[mauvaisroux]

Well we are now in the first week of March and only 3 short months away from our June target.

How did February go for everyone?

Any improvements you have made to your way of eating?

How is the exercise coming along?

Have you made any changes to your life outside of weight loss or because of your weightloss?

[mauvaisroux]

Well I am losing weight v e r y s l o w l y

I am currently at 164 lbs and I am only 7.5lbs from getting my 10% award at WW. I have vigorously renewed my efforts as of last week and have managed to stay OP for 2 weeks running.

I have also upped my physical activity by getting up earlier in the morning and practicing yoga on top of my 2 bellydance classes per week.

Changes in my life: I lost my mind and agreed to appear on a local tv news segment on Bellydancing for fun and fitness. In the past I would never have had the nerve to do such a thing but I think I am feeling much happier and more confident since I have lost some weight

I have also wanted to take up playing an instrument of some sort for the last 5 years and never got around to it. I was dreaming of a violin or the mandolin but one day and decided I was going to buy a Tam Tam drum- thought about it for 6 months and finally got one last weekend! So here goes.....

I guess you are never to old to try something new.....

[Navi]

Hmm... well, I just "started" on monday but I'm jumping in this tread too! so

I haven't been exercising (you know, sitting in front of my computer playing old rock Nintendo games is so much more appealing!) but I HAVE been eating well. While I'm not perfect yet I think I'm doing very well in making the transition to a lowfat vegan diet. If I'm to trust the scale I've lost three pounds already, but that could also be normal weight fluctuation... still, it's a bit of encouragement, and I'll take it! I don't care if I *was* butt nekkid with an empty stomach, it was a WONDERFUL thing to see the scale below 190!

I think in April I'm going to start taking belly dancing-- it's always been something I want to do and my local YWCA offers it for $35 for six sessions. So that'll be exercise once a week... I just need to motivate myself to go out and walk or play Dance Dance Revolution (http://www.ddrfreak.com if you don't know what that is) or lift my hand weights all the other days!

Hope everyone else is doing well!

[mauvaisroux]

Good going Navi!

I love bellydancing! It is a fun way to exercise, you get a good cardio workout once you get dancing and the moves are great for toning head to toe. Have fun at your class

[ellis]

I'll try to get in here more often. I'm seriously thinking of getting a personal trainer at the gym...

Congratulations, Mauvais and Navi!!

[Navi]

*sigh* I really, really do not understand myself.

I can give up cigarettes. No problem. I can stop drinking. I can quit *cough* other forms of smoking. I can even quit my job!

But can I quit eating things that I know are not healthy for me? NOOOOOOO.

To be honest though I'm not doing that bad. It's just I had really bad cravings so I caved in, and then I caved in the next day, and the day after that. And it wasn't for all day, it was just once or twice. I suppose that I should be taking something like this one step at a time. I'm used to "quitting" meaning "all or nothing" (see above-- I quit all of those just one day out of the blue. But not on the same day.)

I think, though, that my weight is covering up some deeper issues and that I eat instead of dealing with them. I've always done that. It's just that I took away all those other unhealthy coping mechanisms and junk food is all I got left. And if I want to lose weight I have to change a lot of things about myself, including how I deal with things, and that's boo scary. I need to make that change happen, too, which is easier said than done. I'm a professional lazy person.

But hey! I went for a walk yesterday.

[blugirrl1]

Navi, way to go on the walk. i know exactly what you mean about deeper issues. when i am feeling good. i eat normal and healthy but if something else is going on then i am horrid in the kitchen . Good going on the walk. when my lazy butt does them, i love to walk.

Let's see Febuary for me : as far as losing weight i am back to 184 but a 2 pound gain is much better than what i thought.
My eating healthy started to slack. so when i went to grocery store this weekend i tried to stock up on veggies.

exercise? what is that/. in march i am def. working on this. the sun is starting to come out so time to walk.

Changes to my life. hmm well i am starting to go back to school. My hubby decided to quit his "normal" paycheck paying job, to go back to what he loves fulltime. I am really nervous and stressed. but trying to be supportive of him.
and the big one. am going to therapy. getting ready to go on med's for my bipolar/depression. Have always dealt with this alone and hated doc's. but trying to actually change. tired of hiding out in my room for days on end. and having manic attitude problems.
so that is it that was feb. but march will be better. <fingers crossed, rapping on wood>