CONGRATULATIONS DORA!!!!!!!!!!!! That must feel great! Are you gonna post a picture?
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I'm CRANKY CRANKY CRANKY today. Weight is fine, same as yesterday. I ate about 1450 including a little dessert and did Tae Bo and 100 pushups again. This morning I got stood up for a Skype date by my friend in Germany so there's 30 minutes I could have been sleeping wasted sitting in front of the computer! Bought my usual Friday treat breakfast (bagel sandwich, 196 calories somehow) and was just unwrapping it and sinking my teeth in when my supervisor told me there was an assembly in the gym. OK, great, now I have to shovel it in with barely enough time to taste anything. Assembly was as expected completely pointless - students were told not to catch influenza and to bundle up in the cold, for f!ck's sake they are 16-18 years old and they already KNOW this! Think I'm just like a cat or dog and I get really cranky when someone interrupts my meals.
Wildflower - Hmm... technically I started the diet in April. And then I graduated in June and put a bit back on. Then in August I was down to 121 but started a new job and went up to 130 again. Joined the gym in October, started calorie counting again at the beginning of November. 3/4 weeks ago I was at 128. I've just been really disciplined.
So I suppose all and any of the above. lol.
I see you joined in 2005, what has your journey been like?
I'm about to go to bed (it's 12:30 am here) and just weighed myself 121.4... hopefully tomorrow will be a nice number.
Last edited by DoraUK; 12-07-2010 at 07:51 PM.
Reason: oops.. made myself 3 pounds heavier
I have been having a hard time the last couple of days. Between people giving me food and my cats medical emergency yesterday resulting in a late night my diet has been shot for two days. (My cat is o.k now).
I didn't go to the gym tonight because I was exhausted. I also didn't make a lunch which meant I had to buy something sodium laden at the cafe down stairs. Dinner was left over chinese (broccoli and chicken so not so bad).
Well I will do better tomorrow and that's all there is to it and instead of taking Thursday off from the gym I will count today as one of my days off.
And BamaGirl, it's good to see you here again! I've been thinking of you and figured you were super-busy with school. Hope you are well!
Ekicna, being sick and losing weight reminds me of "The Devil Wears Prada," where the woman says, "I'm one stomach virus away from my ideal weight." Hope you feel better soon!
I'm coasting along, not really enjoying my week of no exercise. My toddler son is driving me a little crazy so I went to the gym for yoga today. It kind of kicked my butt but not in a pounding-the-joints, pumping-the-heart kind of way. But ouch! I fell asleep at 8 last night, so now I'm going to watch BL on tivo!
Wildflower - Hmm... technically I started the diet in April. And then I graduated in June and put a bit back on. Then in August I was down to 121 but started a new job and went up to 130 again. Joined the gym in October, started calorie counting again at the beginning of November. 3/4 weeks ago I was at 128. I've just been really disciplined.
So I suppose all and any of the above. lol.
I see you joined in 2005, what has your journey been like?
I'm about to go to bed (it's 12:30 am here) and just weighed myself 121.4... hopefully tomorrow will be a nice number.
I did join back then...not much of a journey though, just lots of up and down with my weight. As a child I was the tiny, I was a slim teenager at 114, but then the last few years of high school I went up to 140-150, and when I graduated I dropped down to 110 and stayed there through college until I was maybe 23, then at 128-130 for a few years...In 2005 was when my weight went up to 150, and at one point - for the holiday season - 160, an all time high for me. I diet down to 135 and then end up shooting back up to 142 all the time.
In the spring of 2009 (and 2007!) I was back at 135, and then started graduate school last fall and traded yoga classes for business school classes and also started living on coffee drinks and take out. My weight went up to 150 in a few months. I tried taking up running last Spring and that didn't do anything to control my weight, so here I am counting calories again.
I have notebooks full of food journals and weigh ins from years of my life.
I'm pretty determined this time, as I am getting married next year and I want to be pretty low for that. Then I'll probably get pregnant and have to start this all over again!!! lol, i laugh but so true...
Even with two very off days I saw 150 on the scale this morning which is good 3lbs to my Christmas goal and then 20lbs to final goal (wow 20 lbs seems really daunting!). I really need to focus on what I want and that is to be fit and healthy while I still have time and energy to devote to creating this type of lifestyle for myself. I need to stay on track keep motivated and drink lots of water.
Weight spiked this morning despite eating less yesterday than I did the day before. Whatever. I've started a new body-weight-only strength training circuit thingy in addition to my daily cardio + 100 pushups so I'm hoping I'll see nothing but good changes.
Even if I'm not losing weight, I feel better about myself when I'm doing all these things. I think that's the most important part of it all. I've conditioned myself to feel good about making healthy choices.
However, I'm still sat at the public terminal here at work for the sole reason that it is far away from the chocolate in my desk that I brought for the English club Christmas party tonight.
Boing boing boing! That's the sound my scale's been making this week. 126.6, 124.2, 125.8, 124.2.
I've gone six days without running -- I start up again tomorrow -- can't wait! I've definitely missed the stress relief this week. Parenting an almost-2-yr-old boy is no small feat. I wish I felt more rested, but the aforementioned toddler is not sleeping very well. Hopefully I can sleep in one morning this weekend.
Need to finish up my holiday cards and Christmas shopping and start some menu planning for the week after Christmas, which will include multiple sets of houseguests coming and going. My head really starts spinning this time of year!
I have had a terrible week I haven't been tracking my calories although I feel like I haven't been eating enough rather than too much although i could be wrong.
I also have only been to the gym twice this week which is just terrible I try to make it there at least 5 times a week. I don't seem to have gained but I also no I haven't lost this is no way to meet my goal so I really need to buckle down and focus and stop being lazy!
Here. Here. Haven't had much to report. Had a few Christmas parties. Somehow this morning I was 120.6, which was pleasing as haven't been very disciplined. Plan is to keep exercising as usual and eat my calorie controlled meals whenever not doing anything else. Hoping to maintain in the range of 120-122 until New Year. And then after New Year move the maintenance range to 118-120.
Tonight is the final of X factor, so Domino's and wine! Tomorrow won't be so good on the scale.
This week I've showed myself exactly
what discipline is. I never knew I had
it in me to resist glazed donuts, candy
(we'll be making gingerbread houses soon),
chips, pizza, and Little Debbies all in the
same week! I feel great about it and
it's helped my weight loss significantly!
Hey, all! I've been a little absent 'round here for a while, partly due to busyness and partly because I had the intestinal flu to end all intestinal flus earlier this month. I have just been weak and sick and otherwise feeling awful, and to top it all off I also slipped and fell on a slick, melted-snow covered floor and badly bruised and injured both knees, so weight loss priorities and working out and all other manner of healthy-living things got shoved to the sidelines as I tried to recover from illness and injury.
The good news is I'm finally all better and managed to lose absolutely no ground in my pursuit. (That's probably mostly because of the stomach flu, ha ha ha.) I'm at 131 and worked out both yesterday and today. I'm back at work. I'm feeling like my old self again.
So, anyway, I'm back with a vengeance, and though these events made it so that I missed my goal of walking/jogging 100 miles by December 1, I'm still planning fitness and weight-loss goals to accomplish by the end of the year.
Hope everybody is doing awesomely, and my apologies for not staying on top of this place to cheer everybody else on.
Because my weight loss efforts weren't going slowly enough, my weight bounced up nearly 4 pounds in 4 days, for no apparent reason. Literally, my low weight was 125 even (last week) and this week I went up from 126 to 129.2 (day before yesterday) in steps, and am still up near 128. What the ****??? No horrible binges, no TOM, no extreme weight lifting, not even major constipation. I am so disgusted I haven't posted on here for the last few days. Each morning I wake up, hoping it was water weight that I'll have lost again the same way I gained it, overnight. And each day, the scale taunts me with a weight that it took me OVER A MONTH to lose the first time. I keep telling myself that it's impossible to regain 3-4 pounds of fat in less than a week, but if I don't lose the weight again for a month, it doesn't matter whether it's water, fat or bricks - I'm still getting no closer to goal.
I am an intelligent woman with a great career, a terrific husband, annoying but fundamentally lovable kids, and terrific health. Why, oh why do I let the number on the scale influence my level of personal joy and satisfaction so much? I feel like my values are warped and I don't know what to do about it.
Hope you feel better soon!
