DAY 12-MANDA

You got your dairy in yesterday--YAY! Good for you!!!

Ok, so I am possibly "cheating myself" this morning....I weighed in, and while the scale is being much nicer than it was a couple weeks ago, I am not below what I was last week (by 0.6#'s). SO, I have drank a cup of coffee and am waiting to pee before I "officially" weigh-in. I don't really care at this point whether it works....I am so glad to see the number that is on there now (haven't seen that one in a while!), but we shall see. I suppose you could call it an experiment....I am regretting not running yesterday now; perhaps I would be down... I am still super proud of us!!!!!!!!! I will update in a little bit with the official WI results... :)

I have decided that I need to become more flexible, as this is where my running injury probably came from several months ago. My new goal this week is to do a little bit of yoga each day. I found a section on the Runner's World website that is all yoga and is very interesting...it even has a section where it tels you poses to do for certain problems (bloating, cravings, headache, etc...)
Here is the link in case you are interested:

http://www.runnersworld.com/syndication/rw/

I think I am going to start a box over on the side with inspiring/helpful links. Let me know if you have any we should add!

Also, have you ever seen these:
http://stores.shop.ebay.com/LMBeads-Design/Weight-Loss-Charm-Bracelets.html

A lady was mentioning them on her weight-loss story blog (http://www.gulftel.com/tessler/journey.html) and I thought they were neat!

How was yesterday except for the extreme soreness??? I have a love/hate relationship with days like that. You feel so accomplished, yet you are in so much pain. Those are usually the days I am motivated to do more activity, but can't even manage to get out of bed. (For some reason after lunges/squats/whatever I always have to worst time sitting down on the toilet--and getting back up, lol...)
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Breakfast: Coffee with 1/2 cup milk (1), fruit smoothie with 4oz. yogurt (2)=3/20
Lunch: Lean Cuisine spaghetti with mushrooms and little shrimp (3), small can of mushrooms (0)=6/20
Dinner: Shrimp cocktail with tomatoes, onions, etc(3), chips (3), Tortillas (3), salsa (0), soapapilla (3)=18/20
Snack: cereal with 1 cup milk (4), cocoa almonds (earlier today--2)=20/20 daily, 1 AP used, 3 Weekly Points used
Activity: Yoga for 40 minutes (+1 AP)
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WI: after coffee= Maintained!! (+3)
Measurements: -1/2" from arms, -1" from bust, -1/2" from hips (+3)
Goal: I achieved 32/30 AP's (+5)
OP: technically I was OP this week, as in I didn't eat over my weekly points, but I didn't feel like I was as much. Last weekend was a bit crazy/uncontrolled, so I am going to go ahead and say I was not OP every day this past week. I need to really think about what I am going to eat before I go somewhere and not just go crazy once I get there.
TOTAL: 11 weekly points.
+5 for being OP....I think you are right and I changed my mind!
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Points: sleep, tracking, f&v's, limited sugar/alcohol, water, vitamin, lean protein, dairy, activity=9