Happy New Year! So today begins a new year with new weight/fitness goals. I met most of my goals last year, so just tweeked them a little this year for continued maintenance:
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My goal is to take care of my body by putting proper nutrition into it and by giving it regular exercise.

I am maintaining my weight below 118 lbs (currently 116.4).

I am walking at least 30 min 3 to 5 days a week.

I am doing a cardio workout at least 3 days a week.

I am doing strength/hand weights 3 days...

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Mistake #1 - I was getting hungry. I should have eaten something before I got to this point.

Mistake #2 - Picked up the cream cheese for "just a couple of bites." (yea, right)

Mistake #3 - Boy I sure do like cream cheese mushed with peanut butter and a packet of splenda; and there just happens to be peanut butter in the frige.

Results: Entire 8 oz package of cream cheese and the last of the jar peanut butter are now gone. And I have a bellyache.

Add to list of things NOT TO EVER have in the house:

Almonds...

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I've been having issues with bingeing lately. Not on carbs, but bingeing on low carb foods to TOTAL excess. Fifteen nuts turned into 20, turned into 25, turned into 3/4 of the can; which totaled over 1000 calories and 35 carbs! Then there was the cream cheese episode. And why did I eat an Atkins bar right after eating a full meal? Actually not one, but two! I never had them before and I was curious (was my excuse). In my mind, I know when it's time to stop; but yet my hand reaches for more. I tell myself I'm not going to do it; then I do it anyway. What is SO hard about JUST STOPPING!...

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Today is the final weigh-in for my workplace holiday fitness challenge. Since I had already hit my goal of 118 lbs when the challenge started, my goal was to maintain weight and exercise throughout the 4 weeks of the challenge.

I weighed in on October 27 at 117.4 lbs. For final weigh-in, I was 114.2 lbs!!! This is nearly the lowest I've ever been. I'm a little concerned about maintaining with the holidays upon us, but I will not let it get out of hand.

There is a poem that goes with the fitness challenge:


Weight Before Fitness
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I have elephant feet! My feet and ankles have been swelled up since about last Tuesday. I can only guess that it is either because I stopped my blood pressure meds, or because I've had excessive protein on the Egg/Protein Fast.

I stopped my BP meds on October 29. I monitored every day and it has been consistently below 120/80, so I thought I was fine. My blood pressure pill does not have a diuertic in it; I take that separately and have continued to take them, so I find it hard to believe this is the cause.

As for the Egg/Protein Fast; I found on the web that...

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