awww meowkat, chin up! why are you having such a hard time? anything we can help you with? how about just changing your goal to a coupla pounds? i changed mine midway through the challenge by 5 pounds. i've posted it before but i'll write again: i've lost 25 pounds and it's taken me over a year! so i know about hard times and being pissed off at the whole deal, but just don't give up. even if it means maintaining what you've lost so far (what i did for a year) and trying again whenever you're ready to boost it back up (what i've been doing lately).
Hey, thanks for the encouragement...I didn't mean for my last post to sound so negative, I'm just frustrated! And I think the change in the weather is affecting my depression. It's getting more intense, as it does from time to time.....I'll get over it. I guess I just have to let it run its course. I'm usually fine, I swear!
I'm going to keep my goal, even if I don't achieve it, mainly because I guess I'd feel like I was "cheating" if I moved my goal up just because I couldn't do it (I don't think it was a terribly difficult goal to achieve, if I'd stayed on course to begin with). I haven't been checking in here as often as I should, because I just don't have a ton of time anymore...anyway, it's good to know I have support here. I think I just kind of needed to vent a little because I'm mad at myself
So I went to the Irish Festival yesterday, and worked my a$$ off vounteering and when I stepped on the scale this morning it said I was 174... I was so excited to be one pound from my goal... then I realized it was probably water LOL.
Hello my fine alternachick friends. I thought I'd post an update, since I have not in a while. I encourage yall to follow suit. K?
I'm sick, and tired and I feel bloated but the scale has said 169.75 two days in a row now. Nice. I've been watching my food very carefully. Have the scale out on the counter and everything. I've also been making it to cardio this week I went mon, wed, thur and friday. Tomorrow I'm tearing the whole house apart, cleaning everything, and then putting it back together. Well, it'll probaby take all weekend actually, but I'll fit in a workout somewhere in there if I can.
sick. tired. bloated. check, check and check. hey ghost! wow, you're doing so well, chica! the big san fran date's coming up, huh? excited?
still hangin in at 144. my body is really starting to get comfy with that number. i'm not complaining though seeing as how much i've been sitting down reading for school and how many pb and j sandwiches i've had on the go. i need to kick it up a notch, gals.
i saw 142 yesterday and saw 141.6 this morning! it's a first! dare i move the scale down even a notch? i'll give it another day. point is, if i stick with it, i know i can meet my goal of 139 by samhain.
skullarix - i hear ya. i spent the entire end of september bouncing between 144 and 145.
meanwhile back at the ranch i'm still trying to decide how me and the hubs will celebrate samhain being in a new town and all the usual jaunts are not an option....
I'm loving the cooler weather. It's such a refreshing feeling.
The past two weeks, my diet and exercise was on the back burner, but I think it's time to focus on it again. I haven't weighed myself in a while, but with my lack of eating a lot the past two weeks, I doubt I gained. I know I won't make the goal I had originally planned, but even a few pounds lost by Samhain will be a good thing. I'm just a few pounds shy of being under 200. Perhaps I will aim for that.
Congrats on the race skullarix! What a great thing to do!
The diet has been on the backburner of late as we just had Thanksgiving in Canada this past weekend - too much turkey, wine and pie! I did get out for some exercise by cleaning up the front and backyard, raking leaves and cutting back the plants to prepare for winter. We had a gorgeous weekend - it was so warm I was outside in my summer gear in mid October!
I am trying to walk after work this week starting this evening by going on foot to the polling station to vote and then for a quick walk round the neighborhood.
