What a crazy life I've been having recently!!! Unfortunately, that craziness has not all been positive and I've put on a few pounds because of it

My boyfriend has been debating moving home to Georgia over the past few weeks because his dad is really sick. Sunday he made the final decision and it's gonna be a quick one - he's heading out in two weeks!!!

So, of course, dieting is not the first thing on my mind!

However, I did O! yesterday morning, and although I really wanted to O! this morning, I had an early meeting to get to and couldn't... but, tomorrow I will be back on track!

Kind of funny though - my dedication to this program... When he leaves, he will be taking the TV from the living room, so I was thinking of moving the one from the bedroom out there instead - and then I realized that it's better to do the lying down O! positions on the carpet (bedroom) rather than the hardwood (living room) and so the TV is staying in the bedroom all because of O!

Perhaps that was too much information...

Catz! Welcome! Sometimes it is hard to coordinate everything involved with O! - but over time it gets easier. The breathing is the most important part! That's what you should concentrate on first. The smile helps tone your face (once you are able to do it, you will hear people commenting on how much thinner your face looks - it's amazing!). However, even if you aren't able to smile right away, you will at least be toning other parts of your body. Sometimes I look in the mirror when I O! - that may help you!

Great to see you back Rose! Sorry you don't have as much time to post, but as long as you are able to stick with it when you can - that's the important part!

Barb - Congratulations on your success! I've been meaning to write about it since last week, but I've been so depressed, it's been hard to motivate myself...

Take care everybody - and have a great Tuesday!

Hi Everyone!

Unfortunately I've been so busy lately that I haven't had any time to post. Not only that but I've fallen off the O wagon and I need some help to get back on. HELP! I feel so bad about not doing O but every morning it's a struggle for me to roll out of bed and get moving. So any words of encouragement would be much appreciated.

Hey Rose!

I know how hard it is to do O! every morning! I never even thought it was possible to exercise so early in the day until I started reading your posts!

Just remember that we all go through different phases and times where we'll be stronger or weaker at disciplining ourselves to do our O!

Do you think that starting a 10 day challenge might help? I think it would help me simply because it would help me become more consistent (i.e. I skipped Sunday and Tuesday). Let us know if that will help. I know it always helps me to remind myself that other people are doing it with me, and it makes me feel more accountable for doing it!

I wish you luck!

Take care,

I think a challenge is a great ideal. I always seem to be able to stay motivated because I don't want to be the first or only one to mess up.

What do you say ROSE? Will that work for you? Let's set a date and set some guidelines and see about maybe getting some more people to join us. I have a couple of "pal" I've met through the oxycise board that might like to join us. Rose, I'll be waiting to hear from you.

Juliette, you just had a great idea!!!

Hi Everyone!

I just wanted to thank you all for being here. Especially today with all this work related stressed. I'm really upset right now and I think O is the answer to help me deal.

Juliette and Barbg-I'm all for the challenge. You name the date and I'll start too. This is just what I need and with your support I know I'll do it! Please let me know when you all plan to start. I'll check in this weekend to see what you think. Barb get as many people doing it with us as you can. The more the merrier!

catz-I wanted to let you know to check out the Oxycise website and also to write Julie at [email protected] and ask her for her breathing tips. If you can't reach her I could email them to you too if you would like. I think someone sent me a copy to my job and I saved it. Just let me know! I hope you'll post here with us often.

Okay I need to get back to work but I'm doing this half heartedly because of something that happened. I'll explain more later but until then let's all keep breathing. Oh and let me know a good start date everybody.

Claire and Susan R are you up for the challenge? Check in to let us know!

How about Wednesday? I know it probably sounds weird being the middle of the week, but it will give us a few days to get organized.

I figure we can start small - 10 days. That would take us through the following Friday.

I remember reading the thread of people doing a 21 day challenge for Tae Bo and I think it would be great to use their idea here too!

On a sad note, I haven't O!d this weekend. It's just been sooooo busy!!!! But I'll definitely be doing it tomorrow morning! And definitely from Wednesday on - especially if that's the agreed upon start date!!!

Rose - hope your job gets better for you. It is so tough when things aren't working at work!!! We're here for you if you ever need to vent...

I thank Wed is a good day. That way we only have one weekend. Weekends seem to be my downfall. Sould we post every day (if we can)?

Hi!
I'm new to this site, but not new to Oxycise. I was doing quite well back in January, then got hit by all kinds of things.

I have had job problems, to say the least--a temp job ended, then I hunted, and found what looked good but turned out to be "the job from ****". I've been looking again for a week and now have an appointment for tomorrow that I think is going to be "THE ONE". It's in a field I am familiar with, but has much more training--and more money--than I had before. The pay is good even during training. I'm praying this will be it!

My husband has had 3 surgeries since Feb 14, and that messed things up, too. He's getting closer to normal now.

Enough excuses why I haven't "O"d? Today is the day to get started again, and maybe reporting to you will help.

Barb G invited me, so if my rambling gets too bad, blame her!! lol My name is Nancy, and I'm 61 years old with two grown children. I need to lose about 70 lbs. And, from my login name, you might guess that I live in Phoenix, AZ. That means I really need to drink more than a gallon of water a day if I want to be healthy and lose weight!

I've already weighed today, and need to measure. I hope your encouragement will help keep me committed to doing O every day!

Nancy

Hi Everyone!

Juliette-Weds. sounds great! I'll be ready. I actually did O once this weekend. It did feel good but that was all I did the whole weekend! I know how it is with the busy thing. I'm having the same problem. But I know O will help and why don't you start a new challenge thread for us! That would be great! And thanks for understanding about the job and my need to vent. You're an angel.

Barbg-Yes let's do the challenge starting Weds. The weekends are so hard for me too but with your support I know we can do it! I will definitely try to post everyday and least a yes or no but I plan on being committed to O this time and doing it for 10 days.

Nancy-Hi I remember you! I'm glad Barb told you about us and that you are going to join us. That's great. The more the merrier. And don't worry about the reasons why we haven't been Oeing. I can come up with a million of them the important thing is that we are starting again and for at least 10 days we'll be doing O and feeling great.

Okay everyone I have to get back to work but I'm getting psyched for this challenge. I've got all my tapes lined up and ready to go.

Hi everyone!

This is going to be a real quick post but I say let's go for the challenge! I love that idea!

Rose, when I read that you have been stressed out and that you hadn't been doing your O!, I wanted you to know that I felt like that too when I had both those things going against me last month. I believe that O! helps my stress level sooooo much that when I DON'T do it, I can really feel the difference in a VERY negative way! It is at that point that I realize just how much I need my Oxycise!

So.....with everyone's support, this idea of a challenge with its accountability to both each other and ourselves, I think we're all on our way to feeling GO!O!D again!!!

Lucidone, I love that heading you had! MO!tivation! That's great!!!!!!

Okay everyone, let's do it!

Susan R.

WO!W! Sounds like everybody is on board for this Challenge! I think it will be great! Tomorrow morning I will definitely start a new thread for us to go to with our progress and achievements!

Nancy- welcome to 3FC! I've visited the Oxycise boards several times myself, but always feel lost when their threads change all the time. This bulletin board is nice because it's one thread and you don't have to worry about all the negative posts. Although I do enjoy the other board to learn more about O! techniques, and you hear a lot more about what others are doing!

Susan - I'm glad you are going to join us! That will be so great! I know you've been a wonderful motivator for all of us, and I think having you with the challenge will help us just that much more!

Rose - I totally understand the concept of the short post. Sometimes I don't write anything on here simply because I have no time or energy to write very long, so I just skip it instead of just writing a short hello... but with the challenge, I will definitely try to post no matter what - even if it's "I did it today!"

Barbg - thanks for bringing other people in here. I am currently President of a non-profit organization and recruiting people for this board is similar to recruiting people to come to our clubs! It can be a challenge sometimes!

Well, time to get to work. Take care everybody! Hope you all O! tomorrow for the start of our CHALLENGE! I've O!d both yesterday and this morning, so I'm already on my way!!!

Hi!

Just dropping by to say that I did my O both yesterday and today. Will post more tomorrow.
Nancy

I did level 1 yesterday and level 2 today. So, I'm ready to got starting tomorrow.

Hi Oers!

Just a quick post to say how excited I am about this challenge. It's really going to help me out. I'm all set for tomorrow.

Juliette-Thanks for starting the new thread for the challenge! This is going to be great.

Susan R-Hi I'm so glad you're joining us. Thanks for understanding what I've been going through lately. I know O will help and with everyone's support on this board I know I will be successful. Thanks for joining us.

Nancy-Way to go on doing your O! This challenge will be a piece of cake for you.

Barbg-Good job on doing your O! I'm doing L2 tomorrow for my first day of the challengs. I'm really anxious to get started.

Okay everyone I'm ready for this. Let's all try to post at least once a day to be accountable for what we did or didn't do okay? Juliette is starting a new thread just for this challenge so even if you only have a few minutes just post a yes I did or no I didn't so we can keep each other informed. We can do this!

Oh and are we going to count the commuter tape as a workout or just the one with the positions?