Sun today! Woohoo! Edited yesterdays entry with a brownies confession. All are in the rubbish bin, outside, irretrievable. 
Today I am grateful that the sun is shining and that I'm retired!
Workout at gym:
Menu:
TOTAL: 1434
Progress as of today: 32.8 lbs lost so far, only 6.2 lbs to go!
Taking a good idea from Moogy's blog......
Today I am grateful for my loving and patient husband, for my good health, for living in the midst of gorgeous scenery!
Didn't get to my strength training yesterday afternoon, so did it all this morning. If the sun comes back out I may go for a power walk.
We'll be gone M - W next week so I'm going to do a workout at home (or outside) on Saturday and a long workout at the gym on Sunday while hub is at church and then doing his laps in the pool.
Workout:
Menu:
TOTAL: 1276
Edit: Confession: I got very weak and the brownies which kept screaming my name got an answer. Ate one late last night just before bed (and yes, you can eat them frozen). Today after lunch I just kept thinking about how incredibly good they taste, and I ate 4!!! 
Disgusting! The rest of them are now outside in the bin! All of them. They are my very favourite dessert and having them in the house is simply not possible, ever.
Progress as of today: 32.8 lbs lost so far, only 6.2 lbs to go!
Your entry re: brownies reminds me of a quote. I'll put it in tomorrow's entry.
Another dreich, rainy day! England is getting perfect weather. Not fair! Next sunny day I plan to try to ride my bike up a very steep hill which is a few miles down the road from us. I've never been able to ride all the way to the top and I want to see if all the spinning and the strength I've built up in my legs will help me do it.
The scale is headed downward! 
Workout at gym:
Menu:
TOTAL: 1460
Congrats on the weightloss. Keep it up Annie!
Hope you lovely ladies are having a nice Sunday.
England got the warm, sunny temps today but we've got fog and drizzle. Arghh...
Back on track but next week we're going to do two overnights up in Inverness to see hub's grandson who is now 3 months old. There isn't enough room in the house for guests now so we're stayiing in a hotel. This means eating out for breakfasts and maybe dinner but we'll be at our usual Wetherspoons where I know what the calories are of every dish. So I have choices. There will be pints of beer as well, but I'll try to limit those. If the weather is nice we can walk on the beautiful trails along the River Ness.
Workout:
housework!!!
Menu:
TOTAL: 1378
Progress as of today: 31 lbs lost so far, only 8 lbs to go!
Edited yesterday's entry but had even more wine afterwards and also a couple of small ginger biscuits I found in their cupboard and shared a packet of crisps with hubby. I'm not feeling extremely guilty as I've been doing quite intense workouts.
The B & B guests were Americans! It was an American expat and her Scottish husband who live in Aberdeen, and her parents who came for a visit from Georgia. The mother and I had both lived in Knoxville before! We had some good chats!
It's nice meeting people but I really don't like the work involved in doing this. Our friends' kitchen is too big and too disorganized. Glad I don't do the cooking but my poor hubby had to time the dishes to be done around the same time, although there were warming trays. Today was scrambled, poached, and fried eggs; sausages, bacon, black pudding, fried mushrooms and tomatoes, baked beans!! And I got to clean up the mess!
Workout:
Menu:
TOTAL: unknown, but not bad
Inversion Table example. I ordered mine on line for around $90. It helps get everything back where it should be - back shoulders, etc.
We're hosting our friends' B & B while they are away for the weekend (tonight and tomorrow for breakfast). And that means 'temptations'. Guests will want bacon, eggs, sausages. There will be lots of shortbread and cookies in the house as well, and wine. I will try very hard to resist what I shouldn't have!
I just love berry season! 
I buy lots of berries every time I shop. Today I picked up strawberries, blueberries & raspberries. Also some cherries and apples and the usual clementines, bananas, and grapefruit. My hub eats about 3 bananas a day (part chimp!) and has started eating a pink grapefruit every day. He only eats fruit for lunch unless we are out somewhere.
Workout:
At home:
Menu:
TOTAL: 1342
Progress as of today: 31 lbs lost so far, only 8 lbs to go!
I got on a spin bike for the first time yesterday. Not as part of a class, but to do 10 minutes and see how it felt. I tried 3 seconds of standing up on the bike...I'm definitely not ready for that! I have to build up my strength. Good for you for getting in such an intense spin class.
RYC: Thanks for your concern--I do appreciate it! No chance of overdoing it here--I've always "listened" to my body. I think the key may be that I'm resisting the urge to "get back to X time of life" in favor of taking what I have now and working with it. So far, so good--guess time will tell! The 4-hr night was caffeine overDO--haha! Though it wasn't too funny at 3:45a when I was trying to bore myself to sleep with awful TV--yikes!
Well, the visit to the bereaved friends has been changed yet again - next week. So I took the brownies and wrapped each one and put them in freezer bags. Also froze the 3 remaining giant chocolate chips cookies. Big test for me, but I'm going to save these as evening treats. Each brownie is about 150 cals (because I added choc chips or walnuts). And these are not large brownies! Had some small chunks left in the bag equal to about 1/2 brownie and ate those so added them to my calories for today.
So I'll pick up some treats at the bakery on the day we visit them.
Workout at gym:
Workout at home: (did a full strength workout yesterday and don't want to do small muscles 2 days in a row, so I'm doing large muscles this afternoon and will do the rest tomorrow. Then on Saturday will do the full strength routines.)
TOTAL: 1406
Hope you all are doing well and getting/staying healthy & fit!
Really unhappy with myself for indulging so much yesteray. It was nonstop. I knew better than to bake my favourite dessert and should have just planned to pick up something from the bakery on the way to friends' house. Now the visit has been changed to tomorrow so the brownies and the rest of the cookies are sitting in my house. I've put them out of sight and I'm NOT touching them.
The scale is reflecting my indulgences and so are my clothes. So back on track now before it gets totally out of control.
Workout at home:
Progress as of today: 31 lbs lost so far, only 8 lbs to go!
I hear you on the sweets! I make full-fat (butter) oatmeal-date scones, though not in at least a month of sundays now. I've been known to eat the batch and nothing else. They're great with raspberry jam, but the irresistibility of them is right up there with homemade choc-chip cookies for me!
Menu looks great!
The day started out well. Healthy breakfast. Went to the gym. Stopped by grocery store..... downhill from there.
I'm going to visit my friends' tomorrow, the ones who just lost a child, and also to see the mum's parents who are flying back home to the US on Weds. Thought I'd be nice and bake them some brownies. Also picked up a batch of giant chocolate chip cookies in case the brownies didn't turn out well. You can guess the rest... Chocolate is NOT a good thing to have this house. I made one batch of brownies with walnuts and the other with chocolate chips. Had to test both batches, right?
Workout at gym:
Either this afternoon or tomorrow I'll do my at-home strength training.
Menu:
Somehow didn't get to the clementines on my menuTOTAL: anybody's guess
Progress as of today: 32.6 lbs lost so far, only 6.4 lbs to go!
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Sorry you had to ditch the brownies, but I totally understand. I have that same uncontrollable need at times and if it is in the house (frozen or not) and I NEED it - watch out!!! Actually that was one of the only good points after Katrina was that I had to take a job out of the house. I used to work upstairs doing computer retouching for photographers and I would RUN down the stairs to retrieve a handful of jelly beans and I would pretend that the run down the stairs compensated for the sugar calories. Then in a few minutes I really NEEDED more, so I would set a goal or finish point on the job, and once I reached it I would RUN down the stairs again for another handful!! This would go on all day until at the end of the week I had polished off 5 pounds of gummy bears or jelly beans! And then of course I would have remorse that night and when I would buy another bag I would tell myself that it would last longer next time! So when I went sugar free, I had to stop buying them because the cravings were so strong the first few weeks I would walk past that crystal biscuit barrel, lift the lid and just smell the empty jar. Oh, well, out of sight, out of mind!!!
hollybelle on 07/25/2012:
Sorry - I didn't explain my bike shopping trip very well - we were shopping for my friend - I bought a road bike last year and while I'd love to have another one - I'm sticking with the one I have for now! Grdat exercise - although I do not understand indoor cycling, I'm glad you do!
selina on 07/25/2012:
You made me LOL with your brownies account! I told my family that I refuse to buy things that are too yummy aka hagen das ice cream just because I can't control myself if I know I have it in the freezer. I hope you have lots of sunshine, today!
sweetpea1977 on 07/25/2012:
I have some ants in my trash can that will truly enjoy your friends' brownies. :)
Plan for today sounds great! Enjoy the sunshine!
moogy on 07/25/2012:
It's a nice time of life and a nice day to enjoy it:) Plus of course the fabulous garden in which to lounge around:) LOL
V on 07/25/2012:
Good job with ridding yourself of temptation :)