Hapy Monday All~


Congrats to all yas that have lost...Me, I have no clue if I have lost or gained, so I decided to tag along with my mum this week to her doctor's appointment and use their scale to see if I have made anymore movement in the downward direction.

I have moved from the liquid phase of post-surgery to the soft food stage and have a new found love of scrambled eggs. Also, to offset the new foods to my diet, I have increased my walking from 15 to 20 minutes this week. I am so going to need some motivation to keep that one up.


Hope everyone has a good week this week!

Another HOT day out today! Almost too hot to do anything outside! Bah. But lucky for me, the housework never ceases. Haha...

Story - Hope you see a loss today!!!

YAY! My new exercise equipment arrived today! I'm going to have some fun tonight after my walk.

Plus I got a load of work done today; had to get a press release out to announce ModelFest coming in August, two more messages to the executive director for another PR account of mine that is located up in Washington, DC, some questions out to a singer I've been getting around to interviewing for a site I write for, check in with my (talent) agents, and order some supples from Staples.

Protein shake and egg salad sandwich for late lunch. Yum.

Storey: Hope you see a loss on your weigh in. How about for motivation, Only 9 more pounds and you will be at a 50 pound weight loss!!!!! You go girl.

LeeAnnC: Wow. Busy day. Have fun with your new equiptment. My DH found an almost brand new Gazelle at a yard sale last year and I am too heavy for it so I am looking forward to that and also I am looking for some kind of Bowflex machine in the used equiptment section of our papers here. I have a bike that I ride daily so I know how fun it is to have some stuff at home. I hope you enjoy yours.

Well, back from the pool where I did 60 minutes of exercise, now I need to ride the bike, situps and weight lifting at home along with cleaning at least the Master bathroom and bedroom in my house. I have been so lazy about cleaning my house lately. Someone bonk me on the head. lol.

Blessings all,
Annie

Lesley-I’m finding that I am not doing as much emotional eating as I was used to doing, but instead I feel like when I eat too much that it is because I’m just feeling no energy and am eating to get some energy. I’m not sure how I can fix that. I also mess up when I eat out, and I have “safe” restaurants and safe things to eat there, but that doesn’t mean that is what I’m actually going to eat. I am eating more out of fatigue now than anything.

Wyllenn-Good job getting back on track. I know how hard that is. Your before and after pictures made me want to do the same thing. I’m going to see if I can figure out how to do it.

Sally-I was like that for a long time. I was taking care of everyone except myself for a long time. I had to get selfish enough to take care of myself first.

Sandy-I’m glad that you are through with the surgery. I hope you start to feel better soon.

Soulbliss-Welcome. It is great that your daughter is doing it with you. Maybe you can help her avoid having to go through what you are when she is your age.

Kayley-If I spent 2 1/2 hours in the pool, they would have to fish me out with the big strainer. My muscles would be complete rubber.

Annie-I loved your wolf story. When I get to missing my dog, I go to the humane society and volunteer to walk the dogs. I’ll bet your weigh in will be fine. I only have bad weigh ins when I’ve been good.

Donna-I’ve been asked how I survived that plateau and the other bad 6 month long one. It is simple, at the time, I hated myself so much that I liked punishing myself. That’s the worst punishment that I could inflict on myself. It was almost mind numbing, like a long dream/nightmare.

I decided to walk today instead of my usual exercises at home. I’ve been doing so much of that both my shoulders and elbows are so sore I can barely brush my hair. Now after walking my feet off, my feet are in so much pain that they are throbbing visually. I am exercising to the point of injury/pain, writing everything down, and I am still not losing an ounce. Right now I am just trying to hang in there and not get too discouraged until I can hit the pool. At least there I won’t be in as much pain after exercise.

TheStorySoFar -- If you want more motivation to exercise, check out our 300+ exercise thread! We set monthly goals for minutes of exercise/month and track them. But what's fun is we also have a goal to exercise 200,00 minutes this year! And we need help to get there! Check out the sticky at the top of the forum -- EVERYONE is welcome!

Catherine -- Thanks for the comment on my sig pictures. Sadly, I can't help you with that one, as someone did it for me! You know, I think we have old pics of you posted on the picture page. They got deleted, but I could resurrect them if it would help or if you would like. If not, I will leave them be.

Is it one week till pool time? Hang in there! It's just a week. And that's nothing on this journey!


OK, I gotta go post my exercise!

Catherine, Sorry your scale is being naughty to you. Hang in there, Honey and it'll move. But for goodness sakes, don't hurt yourself.

I'm just starting out on my weight loss journey. I haven't even decided what plan, if any, that I'm going to use yet. I had a doctor appointment last week and I was gonna get weighed, BUT his scale has a limit of 300 lbs. I'm more than that, but don't know by how much.

How do you ladies find out how much you weigh?

I have a Weight Watcher's scale that goes up to 350. I'll try to find a link to it.

ETA : link ---> http://www.amazon.com/Weight-Watcher...9798370&sr=8-6 and correction, it goes up to 380.

catlover-I originally had to use three regular bathroom scales with a small piece of wood connecting them. I tried using one for each foot, but when getting up on them, I put all my weight on one foot, and crushed the scale. The piece of wood kept that from happening. It's not perfect, but if you can't afford an expensive scale, it will work until you are small enough to register.

Good luck on the scales. I cracked one once, too, and I was 40 pounds lighter than the limit. The scale was never quite as accurate after that

I'm new (thank you again for the welcomes) and am lost about the "personals" -- although I'm certainly enjoying reading your posts and am inspired by so many of you. You have achieved so much! It will take me awhile to catch up and sort everyone out, and I hope that's okay.

One comment that I noticed was about sleep, posted by (I think) Torister. I've noticed a loss several times after I've gotten a really good night's sleep -- not related just to the number of ours, but to a night of deep, restless sleep. It's happened about 5 times over the years (yes, I'm another one of those up-and-downers), and usually 2 to 3 pounds overnight.

I have a hard drive crash last week -- right after I started, of course -- and today I was sent a virus in an e-greeting card I'm hoping that bad things will not come in threes this time. My eating has been all out of whack because when stressed, I switch to old habits, and my worst old habit is constant snacking -- not just on junk food, but no real meals. Cereal and milk, English muffin and butter or cheese, that kind of thing. BUT I'm not giving up, just trying to keep damage to a minimum until I'm full up and running. (Right now, everything seems fine; the virus checker/repair program is running in the background )

Slowly, but surely, I'm able to do a heavier load with the weight training. It feels SO good to be able to tell that difference, and just to notice how much more strength I'm getting! Got in 45 mins tonight, and then Andrew wanted to head home, as he wasn't feeling well. Struggling to get my points in today. I just didn't eat much at ALL today, and I'm only at 34/41 pts. I'm not going to force myself to eat, though. Tomorrow, I've got to go out to the college, and register for my summer class...ALGEBRA! UGH! Classes start June 11th, so I need to get on it! I also need to get all the directions/confirmations printed out for our trip to Noblesville this weekend. I'm getting SO excited!! I also have to get a final count on everyone that's going to be going out with us for my 21st birthday next weekend, and reserve us some tables at the Mexican place we're going to. Have to see about getting my insurance switched, so I can pick up my new car either tomorrow or Wednesday, too! So, LOTS to do tomorrow!

LAnne – Have fun with that new exercise equipment!!

Cdncatlover – Hello and to the 300+ section, and to the site!!! I’m not sure exactly what kind of scale it is that we have here, but I know it goes up to 375…and we just got it at Walmart, amazingly enough. I hope you’re able to find a scale, so you know how much you’re starting out at…and the number can just look awful and so daunting, but you can do it! You just have to find the RIGHT plan for you, and the right exercises, and the pounds will come off! Never be afraid to TRY AGAIN if you fall off. That’s my story. Trying to lose the same weight I’ve lost before! Lol. I look forward to seeing you around!!! Do you have another name you’d like to go by?

Bloomer – Don’t worry if you don’t have time to do personals. A lot of times, I don’t do them either…just when I have the time! Never let that affect you coming in here and posting, though, because I know sometimes it can go SO fast…hehe. Sometimes, we get REALLY chatty!

First off sorry for not being around much this month, it got off to a rubbish start for me - first chest infection which made me feel like someone (heavy) was sat on my chest ugh! Then straight after trapped a nerve in my neck and omg the pain!!! Soooo bad, no position where I wasn't in pain. All this time, no visits to the gym which is awful as I'd been going regularly all year Anyway my neck got better just in time for me to start my management ward placement, and now I am doing 40+ hours helping to manage a busy oncology ward and am so exhausted u would not believe....

Now I have a really strange thing which is an extremely painful big toe!! Have no trauma to it but it is killing me to weight bear, which as I am heavy and work I have too!!! Sooooo still no gym as am barely getting thro work let alone gym.

I am not an excuse maker or a hypochondriac by the way I realise I probably sound like both!! lol

I have lost a couple of pounds tho and have kept my eating pretty stable, around 1800 a day.

My aim now is to get back to swimming while toe is bad and the gym asap. But when working these hours honestly don't know where the energy is gonna come from. Every day I plan to do something after work, so get up at 5.30 am but after 8 hours on my feet on the ward where I work extremely hard, when I drive home I can literally hardly walk, so I just feel that I cannot exercise as I need to conserve energy for this last phase of my training.....

I now have less than 11 weeks til I finish my course and will be waiting for my PIN to be a registered nurse I am so excited. Going to try and get a job on this oncology ward too.

Annie - you are doing so amazing, and love your new pic! Go girl!!

Ammi - hope all is ok with u looking forward to seeing your new hair cut!

Sharon - wow your weight loss is amazing girl!! Brilliant!!

Kayleystar - well done on getting back to it and WW sounds like its working great for u! I used to use my points way to quickly!!

Catherine - I really feel for u plugging away and not losing....huggles.... I am the same in that u would think that the amount of walking at work I do that the weight would come off....but NO it stays put every pound is such hard work to get off.....evil stuff.....keep going hun, rooting for you. x

Kayley -- YAY on weight lifting! I have noticed how much stronger I am for doing things in my daily life!! It really is wonderful!

Welcome to the new people!!!! You really DON"T have to worry about personals. ... though most of us do some chatting back and forth after a while.

Ammi -- you okay, hun? I saw you posted on the exercise thread, but you've been quiet here. A big for you!

and Nancy, where have you been? Jilly? Zelma??

I feel like I've been missing for ages on here!