March 2 - Monday

[gitfiddle]

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
Stephen Covey

Our goal this month is to either nurture a beneficial habit or dislodge a destructive one. Either way, you have to identify it first. Now we have to be consciously aware of our actions, which takes practice!

Breakfast for me today will be a strawberry shake. Lunch will be sausage patties and V8 juice. Dinner will be beef tips and green beans. The boys will have theirs over rice.

It's really cold again today. I hauled out the stadium coat again. :p I will just hope for some sunshine!

[BeccainSC]

Morning Carol... and all to come (there will be a lot of folks today right??)

No school today, but apparently that was a false alarm. Nothing whatsoever on the ground. Ah well, given our car situation probably a good thing. My body didn't know any different however so I woke up at my usual time.

I've gotten my workout in already, before breakfast, as there was no one needed "tending" to except for me.

Breakfast will be boiled eggs and bacon.

Lunch will be a turkey/roastbeef wrap.

Dinner is meatballs, spaghetti sauce and salad (no noodles for me!)

And as usualy, cheese, tuna and almonds in there.

Hopefully I'll get some things done around there house today... that or get caught up on the DVDs I got for Christmas. ;)


'becca

[gitfiddle]

No school today, but apparently that was a false alarm. Nothing whatsoever on the ground.It's a GIFT! Were they expecting a visit from the storm that the east coast is getting? Good job on the exercise so early and I hope you get caught up with the household chores, Becca! :)

[Billie]

Good morning everyone, I like the quote by Covey, there is a lot of "meat" ;) in it Carol! The sun is shinning in the western suburbs on the one or two inches of new snow, it is beautiful I will say!

The birthday party was really great, Gabe was able to reunited with his cousin he hasn't seen in 27 years. The salmon was delicious, tender as butter, and as well the whole meal, at least the part we ate, was very PP on target, with Swedish meatballs, fresh mozzarella and tomato salad and low carb crustless cheese cake Gabe made with Truvia and put on a few fresh raspberries on top.

HOWEVER, I am only down about 5.5 lbs and I know that I am not giving the program the attention I need to do. So honest disclosure is good and then action to follow is corrective.

Have a great day everyone!
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[BeccainSC]

It's a GIFT! Were they expecting a visit from the storm that the east coast is getting? Good job on the exercise so early and I hope you get caught up with the household chores, Becca! :)


Yes, we were supposed to get 3-5 inches here, but apparently a "dry pocket" snuck into the system at the last minute and we got NOTHING. Upstate SC got close to 10 inches and a section of I-85 is completely closed.

I ended up taking DH to work (he will drive the hopefully revived car home) and was feeling guilty about staying home when all my reasons for doing so poofed, so I'm packed up to go to work. :) My paycheck will thank me on Friday as well. ;)

Billie the b-day party food sounds yummy! So glad you and the Doc had a good day.

I'll check back in after work.


'becca

[Ammy]

I have really learned some good habits while following PP. And the best thing is that I don't "struggle" like I use to - such a key for me to KEEP the weight off that I have already lost.

Speaking of weight...scale was up again. I know I'm following the plan, so if my body needs to fluxuate, then so be it. I'm not worried (although I do hate the scale being above 200).

Meals are planned. Day is busy. I (AGAIN) would like to go to the gym today, but we'll see how the day plays out. Things are slowing down since the closing last week. Still a lot of things to do, but they are becoming manageable.

6am 2almond scones
8am cauliflower casserole
11:30am seafood bisque, chix thigh
2:30pm iced latte, 2oz cheese, 1/2 grapefruit (mmmm)
6pm goulash, 1c green beans

Pro: 143.8
Ecc: 40.8
Fat: 192 :eek:
Cal: 2144

[maxlharris]

At work, working on work stuff. Busy week, I don't expect to be on much. Meetings, two days out of the office, a concert, basketball, meet & greet, doctor's appointment, and on and on and on.

Working out my supp program for the 2/3rds of the month I'm doing it. And working on work stuff at work.

I finished (preliminarily) my iTunes library, including 60g of music, with genres, artwork, minimal duplication (live albums and bonus tracks the exceptions), moods and themes and 85%+ with lyrics. It has been a massive undertaking and I think it will be an ongoing thing as, according to the Who, the music must change. At any rate, I stood proud.

[Puddin]

Carol, really liked what you said about identifying the bad habit and dislodging it. I identified the bad habit of feeding frenzies on bread which are caused by emotional things. Will work on it really hard this month and try to dislodge it totally (or give it a really good go:o)

Weather here is really strange. If I lived in Tornado Alley in the States I would say that the sky is tornado ready. Wind has been picking up steadily for the last couple of hours and it is pitch black out. We're expecting a couple of big low pressure zones to cross our way starting tomorrow morning. Our area usually gets everything with a 12 hour headstart.:crybaby: so I'm not really looking forward to the stuff we'll be having on our heads soon - over 500 meters snow and below water. Glad I live uphill;)

DH returned happy as a lark. Our Florentines are super. They had a great time. I'm back on schedules and the workload has already been planned for tomorrow - branch hauling if it doesn't rain. The animals are all his again - HOORAY!!! That male rabbit was tremendous - da---ned beastlie tried scratching me even today.

Meals today were definitely PP perfect

Breakfast egg and pancetta
Lunch turkey, artichoke
Snack scone and parmeggiano
dinner artichoke and roast turkey
Chocolate at bedtime...

Threw out the cashews! It was really not possible to keep them in the house. Cried at their funeral but feel better about not having the temptation in the house.

[Ammy]

Cried at their funeral but feel better about not having the temptation in the house.


Whew...I have been there! Sad, but a must...

[gitfiddle]

I ended up taking DH to work (he will drive the hopefully revived car home) and was feeling guilty about staying home when all my reasons for doing so poofed, so I'm packed up to go to work. :) My paycheck will thank me on Friday as well. ;)Bummer, Becca! But if I'm at work, you might just as well be at work too....:p:slywink:

I have really learned some good habits while following PP. And the best thing is that I don't "struggle" like I use to - such a key for me to KEEP the weight off that I have already lost.
I do believe that's a sign you have good habits, Amy. Good job! I ran across a quote on struggling the other day while I was mining for challenge quotes. I'll post it if I have it in my "collection".

I finished (preliminarily) my iTunes library, including 60g of music, with genres, artwork, minimal duplication (live albums and bonus tracks the exceptions), moods and themes and 85%+ with lyrics. It has been a massive undertaking and I think it will be an ongoing thing as, according to the Who, the music must change. At any rate, I stood proud.Well, I guess so! I'd like to re-organize my iTunes, but it's waiting for "someday".

Carol, really liked what you said about identifying the bad habit and dislodging it. I identified the bad habit of feeding frenzies on bread which are caused by emotional things. Will work on it really hard this month and try to dislodge it totally (or give it a really good go:o) That's the spirit, Puddin!
Threw out the cashews! It was really not possible to keep them in the house. Cried at their funeral but feel better about not having the temptation in the house.:nod: Excellent move, considering how dangerous they are to you! I'm not sure I could have done it! I do get rid of things that will trip me up, but I could rationalize nuts, even though they're really not tree nuts. I have a problem with them too. I never EVER buy them in bulk. :paranoid: I'm proud of you, Puddin!

Had my sausage and V8 for lunch, plus a cheese stick. I'm feeling munchy, which is not a good thing. Gotta keep busy; luckily that's not a problem today.:rolleyes:

[maxlharris]

Carol, reorging (or in this case rebuilding) iTunes is a perfect opportunity to walk the walk of a single footstep starting the journey of a million miles, or moving pebbles will move mountains or whatever "a bunch of little stuff coordinated can wind up with a big result" parable/homily/bit of ancient wisdom you like.

Really, took a couple of weeks to reacquire everything. iTunes does the artwork for most things, assuming they have artwork, aren't that obscure, or are for some reason, not on iTunes. Google images, allmusic, wikipedia and amazon have just about everything else, and it's just drag and drop. Very easy. Even for things like Roger Waters "The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking (http://images.google.com/images?q=the+pros+and+cons+of+hitchhiking&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=STKsSZbvE4vltgevreX5Dw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title)" (which iTunes has, but needlessly defaced with a black bar), it can be easily fixed.

The tags and genre stuff are more, uhm, artistic. I took tags from allmusic, which has themes and moods for just about everything (probably 95+% of everything), either by album or by artist. I used their themes and moods for my tags, which meant, for every album, load it up on allmusic, copy, paste to word, find replace paragraph mark with comma, select all, copy, paste into iTunes, save. That was long. But, I read a ton about the albums I have, so it was interesting. Do 5 albums a day, and at the end of the month, you've got 150 done. If you do at least 5 albums a day, you probably wind up in the zone and with 200-500 in a month. That's how I did it. A minimum a day, frequently exceeded.

That's how I do my filing at work too. A minimum of 10 things filed. Sometimes winds up quite a bit more.

[gitfiddle]

I used their themes and moods for my tags, which meant, for every album, load it up on allmusic, copy, paste to word, find replace paragraph mark with comma, select all, copy, paste into iTunes, save. That was long. But, I read a ton about the albums I have, so it was interesting. Do 5 albums a day, and at the end of the month, you've got 150 done. If you do at least 5 albums a day, you probably wind up in the zone and with 200-500 in a month. That's how I did it. A minimum a day, frequently exceeded.Most of my music is "working" music, made up of individual cuts I want to learn, or songs I have swiped from my sons rock etc collection. I have a few albums, but everything's not apples and apples. I have the BIG list and I sort things by playlists. It would be time-consuming to even rename all the flotsam so they could be sorted properly, and I don't allocate the time to that level. It's a mess!

Twenty minutes and I'm on my way to the gym! All accounting today, which is what I like best. The boss was away, which is not bad, either. ;)

[Ammy]

Ugh..I am still at work. 9hrs and counting.
Looks like yet another night I won't be making it to the gym.
:(


Supper is planned, but at home, and it looks like I'll be here for another couple hours. If I get hungry, I'll eat the lunch I have here for tomorrow, then I'll have two suppers tomorrow. No big deal to me, it's all just food helping me have the energy I need to KEEP WORKING!!! :rolleyes:

I'll check back with my final counts before bed...

[Karole]

Hi, just checking in to say I had a sucessful PP day. That's 1 out of 2. See all of you tomorrow.

[BeccainSC]

Passing through while waiting for DH to call. Apparently the other car is NOT fixed, may even be in worse shape than it was this morning. Apparently something broke while taking it apart to get to the alternator or some such :( Gonna make my life unpleasant for a bit I can tell if I have to work and taxi too.

On target so far today, just exhausted and not in the mood for any sort of dinner, but I need to eat something. Just hope DH is up to cooking when he gets home, now that he's working late too. No telling what will happen.

Will post the final numbers later.


'becca

[gitfiddle]

Ugh..I am still at work. 9hrs and counting.
Looks like yet another night I won't be making it to the gym.
:(Oh no! Hang in there, you'll get caught up soon.

Hi, just checking in to say I had a sucessful PP day. That's 1 out of 2.Excellent, Karole!

Passing through while waiting for DH to call. Apparently the other car is NOT fixed, may even be in worse shape than it was this morning. Apparently something broke while taking it apart to get to the alternator or some such :( Gonna make my life unpleasant for a bit I can tell if I have to work and taxi too.That's the story of my life, Becca. Don't tell anyone, but three of us live here and we have four licensed vehicles. :paranoid: We all drive older cars and at any given time, one is having problems! It's my way of stimulating the economy. Also eases the stress that goes along with car trouble!

[BeccainSC]

Well DH worked late and was tired. I worked late and was tired. Succumbed to fatigue and emotional eating. Won't even bother posting numbers. :(

So will see what the scale has to say in the morning.

Tired, going to bed.


'becca

[Ammy]

sigh...
another 12 hr workday...and now I'm getting guilt from gf!!:mad:

high calorie foods were my meals today (nuts, cheese)...actually forgot to eat tonight. I didn't think that was possible for me.

Pro: 128
Ecc: 26.9
Fat: 172.5
Cal: 1892

tomorrow I will bring more food to work in case I have to work late again.

[Jackie]

HI all I fell off the wagon big time and hope to find my way back!!! I have not caused too much damage on the scale however I feel bloaty and ucky.

I will start to NEAN tomorrow,

[gitfiddle]

Luckily, tomorrow's another day, my friends.