WHEE (Weight, Health, Eating and Exercise) is a community support diary for Kossacks who are currently or planning to start losing, gaining or maintaining their weight through diet and exercise or fitness. Any supportive comments, suggestions or positive distractions are appreciated. If you are working on your weight or fitness, please -- join us! You can also click the WHEE tag to view all diary posts.
Welcome, Wheeblies, to the TGIF version of WHEE - we're at the end of a long week, and it's nice to kick back for the weekend. I want to really praise Jennyjem who did an incredible diary this morning on the bricks on the way to our goals. What a great way of visualizing barriers.
Walk carefully down the yellow brick road to just below the fold...
In this diary, I want to look at the barrier of busy workweeks - what do we do when we are very busy and have too much to do - how do we fit in healthy eating and activity? Just as Max Baucus finds himself too busy meeting with Health Insurance Officials and going on junkets with lobbyists to find the time to get a bill out of Senate Finance, so too do we find ourselves too busy during the workweek to meet our goals for healthy eating and for exercise.
I know the hardest time for me is around 5 or 6 when I come home and I'm really hungry and I don't have a plan for dinner and I feel too exhausted to eat anything healthy. I do eat frozen dinners, but will often just make a sandwich, which isn't balanced enough.
What kinds of strategies do people use to have a healthy meal at the end of a very busy day?
I hope you are all enjoying your Friday evening and looking forward to the weekend.
I copied over the roster from Sheedhead, and didn't get her great table design - but the members are below. All are welcome.
WHEE Roster:
1864 House Ebby matching mole
3rdGenFeminist econlibVL Munchkn
anotherCT dem Ed G nswalls
anotherdem Edward Spurlock Oke
askew el dorado gal Pandoras Box
badscience Embee Proylance (?)
batgirl71 Fabian RLMiller
bfitzinAR fiddler crabby roses
bluesophie flor de jasmine RunawayRose
blue jersey mom freesia SallyCat
Brimi gchaucer2 Shayle
CA coastsider GoldnI sheddhead
chicago minx Greasy Grant still small voice
Chocolate Chris jiffykeen StrangeAnimals
coigue Ken in Tex supenau
CONEFLOWER42 Kirsten Tenn Wisc Dem
crystal eyes (?) kkbDIA trs
cusoon lineatus volleyboy1
darthstar Lisamoe webranding
debbieleft louisev Wee Mama
digitalmuse luvsathoroughbred xysea
Dragonladykatie malharden sheba
filegirl Gussie(no amputation)FN glow dog
jennyjem rb608 Timroff
i'm a frayed not -- it really is that important .
If you haven't, please consider joining the WHEEfit social network
Future diarists:
July 24 Fri AM - jennyjem
Fri PM - bluesophie
July 25 Sat AM - cusoon
Sat PM - matching mole
July 26 Sun AM - louisv weekly
Sun PM - Stage Stop
July 27 Mon AM - Albatross
Mon PM - StrangeAnimals
July 28 TuesAM - Kascade Kat
TuesPM - debbieleft
July 29 Wed AM - Edward Spurlock
Wed PM - sheddhead
July 30 Thu AM - mommyof3
Thu PM - Glow Dog
Augu 01 Fri AM - gchaucer2
Fri PM - help