Over 200 new me part 53 (open group)

Shelle68

Wow annasgyl! You are serious and consistent. Congrats on your accomplishment thus far and through the holiday!

Has anyone heard from momma24? My homepage said that her account has been deactivated!

annasgyal

I have gotten the same message. I hope that all is well, and that she and her family are safe.

HeatherMN

Sorry I forgot to post here. Sherry (Momma24) is doing well but felt she needed to be less focused on her online life and more focused on her real life. I'm still in contact with her and will give updates as I get them. I'll let her know you ladies were worried!

Shelle68

Thank you Heather and plz tell her that we miss her too!

Ok, I had a very serious "wake-up" call this past week concerning the price to be paid for letting myself go! And letting myself go for over 25 years. It was and still is extremely painful but I am thankful for it cause I now see my body and my bad mindset in a whole new light. FOOD is the LAST thing that I need to care about right now. It is only fuel and nothing else. Some things are more important than what my next meal is going to be and OMGsh, I just have to have a taste of that or one more of them. Some things are WAY more important.

Just saying....

annasgyal

Well, that is nice to hear that all is going well with her! Take all the time necessary for her to get her self centered. I know at times, I can go crazy, and feel overwhelmed with all that I have going on at times. So I wish her nothing but the best in her endeavors.

Well, the water nemesis struck this weekend, but I am certainly making steps to correct that today. Have to continue to stay focused and on the path. My body is tired, and not just from exercise, but just the holiday running around, school, kids, and cleaning. However, I will push through my workout this evening, and then hope to enjoy a day off from exercise, but still have running around to do.

Shelle68

Annasgyal, I know you can do it! You are so in the zone with keeping things moving for you!

annasgyal

Well, I did get my water in! 14 glasses...holy moly! The most I have ever drank.

Shelle68

I did really good today.

Calories: Way under
Workout: 1 hr cardio in 2 segments of 30 mins
Water: Yeppers!

Proud: That I finally care more about me than food!

snowflakes

So happy that you gals had such a great day. Way to go on your accomlpishments. I know that Dr. Phil takes about 'eat to live vs. live to eat'... that was an eye opener for me because I centered so much of my social life, and finding comfort with and from food.
Have a crummy head cold and was worn out after grocery shopping so; no exercise, no caloring counting, and trying to drink lots of fluids. Have a good night.

lildebbie

Okay girls i have been soo out of it for quite a while ... I am soo ready to get this going.l

Day 1 Success
excercise -check - 1st time in a really long time
water - check - 60 oz (not totally good, but big for me )
Calories - under , few hundread left.
Proud - I made it day 1 a success.

I promise i will be back here more often.

Shelle68

Snowflakes, I missed you as well! So glad you are here. Take care of you and the rest will follow!

lildebbie, congrats on day 1. Its the first of many cause nothing taste as good as thin (or sexy) feels!

annasgyal

So the water monster is seeming to strike again tonight....Humph....will get at least 8 glasses, anything extra is a bonus.

snowflakes

lildebbie it is good to see you! I think that we all know how hard it is to find and keep a balance in this journey. But I do better and feel better if my calories, exercise, and water are on target. Good for you for recommitting :-)

shelle your mind set changes as you learn better ways and you start to feel better about yourself. Happy that food is not ruling you.

annasgyal slay the water monster. Eight glasses is great considering I'm not even close today. Water hasn't tasted good the past couple of days (I ususally don't struggle like this) and I know I need it more than ever to help flush this cold away.

Going to go see The Help tonight. Take Care.

Oh ya, has anybody heard from mstahl? She hasn't replyed to my PM. Hope to see momma soon. She has taken a break before and came back when she could. Glad you had contact with her Heather.

Shelle68

Yesterday was a wonderful day for weightloss. I ate only when hungry and then it was very healthy choices. I am anti-fat right now. Well, not my body but my mind! The only fats I want a day is either through almonds or olive oil and 2 servings!

I drank tons of water and did over 1 hr of working out. I am thankful for waking up to my need to care about my body.

lstpaul

Gals - I'm taking a bit of a break from tracking my food and exercise. I'll still check in here from time to time, but I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed right now with the holidays, and not feeling 100%. I just need to take a little time off from focusing on weightloss and hopefully come back renewed in the new year. I'm not 'giving up' ... just taking a breather that will hopefully rejuvinate me.

food: I ate fairly in balance yesterday until bedtime ... I need to get hose darn chex out of the house - I had corn chex with milk for my bedtime snack - way too many carbs
exercise: I got back to step class this morning for an hour ... it was good, but did hurt my foot.

annasgyal

Today, I have the water on lock down. I have seen a pound fluctuation in my weight, and i am attributing that to sodium retention. My sodium has been high the past few days, so I am going to see if the water helps.

annasgyal

today's Check-in:

Calories; Way under....did not eat back no exercise calories
Water: yes....a whopping 16 glasses
Exercise: Yes....got two workouts done

HonestOmnivore

I'm back! Between my project gping live, the holiday, deer hunting, and my project going live... I've. Been a little busy

The only.deer I got was a deer tick

I'll check back in soon!

Shelle68

lstpaul... we will miss you! Enjoy your break and come back soon!!!

mstahl.... not good on the deer tic! Sorry to hear you didn't get anything, but welcome back! You have been missed!

annasgyal.... Consistent as usual! Great job!

For me and yesterday 12.07.11

Calories: Way under and ok with that
Workout: Nope! My 1 of 2 rest days per week. I have to admit though that it was tough NOT working out. That is a good thing I believe!
Water: Yeppers! Drank it lots!

Proud: Mmmm... I pushed through a time of feeling cravings and didn't not cave to them, ate a small dinner and was done for the night! HUGE accomplishment!

Shelle68

Weighin .... 242 Huge loss from 250 last week which included lazy efforts and TOM issues.

snowflakes

Hi ladies,

It seems that this once dynamic group has dwindled to just a few. Been crazy busy like I'm sure everybody is with getting shopping and baking and all ready to enjoy for the next 3 weeks. Will be visiting family for 5 days be back on Sunday. I haven't logged calories for the past few days, I know I need to be careful.

Keep up the good efforts.

Edit: Shelle you must be thrilled with such a big loss! So happy for you :-)

annasgyal

Well, I have not seen activity in the group for a while, and it is to be expected because of the holidays, however, I am still here chugging along, and doing what I need to do to get this weight off.

Shelle68

I am still here. I have been very consumed with a ministry outreach party for the inner city kids in our area and working out. I am trying to not focus on all of the journaling and keep my mind off of food. I am focusing on eating a little something every 2-3 hours and getting the workouts in.

I sure hope others come back though!

lstpaul

Hi Gals! I haven't been on a scale in a couple of weeks - but I know I'm up a little. But I went to step this morning and will hopefully be able to ease back into my good exercise routine since I'm over my cold and my foot is not great but better. We hosted a Christmas party last Sunday from 1:30-8:30 for my husband's family - his parents, siblings and their families and some uncle's & aunts & cousins - 35 people. Wow was that exhausting. If my house hadn't been such a mess it would have been easier - we cleaned for 3 weeks! But it is really nice to have my sunroom/office useable again instead of a junk room, and a clean house. I have been eating poorly ever since the party though ... we did a cookie exchange and I was good and immediately packed up the assorted cookies onto plates to give to my neighbors ... BUT ... I have been sneaking cookies every night from the plates because I haven't gotten them delivered yet. I think I'm going to have to bake some cookies to replenish the plates before I deliver them!

Keep at it girls ... my goal is to stay the same through December, like I said I think I"m up a little but I know with some effort I can get back down again - hopefully by weigh-in on Friday.

Shelle68

lstpaul - Wow! 35 people! I couldn't never handle that many people in my house. But the good point about it is that it is those times that you get things done in your house that you normally wouldn't. And stealing the cookies? LOL! Sounds like you need some light cookie recipes!

I've done good today. Prob ate less than I should have but that was a better choice than all of the goodies that our work had at their party. I opted in for raw veggies only please. Good grief!!!

annasgyal

35...still stuck on that number. That sure is a lot. I certainly could imagine the exhaustion. Wow.

Shelle68

Christmas party is behind me and my weighin is 237.6. Ready to take on the new week!!!

annasgyal

Going through some sort of plateau. I think I need to eat more, and drink more water. I am going to need to increase my water intake, and my caloiric intake, and see how it comes.

lstpaul

Girls, I have been in a terrible slide for the last month and it is really showing on the scale. I'm up even more today than when I weighed in last Friday. I've GOT to get a handle on my eating. One positive - I am easing back into my exercise routine - went to step this morning even though I was really tired.

HonestOmnivore

Hello all!

OK so we launched a mobile phone project that I basically own the week of Thanksgiving, and the following week I was out Monday and Tuesday for deer season. Then swamped with work - back to the farm Saturday when for the second time I had to pull a little deer tick off my body - then found a third one Sunday morning and this time there was a nice bullseye around it.

The stupid little tiny deer ticks were EVERYWHERE and we'd never seen them at the farm until this summer (we had always thought the nymph stage of the common dog tick was a deer tick). I was having headaches due to stress at work but they got a lot worse along with swollen glands in my neck and swollen joints... I was a mess! The doctor drew blood and put me on antibiotics and since then I've been working 18 hour days and whining about the pain and fatigue and every else plus eating.

I'm up three pounds (not bad considering) haven't been to the gym since Thanksgiving week, and oh yeah - it's Christmas week! OMG HOW does time DO THAT!

So here are my excuses- Holiday food/schedule mess, work is crazy, I have Lymes Disease, and work is crazy.

Here is my plan.
Get to the gym starting next week (after I catch up on the pile of work I have to do)
Eat like I mean it (no more fun sized candy bars)
Wine on Thursdays only
Take the steps
1200 calories every damn day no matter what (except Thursdays and Holidays).

I can do this. I've done it before and I'll do it again - I'd rather do it now and enjoy the next few years than drag my fat butt through the next few years, putting off my life.

NOW. IS. THE. TIME.

Oh, and I've missed you all!

(and so far no deer in the freezer *sob*)