HOLD MY FEET TO THE FIRE! ACCOUNTABILITY TIMEe

Accountability Mission: No Mercy and No Excuses 

Time to ready yourself for the week to come.  Start with a little brutal honesty about this week. Are you where you planned to be now that the week is done?   

As for yeaterday... Tell the whole truth and be accountable.   How did you do yesterday and do you have a good plan to get through today?  Are you choosing the right foods?  Getting enough water?  How about exercise and supplements.   

Are you following the rules, protein first, no drinking with meals, you know the drill.  Or maybe you're struggling at the moment and need encouragement or a dose of ambition to get through it?  Well toughen up cause you knew it would not be easy.  Your plumbing has already been rerouted so do what you got to do.  ***** moan, whine, complain, use your support system here but get yourself straight. 

No bull****  Do you want to be that person, several years out and still out of control and/ or obese?  I reember when a BAF vet posted about that with pics, scared me straight and still does.  Is that going to be you?

... All are welcome, jump in at anytime.

For reference:
5 Day Pouch Test website http://www.5daypouchtest.com/plan/theplan.html   
5 Day Pouch Test Instructions
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/black_american/3995048/Hold-my-feet-to-the-fire-please-Accountability-Mision/
Protein Train Instructions http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/black_american/3993571/Protein-Train-Educate-me-please/#32309205
Wagon Plan Instructions
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/black_american/3650242/The-Wagon-Plan-Get-back-on-the-wagon/

What it do?  LOL - hey lady.

I was good yesterday - I allowed myself a Smart Ones Key Lime pie dessert as my 'transgression' for the day - yumm-MO!!!  It was terribly sweet to me tho - I've had it many times before and it didn't seem that sweet - oh well.

Today - bacon and eggs breakfast, about to go shopping, then back home to do some house cleaning.  Will probably do some cardio on my step and upper body w/weights and some core work

Lunch - ho hum - I ain't hungry - so I'll eat something - maybe string cheese and lunch meat, maybe a chicken breast and some kale

Dinner - even more ho hum......

I do want to get in at least 4 bottles of water - I know I didn't drink enough yesterday, I need to do better today.

Have a good Sunday, MSW!!!! 

Girlfriend you are my idol!  I need your discipline badly. 

I am way off track because I have not planned my days well r strayed from plan too much.

  idol??  Nahhhhh - NOT me!!!

I'm waaayyyy too much of a fuckup for idol status.  Mentor?  nah.  Teacher?  depends. 

But I will take the title of 'Point of Reference' - cause sometimes you might WANT to do what I am doing - or you might just say - 'WHEW - lemme make SHO I don't EVER do that **** that ***** just did'.................

Was that me who said honestly evaluate the past week?  Well damn, I guess I have to live up the standard.  This is a NO MERCY AND NO EXCUSES post.  I've been shoveling myself up some major heaps of bull****  Fkcu the tough love, I need a major BAF beatdown for the week. 

I can give you 1001 seemingly legit reasons why I have been just marginal this week.  Travel, time, family, no access to cooking facilities, days in the car for twelve hours, no gym, finding food in rual areas with few choices, tired fatigued sick depressed, lavish buffets in grand locations, blah blah yak yak. 

It all comes down to I could have been excellent not just barely passable.  Comitmment.  That is what was lacking. 

I could have planned better and stuck to plan. 
I could have eaten only the non perishable meals I packed just in case.  We can't always get what we want to eat.  Take what you need to eat and make yourself like it. 
I could have drank more water and stopped more frequently or got up often during the night. 
I could have choked down that protein shake although I didn't want it.  Treat it as medicine. 
I could have walked in place with arm movements weighted down by anything I could find for exercise, lay a towel on the carpet for crunches yoga pilates...
I could have reminded myself that if I feel bad now how the hell will I feel when I start to regain or pass another week with no prgress and myself to blame for it. 

Apart from total disability most excuses masquerading as reasons can be overcome at least partially.  I could not have made this week perfect, but I could have done better than I did.  Asside from a running estimate on calories I  simply lacked dicipline. 

The next two weeks will be justas bad for me.  Did you ever wonder how people magange hectic lives and still lose and maintain?  Its because they are determined not to make a cluster fkcu of it and find a way to do what needs doing.  Others ***** about how they gained or stopped loosing and end up reversing their progress.  This **** stops now.  I choose to be the former and not t he latter. 

I started the day badly with a sf creamsicle and 100 cal pack pretzels for breakfast.  All excuses above apply but we know it is all bull****  No waiting until tomorrow. 

I will lay out the rest of my day and make this right.  100g protein, less than 50g net carbs three servings fresh veg or salad 80 oz liquids, half hour minimum exercise and around 1250 calories. 

NO MERCY AND NO MORE EXCUSES, PERIOD!!!!!

I finally decided to join in with the accountability.  I'm 8 months out and just had my labs which showed my protein intake was low (low prealbumin) so my dietician told me that us only being able to absorb 26 grams of protein at a time was a myth.  I've restarted my 52gram protein shakes and have already had two this morning.  I'm so inconsistent with exercise so I've decided it's time to invest in a personal trainer.  I'm good on the vitamins but still struggle from time to time with getting at least 64 oz of water in so I'm sitting here sipping away.  I've gone back to the basics. 

I've realized i don't really dump and I know this from eating a few cookies but I realize that I can't do that to myself.  I'm not one of those folks that can have my cake and cookies and eat them too.  So, like I said I'm rededicating myself to the basics.

to you for seeing the issue and making a plan to tackle the problem. 

As you go back to the basics - look for alternatives to the things you crave - you may not eat cookies, but there are some great low cal, sugar free options out there.  I just bought some Mousse desserts made by Jell-o, they are 60 cal and sugar free.  Yoplait has some excellent 100 cal parfaits out now - they are REALLY good and satisfy that 'itch' - check them out.  We all know we're going to be tempted to cheat and won't pass the test every time - but if you plan and have a good alternative in place, when you do fall, it won't be that hard to get back up.  

Thank you Mack Mama,

I'm trying to get into the mousse desserts and I've turned to sugar free chocolate during my time of the month.  My dietician told me to also use protein bars to help with my protein so I found some with 1gram of sugar and I also bought some sugar free choc soynuts which actually taste decent.  I've never been into mashed potatoes but I got a recipe for mashed cauliflower as an alternative.  Now I would prefer an alternative to french fries which I seem to crave every now and then... I think it's the salt I'm craving so I've been getting a pickle for that time.

I found this low carb substitute recipe for french fries:

Ingredients: . 2 packages of extra firm tofu Lowry's seasoning salt (to taste) Shredded Cheddar Cheese Crumbled Bacon
Instructions:   Cut tofu into half inch slices. Place on layer of paper towels. Put more paper towels on top. Press out liquid. Now cut the slices into french-fry-like strips. Place strips onto greased cookie sheet. Sprinkle strips with Lowry's seasoning salt. Broil on top rack of oven until golden brown. Turn over strips. Sprinkle with more seasoning salt. Then broil again. It should take about 10 minutes per side. They should be dry with no wet sides when done. You can stop here and eat. To add the next dimension of flavor, transfer fries to oven-safe plate. Cover with shredded cheddar cheese and bacon. Place back in oven. Bake at 350 degrees until cheese is melted.
Optionally serve with ranch or low-carb ketchup.

OMG I love tofu but it don't love me back.  This recipe is worth a little extra thyroid hormone to keep it from biting me in the ass (or the neck?).  Got to medicate in advance and try this.