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True Confessions Tuesday!

[ 5 ] 03/15/2011 |

Happy Tuesday everyone! It’s time to confess! And what a good time to do it, for some of us who celebrate, it’s Lent! So confess away!
I’ll start it off.

I am tracking calories and I’m pretty hardcore about it right now on My Fitness Pal (my username is Christieo_7 if you want to friend me!)

It is awesome. It has an app for my phone too. It also gives me more calories to eat when I add in my exercise. So, my confessions are as follows:

  • I want to exercise just because it gives me more than 1,200 calories and 1,200 calories makes me want to eat my arm off just typing that.
  • I cannot stand food logging. But it is working.
  • “Shopping” is not in the exercise database. Darn.
  • Neither is yelling. Even though it feels like that takes a lot of energy.
  • We went to the Strawberry Festival over the weekend and even though it was a festival about a fruit, anything with the word “festival” in it is synonymous with “fried.” I had chicken fingers and french fries and a make your own strawberry shortcake.
  • I went over my calories that day.
  • I *think* I made up for it the next day. I will find out tomorrow.
  • The chicken fingers and fries did not make for a productive 17 mile ride the next day. What I eat really makes or breaks my performance and I always find that out the hard way.
  • I bought Tena Serenity pads (nicknamed “pee pads” for when I run) for $10 and got $10 back in CVS Extrabucks so they were free.
  • I had a bathing suit blowout this week in front of everyone. Oh, is this supposed to be about food?

I am trying hard to remain within my count and the one thing it does for me is make me feel in control even though I don’t like doing it. So my indiscretions are fewer and farther between because of it and that’s a good thing.

So give it up! What do you have to confess this week? Dish!

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Category: Christie O., The Sisterhood, True Confessions, WEEKLY

About christieo: Christie O. is a 30-something freelance writer and mommy to two little boys. She loves training for random races to lose weight and who went literally from couch to 5k to half-ironman to marathon, losing 55 pounds along the way. Christie O. also blogs at www.averagemomswearcapes.com. View author profile.

  • Shannon Dickerson

    A Stawberry Festival- so jealous! We still have 3 ft snowbanks, and a good 18 inches on the ground here in VT, but the sun has been out and the snow is melting fast! I have been doing super great on my meal tracking I really hate journaling too, but I’ve been on the right track and found my motivation! I was really worried for a little while, but I’m in the groove and Training hard for the Alaska Marathon. I have taken off 81bs over the last 4 weeks- I did have a little help from a tooth extraction- ouch! but I have been working my butt off running and have gone out of my comfort zone to learn to swim.. I did confirm the first night that A- I’m indeed not a fish, B- that swimming is much more than it appears- & C I can do it! I’m learning fast and it’s a super great addition to running 9 I love the way it gently stretches my muscles 9 well okay the second week I couldn’t wash my own hair the next day, but It’s great. I don’t really have any Bad news confessions to share, but I did want to talk about all that I have done over the month.

  • http://blissfulbedlam.com/ Tracie

    I love My Fitness Pal. And exercising to eat more is a plus for me. I’ve been known to exercise because I wanted a special treat.

    Here are my confessions for the week. http://blissfulbedlam.com/true-confessions-tuesday-not-giving-myself-enough-credit

  • http://plainolegrandmaislosingit.wordpress.com Adah

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  • http://twitter.com/mymadakaja Tami

    I think I love MFP more than you do! Being free makes it even better!

    Here’s my confession:
    http://www.thismomsdelight.com/2011/03/true-confession-tuesday-calories-in-calories-out/