The E-LAB Project

samsue was lurking here when I read about it on another thread.  Your question about keeping up with calories.  If you go to livestrong.com it is free and you can put in what you eat, keep up with your exercise and also it will calculate your calorie needs for how much what you want to loose per week.  If you use the app on your iphone is is $2.99 for their app but the computer version is free.  I used it when I started exercising and losing weight.  I lost 18lbs and it really helped me with portion control.

Suzette, I love the crane photo!  How neat that they live in your yard! 

I thought I would just write down each day my exercize and then report it at one time on Friday.  I thought that might be easier than team leaders trying to track each day.  I put a sheet of notebook paper by the phone and just kept track.

Today I actually ate breakfast before I left for work (shredded wheat with 2% milk), had 1/2 can veggie soup for lunch with a few grapes, and for dinner ate pork loin with a little rice. 

I try to keep a bag of chocolate chips in the freezer.  When I absolutely have to have chocolate and have nothing at home, I can eat about 5 (slowly let them melt in your mouth) and be satisfied.

O2B,

First off that sounds delicious!! Second, I don't see anything wrong with that as a meal!  You have a nice amount of veg there, protein from the eggs and good fats with the avocado. Not to mention, they just taste so darn good! 

All things in moderation!!!

I must have a sweet after a meal!  A Hershey kiss is my friend!  Delicious and perfectly portion controlled!!

ok i think im getting it.i get 1 point a week because im in active treatment right????

i do daily exercise (20 min. 7 days a week)

i am trying to gain weight so i east as healthy as i can but i do eat fattening foods.ha.

i drink at least 30 oz.of water a day.

i try to stay away from dairy and beef as im tryin to go natural.how am i doin??????

do i get an extra point for sat and sun as i went to drs then too.?????

Michelle - all of that is fine but you can make it healthier with substituting two things:

Instead of butter use Extra Virgin Olive Oil - soooo healthy!  And it tastes just about the same, honestly.

For the eggs - either do egg whites (which actually doesn't taste the same but is so much healthier) or egg beaters.

Those two things will make a huge difference!

So what possessed me to have a donut this morning when I was getting my coffee?  I've been so good.  Herein lies the problem.  Willpower.  Got none. 

Good Morning All,

Similar to this girl... 

I've got my shower in, make-up on, hair done... Ready to get going for the day!

Goooooo Cranes!

Meece - I am sure I missed something but what is the number in ( ) after names and weight?

raincitygirl,

I think the numbers in the parenthesis  is the number of pounds you would like to lose and are listed if you revealed that information.  At least that's what I think the (20) after my name is!

Thanks Shelly and Zogo for the information about the free calorie counting websites. I'll check them out.

Even though I wasn't planning on working out last night - my conscience got the best of me. I was complaining of an earache, which is usually from the weather changing. Anyway I didn't want to do anything strenuous, so I did yoga. Boy did I feel better after. Strange isn't it.... how we/I can talk myself out of exercise.

Making sure I get the water in for the day buy starting with a full glass when I get out of bed. I have to take meds anyway so I just drink the whole glass.... who would have thought it could be that easy? And, I found some crystallised lemon in packets at Whole Foods. They're natural, nothing added - I put them in my afternoon water bottle for a change of taste.

Feel better bookart.  I love homemade soup - beats quiche IMO.  Think I'm going to be snowed in tomorrow so probably will make a pot of soup when I come in from shoveling in the morning.

I use Pam instead of any oil when cooking eggs of any kind.  And of course no salt. 

For those trying to cut down on sodium, we stepped up the use of pepper quite a bit when we started to cut out salt. 

DH loves spicy food too.  We found that Cholula brand hot sauce has very little sodium (comparatively).  We actually buy it on-line in 1/2 gallon jugs (4 at a time)!

MEECIE!!!

The whole new look is indeed awesome!

Sleep well birdies!

Feel better those feeling under the weather -- and for those who are actually "under the weather" please be careful in the real conditions.

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