NEED TO LOSE 100 LBS OR MORE !
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Friday Fitness: Drink a freightliner, cargo plane and water tower full of water each day for the next week because last night I went to buffalo wild wings for supper(no wings, naked tenders so no breading and dipped the sauce so not an over abundance but still enough salt to dry up a small lake) and tonight we will be going there again before a pre season bengals football game. I will also up my running days and try for 2 5k runs this week along with 2 short runs. I have to get this weight off to help my legs make it through my running. I'm convinced that it's one major reason I'm struggling with speed and feel so exhausted after going on my 5k runs.0
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That's great keep up the good work.....
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Friday fitness: My back is still in pain, so I'm sticking with the swimming until I can go to the gym and come back without any pain. I am able to do more laps now, so I will begin tracking how many laps and length of time that I'm swimming so that I can see my progress from now on. I'm hoping by the end of the month that I'll be pain free and be able to do more at the gym.0
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Friday fitness? Now this is a good subject. I would say what I am doing for fitness is just losing weight. I need, or might need, knee replacement and if I can lose weight and become a more fit person, I might not need it. I also try to get to the fitness center twice a week and walk in the pool for 30-45 minutes.
I won't be posting for a while. Leave for a weeks vacation tomorrow and don't know what the status of posting from the middle of a national forest will be. I wish all of you a happy week and successful weight loss. Take care all.0 -
@Bellawares - Hope your mom's surgery goes well, here's prayin.
Friday fitness - I haven't been to the gym in over a week. I don't feel bad about it though. I took the transmission out of my truck, twice *#$*rotten*%&*rat8*#%*c(*&ks*)^*ck(ng*%**pieceOcrap*$##*!!!!. I feel like I've been doing 'mountain climbers' (as my old coach used to say, "You'll do mountain climbers until I throw up") for 2 weeks. I'm going back to the gym first thing tomorrow.
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@BigAug - Sounds to me like you got a lot of exercise this week given the vehicle situation. And as anyone who read my rant yesterday will attest, I HATE STUFF THAT DOESN'T WORK!! I hope you have the darn thing fixed and that you get to the gym.
@Lizmil - you mentioned your laptop died and you're doing this from your phone. My hat is off to you. The type on the screen is so tiny on the cheapie Android phone I got last week that I can't read it. Or maybe it's just my old age showing through again. I hope you can get a new laptop soon.
@monachris - congrats to you on everything you accomplished yesterday. You are hitting it so hard! Do what you can but please also take care of yourself.
@Robinsegg - thanks for moderating. We are a fast moving motley crew! And I hope you have no more malfunctioning appliances. Any hope of getting your washer back to fully functionality?
To lots of other folks, hang in there. Frustrations sometimes can be small; other times devastating BUT things will keep changing. Let's make it for the better.
And to those who wish people would notice they are losing weight, I don't think most people comment. Just as they would not comment when you are gaining weight they just keep their mouths shut. The last time I lost weight a gentleman in a meeting said, you are looking good, you have lost a lot of weight. At that point, he looked like he mentally slapped himself and said, ah, you aren't sick or anything are you? You look healthy. Ha. At that point we moved on to another topic. Just like no one comments on how horrible my hair looks now that I've grown it out to my striped gray, white, light blonde, brown state of affairs and no one said over the last couple of years---wow, you are getting so fat. Likewise no one has said a peep that I might be better a tiny bit smaller. That's fine with me.
Now for working out this weekend. It's still the same. Stay the course, Do something everyday.
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@Christine - Walked Belle and went to the store? That's great! I know it's a lot but you proved to yourself that you can do it. Keep up the good work!
@Lauriek - Isn't it so nice to feel appreciated? And by a stanger, no less! What a nice gesture on her part!
@witchmoon - I had 2 beers last nght and they were delicious. Don't fret, today is a new day!
@skinnyjeanz - I'd love to be able to run. I tried C25K and was on week one forever. It was just too hard! Maybe I'll try again after I lose more weight. I'm so impressed with your running!
@JayLee - Mmmm wine. I love that, too! :drinker:
@Bellawares - keeping your mom in my thoughts.
Friday Fitness - Going to the gym in a bit and then to work. My legs are sore from yesterday's workout so today is upper body only. Then 2 days off from the gym because I have to work all weekend.
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I ride my bike in the rolling hills around my house 3 to 4x week
75% of my max HR for a good 45 to 58 min. I LOVE it. My dogs come with me
sometimes if its too hot, I like Leslie Sansone but It hurts me feet. Thats why I ride anyway. (it's easy on my feet)
Have a great day MFP0 -
WoW...does this thread move or what? Sorry I have been "lurking" and not really posting allot....Can't keep up:blushing:
@RobinsEgg: Thanks for all you do for Us!:flowerforyou:
@Bella: Sorry you have so much on your shoulders right now...Hugs to you!
Friday Fitness: Move, Move, MOVE....simple enuff
Be Healthy, Be Happy, Be Blessed
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Hi Everyone-
Friday Fitness- My plan for the weekend is to get some walking in. The last few days I have been making up hours at work and looking at houses. Time for some ME time again.
Have a great weekend everyone!0 -
Friday fitness.... I met my goal of getting to the gym 3X this week. I plan to get walks in tomorrow and Sunday though as even the dog is getting a bit too chubby LOL. I plan to stick to my 3X/week at the gym for the month and then will kick it up in September. Just trying to decide on the change and how to fit it into my schedule. Weekends are either really good for me or really bad. As I really have no exciting plans for the weekend it should be a really good one for cause I will be cooking at home. Have my meals planned out and grocery shopping done. I got this....I'm confident!0
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Karen - a feeling of depression is also a common, delayed reaction to general anesthetic. It should go away shortly. Also, up your protein, and stay on a maintenance plan to feed the muscles which were cut and must grow back together - (I was a nurse in a former life)
Laurie - aaww, what a lovely gesture from the parent to you!
Doug - thank goodness you were born with your own firehose with all that water you plan to drink! :laugh: :laugh:
Aug - that's really affection your displaying for your beloved truck, right?
Lin - it costs $600 to repair my washer, so no fix, I'll be using the quick wash cycle for everything. Good thing I don't get very dirty in my daily activities - just sweaty!
Thanks for the kind words everybody. I try my best.
Friday Fitness. Getting ready to go swimming. That will make twice this week, one short of my goal. Darn! Then I am off to spend the w/e at my best bud's house, and we are going to a nice restaurant on Saturday with some old friends of his. I have to Google the menu and plan ahead. I have been saving up calories and should be OK.0 -
My Friday Fitness will be to take a 30 minute walk this may be a little difficult today as I have a board meeting in just a couple of hours and I don't get off work tonight until 7 but I am going to do my best to get it in.0
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To The Group:
Weekends seems to be really difficult with food temptations for lots of people. As I mentioned earlier, one strategy that works for me is: Count Calories and Compensate! Don't go into the weekend with the attitude if you go over your calorie limit on Friday night or Saturday that since you blew it you can continue to blow it for the rest of the weekend. Toughen up on yourself. "The Weekend Off" behavior is just old knee-jerk behavior from your juvenile school-days! Re-think what you are doing to yourself. You are NOT OFF on the weekend. Sure, tempting situations do occur - but you can Count Calories and Compensate.
What you do is average your caloric intake so that if you exceed your allotted calories one day, you decrease your intake the next two days to make up the difference. Lets say you are on a 1400 calorie a day intake, but you attend a party and have 1900 calories that day. So the next two days you allow yourself only 1150 calories. Net result is an average of 1400 calories over 3 days.
I sure would like to see Monday come and lots of people report they had a healthy and happy weekend! 0 -
Friday Fitness....I have got to start moving! Everything I type I see as the excuse that it is. So my goal for today is to just keep getting up from my desk more often, go to upstairs offices even if I have no reason to.
Our new location manager is working on finding us a gym that will give us free membership as part of our safety record. At her office in CO 24 Hour Fitness has partnered with them. In my city there are only a few 24 Hour Fitness gyms so she is trying to find a different one with more locations. I know she has more important things on her mind but I hope she gets this accomplished soon! I don't like working out at home with people around...they are all steps, if it were my kids I wouldn't mind. It is way too hot to go outside - at 9:30 last night it was still 108! This heat has got to break soon!
Enough whining. Where there is a will there is a way and I must find it!!!!
I do take a lot of inspiration from you runners and hope that by the time the temps fall I will have lost enough weight to start running again.
Lots to do today - hope you all have a Fabulous Friday!!!0 -
:laugh: I barely hit the submit button and one of our clients came by who needed to correct a labpack that they had sent to us. He couldn't find the dock guy so I had to walk with him clear to the back of our property!!! (I could have called the dock guy - I knew he was probably in his shed taking a break but I chose to walk the guy out there just to get some movement.) Yay me!!!0
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friday fitness, i seem to be burning a lot of calories by cleaning out our garage. i wrote a blog about it the other day :laugh: but we have so much crap in our garage that we haven't been able to park in there since we actually moved in. it's stacked up to the ceiling. so i'm not doing much work besides that. i can't imagine how to appropriately catalog that so i'm just calling it cleaning :laugh:0
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@toots--yeah, I was originally thinking the same thing b/c I'm half Mexican and I could totally imagine my grandparents (who were native Spanish speakers/ESL) making that mistake.
yeah, i'm also half Mexican. What part of Mexico is your family from? Anyway, i was thinking that must be what it is. although i get it from people who are clearly as white as can be. but their brains may well have been trained by living here.@jtconst - love, love, love the list! My new, midway goal is to lose 77 lbs - a gold brick - and then find the gold brick! :laugh: :laugh:
:laugh: sounds like a fair trade to me.Thursday Truth...I've lost a little over the weight of an elephants penis & I feel pretty good about it. hehehe
i've lost an elephant brain. i bet the elephants wouldn't be as happy as we are to be losing these things lolThursday truth...I did bad yesterday and I did not log it because I know exactly how bad I did and I am taking today as a new day.. I will log it when I get home today because I wrote down what I ate. My chaffing is getting better but is not looking better. Might attempt to do some time on the bike tonight. I know the treadmill is still out of the question for now. And I will do my ab/strengthening work out tonight. No matter if I have to do it in my moms room or not!
I have a suggestion to help against chaffing and you will probably think I am insane, but I swear it works...DEODORANT! (I use Degree) I put it anywhere that my skin rubs and chaffs. It not only keeps the area dry, but it also helps with keeping me from smelling during my workout...LOL!
this is what i do too. i have a special stick just for my inner thighs :laugh:0 -
Friday fitness! well, I was supposed to get one more cardio in this week but I'm not going to. I still did my Yoga this morning but not doing aerobics tonight. HOT here tday and it's going to stay that way until Monday. I don't feel TOO terribad about it since I'll have 2 aerobics and 6 mornings of yoga completed.0
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Friday fitness: I continue to walk the dog morning and night then ride my bike after the morning walk. I need to do some upper body training, too, but haven't. I love bike riding too much!!! I'm off to school this afternoon to set up my classroom. It's back to work Monday, so I will have to change my exercise routine around a bit but plan to keep on keepin' on!0
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Friday fitness: Gym day today. Which will probably be rough since I am fasting but I'm gonna do it anyways. At least I know I will get all of my water in today and then some. :happy: The weekend is full of specific thing that will prevent me from exercising this weekend. But I will remain focused on calories since today is the last day of fasting. Away we go weekend. Good luck everyone and keep reminding yourself. Move, move, move, and when you want that snack or craving.... DRINK WATER and do something else for a few minutes.0
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@Robinsegg Good point about better looking skin since eating healthier! My shins used to be rough as sandpaper from the dry skin. (For some reason, they never grew hair, so I don't have to shave there...). I used every lotion and moisturizer known to woman, including good old petroleum jelly! Not only did they stay dry, but were painful to the touch! BUT, six months into drinking at least eight glasses of water, three servings of dairy, five of fruit and vegetables, etc, my shin skin not only wasn't painful, but I can't find the rough spot any more! I'm not sure if it was any one thing or the combo, but I'm grateful!
I also suspect that I'm in a better mood and smile more. While I am gap toothed, and don't have the prettiest smile, I think laugh lines are prettier than frown lines! :laugh: I'm making more laugh lines every day!
Friday Fitness-- Well, I woke up with severe leg cramps today. I suspected low potassium level, so I got my "exercise" walking around the grocery store picking out foods high in potassium, as we were pretty much out of everything accept pistachios. No gym today, but I did use five pound hand weights to work on my upper body, so I'm not admitting to failure this week either!
The leg cramps aren't so severe any more. (I ate two bananas at breakfast, with milk and Cheerios). I'll be drinking plenty of V-8 this afternoon. Hopefully I'm right about the cause, and will be kicking up my heels at Bob's company picnic tomorrow.
I am a bit disappointed that I can't go see 7th Heaven play tonight. My cousins and I really like that band, and they are playing at St. Zach's carnival. But I'm not driving with leg cramps. My husband even drove himself to work this morning. He didn't think it was such a hot idea for me to actually drive with leg cramps when I didn't want him driving IN CASE his leg cramped up. We aren't REALLY a mess. Our problems are temporary. Our problems are temporary. Our problems are temporary.....0 -
I think laugh lines are prettier than frown lines! :laugh: I'm making more laugh lines every day!
Our problems are temporary.
Indeed - on both counts!0 -
Friday Fitness: I've got almost 2 weeks of my eating program under my belt and ready to start adding some exercise! I plan on walking this weekend a total of 4 miles.. 2 2 mile walks:) Gonna do this 4 times this week. Then starting in September I"m taking a boot camp class I got off living social for 4 weeks too! So excited!! Have a great weekend everyone and remember to stay on plan!!0
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Hello all, I'm new to the group. I hope it's alright to join since I'm now a tad bit under having to lose 100 lbs (94 as of today!!).
Friday Fitness:
Today is my off day, as I've been at the beach last 3 days and I need a day to rest to remember how to walk on solid ground lol. I don't do a lot of exercising, I am mostly just watching my calorie intake and portion control, but really need to start adding in a little bit of exercise at a time. Keeping an eye out for a treadmill or exercise equipment that I can get cheap.
Plans for eating healthy this weekend... the way I look at it is that my body doesn't know it's the weekend, and is going to act like any other day of the week, so I don't take weekends off or eat badly during.
Nutrition Goal - Add more fruit and/or veggies throughout the day.
Fitness Goal - Start walking the dogs more0 -
EEGATS! I am soo flippin excited! My baby sister (14) will be home on sunday after being gone the WHOLE summer! I can not wait to see her. I missed her like cah-razy! I will have a work out buddy when she gets back too. She recently hit ONEderland and I am so proud of her. My g-ma got her and my other sister that is living with her a gym membership to the Y which means now that she will be back I gotta get one too! Sorry I just had to let out some of my excitement here because I can't in the office.
Thank you to everyone for all your helpful suggestions on getting rid of and avoiding my chaffing. It is feeling much better after a ton of Gold Bond powder. I think it was a mixture of chaffing, wrong size underwear, and they soap I had just started using. I am so glad to be able to ask ya'll questions.
@Skinnyjeans- Thank you for explaining the whole net calories thing to me, I really needed it. I set a personal goal to eat between 1200-1500 cals a day but am not mad if I hit what MFP says. So a net of 1200 after exercise it is. Though it may be a challenge because I work out so late and am normally not hungry afterwards though I do force myself to eat some tuna.
@Helenatrandom- I think your smile is just lovely! Keep on smilin' you never know if it will catch on or not!
Friday fitness...As my chaffing is feeling better I think I will definitely get on the bike and will do my ab work out tonight. I didn't get to last night because I had to cook dinner then my mom and aunt had a hankering for cupcake and homemade buttercream icing...:grumble: I did good though I had 3 very tiny cupcakes and barely any icing where as my aunt licked the mixers, the spoon, the icing tip, the bag, and the bowl! :noway: I can't eat too much icing toooo sweet for me. BACK ON TOPIC. I plan to ride the bike saturday and sunday as well and do my ab/strength routine 3x's a week. Thanks a lot of planking and what not.
Have a great weekend and stay thirsty my friends! :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:0 -
So I found this awesome quote today and I know it rings true for me! Sometimes you just need a few words to give you a boost.
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great!"
- Zig Ziglar
Love the quote!!! Will keep repeating that to myself when I don't want to walk.0 -
Good afternoon all, hope you're having a great Friday. I really need to vent and it has nothing to do with food. My son was going to pick me up and take me to his house today, I called him to see when he was going to be here, but got his answering machine. Left a message for him to call me. About an hour later he called saying he was here. I still had to make my lunch to take with me and get my portable oxygen, etc. After he honked several times I called him and told him I would be another 5 minutes. When I got out the door he had left!!! I called him and told him I was upset as he hadn't let me know when he was going to pick me and that I was tired of his immature behavior (ok so maybe I shouldn't have said this) and he called me back saying I need to get my facts straight, etc, etc. I hung up on him (ok my immature behavior) he then texted me he was no longer my son and never wanted to hear from me or see me again and that he was tired of all the drama. By this time I had steam coming out of my ears as the only drama going on is started by him. I have been praying for forgiveness for my part and for strength not to feed into his stuff when he pushes my buttons. Ok, I'm done, sorry.
Have loved all the posts, and would respond to them all but my arthritis is acting up and can't take notes today and have such a short memory.
Friday fitness is to continue to walk Belle daily despite how my arthritis is hurting. Its going to hurt whether I walk or not.
Have a good weekend all and use those calories wisely.0 -
he then texted me he was no longer my son and never wanted to hear from me or see me again and that he was tired of all the drama.
@Monarchris- This seriously made me cry. That just upset me so much. No matter what happens (with a few exception) a child should never say that to their parents and vice versa. I hope that he realizes his mistake and rectifies it as soon as possible.0 -
Friday Fitness: I am going to the Farmer's Market tomorrow to buy fresh fruits and veggies and then some of my gal pals and I are going to try out healthy recipes we found online. I picked the Hungry Girl's recipe for spaghetti squash as a substitute for pasta with ground turkey meatballs. I will let you know how it works out! I figure I will get a lot of walking in then.
Update that is Fitness related, remember my Wed Wish that my bf would start wanting to lose weight too? He is going to do breakfast smoothies with me instead of bagels everyday AND he wants to sign up at the gym by our house and start swimming 3 nights a week after work (we carpool). I guess wishes really do come true!0
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