Jessica: Good for you! I hear you on moving the ticker down!! I try not to "round down" when I shouldn't, but when I get to 179.9, you bet your hat I'm claiming 179 on my ticker! (I don't care if it's really more like 2 lbs before I can claim 178. I just want the 180's out of my life!)
k15: I swear there are invisible walls at each decade "checpoint"...195, then 190, then 185, etc. You'll make it though!
Dogs: congrats on the 1.5!!!
As for me: I am off to a good start this week. Right on point with 1500 cals yesterday and did my 2 mile WATP video. Stay strong, ladies!!
jdonato~~hugs to ya girl! Kids are just running me to death with a boyfriend the oldest has (like this one though) & the boys are jealous so they got to be ran everywhere too~Then when there home they take over the computer & when there gone I am usually so tired I am napping ~Or trying to enjoy some outdoors weather permitting.~i forgot about Spring Break ~LOL~YAY ME!!!
~EVERYONE~
GOOD JOB TO all of you looks like everyone is doing pretty good we got 12 days to go!!! Keep up the super work!
Off to eat then maybe a nap~Next week we have class verses class ball games for my boys grades 5th & 6th~UGH~More running ~more gas money~I am a tightwad & I hate the gas prices~THEY SUCK! TTYL
Was very relieved to weigh myself at the gym last night and "only" be at 175.5. I say only because last Thursday or Friday, because of the binging fat, binging water retention and TOM water retention, I was at 182!!! When I got on the scale, I was just praying I would be in the 170's (or lower ). Was very thankful to be. Now I have somewhere to start.
Stayed away from the Truffle bar last night! But mainly because I had already given myself permission to have one this evening.
Today is going to be an interesting experiment in moving my lunch back. I have to run errands after making deliveries today that will take a couple of hours. So I know an orange will not tide me over like it did for the 90 minutes between snack and lunch yesterday. So I went with one of the lowest calorie breakfasts I eat (oatmeal and blueberries) and will basically have breakfast again later (bagel thin with whipped cream cheese and an orange). I'm hoping it works!
Aiming for 1556 calories today with cardio that will burn approximately 507 calories for a net today of 1049. I'm not quite getting up to my 1200 net goal but right now, I don't want to add calories or decrease exercise. If I feel hungry, I'll add more calories I guess. Just want to see how well this works for a bit.
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manders- Deep doo doo, I love it! So funny! I would love to switch to P.B 2, hubby is so picky i don't know if he'd switch. I still want to try it though!
Busy day, grabbed more fruit to eat for lunch than i should have, I went 300 over my limit, 1725 total. I just can't get out of this bad habit of going over my calories, yesterday was perfect, what happened today? Stress happened!!
Rode the bike for 20min, then had to get ready to leave for an appt. Ate clean today and no P.B for 2 days! Gained weight from that P.B two days ago, a total of 3lbs. Hopefully I will see a loss tomorrow.
It can't hurt to try. IMO, the price and shipping isn't enough that if I had tried and didn't like it, I wouldn't be overly stressed about losing that amount of money. And I'm a bit of a stickler these days when it comes to $$$.
Sorry about the calorie overage but at least it was with fruit. Imagine how much worse it could have been! I know it's probably been a struggle to stay off the PB (LOL, it's like a drug ) but you're doin' great!
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I hope I am not at a stalling point, but maybe I need to plan on what to do next which Northern, Manders, and Jiggle are always so good at. My hat is off to you ladies!
Thank you!
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Well I was supposed to weigh in yesterday, but forgot until I had already had most of my breakfast so I weighed in this morning. 1.5lb loss, which I can't complain about, especially after 3 days of eating whatever I wanted! I will do better this upcoming week!
Hope everyone's doing well this morning.
Congratulations!!!
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manders01 and northernexposure - I have the chocolate truffle bars, but now it looks like I'm gonna have to pick up these cookies and cream ones.
After 2 weeks of eating great one day and awful the next and seeing barely any loss, I got my a$$ in gear this week! I weighed in at 131.4 this morning!! YES! Finally! This is exactly what I needed! Sooo close to being 130!
I don't know what's going to happen when I hit 129lbs, I might just cry.
I have only had the chocolate up until now. They were so good, even though the white chocolate mint sounds great too, I'm so hooked on the chocolate I couldn't bring myself to try them. And congratulations on the loss!!!
Good morning people!!! I weighed in at 239.4, so I'm close to my second Easter Goal, so I guess I'll be making another. I've also added some light ab training in the mornings, because my lower tummy is my real problem area, so I need to work on it big time...okay, that's it, off to the stairs!!! Have a good Tuesday!!! To all of those who started off the week with a bang
And to all of those who aren't having a good week, it's only Tuesday, there are 4 more days!!!
today is good. the sun is finally out & even though my basement flooded im not gonna let that get me down! I feel energized, & hopefully I can leave work early today & get a little exercise in.. I might go outside walking since it's such a lovely day...
So I weighed myself this morning and I gained another .8lbs. This bites! I was 4lbs down and now i'm only 1.2...eff this noise! Don't want to talk about it, i'm just gonna keep to my CC and doing what I can. Today so far i'm good been right OP so we will see for tomorrow. Tomorrow is going to be a mess though because it's my Dart night, and our last game, which means beer and bar good grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Anyway:
manders01: My softball team is the same girls I play darts with, so we are all a nice bunch I hope you find a team. Congrats on being in the 170's at the gym that's awesome! And I understand about the skinny cow bars, it's ok to have that if you need something sweet because there are worse choices out there. If for some reason you feel you really need something sweet and your body need the sugar, try carrots, they are high in sugar count and will spike that up very quick to help. Or I try blue berries, though I just need something bad sometimes. Good luck!
Fit4Lyfe: I hope you get to make a new goal, you are really rocking this challenge!
Ekicna: Im' right there with you, keep up the good work and you will see a loss very soon
P H A T: Thanks for the hugs And I hope you are right. Congrats on the inches loss, wow that's huge! Sorry about your basement..look at it this way, you will burn calories if you have to clean it up! Hope the sun keeps shinning for you
jigglefree: how do you like the Kettle bell? and what do you do for working out with it..video, exercises you read, trainer?
OhMyDogs: Glad youre back on plan, I've been having one of those weeks too...trying very hard to keep OP. Keep it up!
Lori: Glad you like your daughter's bf, and i can only imagine running that many kids around lol. Hope you have a great day!
NorthernExposure: Thanks I hope you are right, my TOM is in 3 days And I would count that 179.9 as 179 so good job!
Dorian5: you will do it! you will make it to 130 and to 129. I have all the faith in you in the world! I know what you mean because i'm in the same boat, I want to see the 130's so bad, and then the 120's..i miss it
k15g15: keep it up, you will see a loss soon
fruitlady: i've been going over a little from stress, but it's less then my daily intake needed to keep my weight so i dunno why i've been gaining. I think it's a very stressful time of year and that maybe affecting all of us. good luck today
if there is anyone I missed I'm sorry, I'l check back on later. I hope you all have a wonderful day
My motivation for the rest of the week : About the non-moving scale "eff this noise!" and I will get "my a$$ in gear this week!" Thanks ladies
jdonato - "i'm just gonna keep to my CC and doing what I can" Exactly! Get 'em girl!
P H A T - Yuck! So sorry about you basement, extra glad the sun is out for you!
Fit4Lyfe - Great job! What's the new goal?
NorthernExposure - Thanks I usually let it really stick before I move it, but not this time! Now that I've seen that number on the scale, I'm refreshed into thinking I might actually get to my goal You're really close yourself, good luck this week!
Dorian5 - "because maybe if I smell like a playmate it will trick people into thinking I look like one... or something." HAHA! I feel like I'm on the "or something" side of this right now I cannot WAIT to be thinking of a 138 reward!! Great job with your loss, you are SO close to the 120's, woo woo!
This rainy weather we have everyday is getting to me. It's depressing & makes you want to eat. I ate 2 pks of hubby's tastykakes after breakfast, I was so hungry for chocolate or peanut butter. I'm over my limit again by 200, had 1600 cal. planned for the day. Took a 30min walk in the rain, my weight is down 3oz. I'm so sick of struggling to keep my weight down. It's so easy to gain & so hard to lose!
It's a good day. I didn't do a morning workout today but I did get my lunch time workout in. 15 minutes on the treadmill and 15 minutes on the eliptical. I may have to rethink that thing. When I get on the eliptical I'm famished by the time I get off. I like it because it burns so many calories and I have it on the highest intensity level. ANYWHO...
JD - I got a poster and a video with the kettle bells and I use that. I don't really like the video because it doesn't have a workout it just shows the moves. So I use the poster. It's a great workout though. I may have to jump on them when I get home. OH and I LOVE IT!! My arms are getting it together.
MissJessica - YOU CAN GET IT DONE. We still have more week left than week used. So a loss is coming.
Gordis in Paris - Welcome. We are having good days and not so good one so join in. We are having fun though.
P H A T - I hope you got outside today. It's a little chilly in the A. I was going to walk outside during lunch but it's too chilly for me.
Fit - Congrats on the loss. It all adds to the bottom line.
UH-OH I hear the pitter patter of big feet...better get back to work. Everyone else have a great day and I'll try to check in when I get home.
manders01: My softball team is the same girls I play darts with, so we are all a nice bunch I hope you find a team. Congrats on being in the 170's at the gym that's awesome! And I understand about the skinny cow bars, it's ok to have that if you need something sweet because there are worse choices out there. If for some reason you feel you really need something sweet and your body need the sugar, try carrots, they are high in sugar count and will spike that up very quick to help. Or I try blue berries, though I just need something bad sometimes. Good luck!
I actually got an email about a team today so I'm super excited. Hopefully it will work out.
Ehh, it wasn't so much the something sweet. I'm just trying not to eat if I'm not hungry. It's kind of a weird thing because it really only applies to dinner and after dinner snacking. I eat my lunch based on when I need to go to the gym. But anyways (tangent, sorry ) thank you for the tips. I have been incorporating much more fruit into my diet lately and always have blueberries (and carrots) on hand so I will think about them next time I've looking for something sweet.
Okay, now on to a somewhat unrelated rant, does it annoy anyone else that what you eat is called your diet and then when you eat to lose weight it's also called a diet? I drives me batty! I hate talking to people and saying "my diet" because they see my weight loss and think that I'm on a diet. No, I've changed my lifestyle. I'm going to eat like this for the rest of my life (or at least that's the plan), this is not a temporary thing to help lose weight. Anyways, having typed it above, it reminded me how annoying it is. At least I know when you guys read it you know what I mean.
LOL So I've been running errands all day, the last of which was to a flooring supplier / installer to work on carpet selection for one of my projects. As I was leaving, I accidently knocked a carpet book off the table. As I bent down to get it, I pulled / strained / seriously hurt my right hamstring! Hurt like a sonofa! My first thought was that I'd have to skip my workout but then I thought, well I'm sure it will feel better by the time I get home and it will be awhile before I leave to go work out so I shouldn't have any problems. Well, after getting home, finally having my lunch and being beat from running all day, I decided an evening sitting on the heating pad would be much more beneficial. Since I ate lunch so late, I can have a lighter dinner and take in a lower amount of calories today. I feel somewhat guilty since I think I would be okay on the bike but walking is a little painful and I have to believe in trying to mimic my body's motions on an elliptical, I'd probably be in tears on it. So no gym tonight, I'm a bad girl. Looks like my Thursday day off came a few days early this week!
EDIT: I won't even try to deny that the fact that I would have missed good portions of listening to the Rockies and watching the White Sox had I gone to the gym factored into my decision to skip it.
manders at least you have a good reason for skipping the gym. LOL I have been walking every single day. One day last week I decided to take off because my knee (which is arthritic) was really bothering me. Both my dogs bolted out the door during that day, and I ended up walking town trying to catch them (little buggers), it's a small town, very very little traffic, so there wasn't much danger to them, was mostly a pain. So today, I decided to take the day off...get this...because it was grey and windy! Typically I am more resilient, but I opted to chicken out today! LOL Hope the hammie's feeling better soon!
Just an evening check-in...I have been having daily sweet cravings, which isn't a surprise, I love sweets (my poor teeth can attest to that! lol) but I am trying to find ways to eat "healthy" sweet things. So I recently discovered Jell-O Temptations in French Silk Pie I have found my holy grail of desserts: it's creamy and good, chocolate and mousse-like concoction all for 140 calories!!! I swear I am eating a piece of pie. I was really naughty and had TWO tonight (still trying to practice moderation ) and they were soooo good. Anyways, I ate almost 1,700 calories today, which is ridiculous but I worked out and I've decided that the rest of the week (Wednesday-Saturday) I am going to keep my range between 1,350-1,600 because although I am losing weight right now, I still feel like I'm eating too many calories..
Okay, I'm rambling...Good night ladies and here's to hoping that the scale is nice to me tomorrow!!!
Hmm, so after being down nearly 6 lbs last week, the scale is STUCK this week. Hasn't budged a tenth of an lb! I'm not really sure except it might be that I am actually not eating enough calories. My range is supposed to be 1600-1800 but I have been at around 1200-1400 every day this week (our week starts on Sunday here) because I really haven't been hungry. I've been exercising every day, walking 2-3 miles plus light training with resistance bands and the odd bit of dancing thrown in! Anyway, I'm determined to keep at it but if anyone has any helpful hints or advice, I'm all ears!!! Hope you ladies are having a great week.
Fit You are kicking butt on this challenge! I'm still about 2 lbs away from my goal so hoping that I can make it by Easter!
jdonato I am with ya! I think I'll tell my scale to also eff off!
Jiggle I love kettlebells! Unfortunately I couldn't bring them with me here because they are too heavy but I'm looking at incorporating them into my routine when I return home in a few months.
Manders Ouch! That sucks, hope you recover quickly!
When I got on the scale, I was just praying I would be in the 170's (or lower 
). Was very thankful to be. Now I have somewhere to start.
But mainly because I had already given myself permission to have one this evening. 
I know it's probably been a struggle to stay off the PB (LOL, it's like a drug 
lol
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
I hate talking to people and saying "my diet" because they see my weight loss and think that I'm on a diet. No, I've changed my lifestyle. I'm going to eat like this for the rest of my life (or at least that's the plan), this is not a temporary thing to help lose weight. Anyways, having typed it above, it reminded me how annoying it is. At least I know when you guys read it you know what I mean. 
I have found my holy grail of desserts: it's creamy and good, chocolate and mousse-like concoction all for 140 calories!!! I swear I am eating a piece of pie. I was really naughty and had TWO tonight (still trying to practice moderation 
...Good night ladies and here's to hoping that the scale is nice to me tomorrow!!!
