Hey everyone... no love on the last post? lol, that's OK...

didn't keep track of time, so this post:

COUNTS FOR MONDAY

Today was a neutral day... I had my rings off for the past couple of days and the last time i had them on, they felt loose... When I put them on today, they felt tighter, i hope that doesn't mean that i had an excess sodium intake or something that's making me bloated to affect my weigh-in... *crosses fingers*

I had too many carbs today, and for the past couple of days, so tomorrow is going to be a no carbs day. <-- officially! I had nutella (mmm), cabbage w/ rice, spaghetti, and those are carbs galore!  I got angry at myself after I ate the nutella, i had promised myself that i wouldn't have any, and I ate some. So i took a rubber band, put it on my wrist, and snapped it acouple of times, reminding myself, tsk tsk, i shouldn't have done that!

Did my upperbody kathy smith today, 7 minute ab workout, and 50 minute walk away the pound 3 mile video.

I'm hoping for an EXTRA successful day tomorrow to result in a positive weigh-in on wednesday...

Got the kelly clarkson Cd today!

How Many Calories: 3 (melon, cherries, 1.5 cup spaghetti + .5 cup tomato sauce, 1.5 cup cabbage w/ rice, 2 tiny slices of bread, NUTELLA <-- )
How Much Water: 10 (128 oz)
How Many Minutes/Hours of Exercise: 10 (50 min. aerobics, 20 minutes kathy smith upper body, 7 minutes kathy smith ab workout)
Turned down fatty/sugary food: 0
Waited for Week Weight-In: n/a
Total for the day(finished): 23

Hey everyone! Questions for the day:

1) how did today go?

Today went... OK. Still PMSing so it makes you want to eat everything in sight, as well as just being in a stressed mood in general. I had a nutra-grain bar for breakfast, and piece of spinach pie for lunch, half of a PB&J for a snack, a banana some mango, and this artichoke & potato thing for dinner(2 slices of bread 2), a tiny piece of cake (see nextQ). I went on the treadmill and burned 260 cals. Sounds like a lot of eating doesn't it

2) Was it good or bad? WHY?

It was.. OK. I hate it when I eat foods that aren't countable because they are family recipes or they are recipes in a cookbook that don't have nutritional information, and I don't know how to round them. It makes me feel as if I'm cheating but I don't know what to do! Plus because our Chorus concert was yesterday our Chorus teacher brought us a cake.

3) What could you have done better?

Not eaten the bread or cake. I was successful however in not eating past 8:00! yay!

4) Why did you make the decisions that you did? What was the driving emotion behind them?

I ate the bread b4 dinner and I think I just ate it because it was there and not because I really wanted it. Stress is probably the emotion and just thinking that eating is what's going to solve the problem!

I have to read the Great Gatsby for tomorrow! So tired though, I'm just going to wake up and do whatever I can!

Have a fab day you guys!

1) how did today go?

Today should be my bad day of the week, because I didn't eat many HEALTHY things today. I had my Mom's brownies for breakfast, spinach pie for lunch, and zucchinni and eggplant in a  tomato sauce w/ a lot oil for dinner. I had 2 cookies. I exercised and burned 250 cals, but those sweets that I ate made me feel like today was a failure.

2) Was it good or bad? WHY?

Bad, i feel as if I did HORRIBLE because of those sweets, and I want to be able to stop myself, yet there is no such thing as being perfect when it comes to this, so i MUST make this week good. Why = My grandma has been sick since yesterday, and she isn't doing too well, so that stress along w/ the end of school could have made me eat emotionally.

3) What could you have done better?

I could have NOT eaten the brownie and 2 cookies..

4) Why did you make the decisions that you did? What was the driving emotion behind them?

The emotion was just stress from my grandma being sick, and homework, PMS, full moon 2morrow, no one coming to my chorus concert therefore feeeling lonely...so in general feeling wise and eating-wise the day sucked.

GOAL FOR THE WEEK:

Do NOT eat after 8. No matter what.

All right. Weigh-in was today.

I maintained. At least I didn't gain!

I think that 4 pounds by June 12 is still doable, all I have to do is step it up, be more careful and considerate about my decisions!!!

I have decided that this week I'm going to post every day. Why I usually don't do that is because I think I'm going to bore you/don't want to disappoint you. But the only way I'm going to figure out what I'm doing wrong is by writing about it, and not ignoring it!

So every day:
1) how did today go?
2) Was it good or bad? WHY?
3) What could you have done better?
4) Why did you make the decisions that you did? What was the driving emotion behind them?

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These past couple of days a lot of people have been telling me I look good. When I took the Exam, the woman representing the counselate of Greece was asking me what i had done, and how she could do it too. And then yesterday, a teacher who works at my old greek school said I looked really good.

This is a continuous effort.

I CAN DO THIS! I cannot let emotions control me when it comes to eating, and I NEED to concentrate to be able to achieve my goals and ultimate overall health.

Wish me luck. I do not want to slip behind. I need the support!!

GREECE WON EUROVISION!!!

Yay! But I don't think I"m going to be as happy about my weigh-in tomorrow. I'm hoping to at least maintain... I don't know what happened this week. Next week, I'm going to be extremely strict on counting calories, and making 100% sure that I get everything in or else i'm just like a candle in the wind, hoping i won't blow out! Exercise was bad this week. Two days of the week I couldn't exercise (was not feasibly possible), so I had to make up for it by doing DOUBLE the next day which made me tired.

It was a stressful week, I took this Greek Proficiency Exam (the hardest and last level, level 4) which if you get it, is a sort of certification for you to teach Greek. It was on Thursday, and I was stressing about it all week..

So I'm hoping to maintain, and then TRY HARDER NEXT WEEK!

*we can do this*