Thought I's start another thread I didn't see one for June. I tried to be punny with the titile.

Housework and exercise for today.

full day of running not what I had planned BUT I will not let it shake me I will eat right !!!! hope everyone who is in a storm spends it in the eye, thats what I plan to do. lol

Fl it sure is warm where you are, i have often heard old people dont eat very much, in a way it made me happy thinking I would change and not want to eat but if you want to eat that is different then eating less cause you are old. At the same time it makes sense cause even now I dont need as much as i did in my 20's or 30's otherwise that just relates to weight gain, so I guess it is just downhill from here.

Faith - way to go no the positive additude!

I am in day 2 of recovery from a bad 3 day binge over the weekend. I am feeling better and always wonder why on earth do i binge when i feel good when i dont, it is such a terrible circle.

On a funny note, i saw this show years ago and don't remember the name of it, I think it involved two ladies who did commercials for tin foil or something then they got their own show, anyways they started eat whatever you want diet cause once you eat enough cake you will be sick from it and not want it any more therefore curing the urge to eat cake. Well I have done that for years and I am in no way cured from eating cake or brownies or ice cream! It is making the decision to not eat it that helps.

I am so tired of rain, here in Nova Scotia we have had 4 days of sun and 26 days of rain. Sitting here at work craving hot chocolate. Not giving in!

I did 60min LB/cardio today. The cardio was built into the lowerbody DVD so I didn't have to add it afterwards.

AteIt, welcome, glad to have you join us. I used to drink a lot of hot choc to warm me up in the winter then I realized how much that adds up.

Memorial Day weekend was not good for my diet. We were out of town and snacking on whatever junk food was available at gas stations or drug store chains on the road. Exercise is not going well, due to kids at home round the clock due to strep throat. Now I feel like I am coming down with something. No energy, just blah and feeling down about someone thinking my "beer gut" was a pregnant belly. There ain't no baby in there!

Hello, all! I am back after a few days away from checking in ... down a pound after the last few halves added up ... got in a lot of activity over the weekend, so that worked out well, despite it being 97 one day. We hiked 8 miles in our local park - brought a lunch and ate it by the lake, and then got back on the trails and kept it up. I tried with the pack this time and it varied between 10-20 pounds (depending on our water level) and felt good when we were done, so will increase the mileage with a bit more weight to get going on increasing endurance for a thru hike. Now hubby wants a kayak so we can go kayaking. I kinda put the brakes on that because we have all this stuff to go thru hiking and aren't there yet, then I realized, what the heck - if we get a great deal, let's go for it and see ... any kayakers out there?

Can no longer check in from work, so will be checking in a.m. and p.m. if I can. I liked the motivation at lunch, though, but ...

Welcome, AteIt! We had rain up until a few days ago, it seemed. Our lawn was growing like crazy, now the heat is here. No real spring, except the storms.

Tonight's either hiking in the park, walking the dog (shorter trail), mowing the lawn, or general cleanup and I'm not sure which sounds better to me All have plusses. The clutter is about to drive me bonkers, so I should get started on that NOW, regardless.

Ashley your commercial cracked me up - for me it would be french fries or pizza. Aaahhhhh... maybe I can talk him into going to the local pizza spot with me instead of any of that above... hm...

In the 90's again today and humid. The severe storms just missed us, just had some downpours & a little thunder, there were tornado watches. We took our walk at the game preserve for 50min., it was great even in the heat. I love that place, the surrounding land has panoramic views. So tomorrow, we are packing lunch and going again if we can start out early enough, hubby works at 3pm. I've been doing good with eating, but the scale continues to rise. What's up with that? I gained 14lbs since I joined 3FC in Oct. 2009, most of it in the past 7mo. I'm feeling like a failure and can't seem to control what my body does anymore. Perimenopause Maybe?? TOM has been screwy for a year. Sometimes I don't get it for months.

What do you all think, is anyone else going through this???

Hello everyone. Glad to have the June thread.

Fruitlady:I've wondered myself about the gain and age issue. I wonder if the metabolism slows and the ability to lose a pound just gets super hard while gain a pound gets easier. I read somewhere that an older lady who eats a single extra hard candy a day (over calorie balance by only say 35 cals) will gain a pound a year.

Ashley: I hope your Nan finds peace with your mom's visit. In the Quaker tradition, we say "I'll hold you and your family in the Light" which is another way of saying "you're in my thoughts" or "in my prayers". Take care. I'm glad to hear also of the July baby and the turning of the cycle of life for the whole family.

Faith: I loved your comment about hoping people "spend it in the eye" of the tornado. It was also helpful to hear your (two year's earned) comment of "what will YOU do" as a question for a loved one. That's very insightful. I'm the baby in the family and do look back on the times when I was never held accountable, cut off cruelly (as a reaction to the too often over help times), and too much help for every little thing. I'm in my 40's and really went through transformative steps over the past 15 years starting off with small periods living away for internships or school, then Peace Corps, then marriage and living permanently out-of-state from home.

AteIt: I really loved hot cocoa as a treat and imagined that lovely cup when you mentioned it. What I switched over to was: 1 cup unsweetened almond milk (40 cals), cardamom powder (or crush a pod or two and drop into cold milk before heating), English or Scottish Breakfast tea (Scottish is stronger than English, hmmm I'm Scot-Irish so that has a double meaning if it was from my mother's mouth), and Truvia to taste. Heat up the milk and cardamom together to boiling then add tea and sweetner. This drink is like a warm hug!

Guacamole: I totally know about that munchy issue this past week with the holiday and my niece visiting. It was so hard. I know we're just socially conditioned to overeat on holidays and festivals from the centuries when everyone lived in subsistance farming. Urban living has us all living so "high on the hog" that we can't afford eating whatever we want. I wish I could get that in to me somehow.

Nationalparker: I really wish we could get out more and hike. We go camping here in the Boston Harbor each year which is totally fun. We pack as if we're going in to the Minnesota Boundary Waters (my old fun camping places in youth), take the subway and buses over to the wharf, get Legal Seafood take-out, hop on the ferry for a 45-minute trip to Georges Island, then hop the shuttle ferry over to the assigned camping island. We rough it out in the wilds with gravity toilets, no supplies, and "take everything that you brought back off the islands". The funny part is that we're practically using sticks to make fire when huge local party yachts anchor off the island to rock it out to 80's music. We're packed in like rats in the greater Boston area so there's no "wild area" left.

Ashley and Fruitlady: I keep thinking about the efficiencies of the human body. It makes sense to my mind that as we get older, (from the cave- man/woman standpoint) that we need less food to expend all the necessary energy to keep the village surviving the upheavals of life. By the time we're super old, we need little as our metabolism is so slow. It's this urban life and all our abundance. A nice quote I found by Epicurus: Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Hi, ladies. Hope everyone is feeling great and positive!

I watched the show Extreme Makeover, The Weight Loss Edition last night. I was impressed with the dedication the PE teacher had to lose her weight. However, these extreme shows make me feel like I will never achieve those kinds of results. Her first goal was to lose 80lbs in 90 days? Really? I have been trying to lose 80lbs for the past 5 years!

Besides eating healthy, she said that she worked out 4 hours per day 7 days per week. That kind of time commitment just isn't in the cards for me.

Also, what does that kind of quick weight loss do to a person's heart and health? For example, quick weight loss leads to lots of excess skin, and the show offered free skin removal surgery for this woman. However, had she lost the weight gradually, maybe she wouldn't have needed the painful surgery.

I'm not sure that these extreme weight loss shows are doing anyone any favors - not the overweight viewers who are watching and hoping for inspiration and not the star of the program. I wonder what this woman will look like in say, 2 years? Will she keep up the weight loss? It's like an article that I read about Kirstie Alley losing lots of weight on Dancing With The Stars. She was dancing all day every day for the past few months. Now that the show is over, will she be able to keep up that kind of routine? Who would want to? When she slows down her exercise, will the weight come back?

hey everyone! all of yal with rain send it this way Just not the scary parts! lol
I was hungry this morn. I am always amazed when I find myself actually hungry does anyone know what I mean? I ate but did not stuff myself but enough that I should not be hunting for something in a hour. I just want to say I read alll your post and have good wishes for yal. I just cant answer all of them my mind don't seem to be that organized anymore.

Guac-I NEVER watch any of those weight loss shows. Normal people cannot afford personal trainers, 4 hours/day to work out, etc...it isn't realistic and I think it gives people false hope for a fast weight loss. Just my two cents.

Had a hectic couple of days here. No weigh in this week as I started TOM late yesterday. We'll see what next week holds.

Got a haircut, wax, roots done yesterday after work. Slept hard last night and got up a little late. Still squeezed in one mile of exercise. I'm going to work in my flower beds this weekend and try to get in a trip to a pool, too. It is going to be a hot one here. Will probably do some healthy grilling, too.

Hi all!

I finally hit 144 even!! yea!!! seem to be on a trend for about 1.2 to 2 lbs/ week

I agree with you Annie - those shows set false expectations. If you work, have kids, or a life you have to fit the exercise in around it and personal trainers can cost a lot.. but mostly the time commitment and the focus on nothing else just sets us up to think that we ought to be able to drop 10lbs a week and 1 - that's not healthy or a lifestyle change. Eventually you have to go back to work and everything else and have a mixed bag of priorities. That said there are some amazing transformations and we are all undergoing them the only thing that differs is the rate of change...

((hugs)) to all!!

I did 35 min of upper body weights followed by 35min of plyometrics cardio.

I cant believe it's June already...where did May go...yikes!! Got a sunburn on the motorcycle on Monday but it was sooooo worth it, we have the boys so much we dont get much time for us...