[jollygirl]

Hey all. Challenges complete for the day. Had a good MOther's day with my mom.

Welcome MLE. Maybe you could have your challenge be following your workout plan. That way you set up what and when you are expecting yourself to workout, and you have to follow that.

Everyone else, take care, and have a good day.

[redballoon]

I can NOT be trusted around sugar!! Here it is again, I am declaring a NO SUGAR challenge starting today, Monday, May 14......er, er, er, NO PAUSES!

And, I am declaring a NO ALCOHOL challenge....three pauses. Here goes!

[Shad]

Good on ya Red.
In case you have been wondering what happened to me, well work and travel and no home internet did. There was only so much I could do from work.

Back home again now and starting to pack for my holiday in the States and Canada. No challenges for a while, but I have been steadily losing small amounts of weight. 5.5k down from January now when my ny's resolution was to lose 1/10th of my body weight which was 7.97kg. I'm getting there.

I'll be back for challenges some time in July

[redballoon]

CRUNCH challenge -- Day 3 completed, 3 pauses left
NO SUGAR challenge -- Day 1 completed, no pauses
NO ALCOHOL challenge -- Day 1 completed, 3 pauses left

Ok, I notched another day on ALL fronts!

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Shad -- Hi there! Good to see you! Thanks for the encouragement. And congrats there on your weight loss!! Way to go!! I do hope to see you back here soon! Take care!!

jolly -- Excellent work!

dj -- Good work there too! Even if you have to call off the other challenges, you are still making that important exercise one! Great stuff! And thanks for the kind words!

[jollygirl]

Hello all.

I hear you Red. And I can not be trusted around FOOD. I had a day today. I was in a funk - I don't know why. Probably a combo of feeling sad about selling the horse, worried about finding a good home, and worried about finances. I made bad choices.

I am restarting (again) the follow menu challenge tomorrow, and starting a new one - follow exercise plan. I have one set up to get me to the 1/2 marathon.


Blech. Restart again.

Everyone else, here's to you. Keep looking ahead, and give yourselves credit for being the wonderful people you are

[Apple Blossom]

Hi. I got caught up in week-end craziness and I need to restart. Um...restart what? Oh yeah, daily walk. I spoke with an acquaintance recently who has been running long distances and it makes me really want to get back into it. I was doing pretty good with my running, I'm going to try to get on it again. Good timing, it's getting hot around here.
Jolly, when is that 1/2 marathon? I think I'll try to enter a race aroung the same time. Probably not that far though.
Hi Shad! Great to hear from you! Congrats on your success!
Hello Red! Ambitious as always! I know you can do it!
DJ, I hear you with the motivational problems. If I can just get started, then I think some progress can be made.
Welcome MLE!

[djstorey]

Day 13 & 14 - Exercise, 30 minutes per day - good - 1 pause left

Yep, still here. I'm just going to get myself through this challenge and start some new stuff when I'm done. I just need to figure out what, exactly, I'm going to do!

Have a great day everyone!

[redballoon]

CRUNCH challenge -- Day 4 completed, 3 pauses left
NO SUGAR challenge -- Day 2 completed, no pauses
NO ALCOHOL challenge -- Day 1 completed, 2 pauses left

Well, the alcohol thing got sidelined yesterday. But I'm not starting over. I'll take the pause, even though I only had one day under my belt, a belt, which is, by the way, having to be let out more and more...disgusting!
The sugar challenge is harder than I expected this time around as I'd fallen into slovenly ways.... ... but I am NOT going to allow it any longer! I can do it. It's just a matter of resolve! Crunches are not hard, as long as I get home in time to do them and as long as I'm in a condition to do them...which is easier with the no alcohol challenge keeping a lid on excesses!

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Apple -- Thanks! Best of luck on the walking challenge. Ahh, it would be good to be out running. I walk a lot, just feel and probably am way to heavy to be running on the concrete. Do you or would you run on the treadmill or do you want to be out doing races?

jolly -- I'm sorry you're feeling down. I can totally understand how you must feel about having to sell the horse. I hope you can find a good home. Good for you for restarting and not giving up AND for starting a new challenge as well! Power to you!

[redballoon]

dj -- Hi there! Didn't see you! Congrats on two more days notched! You've only got a little bit more!

[jollygirl]

Hi all. All three challenges met today.

Apple, the 1/2 marathon is 9/2. I am doing 5k races on 7/28 and 9/23 as well. Here's hoping. Good luck, and let me know which one you pick.

Red, I hear you on the "slovenly ways." I have just gotten so bad with my food. If I get through the basic first stage of following my menu, I need to tighten up more. Get back to where I was last year. Yikes!!

DJ, keep it up.

Have a great night (or day) all.

[jollygirl]

Hey all. Where is everyone? Hope all is ok.

I had a day. Nothing spectacular. Nothing awful. Just a day.

Hope to talk to more of you later

[redballoon]

CRUNCH challenge -- Day 4 completed, 2 pauses left
NO SUGAR challenge -- Day 0 completed, 3 pauses left
NO ALCOHOL challenge -- Day 0 completed, 3 pauses left

Ah, well, not a good day for challenges yesterday. So, I'm starting two of 'em over and giving myself pauses on sugar. But, I'm not giving up! Oh, well, at least I had fun....

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jolly -- So, when you say you had "a day," does that mean you met your challenges or not? Congrats on the previous day and good luck on those races! Keep us posted on your training progress.

[redballoon]

CRUNCH challenge -- Day 5 completed, 2 pauses left
NO SUGAR challenge -- Day 1 completed, 3 pauses left
NO ALCOHOL challenge -- Day 1 completed, 3 pauses left

I did it!

[djstorey]

Day 15 & 16 - Exercise, 30 minutes per day - good - 1 pause left

Another 2 days done. Still trying to figure out what I'm going to do for new challenges.

One of my biggest problems with keeping my calories down right now is dinner. During the time that I lost all that weight, my husband was working swing shift, so I didn't do much cooking. Now, he's back to being home in the evenings and I'm cooking full meals again on most days of the week. I realize that isn't my ONLY problem with food lately, but it is a big one for me. I guess I never really learned how to deal with "dinner" during my successful dieting days. Somehow I've got to get that under control and I think my new challenges will be related.

Hi Red - Sorry you had to restart, but, glad you're going on! Sometimes it can be so hard to get a challenge going, but once you do, it gets easier. (gotta remind myself too!) Now that day 1 is done, you've started that ball rolling!

Jolly - Hope things are going better for you!

Hi to everyone else out there

[redballoon]

Well, I'm trying to get to the gym before work. I have lost most if not all motivation and find it increasingly hard to get out and there. I have fallen into lazy mornings and am actually enjoying them more than the feeling of accomplishment from getting to the gym. When you're busy it's easy to ignore the benefits of exercise and eating healthily and then it creeps up on you and you feel disgusted, out of shape and lethargic. I really don't like it. It's amazing how the rest of the world doesn't give a care if you maintain your health, but lays the demands on you. Well, self-protection is the name of the game! That's what I'll focus on!!

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dj -- A big hand to yet two more days behind you! It must be very hard having to make dinner for other people and watch your eating at the same time. I could not do it and find it is one of the great attractions of single life. I suppose you just have to plan the dinner in and force yourself to include that in your daily intake, even though you may prefer to eat earlier. I don't know. Either that, you let your husband make his own dinner!