Shari- Great job! All your working out is paying off. Are you packing already for your move.
Courtnie- How is your grandfather liking his condo? Can you post the pixs you decided to put on your xmas cards?
Ro- Good luck on trying to master exercising. I'm need to but I choose to work on my eating first so maybe I won't have to work out as hard. We have fish so we don't have to worry about vet bills anymore.
Aimee-I hope you had a better day at work.
I tried to fix my ticker but could figure out how to update it. Hence, for the updated weight you'll have to check the side bar thing. I've lost 10 pounds this past month. I've gotten back on track from all the various issues that we've had to deal with. So now I recommitment myself to losing a few more pounds before the end of this year. Well, I'm off to fix lunch now.
hsmom - congrats on the 10 pounds!! Thats my goal for November.. to lose 10 pounds that is. Any advice?
Rosario - I can get my eating down, it's the exercise thing I just CANNOT do! I try, and do very well for like... 1 week and then thats all I can manage. You can totally do it, just think the more exercise you do, the more toned you get and thus you look smaller! Keep at 'er!
Shari - I enjoy packing.. I should come help you!
I was feeling pretty darn crappy, so I am back to South-Beach- esq diet.. I am doing it for health, because my stomach has been doing horrible horrible things! The goal is to stay at 'er and lose 10 pounds by Dec 1st for an xmas party. Wish me luck!!
I'm feeling very blah right now. i'm seeing some results - but I can't help but wish that I saw them quicker! It's so frustrating! I'm having to fight the "is it worth it" feelings...
I guess the worse thing 2 years ago I was about #240 - and I lost #50 without thinking about it, not eating well at all - not exercising.. the only thing that changed is that I was less depressed - I got into a great loving relationship - after going through a really bad split from my husband... and now I have another #60 that I need to lose and it's so much WORK!
Enygirl-It stinks that putting weight on is so easy to do, but taking it off is another story. Did you make a list of a few reasons of why you want to lose the weight? (If you didn't you could.) If you did review them are they still true reasons? It sounds like your discouraged and are in some need for some motivation. I've lost that from time to time like earlier this year when everything that could go wrong did. Remember how good it felt when you lost that 50#? I don't allow myself to look at the overall goal unless I'm in a good mood.
SwimGirl-It took me 4 weeks to lose 10#. The most I've lost in a week was 4 pounds. I'm very competitive so I come up with different games and modify others I've played online. I try to beat the "scores" I made the week before or aim for 110%. I'm embarrassed to admit, but I started doing weight watchers on Oct. 11th (dh & my anniversary). I don't have any workout buddies or health watching buddies. I despise the word diet. So I needed a way to be held accountable. Plus, I'm learning how little I knew about food. Example I forget the name of the salad dressing but it has Propylene Glycol aliginate which is found in antifreeze!
Gee, I'm chatty today must be the allergy meds I'm on. Ds is sick today, along with the little girl I'm watching today.
bhsmom You know what - you're right! I do need to look at the little chunks in stead of the big picture. I'm going to take one challenge at a time right now. As for the #50 pounds - I really didn't notice that they left to be honest - it was over such a long period of time and all I knew was that I was happier with myself and my life - not because of the weight loss, but because of other accomplishments I had done in that time (ie seperated from my exhubby, finished my bachelor's degree, started and maintain a wonderful career, found a new loving caring supportive man... etc.)
So I naturally lost a lot of the "depressed Eny" weight without changing a thing. honest - I still ate McD's 2ce a day - didn't work out at all... so now I think it's more frustrating for me because I'm "trying". I have a million reasons on why I want to lose this weight - most of them health, some for my daughter and some vanity... I WILL DO IT!!! Just keep reminding me that there's a very good reason for the determination!
Enygirl - Weight loss might be THE hardest thing I've ever done in my life - you constantly have to remind yourself why you are doing this.. not to mention somehow stay committed 7 days a week. Would it help to write everything down and keep it somewhere that you see every day? Or maybe a goal outfit hanging somewhere?
hsmom - I have been thinking about WW myself, but also think that if I join that somehow the whole world will know that I'm fat... not that they can't already see it.. it's some weird mental thing. I may revisit the WW thing after xmas, things are just stupidly busy in Dec for me. I don't have any weight loss buddies in real life - the people I know who are trying to lose weight are doing a different fad diet each week.. not into that. My neighbour, who is one of those people, was telling me how she lost 10 pounds on this one diet, and I got crazy jealous... but then I had to remind myself that she's gained 40 pounds in the last 2 years, and I've lost 23. Wow, thats 13 pounds a year.. so sad, yet so good that it's staying off! It's lasting weight loss I guess... I am just normally chatty... heh..
I am going to weigh tomorrow... I am hoping for 254.. I've been SO SO good.. so fingers crossed!
Swimgirl- lol I share the same weird mental thing. I'm with you on the yo-yo fad diets. It's not for me. I weigh in on Thursdays too. Great job on keeping those 10 # off! How did your weigh in go?
My allergies seem to be getting worse every year. I still drugged my butt out to the track with a headache last night and walked 1.25 miles last night. It's a big thing for me because I'm queen of finding excuses not to get exercise in.
swim - I write everything I eat down and I have seen an amazing improvement over the last month. and I write how much exercise etc. I write my feelings in my 3FC blog.
As for a goal outfit - I'm not sure if it would inspire me, or frustrate me! I think maybe having a mini-goal outfit would help , like one that 1 size smaller then what I am kind of thing. I'll try it.
hsmom - good for you and getting out there for some exercise!! I am definitely NOT exercising today - I have a wacky headache, sooo fuzzy in the head. As for that mental thing - I gotta wonder if it's what keeps me from losing weight. Although 25 pounds isn't too bad!
Enygirl - A far away goal outfit might actally get depressing if you aren't completely focused on the end result.. I like the idea of a mini goal outfit. Thats very impressive - writing down all your food and exercise, I have a hard time with that. Keep it up, they say thats the best thing to do!
So I am down 2 pounds.. yay! I can't wait to get out of the 250's, just 5 pounds to go! I hate it when I get a headache on my days off... I get these dumb migraines and last time I went to the doctors the stuff they gave me for it made them 100 times worse. I am trying to control them thru my diet and managing stress.. hoping it'll work. I am just babbling...
I have a ton of goal clothes, from every single size it feels like!! I kept everything from when I was smaller - mostly because they were expensive designer clothes and are timeless. I have a pair of pants that are slimmer cut with a really nice waist band ( I'm all about the waist on pants), I figure I need to get down to about 230 to wear them.
hsmom - congrats on the weigh in!
Thanks everyone - I am not giving into any of my sugar cravings - which are SO SO intense.. but I know how bad it is for me... just a few more days and the cravings will go away... the sooner the better...
everyone! 
