Scuppered!
Made wrong choice which led to more wrong choices!
Going to try and rein my carb count right in.
Back to day one.

Habit: Daily meditation
Restarts: 1

Day 10: 12 minutes
Observation: Achieving a quiet mind when in the midst of actively learning something is (for me) quite a feat. When my brain has problems to chew on, that's pretty much all it wants to do.

I missed posting yesterday, being out and about, or dead to the world recovering from Too Many People and Too Much Noise at Grandma's marathon.

But: Friday, day 11 of analyzing hunger VS appetite:

No snacking. Early dinner after driving four hours with no opportunity to snack made it easy peasy.

Day 3 of planks: 45 seconds. Second time, WHEE!

Saturday: day 12.

No snacks, but did have a cheeseburger at lunchtime, after a very early breakfast. Not sure how to count it, because the goal was to avoid eating if NOT truly hungry, and I was.

Day 4 of planks.

LONG day, and only managed 30/rest/15.

Day 9 - Eating slower

Success!

Restarts - 3

Dinner last night - Stirfry ground beef, onions, peppers and snap peas
Lunch today - usual salad, ate with chopsticks making it real sloooww!

Habit: exercise 5 days/week

Day 1: June 12
Day 90: Sept 10

Day 7 (Saturday): planned rest day

Planks: front (tripod): 50 sec; 30 sec rest; 40 sec
Side planks (knee/arm): 30 sec each side x 2

Day 8 (Sunday): walk 3 miles in 50 minutes

Planks: front (tripod): 55 sec; 30 sec rest; 40 sec
Side planks (knee/elbow): 30 sec each side x 2

8 down, 82 to go.

Day 14 - No playing hearts on the computer
Day 11 - no eating after 6 PM
Day 6 - in bed by 10PM

Goal: over 0k steps, over 100 oz water

Actual:
Steps: 14,241
Water: 120 plus

My 90 day "no snacking between meals" habit I'm developing.

Day 5: complete
Restarts: 2

I have a habit of looking into the refrigerator whenever I go by it. Gee whiz! You'd think I already know what's in there. Opening the fridge door could be a gateway to snacking I'll see if I can catch myself next time and observe my mind state, I'll probably make a quick excuse to myself like, "just checking to see if the light needs replacing yet." - I'm good at fooling myself

90 day Squat Challenge

Day 1: 6/5/2016
Day 90: 9/3/2016

Day 14
AM: 16
Mid: 0
PM: 0
Total: 16

Grand total: 320

Day 15
AM: 16
Mid: 0
PM: 16
Total: 32

Grand total: 352

Challenge Goal:
Restarts: 1

Net Carbs: 45 or under for 90 days
Calories: 2500 or less everyday as well
Daily upper body resistance training

Today:

Net Carbs: 43
Calories: 2497

Weights: No weight lifting. A very busy day again. Walked for an hour early this morning and did some sit-ups before bed. I was hungry today and ate to my max - then stopped.

This reminds me of an interview I once heard with the author Richard Russo (Empire Falls and other novels) talking about the act of writing and how difficult it is. He apparently worked at home and told the interviewer he'd find himself struggling with a passage and absentmindedly get up, walk to the refrigerator, and open it "as if the answers were in the refrigerator".

Way to go, thud, with resisting the snacking.

Yesterday Day 12 analyzing hunger VS appetite

Day 5 Planks.

No snacks, but bought a bottle of Arnold Palmer at a rest stop that was advertised as "zero sugar". It was not. AFTER drinking all but what Husband drank, I looked closer at the label, which said "1/3 the sugar." My guess is that whoever filled the vending machine didn't look, either; the two labels were nearly identical.

But I had 26 grams of carbs from that. Dang it. I don't know whether or not to consider it a fail, and to start over. Truly. Because it was neither hunger nor appetite, nor did I choose to ingest the carbs. I was careless.

Will think on it.

Planks: a new high, 50 seconds. WOOT.

Habit: Daily meditation
Restarts: 1

Day 11: 5 minutes
Both my body and brain were restless last night, and I really didn't want to meditate at all. Eventually, I did it, but I had trouble staying in it for long.

Restarts 1.


Day one complete, back on track with less carbs, which i think helped the decision making.

Habit: exercise 5 days/week

Day 1: June 12
Day 90: Sept 10

Day 9 (Monday): 10 minutes treadmill (warmup), 45 min weight training (leg press, abductors, adductors, crunches, lat pull downs, rows, chest press, triceps, biceps), 5 min stretching

No planks today

9 down, 81 to go.