Jill, I love the commitments! Here are some healthy snack ideas to help you out: cheese cubes/string cheese, yogurt, cottage cheese, banana with PB, packet of tuna with some multigrain crackers. Some of those are bigger snacks and some are smaller. If you are interested, I usually eat 6 meals/snacks throughout the day (sometimes even more). It keeps my metabolism high and keeps me from getting hungry. The hardest part is getting used to eating smaller meals, but when I get to eat again in 2 or 3 hours, I'm okay with it. :) Here's my typical schedule for an 1800 Cal work out day (as an example):

Breakfast - 400 Cal - 6:30
Snack - 100 Cal - 9:00
Lunch - 400 Cal - 11:30
Snack - 100 Cal - 2:00 or 2:30
Snack - 200 Cal - 4:30ish
Dinner - 500 Cal - 7:30ish
Bed time snack (this is for night time recovery after a hard work out) - 100 Cal of almonds - 10ish

I hope this helps! I'm looking forward to swimming on Thurs!!

I am making a several committments that will put me in the right direction to healthy eating and losing weight and I will be accountable to the people on traineo:
1. drink water every day
2. limit to 1 coke a day
3. eat healthy lunches
4. eat fruit and veggies every day
5. no vending machine junk
6. bring in snacks to work
7. work out/walk/swim once a week

If I change just those things, I believe I will feel better physically and emotionally and be healthier. I think being successful at doing those things will spur me on to make more healthy choices and committments to myself. I can do this!

Thanks Rachael. I did forget about that. Today is a good day. I've been walking around in sneakers all day so my foot is doing really well. The best since I had the morton neuroma operation over 3 months ago. It's nice to see improvement.

As for my own efforts to get healthy, I wish I could say I've made good progress. I can say, though, that I haven't gained weight for about a week, whereas I was gaining for the few weeks up to that and I'm up to my starting weight. It seems like it should be easy. But I'm so distracted by other stuff in my life and worried and so I spend the mind energy dealing with that instead of making sure that I make healthy choices. I don't have the right food in my house, so I snack on chips instead of fruit. OK enough excuses. I know what I need to do. I commit right now to lose some weight this week. It's Monday, so a good day to start. I can start with right now and not get anything from the vending machine. Sometimes I feel like a broken record, saying the same things cause I know what I should do but don't set myself up to do it. Enough. It's a good day, so I'm going to let it be that way and be positive.

Hey, you could be logging stuff on here! :) Just in case you forgot. ;)

Just recovered from a stomache virus - took over a week to really get over it. The good thing is I lost weight. The bad thing is that I gained most of it back. I guess it was water weight. I did realize, however, that I can live on less food than I'm used to eating. Eye-opener. Now, if I could just learn to eat only when I'm hungry.

Woo! I'm your motivator! :) I hope you like Traineo even though it has its quirks. :)