DreamingofRoses

Thanks for the kind words. I'm not actually quitting the challenge, though, I just meant the 'retry screen' entry to be indicative of how I feel like I'm starting from the beginning again. Which I am, sorta. I'm drinking a glass of water right now and I parked my car in the furthest space away up a hill today from where I go into work, so it's not all bad, but the lack of exercise besides my general meandering throughout the day and walking around at the convention kinda hit my exercise goal hard too. I'm rating this past week an F, just because of the tank on Sunday, and I don't think I'm gonna get more than a C for this week, if that.

Challenge Failed Restart? >Y / N So, my brain flipped a switch on Sunday. It actually started Friday with a glass of Coke along with supper, but I digress. I call it my "F(* & Everything and You" switch where my brain just stops caring about anything else going on in my life. It wasn't as if Friday was particularly stressful or anything, it just became "Eat Everything". (It didn't help that we had tuna casserole for dinner. It's so good, but I eat way too much.) Friday was 2 pieces of peanut butter toast for breakfast, and then tuna casserole and a glass of coke for dinner. Suffice it to say I actually did try to eat well on Saturday, I had these fake quiches which were baked vegetables in an egg coating in muffin pans for breakfast and lunch and a baked chicken leg for dinner with a smoothie somewhere in there of half a mango, a spoonful of plain greek yogurt, and bananas (and some 2% milk to thin it out). Sunday I had 2 peanut-butter jelly sandwiches for breakfast (I toast the bread and then put the peanut butter and jelly on, it's so good) and a cup of coffee because I had a 40 minute drive that morning to a church convention. I took my lunch to it, which was a salad of plain spinach leaves with mushrooms, bell peppers and cheese, and a container with plain greek yogurt and some granola and a banana, which was pretty good. I had to stop by the grocery store on the way home to pick up some necessities though, and that's where everything goes down hill. (I had a steak for dinner that night, with mashed potatoes and mushrooms on top.) The really bad stuff was Sunday Evening/Monday Morning ( a piece of chocolate pie in the morning, ugh) and today. One (not whole) Hershey's Chocolate Creme pie and bag of Milano (yes, whole) double chocolate cookies later and here we are, back where we started. Today I had a bowl of one pack of Ramen and coffee for breakfast, and a baked chicken leg for dinner with the bag of Milano cookies squashed in between with a glass of 2% milk. Now I feel horrible. Blargh.

September 18, 2014 Sugary drinks are the devil. The literal devil. How else could they be so tempting? I don't know what it is about stupid sugar but I love it so much. It's like a toxic relationship where I'm too needy and it's too clingy. Blargh. Onward with the details. Diet Drinks Coffee (x2 one in the morning and one when I got home. You can assume when I say coffee, there's also at least 2 tsp of sugar and creamer each.)Milk ('Cause I'm apparently 5 years old.) Water (I'm having my only glass now.)Meals Breakfast: the last half of the bowl of pasta I was unable to finish last night with the carrot-ginger sauce and chicken.Lunch: take a guess (I'll give you a hint: Rich men need it, poor men have it, and if you eat only it you die.)Dinner: 3 eggs with 6 leaves of spinach and a little bit of onion with 2 pieces of toast.Dinner 2: Electric Boogaloo: A baked chicken leg and from-the box mashed potatoes. I'd say about 1 c with grated Parmesan on top.Exercise None. I'm having a bit of trouble moving around right now since one of my legs has practically been rubbed raw. Definitely need to give the movement a break for a bit.Evaluation: Kinda par for the course this week, although water-drinking has taken a huge backslide and I need to jump on that. Extra comments: That sounds like it would be amazingly disgusting. I just wanted to let y'all know that I'm following y'alls threads. I'm rather word-less on what to post (I'm not a big fan of making 'hi!' posts, I feel awkward) but it's great to see you all making progress.

Honestly, if it's that bad, cut that part of the warm-up out, or reduce the amount of time doing them. Doing the full routine with something in place of the jumping jacks is better than doing the jumping jacks and not the routine. I may need to adjust my goals, since I'm having trouble cutting processed sugar completely out of my diet, especially sugary drinks. They are the bane of my existence, but since my goal is to get myself in the habit of not choosing sugary drinks or food, keeping the 'no processed sugar' seems like it should stay.

I was debating what format my post was going to take this time, but I'm kinda tired so I'll go with succinct. Let me preface this with a 'thank you' to all of you for your support and say I really, really suck at this. September 16 2014 Diet Breakfast: 2 pieces of toast with peanut butter on them. Nothing else.Nothing for lunch.Dinner: 1 small baked chicken leg with a smoothie made out of 1 banana, 1/2 a peach, about 4 leaves spinach, and 1 c of milk.Drinks: Water for most of the day. Busted at the end of the day with a glass of milk (for full disclosure, it had some Italian Sweet Creme coffee creamer in it which made it sweet.Exercise Spent 3 1/2 hours putting a bed I bought together when I got home from work. No walk for me. September 17 2014 Diet: Woke up late so nothing for breakfastA chick-fil-a cool wrap (300 calories, not too bad. The sodium in that thing is obscene though) and a large sweet tea (stupid South).Half of a pita stuffed with chicken salad courtesy of a coworker.A 2 banana, 1/2 peach, 3-4 leaf spinach, 1-11/2 c milk smoothie and a bowl of pasta with home-made carrot-ginger sauce (2 tbsp butter, 1 large carrot, 1 root of ginger, 1/4 of a yellow onion) and the meat of two chicken bone-in chicken legs (boiled) I made two servings and put half in the fridge for lunch tomorrow. Brought a big cup with me to work and drank water all day (until the trip to chick-fil-a) and am currently drinking another large glass of water because ginger-carrot sauce is spicy.Exercise: A 1.4 mile walk around the neighborhood feeling a little less winded.Evaluation: Now that I actually look back at yesterday's meals I can see that's the type of day I'm aiming for calorie-wise. I had originally thought I had eaten too little, but that is because most of my calories came in at the end of the day. Today was just a mess diet-wise. Let's not talk about it.

And so, the story begins... DreamingofRoses woke up, back and legs stiff, fingers aching, slightly off balance. She fumbled for her glasses and rose to her feet to go to the bathroom, realizing her balance was off. She realized she was out of toilet paper once she sat down, and knew that the ides of September was going to be awesome. Breakdown: Diet Breakfast was 2 eggs scrambled with about 1/4 c of shredded cheddar cheese and a spoonful of picante sauce and sour cream. YumLunch was half a chicken salad sandwich brought in by a coworker (made from store-bought chicken salad) and a 20 oz full Mtn. Dew. BAD.Dinner was about 1 1/2 c cooked pasta covered lightly with spaghetti sauce from a can.Snack was a banana. YumBesides the soda earlier in the day, all I've been drinking is water, which is good. I've drunk about 3 containers (of various sizes) of water The whole going without coffee thing is gonna be hard, though.​ExerciseI walked 1.4 miles today. Not the 2 even I was hoping for, but it left me sweating and happy and a little sore. I knew if I kept going I probably would have been completely flagged by the end of it, which is no fun.​EvaluationEh, today's pretty C- material (giving in to the Dew took major points off because I need to get over this sugar thing I have.) Honestly, this week's gonna be a little rough. I don't get paid until Friday, and even though I picked up some fresh foods at the grocery store today, it's still gonna be a little difficult to plan my meal through the week. Remember kids, preparation is key. Yeah, so today kind of sucked in terms of just feeling blah. I'm detoxxing from sugar and caffeine so that was great, and my really nice manager (no sarcasm) was kind enough to bring me (and my coworkers) Mtn Dew. That turned out terrifically for my diet. I really need to start bringing lunch to work, also. I'm almost always hungry, which is not a good thing. I did, however, manage to go the grocery store without buying any of my vice foods. I had to go for milk, bread, and creamer. I came out with those + two huge carrots, fresh ginger, spinach, two peaches, and a bunch of bananas (peach/banana/spinach smoothie, anyone?) I'll stock up better when I get my next pay check. At least I managed to get a little bit of veg (yes, tomato sauce counts and there was celery in the chicken salad, and the picante sauce was all veg) in every meal and I walked. So not too terribly bad.

Here's my challenge, the title and first line are based off of the game Don't Starve. I live in the Southeastern U.S., South Carolina specifically, and I'm working on cleaning up my diet and setting some good walking habits at the very least. I've been overweight for all of my adult life and most of my teenage years so I'm hoping to change that this year.

I know I'm new, but do you mind if I grab a bunk? I've got apples!

Thanks for the encouragement! To answer your questions: 1) I've done the walk I'm thinking of before (around two months ago) without too many problems. My biggest issues are the heat and the hills, but you're right. I should probably parse that goal down to walking around outside at least once a day. The biggest problem I'm going to have is avoiding buying the stuff I eat too much of. Generally we don't keep a whole lot of food that you can gorge on in the house so I usually end up coming home with it. I think I can avoid that pitfall by not going to grocery store while I'm hungry and limiting my grocery trips to once every week. Yes, I don't mind water it's just that I tend to gravitate to things with more flavor (read: sugar).

She should probably find something to eat before night comes! The question is what. See, my problem is I like to eat. A lot. And not just in the manner of "I like to eat" but also in the manner of "I like eating big portions". This plus a lifetime of on-and-off activity has led to my problem right now. I am severely overweight. Main Quest: Lose 200 lbs to get to a weight where I can enjoy other things, like running, gymnastics, and waterslides. Specific quests for this challenge: 1) Clean up my diet. This is incredibly important since I eat like crap and convince myself that I don't. This is comprised of three smaller steps. No processed sugar. (This is to give me an OK on fruits and honey.)Keeping a diet journal in-thread.Eating a serving of vegetables with every meal. 2) Drinking water when I'm thirsty with a minimum of 3 cups a day No more coffee, since I tend to load it down with sugar and creamer, and no more sodas diet or not. Tea that is not loaded down with sugar. 3) Walk to Rivendell Or at least walk for 2 miles (a walk around my neighborhood) every day. It's only about 80 miles over the course of six weeks but it's a place to start. Life Goal: Finish the Javascript courses on Codecademy, because they're fun. Motivation: I want to be able to do awesome things with my body like handstands and a 5k and I want to strengthen my willpower.