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"Every-Day" 21-Day Challenge -- Simple addition spells success!!
Okay, everyone, as is the tradition, I start a new thread when I personally start a new challenge.
Below is a short explanation of how this challenge works so all you newcomers can take a look and decide if you're game or not! I hope you are! Hop aboard and enjoy the ride. We've got a great bunch of supportive people, so I hope you'll give us a try. A lot of people try for a while and then disappear.. I hope some of you will keep trying. There is NO shame in starting over. Remember, it's not over till you give up. And our motto around here is: NEVER GIVE UP!!...Just start OVER!! EXPLANATION AND RULES: It works like this: you decide you'll do something for 21 days straight, every single day, so keep it doable. Then you count ....one through 21.....and if you flub it, you MUST go back to zero and start over again. Everyone will be on different days. You can start anytime. At the beginning of the challenge you declare what level it is -- Level 1, 2, or 3. Level 1 means you feel it's a relatively easy challenge for you and means you only give yourself ONE pause day (see explanation of pause days below). Level 2 would give you two pause days and so on... And taking NO pause days is what I'm going to call "aceing a challenge," as in "I'm aiming on aceing this one!" Yowzah!! :cb: With a pause day you pause in your counting and continue the next day with the number you left off with. Pause days are NOT substitutes for days, i.e. Day 12 -- Day 13 -- Pause Day -- Day 14..... I suggest taking a pause day late in the game (better to go back to Day 1 early on) if you need a break or screw up when you're well into the challenge, meaning, when you're on Day 15 or something like that. In any case, the trick is to keep going. The momentum builds and it's great incentive to stick to your guns, cause if you don't.........back to START you go. :( And the really great thing about this challenge is that you are forming new habits that will wipe out the old! AND, you get to do it with a great bunch of really supportive people to whom you are accountable! :grouphug: THREAD GUIDELINES: In the interest of maintaining structure, a sense of solidarity and facilitating support I ask anyone who wishes to join this thread to please strive to follow the following guidelines while participating in this challenge and in posting. 1. Although this is a fabulous support group, the focus is to be on your CHALLENGE/S and/or other people's challenge/s AND weight loss, whether your challenge is about it or not. Please keep the challenge a priority, although we welcome chattiness! :lol: This means tell us what day you're on when you post and it's a good idea to make regular mention of just what your challenge is. This an action-based thread. Our members are ON a challenge, RESTARTING a challenge, or just in between and looking to start up again REAL SOON. ;) We also welcome posts from admirers, encouragers, and old friends! 2. Please refrain from posting food logs or recipes, except where you are really looking for help and advice on your eating. If journaling is your challenge, please keep the journaling off the thread and in a notebook or blog and just tell us if you've done what you set out to do. We have ALL types of dieters here, low-carb, high-carb, low-fat, high-fat, vegetarians, meat-lovers...please use simple mentions if you have something you want to share and then links and/or private messages to do so. 3. Please do NOT go into glowing accounts of any slipups, food indulgences or binges, what we here call "food porn." Simple mentions are fine, but use of smilies :censored: :tape: etc. as substitutes where possible is encouraged. 4. Please keep this a secular thread. Of course, passing references to your beliefs, a bit of introduction about your beliefs, brief faith-related words of encouragement are fine. :angel: 5. Please show support, support, support! This is key. :grouphug: You can waffle on about yourself but please, at least occasionally,come up and look around at others and what they are doing and MENTION it with words of encouragement and/or praise or sympathy. We understand "busy," poor computer connections, and bouts of self-pity and life problems where the focus turns to "me" and dealing with those problems, but these should be temporary, not a habit! ('cept in the computer case.) In conclusion, let me say, the above are just that, GUIDELINES. Please realize that these guidelines have been added in an attempt to keep this a supportive and beneficial thread, at the LEAST, to those who need it MOST, those for whom weight loss is the hardest and, more often than not, the most crucial as well as for those who still, perhaps despite great success, know all too well that the road they walk will always be a slippery one. :^: The guidelines are also meant to cultivate an atmosphere of consideration and concern for ALL, not individually, but AS A GROUP. Well, all's said. Please join us!! :wave: |
moving on down the line....
Heh there. I just realized I hadn't started a new thread when I finished my no sugar challenge! ((((cheer))). So here you are!!! Let's make it work!!! :dancer: :dancer: :dancer: |
oh fun! I like starting new things :)
And congrats again on your no sugar Challenge! I'm going to think about a new challenge to start and jump on on it tomorrow :) |
the art of rationalization...
Good to see you, faux! And thanks for the congrats! I'm going to just ignore my two-day binge. I mean, heck, it was kinda fun and as long as I get right back on track (and then some!!) my body should just take it! Yeah!
By the way, were you in between challenges? I think so, right? Anyhow, for anyone who wants a quick look back at recent posts, here's the last thread. You'll have to click on the last page. http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=147007 |
Red - congrats on finishing your challenge!
Hi All I'm totally nuts. I went away for the weekend to a friend's house to avoid hosting my in-laws (my DH is away - remember? he wanted my in-laws to come WHILE HE WAS AWAY- AARGH) The only way I could get out of it was by not being here. Sheesh - I need to learn to be more assertive. On Friday I was totally stressed - I don't usually work on Fridays and it's my day to sleep, but I had to go to work and then get home and deal with all the kids and go to my friend's house (no CAR!!) and I was sooooo stressed out that I ate 3 chocolate bars!!! Okay - they were mini ones - but I haven't touched that kind of stuff for 12 weeks! And it was all downhill from there.. Overate Friday night, had junk this morning, Heck - I need some support. I'm so frustrated. I thought while my DH was away -I'd have some time to get the house together and maybe even a day or 2 to myself in the morning - to just laze around. I need a break so badly. And when he's here - he's unemployed and always in the house and makes me nuts. But my schedule at work is so hectic for these days while he's gone that there's no chance for anything of the sort. Sorry for the vent - hope today is better...... Challenges: 1 - talk to each of the kids every day (not just orders...) - 3 pauses 2 - do 1 nice thing a day for me - 3 pauses 3 - eat in control - 3 pauses let's see how is goes. |
miriam -- From where I stand (dangerously close to the edge of the train platform) your little binge looks harmless. Three mini bars is but a tiny fraction of what I vacuumed into my mouth over the past two days. Still, I feel for you!! Things, as you surely know, RARELY go to plan. It sounds like you are very upset about that and turning to junk to compensate. Sounds VERY familiar! :yes: My advice in these situations is to figuratively cut the ties between expectations and reality. Just tune out the frustrating thoughts of "not fair!" like you would the cry of a baby (on a good day) and take deep breaths and kind of pleasantly zombie out. Is there any chance you can take off work and GO somewhere and just zone out? I would try to, to help you get some distance. Your home situation does not sound too good. Is there anything you can do to get your husband's help? You say it's hard for you to be assertive but maybe you can sit down and discuss how you feel. Or write a letter to your husband in which you suggest some ways to alleviate what you're feeling. Well, I don't know. All I can say is I wish you some breathing space! *************** Just bringing this over from the old thread.... Where I stand on Sunday (not including Sunday) NEW CHALLENGES: Stay tuned.... CHALLENGES: No booze 4 days completed/no pauses allowed (started Aug. 20) No smoking 4 days completed/no pauses allowed (started Aug. 20) *************** No alcohol current straight 5 days/longest straight thus far June 28-August 3 = 36 days No sugar current straight 0 days/longest straight was 39 days (July 1-Aug. 9) No cigs current straight 4 days/longest straight was 38 days straight July 1-Aug. 8 No processed foods current straight 0 day/longest straight 40 days (July 1-Aug.10) |
another day down...
Heh all. I hope more people find us over here! :wave: I had an excellent day today. That was easy though, relatively, as I stayed home all day. BUT, I then decided to go to the gym and that involves a 50-min walk. I got over halfway and decided to turn away and go home. I turned around, walked a few steps and stopped to read some sign (and contemplate...) THEN, I turned back direction gym and got there!! Did some weights and ab work. Hurrah!! It was weird. I had felt REALLY bad, thus the intention to turn around and go home, but after I pushed on I got this second wind. It was truly bizarre. Walking home was harder but I listened to my Cantonese language tapes and learned how to say things like, "I want something to eat," and "Where do you want to go eat?" Time passed quickly! Well, back to the uncertainly and anxiety of the office tomorrow...... :eek: And voila! Below are yet more new challenges!!! Call me megared! :dance: ****************** Where I stand on Sunday (including Sunday) NEW CHALLENGES: No sugar 1 day completed/undecided on pauses Vegetable juice 1 day completed/3 pauses Food and exercise journal 0 days complete/no pauses CHALLENGES: No booze 5 days completed/no pauses allowed (started Aug. 20) No smoking 5 days completed/no pauses allowed (started Aug. 20) *************** No alcohol current straight 6 days/longest straight thus far June 28-August 3 = 36 days No sugar current straight 1 days/longest straight was 39 days (July 1-Aug. 9) No cigs current straight 5 days/longest straight was 38 days straight July 1-Aug. 8 No processed foods current straight 1 day/longest straight 40 days (July 1-Aug.10) |
Hello, hello! Starting Day 1 tomorrow
I just thought I'd like to pop in and introduce myself, list my goals. I'm starting South Beach tomorrow, so I thought I'd use the 21-Day thing to support it (and vice-versa).
I'm 53, struggling with weight off and on from the time I was about 12. Not always overweight, even if I thought I was. I joined 3FC in 2000, I think, as Babette, at 231. In that time, I've gotten down to about 195 and bounced up as high as 256. I've reached the point where I'm ready to shed my fat cocoon and live life large, if in a smaller body. I'm going to call this a Level 2. Hope to ace it but ... stuff happens. But, as Fearless Leader RB points out, when it does, we just start over. Or pause, if we've got that option. Here's my plan of attack:
Redballoon, I think I know you from some long-ago thread, don't I? Were you in Germany then? K, Challengers, let's take this day and ace it! |
I want to use this challenge to start something new. I just can't think of something new that I'm ready to do... hehe
I will have a plan by tonite. I need tos tart fresh because I had too many challenges last time and I had to throw this one out. I will have it figured out by tonite!! hehe |
Hi Red! Welcome Mirabella!
Miriam: I've been having that kinda of couple of days as well. Stressed again all of a sudden, wanting to eat everything bad for me, not feeling like exercising. My DH is having a very stressful time of it with a business deal gone bad and possible lawsuit on his (our) head, and I just want to forget about this "silly" project of mine and go stuff my face. But, I won't. What is my saving grace, truly, is my trainer. If I didn't have a standing appointment with her, I'd probably fall off the wagon. I met with her Friday, but did nothing Saturday. I wanted a burger and fries and thick shake at this local drive-in so badly it was very hard to resist, But I convinced DH to go to a local vegetarian restaurant and I had a BocaBurger and organic potatoes wedges which I shared with DH and just an iced tea, and I felt satisfied!! It didn't stop me from coming home and making scones and inhaling 3 of them. This was after I had yogurt and fruit in an attempt to stop me doing that. Anyway, I ate a little more off plan yesterday, but actually feel better today and more committed to this. I won't give up! Challenges: Exercise everyday, even just a walk: 3 pauses (I'm just starting over on this one) No alcohol: Day 4 (3 pauses--leaving for Vegas in 3 days!) Food journal not a challenge, so I will substitute: No processed food: 3 pauses----for me, this means nothing out of a package that sits on a shelf, with preservatives. No granola bars, sugar free mints, 100 calorie packs, reduced fat Wheat Thins, even no rice cakes. And no frozen treats. This does not include the yogurt, or the whole grain organic bread I buy, or cans of stuff I use to make dinners, etc. I will know what I mean. Basically junk food. I am trying to wean myself off of all of that. I need to eat fruit or baby carrots if I want to snack. This one could be a tough one |
OK, I have finally figured out my challenges:
1) No snacks after dinner (i've been doing okay with that but wanna make it be written down so i'm totally accountable) 2 pauses 2) Work everyday on the 100 pushup challenge 3 pauses 3) Drink 2 cups of water before, during and after every meal and snack. 2 pauses |
fauxtini -- Your challenges sound great! I like the "work every day" pushup one. Putting in the effort and working toward a goal is what it's all about. Good luck! :goodluck:
Mod -- Hope your day was a little less stressed. Ooh, sounds tough, but NO, your project is far from "silly!!!!" :nono: My gosh, it's about YOU!!! Stuffing solves NOTHING. Remember it!! What a good idea to have a trainer. And your eating save is incredible. Be careful not to tempt us with too much description. :censored: That is, on the stuff you resisted. :lol: Yes, I think your challenges are tough and a LOT like mine! ;) You can do it. Power to you! :strong: Arabella -- Welcome back!! :welcome3: Yes, of course you know me. We used to do this thread together back when YOU were starting them and before you Amarantha (sp?) You got tired of it and I took over or something like that. No, I've been in Tokyo the whole time, but used to live in Munich. Good memory. Well, though you "bounced back up" you're looking good, still far under your high and not that far from your low. Good work and it looks like you're determined again. Best of luck!! :yes: Others?! :listen: How are we? Apple, Fish, miriam, ilani, CB, marti?? Come on down!! :trampo: |
Haha can't even start day 1 yet - I'm a mess
I odn't know how things are going to change, I really don't. I'm going away tomorrow for 3 days to my sister's house with my kids and parents, DH and stepkids are back on Friday - school starts on Monday, If I can make it to Monday - believe me - I've won every challenge in the book |
Well, with out going too deep into it, I'm restarting today. :shrug:
Good thing we have a new thread and a fresh start. 30 min exercise No beer still looking for one more diet related challenge..... Hi everyone! |
I'm updating and finalizing my challenges:
OK, I have finally figured out my challenges: 1) No snacks after dinner (i've been doing okay with that but wanna make it be written down so i'm totally accountable) 2 pauses 2) Work everyday on either the 100 pushup challenge or the couch to 5k challenge or both! 3 pauses 3) Drink 2 cups of water before, during and after every meal and snack. 2 pauses SO far so good! I have completed both of my workout challenges and drank the right amount of water with each meal. so far so good!! |
Where I stand on Tuesday (not including Tuesday) NEW CHALLENGES: No sugar 2 day completed/undecided on pauses Vegetable juice 2 day completed/3 pauses Food and exercise journal 1 day complete/no pauses CHALLENGES: No booze 6 days completed/no pauses allowed (started Aug. 20) No smoking 6 days completed/no pauses allowed (started Aug. 20) *************** No alcohol current straight 7 days/longest straight thus far June 28-August 3 = 36 days No sugar current straight 2 days/longest straight was 39 days (July 1-Aug. 9) No cigs current straight 6 days/longest straight was 38 days straight July 1-Aug. 8 No processed foods current straight 2 days/longest straight 40 days (July 1-Aug.10) |
Wow. I thought i had posted on the new thread. Guess not, huh?
Hi everyone. Well, insanity has officially started. Orientation for Law School began last night. Will take me a little while to get in the swing of things, so I apologize if I am not on here regular for a bit. This morning the scale said 200. 200 :fr: I couldn't believe it. :cb: Woo hoo. This is amazing. I just need to keep going, and not sidetrack myself due to busy and overtired. The cool thing is that even though I was having cravings yesterday due to lack of sleep etc, I was listening to the voice saying "No, you need water not soda. No, you need to munch on some veggies, not McD's" And the new pants I bought last week, that I felt really uncomfortable about because I thought there was some "camel toe" issues? The slipped on like a dream this morning. Good luck with all ongoing and new challenges. Will try to read and catch up with each of you soon, but have patience :D Have a great day! :wave: |
Not related to health But in other news.. I got the CALL! I am headed to montreal TOMORROW for my marriage visa interview! I will get to marry my Fiance ( on paper) before he is deployed! Miracles do happen! I will be busy for the next few weeks but hope to be online as much as I can. I want to stay on plan while im going through all of this of course.
In the next few weeks I will be traveling to montreal, New York, kansas and kentucky, finding apartments, GETTING MARRIED, changing my name, and spending every momemnt with my hubby to be before he is deployed! WOW. Once im settled I will have AMPLE 3FC time tho until I get a visa to work. Crazyness lies ahead.. but im excited/nervous. Who would have thought id have to have an interview with the govt to be allowed to marry an american?! |
Fly-by report:
Day 2. Met all challenges yesterday, despite :devil: that said "Why not have a glass of wine and redo Day 1 tomorrow?" I did tai chi, meditated instead. Nevertheless, 213.2 this a.m. for no good reason. :rolleyes: |
Sorry Red about the food descriptions--I got carried away there for a minute!
Well today back on track, motivated after a spotty week-end. Going to spin class now. Will catch up with everyone in more detail later..... WTG Faux! Congrats! (I posted more elsewhere) Congrats also to Jolly--madness sometimes helps things, huh? Now push through that barrier like I recently did--no looking back..... Yay! Arabella, such discipline! It will show effects later, I'm sure. Hang in there miriam--you will find new motivation soon, I'm sure. Good attitude Apple! Here's joining ya...... |
Where I stand on Wednesday (not including Wednesday) NEW CHALLENGES: No sugar 3 days completed/undecided on pauses Vegetable juice 3 days completed/3 pauses Food and exercise journal 2 days complete/no pauses CHALLENGES: No booze 7 days completed/no pauses allowed (started Aug. 20) No smoking 7 days completed/no pauses allowed (started Aug. 20) *************** No alcohol current straight 8 days/longest straight thus far June 28-August 3 = 36 days No sugar current straight 3 days/longest straight was 39 days (July 1-Aug. 9) No cigs current straight 7 days/longest straight was 38 days straight July 1-Aug. 8 No processed foods current straight 3 days/longest straight 40 days (July 1-Aug.10) No time to write now. Will write later! :wave: fauxtini, great news!!! :dance: |
Evening All!!
I haven't been on here since the end of last year. I was doing so well, but then life took a turn and my efforts got put on the back burner. But I'm back in full force now!! Personal Challenges: Stay within my daily WW Points - 1 Pause Stop Smoking - 1 Pause Gym 6 Days a week - no pauses Good Luck to you all!!! |
feeling like an angel....with clipped wings
Well, I'm plugging along, feeling really sorry for myself and depressed and yet somewhat hopeful...I wonder why being healthy, eating really well and not putting junk into our bodies is SO hard in the Western world. I mean, the garbage is EVERYWHERE and people think it's so weird to be trying not to reach for it. Sigh. Even if I were to become a real health nut and in wondeful shape, I don't want to get satisfaction from comparing myself to others though and thinking stuff like..."Oh, wow, she looks old for her age," or "wow, bad skin" or "get a load of that beer gut" ... all things people could say or could have said about me at various points in my life. Sigh. I guess I will just have to embrace this lifestyle and the commitment to it and try to take part in it as much as possible without compromising that commitment. Tough stuff, but I have made tremendous progress with the no drinking...the idea of going to a bar with a buddy who drinks pints with burgeoning gusto and me sitting there drinking hot oolong tea....now that borders on the obscene!!! :rofl:
************** beachluvr -- Welcome back! :welcome: Hope to see you in here a lot! :yes: Gym challenge doesn't fit the parameters, so just take a pause a week and you got it! But, my oh my, no smoking and a diet challenge. Those are tough! Best of luck to you! :strong: Arabella -- Good work! :sunny: modcat -- Heh, no worries on the food porn! :lol: Oh, AND by the way...I wandered over to the mini-goal section to find some inspiration and did I find some!! You, looking utterly fantastic! Wow! :eek: Major congratulations to you. :congrat: And where are you expecting to find 45 lbs to lose still?! :?: I sure wish I could get as good-looking as you so I could post some photos. Right now, all I ever dare to show people are face shots because my face has always been thin(nish). I have some photos that I dare not look at (I peeked once and that was enough) of me on my horse and I will use that as my before shots when I get down to my lean, sleek self. Again though, you look fab, years younger and majorily happy! So....tell us about the cabana boy.... :lol3: faux -- So, you must be so excited!! :dance: Does having an interview mean pretty sure you'll get the visa? I sure hope so. Well, you sound like you're going to be super busy but I do hope you'll keep up with us. I'd miss you if you didn't! :( jolly -- There you are! Insanity starting?! Oh, my!! :eek: BUT, 200 on the scale!!! Hurrah!!! :bravo: Great stuff, great stuff!! And what a bunch of saves, water over soda and veggies over Mac's!! Kudos to you! :cheer2: Apple, miriam, do we have liftoff yet? :listen: |
Well, just checking in before leaving to that den of inequity some call Las Vegas. I have some new mini-challenges for the next 5 days to get through without completely falling off the wagon. As I am on my 7th day straight without any alcohol BUT gave myself 3 pauses, and will be there 4 nights, I hope to go at least one night with NO alcohol so I don't have to restart. I can resist during the day, it's the evenings out that will be tough.
Also: I hope to go to the gym to exercise every morning, and eat sparingly and healthfully for breakfast and lunch so I can enjoy my dinners at some good restaurants. Where I stand: No booze: completed 6 days (3 pauses left) No processed junk food snacks: completed 3 days (2 pauses left) exercise/walk everyday: completed 3 days (2 pauses left) Red: aw, thanks for your compliments, and your kind words.:thanks: Yep. I'm still considered obese and still hovering between 30 and 31 BMI. (or is it body fat index?) Notice I show no pics of my lower self in shorts, and try to hide my fat arms as best as possible. I have always had heavier hips/thighs, and more bottom heavy. Now what boobs I have are rapidly shrinking, :( oh well. I'd much rather be able to wear shorts and feel like I can go into any store and buy cute stuff than have boobs (maybe my hubby doesn't agree, lol!) At least my face is beginning to find it's neck again, in a good way, I mean! beachluvr: welcome (I guess welcome back--but I wasn't here then!) You sound like you have good challenges to shoot for. Glad to hear your life is more back to normal? BTW Red, I'm sure you are a lot harder on yourself and the way you look than you need to be. Most of us are. But then again, that is what is great about the internet--you can be fairly anonymous and it doesn't matter. I think you gotta do whatever you feel comfortable with. I resisted putting up pics for only a few weeks, and did it b/c I needed to own up to myself how bad I'd gotten, and also, needed a selfish feel-good that day, b/c I knew my weight loss was beginning to show and I needed someone to notice and some nice comments. (I received a lot more than I expected--it was so nice, and needed!) As I am fairly new to California, I don't know many people and haven't seen any old friends or family in a long while to notice. My brother and his wife are coming in a week--can you believe these are the first visitors from my side in the nearly two years I've been here? (Although I have visited family about three times in the last two years, but I was fatter than I am now). Anyway, gotta run and finish packing, leaving in 4 hours--hope to check in on the 31st, if not before....... |
HI all. I had to pop in quick on lunch, and post. i had a close shave here. Been feeling like i was doing really good. Making progress. Not losing my mind :fr: Well, today cravings struck. I know it is triggered by lack of sleep - that still is my worst trigger. I had two forms of :censored: And then I was all prepped to "blow" the rest of the day. despite the fact I run tonight, and the scale this morning was BELOW 200. Actually, that might have been a subconscious part of the trigger. I am almost able to officially announce that I am out of the 200's for the first time in 15 years. . .
Good news is that I was able to pop some gum, get busy with work stuff (and let me tell you, with everything going on and a vacation coming up, there is tons of work stuff), and then sat down to my healthy lunch. I had about 700 calories I didn't need, but it could have been worse. Have a good day all. |
another day notched....
Feeling so bummed. My weight is way up again and I've been so good. It's always like this. I just can't seem to lose weight. Something has got to be wrong with me. It all adds to the stress. If I could say, well, I'm doing this so that's the reason for my not losing weight or something, anything I could lay the blame on, then fine, but I really can't see it and I'm so sick of it. The other day I kept running to the loo and thought I'd see a weight loss but barely and then today my weight is way up again and I didn't even eat salty stuff and of course I'm on no sugar and no booze so it's not easy. Sigh. Will I ever be able to break out of these chains?
Where I stand on Thursday (not including Thursday) NEW CHALLENGES: No sugar 4 days completed/undecided on pauses Vegetable juice 4 days completed/3 pauses Food and exercise journal 3 days complete/no pauses CHALLENGES: No booze 8 days completed/no pauses allowed (started Aug. 20) No smoking 8 days completed/no pauses allowed (started Aug. 20) *************** No alcohol current straight 9 days/longest straight thus far June 28-August 3 = 36 days No sugar current straight 4 days/longest straight was 39 days (July 1-Aug. 9) No cigs current straight 8 days/longest straight was 38 days straight July 1-Aug. 8 No processed foods current straight 4 days/longest straight 40 days (July 1-Aug.10) ************** jolly -- It sounds like you are having a "good anxiety" attack. I do this too, though not recently because I haven't had the weight loss recently.. ;) Whenever things start to look up or I have something good happen, I get all excited inside and that has the same effect as something bad happening. I turn to food. I don't think it's fear of success or fear of looking good. No, it's nothing so eclectic. It's simply...things like this don't happen too often, so when they do, they send me for a loop. Your getting under 200 for the first time in 15 years!!! Wow!!! is huge and surely getting you all churned up inside, even if it's a good thing. So, please be careful. Deep breaths. Calm. Try to sit quietly, meditate a bit..you can do that anywhere..you don't have to sit cross-legged in yoga tights with incense burning...and just say, "I'm going to get through this quietly and calmly and with an inner peaceful joy" .....or something like that! Good luck! :goodluck: mod -- Have a great time in Vegas! Yes, you can do without the alcohol for a night. You can. You can! Just focus on something else. Just order drinks without alcohol so you don't feel left out. People don't care. Or order a cocktail without the alcohol and don't worry if the bartender thinks you're nuts. You can do it on the sly if the people you're with want you to drink. I find that so often people don't like to drink alone. I am like that. Fortunately, I have drinking buddies who don't care if I'm drinking or not as long as they can! :lol: And, you are NOT obese! So please stop with the put-downs. You are so cute and really look good. As for photos of me, it's not that I hate how I am now. I mean, it's not that bad, well, maybe it's just because I've been like this for sooo long that I've gotten used to it. The thing is, I haven't lost enough weight to feel good enough about the difference. It's not really visible to people I think and I want to wow people with some super pics like yours!! Hope to hear from you soon! |
Just wanted to stop in and say hi and give encouragement to everyone. I have been eating right but not getting much exercise because of the knee.
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Evening Everyone!
Thanks for the info red. That does make more sense. Have fun in Vegas Mod! I had a great day, completed all three challenges. Hope everyone is doing well. Personal Challenges: Day 1 Complete :cp: Stay within my daily WW Points - 1 Pause Stop Smoking - 1 Pause Gym 7 Days a week - 3 Pauses I've also signed up for the Miracle Mile Walk October 18th. It's a 3 mile walk to benefit breast cancer! :running: As of today I'm only walking 2.2 miles, so I have a bit to go. I just need some fund raising ideas. |
Day 1, again
210.6. Doing well with food and exercise but didn't meditate yesterday and didn't report in, so... here I am. Scale's budging a bit but I was 207 a few weeks ago and thought that these pounds up were temporary and would go in a whoosh. Still waiting on the whoosh fairy...
Beachluvr, fundraising is the hard part, isn't it! I'd rather just make a donation and do my walk or run. :rolleyes: In Canada, the big Breast Cancer fundraising run/walk is so aggressive about it that I just don't even want to do it. It makes you feel like if you're not personally responsible for thousands of dollars your effort isn't appreciated. I prefer the "every bit counts" approach. Shymoment, hope the knee gets better soon! RB, hang in there! Days like that come and go. As long as we put in the effort, it will work. Sometimes just seems to take a while. Plus, off booze and cigs at the same time? :eek: That's gotta be hard. You're doing great! :encore: Jollygirl, wow, under 200! :woohoo: I'm with you on the fatigue thing (no wonder it contains the word "fat"). If I was always well rested, I don't think I ever would have gained so much. So here's to sleep! :yawn: modcat, have fun in Vegas -- and BEHAVE! :lol: Let's get out there and make this a good one! |
Hey all. Quick fly by. I am such a geek, but I had to get my space organized how I wanted it, before i could start studying. I spent way too long with that. Good news is that I finally got my router to work. I called tech support, and the guy was GREAT walking me through it. I guess they get non techies like me all the time. :lol:
Not official until Saturday, but the scale was at 198 today. The run last night, and moving furniture like crazy burned off the oops I guess. I can't even wrap my mind around that. 198 :fr: So, sorry so quick. Hello to everyone. Keep up the great, but hard, work. i have to finish going through orientation materials, then STUDY |
no joy in this slog...
What I find hard to believe is looking at this tally, it has only been FIVE friggin' days since I was off sugar, yet it feels like months. Every day I resist sweets sitting in front of me and wonder just what for...ah well, I wish I knew really...I wish I knew.
Where I stand on Friday (not including Friday) NEW CHALLENGES: No sugar 5 days completed/undecided on pauses Vegetable juice 5 days completed/3 pauses Food and exercise journal 4 days complete/no pauses CHALLENGES: No booze 9 days completed/no pauses allowed (started Aug. 20) No smoking 9 days completed/no pauses allowed (started Aug. 20) *************** No alcohol current straight 10 days/longest straight thus far June 28-August 3 = 36 days No sugar current straight 5 days/longest straight was 39 days (July 1-Aug. 9) No cigs current straight 9 days/longest straight was 38 days straight July 1-Aug. 8 No processed foods current straight 5 days/longest straight 40 days (July 1-Aug.10) |
Arabella, you're right. I think I may go that route. I don't feel comfortable asking strangers for money, and I hate for my friends and family to feel obligated.
Jolly, such wonderful news! I can only imagine how exciting it is to get down to the 100's again. Hopefully I'll be there with you in a couple of months. What are you going to school for? Hi red, congrats on the no smoking! I so understand how hard it is. I'm basically having to come home every night and go to bed. I'm even kinda of avoiding a good friend at the moment cause she smokes. It's just too tempting! Sad, I know. Today was tough. And It's only day 2!!! I have a pain in the ball of my foot when I'm on the treadmill. Most likely from shoes I wear at work. But I pushed through. Hope all you girls are doing well! Personal Challenges: Day 2 Complete Stay within my daily WW Points - 1 Pause Stop Smoking - 1 Pause Gym 7 Days a week - 3 Pauses |
Hi ladies!!!
Hope everyone one had a good day. Tomorrow is going to be a tuffy. Football season is here which means lots of munchies and drinks. I figure if I can make it through this weekend, I can take over the world!!! :jig: Hope everyone has a great weekend! Personal Challenges: Day 3 Complete Stay within my daily WW Points - 1 Pause Stop Smoking - 1 Pause Gym 7 Days a week - 3 Pauses |
flyby....
Where I stand on Saturday (not including Saturday) NEW CHALLENGES: No sugar 6 days completed/undecided on pauses Vegetable juice 6 days completed/3 pauses Food and exercise journal 5 days complete/no pauses CHALLENGES: No booze 10 days completed/no pauses allowed (started Aug. 20) No smoking 10 days completed/no pauses allowed (started Aug. 20) *************** No alcohol current straight 11 days/longest straight thus far June 28-August 3 = 36 days No sugar current straight 6 days/longest straight was 39 days (July 1-Aug. 9) No cigs current straight 10 days/longest straight was 38 days straight July 1-Aug. 8 No processed foods current straight 6 days/longest straight 40 days (July 1-Aug.10) |
will write soon...
Where I stand on Sunday (not including Sunday) NEW CHALLENGES: No sugar 7 days completed/undecided on pauses Vegetable juice 7 days completed/3 pauses Food and exercise journal 6 days complete/no pauses CHALLENGES: No booze 11 days completed/no pauses allowed (started Aug. 20) No smoking 11 days completed/no pauses allowed (started Aug. 20) *************** No alcohol current straight 12 days/longest straight thus far June 28-August 3 = 36 days No sugar current straight 7 days/longest straight was 39 days (July 1-Aug. 9) No cigs current straight 11 days/longest straight was 38 days straight July 1-Aug. 8 No processed foods current straight 7 days/longest straight 40 days (July 1-Aug.10) |
Hey all. Beachlover, I started law school last week. Need to get back in the study habit, as I got my undergrad 15 years ago.
Well, I did my 1/2 marathon today. Tough. But I got 'r' done! I did not meet my goal of 192 by the race, but 198 is still pretty good. I need to set a new goal for myself. . . Well, I need to get some sleep here. I will try to type more tomorrow. Good luck to all. |
hoping for a bit of hope here...
Hi all. Plugging along here.
Reading "Confessions of a Carb Queen" by Susan Blech and I'm finding it captivating. It's dredging up a lot of bad memories though, things from my teen years, when eating got out of control big time. Sigh. On the other hand, now that I'm on the part where she's losing weight, I'm finding it inspiring. So much so, that I actually did a bit of cleaning in my room, which is...um...unbelievable to put it mildly. I've been soooo depressed, nothing gets done. I come home and sit there trying to forget my life. Not good. Got to make changes. Blech's book may help By the way, for any of you others looking for a bit of inspiration. Here is a good interview with Blech. It's not about the book, but about her life now. http://www.danaroc.com/inspiring_030308susanblech.html This site itself looks great, all sorts of inspiring people. Just click back to the main page. ************** Shy -- How are you doing? I hope your knee is better. Thanks for stopping in and saying heh. jolly -- Congrats on the marathon!! :encore: But what is "r?" And, heh, major kudos for breaking into onederland!! 72 lbs! :cp: WOW!! :bravo: beach -- How's the football weekend turning out? Tell me when the Steelers are nearing the Super Bowl. :lol: You can stay away from the munchies! Remember, it's not you out there playing! ;) Heh, and good going on your challenges. I didn't realize you were doing no smoking too. Keep it up! :yes: Arabella -- Thanks for the support. How are you doing?That woosh fairy should be around any time now! :sunny: |
Half marathon, Red, half - but thanks! 'r', well Git 'r' done is cowboy speak out here. For get her done, or to steal from Nike, just do it. i am glad the book is helping. Sometimes it is all a matter of finding the right resources at the right time.
I overdid it this morning, and feel sick now. The whole idea of a "free" day has to go. Have a good day all. |
Hi everyone,
I've been totally, utterly, unforgivably off the wagon and I can't seem to get my sorry fat a$$ back on. I went totally sugar and garbage crazy while my husband and stepkids were away from STRESS STRESS STRESS and now they're back and it's more STRESS STRESS STRESS.. While they were away I spent 2 days with my sister's family and parents at my sister's house and I'm so proud of myself - I was supposed to be there for another day and I came down the night before and siad that I wanted to go home. <y kids were miserbale, I was miserable, and I wanted a good hour or 2 in my house before my husband came home. What a pathetic monologue here... I woke up on tuesday (sister-going day) with a sore throat. Okay. Wedmesday - we went to anoutdoor airforce museum in over 100 degree weather and I came home with a migraine and a rash. thought it was heat rash. Well - heat rash didn't go awayually spread all over my body and sore throat got so bad I went to the doctor today - she told me i probably have mono (AGAIN...) and I had to do a billion blood tests. what worries me is not mono, but that she asked me who my primary doctor is for my diabetes. and I said - I don't have diabetes, and she said - yes you do.. So I went out of ther feeling sick and miserable and that's where I am right now. Sick and miserable. But I didn't eat any junk today. Yet. |
Jolly, congrats on the 1/2 marathon and going back to school!! I know how tuff it is. I've been in school for 20 years. I guess I'm making a career out of it. :)
red, i did really well Sat. Ate soo much veggies and good stuff that I wasn't hungry. Didn't smoke either! I've been chewing Nicorette for the last couple of days, but it's starting to make my stomach turn, so I guess I'm giving it all up completely. And the Dawgs won!! Congrats on your progress as well. miriam, I'm sorry to hear you are having such a hard time. I'll be praying for you. As of Saturday: Personal Challenges: Day 4Complete Stay within my daily WW Points - 1 Pause Stop Smoking - 1 Pause Gym 7 Days a week - 3 Pauses |
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