Today is weigh in day for me. I am down another 3lbs to 187. I have been on my diet for a month and have lost 17.4 lbs.

ROFL you guys are funny. I don't know about any song, I just love DIAMONDS (they are a girls best friend - now I have that song stuck in my head, LOL)

Okay today I will commit to (or be commited, LOL) walking two miles on my treadmill, ab workout and weighleifting for my arms (shoulder, tricips and bicips) I need to plan my meals....definately need lower sodium this TOM (water retention starts a week prior and lasts thorugh.. :mad: )

I also need to get the house clean OMG I have so been slacking in that area.

Good Job on the weigh loss Hannah and 2beautiful2bfat (love that!) I weigh in on Mondays.

I got everything DONE :cp: and I walked another mile outside (hills)

Great Job Diamond!!

Todays walk will be all up hill (well first we cross the pasture about 1/3 mile to the BLM Road then we follow that road up the hill - and up and up and up - it will be a butt burner - yeah!

I wont know the exact distance so I will just go by time and guess based on my treadmill experience that my pace is about 3 miles an hour - it will only be uphill 1 way so it will be 4 mph coming back (I always did 1 mile in 20 mins on the tread no matter how fast I walked or the incline since I speed up/slow down etc)

I will take the backpack and lots of waters!!!

With all the added exercise I have been getting this week that damn scale better move DOWN or I am chucking it out the door!! :lol:

Thanks Angela
The truth is I came up with my screen name cause I used to live with a gay guy and one day he told me he needed to have a talk with me and basically what he told me was I was too beautiful to be fat! It really stuck with me!

I'm supposed to go to the clinic today but I'm skipping because I feel bloated!

I know that bloated feeling, I'm feeling that way also ugh I hate this TOM (before and during, LOL)

I haven't been very good about posting updates, but I havent forgotten everyone here.. you're all still my inspiration :0)

And Ive been exercising faithfully. Still haven't lost a pound, but at least Im exercising.

lilith

Lilith, as long as your exercising, your probably get more muscle (it weighs more than fat) so that a good thing

Hugs,

Down a pound this week. I didn't go to the gym at all last week because of my terrible cold (I am finally getting better - sheesh I thought this would never end), but I also had basically no appetite because of it either. So I figure those two things balanced out and I came out ahead.

Next week is going to be much better, though! If I keep up my pace, I will definitely make my Fall Challenge goal.

Cherry Turnovers
 

Sister - way to go! I would so kill for a case of the stomach flu right now - quickest 10 lbs I have ever lost - :D

And Lilith - I am right there with you - I exercised - walked a lot this week and kept the calories down and the scale refused to budge. Starting tomorrow I am going back on the diary and will track my eating for a full week - making changes as needed, as I have been winging it - but I want to know if it isnt what I have been eating - calories and content - then why no loss?

Obiviously if I make a bunch of changes to what I have been eating I will know it was the "diet" (sshh, don't call it that) I will even take my measurements and weigh again in the morning - this will be fun - hubby going hunting when he returns from the road Wed - he will be gone until Sat then going on Road again Sun - so I could do this for 10 days....hmmm.
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Hang in there chicks - we are gonna do this this time no matter what - we all just have to visualize being skinny (or the degree of thin you are shooting for - I like Zena - we are built similarly but I have 60 lbs on her) - anyway - we all visualize that image - When I see myself in dreams I am not overweight - I avoid full length mirrors unless I am dressed (the right fitting outfit can shed pounds and hide lumps) because the reality of how I see myself is...eeewww.
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So I just visualize that I am the me on the inside - only on the outside - and that images keeps me out of the cherry turnovers in the fridge that have been singing to me all week --- aaaaggghhh make them stop.
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See, I always would post my goal, then never look at this thread til the end. I didn't know we all chatted on this one too! Silly.
Anyway, Two weeks into my new budget and food planning and so far - awesome! I am right on schedule for budgeting and only had to have one day with food out to eat and that's because my darn chicken didn't thaw out in time, I had good intentions just a big ol' thick piece of chicken.
Anyway, I realized that one of my goals was a food journal, which I forgot about now. So this week, my mini goal is to get that started and keep track, see if there is anything I should be cutting out or down on to get my caloric intake where it should be. Also, I am going to make my goal of hitting the gym at least twice this week. I have been slacking so much, I think June was the last time I went. SHAME on me.

too beautiful to be fat...that is hysterical. I have a buzz so I will ask what I probably should Not...do you think that is a less offensive comment because it's coming from a gay guy? Because I can see one of my gay buddies saying that to me & me somehow not taking it in an offensive way but I think if I heard that from one of my girlfriends...well, somehow I don't think I'd deal with it in a "positive criticism" sort of way. WHY can gay guys get away with saying those sort of things? My gay girlfriends piss me off when they take that sort of stance.How come my gay chick friends & my hetero female friends say stuff like that & I want to make snide comments at them but when my gay guy's do, I think wow...that's such an alright thing. ???? Is it a personality thing? Are they just innately better at saying things so that we are amused, endeared & think about it instead of automatically thinking well what are you??? Gwyneth Paltrow? Ok, nevermind. lol.

I have not cheated once in four days, which for me is great. I made a great low carb cheescake that we have been nibbling on...plus tonight I made crisped pepperoni chips in a sour cream with garlic/onion/ranch dip so that took care of my urge for salty/crunchy stuff. I think last weeks messup was due to my period. Feeling much better this week!
Congrats btw Hannah! Very cool comment from your boyfriend!

Dawnlizbeth
I'm not sure what it is about the way gay guys say things but I think you might be right it may be the funny way they say it so we are better able to hear it. Not too sure but know it was a kick in the butt for me!!

This weekend was rough for me and I cheated like a crazy person!! I feel awful and must get back on track!!! I need help and support!! If anyone has any good tips please PM me!!

2 Beautiful - My willpower is always being tested especially lately with this being DH hunting month which means frozen hashbrowns in the freezer and bags of mixed candy lying about and pastries in the fridge. I do ok against the hashbrowns and the pastries I comprimised by only having half a turn over and only a couple times last week then sent the rest of them to work with dH so that is gone. The mixed candy is harder - fortunately DH packed what he just bought in the bottom of the camp tub - I know it is there but it is not easy to get to so I won't bother. :lol:

I find the best way for me to avoid temptations is to only buy what I am allowed to eat - that sucks for DH who can eat anything (******* - kidding) but he is pretty understanding - so I am looking forward to this month being over. And since I work from home I dont get the external temptations unless I go to a bday party or wedding - but my friends and I decided that bday cake and wedding cake have no calories in the first piece even with some ice cream - I think it is a cosmic thing - :dizzy:

In the beginning of my "diet" I found preplanning exactly what I was going to eat and eating at specific times (hungry or not) helped a lot. Figure out your calories and when you get up and when you go to bed and space meals at least 4 hrs (but not more than 5 hrs) apart. If you have really long days - smaller meals more often may be in order. I have heard that you should 1 hr after you wake and 1 hr before bed - but I cant eat in the am until I digest my coffee and do my animals so 2 hrs is my limit. The idea is that brkfst gets the metabolism going and a lite snack before bed keeps system functioning while you sleep so you dont awake starved.

In fact I need to do a "back on track" plan this week to see why I have plateaued - probably those damn cherry turnover - but OMG they are so yummy.

I will be doing measurments later to let you all in on my dimensional progress - since the scale hates me. LOL

Best of luck to all you ladies!!

PS - I think (and this is a tad caveman) when a man (gay or not) starts a sentence with "you are too beautiful" we as women tune out the rest. Whereas when a woman says the same thing - we skip over the first part and just here "to be fat". And your friend probably meant it in the nicest possible way - and when I first read it - it almost sounded like he meant he would never think of you as fat because you are so beautiful. :D