Just a quick note...I weighed myself this morning and I have not lost one friggin pound...nothing...nada...zilth...how frustrating...the only thing I can think of is....I have my period and it started today...so I will wait until it finishes to weigh myself....but I will keep trying.

Today I will lift weights for 20 minutes and ride my bike for 30...Hope all is well with you wonderful ladies

Miki congrats on the 2 pounds weight loss...keep going...I am hoping to join you on the losing circuit soon


Bye for now and have a great Sunday

Cyan

Well, I forgot to post my weight I think. I unbelievably lost 2lbs. So now I am down to 188!!!! Only 2 lbs away from my prepregancy weight

I will admit that since Friday I haven't been doing really good, though not really bad. We had friends over our house for the weekend and potluck on Sunday. I will try to becareful today and exercise and all. I won't be posting until Feb.6 probably. My husbands relatives don't have e-mail. We leave on the 28th, that's Tuesday. So, I have washing and cleaning to do today.

On another note, we are taking in another teenage girl. But this one is different as she is being brought here by a crisis pregnancy center. She is 15yr old and due in March. Her mother (single mother--well, parents divorced over 5 yrs ago) doesn't want her home as it's an embarrassment. So, we will take her until the baby come in March. We may just have to move out of the church building and finally get our own house!

Well, it's me and baby right now and he is super crawler and playing with everything but his toys Have a great one ladies. I will write when I get back.
210/188/145

Well, the weekend is over and Monday is almost here. Seems that the weekend FLIES by these days. Hope you all had a good one.

Cyan, try not to get too discouraged. My sister who has been exercising with me and eating right for 2 weeks has been really frustrated because for 2 weeks, her scales didnt show a change altho mine did. Finally, Friday, she was down 5 lbs. Funny how it happens like that sometimes...just shows up all at once. Needless to say, she is happy now. As dedicated as you are to your exercise, it will definitely pay off soon! Just hang in there!

Taiwan, I had forgotten about your trip. We will miss you LOTS! I hope you enjoy it and we look forward to hearing all about it when you get back. I hope things work out well with the new girl you'll be taking care of. You and your family are such an inspiration to me.

Betty, thanks for checking in. Just not the same when one of us is missing.

Debee, hope Jake is feeling better by now. Seems like a lot of sickness around lately. How are you coming with your exercising?

Lisa, you amaze me with all you are busy with these days. Glad to hear you're enjoying school. Just be careful and dont let stress and the fast pace get the best of you. Try to plan ahead as much as possible for snacks and meals.

Reina, it was so much fun chatting with you today. Like I promised, I'm going to try to drink lots more water starting tomorrow. I hate that I got out of the habit of that. It definitely makes a difference. You and your family will be in my prayers in hopes that you will all be rid of your sickness SOON. I cant stand thinking of the baby feeling so bad.

LadyRider, you're right. Exercising with my sis makes it a little easier to be motivated. Oh, and she made those muffins this weekend using chocolate pudding cake mix and the can of pumpkin added. You couldnt taste the pumpkin AT ALL....just tasted like a yummy chocolate muffin. Very good. Even the kids loved them.

Cjunk, Annie, PreciousOne.....sending a big hug your way.

Ok, might as well confess....today wasnt too bad but I did have one bad day calorie-wise Plus....I didnt exercise Thurs, Fri or Sat!!! I was so busy, I just didnt fit it in and felt guilty all day today about it. Ate Mexican the other day. I had the Nachos Deluxe which is listed as an appetizer. Thats all I ordered and I drank water. No dessert or anything else. Fitday said One serving was 1700 calories!!!! A ton of fats too. That's the highest I've had in weeks, I think. Anyway, talked to Reina tonite and started feeling even more guilty about not exercising. ( I love the accountability ya'll make me feel ) Soooo...when we got offline, I did the Airwalker 40 minutes and burned 290 calories! I was barely able to make it. But I just knew I couldnt wait another day or I might not get back into it at all. I dont have to be at work tomorrow until 10 am so I'll have time to do some more before work. Have to admit, I feel much better now. Once it's done, I love being able to think,"Yessssssss, I got my exercise out of the way!" I'm still waiting for the day I get to the point where I dont "endure" it, I "enjoy" it.

Well girls, almost bedtime for me. New week tomorrow so let's all get hyped and motivated....We can do this!! Let's have a GREAT Monday and come here to post all about it. Cant wait.

Nite all....
Miki

P.S. Lisa, dont forget to check your gas gauge...LOL

Hi everyone, just a quick post and then I will spend time reviewing all posts and some replies. I finally had a chance to relax a bit this weekend. Saturday I shopped with a girlfriend and then watched lots of movies. Sunday I went downhill skiing for about 5 hours in total. Not too many breaks and we went down a lot of runs. My legs hurt today! I start my ski lessons next Sunday and they run every Sunday for the month of February. Maybe the more I learn the less my butt will get a workout and the more my legs will!!!

Other than that, I am afraid I have been lacking in the exercise department and either undereating or eating junk in the diet department. I have got to get myself back on track! Yesterday I had a poached egg on dry toast and an orange for breakfast, a toasted bagel with peanut butter during skiing as lunch and then a bunch of sushi for dinner. Not really a well rounded day--missing out on a lot of fruits and veggies really. Drank tons of fluid though as skiing dehydrated me a lot. I was planning to post last night but I ended up falling asleep at about 6pm and waking up this morning at 6am! Yikes!! I was tired!!

Back to the crazy workplace from 11-7 today. I promise myself I will not work extra today as it will definitely be busy even if I work regular hours.

Now...back to reading the posts!

Cjunk

I know I was going to post individually for this morning but I will have to do this after 7pm tonight when I get home as I need to stop off at the grocery store to pick up fruits and veggies for my lunch today!! I got caught up on reading the posts and would like to say what fantastic work you have all done! Cyan, you have been exercising very regularly including weight conditioning which builds muscle. So don't sweat that weight gain. It will happen at first and then your body will start to metabolize the fat much faster and then you will notice the calories burning quickly....just keep up your workouts regularly and that will all catch up with you. Don't despair as you are on the right track!!!

Talk to all of you soon, Cjunk. Have a great day everyone!

Oops, Cyan, I replied that you gained weight when you maintained. You did not gain. Even better!!! Sorry about that! That's what happens when I am rushing to write a post. I was simply saying that muscle increase leads to weight increase but not inch or fat increase.

Cjunk!

Well I weighed myself today and I am still the same weight...I have to re-evaluate my regime and figure out what I can do to start losing weight...for sure, since my Mom was hospitalized, I stopped exercising regularly and never got back to my usual schedule...I started yesterday, Sunday with exercising so we will see how things go. Also, the past couple of weeks I have been getting back to my 1500 cals ...so I will continue with that...I will also have to pay extra attention to the fat grams..I tend to go over very quickly...well I'm at work so I wont go into personal messages but I will post later

Hope everyone had a great weekend

talk to you soon

Cyan

Hello everyone, I hope you all had a nice weekend!

As for me, my husband got sick on Friday, and Alex my little one got in Saturday night, so I have had my hands full all weekend, and to top it off, I am still not 100%

I did have a pretty good weekend. I didn't overeat, but I do have to say that I did eat after 8pm on Saturday night, I had a twinkie!
I know, I should have just stapled it to my behind! That is where it is gonna end up anyway!

After being so busy on Sunday, I was able to do 13 mins of Taebo. I did a few mins of weights beforehand. But my body couldn't do anymore.

I had to exert some of the pent up anger after the Superbowl. For any of you who watched, that last and final touchdown, costs us $200. Yes, we would have won a total of $4000 if the score would have stayed at 41-21, but NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So as you can see, I need to do something and Taebo was there for me.

Now, I am blushing as I write this, because my husband said, "I bet the girls wouldn't approve of this!" as he fed me Strawberries with Light Cool Whip at 11:30pm last night!!! Sorry, Ladies, I just couldn't resist that one!!!

Well, I hope you all have a great day!

First of all I would like to thank everyone for the very kind welcome back. You're all a very special group of ladies. During my recovery stay at the hospital I oftened thought of all of you and how you were doing with your goals. I must say that I'm so very proud of all of you. Such motivation and determination, you all deserve praise for your efforts. I also discovered that I have more catching up to do than I thought. I thought this was the original thread that I came back to, but I found out that this is the second thread. Gosh you ladies have been busy. I have yet to even finish reading this new thread, don't know if I will ever get caught up on the original thread. So I will just go with the flow and stay tuned into the new thread.

Next I would like to confess a few things, since I have been home from the hospital I have been feasting on the no-no foods. Junkfood is back to being my middle name. I got out my journal yesterday and read what I used to eat, it will take a lot for me to be able to get back to eating what I used to. It's like starting all over again, but a lot of things have contributed to my backslide. Not making excuses for it, but atleast I have come to the understanding why I'm eating what I do. So, Cyan I am relying on your famous "kick in the behind" to get me on track. But please kick very gently, I'm not as tough as I used to be. But with time I'll be back to my old self.

Reina, I would love to give you a big hug for the smile you just put on my face with your post. I always loved your stories, you haven't changed a bit. Strawberries and whipped cream around midnight? Gosh you made me blush, you also made me think back to my midnight adventures which is probably the reason I blushed. Your comments about the twinkie about made me roll on the floor. My twinkie consumption never landed on my behind though, it went straight to the waistline. I was walking around with about 6 cheesecakes, a truckload of Little Debbie cakes on my midsection. So far I have stayed clear of the snack cakes, but candy is my worst enemy right now. Can I borrow your car trunk Cyan? That's one of the downsides of going into the hospital, people give you gift baskets loaded with all those no-no foods. I don't want their money to go to waste so I've been eating it all. Well the bad news is when I got up this morning someone had taken all my boxes of Pot of Gold Just Nuts candy and made them disappear except for a few pieces. Someone is in big trouble, I don't believe it was my son. So I'm thinking it was my daughter or perhaps my husband. Thinking most likely it was my daughter. She's in big trouble. Or maybe I should be thankful that she did that.

Hello Miki, CJ and Lady, sounds like you all have been doing really good. Miki, congrats on the weight loss. You are a strong lady, with great determination. Your schedule is one to admire and you still stay on track. CJ, you amaze me. Before I went in the hospital you were swimming, now you are into skiing. You show focus for all of us. How is your job going? Hopefully the stress you used to feel pertaining to that has lightened up. You're a winner, not a quiter. Lady, you are like a bright light during a storm. You have gone through some very sad times and stressful times but yet you have endured and come out stronger. You have always been an inspiration for me. I thank you.

Lisa, I read somewhere that you are going to nursing school. I admire your determination to further sucesses in your future. You are on the right track with all your goals. I wish you much success in all that you do. You seem to be a very sweet person.

To debee, lobacal and taiwan, I don't know you ladies too well yet but by what I've read so far you all seem to be very nice people. Very determined to reach your goals. All three of you are a very nice addition to the group. I extend a very big welcome(belated) to all of you.

Precious One, hope all is going great with you. My thoughts are with you in all that you do. Come and join us here on the board when you are able to.

Cyan, there's nothing I can say to you that you haven't heard before. By now I'm sure you realize how grateful we all are that you have kept this group going and have offered such great advice and support to all of us. You are one of a kind, I'm very grateful that I had the opportunity to meet you. You are a strong leader that is always here for all of us. And you've never been bashful about extending that famous kick to the behind when we needed it. I'd like to thank you for starting this group, we all needed the support that a group like this brings.

Well, I've talked enough Just wanted to touch base and let you all know that I'm still hanging in. I have an appointment tomorrow, some tests and some new things they are going to try on me. So I will probably be absent for a few days after that. Thanks to all of you for all the good wishes you sent my way. I felt like I had a lot of angels sitting on my shoulders. A big hug to all of you. Talk with you all later.
Take Care, Keep Motivated.

Hi everyone,

Sounds like everyone had a busy weekend.

Cyan, that scale is going to move very soon! It soinds like you are doing great on the exercise maybe try replacing some of the binging foods with low-fat goodies might help.

CJunk, our new lake house is about 10 miles from a ski resort so we are planning to take lessons in Feb. too. It has been so cold here that I think if we went skiing now we would get frost bit.

Annie, although I do not know you well from reading your posts you do seem to be "determined" . It sounds like you have been through a lot in the past few months and maybe it is ok to give yourself a few treats.

Miki, you are an exercise queen. I need some of your motivation.

taiwan, have a great trip and please tell us all about it when you get home.

Reina, stawberries with whip cream...it sounds like a scene from the movie "91/2 weeks"

Lady and Lisa hope to hear from you soon.

Jake is getting a little better, but of course now my husband
and I are getting sick.

I need to get motivated and back in a rountine. I am trying to
eat breakfast, using my pedometer, drinking water...but I am still not as good about eating after 8p.m, or fat grams, exercise as I was two weeks ago. I really hope I can lose at least 2 pounds this week. Any suggestions on recharging the willpower?

Hi ya'll

Long day today. Worked from 10 til 7 with no lunch hour again. Did get up in time for 15 min of Airwalking this morning but only managed 10 min tonite. Calories were on track so all in all, a pretty good day, just tiring.

Cjunk, sounds like you had a nice weekend. You needed it with all the hours you've been putting in at work lately. I hope it left you all refreshed and ready to start your new week.

Cyan, remember how bad I was about the scales when we first started? I'd let them judge how well or how bad I had done. Even if I had eaten right, if the scale showed no loss, I got depressed and discouraged and usually ended up blowing it big time. Dont let that happen to you. Just hang in there! I promise eventually the progress will show up.

Reina....strawberries and cool whip at 11:30 at nite...WooooHoo! Hey, at least it was LITE cool whip. Tell hubby it's not that we dont approve..we're jealous..LOL

Annie, it was so cool finding a nice big post from you today. I missed those soooo much!! Hope your appt tomorrow goes well. Dont feel too bad about the junk food...you've been thru alot and I know you'll get back on track in no time. Besides, you're right...would be kinda rude to waste it after people were sweet enough to send it to you.

Debee, glad to hear that Jake is feeling better, but sorry that now you and your husband are coming down with it. Hopefully it wont last long. I'm sure you'll be able to lose that 2 lbs if you just set your mind to it. If I can do it, anyone can...believe me!

Well, my sis just signed in so I'm going to go say hello to her then it's time to head to bed. Bye for now...

Miki

Hello everyone,

I think I might have some time for replies before heading off to work!

Yesterday I went in to work only to find out a co-worker was ill and I had to work an extra 2 hours. So I got resourceful and told them I had errands to run for a few hours, left and then came back and worked her later shift instead. They seemed okay with this because I have worked a lot of overtime lately. I got all my errands done and I covered the evening when we would have been short. All in all a good compromise. The same co-worker called while I was sleeping this morning to try and find someone to pick her up and drive her to work today because her car would not start---yikes---sounds like she is experiencing a string of bad luck. I called her back to say that I can drive her in but her machine came on--so I may end up rushing off this post if I end up hearing from her.

Cyan, don't despair...results sometimes take a bit of time. It sounds like you are getting back into your old routine of exercise and diet which will help you to get the results you are looking for. Take it from someone like me who loses a pound or two and then gains it back and then loses it again that it is better to lose slowly than to yo-yo back and forth.

Annie, so wonderful to hear from you! I have been thinking about you and hoping you would come back so that we can all catch up on how things are going. It sounds like you have been through a lot, so promise us not to beat yourself up over your eating habits and we will support you to getting back on track--okay?!!

Miki--sounds like you have been pulling crazy shifts like me. Take it from the girl who ate junk and underate all last week. It is not worth all the pizza and french fries to bounce off your healthy eating pattern. For me it just made me tired, cranky and burned out even faster. I am back to my normal routine this week and feeling much healthier because of it. I hope your work becomes less hectic for you too. Mine is still pretty intense but yesterday I was assertive on taking some time for myself--which was difficult to do--it seemed to work out positively though. Congratulations on losing 2 pounds as well!!

Debee, I hope that you and your husband are feeling okay now that Jake is starting to feel a bit better. I think that viruses have been going around a lot lately. Try not to push yourself too hard if your immune system is down.

Taiwan, you may not read this as you might already be on your trip but I hope you enjoy your time and that you will post all about it when you get back! Congrats to you too on your weight loss!

Reina, you made me crave strawberries so badly I went out and bought some for my lunch yesterday! No whipped cream though. I have no willpower for only a little bit and I would just end up chugging the whole spray can or eating the whole tub! They were very delicious and thank you for the craving.

Lisa--hope to hear from you soon! Wow, what a hectic day you had! Is that an everyday day in the life of Lisa? If it is all I have to say is Wow!! I am amazed that you were able to keep your cool and not panic with all the loops you had come your way. You are awesome! With that kind of chaos you would have to do a lot of pre-planning I would imagine in order to make your diet work for you!

Lobocal--hope your national circuit went well and look forward to hearing about it soon.

PreciousOne and Ladyrider, hope all is well and that you are meeting any challenges head on with all the strength that you can.

As for me I am off to battle another day!!!

Keep up the great work everyone!!

Cjunk

Annie we are all here supporting you and sending you lots of good healing energy....think of us as little helpers hanging around you as you get your treatments and tests. And like Miki says, you have been through a lot so enjoy your treats cause when you are all better, its back to your healthier lifestyle. I send you a big hug and let us know how you are doing.

Cjunk when are you coming to Montreal? I am looking forward to hooking up with you...it will be fun.

Reina...I went to bed early last night but I got in my weight lifting and now my arms are hurting...ouch but it sure felt good to get back on track...yay! How did you do exercise wise? I also did ok food wise at 1665 and 42 grams of fat.

Miki all those long hours at work and you still exercise..I think you are now officially our new workout queen

Taiwan...hope you have a wonderful trip and keep up all the hard work and effort of losing weight....have a safe trip...I send you good energy

Debee have you found your groove again...are you back to your routine...how's the water consumption going? Have you been eating after 8pm thus far this week?

Lobacal glad to hear that you are doing well on your regime...let us know how you are doing this week.

LadyRider...I hope you are well ... its always so much fun chatting with you and I really appreciate your words of wisdom.

Lisa...you must be very busy with all nursing school stuff and your child and your husband and your pets and last but not least...yourself...How do you do it? Give us the secret. I hope you are doing well and keeping on track with yourself...How's the healing ridge doing?

Well Ladies, this week thus far I have been on track, I started exercising sunday and have kept it us thus far...yes I know we are only tuesday but at least I have worked out both sunday and monday and plan on doing it again tonight.

I send all of you lots of hugs and good energy and the strength to love yourself enough to get healthy, thin, and sexy...cause we are all that already...so keep it up

Cyan

Hello everyone. Sorry it's been a few days since I posted. I have been busy and tired. Today was our first test and I was studying for 3 hours last night. It was cool because there is a chat room especially for my nursing class so I suggested that we study together via the the chat room. Seven people showed up and it was nice to have someone to ask questions to without having to leave my house. I love technology!!

Food wise I do okay until dinner time and then I just eat. I really haven't had time to really pig out though. Yesterday I brought cheese cubes and apple slices for my table to snack on. They were enjoyed by all of us. I'm not sure where I am on the weight part. I forget to weigh myself in the morning before I get dressed and it's dark in my room then also. Later in the day is just too late and I know I will weigh more then so I just don't put myself through that.

Sorry I don't have time for individual posts but will try to do that tonight or tomorrow. I'm going to do Yoga in about 30 minutes at the gym. Yesterday I was at the doctor getting my physical for school and complained to the doctor that I can't fall asleep at night because I just lay in bed thinking and thinking and thinking. She gave me Zoloft for OCD. (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). I started thinking about that and I think that that really may be my problem. I've been running myself ragged trying to do everything and do it perfect. I can't even slow down when I lay down for bed because my brain won't stop trying to plan everything out in my head. I'm constantly making lists of what to do and what to eat and things to clean and papers to turn in and what to study. MY BRAIN WON"T STOP and I'm EXHAUSTED!!!!!!

Okay enough of that. I'm constantly boring you guys with all my medical problems! I just hope that this medicine will help me get free of this constant need to do it all.

I'll post more later when I have time!

Lisa