Carla49 – Onederlander Congrats!!! That is just awesome! I can’t wait to be that it’s been years since I’ve seen a 1 as my starting number!
I’m sorry to hear about your friend. Don’t be sorry about the story. Sharing things that happen in life help us deal with it. We’re here to help you so share, ((virtual hug)) just know we are here for you. I find sign language fairly easy. I haven’t worked much with the ABC’s of it more with words. I am truly loving it! Not only will he be able to complain about his parents he may even give away some of their secrets to me. Like for instants what I’m getting for Christmas! Well as far as the was and walk/jog it was in place and I believe it was more walk that jog. Humm Mez = Marathon! LOL not sure that could ever go together. (maybe because I was always last/second to in school for running time) Your friends/family are in my prayers. I hear it is terrible there are people trapped and they can’t get to them because there are others robbing! They are calling off some searches because they need the man power other places! It’s horrible!!! It makes me so angry! WHY do people act that way!!!! I can grasp someone taking water/food but car stereos and stuff like that!! Come on!!!
Red – I’m happy to hear your doing better. I’m sending good vibes your way! I am going to Google dyslexia on the net. Funny I’ve never thought to look it up. LOL
I guess I’m a right brain person for I love working with my hands, I do all kinds of crafts my most recent self taught almost talent is Balloon Animals. I even got asked to do a friends birthday party. I made $60.00 and the kids had a great time!
I’m going to look into Japanese or Chinese maybe it will click!
Chaps – Congrats on day 6! Your just burning them up!
Day 3 - 45 minutes at gym & plenty of water...
redballon - not sure what the difference is between multi and twin challenge but I am going to strive to do both - exercise & water - for the 21 days...
GOOD MORNING LADIES!! Headache was gone by the time kids got up, so it was a good day! Made it through day 5 with no problem, onto day 6. Today will be day 1 with no soda, I know I will make it through, 'cause there is no soda in the house and I'm not leaving the house today!! Tomorrow night is the races though and this weekend is the fair! I will resist! Water only for the next 21 days!
Everyone in the south is in our prayers. I see the pictures on tv and it is just so hard to imagine what they are going through, especially the children. Makes me want to cry! Wish I could do more than send money to the Red Cross, but I am so far away.
Well, today is housecleaning day, and I'm not gettting much done! Hope everyone has a great day!
Mez, I'm just curious: a lot of my sign language classmates who were star learners were left-handed. I don't know if it was just a coincidence, but are you a leftie?
Carla49 - No I'm a righty! You know I found out many interesting things about it when I googled. Not only is it reading but sound. It also said that one will have a hard time with foreign languages. There are so many degrees of it. No cure only on going treatment. I find when I'm tired I make more mistakes. So many things I do I now know why!!! Geez I can't believe I hadn't looked this up long ago!
Good morning. It's the start of Day 7 here. Friday. Go into the office today. Am trying to get out to the gym this morning. I wouldn't probably, if I hadn't said to some people at the gym yesterday that I was only doing weights yesterday because I was going to run this morning. Groan.... But, the feeling of accomplishment is great afterward. Up and at it!
fancy -- Good luck! You can do this! I was reading a book on image training yesterday (grabbing bits in the bookstore) and they were talking about seeing the failures too. Most people think it's all about seeing you sitting there as the perfect, in-control person, but it's not. Use imaging to see you at the races, reaching for the soda, or thinking about it and then ordering something non-caloric or whatever you ARE allowing yourself. Take a Thermos bottle with you with iced tea or something. The best thing is to plan, not just try to see if you "can hold out." As for Katrina, I am Google News(ing) things and reading all about it. It is truly horrible. However, being far away here I see it as very close, as we are in an earthquake zone and the big one in Kobe is not long ago. I don't want to think about it. At least with hurricanes there are warnings, but even so, would I have run, I ask myself? We forget that the forces of Nature are all-mighty.
janemarie -- Great going on your challenge. The difference between multi-factor and twin is that with the multi one, you are doing more than one thing on the same challenge, so even if you, say, exercise, but DON'T drink your water, you have to go back to Day 1. With a twin challenge, you would have two numbers, say, be on Day 1 with your exercise, but Day 5 with your water. That's more confusing and no one is doing it now. Someone had just asked recently about it though, so it got me thinking.
Looking -- Glad to see you are changing your habits. on getting through Day 3! Please realize, that the rules of this challenge are that you have to do something every day and if you don't you start over at Day 1 or take a pause day if you have one. Read the first post of this thread and it's explained there. So, right now, the applicable part of your challenge is water and not eating after 8, or you could make the exercise everyday. We have to stick to the rules just for the challenge part so we can maintain coherence on the thread and make it easy for people to cheer you on. So many other challenges allow people to kind of lose focus and after a while, anything goes and the thread and one's challenge lose momentum. This challenge is different. It's very cut and dry, black and white. Of course, you can do what you want with your goals, but they are what many of us call "bonus goals," not part of the official declared challenge. Oh, wow, Looking, did you realize this was such a tough place to be! Good luck! I am glad you are here with us!!
mez -- Keep on truckin! What day are you on now? Heh, walking is how you learn to run. Someday you will be jogging more than you walk. Just keep at it! And marathons are not all about winning and running fast. I should know, being in the country of marathon nuts! Marathons are about GOING THE DISTANCE, even if you have to crawl over the finish line, as many do. (Course, I'm sure you'd be jogging over with both hands in the air in triumph and a big smile on your face! ) mez, I am up and down. My only ups these days are because I am made of pretty tough stuff, but not because great things are happening in my life. Talk about knowing how to crawl. My "Never give up" under my name is not something I take lightly. It has been my way of life for years.
carla -- Don't worry. I wasn't thinking you were a lush or anything! Situations like this call for holding together and if everyone is drinking, then often it helps to join in and I just said that because I wanted to show you I understood. And, it's not for me to sit here and tell you to stick to your challenge and life goes on and all that. I am not a heartless person! And I know what it's like to lose close ones. I hope you are doing okay. As for eating too much...I don't really know how I do it either but I must (in fact I am really good at it!) because my weight doesn't change. Of course, being just barely over 5 feet doesn't help. I absolutely despise counting calories and with all the other restrictions I place on my eating, don't want any more tedium. I am allowing white rice in my diet and there are just as many calories in that as bread. The giving-up the white flour is mostly so that I cut out the snacking, you know, bagel chips and the likes that are easily had at the convenience stores. Remember, I am in Japan and bread and flour doesn't figure big here. Having been here so long, I am quite happy eating rice for breakfast and don't have any focus on bread whatsoever. I don't, however, eat rice for breakfast, I make slow-cooking oatmeal. I am thinking of switching to rice though, because the oatmeal is expensive and I have to cut back on food expenses! About dyslexia, I was reading that there are a lot of myths about it and some of those were about the backward letters and so. I was surprised because I had thought that it was it was mainly about. But apparently not, now that they understand it much better. It seems like it is mainly about sounds. But yes, you are right about the Chinese tones. Hmmm. Still, Chinese must have dyslexia and they learn to speak. It's probably just that it comes much harder for people and if it's a second or third language, most people would give up before they learned. Well, your trip into Onederland once again just shows that you are definitely heading in the right direction! Keep it up!
Last edited by redballoon; 09-02-2005 at 07:32 PM.
Im doing the leukemia walk on september 17th and the Alheizmer's memory walk on October 3rd both are just 3 miles BUT its just the idea that i have the energy to do them.. and i noticed the other night even at this weight my thighs dont rub together anymore !!!
Last edited by curlylocks; 09-01-2005 at 07:25 PM.
red, I don't think it was the caffiene because I've been drinking coffee a couple times a week, and that has caffiene. But, it didn't make me interested in having more soda any time soon. I'm sorry you're in a slump. Push yourself through it, you KNOW you can do this! You're doing so well.
Carla, the break was nice but I'm sort of thinking about skipping my next "free day" and trying to go the rest of the way without another bite of chocolate or sip of soda. I think I can do it. I like your cookie mantra . My prayers are with your friends in NO. The situation is just so bad. Those poor people.
Welcome, Emma. Jump right in, this is a great group!
fancyfrog, you should just be proud of yourself for getting through it so well. You can make it harder next time.
(I'll have to do the rest of my personal replies tomorrow, I need to get some studying in tonight).
day 8 and 9 done . I still haven't lost anything and I'm officially declaring myself plateaued at 205, at least for now. I hope it's short-lived. I did get in a workout last night, finally, and it felt great. And I got in a short workout today - just walking, but it's better than nothing. I'm hoping to lose 8 pounds by October. Wish me luck!
Whoops I'm on day 5 today (Friday) It's been going fairly well, but then it has been the weekdays. The weekend is going to be my true test.
Chaps - Your right this week wizzed by for me also. Your making a CD that is so cool!!
Gray eyed girl - Wishing lots of luck with that Oct. 8lbs goal!!! You can do it!! Those plateaus are really a blessing with helping the body ajust and such. I need to remind myself that all the time. I'm still carrying some extra weight from when I went off SBP1.
curlylocks - That is great!!! Here's my virutal cheer leading team! <--- you have to have this one to because there is always one in every crowd!! Congrats on legs!
janemarie88 - UR doing GREAT!!!
Looking4TheWayOut - Oh I can feel your pain when you say after 8 is a tough! I know it would bet one heck of a feat for me to last more than a day. Congrats!!!
Hello all!! Sorry I have not posted in a few days. I have been really busy at work and moving bedroom furniture at home so I have not been able to post.
Red thanks for your post about starting over many times on your first challenge. I am in fact doing the same thing. It made me feel better knowing I'm not alone. I think I made my first challenge to hard (at least for me). So I am changing my challenge for myself.
I will replace reg soda with diet (I really hate diet but it's better than reg), I will drink more water, & I will get 20 min of exercise 4 times a week.
Whew!! I feel better now! Thanks for the encouragement from all of you. You guys are great cheerleaders !!!
Ok. I've been here before, without success. But now I need a kick in the butt, so I'm challenging myself to do my step aerobics video for at least 15 minutes a day.
It will be hard to post anything lengthy but I will at least comment on the post before mine and put in my 2 cents if I feel inspired.
Here we go!
Well as far as the was and walk/jog it was in place and I believe it was more walk that jog. Humm Mez = Marathon! LOL not sure that could ever go together. (maybe because I was always last/second to in school for running time) Your friends/family are in my prayers. I hear it is terrible there are people trapped and they can’t get to them because there are others robbing! They are calling off some searches because they need the man power other places! It’s horrible!!! It makes me so angry! WHY do people act that way!!!! I can grasp someone taking water/food but car stereos and stuff like that!! Come on!!! 
starting out on Day 7 here...
You can do this! I was reading a book on image training yesterday (grabbing bits in the bookstore) and they were talking about seeing the failures too. Most people think it's all about seeing you sitting there as the perfect, in-control person, but it's not. Use imaging to see you at the races, reaching for the soda, or thinking about it and then ordering something non-caloric or whatever you ARE allowing yourself. Take a Thermos bottle with you with iced tea or something. The best thing is to plan, not just try to see if you "can hold out." As for Katrina, I am Google News(ing) things and reading all about it. It is truly horrible. However, being far away here I see it as very close, as we are in an earthquake zone and the big one in Kobe is not long ago. I don't want to think about it. At least with hurricanes there are warnings, but even so, would I have run, I ask myself? We forget that the forces of Nature are all-mighty.
on getting through Day 3! Please realize, that the rules of this challenge are that you have to do something every day and if you don't you start over at Day 1 or take a pause day if you have one. Read the first post of this thread and it's explained there. So, right now, the applicable part of your challenge is water and not eating after 8, or you could make the exercise everyday. We have to stick to the rules just for the challenge part so we can maintain coherence on the thread and make it easy for people to cheer you on. So many other challenges allow people to kind of lose focus and after a while, anything goes and the thread and one's challenge lose momentum. This challenge is different. It's very cut and dry, black and white. Of course, you can do what you want with your goals, but they are what many of us call "bonus goals," not part of the official declared challenge. Oh, wow, Looking, did you realize this was such a tough place to be! 
Good luck! I am glad you are here with us!! 
) mez, I am up and down. My only ups these days are because I am made of pretty tough stuff, but not because great things are happening in my life. Talk about knowing how to crawl. My "Never give up" under my name is not something I take lightly. It has been my way of life for years. 
Situations like this call for holding together and if everyone is drinking, then often it helps to join in and I just said that because I wanted to show you I understood. And, it's not for me to sit here and tell you to stick to your challenge and life goes on and all that. I am not a heartless person! And I know what it's like to lose close ones. I hope you are doing okay. As for eating too much...I don't really know how I do it either but I must (in fact I am really good at it!) because my weight doesn't change. Of course, being just barely over 5 feet doesn't help. I absolutely despise counting calories and with all the other restrictions I place on my eating, don't want any more tedium. I am allowing white rice in my diet and there are just as many calories in that as bread. The giving-up the white flour is mostly so that I cut out the snacking, you know, bagel chips and the likes that are easily had at the convenience stores. Remember, I am in Japan and bread and flour doesn't figure big here. Having been here so long, I am quite happy eating rice for breakfast and don't have any focus on bread whatsoever. I don't, however, eat rice for breakfast, I make slow-cooking oatmeal. I am thinking of switching to rice though, because the oatmeal is expensive and I have to cut back on food expenses! About dyslexia, I was reading that there are a lot of myths about it and some of those were about the backward letters and so. I was surprised because I had thought that it was it was mainly about. But apparently not, now that they understand it much better. It seems like it is mainly about sounds. But yes, you are right about the Chinese tones. Hmmm. Still, Chinese must have dyslexia and they learn to speak. It's probably just that it comes much harder for people and if it's a second or third language, most people would give up before they learned. Well, your trip into Onederland once again just shows that you are definitely heading in the right direction! Keep it up!
. I still haven't lost anything and I'm officially declaring myself plateaued at 205, at least for now. 
<--- you have to have this one to because there is always one in every crowd!! Congrats on legs! 
