Betterlife- You know, I have that same mentality too. I constantly struggle to keep on track and not have a bite of this or a bite of that.
The thing that has really helped me shape up was getting a friend involved. She decided that she has wanted to lose some weight and has joined Weight Watchers. Now it's like a friendly competition between us. We go to the gym regularly and brag to each other about our losses. So for me, it helps because I'm competitive and always want to win.
Are you doing any exercising? That's another thing that helps me keep on track. I'm the kind of person that once I see things happening, it totally motivates me to do better. Once I started exercising the pounds came off a little faster which made me want to exercise and behave even more!
One other thing that is helping me is I take pictures of myself regularly. I've lost 35 lbs now and I am feeling pretty good about myself. I've considered quitting because of how great I was feeling. Then my sister took some pictures of my daughter and I at the park...EEEK!! Just looking at those pictures was a reality check! Man I've got a whole heck of a lot left to lose!
But I'm just like you, if it were me baking cookies, you bet I would've had at least one. Once my husband opens a bag of chips I have to have a few. I CAN'T keep those types of things in my house. If my husband wants chips, he can only have them when I am not home or he has to eat them in a different room. Out of sight, out of mind. Just keep at it.
You CAN do this!
Last edited by Albertachickie; 09-07-2009 at 11:52 PM.
Hey Alberta...thanks so much for the encouraging words, they are vry appreciated. NO I haven't started excersizing...YET...Mom and I are supposed to be starting Curves, I would rather join the new 24hr fitness that opened but she thinks the machines will be too hard on her body, she has trouble with her rotater cuff and sciatic nerve. So I am joining Curves for her as she joined Herbal One with me.
Went and weighed today and was down a 1/2lb.....better then a gain!! I will take it!!
hey ladies,
Long weekends are brutal, I think the main problem is I sat myself up for failure, I knew I was going to cheat... plus its harder to keep track of your meal plan and everything when you are on the go and having fun. I think I need to come up with better ideas for when we go camping! I was up 1 and a 1/4 pounds today and usually weekends are my big losses... oh well here is to hoping that my good behaviour today will make up for it come WI tomorrow... I think maybe we need to ban the words "chips" and "cookies" from our vocabulary in this forum lol. I hate it, my boyfriend is like 6 ft 2 and weighs as much as one of my legs.... and he can eat anything so of course there is junk around all the time... the only way I can get rid of the chips and cookies is to get rid of him too... think that is a bit on the drastic side!
Keep it up ladies way to go on the good work! I am hoping to get myself the Zumba on DVD, I have always wanted to learn latin dancing but you don't want to see these parts wobble in public, but once I am skinny I want to be able to go out dancing and I will need some fancy dance steps!
betterlife- I was a member at Curves a few years ago and really enjoyed it. I liked how you were in and out in a 1/2 hr. Sometimes I felt like I wasn't getting a really good workout but it's all in what you make of it I guess. Let us know how you like it!
cooking- A few weeks ago when I went camping I went in and was up 5 lbs! I found that most of that 5 lbs was water retention so hopefully that's all your is too!
Those men sure are trouble! One day all those cookies and chips will catch up to them! We'll be skinny and beautiful and it'll be there turn to have the belly!
I keep hearing about Zumba, but I'm not really sure what it is. Let me know if you like it!
Oh I almost forgot. Went to my weigh in and was only down 0.6. Not great, but better than gaining I suppose! Here's hoping everyone has a fantastic week!
Haven't been on in a while... but congrats to all those who are shedding the pounds! For those that may have had a slightly bad weekend, don't let it get you down for too long!
I totally understand about the inability to plan... I am actually super pumped to be back at work after the summer off as I'm a major creature of habit. Much easier to plan my diet and get to the gym when I have a schedule. Unfortunately though, back to school means staff get togethers, starting this Friday with a golf tourny that was great fun last year but involved way too many beverages haha oh well, we'll see how it goes!
On the up side, the staff is also planning on starting up a biggest loser competition. Not sure if it will fly or not, but a few of us weighed in and hit the gym after school today.
This Sat. is my goal date... kinda crappy as last Sat I still had 7 lbs to go. Also thinking I want to lose a bit more, although these last few pounds have taken a whole lotta time - totally my doing, oops. Not too excited about buying more weeks but what can you do. Saved some $ on Plats at least as I used my 40% coupon. Hoping they still have coupons when I hit 50 lbs to pick up the rest...
Thanks Alberta! I thought it would take forever to get to my date, but the time really did fly.
Not sure what weight I want... always struggled with self-confidence and being happy with myself so not sure when/if I'll be truly happy. Meh.. guess I'll know when the time comes.
I'm somewhere between 5'6" and 5'7" and I think they considered me a large frame. My goal was on the outer edge of their range (I think it was 145-159?) can't really remember... Always have weighed quite a bit more than I look though so I guess that's in my favour haha
Lucky you Michele! Totally use that in your favour! I'm not so lucky. I was blessed with these big ole hips, which make my butt seem larger that it really needs to be. I always found it weird when my sister-in-law who is bigger than me, wore the same size or a smaller size than me. Then I remember the curse of the hips! But I do have to say, now that I have lost 36 lbs the ghetto booty is definately shrinking! And I'm not at all sad about that!
Little bit nervous for my weigh in tomorrow. I hardly had any water yesterday and didn't get all my veggies in (so weird for me) Trying to make up for it and having tons and tons of H2O today. Hopefully it will even itself out. My husband has been working late, so I haven't even been able to get to the gym. Guess I'll be exercising my butt of this weekend. I went out and bought a skip it....how fun is that?! OMG I loved it! My kind of exercise!
so I had weigh in this morning and good news is that the weight I gained from camping was water retention cuz I droped 3 and 3/4 pounds since wednesday's weigh in!
I love that you bought a Skip It! I am patiently awaiting the arival of my Zumba DVD's
I had class yesterday evening (part time uni student) so I had made up the legal lasagne the night before. I always make half with spinach and half with Pasta (my tall skinny boyfriend needs his carbs... ugh) anyways so I got home and he had eaten his dinner already and ate my half of it and left me the half with pasta... so I had to make dinner for myself all over! Men =S Apararently he didn't stop to think that something was missing!
Going camping this weekend, learned from last trip what not to do so hopefully all goes well. I would like to see a nice drop monday!
What the heck is Zumba? I keep see people refering to it, but I have no clue what it is. Sounds interesting!
My weigh in today was not successful. I was up 0.4. It seems like every Friday I am up. I'm not too terrible worried except for the fact that my week starts Monday and I've lost only 0.2 for the week. EEEK! I'm not sure why as I haven't been cheating. The only thing I can think of is Wednesday I only had like 4 glasses of water if that, and I didn't get all my food in. I would really really really like to see a HUGE drop on Monday as well!
Men! Can't live with em' and can't live without em'!
Good luck camping this weekend! Hope you are able to stay on track!
My weigh in sucked today and I am not sure why. I was up 1.2 pounds Oh well, I had sort of thought that my loss at my WI on Wednesday was too good to be true and I guess I was right.
They switched me to QLP 1 now too so I have less food to eat. ARGH!! For the most part it is not going to be a big deal as I often have a difficult time getting it all in but I am going to miss that protein!!
This could make for an interesting weekend. I had the QLP2 plan all figured out and sort of had a system and now I have to figure out a new system. Darn.
Oh well. Here's to big losses over the weekend everyone!!
I'm missing my protein and my other serving of fruit.
Sorry to hear that your weigh in wasn't the greatest. I hate that, puts me in a bad mood for the rest of the day!
Looks like we all need a big drop this weekend!! Crossing my fingers and my toes for us!
I am new here!! I started the diet on August 11th at 226.4 and today I weighed in at 219.6. I have gone up and down during the last 4 weeks due to a stagette, 2 weddings and a birthday party. With all that over with now I am going to try my hardest to stay on track!! With my son going back to school and my daughter starting preschool I am hoping I will have a little routine in my life now! I am hoping to fit in some time to exercise as well.
I will be starting back with my personal trainer on monday, I am super excited about that. I have had to take 4 months off because I dilocated my knee cap April 13th........ really didn't help my weight at all because I gained 20 lbs not being able to do anything for about 2 months. Now with my healing well I can get back to using the eliptical trainer that we spent $2700 on in February!!! Can't wait!! I have so much mor energy when I exercise!
So far I really like the diet, it is something that is definatly going to work for me . I have tried many other things like WW, Herbal Life,Isogenix........ none of them worked for me.
I am the type of person that needs the one on one support and the weigh in's a few times per week the keep me on track.
I have 2 kids aged 6 and 3 and the keep me super busy! I work full time with my hubby so life can get pretty hectic with soccer, ballet and gymnastics!! I also own a horse as well. I would really like to get back to riding her but I want to lose some weight first.....it would make me feel bette about myself.
Well thanks for listening to me blab...... I'll add updates!
Welcome Wannabe!
I'm like you...routine routine routine. My hardest days to stay on track are the ones I don't work. Which is really weird considering I am a manager at a fastfood restaurant. That's excellent that you are starting back with your trainer. I found when I incorporated exercise into my diet the pounds melted off a little faster. I'm glad you found a diet that will work! It's tough, I've tried many many different approaches as well. Hope to hear more from you!
Oh well, I had sort of thought that my loss at my WI on Wednesday was too good to be true and I guess I was right.
