T.H.E. (Trying Hard Everyday) Team - Week 25

pawprint061

Feeling good
So I'm feeling pretty good. I'm very happy with the way things are going with my current weight loss. I can see small changes finally. My butt isn't as big...which I'm happy with. It's getting flatter lol. I have to look at what I'm doing not as a diet but as a lifestyle change. I have to adapt to it, which I am doing pretty well. I never realized how much the amount of calories really played in my life until now. I've already lost about a total of 10 pounds since I started this back a few months ago. I can't say for certain the exact amount because of I don't know what my true weight was when I started. All I know is that clothes are starting to fit better. That is what matters to me. The calorie counting and the walking help me the most. Walking is awesome... So I say, to anyone who wants to lose the weight and thinks that walking will do...keep doing it....keep walking it will help. Burn the calories and you will see results.... might be slow at first but if you keep to it you will be glad that you did. I was ready to give up but I'm glad that I didn't. I've cut my calories back and now I know that what I was eating was adding and preventing me from losing the weight. I've cut back alot. You can still enjoy food while watching calories. I've cut out alot of the junk food... and serving size really does help. You'd be amazed how many calories we put into our bodies with out realizing it... I know I used to consume over 2,000 a day. So, now that I've cut back I'm losing the weight and along with exercise... it's so worth it. I shop for food differently now. I'm not giving up anytime soon. I will achieve my goal... I have already achieved one. I am now onto my second one. It also helps to have some one who supports you. It helps a lot. It's encouraging. I am so glad that I found the support not only though Jason and my real life friends but I have a found a community on line of support and friends and they're great. I get alot of support with Jason and it's nice. Back when I thought of it just being a diet he was the one telling me that its a lifestyle change not just a diet. Diets don't work. I see that now. I still can enjoy food. I just change how I eat.

adopt4

thanks for the reminder on water. i hadn't started getting mine in yet today so i got up and went and got my first dose of it..

pawprint061

stillkristi-Nice to hear from you... glad your still with us.

LosingIt4good-How's Charlie? I hope he's getting better.

Lorann-Way to go for getting in your water.

Momma2four-get back on track girl. you can do it.

Buttonnose-this is your time to take care of you girl. you still got lots of living to do... make the best of it and have some fun while doing it lol.

adopt4-I can imagine turning to food while going through what you went through. I'm glad that you didn't put pounds on. That must feel awesome. I don't know if I could resist the oreos though... that would be hard. just hang in there and focus on your family and live your life. don't live your life around other people and what they want and don't mold yourself to be some perfect daughter for some some one who can't treat you with any respect.

manda1111-way to go on the book. we'll all have to go out and buy it when it comes out.

That's about it for now. We are still kinda quiet on here girls.... I think some of us are spending to much time farming lol. I was up until 4 in the morning farming the other night lol. Most of that though was because TOM is here. And boy oh boy... I haven't had the visit since May. That's when everything hit the fan with my mom and then the next month I cut my calories back and joined MFP so my body is finally getting adjusted. It sure doesn't stop the pain lol.

That's it for now, later everyone.

healthymom2009

Yes it is week 26.

HEY, ALL YOU FARMERS, COME BACK!

Why are so many of us experciencing TOM at the same time??? No excuse, but sure throws a wrench in my plans. No exercise, over on calories by 300. Not too bad. Hard to stay focussed. Also, pulled a muscle in my neck today and can hardly move. Took painkillers and am going to bed. It will be better by morning...or else!

Buttonnose

Well somewhat back on track this week. Not logging my food everyday...but watching what I eat and trying to get out for a walk everyday. That is where I have to get back on track...is logging and then checking in everynight. Stupid Farm Town has distracted me. LOL. You would think with all that plowing, harvesting and planting we would be losing some weight....LOL.

Next week as of the 13th - you all won't hear from me till about the 23rd. Taking off on vacation, but should be a healthy one though as we are heading to Manitoulin Island and going to be doing some hiking which is something hubby and I both enjoy. We have rented a cottage so should be able to keep up with my food as well as we will be doing most of our eating there and sometimes going out to restaurants. I am so excited it is hard for me to sit still - being at work in my chair is driving me crazy as I just want to get up and go NOW - lol. Love my family dearly...but looking so forward to just some alone time..just hubby and me away from it all.

I went up a bit from last weigh in...but hoping to get myself back down to where I was couple of weeks ago or even more if possible. Have to get into strength training soon...but will focus on that after vacation. Have membership at gym and don't use it...but time to get back to it. So for now just cardio.

Well hope all is well with everyone.

A bottle of water :drinker: and Hugs to you all. :happy:
Button

CrazybeeRX

still working on getting back on track. I am drinking water and starting to post a little. I got breakfast and lunch posted yesterday didn't make it for dinner. I am sooo addicted to my 3 farms!! i'm going to need an intervention! I talked to Jim about getting my treadmill back but with my son's knee being hurt and he is on crutches I don't have him to help me move it. So as soon as he is better I will get it back and see if I can walk on the treadmill and farm at the same time LOL

42 days til I go to Vegas and 12lbs to meet my goal of loing 25lb before Vegas. Beginning to doubt I'll make it. My energy is gone, I have a goal but can't motivate. I NEED PRAYER!

Buttonnose

CrazyBee says - I am sooo addicted to my 3 farms!!

CrazyBee...you are too funny, but I know what you mean about being addicted. I too was finding myself that way..but said no more. My solution is to plant crops that take 3 to 4 days to mature. Go in once a day to check on your farm and water your flowers and then get yourself out of there. LOL. Everyone here must think we are NUTZ...lol This facebook game is very addicting so those of you that have not started playing it - STAY AWAY....stay FAR, FAR AWAY from it. LOL

Anyways, good luck Crazy Bee....:flowerforyou:
and lots of :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

Button

Buttonnose

CrazyBee...you are too funny, but I know what you mean about being addicted. I too was finding myself that way..but said no more. My solution is to plant crops that take 3 to 4 days to mature. Go in once a day to check on your farm and water your flowers and then get yourself out of there. LOL. Everyone here must think we are NUTZ...lol This facebook game is very addicting so those of you that have not started playing it - STAY AWAY....stay FAR, FAR AWAY from it. LOL

Anyways, good luck Crazy Bee....:flowerforyou:
and lots of :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

Button

prayerfulmom

wow, pretty quiet here. Hope all you farmers are getting in your water and some nutritous fruits and veggies:laugh: I am learning not to get started of farming on face book. You ladies are addicts=) I'm cracking the whip. You need to get to business!
My ride home today will put me at 100 miles already for the week. I'm here to tell you my legs know it. Will need to rest them tomorrow and skip my run and swim.

adopt4

Oreos are still unopened... :happy: although i may open them soon and give them to the kids to get RID OF THEM. Oreos are the devil... LOL

Now that I am home and stressed I find I am not only not eating enough, but eating really poor choices. Yesterday I had a piece of apple pie, a bowl of cereal, a bowl of ice cream. Yeah, those were my 3 meals yesterday. D'OH! So today I am working on eating better, although I haven't had lunch yet and am not really interested in food for eating, just for comfort. Will stop at the store and get some nutrigrain waffles with fruit, i love those, they are low cal and fill you up. those are my new snacky thing that's a bit sweet and filling and not overloaded on cals at all.

still have not heard a reply from my folks after emailing them that we are home. really stressing about it becuz it hurts my kids. how can you ignore your grandkids just because you're mad at their mom? that just seems to WRONG to me. stupid people anyway. they are getting a time limit here and they can either get over it enough to talk to their grandkids or they won't ever have access, i am not having them pop in and out of their lives every time they get pissed off, like their other grandma. made that mistake once, not doing it again.

found out with the problems with our van that the engine should have seized up by now... yah, find that out AFTER we have driven in 4000 miles. sheesh. looking into replacing it... not sure if we'll qualify, but we can at least find out. and if not, well, i won't be driving much...

Buttonnose

that a girl Adopt4...open them cookies and let the kids eat them all at once.... They may think you have lost it...but at least they are gone and so is the temptation of you eating them. My dentist once said to me when it came to Halloween candy...let the kids eat it all at once..get rid of it ...brush their teeth and then you are done with it. Same thing here...get those cookies out of your house the fastest way you can...here is your night time snack kiddo's....a whole bag of oreo cookies with lots and lots of milk.

Meanwhile...you focus on eating better, I am sure that some of the upset you have had recently with your family is contributing to your ability to focus on your health. But on that note...try to put it to rest in your mind and tell yourself that you have your children and your hubby and that you need to get healthy and strong for them, but most importantly for yourself. Everything else around you will fall into place as time goes on.

Be strong, stay positive and just love you immediate family and all will be well.

Hugs..big Hugs.

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CrazybeeRX

I did what you said Button and planted things that take 2 or 3 days to take a break. My wrist is killing me today and I have a brace on it. SO i really need a break.

I'm pissed off tonight. I have a 17 1/2 yr old son who is NORMALLY a good kid, very active in church, doesn't give me much trouble just normal teen stuff. Well on Saturday night he got hurt. A gal fell on his leg and hit him in the back of his knee and now his knee cap is not in the right place. It is off the groove. He is on crutches and he will have to do some physical therapy. Well tonight we were supposed to go to a BBQ with some church people. Parents were invited to join their kids. I came home to get ready and he was in my room finishing getting ready. Well he somehow ended up saying something about me not taking care of him because of being on farm land. Mind you, he is just as addicted as I am. I blew up. I have done nothing but wait on him hand and foot. Making sure he has food, meds, ice packs, water, what ever he has aked for. I asked him what more does he want? (I get a bit sarcastic when I am angry) did he want me to sit at his feet and kiss them until he decides he needs something else??? NOT HAPPENING. I told him I've gotten all his needs what was his problem. He said when I am hurting and wanting an ice pack I want it now not in 10 minutes because you said to wait a minute I am harvesting. I said WOW now you know how I feel everytime I ask you to do something you say in a minute mom!! Pay back is a *****!. So I told him he better get his friend to take him to the BBQ cause I wasn't going. I was sooo mad. ( Last night he said he was going to bed and would I get him his meds, water and an icepack. I did tell him in a minute BUT I didn't know it was because he was in pain and needed it now, I just thought he was getting prepared to go to bed to lay there and watch tv) . I cleaned my house on Sunday and all he has done for days is lay around and eat and leave crap everywhere. He can't carry things on crutches to throw away his stuff or put dishes in the kitchen, BUT he can carry food with crutches to get all the food he wants while I am at work. Nothing I do for him is ever good enough! I'm just tired of it. So anyway all this saved me from over eating at the BBQ. Just a chicken pot pie for me tonight LOL

Thanks for letting me vent. Hope everyone i doing well.

Adopt sorry about your parents. They still have a way of making us kids feel like crap. Never feels like we are grown-ups when we are around them.

Lisa, Keep kicking my butt I need it

Cyndeebee I miss your long letters. What i going on with you??? DO I owe YOU a letter and that i why you haven't written?

Kris, thanks for the insight. I just seem to have lost momentum.

Hi Lulu and li4g!!! Working girls, you're rarely round.

You are really doing well prayerful. Seem to get lot of excercise! Keep going.

Wonder what Zano i up to, not seen a post from him in a few days.

nitag

I've been missing in action..

Is there a new thread??

CrazybeeRX

I don't think a new thread got started last week. I think we are all missing in action LOL Everyone is on farm town

nitag

Yeah me too. Dang Farm Town..

Okay, I got my butt off Farm Town and walked... 2 miles .. 385 calories burned..

Eggo waffles and sugar free syrup and strawberries for breakfast.. I have to say it was good..

Lunch will be a boneless skinless chicken thigh, small salad and green beans..

Dinner, I haven't figured that out yet... But it will be healthy..


Back to healthy choices...

Talked to Sheila ( I LOVE HER) yesterday and confessed all my sins lol..

I've gained back just about 10 lbs.. I think a lot is water weight from TOM .. I weighed myself yesterday and just about had a heart attack.. So here I am.. Back and back with a new mind set... Its me again guys... Anita is back.. I will still farm but it will not and I mean will not consume my life.. I will farm after I have exercised... I will log my food again..

Ahhhhhhhhhh feels good to be back.. I've missed you guys....

prayerfulmom

rest day today. my legs are so happy. last night i could hardly get to sleep they kept twitching. i think that summit was a bit much=)
Weigh in tomorrow. chug a lug ladies and gent.

adopt4

Getting back on track myself. Tried to eat better (did open those Oreos, but didn't eat the whole bag or anything) but the rest of the day I ate fine. Bought some Eggo waffles with fruit and some fresh fruit so I can get back on the wagon with food, too.

Last night one of my 6 yr olds said to my 3 yr old "shut the hell up, amani". Thank you grandpa.:grumble:

nitag

LOL I thought today was Friday... Uh oh.. I'm off a day...

swignal

Good afternoon Team,

yep its me the other MIA Sheila!!! ha ha ha

That darn farm town!!! along with the flowers for my nieces wedding...

Anita (I Love you tooo) I am hear for ya just give me a shout you know I am there...

Although I have been rapped up with farm town an not logging my food I have been eating healthy and i have been going for my bike rides 3 X a week... in the morning time before the heat sets in!!!

well I went to the dr today and I got weighed in!!! wooo hooo i lost a few pounds !!!

then hubby had jokes he says if i would just give him sex more offten then I could lose more!!!! ha ha ha ha!!!!

well everyone I have to get my butt back to making flowers for my nieces wedding on Saturday she didnt like the ones i made so I have to figure something out....

anyway talk to you all son

Sheila

adopt4

Ok peeps, here's the new thread for this week...

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/62494-t-h-e-trying-hard-everyday-team-week-26

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