*Snowflakes to Sunshine* Discussion Week #19 5.13.11

CuteMommy88

Hello Ladies!!! Happy Monday!!! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!!! I am proud to say I finally got my butt up and worked out today for the first time in a looooong time!!! I havent been very good at all this month!!! I have been stuck at 155.5 since the end of April!!! I am soooo happy i invested in an ipod though!!! I went running today for the first time with it and the time just flew by!!! I ran/jogged for a whole hour and burned 430 cals!!! I havent had a burn that big in a while!!! It made me feel great so hopefully the music and the few minutes out of the apartment to have some "me time" will be enough motivation to keep me going :happy:

Me too girl! I finally got my butt up and ran on the treadmill for 30 min. I started the C25K over and it was harder in some ways and easier in some ways than the first time I attempted. I did notice I was jogging at a faster pace than I did previously and I wasn't about to die! The hard part was that I felt like it was taking forever. I was kind of thinking "If I was running longer, I could just get this over with". But in the end I was proud I did it and I am going to try to see it through this time.

There is a 5K this evening I am going to participate in. My first one! I'm a little nervous since I had a hard workout last night and also I am doing a version of low carb right now and I know you are supposed to "carb up" before a race. Wish me luck!

Wow Brandy!!! thats great!!! I have yet to actually run in a 5K....mostly because I dont really want to do it alone, and since I had baby girl almost 2 years ago I really dont have any friends anymore....and my BF would never do it with me...He never works out, eats like a pig and still weighs less than me!!! :mad: But anywho I am soooo proud of you!!! I'm sure you will be amazing tonight!:happy:

TeamLeela

This has been a stellar week. I am so happy that I am sticking to all the challenges that I am involved in. I am giving them 100%. I've worked my way up to real push ups. I'm starting to feel more muscles in my arms, legs and chest. My abs were even sore this morning. Also, my size 10 jeans are too loose, even with a belt. Almost ready to tighten the belt another notch.
I can't wait to take "after" pics. I am going to take one in the pink shirt to compare from the first day and one in the white shirt to compare mid challenge to now.
The weight may not have been coming off the way I'd like to or as consistent as I would have liked it, but the inches are definitely melting away.
My (male) neighbor made a comment yesterday. He said, "you trying to lose it all, huh?" I hope he didn't mean my "assets" because I definitely don't want to lose those. I just want to improve on all my features! I want to always be curvy, so after the next 20 pounds, I will focus on toning and sculpting.

Well thanks for letting me ramble. I better get off here. I still have so much to do before my daughter gets home.

Krys_T

Happy Wednesday everyone! Hope everyone is doing well! I am having a pretty good week and am looking forward to what the scale has to say about it this Friday! I have gotten back to really pushing myself. I also decided to enter a casting call fo the next TurboFire series...so I started TurboFire over on Monday..had to take day 1 measurements and weight, and then again after 30, 60 and 90 days. So it would be really cool to meet Chalene and be in those DVDS LOL.

So I watched The Biggest Loser last night and was just in awe that three women have lost 100lbs this season! I mean really?! Granted they have trainers and all that resources they need to succeed and don't really have to deal with outside distractions like we do...bu they, still a great accomplishment. I would love to see an all-girl final!

And the show actually got me thinking...I was watching it after I finished working out and I looked at myself in the mirror and just started to cry. Not because I didn't like what I saw...but because I said to myself, "Krystle you really did this!" I mean I still have more to go, but the very thought that I actually decided to change my life and am DOING it...no matter what bad days or good days that I have, I am changing my life every day. It is amazing, truly amazing to me. And I can't wait to get to my goal weight, because it will honestly be a great accomplishment than when I got my degree, as crazy as that sounds. LOL I just wanted to share that with you all as we near the stretch...you ladies are DOING IT...and doing a wonderful job, so don't forget the times when you were at your lowest.

ltlhmom

It has been a rough week for me so far. I'm glad tomorrow is my Friday! Between work and my daughter project that she wait until the last minute to work on. But thankfully she had a half day of school today and to my surprise she had it pretty much all done when I got home from work. I just had to double check everything for her and have he make a few corrections. It has been raining non-stop since like Sunday here and they are saying it isn't going to let up until Tuesday.

I have also been following the news of the little boy that was left on side of the dirt road in Maine. I'm glad that they found the mother today just not looking forward to the details that will come out. Sounds like the murder may have happened in NH, my state. I'm really hoping it didn't happen in Rockingham or Strafford County as she will end up coming to my jail and we will have a hard time housing her because of what she is being charged with. Sad story!

Well I'm off to bed. Yeah I get to do to bed early!

Krys_T

This has been a stellar week. I am so happy that I am sticking to all the challenges that I am involved in. I am giving them 100%. I've worked my way up to real push ups. I'm starting to feel more muscles in my arms, legs and chest. My abs were even sore this morning. Also, my size 10 jeans are too loose, even with a belt. Almost ready to tighten the belt another notch.
I can't wait to take "after" pics. I am going to take one in the pink shirt to compare from the first day and one in the white shirt to compare mid challenge to now.
The weight may not have been coming off the way I'd like to or as consistent as I would have liked it, but the inches are definitely melting away.
My (male) neighbor made a comment yesterday. He said, "you trying to lose it all, huh?" I hope he didn't mean my "assets" because I definitely don't want to lose those. I just want to improve on all my features! I want to always be curvy, so after the next 20 pounds, I will focus on toning and sculpting.

Well thanks for letting me ramble. I better get off here. I still have so much to do before my daughter gets home.

That's great girl! I'm glad that you are doing so well this week. Size 10's too loose...woo can't wait for that day for myself lol. Lord knows I haven't worn a 10 since high school and I actually think I was smaller, but I always wore my clothes bigger! Way to rock it out girl!

Krys_T

It has been a rough week for me so far. I'm glad tomorrow is my Friday! Between work and my daughter project that she wait until the last minute to work on. But thankfully she had a half day of school today and to my surprise she had it pretty much all done when I got home from work. I just had to double check everything for her and have he make a few corrections. It has been raining non-stop since like Sunday here and they are saying it isn't going to let up until Tuesday.

I have also been following the news of the little boy that was left on side of the dirt road in Maine. I'm glad that they found the mother today just not looking forward to the details that will come out. Sounds like the murder may have happened in NH, my state. I'm really hoping it didn't happen in Rockingham or Strafford County as she will end up coming to my jail and we will have a hard time housing her because of what she is being charged with. Sad story!

Well I'm off to bed. Yeah I get to do to bed early!

I saw that on a friend"s FB page...I was so disgusted! I just can't imagine being a mother and doing something like that to your own child! You know my thing is if you feel like you can't handle your child anymore...give him to someone in your family, give him up for adoption, but don't end his life because you can't handle your own...It makes me so mad! I honestly would have a hard time working in a prison and having to see her because I would probably strangle her. SMH!

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robynrae_1

I saw that on a friend"s FB page...I was so disgusted! I just can't imagine being a mother and doing something like that to your own child! You know my thing is if you feel like you can't handle your child anymore...give him to someone in your family, give him up for adoption, but don't end his life because you can't handle your own...It makes me so mad! I honestly would have a hard time working in a prison and having to see her because I would probably strangle her. SMH!

There was a story this week, where a 17 yr old put her newborn in a dumpster in the back of a church. Things like that drive me nuts, because there is a safe baby program in Wisconsin that lets anyone walk in to a hospital with a newborn and hand it over without questions.
They found the 17 yr old and plan on changing her and the baby's dad. I hope they get to spend sometime in Jail. they are really lucky someone found that baby.