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Well part of my problem yesterday (and Sunday) is I’m coming down with something. I woke up both yesterday and today with a sore throat. It didn’t say sore but I can feel it’s swollen. My sinuses were tingly all day yesterday and I felt a little achy and very tired. Throw in a dash of PMS (man the timing on the challenge pictures couldn’t be worse for me!) and well you have a post like yesterday. Actually I write my posts ahead of time in word then copy and paste to the forum. What I wrote in my word document is full of much more angst.

Originally Posted by Etana

I suggest you write every piece of food you eat, every day

Originally Posted by realcdn

Tyou should record what you're eating somewhere.

Originally Posted by Karen411

I agree with the other advice you have gotten. Things didn't start coming together for me until I logged everything little thing consistently. I took a break and my results took a break, too.

I actually do have a program on my computer (NutriBase) that I use. The first 5 days of the challenge I used it and did well. Then went on vacation and well I posted that above…

This week is turning out to be hectic between getting ready for a long weekend away, not feeling great and back to school stuff (forgot my kids need backpacks and one of them needs sneakers I think! Doh!). I’m going to spend the rest of the week doing “stuff”, the stuff that needs to get done without worrying about formal exercise. I’ll “dust” off my program and get back to tracking and even try to pre-plan for next Tue at least. Between that and preparing for OPT (exercise part) I shouldn’t have any excuses next week.

Originally Posted by missjane

For me, it came down to REALLY wanting it. Once I REALLY wanted it bad enough, then nothing stood in my way. I focused on my goal and never lost sight of it. No matter what.

Originally Posted by Karen411

And, then there's always the "how bad do you want it?" Like Jane said, until you have that in place, nothing else is going to really matter.

Yeah, I’ve been thinking about this for a while. On the one hand I do think I really want it. On the other obviously my actions don’t match this. Jane, you’ve said the same thing on other threads. I’m curious did you go through a thought process to get to that point? I’ll save you the rest of my angst ridden (I keep hoping I’ll gain some insight but so far just more confusion) writing but I want to get to the point where I REALLY want it and then REALLY do it. I want OPT to work for me.

As an aside, anyone else hate the end of summer because of mice? Our main computer is in a basement office with a drop ceiling. The cat and I are sitting here tracking the movements of a (VERY LOUD) mouse over our heads. OMG, it sounds like there is mouse Olympics or a party going on up there! Grrr…time to get more mouse traps!