We were invited to a meet & greet for a candidate for city council. Walked in the door to a dining room table loaded with petit fours, mini eclairs and cream puffs, huge cookies, fudge, bowls of M&M plain and peanut. I ate two M&M peanut ONLY and had a couple glasses of ice water. I survived!
Peanut m&m's used to be a food group for me. I can't even eat one now as I don't trust myself. good job!
Wow, I am impressed! I probably would have had to turn around and go right back home.
I have done something bad to my shoulder. I am going to try to swim today - either it will make it feel better or I won't be able to do it. If it's not significantly better in the next couple of days I will have to have it looked at.
Hi, everyone. I just finished reading and catching up on everyone.
Michele...I'm so incredibly impressed with your tough mudder! I'm going on a tandem bike ride with my dh this afternoon. That is as tough as I've been lately! lol
Pageta...praying for you. Sounds like a ton of stress! Can your dh carpool one day so you only have to do the four hour commute with the kids once a week?
Krampus...wow...so glad he is getting help. What a load to carry without therapy all these years!
Well, I had gone gone up in weight by two pounds this week, but it was my birthday, so I was splurging. I'm back down 1.5, so just need to get the last bit off and keep going. Have a great first day of October, everyone.
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Hoping that the low level of traffic means everyone is chugging along and winning the war (if not the individual battles)!
Ward, good luck healing that shoulder!
Not much to report here. I'm in the food groove and have been doing enough activity to be muscularly sore (climbing around in attic, much ladder work, lifting paint cans, boxes of flooring). Monday was awful - I was so sore it was actually kind of funny. Today I can flex my knees to walk and sit down!Funny, but I did not lose sight of the not-funny part about being this out of shape. It sticks in my mind that that level of pain and stiffness could be my future if I don't make some changes. There isn't much point in being a size 8 if I can't do the things I want to do or need to do, is there? This and other things drove a day of reflection, mostly about how much conflict I'm willing to endure to pursue my own happiness.
Happily size 8 here--loose even! Ordered a new pair of golf shorts yesterday. I didn't even have to "think" about what size. I knew that 8 was it and will be it. I was a 6 once a few years back--6 bordering on 4 (couldn't quite pull the 4 off). 6 was too difficult to maintain. 8 works great at this weigh. Gain 10 and and 8 is tight, but 10 still a bit loose. I'd rather the 8 be a little loose. Ya know?
I've been reading and observing, just not posting. I had a busy weekend, then yesterday was worn out. I'm tired. That is making it hard for me to get back on track.
Yesterday I had my running bag and was prepared to go after work even in the light drizzle going on. Then several things happened. It started to pour down rain. Trees bending sideways, rain blowing sideways, tornado warnings, all manner of bad weather. The weather broke and it was clearer by the time I got off work, but I was afraid that the storm moving over from Alabama would hit me while I was at the park. Also, DH was home sick from work. I went home and got his flex card and went and picked up prescriptions from Target. Get home and it is after 6, still not raining so I would have had a three hour gap to exercise. That made me irritated. DH then asked me if I wanted to exercise before we fixed dinner. My irritation at missing the non-rain window made me fussy, so instead of taking the opportunity to get on the treadmill or elliptical in the garage I said no and didn't exercise at all because I didn't do what I wanted to do.
I fell asleep at 10:15 last night, I'm hoping the motivation will be back today.
I don't like how tight my gym top was yesterday night in spin class. I bought it at a Thrifty Shopper store back in my hometown several months ago. It's got my high school logo on it; says I'm a member of the swim team. (This is a great source of amusement to me because I was such a gym class klutz and never swam at the high school at all, being too ashamed of my body to don a swimsuit.) I know this top was looser a month back.
So this morning I wasn't surprised that my weight was up from last Friday, though it is lower than last Wednesday. Go figure.
I'll be dealing with a disruption to my routine this week. My mother's arriving today for a visit that I **think** will last till Sunday, though I'm not sure how long she plans to stay. She's bringing me much-needed sweaters & jackets & heavier night gowns & robe, which were still at her house. When I moved, I only brought my summer clothes. She will also bring Fritz, her cat, whom I've missed a lot. We'll see how I cope with visitors in this still-unsettled apartment, which has just one bed in it and an air mattress.
I'm not doing too well on the diet front this week. I thought I was pretty good on the weekend, but I guess not, so my weight jumped up to 152 and it's stuck there. Now I can only hope to see that red line by the end of the month (instead of the end of last month like I had hoped). ((sigh))
I'm with you Allison. Very down this morning. My smaller clothes are too small, which is making me really come to the realization that I've gained weight. I took it out on poor dh who tried to tell me that I was too thin before, which I heard as: "Yes, you have gained weight". Sigh.... I have to make some changes which I don't want to do as I already eat healthy, exercise, etc. I just don't understand why I was able to maintain my weight where I wanted to for a couple of years and now it's gone up-- I really don't think I've changed anything. But perhaps I've become less rigid. I don't know. I do know that I won't buy any grapes until I am 120..... I keep saying I can't buy them and I keep buying them anyway. So, if I set a black or white figure-- maybe I'll stick to it. Don't know that I'll get below 120 again, so perhaps my grape days are over.
Well, I've stuck with it for a week, but my weight per my bathroom scale hasn't budged. Today I've been up since 2:30 a.m. with insomnia - normal wake-up time is 6 a.m. I managed to not eat breakfast until the regular time, so hopefully my eating will still be on track.
Right there with you guys. My smaller clothes are too small, too. My 'middle of the road' clothes are also a little snug. My slightly larger clothes are a little loose, but more comfortable than the rest of them. I'm looking at not getting below 130 any time soon - I can't even get to 132 right now. Meh.
saef, good luck with the mom visit. I'm really looking forward to sweater weather; we are supposed to have highs in the low 50's this weekend.
allison, all you can do is soldier on. I can empathize with your frustration! Scales are evil creatures. If you're recording calorie deficits, eventually that possessed device will catch up.
shannon, I see a lot of myself in your post. I routinely bail on plans when the details require adaptation - I have caught myself in a victim attitude where I start to point fingers about why I "can't" exercise. Recognizing it goes a long way - hopefully the good night's sleep improved your worldview? From what you've posted, you have every reason to be tired and cranky!
Changed my current weight. I've seen enough 147s to lay claim, I think. Maybe I'll get to move it again in November - that would be most excellent. I'm planning a productive weekend of painting. After looking at the new drywall, I wasn't comfortable last weekend that the mud was completely dry. Now it's got the consistent shading that I wanted to see. If I get the paint done by Sunday night, we can call in the electrician next week ... and I'll be ready for the shower walls to be installed. Good grief, it's beginning to look like this might actually wrap up this month!
I'm up a couple lbs. Think I can blame being sick for about a week recently and the associated impact on my regimen. My neuromuscular troubles have been flaring over the past 5 days or so. Seems to especially act up if I've had a cold or flu. Lowers my exercise tolerance and does nothing for my mood.
Been glad for the past 2 sunny days. Sorry to see the days get less fair and shorter as we move into fall.
Work has been extra hectic and layered with additional complications. It's easy to see how anyone can get overwhelmed by lots of little things -and occasionally big ones, and get off track with maintenance. I try and remind myself that slipping will only create new problems.
Today, despite a long workday and several evening errands to take care of, I had a 45 min. window of opportunity to exercise. I managed to get into exercise gear and start the exercise DVD before the phone rang. That was the death knell. Before I knew it, 15 min. were gone and then DH informs me that my middle son forgot his soccer cleats and since he's taking our oldest to his evening class, I need to drop them off at the practice field. So much for exercise plans. It is now 10:30 pm, the first quiet moment I've had since right before the phone rang at 6:05. Sometimes I really resent the way everyone has a right to my time except for me.
Weight is ok though of course I'm eternally striving to get back to goal (120). I feel like the moment I give up trying to lose weight, I gain, so I better be forever in weight loss mode :>(
Saef and others that do versions of IE rather than calorie counting, do you measure/limit portions or do you have any other system that puts limits (other than your appetite) on how much you eat? I'm super-sick of logging all my food every day, but every time I stop I experience calorie-creep. My appetite is a completely unreliable indicator of how much I've eaten. And I'm much, much hungrier on days I've done an hour of cardio.
good job!
lol
Hoping that the low level of traffic means everyone is chugging along and winning the war (if not the individual battles)!
