Everyday Systems

jenji

Wednesday ended up being red. I ate the supermarket sushi, then went to visit a friend. She has invited me but never mentioned lunch. I arrived at 1:30 at her house. However, when a beautiful lunch of tomato soup and pasta salad was served, I just decided to eat it. The rest of the week was green. I...

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Candace wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 14, 2019 6:23 pm
Good luck!

Thank you, Candace!

jenji

Wow, that’s awesome! Im an activist here in Arizona and have worked on a couple campaigns. Best of luck to you! Thank you!! 175.5 today. Ran 2.6 miles, and half-heartedly did some pushups and a plank (45 seconds). Green yesterday. Today Breakfast - more lentils and plain yogurt Lunch - TBD, maybe s...

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173.5 today

Breakfast - lentil stew, cherries, greek yogurt, kale (posted pic to Facebook group), iced coffee
Lunch - chicken breast, rice, mixed veggies, iced coffee
Dinner - ??

jenji

Love sangria! Campaign? Are you running for something? Yes, I am stepping down from my nonprofit to run for office. I will be on the ballot in 2020, if all goes well. I need to find another job to do during the campaign. Friday - green Today - green Breakfast - croissant, coffee, watermelon Lunch -...

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174.5 today. I decided to count yesterday as red because I had a sweet drink (sangria). I also did not stick to my meal plan. A friend invited me out last minute, and I could go, so I did. Dinner was: one cheesburger slider (small sandwich), fries, and green salad, with one glass of white wine. Then...

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Great assessment of what has changed for you with the alcohol-free habit. I am so proud of you for the therapy, and I am inspired. I am making a big life change with my work, and I think that therapy would be good for me, too. I know that exercise has a big impact on blood sugar, although I am not k...

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Habitcal is working again for me! This is big. I did manage a green day yesterday, with 2 black bean tacos and some cherries for dinner. 174# today Today Breakfast: Blueberry pie, kale, coffee Lunch: pesto, tomato, artichoke pizza (from farm share) with watermelon Dinner: Roasted turkey thighs with ...

jenji

Welcome back! How is it going so far?

jenji

Had a 177 weigh in yesterday, which felt crappy, but then was 175 today. I have had a whole thing going on of rebelliousness within myself, so I have had almost zero green days. The violations are mostly small. I have started to justify a lot of virtual plating and caloric drinks, which is I suppose...

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173.5 yesterday (forgot to weigh today)

I did a 20-min hand weight workout yesterday (a Youtube video), and today everything hurts. I ran 3.6 miles this morning with my friend and walked 1 mile. As I go through the day, I have felt more and more stiff.

jenji

175.5 today. Ran 3 miles and walked 2 with my friend. It's a beautiful day, not too hot for once. Breakfast: * Apple pie and skyr * Coffee Lunch: * Bean chili and corn on the cob, skipped the butter * Plum Dinner: ? We are going to a play at a school at an awkward time, so I either need to eat reall...

jenji

Back from 10 days in Spain - a wonderful vacation. I need to remember to weigh myself tomorrow morning. Haven't got on the scale since before we left. I did not keep to No S while on vacation, but I always loosely used the framework, by sticking to 3 meals. I ate 3 meals, but had a starter or even a...

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177# frowny face! I went for a run today, just 2 miles, with my friend. We are going out again on Wednesday. I ate a bunch of sugar this weekend - candy bar, ice cream, "snacks" of cereal. Breakfast - English muffin with peanut butter Lunch - TBD Dinner - chicken marbella - I made a pan of this dish...

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Hi Jen! Nice to see you on the boards. Hope things are going well for you! Thank you, Auto! I am well and enjoying summer. My job slows down in the summer, and it gives me some time to try to catch up on sleep and make healthy choices. 175# again today. Red day yesterday (I bought and ate a caramel...

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175 today. Went running yesterday- 5k.

Breakfast - 1/2 burrito

Lunch - pasta with marinara and meatballs, broccoli, blueberries

Dinner - not sure

jenji

173.5 again yesterday.

Green so far today.

* Breakfast - quite light for me. 1/2 yogurt, coffee with milk (2)
* Lunch - will go to supermarket hot bar.
* Dinner - I have ribs to cook, if I get home in time. If not, spaghetti.

jenji

Having a stretch with a lot of red days, poor accountability.

Current weight 173.5. Hoping to start tracking again daily.

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automatedeating wrote: ↑
Wed May 29, 2019 1:54 pm

Jen, your comments really hit home with me. Thank you so much. I really can't tell you how nice it felt to feel your perfect empathy for me. Thank you. Can we go out for coffee?

Would love that. I am in the Boston area (Cambridge), just in case the opportunity arises.

jenji

I have some of the same feelings about my career, in the non-profit field. Shame and fear of failure can swoop down upon me suddenly. It's peculiar. I often have to remind myself that not many people could do a better job than I am doing. It's just hard work. One of my challenges is the "dual bottom...

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My birthday My kid's birthday My boyfriend's birthday Sometimes these fall on a weekend, so I don't have to claim them. I also take Halloween, Christmas, Hannukah night 1, Thanksgiving, and Valentine's Day. Then I sometimes take an S Day for an event that I'm hosting (e.g., I have a cocktail party a...

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171# Thank you! I am making it through my busiest time of the year, one foot in front of the other. I have a big public speaking event next week, the second one this spring, which is a stress trigger for me. I also finished my overnight Ragnar relay (17 miles for me this time). Today I am trying out...

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Ladybird, I bet you are absolutely right. I was just thinking last night that maybe I'd call my insurance today and learn about if any counseling is covered. I've always just paid out-of-pocket in the past, but I don't want to this time. Feeling weird about counseling this time, rather than excited...

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Jen - so true about the sleep. I have recently been really studying the damage that lack of sleep causes us.....literally every aspect of health. I hope you can get more rest!!! I got a few nights of 9+ hours, and I finally feel "caught up" on my sleep deficit. Interestingly, one of those nights, I...

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Thursday, May 2 122.2 Kind of embarrassing thing happened. I shared some private things with my online coach and her reply made it pretty clear (in a very kind way) that she is a coach, not a counselor. Which of course I should have understood, but I felt filled with shame when I read her reply. My...

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We are back on meat! My kid wanted to try eating vegetarian for one month. When the month ended, she was ready to eat meat again. I am grilling lamb tonight. She ate brisket at Passover, too. :D It is a relief to me, because she doesn't really like a lot of carbs, so it was hard to put meals togethe...

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That is a toughie because fat is such a loaded word. It could be an adjective. Or a medical condition. Or a risk factor. Or a devastating personal judgement. I wish we could take the emotion out of it, but that doesn't seem likely, does it? My daughter is very tall, 5'11". She is so tired of, "YOU'...

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Especially since having a daughter, I try to never talk in fatphobic ways about my body or anyone else's, but I failed at that this weekend. I was at a training event with all women, and I was talking about No S with a friend there who has been struggling with her eating. That's fine, but then she s...

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170# today. I've had some 168 and 169 days in between but didn't come on here. Red day yesterday. High stress time of year for me. Yesterday I cheated with dried mango as well as having warm haldi milk (sweetened, which is what makes it a cheat). I also was borderline red on Monday. I made sangria, ...

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False alarm on the weight loss restarting. My weight bounced back up to 170 after that, then back to 169. Oh well. I forgot to weigh today or yesterday. I took a yellow day for Purim, for the hamentaschen (little triangular cookies that my MIL send to us).

I also had a red day yesterday.

jenji

We recently took the same choice for environmental reasons, but we opted for flexitarian, just to be yeah, flexible. We actually almost never eat meat, I sometimes eat a slice of parma ham, but it's nice to have that option open. And so far it's worked great! my son never liked beans before but, be...

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My kid asked to try out being a vegetarian for one month. She's worried about climate change. Unfortunately, she also really likes meat, so this could be a hard month. So far, we are eating a lot of beans, lentils, pasta, and cheese. I am trying to do it with her, except for lunch. I often eat a veg...

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169.5# today. Green yesterday, green so far today. I've been getting a lot of steps in, too. Wednesday night, I had only walked about 5,000 steps, and then my kid came home crying because she lost her phone while walking the neighbor's dog. We walked all over the snowy field where she lost it, in th...

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170# this morning

I have been sick and not getting enough sleep. I have another long night tonight but hope to get to bed early tomorrow night.

jenji

I had middle of the night hot flashes for a while, but they subsided on their own. Other than that, menopause has been not bad. But I am also realizing that I just don't need as much food as I used to.

jenji

Maybe I could emulate you and add in some lunchtime walks. I like that idea but rarely do it.

jenji

I went on a cruise this summer, and I stuck with 3 meals. I also ended up taking about 3 S days out of the week. I honestly did not pre-plan them but allowed myself them when we were at restaurants ashore with particularly fun desserts, not at the regular cruise dessert offerings, which were reporte...

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Welcome! I also hate calorie counting. Luckily for me I hate it so much, I never did it for more than one week. I did not have the brain space for it with a demanding job and a kid. I have to do plenty of counting (money) at work. I cannot be wasting time on what exactly is in this creme fraiche and...

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I was definitely a victim of this American idea, that being hungry was the worst possible catastrophe. I remember when I was in labor, I forced myself to eat, because I had read somewhere how awful it was that they didn't feed you at the hospital until after the baby was born. My body knew what was ...

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170.5 Randomly got a period this weekend, resetting the menopause clock again. Technically you are not in menopause until you have not had a period for 12 months. I haven't been running at all for a few weeks, since I stopped the gym membership. I have done a few workouts - mostly walks and a ski da...

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Green yesterday. We had pasta and marinara sauce for dinner with a slice of bread and artichoke dip, and an apple for dessert.

Breakfast today-
Raspberry buttermilk cake.

Lunch -
Supermarket sushi (salmon/avo maki)

Dinner?

jenji

We celebrated Valentine's Day yesterday, so I took a yellow day and ate the chocolate and drank the sangria. Today will be a normal day.

Breakfast
Chicken, cucumber, clementine, coffee

Lunch
Pulled pork school lunch - full plate

Dinner
Bean burrito?

jenji

YELLOW DAY - EARLY VALENTINE'S Day

Breakfast-
1/2 grapefruit, coffee, grapes, cukes

Lunch
Souvlaki sandwich, salad, coffee, clementine

Dinner
Fish, fried potato, broccoli, sangria
Dessert - chocolates

jenji

Sounds pretty fancy to have an intern! :wink: We are an agency that engages about 1,000 volunteers. We currently have 5 interns. I guess that is fancy, sort of. On the ground it looks more raggedy though. 170# Breakfast today- 1/2 English muffin with some jam (slight cheat), greek yogurt, coffee Lu...

jenji

Breakfast -
1/2 pc pizza, coffee

Lunch - taking my intern out to lunch, Indian buffet

Dinner - ? Ethiopian?

jenji

Today -
Breakfast - 1/2 piece of sourdough with Peanut butter
small pear
coffee

Lunch -
Turkey breast (roasted it last night), small pear, 1 piece sour dough, small serving tortilla chips

Dinner-
Sushi?

jenji

For me, the answer is yes. I do get the feeling Reinhard describes in the book, that because certain decisions are already made, I can put eating on auto-pilot more. And this has helped me be more productive at work and home, because not every time is for eating.

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Dalia negra wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 07, 2019 6:22 am
Hi, jenji!

I forgot to tell you that I saw your photos and you are awesome. Congratulations!!!!

Thank you!

jenji

I wasn't able to login to Habitcal either. I'm really just commenting here so that I am more likely to hear of any updates. Hoping it gets back up and running.

jenji

I have about one meeting a week at night or on the weekend for work. Then I am on several committees or boards that are my own fault, which have night meetings. Then the kid activities.

jenji

170# today. Yesterday Breakfast - chili Lunch - power bowl - oats, etc. Clementine, cole slaw. Dinner - Steak, French bread with artichoke spread, French bread with Peanut butter, and greens. Cup of warm milk before bed. Today Breakfast - oatmeal and blueberries, coffee Lunch - chili, kumquat I forg...

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Still at 168# today. Yesterday dinner was as planned except that I didn't make rice, and instead we had slices of baguette with artichoke spread. Green day. Today Breakfast from Whole Foods hot bar - coffee, scrambled eggs, 1 slice bacon, quinoa, roasted asparagus and yellow peppers Lunch - maybe In...

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Is there any kind of exercise that you enjoy, oolala? I can't remember but feel as though you might've mentioned dance before?

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Dinner last night was pizza and salad. I did a tiny cheat, but I'm going to call it green because it was very small. I had 1/2 a Girl Scout cookie - split it with my kid. Today breakfast - greek yogurt (plain), with a sliver of raspberry cake, clementine, coffee with milk lunch - kale and bacon soup...

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Hang in there! You will make mistakes as you get used to this way of eating.

jenji

I've honestly never found a diet so easy. When we have mentioned to friends about No snacks.... they immediately say 'Oh I couldn't do that'. It is far easier than I expected and we are both loving the sense of accomplishment, and already some improved energy levels. :) Yes, a lot of people seem to...

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Hello folks, Just thought I'd share my experiences so far.... 14 days on the No S (vanilla style) and I LOVE IT! I spend SO much less time fretting and mithering over food - it has been mentally so simple to have 3 square meals a day, no snacks, sweets or seconds and then enjoy the treats at the we...

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168# today.

Breakfast - Raspberry cake - this recipe, but I skip the sugar on top. https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food ... ake-353616, coffee, some lamb
Lunch - power bowl with oats, greens, and lamb
Dinner - pizza, I think

jenji

I've been overwhelmed lately and need to slow down. The ironic thing is that the pace often makes me less efficient at work, rather than more efficient. I bang out a ton of content, but it is less important content. Also, my kid is over-committed, and I waste brain space and time either trying to fe...

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oolala53 wrote:I hope the nightmares weren't about eating.

No, I actually donâ€™t have stress or fears about that, thankfully.

jenji

Yesterday was a green day, only because I was too tired to get up and eat more. I wanted to cheat, but I wanted to sit on the couch more than that. So, victory. I have not been exercising much. My normal walking is about 5,500-6000 steps, which is what I've been doing. Dinner was pizza. Today - Brea...

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Congratulations Jenji! Your testimony is absolutely inspiring, I'm very happy for you! Thanks Soprano and Reinhard! I also posted on the Facebook page with photos and a graph. May I take a look at it? I think I'm in that group, how can I find it? If you scroll through the photos on the Facebook gro...

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Well, it was a red day yesterday. Got home from my â€œfast pitchâ€ event feeling anxious. Ate another piece of pizza (pepperoni and broccoli) and a bite of granola. I have another night event tonight, although Iâ€™ve hit my limit on desire to leave the house at night. I just want to be in my cozy h...

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Well, it was a red day yesterday. Got home from my â€œfast pitchâ€ event feeling anxious. Ate another piece of pizza (pepperoni and broccoli) and a bite of granola. I have another night event tonight, although Iâ€™ve hit my limit on desire to leave the house at night. I just want to be in my cozy ho...

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170# today. I did hot yoga at lunch, and my back feels better. I realized that I must've hurt it shoveling, but it was a delayed stiffening. I didn't feel it until the day after I shoveled snow and broke up ice in front of my house. Breakfast - almonds, one pork and leek dumpling, coffee with milk L...

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Still keeping my eye on my kid to decide if I'm worried about her eating. She has always had a habit of picking at most meals, then gorging at maybe one meal a day. However, lately, I don't see her gorging, either, so I was worried that she was deliberately fasting. She seems to be eating what I'd c...

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Good luck with the time alone. Try to plan some nice herbal tea or something to distract you in the car.

jenji

I did make it a yellow day, but stuck with the scones. I did not add a sweet. Today- Breakfast - broccoli, ribs, clementine, coffee Lunch - red bean and corn soup (defrosted), clementine Dinner - Maybe Rod Dee (Thai) takeout - I have a board meeting, and will not have time to cook. Our typical order...

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Welcome - you are inspiring to me with your running routine. I am an on-and-off runner. Good luck getting your habits solid on No S!

jenji

If it's really not that special to you, consider letting it go. It's best not to look for reasons to declare NWS days, IMHO. It's also good to think that being is home is a perfectly good day to do Vanilla. Otherwise, being home gets paired with what are supposed to be exceptions when it's very pos...

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Welcome to the forum!

jenji

Similar to a plate, maybe it would help you to have a little, moderate carafe for wine, like they use in restaurants? I was thinking you could develop a nice little decanting ritual around that which would reinforce habit and seem fancy and nice...

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I should decide if tomorrow's holiday is a yellow day or not. I do not celebrate MLK Day with any particular food, but we will be home, and may want to do some winter baking. Hmmm

jenji

Your dinners often sound creative and nourishing. It seems like you truly enjoy creating in the kitchen! That is neat! I do like to cook! 170.5 today. Ran out without breakfast, so Iâ€™m about to go grab something at the supermarket. Lunch will be pizza again - second day of middle school events. I...

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170.5 this morning.

Breakfast -
1/2 cup plain greek yogurt, life cereal, coffee

Lunch -
2 pieces of pizza, orange

Dinner - need to cook some haddock that I have. Maybe fish chowder.

jenji

Weighed myself today - 172.5.

Breakfast - Soft boiled egg, roll, coffee and milk
Lunch - Split pea soup, also some leftover mixed veggies (spicy, from Guru)
Dinner - ? On my own for dinner, no family

jenji

Iâ€™m back. Again. I have to make this work. There arenâ€™t any other options I am able to live with. I canâ€™t live like this any more, hating my relationship with food, getting bigger and bigger, loathing my body, wishing Iâ€™d just stuck to the damned diet. I donâ€™t dare get in the scales, it w...

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Red yesterday. Ate my kid's pasta when she did not. Worrisome on two levels. She didn't eat much dinner or much lunch yesterday, or much breakfast today. She did eat the pork chop last night and had a bowl of blueberries. She did not eat the chicken soup I packed for lunch, instead eating the pear o...

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I did make that pizza Thursday, and it was good. Friday - Breakfast - Last of the chicken soup Lunch - leftover pizza Dinner - Mexican food at Jose's (red - I ate chips and salsa before dinner and had a margarita, which I consider a sweet). Today - Breakfast - berries, a bit of raspberry cake (not f...

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Forgive me if this is obvious, but one way we increase our "read aloud" time on busy activity nights is to have an audiobook in the car. It does have a lot of the same benefits of reading together.

jenji

Breakfast - 2 fried eggs, pea pod stems, coffee and milk.

Lunch - Leftover Ethiopian food (some) and leftover ramen from kid's lunch. Big plate.

Dinner - I have a fresh pizza crust from the farmshare, so maybe sausage & onion pizza.

jenji

Green yesterday. I forgot that we had a fundraiser for one of my kid's activities last night, so we bought pizza for dinner to benefit the chorus. Today - Breakfast - life cereal, tea, chicken broth (that sounds weird, but I felt parched and a bit under the weather) Mid-morning event - coffee, water...

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Last night's dinner was Rod Dee takeout (silver noodles, crispy chicken). It was red, but just barely. I had a tiny bit of seconds. I need to keep the serving dishes off the table. I did pretty well, and I think today I can keep it to one plate. Today - Breakfast - leftover silver noodles. Lunch - I...

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Saturday, Dec. 22 S Day! 127.8 Eating B: coffee w/milk, bacon & eggs L: tortilla chips & guacamole dessert: piece of leftover Costco birthday cake D: tortilla chips, cheese, refried beans, guacamole, sour cream Alcohol: 2 glasses of wine Moving nothing Spending Local grocery - refried beans, pastur...

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Ok, I had not tracked since December 18, so I just did a best guess reconstruction in HabitCal. Back to real tracking today. I took a lot of yellow days, between actual holidays, the days I hosted parties, and more. I did do mostly green last week, with a Thursday fail (seconds and snack), as I reca...

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Will start logging again tomorrow. I feel off during my vacation.

jenji

I shoot for being mildly hungry about an hour before my next meal. If I eat enough at a meal, I'm not starving by the next meal, but I am hungry and anticipating it a bit.

jenji

Did a workout on Saturday and this morning at 6:30. I feel both energized but also sleepy. I know that's contradictory. I made bread pudding last night. It was okay. My kid was not a fan. I didn't bake otherwise, because our neighbors dropped off cookies, and that was the perfect amount of sweets. I...

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170# today

Breakfast
Red beans and rice, coffee and milk

Lunch & dinner
TBD

I did walk to work today (2.2 miles). So if I walk home, it will be 4.4 miles.

No other workout today, but I do have an appointment for an 8 AM workout tomorrow.

jenji

Thank you for the validation, eshano. I don't want to burn out. I like this gym because it's social and supportive. I want to keep building good habits of showing up there. I did a workout this morning at 6:30. Last night, I walked to get the Indian takeout, snatching a small victory from the jaws o...

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169.5 today

Breakfast -
Raspberry cake, broccoli, couple pieces of clementine, coffee

Lunch - weird collection from the hot bar at Broadway market. Rice, plaintains, veggies, Jamaican jerk chicken.

Dinner was Indian food takeout from Guru - dal and rice and veggies.

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your food sounds good! Hope the workout went well! I am trying to work in more vegetarian meals. My rice and beans were tasty. Dried beans cooked in the crockpot are so much more yummy than canned beans (which are fine, but meh). I added sautÃ©ed onions and celery, sweet red peppper spice, a bit of...

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I love your concept of doing kindnesses for yourself. I may have to steal that. Have you done any Youtube videos for workouts? I like Yoga with Adriene, and one thing I like about it is that her tone is 100% accepting, gentle, and kind in describing our bodies. I realized when my daughter was young ...

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Happy Hanukkah ðŸ•Ž!! Iâ€™m excited to see a fellow Jew in here! Curious why eggnog makes you guys feel disgusting? Like sick? By the way, I should've said, it's my boyfriend who is the Jew. We've been celebrating Hanukkah with him (and Passover, more importantly) since he moved in with us 7 years ...

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Green yesterday. 169.5 today. Reclaiming my ability to say: * no thanks, * not now, * maybe later, * some other time, and * what I really want is sleep, not food! We had chicken, kale, and rice for dinner, with 1/2 grapefruit on my plate for my "dessert". I am cooking the beans in the crockpot today...

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Yeah last Thurs and Fri both were fails, too. Solid red last week. :shock: Leaving chocolate gelt candy out in a bowl is a recipe for failure for me. I also think a bratty part of myself thinks I either should be crushing my workouts (I am!) or eating right (whoops), not both. I worked out with the ...

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Ay, crap, another predictable fail (peanuts and chocolate). Small amounts, but still. We had sushi for dinner last night. Today Breakfast - half bagel with cream cheese, blackberries, coffee and milk Lunch - Moo shi chicken leftovers with rice Dinner - ?? I did another 6:30 AM workout today. I feel ...

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Red last night. Having party food like salty peanuts and chocolates out in bowls does a number on my will power when I am tired. Oh well, fresh day today. I did work out last night, and had the moo shi for dinner, but ate peanuts as soon as I got home, and had some chocolate after dinner.

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I think that itâ€™s not the fat in eggnog that makes me feel sick, itâ€™s the sugar. I like it but wish it were half as sweet.

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169# today I did make chicken soup and ate it a lot this weekend. We had a party last night for the first night of Hannukah, and I ate a lot of sweets. We celebrate all the nights, but in a lower key way after our party, so I will not designate them as S days. This weekend, I also drank a fair amoun...

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