Girlie----I watched "the biggest loser" too and was also motivated by that show. Seeing how those people were litearally pushing themselves made me realize that I need to make changes. I need to improve my own workout routine and quit putting off doing that. I have set my alarm so at 6am I will be up and either gone to the gym or out walking/running. Depending on the weather. I'm also going to cut out alot of what I have been eating and replace them with things that are better for me.
TardyAngel----Sorry to hear you're going through such a rough time right now.
**Hugs*** Hope things get easier for you soon.
JustJodi---Congrats on Passing up the oppurtunity to be tempted by the wings and instead opting to go home and eat a sensible dinner. I'm sure that a part of you wishes you could have been there to celebrate with your son and his team so that could be why you feel kind of bad. I'm sure your son knows that you're proud of him and understands the reason why you went home instead of out with them.
Hevron--Good to see you posting again!! I know what its like to be in a "slump" been there myself several times. There were days when I thought "why even bother" but my attitude has changed since then. I still have off days but I try to think postive even on the bad days.
Susie and Nan- (and anyone else here who is going to school) I just want to say Congrats to you gals for making the decision to go take some course and earn a degree. I should be doing the same but I am the world's worst procrastinator.....I keep saying "I'll sign up for course next semester" and putting it off. I feel awkward about going to college at 28---the whole idea really just overwhelms me. I think it is wonderful that you gals are working towards your degrees! I wish you all luck on any tests you have!!!
Ok I am getting sleepynow so to everyone I missed know I am thinking about you and sending hugs your way.
Oh yeah before I go....I kinda caved today and messed up on my dieting....I had a bowel of ice cream for dessert tonight. That won't be happening again. I only lost a pound this week but I guess losing one is better than gaining one. I've upped my workout routine and am making some food changes so maybe next week I'll see a 2 pound loss!
Sounds like lots of us "thin-challenged" people watched The Biggest Loser this week! I have to tell you that it motivated me, too. Girlie is right - it's a bit unrealistic in that they work out for several hours a day and have a trainer right there in their face, but still...to see someone lose 10-20 pounds in 1 week can't help but be motivational.
Our goals ARE possible! I CAN fit that 22/24 red suit by Christmas! I declare it! In fact, I want to lose lots of weight before Thanksgiving so my family will be surprised at my weight loss. I don't plan to be seeing them before that time (they only live an hour away), but wouldn't that be great? To go into Thanksgiving with a huge head start on my goals? Yes, I can do it.
I belong to Curves, and you can make your workout as easy or as challenging as you want. I've got to step it up this week and make those workouts (and my membership fees!) count for something.
For those wanting to try journaling, don't forget to check out fitday.com. It's a fantastic site and is free.
Hi Ladies,
Wow! What great posts....when I read them, I just know I can do this...you all are out there doing it with me. Thanks for taking the time to come posts...good and bad times....we all have them and we all need each other to get through them. Does anyone feel like this is the only place you can be honest and admit a setback, and still feel like you are going to get to where and what you want to be? I know I sure do!
We didn't get our tests back last night and I was so disappointed. The Prof. said the reason was because not everyone had taken the test. Everyone didn't think that was fair, so I spoke up and asked how long she would be giving the people who missed the test a chance to make it up. She said this Thursday would be the cut of. I'm thinking now it will be next Tuesday before we get our grade. She really should've had two different tests made up to avoid this. I did get my homework back and I missed a couple of things, but not to bad. I still have an A average and for right now my 4.0 grade point is intact. I know that might change as I get into my harder classes, but as long as it stays above a 3.0 that's ok with me. I'm joining Phi Theta Kappa, it's the National Honor Society at school. You have to be invited and to have that you must have completed 16 hrs and have a grade point of 3.75 to join. I feel very honored that my hard work is being recoginzed by that Society and I'm going to go through the induction on Oct. 29. We can invite family and friends. In order to remain as an active member, you must keep a 3.0 or better GPA.
I did great with my food yesterday. I'm writing my food down when I sit down to eat. That seems to be working for now...at least I find the time to jot something down then. My workout was good last night. I'm still not up to adding a full 15 min. But I'm up to 10 min now.
One last thing about me. Today I'm taking some of my bigger clothes to the consigment shop. They are my really nice dress clothes and they are still in fashion, and in good shape. I thought I might as well get rid of them because they are huge and I tell you, there is NO WAY, I'm going to ever wear them again. I figure I might as well get something out of them. It's a little scary to give them away. Sort of feel like I'm flaunting my success...but I need to do this.
Hevron: Great attitude! YES you can fit into the suit...hang it where you can see it. Try it on every week..
April: I went back to school at 36! I only take 1-2 classes at a time and when I first started back I only took one. It was scary..still is sometimes..but if I want to make my degree happen, I've got to face that fear. If you really want to go back and take a class..you will....just step out. I've used fitday before and you are right, it is an awesome site! Tell us how your "Pepped Up" Curves workout goes.
Girlie: You did awesome with getting yourself back on track. Thanks for sharing everything with us. I'm thinking about your Jan 1 challenge. I'm in...I just need to figure out what I want to set as a goal.
Jodi: You did something for you! Skipping those wings were in your best interest and I'm guessing that you, along with most of us, aren't used to putting our needs first. But you did! I think you should be proud of that.
Annie: Great news for you and your daughter! and it's great that you called your friend to talk about the woes...you didn't eat..that's good! You are doing well....keep on trying lady!
Holly: How are you feeling today?
Nan: How's your day going?
If I missed anyone...consider yourself thought of!
I'm in the office and wanted to post early today. I started the day right...I did wake up at 5am and found myself at the gym by 5.20, a little earlier than usual. I don't know how I woke up...my muscles were tight...but I figured I'd better move them early or I'd be totally stiff all day. I have a hard time with stretching sufficiently. I went straight to my elliptical, got in 47 hardcore minutes and just about 7000 strides. The last 15 minutes I struggled a bit with, but made it. Only 13 more minutes and that would have been an hour. Maybe by November I'll be at the 60 minute mark. That would be a great workout, and then gradually I can add in some floor work, like crunches and leg lifts. Right now, I'm still trying to just wake up and get to the gym. The thing that sucks is that I have to work, so I try to work out, shower and get home in time to make a leisurely breakfast and dress for work.
I went grocery shopping after my workout and bought a bunch of fresh veggies, etc...geez, came out to $45!!! But I'm set for salads and sandwiches for the rest of the week. DH will just have to live with all the rabbit food!
MyChoice:
I envy you for being such a good student. I did get a BS in Advertising...It took me six years to get it and I took 2-3 courses per semester. I wasn't non-traditional because of my age, but because I worked full time and most of the kids at the private college didn't work at all, had money and pretty much were handed jobs after they graduated. I startedout okay, but got so burned out and hated the fact that I had to work along with all this school work. I just wanted to get out of there, and I ended up with barely a 3.0 average...which honestly, was just fine with me because I think I did the best I could at the time. I also failed Economics class TWICE. I couldn't deal with that class. My GPA would be much better had I not done so horribly. Now I'm so dreading going back for a Masters. My DH is working on his, so maybe after he is done...maybe not!
Hevron:
Of course you can get into that red suit for the holidays! I try not to think of "the biggest loser" as far as weight...22 pounds in one week is horribly unhealthy and to be honest, I'm really surprised they are doing that and airing it. I didn't even notice a disclaimer. BUT, the show did help me see that I am a lot like those people. Do you remember when they came to breakfast the next morning and all that yummy but unhealthy breakfast food was laid out on the table? I would have DIED. Really, my only weakness would have been the bacon. I love bacon and really I think it's okay to have as long as you are making up for it with exercise and staying low-fat the rest of the day. At least it's a protein and I think if you were to eat anything, it would be the bacon rather than waffles and pancakes. You can wear that suit! Just think about those people on the show...how bad do you want it?
April:
I'm glad the show inspired you too. One thing that really inspired me was the girl who got booted off the show, they showed that she'd lost more weight after the show and she looked great! Perhaps that is what she needed to inspire her. Don't worry about the bowl of ice cream. I think of it this way...if I plan on a fattening or high calorie item...I tend to exercise harder. Figure out the calories of what you ate and burn them off. Technically, the name of the game is to burn more calories than you eat. I know the machines at the gym aren't totally accurate, but since I put my age, height and weight in, I can have a decent estimate of the amount of calories that I ate.
I had egg beaters scrambled with mushrooms on light whole wheat bread and an apple today. My mid-morning snack is Pepperidge Farms pretzel fish. Lunch will be a big salad that I make and another apple. Maybe I'll cut up the apple in my salad and add raisins too. Mmm. Then afternoon snack is light microwave popcorn. I found some made by Smart Balance that is light and has no trans-fat. I'm going to try to eat at 8am, 10a, 12p, 3p and between 6-7pm. I'm trying to have meals and smart snacks planned and eat them at those times even if I don't feel very hungry...it will prevent feeling super hungry and binging.
first of all let me say girlie, how brave of you to tell us how you have been struggling the last few days!!! congratulations on getting all of that off of your chest!! you are my inspiration today!!! we can all do this!! it isn't very pretty alot of the time but we are all in this together!! great job realizing where you were going wrong and making the good choice to pull yourself up!!! keep up the great work! i watched the biggest looser last night too. it really made me stop and think! hope you have a great day!! and again you are wonderful, congratulations!!
mychoice- sorry you didn't get your grade back, that really doesn't seem fair to your class! good for you speaking up about it. congrats on getting invited to join the honors society, that is fantastic! and thank you for helping make sense out of my bad feeling for making a good choice, i know you are right. it is very hard to put myself first.
that's right hevron you're going to look fabulous in that suit at christmas time!! we can do this!!!
april great choices!! hope you have a wonderful day!!
Hi everyone! I've just started Weight Watchers and Curves for Women. I've tried before and never stuck with it, but my twins just started kindergarden, so this will be the first time I could actually get up in the morning and go to the gym without finding a babysitter. So I'm so excited! I am 5' 8 1/2" and weigh 242 pounds. I'm going to shoot for 220 by Christmas.
Does anyone know the exercise point value of the Curves workout? I listed it on my points tracker as 30 minutes of low impact aerobics. Anyone else doing Curves and Weight Watchers? I'd love to hear from you, either in here or at [email protected]. Thanks! ~ Barb Kirby
Barbie:
I've never been to Curves, but I know you can make it as easy or as hard as you want it. I think a couple others here are in Curves and can help you better with that question. But welcome and I hope you stick around here and be with us when you make your Christmas goal! It's a very brave thing to set goals during these winter holidays...be we can totally do this. If we can survive these holidays, we know we can survive the rest of the year!
Hope all is well with you. Like the rest of the overweight on this continent, I too watched The Big Loser I think their losses are reasonable, but only if you have enough money to go to a "fat spa" and spend your entire day obssessing about getting fit. The other thing I took away from this is that it appeared that none of the contestants said that they were currently trying to lose the weight. In a way, this looked like a weight loss boot camp approach to shock them into the fact that it's not easy and you've got to work at it--hard!
I personally have not dropped anymore weight, but am happy to report that my DH has finally seen that his constant fatigue is probably directly related to his weight gain over the last year or so. He's on fire now to lose his weight and it's making our time together alot of fun. We've started working out together in the family room (exercise bike and treadmill) and he's dropping the weight quite well. It's fun to see him get excited about it too. Now we weigh in every morning and compare losses and while it sounds kind of competitive, it's actually helping to motivate me more.
Girlie - YOU ROCK! Keep up the great work and those lbs should start literally flying off your backside (OOPS, that's where I want mine to fly off any ).
Heather - You are going to look fabulous by Thanksgiving and then completely knock them dead at Christmas! Just picture yourself in that size to keep yourself motivated.
MyChoice - I agree about the test thing. I'm on an online program, so we get our grades regardless of whether others show up for tests or not. When I first went to school for my associates degree they had a good rule on it. If you had to miss a test, you took a harder one that was scheduled one week later. Her philosophy was "tough luck, you either take it when you are supposed to, or you suffer the consequences". It didn't take long before EVERYONE showed up for the test the FIRST time.
Barbie - WELCOME! Glad to have you!
April - congratulations on your loss! Whether its 1 or 10 lbs, as long as it's a loss, it's a step in the right direction.
If I've missed anyone I'm sorry, but I've got homework to crank out and a preschooler beckoning for ABC time.
Hi, girls...I started out Monday so good-so motivated-writing down all my food and using Fitday for the first time-(I even walked 7.5 miles on Monday) And then, Tuesday came along. I just fell off the wagon completely I've been eating blueberry cheesecake muffins, and white bread with butter, and anything else I could find. Reading your posts has given me the determination to stop myself right now, before I do any more damage.
Hi chicks,
It is same song different day for me. I STILL dont feel very well. The day starts out okay and then I fizzle out pretty quick.Yesterday I went to bed at 4 pm(Thankyou Dora).I slept til 7 got up for a bit and then slept throught the night.Today i went out. I was getting shack wacky.It was a nice day. At 4 pm a major headache started. AAAARG! Same as yesterday. I am extemely tired of not feeling well.This is the never ending virus.
I weigh in tonight.
I have hardly eaten, well, compared to usual. I dont feel hungry either.
(((((greenlass))))))) hang in there hon! You recognized it and you are stopping. Good for you!!!! Start fresh everytime you want to put put something unhealthy in your mouth. hugs.
hello everyone!
holly i am so sorry you are still feeling sick, you must need the rest! hang in there hopefully in a few more days you'll feel good as new!
greenlass- you can do this!! we all slip up, great job recognizing it and trying again. keep on trying that is the most important part!!!
labchick- that is great that your dh is dieting along with you! it is great to have support with exercise etc. keep up the great work!!
barbie- welcome, sorry i am no help at all with curves or ww. there is a wonderful amount of support in here though no matter what your plan is.
well it was a fairly good day today, i did have one little bite of fudge that MIL made and insisted i taste. i treated myself to a half of a ff vanilla cappachino (sp?) tonight it was good. hope you all have a wonderful evening!
Thanks for the encouragement, ladies. You don't know how much a kind word or show of support can mean sometimes! I very much admire those of you that are in school. I'm at a time in my life where I could go back, but I'm stumped on what I want to do-job wise. God bless you for your determination and self-discipline.
Jodi-very good to only have a taste of the fudge!
Holly-I hope that you are feeling better today. That is the never-ending virus. Hope you at least lost some weight due to feeling ill!
Well, I need to get the journal back out and start writing it down! God bless all of you and have a great day!
Hi Ladies,
I have a headache this morning. I've taken a couple of Tylenol...I hope they kick in soon.
I did something nice for myself this morning. I bought the new "Rod Stewart The Great American Songbook Volume III" collection. I was going to wait until after I weighed in this evening and see if I lost, but I decided that I had worked really hard on staying OP this week and so regardless, I was treating myself. I'm going to stick the cd in today as I work on cleaning out some files this morning.
As I said, tonight is weigh-in and I'm hoping for a loss..I think the scales will be down. (Please, let the scales be down!)
Holly: How did the weigh-in go? Hopefully you will start feeling better. How long have you been on the meds now?
Jody: Even with the fudge..I think you had a good OP day!
Jill: You might have hit a bump in the road, but it sounds like you got right back on track. Good job! As for school, if you really want to go back and don't know where to start, just pick a class that you know you would have to have no matter what major you decide on. I'm pretty sure that I want to finish my degree as Business Management, but I'm also interested in Communications. I'm finding out that I can do both. I can have a minor in Business or an emphises in it and still do the communication thing..which really fits my personality. I know that even with just the business degree I'm more interested in the human side of that as a job. I can't stand working with numbers...so I don't want to be on the financial side..maybe more in sales/marketing, PR, Training, HR. that sort of thing. When you are ready, I'm sure you will take the plunge.
Ladies, it's time to get to work. I'll check in later.
First let me say thank you for all your kind words. If I've missed thanking anyone plz don't take it personally --- my nerves are shot and I feel terrible, lol.
I'm going thru this phase where I'm saying...who wants a 31 year old fat girl with three kids and a divorce in their life? In a world of size 4's, I'm finding it hard to keep my self-esteem above pond scum levels. That's where I'm at emotionally. I've been packing and all I keep thinking is...there it is...there goes 10 years of your life.
Susie - Ty. I'm glad that there are other people out here that understand what it is I'm feeling.
Holly - The kids are doing good, thanx for asking. They actually like the "fiance" and her kids, so you can imagine how much good that's doing for me. Just another thing to cry about.
Annie - Ty for your hug. I'm getting my car fixed too right now...$ 600 so far...blah!!!!
Lab - Ty --- your comments mean a lot to me.
Jodi - Ty, it really helps to hear that there IS life after divorce.
Girlie - Ty. I think you're still doing great! You are seeing your weaknesses and breaking that darn cycle we end up on.
April - Ty too. It really means a lot to me.
You ladies are awesome --- I can feel your hugs and I am trying my best to keep my hopes up. The only good I'm seeing out of this situation is --- 27 more pounds until I see ONEderland. I can't even believe I'm that close. My birthday is 2/18 and I would love to give myself that for a present. Such a change from being 320 (as I was) for my birthday this year.
The question everyone asks...lots of sags? I'm actually surprised, I don't really have much. My stomach is a bit loose but it's pulling back nicely. My biggest issue is my arms. I have bird wings I think they're horrible but I keep getting told they're not that bad. We'll see as time goes. I'm 81 lbs. from my dream goal of 145. My I can live with myself goal is 51 lbs. away (175). Hard to believe I'm past the half way point.
Well ladies --- I must get back to work. Thanx as always for letting me ramble. I miss our chats. Has anyone heard from Jen in a while?
I ate too much last night. I'm realizing that there is a problem btwn DH and I food-wise. I made a great dinner, I made a healthy choice pasta meal and steamed some sugar snap peas on the side. I was just finishing up when DH got home around 10pm. I was running really late yesterday as I had to do some shopping and stuff after work. I was so proud of my dinner. I told DH I could make him a salad, or egg beaters, etc...but he wanted something "real". I made him a frozen pizza and added fresh mushrooms and extra cheese. When it was done, it was looking SO good...I ate two slices. Granted, it was a small frozen pizza (DH ate the rest!), I still was so mad that I ate any. I should have just gone to bed. And it was SO good. Bad Girlie. Isn't it so weird how food can sometimes make us lose our minds? It wouldn't have been bad if I hadn't eaten and that's all I ate...but I ate a full, healthy meal. I wasn't hungry yet my mouth was watering for thsi pizza.
This morning I started off right though...I didn't go to the gym but I made scrambled egg beaters with mushrooms, a pinch of shredded cheese and a veggie "sausage" patty..it was SO good. Could have easily passed for McDonalds! I had a few pretzels already today and brought two apples and soy nuts for snack.
I don't think I'll be working out today...I'm driving over to the next city to take DH to class and doing some shopping. But I've exercised Mon-Wed which is good, then I'll go tomorrow morning and try when we get back from Chicago on Sunday evening. We'll be doing tons of walking in Chicago though, and we're going to my favorite build your own stir fry restaurant!
Jill - I wanted to give you a hello and thank you for your honesty. The blueberry cheesecake muffin thing had me last week. The mix was on sale and I bought two...thank goodness they are gone now!
Living our own reality!
Curves with Weight Watchers
I think their losses are reasonable, but only if you have enough money to go to a "fat spa" and spend your entire day obssessing about getting fit. The other thing I took away from this is that it appeared that none of the contestants said that they were currently trying to lose the weight. In a way, this looked like a weight loss boot camp approach to shock them into the fact that it's not easy and you've got to work at it--hard!
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I've been eating blueberry cheesecake muffins, and white bread with butter, and anything else I could find. Reading your posts has given me the determination to stop myself right now, before I do any more damage. 
Thank you so much ladies!
