Beagle's New Journal

way to go girlfrirnd your doing great and almost in them 80's come on i know you can do it work it girlfriend!!
 
Today is going good so far! I slept great last night (though I slept a little late and missed my first class, whoops!), I'm meeting Josh for subs for lunch, and then I'm going to work and will be off a half-hour earlier than normal because my shift changed :D

I feel good!
 
hey Bailey.. awesome on the work out. Hmm i am tempted to look into these DVD's! :D That's so great.. and subs sound so yummy! But my treat isn't until next Friday.. it sour ritual now, Quizno's for dinner every Friday. lol! :)
 
I have such a craving for chinese food today, but I have to resist. I'll just go for chicken breast and salad from the food court today.

Food so far has been a small pizza sub (400), split a 4 egg omelette (bacon bits, green onions, tomatoes) with Josh (200), and I'll have the chicken and salad for dinner (400), leaving me with 1000 total calories. Then I'll probably have a granola bar or something after work.
 
Okay, here's the deal to myself: If I have lost the full two pounds of my weekly goal by my next weigh in, then I will have a *small* chinese meal on tuesday, since I can only get chinese from the place I really like on tuesdays and thursdays, when I work. The small meal is one noodle/rice, and one meat/veggie, so I'll probably get the chow mein noodles and bourbon chicken (though I don't think its bourbon sauce, its kind of garlicy and a little sweet too - either way its delicious!)

I drool just thinking of it. :)
 
You totally have to treat yourself! Chinese food on tuesday sounds awesome! It's something to look forward to! I think I'll come up with some sort of prize like that for me to work for!
 
Great job Bailey :D Isn't exercise a wonderful thing once you get used to having it???!!! A SMALL chinese meal sounds delish! Just remember to suck in the ol' water too :D Keep up the great awork! :D
 
*sigh* so I didn't get to work until about ten minutes before I had to start, so I didn't have time to get "real" food. So I grabbed a lean cuisine from the convenience store near by - just short of 300 calories. I feel good about today, only 900 calories, and I don't really even feel that hungry! Got my honey coming over after work, and we're gonna watch the last star wars movie since it was getting too late to finish them on sunday (the last one we finished was over at 1am, we weren't putting in another!).

as far as the chinese food is concerned, I think its much better to have "cheat" days as a reward for being good, not an escape from them :p Of course, portion is key, and even if I want a 5-plate, I can't have one!

My break is over now, 15 minutes is not enough! I'll have to make the journal rounds after work :)
 
Mornin' Bailey :) Most of the Lean Cuisines are good and its a reallly good "quick" idea. I used to live on those buggers - now the kids eat like machines so I had to nix a majority of them :rolleyes: Hope today goes well for ya. Keep up the great work :D
 
G'morning Bailey! Congrats on your fabulous attitude about your portion control. I am very impressed. Hopefully I can follow suit today on my cheat day. :)
 
Hey Girl I Am Proud Of You For Such A Good Job Resisting Yesterday Keep Up The Great Work Your Gonna Get In Them 80's Its Wonderful Wednesday So Lets Rock Them Scales!!
 
Okay, so today is Control day, and I'll be doing a half-day fast again, but after the fast only 600 calories! Thank you everyone for checking in on me, I know I can do this! Once I get this challenge out of the way, then I can go back to full day eating and be confident that I don't have to give in to every urge to eat just because I have calories left, and not because I'm actually hungry.

By the way, after work I did make a turkey sandwich (300) since I was pretty hungry, so my total was 1200. I also got in that 20 minute workout :D Usually I just forget to do the ones after work because I'm too tired, so I'm pretty happy about it.
 

Way to fit that exercise in! The last couple of days I have been doing my running in the morning around 8 then I have the rest of my day ahead of me and I don't have to worry about missing it later on... I guess you can't really do that - you'd be sleeping through your classes if you worked out before them! Haha.. I would atleast. Howcome you're fasting half the day though? I'm having such an off day - I slept in until now and I'm sore so I don't want to workout... would it be so bad if I skipped a day? Ahhhh... anyways good luck with your half-fast! MMMM I'm chompin on a protein bar - it's chocolate dirt this time! :D
 
In general, doing a fast is actually good for your body once in a while (just make sure you drink a lot of water!)... the "pros" suggest 2 or 3 days on just water, but I'm not about to go that long. I don't think a half day does that much in terms of flushing out your system's junk (which is what the 2 day one will do). I'm doing it mostly as an exercise in self-control, because my biggest problem personally is that if there is food in my vicinity I feel like I have to eat it, and I'm trying to get away from that. A half day is enough to flex some control muscles, but not absolutely unbearable like the full day one I did some time ago (and didn't even do properly, I cheated and had a couple peices of bread throughout the day).

To be sure, fasts are not something to do all the time. Severely limiting your calorie intake like that over the long term just gimps up your metabolism, but doing them every once in a while (like once a month) seems to give a good kick to your body. I just wish I had the willpower to do full day ones regularily. The one I did a couple months ago, actually lost me 3lbs in that one day... but then I futzed it up and overcompensated the next couple days, so I only lost 2lbs that week.

Speaking of which, I'm down to 190 yet again. Lets see if I can keep it off, and drop one more before Monday!
 

Really? I'm gonna check out about this - maybe I'll start one tomorrow.. jus tte feel god and give myself and extra kick.. I don't know if I can do it but if I think i'm going to overcompensate I'll just run back to my computer chair and talk to you guys ! Haha - you have no idea how many times I've had to do that.. why do you think i'm on here on all time? lol - I know what you mean though.. that's why I'm kind of glad I'm in between moving right now.. me and my boyfriend have half packed up and because we don't really know when we're moving we don't buy too many groceries at one time.. like once every two days- but he's such a snacker like me.. so he's always chompin on chips on the couch and I'm on here biting my nails off haha.. take care!
 
One tip I can give for fasts is that when you feel absolutely starving, find something else to do to take your mind off of it! I learned the the feeling of being hungry is about 75% all in your head :p if you find something else to occupy your mind, then you won't feel nearly as desperate to find something to eat. I found that I would go through waves of wanting to just raze the fridge and then ten minutes later feel fine if I didn't dwell on it (which was easy because it was a really busy day at work that day so I couldn't dwell!)

Oh hey, I have some really great news! I just got a call from a restraunt that wants me to paint their windows!! This is the opportunity I've been waiting for :D I'm going on Sunday morning, but I have to find a ride there... normally I'd ask my mom, and normally she'd say yes, but she threw her back out last night or something, and she's not sure if she'll be able to drive yet by then. Ugh, this is what I get for never getting around to getting my license. I'm hoping Josh will be able to as a back up, I may have to bribe him with lunch at the restraunt after I'm done :p They want me to do 4 fairly simple windows, so I'll probably make about $100 out of it, and I'm banking on the fact that they'll let me put my website address at the bottom to self-advertise. I have been so lucky with money lately! The cheque I get from work tomorrow has 2 full time weeks on it, PLUS my tuition reimbursement from last sememster, and now I pick up another hundred bucks!
 
Congrats on the window op, Bailey!!!!! Thats awesome :D SInce you are havin' so much luck with money, can you blow some of that fairy dust this way?!?!?! LOL Hope you have a great night :D
 
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