Free Online Diet and Exercise Journal

http://www.my-calorie-counter.com/calorie_counter.asp
Good night --- this is a great tool.

I started today with my calories in = calories out strategy for breaking down and meeting my goals one calorie at a time.

Today, and at my present weight, my goal is to lose 2 pounds per week.
So! Fellow bloggers, I have found this tool to help me and boy did it help me. Today I went to Arby's for lunch. Hmmm, thought I would order the turkey bacon ranch on wheat and save myself some calories. OMG, you would not believe it! I came back to the office and searched under my journal to add my sandwich in...
I am thinking, ahh this might be 500 or so calories. Well, let me just tell you something. If I had ordered a regular roast beef, it would had been 330 calories. But - NO - I had to over think and analyze and spend 880 calories on my sandwich. GOOD GRIEF!!!!!!

I have now expended a total of 1130 of my allocated 1500 for the day and it is only LUNCH!
What is going on! What a crazy way to start my calories in = calories out.
This forces me to exercise for 1 hour so that I can burn 449 calories which will help me stay on target if I want to eat anything for dinner. As it stands right now, I can eat 2 apples, 1 bag of lowfat, sodium, no butter POPCORN!

SHOW ME THE BEEF...

I am resolved, to learn to think before I eat. So tomorrow, I will pop in the food items before I go to lunch and proceed to order accordingly.

In the meantime, I just finished a very slow walk on the treadmill, which - if I am lucky - will have burned off a few of the extra caloric intake for today!

Journal for the weekly changes in eating

Today I had soup and salad at Cap City Diner.
AWESOME, AWESOME

A few of my coworkers are doing this soup and salad eat healthy on Wednesdays. We had a great time today. I am so excited. Comrades in Arms - right there cheering me on to be successful.

I didn't have my cappachino this morning and I didn't snack on M & Ms today.

It was good day, until I went to ladies class tonite and low and behold the host and class facilitator served us all up with "BANANA SPLITS". Now this was crazy. I was going for my womens Bible Study and I encounter the devil! Little demons everywhere that looked like hersheys syrup, caramel, marcchino cherries, mixed nuts, and whipped cream. UMMMMM
Why me???? Ahhhh, but you know --- that little cloud of whipped cream was almost like heaven.

OMG, I am so twisted in my thinking! demons and angels they are everywhere!

PIZZA, one of my favorite foods

Okay, so the 5 week body makeover is on the horizon!

Now, it means I need to stretch and exercise and yes, I need to keep track of calories.

Calories in calories out!

You know if it is so simple, why do we have a nation that is 31% greater than 30 on their body mass index (BMI)?

If it is so simple, why have we not seen an unleashing of the magic pill to the millions of people that are overweight?

I just don't get it. If it is so simple, why am I forever seeking a new way of eating, or a new way of exercising?

So a fat burning program, what does that mean? How do you burn fat easily? Can't be done fellow bloggers. There is no magic pill until they take care of what is messed up in my head about weight! All the thoughts I have consuming everyday is usually about why I am feeling bad. Why do I always feel fatigue?

So, I have decided to make the change in my life by pursuing a determination to do one thing consistently every day.

The doctor says I need to start with sugar! Okay, so does that mean candy, cake, ice cream and other such things? Or does he mean stop eating things that metabolize as sugar. Hmmm, I am hoping that means no special sugarery sweets, because if it means the metabolizing thing then I am in trouble. I love carbs!

They don't love me.

So I am starting with the M&Ms and the Cappuccino's for the rest of this week!
Next week I will try to take out refined sugars, coffee and cake

Desperado Dieting

So feeling blue about the weight, I decided to uplift my soul with a little sarcasm.
Where can you find sarcasm...
www.faddiet.com

Here is a little excerpt of humor from that site!

Amputation Diet

People often write to me and ask: "What is the fastest way I can lose weight?" Being a wise-ass I always reply with the same answer "Amputate your arm". That usually ends a conversation that I didn't feel like participating in.

After five years of replying in this manner I started to wonder how much weight you would ACTUALLY lose if you did amputate your arm. Here is a little bit of information for you:
FadDiet.com presents the Amputation Diet Plan

Fellow Bloggers this is a great site! Keeps me in reality!

Happy Father's Day

We spent a day feasting. Now let me tell you this was a very important father's day for my son who is coming up on a year anniversary of his divorce.

So, my goal was to help his two children learn how to put on the party for showing how to honor your father.

Alexis decided she would set the table outside on the patio. Tyler decided to play the wii.
Nana pulled together the steaks and shrimp while the kids continue to play wii.

So, somehow the learning experience is turning into Nana constantly nagging them to put away the game and help get things ready.

Yep, that was a lot of fun! (sarcasm). You know the generations of today just don't get this honor your parent's thing.

Anyway, we had a sit down dinner with yummy food and great times with the two men in our life that are fathers, my husband and my son.

A new car !

Now for today...all my sisterhood of bloggers.
Today was a day spent looking at new cars.
Yes, we traded the PT Cruiser in for a new Rendezvous. Wow is it nice! We are pretty excited to make a road trip, soon!

In just a few weeks we will be vacationing in Tennesee. I just can't wait to get to my cabin in the smokies...my place of refuge.

A soft bed!

Well we spent the day at the farm on Saturday. It was a good day but the grandkids were very tired afterwards.

It was bath day and all the horses took turns getting cleaned up from a very long spring. Lexi worked on her pony and Tyler lost interest and played video games.
What a fun, but long day.

All is good with the Horses. I will attach a few pics later.