Di, I am sorry to hear about your foot. Don't push yourself though, you don't want to hurt yourself anymore. 12 weeks without any activity will be hard but we'll help you get back into your exercise routine....after you are better. I am sure if you have to go that long without any movement you will be raring to go again. I am sending prayers your way that all goes well for you at your doctors appointment. Keep us posted.

Congrats to all of you ladies! Jeeze you all are doing wonderfully. I have got to look into those chips you all are talking about. I know I have the chips but they are like potato chips called WOW but you said there are some that are made like tostitos....yum. I am going to keep my eyes peeled for those.

Well I already the schedule for the gym and am looking forward to using it. The only thing is Friday is the only day that works best for me. But i guess that will be better than nothing.

Di! OMG what happened to you girl. I'm so sorry you are in a cast and for how long and how did it happen. Gosh...my poor friend. I'm so sorry for being in the dumps please get better. Well don't get too lazy maybe you can do arm weights while you are sitting. Did your DR say you are restricted from all exercise or just the one that has you standing? BIG HUGS TO YOU!

I am cutting it short here; we are going out to weigh in for the weight challenge my mom is going to start. So I know i am going to weigh more on her scale and I am not going to let that discourage me I will make it encourage me. I will talk to you all later.

Kina

Wow, I'm a total granola girl, organic all the way. Genetically modified, created in a laboratory stuff scares me so I don't touch olestra or nutra sweet or any of that....to each his/her own...
I'm hanging in there with my day, the only thing saving me is the fact that there really isn't anything to munch on thats bad. (believe me, I've been looking :devil: ) Wednesday is the day I pick up my weekly box of veggies from a local farm (yes, organic) They have the absolutely BEST carrots in the whole entire world!!!! I also like the box because it forces me to eat veggies that I normally wouldn't buy. Like this week there's chard and turnips. Turnips are great to munch raw and chard sauted w/onions, yum! The last time I made that I thought I'd have left-overs but I ended up eating the whole bunch myself in one sitting.
Boy, I could use some ice-cream.
See y'all later.

Hey grizz
sorry about your foot...take advantage and get some good upper body stuff done while your lower body heals. One of my least favorite body parts my arms and I really never do anything about it!!

Hey everybody
 

Thanks for the upper arm suggestions Apple Blossom, and thanks Angie and Kina for the encouragement to. I didn't think I'd get enough exercise, but having to go up our one and a half flights of stairs to get to the bathroom using my arms and one leg to haul myself up on my behind is really making me use those arm musles and my left leg! Sorry for the whining yesterday. I'm so used to staying busy between the gym, and running at my job 8 hours a day, I guess I should appreciate the down time. I've actually gotten to finish a book I started last weekend something I otherwise probably wouldn't have. Well off to the docs in another hour. I'll check in later to let you know if the news is better. I still don't know exactly when I did this or if it was caused my over doing it last week on cardio. I should have known better pushing myself with the elliptical and then doing the bike at night. I should have gradually moved up instead of jumping in head first. I don't think that 7 lb loss was worth all this! Like Choci said once before this is not a race with ourselves. Guess I learned that lesson the hard way! Live and Learn!:) See ya later- Di

Di - keep hand weights by the computer and work those triceps while you wait for pages to load. You can do crunches, too! I think you'll be able to keep moving and losing. Good luck with the doc.

I'm so sorry to hear about your injury, Di. I've been so scared of that myself! I like the suggestions to concentrate on your upper body, I never seem to spend enough time there.Take it easy a bit and find someone to wait on you!!;)
Appleblossom, I tend to feed my kids organic food, especially the baby, but for myself, /I have to go with whatever is going to make the weightloss easier! I console myself with the fact that I am actually eating fruit and veggies! Something I never used to do!! I'm baby steppin':D But I do have guilt sometimes! Have a great one, TTFN

Oh Di, Im so sorry to hear that!!
 

Oh man , I just read your post :( So ,so sorry to hear what happened. I few months back I had the fear that I might hurt my feet in some way and not be able to exercise. Well I walked everyday for 1 hour and soon I added another 30 or 45 minutes at night. I was wearing the samesneakers for all those months and they had no cushion left! Since Ihadnt exercised in so long my sneakers looked new even after 1 yr! lol But OMG I kept feeling this pain right under the ball of my foot. Each morning it felt like a big needle and I couldnt put any weight on it. The more I exercised the worse it got. Iwas terrified of gaining the weight back . I found what it was and now I forgot the name ! I know it was that the natural cushion of my foot had been worn down so thepain Ifelt was my bone pressing against my foot when I put any weight on it. IT was painful. I bought new sneakers and bought extra cushion support for them. I did have to chill out on the walking for about 2 weeks. I tried pushing myself to walk but it felt worse and I was limping around the park! I realized that if I didnt rest my foot that I would need surgery and my foot would never be the same again. You will be ok Di, just keep eating right and rest your foot. I know deep down inside you are worried after all the sacrifices you've done to get to where you are now. TRUST me you're not gonna throw it all out the window now! Take it easy and let us know how your appt went.
ttfn,Gen

Hi Ladies! Today was a better day. My first day into my family weight challenge and I think I did pretty good. I don't have time to exercise in the mornings anymore because I drive the kids to school. That may change...the picking up part wasn't so bad because the bus stops with the door facing the house. So I might consider letting them get on the bus in the mornings but still pick them up after school.

Anyway as I mentioned my day went pretty good, even though my teacher called me Vanessa...oops. But I didn't get a chance to fix something healthy for breakfast and usually I grab a burrito if I don't get something from the house...aaah I LOVE burritos yum. I even exercised this afternoon which really perked up the funk that I have been in lately in addition helped me to overcome the most sluggish part of my day.

I was mostly proud of my food intake but then I kind of slid downhill and you will see where that is, this is my food intake for the day...

Breakfast....a medium pear
Snack....small vending machine bag of pretzels
Lunch....large Texas chili salad from Jason's Deli with a Diet Coke
Dinner...a medium apple with lots of water
Snack....here is where I take a nose dive...5 peanut butter cups with lots of water.

Activities for today consisted of...

1.) Parking very far from my classes so that I would have to walk clear across campus.
2.) I took the stairs instead of the elevator several times pretending to foget something downstairs so that I can climb the stairs again.
3.) 15 minutes of the elliptical machine.
4.) 200 reps of stair climbing.

I bought myself a small diary that is large enough to get enough information on to a page for the day but small enough to fit into my purse. I have made it a promise that I will write everything down no matter how small it may seem. I am hoping that it will work. But I am going to try and keep at it.

This morning my scale weighed me at 198 I have only myself to blame. My wonderful size 18 jeans are not feeling comfortable when I sit. I never mentioned this but I have some really nice size 16 stretch flair dress pants and they are comfortable on me but are very snug to my skin. Well DH doesn't like them because they are so tight. I would like to have them fitting nicely by this Christmas but maybe even before that. I expected to be at 150 by my birthday in April and it doesn't seem that is possible but I am going to work hard at getting close to it. I already got a hold of the gym availability at school. The only time I can fit in is on Fridays so I am going to make it a point to get out there but if not I am going to go to the track and get up and down those stadium steps. I loved going up and down the steps way back when.

Di~~~I hope your DR's appt went well and i hope you are feeling better.
AppleBlossom~~~I never cordially welcomed you to the thread. I think I was in my Blue Mood...sorry. Welcome to the thread with lots of HugS.

Thanks for being there for me ladies you are truly wonderful.

Okay well it is late. I better get out of here. Bye.
Kina

Hii everyone
 

Well the docs was awful. This is the same doc who put pins in my hips when I was a girl. I had some kind of problem with growing so I have 4 in each hip. Instead of concentrating on my tendon as he should have he kept doing all kinds of range of motion with my hips and then said the pain in my upper thigh muscle was caused by my hips and not the problem with the tendon. So he then took my tendon which is absolutely killing me and twisted my ankle and bent it and said he didn't think there was a tear but if there was it's already damaged and only time would tell if he had to operate. So he walked on his foot on his tip toes and told me to walk like that! I thought he was joking so I laughed- he wasn't joking. He said not to bear weight on it but to still try to do normal things. He said the knot on the back of my foot was abnormal and he may have to operate if it doesn't go away. I just looked at him in disbelief. He told me to keep the crutches with me just in case the pain was unbearable. So I walked to the front desk to check out and the pain was unbelievable. The next thing I knew I was coming to on the floor. I had a seizure! Whether it was caused by the pain, or stress I don't know. So my evening was spent in the ER because they rushed me there after I came to. So now I have 3 weeks off. My insurance will only pay for me to go to this doc to be released to work, so I have no choice to go back to him. I just plan to relax and do everything I can to get myself better. I refuse to let that man cut into me. So if you don't hear much from me the next week or so, it's because I'm doing everything imaginable to get this darn leg better. Take care all. Di

Kina, I am so happy that you are feeling better!:) I'm sure you're going to do great on your family challenge. You seem so motivated! Girl you don't seem to be eating enough to keep a bird alive! If I ate that little all day, I'd have a meltdown in the evening and eat everything in sight! I have no willpower. I eat like every two hours. Here's yesterday:
Breakfast: 24 bite size shredded wheat & 1/2 cp skim milk
snack: Wow tostidos and salsa
lunch: 4 oz cod and a huge bowl of broccoli
snack: 3 grahm crackers dipped in cool whip & an orange
Dinner: 3 tacos
snack: 1 cp Cracklin oat bran & 1/2 cup milk

I guess it was a pretty typical day, just a little over. Can someone well vested with nutritional knowledge analyze it for me? I'm thinking a little low on veggies and a fruit but too high on carbs? I'm nursing a i exercise for 30-45 mins almost every day. What do you all think?
Well, it's Friday, I'm hoping something interesting will come my way. I NEED to get out of this house!! Any one have anything good planned? I am so ready for spring!! TTFN,

Great friday morning all! :flow2:

I am in a great mode this morning. So good that I even brought my workout clothes to hit the cardio after I get off today. I have them sitting on my desk so I have to look at htem all day. I have nothing to do when I get off so there are no excuses.

I can't beleive it but I have actually broken the challenge weight. I hopped on this morning thinking I would see a gain b/c we had sushi last night but I was actually down another pound so that makes 7.5 lbs total. :dance: :dancer:

I can't believe it. I never thought that it would be this easy for me. I do have my moments when I think I could devour a Wendy's burger. I have to really work to make it through those times.

Kina you are starting off on the right foot. Doing all of the things that you are doing to get more movement in is great. Keep it up girl. You will be there in no time.

Hi to all to follow.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
 

Way to go Kempy!!!I am so proud of you:strong: . I knew you could and would do it. How was the sushi? I think I would like to try it sometime because I like fish but I am not sure how I feel about RAW fish. haha

Di and Serina you slipped in while I was posting.

Di that is terribel that you can't get to another doc. I ama firm beleiver in second opinions.

Laney I wish I could give you some nutritional advise but If you are nursing I wouldn't even know where to begin. I wouldn't want you to change your diet and it hurt your baby.

You can get it cook Angie. I loved the veggie rolls.