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Nice to meet up again Mary. Happy Christmas to you and yours. Hope it is not as wet as ours. We still have the thread here in Support groups. Usually it has Worldly in the title. Jump in sometime and say hello. You'd be surprised who is still here.
Red, I hope that you will have some sort of Christmas up there. I wish you the best for the new year and hope life picks up for you. |
No smoking is going strong and I had some real temptations. I almost decided, what the heck, just tonight, but didn't smoke! Hurrah! It would have likely been the start of the old snowball.
I have decided to give up on the no-sugar challenge for now. I need to cut calories, that's the main thing and to do that AND cut out sugar would cause me to feel too deprived. So, I'm going to focus on the calories now. The reason I am overweight is because I eat TOO much, period. So, new challenge is recording everything and keeping an approximate tally. That alone will help me cut back. I've been doing in unofficially for a few days now and I no longer want to binge on sugar or whatever because it makes so little of any effort I do in the gym or other exercise. Finally, I'm saying, to **** with this, all this effort and I still get the very condescending attitude of others. No smoking -- Round 4 -- 19 days completed ************** Shad, thanks. That was sweet of you to come in here and give me some support. I'm hoping things can get better, that I can MAKE them better, but I'm just so beaten down that I can't even imagine what it is exactly that I want. I mean, I do know, but even hope has flown the box and I am having an impossible time luring her back. Mary, thank you, yes, maybe you're right. Maybe it is the smoking, or the no smoking that is putting on the weight. It was coming off and though I know I was not healthy it was a huge mental boost. Sometimes I wonder if that is not the better way. Take off the weight and then tackle the smoking.....but, that said, it's been nearly three months now and I don't want to even go through the gross part of getting addicted again....I'm going to try the hard way and count calories, something I absolutely hate (as much as watching my spending) but I know it's vital (they both are...). |
Hi Red. Tried to get in touch on Facebook this morning, but by the time I got around to you, you were offline.
Catchya next time. |
Well, the calorie thing is not well defined but i am going to take it slowly, meaning I will allow more leeway in things in the first round. So, I'll call yesterday complete. Again, no smoking. And Round 4 will end today! That's 16 weeks with no smoking. Not bad.
No smoking -- Round 4 -- 20 days completed Calorie watch challenge -- Day 1 completed |
Well, though I'm talking to myself here, for what it's worth, I completed another round of no smoking and kept aware of what I was eating yesterday, which, to put it bluntly, was crap. Incredible. But it is changing things, this awareness. Last night I even had a dream that I was setting out on a world journey and I stopped in some drugstore and was saying that I should mark the journey with a change, like eating real healthy or something. What I think this was showing was that I am feeling a real change in my outlook. I am starting to WANT to do something better and that shows true progress. I mean, the only way I could stick to better eating is to make them part of my life, part of my routine and that is going to necessitate desire. So, perhaps allowing myself the junk, yet deciding I have to be accountable for it by recording it, is bringing about this desire. Good stuff! :yes:
No smoking -- Round 4 -- 21 days completed -- CHALLENGE COMPLETED!! :bravo: :cp: :encore: :cp: Calorie watch challenge -- Day 2 completed |
Good stuff indeed
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Hi Red! Hi Shad! I finally owned up to my shame and came back--after how long? I don't wanna know----all I know is, this board helped me awhile back and I just need to log on every day and read my threads and get motivated AGAIN, after my deliberate turning away from my weight/workout/diet obsession a few (or more!) months ago.....
I still have never made my goal, and for once, just once, I'd like to get down to it. First I need to reverse the backslide....of about 14 pounds...... |
Hey!! It's me and I'm back!
I didn't dance for a couple of days, Christmas and then I got sick. So, I re-started today. I'm on Round 2, Day 1. I almost made it to the end of round 2, but that's just how it goes. Hope all is well with the rest of you. |
Well, I got to the gym and even did a bit on the bike and elliptical in addition to the weights. I've got to up the cardio to knock the fat off. I watched the calories and just by doing that I know I consumed less than I would have had I not watched them. Still, it's not going to have me losing any weight, but I guess this is an important step nonetheless. When I stop the mindlessness maybe I can start really making progress.
Right now, what happens if I crack down is I then go crazy when I can't take it any longer. It's something mental, some feeling of "Oh, I've made SO much effort!" when it's not really that much effort at all, it's just SO different from what I would normally do....mindless face-stuffing. It sucks. My life sucks, but I gotta keep at it.... No smoking -- Round 5 -- 1 day completed Calorie watch challenge -- Day 3 completed ************** Shad, thanks! :hug: modcat, Welcome back! No shame in what you did. Only shame would be not to go at it again! derry, good to see you too! :yes: |
Glad to see a few others here, it's good for motivation when we are all working towards a goal and communicating.
Red, I take not that you are on the threshold of the 140s and about ready to drop into the next "decade" of weight from 150. You go girl! You can do this! I'm right here to support you! I'll dance with joy for you when you get that last one pound off and get into the 140s! As for me, I'm struggling to get down into the 150s now. At one point, you and I were close in weight and then I lost my way. I'm ready to go at this again and I hope to make it stick this time! So, today is Round two, day 2. : ) I'm going to dance! I have a cold/cough/runny nose thing happening, so the dancing might be slower, but I'm still going to do it! I also bought this gorgeous pineapple at the store yesterday and fresh pineapple, grapes and bananas will be inviting snacks in the next few days, fresh and healthy! Homemade chicken soup for me as well, to help my cold. Red, do you use chopsticks all the time in Tokyo? I got trainer left handed ones for Christmas. My daughter found them for me. I'm such a "******" (a word I can call myself, but would never call others) when it comes to using them. I'm what they might call severely left-handed and I just don't "get" when right handed people try to show me how to do things. |
Can't believe that word wouldn't come out and they blocked it as if it was an offensive swear. I had no intent to offend a single person using it.
It starts with an re and ends with tard, just to clarify what I said. And, again, I would never call anyone else that word, only myself in a joking way as I can't get how to use chopsticks! How silly that it was blocked. But, if using it caused any offense at all, I'm very sorry. |
derry, no time to reply in full here, just wanted to say thanks! for the encouragement and support. Don't worry about the word. The things are taken out by computer. Sure, some people may take offense if someone used the word to describe a person with mental disabilities, but how you're using it was meant the same as calling someone a moron or idiot. Any discerning person would understand. Carry on! :dance:
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I am seriously contemplating starting smoking again....well, maybe....just because I am eating so much and/or just can't seem to lose weight.... :( I can't feel great when I am disgusted with my looks and feel the scorn of all eyes around me. It so sucks being surrounded by skinny people. What is it with Japanese that keeps them so thin?!?!?
No smoking -- Round 5 -- 2 days completed Calorie watch challenge -- Day 4 completed ************** derry, I don't use chopsticks that much, only when I eat Japanese food. Japanese use Western utensils just as much as chopsticks. I never heard of "left-handed chopsticks." Is that a joke? I guess it would have to be. :) |
Day 1
I'm starting a 30 day challange of my own and this sounds like a great place to start it off. This first challenge is a 1 in difficult and I don't want to give myself any pauses. I will log all excercise and food and I will log in and post on this forum everyday. |
Welcome, ma26. :welcome: Are those two separate challenges or just one?
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