I wish I could be excited about the weekend, but I never really am, unless my plans do not involve food at all. I am trying to make sure my mindset is strong before I have to attend these parties or there will be no hope.

The past 2 days I’ve been around 169.6. At least it’s not 170, but it’s still disappointing when I was at 168 a week ago, and had hoped to be around 166-167 this week. Well, I can pretty much whine every day that I’m not where I want to be and that doesn’t help anything.

I went to the gym yesterday for the second time so far.

The FDA issued a recall on certain products that contain hydrolyzed vegetable protein, including products such as McCormick & Company Onion Gravy Mix, two flavors of Pringles (Restaurant Cravers Cheeseburger & Family Faves Taco Night), and many more well known products that contain hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) paste and powder distributed by Basic Food Flavors, Inc.

For a complete listing of products included in the HVP recall visit the FDA website.

Today i didn’t feel too good. Feels like a head cold coming on. So how does one reason with that? Good excuse to sit around and crochet a blanket for an upcoming grand child who’ll be born in Winter :o)
I thought i’d forgotten how to do it. I made one a while ago, during the 71 days [Of hell!] i gave up drinking. It was/is really nice for a first attempt. [Here it is, if you want a gawk.]
But after a messy middle, the new blanket should look nice too. Now that i’m a Nana, i should do more Nana things i spose.

Ok, I faced the scale. 2 nights of bad dinners/desserts plus a little more cake last night = 2 lbs. Which means 170 AGAIN. Ugh. I am so mad. I did not eat 7,000 extra calories in 2 days. And I haven’t even slacked on working out - I am still sticking to 6 days a week for at least 45 minutes, and most days an hour or more. Yesterday I jogged/fast walked for 52 minutes and then did full body weights after dinner.

Well, I am taking almost all the rest of the cake over to my mom today so they can help eat it.

I am still here. I guess that’s the important thing. No matter how many times I get frustrated and want to give up, I’m still trying. In fact, I just noticed I’ve already posted more in here this year than I did in 2007-2009 put together. It really has helped me to get my feelings out there, and get inspired by reading so many other blogs by dieters or those who succeed at living healthy lifestyles.

Last night wasn’t the best night. Well, it wasn’t horrible, but it did involve too much junk after dinner. I felt pretty defeated.

The planning is done. All that’s left is the execution. Four more days of taper. Then it will be back to life as it should be.

Speaking of taper, I’m keeping my running light this week:

• Tuesday: 30 minute tempo run. (Done. 3.3 miles).
• Thursday: 3 miles. Stretching.
• Saturday: 2 miles with Cal Coast.

That will add to last week’s cutback of 26 miles. My legs should be fresh on Sunday. Everything felt pretty good during yesterday’s quick tempo run.

The Turbulence Training Bootcamp Workouts were so popular over the past year, Craig decided to go back to the drawing board to create 31 brand new Bootcamp Workouts.

Everyone can use these workouts, whether you are beginner to advanced,and even personal trainers can use them in their Bootcamp classes.

You’ll get proven Turbulence Training Bootcamp style workouts that will burn fat with little to no equipment.

Here are just some of the 31 TT Bootcamp Workouts you’ll get:

1. The TT Beginner Bootcamp 2K10
2. The TT Physical Testing Bootcamp
3. The TT Big 7 Circuit Bootcamp
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Yeah yeah. I know. This was supposed to be posted Saturday. But hey. The weather in Southern California is beautiful, so I took some time to enjoy the outdoors. Well – okay. I had to work. Boo hoo!

On Friday, I posted my starting line and pacing plans. Today I’m discussing my fueling plan. A good fueling plan needs to take three things into account: (1) what should I eat, (2) how much should I eat, and (3) how often should I eat it?

The best resources I’ve seen that discusses this issue are this one and this one from Hammer Nutrition. These are *excellent* technical articles.

Today was one of those nibbley days where you just want to eat everything but you aren’t hungry, y’know?
I did mostly ok till dinner, when we had hot chip sandwiches & battered fish for dinner. But i still went over quite reasonably on my calories and fat - I can [and will] balance that out tomorrow.

Most of today was spent at Jasons school, talking about his inability to deal with conflict. He gets upset [sad] easily when he feels he’s being mis-treated. [dunno where he gets it, we are all a bunch of larakins!] Lucky he goes to a tiny school with 12 kids.

I gained .3 this week, but if it hadn’t of been for me getting lost on my Blair Witch walk this week, i’m sure it would have been much worse!