Emjay,

Good to hear you had a good day. Mine went pretty good.

To keep from eating extra in the evening I brush my teeth as soon as I am done with supper, unless of course I have some calories saved for popcorn or a snack, then I brush as soon as I am done with that. I used to wait until right before bed. I don't know if brushing my teeth tells my brain I am done eating for the day or if I am just to lazy to get up and brush them again. Either way it works for me.

I did some more grocery shopping today, I ran out of dog food, so I picked up a ham and that is what I will be having for supper. I'll be able to use the leftovers the rest of the week for salads and stuff.

I'll talk to you later.
Jen

Jen,

How is your weekend going? Not too bad here. I attended a christmas party today for my husbands side and overindulged a bit on the food. I went hungry and there is always stuff there I usually only eat once in a great while so that made it difficult to stay on track. But I did 3-mile watp so hopefully that counteracts.

The teeth brushing thing is a good idea I will have to give it a try.

Haven't heard from my sis yet as to wether she found her old taebo tape. I am anxious to try it. I need to add some variety I'm getting a little bored. I'm even considering digging up my old aerobic stair (now that is a blast from the past) and tapes to do. I always had good results w/ step aerobics though. I wonder if anyone still does it?!?!

Well off to bed talk to you later...

MJ

Emjay,

Well, my weekend went pretty good. My husband got off work early Sat. so we spent the afternoon together, and all day Sunday. With all the snow we have gotten lately he has worked tons of hours and I haven't seen much of him the last 2 weeks. He comes home, showers, eats supper and goes to bed.

I was a little depressed Sunday morning. I weighed myself, only to find I had gained five pounds since Wed. I just wanted to ditch the whole process and eat an entire gallon of ice cream. Well I called my mother and just about cried. She told me not to give up, I have already managed to lose almost 40 pounds I know stuff like that happens. Well my husband talked some sense into me, there is no way with what I have been eating and the exersize that I could have really gained five pounds, maybe a little for muscle but not fat.
Later on I realised I had ham for supper last night, salty ham, so maybe I was retaining water. Then TOM showed up 2 weeks early so I felt a little better, aside from horrible cramps but better anyway. And the good news is this morning I have dropped four of the five pounds so all is okay.

I have also already done my workout and now I get to start my house work. I hope your day goes well. Until next time.
Jen

Hey Jen,

Sorry to hear about the weight gain scare. The ham would most definately have done it to me with h2o retention. That is probably what it was. Today was my weigh in and I gained 2 lbs. I am disappointed but not surprised. It has been a tough week for me holiday goody wise. And I have been excercising more like every other day instead of every day. Plus it is PMS week and I know I am bloated, but I'm only blaming it half on that the other half was all my fault. Oh well, I plan on doing much better this week. I am not going to let the excercise slack. I will do something everyday.

Well I hope you are having a great day. I will talk to you soon.

MJ

Emjay,

Sorry about the gain. I always hate that. But I would gain PMS. I always gain between 3-5 pounds. I try not to weigh myself if I know it is coming but anymore I am so irregular I never know what to expect.

I am doing really well with my excersize. This morning I really didn't want to do it. I was up late last night so I just didn't feel like sweating my butt off, but I made myself start. Once I got going I was fine, even did an extra ab workout. Now I feel much better.

What kinds of foods are you eating? You mentioned looking for some of your old workout tapes, have you found them and if so what kinds are they?

Well I hope the rest of your day goes well. It was so sunny and beautiful this morning when I got up but it is supposed to rain this afternoon and snow tonight and it is already getting cloudy and gray. I will talk to you later.
Jen

Jen,

Almost everyday I eat Kashi golean cereal for breakfast and a healthy choice frozen meal for either lunch or dinner (today it was lunch). I also have been eating Subway alot. I mostly get a veggie but sometimes I splurge and get a chicken parmesan (yum) always 6 inch though. I have been eating bagels with reg. cr. cheese but not much of it. I have been snacking on pretzels or carrot sticks. And I have been doing a good job with my water intake. I could probably bump that up a little but I am up once or twice in the middle of the night to pee. I am not much of a soda pop drinker but I have converted to diet on the rare occasion that I drink it. My biggest problem has been holiday gatherings and cookie baking. Do you eat the same things everyday or do you have a lot of variety?

I dug up my old Susan Powter excercise video but realized it was step aerobics and I have yet to go into the basement and look for the old step. So I have just been doing the watp, I did 2-mile today. My sister said that she definately has 2 taebo tapes that I can have when she finds them. I am going to stay on her because I want to try it. Have you still been doing only those tapes or is there something else you do for variety?

We are expecting a big blizzard tomorrow night so I will probably get some shoveling excercise in too. Does your hubby plow snow is that why he has been working a ton?

Talk to you soon. Mj

Emjay,

Well thankfully we didn't get any snow, but we did get a lot of rain. And we have small chance of more snow today and tomorrow. My husband drives a dump truck during the summer. His employer is a private contractor for the city of Omaha and during the winter they plow snow and deice parking lots. So yeah he gets tons of hours when it snows.

Subway sounds so good. I love Subway, I could eat it everyday. My favorite is the chicken bacon ranch on honey oat. I know it is loaded with calories but it makes a wonderful treat occasionally.

I tend to eat a variety of foods. I get bored to easily if I eat the same thing everyday. Not to mention I don't want to punish my family and I don't want to cook 2 seperate meals. During the day it is fine cause the girls will eat whatever I fix but the hubby is a little pickier. I eat lots of veggies. Popcorn is also a favorite snack of mine. The Healthy Choice from Jolly Time I think is what I have been eating.

I try to vary my workouts too. I do a ton of Taebo though because it is a great workout. But like today I did a Basic taebo and a 20 minute Denise Austin Ball workout. I like doing pilates, I find it to be more relaxing than a workout though. I should go, this has gotten a bit long. Sorry to ramble so much. Talk to you later.
Jen

Jen,

The rain you got we are now getting in the form of snow. We are supposed to get quite a bit tonight. So did all the snow you had on the ground melt w/ the rain? I went out today and finished my Christmas shopping before the snow set in.

I didn't do too bad today. I had my Kashi cereal, went out for lunch and had a veggie sandwich (probably not too fatty but I did notice it was too salty), salad for dinner with 2 crab rangoons (bad choice I know). And I did my 2-mile watp. I got the old aerobic stair out of the basement and plan on giving that a whirl tomorrow. It has probably been 7 yrs since I have used it, but I have probably owned it for 12 yrs. I used to always go back to that workout so we'll see if it strikes a chord now. I will just be happy for the variety.

Hope you have a great day, talk to you later.

MJ

Hi,

How was your day? Mine was good for the most part. I stuck to my plan, did my workout and kept my calories low. I bought some really great oranges the other day and had one for a snack this afternoon.
I just kinda felt crappy about myself. I know I didn't put the weight on over night so it is going to take time to come off, but I still hate what I see when I look in the mirror. It was just a fat kinda day. I do feel better now though.
Did you do your stair workout? If so how did it go? I did my advanced taebo today. I'm not sure what I will do tomorrow. It is getting awfully late so I will talk to you later.
Jen

Jen,

I have those fat days all the time. Today is kind of a skinny day for the first day in nearly a week I don't feel too terribly bloated. It's strange but I actually have more motivation to do well on my skinny days. And so far today I have only had my Kashi cereal (so far so good). I did my step workout yesterday. I dug up the stair, dusted it off, and did my Susan Powter's "Lean Strong and Healthy" tape. It is a 45 min. workout incorporating the stair and it was intense. I don't remember it being that intense. I have some other step tapes that I will probably resurrect. However, today I will probably stick w/ my 1 or 2 mile watp. I have a busy day, my husband owns a construction company and his employees are coming over tonight for their Christmas party. We are having mexican food catered in but I am doing the hors'deurvs (fresh fruit, shrimp cocktail, and cheese and crackers). I have to run to the grocery store and p/u some last minute stuff. Oh yeah, lest I forget I have to clean house.

We are getting a load of snow today. Are you?

Talk to you soon.

MJ

Sounds like you have had a busy day. Mexican sounds really good right now. What a coincidence about the construction. What kind does your husband do? I was raised around construction. My father has been a crane operator for over 25 years, and my husband did road work for 5 years before we moved to the omaha area.

Fortunately we didn't get much snow. Just dusted the ground yesterday.
With all that you had going on today did you manage to get a workout it? I love the way I feel afterwards, maybe it sounds strange but I almost feel impowered, like I can do anything I put my mind to. Too bad I don't feel that way all the time.

The funny thing about all this is, I am busting my butt to lose weight and my little brother is trying to gain weight. It was funny this evening he was so proud cause he hit 213, and he has a goal of 225. I know sounds terrible but he is going to be playing football next fall and it is all muscle. Well it is late and I need to get to bed, I have to get up early and run errands and get to the bank before it closes. Sorry to ramble so. Talk to you later.
Jen

Whew, it is 2:30AM and our party just came to a close. My husband does concrete construction, poured walls (basements) and flatwork (garage and basements floors, driveways etc.) he also does alot of agricultural work (farm bldgs. and such). Beleive it or not he is still pouring basements in all this snow, he usually does not work this late in the season. He doesn't plow snow either, sometimes I wish he would do something in the winter, it gets pretty long cooped up in the house w/ him all season long.

Is your brother playing high school or college football? If so what college?

Well, I probably didn't do to good today food and alcohol wise. I have another party to go to tomorrow night, I'll try to do better. I did not eat too much of the mexican food though and I did get in a 1-mile watp. I will definately have to fit in a longer one tomorrow. I do love the way I feel after excercise too. I actually enjoy excercise. I especially liked it when I worked in a bigger city and went to a full service gym. But now I don't work and live in the boondocks and don't have access to a nice gym, it's a little harder to get motivated to do it at home.

Have a good day.

MJ

I know what you mean about the winter months and hubby being home. As much as I love my husband it drove me nuts. Its not so much a problem now with what he is doing but he is getting about half the hours he does during the summer.

This time of year it is so hard to be good and eat the way we are supposed to. It has been hard not to do a lot of baking. I don't need the extra calories. I really want to bake some banana bread, but when I got to the store all of the over ripe bananas were packaged in large bunches, meaning to keep from wasting I would have to triple my recipe. I walked away to keep from doing something I would regret later.

I keep thinking about joining the Y here in town but keep talking myself out of it. I am getting a good workout at home at my convience. Not to mention I am a bit too shy. My brother is talking to the recruter at Doane College.

Tomorrow is my weigh in day. Wish me luck, although really I have been really good this week so I'm not too worried. Talk to you later.
Jen

Hello,
I hope your weekend went well for you. Mine went pretty good. I cheated some yesterday but boy was it worth it. We spent the day on the road. I am thinking about moving closer to Lincoln because they have a masters program I would like to get into after I get my bachelors. Well anyway you know how hard it can be to eat on the road. We decided to forgo any fast food restraunts, you know stay away from the fried foods. We stopped at a grocery store and picked up the stuff for ham sandwiches, not the greatest choice but stil not fried. The bakery had fresh homemade cinnamon rolls with cream cheese frosting. I indulged, I ate it slow and enjoyed every bite of it. One of the greatest things about being on a "diet" for me, is I learn to really enjoy food, I dont' eat just to eat anymore.

Well I weighed in yesterday and I am down to 192! I feel great, I know I was feeling a little discouraged last week, but I feel great now.

I did a Taebo bootcamp workout today. Boy do you feel that when you are done. I am thinking about adding another workout in the evening but not sure if I will be able to make time for it. If it was warmer out I think the girls and I would go out for a walk but it is just too cold to be taking them out right now. I am going to get some housework caught up. I will talk to you later.
Jen

hello
 

I had to say that the two of you work well together. I stand up and cheer:carrot: for the both of your good work.....Keep it up......;) You make me feel better about myself and you let me know that it can be done.


Thanks so much

Leigh:D