monday12 weeks to go!
 

Dear All:

I want to thank everyone for the encouragement and understanding. In some ways I am learning to do that with myself. I am such a perfectionist that when I dont do things the way I think I should I want to quit. So this is new for me to keep going even tho I am not really sticking with my goals.

My weight is up as I predicted but I still am down from when I started. I will continue to set goals and work on getting my motivation back. I appreciate all of your patience at my moaning and groaning--it really helps.

Card--thanks for that--I know I am not the only one who has problems with motivation--and I admire how you are sticking with it even tho it is slow--steady is the name of the game.

Dolly--thanks for caring. I am so impressed with your exercise routine--cant wait to get to where I can also be exercising again. You are an inspiration.

Stacy--I love your stories of the gym. Also, interesting about your calories.


Okay--my goal for this week is to keep my calories below 1800 and to stretch.

well, my celebration was cut short...i was up 2 pounds this morning. maybe i will be back down tomorrow.
trob

so, i weighed myself and i was up two pounds at 183. I am pretty sure it was water weight and eating too much on sunday. i am trying not to get discouraged, i am still down from what i was on my last TOM (i have a long cycle). I have been trying to eat breakfast, I seem to do better if I eat something in the morning. I have a banana, yougurt with this granola stuff mixed in most weekdays. i figure that is about right because i tend to have a smaller lunch. I just need to get out of the habit of stopping by my parents house on the way home and eating too much there.


Snow: anything is hard to stay motivated through when you are sick. you can let up on yourself when you are sick but you have to recognize when you are better and start up again. you will do it and we will give you support. it might help to reread a book or a site that gives you advice. i know that for me the planning of something is the best part and when i lose motivation i try to get myself excited again by replanning. however, i have never tried this with weight loss.

Get n healthy: YAY for a new job!!! I think I hate waiting for the "woosh" too. Blah.

trob: i was up two pounds this week too. it sucks


Have a good day everyone!!!

Just checking in to say hi to everyone! It is raining really hard right now and is suppose to last all day. I might try and walk the dogs tonight!

Well today was day 2 of the gym and i liked it better today than yesterday. :lifter: Just felt like i wasn't quite as lost....getting to know where my favorite equipment is. Not very intimidating at all. I am so afraid i will end up in a gym that is all hotties...i want to see some chubby moms, old people, etc. :lol: ha ha. I know that is bad, but come on...i like the mix at this gym. I tend to get obsessed with things though, so hopefully i can find a happy medium. I tend to get obsessed quickly, then burn out quickly so i am trying to take it slow and be realistic.

Dollypie-Hey lady, sorry it is raining at your house, although sometimes it is nice to have just a nice rainy day with some warm soup. Seeing others at the gym motivates me too. :cheer: Sort of reminds me, "oh, there are people that do this every day....it doesnt just have to be a short term thing...if they can stick it out, so i can i".

Bertine- I am in the same boat, struggling with TOM water weight...i get SO frustrated. Definately start your day off with breakfast...give that metabolism something to go on. I have always heard if you skip breakfast, your lunch is more likely to turn to fat...dont know how true it is but it keeps me eating breakfast.

Trob-Keep your chin up :cheer2: ...that scale will be back down in no time. My scale always bounces around before it finally settles on a lower weight. I think it likes to tease me first.

Sno-I am a perfectionist too, now add in the other personality trait i have of addictive personality and i never stict to anything very long. I burn myself out TOO quickly. Then i am eagerly on to another project. Just like with the gym today. I finished up my workout with 30 minutes on the ellipitical and i wanted to keep going. I would have kept going til i fell off of it, but i know i cant keep that pace up every day...but i can keep up 30 minutes. It is either all or nothing. I am either excelling or failing...i am really trying to make this time different, so i can completely relate to what you are saying. Keep your chin up gal. You can get there. Just think if you quit, you will be right back where you were or worse when you have to start all over again. :devil: That is what keeps me going a lot.

Ok, time to clean the house AGAIN.

My weight was up 5 pounds today, 208 but I am getting really used to this. It will now bounce between 203 and 208 for a week or so, then lower to 205 and then drop again. I hope!!!! This is what has been happening to me. It used to really get me down, but now I anticipate it and work with it. Had a great day, a bad cold, so I didn't eat much. Fight with DH but he is being unreasonable and I don't feel very good therefore I should be right automatically. I have to go to a course tomorrow night so I'm trying to get some housework done.

Everybody just stick with it and those two pounds will just melt away. It always does. Exercise and eating less guarantee the weight will come off eventually!!!

Okay I have a big problem! DH has signed up and confirmed that both him and I will be judges in a BBQ contest this weekend. What was he thinking?!?!?!? He said that I can eat whatever on at least one day and I sorta agree with him. But come on this is throwing some of my favorite food in my face and telling me to eat eat eat. I am just so confused about all of this and don't even know how to react let alone now how to act, eat, or react this weekend. I think I am going to pull my hair out!!!

conundrum
 

hmm--I dont know.

I guess your choices are to tell your husband to find someone else, or to go and see if you can deal with the temptation.

Personally I would be pissed if my hubby made any kind of committment for my time without asking me first--and suprised. But we all negotiate our relationships in different ways.

You have been doing really great on your plan! Keep it up and let us know how your resolve this one.

Sno

Yeah I am pretty pissed at my husband for doing this, but I think he thought it would be a suprise and I would enjoy it. Sometimes I think he has no clue! Men.... Well I think that I have found a solution. My brother is coming to town and think he would be the perfect person to take my place, he loves BBQ as well and a real foodie as some would call it. My sister-in-law and I can then walk around and look at crafts while they eat BBQ. Okay dodged another bullet!

How is every ones day going? Mine is okay. Woke up to the scale being down from ticker weight by 0.8...hopefully it will keep on going down for tomorrows weigh in. I wonder about water weight with my muscles being so sore from the gym. Took a break from it today. I feel kind of guilty but i did walk 45 minutes and plan on doing a balance ball tape later. I just had SO much to do today with starting a new job next monday. Plus i have done something to my back. I bent over funny picking up something and when i stood back up i felt like someone had pinched my muscle really hard or stuck a wedge between my ribs...dont know how else to describe it. Weird but hurt like heck. Still sore today so i was kind of scared of getting over to the gym and doing more damange but i wonder if i just used it as an excuse. :?: Oh well, i made it to the gym 3 days in a row, muscles needed a day to repair anyway.

Doing okay on my eating, i just hope the scale shows it. Feels like the scale is just lagging behind here lately. I am drinking some hot tea today in hopes of getting some of the ww off before weigh in. Just coming off TOM and it feels like the ww is still just lingering on.

Dollypie-That is good that you got out of the bbq tasting...geeze, that sure would be good though. :hun: Like you, i am a bbq freak. Shame on hubby. But they just dont know any better. I do agree with hubby though that once in a while you should eat whatever you want. I have to do that sometimes...if i dont i splurge and then keep on splurging. So i think a planned and calculated splurge can be good for your metabolism AND good for your mind as well. I have to trick my mind into thinking "nothing is off limits forever"...then i dont feel deprived. Then with your metabolism, a nutritionist friend of mine said that eating big once in a while, especially during a stall can be good for your metabolism because it makes your body say, "oh good there is plenty of food, so i dont need to hold on to this fat". Just something to think about.

Card- What was dh thinking...arguing when you dont feel good? Doesnt he know you win by default when you are sick. :lol3: ha ha I am waiting on that 2 pound drop as well. Fairy fat mother where are you?

Well ladies that is it for me. Time to marinade some steak...greek salad for dinner.

Last night I tried fitday.com because Snow is talking about it all the time and WOW! I have never been one to journal anything, let alone what I eat but it is really cool to see about how many calories I really am eating. I suppose this is like when you actually start following a budget with money. You never realize how much you are spending on say, shoes, until you actually see a hard amount in front of you.

I didn't realize how many calories bread has. Seriously, I don't even like bread, I just eat it because it it is habit. This makes it fun to figure out what to eat!

Ok, i dont know where everybody is, and i hate to post after being one of the last ones to post but i am very excited this morning. :carrot: At weigh in, i am half way to my New Years goal...which just made my day. :cloud9: I lost 2.6 pounds this week, only .4 away from adding another dragonfly too. I guess all that gym work paid off. Whew. I get so nervous when i start thinking, with me working this hard i will die if i gain or dont lose any this week, but it paid off so, hooray.

bertine-So glad you checked out fit day. I love it. I have been tracking all my stuff there for the past 2 or 3 months. :comp: It amazes me how many "little" things i didnt count before. I wouldnt count a pat of butter here, or a few cashews there...once i started counting, i realized it was the "little things" that were wrecking my eating. It really keeps you accountable.

Have a good day ladies.

:cb: :cb: :congrat: :congrat: :cb: :cb: Way to Go GetnHealthy, I bet it feels great to see the rewards of the gym paying off. With eleven weeks until New Year's you should totally be able to reach your goal. I agree with you, where has everyone gone????

Bertine - Glad that you found fitday, it is great to see what you eat. Also check out www.calorieking.com, it has good database of national brands and restaurants.

My arms are really sore today, I guess from my upper body weight workout yesterday. I have always read that you are suppose to use weight that really challenges you, but man am I sore today. I can start to tell the difference though...oh my gosh is that maybe muscle I see in my bicep. Everyone have a great weekend!

Well my weight is hanging around at 208 but TOM is here so I'm not sweatin it.

Dolly - congrats on the smart solution for the weekend. I have a few problems with DH being subconsciously threatened by my weight loss. He is supportive on the outside but I think a few insecurities are on the inside. Every now and then he throws me for a loop by doing something which is purely sabatoge.

get n - congratulations, you are really losing!!!!! you keep me motivated because you never give up. Way to go!!!

Bertine - I know what you mean about the bread, I now eat egg salad with lettuce instead of bread, and meat is made into a salad. I prefer lettuce to bread anyway.

Well I have been very good about my eating and getting some exercise but this cold/flu is really knocking me on my you know what. But as long as I'm not going over on the food I think I'll be ok.

Friday
 

Hi all:

its been a weird week but my health and my motivation are slowly coming back.

I did a whole bunch of yard work on Wednesday and brought in a bunch of firewood. I was pretty sore and felt very tired yesterday but feel okay today. I got pretty motivated because there is a bunch of clothing that I have that does not fit and I am determined to have it fit for xmas--I figure 15-20 lbs out to do it. Had a bad eating day yesterday but today is going really well. I am doing low carb because that is easy and will help me get a head start on losing.

Dolly--glad you figured out an alternative to eating BBQ this weekend--that sounds great by the way! Good job on the work out--just be careful--I had a friend who increased weights too fast and got an injury that made it so she couldnt work out for a while.

Stacy--hope you are okay--sounds like you pulled a muscle or something--I know you get pretty enthused about exercise but be careful to warm up and not overdo--an injury can really cramp your style. Put some ice on it! And super congrats on doing half of your goal--that must feel so good--you deserve it you have done so much hard work--I must carrot you!:carrot: :carrot: :carrot: :carrot:

Bertine: glad you liked fitday--it can be a really good way to keep track of your food and make sure you are meeting your goals! I am jealous you dont like bread--I love it and could pretty much live on toast!

Have a great weekend everyone--and keep up the good work!