Another busy week for me coming up. I have to watch the stress eating. But I cooked enough food for dinners through Thursday, so that's a help!

Scale read pretty much exactly 200 today, so no onederland yet. But I will get back there!

Good Morning!

Still plugging away! Trying a different way to keep track of my food consumption. I am finding that traking calories on the web site is not the easiest for me. The computer is right in the kitchen...but I found more success with tracking points. The white board on the fridge and just marking of each point as consumed. I have to find every possible way to keep it simple! Exercise minutes have been good. Just stretching and walking lots right now until the eye doc tells me I can bend and lift again! Scared of the scale. I did put on most of my losses over the summer when I could not see well enough to feel I could safely and confidently ride my bike, hiking etc. So I feel somewhat like a newbie when I post my starting WI. But I will go and jump on the scale now as I have a quickly fleeting urge of courage.

Hi Lovely Ladies!

So much to catch up on. Sorry I've been MIA. It's been a crazy few weeks...a week out of town, best friend here for a week and then DH gone last week. Life is crazy...but good. Food has been tough, exercise has been pretty good, although I was slowed down a lil with tendonitis in my wrist. Got an injection in it last week....feeling much better. The scale is up about 6 pounds in 3 weeks. Time for that to go!!!

I will do my best to catch up more this week!

Love to all!

Hi there all you juicy women! Hope your day brings everything you need today.

I was talking with my sister about Dr. Oz and his omentum commentary. (We decided we don't like him. He's just an extension of Oprah, yet another person telling us how to live.) We have both put on a lot of weight through our bellies. I used to have a flat stomach, even up until I had kids. But pregnancies plus a lot of stress seems to have redistributed weight into a big, jiggly mass in front. She's dealing with that as well, although not as much as me. And we both hate it!

From what I can find on The Great and Powerful Internet, belly fat in the omentum tends to go more rapidly once efforts to lose weight are made. And it seems that intense aerobic exercise is the most effective tool to make that happen. (Blech!)

I've become more patient with myself to lose weight, but the one thing that bugs me the most is that lump of fat right in front. I have some really cute outfits that I can wear now, and I look really great in them...as long as I don't turn sideways. As I've lost weight, different body parts have shed fat at different times. Right now, that belly lump is much softer than it used to be, so I have to keep in mind that I should consider that as progress. But I'm not even close to finding peace about it now!

In the meantime, I'll wear my Spanx when I go out, which only serves to harness the overall jiggles. I will not wear a girdle! I will ramp up the aerobics, even though I really don't like to sweat and get my heart rate up. I'd much rather lift weights. Still, getting on the rowing machine isn't too bad, and the weather has cooled significantly.

Time to stop whining and get back to work!

Barb - you are missed! Don't stay away please - you're my hero.

Georgia - I'm with you on Dr. Oz. Many years ago a wise man told my terminally ill BFF (who was upset with one of her docs) - use him to make you well. That's what I am trying to do with this whole Dr Oz challenge - use him to make me healthier for this 60 days.

Heather - don't forget to take care of you! (please)

I'm once again without much to say that's going on with me. Plugging along, making good choices, exercising and have even gone back and hired my trainer for more one on one sessions rather than a class environment. I will make the commitment right here, right now that by the end of October I will be out of the 260s. I WILL.

Hugs to everyone, especially all those lurkers.

Carol

Hi ladies,
Been a long time since I've been here but I HAVE to get back in the groove.
Went to the doc and diabetes, cholesterol and blood pressure are all running high again so I have to get my mind and body back in the game.

Challenges coming up though as we go on vacation the end of this month to California to visit my son and dil but with a a mindset, I can get thru that too.

Glad to be back and good to "see" you all
Debbie

Debbie - great to see you back. Cmon now - you can do this - you know you can. Start with baby steps - if you exercise don't forget to record your minutes in the exercise thread. Also there is a 60 day challenge sticky at the top - join us - a different challenge each day of the week. Let us hear from you daily!

Debbie! Hello, missed ya!

Hi Ladies,
Well I made it thru day 1 with good choices and even exercise which some of you know, is a biggie for me.

It was 15 minutes on my bike (yes, I finally got one!!) and then 50 reps with my stretchy band working on my arms.

The doctor wants me to get to 45 mins a day of aerobic for 6 days a week.

Carol, yes, I CAN do this!! Just as you said, I've done it before and I can do it again. That's the same thing the doctor told me too.

Julia, Hi, I missed all of you too!

Have a nice evening!

Hi all,

A quick pop in. I have been getting up and getting my steps in. Eating isn't great. DH and I head out on a short vacation Thursday through Sunday (going to see the balloon festival). That will be nice. Next week, on our anniversary, I am working 17 hours....8am until 1am. That is going to suck. Other than that, just trying to lose weight to get 100 pounds lost. It will happen...some day.

Debbie, welcome back.

Angie

Debbie - good job on the exercise and eating.

Angie - have a great trip. Make the best choices you can and enjoy. I hear you on getting to the 100 lbs lost - I'm still trying to get to 90 - my body loves 262. Great to see you!

Everything good here - BTW I loved the tomatoe cabbage barley soup - not something I will want to eat every week but not the typical "diet" cabbage soup at all. I think next week will be Chile's southwest soup.

I have the week off from kids. I have painted and put a bedroom back together so far.It looks awesome! Lots of good exercise doing that let me tell you!
I have been so busy I havent eaten enough for 2 days. I may call it a week of cycling calories.

I'm back -- back in town, back on plan, just plain back, really. The big celebratory weekend is behind me -- no computer, so no real tracking of calories. I tried to stick with what I planned, but I decided before I left that I wouldn't sweat it if I went off plan, which certainly helped me enjoy some birthday cake Had a very nice and relaxing time -- the first vacation since November 2008 that I didn't drag work along with me. Reentry is so far a little rough -- everything's right where I left it, but more so. Is it wrong that I'm already looking forward to my November vacation? Well, I'll get caught up this week, I promise! I'm just kind of dreading it...

In addition, right now I feel like the weather is FINALLY perfect for getting outside and moving around, and here I am stuck at my desk, forever and ever. By the time my husband gets home from work and we trek to a walking spot, it's getting dark (sunset at 6:42 tonight...), which means that the days of the 2-hour walk are done for the year. So I have the energy and desire to walk, and the weather is superb, but now I don't have the light to walk safely. And now I have a -- wonderful, but still -- class on Sundays, which is my one non-work day a week. Phooey. I know I'll come up with a solution -- probably time to drag the exercise bike back from purgatory -- I'm just feeling frustrated and stuck in place. More time! Less work!

I can't really complain, though, as I do get two days off a week from each job I work -- just not the same two days

Anyway, rambling post over -- I'm here, I'm dreading weigh-in Friday, but I had a great time and feel pretty good about most things in my life right now. And I leave in 1 month plus 1 day for our annual vacation, which is something I look forward to almost daily, all year long

Have a great week!

Windy here! The drive home from work, on an interstate,was like a roller coaster ride. Wind gusting and stopping, empty trailers swaying into my lane. I should have just bit the bullet and come home via back roads. Glad I don't have to go back out.

Food has been good all week. Hopefully it will show at WI tomorrow afternoon.

Everyone seems to either be doing really well or a lot better than they were. Keep it up!