The E-LAB Project

Meece this is a great thread, wish I had found it when I was trying to loose weight.  I started in Oct at 138lbs and now am at my goal of 120lbs.  I exercise like crazy and cut my portions.  Eliminated sugar and caffiene from my diet and eat alot more fresh fruits and veges, frozen if I can't get fresh.

For all of you working on it.  Trust me that if I can do it anyone can do it.  I had not been into exercising for 20 years.  Always been an active person but not exercising.  Good Luck to you all I know that you will get to your goal. All of my doctors told me exercise and good nutrition was my best bet against not getting bc again so that has been my motivation.  Find your motivation and don't loose site of it.

I don't track anything beyond exercise and water intake.  Would like to track meals, etc. but it needs to be easy.  While I know that this is about all around good health and behaviors, I also feel like I have given over my whole life to breast cancer so anything else I do needs to be just plain easy.  Thank you so much for this website, the information you post, the friends I have made and for even considering putting together a tracker for us.

I mentioned in an earlier post that I have been using fitday.com.  Now that I am coming up on a year of using it, it would be nice to be able to see my weight graph for more than 12 months.

Thanks for asking moderators!  This site is my safe haven and home these days. 

Well tomorrow is weigh-in day! Edited to avoid confusion:  Weigh in is NOT tomorrow it is Friday.  I mixed up my days.... sorry!

Wishing everyone the best of luck!

Trying to get my progress ready to report tomorrow and was wondering if we had a consensus as to what types of activities count as exercise. 

I know things like aerobics, treadmill, Wii all count.  I shoveled snow for an hour this morning, and sure hope that counts since, I 'm too wiped out to do the treadmill after that!  Any other things?  Housecleaning? Laundry? Yard work for you gals lucky enough to not be buried in the white stuff!

I went back 15 pages or so and couldn't find anything where it was decided.

Thanks

Sheila,

OOOPPPSS... Show's how my week has been going... I thought tomorrow WAS Friday...lol 

I see where Meece has 1 pt for each 30 minutes of exercise but what I was wondering was, what TYPES of things count as exercise.

Thanks for the clarification, Sheila!

If you DO go out, bundle up!  That wind is really starting to kick up at least where I am in NY! Brrrrrrr!

Moderators: It's great to see your continued involvement & interest in our little bird-house.

I'm another one that would appreciate a tracking mechanism, but would want it to be very simple to follow, easy to update and would be lovely if it could be 'personalized' if necessary.

How about when we 'sign-in' to BCO and enter our password, it takes us to a personal charting section, in a manner similar to our ability to navigate within the 'personal message' section. I personally would want weight and exercise to be able to be entered, and in detail. I personally don't know that I'd be diligent enough to enter food/eaten calories, but could imagine that would be a very helpful tool, if someone was committed to using it.

Since I am currently finished with active treatment, this other thought is not for my benefit, but could the tracking mechanism be customized to have a calendar section for the tracking of medical appointments? Here's another thought. What about having a section where we could enter our physicians and their phone numbers/contact info.

This would create an all-in-one-location for all things BC: appointments, physician contact info, medicine schedule.......... and then personal weight, exercise etc.

Thanks again for asking and of course thank you for BCO in it's entirity.

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Go BIRDIES!!!!!

Moderators, I find that I'm not sure what amount of calories I take in each day so it would really be helpful to me to be able find a way to track what I ate and the calories for that particular item. ie, if I ate a cup of cereal, what is the calories for that and post it to the daily intake. This way along with the amount of exercise I was doing would give me some measure of intake/calories burned. I think most people, especially me don't have a clue what the average portion should be.

I looked on a couple of websites that offer this but it was way to confusing to me so I didn't go any further. A couple of them gave a week free of tracking but then charged after that. This is a long term process for me so I need to find some way to track calories, exercise, water intake, and sleep.

Thank you so much for being interested in our welfare, both mental and physical.  

Okay, I say work is hazardous to our health!  Now I know that most people don't like them but I absolutely love fruitcake and someone brought one in to the office today.  It's absolutely impossible to bypass most food in an office setting!  So don't look for much in the way of weight loss at tomorrow's check-in.  I'm good on the exercise and water but junk food - well, Rome wasn't built in a day. 

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Golly did I have a smile on my face this morning, stepping on the scale. I will hold my breath tomorrow in the hopes of seeing this number two days in a row!!!

Everybody get up and move today!!!

Turn down those "extras" whenever possible today/tonight!!!!

Drink your water.

Be sure to check in tomorrow. Everyone that checks in -- even to say hello, earns a point for their team tomorrow!!! Drink your water.

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I have a HUGE/ENORMOUS/GLORIOUS/AMAZING possibility coming together and I'm smiling from ear-to-ear in anticipation. Can't wait to tell you all about it!!!!!!!!

I think smiling ear-to-ear must burn an abundance of calories!!!

Patoo, work is hazardous to our health.... we had a sub bring in a big bag of Ghiradelli chocolates. There must have been 6 different varieties. UGH. I really like the dark chocolate with raspberries. Hard to resist sometimes when it's placed right in front of you!

Meece,

Had to laugh at Moms... A few months back I was at my Mom's house and she was talking about how she had an iced coffee with caramel flavor (I want to say it was from Dunkin' Donuts but not sure on that).  She was so proud that she had recreated it and wanted me to try it.

I did and it was delicious!  So we sipped and talked and talked and sipped until it was all gone. 

As I was getting ready to leave, I told her how great it tasted and asked how she made it.  Turns out it's ice, coffee, and a large SCOOP of caramel ice cream!!!

Acckkkkk, no wonder it was so good!

Hey ladies, can I join the flock?  I'm good about exercise and lost 10 pounds, but my diet needs work if I'm going to lose another 20.  That's my goal, by June 1.  

20 pounds in 20 weeks seems reasonable to me.  Rather not post my weight though...

I set a goal of walking 500 miles last year (did 490) and set a goal of 600 miles this year.  That's the 1100 in my sig. line.  I'm visual and it's motivating for me to watch the miles rack up. :-)