We are the Turtle Group here at 3fatchicks.com. We welcome you to join us as we work toward good health and fitness in a persistent manner. As our inspiration, we use the race between the turtle and the hare where the turtle was the victor because he didn't give up. We believe in keepin' on even when the odds are against us. We believe in giving each other support. Good luck to us all!
Judy
Itryharder
(for Lin and Lauren)
Wow! We really ripped through our last thread. Let's keep up the good work.
It's amazing to me how challenges can set us back momentarilly and then we think about it and charge forward again getting even stronger. And hearing of each other's challenges, we figure out ways to help them and put these same ideas into practice for ourselves.
First of all, Bandit and to you. It seems like you had a great birthday celebration. Good for you for enjoying yourself and keeping your eating in check. That's fabulous! Also glad to hear you'll have a group of friends to go to WW's with. That can prove to be a wonderful incentive since you all did well together last time.
Mousie, let me know when it's time to hang my Christmas stocking! You've got me completely blanking out spring about now. LOL. You sound great and like yourself. I love that you're about to raise your metabolism. What a fabulous plan! Losing those inches has got to make you feel wonderful. As you lose this weight, you'll be more and more toned and fit and wow that's grand.
Ariana, I am so glad you joined us. You really have so much to contribute.
I'm just back from watching my grandbaby. My daughter got sick and really needed me, so I went yesterday and stayed overnight to watch the little guy. I am feeling much better myself and my balance is straightening out more each day. It felt good to help her out and it was fun being with the little guy. My food was good and I hope to see a nice weight loss this week again. As my WW leader reminded me, a pound a week is a goal that I can reach and accomplish. Onward and downward!
Love,
Judy Itry
Ugh, Turtles, the best laid plans of mice and turtles...!
Hubby gave me his cold. I managed to dodge it for 4 days and thought I was in the clear. But now I've got it, and it's settled in my throat/chest. It hurts to breathe right now, so that means no gym. On the flip side, it also means no eating...NO appetite, at all. The last time I ate was...8:00 last night, 16.5 hours ago. My body is completely turned into itself, focusing on healing. I can't really explain, but I SERIOUSLY don't want food. It's like there's no energy left for digestion.
I'd sleep and let myself heal, but even propped up on three pillows my chest collapses and I can't breathe. This isn't fun.
So my friends are re-joined at ww & we did the meeting - nice having a new leader to listen to & we really like her so that will be good.
With my cousin still being pretty sick I have decided to keep my w/i on Thurs & still go with friends to meeting on Mon. That way if cousin is too sick to go on the Mon, I will still have place to go on my own. Just so you know these meetings are in 2 different cities, so my Thurs mtg is close to my house.
Anyway, that will work nicely for everyone. Was good for us to be together again & go for coffee afterwards & get all "pumped up" for our upcoming weight lossess!!!
Doing curves tonight & some pre-cooking for meals for rest of week. Makes it so much easier to just open fridge & have it all ready. Also am making the ww soup with some minor modifications. Nice to go with my lunch & also for quick point-friendly at home.
So, overall I am feeling pretty focussed & motivated! Yeah!
Hope everyone is GREAT! Have a good one. Time for lunch - yummy.
Hi Turtles,
Bandit,
you're sounding very focused. Weigh to go.
I went to WW WI today and I was down a pound. It's sure and steady the turtle way. Of course I am still bemoaning the weight I put back on, but at least now I'm getting it back off. If I keep this up, I can be almost 50# total down by July 4th. Yay!
Let's keep on keepin on.
Love,
Judy Itry
YAY Judy! You're on your way again, doesn't it feel great?
Bandit, you sound like you've got lots of friends pulling with you, I think that's great. Two meetings a week...you'll really have these ideas firmly planted in your head!
I'm still feeling sick and significantly under the weather. Today I've managed to eat 2 fuji apples and 3 T of peanut butter. Anything else turns my stomach. I wonder why that is? Even the apples seemed almost sickeningly sweet. Juicy, and cold, but almost TOO sweet. How odd.
Well, they do call fruit "nature's candy" for a reason, I guess...
Anyway. I'm hoping I'll be better and more pulled together tomorrow--I have a lab test at 8am that I absolutely MUST take. My instructor has said that if I'm still under the weather I can go home and be sick (well, she actually said, "take care of yourself"), but I'm hoping that I'll be able to stay and practice and study. *sigh* At least I got sick on the parts of class I already know!
Ariana, where are you? Your schedule must be dragging you down. Check in when you get a chance.
Have my w/i tonight & hoping for a loss. I had a few indulgences in the past week but still think I have been pretty good.
Last night had dinner at bf & he wanted spaghetti so I took 1/2 of a spaghetti squash & had that with sauce & NO bread (he bought Italian loaf & I actually passed on it) One of my weaknesses is bread, so that was a nsv for me.
So doing ww tonight then hopefully get in a curves workout if nothing creeps up throught the day.
Anyway have a great "turtle day" and drink your water!
Ariana, hi, I'm pulling for you!
Mousie, get better real soon and Ace that test!
Bandit, so glad you've got your "resistance muscles" building up. That is so cool that you made spaghetti squash instead of spaghetti for yourself and that you skipped the bread.
love,
Judy pretty soon I'll be back to posting my weight and weight goals. I'm getting stronger and am on the right track.
Silly me, I missed the short message about the thread move, and I stuck this post in the wrong thread, and wondered where everyone went!
Happy Birthday, Bandit. Yes, I agree. A little fun must be had on one's birthday, guilt-free.
Mousie: I think my primary problem is two-fold:
1) Sunday night I always have trouble sleeping, probably because I wake up at 6 am M-F, but sleep in until 9:30 am on Saturday and Sunday. I usually spend Sunday nights (6:30-8:30) sewing and eating pizza hut (1 medium veggie lovers = 3-4 meals). Then at 8:30 I retire to bed to read and go to sleep. At that point, I always have trouble going to sleep.
2) I end up going to sleep later during the week.
I'm not working OT right now -- it would be worse if I was -- but my new goal is to take Monday night off and do my housework that I would normally have split up throughout the week, and to not stay up late "messing around", doing something or other.
Mousie, I can see how you might have trouble losing weight if you worked out that much and didn't use your excercise points. Your body was probably desperately trying to maintain its weight, when faced with so much exertion and so few calories. That is of course my unscientific and uneducated experience based on what I've read, but it seems like you are on the same path, so I'm probably not too far off.
It's very hard to lose weight and then regain it. That's the one thing I have not done, and I think it's simply because my eating habits were horrible before, and after months of WW, the newer habits had become simply that -- habit. Not to say that I'm a food saint. Not at all, or I'd be at goal now. But a lot of the junk food I used to eat didn't sound good anymore, and I couldn't look at many things without thinking about their point value.
I understand where you're coming from. The stress and chaos of life can encourage signficiant weight gain. I gained 60 pounds in 4 years when I move to college. I moved from a house with little junkfood and healthy meals prepared for me to a world where junkfood was readily available and more healthy food was harder to get. I also befriended a young woman who ate out 90% of the time, and 95% of that was junk food. Not that I can avoid personal responsibility here -- I ate the food, I made the choices...but, if I could go back in time and do it all over again, I would definitely do it differently.
My new strategy is to keep a general eye on points, to watch for excesses, and to work out more, and have a little freedom on the weekend. I am sad to say that I gained 1.5 pounds last week, but I know why -- too much junk food, too much excess. I was better behaved this weekend, so cross your fingers for me, ladies.
I can't say I'm ready for the kind of program you're describing, mousie, because I don't work out that much, but I hope it works wonders for you.
Happy Birthday, bandit!
And take care, Judy!
Ladies, I'll end this long thread before it turns into a novel. Take care!
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Sorry guys, I kept checking the old thread and wondering why it was so quiet. <snerk> I'm still getting used to this thread switching business. Anyway, I'm back.
Mousie, I'm sorry you were feeling so poorly, but I'm glad things are looking up. Good luck on your test.
Bandit, congrats on your willpower.
Judy, congrats on the weight loss!
I lost that 1.5 pounds I gained last week from my excesses! ;D Work has been ugly these last two days, working on a new project that makes me feel...well, stupid and inadequate, for reasons I don't have the time to go into, but we got it working now, so I should be back in my comfort zone again (I'm not a programmer, and I never will be, but many of the people around me do have that capability, and I'm embarassed at my own inadequacy. It's just not what I was trained for. I am, however a database person, which I am getting back to now that we've got our new tool pretty much working. That's the short version.)
Anyway ladies, time to go back to work. Take care, and talk to ya soon!
Hi Turtles,
Ariana, glad you found us. I'll try to put a reminder on the last page when I open the next thread for us. You'll get the hang of it! Glad you lost the 1.5#. Good to have them gone for good.
Take care.
Judy
Ariana - glad you found us again & congrats on losing that 1.5# - good for you.
Had my w/i tonight & was down 2.8# & was soooooo happy with that.
Especially since I had birthday stuff & some drinks etc. but getting in some excercise sure helped alot. So feel very good about outcome.
My goal this week is to be more focussed & resist temptations (but have a little treat now & again) and to go to curves 3 times.
Ariana,
Oh my goodness--this is so funny: When I logged on I went directly to page 2 because I thought I had read all of page 1, only to backtrack and find your wonderful post. Manipulating all this tech stuff is strange, but I think in general we're doing gret.
Mousie, feel better soon. I admire all the exercize you get. WEigh to go!
Bandit, : Wow! What a wonderful weight loss. Your goals are great. My WW leader would call what you are doing "flexible restraint".
I am feeling much better, thank you. When I said "getting stronger" I didn't mean to alarm anyone. I simply meant that I needed to come to terms with putting on weight at Christmas and now come to terms with the idea that I am able to take it back off. That's all. As far as my health, I am doing much better. I was able to go to my yoga class Wed. morning and it was fine. My balance was 95% and I was fine with the class. My flexibility wasn't there because I had missed three weeks of yoga, but that's okay. I'm on the right track. This is one turtle who seems to take a lot of forks in the road, but I keep on using my compass and get right back on track. That's a good thing.
You all take care, be well, be happy and Keep on keepin' on!
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We are the Turtle Group here at 3fatchicks.com. We welcome you to join us as we work toward good health and fitness in a persistent manner. As our inspiration, we use the race between the turtle and the hare where the turtle was the victor because he didn't give up. We believe in keepin' on even when the odds are against us. We believe in giving each other support. Good luck to us all!
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I managed to dodge it for 4 days and thought I was in the clear. But now I've got it, and it's settled in my throat/chest. It hurts to breathe right now, so that means no gym. 
: Wow! What a wonderful weight loss. Your goals are great. My WW leader would call what you are doing "flexible restraint".