monday, 3-8

hi -
monday was a medium day. missed my water goal (didnt drink enough!) AND my protein goal (didnt have enough!)... made some good choices, but also realized at the end of the day that i should really have eaten many more calories but had already met my carbs goal... so, i should really have balanced my day more. i had some peanuts as a snack, which fit in perfectly. however, i went to bed having 300 less calories than i should have for the day, which wasnt a good idea, but whatever.
what i should do is find a day where i did really well and just re-eat that day... i think ill try that today.
tomorrow we are travelling again, and then AGAIN on the weekend. eating the right way isnt hard anymore, but tracking it here has been hard when im away... this time ill try my new idea and see what i can do.
i let myself have a day off of my workout, and yesterday was the day off. so i "met" my workout goal... today i have my regular workout goal AND some lifting to do... not too bad.
heres my day:



you can see last week how i couldnt post friday, saturday or sunday - i had to depend on myself to just eat the right way. last week i met all my TOTAL goals at 71%, which isnt wonderful. ill try to meet all those extra goals this week. (that means lifting at the gym! erg and ugh)
tuesday will be better! yum and yay!

thursday 3-4

im posting this way late, but thursday was GREAT. another really great day. i did a great job, didnt feel "diety" or deprived, and had a really hard workout even though i had a crazy busy day.
friday we left for a wedding and were out of town till just now, sunday afternoon. i am proud to say two things:
1. i did an INCREDIBLE job and made REALLY good choices the whole time! usually i junk it up for airplane rides just to comfort myself, and this time i realized i dont have to junk it up, there are plenty of things to eat while im travelling that keep me on the program. the only things i ate that i usually wouldnt have eaten were wedding cake and some majorly sugary icing-covered cookie samples at a grocery store. SOME. meaning, more than one sample. probably a whole cookie's worth... which means i KNOW my numbers for that day would have been bad. however, absolutely everything else i ate the entire weekend (other than wedding cake and the cookie samples) (oh oh oh, and beer at the wedding, but not even a whole one! and shared sips of sangria) - everything was responsible and accounted for, even though i couldnt record it on my program thing. what i regret is that i didnt drink more water, i know i wouldnt have met my goals. i tried, but not enough and could have done better.
2. i weighed myself on a totally different scale and realized that ive lost 8lbs since i started this contest! the scale at my gym has GOT to be off.

so im posting my day from thursday. i didnt have a 100% day because i didnt have enough water. ergh!

also, i realized as i was out of town that i DO have a way of keeping my chart on track while i travel... instead of following the program without being able to enter it in the chart, i figured it out (the chart and program are on my laptop and i dont usually bring it). woot. loooots of travelling this week so ill try it out.

thurs:

wednesday, 3-3

hi! GREAT day.
ate perfectly, had a HARD workout (2 hours!)... didnt go over on my carbs, and still felt like i had a ton of carbs. looks like i just have to pay more attention and im fine.
cold is way better. no more pressure in my forehead and nose... now my throat hurts a little, but im WAY better.
had some coffee about an hour before my big workout, i am pretty sure that helped a lot - also, made it through my chocolate cravings with my FAVORITE think thin bars (thrilled from my day. ill try to make today just as good!
thanks, friends!!
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ps - i should add: im only 71% for the week, i looked into it and part of my week goals has been to lift as well as do cardio... which i havent been doing at all! thats why my week score is so low at 71%. im gonna get on that! shoot!!

tuesday, 3-2

tuesday i was pretty sick. i had a good workout, but didnt eat enough calories, overdid it on the carbs (tomato soup sent me over the edge!) and apparently didnt have enough water either (which is important when im sick AND working out so hard! bad me!)... but i also fell asleep relatively early, so i couldnt drink much more water... so my workout score was 100% (yay), only had 87% of my calories for the day, which is fine but also wasnt enough, and my daily score was 92% because i missed my water goal and carbs goal for the day.

whatevs. even when i dont meet my goals, im eating super healthfully, so i cant be too down on myself.

now its a new day, i am still pretty sick and headachey, but ill load up on the caffeine and hit the gym sometime today.

your cheers (of all sorts) are TOTALLY making me feel great, thanks so much, i wont let you (or me!) down! april 1, here i come!

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tuesday 3-2

interesting day...
first of all, im totally sick. yuck, no energy, sneezy and runny nose.
went to the gym ANYWAY, and burned 750 calories! it was super hard, but i just DID it and got it overwith. thought i would go back for more later but realized its okay to be right on track instead of getting ahead of the game, especially since im sick.
so the other weirdness is ive only had 1150 calories, have had ALL of my fruits and veggies, have had VERY little fat... however, i have gone over my carbs again today! only by again, about 10-20g of carbs, which in reality is NOTHING, but since i have these goals, and everything is computerized, then it counts against me entirely. sheesh. you know what really put me over? TOMATO SOUP. i had a whole can (who doesnt?!), and it was a TON of my carbs for the day. interesting, i never thought of tomato soup that way, AND sometimes i have TWO CANS! i am seriously learning so much, liking this a lot!
also, i havent had enough calories today! at all. i cant have that few, ill be super tired tomorrow, and its just not healthy. so i dont know what to do! im having a bowl of awesome strawberries, ill have a light snack later (just realized i havent had dinner... im totally sick and its throwing me off!)... and since im already over on my carbs and can spare a ton of fat, ill try to have something filling, fatty(ish) and low-carb. what is that? peanuts. avocado. butter (kidding)...
whatev. annoyed that i went over on my carbs, cant let it get to me.
lesson learned! ...again. and thats okay, thats what this is for!
ill post my day wrap-up either later tonight or tomorrow morning.
bye!
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3-1 update

hi - fell asleep last night before i could post my final update...
i did GREAT yesterday, but went over my daily allowance of carbs. not by much, by about 10%, but oh well. brought some extra crackers to class last night because i needed to fill in some more calories for the day, and somehow that overdid it on carbs. could have made a better choice for a snack. this is what im learning!!
yay.
heres my score from yesterday:

100% of my workout (that one was HARD! went to the gym TWICE!), had 89% of my calories for the day, and that average for the day was something like 95%... but since i had too many carbs (seriously, like probably 10g too many or something! but still... a goal is a goal...) i only made 71% of my entire goal for the day. oh, and i didnt do an errand i should have done. shoot. anyway... today should be good too.

thanks for your love!

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ps - i weighed myself yesterday, and even though this isnt about losing pounds, it looks like ive lost four! i actually can definitely tell that things look different, especially my upper body... anyway, the point of the challenge is body fat, so i hope most of that was fat! this is the final countdown, only have until april 1! sounds far away but will come SO FAST!

Best of EVERYTHING

hi friends-


i just got the greatest gift in the mail - and now i am finally able to link my progress chart to my blog (almost) instantaneously! so my posts can start to be daily again.


ive kept track all this time, just havent been able to post very easily.


we are in the last month of NRFTW, and im feeling REALLY good. wish me luck, keep the good vibes coming, and here we go!


ill post my progress for today so far, but will also post later tonight for the wrapup of today.


thanks guys!


(and thanks a MILLION, NC!)


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*i'm 75% to my workout goal for today, have eaten 59% of my calories for today, have fulfilled 58% of the other workout and eating and "other" goals i have for today - better get on it!

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