200+ (Week 36) Sizzlin' Through Summer

akasullengal

That time of the week.

Good luck with your weigh-ins/check-ins everyone!

I'm just hoping for close to a maintenance this week, considering all I've eaten, though I did finally get to the gym and worked out pretty hard on the elliptical for an hour. Whew! Finally!

my2loves04and06

We finally had a day without thunderstorms! It was nice to get outside today. Supposed to be sunny again tomorrow, so you can bet we'll be outside all day again. The kids and I went on a 5 mi (45 mins) bike ride this morning. I swear my son is packing the trailer full of toys just so there's more weight for me to pull. Just finished L2D5 of the 30 DS.

Consumed 1787 today, 380 under goal

dixiegal2484

hey ladies. i had a great day today. i didnt eat very well considering i ate cheeseburgers from BK and McDonalds for lunch and dinner, but i worked it off vigorously scrubbing a wall for 90 minutes today at work. it was a work out in its self so im counting that as day 2 of 4 completed this week. i will only make it 3 out of 4 this week but it is much better than nothing. my check in for today is 1444 consumed/ 1900 allowed/ 521 burned/ and a total of 977 under for the day. pretty good day all in all. cant wait to see what mr. scale has for me tomorrow. good luck everyone. good night.

pinbotchick

Good morning super pals!!! Got in a 75 min bike ride this morning. Last night did almost 30 min with kettle bell. Weight ckeck-in 184.5 this morning!!! I'll take it. That's down 1.5 pounds from my final check-in Sunday of 186... Yeah!!!

I'm on the iPhone (too lazy - no too tired - to walk upstairs to the compter). I check back later and make comments. Have a wonderful Friday...

akasullengal

Victoria- congrats on finally having the scale move! WOOWOO!

Check in: 187.8 (+1.8 for the week).

Ugh. Not surprising for several reasons:
1. Underate the week before, and dropped a bunch of weight. My body doesn't like that and tends to want to recalibrate back up a bit after a big loss week
2. While I was finishing up moving, I only worked out twice this week. Way under my goal
3. Restaurant week. Need I say more? Way more food than I should normally eat.

Seriously, need to get it back together this upcoming week and hopefully the gain this week will be gone by next.

Good luck everyone!

makeitallsue

I can't believe another week is gone....who keeps stealing all of the weeks from me....:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: , this is my last week with the re-setting thing.....I sure hope this works.....seeing everyone go down is fabulous, but I'll be honest....makes me a tiny bit concerned for myself.....sorry for being so whinypants...........this week is to be no exercise and eating 2800-2900 calories a day...YIKES!! I'll be walking though and doing the usual house/yard/swim stuff....just goign to try to take it easier...trainer even suggests a massage, hmmm...that might work...:laugh:

KendalBeee

mmm...any trainer that tells you to get a massage is a great trainer in my book! lol


I'm 225.0 today. Thats down .8 from last week. I have met my goal of exercising 4 times this week so YAY for me! My friends at work are all losing weight too. Stephany told me about these One A Day vitamin pills that keeps you full all day. She just gave me one and if it works, I may start taking it on a regular basis. I could probably use a vitamin supplement.

OH! My realtor put my house up on the listingbook.com site and it sends me daily updates. We are having an open house on Sunday so about 2000 people have been notified about it. This morning my report said that 22 people have looked at my house, 2 realtors have looked at it and 2 people have added it to their favorite list! I REALLY hope this thing sells. It will suck to have to move but my bank account is starting to scare me.

my2loves04and06

Good morning! My scale liked me this morning and told me I was 221.2 (-1.4 from last week) so I'm happy this morning. I'm well on my way to losing 30 by Labor Day (and my 30th birthday!) which was a goal of mine.

Nice and sunny but cool out this morning so the kids and I will be heading out for another bike ride today. I think we'll ride the path down by the river today. More scenic and less buggy than the gravel wooded path we took yesterday.

Will check back in later tonight. Happy Friday!

pinbotchick

Time for a quick break from paperwork to check-in with my super pals!!!

Amber - great job on the exercise. I know eating at McDonalds and BK are quick and easy - (I am a former addict!!!). I really noticed the weight coming off when I started to pack my lunch with healthier options (1 cup soup(1/2 normal can), 100gr baby carrots, 100gr cucumber or cherry tomatoes, sandwich with joseph pita bread, lettuce, sliced roast beef and spicy mustard, and a piece of fruit). It really only takes me 5 min to prepare the night before work. Now it's habit to take my lunch and I rarely stop for fast food except Subway... This was one of the biggest changes for me but it really helped!!! Good luck.

Trace - great job on the loss. Enjoy that bike ride.

Kendal - my fingers are crossed for you on the house sale. Congrats on losing again.

Debra - I feel for you. Good luck this week. How was the party? Are you feeling better from the fall? I'm glad you weren't hurt worse!!! Did the washer get fixed? Oh yeah - go get that massage!!! I've been giving more massages at work (more neck/back pain clients) - I think I need to look up how many calories it burns to give a 15 min massage.

Kristina - next week will be better. The stress of moving will be gone and you will be back to better eating. I bet you lose it all and then some. I'm sure it's some water weight from the great food this week.

Laceylala

Happy Friday!! Today is the first day in a good week at least that I haven't looked like r felt like a zombie from the allergies. Yeay! My eyes weren't swollen this morning either, although they still look someone punched me.,..but I will take it.

I am back down from 208.5 last week to 206.5 so yeay me! I really think that just exercising as much as possible and watching what I eat but not really tracking has helped me lose weight...taking the stress out of it. I am going to keep at it for another couple of weeks and see how it treats me.

I am super super busy this morning at work...tons of orders and end of the month stuff...so I can't read through everyone's posts but I will do it tonight or tomorrow.

You all have a fantabulous Friday!

KendalBeee

I have such a headache.

pinbotchick

Kendal - Sorry to hear your head hurts - can you take a break and go for a short walk? Exercise may help...

Lacey - glad you're feeling better. Enjoy life tonight:drinker:

Well, workout 2 is done. I just got in from a 2.5 mile run. This blasted heat made it too hard to stay out any longer. I love having days off so that I can so extra exercise. Now it's back to more paperwork (*sighs*) At least I don't have a boss nagging me and can work sweaty/stinky.

I meant to tell you guys that by fate, one of my favorite authors (Janet Evanovich) released a book called "Sizzling Sixteen" on June 23rd. I've already finished it. A nice fluff book that cheers me up. It goes so well with our team name... Enjoy your weekend!!!

pinbotchick

Well gang - mom decided going out to eat and walking to the bar with us would be a good workout. We got there 1.1 miles and on the way home it started pouring so we shagged a ride about 1/2 way home - another .6 miles. It was some power quick walking and I didn't have the best shoes on so I ended up with a blister. Oh well. My ribs were great!!!

my2loves04and06

Got our bike ride in this morning. A bit more than I was expecting to go. 19.7 miles (115 mins), to be exact. Holy cow. 1728 burned. I still can't believe we rode that far. Especially Kyleigh (that's my daughter)! Tegan enjoyed the ride too, I think. He's definitely not the lightest to tote around, that's for sure.

2066 eaten, 1122 under goal -- oops?

Lacey - Great loss!

Victoria - Too bad you got caught up in the rain. I bet it was a nice cool down though. Oh, and I'd love to work from home all smelly and sweaty. Or in my pajamas!

Kendal - hope your headache went away


Off to bed. My body is exhausted. I hope it carries me through work the next 2 days.

kimmrdodge

Hey everyone!

Just checking in real quick. I lost 2 lbs this past week. Not nearly as good as last week but considering the first part of the week I was up 2 lbs from all the bad eating I did, not bad really. I would like to hit the 220's next week but I will have to have another 3-4 lb week to do so. If not thats ok as long as I loose something I'm happy. Been pretty busy this week cleaning and reorganizing so have not been around much. I have to run and tuck my kids into bed I'll try to visit again later. Nice work this week everyone, I see some losses out there!!!!

Laceylala

Happy Saturday morning! Last night I went into town and watched Footloose in a park with the girls from work. Dran some wine and relaxed. I needed it after the long week I had with the allergies draining me. And my daughter has been on a real roll at night not minding very well. What amazes me is that kids can throw the hugest fit, get in trouble and be over it in like five minutes flat...and you are still mad! I wish I still had that kid quality of getting over things go fast! Its definitely something adults Lose along the way.
The Allegra D I'm on doesn't let me sleep so that's the sacrifice I make to be able to function with these allergies. Tomorrow I'm going to have to not take anything so I can sleep and catch up. And yesterday I realized too that I was hyped up from the pill and didn't eat hardly anything all day, just wasn't really hungry and was so busy with work I didn't notice until the drive home when I was a bit shaky.
This weekend I have no plans but to relax and spend time with my daughter. Jeff is going to a Floater concert tonight.


Kimmr good job on the loss!

Trace wow that is a major bike ride!

Kendall good luck with the house selling!

Deb I'm really interested to see how your remodeling of your metabolism will end up! Get that massage, they are seriously wonderful!

Kristina enjoy your new place. Ive only ever lived by myself in my own apartment for one year of my life and I loved it. I lived there when I met jeff and we still talk about that place.

Victoria I've read a few books by Janet Evanovich I think. Right now I've been handed down just about every Nicholas Sparks book he's written and they aren't bad. Easy reads and enjoyable. It's nice to find some books that I want to read because i've bought quite a few books over the past year that sounded good in the store and got them home and couldn't finish them. Part of that has to do with the fact that vie been listening to some really greets audibooks I think.

stongue

I weighed in this morning at the gym. I lost a pound down to 221, but I weigh again Monday night and usually weigh more in the evenings. So I'll have to see if I really did lose this pound or if I actually stayed the same. I feel really good this morning, got in 4 glasses of water already (a WOW for me), did 1/2 hour of walking on the treadmill, pace 3.0, and I started a pilates class that meets every Saturday morning. Now that was a workout! My balance was so bad i spent more time falling off the ball than staying on it:laugh: The rest of the class had a blast with my shenanigans! Instructor was great and said I did really well considering it was my first class. I don't know what she was watching:ohwell: But it sure was fun! So you all have a fun weekend, do something special for yourselves, and have fun with the tiniest of things! Oops my calories are good too, although I haven't finished the day yet. It's all planned out for today and I know I'll be plenty content!

akasullengal

Hey ladies! Hope your having a great weekend.

Realized I hadn't checked in for yesterday, so here's yesterday and today:
Friday:
2381 needed to maintain
1731 eaten/ 170 burned/ -820 day/ -820 week
Saturday:
2381 needed to maintain
1956 eaten/ 426 burned/ -851 day/1671 week

Today I walked a mile to and from work's walking group, then did 1.5 miles at the actual group, so that was my exercise for the day. Not super strenuous, but I did power walk everything.

I need to get my booty into gear. Yes, my calories haven't been horrible, but I'm not eating enough fruits and veggies and not exercising enough. Love that I moved, but it's completely thrown me out of my routine, which i do NOT need. I cannot slip up- I've come to far. Moving week was a good excuse, but now that I'm pretty much settled, I need to get back into gear.

Grocery shopping tomorrow. Will make a curried fried rice (with lots of veggies) for my recipe of the week and try to salad it up a bit over the week as well. Rec center tomorrow, unless it's cool enough to go outside for a run (doubtful). Otherwise, shouldn't be a bad day. Did a lot of organizing and cleaning (and shopping.. oh ikea, how i love you so), but I have most of my stuff together now, so just a bit of organizing tomorrow and then relaxing (after getting my cardio on). Whew!

pinbotchick

Lazy Sundays - I love them. I've been laying in bed for an hour playing on the computer. My plan for the day is to burn 1000+ cal again. I've done it the last 2 days. Yesterday - biked 75 min, walked 2 miles, did 20 min upper body weights, 10 min abs and 10 min stretches. I hope to run today but not sure if the rain will cooperate - if not, I may dust off the step for some old fashioned aerobics.

Then it's more paperwork - yuck!!!

Stonge - WTG on your loss!!!

Kristina - back away from IKEA (*winks*). Did you count the shopping as ex? Glad your apt has come together. Buy lots of fruit and veges - it's time to get back to healthier eating. I made a taco cabbage soup last weekend and subbed tofu for meat - I liked it. I also just read a great way to bake tofu to make it firmer - I'll let you know how it turns out. I wish I could get Tempeh up here.

Lacey - what are you listening to? I'm still making my way through An Echo in the Bone, just finished Emma and Me and have to start The Year of Magical Thinking for bookclub.

Kim - Great job on the loss!!!

Trace - that's an awesome bike ride. I'm impressed the kids made it.

Debra - hope you're staying dry on the ball fields!!! and that you son hits it out of the park.

Kendal - hope you're having a great weekend and were able to get Lexi to the park.

Carolyn - hope you're still hanging in there. We miss you!!!

Amber - you're doing great. Hope you weekend has been fun...

akasullengal

Victoria- way to go with the exercise! I read Emma and Me- sort of underwhelmed... did you like it? I liked another book she wrote "But Inside I'm Screaming". I'm working my way through the Sookie Stackhouse books, as I love True Blood so much. They are both so deliciously bad. I can appreciate them for what they are- pure crack.

I'm off to the gym, then to the grocery store. Will definitely load up on the veggies. Then, putting up a few last things at the place. Then, I plan to relax for the rest of the day, as the weekend seems to get away from me each week, and I don't feel like I've rested much yet this weekend.

Off to feel the burn...

KendalBeee

Not sure how I HAVEN'T gained much this weekend. I'm up to 252.4 (up .4 from Friday)....I've eaten absolute CRAP this weekend and I doubt it'll stop till tomorrow morning. I'm talking I ate an entire Tony's pizza yesterday for lunch :embarassed: It was 990 cals. Then I had a burger and fries from Dairy O for dinner. I did pass on the banana split though.


The open house is in 2 hours. I'm gonna go hop in the shower and do my last minute cleaning stuff. Mainly just vacuuming. I hope this goes well.

anyways, i must be off. I'll catch up on all your posts later

Laceylala

Victoria right now I'm listening to book two in the Gentleman *kitten* series by Scott Lynch. The books are fantastic and the narrator is one of the best I've listened to. He's amazing with voices. And I also get one book from the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher each month. I have a membership with audible.com! Two books per month for $23.00. Can't beat that! For audiobooks I tend to like the ones about magic and such, for reading lately chick lit works since it's easy and fun.

Kendall good luck with the open house today.

Kristina have Fun Shopping! I'm dying to make a stock up trip to Whole Foods in Portland again. I love that store.

I'm going to make some pancakes and then who knows. Probably staying inside since my allergies are torturing me like never before.

KendalBeee

Not. One. Single. Person. Showed. Up.

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akasullengal

Kendal- so.not.cool. Sorry to hear about the open house. An absolute bummer.

Today was quite a nice day. Productive, but also relaxing. My check in:
2381 needed to maintain
1912 eaten/ 549 burned/ -1018 day/-2689 week

Even though eating wasn't super on point this weekend, I was glad to see I was back at 186 this morning (my weigh in from the week before last). Now, if it'll just stay on the downward trend. Did a little over 45 min on the elliptical today. Was bored out of my mind for some reason (maybe too many talk of the nation podcasts? a little dry), so didn't do the full hour, though worked out hard for those minutes I was on. Did some work around the condo, but nothing too crazy. Cooked a curried fried rice with chickpeas, green beans, and tomatoes for lunches this week, and went grocery shopping for other food for this week. I"m thinking a sauteed peppers, onions, and tempeh over couscous perhaps? I need to get on the healthy eating bandwagon. I went out too much the past couple of weeks, and it's thrown me off the wagon a bit. Need to get my eating palate back up to snuff. My eye was on way too many naughty things at the store today- things that haven't phased me in months- break and bake cookies?? Come on, Kristina! *slaps self*

Tomorrow will be an uber hectic day. No cardio for me. Work shouldn't be TERRIBLE, but I have an electrician coming to the condo at some point tomorrow morning/afternoon to fix an outlet, so I'll need to run by from work for that, need to take a trip up to campus to get materials for the study, have my group in the evening (really like these folks, but DEFINITELY glad this is the last session of this cohort. Monday nights are not good for me), then a concert in town- Joshua James- singer/songwriter, who's stuff I just recently started digging. So yeah, very late evening.

Hope everyone had a great weekend! Keep your bodies moving!

my2loves04and06

Kendal - Bummer about the showing. That's one thing that makes me glad we aren't putting our house on the market until we're all moved out. I'm sure it's frustrating to clean and organize everything "just so" only to find out no one even came. Hopefully you'll get a nibble (offer) soon.

Kristina - Enjoy the concert tomorrow night. Your meals sound delish!

Lacey - Any good chick lit/fluff recommendations? I'm currently reading Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, which is non-fiction. The author is hilarious (not to mention the subject) but it has taken me more than 2 months to get halfway through. It just doesn't hold my attention like the easy readers do. Hope your allergies haven't left you too worn out.


Yesterday's check-in: 1448 eaten, 12 under goal
Today's check-in: 1428 eaten, 299 under goal

Off work the next 3 days, then the kids and I are driving the 14 hrs to SC to visit my husband (and baby daddy) at our new place. We'll be back the following Friday. Minus the hubby, of course. Hoping I can stick with my exercise and eating habits while away from "home".

pinbotchick

It's Monday, It's Monday!!! Next weekend is my favorite time of the year - I love fireworks... Got my bike ride in today. Wimped out on calorie burn around 700 yesterday. Burning 1000 ex cal is a ton of work. Today is another long work day. Plans for the week are to spend my money - we need a new hot tub cover and I want a new bike. I've been riding a $20 garage sale bike. I'd like one with a padded seat. (*dreams big soft cushion*)... Gotta run and get ready.

akasullengal

Victoria- 700 calories is nothing to feel bad about! Dang girl- especially biking, which doesn't burn as much, as say running or ellipticaling. Way to go for getting another ride in. If my butt could just get up in the morning when it's cooler, I would do that, but it's just not realistic for me. If you're serious about getting your bicycling on, you should definitely upgrade for the garage sale special.

Hope everyone's day is going well. A long one for me, but so far, so good.

makeitallsue

Victoria, all your talk of riding has me wanting to pull my bike back out, I haven't riden since my tanning sessions. My son has a baseball camp next week, I'm wondering if I can get him to ride to town everyday??? Worth a shot to ask him.

Hope everyone is having a great week...I have been a little on the sore and tired side this week....it has been really humid and I think that must be taking a toll on me...

I have been feeling really full trying to get all of my calories in....I look forward to next week, 2200 I can do, but higher than that and I don't know if it's a head thing or what...but I just feel sick....

I wonder how much I have gained???? I know I have, I pair of shorts that I could wear were a little snug on me this weekend....I keeping reminding myself, short term for the long haul!

akasullengal

Debra- the humidity has definitely been affecting me as well. You're not alone! And you're so right- you're in it for the long haul, so if short-term, you gain a bit of weight in order in the long run to be healthy, do it! Good attitude.

Morning ladies! It's cooler outside today. YES! And should be for the next couple of days here. Highs in the 70s. You know what that means, right? It means Kristina needs to get her booty outside and run while she can handle the weather! I have a somewhat late evening tonight at work again, with an individual session at 5:30, so I won't get home until later, but it should still be fine to go for a run then. It might not be a gynormously long run, but I want to hit 3 miles. As I've been running inconsistently, I don't know how good my stamina is. So yeah, that's the plan.

Oh, check in for yesterday:
2381 needed to maintain
1788 eaten/ 0 burned/ -593 day/-3282 week
No exercise really, as I had a late evening at work and just wanted to collapse when I got home. The scale continues to move in a downward trend though, which is nice. I'm hoping it'll at least hold out for Friday. I think next week will be TOM again (UGH- seriously, has it been a month already?), so that'll shoot any loss out the window that week. Nice. *grumbles*

Hope everyone has been doing okay. This thread has been quieter these past couple of weeks. Are peeps just busy, or what? Need a kick in the butt with motivation? I don't want to lose peeps! I you guys!

KendalBeee

yeah it has been a lot quieter around here lately. I'm just trucking along. I've been on and off the wagon....lately I've been mostly on (except for the weekends). I'm seriously stressed to all hell about money. Turns out that after paying my bills this month, I am already in the hole $140. So food and gas and dog food and tampons and shampoo and car taxes and an oil change all push me farther in the red. I still have money that Joey had given me, so my bank account isn't negative, I'm just spending more than I'm making and that won't last forever. I went home and cried last night. (better than going home and eating) I need the house to sell, but maybe God is keeping me in the house so I won't have to be separated from Lexi. When the house sells, I plan on moving in with my friends and I'll have to put Lexi outside on a tie out. :frown: Plus, my friends would charge me about $70 less than what I pay on my mortgage now and then I'd have to pay for all my stuff to go in storage. Other than the utilities, I won't be saving THAT MUCH. (Their house is about 10-15 minutes further away from work so I'd also be spending more in gas.)

yeah...so thats whats going on in the life of Kendal....

KendalBeee

bumping the thread cause it needs it