25 TO LIFE-- JUNE

sindyb9

Thank you kerridwen. It is soo hard when you are injured. I keep gaining the weight back when I go down with one of the many issues. It is great that you are able to jog again. I just upped my walking from two miles a day to almost 4 and am having trouble eating the extra calories. I have been under at least 300 to 400. I will add a snack today to try to eat a little more. Dont know how iluvsparkles eats all her calories with all the exercise she does. How do you do it iluvsparkles? :laugh: :laugh: Everyone keep up the hard work. :drinker:

iluvsparkles

siiiigh, well, tho i have been doing better about it, im still not being as good as i should be. A couple of days over the last few weeks i have used ice cream and chocolate to get me to my calories, but im blaming that on TOM and working this week to do a little better at that.

ive been a little frustrated with numbers lately! In all honestly yall, i quit logging my food when i started burning so many exercise calories, and ive been scolding myself for it. I think that this should be the day that i buckle down and enter everything in, so i can better track myself. It was as if i spent three months obsessing over tracking every single little calorie, that i kind of went the opposite way for the last few weeks. Obviously ive still been on the site, but i just havent been using my food diary as i should.

I hereby declare that today is the day i start logging everything again.


AND if you didnt hear my fun news already, I taught my zumba class last nite! it was awesome! i felt very proud of myself for getting thru the whole hour! My teacher was out for a funeral and i was nominated to lead the class...yay!

buckeyebabe

Hi all! Like Jenn I just got back from a family vacation. We went back to VA (where we moved from) to visit some friends and my parents! It was so nice to be "home". My friends were amazed by my weight loss...the last time they saw me I was wearing 14/16 and I now wear 8 (stretch) but 8 none-the less. Of course everyone was asking how I did it and they were wanting me to say some magic pill because when I told them that I was exercising every day and watching my calories with the help of this magnificient wonderful website they all went "oooo".

I was scared to death to get on the scale when I came home because our friends can so eat and drink wine! There was yummy delicious meals and fabulous wines to eat and drink every night. My friends were supportive but teasing me a little bit because I didn't eat a lot of the things and I only drank 2 of the 6 nights and limited myself to one glass of wine. Each morning I got up by 6:30 and went running. My girlfriend worked out with me one day but quit when I was only half way done. When I got back to the house my husband came up and told me that "Deb is calling you an exercise animal." I thought that was great!

So...the moment of truth ....I lost 4 lbs!! Yea!! I am still way off from where I thought I would be by now because I didn't lose anything for a couple of months or should say bounced up and down within a couple of pounds for the past 2 1/2 months. Hopefully that's now over and I get the last 20 or so pounds off!! Now that my honey is back to work the household should return to normal and I can start a normal schedule again. It was a nice "break" with him being home for 2 months but I don't want that situation again!!

Hope all is well with everyone!

Jen-- I will get those pictures up soon, I promise. I just have to find a before shot and then I will take a new shot as soon as I get my new camera next week!!!

iluvsparkles

i just wanted to check in that i managed to log all of my calories yesterday. Today is a zumba/strength training day tho, which are my difficult days for eating all of my calories...

sindyb9

I hereby declare that today is the day i start logging everything again.


AND if you didnt hear my fun news already, I taught my zumba class last nite! it was awesome! i felt very proud of myself for getting thru the whole hour! My teacher was out for a funeral and i was nominated to lead the class...yay!

Yes so proud of you I know that must have been hard. So start logging so you can tell be how to eat all my calories, :laugh: :laugh: :drinker:

buckeyebabe

Question...Do any of you live in Washington? My hubby's 40th is coming up this fall and I was considering a long weekend get-away for the two of us but I don't know much about the state. I would love to go somewhere that I don't need a car, has hiking, vineyards, low cost hotels...not dangerous just not 5 star. If anyone can help me out please let me know. I was thinking about coming out in late September or early October...are there any festivals or anything going on around there. I hope someone knows something!!

Thanks for the help!

kerridwen

This week so far, I've been logging again! Time to get strict!

Making a difference, I'm under again, woot. (but only by 100 cal or so)

Hope things are going well for everyone else!!!

WB Buckeye!

iluvsparkles

me too kerri,
i managed to log again today at work. Im striving to get enough calories every day, so i made sure to eat my breakfast, late as it may have been, and had a small lunch, and more oatmeal and a shake later in the day...
then we had zumba, and i taught again, and will be on friday also! i burn a ton more as the teacher than as a student...how can that be?! today i got to almost 1000 calories in just one hour! YAY ZUMBA!! But boo for needing 2200 calories!!! we are having spaghetti for dinner so we will seee..... i love you guys.

pdxmomof2

For Buckeye Babe...

If you are referring to Washington State then I would look into Woodinville. It is wine country for Washington without going to Eastern Washington. Chateau Ste Michelle is located there and is famous for their wine. You would have to have a car to get from the airport to Woodinville.

If you are referring to Washington DC then scratch it all and I have no idea!!!

jenbar

Hi everyone! It seems I've been a little MIA.
I don't think I actually gained when I was away? I wasn't drinking enough water. The water was nasty from the tap and we were rationing the water bottles we brought. (I guess I'm a filtered water from the fridge snob now, oh well!)
anyway, so I'm back to drinking a lot. Got on the good scale and it says 157. Bad scale 160.4. Which, I have to admit, I probably should go with the bad scale since I went to the dr. for my physical the other day and it said 161 :grumble: Speaking of my physical. I'm gonna live! haha. ekg, perfect, circulation, perfect, blood work, perfect (except hyperthyroid is a little low, no big deal) my lumpiness in my left breast is gone (docs think it's because of weight loss) While i was there I got my weights from the past. It's official in 05/06 I was 200. I also saw in Feb. 02 I was 227 (that August I had an 11 pound baby, but still!)
I was also just thinking that I weigh less than when I got married! yeah! but still look fatter b/c of all the stretched and excess skin now. But I guess once I lose all the weight, I won't care.
So, I also have not been logging my food. bad, bad, I know. Some days I do it, some days I don't.
Also, I haven't been exercising. I have to sign back up to the Y so I can get a cheaper rate for my sons school program, and then I can go back to the gym. Since the kids have been out of school I haven't been doing much. I've been doing a lot of running around, errands, last minute things for my sis in laws wedding, vacataion, etc, that I haven't gotten to it.
Speaking of wedding. The rehearsal dinner is tonight in Long Island, NY (I'm in CT) Then the wedding is Saturday. I bought a completely different dress on Tuesday! haha. I LOVE this one and feel way more comfortable, sexy, confident and put together with this one. I'll post pics after the wedding.
I also got my hair cut yesterday. Not loving it, wish I did it after the wedding, but now it doesn't look so raddy. I just need to figure out what I'm going to do with it.
anyway ladies, have a great rest of the week. Hopefully I don't gain any this weekend, but seems unlikely!
Jennifer

buckeyebabe

For Buckeye Babe...

If you are referring to Washington State then I would look into Woodinville. It is wine country for Washington without going to Eastern Washington. Chateau Ste Michelle is located there and is famous for their wine. You would have to have a car to get from the airport to Woodinville.

If you are referring to Washington DC then scratch it all and I have no idea!!!

Yes, I was talking about the state. Thanks for the suggestion....I will look into it. I think I am going to have to rent a car. I posted the same question under general discussion and I had a ton of posts for absolutely excellent ideas!!! Who needs a travel agent when we have this forum!?!?

buckeyebabe

Jenn-- I was surprised when I read your most recent post...I can't believe you still have Mr. Nasty Scale. I thought we had convinced you to chuck that thing once and for all. Who needs 2 scales, 1 to lift your spirits and then one to shoot you down?! Since your not kidding a lot of exercise with the kids home I have a suggestion that will allow the kids to participate and let you get some strength training and calorie burn:

1. Lay large tarp on lawn
2. Grab 3 hammers (size according to who will be holding them)
3. Play protective eyewear on.
4. Lay Mr. Nasty Scale on top of tarp
5. Pound the h*** out of Mr. Nasty with children
6. Stop when your heart rate has reamined in the 80th % for at least 20 minutes.

There.....now don't you feel better and it was a family event to boot!! :laugh:

iluvsparkles

i have actually taken a hammer to a scale in the past!

jenbar

hahaha! you guys are too funny!
the sad part is mr. nasty seems to be the one that matches all dr's scales. :mad: :explode: :grumble: :noway: :sad: :sad: :sad:
that's okay though. As long as I see both of them go down in weight, then i'll be happy!

sindyb9

Jenn-- I was surprised when I read your most recent post...I can't believe you still have Mr. Nasty Scale. I thought we had convinced you to chuck that thing once and for all. Who needs 2 scales, 1 to lift your spirits and then one to shoot you down?! Since your not kidding a lot of exercise with the kids home I have a suggestion that will allow the kids to participate and let you get some strength training and calorie burn:

1. Lay large tarp on lawn
2. Grab 3 hammers (size according to who will be holding them)
3. Play protective eyewear on.
4. Lay Mr. Nasty Scale on top of tarp
5. Pound the h*** out of Mr. Nasty with children
6. Stop when your heart rate has reamined in the 80th % for at least 20 minutes.

There.....now don't you feel better and it was a family event to boot!! :laugh:

:laugh: :laugh:

buckeyebabe

So frustrated today...it's my TOM and it has me down. I have a massive headache and both back and stomach cramping. I never feel this bad....UGGGGGHHHH!!! The great thing is that I feel "full" because of it and so I'm not really eating much. The bad thing...I don't feel good enough to run and I feel so much guilt when I don't run. UGH!!!!! I took yesterday off as my day of rest so now I really should run today but I don't know that I can.:sad: All I can think about is that I had 2 glasses of red wine last night (sketchbook, one of my personal favorites) and now I can't work those calories off. DRAT!!!

sindyb9

As I am getting older the cramps from TOM are horrible. But when I do exercise it seams to help. Maybe try to go for a walk. Hope you feel better. :flowerforyou:

buckeyebabe

thanks. I think I am going to try and lay down a while and then see if I can squeeze in a run (maybe just a short 2 -3 mile run) tonight. A short run would be better than no run at all but I am just completely zapped from of any energy right now!:ohwell:

iluvsparkles

hiiiii all.

i seriously hate my TOM. It makes me want to eat everything in site, especially sweets!! I can definitely identify there. I also feel lightheaded sometimes while doing cardio that week of the month.

luckily, this month, after it finished, i weighed and i am finally down to 160, give or take, but thats the smallest number ive seen in a long time!!

after my first bout with ana, the weight i settled in at was about 155, which i think is my norm, which means, now that i actually have a significant amount of muscle buit up, that i am back to my bodies 'norm' on a slow metabolism.
I am hoping that this means, now that my metabolism is higher, thanks to all the cardio, that i can make my bodies 'norm' closer to 145. Ill be conten at 150 tho.

Fran, my zumba teacher weighs 147 and she is so fit and cute, and i guess our frame size is about the same, except my ribcage is a little bit wider. Anyway.

I just wanted to thank you guys for sticking with me during these first ten pounds. I couldn't have done it without you guys' support!!

buckeyebabe

Way to go Sparkles. I am still sitting around 166.5...I so want to be out of the 160's but I have to say that I haven't been busting my butt to get out of them. I need to kick it up a notch this coming week. This month's cycle though has been the worst I have ever had. I'll tell you what...for all of you that aren't peri-menopausal, or menopausal be thrilled. This stuff stinks!!! I am so ready to just have my ovaries, tubes and everything else surgically removed!! If we could do it without hormone therapy I would but I don't want to go on hormone treatment for the next 10 years.

Good luck everyone with the check in this week. I think I am going to drop out this week...it wouldn't be very accurate anyway with TOM around.

iluvsparkles

wwoooo hoooooooooo!


you guys im just so excited. i know i just wrote the other day about finally hitting 160. Well today, after zumba (where i burned 1200 calories for just one class OMG) i weighed again, since monday is supposed to be our weigh in day ladies!!! and i was at 158!!!!!!

HOORAHH!!!

i am so so excited! i havent seen in 150s in so long, and im just so thrilled

I was talking to my girlfriend the other day, the one who is getting married, on the phone. She was commenting about how we switched places, and she got heavier while I was getting slimmer. The thing about her is, that shes pretty much the definition of lazy when it comes to exercise, and tho she dosent eat a ton, she makes bad choices. i didnt say that to her of course, but i made sure to tell her that the only way that works is diet and exercise!!

Anyway, four people independently noticed my loss today...it must have been the shirt i chose to wear... either way, this has been a good day for me in the "new lifestyle' department....Makes it all worth it!!!

fran was back from California and we had a great class...she was appreciative to me for doing class, and i think she feels awesome that we were able to hold it together without her there to instruct us. Thank God this whole time i have been striving to do each zumba move exactly like her and in the highest energy that i could possibly exert. i think that helped me to learn the moves better...I also feel sexier during that class because latin dance is very hippy! (perfect for me bc im definitely a hippie!)

now that i have chit chatted yalls heads off... Let me know how yall are doin? Any losses in lbs or Inches?

I love you all.. you are my motivation and willpower, and i mean that!

kerridwen

Hey! Gratz sparkles!

Minnie's stitches are out, and I am still getting more and more mobile. I picked up a pilates core dvd today, here's hoping!

I still can't do anything that jostles or puts weight or requires strength from my right arm, frustrating!

To celebrate our mobility Minnie and I went for a super long hike today and I finally get sparkles problems with the calories! I was terrible!!! today and I'm STILL under by around 400!!!

iluvsparkles

heeyyy kerri!!!!...good to hear that you are on the road to recovery. Are you right handed? I cant imagine how frustrating that must be. i think i would die, seeing as I'm an artist for a living!

Ooooh and btw they have started a new thread for July, so look for it