Motivation, Success and Frustration Sharing!

ShyCush6

Yay!!! I already hit 10K for steps today! Got to make up for my absence on Friday - Monday!! Yikes! Looks like I was a non-stepper while my fitbit was dead! Need to remember to pack that charger every get away!!

tnsmilneyes

What is 16:8?

deidrabugg

Okay well here goes.... hi everyone I have been on and off from MFP for about 3 years. I used to work two physical jobs and go to school full time with classes always at the other end of campus. Then I managed a restaurant for a awhile and it's crazy but restaurant managers don't get a lot of time to eat. Now I work at a desk and gained about 30 in three. Every year I would do MFP lose the weight stop MFP gain it back and then some. I have finally reached the point that I know it's a lifestyle change and not a diet. With that approach I have done well I am down 10 pounds since Xmas and gaining some muscle (a first for me) this is my busy time at work (12 overtime hours last week) I don't want to fall off the good thing I have going and looking for support. my hubby's the same size he was in high school and he tries but it is hard for him to understand. Everyone seems positive here and I would love to share encouragement and life lessons. Encouragement: when a loved one doesn't meet a goal you show them compassion and tell them they will get it next time. Why not yourself when you don't meet a goal? Show yourself the love you give to others.

CariTJR

Welcome all newcomers, just jump right in, everyone here is brilliantly supportive, you CAN do this.

@Rachel – You sound like you’re talking from experience, have you ever had a bad injury that affected your running? (Looking for tips here). I love your attitude to your dinner party too, that made me laugh.

@Shy - Thank you, I’m trying to rest it, but don’t want to fall too far behind with the running, it feels ok again today so I might go out for a little run later. And you’re right about being thankful for your health, but then this is one of the reasons why I’m here, we have diabetes in my family and heart conditions, and I don’t want to end up bringing that on myself by not looking after my weight.

@bluepoppies – Sounds absolutely amazing, I’ve always wanted to go to Canada. Friends of the family went out there last year, hired a big camper van and drove round for a month. They said it was fabulous, so much so that they are thinking about seeing if they can move there permanently – I hope they do then I can visit for a holiday! Lol

Had a bit of a lazy day yesterday, only just hit my steps, but today I intend on going for a proper walk at lunchtime and maybe a run later. At the weekend we are going to skiing at a local indoor snowdome, need to get some practice in before our holiday in April! I wonder how many calories skiing burns….I think I’m going to go investigate….

Rachel0778

@shycush6 great point about health. You don't truly appreciate it until it's not there. On that note, I am going to say thank you to my thunder thighs today for thundering on! They got me through a rough morning workout.

@ngolden3320 does your gym offer classes? I tend to get bored on cardio machines easily but I love group exercise stuff

@deidrabugg Welcome! Life will throw lots of stuff at you but it's great you're looking at this as a lifestyle change that you are going to stick with for the long haul

@CariTJR I ended up spraining my foot when I trained for the Tough Mudder and getting nasty shin splints during my marathon training. For the first one I switched to pool exercises for 2 weeks until my foot was back to normal and for the shin splints I visited a running store. They gave me awesome advice on my mileage gains (I cut back for a few weeks to heal). I also invested in good quality running shoes, a foam roller, and compression socks. Worked like a charm. My big advice is to not ignore the signals your body is giving you. When you catch things early you can turn it around in a week or two instead of having to deal with month+ long recovery times. Also, RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation) is a good go to.

SumnyUK

@ngolden3320, another vote for the eliptical from me. Good workout for legs as well as upper body.

I'm sticking to the diet, so far only on day four, but have been below my 1500 calories each of the last three days. Today I went on a run again. A gentle 3 mile around the small village where I live, but boy oh boy, I can sure feel that it's been a while since I was running on a regular basis. In other news, I finally bought a battery for the scales yesterday, so now I have a chance to monitor progress (or fret about not loosing as much as I'd hoped for).

agile_05

@Rachel0778 @CariTJR - I've managed to keep my walking...3 days now. my feet hurt terribly today and im figuring out muscles which didnt exist after the previous day's brisk walk. So literally trotted today!! Yep...thats the hope people...that I pick up from here and go on to make it a part of everyday thing. I live in Bangalore and we are entering spring and then summer next. I enjoy walking in this weather and hopefully that will give me the incentive I need. <that's the secret plan>

@CariTJR...hope your knee is faring better. Take good rest.

@GillianSmith2 - halfway mark? wow reward time! Keep up the great work. Your workout stats always inspire me

@bluepoppies777 - workouts, fun and leisure time all rolled into one. Am so envious. Sounds like a fab place. Njoy your getaway.

Welcome @SumnyUK , @britneywentland, @deidrabugg Please feel free to add as friend.

ShyCush6

CariTJR

@Rachel - Thanks for the advice, I do actually have a specialist running shop I can go to, I noticed they had a dreadmill hooked up to a machine so they can measure your gait etc, so I will probably pop in there and have a chat with them. I do have pretty good running shoes (Nike Luna Glides) but maybe it's time for a new pair. I will bear the rest of your advice in mind for sure.

@SumnyUK - Well done for sticking to the diet, it can be quite difficult at first so you're doing really well. Extra exercise is always good, keep at it!

@agile_05 - Excellent work! Your body will get used to it over time, soon you'll be walking for miles with ease.

@shy - I bought another Fitbit charger from Amazon, it was only £4.99 and works pretty well, always good to have a back up, maybe you could get one and leave it in the car.

@Gillian - I'm about to have a sneaky peek at your before and after pics....

Well today was a better day exercise wise, I smashed my steps by 4pm and then went for a run, so all good in the hood. I also found out skiing burns around 350 calories and hour for normal effort, so I should get a good calorie burn on Sunday! Despite skiing for years i've never thought about the calorie burn before, I just knew it was a good glute work out.

bluepoppies777

Golden, I agree with Rachel, try some classes at your gym if you can. I do spin every week and absolutely love it. If you try every class, you will find your favourites! We were talking about Zumba in this thread for a while, you should try it! If no classes, what about rowing machine? I do that periodically and it is a great all over workout. Also I do the moving stairs, kicks my butt!!
I do recall someone posting something about their trainer saying "squeeze your butt, because if you don't, nobody else will" !!! Ha!!

bluepoppies777

Cari, I'm sure your friends loved it here! We know quite a few people who have relocated here from England, Scotland and Australia! So hopefully they can make the big move. Our friends from England say they like to go back to visit, but they are so happy here. If you google British Columbia pictures, I'm sure some beautiful pictures will pop up. I live in the okanagan valley, also known as the Napa valley of the north. We have hundreds of wineries, and beautiful beaches. Vacation destination!!

bluepoppies777

Cari, I'm sure your friends loved it here! We know quite a few people who have relocated here from England, Scotland and Australia! So hopefully they can make the big move. Our friends from England say they like to go back to visit, but they are so happy here. If you google British Columbia pictures, I'm sure some beautiful pictures will pop up. I live in the okanagan valley, also known as the Napa valley of the north. We have tons of wineries and beautiful beaches. Plus skiing in the winter. Vacation destination!!

angie_kins

Ugh, I just ate half a tub of blueberry cream cheese this afternoon! Boredom hunger is the worst! And really, I wasn't even hungry! I hate these moments of weakness.

treehopper1987

Hello Everyone! I have been getting back on the losing wagon, after having my son in 2014 and my second pregnancy that unfortunately ended too early this past July. I gained about 50-60 lbs throughout my pregnancies. I am currently approaching the weight I was when I started MFP many years ago. After many months of depression and overeating, I decided I had to change something. I hit the lowest depressing moment ever in my life, and now I am going strong force. I have lost about 25 lbs since Nov. and still have many more to go, but I can do this, just like you can. Feel free to add me if you want motivation and can be motivating. I hope you all are having a good day!

ShyCush6

Great idea Cari!!! I should do that!

bluepoppies777

bluepoppies777

Said NO to office treats!!! That's a NSV for me today!!! Lol

GillianSmith2

We had a great core and leg workout tonight. I'm not sure any of us will be walking tomorrow, and with a kickboxing class to do tomorrow morning its going to be hard work. I do love it though

It looks like everyone is doing great. Welcome to the newbies

@bluepoppies777 Well done on your NSV

@CariTJR well done on smashing that step goal. I am struggling with mine as it is so cold at night and my dogs come into season so have to be careful taking her out in the day time

SumnyUK

Hello @treehopper1987, I gained about 20 lbs since late October, so I recon we offset each other so to speak. Impressive weight loss, well done you so far!

I ended up making a lovely tea yesterday and served it with a glass of cool, crisp white wine. I should know better. After the first glass I had a second. And poured a third. And a bowl of ice cream. Then I logged it all and saw I was 60 calories above my exercise-adjusted target, so I hurried to pour the last glass out and got back under the line again, with 3 (yes, THREE) calories to spare.

tazzy2911

@angie_kins we all have those weak moments, you've admitted it, now chin up and keep moving forward. The important thing is not to let a weak moment turn into a bad day/week/month!!!

@treehopper1987 welcome to the group! Sorry to hear your sad news, that must've been so hard. Well done on the loss since Nov! Keep going!!

@bluepoppies777 well done on your nsv!!! That's a tough one-I can resist anything except temptation!! Your meme made me laugh too!

@GillianSmith2 way to go girl-you're rocking those workouts! It's a great feeling when walking hurts because of a workout you smashed!! (Apart from the pain!!!)

I've gotten so lazy these last 2 weeks, since I was sick. I still have a bit of a cold which I shouldn't be using as an excuse but I have been. Going to get up now and go for a walk...

ngolden3320

Thanks for all of the suggestions. No my gym doesn't have classes. That is why I have been mixing it up with the cardio arc trainer, elliptical machine, treadmill, and circuit training. Then throw in arms, legs and abs. I didn't go to gym yesterday. Have this dry cough that wont go away and a massive headache. Winter Sucks! It was 7 last Saturday and today it is going to be 50. We have actually been really lucky this winter just got snow for the first time last week. However, that stupid groundhog said spring was on its way, so lets be hurrying up with it already.

CariTJR

@Bluepoppies – Exactly! If they move there then I’ll be the first one on a plane to visit haha. I’ve heard so many good things about Canada, I’ve been a lot of places, but just never had the opportunity to go there, I’d really love to though. Love the meme by the way, that proper made me chuckle. Well done on the NSV too, makes you feel good when you resist those temptations.

@angie_kins – We’ve all done it, if you read through the previous posts you’ll see that last Saturday I nearly put myself into a junk food coma, I went way overboard, I just couldn’t seem to stop once I’d started. But we live and learn, chuck it in the ‘f**kit bucket’ and move forward.

@treetopper – So sorry for your loss. Very glad to hear you’re in a stronger place now though and you’re doing an awesome job with the weight loss, keep that strength going and you’ll smash this.

@Gillian – You’re like She-ra Princess of Power! (I so want to be her). I don’t know how you do it, my legs are aching like hell today, and no way would I be doing another work out. You rock!

@SumnyUK – That made me laugh, I’ve done that before, realised that glass will take me over so I’ve poured it back in the bottle. Well done though, takes some willpower, especially when you’ve already had a few and it’s so much easier to just say “ahhh sod it!” and drink it anyway!

@tazzy – Colds suck! They really do drain you physically, I’m not surprised you’ve not felt like jumping around exercising. Hope you feel better soon.

Well, I’ve had a good week (not counting last Saturday, ahem…), stuck to my cals, been for a couple of runs, and seen the fruits of my labour with another 2lb loss this week. I’m super excited that this has also resulted in me dropping down into the next stone bracket! Still a long way to go, but I am getting there, and the more I see that scale number slowly shrinking, the more motivated I am to see it drop further. Hope you all have fabulous days!

angie_kins

I'm back at it today, determined not to snack on the bagels and coffee cakes my boss provides on Fridays. I had a hearty egg breakfast so I'm feeling full, that should help. I didn't get to weigh myself this morning as planned because my husband was hogging the bathroom but I'll do it tomorrow. I have a 5K tomorrow morning, my first in many years. Looking forward to the challenge! Let's do this!

GillianSmith2

Happy Friday everyone.
@CariTJR haha i used to love watching she-ra has a child. Oh i wish i was like her, lol, maybe one day

Well I have an awesome weekend planned of total over indulgence. Me and some friends have a hen night celebration on Saturday night which will include lots of adult beverages and Sunday is my birthday so we are out for a family meal and obviously will have to indulge in a dessert. I have lots of exercise calories left from this week so i plan to enjoy every single moment and not feel one little twinge of guilt

I am really loving feeling healthy and being able to enjoy the good times without the guilt and then being able to get back to plan straightaway.

Have a good weekend everyone. Stay strong, be positive and most of all ENJOY

sarahhuntting15

I have about 80 pounds to lose,and would love some more people to stay accountable to!

bluepoppies777

@SumnyUK haha!! I've done that too! Actually I've been known to do jumping jacks in my kitchen just to get back a few calories so I'm not over!!
@GillianSmith2 happy birthday to youuuuuuu!! Hope you have a fab weekend!!
Happy Friday everyone, we made it through the week!! I weighed myself again this morning, still the effing SAME!! Driving me nuts!!!! Gah. I told myself I'm going to lose a lb next week if it absolutely kills me! Lol!! Have a good weekend, people!! Log everything and get out there and sweat!!

deidrabugg

Happy Friday everyone! Slowly reaching my goal two ounces at a time but getting there! Have a work out planned tonight but the weekend is starting to fill up and I hope to fit in two more. Finally have nice weather so everyone wants to get together. Positivity is my plan for the weekend

SumnyUK

@angie_kins Hope you have a great time with your 5k tomorrow morning. Are you starting ParkRun?

@GillianSmith2 That's the spirit. There's absolutely no reason to feel miserable when you're supposed to be partying. Far better to save up the calories in advance as you have done, and then have a splendid time without any guilt at all. Have a wonderful weekend, and happy birthday!

@sarahhuntting I've only been here 24 hours, but it looks like you've found the right crowd!

@bluepoppies777 hahaha, that's a new one for me. Not sure it's a great idea after a few glasses, but otherwise definitely one I will use when needed! Don't worry about the plateau. They happen. And you WILL start to lose weight again.

lml852014

Really happy I use the happy scale app bc it shows that I've actually lost almost a lb in the past couple weeks and i feel at a standstill except I'm really not if I look at it long term. Its kinda cool to see the numbers as they go up and down and it keeps me accountable.

lml852014

I know 1 lb isnt a lot but I'm not trying to lose much so I'd rather lose it slower and keep it off for good.