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that makes TWO!!
Good morning, all. Gotta do a flyby here. I have SO much work left and it MUST be done by deadline today. I got another good day done yesterday, so that makes TWO on the string of good days. Gotta keep on truckin'!!! :dancer:
Cyndi, Apple, mod THANK YOU! I really need your support these days. Getting out of this bad slump is tough. Talk to you all later! :wave: No Booze challenge Day 3/8 (second number is straight days) Yet another round completed!! 3 pauses --starting new streak Jan. 4 -- longest streak 56 days Nov. 5 to Dec. 31 No Smoking challenge (Started Nov. 5) Day 5/68 fourth round, no pauses -- Third round COMPLETED!!! JAN. 6 Good eating challenge Day 2 completed Today's a holiday, -- Coming-of-Age Day -- when one marks the year he or she will turn 20, and normally I'd get to take off, but got work to do and a page to be OK'd, so in I go. Weather will be good. All the girls dress up in fancy kimono. Great day for pictures like this (from the Web). ... http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...et59/small.jpg |
Cute picture of the girls dressed up, Red! And you sound so much better--yaay! Even if you had to go into work today.
:thanks: Red, Cyndi, Apple for the :bday2: wishes!!!! Now that's all over with, and it's back to normal for me. It's just a number anyway, not to worry. I worked my butt off on Friday because of all the evenings out and boy did I pay for it--sooo sore Saturday I only did some stretching and yoga-type poses along with a brief walk, and still sore on Sunday, but still managed to make it to my swim class--which made me feel better. But after three late nights in a row out, plus the exercising and cleaning the garage I did Friday and Sat and Sun I am now worn out and about ready to head to bed for my very busy work day tomorrow. Still, pretty happy with the challenges and staying pretty much OP for the last few days. I feel sure this week will be even better!!! talk to everyone later, buh-bye.... |
feed the pig!!
Got through another day here with pretty good food. Maybe not as good as the other two days, but still good. And I made my green juice, had no sugar and of course no alcohol. Gotta keep it up.
Also, I bought a piggy bank last week and am feeding it every day with money saved from things like not eating sugar, not going to a cafe for coffee, not eating out, etc. I have a list of things I would likely normally be doing and if I don't do them I get to FEED THE PIGGY! Isn't she cute? I don't know what I'm saving for, but I figure in a year I should have the pig packed! http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...et59/piggy.jpg Challenge-wise, I'm clear on all three!! :dance: Three days of good eating behind me and I feel SO much better. Now, I know, it's the sugar even more than the alcohol that drags me down. God, the stuff is true crack! :^: ************* No Booze challenge Day 4/9 (second number is straight days) Yet another round completed!! 3 pauses --starting new streak Jan. 4 -- longest streak 56 days Nov. 5 to Dec. 31 No Smoking challenge (Started Nov. 5) Day 6/69 fourth round, no pauses -- Third round COMPLETED!!! JAN. 6 Good eating challenge Day 3 completed Well, it looks like this thread is down to five of us. I guess people are just not yet up to it yet. I know, I don't feel like doing good. It's cold and all that, but, oh, well, I have to be here kind of. ;) Glad our core crew is here! :grouphug: ************** mod -- Really, it was only 45, right. I'm ahead of you and this year...oh, I really don't want to go there....just forget you heard anything... :^: All that swimming you do too. It's so good. I hate swimming. I hate being cold. But, I do wish I could get to like swimming. It's such good exercise. And, for me, it doesn't even feel like exercise, just torture... :lol3: Cyndi -- Yeah, you're right, getting something done right keeps the depression at bay. I've always been a melancholy baby, always and I've had to learn a lot about keeping depression from becoming a real ball and chain around my leg. Actually, I probably just have learned to drag it around better. Wish I didn't have it at all. But, I think that's just part of our makeup. A lot of greats were pretty dreary! :rofl: Yeah, the work is a pain. Today, we had some pranksters calling the office constantly, literally constantly. The one guy kept losing it, but I took over and just used the phone to keep answering, not saying a word and they started having to call back immediately with no gratification. Luckily, I was finished with my work and was kind of enjoying it. I was listening to them giggle on the other end, bunch of foreigners, too. Proabably out drinking with nothing to do. Either that or it was someone from the office having a real laugh over us having to work today. :lol: I don't know what it is exactly with the sugar. It's probably the glycemic thing. White rice does it for me too. Also, there is a lot of hidden sugar in processed foods, so be careful there. Things that don't taste sweet at all can still have a lot of sugar in 'em. Processed sugar has been, they say, chemically altered. It is nothing like natural sugar. Fruit doesn't bother me at all. Nothing like a big apple to fill you up too! :yes: Apple -- You're sticking to it too! Good for you! :bravo: :bravo: :bravo: miriam -- Are you OK? Things sound really rough over there. Hope you're safe. http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...59/bird101.gif |
still stringing 'em together....
Where is everyone?!?! :listen:
I'm doing well again!! Had a great first riding lesson today! Hurrah! I am staring the bag of candy in the face and it is NOT tempting me. Bizarre! No Booze challenge Day 5/10 (second number is straight days) Yet another round completed!! 3 pauses --starting new streak Jan. 4 -- longest streak 56 days Nov. 5 to Dec. 31 No Smoking challenge (Started Nov. 5) Day 7/70 fourth round, no pauses -- Third round COMPLETED!!! JAN. 6 Good eating challenge Day 4 completed |
Hey Gang :) I'm still desktopless but finally back on track! It feels so much healthier to have a few clean days in a row.
* Chocolate Challenge, Rnd 2 - No solid chocolate, 2/3 serving sized pauses. First challenge completed 12/20. 14/21 - used 2 pauses * Grain Challenge - Limit of 3 grain servings per day, 1 pause used.14/21 * Exercise challenge, Rnd 2 - yoga, weights or stretches every day (cardio is assumed). 1 pause First round completed 12/22. Restarted 1/5 - 8/21 * Journal Challenge, Rnd 2 - Journal everything that goes into my mouth,no pauses. First round completed 12/27. Took a break when computer crashed. 13/21 * The Stay out of the Jar with a Spoon Challenge. No more than 1 serving size of nuts or nut butter daily. No pauses 8/21 Red - :cp::hat::flow1::bravo::flow1::hat::cp: You're my hero! I knew you could get past the bump. I love the piggy bank idea. One of my goals for the year is to be more responsible with money and a visual like the piggy bank could just work for me. Mind if I borrow the idea? Depression and I are old friends though I finally feel like I have it at bay. Sugar definitely brings it on for me along with the urge to binge. Fruit never bothers me but processed sugars and those juice dense leathers do seem to cause problems. too bad because i love the Clif Kids twizzler like things. Mod - Must have been the weekend. I way overdid it on the mini trampoline and am still feeling it in my hips! Gotta watch us old chicks ;) Apple & Miriam :wave: hope all is well in your worlds. :crossed: hope things calm soon Miriam. okay, off to work. |
10 minute run, Day 8 completed, 1 pause left
20 min additional exercise, Day 9 completed, 2 pauses left Crunches, Day 8 completed, 1 pause left. No Beer, Day 5 completed, 1 pauses left I think thats right. I need to post everyday or I have to use my brain. Simple math.Ouch. My run pause was lame, I really could have gotten one in.:shrug: My beer pause was just one beer. I guess that's a plus. My computer is incredibly slow right now for some reason. Grrr Red, good to hear you are back on track. There's no stopping you now!! Hi everyone else! |
10 minute run, Day 9 completed, 1 pause left
20 min additional exercise, Day 10 completed, 2 pauses left Crunches, Day 9 completed, 1 pause left. No Beer, Day 6 completed, 1 pause left. Well, I know it's unrealistic, but 9 days and no weight change is pretty darned frustrating. Gotta keep going though. How many times have I said to myself, if only I kept up with it, I'd be seeing success by now. Seriously though, if there is no change by Feb, I have to step it up a notch. Hope everyone is having a great day. It is a beautiful day here, so I'm going to try to get back out side. |
one for the thumb!!!.... Go Steelers!!!
Another day notched. Is it only 5?!?! :shrug: I can't believe it. It feels like 5 months. Honestly, why is a bit of change so hard. Jeez, you'd think I was moving mountains. Well, maybe I am. Ingrained habits are powerful things. Oh well. Just gotta keep on. I met someone last night and he sat there while we talked and downed three beers. It was tempting but I know I can't drink anymore without getting quite drunk quite fast. I have become such a lightweight....in that sense. :)
No Booze challenge Day 5/10 (second number is straight days) Yet another round completed!! 3 pauses --starting new streak Jan. 4 -- longest streak 56 days Nov. 5 to Dec. 31 No Smoking challenge (Started Nov. 5) Day 7/70 fourth round, no pauses -- Third round COMPLETED!!! JAN. 6 Good eating challenge Day 4 completed ************** Cyndi -- Good for you for getting back on track! :cp: Thanks so much for the congratulations. I don't think I'm worthy of hero status!!! :dance: But, if you insist! Of course you can have a pig too! Which reminds me, I have to feed her! I'm naming her Charlotte. I know, that's the spider, but unless I name her Wilma, Wilbur just isn't right. Apple -- Your post came in as I was typing. Hang in there! If you're cutting back on calories, you should see a difference soon. Are you? Isn't it a pain that effort is...well...just that? It's so easy to compensate for effort, because we feel so deserving. I don't know. We have to learn to reward ourselves with other things. Let's make up a list of things, from long therm to short to instant. The instant is what's so hard. Food is just that, and smoking. Any ideas? |
Instant, hmmm? Well, I hate to say it, but food is easiest and most available reward. Other rewards--spending money (uh, not good), petting a pet (but not at work) maybe a little back/neck rub? (Who to ask when at work?) At home, it's easier, a pampering bath, scented lotions, a kiss or..... Often I try to pick up a book and immediately get involved in that. But true, instant rewards are hard to come up with, besides food, huh? This question will keep me pondering for awhile......
Well, majorly busy this week, and lots of stuff going on at home, as well. Mostly just financial stuff, not life or death, but still stressful. I have been so tempted to go out of control, and have had a few small slips but stopped myself before totally losing it. I do believe my general caloric goals have been met every day, but not without some struggle. I have eaten carrots and fruit galore to stop my urge to eat other stuff. And I've had a few diet pepsi's and a couple of glasses of wine. Oh and a ton of nuts--need to crunch apparently. But otherwise not bad under the circumstances. I've been dying to get a massage or get to the yoga classes at the gym--that tells you how badly I am needing to relax. I am determined to go to yoga on Friday when I am off--heck, that's free (I mean, my gym membership is all paid up for at least 6 months so basically "free"). I keep cutting out coupons for "introductory" massages at various places, at really low rates, so hopefully I can try one or more of them in the next couple of months. I can't stand this type of stress--it's "worry" stress and anxiety of the future and the unknown. General "Busy" stress, where everything else in my life is really pretty good, but I'm just too busy, I can handle alright--have done many many times in my life. But this kind of anxious, worried stress......ugh! Why isn't this the 60's, where they used to hand out Valiums like candy for middle-aged housewives who can't handle their lives anymore? Sure everyone was a little zoned-out, but sooo relaxed! They could deal with anything life threw at them, and still have that dopey "c'est la vie" smile on their face. Anyway, enough whining--gotta just get the next couple of days put behind me and hopefully this week-end will be better..... Apple--I'm like you, I forget how many days it's been since I started this challenge--I think this is day 9 but I'll check on that later. Just had to post today before I lose touch and get too far behind. Red and Cyndi--I feel for you and your battles with depressive thought and moods. I think all of us probably have issues like that--else why do we have problems with food in the first place? It can't be just that we love food too much--it's all tied up with mood elevation, as we know. Happy chemicals being released in our brain. Maybe the truth is that that is what is addictive, the release of the happy neurotransmitters. And we've found food to be the easiest and most effective way to trigger that. Gonna ponder all that some more, hopefully with a good night's sleep tonight.... |
10 minute run, Day 10 completed, 1 pause left
20 min additional exercise, Day 11 completed, 2 pauses left Crunches, Day 9 completed, 0 pauses left. No Beer, Day 7 completed, 1 pause left. Forgot to do crunches yesterday. It's a challenge that probably isn't going to make much of a difference, but it should be easy to do once I get in the habit. That's what its all about, isn't it? So Red, who IS this guy you met? I interpreted it as someone you JUST met, but you may have meant that you already knew each other and met meaning got together. Just wondering if I had some dirt there, that I could tease you about. Wink-wink.;) Valium....hmmmmm |
one for the thumb on good eating!
Another day notched. I have so much solid energy, it's scary. My skin (knock on wood) seems a bit better. I'm actually able to sleep a bit more. That's why I am now late and gotta run! Later all! GO STEELERS!!!
No Booze challenge Day 6/11 (second number is straight days) Yet another round completed!! 3 pauses --starting new streak Jan. 4 -- longest streak 56 days Nov. 5 to Dec. 31 No Smoking challenge (Started Nov. 5) Day 8/71 fourth round, no pauses -- Third round COMPLETED!!! JAN. 6 Good eating challenge Day 5 completed ************** Apple -- :lol: No, there's no "guy" in my life. That was a business meeting. No dirt, no teasing. Ha! Yeah, the crunch challenge is nonetheless good. It keeps you in workout mode and if you do them well, you will make a difference in your strength at least. I mean, that's what it's for, right? I for one have a habit of thinking everything is going to affect the stores of fat on me and that ain't true, is it? mod -- Good to see you! Oh, the food is definitely chemical with me. But, we can also make those chemicals through thoughts. It's just slower and doesn't have the crack-like feel to it. It's gentle, not a jolt and who wants that? Jolts are jolly! Speaking of which, whatever happened to jolly? :dunno: I hope you can get some relaxation. I understand "busy." Gosh, do I ever. Hang in there! Gotta run. Later! :wave: http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...ainbow_2-1.gif |
Six!
Ok, calling it good early on another day. I'm eating too much and too much bread but I'm still going to allow it. No sugar, no processed foods other than a bit of bread. I am definitely doing better. I feel so much better.
Where is everyone? Come on out and talk to us!! No Booze challenge Day 6/12 (second number is straight days) Yet another round completed!! 3 pauses --starting new streak Jan. 4 -- longest streak 56 days Nov. 5 to Dec. 31 No Smoking challenge (Started Nov. 5) Day 9/72 fourth round, no pauses -- Third round COMPLETED!!! JAN. 6 Good eating challenge Day 6 completed |
10 minute run, Day 11 completed, 1 pause left
20 min additional exercise, Day 12 completed, 2 pauses left Crunches, looks like a start over No Beer, Day 8 completed, 1 pause left. I miss Jolly too. She must be really busy with law school. Jolly, If you are lurking, please drop us a line. And Fish woman! She's probably had her baby by now!! I just had a conversation with my BIL about how he wants to lose some weight. So maybe there's motivation for me there. Red, I'll find something to tease you about! ;) |
green stuff...
Well, I'm sitting here drinking my pint glass plus of green juice. You've seen the picture before... Today it's a mix of spinach, komatsuna (similar to spinach), dark leafy lettuce, burdock root, parsley, a banana, soy milk, flax oil, fresh lemon and vanilla and almond flavoring. Oops, am I breaking my own rules here? :?: Am I sending any of you on a vegetable binge? :o I hope SO!! :lol3: Despite my healthful juice, I am going to have to take a pause because I had a bit of sugar. Oh well, I knew what I was doing. No binge or anything so that's good! :yes: Hope we see some more action around here! Apple and mod have stopped by recently. Cyndi, where are you? :listen: Oh, and on another note...the body I want is like this butterfly to the kitten... :^: Actually, if I were this energetic, it might help... |
:wave: good to see some of you still here :)
* Chocolate Challenge, Rnd 2 - No solid chocolate, 2/3 serving sized pauses. First challenge completed 12/20. 84/21 - used 2 pauses * Grain Challenge - Limit of 3 grain servings per day, 1 pause used.18/21 * Exercise challenge, Rnd 2 - yoga, weights or stretches every day (cardio is assumed). 1 pause First round completed 12/22. Restarted 1/5 - 11/21, 1 pause used when I had a draining day and soaked instead of exercising * Journal Challenge, Rnd 2 - Journal everything that goes into my mouth,no pauses. First round completed 16/27. Took a break when computer crashed. 13/21 * The Stay out of the Jar with a Spoon Challenge. No more than 1 serving size of nuts or nut butter daily. No pauses 8/21 Red - I discovered kamatsuna last summer when my CSA had it. I love it steamed with tahini lemon sauce, Yum. Not sure about that green drink but it certainly sounds healthy. Good job controlling the sugar beastie. The trick now is to stay in control. Feeling better is the best reward IMO. :bravo: on acing the smoking challenge yet again! Apple - Doing great with all the exercise! I was all impressed yesterday because I managed to run 2 3 minute chunks and here you are at 10! Mod - did you make it to yoga? I love yoga, may not do much for weight loss but it's great for the head. I think you're on to something with the food - certain foods mimic serotonin (chocolate for one) and make us feel better. Gives some credence to those who say sugar is a drug because I think some of us use it that way! I just had a consult with nauropath about diet and health stuff which should make for some interesting ideas floating around. It's just a quiet, cold weekend here. I'm hibernating and doing chores. Well except for the 2 hour break to watch the basketball game! I've discovered that the stepper we bought is great for reducing TV watching guilt though. Have a good day/evening gals! |
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