Friday
 

Good morning It is almost the weekend. The older I get the faster the days go by. I am not sure that is a good thing:D
I had a 3/4# loss last night. Would have liked 1# better but I am still thrilled for the loss. My goal for the year is to average 1# but as long as it is going down 1/4# will still add up.
Hope everyone had a nice Valentine day. There were a lot of beautiful flowers delivered to where I work for the ladies.
i do miss getting the candy. But my husband knows if he gets me a box I will go nuts and eat it all real quick. If he were real smart he would buy me the pretty heart box that I like and replace candy with something else. But he does not take hints too good:lol: time to get to work. Hope you all have a great day

Eleni,

That is great having another loss this week. Congratulations girl. I am so proud of you. You are doing great. I am glad you had a good valentine's day. I did to but I ate too much. We stayed here and had a steak dinner and I ate all the carbs potatoes and rolls. And then some afterward.

I am sick in my stomach today. I am back on track again today for sure. I have to get out of here to exercise so that I can get to work.

Thanks for starting the challange. I love them. I did great this time even though I didn't reach my goal for the challange. I did have a 3 3/4 lb loss this time. The last 2 times I have gained more then that. So I am heading in the right direction for sure. So this time I am just saying that I want to have a loss of some kind every week and I am not putting numbers to it so I don't get discouraged.

I did join in with wendy with her challange also. I got christie to join it also we are doing it together. We 3 make a good team.LOL

I had a 1 3/4 lb loss last night and I was very happy with that. If I hadn't gone overboard on wed. it would have been more but I am not worried about it because I had a loss and I am happy.

The most important thing that happened is that I tried on all my size 16 pants yesterday and they all fit me. A couple pairs are a little tight but at least I can zip them. So I am finally a true size 16 again. Which means during this challange I have DROPPED ONE PANT SIZE. I am amazed because I have never come down that fast in sizes. So I am motivated to keep going.

You have a great day.

Sherri

Good Day!

Well I have today off, I have to work tomorrow so I actually have some free time this way. I am all alone in my house right now, big cup of coffee, sun shining, things are going great.

I have had a bad week for eating, I don't get home until 5;30 so I cook all my meals on the weekend for the rest of the week. I did that for this week but I forgot about myself, by the time I changed, set the table and served supper I was to pooped to make myself anything nutritious, so I ate some variation of chicken salad all week long. So now I am keeping a big bowl of spiced bulgar and a another filled with cleaned fresh veggies in the fridge so I can add meat around that and eat a little better.

I did get all my exercise in tho, so I am pretty proud of that. At Wednesday’s kickboxing it was bring a friend night. Am I ever glad I didn’t bring a friend! It was the most brutal work out ever! If even one of those friends come back next week I am nominating them for some sort of bravery award. Aye Chihuahua, 1 entire hour of nonstop work out, twice on isolation sets I powered out and when I looked thru the sweat dripping in my eyes so had half the class. I don’t think our instructor wants us to have any friends!

Eleni, I am so proud of you exercising every day! We have to find a way to get you to love it tho. Once you find a few things you really like to do, it is not much different than picking up a cross stitch or crocheting other than you need a shower afterwards. I don’t think anybody likes exercising in the beginning. It takes you out of your comfort zone, makes you sore, makes you sweaty, and if you are as out of shape as I was, you can’t do a move properly and you think you look foolish.(I sure did) Plus overcoming the initial inertia is the biggest part. You have done that! Whoo Hoo! A trick I employed in the beginning was to concentrate a lot of effort on parts that develop quickly so I could see some results fast. I put the majority of my weight on my bum, hips, thighs and belly so I concentrated my efforts on my calves and arms. Sounds counter productive in a way, but within a month I could see a little definition in my arms (in full sunlight, squinting real hard and holding my arm just so) and calves shape up so fast that mine actually looked great after 2 mo. It is going on 7 mo for me now but I have nicely shaped arms and great calves and the pilates and cardio are reshaping my bum and thighs. I now think of exercise as power. It makes me feel in control of my body and mind. If you stick with it I promise, promise, promise it will do the same for you. Mix it up tho, because doing the same thing gets stale, if you find you are getting bored and loosing interest find something new and fresh. Is there a ladies only gym in Tarpon Springs or a Curves? Aquafit is really fun, supports your muscles and is not at all strenuous.(plus it tends to attract plus size women in their 40’s and up, so you never feel out of place) What ever you do, keep it up, I am so rooting for you!!

Sherri, I am so proud of you too!!!!! I think having a loss every week is the answer. It doesn’t mater if it is a ¼ of a lb. or 5 they all add up, and it is a real motivator to set small goals and achieve them. I have never had the scope to dream really big, 5 lbs at a time has always been my focus with a loss every week. Sometimes you hit the jackpot and the weight just seems to melt off and others you will fight like a wildcat to achieve .5 of a lb. Go figure? I can never tell what is going to happen our bodies are just too mysterious. You keep travelling the road you’ve chosen and you will arrive. Beautifully.

Summer, speaking of travelling, I am thinking of running to your house, it as aprox 1200 km. Colorado has a lot of hills so I will add a lot of incline on my treadmill, lol! (I calculated Regina to Denver) Put the coffee on girlfriend, I will be there in about a year!

Well, I have dawdled here far to long, so Coco, Christie, Donna, Nita (how are you doing?) Wendy (love that mileage challenge!), CieCie, Dimples, Wild Rose,(yay, another Canadian!) Faith, Bev and every one else, have a Fantabulous Friday!

CC

Hello again
 

Well ladies, it has been a while since I was online so I thought I would drop in and let you know what is happening.

My other half announced a couple of weeks ago that he has decided that he wants to live alone so he was leaving at the end of the month.

Well, this just blew me away and of course my emotions have been up and down and sideways and any other direction that they can go.

I have stopped going to meetings for now as I can't even afford the 2.50 a week, let alone the proper food to eat. It boils down that I need to either get a roommate or a fulltime job in order to be able to keep the place I am in.

I know that I will get over the emotion swings, but the money is a real problem. There are not a lot of jobs available on this little island and to top it off I will not have a vehicle so that I can take on more housecleaning jobs.

Of course I have not been eating properly and the weight has been coming off, but I know that as soon as I start to eat again it will pop right back on.

When I get my money problems over I will be getting the internet again and will be online with you more often.

Anyway that is what is happening with me and I will try to post weekly.

See you next week and everyone have a great week.

You are all doing so well.

Good afternoon.
Eleni-great job,
Sherri-you go girl. You are doing great.
CC- you are so right.
Bev-hang in there.
Me- I got my sugar busters shopper's guide today, and my Dietminder personal food and Fitness Journal. It was about 15 bucks, but it will be well werth it.
The opening page reads as follows
"It's been proven...people who write down what they eat and drink have greater success losing weight than those who don't." It also has in it places for before and after photos, persnal goals, daily servings guidelines, calorie expenditure chart, favorite food facts, graph records, daily fitness records, so I can record the miles. It's awesome. . Other than that not a bad day. I'm planning on doing some baking (im taking favorite cookies, and subsituting sugars and fats this weekend. I have program on monday, and I want to take some of the samples in. I will also focusing on goal setting monday, and a few other ones. I think i'm going to do the co-leader this year instead. I don't think the lady is ready to give it up quite yet, which doesn't bother me, plus I can learn all area's and maybe be of service to what ever is needed in them to help try and motivate people.
But I feel that over the last week or so, that motivation comes from with in. I see it everyday (lack there of) in everything, work, home, self. It is up to me to do the best I can do, and be the best I can be. Another little thing I read recently in the Bible goes something like "Do everything as if you are doing it for the Lord." I really have to work hard at apply this to my job, because I'm not happy there, and I really think God has something more for me, I just can't seem to figure out what it is. Anyway, I've been trying to take this to my weight, goal setting, and getting things done around the house at least. I know a few more things I could work on in this area, but I feel some of those things will spread as I do the others. Well enough on the preaching. I just really feel that , WE CAN DO THIS, TOGETHER, ONE DAY AT A TIME. So hang in there lets melt the pounds. . Hey, another Idea, how, about keeping totals off as a group. See how much we melt. Ok, I'm going
Tops hugs
me.