[Scotsgal]

Hope everyone is doing well

I have went up slightly to 286.3 which I expected, I am so close I can almost taste it, which I think brings a lot of nerves to this weeks weigh inns. I think I just need to calorie count like mad, be very good, and not let the pressure take over of being so close.

SAmIam Your other half is right, sadly tiredness is the catch 22 for weightloss. You are too tired to work out, but working out gives you more energy. Try and break through that barrier, start small.... that way it shouldn't feel like such a huge chore. I do about 30 minutes of standing exercises every day, I have resistance bands (that cost very very little) and I do about 10 minutes of arm work outs, 10 minutes of squats and stretches for my legs, and I do 10 minutes of twists and standing crunches and stuff like that on my tummy. I do it all while waiting on the kettle to boil, waiting on veggies on boil on the stove, and during breaks in the TV (I know its lazy but its something). I have notices a significant difference on overall toning of my core. My weight-loss has started to slow down a bit now that I am nearly 40lbs down, so in the next week or two I will be starting to attend maybe a Zumba or Kettlebell class. After the new year when I hope to of lost 50lbs, I will start to take up strength training. I am a busy woman, I have a lot to do and I have an old dog to look after. So my routine after new year will most probably be, still do the 30 mins toning per day, one day a week a cardio class, one day a week a weight resistance class, and all other days of the week a 20-40 minute walk with the dog.

I am telling you this because sometimes I think people create a culture in their head where they have to go to the gym every single day to lose weight and feel energetic. Slowly and regularly is the way forward. I believe in you!!

RubyLeprechaun I am blanking from my mind the fact that I have not bought one present yet, and my sister keeps popping out kids and I can't afford xmas anymore lol. Everyone is getting a dollar world surprise!

[Karencat]

scotsgal hopefully you get a good walking budistance with motivation
where you I've sounds lovely cold but nice
nearest beach is a hour's to 1 & 1/2 hour drive from where we live. ..at least we are near a pool...

this week I have had 4 days all in my daily points WW not a weekly touched

who mentioned Xmas
I am ignoring that till after Halloween you girls are doing a combination Halloween birthday party this year so instead of 3 big things easier have one..also my eldest as her birthday on the same day they are doing a jazz end of year dance show

so spent this week crafting cakes sculpting fondant buildings made two birthday cakes which look awesome. .. one is a dead teddy bear n it's back requires a knife in it closer to the day (Sunday ) stuffed with m&ms. .the other is Harry Potter inspired Hogwarts castle AND quidditch pitch
this included here taste of butter cream and some chocolate buy a tracked and accounted for

will tryou figure out how to add pictures

[Karencat]

forgot to mention

NSV for a dancer
this is a good utility annoying one for dancers
my Nice sparkly cabaret costume doesn't fit it's now about 6 sizes too big. .back in February I felt I was getting so fat it was about to be too small
so before I can use again I'll have to resize smaller. .much easier then going bigger...at least I can mix and match my gold one wI think another ones belt if I need to

looking forward to the families Xmas this year
especially since I will have some nice success and I am sure that a couple of the in-laws will be quite completely blown away by my hard work

i have a S.I.law who is spending a fortune doing a shake program the B.I.L. said she is spending $450 a monothing on them ....What the...!!!!!!!

[Karencat]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153863560721367&id=61859636 6

well its he Hogwarts cake...stumbled onto how to copy link address then couldn't figure out how I did it for the bear

[RubyLeprechaun]

Yeah...I'm lucky in our family we are all kind of broke so we only give gifts to the children(basically everyone younger than me). This wouldn't be too bad if I wasn't the oldest of 9 and my cousins are all younger than me too. Sigh. Sometimes it stinks to be the oldest child and grandchild.

And again I have to agree with scotgal. I was really down for a while. Getting cranky with everyone. I would hear the stupid things I was saying and feel bad as soon as I said it but I just couldn't seem to stop myself. I looked at my steps for those days and they were all super low.... like not even hitting 1000. Now that I realized that I've been trying harder to do more and I'm sure my husband is much happier for it.

Also I hit the 20lb down mark. 24 to be exactly! Yay

[Scotsgal]

Just popping my head in because I didn't just fall off the wagon, I flipped off that bad boy and fell face first into the gutter. My mum has had a really busy week with work and my sister, which meant I was only making meals for one person, which nothing in our house is packaged or prepared for one person. Instead I ordered take out, luckily it was so disgusting that the dog ate some of it. Then on Saturday I ate a whole bag of little chocolate things which I tried to forget was like 550 calories for all of it. Then at dinner time, while mum was away I ordered a grilled chicken BBQ burger with fries and mozzarella sticks and an Ice cream, I went full crazy!! I put the burger on the plate, and then as I was putting the fries on I thought, wow!! that's a lot of fries, so half stayed in the pack. But I hate everything else..... Sheer greediness. But do you know what?? I felt like crap, I was horrifically full and it was so uncomfortable. Today on Halloween I have gained 2.8 lbs over the weekend.

I will be super good this week to get it back off I am sure, but I have just set myself back. I feel like I needed it though after 37lb loss to remind myself why I eat the way I do, why I want it! So I am starting fresh and "forgetting" about my 280 barrier so I can blast past it.

Learned a tough lesson this weekend.

[Karencat]

complete fall over
..well not quite. ..a bit off track utility clawing way back here