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Short and sweet: my guests have arrived, and are just as charming, fun, and funny as can be. So most of my neurotic fears have gone. It should be a nice visit, and they are planning to head to Quebec next week as planned.
Today was Day 13 (I think). No real temptation: the guests like scothch, which I don't really care for, so that was easy. And the dears, unlike some people, don't push when someone says no thanks. Tomorrow we'll maybe go to the market and just hang out. The chocolate challenge seems tp be doing well - no real temptation. Off to bed. (Aerobed, that is. Sniff, sniff.) I just noticed how I spelled "scotch" up above. Maybe they slipped some into my decaf diet pepsi!! |
Okay-my "easy" challenge is down the drain-tomorrow will be day 1 again! I have been drinking all my water, but I have gotten absolutely no exercise the past 2 days. :( I ate terrible today and I feel like crud right now. I really need to get on the treadmill, but don't know if I can pry myself out of this chair, and if I did, I might just fall over on the bed. :(
On the good side-I have went 5 days without soda! Tomorrow is day 6! :D I hope everyone else is doing great! I'll check in again tomorrow! Kathy |
i finished up day 15 yesterday..
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Day 3 done (again, heh heh)
carla - the day i skipped would have been day 8, so it's really not a total disaster. and besides, if i finish the 21 days in this attempt, i will be able to say that i did my abs every day for almost a month! that's pretty cool.
fancyfrog - i also picked what i thought was an "easy" challenge. i mean, how hard to take 10 minutes for your abs every day, right? RIGHT? and i chose it because i knew i would be travelling, and i thought it was something that could be easily slipped into my plans. alack and alas. yay us for starting over! for everyone else, have a wonderful day and here's to completing the challenge for today! |
too disgusted with myself.....
Oh, guys, I am just so angry with myself for pigging out. It started with me deciding to have a pause day and just a Snickers bar and then, OMG! :eek: it didn't stop. Damn and double damn! I am too disgusted with myself. This is ridiculous. Doing Day 11 over tomorrow, but the damage is done. All my effort down the drain....or is it? I wasn't restricting calories that much...still. Oh well, I can see a strict challenge in the making when I get through with this one. I may even do a double one starting real soon..... :cry:
carla -- know problim! :nono: oui dont kair about spelin hear, ok? i unerstoud wat u rote -- scothch -- jus fine! :yes: :cheers: u spel anee way u pleeze, OK! :spin: :rofl: You know, funny, but you don't sound like a person who tries to be a pleaser...then again, maybe that's why you resent it. Just throw all cares to the wind and tell them all to shift for themselves! :lol3: Ohm, is it? Ok, throw them some koans and tell them to chew on them for a while! curly -- congrats! on Day 15!! How ever do you do it?! :dunno: Hope that dog stays straight! :lol: fancy -- Well, if it weren't for my free days, I'd been in the same place as you. I sure know how "crud" feels right now. Let's try again, ok? You are doing so well with the soda. Maybe you wanted to rebel a little....sigh. Good luck. I need it too.... :kickcan: mez -- Hope you're feeling better. You still seem to be doing a lot. Great on Day 8! Food porn and fitness toys! What else you get up to there?! :lol: ;) vanessa -- Welcome! :wave: How are you? Tell us about yourself. :listen: It looks like your challenge is exercise and points, right? Doing WW? Well, good luck! :goodluck: Apple -- :bravo: on three days down. I don't think I can do a beer challenge. I don't know, I need some fun left and I think further restricting myself to the other drinks would just be asking too much...I don't know. If you really need someone to do it with, tell me though. I could probably do one. Ali -- Welcome! :wave: Glad to have you aboard. Take care of that toe! and good luck! Hope to hear lots from you. :yes: Chaps -- Too bad you had to restart. Didn't you want to take your free day or was it too early? Eight days wasn't that early, was it? Yeah, a change in routine can really play havoc with things. Hope the rest is clear sailing for you! :sunny: Well, I'm taking this sorry sack to bed soon. Take care, all! :wave: |
All is not lost!
oh. my. goodness. redballoon! Don't you dare get so down on yourself!! All your work is NOT down the drain. Not at all. Even though I'm new-ish around here, I think that if anyone else was that hard on themselves, you would give them a sound cyber-spanking. Errr....that sounds naughtier than I meant. You get the idea, though. Buck up, you're still doing great!
To answer your question, I felt it was too soon to take a free day. Also, I'm the kind of person that will probably never take a free day. I really like the feeling of doing all 21 days right in a row. I think the sense of accomplishment would be marred by having a day in the middle where I didn't do my task. That's just my stubborn attitude coming out. |
Hello, Hello, Hello!!! :cloud9:
I am so happy!!!! :high: Today is day 4!!! :cp: :cb: I had to restart several times, I couldn't get past day 1!! I have not had any reg soda. Thanks to all your motivating posts. I am soooooo glad I found you guys. :dance: Karla, your story about the poop scoop was so funny. My mom has one of those and her cat acts the same way. I know the cat is thinking "Can't have some quiet time please?". Red you are so encouraging to all of us. Thanks for that. I enjoyed a 3 day weekend with my husband and kids. I needed it. My eye has been twitching for 3 weeks, and it only twitches at work. Hmmmmmmmmmmm, me thinks I am stressed. My eye didn't twitch until last night, thinking about work. Oh well I just keep humming just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming. Bet you never could have guessed I have kids? Well must get back to work before I am spied upon. By the way that is why I can't post too often. Catch ya later!!! Tina :) :) :) :) |
I am doing WW redballoon, I've been on it for 2 weeks now. I have lost 12lbs and I really hope I lose weight and keep it off this time! I've tried just about every other diet imaginable but I always end up falling off the wagon. Well todays day 2 for me and so far i've been good but it's only 12:39 lol
talk to you gusy later vanessa |
Just checking in VERY quickly - I'm on day 13 today. I took another free day yesterday, because it's that TOM and I just could NOT resist having a packet of M&Ms. The chocolate helped with the moodiness and just general yucky feeling, and today I'm doing great. Hope you are all staying strong, I will read along and get caught up after I am caught up for my classes! Sadly, homework must come before message boards.
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Day 9 so far no workout... 3:30 p.m. I just want to crawl in bed and wait til TOM is over!! I'm still having terrible cramps. (lol last time I didn't put in the - m - I did notice no one said anything but it did give me a giggle) Aww laughing helps but going to crawl in bed for a bit and then get at least a 10 minute workout in. UGH!!! I HATE FEELING LIKE THIS!!!
Sorry so short congrats to all on working so hard and Red don't be so hard on yourself... you did stop I know if I start with chocolate it could go on for days and days. |
Day 4 done! I went like 2 minutes futher in the step video and the cardio picks up. Boy, am I out of shape. Is there a smilie of someone gasping for air? :ebike: Close.
I'm not quite ready for 21 days without beer either. But I'm not going to lose weight if I don't cut way back. Maybe I'll start with an every other day challenge. I'll try to think up some king of strategy. Hey swimming- I used to get the same eye twitch thing. I would get it when I would visit my in-laws. They are nice people but that trip is never very relaxing....I found that drinking gatorade helps quite a bit. Try to stay hydrated. See y'all later! |
day 16
Day 16!!! :wave: all done..
Mez: i feel for ya girl... that dang tom! RED: just let that day be the past and do better today! |
Day 11....once again!!!
Good morning, all. Here it's Wednesday morning and I'm feeling oh so gross. :barf: But, I will just get back on the wagon from today. Actually, I was thinking, this is ridiculous, :ink: I should go back to Day 1, even if it is allowed by the challenge rules. Actually, the pause days are new. The original challenge was NO pause days, so any infraction and you had to go back to 1. Sometimes, like now, the pause days actually make it all harder, so maybe that's good, the more challenges you've done, the harder it is actually. It kind of prepares you for going "without the training wheels" later on, or shall we say, when no holds are barred, the checks are off and watch out! I mean, okay, so I went hog wild, but heck, like mez said, I DID stop. And besides, I'll do it however I can. If I'm a sorry addict and I can't have one Snickers bar without it snowballing into a feeding frenzy, then so be it. I'll just have NO sugar whatsoever, which is what the challenge is about. Maybe I'll never be able to control it, just have a little bit...I mean, that's what happens with alcoholics, whether it's a mental thing or a chemical thing, WHATEVER, it just is and I'm not going to bemoan the THINGS THAT ARE. Ok, I have now sufficiently rationalized away my binge and I'm getting back up and going on again..... :kickcan:
Apple -- :cp: A hand for the fourth day down! I have been jogging with my pulse meter on and that is really helping. I didn't realize how having a stronger heart really, really gives you more energy. It's rather paradoxical in a way. Now, I get to the top of the stairs easily, whereas before it was hard and yet, I thought I was in decent shape. I think because I have a lot of muscle, I confuse that with fitness and it's NOT the same thing. Also, people who ARE really fit don't realize it. My riding teacher is getting in exercise sessions on like five or six horses a day. I measure just one and it had my heart going an average of 70 percent max heart rate, which is training zone. Now, I'm lucky if I was getting that 3x a week. She's doing it maybe 30 x week! So, it's no wonder I felt like I was dying on the horse when she was sitting there barely breaking a sweat. So, I'm trying to get in better shape by running and NOT stopping. It's a real pain, isn't it? that you can't bank fitness. You gotta keep doing it or lose it. I think this is the hardest part of it all. Oh well, sorry for the sidetrack there. I hear you on the beer challenge being a bit too much more than what you want to take on now. I was also thinking of starting up another challenge thread, something where we'd get points for things we did that moved us toward various goals, a different concept from the 21-day things, which is quite restrictive in its nature. But there are lots of other challenge threads out there that are freer so I wasn't in any rush. Still, I like the structure and the incentives that go with it. So, I may devise some other challenge that has that. Remember the gold stars in school. My favorite was the summer reading program. Because I loved to read I was very keen on getting lots and lots of gold stars next to my name. I never got the most. God, there were kids who must have speed-read books! but I did enjoy it. I'm thinking something along those lines. Stay tuned! mez -- Did you get your workout in? I hope so! If not, I think you have a freebie, right? Thanks for the support. It helped to have people saying not to be so hard on myself. It's what helped turn my self-battering around to a rationalization mode! :yes: Thanks, and good luck! :goodluck: Hope you feel better. Just take lots of painkillers! gray -- Are you groundhogging it too, eh? Okay, I'm glad someone can stop at just a little and that it helped. Wish I was like that. Are you still in school? What are your studying? vanessa -- Thanks for the intro. 12 lbs in 2 weeks!! :eek: Are you eating enough?!?! Be careful not to starve yourself down. You're very young and us older people can tell you of the havoc we wreaked back when, when we were screwing with our metabolisms by yo-yoing. Too fast a weight loss and your body WILL retaliate. Be careful! Are you very active? In any case, good luck and stick with it! swimming -- Hi there! :wave: I was wondering what happened to you. So many people come in and post a little and then disappear. I used to be bothered by it but I can't be anymore. But I am happy to see you back. It's not us really, you know, you should be thanking, it's YOU! You are doing the work and a big hand to you :cp: for keeping at it! Keep it up!! Chaps -- Thanks for the support. You're right, I would never beat up on someone else but I beat up on myself. But, you know.... Still, it means I looked at something and decided I didn't like it AND I'm going to do something about that next time. Heck, my last pause day wasn't a free-for-all. Yes, I understand your not wanting to take any pause days. This is what actually makes it harder. You don't, or at least I don't, get the sense of accomplishment somehow when you break. Still, I have to learn to look at the big picture. My perfectionist streak should not be allowed to feed off this. Speaking of perfectionists, what ever happened to our Caro!? :shrug: Caro, you out there?!!?!? :listen: |
curly -- Hi there! Just saw your post. You posted while I was typing in the last message. Good going on another day down! :woo: and thanks for the support. That's what I'm doing...the day is past...forget it...kick on!
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hey day 2 done!
Actually redballoon i was very surprised with how fast i was losing in the first two weeks and it worried me a little, but the weight is comming off slower now and thats the way i want it. i definatley eat enough lol i use just about all my points everyday. i exercise everyday. today i stayed within my points and i just got back from an hour walk :) catch you guys later! vanessa |
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