courtnie - how was it?? What'd you do and see???

aimee - that's the plan!! that's why it'll feel even worse if I come back to ya'll at the end of the day and I didn't follow through on what I said. your snacks sound yummy!! I just dont have any extra cash right now to go shopping. I eat whatever My MIL cooks for dinner and take leftovers for lunch. Bfast is usually oj and some little toasts with cream cheese. I know I'm not eating good nutrition-wise. I just dont have money right now to go buy groceries :( hope you have a good day at work!!

so I just finished meal #2 and Im working on water glass #2. So good so far. I even went through the trouble of printing out a workout schedule and everything. I've invested too much time to mess this up!! lol

Aimee- I had to take sil to a child support office several counties away. I had errands to do. We had church that night too. Today, both kids had dentist appts, and I had more errands to do. It's sounds like a great program. How did your day end? I started yesterday trying not to eat after 9. I started craving something sweet last night right after 9, but I did good. Today at 19 after 9 I wanted something salty so I decided to get on the net instead.

Ro- I didn't go to weigh in today because I the kids had dentist appts. I had forgotten totally about. I did weigh at the house this morning. I don't know if my scales match the ww ones but I hope they don't. It had me being up 4# in a week?!? I'll have to see what I weigh in at ww this coming Thursday. I'm not going to let this discourage me. I may need to up my goals to take bigger baby steps. How did your weigh in go? How did you do on your goals for the day?

Courtnie- I'm glad you had a great time in Vegas. I'm with Ro where's the details.

Shari- I was thinking the same thing about how it would be cool if we were on the same team. Sorry, your having a hard time. When will you know if you got the other job.

hsmomx2 - well, you sound like you had a busy last couple of days. do you find it easier or harder to stay on plan when you're running around??

yesterday was an OK day. Got my water in, did my exercises, walked for about 14 minutes. THe only bad thing was i ate something that wasn't planned for. My bf came to meet me at work and we made a pit stop on the way home. Can't be doing that if I expect to lose some weight. HAve to definitely start working my way up to walking more than 15 minutes. It's just that the shoes I was wearing last nite were way to big and not comfortable. So my feet gave out before my body did. I'll have to find some comfy shoes to wear tonite.

Goals for today:
3 glasses of water
eat planned meals (ate bfast already, lunch: chicken/rice/apple/salad, dindin - lasagna)
walk at least 20 minutes
work on arms

it looks like it's gonna be a good day. It's FRIDAY!!! :wave:

I did it yesterday! I got all my water in, exercised, AND managed to go to bed 2 hours after I ate! I stayed up a little too late though, you never think about the next morning when you are staying up. I got 6.5 hours of sleep, but I have a headache this morning, so I guess it wasn't enough? Although this is day 2 of a slight headache... hmm, wonder whats going on there.

hsmom - wow, busy girl!! I never have that many errands to run, thankfully! I am also a procrastinator, so bad! Its hard not eating at night, but I really do think its a good thing, late night snacking usually ends up being wasted calories for me. Keep up the good work!!

Rosario - congrats on the 14 minutes, my exercise program started with 15 minutes, and I've worked up to now doing 25 a day. I know I could do a little more, but I also don't want to burn out too quickly. Your lunch sounds yummy! And your dinner.. heh..

Well I am off to work! Have a good day ladies.. and TGIF!!! Even better... its a long weekend :) Just 8.5 hours until I am off for 3 days... lol..

-Aimee

I am so with you!!! I NEED an extra day off!! Only 5.5 to go!!!

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Vegas was great! Did lots of walking. Saw two Cirque Du Soleil shows! We say Mystere and Love (about the Beatles) - both were awesome! Love was better though ;) haha

Sounds like everyone is doing better then me. My eating isn't terrible but it isn't that great either. I am just so fed up, seriously. I haven't heard anything about the blood results. I just don't understand why I work my *** off for a month... like eat perfect, exercise and lose 2-3 pounds but I can gain DOUBLE that back in 6 days of not eating well (and not even bad, just not perfect!) and walking like 6 miles a day.... like seriously.

Anyway, I will be back on track Monday. We had NO food in the house. Seriously, the only food in the fridge is like ketchup, mustard, pickles, sour cream, cartoon of egg whites that sort of thing. At least I found some peaches on our peach tree and I have some frozen fruit, lol.

So my day started out good... peach, frozen fruit smoothie and egg whites in a whole wheat wrap! mmmm

But someone at work made cookies, so I have two cookies... but they are small ones! LOL But I am going for lunch! haha and camping this weekend...

All well, we will go get food tonight so Monday I will be back on plan!

And Sunday is the Nike Human Race challenge! and I REAAAAAAAAAAALY want to do it. It has been weeks... a month and half even since I last run and with the weather changing I wont get to go much.... but I really wanna do this 10k! So I hope we are back in time from camping so I can do it... even if I have to walk it! I just want to be a part of it and say I did it.

Well, yesterday was a great day at the lake. We were celebrating dh's bday. My mil bought a cake and I got the smallest piece and didn't ever eat it all.

Courtnie- I hope you have fun camping this weekend. It sounds like you got a lot of walking in and had a great time.

Ro- I've still not really be working on the food issue for my weigh just the lazyness. (being active enough) I think the worst part about days on the road isn't eating out but the stops at convience stores. For some reason I also lean/crave sweets. I've got to start working on making better food choices again. Great job on getting your goals done! How is today going?

Aimee- I have trouble with late night snacks too. I ate after 9 yesterday because dinner wasn't until 9:30, to top it off it was McD's. I'm starting over on that goal tonight. I believe it's going to be harder than the water and weights 3x's wk.

Rosario - did you make it thru your day? I barely did! On Thursday I got a decaf coffee, only they must have made it with caffeine because I got the worst headache yesterday! I came home, and passed out on the couch until 9:30pm! LOL, so much for my friday night! Tonight we are off to a party, and I've planned to drink lemoncello and iced tea, it's quite yummy together! But definitely going to have to exercise tomorrow to make up for all the calories! How did you make out yesterday with your goals?

Courtnie - Vegas sounds like a ton of fun!! I am planning to go for my 30th bday, next August! I don't know if I am doing better than you, I've been keeping up with the exercise as per my program, and mostly good with water, but thats it! Bad me! And I really wanted to be down 11 more pounds by Oct 18th, so I gotta get at 'er if I plan to make that goal!

hsmom - sounds like a nice day! The warm weather where I am is over for the year, we are actually experiencing late Sept/Oct weather right now... soooo depressing! I love the summer and had planned to go to the beach on Monday, thats not going to be happening! Food is a hard one to work on, eh? I have issues with it, esp when I think I am working out so hard... I sometimes eat MORE because of it!

I am off for the entire weekend, so today we are going to do some errands and then today is a bday party! Should be an alright day, and I have to fit in some exercise. Josh is playing some stupid video game, I hate the stupid thing! He was on it until 2am last night, and then its the first thing he thought about this morning... grr!! I think I'll force Josh to go for a walk with me to make up for this.. hehe... I am off to tackle my day, and possibly check the scale to see whats going on! I haven't been on it in a week or so, shocking because I love getting on it! Last time I checked I was up to 266, so I had possibly gained back the pound I lost, maybe today will be better!

-Aimee

Well, I weighed AND measured myself. My weight is my ticker weight, so down 1 pound since I started this thing. I also took my measurements, and I am basically down NOTHING. I don't get how I can't be losing weight OR inches??? SO frustrating!! Infact, in some areas I am UP inches, my left thigh is up half an inch, and so is my right calf.. sooo confused!! The only time I ever seem to be successful at losing weight is when I do a low carb thing, but ugh, its so hard to keep up. Poopy. I also found a ton of pictures of me today that I haven't seen in years. I'll see if I can post a picture of me and my stepsister, I was feeling selfconscious in the picture.. if only!

-Aimee

Today was alright, I had a good breakfast, went shopping for some healthy foods for the week and then for my cardio today I jogged nearly the entire 25 minutes! I was kind of impressed!

I drank a little too much at the party, however I did quite a bit of dancing! So hopefully that burnt off a few calories! It was fun though, to get out with people my own age! I almost felt my age.. lol... How was everyone's weekend? I'd sad that the summer is over.. it was toooo short this year!

-Aimee

Aimee - congrats on all that jogging!

I did the 10k Human Race on Sunday... I haven't been out in a month and a half so it took longer then I wanted and I am still SOOOOOO sore, I can hardly walk.

I am doing so so, but the scale just keeps going up and up and up! And tonight I am supposed to be going for dinner. At this time the scale is even HIGHER then the start weigh in my ticker! OMG - I am sure lots is water, but still. Anyway, tom is just around the corner. So I think I will weight Friday and then hide the scale for a month. I am just getting so mad. :(

Courtnie - thanks! same to you! The race sounds pretty surreal!

So today I did good, nutritious breakfast, I had a good morning snack too! I also drank all my water, and no eating 2 hours before bedtime. I exercised, but I think I pushed myself a little hard because every muscle in my body is aching! I just got out of a 30 minute steaming hot shower - my legs hurt a little less. Now I just gotta wait for my hair to dry so I can sleep sleep sleep and more sleep!

Where is everyone?? hsmom?? Rosario?? Come out come out where ever you are (even if its in the land of not doing so well!!).

-Aimee

Aimee- It sounds like your had a great day yesterday. We've had surprise company drop in. She just left yesterday. My dh has a gaming problem too. Awesome job on jogging nearly 25 mins! The most I've jog is 10 mins and I was soaked with sweat. You can get that 12 pounds before 10-18th. It's so doable.


For the last two days I didn't get my water in or stop eating at 9. I did get my weights done last week now on to this week. I hope to tract all my points today. Of course I'm going to try to eat to stay within my points. I don't like going over them at all. But I do get cranky when my points are up. Tomorrow I have weigh in and I'm going. I'm going to do some thinking about where I am and how I plan to get there.

this past weekend threw me off. I did my workout on Friday, but I must have done something wrong because all weekend my elbows and arms were sore like you wouldn't believe. That pretty much stopped me from any workouts. I did play tennis on Monday night, didn't last night, but am scheduled to play tonite. My bf wants to help me out in that department. Food hasn't been the greatest, but I'm working on it. And I haven't had my water since Friday. Gotta work on that too. Finally got that Jorge Cruise 8 minutes in the morning. Looks interesting but I am way too tired to do any type of exercise in the a.m. We'll see if I start it.

hsmomx2 - good luck at weigh in. how do you think you'll do?

aimee - awesome on your good day yesterday. sorry about the sore muscles. they're a bummer especially when you actually want to get moving. hope they feel better today. btw - you look so cute in that pic. I love your hair that way. I love old pics...they're the best motivation.

courtnie - awesome on the 10K. I wish I had the courage to start one. Have you been noticing a difference in the way you look maybe? Maybe you should ignore the scale for awhile and take measurements??

:wave:

hsmom - you were supposed to tell me that bf will grow out of the whole video game thing! Even if I know it's not true! We finally had a huge blow up on Monday night - he spent 6 hours playing video games!!! Ugh, I was SO miserable. Nothing like guests to throw you off your routine! With my mom around I know I can still keep up my workout schedule, but with my brother, not so much! I sure hope my goal is doable - thanks for the encouragement :)

Rosario - every little change you can make will make you stronger to make more changes and get to your goal! Nicely done with the tennis - we bought rackets this year and haven't really played that much, but when we have it's been really fun, even if I suck! Who do you play with? That picture is definitely some motivation, since I was 160 pounds when it was taken, that is definitely my goal weight for now!!

So I am feeling SO much better today! I can actually MOVE my legs.. lol. Today I am due to exercise again, so I think I will take things a little easier today! No jogging! Its sunny here, which would make it easier to face the idea of actually leaving the house... do you ever just feel like locking yourself in your house and vegging out? Thats how I'm feeling! So bad! I am off to make something to eat, talk to you ladies later!

-Aimee