Hi,

Well I had started a LONG post but the electric went off for a second and i lost everything! So, I'm just gonna have to make it short now. I'm feeling much, much better, thank you all for your concern! :) You're all so very sweet! I'm about to get some cleaning done and have lunch. My meeting and weigh in is tonight so cross your fingers, cause I think being sick has put a damper on the loss this week? My Dh has left for La. his Dgf passed away, so Dn went with him. Ds stayed home with me to help tend to the dogs, we can't travel together much cause of the heat. One of us has to stay with the dogs, just to keep check on them in this Texas heat.
As for me and my goals, so far so good!

1. I'm not sure about the water, but I'll keep track today!
2. I walked on my treadmill for 30 minutes!
3. I ate my max points, but didn't go over, so that's good!

Today is gonna be hard to get all my water, cause I go easy for weigh in! But I'm about to go get on the treadmill, then clean my house. I'll BBL to let y'all know how weigh in went!

Have a good day!

Good afternoon all!
I'm doing ok so far on my goals. I have yet to exercise. I'm just so overheated already today but I plan to get on this eveninng.
I don't really have time to give individual commments, but I'll check back in later when it cools off. Have a great day!

Hi Gang!

I am doing pretty good today! Just got off the treadmill about an hour ago and I am feeling less stressed and bloated. I hate that pre-TOM feeling! Tomorrow is weigh in day and although I know I am bloated and might show a gain, I wont worry about it!

I have a nice salmon steak in the oven for dinner and It smells heavenly! :)



Mel - I am glad you are feeling better! I am thinking about you! You are going to have a loss! I just know it! You are doing so well!! :)

Sassy - OH! I LOVE Peanut Butter Cookies! Actually, Peanut Butter ANYTHING! I used to live on peanut butter in college! I would eat a WHOLE Jar for lunch some days! You did good anyway with the other stuff! Today is a new day with a clean slate! You can do it! :) As for the school, I think that many of them look alike! I went to cathlolic school too but that one looked different... I think it depends on when they were built! :)

talk to you all later! :)

Good evening ladies!
Good job Karen on getting in your exercise. I have yet to do mine. I took the kids outside for a couple of hours and sat and thought hard about things, dieting mainly...
I'm doing ok on eating but really need to focus on exercise more. So I wrote up a plan for me that I will start incorporating into my daily goals here. if I stick to them I should be able to transform this body into what I hope is a healthy and fit one. We'll see. But I'm re-motivated now anyway.
Got lots to do so I'll talk with you all later!! G'nite!!

Good morning!
I did very good yesterday and even got my exercise in after the kids went to bed. It took me all day to get on that bike but I did it.
Todays goals are:
1. drink 8 glasses of water
2. bike 20 minutes
3. denise austin tape
4. stay within my eating allotment

I revised my exercise for this week. I'm trying to get more in and some toning exercises too. So I'll do my denise austin tape twice in the week now. It's a great tape. It has two workouts on it. the first one is low impact aerobics for 20 minutes and the 2nd one is high impact aerobics with weights. It's 3 minutes aerobics and 1 minute weight training intervals, and it's also 20 minutes. So I'll do both once a week along with my bike and then the other days I'll just do my bike and use my dumbells for strength training. I just finished reading Denise Austins book last night and it was very motivational. I think exercise will be the key for me to get this weight off and keep it off, along with healthy eating. I just need to do more than 20 minutes a day.
Well now that I went on and on about nothing.... :)
I hope everyong has a great day and all can stay OP!!

Guess What! You'll never guess! I am so excited, I lost 4 lbs. this weigh in, yes 4 , for a total of 34.8 lbs.!!!
I went in to my meeting worried that I was going to do bad because I haven't done much exercise, and I haven't drank alot of water. But I did add more fiber, and I guess that's what did it, cause I haven't had a loss like that since week 2 OP! YEAH!!!

But now for the bummer, I didn't get in my exercise or all of my water yesterday! I did stay in the middle of my points range, and I did break a sweat! I had to tend to the dogs, so I worked outside for about an hour and a half, can I count that? I was soaked with sweat, and had to carry 5 gallon water buckets, to water the dogs! And as for my water, I had probably about 80 oz. and it would have been more but my freezer went out AGAIN so while I was cleaning it, my house dog Hershey spilled my glass and I never got around to pouring any more.

Spryng, sounds like you've got a good game plan now, just hang in there and you'll reach goal!

Well I'm gonna go try to get some work done, and I need to go check on the dogs too! I'll BBL


274.2/239.4/135

Wow Melissa!! 4 lbs is so great!! What did everyone say at your meeting?? I'm sure they were thrilled for you! You are really doing great. What is your motivation? Is an event coming up or you just thought it was time to lose? Well whatever it is it's working!! You are so encouraging to me.
I just got off my bike. But I'm a little bummed. I was reading that Bob Greene book and there is a chapter in there on aerobic exercise and he rates types of exercise that has the most benefits. Recumbant bike was at the end of the list and he says he doesn't encourage it because you won't get much benefit from it. Is this true??? I sweat like crazy when I'm on it and I use the arm bars too so it works out my legs and my upper body. Is that not a good enough workout to see results?? I wish I would have known this before I bought it. I thought it was great. My arms are getting toned well and my legs look great. I felt like he put me down personally when he stated that people who choose the recumbant bike aren't trying to lose weight or change their bodies much. UGH. Jackie, you have a recumabnt bike don't you ? or is it a regular bike? Do you sit on it with your legs out in front of you or do you have a stationary bike?? Because you mentioned that you saw good results with yours, that's why I'm asking.
Well, time for lunch. I'll check back in later.

First for my good news! Even with all my bloating.. I lost 1/2 pound this week! WOO HOO!!!!!! :):):)

As for my goals yesterday, I did them all but I was short 2 glasses of water. I am working on that one today!

CONGRATULATIONS MEL What an AWESOME loss!

Spryng - I have read Bob Greene's books and seen him speak. the reason the Recumbant is low on his list is because it doesnt give you the WHOLE body toning that the others higher up on the list do. The Recumbant is designed to take the stress of the joints and spine so you arent working those muscles as well. It is good for aerobic exercise.. but not the muscles... does that make sense? He is a HUGE advocate for whole body workouts! That is why I walk an soon will be running... more of my body gets a workout with those. Although I will be adding weights in a few weeks...


My Pledge for today:

1) Drink 8-10 glasses of water today.
2) 35-40 minutes on the treadmill.
3) only one cup of coffee today!
4) add one more veggie to my day!


Have a good one! I will check in later! :)

WTG Karen, that's great! And good job with your daily goals too, keep walking!! I'm about to go get on my treadmill, and I'm already half way trhough my gallon of water!!!

TTYL!

Hi, I'm new here. I started my newest diet program a couple months ago. I have only lost 10 pounds and nothing in the last couple weeks. I am so frusterated. I have been trying to loose for 7 years now. I was successful with phen fen but gained it all back when I had to quit. Is there anything successful? I am beginning to think not. I am eating much better and doing my "walk away the pounds" video M-F. I guess I just want it all to happen now. It was so fast with the medication. I want to lose 90 lbs to get to 130. I am 5'6" is 130 asking too much? I just really need some support through this. Does everyone else have such a hard time loosing? I just want to know I am not the only one (not that I want it to ever be hard for others). I also need some ideas for snacks that I can bring to work. I get hungry around 3 especially when I am bored (which is very often!).

Tracy

Ok here are my goals:

Final weight goal is 130 or so.
Current weight is 219. :(

I intend to do my exercise video M-F (it is a 3 mile walk with weights). And do any kind of activity over the weekend with my husband (when it is not too hot outside!).

I also am going to try hard not to eat too much and not to eat sweets (very hard). I get this trait from my dad.

I am also going to try to have a journal. I have heard these are very helpful. I am not very good at counting calories but I can at least track what I eat.

That is it. Does it sound ok?

Hi and welcome Tracy, I know what you mean about it being hard! Everything I tried up till now was hard too, but I've found a plan that I can live with, and I LOVE IT! I started Weight Watchers 10 weeks ago, and I've lost 34.8 lbs.!!!

Sounds like you're doing good in the exercise dept. what about water? It's a very important part of weight loss, I didn' t drink water until I started WW, now I drink bunches! I admit, sometimes it still makes me gag, but I know if I don't drink it I won't do very well at weigh in. I also eat more on the WW plan than I've ever eaten, but now I'm eating the right kinds of foods! Good stuff too, not nasty tasteing diet stuff! As for snacks, a serving of pretzels, fruit, rice cakes, a cup of dry cereal. My favorite cold snack is Blue Bunny's Healthy Smart ice cream bars (yummy!!). Oh, a little about me, I'm 31, I have a son-11yr. and I'm married. I've been struggling with my weight for most of my life, but more so since I've been a SAHM :^: . Well good luck, and I look forward to getting to know you.

Well ladies, I've already walked 35 minutes on my treadmill, and I'm gonna TRY to get on again later. I'll BBL!

Hi gals -

Quick one today - not much time before I gotta get dinner started. Confession time for Tues:

1) Did Latin aerobic dance (40 min)
2) Drank 1.5 L of water- not enough darnit!!
3) Had probably equivilant to 3-4 pops - dh brought home a HUGE pop from the gas station when he went to get gas. Nice guy, but I'll have to remember to tell him NO MORE!!
4 & 5) Had cinnamon and raisin bagel plain for breakfast, 2 pieces PB wheat toast for lunch, homemade chicken pot pie for dinner, 2 double stuffed oreos, 1 plain yellow cupcake with fruit.

Better than the day before except for the water. I was on such a good pace too.....sigh!!! Today's w/o du jour is stomach and thighs. Tons yet to do today and dd just started school and I'm not even back to work yet! ACK!! I'll try to pop back in tonight and I'll probably start posting in the evenings (after the girls are in bed) from now on. Sometimes the time just escapes me in here and I end up getting off the pc hours later :o . I can't afford to lose that precious time during the day any more!

Sorry no personal responses now - I'll try to get to them later. Take care!!!

Good evening!

Thought I would check in one more time! Where is everyone today??

I did my treadmill! :) I also met all my goals except the coffee. Had 2 cups.. but it was soooooo cold here! :)

I have had my monthly PMS headache today, but it got a ton better once I got on the treadmill! That is a first.. ususally it gets worse!

I usually read when I am on the treadmill... mostly either Shape or fitness Magazines. But today I started a book I bought that the dietician recommended. it is calledIntuitive Eating It is so good! I'll give you all a synopsis later, but basically it has 10 strategies on how to improve your "relationship" with food. I only have read the first 2.5 chapters, but I can already tell that I am going to have to incorporate it in my journey!

Hope all are doing well! Post when you get a chance! :)

Tracy -Welcome! You will love this group!! They are really supportive! Sounds like you are off to a good start!

Sassy - you are doing great! Water is my hard one too! But keep up the good work!!

Hi!!
I am still alive here- just up to my eyeballs...........soccer season has begun, so I spend a ton of time getting Dd to and from there.
Plus I had a 3 hr training course this am- and have had a bad cold. It actually prevented me from walking yesterday- I was barely functional. But, I'm feeling better..........so expect me to be back to my usual obnoxious posting self!!!!!!
Sorry, no time for personal replies tonite- I got online only to pay a bill and just had to see how y'all were doing. I promise to check in again tomorrow and "get personal".
Have a great nite!
Ginny

(Jackie, where are ya?)