Jenn congrats on the job and what a good idea with the WII! I keep thinking I want one but I can't justify it as we probably just wouldn't use it very much. It would be fun though!

MP I hope your baby feels better, nothing worse than a sick kiddo :( And I hope you can still go and have a great time on your vacation! And that you lose weight :)

So, I am not doing great at all, or maybe I am in some weird kind of way. I jammed my toe really badly at karate the other day and haven't done any kind of working because I'm scared to, or I'm just making another excuse, I'm not sure which lol I have a goal to get back to the running on Monday. I've pretty much been eating what I want and while I'm not doing great, I guess I am learning things about me and most importantly, I'm not beating myself up like I normally would. I think I need to give myself a kind of grace period, hoping that it will be done with after tomorrow. The fridge is low and we are in need of lots of veggies and fruit, I hope that when it is stocked up that that will be what I want to eat. I need to go back to some sort of a plan but nothing rigid and set in stone.

Anyways, I hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend! I'm going to do some partner practice with karate friends tomorrow and that will be my main focus for this week so I can feel somewhat ready for my belt test next Saturday.

Just checking in! I am a newbie and just catching up in the 30-something thread. Sounds like everybody is doing so wonderful. I cannot wait to share my journey with all of you!

Hi Ladies,

I verbally accepted the job on Friday! It all hinges on a background check. I'm not worried. I'm slated to be on payroll the 28th!!!

The past week I've been nursing a summer cold with upset stomach! Ugh I hate those! When I have a cold w/ upset stomach I live on crackers, toast and carbs! I got on the scale this morning and OMG!! I did horribly!!! But the kitchen is now stocked with healthy foods, I'm feeling better and tomorrow is a new day! It back to the healthy foods, and exercise. 30DS L2D1 followed by BL WeightLoss Yoga! A nice way to start!

Pixie, I hear you about the knee injury! I went for a jog today for the first time in nearly a month because my knees just were in too much pain. Yoga helps though as it's bodyweight training. I love it! I hope your baby's feeling better!

Have a great one!!

Morning everyone!

Today is a new day after a very bad (eating) weekend. It was OK otherwise. DS#2 had his 8th b-day party (at our house...stress!), so I ate cake and other assorted junk this weekend...it sorta steamrolled over the weekend. Am back on the wagon today.

I guess what really set me off to eating was the (bride's maid) dress fitting on Friday...it fit but was not "loose enough"...I guess in my head, I thought they would have to take it in by ALOT. Even though everyone said it looked really good, I felt so self-conscious...even more than in the 2-piece bathing suit as crazy as that sounds...my stomach looked pretty good...actually can't even see the stomach in the dress...so I obsessed about how my arms look...halter top dress...and of course, how dang big my chest looks in it...ugh!!!! I think I may be on a push-up, weight lifting kick for the next 4 weeks....am I crazy?

Congrats! WTG! Awesome! You deserve it!

Real quick - from a hotel room 700mi from home:

Jenn - :hug: what a great feeling, and peace of mind. Congrats!!

AFChick - I know how that can happen. I have clothes in boxes that I deliberately DO NOT try on because *if they don't fit right* it will send me into an "I don't give a sh*t" eating frenzy. Hang in there!

Well, we spent the night in a BEAUTIFUL hotel suite that I book months ago for $99! Our kids are so sheltered, they just kept walking around saying "this is SO nice." :lol:

Yesterday we had sandwiches and fruit on the road - at the hotel I worked out for 45min in the fitness center, then had ONE piece of pizza and a banana for dinner. This morning I had a bowl of raisin bran and an apple with PB for breakfast...oh how those huge waffles in the shape of TX looked gooood!

On the down side, I have a horrible sore throat and can't talk. :( I also started ToM in the middle of my cycle and am not looking forward to a beach vacation with that all going on. **Sucking it up** Trying to stay positive, taking a million pix and enjoying my family.

So far so good! Have a great Monday!

So great to read all of your fabulous updates! Keep up the great work everybody!

Hi all.

I'm back after about a 10-day absence, studying like a madwoman for exams.

Jenn: WTG on the job! Congratulations!!

MP: I would have had the waffles; I love waffles. Awesome job sticking with it.

Evee: :welcome: to the 30-somethings! Hope to hear more from you.

Probably the only thing I've been feeling lately is depressed. I see the Post-It note on my computer's desktop: 23 pounds/23 weeks to go and it looks SO HARD. I want to cry every time I see it now. This plateau is killing me inside. I feel fatter than ever, even though I was able to change my ticker from 80 to 79. I'm sick of getting up at 6am to go to the gym for 7 and working my as.s off for small gains. I'm sick of eating right only to not lose anything at the end of the day/week/month. I'm sick of being frustrated at every turn it seems.

I hate ranting to you guys; you guys take the major brunt of all my frustrations. I can barely talk to DH and never to any of his family (I love his family, but they don't "get" me; they don't understand me most of the time). My mom hasn't been home but all I get out of her lately has been "but you're doing so well". I'm at that point where I want solutions, not sympathy. I want to know what I should be doing to get these last 20 pounds off.

I've got to start on dinner; DH will be home soon. I think I need a hug.

Blech. Not a great weekend...

Calories were okay, I think, overall. I mean, higher than what I usually shoot for but technically within my limits. But the food itself -- salty, processed...and delicious...

Added to that I didn't drink as much water as I usually do since were were out and about and on the go every day. Today was technically my official weigh-in day, but I'm not taking it :) I'm going to chug my water today and eat the clean healthy foods that I was eating *before* this stupid long weekend and use tomorrow morning's weight. I don't think it'll be a terribly good one, but I'm hoping for at least not a gain. Or at least not more than a pound.

Leaving on Friday for a visit to *my* parents. (This weekend was a visit from *his* mother.) I'm not as worried because my parents like to eat in and cook and she has to go out for every meal.

I hope everyone has a great day!

MP: Sounds like an awesome vacation...enjoy it!

Mollz: :hug: My DH doesn't always "get" me either...his family never has and probably never will. Hang in there! It's hard work, but you've been doing the hard work, so you CAN do the hard work. Eventually, your body will get the hint that you're more stubborn than she is...

Hello!
It's my official second week here, and although I have not been an absolute angel with my caloric intake, I have budged my rear onto the treadmill! I am back to running 1.5 miles, and then I do intervals until I reach mile 4/5. I stay on from anywhere between 45-60 mins, every other day. In my past, when I was in much better shape, I ran every day, but I got a little obsessive about that, and don't want to return to that destructive behavior.

Today, I sucked it up, packed my gym bag, and am heading back into Xsport fitness to do some weight training. I ABHORR weight training. I always think I could be spending some time on a stair stepper, or a bicycle (Things I don't have at home). This attitude is a stinker to have, and I am looking for any advice on how to step up a workout with circuit weights to be more than just lame repetition?! Any playlists, tunes, thoughts?

Happy loss!

P.S. Does anyone know how I go about obtaining a ticker tape?

Have a wonderful day!
Deb

Mollz, here is a big hug!

Congrats Jenn, on your job!

MP, sorry to hear that you are sick during vacation....take care, eat some zinc lozenges, they shorten a cold/viral illness, according to some medical journals....

Everyone, good job with your little successes......

HANG IN THERE, ALL!! We can do this, we just have to keep believing in the process and in ourselves. We are in this for the long haul, it took awhile to gain this weight and it will take some time to get it off.

Plateaus suck! Check all of the details....examine your diet, food log, portion sizes, etc. Sometimes as we do this awhile, we start to get lax about measuring portions, writing down everything, etc. I know that this is what I am doing lately, and I'm not losing and I'm mad about it, but know that I need to buckle back down. Adding weight training should also theoretically increase metabolism, burn more calories while working out and after, and mix up workouts a bit to shock the body. Trying other cardio routines might also do this, work different muscles, shock the body out of its routine....remember that muscles have memory, if we do the same thing over and over, the body stops responding as well.

Anyway, quitting is not an option, because I'm not happy with my weight the way it is. So the only choice is to lift my head up and keep going. We can do this, and we are supporting each other, which helps so much!

Go get 'em! (or another equally somewhat-annoying-but-also-encouraging phrase) :)

R

OK, haven't caught up on all the reading, but wanted to jump in here and encourage my buddy Mollz. Girl, you ARE doing a kick butt job. I know exactly how you feel. It's like, "I could be sleeping in and sitting on the couch all day and not lose anything!" You expect it then. When you are watching your food and working out, the pounds SHOULD come off!!!! I can tell you that when I was like that, I was burning too many calories and not eating enough. I don't know if that's what's going on with you. I kept the same amount of calories, cut back on my cardio and started lifting heavier weights at lower reps. Anyway, just keep tweaking things until you've found out what the issue is. Don't worry about the dumb scale either. It's just a number. You ARE making progress even if that particular number doesn't say you are. *hugs* I feel your pain.

So I have PROOF of the temporariness of eating within your calories but also eating too much sodium and eating heavy processed foods, also eating them late in the day. I'll also admit that I pushed my "official" weigh in to this morning, instead of Tuesday, for these reasons!

But today I'm calling my official weight 199.0! I was 202.5 yesterday morning, and those 3.5 pounds had been hanging around since the weekend when I ate withing my calories but I was eating out almost every meal and eating higher sodium stuff. In general I don't care about sodium, but I try to keep it low Sundays and Mondays so that I'm not bloaty on Tuesday morning.

Anyway, Monday night I had a high volume meal. Tuesday night I had a high volume meal AND I ate it at about 9pm. All weekend I hadn't been drinking enough water. Finally yesterday I had a nice light day and I finished eating earlier in the day. And this morning I officially hid Onederland :)

It's been a horrible few days at work. Tuesday night my whole group was here until 11:15pm to fix something that was done wrong by someone in our group earlier in the day and had to be ready the next day at 7:30am... Then last night I had to wait around for a physician who is notorious for being late. So after about 2 hours I paged his PA and got a call back that he had called earlier in the day to let us know that the physician wasn't coming until tomorrow. Well, I didn't get the message and wasted 2 hours sitting around and didn't get out until 7pm. I was SO pissed! And today we all have to stay late to do a survey to determine if we can put a new machine in the place of an old machine...

I can't WAIT for the weekend! I'm going home (like parent's home, not home home) for a long weekend. Mom is on WW so she always had good healthy food. Also, my 30th birthday is on Saturday!

I hope everyone has a great day!

Thanks doll. I can always count on hugs and words of encouragement. I think one of the problems is that I've been a little (okay, a lot) slack in some of my measuring. Others I'm good with, like 1/2 tin of tuna or 20g of chips (easy enough, they come in a small bag of their own); usually where the serving size is written on the bag, I'm good, but it's the little things like butter for my English muffin, my 125g of yoghurt, and meat (3oz just isn't enough for me!). Sometimes it's writing what I eat down. And this past week, it's been not getting out of bed to go to the gym (there's ice on the windscreen at 6am!).

I will do better this week. It's Friday morning. I can lose *something* by Tuesday. I will make good choices, especially tonight since there's a dinner on that I'm going to.

I fell off, now I've got to run a little to catch up to the bandwagon!

:hug:
You guys rock.