Better, Stronger, Faster.......Dec 22

Renae_Nae

GOOD MORNING!!!!!!!!!

I'm enjoying my vacation!

I've been watching what I eat...watching all the food go into my mouth! :grumble: But it's ok...I've been working out and my whole goal was to maintain. I only stepped on the scale the first morning I was here (it was about 143) and figured my moms scale was close enough to go off of (I left my at home).

Well this morning I stepped on it wanting some motivation for a nice long bike ride and it said 139.3!!!!! I stepped on it 4 times and it didn't change! I am so excited. I made my Christmas goal after all!

You all have fun...I'm off for a nice long ride and to enjoy my vacation!

Renae_Nae

GOOD MORNING!!!!!!!!!

I'm enjoying my vacation!

I've been watching what I eat...watching all the food go into my mouth! :grumble: But it's ok...I've been working out and my whole goal was to maintain. I only stepped on the scale the first morning I was here (it was about 143) and figured my moms scale was close enough to go off of (I left my at home).

Well this morning I stepped on it wanting some motivation for a nice long bike ride and it said 139.3!!!!! I stepped on it 4 times and it didn't change! I am so excited. I made my Christmas goal after all!

You all have fun...I'm off for a nice long ride and to enjoy my vacation!

renae77

Congrats Renae! My scale went back up and I have been watching what I am eating.....not doing really great but better than before I was watching what I eat.

Ileanak

Hurray! keep up the good work, while having a great vacation!

yoginimary

Someday I will no longer coordinate volunteers. I'm too much of an uptight person to not have the "mess" get to me. Cancellations. Urgh. I know they can't do anything about being sick, but some of the excuses I hear, :grumble: . What is even worse, is those that just don't show up! Although, once I made the minimum age 18, that helped.

Yesterday, I got a short walk in - so I guess it was a day off. Today, I'm off to the gym (fingers crossed that everyone else shows up!) and to teach yoga.

Bobbie145

Good job, Renae! :bigsmile:

I seem to always have trouble with the weekends. :grumble: I don't get the exercise on the weekends that I do during the week, and I always end up eating at least a little more than I should.

So, goals for today and this week:
1. Lots and lots of water.
2. Stay away from the sweets - at least most of them. :noway:
3. Get my regular exercise in.
4. Do some type of exercise even when the gym is closed so I don't get behind.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone! :flowerforyou:

Bobbie

mechanicmom

Renae, congrats on your loss! How exciting!
Mary, I hope the volunteering goes better today! I wish I could help. Gift wrapping right? Over night them up here, I'll wrap them and overnight them back. :laugh:
I'm a scrooge this week so I will keep this short. I vented and then I deleted it because it's not necessary. :laugh: I am just frustrated because my physical condition is not changing. It's better than it was three weeks ago but it's been stuck the last two weeks. I feel like the baby is doing just fine. I just don't understand what's going on with me. I will get another test result back today (or tomorrow) and that will tell me how far along I am and if the baby really is doing okay.
I did my exercise for the morning which I shouldn't have but I did. I made pancakes and took out the trash. DH forgot to take it out and it had chicken in it so it was going to smell. I've only gained about 4 pounds and I know some of that is from the blood doubling, so I am pretty content with that considering how I've been eating.
Okay, I'm done. Have a good Monday!
MM

lotusfromthemud

Someday I will no longer coordinate volunteers. I'm too much of an uptight person to not have the "mess" get to me.

You and me both, sister. . .my strike job is robbing me of too much sleep lately. . .

Today is: yoga at home (DVD) I just got a little space heater so that I can stay warm while I do a Rodney Yee video on my own schedule. It's driving me too crazy to try to rush into yoga with no time to spare (sort of defeats the relaxation portion of the benefit) We have steam heat in my apartment and we can't control it. Currently, my apartment has two temperatures: dark side of the moon or the surface of the sun. . .so the space heater will allow me to heat if we go moon phase up in here. . .

Unbelievably, my strike seems like it will continue into January. I'm seriously considering stepping down from the payroll position I took on. I just don't think my sanity/body can take it anymore, and I think the noble thing would be to suggest that they bring in an outside professional. I had a miniature nervous breakdown on a shift Friday. . .when someone was yelling at me. . .it was not pretty. . .at least when I was on the picket line, people yelling abuse at me weren't supposedly on the same side as me. . .just goes to show that money makes people nuts. Most common complaint right now. . .people who requested their pay be mailed yelling at me because the mail is too slow the week before Christmas.:noway:

Whoa, novel today, I guess. . .

Anyway, let's all promise to attempt to take the best care of ourselves that we possibly can!:flowerforyou:

RachVR6

I have to admit that I've been big slacker lately and I'm not sure why...with exercise mostly, but eating as well. I'll grab chocolate or a cookie and even pause to realize, I'm not hungry, nor do I need it, but I eat in anyway. Grrrr. I'm trying so hard to reprogram the way I look at food, because growing up, it was used for reward/punishment. So having it gives me this subconcious feeling of achievement or success, and telling myself no makes me feel as if I'm being punished. It's weird I know, but I just recently discovered all this.

So anyway, I'm trying to work on my relationship with food, and overriding that bad feeling I get when I tell myself I don't need something. It's hard but I'm slowly making progress I think. As for the exercise, that's just plain laziness...and lack of space in my cramped basement/bedroom/office/gym. :laugh:

Today is a new day though! So...
- Healthy choices
- Portions
- Excerise
- Water
- Positive attitude!

yoginimary

Rach - a big thing for me is to make myself sit down to eat. Don't know if that would help you or not.

V- I wouldn't change places with you - even though I don't get paid:laugh: That sucks about the strike continuing.

MM - I delete 1/2 my posts - never would guess it, right?

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mechanicmom

Hey ladies,
I got the test results back for the hcG levels. It's not looking good. They aren't doubling like they are suppose to. My midwife Sarah prepared me for a miscarriage but also said that God could intervene, which obviously I'm praying for. She said the progesterone pills I am on are probably prolonging the inevitable in so many words, so I need to get off of them so the body can do what it needs to. I am suppose to go for a sonogram in the morning but I don't know if I can handle it. I'm a mess right now. She did say that I should go to San Antonio and be with my family this week. She doesn't want me at home alone. If indeed I do miscarry, I am terrified. I have had a miscarriage at 7 weeks and it hurts like h***.
Anyway, I won't go on about it right now. I shouldn't even be on here. I know better than to write anything when I am upset.
Maybe I will return to push ups sooner than I expected. Look out CP. I may catch you yet!
MM

cp005e

I'm so sorry to hear that things aren't going well, MM - I'll be thinking about you!

Viv, it has been really good of you to help out with the strike pay, but if it's too much - it's too much! Hiring somebody else to do it might not be a bad idea. I'm so sorry to hear that people in the union are yelling at you - people get really stressed around the holidays anyway, and worrying about being on strike and getting paid probably pushes them over the edge.

Mary, good luck with herding your volunteers! :ohwell:

My parents are visiting for the week. I caught myself stress-eating yesterday for NO GOOD REASON. Sigh. I'll try and do better for the rest of the week. I probably won't get much exercise in besides pushups. I did have a walk today at work - we've started adding stairs to our indoor laps, so that's kinda fun.

Take care, everyone! :flowerforyou:

P.S. what's with the spam post?

mechanicmom

Hey ladies, this is it. I've started bleeding and cramping. I guess God is being gracious to get it over with quickly, although I asked Him to do it three weeks ago if it was going to happen. I could use your prayers to get through the next several hours and days. I am a whimp so I am scared about the pain. I know it hurts really bad. I was about this far along when I miscarried the first time. It just sucks. I'll be checking in with you all to let you know how I am doing.
MM

lotusfromthemud

MM,

I'm so sorry. . .I'm sending prayers up for you, that the pain (all kinds) is as gentle as it can be.

:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

yoginimary

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MM

yoginimary

What spam post? I've been off the other message boards.

cp005e

Mary, by the time I checked my own post again it was gone - it was some 'BodyBySo-and-So' personal trainer guy.

MM, I am so sorry. I hope that you are feeling better just as soon as possible.