Welcome kcwinter, You've done all you needed to do to join on here!!! The Leslie tapes are a great way to get your miles in. She and her group are fun to walk with. You'll see alot of the ladies here walk with Leslie. Sorry to hear you've been diagnosed with diabetes, but delighted you are making lifestyle changes to improve your health. You will find some of the best support here. These ladies are awesome..............I got my 2 miles in, but no strength. I did clean my house good though and I'm now off to a wedding. Taking DD to Bible camp tomorrow, but will find time to TTY....Have a great Sat...........Great job again Cathy. YGG

Kristi

19 miles walked
3 strength

Well girls, I feel GREAT! I've really taken a liking to fitday.com and have discovered that seeing the numbers in bold print in front of you to be a huge motivator! :) It's given me that kick in the pants that I need.

Yesterday my cals. came in at 650. Today just under 700. And I'm not hungry. Haven't been either days... just been eating healthy foods rather than my typical calorie-infused junk (and drinking only water!). Feeling nothing short of AWESOME! :D

Yesterday I managed to get all intended exercise in... which makes up for today, I suppose. Only found time to take an hr. long brisk walk with hubby and daughter tonight. Oh well. Tomorrow will be better, work-out wise. :)

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Kristi... Sounds like your son cleaned up on Yugio cards! Cool cool! My nephews love those things! Glad to hear he had a great birthday! :) Sweatin' to the Oldies, huh? Hey, whatever works for you (and if it's fun for you, then even better)! :D Sounds like you had a good day today with your 2mi. walk! Hope you have a great evening at the wedding! :)

Michelle... Lookin' forward to hearing from you when you've got some free time! :)

kcwinter... Sorry to hear that you've been recently diagnosed with diabetes, but you definitely have the right idea in wanting to WATP! Good for you! :D Best of luck in your weight-loss journey! :)

Cathy... Sounds like you've had yet another productive day! Just where do you get that energy from?! Don't suppose you'd be willing to send me some, hey?! <--- It's worth a shot! ;)

Anyways girls, I'm off for now... hubby promised me a foot rub! <--- Apparently he's totally unaware of how stinky feet can get in hot running shoes! :lol:

Type you girls tomorrow! Hope you're all having a happy, healthy weekend! :D

~mel

Good Afternoon Gang! :wave:

I walked 2 miles outside this morning before getting ready for church. :tread:

July Miles = 16
Strength Session = 2

hugs,
cathy

Hi Everyone,

I have been on vacation since I last posted. Just popping in to report on walking and to say hi. Don't really have to time to read all the posts since I last posted, so will catch up when I return from vacation on Tuesday.

Have a Blessed evening everyone!

July Miles Walked: 14.5
Strength Training: 4

Well girls today was an awesome day. I took 10 y/o DD to Bible camp about 90 miles from home. This is her third yr going so I'm not worried at all. There was even a girl in her group that did a weekend mother daughter retreat with us last fall. So she was definitely good to go. We ate lunch out just the two of us on our way and stopped at Wal-Mart and treated her to a couple last mminute surprises. When I got home I took 7 y/o DD and 9 y/o DS on a 6 mile bike ride. We rode 3 miles to town where the kids stopped for chix strips and deep fried cheese curds at my sister's place. We visited awhile then loaded up a ch burg and ch balls for my youngest and headed for home. We saw bunnies and geese and stopped to eat wild raspberries along the way. Between a lovely wedding, good church service, time with oldest DD, and a good bike ride I say this wrapped up to be a great weekend. I hope you all had a great weekend as well. TTYT

Kristi

19 miles walked
9 miles biked
3 strength

It's finally HOT in WI. It took a month longer than usual, but it's finally here!!! #1 son has ball practice at 9am. I plan to take the 2 youngest to the library and get them on the computers then I can do 2 miles on the trail. It'll be nice to get it done before the heat index rises too much. Planning an arm workout today. I didn't like how my arms looked in my spaghetti strap dress I wore to the wedding Sat. They looked like 40 y/o arms lol Very pleased this morning. When I took DD to Wally world yesterday they had a rack of jeans marked down to $7. I grabbed a pair of 8 reg thinking they'd be something to work toward. They fit when I tried them on this morning :) I haven't worn a size 8 in 13 yrs. Thanks again girls. You help me stay true to myself and my goals.

Kristi

21 miles walked
9 miles biked
4 strength

Swam again today. Was in the deep end about 45-50 minutes then to the shallow end with my little guy for about another 20 minutes. Feel waterlogged, tired, but good!

HI girls, Sheila, it sounds like you need a pep talk in cutting yourself some slack. Your life is moving in a wonderful direction with this new guy of yours. It's ok to his mom's yummy home cooking and cheering up your grandma is a totally deliteful thing to do. Today is a new day. I bet WI wil go just fine. I have no idea what kind of flower my new avatar is, but I really liked it. Thanks for the cudos. On one hand I'm really frightened about being so close to goal. I have been 3 times before only to sabatage and go back up 10 and even 15 pounds in the past. It's like I enjoy the termoil or something and am afraid to hit goal. Kind of like what now?!? I will say I'm feeling dar stronger than ever in the past though, because I have such an active encouraging group here with the walkers..Thanks again............Sunny, my wekend was deliteful. Thank you. I will be going to watch DD and all the kids at camp this week perform at 2pm on Fri and then I get to bring her home. She just loves it there and am always so glad to see her go, but allready this eve I'm missing her and catch myself praying often that she's enjoying herself and is safe. Some bad storms are to move into her area yet this eve. I hate that thought. I have to "Fully Rely On God" to keep her safe and to let me get some sleep. It sounds like you and Joe had a nice weekend as well. I didn't think "junk" food would ever adversely affect me, but sadly when we went to see Harry Potter 3 last weekend I ate my usual 1/2 tub of lotsa butter popcorn and I was sick all day Mon. My belly just isn't use to that stuff anymore. Bitter sweet that is!!!! Have a good time at Curves tomorrow.........Janine. WTGG !!!.........Hi to everyone else!

Krisit

walked 21
biked 9
strength 4

Good Morning :)

Well, I thought I would get a bit more time to post here but things got so busy again!

You are all doing really well, Michelle I love your new pic you look so good! 30 lbs gone!

I missed you all too :).

Have a great day girls, will ttyl.

Hey girls! Thanks for all the compliments on my wedding pics -- we were quite impressed with them ourselves. Sunny, I do have some close-up frontal pictures of my dress, I just have to get around to uploading them first. Soon, I promise.

Well, my weekend was a little low on the exercise meter. But I did managed to eat very healthy (low fat, low cal with nothing to drink but water) so I suppose that makes up for it. Then lastnight I joined TOPS so hopefully I'll meet someone there who I can go walking with. :) Trying to stay positive. My WI didn't show any signs of weight-loss so far... but then again, I was just guessing at my current weight before. I knew it was somewhere in the 160-range. I've also only been at this a week now, so I can't really expect to see grand results right away. <--- Although it would be nice if I could! :lol:

Thanks, Sunny, for being concerned about just how low my cal. intake is. I am eating several times throughout the day (Spec. K for breakfast, snack of fruit or veggies, light lunch (salad or similar), and a sensible dinner (lastnight included sm. piece of steak, sauteed veggies and brown rice). I haven't yet felt hungry, but if I should ever, I would go grab some fresh cut veggies and munch away. I "save" most of my cals. for dinner so that I can eat a full meal with my family... but again, it's sensible. Low fat, low cal. and unprocessed.

I'm feeling very tired today and am not sure if I will get much exercise in. My dr. has me on some sleeping meds and what was supposed to be a "restful sleep" lastnight resulted in Melissa being awake until 4am. Ack. Then the little boy I take care of showed up at 7:30. Ugh. Hubby was sweet enough to let me stay in bed for an extra hr while he got up to take care of the kids so that helped a little. Tonight will be an early night as I have two kids plus my daughter to take care of tomorrow. Same with Wednesday. Then again, they're only here until 1:30 so I could do my exercise after that...! And I'll have probably caught my second wind by then. :)

Today though, I'm going to do pilates and 50 crunches. We'll see if I have time to fit anything else in. :) I hope you all have a happy healthy day. Good luck with all your daily goals and exercise! :D Type you later!

~mel

Good morning to you all,.............Lynne, great to see you back. Can't waite to hear what all you've been up to..............Sheila, Lynne's back yippee lol.............Sunny, Great job getting all that exercise in this morning allready. I talked my hubby into opening the store for me today. That "up and at it" every morn before 6am gets to me. I actually fell back to sleep until after 7:30 and still didn't roll out until 8. By that time the bed was too crowded with little ones to stay in it anyway lol. DS had a game this morning. It didn't go so well. They lost both games. Each game only by 1 run, but they've never lost both before. Yesterday during practice DS got hit by the ball from the pitching machine. He was really gun shy today. Struck out twice and got out at 1st once. Not his usual. I stopped and picked up one of his buddies who doesn't play ball and they're swimming now. It'll still be a good day. Hope you have good hunting (hope it's not a skunk living under there. It could be more than you or Joe bargained for)............I'm planning 3 miles on the rail today.

Kristi

walked 24
biked 9
strength 4

Thanks Sunny, Cathy, Kristi and Shelia for the warm welcome. I really do appreciate it.

Mel your wedding pictures are lovely!

Cathy - You rock on the exercising. I'm tired just reading about all the exercise you do! How long did it take you to work up to the intensity of your work outs?

I have been doing cardio exercising consistently for about 2 months and 1 week strength training but can still can only do about 2 miles on the treadmill in 45-50 minutes or the WATP 2 miles. My ex-DIL did a work out plan to do cardio for 30 minutes for 6 days a week and to strength train for 5 days a week. I am not use to strength training so it is taking me about 1.5 to 2 hours to exercise. She told me to make sure I try to burn at least 300 calories per work out. I work a 10 hour/4 day work week and have trouble doing the 45-50 minutes on a work day to burn the 300 calories. I get home at 6:15 p.m. and try to fix dinner and do chores around the house. I try to exercise by 10:00 p.m. and be in the bed by 11:00 p.m. I know I can get up earlier, but still struggling with this! Any suggestions on how I can do this?

Well ladies, I must stop here for now! Thanks for all your suggestions in advance!

Have a blessed evening, everyone!

July Miles Walked: 16.5
Strength Training: 6

Hey Gang. I haven't fallen off the wagon, just been really busy with a pastor friend of ours that is in from Honduras, and have people staying at my house, so no exercise yesterday or today, but I will get to it.

Brenda, somebody asked me about this today. I have been walking for exercise for almost 15 years, off and on. (I cannot believe it has been that long but it has). Several years ago I found Leslie Sansone's walking tapes and fell in love with them, even tho I still like regular walking too. I don't find what I do all that intense, but the gal I was talking to today could not believe that I do the 3 mile walking tape with 3 lb handweights from start to finish (rather than from the middle like Leslie does), but I do. I don't know I just gradually worked up to that the more I did them. Sometimes it gets to the point that if you don't add the handweights then your heartrate doesn't get up enough to feel like a workout. know what I mean? Of course, I don't do that every day, I just do what I have time to do, the 2 or 3 or 4 mile - whatever. And when I do the 4 mile tape I don't use any weights (yet)! ;)

About suggestions for getting up earlier... I have to be in bed at 10 to get up at 5 and exercise. I also get everything ready the night before - set the alarm, lay the video by the vcr, lay out my walking clothes and tennis shoes, so that I can just slide out of bed and get right into them. no excuses. If I get all that out and ready then I get up and do it. If I'm up really late the night before then I know I won't be able to get up and I don't get everything ready.

You don't have any trouble going to sleep at 11 pm, when you are exercising at 10 pm? I wouldn't be able to go to sleep for hours after exercising but I know a lot of people exercise right before going to bed. I just can't do that. When you go to bed at 11 what time do you get up? if you went to bed at 10 could you get up an hour earlier and exercise then? I know the first few nights it might be hard to fall asleep earlier then 11 if that is what you are use to, but after a few days your body would adjust to it (expecially if you are up an hour earlier and exercising). I sleep so good on the days I exercise. ;)

I don't know if any of this helps, but wanted to at least answer your question.

hugs,
Cathy