Been starving to death all morning even though I had 2minute noodles at 2am and a homemade hamburger at 3am. Its just passed midday and I made a bowl of sweet potato soup for lunch. Tossing up weather to ride to Aldies or walk. The roads are still a bit wet.

Been starving to death all morning even though I had 2minute noodles at 2am and a homemade hamburger at 3am. Its just passed midday and I made a bowl of sweet potato soup for lunch. Tossing up weather to ride to Aldies or walk. The roads are still a bit wet.

Sweet potatoes and yams are good and good for you. A baked sweet potato sound good right now.

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I fell off the wagon... and when I fell, I landed in a ditch and the wagon rolled back and forth over me a few times.

Breakfast was totally sensible... lunch even more so. Then Eric got home super late and I was famished by the time we sat down to dinner. My impulse control was gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone... gone with the age of the Mastodon. I drank waaaaaaaaaaaay too much wine, nibbled on some high salt/high calorie appetizers and ate waaaaaay too much dinner.

Sigh...

I shall try to scratch and claw my way back up onto the wagon tomorrow.

I fell off the wagon... and when I fell, I landed in a ditch and the wagon rolled back and forth over me a few times.

Breakfast was totally sensible... lunch even more so. Then Eric got home super late and I was famished by the time we sat down to dinner. My impulse control was gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone... gone with the age of the Mastodon. I drank waaaaaaaaaaaay too much wine, nibbled on some high salt/high calorie appetizers and ate waaaaaay too much dinner.

Sigh...

I shall try to scratch and claw my way back up onto the wagon tomorrow.

What sort of apps did you have? What was for supper?

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What sort of apps did you have? What was for supper?

The apps were cracker nuts from the Philippines and a Japanese rice cracker/wasabi pea mix. Very high salt!

Dinner was individual chicken pot pies from a local bakery near us and oven roasted cauliflower. (I didn't eat the soggy bottom and side crusts of my pie, so at least I saved a few calories there.) The adobo flavored cracker nuts and half a bottle of wine were my undoing tonight.

What sort of apps did you have? What was for supper?

The apps were cracker nuts from the Philippines and a Japanese rice cracker/wasabi pea mix. Very high salt!

Dinner was individual chicken pot pies from a local bakery near us and oven roasted cauliflower. (I didn't eat the soggy bottom and side crusts of my pie, so at least I saved a few calories there.) The adobo flavored cracker nuts and half a bottle of wine were my undoing tonight.

Other than the salt, the apps sound pretty ok, but easy to get carried away with...

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Other than the salt, the apps sound pretty ok, but easy to get carried away with...

I think that the next time I am sitting around waiting for Eric to get home, I will eat a piece of fruit so that I am not wildly hungry if we have a very late dinner.

Other than the salt, the apps sound pretty ok, but easy to get carried away with...

I think that the next time I am sitting around waiting for Eric to get home, I will eat a piece of fruit so that I am not wildly hungry if we have a very late dinner.

A good plan, but fruit just doesn't have the sexy allure of a salty snack.

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A good plan, but fruit just doesn't have the sexy allure of a salty snack.

Ain't it the truth!!!

Well, I'm going to go hit the hay. Tomorrow is always another day.

Goodnight friends.

A good plan, but fruit just doesn't have the sexy allure of a salty snack.

Ain't it the truth!!!

Well, I'm going to go hit the hay. Tomorrow is always another day.

Goodnight friends.

Goodnight Angela.
Don't worry tomorrow will be better.

Thanks for the advice, everyone, but NOT to worry... I am NOT crash dieting. I am increasing my exercise.

I've moved up to 45 Min. of treadmill a day from 30 Min. I walk for 22.5 Min. take a 5 Min. break, then walk another 22.5 Min. Plus the "Cool Down" times of 5 Min. each cycle brings me to 55 Min. of walking.

I should be able to lose five pounds by Monday doing this... I hope.

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Just remember that muscle tissue burns calories even when you're at rest.

I knew it! I thought it were the brains that burned calories though...

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Just remember that muscle tissue burns calories even when you're at rest.

I knew it! I thought it were the brains that burned calories though...

I dont think my brain is burning up too many calories, it's pretty quiet in here. :-)

Other than the salt, the apps sound pretty ok, but easy to get carried away with...

I think that the next time I am sitting around waiting for Eric to get home, I will eat a piece of fruit so that I am not wildly hungry if we have a very late dinner.

Bananas are good because they release energy slowly and you don't get those sudden dips in blood sugar that make you crave the bad stuff.

I'm off in a minute to our Friday class, it shouldn't be as horrific as Wednesday's was. I managed to get in a swim yesterday too. I've been meaning to ad a swim to my routine for a while now because that is usually enough to tip me over from maintaining my weight, to actually losing it. So thanks for inspiring me to stop putting it off!

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I agree about the bananas, and I actually like them, but when there's a box of Cheez-it's close at hand, the lovely banana rarely prevails. I don't understand why some people's brains make poor choices.

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I agree about the bananas, and I actually like them, but when there's a box of Cheez-it's close at hand, the lovely banana rarely prevails. I don't understand why some people's brains make poor choices.

How do Cheez-it's get in your house?? :D

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I agree about the bananas, and I actually like them, but when there's a box of Cheez-it's close at hand, the lovely banana rarely prevails. I don't understand why some people's brains make poor choices.

How do Cheez-it's get in your house?? :D

I have no idea. They just appear. I know I need exercise, and this house needs a bad snack exorcism.

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Went for a 3 mile walk today (about 45 minutes).

Wow! (And welcome.)

...this house needs a bad snack exorcism.

LOL!!! Mine too.

Julie, you're right; brains are energy hogs:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thinking-hard-calories/

I think that they needed to differentiate amongst types of stress. Using the SAT example, considering possible long term consequences, is a specific kind of stress: fear. I'd bet that mental activities performed under specific constraints, such as time, accuracy, etc., plus the knowledge of a possible punishment running in the background (letting people down, going to state vs ivy, self-esteem, add whatever fears you can think of) and I think you'll get a specific type of fear-based stress, where excess cortisol from the adrenal glands drench the body, and inhibits the retrieval of long-term memories in the hippocampus. To me, that would seem to cause brain-fog, and exhaustion.

Vulcans 1, humans 0.

CC

:D Thanx CC:) I think stress causes the muscles to work because one is always tense then.

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Hey HEY It's Saturday.

Saturday is REWARD day. In other words the day I undo all of the weeks starving to death and pig out on take away food. For the last 6 months or so Saturday mornings have started with cruising the bike around past the bike shop, around the waterfront and around town. Getting to the food court at the shopping center, hopefully just before the lunch time rush, and having a KFC fillet burger ,chips and can of Pepsi combined with some people watching. Saturday evenings start with a cruise around town stopping by at my fave Japanese restaurant for a deluxe box of sushi to eat in front of the TV.

So okay, after my drinking binge last weekend I've finally managed to get back to sleeping at night and waking up in the morning so Coffee for breakfast and definitely going the KFC for lunch in about 2.5 hours. May or may not have the sushi.

Keep up the good work every one and thanks for all of the support. I feel thinner already.