Calories for 06/07 1624 06/08 1722 I love when I can eat really well — enjoy what I do eat and still keep it under 1800. I didn’t deny myself much of anything — just made great choices all day. I am completely proficient now at reading labels and I will measure if I am not confident about how much is my correct serving. This has taken a long time and a lot of practice but I think I have this down pat. I look back on the last two weeks, at home life is good but its been extremely stressful with my mom - extremely 
She seems to be on the mend but it was a really rough two weeks for her and I was the only person she could really take things out on - oh well gotta love birth order and my only other sibling (younger brother) won’t stand for any crap - -LOL I have lived with those two strong Virgos for years and its good in many ways but rough on us “gentle” Libras in other ways. Just last week I hit the wall after going 14 hours straight and I thought I was going to cause my mom to fall - -all I could do was apologize and she got angry and told me to quit saying I was sorry - what else do you say when you really and truly are sorry, worried and upset?? Anyways lets hope most of that is behind us now.
Where was I going with that tirade - Oh I know!! What with the stress of mom, stress with work (azzholes!!!) and something else with one of our cars and not once did I turn to anything for comfort. I had no desire to get myself face down in chocolate cake, or ice cream or nachos or any of my past favourites. My treat of choice is the Starbucks Frappacino - which weighs in with a whopping 180 calories — YAY!!! Finding time to work out even at the minimum of 10 minutes a day helps too. I realize now I am almost 53. I have three chronic conditions, one (very personal 
)is sort of under control, one (the stenosis) I have to live with and do my best to not aggravate it and my latest ailment is neuroma - I got my cast done for orthotics but geesh I know none of this is life threatening but its certainly becoming weary. Oh well trudge on.
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Zee — yes in many ways we are cut from the same cloth - -actually when I read many of your posts it reminds me of the passion my darling fiance feels for many things - and I agree 100%
Calories for 06/06 1797 LOL Phew finally just squeaked under 1800. No more Starbuck’s mochas until next week - that extra 170 is pushing me up and over every day - not great but I will admit we are running around more these days at work than normal. Found out late yesterday that I have to empty 3 benches of electronic equipment today. I could ask for help but for my own personal reasons I will suck it up and do it myself. Its all about people that never pull their own weight and those that do too much up and over. I have two people to ask to help in that particular lab - one is LAZY LAZY LAZY and the other will be there in two seconds to help. I would rather do it myself than have the one slacker know (yet again) he can ignore my request and the other will be there. I will just count the physical as part of my day and grumble to myself - -how many calories do you burn grumbling???
Still doing well with the eating - back in my groove and yesterday was officially 9 days of good. Today I will finish up and head into double digits for the weekend. When I am in this head space I usually do better on the weekends and I will be doing my WiiFit body test tomorrow morning - so we will see if there is any weight difference this week - don’t care if there isn’t (what a liar LOL) but just feeling good about this is very rewarding!!!
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Zee and Sarah - how can I go wrong with you encourging me along!!! Makes me feel fabulous!!!
Calories for 06/04 1850 I indulged in my favourite weekly treat - my Starbucks mocha - no fat no whip please. Turns out I am being taken out for another one today too — sighs. Ate well made good choices. After work I had a podiatrist appointment to get the results of my tests. Turns out I have a pinched nerve in my foot and I have to get orthotics. They should work for about 5 years but it looks like surgery is in my future. Although as I said to him who knows what advances will be made in five years. So he made a cast of my feet and in a couple of weeks I will have my custom orthotics - oh happy happy joy joy. At least I can return to my fitness classes soon after that. When I got home I did 39 minutes on my WiiFit - -still enjoying it and unlocking more and more each time. Turns out I enjoy the boxing - who knew pacifist Joanne would enjoy beating the crap out of a virtual punching bag LOL
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Calories for 06/03 1820 not the greatest - my goal is to keep it under 1800 but yesterday was a wicked day. We had a meeting in the morning and we brought back the food leftovers - not too much but one of my major weaknesses is cheese. I accounted for each of the pieces I ate and later in the day I was offered a mini donut and I should have said no but this person was retiring and he thought he was doing something good by bringing us treats - ACKKKK Anyway it was a mini one. Then after work I had to take my mom to the chiropractor and she wanted McDonalds for dinner - I ordered the chicken fajitas for myself and I was dismayed when I got home and realized the calorie count was 200 calories each - sucks!!!! No time for Wii either - once I finally got home I had been up and moving for over 14 hours so I was exhausted, upset and just plain miserable — blech.
Today is another day - -another day — another day LOL
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Zee and Sarah — thanks for dropping by it means so much to see your comments!!!
Calories for 06/02 1768 not bad and had a 34 minute workout on the WiiFit in the morning. Then all heck broke loose and the rest of the day was not my own. Sunday I spent most of the afternoon with my mom– I offered to take Monday off and she turned me down. Later in the evening she changed her mind and asked me to come over. I was trying to get an appointment for her with her chiropractor - aside from dealing with the last of her chemo treatments her back has gone out - which SUCKS!!! Bottom line is at 9 in the morning after my workout and shower I was on my way over to spend the day with her. I packed up a banana, carrots and tomatos. Didn’t really eat properly and when I got home at 4PM I was quite hungry - with no carbs or protien for the day it took its toll. But I refused to eat anything bad — that and the fact I don’t have anything bad in the house - helps 
But I still went on a bit of a grazing - cottage cheese, melons, smart popcorn and my almonds. Satisfied my hunger - but its certainly better to balance out the day. I am doing my best to not allow my body to own me but its hard sometimes.
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Day 3
Friday was a rather good day — ate well for most of the day and then had to go out last night for a retirement dinner. I arranged the dinner so I had to be there. At least I had control over the menu and decided to order the vegetarian version and save some calories — my goodness it was FABULOUS. Bit too much sauce but good none the less. When I left work I had injested 1100 calories and I bet dinner came in about 1000 (best to guess up).
The main joy is I jumped on my WiiFit this morning and did the body test. I will try to do it on Saturday mornings. Joy of joys I was down 4.2 pounds — so I will adjust my numbers soon.
Day 4
Shocked the heck out of myself when I finished with my calorie counter in the evening and found I was at 1558 for the day — YAY!!!! And that included my 30 minute workout in the morning. Of course my sweetie had to put in an hour workout - he is much more competitive than me. He is constantly trying to do better with his scores. I just want to break a sweat (I do) and feel stretched and ready to take on the day.
Day 5
Another good day of exercise and eating right. Got up in the morning and had my breakfast — didn’t give myself enough time to let everything settle so when I was trying to do the hula hoop on Wii I could feel things sloshing around LOL. Decided to NOT do the super Hula Hoop - but did a good 30 minutes. My sweetie and I aren’t the most competitive people but we still like to see our scores at the top of the list. Some of the things I do better than he does - others he rocks it out.
Calories for 06/01 1737 I spent most of the afternoon over at my mom’s so I had trouble being very hungry when I got home. Although I made some good choices I did forget to input them later. I finished my day up thinking I wasn’t even at 1400 calories - then it dawned on me I had forgotten a couple of very key calorie counts for the day - as you can see it goes up and a tiny bit over 1700 which is better. I will not weigh myself until Saturday morning, but so far I can see a difference with my sweetie - he wanted to lose 10 pounds before our wedding he is almost there. I will take any loss I can get - I just refuse to put any on.
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Sounds like chapters in the bible — hmmmm Don’t mean to be sacrilegeous — Joanne 2:2
Another good day — very busy running around at work and then I had my monthly massage and chiro appointment so another night not walking in the door until about 7 but its all good. I got home and was greeted with my darling sweetie using the Wii — he racked up 55 exercise minutes — WOW!!!! Of course that made me determined to get on and do some minutes after dinner. I would like to do the body test but don’t want to do it at the end of the day - maybe Saturday morning. My calories were another great day of 1708 - lots of walking around and 30 minutes of tough on the Wii. Did the super hula hoop again and carried weights through some of the strength and the step exercise - all good stuff.
I am currently watching the Biggest Loser Australia — it seems to run forever — it started before Bigglest Loser Couples started — anyway last night the final four were presented to a large crowd of people that were trying out for the next BLA show. It was another reinforcing show that had them talking to the crowd and telling them that if they can do it anyone can. That it isn’t a quick fix and you have to own your body - not the other way around. I need to see and hear this reinforcement over and over. Its true. When I was driving home from work I was hungry - - I shouldn’t have been and I realized that and pushed through the hunger and waited until after my appointments to eat anything and guess what I survived!!! There are times that I get hungry and its so bad I get a pain in my shoulder (weird eh) those times I have to have something and I can usually account for the hunger — this is what I have to pay attention to. The times that hunger could just be habit and the times I really need to feed my body. I guess that’s what owning your body is all about.
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So I decided to get out my calorie counter — all part of the process. Did keep my calories under 1700 which is a YAY!!!! Didn’t get home until 7 — after work I had to get some stuff for my mom and go visit with her. We got some upsetting news yesterday and she needed some words of comfort. I have to admit the new rocked me — but only because its an all too familiar story to my own several years ago. An childhood friend of mine is currently at her husband’s bedside while cancer takes him from her - the worst part of the story is she is in a foriegn country with no family or friends to help her (they were on a cruise and he was airlifted to a hospital in Greece –**). So I didn’t want to leave my mom alone - we were just at a huge gathering for another member of this same family on Sunday so its rather a fresh feeling and my poor mom wishes she could go help - but she isn’t doing well herself with her last chemo treatment and her health is #1 right now.
Ok so enough of that rambling. The best part of the night was about 8 when I finally sat on the couch - I declared yesterday a WiiFit free day. After about 30 minutes of relaxing I found myself going upstairs and getting into my workout gear. Came down turned on my Wii — it asked me if G (my sweetie) was looking fitter - LMAO. It was glad to see me back two days in a row and I did a fabulous 20 minute workout. I yelled at the trainer, laughed with the super hula hoop and took my bubble down the river but never got to far (balance game) - lets just say after 20 minutes I was sweating, aching and feeling FABULOUS!!!!!! We need to get more of these shipped over from Japan!!!!
J
**PS - thank goodness for the internet and dear friends. I was able to send a note to a online friend in Greece and get some information - will help ease some minds over here.
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Ok time to get my butt back here. Was off on vacation last week - spent most of the week with appointments for us and my mom but its all good. During the middle of the week my sweetie scored an awesome find. He was able to not only purchase the new WiiFit board for us but the Wii console also. I will tell you my friends its an awesome addition to any activity in our lives. Its a blast - its fun and I get to pretend I am slalom skiing, tennis, golf — all the things that I would never do in real life. But after 20 minutes of challenging myself I am sweating, breathing hard and ache the next day — everything you want from exercise. I highly recommend the system and especially the WiiFit.
I haven’t gained any weight but I am pleased to say I haven’t put on anything — I am watching what I eat and today when I got to work I got out my little calorie counter. I think with getting more activity in my life and watching my calories the 10 pounds I want gone before the wedding is absolutely doable. Sweetie wants to shed 10 by then too 
So back at it — again - but I will never give up.
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