200+ (Week 35) Sizzlin' Through Summer Begins!
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Lacey- all that rain would give me a serious case of the blahs! Good luck at the gym today and getting back on the usual eating plan!
Trace- weighing in around TOM is always craptastic. Maintaining is pretty fab in that case. I always go up a few pounds that week.
Kendal- great ideas to treat yourself when you hit goals- and I like that they aren't all weight related. I'm sure your weight will drop off again if you just ate bad for a couple of days. I had the same :noway: moment when I saw the scale this morning. Just hop back on track.
People serious can't leave junk food out to eat in the kitchen at work. It's too tempting. I had a run in with some Lay's potato chips, which I don't even like that much- still ate them. Ugh. Plus, the day is dragging, even though I've had a productive morning. I've sort of hit the wall for the day, which is bad, as I have another 7 hours to go. Will head out in a bit to get some fresh fruit for the group, and when I do so, I might stop at starbucks and get my regular: triple grande skinny vanilla latte. Yay for protein and caffeine! haha. Calories won't be spectacular for the day, though not horrid, especially as I don't plan to workout after group.0 -
Hey Ladies - (breaks into rap dance - from Beastie Boys in the 80s). It sounds so good in my head but I just can't get the music into the thread. Must be in a good mood if I'm rappin'. Yes, I admit to going to see them live (DH loves them) and my best friend actually threw her bra on-stage (I'm not quite that nervy)...
Check-in for today going down hill quickly. 918 empty calories :blushing: 2650 consumed and over by 604. I blame it on TOM and the cramps. Excedrin just wasn't taking the pain away so I had a few beers. At least the last 2 days, I was back down to 186. Thank goodness I've been an exercise fiend - 30 min Kettle Bell workout yesterday and 60 min bike ride this morning.
Trace - Woot Woot - Great Job on the lose!!!! I have not found any magic cures for TOM cramps but if you do, let me know.
Kendal - hope your day ended OK. Lay's chips
I am so a salty food snack girl. Thank goodness I wasn't there or the bag would be empty. Chocolate and other sugar foods don't hold a candle to salty foods for my palette.
Lacey - I so want to do the warrior dash!! It looks soooo cool. I can't wait to have one near me (500 or miles or so would do)...0 -
Well the computer ghost struck again and posted my note before I was ready - at least he didn't steal (aka delete it)!!!
Debra - I would not have been able to stay away from Mr. Scale as long as you have. Have fun with the birthday party - sorry no advice on prep since no kids to throw parties for:ohwell: I hope you're son does well in the tournaments. I'm so impressed with his home runs!!!! Keep us updated on your progress.
Amber and Carolyn - how are you doing - send us a post!!!
To everyone I missed - send us an update and keep up the good work.0 -
Hey super pals... I am totally exhausted, but just put a 20# turkey in the oven so I'm camping on the recliner until my 4 alarms go off...should be 3:30 in the morning or so...
My son is having a pool party for his birthday this Wednesday and somehow he talked me into making turkey tacos for his group of friends....:noway:
Lacey we have been getting tons of rain here too...my garden is not fairing so well either...makes me frustrated that I put so much time in it and now...nothing is looking so hot...just hoping it snaps out of it...if the sun would just shine for a few days...:glasses:
today it did come out after it rained all morning, so I guess I should be happy for that!
I know I can't weigh in at the beginning of this challenge, but I am wanting to get back in the routine as soon as possible. I'll admit, this week isn't sitting very well with me...I am suppose to eat 75% of my base calories while reducing the exercise 75%, that is really hard...especially in summer, seems I am never sitting still for long...next week I am not suppose to exercise at all...:huh: I plan on walking with maybe 1 short run...I don't want to have to start all over...I just hope I am backing off enough, or at least eating more. I still haven't been logging foods here online, I am writing everything I eat in a notebook and using a calorie counter book for calorie counts, we have been off line so much due to storms, I just started doing it in a notebook, but I like going to my homepage and being reminded of how many calories are left...I have been eating good that's for sure:drinker: and a few drinks here and there too...summer, I love it, I hate it ,you know.... I want to look good in my shorts, but there are so dang many parties and temptations...how's a girl to stay focused??
Well, I'm back again...I know you don't know , but I have been interupted 5 times while trying to write out this posts...if I am all over the place and it makes no sense...that's why, well it could also be because I am really tired, but I just wanted to write to everyone...I miss you guys....
Way to stay at it everyone, especially in summer, it's hard!0 -
Worked out for 51 minutes for 501 cals. yeay! I did end up doing the three sets of squats and lunges and I will pay for it this week but it has to be done.
I had a good dinner and got my cals in but still have pretty much all of my exercise cals to eat. There is pie in the fridge seriously calling my name and I will be having a slice shortly I think.0 -
My friend is a ditz!!! She e-mailed that she was coming on 6/21 and staying 9 days. I believe she really meant to but now her plans of changed (she somehow didn't know one of her daughters had summer school). She will be arriving next Thurs 7/01 and staying 4 days. I guess I have more time to workout and get my yard in shape. I know her and should have expected her getting here to be a fly by the seat of your pants operation. I'm bummed that she wont be here this weekend. It sounds like she wants to camp but I'm too old for that so I'll just go visit every day.
I managed to get on the treadmill for 20 min this morning - Yeah it's raining today but supposed to clear up... I tried to run but female parts were too sore with the bouncing (still dealing with TOM issues) so I slowed it down and put it up to 5% incline. I'll get in another workout with mom later today.0 -
Went to the park last night with Lexi. I have stopped putting her backpack on her since its so hot. She handles the same. I did 2 miles in 30 min and then did a .33 mile cool down lap in like, 7-8 minutes.
Mr. Scale said 226.6 this morning, so obviously the sodium fell off. Thank God! I forgot that I used the last of my cereal yesterday morning so I had a bacon egg and cheese on croissant roll from the cafe. Yeah, I know. Not the BEST choice. But I will have zumba tonight so I've got extra calories to work with.
oh well....gotta get back to this training....0 -
Great job with getting your workouts in everyone!
Checking in from yesterday:
2381 needed to maintain
1742 eaten / 0 burned / -639day/ -3090week
Today, I need to get back on the exercise bandwagon before I fall off completely, so rec center it is after work- I don't even have to hit the elliptical hardcore, but at least get on it and move my butt.
I'm exhausted this morning. Didn't go to bed until midnight last night, when I knew I should have been in bed earlier, considering how tired I was yesterday. Then, there was a nasty thunderstorm in the middle of the night, which seemed to last forever, which broke up my sleep even more. Am a bit crankypants this morning, but more than anything slowed down. Had an 8am appt, which I barely made it through and have 2 more this morning. Group last night went well, but one of my peeps is sort of in crisis right now, so we talked individually a bit after group, which was good, but it meant I didn't get out of the office until after 8pm last night. Wow for a long day. I'm seriously considering going to the apt and taking a short siesta this afternoon. I have a couple hour break before a conference call at 4, so we'll see. Plan to then hit the rec center up, as I'm doing dinner out on the town tonight, which won't help the calories for the day. Need to burn some off.
Let's hope I can stay awake. *chugs tea*0 -
I am so stuffed up this morning with allergies that I literally look like I've got two black eyes. I am miserable. Hoping that the sinus pill I just took clears up the issue and then all I have to deal with is just the allergy part of it. Not worth putting makeup on this morning since it would just cause more eye irritation so I am looking especially HOT today! LOL..
I don't know if I want to weigh myself right now or not...I am doing more circuit/weight training than before and I know I will both retain water and gain muscle and I tend not to see a drop on the scale for a good five plus weeks when I do this. I should see that my clothes will start to fit better though and I can't ask for anything more than that. They should be about to the point that they would get a bit loose if I slim down. Friday I will hop on and see where I sit. If I am up or the same I'm not weighing for a while again. Not worth it.
Kristina and Victoria - every little bit of exercise helps, even if its for 1 5 minutes!
Kendall - good for you for running with your dog!!
Deb - turkey tacos sound awesome! Yum.
Tonight I'm making a stuffed meatloaf with mozarella braid, bread and a big salad.0 -
hi ladies. justy got back from working out before work. i am doing ok this time around. i am eating good and ijust completed day 1 out of 4 for the week. (my weeks start on saturday) on the negative side of things i only made it 7 minutes on the elliptical today. but i just have to keep working at it. well time for work catch yall later!!0
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Whispers all secret like...Sssshhhhhh......I went to Starbucks and got iced tea for everyone and bought a Molasses cookie to the tune of 360 cals. It was good but not great which of course is always a major let down. It also fit into my cals for the day before I exercise which is nice, but I wish I would have gotten the mini chocolate frosted donut for less cals instead if I was going to get something!0
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Lacey- there's really nothing worse than splurging on something, only to realize it was totally not worth the calories. the mini donut sounds yummy though.
Checking in for the day:
2381 needed to maintain
2707 eaten / 337 burned / -11 day/ -3101 week
Yeah, you read the calories right. Restaurant week has begun in town. Twice a year it happens, and I"m going out three times this week. It isn't going to be pretty weighing in on Friday. I didn't go to the rec center today, but did a biggest loser workout (last chance workout), so that was something! Of course, dinner reservations were super late tonight, which isn't good for me either... plus I ended up eating more like 2 dinners, cause I was starved when I got home from work and knew I wouldn't make it until 8:30.
Work was okay today. Tomorrow is the annual children's fair. Ugh. So many kids- I have the potential to be totally crankypants. I might, if they don't corral me into doing something, step out for a bit. haha.0 -
Hey super pals - time just seems to be flying. Can work get any more busy? Word of mouth referrals are flying in but I want them to stop so I can have more time off to enjoy the summer. I did manage to try a new strength workout by Gen Miller - I used 5 and 7 pound dumbells for 20 min and my arms were killing me. Today I biked for hour - it's sooooo humid today - YUCK - I'm a pile of sweat. I have 8 more min before I have to start getting ready for work. More rain is expected today. My plants love it.
I broke down and made turkey quesidillas last night. All this talk of food made me hungry.
Good luck with the kid day - sounds like a good day to have a migraine and stay home 0 -
I still haven't figured out what I'm supposed to do at work today. I'll volunteer myself, but I certainly have no problems gracefully stepping away from the office. haha. This morning I walked to work for the first time- it's under a 10 minute walk, so I definitely need to do it more often.
Don't know about exercise today. I think there's some reception I need to be at after the health fair, then dinner reservations, then crashing, so who knows. Trying to have my eating be on point at least until dinner. The menu looks fab again.0 -
The past two days I have been a zombie at work until I make a coffee/hot chocolate concoction that makes me act like I'm a crack addict. However, all the extra caffeine has made me incredibly HUNGRY the past two days. I had already eaten my cals for the day before I got home yesterday evening. Thankfully it was zumba night, but I still didn't work out as hard as normal and only earned an extra 700 cals. (I was right beside the thermastat and it went from 73 degrees to 77 degrees in the zumba room! freaking CRAZY!)
But yeah....I just ate breakfast and I still feel a little hungry. (It could also be that I switched to a different cereal that I'm pretty sure has like, 1g less of protein....didn't think it'd be such a big deal though). I brought a lot of good snacks today and my desk drawer is still full of good stuff. My problem is that I'm tempted to eat all of it!0 -
The allergies have finally got the best of me. I feel like massive amounts of *kitten* and I am super cranky because of it. I highly doubt I will be going to the gym tonight as my body is also tired from the working out, less sleep and just all around feeling like cr@p.
I will try to stay in my cal limit though as I went over yesterday, even though I had cals left over from Monday so it basically evened itself out.0 -
The allergies have finally got the best of me. I feel like massive amounts of *kitten* and I am super cranky because of it. I highly doubt I will be going to the gym tonight as my body is also tired from the working out, less sleep and just all around feeling like cr@p.
I will try to stay in my cal limit though as I went over yesterday, even though I had cals left over from Monday so it basically evened itself out.
Update: I'm going to go way over my cals goal today. There is just no way around it. The non fat white choco mocha killed me this morning. It was delicious though, so oh well! I have to remind myself that when I want to splurge on calories coffee is where its at for me. Its my thing. I'm still not working out. I feel like I need a recovery evening.
I hope you ladies are having a good day!0 -
Having Perch, rice and broccoli for dinner. It smells so good. Then Kale Chips for desert!!! Had a busy but fulfilling day. Plan to do paperwork and watch a movie tonight. A client canceled so I called mom and got in 43 min low impact aerobics with her - this humidity sucks.
Kristina - enjoy eating out.
Lacey - hope you feel better soon
Debra - hope your son had a great birthday party!!!
Kendal - glad you were able to get out with Lexi
Amber - hang in there!!0 -
Another amazing dinner. Checking in:
2381 needed to maintain
2474 eaten / 95 burned / -2 day/ -3103 week
It was NOT a good eating day again... bad food at work and another dinner out, but enjoyed every minute of it. Exhausted. Need to seriously get my crap together and get back on the wagon. Tomorrow is the last day of restaurant week- lunch at an indian restaurant in town. should be yummy!
Work was CRAZY. I was stuck shuttling people through immunizations. Lots of crying kids. Ugh ugh.
Hope everyone is having a good week!0 -
Oh - lovely ladies - Mr. Scale sneaked in last night. For the last 2 days I was 185 (which was down from last Friday's TOM 187) but today 184.75!!!! I was too afraid he'd sneak off and abandon me again to one of you tomorrow so I had to make it official today
No exercise this morning. I have to leave at 7:45 for and an early client. Still need to pack my lunch and dinner and get ready. Workout with mom planned for 7:15 tonight. I have all day tomorrow off!!! My friend was supposed to be here but since she's not, I'm going to spend the day filing papers and catching up on work projects. I'm going to watching eye candy tonight since Burn Notice is on - yeah I think the character Micheal Westin is hot:blushing:
Hope your week is as good as mine. We had more storms yesterday and last night so no watering - Flips and twirls... The next few days are supposed to be nicer. I haven't been back to see if my garden is water logged. The porch plants look great and the farmer's corn next to our house is growing 4" a day (I swear I can see it grow.) Other years the field has been hay so we are excited to watch this corn grow. It's going to make knee high by the 4th of July... Have a great day.0 -
Victoria- congrats on the scale moving!
I'm up 1.5 at the moment- no surprise. Didn't expect to lose anything this week, as I lost a lot last week, and ate way too much, not enough exercise, blah blah blah, but I'm hoping with a decent day of exercise and some serious water drinking, I might be more at a maintaining weight for weigh-in tomorrow. Still adjusting to my new place and schedule
Today is lunch in town, but plan to get my workout on after work. It's been way too long since I hit up the rec center.
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I decided last night that I just don't like the treadmill. It makes me go slower, which keeps my heart rate lower, which makes me burn less cals. I'm scared to run on it. I'm terrified it will slip forward and SERIOUSLY injure my already bad knees. (its not an unfounded fear....it has slipped forward a couple times on me) Plus I forgot to get a final count of how many miles I walked. It had to have been around 1.5-1.75. I was on the treadmill about 35 minutes and burned only 250 cals. :grumble: Thats so not even worth it. I also did 20 min on the elliptical and burned 200 there, so 450 total was ok for the day. but still....I'd much rather deal with the heat and take Lexi to the park at 7:30 where I run without fear of the ground moving.0
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Good morning ladies. I worked the last 2 days and now I'm off these next 2 so I should be more reliable on checking in. Yesterday: 1257 eaten, 203 under goal. Didn't work out at all. I tried the JM Yoga Meltdown when I got home from work but only made it 10 mins. I don't know how she sustains some of those poses! Either I was just still too sore from the 30 DS or work wiped me out. Probably both. I'll try it again another time.
I need to burn some serious cals today. My breakfast was 688 cals! Oops.
Kendal - I'm the opposite of you. I much prefer to run on the treadmill because the ground out here around us is so uneven. Who am I kidding. I don't REALLY like to run at all. :laugh:
Kristina - What do you do that you get all these yummy meals out this week? It's just 1 week and you'll be back in the saddle in no time, right?
Victoria - Woot for a loss! I try not to get on the scale but once a week because I'm afraid I'll get discouraged even if it's up a few ounces. Hoping my scale goes down since TOM should be completely gone by Sun.0 -
Morning! All drugged up and feeling better today. Still not at top shape from allergies but so much better than yesterday. It "only" took a whopping 6 hours yesterday for the medicine to kick in. I didn't go work out, I went home and had a glorious beer and peanut butter cup and read through my Food NW magazine in complete silence for half an hour before everyone else got home.
I went WAY over cals...beer and a half, pb cup (one of the big ones), pie with whipped cream....so yeah. Its okay.
Today i am hoping against hope that I get to do yoga tonight. Jeffs day sounds like its going well and that would be awesome to go and do it.
Victoria congrats on the weight loss!
Kendall I can't blame you for not wanting to run on the tread. Frankly it hurts for me to do it too. Both my hubby and I are going to do the Warrior Dash in September and we need to start running outside but I can't with my allergies so not sure how this is all going to pan out.
Kristina - That is the one thing I miss about living in Portland...the food weeks with all the great restaurants having specials so you can try the cuisine.
Trace - keep trying the yoga video!!0 -
Kendal- you need to do what works best for you and your body! I definitely enjoy being outside more... I just can't stand the heat, so will do the treadmill if need be.
Trace- Ann Arbor's got pretty great restaurants and twice a year (I think) they do restaurant week where many places in town will have set menus... if they are cheaper places in town, it'll be 2/$12 for lunch and 2/$25 for dinner, the more expensive $12 for lunch and $25 for dinner- each involves an appetizer, main course, and dessert. It's a good excuse to try places in town I hadn't tried yet,or wouldn't normally go, as they're more expensive. Went to a place Tues, which was good, not fabulous, except for the appetizer which were potato croquettes over lentils which was amazing. Dinner last night was great- summer roll, vegetarian french onion soup (which I can never find), ratatouille, and sweet mango rice. Yum! Did Indian for lunch- had a great sampler of several yummy vegetaran dishes with a lentil soup and naan. I am fooded out though. It's was an anomaly of a week in terms of food, so I'm not terribly upset if I gain/maintain this week, as long as I get back on the bandwagon. But, yeah, definitely enjoying all the great food.
Lacey- glad you are feeling better- sorry it took so long for the meds to kick in. Hope you get to yoga tonight~
After my 5:30 appointment, plan to hit up the rec center for some well-needed calorie burning before collapsing tonight. Would like to work on some more organization at the place this evening, but might just frump and save it for the weekend. We'll see. Found out my mom books a weekend trip to visit at the beginning of August, which I'm excited about and her and dad are driving up and spending a week in October, which I'm looking forward to. As the first weekend they're here is a big home football game, we might take a weekend trip upstate- maybe Traverse City... we'll see.0 -
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