Almost There -- July
 

Yes, we're "almost there"!! So close yet, so far, it seems on some days!! It's annoying but yet we keep on movin' on, we must!! So what keeps us motivated? Somedays I must admit, I really don't know anymore. I want to be healthy, I want to vainly look good ...

This month I must get down to the low 140's, I've been on this plateau way too long, a year :faint:... with lots of exercise and super clean eating I'm going to do it... What's on eveyone's agenda? What will you do differently this month?

Hello hello hello!

I've been away on a course for 2 days, so that's knocked me off track a bit (ok a lot) but I'm not stressing over it. I know what to do, I can do it, I will do it!!! I'm staying away from the scales and only weighing every week - that's my plan! I don't even want to see the damage I've done with my carb frenzy - I think it's best not knowing and just ploughing on with what I know works. It's so hot here that exercise outdoors is getting difficult, and kickboxing training is getting dangerous - slipping on sweaty floors :o I hope the end of this heatwave is in sight!

Goal for this month - to get below 168 (I know it says 162 in my profiley thing... That's what I'm really trying to get back too :rolleyes: ) and to properly start - and commit to - Half Marathon training :faint: I might have to start using the treadmill at the gym where I kickbox, it seems outdoor running is much more difficult to fit in somehow!

I've got a 5K race on Sunday, so that will be fun. I hope the forecast is nice for it! :lol:

Keep on keepin on! Remember if you don't think you can do it, just fake it

I finally have one good day under my belt since coming home from vacation. That feels sooo much better!
A note for Daisiemae ... don't ever apologise for being too simple! Things are simple but we humans make everything so complicated for ourselves!

Cakes... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Cakes in the kitchen. Being strong. Breathe. Cakes. Hmmmm. Cakes :mad: Have. No. Hold. Over. Me....

Strong. Jen. Doesn't. Like. Cake.

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! :crazy:

Thanks Ilene for starting us a new thread.

After weeks of staying around 132-133 and having the scales move in quarter pound increments up and down until I was sick and desperate, I have managed to slip down to 130!! All I did was tighten up on the eating and kept the exercise up. When I got discouraged I would find that "what's the use" excuse and was eating a few bad things. Well, after cutting that out and having a good talk with myself the scale has began to move again - yahoo! We're on vacation next week but we will be eating in a good bit with good food and I will continue my exercise, so I'm hoping that it will feel like home while being away. I just don't want to find those hard worked pounds again!! Vacation should not bring us complacency, should it?

LOL Jen... Stay strong! :D

My agenda for July: keep on track for the 10 days of my vacation (starting tomorrow) and try, try, try not to drink too much wine! I know that it is the main factor in my diet that makes me not lose the weight as quick as I could, so I need to be strong. I eat very well--hardly ever give into sweets (except for last night, but it didn't kill my calories for the day!). I'm really enjoying more whole foods, those super foods!

I'm one of those people who HAS to weigh in every day, otherwise the weight creeps on without my knowing it. I don't get discouraged when it fluctuates daily, because I know it does. It just makes me try harder that day! I'll be on vacation without a scale, so this will be a challenge! Hopefully I'll be able to fit in more exercise during the vacation.

I have a doctor's appointment the day after I return, and I hope that I'll be able to walk in and show that I've lost 30 pounds!!! He's been after me for years to lose at least 10, so I've at least accomplished that!

Alison -- I :love: wine too :cheers:... I love to have a glass before bed, and I know that's not a good thing because when I do have that glass then I am sometimes hungry for something afterwards or while I am drinking... I had started to have 10 almonds with my wine but 10 turned into too many and again my weight started going up! OYE we can't win :tantrum:

Jen -- :coach: WHAT THE HECK IS THE CAKE DOING IN THE HOUSE IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?! Get DB to hide it or not take it in at all...

Susan -- :cp: for the good eating day!! It's a start, baby steps!!

softballmom -- Keep your health mentality during your vacations and you'll do fine, :cheer: "We know you can, we know you can" :cheer:

No, the saying should read : "We know we ALL can, we know we ALL can"

So let's get out there and DO IT!!

On that note, I am off to the gym for some back/bicep work, toodles :wave:

I'm still having a good week. Total clean eating for 2 1/2 days now. I have a supper out tonight but am planning on having just a starter salad.

2frus~~STAY AWAY FROM THE CAKE!! It's evil!!!!:devil:

susan~~Glad to hear you're back on track.

Ilene~~Thanks for starting a new thread!

alinnell~~I have to weigh every day also. And I must say I'm lovin' my scale for a change.

softballmom~~Good for you for slipping down to 130!

daisimae~~Hello!!

Gaylyn

I like wine. Who's pouring?
I'm doing not bad today. I've been up a long time and nibbled some melba toast at work and I'm tired now. But my cals are OK.
I think I'll do a light upper body this evening.
Tomorrow, I've been invited to do preps for colonoscopes ... hmmm ... I guess it's a pay cheque. And I get to wear highly attractive greens! Usually the RPN's who do that get off at about 1 pm, so maybe I can get some new salad stuff and do a good lower body in the afternoon.
The boys (19&24) are marinading chicken breasts for supper. I think I'll lay down for a bit and make salad and reheat brown rice when DH gets home.
Sounds like a bit of a plan. Things are looking up.

Thanks for all the encouragement you bring to me gals!

Okay, I need to make a goal. I am going on vacation on July 22-28 and so ... until then, no beer or cokes. You have no idea how difficult this will be!!!

In case you haven't noticed, Ilene and I are going to be the mods in this area. If you need a title changed, a thread made sticky, just whatever -- let either one of us know.

I look forward to getting to know you all and losing these few remaining pesky pounds!

:wave: Susan and I have a little clean eating pact going - A week of clean eating! I tripped up a little bit last night, I'm calling it a high zig in my zig zags :o I didn't eat terribly awful, just a bit more than I should've done. *sigh*

I did resist those cakes, they were in the kitchen at work!! We had a meeting, then when I went ot the kitchen after the meeting all the custard ones had gone, and I don't really like any others, so it made it a lot easier for me to resist the manky ones! It wasn't until I got home early, and got bored waiting for DF to come home very late that I got all depressed and snacky :rolleyes:

Today is a new day, I've bought 2 bags of apples and a pound of strawberries - I spent £6!!!! That's $12, on 3 boxes of fruit :faint: I'm worth it though ;) I'm off double kickboxing tonight, then tomorrow my friend is coming to stay for shopping. I'm not feeling particularly strong about being able to eat healthily, she has BIG food issues, I'm going to do my best though. For the sake of my sanity, our little week pact and the sake of my figure I will try my hardest!

Hello ladies,

Did someone say wine? :hat: I could use a nice big glass right about now if you are sharing! OOPS...it's only 11:30....must wait 'til noon! (actually I'm at work so must wait 'til weekend :stress:) Stressful day today and stressful week but I'm still hanging in there even if it's only by a thread.

I need to get back in the "zone" and get my eating back on track. My scale is being kind but I know I've been slacking off. The gym has become a distant memory and I need to change that as well. I can actually see a difference in only a couple of weeks of not going.

This weekend I will be heading upstate to my "lakehouse" and am hoping that I can get in at least a couple of miles of swimming. I haven't been in the water yet this year and I miss it sooooooo much. Swimming is my favorite exercise because it doesn't seem like exercise at all. It is so relaxing to me to be out in the middle of the lake, alone with my thoughts and feeling the sun on my back. Oh....can't it be Friday yet????? :dizzy:

I did well last night when I went out for supper. I had a salad with soup.:D The ladies I had supper with I've know for almost 7 years. Most of them hadn't seen me a while. What a wonderful ego boost. Sometimes I forget about how far I've come.

I feel really good about my eating this week and I feel like I'm back in control. I will get to goal this time. No more food binges.

daisi~~Have fun at your lake house. Only one more day to Friday.

2frus~~Good for you for resisting those cakes!

Gaylyn

I had my oops on the way home from work. I was in a totally different unit today and had no idea how to sip water without my med cart to keep it on :) Then I usually am smart enough to have a bottle of water in the car but no today it was a caramel aero bar and corn chips!
I'll straighten up now. I'm on my second bottle of water since I got home and the boys are making a nice dinner.

I'm so glad to see a new thread - it was taking so long to load the old one and I didn't feel like I had posted enough to have the right to start a new one...

I'm now stuck at 125.4 which is indeed better than 126.2 but not by that much. I was so proud of myself last Friday, I had been at the gym every day and thought, I really should take a day off. One turned into two, three, four...arggggghhh. What's wrong with me? I think I'm going to have to start going to the gym to pose :p on what should be my off day just to keep in the habit. Now I have two days down, the rest of my life to go. I always feel better (even if only the lack of guilt) when I go, so why do I ever not????

I have decided that my whole issue is that I seem to either live like a hermit, not seeing anyone or going anywhere and lose weight quickly (dare I say, easily?); OR enjoy my friends, my life etc and constantly watch my weight go up. I'm struggling to find a balance where my weight goes SLOWLY down (i.e. see above where I'm at 126.2 for two weeks, then 125.4 for two weeks) or at least maintain while still living the life that I want to.

Does anyone have a couch I can lie on for more self analysis?:dizzy:

:wave: Hello all!

I had a good day yesterday! :D I slipped up on one piece of chocolate :D Which I consider my little daily treat. Today I am meeting my skinny friend in Covent Garden for dinner. :o I'm going to be eating salad! :D :angel:

If I can be "clean" for today Suse, so can you ;)

Not got any exercise planned today. Had to skip my morning run since DF woke me up at midnight by rolling home and trying to wash up :rolleyes: So I woke with a splitting headache. :headache: and decided to have another 40 mins in bed. :yawn:

We can do this, we CAN WE CAN! Just remember, fuel your bodies with jet fuel (lean proteins, veggies, wholegrains), not crude oil (pizza, doughnuts, HoHos, WINE, chips) ;)

2Frus: Love your fuel analogy!

JuliaTN: I totally hear ya and understand with the very sloooowwww movement of the scale. I tend to get discouraged when I don't see the movement after doing everything right, so I sabotage myself with the "what's the use" mantra. Fortunately, my dh or kids will ask "do you really want that?" That at least makes me think out my choice for the moment.

I'll be on vacation and away from the computer next week, so you girls be good and give me lots to read when I get back....

Ooooo I have hit a speed bump today. I knew there was a posibility that I would get sent home from work after 4 hours and I had plans! Walking, weights, housework. So I allowed myself a lovely cookie (or two) brought in by an appreciative patient and some gummies. I got busying around and all of a sudden the bottom dropped out.
I haven't had a blood sugar drop in eons! It feels so weird. I wobbled down to the kitchen and scarfed some protein. Now I think I'll go lay down. Yucky!
I'll get back at my mega plans a little later, I think.

Lesson gals .... avoid those fast carbs and eat good food every couple of hours!

My family does that too and it seems to make me snap out of my stupidity, most of the time...

Susan-- Sugar and refined carbs do that to me 90% of the time now, and it helps to keep me away from them... Unless I want to snooze in the afternoon...

Well gotta run, DD just asked to go rollerblading, so I'm off... TTFN :wave:

I have got to get my act together here gals and stop letting life bonk me this way and that. Instead of taking control and making the life fit my life ... I'm just lazing along floating from one thing to the next. I used to be much better at quickly fitting fitness between stuff.
And the proof is in the pudding (shaped belly :)) ... I feel wretched. Draggy, lazy ....
Oh Jenfrus ... I'm failing our Wednesday to Wednesday callenge!

Oh snap Susan - I'm totally bummed out and bonked today! I'm not very well at all, got all fevery cold bug and I've been on a road trip and eaten too much and dozed in the car in a carb coma and I feel totally yuck too! :barf:

Yesterday I ran another 5K race, not a bad time and I then went for lunch and shared a pizza and an ice cream sundae with DF. Then I was still hungry :rolleyes: and I've kinda been a bit off my healthy eats plan these past few days? How about we have a Tuesday to Tuesday plan! I could start a new thread? Anyone wanting to join us - commit to a week of clean eating jump right in!

The day that I was worried about, eating out with my super-skinny friend, I was an :angel: we had sushi for lunch and I had sea bass for dinner with just veg and no carbs!!!! I think I over compensated for it yesterday and today though :o :doh: Doh Doh Doh! :tantrum: *sigh*

I'm going to be good tomorrow. I hope this bug passes soon, I feel all horrible and I want to EXERCISE!

Had a buggy day all day yesterday, ended up asleep all day! My kinda day! Well I was asleep apart from the eating moments! :lol:

Today I'm doing well with my eating so far. There's a buffet at lunch but I'm talking myself into the fact that it'll make me feel ill. I've already had my protein shake, I'm :cool:

If I get through today, tomorrow will be easy. Getting through today should be easy since I'm not really very hungry at all from the past few days of eating junk.

I'm recouperating tonight, then double kickboxing tomorrow night :D Looking forward to it! :D Oh and that means I will find it easier to eat less since I will be occupied all night. :D

:goodvibes:

Work is seriously interfering with my gumption to work out. I get a little weightlifting in but noooo cardio. I'm relying on busy shifts to make up the difference :)
I should try to remember to weigh myself in the morning.

Thanks Ilene *swipes megaphone* SUSAN - What about your ABCDs?? :coach:CARDIO IS GOOD

Had a fairly decent day yesterday but felt a little antsy without any exercise. I did need the rest though, so that I am well rested for tonight's kickboxing. I'm still a little drippy in the nose area, but nothing that will hinder my kickboxing too much!

Down a pound this morning, feeling hopeful for the rest of the week. :D

The only thing I can spell this week is PMS. It's no fun getting older girls. I did not see this coming. Even tho' I've been draggin' all week, puffy, crampy and ache-y. Yeesh! I haven't had one of these since the beginning of May!

On the up-side. I'm dumping fluid like nobody's business!

:hug: Susan, I haven't had a period since May '05 :dance: I remember those days all too well... It's a wonderful thing not having any...

Today and yesterday were good days food and exercise wise...

Oooh count yourselves lucky you hens ;)

I run my pills together just for a break!

Just a quick update. A couple of NSVishes today/last night

Last night, mega upset. Didn't eat chocolate :D

At the airport (picking someone up) I was STARVING and I chose an (expensive) fruit salad over biscuits and crisps :D

This lunchtime mega mega hungry, only ate one chocolate biscuit before dinner! Didn't overeat, which is a big problem I have when I get very hungry. SO all in all, not a bad coupla days considering it could've been a LOT LOT worse. I feel quite proud!

Please...I'm on the pill and not only did my little "friend" show up a week early:( , he has been hanging around for 8 days instead of 4 :fr: !!!!

This sucks! I almost can't wait for menopause

Glad to be back and have you guys here for accountability.

I enjoyed my vacation (maybe a little too much). It looks like I gained back up to the 132-133 range; I jumped on the scales as soon as I got home :o

I had a few beers and margaritas while at the beach, and then last night we hit a seafood buffet that had too much fried and not enough grilled etc. :(
I'm thinking it's mostly water weight, but I'm saddened by the increase anyway, especially since it has been taking so much longer to remove these last pounds now. I did do my running (C25K) every other morning and walked on the other mornings for the most part.

Now that vacation is over, life can get back to my new normal :carrot:
I think I'm going to start the weight training on my alternate days of running. I still have about 20 pounds left, but I want to firm up as I lose these last "few" to get to goal. Also, time to get back to my clean eating that I had finally conquered prior to taking a week off. I have to say that eating pizza, fried seafood, even ice cream left me feeling gross instead of good. I wanna feel good (and healthy), :coach: so back to it!

Hey there everyone! I haven't posted much this summer... I've just been real busy and everything. I still have these last few pounds to take off... they just won't go away no matter what I do. Right now I'm feeling even worse because I'm bloaty and PMS-ing. Ugh. Hate it. I've been eating pretty well, although last night I lost it and had a big bowl of corn flakes and a little ice cream, but we all slip up sometimes, especially during PMS. I really want to reach my goal before my pageant on July 29th. 8 lbs in two weeks isn't very reasonable, though. I hope after the bloat is gone that I might see that I've made even a little bit of progress. Still, I'm very disappointed. I was steadily losing weight until this June and now I'm completely stalled and no where near where I wanted to be.

Sigh... hope everyone else is having better luck than I am. <3

Remember me?

I've got a lot of catching up to do! It will have to wait, though. We are still at the beach. I've not even tried to watch what I'm eating. But, we have been very, very active and I don't think much damage has been done. Other than not being any closer to losing weight, of course. We are heading home tomorrow and I'll be giving 110%! Funny how a week or so of reckless abandon leaves you craving your old, healthier routines.

Hope everyone is doing well and staying on track!

:wave:

Had a weekend camping, had a heart-attack breakfast - sausage bacon and egg, mushrooms and a hash brown and 2 slice of toast! :rolleyes: Tasty though! And you totally deserve something like that after a night squashed in a tiny, sweaty tent with no airbed or even squidgy sleeping mats!

Weighed this morning but not taking it too seriously - got majorly dehydrated last night on the coach, so probably that and all the bloomin bacon I had :rolleyes: Bacon for breakfast, chicken and bacon sandwich for lunch, and er... chicken and bacon sandwich for tea! :lol: I did have lots of fruit and stuff too! :lol3:

Oh and today marks the start of another MAD week of exercise - running 3 times, weights 3 or 4 times and kickboxing 4 times :D :love: it!

MMMM bacon! I love restaurant breakfast! That's (almost) what I go on vacation for. Not at home tho'. If the fella's want bacon and tomato on toast, I buy six slices and that's all.
I have a plan for today. I even posted it in the Tuesday thread. I will do right today!

It's official, I did gain about a pound over vacation. I am 130.5 instead of 129.5 :tantrum: On plan is now getting my water intake back up to 72oz and cleaner eats portioned out (no guessing).

Keep it up girls, we can do this!

:wave: I'm doing good - feeling positive. Yesterday was a little blip in my zig-zags but all in all I don't feel too bad about it since I ate plenty of fruit and healthy stuff as well as some not-so-healthy stuff!

Today I have so much fresh fruit and veg and lovely yummy stuff with me - my desk looks like a greengrocer's shop!

Yesterday at the gym I attempted a pullup - and managed to lift myself about half an inch! Which is progress on just hanging there! :D I've bought myself a door gym so that I can practise them at home! :lol:

Well ladies I'm happy to report that the scale is still moving in the right direction. :carrot: It seems that I have finally gotten 'it' back together and all the links are falling into place. Lovin' life right now.

Gaylyn

Hi girls....remember me? I have been so "out of the zone" so to speak for the past month that I am ashamed to show my face here! OK, so that's a bit exagerated but I have really not been able to get my head around the healthy eating/working out thing lately. I did manage to weigh in at Weight Watchers on Tuesday and I am still hovering around 134 which is surprising with all the stuff I've been eating. I was supposed to go to the gym twice this week and found good excuses (?) to avoid it. I haven't gone totally off the wagon but I am teetering on the brink!

I think I need someone to give me a kick in the pants to get me going again. Any volunteers?

daisimae, Here is your :kickbutt: kick in the pants.

You can do this! Maybe take those small steps once again and work up to what you had been doing. You know you can do it, too. Post here for accountability if you need to.