Thread: The Official Dreamviews Fit Club

Originally Posted by Man of Steel

What kind of kayak do you have? I've been putting off buying one until I get my own car, but I do love paddling a lake, with that effortless (not quite) gliding feeling, the only sound the dripping of the water from your paddle...

Cool, MOS, I hope you can get a kayak someday. Yeah, there is nothing like that feeling....

Mine is little Perception Swifty. I got it used from a friend. It's only 9.5 feet so it is easy to transport--and that was important to me. So it isn't anything fancy, but it does what I want.

I had a great time on the lake today. I took pictures. And yes, I made sure my friend took full length pictures of me. So I'll post those soon (don't have those downloaded)

I'm leaving very early in the morning to visit my sister that has cancer. I'll be gone a few days. I'm not sure what my workout schedule will be. But at least I had a really good workout today kayaking. I'm going to try to keep up the good eating.

Good luck to everyone.

See you in a few days.

Name (Username suffices): Shroom
Cardio workout(s) done today: I dance alot, maybe an hour a day of flat out dance.
Weight workout(s) done today: 50 pushups, 80 situps, half an hour of crunches
Areas of body worked today: arms, shoulder, abs, calves, thighs.
Current weight: 72kg
Current buddy: eh?
Foods consumed today: 3 sasauge rolls, and 8 weetbix
Drinks consumed today: 1 protein shake and 2 bottles of OJ

Welcome TheDogsMeow and Shroom!
Grats on your loss Ame! Hope you have a great visit TwoShadows, sorry to hear your sister's ill

I have had another completely worthless day. I forgot to write yesterday that I had also taken 1/2 a valium to knock out a horribly wicked headache. But despite my fatigue and the med, I did not sleep at all. Until my shows were on and I was relaxed watching the Mentalist *grrrr* Thank goodness for Hulu lol. But I awoke, on my own just 3 hours later. I'm hungry, but Mother Hubbard's Cubbard's are nearly bare and I don't go shopping until later Wednesday evening. I was also cold, having left the AC on from earlier in the day when the heat in the RV was stiffling.
For what it's worth, here's my report:

Cardio workout(s) done today: N/A
Weight workout(s) done today: N/A
Areas of body worked today: N/A
Current weight: 128
Current buddy: Mysterious Dreamer
Foods consumed today: 3 pancakes and a piece of Sausage with a large Coke from McD's; about 1/3 of a can of Honey Mustard Pringles, less than 1/3 of a pint of chocolate milk which I fell asleep drinking and left it out of the fridge *grrr*; I tried eating a cottage cheese single with blueberry sauce but it was frozen lol, so I ate about the same amount of plain cottage cheese from another container with the frozen sauce
Buddy's performance as a buddy (1/10): MIA
Rate your buddy's progress (1/10): MIA

Mood: 5
Meds: Norms
Health: 5- more or less completely okay today. I had a headache until I ate breakfast and other than being extremely fatigued, I've felt fine.

Studied: 0
Ministry: 0
Cleaned: 3
Recreation: 7
Groomed: 5
Total Sleep: 3 hours
Quality of Sleep: 5
Cigarettes: About 2 packs

Thanks Zhaylin!

Here's my report for the day. I actually wrote down what I ate at work on a piece of notebook paper LOL.

I forgot to post the vitamins I take each day. I take these in the morning:
Two Omega 3 Fish Oil Capsules (for general health and energy)
One Vitamin E softgel (for my skin)
One dropperful of Vitamin B complex sublingual liquid (for energy throughout the day. It really helps!)

Exercises done today: 25-30 solid minutes of brisk walking at lunchtime
Areas of body worked today: whole body
Current weight: 130
Current buddy: N/A
Foods and Drinks consumed today:

Breakfast:
Yoplait Whips Raspberry yogurt
Half of a 12 oz. cup of caramel flavored coffee with 3 sugar packets and half and half creamer

Lunch:
A few bites of taco salad at work. I didn't care for it much.
A couple spoonfuls of butterscotch pudding

Dinner:
A plate of cheese tortellini with spaghetti sauce

Other:
A Cadburry creme egg
California navel orange
Banana
12 oz. cup of flavored coffee
Water (For future reference, I drink a lot of water most every day, so I don't think I need to include water every time I post lol)

Buddy's performance as a buddy (1/10): N/A
Rate your buddy's progress (1/10): N/A

Note to self: Fruit makes me feel more energized!

Cardio workout(s) done today: Took trash to the road as well as an extremely heavy matress which nearly killed me lol My pulse was 138 after a relaxed 3 minute walk back to the RV My BP was 147/97
Weight workout(s) done today: "
Areas of body worked today: all over
Current weight: 128
Current buddy: Mysterious Dreamer
Foods consumed today: Wendy's Chicken Club, Large Fries, Large Coke; Snack sized Chocolate Cake, can of Coke
Buddy's performance as a buddy (1/10): MIA
Rate your buddy's progress (1/10): MIA

Mood: 6- I rationalized with my hubby into him paying my child support without docking my allowance. I only have to pay $250. a month and when we had a Nanny we paid about $500. a week plus housing and utilities Surprisingly, he didn't argue with me about it at all, though I'm certain he'll grumble about it later.
Meds: Norms, Naproxen
Health: 6 A little better than normal minus a short lived headache and some hunger pangs

Studied: 0
Ministry: 0
Cleaned: 5
Recreation: 8
Groomed: 4
Total Sleep: about 6 hours
Quality of Sleep: 5
Cigarettes: about 2 packs

Originally Posted by Amethyst Star

I've been lax on my last few weekly reports. I'll try to remember to write up a more official summary later on.

I'm back down to 222, having lost a pound from last Tuesday (having gained a pound from a week before that). So, I'm feeling good!

Congrats, Ames! Keep it up!

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

Cool, MOS, I hope you can get a kayak someday. Yeah, there is nothing like that feeling....

Mine is little Perception Swifty. I got it used from a friend. It's only 9.5 feet so it is easy to transport--and that was important to me. So it isn't anything fancy, but it does what I want.

I had a great time on the lake today. I took pictures. And yes, I made sure my friend took full length pictures of me. So I'll post those soon (don't have those downloaded)

I'm leaving very early in the morning to visit my sister that has cancer. I'll be gone a few days. I'm not sure what my workout schedule will be. But at least I had a really good workout today kayaking. I'm going to try to keep up the good eating.

Good luck to everyone.

See you in a few days.

Ah, that's what I thought it was, from your pictures. A nice little roustabout boat, from all I've heard. I was looking at an Old Town Otter Sport myself. ...but I guess we're straying off-topic.

Get those pics up when you can, and hope your sister is doing well, Twoshadows!


I've been slacking a little lately. I did chin-ups and back presses yesterday, but not many of either. However, I did get in a lot of walking, 2-3 miles or so I imagine.

Must go to work now. Got pictures to take and a ropes course to set up!

What do you do for a living MoS? Your work sounds very interesting.

Cardio workout(s) done today: 30 min. brisk walk
Weight workout(s) done today: N/A
Areas of body worked today: legs
Current weight: 128
Current buddy: Mysterious Dreamer
Foods consumed today: Half of a large Chicken Salad and med. fries from Sheetz with about 20 oz. of Coke; a container of Onion Petals from Arby's and a large Pepsi I'll never finish before falling asleep.
Buddy's performance as a buddy (1/10): MIA
Rate your buddy's progress (1/10): MIA

Mood: 6 I made it to a congregation meeting tonight- all but the last 20 or so minutes. It's the first I've been to in a couple of months and it felt great being back. There were a LOT of empty seats though There's a horrible "bug" going around, so a lot of them may have gotten it. My hubby has blisters on the back of his throat. He takes Amoxacillin every day for an ulcer and has for years. I reminded the good doctor that he's probably immune to them and might need to try something else to get rid of what looks like strep (sp) throat.
Meds: Norms
Health: 5 I've been incredibly fatigued today because of a poor nights sleep, but I'm otherwise fine. It's not even 10:30PM and I'm already about to head to bed... which is VERY unusual for me. I'm normally not in bed until 3-5AM and I didn't even wake up today until 2PM. I hope I'm not trying to catch whatever's going around!

Studied: about 2 hours
Ministry: 0
Cleaned: 4
Recreation: 5
Groomed: 5
Total Sleep: about 9 hours
Quality of Sleep: 3 I was freezing all night and didn't want to turn on the oven in case it got too hot during the day. I've had it on all day today though, as the temp hasn't risen above about 45 degrees.
Cigarettes: about 1 1/2 packs

Today was a so/so day.
Exercises done today: 15 minute brisk walk at lunchtime (it was cold out) and about 15 minutes total of brisk walking after work
Areas of body worked today: legs?
Current weight: 135 or so... I just weighed myself at a friend's house
Current buddy: N/A
Foods and Drinks consumed today:

Breakfast:
12 oz. cup of flavored coffee
Half of a buttered english muffin

Lunch:
A toasted reuben with most of the sauerkraut picked out

Dinner:
Tortellini with spaghetti sauce
Orange juice
Orange
A MilkyWay bar

Other:
A piece of whole grain bread with one slice of swiss cheese
A sugar cookie with frosting

Buddy's performance as a buddy (1/10): N/A
Rate your buddy's progress (1/10): N/A

Exercises done today: Just normal everyday walking, it was freezing outside!
Areas of body worked today: legs?
Current weight: Around 135
Current buddy: N/A
Foods and Drinks consumed today: An english muffin with butter for breakfast, a 12 oz. latte, lots of water, and a pack of Starburts. I know, not a lot of food but I wasn't very hungry today.

Buddy's performance as a buddy (1/10): N/A
Rate your buddy's progress (1/10): N/A

Yikes! That's less food than even I eat, TheDogsMeow lol Grats on going for a walk!

Cardio workout(s) done today: Light cleaning
Weight workout(s) done today: N/A
Areas of body worked today: all over
Current weight: 128
Current buddy: Mysterious Dreamer
Foods consumed today: Snack Sized Carrot Cake which completely disagreed with me, can of Coke; about 6 slices of various style pizzas while on visitation with 3 of my kids, a large coke and a brownie; 1/2 a can of Coke and most of a Frozen strawberry/banana (sp lol) smothie from Sheetz with Meal Replacement Vitamins added
Buddy's performance as a buddy (1/10): MIA
Rate your buddy's progress (1/10): MIA

Mood: 3-6 Was emotionally torn during the drive to see my kids- berating myself, telling myself they're better off without me yadda yadda, was fine afterwards
Meds: Norms
Health: 4 Extremely fatigued all day until I took a Provigil at around 5 PM

Studied: 0
Ministry: 0
Cleaned: 5
Recreation: 7
Groomed: 4
Total Sleep: a very fitful 10 hours plus a fitful 2 hour nap
Quality of Sleep: 3 My bed sheets need washed. They're very stale and kept waking me up lol. I MUST get my laundry done tomorrow. Hubby is VERY sick. He swears he had a temp of 108 and he can barely talk at all. He's 64 years old and says this is the worst sore throat he's ever had and he's getting a couch on top of that... so I've not been to his house except to drop off my blood pressure machine, a thermometer and an Icee earlier this evening. I'll have to brave the germs for my laundry however

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

What do you do for a living MoS? Your work sounds very interesting.

A little of this, a little of that, really. Most of the time I photograph and help set up team-building workshops for a company called Pine Mountain Adventures, which is owned by my neighbor. High ropes courses (climbing walls, tightrope-like exercises, etc.), canoeing, hiking, scavenger hunts, games ranging from group juggling to trust exercises with mouse traps, that sort of thing. I also designed, and run, the company website as well as do freelance web design and development work, with a bit of graphic design when I feel in the mood.

It really is a lot of fun, and I get to spend a lot of time outdoors doing the things I love to do like canoeing and photography, so I love it. There's usually some good exercise in it as well.


I've been doing grippers, back presses and chin-ups, but I'm slacking on push-ups and crunches. I'll post a more detailed thingamabob tomorrow.

I am so jealous of you MoS! When hubby and I were in Hawaii this past January, we went on a ... argh, what is it called... a zip line adventure. For people who rarely ever exercise the event should have killed us lol. It was brutal because it was on relatively flat land so we had to climb very steep platforms to zip across ocean views. It was incredibly fun and hubby joked that we should make our own at our farm. We have over 83 acres of gorgeous woods on top of the mountain (think rolling hills though). It would make an excellent place.

I had an incredibly lazy day "today" (I normally count my days from the time I wake up until I go to sleep). I accomplished absolutely nothing and I've been awake since around 1 yesterday afternoon.

Cardio workout(s) done today: N/A
Weight workout(s) done today: N/A
Areas of body worked today: N/A
Current weight: 128
Current buddy: Mysterious Dreamer
Foods consumed today: 8 oz container of Sunkist Petite Peaches with natural juice; Large Wendy's Fry, 1/2 a Chicken Club Sandwhich, Large Coke
Drinks consumed today: Besides the above, about 1 can of Coke
Buddy's performance as a buddy (1/10): MIA
Rate your buddy's progress (1/10): MIA

Mood: 5
Meds: Norms
Health: 5

Studied: 0
Ministry: 0
Cleaned: 2
Recreation: 8
Groomed: 3
Total Sleep: about 8 fitful hours
Quality of Sleep: 4
Cigarettes: Just opened my 3rd pack

Hubby's still dreadfully sick and his son is in town for a friends funeral. They rarely see each other so he hopes to have lunch with him this afternoon. I won't make it though because I'll be on the road and back from seeing my 14 year old. I feel about half starved lol so I imagine I'll have a McD's breakfast in a couple hours and Taco Bell at around 4PM But I'm going to go ahead and "end" my day now and record the rest later.
There will be no sleep for me today.

Hey all. I'd like to join

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Profile for joining

Name (Username suffices): Kyle
Current buddy (if applicable): None
Want a buddy?: Yea
Cheat Day (Optional): Sunday. Although I will use Sunday for stretching and balance activities.
Physical Goals: To build muscle, strength, fitness and to develop healthy eating habits.
Days you'll exercise: Monday - Saturday.
Cardio Routine:

(Everyday)
- 15 minutes of 1st Centre-line drill from Wing Tzun.
Followed by 5 minutes of other hand/footwork combinations
Finished with Sui-nim-tao form to cool down
(Some Days)
- Tuesday: 3-4 mile run
Friday: 3-4 mile run

Weight Routine:

- Monday
35 press-ups, Two lots of 60 crunches
15 curls
Wing-Tzun Class
- Tuesday
60 crunches, two lots of 35 press-ups
20 tri-cep push-ups
- Wednesday
40 press-ups, 70 crunches
20 curls
20 tri-cep push-ups
- Thursday
35 press-ups, 60 crunches
Wing-tzun class
- Friday
Two lots of 35 press-ups, 2 lots of 60 crunches
15 curls
20 tri-cep push-ups
- Saturday
50 press-ups, 70 crunches
Wing-tzun combat and fitness class

(Routine greatly subject to change as i pretty much just made it up on the spot)

Current weight: 9.5 stone. (or there abouts)
Why are you joining?
I'm not interested in loosing weight, just gaining muscle. I want to get stronger and fitter, and eat more healthily. Hopefully by joining here I will stick better to my routines.

Welcome to the Club Dizko! Excellent workout you have planned!

Cardio workout(s) done today: 30 minutes Pilates
Weight workout(s) done today: 10 minutes Boxing Shuffle
Areas of body worked today: all over
Current weight: 128
Current buddy: Mysterious Dreamer
Foods consumed today: 3 Pancakes, Sausage, a couple bites of biscuit and a bite of egg from McD's w/ a large Coke; a Steak Soft Taco and Cinnamon Twists from Taco Bell w/ a small Pepsi
Drinks consumed today: Other than the above, currently nursing a can of Coke
Buddy's performance as a buddy (1/10): MIA
Rate your buddy's progress (1/10): MIA

Mood: 5
Meds: Norms
Health: 5 starting to get a little reflux but nothing major

Studied: 1 1/2 hours
Ministry: 1 hour
Cleaned: 4
Recreation: 5
Groomed: 10
Total Sleep: 0
Quality of Sleep: N/A
Cigarettes: about 2 packs

*sigh* There shall be no sleep for me again tonight. I have Court tomorrow at 1PM and anxiety will keep me up. Tomorrow will definitely be a Provigil day.

Thanks Zhaylin. ;D
I see you are very active in this thread, keep it up

Welcome shroom, thedogsmeow, and Dizko. Congrats on the decision to make health and fitness a priority.

Originally Posted by Man of Steel

Get those pics up when you can, and hope your sister is doing well, Twoshadows!

Thanks, MoS. I had a great time with my sister. She is feeling much better than the last time I visited. She was even feling good enough to teach me how to make jewelry--which is one of her favorite hobbies/talents. So that was awesome.

I ate well while I was away, but I didn't get any formal exercising in. I have to make up for that this week. But my jeans are fitting looser, so something's working.

I don't have any really good pictures of myself from the kayaking trip. I have now downloaded them and have taken a good look. But I'll post one that I thought turned out cool. My friend and I did some hiking at the end of the canyon that we kayaked in. We found a few places where beams of sunlight shone down, and we had fun taking pictures of each other in the beam.



I have more kayaking pics in my dream journal if anyone is interested (that's where I always post my pictures).

WOW! What an amzing view TwoShadows!!!
I'm glad to hear your sister is feeling better.

You're welcome, Dizko. I used to keep a tiny composition notebook where I would record all that info and MORE every single day. I got out of the habit because writing up those suckers for a month in advance was very tiresome lol and now I don't have to. I saved a template to my desktop so all I have to do is copy/paste it here and fill in the details
Now if I could actually start doing more actual EXERCISING instead of just recording my mood, meds and health I'll be on the right track

Thanks Twoshadows. Your trip sounds like it was a lot of fun! Those are nice pictures.

I have fallen off the bandwagon these past couple days, eating some junk food. Not that eating junk food is bad, but I tend to go overboard, especially with chocolate.

Also, it has been very cold over the weekend, making it difficult to get outside and exercise. I will be trying to resume healthy eating habits this week.

I thought of something that might help all of us who are trying to lose weight. If someone could post an inspirational quote like once a week or something, that we could focus on to help motivate us Here's a website I found with motivational quotes: http://www.motivateus.com

Here's a good quote I found:
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing." - Abraham Lincoln

I think this is a great quote because it's important to have self motivation when trying to better yourself or lose weight.

Nice link and great idea, TheDogsMeow.

I had a very lazy and unproductive day.
Cardio workout(s) done today: N/A
Weight workout(s) done today: N/A
Areas of body worked today: N/A
Current weight: 128
Current buddy: Mysterious Dreamer
Foods consumed today: 3 Pancakes, 1 sausage, 1 hashbrown and a small Coke from McD's; a Ceasar Side Salad from Wendy's and a small Coke; I'm about to eat a Fruit Cup and finish a can of Coke.
Buddy's performance as a buddy (1/10): MIA
Rate your buddy's progress (1/10): MIA

Mood: 3-5
Meds: Norms, Provigil x's 2, Naproxen x's 2, Acid Reducer x's 2
Health: Blah, fatigued, melacholy, restless, lazy, the lymph nodes at my throat are sore, slight reflux and post nasal drip... I repeat: Blah.

Studied: 0
Ministry: 1 hour informal
Cleaned: 3
Recreation: 5
Groomed: 5
Total Sleep: 0
Quality of Sleep: N/A
Cigarettes: Somewhere I lost count. I bought a carton on Friday and I'm on my last pack out of 10..... Blah.

Originally Posted by thedogsmeow

Thanks Twoshadows. Your trip sounds like it was a lot of fun! Those are nice pictures.

Thanks. It was fun. I hope to be able to do it again soon.

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

WOW! What an amzing view TwoShadows!!!
I'm glad to hear your sister is feeling better.

Thanks, Zhaylin. It is just such a relief to see her doing so well.

And yeah, the views are so amazing. Everytime I'm there I always say, 'Is there any where else in the world that is this beautiful?"


Thedogsmeow--I like the quote idea. I'll keep my eye out for quotes that motivate me.


And Everyone... is anyone else going to post pictures? I have another picture that I took today that I can post. But it is a little awkward when no one else is posting pictures (except Zhaylin who was the very brave first one). I'm sure you young guys have nothing to be embarrassed about--throw up some pictures, so mine don't stand out.


Okay....

I have been thinking again about my diet and how to improve it (I do this alot ). I think it's time to cut back on the meat again. I'm not really a meat person. I added meat to my diet for the protein because I started lifting weights ( I had gone two years before that with out eating meat). I don't think I will completley eliminate it, but seriously cut back. I'll get my protein from egg whites, cottage cheese, nuts etc. And I think I'll get some protein powder to supplement.

I also want to get into the habit again of making green drinks in the morning and drinking them through out the day. I make green drinks by stuffing all the vegetables--Spinach, spring mix, cucumber, celery, zuccini, etc-- that I can fit into my blender and adding a little fruit (berries, mostly) and blending it to the consistancy of a not-so-thick shake. And that makes it easy to throw in other things like my protein powder, ground flax seed, maca powder and other good stuff. That's just an easy way to ensure I'm getting lots of healthy nutrition every day--cuz it all good raw stuff.

So I started this yesterday and plan to continue.

Zhalyin, from the looks of it, you really need to work on your diet. I've winced everytime I read your meals for the day. I'm eighteen and I don't even consume near that amount of sugar/fast food anymore! Just from seeing your coca-cola consumption and your constant visits to in-n-out joints I can tell that you're not much of the cooking type... but seriously? Do you realize what you are doing to yourself? Your health? Your teeth (from all that sugar)?

It's good that you've been recording yourself day in and day out, but I've seen no progress from you in the last nine pages of this thread. I'm not trying to bash you whatsoever, but if you're serious about getting fit, then DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. You're the only one stopping yourself, and with each can of coke, Mcdonalds breakfast, or pack of cigarettes you're just making it worse.

I went from basically eating processed foods and sugar for all my grade 12 year, but that's attributed to laziness and being stoned or drunk all the time. As much as I love fast food, I eventually made the realization of what I was doing to myself and hated it. I switched coffee with green tea (wonderful source of antioxidants but still contains caffeine), stopped smoking (ciggs and otherwise) and drinking frequently cold turkey, and changed my diet around. Even small things like taking out white bread and replacing it with whole wheat is an integral part of making your way to the bigger picture.

I know you're probably thinking, 'Well, it's not that easy,' but in all honesty it is. You're only holding you back. If you were serious about the whole fitness thing you should first start with realizing what you're doing to yourself (that being slowly killing your body). If you're not serious, well then... why are you here?

I understand you're sick, insomniac, plagued, etc. But your diet is probably leading to a lot of these things... it's a very vicious cycle that many people get trapped in.

Apologies if this came across as harsh, but I'm really giving you the truth here. I'm trying to help you - no sugar coating. There's probably a lot more to this story but this is from initial observations.

Originally Posted by CoLd BlooDed

Zhalyin, from the looks of it, you really need to work on your diet. I've winced everytime I read your meals for the day. I'm eighteen and I don't even consume near that amount of sugar/fast food anymore! Just from seeing your coca-cola consumption and your constant visits to in-n-out joints I can tell that you're not much of the cooking type... but seriously? Do you realize what you are doing to yourself? Your health? Your teeth (from all that sugar)?

It's good that you've been recording yourself day in and day out, but I've seen no progress from you in the last nine pages of this thread. I'm not trying to bash you whatsoever, but if you're serious about getting fit, then DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. You're the only one stopping yourself, and with each can of coke, Mcdonalds breakfast, or pack of cigarettes you're just making it worse.

I went from basically eating processed foods and sugar for all my grade 12 year, but that's attributed to laziness and being stoned or drunk all the time. As much as I love fast food, I eventually made the realization of what I was doing to myself and hated it. I switched coffee with green tea (wonderful source of antioxidants but still contains caffeine), stopped smoking (ciggs and otherwise) and drinking frequently cold turkey, and changed my diet around. Even small things like taking out white bread and replacing it with whole wheat is an integral part of making your way to the bigger picture.

I know you're probably thinking, 'Well, it's not that easy,' but in all honesty it is. You're only holding you back. If you were serious about the whole fitness thing you should first start with realizing what you're doing to yourself (that being slowly killing your body). If you're not serious, well then... why are you here?

I understand you're sick, insomniac, plagued, etc. But your diet is probably leading to a lot of these things... it's a very vicious cycle that many people get trapped in.

Apologies if this came across as harsh, but I'm really giving you the truth here. I'm trying to help you - no sugar coating. There's probably a lot more to this story but this is from initial observations.

Seriously. If you want to have fast food, limit it to at the VERY MOST one time every 2 weeks, but once every couple of months would be ideal.

Those sodas will really kill ya. You are drinking it like you as if it is water. I would advise never drinking soda besides maybe at a party or something where that is all that is available. What would be best is to replace that with just water, but if that is too hard to start, I would say replace it with something like Juice Squeeze and slowly try to depend on these drinks less and more on water.

Man, having pancakes, sausages, and hashbrowns for breakfast is awesome, but you should tone it down a lot. Try starting with once every two weeks and then once every month should be fine. Something like a blueberry muffin, yogurt, and toast would be a much better choice.

I know you are trying because you are on this thread, but you need strong willpower to be able to stop the habit. Try having one thing each day that you would consider something bad for you like a piece of cake or a cookie, but don't have any more. Good luck.

Originally Posted by kingofclutch

Try having one thing each day that you would consider something bad for you like a piece of cake or a cookie, but don't have any more. Good luck.

This is what I'm trying to do. I have really bad chocolate cravings lol. But I am trying to limit myself to one chocolate item a day or none if I can help it.

Today I had a peanut butter cookie sandwich with chocolate frosting in the middle. I know, not the healthiest choice.

I've found that fruit really helps do the trick when you're feeling hungry. I've been having an orange almost daily. Zhaylin, maybe you can try to eat a piece of fruit in place of one of your junk food choices a day and see if that helps. Fruit has natural sugar which is better than artificial sugar.

The bad thing about artificial sugars, and any artificial foods, is that our brains do not know how to process them, so they go to automatically store as fat. I read something about that the other day.

Also, high fructose corn syrup, which is in virtually everything these days, was found to contain levels of mercury in one out of every three products! Mercury is considered dangerous in ANY level. See this article. So I've been looking at labels trying to avoid high fructose corn syrup as much as I can.

Thanks for all the info, encouragement and kicks in the butt
I eat a lot of fast food because I'm a food phobe, hate cooking, and hate being out in public (to go shopping etc).
But as for my McD's breakfasts, those were special treats. I'm usually not even awake for breakfast. But I know I need to cut back on fast food. And I KNOW I REALLY need to start drinking more water and less coke. I don't eat much of anything and I exercise pretty regularly (except this past week) but my weight is pretty stable and I attribute it to Coke.
And for teeth... I don't have to worry about that any more. I had all of them removed when I was about 22 years old- healthy ones and bad ones alike (very long story).
But I realize, teeth is the least of my worries and besides the point.

I actually went grocery shopping earlier today, so I'll be eating somewhat better this week

Cardio workout(s) done today: 30 mi. pilates
Weight workout(s) done today: 10 min. Boxing Shuffle
Areas of body worked today: all over
Current weight: 128
Current buddy: Mysterious Dreamer
Foods consumed today: Fruit Cup and the natural juice (which I fell asleep before eating last night, so I had it this afternoon instead); Large Fries, 1/2 Arby's All American Roast Burger, Large Pepsi; 2 Chocolate covered Marshmallow Bunnies, can of Coke; about 6 bbq chips; 2 bowls of Bran Flakes (dumped the milk though).
Buddy's performance as a buddy (1/10): MIA
Rate your buddy's progress (1/10): MIA

Mood: 5
Meds: Norms, Provigil, Naproxin x's 2, Acid Reducer x's 2
Health: 5

Studied: 0
Ministry: 1 hour informal
Cleaned: 5
Recreation: 5
Groomed: 5
Total Sleep: about 12 hours plus a 2 hour nap
Quality of Sleep: 5
Cigarettes: about 1 1/2 packs