Over 200 New Year New Me Part 28

bluenote

Thanks girls for all your help with Ramadan. My biggest fear is eating/drinking so much and then going to bed. last year I had a very hard time going to bed on a full stomach becasuse of all the water, coffee, and food I ate...I don't want to go through that feeling again. you can only fit but so much in your stomach..I hate to be overstuffed.

Laila, how about eating higher caloric good-for-you foods so that you won't feel as stuffed? You know, like peanut butter, which can use a lot of calories up. Or avocados. Or Cliff Bars. I don't know, really - I am just guessing here! Higher healthy calorie, less quantity is what I am trying to say!

bluenote

Heather - I LOVE tubing! What river? Have fun and be safe - I don't know if the rivers are high by you, but they certainly are here in Lou. Never feels good when the river is high and you tube over a tree and a branch goes up your butt. :grumble:
Laila - I know I am late in this stir fry answer, but methinks the soy sauce would be processed....well, and the canola oil...GREAT JOB finding alternate ways to avoid the chemicals!
Miranda - whatever it takes, sister. If you need/want a trainer, you do it. Trainers are awesome when they really fit your personality (and budget)! I am so grateful I have a physical therapist. He is like a personal trainer to me and I absolutely LOVE it.
Kerri - we're glad you're still on the journey, too.
Lauren, I think considering the hunger challenges you faced today, you did pretty damn well. One piece of pizza? What the...? I could never stop at one! :laugh:
Jess - when you wrote "Does anybody do crunches?" I thought it read "Does anybody do Krunchers?" and I got really excited. The Hawaiian Onion ones are DELISH! I mean, er...I have no idea... :smokin:
myworld - yeah, cake hindsight is always 20/20. :ohwell:
And Jess - it always takes more than one day to pack up an apartment, no matter what size. Take it from Nancy Nomad here, who has moved more times in her life than the law allows. Or is it that I am running from the law...I can't remember...

bluenote

check in:

GONNA BE REALLY HONEST HERE. Half of my calories came from corn chips. :embarassed:
calories: amazingly under a bit
water: 100
exercise: 30 mins treadmill, 20 mins this sort of elliptical where you sit down (hurt my *kitten*), and 20 mins arm work
proud: I stopped myself from eating the entire bag of corn chips. I actually threw the darn bag away! I just can't have that crap in my house! I blew the challenge today - sorry! :frown:

Positively_Me

Good Morning gals,

Hot and Humid here in Pa:explode:, again!

Thanks Nancy and Myworld on help wiht Ramadan:flowerforyou:

I am going to look at it as taking it one day at a time. Ramadan is about 3 weeks away, and I do it last year. I lost weight, but I know it was not real weight I lost because most days I was dehydrated from lack of water. This year, since I do all the cooking and sweets ( that goes with Ramadan), I am going to make healthier options of fatty meals...during this holiday we tend to eat really rich foods..I am going to try to do some health wholesome foods that way I will be within calories ( I know how fast calories add up).

We ( people who celebrate Ramadan) are suppose to get up a hour before cut off time to pray and eat something before the fasting begins, however, if I eat something at 4am..no way I can get back to sleep ... then that would require me to take a nap later in the day...I don't know what to do...I guess I have to experience it - to make alterations when it comes. SOrry for all the rambling..

Jess: When my family moved from appartment to a home it took us a week. Hubby thought one day would be enough to pack and load...but he was very wrong. My advice would be to pack things ( now) that you don't use. ( I was going to say something else but forgot --ugh!!!)

RedneckWmn

Thanks for the tips on moving. I hate moving and I always stress out over it. We usually have movers but since we are moving apart and both of us are broke we decided to do it ourselves. I'm going to get boxes this weekend and just pack every night next week. My Mom said she would come help me as well if I needed. Wrong time to break up with Mike. So could of used his help moving! HAHA, just kidding! But we will see how it goes. I have the apartment till the end of September and the only stuff that's really mine is stuff in my bedroom and very few kitchen supplies, washer and dryer and that's it. So shouldn't be too bad on my part. Have I mentioned I hate packing and moving?

Pretty proud, I got up and hit the gym this morning again. I kicked my own butt on the elliptical machine. I love that thing. I was POURING sweat. And I drank 24oz of water, get home and somehow weigh less. Figure that one out. Maybe I sweat out a pound. Who knows. Be back later! Hope everybody has a fabulous day!

lildebbie

Hello ladies -

Jess - Good luck with packing, I moved 2x in the last 3 years and took me months to pack...but i am packing a family of 4...we are doing it again next summer then that will be it.! At least you do have the apt till end of september, so if you don't get some stuff you can get it later

Well today is the today...i am stopping my insanse scnacking and no exerercise today...suprise i am still down 2 lbs from friday ...yes 2...with all that...i know i went over my cals yesterday not sure by how much but i ate lots of cookies, cookie dough, grahm crackers, crackers, and a whole bunch other snack foods...but yep i was at 261.0 this morning, i haven't drank water all week either...i am done rolling the dice thought cause i am sure it will catchup to me. I am eating good, and we are working out tonight (can't go at lunch asw i am working thorugh my lunch to take serena to her 7 yr checkup today).

I will be estatic if i can hold on to this 2 lbs loss tomorrow.

LittleSpy

I have so much to do at work and I don't want to do a darn thing. :ohwell:

TOM is still trying to kill me but the number on the scale was only 1 pound up from my lowest weight ever and 0.2 pounds up from my lowest weigh-in ever so I'm thinking I'll actually record a loss tomorrow for the first time in a few weeks. Hooray!

This is weird, but I can tell I've lost fat over the last couple of weeks because my shoulders are bonier. :huh:

elmox

Jess, you're "picked the wrong time to break up with Mike" has me rolling. So fuinny...and true! You'll be great and moving is a great work out! Hooray to you for your morning workout!!

Julie, I am totally with you on the so much to do and don't want to do it. I've got another 4 hour meeting this afternoon, and about 90 minutes of meetings this morning. I've been putting off a project that HAS to be done today. I'm going to be a busy lady and if you see me back on here later, you should yell at me to get back to work.

There are more of you I want to "talk" to, but I've got to pay more attention in this meeting I'm in.

Yesterday's check-in:
Cals - Over by 260...considering the mega muffin and pizza, I'll take 1460 cals
Water - 80 oz
Exercise -None. Get it together Lauren!
Proud - Stopping at 1 piece of pizza. It's the little victories.

RedneckWmn

lildebbie-If you haven't had any water it's quite possible you could be dehydrated. You will still most likely see a loss this week though. Glad you gave your body a rest. Is your arm feeling better today?

LittleSpy-Sorry to hear TOM is knocking you on your butt. But that's great news that you should see a loss this week

Elmox-I am excited about it being a workout. I will reward myself with a day or two off from the gym after the move is complete. I'm sure 3 flights of stairs I will be hurting. But we are going to rent a dolly. Hope you get all your work done!

Check in for 7/21 (I Need to get better at this)

Calories: 1530
Water: 144oz
Exercise: 30 minutes of interval running. I was running at a 5.5 and then 10 minutes on the stair stepper thing and last night I did 20 minutes of Bollywood. It's fun but I am NOT coordinated! Glad nobody but my dog was watching me!
Proud: I commited to working out in the morning and at night and I did it. It felt great!

Danielle_81

Good morning everyone!

Check in
Calories: over by 200 (not bad considering the cake)
Water: 88oz
Excercise: none, I overslept then had to work
Proud: that I didn't make myself throw up the cake! :laugh: No eating problems but it really made me sick to my stomach and I wanted it out of my system

So I am at work, 12 hours today, no chance to excercise today. I still feel sick. Ever since I woke up this morning I feel like I'm gonna puke. :sick: I'm hoping it's cuz I'm hungry and need something in my belly. So I'm trying to eat a yogurt to see if that helps.

Jess-I feel your pain with moving. I too have moved WAY TO MUCH in my lifetime. And my husband and I are facing 1 maybe 2 more moves before we are done. Maybe even this summer for the first....I'm not looking forward to it!

LittleSpy-I am sorry TOM is knocking you out. I feel for you, my TOM is murder. I am loving the fact that I'm breastfeeding and no TOM yet! I'm hoping it holds off for a LONG time. :laugh: I'm guessing it'll be soon though, it started back up after my daughter at 11 months.

Be back later

Positively_Me

Jess, you're "picked the wrong time to break up with Mike" has me rolling. So fuinny...and true! You'll be great and moving is a great work out! Hooray to you for your morning workout!!

Julie, I am totally with you on the so much to do and don't want to do it. I've got another 4 hour meeting this afternoon, and about 90 minutes of meetings this morning. I've been putting off a project that HAS to be done today. I'm going to be a busy lady and if you see me back on here later, you should yell at me to get back to work.

There are more of you I want to "talk" to, but I've got to pay more attention in this meeting I'm in.

Elmox, good luck on your project(s) and meeting(s)..you have me stressing @ all you have to do and turn in...good grif!

Hope all is done soon:flowerforyou:

Positively_Me

Exercise: 30 minutes of interval running. I was running at a 5.5 and then 10 minutes on the stair stepper thing and last night I did 20 minutes of Bollywood. It's fun but I am NOT coordinated! Glad nobody but my dog was watching me!
Proud: I commited to working out in the morning and at night and I did it. It felt great!

Jess, I was going to ask you (before you posted) if you did you evening workout with Jillian (30 day shred)..WAY TO GO! I am very uncoordinated too..I have no rhythm whatsoever..2 left feet:laugh:
I recently bought Just Dance for wii and Love it. I sweat up a storm..and I can follow the steps pretty good..I play against my daugher and she kicks my *kitten* every single time..hopefully one day I can find my rhythm and beat her..lol

RedneckWmn

Exercise: 30 minutes of interval running. I was running at a 5.5 and then 10 minutes on the stair stepper thing and last night I did 20 minutes of Bollywood. It's fun but I am NOT coordinated! Glad nobody but my dog was watching me!
Proud: I commited to working out in the morning and at night and I did it. It felt great!

Jess, I was going to ask you (before you posted) if you did you evening workout with Jillian (30 day shred)..WAY TO GO! I am very uncoordinated too..I have no rhythm whatsoever..2 left feet:laugh:
I recently bought Just Dance for wii and Love it. I sweat up a storm..and I can follow the steps pretty good..I play against my daugher and she kicks my *kitten* every single time..hopefully one day I can find my rhythm and beat her..lol

I wanted to do Jillian but I can't cool the upstairs before it gets dark outside and the DVD wont play downstairs. We lost the remote so the universal remote wont let us choose options, only play. So I found Bollywood on demand and did that. It wasn't as good of a workout as I wanted but I definitely made the best of it.

Positively_Me

Exercise: 30 minutes of interval running. I was running at a 5.5 and then 10 minutes on the stair stepper thing and last night I did 20 minutes of Bollywood. It's fun but I am NOT coordinated! Glad nobody but my dog was watching me!
Proud: I commited to working out in the morning and at night and I did it. It felt great!

Jess, I was going to ask you (before you posted) if you did you evening workout with Jillian (30 day shred)..WAY TO GO! I am very uncoordinated too..I have no rhythm whatsoever..2 left feet:laugh:
I recently bought Just Dance for wii and Love it. I sweat up a storm..and I can follow the steps pretty good..I play against my daugher and she kicks my *kitten* every single time..hopefully one day I can find my rhythm and beat her..lol

I wanted to do Jillian but I can't cool the upstairs before it gets dark outside and the DVD wont play downstairs. We lost the remote so the universal remote wont let us choose options, only play. So I found Bollywood on demand and did that. It wasn't as good of a workout as I wanted but I definitely made the best of it.

yes you did! You are very dedicated..so proud of you:flowerforyou:

RedneckWmn

Thank you. I'm really trying to work hard and stay on track. I want to see those 20 pounds gone by the wedding. I think I would look HOT HOT HOT in that dress. Wow, I sound like I have quite the ego. I really don't.

raiderape

Hi Ladies!

I haven't had time to catch up. I am still here but extremely busy. They band us at work from being on the internet when not on break. Sucks!!

LittleSpy

Whew. I've done more work in the last 3.5 hours than I've done all month. And I don't even think I'm exaggerating.

I promised myself if I got everything done I'd let myself go home sick. :laugh: I haven't been feeling so great all week and have just stuck it out at work. But now I'm on a roll so I'll probably just stay until 5. If I get enough done, maybe I won't feel like coming to work at all tomorrow. :devil: (yeah right, I'm way too good and guilty to call in sick when I'm not. I hate myself for it. :laugh: )

awestfall

Exercised this morning with the Wii Biggest Loser Game.That is a tough workout even for the beginner level.I am going to keep at it though and I know in time eating the right amount of calories and exercising with Jillian and Bob and doing my Wii fit plus the scale will continue to move again.I am going to give it an honest chance (changing my calories) to see if it works.In the past I have only given it about 2-3weeks at the most and I need to give it longer than that so my body can adjust.So 2 months from now I am going to see my results and see where I am at.

RedneckWmn

If I get enough done, maybe I won't feel like coming to work at all tomorrow. :devil: (yeah right, I'm way too good and guilty to call in sick when I'm not. I hate myself for it. :laugh: )

I'm the same way. Unless I can't physically get out of bed, I usually don't call in sick.

LittleSpy

I'm the same way. Unless I can't physically get out of bed, I usually don't call in sick.

For real.

I have 39 days of sick leave I've built up over just 3 years. 39 days! I called in sick one day this year and even then I felt guilty & like I was lying. It was only hives over large portions of my body. :laugh: And they were hardly visible. I so could've gone to work.

The thing is, if (when) I leave employment with the State, I'll be paid out for my vacation time but I'll lose all my sick leave. :sad: And right now, that's almost $5,000.00.
It just doesn't pay to be healthy (and honest).

lildebbie

jess - didn't think about dehydration, maybe that is it,.i drank lots of diet coke, no water :sad: doing good soo far today and to the gym tonight...hopefully that 2lbs will stay gone we will see...if i loose anything i think i will be happy.

my stupid laptop is ticking me off...the same thing happe3ned to my old one, i think i am tough on them, pluse the kids falling over it and such, but the power cord won't connect unless you maneuver it just soo right...last laptop i took apart the laptop and found the part that connects to the motherboard came off...someone has to soder it back on, last time decided that i would get a new one,...can't afford to do that this time, hopiefully i can find sometone to fix itCHEAP!!!

we are going to be childless this weekend, thinking of what we want to do...we decidied to get some steaks and baked tatesr, salald and have a dinner here just 2 of us (even maybe make a desert)...go work out at the gym and get a red box...

bluenote

I'm the same way. Unless I can't physically get out of bed, I usually don't call in sick.

For real.

I have 39 days of sick leave I've built up over just 3 years. 39 days! I called in sick one day this year and even then I felt guilty & like I was lying. It was only hives over large portions of my body. :laugh: And they were hardly visible. I so could've gone to work.

The thing is, if (when) I leave employment with the State, I'll be paid out for my vacation time but I'll lose all my sick leave. :sad: And right now, that's almost $5,000.00.
It just doesn't pay to be healthy (and honest).

Um...I get 12 sick days a year and use them all every single year. :embarassed: BUT I do work in mold.

bluenote

Litspy - OMG CUTE PIC! Are those your babies??????

RedneckWmn

I'm the same way. Unless I can't physically get out of bed, I usually don't call in sick.

For real.

I have 39 days of sick leave I've built up over just 3 years. 39 days! I called in sick one day this year and even then I felt guilty & like I was lying. It was only hives over large portions of my body. :laugh: And they were hardly visible. I so could've gone to work.

The thing is, if (when) I leave employment with the State, I'll be paid out for my vacation time but I'll lose all my sick leave. :sad: And right now, that's almost $5,000.00.
It just doesn't pay to be healthy (and honest).

My days don't carry over at this job. So I have almost 2 weeks of sick days go to waste every year. But I use every last personal day. They aren't getting that!

Blue-You are moving out of the mold room arent you?

LilDebbie-Yay for being childless! Y'all enjoy your quiet time together!

Ann-Way to go on doing the workout out first thing this morning. I love getting it out of the way first thing.

On that note, I went to Panda Express for lunch because I was craveing some stir fry and of course forgot my lunch. I got mixed veggies with 2 side entress. Yeah, there go all my exercise calories. Geeze louise! It was so good though. With what I have planned for dinner I'll have maybe 60 calories give or take left. I guess under is under. They say you are supposed to eat all your exercise calories, right? :laugh:

LittleSpy

Litspy - OMG CUTE PIC! Are those your babies??????

Yes, my babes Kid (grey) and Peebie (kitten). I took that pic about a year ago. They're both just precious, huh? :noway: :devil: By the way, Peebie is named peebie for a reason. PB. Poopy Butt. She's extra fuzzy and was seperated from her mother WAY too early (like 6 weeks too early). I had to wash her dirty little cat butt every. single. day. for about 3 months after she came to me. :indifferent: Now she's all grown up (to a whopping 6 pounds) and she still hates me for it. :laugh:


Speaking of pictures, I took one of myself. And I didn't recognize myself. Then I kind came to the realization that I may be unrecognizable compared to a year ago (I was bigger a year ago than I am in this picture).

I should really wear makeup... :embarassed:

RedneckWmn

Your progress always amazes me! You do look like a totally different person. And much happier. And I think you look just beautiful without makeup. Your babies are precious!

Danielle_81

I think you all are VERY dedicated to your job to waste sick days. I guess I see it as a benefit and you should be able to use those days regardless! But my workplace uses PTO time, where they lump it all into one (vacation, personal, sick and holiday) and you accrue so many hours per pay period and can use them for whatever. But I too rarely call in sick. I am afraid I will get in trouble, even if I have documentation to support my reasoning.

LittleSpy, your animals are ADORABLE!

Lildebbie, ENJOY YOUR TIME!!! :bigsmile: My husband would be ALL OVER THAT....or me (TMI) :laugh: He's ready to have a night away from the baby and I am just not ready for that yet, he's only 8 months old, well 9 months next week.

elmox

Julie, you look HOT!!! Seriously, what an amazing transformation. Yeah you!

Positively_Me

LittleSpy-I am sorry TOM is knocking you out. I feel for you, my TOM is murder. I am loving the fact that I'm breastfeeding and no TOM yet! I'm hoping it holds off for a LONG time. :laugh: I'm guessing it'll be soon though, it started back up after my daughter at 11 months.

Be back later

Myworld, you are so luck for not getting TOM while breastfeeding..the only month I missed ( beside the 40 days), while breastfeeding, was the time I found out I was pregnant with my second child:laugh: Kudos to you:drinker:
Also, i give you credit for dieting while breastfeeding...I gained weight ( I was always so hungry)..after breastfeeding my last child for one year I said that is enough, appose to going 2 years like I did with my second child..my first child I lasted 4 months breastfeeding but that is because I was knocked up for a month..and I knew something was wrong every time I breastfeed her..she became very fussy..

Positively_Me

Julie, adoreble, cute animals..

And what a big transformation..you look awesome:flowerforyou: