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Um....starting over. It wasn't that bad (well, maybe it was)...details later, but I am starting over on my big picture challenge.
Day 0 completed 3 pauses left Sorry for the flyby! :wave: miriam, Arabella, thanks for the encouragement! |
Fly-by report: Day 2 coming to a close successfully. Day 3 coming up.
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WTG red for starting right over!
WTG arabella for 2 successful days! I was invited out for a festive meal at my Big Boss' house - and I can happily say that despite temptations I kept my eating in check. :) |
Well thank goodness I hit 21 days on exercise! Now I am going to start over on my challenges--but not until I am back home. We are visiting the in-laws and relatives/friends in Chicago. And sticking to my diet and exercise--ugh! Eating all these "favorites" and planning to go out to eat at our "favorite" places! And though I brought running gear--so far, nothing. Gonna try tonight--either b4 dinner or after, I dunno. Depends on what's going on around here.
RED--love the cartoon!! :lol: WTG miriam, arabella, red! Wish me luck getting through the next 5 days--hopefully I do not backslide much.... :crossed: |
Day 1 is completed!!! :dancer:
It was hard, but I did it!!!! Hurrah, Hurrah! :cp: :cheer3: Arabella, miriam, modcat, others! :wave: miriam, way to go on the resisting temptation! :bravo: mod, glad you liked the cartoon. It does take practice but that's part of getting an ACCURATE reading! :lol3: and good luck!! :goodluck: |
THAT'S my problem! I've been weighing myself all wrong. :rolleyes: .8 off at WW this a.m. Still .4 up from where I was on Sunday and I've been very close to perfect since then. Getting a little frustrated. I was actually hungry a lot of the week, am getting more exercise than ever. It's gotta work.
Aaaaanyway, Day 3 successfully completed. Day 4 happening. Keep fighting the good fight, Chickies! |
Day 2 was OK too.....
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And I've made it to Day 5
206.4. I used a fair number of my points yesterday but had them to use and didn't overindulge. :cp:
And it's Saturday! No minefields this weekend in the form of dinner parties or other eating extravaganzas. I'm feeling pretty good and strong. Just one more :coffee: and then I'm off for a run in the woods. I'll come back, do a bit of yoga, clean up, walk to tai chi class. And I'll have a ton of fresh new points available. Red, WTG on the good days! If we keep going, we'll get there. :yes: Modcat, travelling is always a challenge. Good for you on the 21 days of exercise -- have a banana! :cb: Miriam, I hear you on that frustration -- been there too many times. It's so hard to get a grip sometimes. I'm also too talented and inventive in the kitchen. I don't even need to have something "good" in there -- I can whip something up in an instant. :dz: I think the thing with frustration is, though, that sometimes we need to feel that way before we can be motivated to take a fresh run at things. Hope all have a lovely Saturday! :wave: |
Well, I'm calling clear on Day 3. It was not stellar. It was only mediocre and it was a horrible day emotionally. I spent the latter half of it crying just because I feel that my efforts are so often for naught. A bad day riding set it off, that coupled with all the uncertainties at work and how many things I need to do and can't bring myself to because of what seems to be a mix of chronic depression and despair. Sigh. I will keep pushing on. I'm not drinking and not smoking and those are the biggest two no-nos. I mean, if I do that it's only a quick fix and not a fix at all. It's a Band-aid on a compound fracture.....
It's early morning and I am steeling myself to try the riding bit again. It was really bad yesterday. My horse freaked at something and though I stayed on I was a mess, really bad, and then my teacher got ticked because I didn't do what she wanted me to do. I couldn't. It was all I could do to stop from getting sick to my stomach, I was so in knots. Anyhow, such is the torture I put myself through in the name of "getting better." I think I am nuts. :( ************** modcat -- Oops, I didn't realize that you'd completed your challenge! Great balls of fire!!! Way to GO!!!! :bravo: :bravo: :bravo: How'd that run go? :running: Good luck getting through The Terrible Five. :goodluck: Arabella -- Glad to here you're moving right along..in the right direction and nice to hear there are no minefields lying in wait for you. The only thing worth doing is keeping at our plans, isn't it, through thick and thin...and most of it seems pretty thick, at least from where I stand. :( Hello to everyone else! :wave: :bubbles: |
Mod - WTG on completion of your challenge! Hope you enjoy the rest of your time away and come back happy and healthy!
Arabella - I avoided some really nasty (read: delicious) concoction that I made for the sabbath by eating 2 bowls of super-spicy vegetable soup. Thought I'd keep myself safe by getting full on no-calories. Ha! All of the sudden - one of the hot green pepper pieces got me in the back of the throat and I swear I thought I was going to die! My eyes were watering and I was wheezing and I couldn't even choke! Anyway - as you can imagine, the crisis was averted and I have lived to tell the tale. :) Red - sorry to hear about your bad day. Band aid on compound fracture - you are SO right. Sometimes I wonder how I get my <generally intelligent> self to belive that food will solve problems other than hunger?! I wonder about that. Do you have your rising lessons in english or Japanese? Are you fluent in Japanese? Good for you for wanting to ride again - the proverbial - "get back on the horse" - come on you - you can do it! Isn;t that what you are always telling us? Don't give up on our challenges - just start over.... I can't wait for these holidays to be OVER already! I need schedule <and of course - to be OUT of the kitchen!!!> and routine. And my office which has no food in it :) I'm actually doing better with the family-time than I had thought, although financial restraints make it difficult to really go anywhere and do anything too exciting and the kids still remember better times and keep asking - why can't we do XXX like we did a few years ago? Etc. :( |
Day 6
208.2. And CRANKY :eek: I've been right on plan, but more carbs than usual and I expect that's it. A small serving of brown rice spaghetti with soy-based "meatballs" and Greek salad for dinner last night, rice crackers on Friday afternoon. I tell myself that if I'm going to have these things, I want to have them early in the WW week to get the inevitable bump-up out of the way. But then I'm always freaked out by the bump-up. Each pound seems so huge at this point. Maybe I should get over that :chin: I guess it's the daily weigh-in but... I really need that. :yes: I can get a foot on that slippery slope so easily.
Red :hug: A woman I used to know was doing her doctoral thesis in psychology. It was all about the incidence of depression when people quit smoking -- changes in the brain plus just being without a faithful crutch. I've got to say that I often feel that way when I'm starting on a new attack on losing weight. Sometimes I feel great and reinvigorated but others ... it's like: Oh, here are all those feelings I've been shoving back down my throat. Miriam, sorry about that hot pepper episode! How unfair when you were behaving so admirably! There is sometimes something lovely about routine, where we've got our parameters all nicely defined. How long until the holidays are over? Bright and :sunny: here, if chilly. :coffee2: and then off for our long Sunday morning walk. Let's take this day and do our level best with it! |
back in the saddle...
I did it. Made it through Day 4. Again, not stellar on the eating, but the rest, exercise, no drinking, no smoking, not splurging on money (that's a new element of the big picture I've added) and whatever else were all OK. So 4 days are behind me! Hooray!
AND, I did get back on...not the wagon, that I'm still on...but the HORSE. I knew I was going to have a choice of 1) canceling 2) riding by myself, which is easier 3) go into the small round ring OR ...horrors.... 4) the big arena, 20 x 60 meters, the big scary ring by the road, surrounded by bushes with openings where real scary things like bicycles and loud motorcycles and little kids pass by and this construction supply center across that tiny road that is always swinging things around on cranes and making noises and spooking the horses. Sigh. It was one of those four I had to choose from..it was ONE of those I could choose from....and not lose all face entirely. No. 4 it had to be. To make a long story short, the teacher asked which it was going to be (by that time it was 3 or 4) but when I said it was scary after yesterday out in the big ring, she said, ok, then the round ring and walked off while I was to warm up. Of course, I knew I had to get out there and be scared again and face those fears and dangers, so I went out into the big ring. I hope my teach was pleased when she came back. Again, the horse was freaking in the corner and this time I almost fell off. She was freaking a lot too. I think the teacher must have been using the whip on her too much earlier in the week to get her listening and she just remembered that in the corners....anyhow....maybe not....it could have been something else. Well, I did it, I feel good. I went to the gym afterward, did a bit of weights, jogged a bit. I am sore all over, including my thumb, which must have gotten yanked around yesterday when I was hanging onto the bucking strap for dear life. Deep sigh. It was, of course, impossible to jog more than a kilometer with that thumb ;) , and I had also forgotten my iPod, so I watched the horse race with the gym's earphones and then walked 50 mins. home. OK, that's the wrap. ************** miriam -- Thanks for your support. I sure am glad to hear you didn't choke to death. My God! :eek: I sure hope you do get your routine back soon. Yes, my riding lessons are all in Japanese and yes, I am fluent, been here over 25 years. I will most modestly say that Japanese always tell me they thought I was Japanese on the phone. That's what the Germans used to tell me to my face back in Munich. I guess I have a thing for languages. My favorite though is horse. Arabella -- I was just about to post when I saw your message come in, so I came back to write to you as well. Thanks for the hug. :) Maybe it is a bit of depression from the smoking, but you know, I wasn't smoking that much, only when I drank and that wasn't that often either, just a lot when I did. Still, it could be. Then again, I am easily knocked down, believe it or not, so emotional scenes (always private) are common with me (I just talk about them on here and thus sound like a wacko). Today I jogged and that really got me feeling good again. Must have been the endorphins. Riding is always difficult. There is not too much to feel good about because my horse is not talented and neither am I. I just love being with her and love it when I do make some progress. Another horse dumped his owner today and he only does that occasionally so maybe there was something in the air. Anyhow, you just hang in there with the diet. Something should budge if you do, but if you blow it, then...well, you know what happens then.... :^: |
Day 7
Good for me, I say. 207.6 this a.m. Now we've gotten to Monday, I think it's time to cut back on the carbs again until after Friday WI.
Red, glad to hear you got back on the horse! WTG! K, it's Monday -- let's hit the ground running. :running: |
Day 5 is done! Even got out of the office, to the gym and jogged 3 K on break. Wow!
************** Arabella -- How is your challenge. Not sure what the numbers mean.... |
Hi guys--back after a not-so-great visit back home in Chicago. I mean, great to visit with everyone, blah, blah, but not great with the food blow-out.
But, back today and ready to climb back into the "saddle" tomorrow, just like the rest of you! New challenges--I'm working on that. Will post that tomorrow. One note--my weight only seems to go down when I really push myself. My trainer said it was an education to watch my progress and struggles this past year. I have (like many of us) an extremely slow metabolism or else, it's just in that middle-forties comfort zone where it has to be convinced (really, bullied) into burning fat. She has said it is eye-opening to see how much I have to do to lose! It won't be so hard to maintain my weight, but just to get there is tough. I have found out I have to exert a TON of effort at the exercise thing at LEAST 5 days/week. When I do, I will see progress. Eating less or healthier, I see faster progress, but without the exercise effort, nothing seems to happen. If I eat badly, I will gain. If I eat just ok, I just maintain, pretty much. Soooo, most of my focus has got to still be on getting that hard hour or so in most every day. OK, it is getting somewhat easier, once I get into a routine. But many days, I still have to do some difficult convincing to get me to do any "real" exercise, even though I know how much better I will feel when I have finished. Why is that? :shrug: And once I get out of the habit for a few days--it is SO hard to get back into it. :?: Anyway--good job on everyone's daily journey--I will post more tomorrow--need to catch up on the reading around here :D |
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