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You found us! I was just looking up the link to send your way. Welcome!0
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This evening I planned out every workout from now until the end of October. They are in my planner and all they need are the times which I will assign week by week so I can work things into my schedule. I'm hoping to have some time this weekend to move everything into my Google Calendar and set alarms for workouts....that should sync with my phone so that even if I don't have my planner with me (yes, I still keep a paper planner) I still know what to do!
One thing I've learned is that if I don't actually schedule (with a time!) a workout it won't necessarily happen.
That's a really good idea. I always look at the hours that MFP wants me to put in for exercise and stuff...but I never really plan to do it at certain times. I'm just like "oh, I'll go on the treadmill tomorrow", and that hardly ever works. Good for you...I should do the same. *Grabs calendar*0 -
One thing that a friend taught me was that you need to be sure that you have your workouts on each of the calendars that you use daily...it will do you no good to write a workout on the kitchen calendar if your primary calendar is the one on your phone. While it may seem a little awkward to have your workouts written on your work calendar it definitely helps me when I'm scheduling meetings which can seem to happen at any time.
The calendar on my Palm syncs with my Google calendar which also syncs with the calendar on my work computer which syncs with the calendar on my iPod. That way all I have to do is sync (by hand) my daily paper planner with the bathroom family calendar and my Google Calendar which sends the info out to my electronic calendars.
In typing this I realize two things: 1. I have way too many calendars. 2. It sounds like way more work than it really is.0 -
Hahaha woah. Yes, that's a lot of calendars. I have one above my desk and one on my iPod, but I don't use my iPod much except for exercise music. xD It sounds like a good idea then, cause you have calendars from all angles pretty much yelling at you to do your exercise. My schedules are really unpredictable, so I can never set a time, but I bet it would work if I had that many calendars. Teeheehee! But my exercises are kinda boring - treadmill or stationary bike. I have a tiny step climber thing, but I always tire of it really quickly. I gotta go biking outside sometime...0
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It's always much easier to get exercise in when you can do it outside. I bet I'd even like strength training if we could do it outside....then again that would be a really bad idea, Cleveland weather isn't a good match for outdoor weight lifting!
I don't schedule times until the week, sometimes two days in advance. I don't know what I'm doing on Wednesday of this coming week let alone the third Wednesday in August but knowing what I should be doing helps me to assign an actual time frame a few days beforehand. I can't be trusted to "fit it in".0 -
Well after everything that's happened recently and the fact that my operation was canceled on 8th June my October deadline is no longer valid really. I doubt there will be a holiday for me and my partner as soon as October now as I have to wait for more tests, the results and then another appointment for an operation.
I will still attempt to get to my goal wait by October though as life must go on!
Hope everyone's been having a great few weeks!0 -
Eeeek! I'm so excited! I weigh myself every other Wednesday now (ever since two weeks ago). This morning I weighed myself and found out that I lost 5 pounds in the last two weeks.
Maybe the October deadline is actually possible! 0 -
@Phoenix---How long before you can get another surgery date? Hope that the tests go well and they don't make you wait too long.
@Emalyn---That is an excellent loss, way to go!0 -
Well done Emalyn!
@Cammons I'm not sure how long it is before I can get another date. I know there was a woman in the bed next to me at the hospital who had her original date in January and had to have hers cancelled because her blood pressure rose too high on the operating table to continue safely with the op. They gave her a date for 6 months later. I'm in the same position now so I hope it's not in 6 months
My first date was 23rd Feb which was canceled because of funding, 2nd date was 8th June, canceled because blood pressure was too high and was having heart palpitation but I'm pretty sure it's just because I was so anxious about finally having the op. I really hope I get this one asap, at least so I know I can have a fixed hip in time for Halloween would be nice 0 -
Alright, Halloweenies....my hamstrings are SCREAMING! I've been upping the weight at the gym when I do my dead lifts the last few weeks and although I still feel like I could lift more at the time I can barely raise my foot behind me for days and days afterwords. Last week they were sore for a full five days! I took yesterday off from working out (I was scheduled to run for 30 min) but I was up and walking around until 2:00am so at least I wasn't sitting on the COUCH OF DOOM! I'll make up the run today before I visit with my trainer.
I was hoping to see the show that my husband's kids are doing today at the School of Rock where he works (he's been doing a summer camp all week) but I just got a call from a contractor at work that will finally (if he knows what's good for him) show up to work on the internet so I suppose that's out, which is a real bummer. It does work out in a way, my trainer couldn't reschedule for tomorrow morning so we can have our last appointment together at our regular time.
Given that I will have a little spare time on my hands here this afternoon I'm going to take my measurements. I know I should probably have done this when I started but it's such a pain in the butt that somehow I never get around to it. It would have been really nice to have measurements from five weeks ago before I started with my trainer to compare to, I'm much stronger and I haven't lost a huge amount of weight through this whole time so I'd like to pretend that something about me is improving. 0 -
WOW ya’ll sound like you’re doing great!! I have not been on for a few weeks. I have been kind of in the dumps, with my son leaving and all. But now I’m back and feeling great!! My side barely bothers me anymore, but I’m still going to take baby steps. I hit the gym this am and did 35 min on the elliptical trainer but at a low resistance and I bought my husband a bike for fathers day so we are going to start riding a little after dinner every night. Now that I have more time on my hands with my son gone, I have to fill that time up with something so why not spend it with getting healthier I’m going to need a lot of support from ya’ll so I don’t start feeling all depressed again, I hope ya’ll are up for the challenge! 0
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I am checking in this week at 193.5. I have lost 1.5 pounds ~ I really do hope to be in the 160s by halloween and i know that this is possible for me !0
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Happy- Glad you are feeling better!! Sounds like things are looking up!
I haven't lost anything this past week... but I didn't gain either so I guess that is good. I seem to be completely stuck at this weight and I HATE it! I feel like I finally have my diet under control, but I need to get better about working out. It's so hard to find the time though while entertaining little hooligans all day! :happy:0 -
So I bit the bullet last night and stepped on the scale and I’m back to the weight I originally started at so back to square one:mad: ! Oh and I also took some measurements as well so I gotta kick this in high gear if I want to look good on my cruise and be a belly danced on Halloween!! LET”S DO THIS!!!
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I'll support you every step of the way!
I lost 2.4lbs this week and my total is now just over a stone since I started. I'm very happy with this!
My end date might not be by Halloween anymore but I certainly intend to stay here and get as close as I can to my goal weight by then! We can do it guys!!0 -
I finally got around to taking measurements myself on Monday...or was that Tuesday?
We've been on hiatus at work for the last (almost) seven weeks so I've had it pretty easy in workout land. I started back two days ago and today was the full company back at work. I'm going to have to work super-extra hard to get my food and exercise in, I only managed to eat half of my salad at lunch (never made it to the tomato or potato) so now I have to eat those AND the rest of my food for the day before bedtime...which was five minutes ago. Hmmmmmmm......this work thing is going to take some getting used to!
I'm also thinking that I need to change up my settings and either up my average daily activity or lower my per week weight loss goal from 1.5 to 1.0 pounds per week. I've had a terrible time staying under my calories this week, and getting to the gym but early indicators are that I've lost almost 0.7 pounds....more in a single week than I've lost in the last seven weeks...perhaps I'm not eating enough? Somehow I see a lot of PB&J rice cakes in my future.
Went for a fantastic post work run this evening, which would explain why I'm still awake...I love endorphins! My husband's car took a turn for the worse yesterday (now leaking transmission fluid) and the mechanic down the street won't have time to look at it for another few days so I'm on my own as far as getting to work three miles away. I have a luggage rack on my bike for the non-rainy days (HA! This is Ohio!), I can walk, run or take the bus which picks up in front of my house and drops off in front of work...too easy! Looks like I'll have more activity than I will know what to do with the next few weeks!0 -
I have a good feeling about weighing in this week!! I feel like i have lost some weight Commons if the weather looks like it will be nice out ride your bike. I love a good bike ride!! I did 45 min on the elliptical today wooohooo!! 0
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While I access to my car today I have to run around like a crazy person pulling things together for vacation, we leave on Thursday night!
My biggest concern is the grocery shopping that needs to happen. We don't eat a lot of processed foods so I've got to get exactly the right amount of perishables to last four and a half days with no leftovers without having to resort to eating out, which we'll do plenty of on vacation. Trash day is Wednesday so that will help a little but boy, I don't want to come home to anything that has been in that fridge for 11 days! Official plans are a little murky, technically we'll be in Los Angeles for eleven days but the first weekend we're going to Vegas to celebrate our 30th birthdays. My husband and I along with our two best friends (also married) turned 30 within two months of each other this winter but work was so crazy for me that we couldn't celebrate then.
Yesterday I went to a spin class at the gym followed by a yoga class, followed by a two mile walk home (my husband has my car while his is being worked on). I ended up burning something like 1,000 calories or so which was tough to get back in entirely now that I've lowered my weekly weight loss goal to 1lb/week instead of 1.5. I noticed that the weeks when I had trouble tracking and ate more than I should have (but didn't go completely crazy) I was losing the most weight which got me to thinking that maybe I wasn't eating quite enough...we'll see how this works out. Making that change to the weekly weight loss upped the calories I already had trouble eating (with good food only) after exercise another 300 calories...this is going to be much harder, but I'll get used to it!0 -
Wow Cammons 1000 calorie burn in 1 day is awesome!! Have fun on your vacation!! I lost almost three lbs. this week. But to be fair Aunt Flow was visiting so a lot of that was probably water wait lol. But a loss is a loss. That pumps me up to do even better this week. I'm off to a rocky start; I slept past my alarm and could only get in a 30 min workout. If I have the energy i will do the treadmill or bike ride tonight.0
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Hey, Happy, 30 minutes is better than most of the population gets in an entire week! Own it and be glad you even got out there!
I slept in this morning too, my husband um, ah, woke me up in the middle of the night and I was too tired to crawl out of bed let alone get out of bed early enough to bike to work. I really wish I had, today was the work day from hell and I could have really used the stress relief. Instead I went for an hour long run when I came home from an exhausting eleven hour work day and I feel so much better....seriously....so much better.
I'm in need of taking measurements again this week, I think it was two weeks ago and I know that I'll be too busy later in the week preparing for our vacation to do it then. Not sure if every two weeks is good timing but it's not like measuring will kill me, right?0 -
So how is everyone doing? Wow I had a great workout this morning!! I also weigh in and lost 4 lb. in 10 day's!! I'm motivated now!! Have a great weekend everyone!!0
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I have lost 3 pounds since the last weigh in down to 190.5 . Going on vacation next week and i am hoping to do pretty good while i am gone !0
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I'm on vacation now, and while I haven't been a food angel I think I'm making some pretty darn good choices all things considered. This is the first time my husband and I have been back to Southern California since we moved four years ago so we're kind of making up for some things we can't get in Ohio (In N Out Burger, anyone?) but if we eat these things once every four years, I'm pretty sure it won't kill up. The trick will be to not carry over the habit of eating out once we get home but the novelty of that is already starting to wear off on me.
We spent this last weekend in Vegas and since it was 111 degrees and I'm not prone to drinking or gambling I spent the entire two days walking around inside casinos, each morning before everyone else got up I'd get a good three or four hour walk in outside (when it was a chilly 85 degrees) and then my friend and I would walk around for a while, meet up with our husbands for a little while and start walking again. It was a good time!
For the next week we're staying at our friend's house (same friends we went to Vegas with) and I'll have more down time to go for runs and relax in general. Today the boys are taking me to a running store nearby that has a new kind of shoe that I've been dying to check out (back home the nearest store with these shoes is 150 miles away) and then to Downtown Disney for a gluten free sandwich. I think I'll also try to make it out for a manicure sometime this week...why not? I'm on vacation!0 -
Kris sounds like you are doing great and staying on track!! Cammons I hope you are having a great time on Vacation. My daughter will be home on leave from the Navy the end of July. Her ship the USS Barry is coming back from Spain so she will have a two week leave then has to be back to VA the second week in Aug so we are going to do a long weekend in Clearwater Beach so I'm going to try and drop 6 to 10 lb. this month so I can look half way decent in my bikini for the beach. Idk if will dare or not but we will see. I went over in everything yesterday but I was way under Sunday so i don’t feel too bad lol. I'm going to bump up my workouts and be real good with my eating. Take care you too and good luck on our way- in's next week!!0
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Woah...I haven't looked at this thread for a while. I'm happy that you guys are doing well and losing weight. I haven't been very successfull, just very busy. I was maid of honor in my sister's wedding and then went up north for a week and a half where I ate sinful SINFUL things. Now I'm back on track and hope to weigh myself in two weeks. It's easier to drink all the water that I need because it's so hot out - that's one struggle for me, drinking lots of water.
Anyway, I hope ya'll are doing good...not sure if I'll make the Halloween deadline at this point, but I'm upping everything. Of course, I thought that last month. But whatever. :]0 -
Emalyn what can we say but vacation happens lol. Glad to hear you’re back on track!! I gained a 1/2 lb. back this last week by not being very good. I'm going to weigh in next week as well and stay strict on my diet. I took on a waitressing job a couple nights a week on top of my full time desk job so I hope that will help with the weight loss with all that extra running around.0
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That's great, the waitressing job. They definitely run around a lot waiting on tables. I'll be waitressing in August for a week and I hope that helps as well. Haha, vacation certainly does happen. I don't understand why temptations are harder on vacation, but they are! I'm terrified to see what I gained back, that's why I'm waiting so long. I hope you have success, and you aren't too tired from your two jobs!0
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I have to work a 13 hr. day today and I only got 5 hrs. of sleep last night. I could not shut my brain up lol. I had a bad night eating to. My hubby made homemade calzone for dinner and of course you can’t have one without a few beers to wash it down lol. I went over by about 500 calories UGH!! Well with any luck I will have a busy night at the restaurant and run it off lol!!0
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We all have some bad nights with eating. I made the mistake of making some cupcakes yesterday, and while they aren't as bad as they could be, they're still sugar and unnecessary calories!! I hear you on the calzone thing - I don't drink (obviously, look at my age, lol!) but calzones and pizza and all that stuff is sooo hard to resist. My biggest weakness is snacks and candy. Sounds like you've been having it rough lately - I hope you get lots of rest soon!!!0
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Daytona beach with the family this weekend woohoo!!0
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