Good morning ladies

I have a horrible headache this morning and have been all sniffly. I am hoping it is just hay fever and not a cold coming on.

the weekend was a bust food and exercise wise, although i certainly was not sedentary. i went and bought a stack of plants for our soon to be backyard. camellias, magnolias, vibernum, gardenias and also a small tree. this week OH will help me to map out the garden beds and we can condition them this week and i can get planting on the weekend. i have a couple more plants to get before this coming weekend. it will look great. also, this means i can get started preparing garden beds for my vegetable patch in spring! i am so excited. lots of salad greens, some root vegetables, tomatoes, cucumbers, hopefully blueberries, raspberries and strawberries and all sorts of other goodies.

so, tonight i will be getting in some much needed exercise and then will be sitting down to plan out the reticulation of the garden. i need to make dinner somewhere in between too

trns - you passed my minutes but i am going to catch up!

i hope everyone had a good weekend.

Hello to all- another day, another week of moving towards our new "lifestyle!"

So here's my dilema.. I've been doing really good with my eating.. no chocolate, no cravings, I'm staying within my calorie intake as planned.. well, within a couple hundred. .. OK, but I cant get my butt motivated to work out!?! so Does anyone have any great stories about loosing weight.. or how you feel since you lost it? i need a little more motivation to just hop on my elliptical (which I moved smack-dab in the middle of my living room) when watchin tv or something. I know once I get going and doing it, i get hooked on it, but its getting started again that's my issue.

So- anyone have any words of wisdom for those of us that need an extra push?

Back from Vegas!

I had a really good time! Can't wait to go back and actually see some shows and spend some more time in the casinos. Almost the whole weekend was taken up with supercross and mini-moto. I waited in line for 2 hours to get Reed's autograph but I did it! He's so gorgeous up close. Yum. He came in third in rthe ace and 2nd overall for the season. Not too bad.

I did gamble some with no problem as far as my age. I guess I look older than I am. The cocktail waitresses even offered me drinks.

I ate a lot of garbage this weekend but we walked for HOURS so I don't think I did a lot of damage. Can't wait to eat healthy and get back in the gym though.

Daisy, I am sooooo jealous. I'd love to have a garden. I have a strip of the dirt in my back "yard" that's literally 6 inches wide. Not much of a garden there.

Here's to a new week ladies!

Daisy- I hear you on the cold thing.

on thursday/friday i had the worst cold/sore throat. then the rest of this weekend i woke up so congested and stuffy. today i think i'm going to battle the gym. but it's just so frustrating because i feel like i already "failed" for may. i know that's not the case, but still. it stinks to be putting 0 for the amount that i worked out.

the good news, i did a lot of walking on saturday and sunday, probably about 60 minutes. not really working out, but heck, i'm going to count that because i calculated that i walked 3 miles on saturday and 4 miles on sunday.

the other good news, i am maintaining my vegetarianess (is that a word?). it's not really been an issue, except for a couple of times. for instance yesterday for breakfast/lunch, we went to Chipotle (i know bad, but i ate half for lunch and half for dinner, oatmeal for breakfast..that's all the whole day) and when she asked me what kind of meat, i had to think, then i said to myself, "oh yeah, i don't eat meat"...."veggie please". the veggie isn't the healthiest thing, but split up it can't be HORRIBLE (i know i could look it up but i'm scared ). so, despite the pitfalls with my cold, at least i'm succeeding at one thing.

the bad news, beside the not gym exercising, is that i am eating too many carbs. i've read that a lot of vegetarian diets can be higher in carbs, and i definitely see myself reaching for the carbs instead of the veggies. i need to work on that.

overall, i'm pretty happy with how this weekend went despite being sick.

stacylambert- congrats on getting his autograph. he is cute (i remember from your avatar).

angelfadedblue- i think you just need to do it. tell yourself that you can buy a magazine, or plan to workout during a show. at the gym i like to workout during jeopardy, the baseball game, and deal or no deal because i can listen to my music and still watch the t.v. without needing sound.

Somehow in the midst of the two weeks of me being crippled and sick, I lost 6.5 pounds. It always seem that when I take the pressure off myself and chill out, my body is more willing to release the pounds. Interesting.

teahoney- if you could market the sick on your butt and relax weight loss plan, you would be a billionaire (i would definitely sign up).

congrats!!! 6.5 lbs. is HUGE!!!

Back from my trip. Everything went fine. A lot of work. Was not able to workout on Sat as I planned but Sunday I went golfing and then hiking so I think I made up for it. The best part was I had company doing both of those things so they hardly felt like work. Back to the weekly grind today but hey its easier to be back in a routine throughout the week. I will be travelling out of town again next Friday/Saturday so will have to load up my exercise prior to then...Today I need to get a run and strength training in.

daisy - Wish there was a way you could count that gardening, I know it is hard work!

angie - I would check out lockitups blog http://www.stephsthing.blogspot.com/ in addition to eating well she had pretty much made herself a slave to working out...JUst remember that muscle burns more calories that fat...and then there is always the quote "Dieting makes you look good, Exercise makes you look good naked." which is soooo true...

stacy - glad you had a great time on your trip, and go you for getting his autograph. I imagine it was just beautiful out there.

chicago - walking is counted as working out Its learning to squeeze it in when and where you can that makes a huge difference.

tracey - congrats !!! I was wondering where you were had not heard from you since your injury news.

maja - you are racking up those minutes. I have been super busy but I am intent on catching up lol. Hows it feel to be both mine and daisies motivation eh? Hope your liking you job better.

This weekend was the first weekend that I did not log my points on WW online since I just cancelled my membership. But today I am going to try and start keeping a log of my food and watching everything I eat.

I also did no excercise this weekend. Tonight I will get my butt on the treadmill.

I've decided that I need to give up ranch dressing completely, I have tried eating it in moderation and it's just to high in fat to even consider it a healthy option.

Daisy Boo -- Good Luck with the garden!

angelfadedblue -- I seem to be having the same problem...

chicagoposter -- This is so exciting, I'm hoping that I can return to my vegetarian lifestyle sometime soon also. But for now I have a lot to work on.

trnsfrmnreplace -- Congratulations! I jogged my 1st mile last weekend it took me 20 minutes! Considering I used to run 7 minute miles about 5 years ago it was rather shocking to know how much I'd let myself go.

I hope this week is great for all of US!

daisy, i hope you are feeling better!

angel, i read somewhere that a good motivator is to write down how good you feel after you work out in a journal or similar type thing that you can then look back at whenever you don't feel like excercising.

rosie, have you tried light ranch? tastes the same to me

stephie, have fun with all the traveling! it does certainly break up the daily grind

my weekend wasn't bad eating wise, but i had a couple of slip ups that i really paid for on the scale (i am up a pound and a half since a week ago!!!) since i was home tuesday through sunday, i had time to go to the grocery store and buy food and everything...which meant i had stuff in the fridge to binge on. it was so bad...i probably binged pretty hard core three or four times. on saturday night i got home from the movies and was hungry...so i had a grilled cheese, a bowl of cereal, and a yogurt. YIKES. i wasn't THAT hungry. when i got up in the morning, my boyfriend says "do you want to go to breakfast, or are you too full from eating so much last night?" he meant it in a nice way (i hate going out to eat when i'm not hungry) but it was definitely an eye opener that i WAS eating too much food! since then i have been trying a lot harder just to make healthy choices, even if they aren't perfect. and i haven't binged

*sigh* no exercise yesterday

i ended up tidying up the house while cooking dinner and downed a couple of litres of water - i was so thirsty last night.

i still have a headache and my throat is a little sore. the glands were up on the weekend but . . . argh! who knows! i am not going to think about it and just toddle on.

trns - bring it on! stephie and i are right behind you

Ok ladies went golfing yesterday as well as ran prior to getting to sleep. Problem is I did not get to sleep until 3 hours after I laid down. I am a sports photographer mostly and I will have a lag in the time when high school sports end and summer time sports begin. So I decided to sign on for more hours with my at home boringhumdrum job. Trouble is the only *extra* work they have that will put me at full time right now is coordinated with the daytime hours in the UK (I am in Colorado) so I am working 2 am my time to 10 am my time until further notice. I just thought I had a crazy schedule. I am having to fit in the occasional photo as well. Good thing is I can go back to my normal (less hours) schedule whenever I say uncle. But right now it is 2:30 am...I am working until about 9 then I have to drive 3 hours for a photoshoot that will last about an hour and a half and then 3 hours home. Then pass out rofl. Oh yeah squeeze a workout in there somewhere. Oh my gosh this is just madness.

rosie - sounds like you are doing great at just watching your calories. I eat carbwell ranch, it is south beach approved. Lower on the carbs, I am not sure how it is on fat. You can hardly taste the difference though.

miss michelle - My entire life is a grind lol, but when I travel it is as a photographer which is my dream job. It is my mundane second job that gets the best of me lol. My hubby says things that he has no idea could be taken the wrong way too lol, MEN!

daisy - I hope you are not getting sick hun. You know what I do is try to have a lower impact workout tape. If I am feeling sick or just unmotivated I know I can at least muster following a workout tape.

maja - Being so dedicated to your work is what will bring you success with it. Nice to see your profession gets as much of your discipline as your workouts do

Hi Everyone!

I got a temp job for the next week or two, with just enough notice to make it there today. I'm so broke, had to borrow money for the train tickets! Anyhow, I don't think I'll be able to check in here much... So just sending my greeting and good vibes to everyone right now, for the whole week!

hi guys
i hope everyone is doing well i had a good eating and excercising day yesterday. it sure felt good! my boyfriend has me convinced that even though the numbers on the scale aren't moving (actually they are up slightly), i am gaining muscle not fat. i want to believe him, but if i can keep up more days like yesterday i think i will lose some more of this pudginess i have been noticing, though, my workouts getting easier, so maybe he is right!


daisy, i hope you feel lots better. i HATE being sick. make sure the get lots of rest and take some vitamins

sushi, thanks for the good vibes!

stephie, your schedule reminds me of being back in college! i actually prefer to be really busy..it keeps me from mindlessly snacking

trns, i hope you feel better also. remember that if you are getting sick its important to take a break from the gym (i know, ok mom)

i hope everyone is having a wonderful day!