Well I didn't get to the gym today - had to go to the bank and then onto the supermarket and ran out of time - (getting up at 11.30am didn't help much!). Oh well - I'll get there tomorrow!
I bought my nephew's birthday present today as it is his 8th birthday on 1st Jan - I got him a couple of cute t-shirts, one is really good as it says 'will swap sister for video game', which is really apt!
JULIE - A 2lb gain is absolutely fantastic!! It's amazing the difference just keeping up some exercise makes - it keeps your metabolism raised I guess, so you can burn of most off what you are eating. I had gained about 2lb, but I'm still in Christmas eating mode so it may go up further before Jan 1st!! I AM proud of what I've achieved in the last year - it averages out at 1lb per week, but what a difference that has made! I am in such a good place to start a new phase in January. Say hi to Lee-Ann from me!
FAYE - I had the same idea with the grocery shop today too - it was quite busy and they were not fully stocked up , but I'm happy it's done now until after the New Year!
Hi to Carri and Susan - hope you both had a lovely Christmas.
I went to the gym today and had the best workout I've had in months! Nigel got me an MP3 player for Christmas and we put some stonkin' techno music on it and I was away! For so long, I have just been listening to the lightweight stuff the gym pumps out of it's speakers - but it made such a difference to have some really hard and upbeat music! I did my full 1hr cardio workout and I just couldn't help but cycle, walk or cross train much faster than I normally do as the music pumped me up so much - this is going to really kickstart my new diet, as soon as I start eating right 100% I know the weight is going to start dropping off!
NO TOPIC TODAY. WE WILL START LBS DOWN AGAIN NEXT FRIDAY
Good grief, I was so busy from early yesterday morning I didn't even realize I hadn't set up a Thursday post! I am A-OK Amanda.
Amanda: Good for you. I have always found upbeat music to make me work harder. You just WANT to do it that way. I love the tshirt for your nephew, that is so cute!
Julie: 2 lbs is a wash! You will get that back off in no time. Hope the bruised butt is better. We tend to take it better when we are young, don't we? For some reason, the same aches and pains you would have gotten as a kid, hurt a heck of a lot more as an adult.
I am doing ok, but I have to get a routine started for myself and get a program set up and I need to get all the holiday food gone etc. We have an extra week of "reveling" here then I am putting us back on track. We have family visiting and I won't have a quiet moment until around the 13th versus right after the first of the year so there is no way I am going to do something then feel bad for it, you know? I am going to get started on the treadmill again though even with everything going on. That will help build me up again and get me jump started at least.
Everyone have a great day and Carri, Lee, Susan, and the rest! Hope you have a great start to your new year!
Hello, ladies! Glad to see some of us are here this week. I had Wednesday and Thursday off so got some things done at home. My dh is not improving but he's also not getting worse so that is a blessing. We go to the doctor again on Thursday and hopefully they will have some course of treatment worked out or at least a way to keep him more comfortable.
Faye, there is always something that needs done. When I was moping the guest bathroom I decided the linoleum has reached the point it really needs to be replaced. It's a really small floor and we don't have much extra money so I'm going to do it myself with some advice from Home Depot.
I'm geared up to go back to healthy eating on January 1. Have cleared the junk out of the house.
I had to take back a pair of jeans I got for Christmas. I had a pair with holes near the pockets that I just kept wearing around the house. My dh got our friend to go to Wal*Mart and get me a new pair. He told me, very proudly, that he had found the jeans in my closet and got the same size - 18W. Well the new jeans were way too big. I ended up with a 14M after trying on 5 pair. So I can't have gained too much because I've been wearing 14 pants for months.
Hope you all have a Happy New Year...and not too much indulgence on New Year's Eve.
Hey, ladies, came across this poem in my pursual of the new issue of Your Diet magazine:
STILL DIETING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
A Poem by Judith Viorst
So perhaps when I am eighty,
I won't care about my weight. E
Ternal verities will occupy my mind.
Is truth beauty? Or vice versa?
Will my health plan reimburse? A-
Gendas broader than the breadth of my behind
Will replace concerns with calories.
Global warming, teachers' salaries,
Kurds, and other urgent matters will prevent
Whining, wailing, and oi-veying
Over what, each day, I'm weighing.
Bodywise, I will be done with discontent.
In the meantime I feel pudgy
And the arrow will not budge, de-
Spite how lightly I try standing on my scale. I
had hoped to not begin this
Brand-new decade hooked on thinness
But it seems my weight obsession will prevail
Till I've finally banked my fires,
Till my vanity retires,
Till I've given up aspiring to size eight,
Till I scorn-a foolproof diet.
Could I actually not try it?
Maybe ninety I won't care about my weight.
Good morning ladies. It cooled off here last night but it is still pretty warm for this time of year. Jack is doing an extra snooze upstairs, but I am going to work him with a honey do list some today. It rained yesterday so the leaf blowing is out until next week and I plan on doing it myself anyway as he tends to be kind of haphazard about it and I want them all gone not just the top layer!
Susan: If you buy the peel and stick kind of tile, it doesn't cost that much. I wish we lived closer, we have a whole stack we could just give you as we bought them to do our bathroom and our entranceway and decided we wanted to ceramic tile it instead and just way until next year when we have the money. I would say around the toilet is only the big issue, but the guys at Home Depot can help with telling you how as can Lowes. They are usually pretty helpful if they know what they are doing. Hope your dh health picks up this next year.
We are just going to hang out at home tonight and maybe watch a movie or two. I am just too nervous about these drivers to be on the road. Maybe I can plan next year and we can go down to the casinos for New Year's Eve. They have big parties down there and we could just stay overnight in a hotel. Who knows?
Looks like Suzanne is still have trouble with folks not following the rules here with regards to links. I understand people doing it by accident, being new and not knowing, but there is always someone that has to break the rules and this site is free and costs them a bundle so we should appreciate it more.
Hope everyone have a fun evening if they went out last night. We stayed in, made pina coladas and Jack watched UGH, basketball. I ended up going to bed early and was sick all night. I am still cramping feeling so don't know what is with that. Probably something I ate.
Everyone have a great day today and I will talk to you tomorrow!
Well I have assessed the damage and I am back up to 217lb - a 3lb gain. I am pretty pleased with that as I know I can lose that in a week if I work hard. I am glad that all the festivities are over and I can really get on with losing this excess weight! I basically started yesterday - not 100% disciplined, but made a conscious effort to have porridge in the morning which I haven't had for weeks. Today is going to be my first day of journally my food in weeks!
The gym has also started a new programme of classes and I have decided to start doing 3 cycle classes a week - up from my usual 2. That should get the weight shifting!
I have slacked off with my dieting since October - and I have basically maintained my weight since then. I am now in the right place to really address my eating and become much more disciplined - I feel excited at the prospect of losing more weight and looking better with each pound gone!
Love Amanda x
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MONDAY: Today is Mission Monday and our mission this week is to work this week and develop a 2006 program and goals. Let's get to work hard this year and all of you be at goal by Christmas this year!
Good morning everyone. I don't have much time this morning. I expect to have service people swarming anytime. I have two warranty calls in to work on my dishwasher and my furnace AND we are still working on all the honey dos and I haven't gotten daily chores finished yet. Whew. feel like I should go back to bed already!
Amanda: I want to see you at your goal this year kiddo. I know with your new found strength you can do it.
Things are slowly getting back to normal. I skated today, and then went shopping for lots of fruits and veggies. Gonna make some cabbage soup tonight. I'm definitely feeling hungrier due to all the sugar I ate over the last 2 weeks, so I"m trying to satisfy the hunger with salads and veggies. Someone introduced me to pickled garlic cloves, which I just adore! They are spicy and vinegary, but don't taste much at all like garlic. I can eat one or two of those when I'm "peckish" and they satisfy me. There can't be many calories in a garlic clove, right? They are soaked in olive oil, but I don't think it's too bad.
Anyway, I realised this morning that we are all ahead of the rest of the dieting world because for us the new year means going back to our regular way of eating. The sugar and snacks and extra fat was not the norm, it was the splurge. Which means that we have all made healthy eating a regular way of life! Woo hoo for us!! The rest of the people who decided they were going to "diet starting Jan 2" all have to go through the long hard process of changing their habits to something *new*. Maybe I'm weird, but it makes me feel better to think of it that way.
TUESDAY: Today is Target Tuesday and our target this week is SUGAR! We have probably all overloaded so let's gradually remove all the built up sugar in our bodies this week.
Julie: I have never heard of nor seen pickled garlic. Garlic is great for you so eat away!
We found out yesterday the whole furnace has to be replaced so I have to call the HVAC company back today and have them replace it I guess. I have never had anything expense be replaced before, just repairs done (with regard to our home warranty, I mean.) He said to call the heating company this morning so that is what we will do. They did send someone out to fix our dishwasher, which was not hard. A glass got broke about a year ago and somehow the pieces just got all in there the wrong way and blocked up the hose and he just had to clean it out. I am glad as the unit is only 3 years old!
We have also accomplished all but 2 things on our honey do list so that is great. I just have to get out and blow all the leftover fall leaves off the deck and out the walkway so the landscaping company can pick them up and then we have to haul all the stuff to the goodwill that has been sitting in our garage.
I better get to my chores kiddos as I have to call the heating company at 8 AM and don't know when they will be here then.
Well, we're home again. I popped up to 161 but then dropped to 157 so I am pretty happy with it overall.
This season's had its ups and downs and now I'm thinking about reasons for doing the things I do like my hobbies and my dieting. I do too much because I think I have to instead of doing things because it's fun.
So my New Year's resolution is to stop doing things that I don't have to and go back to just having fun. So I'm going to try some yoga and continue jogging and maybe get back into painting again. You know, take a break from everything and laugh and play and just hang out with my hubby and my friends like we used to when we were younger.
My weight is the same today - but I guess it will take more than 1 day of being OP for the weight to shift!
FAYE - Sorry your furnace is bust - they always go in Winter don't they? Mine usually goes at Christmas leaving with no hot water or heat while the landlord is away! Thankfully this year has been fine!
JULIE - I used to like pickled onions - but pickled in vinegar, not olive oil. One teaspoon of olive oil is about 50 cals, so don't eat the whole jar!
LEE-ANN - I have the same new year resolution as you - to have more fun! Mine is in relation to being more sociable and going out more - I'm sick of hiding myself away!
Hi All ! Okay so I finally got on the scales this morning and it is soooooooooo
much worse than I thought, so much so that I am embarrassed to actually say what it is. But as I cried in the bathroom I realize that there is nothing I can do about it but move forward and get it all off this year.
I started back again this morning and am waiting for my headache that I normally get from going back OP after a long time of eating what I want, I have the advil ready.
Amanda - I know you are going to get the rest of the weight off this year, good job on not gaining too much over the holidays.
Faye - Sorry to hear about your furnace, I guess the good thing is that it has been mild outside so you didn't really need it a whole lot lately, I couldnt believe that it reached over 60 degrees here yesterday, so odd ...
Leann - Good job on not gaining much ... you are going to easily get to goal soon!
Julie - I also went shopping this weekend for all kinds of fruits and veggies, the fruits I have always liked but I do not do veggies very well, so I am trying to push myself to eat them this year.
Susan - Hi !!!
Well I hope you all have an OP day !!! Wish me luck to stick with it today, if I can just get through the first week I will be on my way!!!
WEDNESDAY: Today is Wednesday's Woes so gripe away ladies!
POINTS:
Amanda
Carri: NO CRYING! It just happens and you have the strength and fortitiude to get it back off so go for it girl! I KNOW this is YOUR year to get to goal. I am just waiting for it to happen.
It is nice to see points again.
We are now waiting to hear from either the home warranty or the Hvac place about our furnace. I read and reread my home warranty and it looks like they will HAVE to replace it and I see them canceling us afterwards! I hope not, as this company is a lot better than the last one we had.
We now only have one and a half (I added something) jobs on the honey do and that is take all the stuff to Goodwill. The other 1/2 is get the garage cleaned up and put in some kind of shelving so we have storage for paint supplies etc. It is the one thing that is crummy here and that is storage space. I guess it just comes with having a condo instead of a house, though we looked at a house before we bought this that we loved and didn't put in an offer because ALL the closets were only about a foot deep like a coat closet. You wonder why people build stuff without places to put things!
Everyone have a super day. I need to get back to knitting and get the baby blanket finished so think I will do that until it gets a little later and I can mop the downstairs.
For some reason, the same aches and pains you would have gotten as a kid, hurt a heck of a lot more as an adult.
The rest of the people who decided they were going to "diet starting Jan 2" all have to go through the long hard process of changing their habits to something *new*. Maybe I'm weird, but it makes me feel better to think of it that way.
But as I cried in the bathroom I realize that there is nothing I can do about it but move forward and get it all off this year.
