Amanda - I know what you mean about spending less time now so I can have more in the future. I think about that all the time.
My mom is in her early 70s and is going for a stress test this week, then a heart xray, and also an echocardiogram. She is having shortness of breath. They hope it's her BP medicine, but are being cautious. However my grandmother had a lot of heart disease.
Last night I walked 3 miles with a neighbor. Woo Hoo.
I do hope this week be a better week.
As for the size 2 moms. They are friggin EVERYWHERE. All the moms at preschool, every last one of them. All my neighbors except the one I went walking with. When we were walking last night we past 3 older women...who were thin, one smiled but the one in the middle almost made a point NOT to make eye contact, and she literally lifted her nose in the air. The girl I was walking with thought the same thing as I did. She thought she was better than us. So I wasn't paranoid, my friend saw it too.
I digress (yet again)
Anyway, I am hoping to break 210 this Saturday, so I really do want to work my butt off this week.
Keep in touch girls!
And those of you who haven't posted ---- where are you??? We miss you!!!!
So I'm not normally a "class" person - I really have avoided taking classes at the gym since college - however, a couple of months ago I took a class with a friend - Cardio Kickboxing - and it kicked my butt....I didn't go again...well, I decided this week to look at the schedule (small town, small town gym...not too much to offer, but good enough as it is!) and decided to pick out some classes that I'd be interested in.....so yesterday, I took Pilates....I enjoyed the class and hope to go every Tuesday - the teacher was nice, gently corrected me when I was doing something wrong....but wasn't in my face about how bad I was - so I must have been decent......but it was hard at some points and honestly - I ache today - I haven't ached from a workout in awhile...so that is a good thing....
I have a small surgery this afternoon that is probably going to prevent me from going to more classes this week - I've never tried yoga and would love to - there is also a cycling class that I imagine will kick my arse.....so hopefully I'll be recovered enough to get to more classes next week...I'm excited to add this change to my workout plan.
still eating well and am holding at 185 this week....didn't even get in 1200 calories yesterday - not my normal - but it did happen. Still hope to be down a pound by weeks end.....hope all is well with everyone!
~Amanda
Amanda - I hope your surgery went well! And I'm glad you were sore from your workout! That's actually a nice feeling isnt' it?
Where is everyone? For those of you out there - like ME -- who want to give up a week or 2 after you've started -- please come back!
I want all of us to reach our goals and to pull each other along the way.
In my case, I did not reach 210 like I had hoped.....and when I work hard and diet well -- I get so angry to see NO weight loss, or even worse - a GAIN. Then I think well screw it, I'm just going to eat what I want...and that has been my way of thinking for the past week.
I was so mad one day early last week when I weighed in....that I haven't eaten healthy since. But I know I am wrong and I am seriously considering asking DH to hide the friggin scale. I am thinking I do not want to know my weight....for a month or two.
But when I diet well or workout, of cousre I'm curious...how the numbers are looking.
Anyway, I haven't seen some of our new friends for a while and am hoping they come back.
Have a great week everyone!
Hello again! My computer crashed and so I have some catching up to do! I've been right on plan and exercising like I need to be. Yippee! I've decided not to weigh until I can really feel a difference in my clothes though...I'm getting there. I hope everyone has been making great progress and hanging in there. I'm off to read all the posts I've missed over the past couple of weeks. I'd forgotten what it was like not to have a computer...I depend on it a lot more than I realized!
Hello Ladies - I'm back Surgery was fine, a few days away from the gym, but I went back last night for the 4 mile run. Yay May go to yoga this afternoon....but for sure going to the pool when I leave work around noon. I'm getting pale after a few weeks of no pool time...well, I'm pale by nature, with lots of freckles, but I like to have a little color!!!
I'm bloated since I'm on some meds post surgery - and my period started - so the scale isn't looking as pretty today as it was last week, but I know its just the water retention going on....so I'm ignoring it....it should be gone by the weekend anyways - gotta have the faith!!!
Eating is going well. Had a slim fast and a vitatop for breakfast. Drinking some water right now to help with the bloat, hope to drink about 5 bottles worth today. That's always fun...especially since I know I haven't been drinking enough lately.
Well, I'm off to finish up some work! Have a great one ladies!
~Amanda
Hi everyone. Looks like so few of us are left again.
Come back, please everyone come back!
Maybe after this month we should do a 70s show Month of June, and so on?
We can post as much or as little as we like but please check in and let us know how you are doing!
As for me, still not getting on the scale, so I have no idea.
2bthin - we have actually quite thinned out around here (pun intended!!!) Sorry you aren't getting on the scale...I hope you get comfortable enough to get back on it and I hope you get to sticking to your plan....if you don't...well....let's just agree that I'll kick your butt!!!!!! I agree, next month we shall start a June thread
I'm down to 164lbs...it's fluctuating up and down some days...but not going past 167lbs....and that has been mostly due to TOM and some new meds that I have been on this month. I've been eating well and getting to the gym....started going to both Yoga & Pilates one day a week for each class and truly do enjoy them....enough that I went out and bought a yoga/pilates mat because the ones at my gym honestly smell like other people use them and I highly doubt they are ever cleaned (seriously...getting ones face that close to where someone else had their sweaty butt cheek...no fun....so I spent $12 and got a pretty purple one!)....I hope that I really stick it out with these classes and I really hope that I see some lengthening/tightening in my torso and legs - you know....the nice long and lean body that they tell you that you will get from taking these classes....I already have long legs and a long torso...they are just not that pretty yet - and I despise all ab exercises - no crunches for me - I just can't bring myself to do them....so it's not very pretty there....so lets keep our fingers crossed that I stick with these classes and that my belly does some reshaping from them
Life is stressful in my household right now...which is oddly not making me hungry - so no stress eating - yay! I'm going through a break up with my long term (over 6 years) boyfriend...it's not good...and he's trying to win me back, but unfortunately, I am done and have been done for some time - just wasn't strong enough to tell him...and it's still not done as I haven't been strong enough to completely finish it - basically because I do love him and don't want to see him hurt....ugh....of course...his way to win me back is to get up early this morning and get me coffee and a donut from DD - agh!!! But that is all I have eaten today besides my SF shake (which I had before he brought this to me - what does he not realize I've been not eating that crap for over 8 months now??? - actually, he probably just wants me to gain weight back so I'll stay with him....ugh)...
okay...enough of my little rant....I'm outta here. Hope to hear from all of you soon.....
hey, ladies, I am still here. After having a VERY lazy day today, I feel like I am totally sabotaging myself. Does anyone else feel like that? I am hoping that just having a day off, I can start again tomorrow and be more active this week. I really would like to lose 5 more lbs by the end of the month. We will see.
Overit - I completely understand sabotaging oneself - I do it a lot lately on the weekends - completely go off plan - but I am maintaining (and when I work hard at it, lose a few pounds still - but I'm pretty close to goal, so it is definitely slowing down!)- but I'm also not being the hog I used to be. Like today - I had a regular sub from a place called Firehouse Subs here - and a bag of chips - that is all I ate all day - because it seriously weighed me down soooo much that I couldn't stand to eat anything else today (I may have a snack in a bit....but nothing big) - now, it used to be that I'd get the large sub, chips, some cookies...and then want to go out for another treat in a few hours....not anymore - seriously - that turkey club kicked my butt....or more likely, I kicked its....
In any case - check back more often and start kicking your own butt - or we may have to get involved and do it for you - which can be an ugly site j/k
Hope everyone is doing well - see you tomorrow!
~Amanda
Surgery was fine, a few days away from the gym, but I went back last night for the 4 mile run. Yay 
