Yes, we're "almost there"!! So close yet, so far, it seems on some days!! It's annoying but yet we keep on movin' on, we must!! So what keeps us motivated? Somedays I must admit, I really don't know anymore. I want to be healthy, I want to vainly look good ...

This month I must get down to the low 140's, I've been on this plateau way too long, a year ... with lots of exercise and super clean eating I'm going to do it... What's on eveyone's agenda? What will you do differently this month?

Hello hello hello!

I've been away on a course for 2 days, so that's knocked me off track a bit (ok a lot) but I'm not stressing over it. I know what to do, I can do it, I will do it!!! I'm staying away from the scales and only weighing every week - that's my plan! I don't even want to see the damage I've done with my carb frenzy - I think it's best not knowing and just ploughing on with what I know works. It's so hot here that exercise outdoors is getting difficult, and kickboxing training is getting dangerous - slipping on sweaty floors I hope the end of this heatwave is in sight!

Goal for this month - to get below 168 (I know it says 162 in my profiley thing... That's what I'm really trying to get back too ) and to properly start - and commit to - Half Marathon training I might have to start using the treadmill at the gym where I kickbox, it seems outdoor running is much more difficult to fit in somehow!

I've got a 5K race on Sunday, so that will be fun. I hope the forecast is nice for it!

Keep on keepin on! Remember if you don't think you can do it, just fake it

I finally have one good day under my belt since coming home from vacation. That feels sooo much better!
A note for Daisiemae ... don't ever apologise for being too simple! Things are simple but we humans make everything so complicated for ourselves!

Cakes... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Cakes in the kitchen. Being strong. Breathe. Cakes. Hmmmm. Cakes Have. No. Hold. Over. Me....

Strong. Jen. Doesn't. Like. Cake.

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Thanks Ilene for starting us a new thread.

After weeks of staying around 132-133 and having the scales move in quarter pound increments up and down until I was sick and desperate, I have managed to slip down to 130!! All I did was tighten up on the eating and kept the exercise up. When I got discouraged I would find that "what's the use" excuse and was eating a few bad things. Well, after cutting that out and having a good talk with myself the scale has began to move again - yahoo! We're on vacation next week but we will be eating in a good bit with good food and I will continue my exercise, so I'm hoping that it will feel like home while being away. I just don't want to find those hard worked pounds again!! Vacation should not bring us complacency, should it?

LOL Jen... Stay strong!

My agenda for July: keep on track for the 10 days of my vacation (starting tomorrow) and try, try, try not to drink too much wine! I know that it is the main factor in my diet that makes me not lose the weight as quick as I could, so I need to be strong. I eat very well--hardly ever give into sweets (except for last night, but it didn't kill my calories for the day!). I'm really enjoying more whole foods, those super foods!

I'm one of those people who HAS to weigh in every day, otherwise the weight creeps on without my knowing it. I don't get discouraged when it fluctuates daily, because I know it does. It just makes me try harder that day! I'll be on vacation without a scale, so this will be a challenge! Hopefully I'll be able to fit in more exercise during the vacation.

I have a doctor's appointment the day after I return, and I hope that I'll be able to walk in and show that I've lost 30 pounds!!! He's been after me for years to lose at least 10, so I've at least accomplished that!

Alison -- I wine too ... I love to have a glass before bed, and I know that's not a good thing because when I do have that glass then I am sometimes hungry for something afterwards or while I am drinking... I had started to have 10 almonds with my wine but 10 turned into too many and again my weight started going up! OYE we can't win

Jen -- WHAT THE HECK IS THE CAKE DOING IN THE HOUSE IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?! Get DB to hide it or not take it in at all...

Susan -- for the good eating day!! It's a start, baby steps!!

softballmom -- Keep your health mentality during your vacations and you'll do fine, "We know you can, we know you can"

No, the saying should read : "We know we ALL can, we know we ALL can"

So let's get out there and DO IT!!

On that note, I am off to the gym for some back/bicep work, toodles

I'm still having a good week. Total clean eating for 2 1/2 days now. I have a supper out tonight but am planning on having just a starter salad.

2frus~~STAY AWAY FROM THE CAKE!! It's evil!!!!

susan~~Glad to hear you're back on track.

Ilene~~Thanks for starting a new thread!

alinnell~~I have to weigh every day also. And I must say I'm lovin' my scale for a change.

softballmom~~Good for you for slipping down to 130!

daisimae~~Hello!!

Gaylyn

I like wine. Who's pouring?
I'm doing not bad today. I've been up a long time and nibbled some melba toast at work and I'm tired now. But my cals are OK.
I think I'll do a light upper body this evening.
Tomorrow, I've been invited to do preps for colonoscopes ... hmmm ... I guess it's a pay cheque. And I get to wear highly attractive greens! Usually the RPN's who do that get off at about 1 pm, so maybe I can get some new salad stuff and do a good lower body in the afternoon.
The boys (19&24) are marinading chicken breasts for supper. I think I'll lay down for a bit and make salad and reheat brown rice when DH gets home.
Sounds like a bit of a plan. Things are looking up.

Thanks for all the encouragement you bring to me gals!

Okay, I need to make a goal. I am going on vacation on July 22-28 and so ... until then, no beer or cokes. You have no idea how difficult this will be!!!

In case you haven't noticed, Ilene and I are going to be the mods in this area. If you need a title changed, a thread made sticky, just whatever -- let either one of us know.

I look forward to getting to know you all and losing these few remaining pesky pounds!

Susan and I have a little clean eating pact going - A week of clean eating! I tripped up a little bit last night, I'm calling it a high zig in my zig zags I didn't eat terribly awful, just a bit more than I should've done. *sigh*

I did resist those cakes, they were in the kitchen at work!! We had a meeting, then when I went ot the kitchen after the meeting all the custard ones had gone, and I don't really like any others, so it made it a lot easier for me to resist the manky ones! It wasn't until I got home early, and got bored waiting for DF to come home very late that I got all depressed and snacky

Today is a new day, I've bought 2 bags of apples and a pound of strawberries - I spent £6!!!! That's $12, on 3 boxes of fruit I'm worth it though I'm off double kickboxing tonight, then tomorrow my friend is coming to stay for shopping. I'm not feeling particularly strong about being able to eat healthily, she has BIG food issues, I'm going to do my best though. For the sake of my sanity, our little week pact and the sake of my figure I will try my hardest!

Hello ladies,

Did someone say wine? I could use a nice big glass right about now if you are sharing! OOPS...it's only 11:30....must wait 'til noon! (actually I'm at work so must wait 'til weekend ) Stressful day today and stressful week but I'm still hanging in there even if it's only by a thread.

I need to get back in the "zone" and get my eating back on track. My scale is being kind but I know I've been slacking off. The gym has become a distant memory and I need to change that as well. I can actually see a difference in only a couple of weeks of not going.

This weekend I will be heading upstate to my "lakehouse" and am hoping that I can get in at least a couple of miles of swimming. I haven't been in the water yet this year and I miss it sooooooo much. Swimming is my favorite exercise because it doesn't seem like exercise at all. It is so relaxing to me to be out in the middle of the lake, alone with my thoughts and feeling the sun on my back. Oh....can't it be Friday yet?????

I did well last night when I went out for supper. I had a salad with soup. The ladies I had supper with I've know for almost 7 years. Most of them hadn't seen me a while. What a wonderful ego boost. Sometimes I forget about how far I've come.

I feel really good about my eating this week and I feel like I'm back in control. I will get to goal this time. No more food binges.

daisi~~Have fun at your lake house. Only one more day to Friday.

2frus~~Good for you for resisting those cakes!

Gaylyn

I had my oops on the way home from work. I was in a totally different unit today and had no idea how to sip water without my med cart to keep it on Then I usually am smart enough to have a bottle of water in the car but no today it was a caramel aero bar and corn chips!
I'll straighten up now. I'm on my second bottle of water since I got home and the boys are making a nice dinner.