Time's a Wastin, and I'm Still Fat.

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I know how you feel about those calories (even though your body needs them)... Maybe you can try using up some more during the week so sunday doesn´t feel like overkill? Saw some sledding kids in the forest yesterday and thought of your family :) The adults were burning quite a bit trudging uphill with that sled!
 
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I know how you feel about those calories (even though your body needs them)... Maybe you can try using up some more during the week so sunday doesn´t feel like overkill? Saw some sledding kids in the forest yesterday and thought of your family :) The adults were burning quite a bit trudging uphill with that sled!
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I like saving as much as I can for the weekend as it isn't only the one day (sunday) that I might eat out or want to make and eat brownies ;) . Or make pancakes or something. I might end up eating out all 3 days (fri- sun) or sat and sun, or I might eat out once but desire high cal pancakes on another day. Though with my additional training I may have to up my weekday cals a bit to ensure I'm supporting myself and am able to give my workouts my all, I really do like having the extra cals to play with. 2600 cals really isn't a crazy amount of cals. For some people, even some quite active females that's maintenance. I more so need to change my mindset. I set my cals up this way so that on the days where I am more likely to have the opportunity or desire to go out/eat 'bad' things that I can do so without worry. This, I think, is what allowed me to stick with it so well last time I lost weight, because I could have days where I ate without worrying too much about counting cals and could just be like 'ya, I DO want to go out' and such. Like a 'normal' human who doesn't have to count every cal in every morsel of food that might enter their mouth.
So I need to accept the way I do things better, as I know it will help me stick with it. I think I was just so excited with all the workouts and really nicely staying in my cals where I wanted to be and excited to see the results that not doing it for one day was almost sad. Which in some ways is good. That I feel happy/excited for my workouts, and that I feel in control of my food intake. But in some ways it's bad. I can't live my life only eating at home on low calorie food, working out hard everyday and turning down any invitation to go out to eat with friends and family, or not allowing myself treats that take me above what I want to average daily. It's not about the daily cals, it's much more about the weekly cals.
My losing weight needs to be about restricting food quantity and pushing myself to exercise, but also about giving myself enough freedom to enjoy life the way someone not struggling with weight does. I just know I can't sustain something long term where every time I go out to eat I have to look at the 'low calorie' part of the menu to make it work. Some days I want to eat the 1600 calorie bacon ranch chicken quesidilla!!
 
Mondays are always so hard!! Didn't help that I knew I needed to go to bed last night but just wasn't 'feeling it' so went to bed later that I should have. Also my hands are terribly dry, so dry they are cracking and bleeding. Been drowning them in lotion this evening, but I cannot lotion them during the day since my hands would get covered in dog hair!
I was feeling a bit sluggish today. I went to the barn after work, but instead of riding I decided to lunge. My horse was quite good and looked super.
Got home, quickly had a granola bar (since I'm out of pizza muffins), changed and headed to the gym. Did my 40 mins of circuit training (MFP cals of 419). It was hard. Sometimes I think I could push harder and yet my muscles or lungs just don't seem to want to agree with me!
Had Peanut Sauce on noodles for super, then had brownies for snack.
Finished my cals at 1486.
 
I like your description of your calorie-planning - sounds happy and healthy! Meh on the hands, mine aren´t really feeling it either these days :(
 
Thanks.
Wanted to add that when we went sledding the other day I went to put on some snow pants. I could not get these snow pants done up when we went sledding mid January, but they did up this time! At least a hair smaller in my waist.
 
Another 0.6 down, awesome! My snow pants will not see me before next winter I´m afraid :( Feels great to get back in "outgrown" stuff though!
 
Thanks guys.
Freezing right now cause I really need to have a shower after sweating at the gym. I finished at the gym at 7 and would have liked to shower right away, but I really needed to eat some supper. It took so much to convince me of what I wanted to eat. Right after exercising I tend to not have an appetite at all apparently. And of course, as soon as I sit down (to eat) I have a very hard time getting back up again, so that's why I still haven't made it to the shower.
I ran today. 45 mins. 3.49 miles (5.6kms). Did all my intervals at a speed of 5 (was fairly tough!). Did intervals of 9 mins mostly, last minute sprinted at a speed of 7. Treadmill said I burned 443 cals.
I also went and rode my horse after work. He was pretty good. It wasn't a terribly long or hard ride because we are getting down to -27*C tonight (so quite cold still when I finished riding) and didn't want him to get too sweaty.
I had a half serving of my Spicy Chicken Soup for lunch, baked potato and chicken for supper, granola bar before going to the gym, and brownie for evening snack.
I really should have made my pizza muffins as my milk is only good till today, but I didn't have any nice muffin liner things. I plan to go grocery shopping tomorrow. I need to make more big meals to split up into lunch sized portions for work, and it'd be nice to make some supper stuff to freeze as well. When I work and ride and workout I don't often get back to my place till at least 7 and that's late to have to make anything that takes any real time to make.
 
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Thank you. :)
Had a very short day at work today. Was off by around 10, then headed to the barn. Pulled out some light poles to work my horse over. Again it wasn't a terribly hard ride as the weather is still quite cold (though it warmed up quickly after I was done), but a nice ride.
Went grocery shopping, and like usual, forgot to get some things so will have to go back soon!
Got home and put all my groceries away, then had to make lunch. Was around 1:30. Had a shrimp recipe.
Got changed and headed to the gym to do my 40 min circuit training.
After my shower I ended up taking like an hour nap. Just flopped over on my bed and slept in a awkward position.
My friend was coming over for supper so I made Spicy Chicken soup. I was looking at my recipe on MFP and noticed that it had entered the tomato soup as 5.4 cans instead of 1 can!!! This meant that when I thought I was eating 600 cals of soup last week I was eating 400! Had 200 extra cals I could have been eating!!
So I had a serving of that, plus had some homemade garlic toast.
While I was making the soup I was also making lasagna for lunches for the next few weeks. Had to find room for my leftover soup and my lasagna in the freezer! That was difficult.
I also ended up making fudge at around 10 (to have on other days for snack) however I'm not sure if it will turn out as well as the last time. Hmm. Will have to see.

Yesterday I finished my cals at 1502 and today at 1487
 
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I totally forgot to mention that my brother and his wife had their baby today! This will be my 3rd niece (I also have 2 nephews). Will hopefully get to meet her tomorrow.
 
Congratulations on your new niece and your weight drop! Spoil the kid rotten and keep up the great work!
 
Really proud of you Auntie Mystic. Keep up the excellent work, and send some fudge my way. I'll try and send the 80 degrees and sunny your way. Afraid it might get lost in the mail though.
 
Thanks guys.
Ugh. Today is not going well. I got off work early, around 2, but just felt exhausted, had a bit of headache/ear ache. I decided that I would take today off riding and working out (which unfortunately means likely taking off tomorrow too as I am likely busy all day tomorrow, though as long as I do say and sun I will still get in my 5 days of each). I felt I really needed the day off, HOWEVER, I got home and just had strong cravings for food. Cravings cravings cravings! And I gave in. It's not even 4pm yet and I am sitting at around 2700 cals, mostly thanks to eating the entire recipe of pancakes with syrup.
This is gonna make it very tough to finish up under my weekly cals. I'd need to stick to 1500 cals for 2 days, and then I'd have 1700 cals one day. IF (and that's a big if) I do not eat anything else today, but there are 7 hours till the end of the day and I don't know if I will be able to make it.
Gonna see if I can do a small amount of working out today to offset some of the cals but I'm not sure if I will have the energy for it.
 
Feeling better about myself (I still feel unwell, but better about myself mentally). I didn't eat anything after my pancake binge (well, other than licking the spoon clean after making brownies. My Splenda ones did NOT turn out). So stayed at about 2700 cals for the day.
No exercise as I'm still not feeling great.
 
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