Yay for babies and feeling better!

Well, didn't go to workout this morning. I had a feeling I might miss at least one this week. It would have been body pump, and for some reason my legs are just so sore. That added to the fact that I was up late last night because of the game made me just not want to go. Baseball week is almost over, so I'll get back to normal next week. There is another game tonight and there will be another one tomorrow, so we'll go to those. I do get off early tomorrow, so I might try to go for a run. I haven't been all week, so it might be a little painful/slow!

Oh, and eating... Not being good at all, so I might be paying the price on Monday's weigh in. I'm going to try to shape up for the rest of the week to try to salvage the weigh in.

Mandy: Glad you are doing so well. This will all be over before you know it!! And then you'll have a sweet little baby in your life! How fun!!!

Melissa: Sounds like you have a lot going on! I'm with you on having to tell someone what to do. My family is like that. I always ask why they can't see what needs to be done. Or just do SOMETHING!!! It will help!

Laurie: Glad that you checked in today. It is easy to just not do it when you feel like you don't have a positive to add. But it is a good habit to just come here and post. No sense in beating yourself up for anything that didn't go right. Just own it and then move on!!! Sounds like that's what you are doing.

Well, I'm back. The consequences of the long weekend's poor choices hit me hard emotionally and physically, and just needed a few days to regroup. Plus I was late and paranoid that I would be pregnant again (baby M just turned 5 months last Friday), so I was a hot mess. Nah, scratch that. I wasn't even hot. :lol: Now I'm 192.6 and slowly regaining control of my healthy habits.

Slashnl--did you manage to stay away from the huge ice cream cones? I wouldn't have. I think that takes more will power than I could summon. Actually my downfall last weekend was a 4 Leches ice cream (yes, FOUR leches, not just three!) I had bought for the dinner with friends. It was SO good I couldn't just have one scoop. It was actually calling my name! Geez. :lol:

MissLoud-- I hear ya. I'm kind of stuck and struggling a bit. But you can totally stay on plan 90%! :carrot:

LaurieDawn-- Hahaha! Yes, my ticker was trending down. :rofl: Until it didn't and I stopped updating the weight because I didn't want it to trend up. I'm going to start following your model of the daily goals because I'm doing a sucky job lately; I'm eating healthy stuff but definitely more healthy stuff than my calorie budget allows for. The fact that it's healthy doesn't cancel out the extra calories. Hahaha! I wish it did!

berryblondeboys-- Oh, I was so there with the yo-yoing! And my husband probably noticed but never said anything. It was emotionally so hard on me! Yoyoing, I think, is harder than trying to keep a disciplined life because we try hard, then give up, go back to the beginning, feel depressed, then angry, then start over, try hard... it's mentally and emotionally more taxing than sticking with a healthy life.

Jenjen-- hang in there! You've been super busy! Keeping busy helps. :)

FeraFilia-- Did I congratulate you on your baby B? If I didn't, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

:cheer:

When are you due? I loved being able to wear regular clothes in my last pregnancy too. It brought some sense of normalcy to the whole thing. I'm one of those women who doesn't particularly enjoy pregnancies other than for the end result. LOL. So I liked wearing my cute XL clothes while pregnant. Until I was way too pregnant, that is.

I'm due in October! Less than 2 weeks after my birthday. :D

Nice! I have a Fall baby too. She's my oldest.

This morning the scale showed me some love with 192.0. It's happening but I don't think I'll make it to the 180s by the 1st especially struggling so much as I do over the weekends. Who knows. Maybe I should switch my official weight in day to like, Fridays or something, before the weekend madness ensues.

Good morning ladies.

Still chugging away! I have limited my weigh ins to one time a week
. When it slows I will probably do every other week. I am really trying to focus on the healthy side of losing isnt always dropping weight but changing habits.

Anyone recommend a fitness tracker????

I was looking at vivo and fitbit hoping someone can give me advice.

I have used a bodymedia fit core and it works fine, but I got to hate the arm band.

I now use a Withings Pulse O2. I also have the withings scale and withings blood pressure guage (my BP is the biggest indicator if my thyroid is going wacky). It also all syncs to my food tracker (mynetdiary). I'm kind of a weight loss gadget junkie, but it helps me!

So, went to spin today. Crazy tough workout. It is a little humid in our area right now (which is just not what we usually see here), so I was really sweating up a storm. I am going to go running later, too. Not sure how good that will be since I haven't gone since Wednesday of last week.... But, gotta get back to it since the baseball tournament is winding down. :)

I love this tournament, but why do I make such poor food choices there? I am not looking forward to Monday's weigh in, but I'll make myself face it. Maybe if I keep drinking lots of water, it won't be as bad. One can hope.

Jenni: No ideas on fitness gadgets. I use this website, myfitnesspal, and Nike running app on my phone, but I don't have any specific gadgets. Good luck! My friend has a fitbit and loves it, but that's all I know.

Paulitens: Nope, didn't stay away from the ice cream. In fact, when I went to get a cone for my husband, I saw that they had chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwiches. So, I went with that choice.... We're going to the game tonight and possibly tomorrow (depending on how the games go with the final championship). I'm going to try to do better. Hang in there with your struggles. Sometimes you just need to survive those times. Fake it till you make it!

Hi, Everyone!

I am just going to do a quick post to let you know that I am still here! I was down one pound this week, so 16 total. I feel like I am getting back into the groove, which is nice.

I am doing quite a bit of traveling this summer and I have house guests for 2 weeks in July. While I look forward to it for a lot of reasons, I am also a bit anxious about it in terms of food. I am definitely someone who does better when I have a routine. Hopefully, I will take off a few pounds before I travel in a couple weeks; if I am able to at least be somewhat steady throughout the summer, I will be happy.

Glad to see that everyone is still plugging away! I try to do better about posting more frequently. I really miss this group when I am not here on a regular basis.

Have a great weekend!

Hi all - on day 4 of being on plan and I'm wondering why I haven't used an app to log my calories before?!! Its wonderful!! I think I did try it a couple of years ago but they didn't have many of the foods we have in NZ but there seems to be alot of our brands on there now - awesomesause! Funny how it tells me off when I do a fasting day, but overall it seems to be helping, and in the words of Paulitens when I eat less funnily enough the scale goes down so looking forward to see on wednesday. I've been a bit slack on the excercise front though, the weather is atrocious! like snow so I've done Pilates a couple of times but not very practical with a 2 year old using me as a jungle gym ;)

Sooo 9 1/2 weeks to go ;) time to dig my toes in and do this!!

Oh diane I feel your pain when it comes to making choices in a social situation - I'm fine in my day to day life but if I'm out of routine my good eating goes out the window. Maybe do a preventive stike and take your own healthy snacks (if you can that is) I know its not the same though is it lol?!

Hi berryblonde! You'll find a lovely bunch of ladies here, very supportive and real. We know YoYo and we know this game is all mental and planning - will power is over rated ;)

Mandy I'm so pleased your pregnancy is going great, that feeling of bubs kicking around in there never gets old - even when they have one foot on your rib and are punching you somewhere inappropriate ;) take care of yourself and enjoy it.

Jenni I started weighing in on a Wednesday and find it much better - gives me a couple of days to reel it in if I've had a 'bad' weekend

Laurie can I just say im sooo pleased you are posting again, and hey even I you aren't quite on plan everyday at least you aren't in head in the sand mode, I'm sure the motivation will kick in

Paulitens oooooh that feeling you might be pregnant when you don't want to be eek scary, I know my cycle was very screwy when I started loosing weight, but niw its soo on time I can set my clock to it lol

Right my tablet is about to die - have a good weekend!!

Ninja Lotus!! Pleased to see you still plugging away and yay on another pound :)

Good afternoon ladies! This morning I was pleasantly surprised with much love from the scale at 191.4 and I got to frantically clean up the whole house before laziness overpowered me (which tends to happen when I sit on the computer to get work done). Mid-cleaning I checked my weight again and I was 190.6. And when I was finally done I decided to check again because why not? I broke a sweat! It was hard work and I had not eaten anything! And lo and behold, I peeked into the 180s! Halleloo! It felt glorious. I was in fact 189.4 lbs. I wonder if I'll make it to my goal of 188.something on Monday. So far I'm being a good girl. We'll see tonight; DH and I are having a date night (finally) with dinner and Train in concert. We shall see on Monday, I guess.

:broc:

jenjenangel-- I have a fitbit and I love it. I have the app on the phone and I can track my activity on the go, or on the computer. The app also helps you track steps, calories burned, miles walked, active minutes, your sleep patterns, calories eaten, water intake, etc. It is pretty complete and I guess I could use it to replace the LoseIt! app that I use to track my food but I just don't. :dizzy: You can also connect it to LoseIt! if you don't want to replace it.

Slashnl--Bummer that you caved. But hey! Look at the big picture: you had a good time and enjoyed yourself sharing with your husband. I try to remember those things when I am naughty and give in to the temptation of something yummy. If I did it while creating memories with dear ones, I'm okay. I don't get to do that every day and I can go back to my healthy eating with a warm heart, knowing that I had a great time. Now, if I'm just sitting around in my house and hogging a gallon of ice cream... that's pretty sad, and in fact makes me pretty depressed.

LotusMama--Hi Lotus! Nice to know you're still with us! 16 lbs and going! Well done!!

:carrot:

MissLoud--What app are you using? I've used LoseIt! off and on again since 2010 and I love it. A lot of people are against calorie counting but seriously, that is the only way I can keep myself in check and do things right.

About the pregnancy scare... I don't know if I was truly scared or expectant. I'm a working mom and I'm doing my PhD. I know that when I graduate life will become chaotic trying to pursue tenure at some university. I want to have another baby but on the other hand I hesitate because I couldn't pull off this degree with three babies in the house (oldest child is 8 so she's hardly a baby anymore, but I have a toddler and the 5 month-old). I know I couldn't pull off tenure track with a newborn, a toddler, and a preschooler either. I know I don't want to regain all the weight I'm shedding. Yes, I know it's tremendously selfish to say but hey! like they teach you before flying--"you need to put on your own oxygen mask before you try to help others put on theirs". If I don't take care of myself I am a very unhappy and grouchy mom, so I really need to get my body back; 8 years was enough. And I know that by the time I graduate I will feel old for a baby (I'll be 36-37) and my body will hurt because it hurt a lot with the last one; I was a knackered old lady for the last 20 weeks. So I'm thinking "Heck, if God wants me to have a fourth child, let Him do what he must and I'll roll with the punches because if it were up to me I would never find the right time and I would regret it for the rest of my life." So here I am. Happily not pregnant but also with that thought in the back of my head that I just need to stop overthinking and planning every little aspect and scenario of my life.

Sorry for the monolog. :lol: I bet you weren't asking for it. ;)

Thank you all. So do the fitbits actually tell you what you burn by movement or is it all log in info?

Don't know about Fitbit, but the pulseO2 does. Though I never believe those things.

Queens Birthday!! Oooh long weekends are hard! I was doing well until we got invited around to my husbands aunty and uncles and indulged in a couple of pinots and chocolate cake, doing a my fasting day today so back on track. I'm using myfitnesspal Paulitens, I hope the novelty doesn't wear off because logging my food is going well, hope that shows on the scale.

Beautiful winters day today so heading to the park with the kidlets and the dog :)

Today was the first day with starting back up that I didn't have a loss on the scale. Of course, it was inevitable, but still a bummer. And with being 45 and sometimes being irregular with my menstrual cycle, I don't even know if it means I should be expecting my period soon/tomorrow.

First signs of a wee bit of loss showing up though as things aren't feeling snug!