuch...despite the fact that the treadmill freaking tried to KILL me and I so was not in the mood to go this AM, but I went and I'm glad.

Picture it, it was minutes after I uploaded the podcast and I was sitting in front the 'puter licking my I'm-so-fat-I'm-almost-200-lbs!-wounds like a cat trying to clean itself...

Mr. Mykah is quite mischievous...I posted about 12 videos of him @ play on youtube...all are pretty short, under 30 secs...these are my favorite:

Here he is coming over to our yard from where he really belongs...though he now seems to think he lives under the decks...

Further proof he's so new to the world. His mom generally ignores me and the camera. Not him. Every noise it makes, every light fascinates him that he can't help but run to me when I try to capture him doing something cute.

I found some twine for him to play w/and play he did...he seems to think he's a dog, fetching the string and trying to run w/it...

Here he pounces on mom & runs for the hills...

I finally freshened up My Flickr Flicks...don't be confused if it strangely looks like the same cat that's been there since January. It's her identical twin baby kitten. Enjoy. I'll have some videos up shortly

I just drove 400 miles/6 hours in less than 48 hours. I'm beat, but before I go crash and burn, Maggie's baby made the trip worth it...

I'm thinking of a name, my mom says he dances, so I was thinking Barry, short for Baryshnikov. Or. Aleks. Or. Xander (all a take on Baryshnikov's name when he was on Sex and the City)

I tend to OD on the Maggie pics, you will not believe how many snaps I got of this little munchkin...I plum forgot Maggie even existed and I got cute videos to boot...all coming later this week...for now...I sleep.

I could call him Maggie-2-point-Oh or Maggie Jr...or...Mikha. That's it!

His name is Mikha (My Kah)

"If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again." - Flavia Weedn