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Great news, Linz!
Wish I could say the same. I finally weighed myself yesterday and after a week and a half I am still holding steady at 140. Better than gaining I guess. But I do have good news, too - I used the elliptical yesterday for the first time in MONTHS!!! It was only for a slow 15 minutes, but I actually broke a sweat! And my foot isn't any more sore than usual this AM. There is hope that I may be back running sometime this summer!!
On to food -
Breakfast: Oatmeal w/soy milk, cinnamon and raisins. OJ w/fiber. 16 oz coffee w/cream and sugar (I am a creature of habit  )
snack: apple
Lunch: turkey and swiss on wheat w/spinach and mustard
snack: Quaker chewy granola bar - choc chip (moment of hunger and weakness!)
Dinner: steak, baked sweet potato, steamed asparagus
"dessert": fresh raspberries (trying to convince myself that fruit can be dessert - so far unscuccessfully)
Water: maybe 60 oz if you count the mint tea.
Exercise: 15 minutes on the elliptical, 5-minute walking warmup and 5-min walking cool-down. Various crunches, lifted (quads, hamstrings, wrists/forearms only).
All in all, a good day. Didn't even feel too bad about the granola bar since I knew I was exercising and it'd be a long time before dinner.
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...puts me at 150 pounds and I should be no more than 126!  So you're doing better than me already. 
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been trying to think about it as little as possible to keep stress levels down- my best friend had her brain cut open for the second time today.. if they had screwed up it would have been a frontal lobotomy due to location. She lost some abilities last time and it was in a less sensitive part of the brain. this time its in her frontal lobe..
Oh my goodness.... I hope she is doing ok... how are you hangin in there?
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Pre-breakfast: slice of carrot-ginger bread
Breakfast: oatmeal w/ brown sugar, pumpkin pie spice, & canned peaches
Lunch: impossibly easy spinach-parm pie, carrot-ginger bread, leftover herbed potatoes
Snacks: lots more carrot-ginger bread, canned pears, brown sugar banana bread
Dinner: leftover turkey meatloaf & a fresh batch of herbed potatoes!
Your foods are FAB!
Drinks: 4 cups teeccino w/ stevia & rice milk, 3 glasses water = 70oz Yah! 
Food & drinks total: 1651
Fruits & veggies: peaches, potato x 5 (a serving of diced potato is 1/2 cup), spinach, pears = 8
Activity: shoveling snow = -369 Yah!!
See, and today I feel completely stuffed eating less! Go figure! Strange how that happens...
I *tentatively* seem to have figured out why I've been having (non-exercise-related) attacks all the time. Back when I first started to really stabilize, I started my day with a slice of bread, and then waited an hour to eat breakfast, rather than just jumping in and eating first thing. I stopped that habit when I started counting calories, because I didn't want the extra 100-120 calories first thing in the morning. That makes total sense!
Well, the past few days I've gone back to eating my bread in the morning, and guess what? No attacks! Yah!!  I also realized that I most often have attacks when I eat to the point of being quite full, but only in the morning... so I cut my portion of oatmeal in half (I now eat a half-serving with fruit). PERFECT!!  I'm still eating roughly the same calories, but I feel SO much better. Oh, I'm so happy to hear this!! 
Sooo... tomorrow I'm going to risk an attack and try one of my workouts again, to see if the exercise is really to blame or if I just solved the problem by changing the way I eat. Let us know what happens (or not)...
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Hello!
Okay, today I did good with my exercise!! Elliptical for 47 minutes = 218 calories. Weight Lifting 20 minutes = 76 calories. GREAT JOB!!
My food budget is therefore: 1519 calories!
Breakfast: Chocolate Peppermint Stick Luna bar (My very last one from our Seattle trip!!  I'll need to get across the border again soon!) Yes, how about June 25th?? or sooner.... and a mango/peace applesauce = 273 calories
Snack: 30g pretzels, 2 arrowroot cookies = 170 calories
Lunch: Missed lunch today 'cause I did a bunch of running around. Bad Stephanie. {{spank spank}}
Later Snack: 2 UFO and some jellybeans = 273 calories
Dinner: 2 slices of french bread with chicken fajita deli meat and ICBINB sandwich = 365 calories
Which brings my total to.. 1081. I will definitely have another snack, maybe some more arrowroots or UFO. Either way, I will stay under 1300 calories today. WWOOOOHHHOOOO!!!!
Water Intake: I am supposed to have 80 oz of water a day, today I have had... 72 oz and it's only 720 pm so I can have more before I go to bed, I will definitely have some more herbal tea so that'll be good. OUTSTANDING!!
Much better day today - yay for me! YES!!
Off to eat my sandwich now! enjoy!!
Cheers!
--Steph
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Congratulations, Linz! Especially on being well enough to be discharged by your doctor, 'cos you don't look overweight in your picture
My report is as follows:
foodies:
*bowl of porridge with half peach & banana
*crumpet
*home-baked baguette with hummus & roasted veg chutney + 4 fresh cherry tomatoes sounds yummy
*apple
*toasted muffin with blackcurrant jam
*butternut squash, red pepper & tempeh satay what is tempeh satay? curry with rice noodles (maybe 1 cup of food)
*2 tinned pear halves
Exercise:
*45 minutes NYCB exercises, with emphasis on ab muscles Wonder if your abs hurt as bad as mine today? HURT SO GOOD!!
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Too many points to count. I blew it. it's just ONE day....jump back on girl!! I did't gain any weight this week. That's a plus. YES I'm going to look into some exercise videos. That's a good idea.... I also replied to your other post... Maybe that will help.
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fibro makes it SO HARD to lose weight...especialy with the meds! I've only lost 5lbs in 4 weeks. We CAn do it....just slowly.
I'm SO PROUD OF YOU! sounds like you're doing great! Yahoooooo!
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Great news, Linz!
Wish I could say the same. I finally weighed myself yesterday and after a week and a half I am still holding steady at 140. Better than gaining I guess. yes.. But I do have good news, too - I used the elliptical yesterday for the first time in MONTHS!!! Yeah!! It was only for a slow 15 minutes, but I actually broke a sweat! It's all good!! And my foot isn't any more sore than usual this AM. There is hope that I may be back running sometime this summer!! Yipee!!
On to food -
Breakfast: Oatmeal w/soy milk, cinnamon and raisins. OJ w/fiber. 16 oz coffee w/cream and sugar (I am a creature of habit ) LOL
snack: apple
Lunch: turkey and swiss on wheat w/spinach and mustard
snack: Quaker chewy granola bar - choc chip (moment of hunger and weakness!)
Dinner: steak,  BEEF Steak?? baked sweet potato, steamed asparagus
"dessert": fresh raspberries (trying to convince myself that fruit can be dessert - so far unscuccessfully) lol
Water: maybe 60 oz if you count the mint tea. yes you can!!
Exercise: 15 minutes on the elliptical, 5-minute walking warmup and 5-min walking cool-down. Various crunches, lifted (quads, hamstrings, wrists/forearms only). Great job!!
All in all, a good day. Didn't even feel too bad about the granola bar since I knew I was exercising and it'd be a long time before dinner.
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