Over 200 Club New Year New Body Part 5

awestfall

Here it is the new thread!!! Good luck girls and have a wonderful week!!!

HonestOmnivore

Bump! And I'm really hoping I get my week started strong with plenty of exercise tomorrow AM!

My goals for the week are to do the following every day for five days -

Exercise one hour (can be a few smaller amounts that add to 60 minutes)
stretch out EVERY DAY after exercise:ohwell:
Get seven hours of sleep:yawn:
Eat nothing with corn syrup in it
Eat two snacks a day
Allow NO EXCUSES!:huh:
Log everything!
Report in here DAILY:bigsmile:
Cut out Wine (sob) two days this week

I need to start stepping it up or I'm going t backslide! I can tell I"m at the end of my typical attention span for these kind of changes and will NOT let this be another "phase". This is going to stick!

Just sayin

tiger12gal

I am new to this site. I was wondering if I could join your thread?

feeny

This weekend has been so busy i'm excited to be able to go back to my everyday walk/jogs and my regular eating lol.

So what day do you guys weigh in?

LittleSpy

Welcome tiger. You scared me for a minute -- you look just like my freshman year college roommate (who I didn't care for at all...). You're the right age & everything so, yeah. But you're not her (thank goodness!). :laugh:
This is an AMAZING group of ladies. We weigh in on Fridays, mostly, but if you have another day you'd rather weigh, that's fine! We post our percentage lost & the biggest loser comes up with a challenge for us for the next week. This week we're watching our sodium intake (under 2000mg, right?) and we're not allowed to step on the scale until this Friday, and I feel like I'm leaving something out.

We also check in every day like this:
Calories: 1210
Exercise: none
Water: 10 cups
Proud: Went to hang out with a bunch of friends & kept it to 2 light beers, carrots, pretzel rods, and hummus while taking the tiniest bites of some of the things others brought (fruit and cheese, & bread -- wow what a challenge to my willpower) so I was able to stay within my calories even without exercising.

This week we're also reporting on sodium: I was over today by 171mg
and about the scale: I did not peek today

If reporting anything to us makes you uncomfortable, don't do it! I usually type specifics but others will check in generally with words like "over" or "under" or "on target" or whatever. Just do what makes you feel comfortable.

snowflakes

mstahl: you have gone above and beyond with keeping track of everyone. Very impressive. Sounds like a little piece of paradise that you can get away to. When you have an extra few dollars get yourself a pair of snowshoes. Trudging around in the snow is more enjoyable if you aren't sinking two feet every time you take a step. You must not have been in too deep getting in 4 miles, or else you have stamina of steel. We had deer steak for dinner mmm. The other thing I make is deer roast. I would like some new ideas, what are your favorite recipes?

Calories: close 1170
Water: under
Exercise: no
Proud: Friends brought by homemade peanut butter cookies that were amazing. I only had one, thought about two, but stuck to one.
Sodium: 1807

Wishing everyone a positive and productive week.

Momma2four

Tomorrow my daughter and I are going to start Yoga, she wants to make sure you all know "she is NOT fat" 16 yo.:huh:

Momma2four

I am new to this site. I was wondering if I could join your thread?

Welcome!!!!

llowry

Will be back on track tomorrow! today didn't turn as well as I thought that it would.:sad:

jennbarrette

Tomorrow my daughter and I are going to start Yoga, she wants to make sure you all know "she is NOT fat" 16 yo.:huh:

I promise not to think she is fat Take the time to reminder her, that even when a person is not fat, exercise is part of a healthy lifestyle! :laugh:

bluenote

I didn't blow it at my friend's birthday dinner! I am so proud of myself! I did eat the entire (ahem, big) piece of cake, though, and I was planning on only half. But I had enough cals for it and it was sooo good - coconut with a raspberry filling! I like to call it the "Zinger" cake. Remember Zingers? LOL I used to LOVE them!

Welcome, newbies. You'll love it here. :flowerforyou:

Welcome back, mstahl. Hoping you found your inner Hogwart this weekend. :happy:
Welcome back, Lisa. I love that you called the church a little cowboy church!

tiger12gal

Thanks I will try to remember to post in the evenings!

I guess I need to tell a little about myself. I just turned 25 in Jan. I have 3 wonderful kids(William 5 in March, Olivia 3, and Zach almost 8 months.) The older two are not biologically mine but have been with me and their daddy for over 2 yrs. Im the only mother they know and I love them to death! I work full time and then come home and take care of them and the house. My honey works construction and works long hours so I dont get much time to spend with him.

Im wanting to lose weight so I will have more energy so I can have more play time with my kids.

MariSama44

Thanks mstahl! You keep it up too.

So hey everyone, hope everyones doing well today. I am not feeling so good about yesterday, so let me check in:

1-31-10

Calories: Way over, by around 500 :explode:
Water: a little under
Exercise: none :sad:

Proud: I logged all my calories even though I didnt want to...its good enocouragements not to do it again just writing it down. I hope I can stick it out and do well this week! So far I havent peaked at the scale again! Though I'm glad I did on saturday. Okay I'll check in later. Going to try and do some exercise today! See you girls later!


Tiger: you have come to the right place. Diet and exercise seem relatively easy to do once you get the hang of it, but if you ever hit a snag what makes MFP the best is you can just hop on the forums for any kind of support and advice you need to keep yourself going. If it werent for everyone here I'd probably have already quit by now. You can do it! We can do it!

cris20056

Bluenote- Way to go on not blowing it!!! If you had enough calories for the big slice of cake, then eh...go ahead! One thing I have tried to remind myself is that I cant be rigid to the point where I hate doing this . Its about making better choices and still being able to enjoy a treat now and then. If we couldnt treat ourselves every once in awhile I would have so quit by now!

Momma- haha on your 16 yr old's comment! We def dont think shes fat

Well my weekend was rough! The fight with the BF continued from the week into the weekend and when I came home from work Friday he had packed a bag and left. Needless to say, I was a mess all night Friday and all morning Saturday until he came home (he stayed at his mom's i found out later). We talked, and it went really well. I explained to him that I kind of felt resentment towards him that ever since i had the baby my entire life changed and yet he still led the same lifestyule. I said I needed more help around the house and with the baby so i could do stuff for myself and not just for them and he agreed. Over all it was a great talk and a lot of emotions were shared that we didnt know we were feeling towards each other. I love him so much and I will marry him some day. I dont ever want to spend a night without him again.

Then Satruday and Sunday the baby was sick- we took him out into the snow and he face planted into the snow. It was hilarious at the time but he got sick immediatly. Fever, runny nose, lethargic. This equals sleepless nights for me becasue he cant sleep well when hes sick and wakes up every few hours or so.

Sunday night I got a call from a one of my friend letting me know that close friend of ours had killed herself. She left behing a 1yr old and a 5yr old, and a loving husband. She seemingly everything going for her. Right now I am still in shock and almost kind of angry at her for doing this to her little girls and husband. That poor family has been destroyed. I spent so much of my college days with this girl its so sad to know I will never see hr again. Please pray for her family

I am so proud that I did not eat my feelings. My biggest problem has always been eating my feelings and this weekend sure gave me a run for it, but I stayed within my calories everyday. I didnt excercise, but I dont feel bad about it. I will make it up this week.

Thanks for listening!

Cris

cris20056

SORRY ABOUT ALL THE TYPOS! KIND OF TIRED THIS MORNING!! :embarassed: :blushing: :sad:

awestfall

One of my very close friends was shot to death by her husband last night .She left behind 2 beautiful daughters and she was just in her 30's.I don't know what exactly happened but I do know she will be deeply missed .Its just really a bad day for me and I hope it gets better this week.Again keep this family in your thoughts and prayers especially her 2 little girls who now have no mommy in this world.My heart is broken!!!:sad: :sad: :sad: TOM is here too and this doesn't help my emotions.I am frozen with pain in my heart!!I know I will get through this and I know she is with my Precious Lord and Saviour and she is much happier now but it still doesn't make it any easier for the ones who love her here on earth.

cris20056

One of my very close friends was shot to death by her husband last night .She left behind 2 beautiful daughters and she was just in her 30's.I don't know what exactly happened but I do know she will be deeply missed .Its just really a bad day for me and I hope it gets better this week.Again keep this family in your thoughts and prayers especially her 2 little girls who now have no mommy in this world.My heart is broken!!!:sad: :sad: :sad: TOM is here too and this doesn't help my emotions.I am frozen with pain in my heart!!I know I will get through this and I know she is with my Precious Lord and Saviour and she is much happier now but it still doesn't make it any easier for the ones who love her here on earth.

I'm sorry for your loss, I will keep her and her daughters in my prayer. What an awful weekend for both of us :sad: :brokenheart:

lstpaul

I'm sorry cris20056 and awestfall to hear about the recent losses in your lives. What terrible situations. I will be thinking of you and those families.

HeatherMN

Good morning:

First I want to say my heart goes out to Cris and awestfall, as well as the families of their friends during this tragic time. What a terrible weekend!

Rororosie: Thanks for the words of encouragement! I do love singing though I'm not sure how good I am. I just have so much fun doing it .... and sober, even!

lstpaul: I love the new profile pic! He's sooo adorable.

awestfall: I like the new challenge and will try to obey the rule about not weighing until Friday, with the exception of my Biggest Loser weigh-in this evening. I love the sodium challenge, as too much sodium is the reason I'm up a bit this morning (sorry, weighed myself when I got up). Sodium affects my weight more than exercising :-(

Jlb: You're kicking serious butt on the C25K program. I need to get motivated to jump back into it. I haven't done a C25K workout in two weeks and I'm supposed to be starting Week 7. Hopefully tomorrow!! Keep up the phenomenal work!

llowry: I love cowboy weddings! I hope you had a wonderful time. Congrats to your son!

Now for the nitty gritty; here's an overview of my weekend:
Calories: Stayed under all weekend
Water: Terrible!
Sleep: Great!
Exercise: Shopping and snowshoeing. We participated in a moonlit snowshoe event at Wild River State Park which was awesome. It was great to see how many people were there and the full moon was gorgeous with the mostly clear skies. The temp was about 15 degrees and there was no wind so it was extremely pleasant. There was also a HUGE bonfire to warm up by afterwards. We burned 614 calories in 1.5 hours, which was low because my boyfriend's son moved a bit slowly (he's 6).
Proud: I bought some high heeled black boots that zip to my mid-calf and was able to zip them all the way! They're going to look really hot as I get closer to my goal weight, but even right now they work. Now I have to find a cute skirt to go with them.

Have a good day!
Heather

lstpaul

checking in for the weekend:
calories: didn't manage to keep up my good streak of staying under my calories ... but didn't do too badly for have 2 birthday parties on Saturday - was over about the amount of 1 piece of cake. Sunday I made the mistake of not eating enough all day so I was ravenous for supper time and made some really bad choices (chips and french fries)- but didn't go over my calories by much.

exercise: good, did an hour at the Y on Saturday for 1000 calories with step class, and managed to sneak in 45 minutes of body pump at the Y in the middle of an all day swim meet Sunday. Unfortunately I mis-timed getting back for my son's 3rd race and missed it be about 3 minutes! :mad: But I was still glad I got the exercise in.

water: good on Saturday, not so good on Sunday

proud: packing a workout and shower bag for the swim meet and making sure I left and got in some exercise yesterday instead of sitting there all day

this week's challenge: I haven't looked at the scale, I've gone over on sodium but now that I've added it to my food tracking I will try to get a better handle on it

Have a good day all!

awestfall

Bluenote- Way to go on not blowing it!!! If you had enough calories for the big slice of cake, then eh...go ahead! One thing I have tried to remind myself is that I cant be rigid to the point where I hate doing this . Its about making better choices and still being able to enjoy a treat now and then. If we couldnt treat ourselves every once in awhile I would have so quit by now!

Momma- haha on your 16 yr old's comment! We def dont think shes fat

Well my weekend was rough! The fight with the BF continued from the week into the weekend and when I came home from work Friday he had packed a bag and left. Needless to say, I was a mess all night Friday and all morning Saturday until he came home (he stayed at his mom's i found out later). We talked, and it went really well. I explained to him that I kind of felt resentment towards him that ever since i had the baby my entire life changed and yet he still led the same lifestyule. I said I needed more help around the house and with the baby so i could do stuff for myself and not just for them and he agreed. Over all it was a great talk and a lot of emotions were shared that we didnt know we were feeling towards each other. I love him so much and I will marry him some day. I dont ever want to spend a night without him again.

Then Satruday and Sunday the baby was sick- we took him out into the snow and he face planted into the snow. It was hilarious at the time but he got sick immediatly. Fever, runny nose, lethargic. This equals sleepless nights for me becasue he cant sleep well when hes sick and wakes up every few hours or so.

Sunday night I got a call from a one of my friend letting me know that close friend of ours had killed herself. She left behing a 1yr old and a 5yr old, and a loving husband. She seemingly everything going for her. Right now I am still in shock and almost kind of angry at her for doing this to her little girls and husband. That poor family has been destroyed. I spent so much of my college days with this girl its so sad to know I will never see hr again. Please pray for her family

I am so proud that I did not eat my feelings. My biggest problem has always been eating my feelings and this weekend sure gave me a run for it, but I stayed within my calories everyday. I didnt excercise, but I dont feel bad about it. I will make it up this week.

Thanks for listening!

Cris

So sorry to hear about your loss too Cris!!! I will definitely keep your friends family and you in my thoughts and prayers.It is so rough when you lose someone close to you and if you need someone to talk to I would be glad to listen.I know our situations of loss are different but not different in the fact that they are now gone.GOD BLESS!!

lstpaul

lstpaul: I love the new profile pic! He's sooo adorable.

thanks - he is a sweety ... my daughter (turning 16 tomorrow) has been on the swim team for a few years and swims for high school now as well as the YWCA in the off-season, but this is my son's (9) first year swimming with the YWCA and it's awfully cute watching him compete. He is ecstatic and scared because yesterday at the sectional meet his relay qualified for the state meet (the top 3 relay finishers make it to state ... his relay was 3rd (out of 3 I think)). Unfortunately they will likely be last at state because it is an event for 12 and under boys and two on his relay team are only 9 so are slower than the others ... but it will still be exciting. My daughter didn't qualify yesterday in any of her events, but might still make it in as a 'wild card' based on her time, she's old enough to be in the 18 and under category so is tougher competition this year. She's ready to be done swimming this year, but I still hope she makes it to state so both my kids can be there.
She had a rough weekend, was in a silly fight with her friends so ignored their invitations to join them for get-togethers and sleepovers over the long weekend (they had Friday off). Unfortunately it's her birthday tomorrow so I hope she makes up with her friends so we can plan a party soon! She didn't even want to talk about it over the weekend. Sixteen is a tough age. But I probably worry about her more than I need to. Hopefully the fight will be over by tonight.

Momma2four

awestfall and Cris, how sad!!! I am so sorry to hear about these terrible things. 2 families in so much pain right now. I can't even begin to tell you how sorry I am. Know that you both as well as the 2 families will be in my prayers.

Momma2four

Jenn, you are so right. My 16 yo is pretty good about realizing that exercise is good for you even when you are thin. It is my 12 yo who is soooooooooooooooooooooooooo very thin, that is the one I have to always inform that exercise is important. She is very active but does not think of playing volleyball, soccer, riding her scooter or bike as exercise. So when ever I say you need to go out and get some exercise she says why? I am skinny. I tell her So!!! Do you have a heart? Then you need to go out and get some exercise for it.

lstpaul, it is nice to see you. Our girls are only about 6 months apart. My girl turned 16 in Sept. They are at a difficult age. It could be worse I think you and I have pretty good responsible 16 yo.... Your little boys pic is cute!! He looks so determined!!


hajohnson, You are doing so well!!! I think you are going to show that guy up in the biggest loser competition. Keep it up.

bluenote, I would have eaten the cake too. You had enough cals. zingers Oh, sorry I got side tracked.

Lisa, congrats on your son getting married. I would not beat myself up too much about yesterday. I know I am not beating myself up about my sunday eating:embarassed:

I will let everyone know how our Yoga went today. I have a Yoga workout for weight loss then just a general Yoga for dummies.:embarassed: and pilates. Between all 3 workouts it is going to be an hour. Then I am taking my (jog) walk as my husband refers to it this evening. Saturday he took me for a walk to a shopping center, getting there and back takes an hour then he made me walk around there for an hour. So we were out and about on our feet for 2 hours I was tired when I got home. Anyways hope everyone has a great day!!!

lstpaul

Jenn, you are so right. My 16 yo is pretty good about realizing that exercise is good for you even when you are thin. It is my 12 yo who is soooooooooooooooooooooooooo very thin, that is the one I have to always inform that exercise is important. She is very active but does not think of playing volleyball, soccer, riding her scooter or bike as exercise. So when ever I say you need to go out and get some exercise she says why? I am skinny. I tell her So!!! Do you have a heart? Then you need to go out and get some exercise for it.

lstpaul, it is nice to see you. Our girls are only about 6 months apart. My girl turned 16 in Sept. They are at a difficult age. It could be worse I think you and I have pretty good responsible 16 yo.... Your little boys pic is cute!! He looks so determined!!


hajohnson, You are doing so well!!! I think you are going to show that guy up in the biggest loser competition. Keep it up.

bluenote, I would have eaten the cake too. You had enough cals. zingers Oh, sorry I got side tracked.

Lisa, congrats on your son getting married. I would not beat myself up too much about yesterday. I know I am not beating myself up about my sunday eating:embarassed:

I will let everyone know how our Yoga went today. I have a Yoga workout for weight loss then just a general Yoga for dummies.:embarassed: and pilates. Between all 3 workouts it is going to be an hour. Then I am taking my (jog) walk as my husband refers to it this evening. Saturday he took me for a walk to a shopping center, getting there and back takes an hour then he made me walk around there for an hour. So we were out and about on our feet for 2 hours I was tired when I got home. Anyways hope everyone has a great day!!!

I am talking my daughter into trying yoga and/or pilates after she is done with swimming for the winter. She has terrible posture (I think somewhat inherited from my husband's mother - she is very hunched over, and so is my niece who is a year younger than my daughter). I think yoga would help her with better posture, I actually think swimming might hurt as she has such big shoulders that she kind of 'hunches' them over. I worry about my kids with stressing the need for lifelong exercise, severe obesity runs in my family and I would love it to stop at my generation.

Momma2four

lstpaul, I am now obese obviously. But I was thin growing up. I was a thin teenager (110-115) and a normal sized adult. Then I met my husband. He was "normal" sized. He played hockey and was very athletic and looked very good. Then I met his sister, mother, and aunts. They were all obese. After I had our first daughter. I began to eat like them (not that it is their fault I made the choice) and now I am obese. I worry so much for my daughters especially. His side of the family's women are "fat" (even some of the kids). Mine, not so much. I try to help my kids make good choices so they won't have the types of issues his family has. Besides the fact that due to my weight I have High blood pressure and I do not want my children to go through all that. So I understand wanting to push the exercise. I most worried about my 8yo because she is an eater. She is not skinny!! She is actually on the high side of the normal weight range for her age and to top it all off she is lazy. I was going to put her basketball because she loves it and they did not advertise the day to sign up and we missed the sign up day. Now I am trying to push her out the door everyday to play. I do not want to ever make her feel bad about her body so I try to be careful how I say things. If she wants something unhealthy for a snack I say NO have an apple or an orange. She says no I say okay have a banana she says no I say you are not very hungry then. Next thing I know she will be eating a pc. of fruit. As mothers we want to stop the bad habits before they start. I think the fact that you and I are exercising and eating better is the best way to teach them. They will be fine!

ColoradoGirl

checking in

yesterday

went a bit over on the calories (bday celebration for my sons 17th bday) and yes I had cake..
Water.. ok
Exercise 65 mins
proud I got my tail moving and did not sit all day

I just got done exercising for an hour. both my husband with the knee and daughter cold are home today.. I have some serious marketing to get done today so, I will be spending most of the day in the office.. Oh joy!

Cris and awestfal so very sorry to hear the news! My thoughts and prayers will be with those families!

Well.. I will check back in later..

Take care and have a great day ladies!

LittleSpy

Cris and awestfall -- I'm so so so sorry to hear about your losses. It's been a bad weekend for a lot of folks, it seems. My coworker's mom passed away yesterday and my great-uncle died Saturday. I wasn't close with him but he was my gramma's only brother. But at the impressive age of 91, death is to be expected... not so young like your friends. :frown:

On a much happier note, I just finished my taxes. I was a little nervous because one of my jobs is a contract position and I've never filed as a self-employed contractor before. I was so scared I was going to owe money. Thank goodness for oodles of interest paid on my mortgage! :laugh: And I'm getting a really nice State tax return -- seems like it's a couple hundred more than usual. I went back and double checked everything for accuracy and it was all correct, so YAY!! Me thinks I may buy a Wii & Wii fit! (Because you're supposed to blow your tax return on something frivolous, right?) Or, maybe save it to buy a new wardrobe in 7 or 8 months. Or... maybe both. :devil:

lstpaul

jlb123: good news on your taxes! I think you should find a good sale on the wii & wii fit AND have some left for a new wardrobe! Congrats! Unfortunately I will owe big on taxes this year- when my Aunt passed away in the fall I inherited a piece of her life insurance policy and savings accounts ... and I used the money to pay off some debts, but now in the spring I will have to come up with the taxes. Plus I would rather have my Aunt living than any of the inheritance - so I feel guilty on top of grief ... but that is a whole other topic!

Momma2four: I too was thin in high school ... but I stayed that way with some very bad eating habits - anorexic some days and eating fatty foods the next, then in college I alternated between anorexia and bolemia (because everyone on my floor was doing it ... gross!), and probably over-exercising too... and then finally I gave up and stopped exercising completely and ate horribly for many years until I had gained about 150 pounds. I know if I had concentrated on eating healthy and exercising sensibly I wouldn't be in the situation I am now with having to try to lose so much ... I just hope I can help my kids make better choices with food and exercise, but I know some of the time I haven't been that great of an example. But I can change things now. It's so hard to get that balance though of not talking too much about diet so that they are obsessing, but wanting to make sure they are making good choices.

Momma2four

jlb123: good news on your taxes! I think you should find a good sale on the wii & wii fit AND have some left for a new wardrobe! Congrats! Unfortunately I will owe big on taxes this year- when my Aunt passed away in the fall I inherited a piece of her life insurance policy and savings accounts ... and I used the money to pay off some debts, but now in the spring I will have to come up with the taxes. Plus I would rather have my Aunt living than any of the inheritance - so I feel guilty on top of grief ... but that is a whole other topic!

Momma2four: I too was thin in high school ... but I stayed that way with some very bad eating habits - anorexic some days and eating fatty foods the next, then in college I alternated between anorexia and bolemia (because everyone on my floor was doing it ... gross!), and probably over-exercising too... and then finally I gave up and stopped exercising completely and ate horribly for many years until I had gained about 150 pounds. I know if I had concentrated on eating healthy and exercising sensibly I wouldn't be in the situation I am now with having to try to lose so much ... I just hope I can help my kids make better choices with food and exercise, but I know some of the time I haven't been that great of an example. But I can change things now. It's so hard to get that balance though of not talking too much about diet so that they are obsessing, but wanting to make sure they are making good choices.

Oh how can I relate to that. That fine line between obsessing and not caring at all about weight. We can do this and at least we know that we can lean on each other through this whole thing.

I also understand how you feel about the money. You would rather have her than it. But that was so sweet of her to take care of you like this after she is gone. She would really be happy that it helped you and your family pay off some debt. I know you still miss her!! I am sorry for your hurt.

lstpaul

Thanks momma2four :flowerforyou: (and everyone else here) ... it's so nice to have your support and being able to chat about these things with people who understand. Have a great evening everyone!