Beautiful Blues 6/9/10

debnu1

Here's our new board. Welcome to all our new members. Be sure and check in with us and let us know how you are doing. My goal this week is to check in daily, reporting on my progress.

What is your goal?

UltimateLover

Good job everyone.

My goal for this week is to get into the habit of posting on this board with my updates. I'm hoping to be able to post at least 4 times this week to get a routine set in place for me.

OnMyWeigh

Going big this week to push myself, my goal is to be under 200. That's 5.4 lbs to lose by 6/16!

pmaria10

My weight loss up to this point has been based on portion eating and I think it's time to incorporate exercise again, i dropped the ball here since early April. My goal is to lose 5lbs by June 30th and 10lbs by July 15th.

sanifrey

That chart is looking really good!! Great job everyone!!

My goal is to lose 5lbs this month & to stop eating over my calories! I have such a hard time in the evenings! I do so well all day long, but once I put my girls to bed, I just want to eat, eat & eat some more!! I've gotta get that under control!

Good luck to all of you on your goals! We can do it!!:drinker:

RachVR6

Bump

msh0530

Hi all! I am, as usual, very busy but wanted to check in. My health/fitness/food goals for the week are to plan a menu that lasts at least until the end of the month, make a grocery list, shop, and start getting into a summer exercise routine. Hope I can find a balance soon. Everyone have a great evening!

smadag1

bumping for later

sanifrey

It looks like a beautiful day today!! Time to get out into the yard, do some weeding & spread some mulch!! :flowerforyou:

chrissyh

Bump - miss you guys!

debnu1

Sandy, Chrissy, it is good to see you back! I miss you guys too! I am having a major eating issue lately. I am telling myself I can't control it. I know I can though. I realized the other night that I tend to say I can't a lot. It is easier to believe I can't than to try it and then fail. I am afraid of the commitment and follow through. I don't know how to get past the fear and on the other side. I let fear rule my life way to often. If something scares me I avoid it. If it gets uncomfortable I avoid it. I guess it is time to step outside my comfort zone. I am not sure how to stay there and make it my new way of life though.

Anyway--I got my freestanding pull up bar yesterday. Way cool! Now to be able to do official pull ups

Hope everyone is doing well. Lets loose some weight!:flowerforyou:

UltimateLover

I've been noticing that I have been hungry more often. The last couple of days, I could probably have eaten all day and not been full. Needless to say that when I actually stop down to eat food, after a couple of bites I start to feel full already. I don't know how to control it right now, maybe you guys have some ideas?

I have to try and get more exercise in as well and start doing things more by myself (rather than convincing my friends to do it with me). I guess I have to learn to do things for me and stop feeling selfish about it.

OnMyWeigh

Sandy, Chrissy, it is good to see you back! I miss you guys too! I am having a major eating issue lately. I am telling myself I can't control it. I know I can though. I realized the other night that I tend to say I can't a lot. It is easier to believe I can't than to try it and then fail. I am afraid of the commitment and follow through. I don't know how to get past the fear and on the other side. I let fear rule my life way to often. If something scares me I avoid it. If it gets uncomfortable I avoid it. I guess it is time to step outside my comfort zone. I am not sure how to stay there and make it my new way of life though.

Ummm, what is so scarey about reaching your goal weight? Just a question I had to ask myself!!

MayLan

Really busy this week with interviews and getting ready for school. I walked yesterday and today. Today I even drove to the park and it poured while I drove there, so I drove myself and baby with running stroller back home. I'm planning on getting a run tomorrow morning.

Take care all!!!

thumper44

Good morning all,
It's Friday morning, and now I know why I was feeling blah all week.. Been fighting a cold, and it seems to have gotten to me.
Hope I can get rid of this over the weekend because I still want to start P90x on a monday. (just seems better to start on Mondays).

So Deb,:laugh: you got some time off from me, since I would feel bad pushing yah when I'm not doing it myself. You can do this, you can do whatever you put your mind too. There's no fear, it's just the "unknown", and as we all know, if WE don't do these things, we'll never know. Weekend prepare, I'll be after yah on monday!!

manyeyes - Try drinking water when you get those feelings, and if your still hungry 10-15 mins later, then have something to eat. Sometimes all we need is to drink to get rid of those "hunger pains"

I have to try and get more exercise in as well and start doing things more by myself (rather than convincing my friends to do it with me). I guess I have to learn to do things for me and stop feeling selfish about it.

I've been saying this to myself for a year plus during this journey "If I don't do it, nobody's going to do it for me"
What's selfish about exercising and getting healthy?
You can do this.

Ummm, what is so scarey about reaching your goal weight? Just a question I had to ask myself!!

I can't speak for Deb, but for myself, I know that I've never had a "healthy/toned" body. For some/most of us, we never saw ourselves skinny and then gained weight. We started out overweight.

ie, I don't have a skinny picture that I can look back and say "I want to get back to that weight"

debnu1

As far as reaching the goal weight, It is sometimes easier for me to quit, than to fail. It really is stupid--I preemptively fail when I could have succeeded if I continued trying. I guess failure on my terms is better? :noway: Also I have a hard time with praise and attention, sometimes just one comment is enough to make my mind turn on me. I had my blood work checked and they told me to keep doing what I was doing but somehow my brain decided it was good enough for now and I just totally lost all drive. Also, I don't really have a basis to go back to either as my goal weight is less than what I remember weighing. I like attention but I don't know how to deal with it. I think that is part of it. My brain is confusing, that is what I am trying to figure out, I am sure that I will drop the pounds once I no longer emotionally eat and get in the right mindset. This journey is all about figuring things out anyway.

Peter I am sorry you have not been feeling well. I hope you start feeling better soon. Be sure to get some Vitamin C--EmergenC seems to help me when I am sick. I have been better--the thought of you checking up on me helped...:laugh: I have decided I am going to report almost daily anyway--I have not decided what I am going to report yet, but I will figure it out soon.

Mayra, I am glad you are busy with interviews. I hope all goes well for you.

maneyes, I exercise first thing in the morning. I get up put on my exercise clothes and go to work. Sometimes I check in on the boards first...but I still exercise before getting dressed. If you tell yourself you can't take a shower until after you exercise it is good motivation.:flowerforyou:

UltimateLover

I'm not really a morning person so I do most of my exercising at night time. This has worked out okay for me so far seeing as I am in an ultimate frizbee league twice a week now. I'm just trying to find some more motivation on the days that I am not in playing my game.

I feel like it's selfish because I am going out and meeting new people while not really hanging out with my other friends. It feels like the times that I'm out doing something (ie my ultimate frizbee league), I could be doing something with the other people I know. I know that if I do this and I end up hitting my goal weight, I will be happier and I will probably be a lot better to be around (I tend to be depressed about the way I look and sometimes I'm in a really crabby mood). This change will have to happen for me by me but I know that the support of people around me has maken me feel better.

Peter, I hope you feel better soon. I find that even though echanciea (spelling?) tastes gross, it does tend to help (at least for me).

I feel like I am in the same boat as you are right now Deb. My weekends are my largest downfall so I'm hoping that I can start to make the right decisions for the weekends soon and to stop eating my "comfort" foods when I'm thinking about everything that's going on.

Thank you all for your support.

debnu1

Today was a successful day! I got the book Flat Belly Diet yesterday and figured I would just jump in to it. I made a few modifications to today's plan, mostly for what I had and time...but I did it. I didn't overeat. I stuck to it. Hooray Me!!

msh0530

I have stayed in my calories today, even though I ended up unexpectedly going out for lunch. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

MayLan

I've been lost this week as well...so much busyness with job interviews and such. I'm looking to pull myself together this weekend. I wish you all a good night and great job everybody on pushing through each day. Today just a walk for me.

debnu1

Mayra--You can do it!

I am about to do kenpo...This morning I was down3.2 lbs--all water I am sure. It is still nice to see though. I am feeling envigorated about my plan. I have not been that hungry and I actually survived eating about 1300 cals. I didn't think it was possible. I will be increasing those soon... Especially after doing kenpo! Hope you all have a great Saturday!

debnu1

I sure got hungry yesterday--that through everything off. Now to restart the plan of planning...:grumble: I hate how I can let one little thing through everything out of whack. I do that with my husband too. He will make one little comment that really means nothing and I will stew about it and it will make me really mad. Time to work on my all or nothing mentality I guess.

Hope you have had a wonderful weekend!

msh0530

I have been too busy to tell all of you that my mother isn't doing well. She has a severely pinched nerve in her back from arthritis. She went into the hospital in Wichita in late May with intolerable pain, was there for several days, and has been home traveling back and forth to doctors and tests since. She is on so many pain meds she can hardly finish a sentence when I talk to her on the phone, and her vision is so blurred that she can't see well enough to do anything. She has fallen several times in the past week because she is too weak to walk to the bathroom. My disabled sister lives with her and has been trying to take care of her, but she is overwhelmed. Mom isn't allowed to walk without a walker, and is not supposed to get up unless my sister is there, but can you say stubborn? I have been trying to deal with all of this via telephone for a few weeks. She has been to the pain management specialist twice now, and he is going to give her epidural injections, one this Wednesday, one two weeks after that, and one three weeks after that. I am going to go down there Wednesday morning to take her to the dr., then come back here on Thursday. I decided today that I have got to spend the next two days cooking meals for Mom and my sister, and taking them to put in their freezer. Anyway, prayers would be appreciated.

Well, I'm off to make some sort of menu for this and a grocery list - and I thought that I had my shopping done! Later!

debnu1

Mary, good luck! that is a lot to have going on. I will send some prayers your way!

I used my pullup bar this morning. I love it! Such a different workout, more cardio even because I had to use a chair.

Don't forget to weigh in today!

thumper44

Hey Everyone,
Mary - Hope your mother gets some help in her discomfort.

Deb - Pullup bar is not easy huh. I had to use a chair myself and then it started feeling real good. You know 5-10 pull ups with chair and then you go to 15-20 pull ups with chair, and feeling those mucles workout out. Keep it up.

Mayra - Hope you find yourself again Good luck with the job interviews.

Well since I came back I haven't done much workouts except some cardio jog/walk last few weeks. Last monday I weigh'd in at 192, but still saw 193.5 previous to that weigh in and later in the week.
Felt real good this morning to weigh at 190.0.

Today with no excuses. I'm going to be back starting P90x. Round 2. I will post later today after I do my workout. Otherwise you won't see me post for few days because I'll be hiding :laugh:

Just do it!.

debnu1

Peter I better be hearing from you later--it sometimes takes an hour for me to push play but then I am glad I finally did.

It was amazing how much harder the bar was, even with a chair. My quads sure got a workout too--I need to be sure I switch out...

Have a great day!

OnMyWeigh

Good Afternoon everyone! Had an amazing kid-free weekend with Hubby. I love my kids but it's fun to have a weekend to ourselves!!

I had a pretty good food weekend. I actually lost a little over the weekend and don't have to play makeup for the rest of the week!

Today's weigh in: 203.7!

Getting so close to the 100s again! If any of you watched the Biggest loser this season, I think of getting below 200s the same as Lance looked at the 300s. I keep touching that fence and backing off. I guess I get so confident that I am getting there that I start allowing myself cheats and more cheats then I end up off my healthy eating all together and gain back what I have lost. I recognize that now and I am not going to let it happen again. No cheats!

MayLan

Debnu- Please keep my weigh the same this week.

Just walked all day this week so far. Classes start today so I'm happy my schedule will be back to normal.

thumper44

Hiya.
I just got back in, had pool this evening, but I did start Day 1 Chest & back.
I came home, changed and put on my HRM, and still almost procrastinated in time.
I set up my appointment for 4:45, and I got my azz downstairs and pushed play at that time.
Then got my azz kicked as I had a great workout.and burned 680 calories.

One thing that I have been doing since I came back was every night I was doing push ups on my stairs. ie standing up lean over on the 8th stair or so, and do push ups.
Well today, I did more push ups in my workout that I did before I went away :noway: :drinker:

Onmyweigh - I'm sure more than 50% of the people that lose weight have that happen. They get to a certain point and get a little over confident and think oh we can have this and that. Little cheats here or there are ok because we've worked so hard. :laugh: I know I've done it.
Think of that goal more than that cheat. I know that feeling your talking about not being in the 100's for a long time. Watched several seasons of BL.
You can get less than 200, not a problem at all. Just think of how great you will feel when you get into the 180's 170's.\

We all have those goals we strive for, and we can do it. Focus, put our mind to it. eat healthy and exercise.


Deb, - Your turn. You have an appt to do your workout after you read this. I know you won't come back on afterwards without doing it. so. :laugh:

msh0530

Peter, you came back just in time! I was thinking you might have wimped out today!

I walked for an hour today and swam another 1/2 mile. Too bad I can't store the calories for when I go to Mom's and can't exercise! :laugh:

OnMyWeigh

Thanks Peter for the pep talk! I just finished with BL Cardio Max. Sweating like crazy... ready to hop in the shower and then to bed. G'night everyone!

Randi