Ate well, did a whole load of chores today and am going to get on the treadmill after I fold a load of laundry.

*weigh in*
Next Wednesday!!

I am so hoping for a BIG number....

It's a good thing holidays don't happen more often -- I kinda fell/went off the diet wagon at lunch. Nearly 1200 calories in one meal. Luckily, the only other things I've eaten today are a Clif bar and a Skinny Cow, so I didn't do too much damage overall. Did well yesterday -- we had a dessert contest at work, and I only had a bite of two different desserts.

I am kinda bummed that I haven't gotten a workout in yet this week, and my water consumption has been LOW. I'll get everything back on track tomorrow, though. I'm hoping for a two-pound loss on my Monday morning weigh in.

Glad to see everyone else is doing so great!

Water: check
Exercise: Check (yoga and 4.7 miles in an hour)
Food: check (ate mindfully and nourished my body)

A very good day indeed!

I hope everyone is well and having a healthy and happy 4th of July. And if not.....well tomorrow we begin again!!

Hey Shari don't feel bad. You will get into the swing of things in no time! I remember taking a jazz class a couple of semesters ago (also in a room full of mirrors) and I was one of two larger girls. The rest were 99 pound theatre majors. Bleh!

Judi, I use Fitday and I love it! Sometimes I have trouble finding things though, but I just add them myself.

I'm glad I weigh in on Mondays...that gives me 4 days to make up for the last couple of days that I totally blew it! I promised myself that once I sank under 200lbs, I would never again go above that mark...now I am afraid to look! It's soooo easy to fall back into old habits sometimes!

Hello everyone how did you do on the 4th? I didn't do to bad but I could have done better. My water intake was good. Thats all I drank and I stayed far away from soda. We were out of town so eating was a challenge. We stopped at taco bell and I picked what I thought was a decent low cal meal. Their new Grilled Steak Taquitos that had 310 calories. And a regular soft taco no sour cream 200 calories. Later I had a small serving of Chicken teriyaki . I don't know the calories on that. So not to bad but could have been better.

Weigh in is next week so we will see how bad it hurt me if any.

Hi ladiesssss,

Nice to read all the posts and there were plenty of them since I last checked in. Congrats to all of you who weighed in and had a loss and to those who didn't or indulged a bit over the holiday, keep on truckinnnn! As Dea said, 4 more days to crank before the end of the week...starting with today, a new day!

Lekhika, I like that quote you put under your post.....as long as we keep at it, we cannot fail! Regardelss of a bad day, etc. , I feel that keeping at it is the ticket! So happy I have you all here and the support to keep me in check right now during the summer.

HOpe you all had a nice holiday ladiessssss. I have been so busy past few days, I had a great time Tuesday night with the company. I did pretty good foodwise , though I indulged in margs. No official exercise and the only thing making me feel better about that is that I virtually did not stop moving for several days as I had much to do so making myself feel better by thinking of the cal burn....thoough of course I am mindful of not letting this replace my traditional exercise. I had fun but in a way I am glad it's over because I just want to focus on my plan right now, that is paramount as it's important for me to do well this month....the time is going by so fast already! I talked to dh this morning and told him I don't want to plan any get togethers or parties for a few weeks (as i strictly want to focus on plan) as august vaca is coming up so now is a good time to buckle down before our vaca starts, he agreed!

welcome to all of you who joined in, welcome girls


needtolose... congrats on the 10 lbs. thus far. : )


miradwarrior, wow indeed!!!!!!!! congratulations of the 8lbs. this week! keep it rockin

hoping2behopeful, welcome! Hang onto those pants in the back of your truck because you will be needing them soon

JasonsssLEa, congrats on the 2.6 lb. loss and with TOMMM! that is awesome. Good luck with your interview today, kick butt girl.

HI Judy, welcome. I have a harder time losing in summer as well but for me it isn't the water getting under my skin but someething else, hahaha. You ladies are an isnpirationnnnn and it is from this and the s upport which helps me to keep in line! It most certainly can be done and this time different, just take a look at the success stories here....as long as we stick together and keep at it we can't go wrong.

pigginpodgey, I truly feel and believe that regardless of a womans size,e tc. that sexyness and that glow exudes from within. Your new scottish man sounds very into you girl! Keep on truckin : )

Lekhikaaaaaaaa, go girl! Your kicking butt. You know what? at this rate your going to weigh less than MIL, hehehe You are accomplishing all of your goals and your a real inspiration........ I am eager to hear of your weigh in wed. too!

nicciw, sound like you got right back in the saddle after the holiday, right on. TOday is a new day, keep on truckin : )

sockmonkey, hi there girl : ) hope you had a nice 4th, as you all did.


Dea, I agree, I wouldn't look right now....why risk any sort of discouragement. TOday is a new day and 4 more days to go! Go girl, wishing a great and successful day.

Hope everyone has a super new and successful day today! Let's all make it one!

Dea! Don't feel bad. I totally blew it the past two days too. Delicious hotdogs, beer beans, 7 layerd pie...You name it, I probably ate it. Monday TOM started, and the scale said 205! I know it wasn't possible for me to gain 3 pounds in a day, but it still hurt. Weighed this morning to assess the damage of my two day eating spree and I was at 204.4 (I was expecting worse actually)..so hopefully I will be balanced out by Sunday Weigh in.

Hey everyone! I am 6 pounds away from my July goal of 190 and I see it, I really see it! (God, I'm such a dweeb!)

July 3rd - did fine but I had a piece of yummy birthday cake and a hot dog for dinner. Yes, in that order! I didn't however, eat the chips, crackers and cheese that was hanging around and THAT is something.

July 4 - again a good day except we had BBQ ribs for dinner that I could have lived without.

Exercise- check, walked 45 minutes each day.

If I stick with it, this will be the 1st 30 days of healthy living I've done in over a year! Thanks for being such good role models!

hopingtobehopeful - way to go on resisting all those other temptations!! im not sure if i could have done that!!

Thank you for your kind words FSA, you are always very wise and right - i totally believe also sexyness is something about you, i actually kind of bought the subject up with scottish man last night, whose reaction was very positive!! LOL!! His words were " you are a great looking girl, you have a fantastic personality, and you interest me" - so speed wobble officially over!!

Had a bit of a NSV yesterday, went to my cousins to see some photos of her wedding ( at xmas) and my god!! my face was round and red, i do fancy you can see some cheek bones these days starting to peek out, and gosh yes i do look a lot fatter than now. Its pleasing to see that though! Its good for motivation!!

Hai hai hai Girls!!

I did yoga this morning and started spotting. I was actually hoping for an early TOM so that I wouldn't be bothered with the mess during my vacation....so...The morning started with nearly 2 hours of cleaning up our holy it's a huge mess of a basement.

After that I did yoga and weights I was off to do my cardio when my 4 year old stopped me. She insisted I spend time with her as she watched pinky dinky doo...so I sat...then we all went down to the basement again and did another hour's worth of clearing up down there.

I don't think I did my daily dent but it's 6:41 and my husband, anxious because I've lost oodles of weight, insists that he wants to do cardio as well. I"m all.....dude....but I managed the whole house all day....can I have some me time now? I guess not. It makes me a little mad at myself more than anything because this scenario has played out dozens of times and I should just have made at least a half hour for my cardio.

I feel like I'm just slacking. And I'm a little depressed because of it. There's no way I'm making my secret goal. I suck.

Rushing to dance class, will do personals later but wanted to tell you all that I had a job interview early today and...

I GOT THE JOB!

Way to go, everyone! My fourth wasn't so bad- we were so busy running around that we actually forgot to eat. But what I did manage to consume was goooood. I had a delicious beer in a gorgeous glass while watching the rain from a comfy couch on a decorating magazine-worthy porch. Not too shabby (and definitely not mine!).

In fact, I had so much fun that I ditched out of work early today & took my son to the museum (which he's been too so many times that he thinks he lives there- but it was nice, anyway. He's almost 12, but sometimes he forgets and reaches out to hold my hand by accident...). Paramount just finished shooting scenes for the next Indiana Jones movie here and I've been buzzing around the set nearly every day (I live and work in the vicinity, so it was a great excuse to go out walking), so I think he was just grateful that I didn't drag him out to watch that again. Some kids have it rough, huh?

Keep up the good work, guys!

HI my ladies, thought i would check in. THe day is going well but jeesh, feeling a bit lonely today. Ah well, it will pass! It's just dh and I here and he is so busy and on a special project so he is pretty tuckered...I got in a few minutes of talking at least! I dont blame the guy, he cant help it is so busy......I just miss companionship sometimes. ANywayssssss, though I told myself I would not cook again the rest of the week I did! lol He loved it though, the guy comes home late and tired and i wanted to have something on the stove, I was good ladies, did not touch it and i wont even go there as far as saying waht I cooked! I dont talk to too many people in my life, particularly about my goalssss except for my mom, dh, and you all here! Anyways, it's nice to have the safety and a bunch of supportive fellow gals to come too!

sockmonkey, you are so sweet and supportive to all! I agree that there is no way you could of gained 3 lbs. in a day and is most likely due to TOM or fluid retention and/or of other sorts so hang tough! keep it rocking sweety

hopingtobehopeful, bravoooo on restisting those extra temptations! keep up the good work.

pigginpodgey, oh you! ty as well! I have my days too, beleive me. Sometimes I feel so good and sexy, lol and like the cats meow! hahaha then sometimes I have off days and feel bliax, particularly right before or around TOM (never fails).....I guess its natural that we all have our moments and its part of the ups and downs of the journey and of life, but heyyyyy, we are working on and making those ups outweigh those downs! oh yessssssss, let's keep on trucking girl!

Lekhika, hi there! I finally caught up with the blog as I had not been th ere in a while. I felt bad and mad all at the same time! I then remembered what a wise woman once told me (the doc who trained me), she said, "Sia, you can't please everyone" yessssssssssssss, it was such a simple statement but somehow when I heard it from her at that particular time something just clicked inside of me, it was like eureka! YOu could be so perfect or what you feel is perfect but there will always be something or someone who is not quite pleased! whether it is due to someone elses own insecurities or for whatever endless reason and that is why it is so important that we ourselves are pleasedddddddddddddddddd with us!!!!!!!!! We do the best we can and be the best we can, to ourselves and to others, but no matter what there will always be I feel that stray apple! hey now! What helped me is to say, " i control what I can, what I cannot control , well.......... jeesh , I am rambling again. Anyways, I got a bit heated! It happened to me too once lekhika, the overweight thing and then when i was at goal and healthy and trim, etc.... "oh you exercise too much or this or that" lollllllllll screw em baby! do it for yourself and as long as you feel good that's what counts,, and noooooooooooooooo you dont suck, YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOu truly rock and are a great inspiration to us all! so you go girl! YOur doing wonderful!

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiii again, I just saw the rest of the posts!

Leaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, congratulations on getting the job!

Judi, I like your writing style glad you ditched work early and your son "accidentaly" forgot and held your hand! haha how nice!