Day 152

No sugar added on Friday.

Day 151

No sugar added.

Day 150

No sugar added...made it to work today...cold finally getting better.

Day 149

No sugar added.

Day 148

No sugar added.

Day 147

No sugar added

Day 146

No sugar added...just a lot of snot.

Day 145

No sugar added, just a horrible, horrible cold.

Day 144

No sugar added.

Day 143

No sugar added on the long drive through Wyoming. Really truck stops should offer healthy food as an alternative to all the none food. We did manage to find bananas in Laramie.

Day 142

No wedding sugar added. Again no exercise either, but I kept my main goal and that's what I decided to focus on today..Colton enjoyed my piece of cheesecake for me

Day 141

No sugar added..no ellipticalling added either...longer day than I had planned on and it just didn't happen...but on the plus side, I didn't eat any brownies at the Paradise Bakery.

Day 140

It's Sunday, so no elliptical report today, although we might go on a walk this afternoon it's such a pretty day.

Back in the kitchen where this whole qwest began...hard to believe it was a 140 days ago...I feel so much more in control of myself and what I choose to put into my body. It's a great feeling to be able to sit at the table with everyone else sucking on my favorite See's suckers and not feel deprieved or sorry for myself. The suckers will still be sold once I'm done with my year..and it's not hard to say no anymore..it's just a way of life.

Day 139

30 minutes ellipticalling done.

No sugar on the road trip today = no temptation.

Day 138

No sugar added today...although chocolate candies have plagued my brain today...I think it's just stress.

Got home around 9:00 and I was really tired, but put on my red trainers, loaded up episode 4 and ellipticalled for 30 minutes...hopefully, I'll be able to sleep.

Day 137

No sugar added..and I just finished my 30 minutes. I feel tired tonight, but good that I'm keeping my committments to myself first before I keep them for school or anyone else. John's making dinner on weeknights..really helps. It's easier to do it now than at 5:00 in the morning and it helps me get rid of work stress so I can focus more easily on school.

Day 136

No sugar added..and no real sweet temptations to talk about.

30 minutes ellipticalling done and the 2nd episode of my series..I think this series is 8 or 10 discs long...so that should get me through the month.

Day 135

No sugar added and ellipticalled while watching a netflix instant download of a british tv series i've always wanted to watch all the way through. Pretty cool

Day 134

Since I walked around for three hours yesterday..I decided to count that towards my week's total and gave myself the morning off from ellipticalling so I could rest my poor tired body. But it's been a double proud of myself kind of day sugar wise. Two birthday cakes celebrated with carrot cake..partook of neither and I love carrot cake..so this one is actually a little challenging.

Day 133

No sugar today even though there was a hot choclate kiosk in the Seattle airport with seven tantalizng types of cocoa, did not have one.

Today is Sunday, so I am not obligated to elliptical, but I did spend three hours walking around the Olympic statue garden...it was awesome.

Day 132

Had to elliptical before I got on the plane this morning..done.

Will report about sugar when I get back.

No sugar added...even when I couldn't find anything else to eat and I hadn't eaten all day, did not get candy out of a vending machine.

Day 131

Ellipticalled for 30 minutes and no sugar added today.

Day 130

Ellipticalled tonight...it was hard mentally cause I was really tierd and am fighting a cold, but I figured the cold is probably caused mostly by stress, so I needed to get rid of some stress..I feel better for having done it, although my knees are wobbley.

No sugar added today.

Day 129

Just ellipticalled..seriously could not get up at 5:00 this morning, so I did it tonight..all 30 minutes. No sugar added today so it's all good.

Day 128

Just ellipticalled. When I feel like I want to get off and quit, I think "Hey physically you know you can do this, so why quit." The answer usually is that I'm bored, so I've decided that when I reach that state it's time to push myself harder. So, I've been doing the ramp on each level for five minutes, and at the highest point I upped the resistance level to 6. Definitly felt it this morning.

No sugar added today...in fact nothing but uber healthy eating today..I think I really like rice and beans with veg for lunch.

Day 127

Just finished ellipticalling..really I need to figure out a spelling and stick with it. I put it up to resistance 3 and did the ramps on a variety of heights. I need some new workout songs..I might work on that tonight..although I have homework as well.

As far as no sugar, both John and I made it through the holidays with our goals intact. Clementines were a big help and they may be helping our immune systems as well.

Day 126

No sugar added..and I've decided that my body needs a rest once a week..so no elliptaling today..back at it tomorrow.

Day 125

No sugar added and I just finished ellipticalling. It would have been easy to make excuses not to do it today because I've been working since 9:00 this morning cleaning and running errands, but excuses are what made me fat in the first place...always an exception, so I couldn't give myself an out.

Day 124

No sugar added today.

Ellipticalling has been hard today...getting up and doing it is a lot easier than trying to fit in between other stuff for some reason. I just wasn't mentally into 30 minutes today, so I broke it up into ten minutes x 3 once this morning, once later and one just now. I'm not sure if it's as good a workout, and it feels a little like cheating, but it's done.

Day 123

Just elliptical for 30 minutes..it was hard to get on this morning, but I figured if I didn't do it first thing, it would get lost in the day. While I was working out I thought about when I was studying in London, how I would get up at 6:00 every morning and go to the park for 45 -60 minutes. It took a lot of discipline especially if I'd gotten to bed late, but I felt the best I've felt in my whole life being consistent..and I know it helped my brain as well. I could almost feel myself running down the main path into Kensington gardens past the children's play area, the round pond and palace. The air cool and often a little overcast, just me and my Walkman. Hopefully by the time spring rolls around, I'll be able to move my workout outside and enjoy nature instead of our office.

No sugar at the New Year's Eve party...although fudge tempted me like nothing has in weeks...it looked yummy...but even the sparkling cider was too sweet.