200+ (Week 17) "Fling Into Spring" Begins!

akasullengal

Nikki- if you weigh everyday, there is bound to be some fluctuation depending on what you ate the previous day. if it was higher sodium, or just heavier foods, or you ate later in the day... all can affect it. Don't worry about the 2 pounds... you'll probably stabilize out. I weigh myself every day too, so I can't say much. I get frustrated when it goes up a bit, but as long as it's just in the couple pound range, I know it's probably just fluctuation. Just look at the downward trend!

mrsbojangles- you are SO welcome here! Everyone needs the support, no matter where they are in their weight loss journey!

I haven't tried it but some people suggest you put a towel over the numbers on the treadmill. Okay my blond is coming out as I obsess over the scale this morning. Twice now I have typed scale instead of treadmill. I should have put a towel over the scale numbers this morning

:laugh: SO TRUE! When I have to run a longer distance, I like to read something, so a magazine is normally covering the numbers. I find that I obsess over them other wise. It was fine when I was running/walking at shorter intervals, but with the longer runs, I need to find a way to not look at the number.

lacey- I downloaded c25k mixes from nicole.... I can't remember the website off the top of my head, and I don't have access to it on this computer, but if you go back in our threads (it might have even been this week or last), I know I linked to it. it's more modern music... stuff to keep me moving. not much talking, just a 5-4-3-2-1-song change cue when it's time to transition from run to walk and walk to run. That's all I really needed. Now that I'm just running straight through as I'm in the latter weeks, I just use my own music. There are several good podcasts/playlists out there. If you go to the main c25k site, there are forums, which I think had some links for playlist pages.

Yesterday was not the best day for me. My old winterguard instructor was in town and we went out to eat at this yummy Cuban restaurant in town. Sodium overload! It was so yummy though. Definitely over the calories for the day. I was surprised when I wasn't up much in weight this morning. I did go to the rec center and do day 2 of c25k. It was a bit more painful than on Tuesday, I think because I didn't have a rest day like I normally do.

The plan is for after my meeting on north campus to do the final day of week 7 so I'm back on schedule. It could change though. i'm terribly exhausted. Between the lack of sleep (olympics, why do you have to go till midnight? 6:30am? why do you have to come so early?) and pushing myself hard on the treadmill 2 days in a row, I'm pretty beat. I would really like to push through today though. Especially as it's last chance workout for the week! I normally would like to do the c25k workout and then another 30 minutes on either the elliptical or bike, but I'll have to get one hell of a second wind this evening to do that. We'll see!

Hope everyone has a great Thursday and last chance workout! Remember, I'll post later this evening that there's a new thread where we can post our weigh-ins tomorrow. This has been a marathon of a posting week for us. Yay for newbies and reinvigoration!

mish3131

Happy Thursday before Friday everyone! I am trying to get back into things and one way for me is to be on MFP during the day. It keeps me in line. Tonight I vow to either use my treadmill or Wii fit. How is everyone today?

cds2327

ohh, ladies.. my scale pissed in my cheerios!! I weighed in at 221 (???!!!) today!!??:sad: Seriously. How was I 219 yesterday and 221 today. I went over my cals by 43.. thats not much.. and today i caved in and bought an XL coffee an a huge cookie.. But I only ate half:embarassed: , and I will give the other half to my babes. Ugghhh, one step forward, two steps back

Nikki!!!!!!!!! You HAVE to stop weighing yourself everyday. weight fluctuates each day depending on sodium intake, water retention, and us just plain being women. If i weighed myself every day I'd cry every night. Once a week babe!!!!
hang in there, as quickly as it went up ...... it will go down!:flowerforyou:

cds2327

Hope everyone has a great Thursday and last chance workout! Remember, I'll post later this evening that there's a new thread where we can post our weigh-ins tomorrow. This has been a marathon of a posting week for us. Yay for newbies and reinvigoration!
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Totally....talk about getting a second wind!! I'm so proud of all of us.

I'm shooting for an hour on the tready today. not all running (good lord, i'd fall off). Also, I was thinking about getting some resistance bands today and trying those out. those cute tank tops and sundresses won't be pretty with bat wings. And, i'm sick of slappin myself in the face when i dry my hair.
speaking of hair....i really need to get a haircut soon.

and, i cheated last night and had a small piece of chocolate cake...it was yummy. managed to stay under my calories (planned it that way). i know they were bad calories, but you gotta indulge once in awhile.

Nikki143

Thanks Lristina & CDS
I know I shouldn't weigh in every day.. but I have a secret.. I am becoming obsessed with the scale.. I weigh in like 4 times a day, just to watch myself fluctuate.. I hope I'll be down tomorrow, but if not, I'll be down next week. Thank you soooo much from the bottom of my heart ladies! without you's I'd still be 238!!!

cds2327

I did it ladies!!!! My goal for the day was to get on the tready for 60 minutes, and I DID IT!!!!
633 calories destroyed!! :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

I'm very proud of myself!!

And to all the newbies here, we all just started out 200+, some of us are getting closer to being 200-, but we are all trying to accomplish the same thing here. your all welcome and supported here!

makeitallsue

OMG!!! I'm so guilty of the "weighing in" addiction.....hard to stop, but it is interesting to see what shoots it up...dang sodium...why do you have to be in everything?????
I was pretty proud of myself last night, after my son's wrestling match, it was pretty late and we were an hour from home, so Hubby and son wanted to eat out....I wasn't so thrilled....I had brought string cheese and bananas and a few no-bake cookies that I had made the day before...I offered them to hubby and son thinking that would do it until we got home....heck, we wern't through the stop light:laugh: :laugh: , growing boy who wrestles....eats a lot!! So he wanted chicken at Arby's......we stopped, but I had my fiber water, banana and I was fine until I got home...I steamed up some, broccoli, cauliflower and zuchinni and had that after I got home....I was very pleased with myself....oh by the way super heros...if you haven't tried them yet....I love those microwave steam bags...throw in your veggies, add seasonings, steam 4-5 minutes....enjoy...no mess!!

I need to get back to town for groceries...we are out of TP....the lists goes on.....I got my last chance workout over and I feel pretty good...hopefully the scale will be happy too!!

KendalBeee

I think I have a lot more weight than you guys have to lose, so if you want me to go find another post, I will. :blushing: By the time I finally reach my goal, you'd all already be at maintenance for years! :ohwell: I am forty pounds away from Twoderville. :frown:

no no!! you must stay here with us!! It doesn't matter how much you need to lose! We all have a long journey. And I am a slow loser so you might just pass me in weight loss! lol

KendalBeee

I have stopped weighing myself daily, at least for this week. I know I am doing good and don't want to get discouraged to see the up flux. Plus its TOM time again so that throws everything out of whack.

All that being said, since I hadn't weighed myself in a while, I weighed this morning....I was 233.4! :noway: I hope it stays till tomorrow but I doubt it. I'm having to meet Joey tonight to get our taxes done and since I'm not sure how long that will take, I'm not sure I will go to the gym tonight.

stupid man

pinbotchick

This working thing sucks. I miss all the action all day. You guys have been busy posting away. I took a walk outside but have yet to get on the treadmill. My addiction to MFP is getting in the way. I need to run tonight since mom and I are going away tomorrow for some girl time to bird watch and shop. We think we will be home Sat night but if we're having fun we may stay until Sunday.

The scale is another addiction. I get on it every morning and it does go up and down. Most of the week I liked it but today I was back to where I was last Friday. I hope tomorrow brings a good number. I guess that's my self motivation to go burn some calories.

Blombie - good luck on the taxed and with seeing Joey. Not much longer until you get the house back.

Deb - way to go with all that working out today and making good food choices. I need to try those steamer bags. I use a small steaming pot and it takes up 1/2 rack in the dishwasher.

cd - 633 cal:noway: The most I've ever burned on it 534. You rock.

nikki - I understand the scale thing but maybe you should put it away for a week or limit yourself to once a day. You are doing wonderful overall with your weight loss.

Lacey - I hope your run went well.

mish - get on the wii or treadmill tonight.

melsa - it sounds like you are on the right track. Did you jump the whole 5 min? I'm impressed. My knees and calves would protest.

cds2327

Deb....great job on eating good tonight! I know how hard it can be.

akasullengal

Great job on the eating well and working out everyone!!!

Today had some up and downs. Did really well during the day- enrolled 2 new people in my study. My site is the total super star of the study (of course ), and then I went to a departmental meeting which was okay. But on my way to the rec center my check engine light went on :mad: don't know what the hell is up with that. I'm sort of hoping tomorrow when I turn my car on it'll just disappear I don't need to spend any more money and I don't know when I'll be able to bring it in to the shop. So after that, I was totally grumpy mcgrumpypants. I did go to the rec center, even though I was exhausted and did the running.. all 25 minutes of them, though I only upped it to 5.0 on the last minute (for perspective, on tuesday, it was the last 4). Definitely need to have a break day in between my runs. This week was brutal. Plan to have a day off (or perhaps a pilates or dance dvd) tomorrow. My whole body is just tired, which I think it adding to my grumpyness. Can't go to bed early cause the olympics are on and perish the thought I would miss them! Tomorrow will just be ugly. Let's hope the car starts, the check engine light disappears and I have another fruitful day at the office! I'll put up a new thread later this evening and will reply to this one when the new one is up.

pinbotchick

aka - We have the check engine light on in 3 of our 4 vehicles. All related to the bleepin gas caps. I hope this is the case for you. Did you get gas today? I checked once with the dealer and was told if all the other gauges are normal and unless it's flashing, you should be okay to drive it. Good luck. Try taking the gas cap off and putting it back on. Sometimes this helps makes the light go away. If the cap is real dirty then I do clean it - dirt makes it so the sensor goes off.

Oh - I am lazy and am skipping the treadmill today. I hope to get up and run in the morning. My body just aches and I have the winter blues. On a good note, I already have my salad logged and made for lunch tomorrow. I have to go pack for my trip. I have been getting the rare bird alerts for Michigan and there are some great recent sightings in Sault Sainte Marie. I am getting excited birdwatching is my passion in life (next to DH:blushing:.) I used priceline and got a great deal $40 for the hotel room. I will have access to a sauna, exercise room and heated pool. I can't wait.

Nikki143

cool, I'm not the only one addicted to the damned scale! lol. Good for you Sue, that is AMAZING!! Tomorrow is the weigh in... Good luck super heroes!!

pinbotchick

I made the decision today to turn off the friend's feed for daily calories being logged whether over or under. Part of me wishes it would be changed. I wish it would record that you were within 100 cal of goal whether under or over. This would be better than encouraging people to under eat. It doesn't reward those who are over by only 10 - which is really close. I hate that it encourages people to under eat. I guess that I am on another soap box today. Thanks for listening to my rants. It's just that I looked a friend's food logs yesterday per her request and she was having a net cal of about 800 a day and I now feel bad for all the times that I encouraged by congrats on being under cal goal for the day. If I had know how low she was earlier, I would have encourage her to eat more. I plan to ignore those posts that come to the my friend feed. I will still comment on great things like # days logged on and # pounds lost.

Good luck on the weigh-in tomorrow morning.

mish3131

Feeling a bit pathetic. I could only do about 10 minutes on my treadmill. The again, I actually got on the treadmill and used it. I think tomorrow I will Wii it.

I have to say food wise today I did really well.

pinbotchick

Feeling a bit pathetic. I could only do about 10 minutes on my treadmill. The again, I actually got on the treadmill and used it. I think tomorrow I will Wii it.

At least you did 10 min :flowerforyou: That 10 min more calorie burning than if you hadn't gotten on it. Any exercise is better than no exercise.

cds2327

Feeling a bit pathetic. I could only do about 10 minutes on my treadmill. The again, I actually got on the treadmill and used it. I think tomorrow I will Wii it.

I have to say food wise today I did really well.

It's ten more than you would have usually done right? SO WHOO HOOOO!!!!!
pinot....have a great trip
aka....hang in there, tomorrow will be better!

cds2327

I made the decision today to turn off the friend's feed for daily calories being logged whether over or under. Part of me wishes it would be changed. I wish it would record that you were within 100 cal of goal whether under or over. This would be better than encouraging people to under eat. It doesn't reward those who are over by only 10 - which is really close. I hate that it encourages people to under eat. I guess that I am on another soap box today. Thanks for listening to my rants. It's just that I looked a friend's food logs yesterday per her request and she was having a net cal of about 800 a day and I now feel bad for all the times that I encouraged by congrats on being under cal goal for the day. If I had know how low she was earlier, I would have encourage her to eat more. I plan to ignore those posts that come to the my friend feed. I will still comment on great things like # days logged on and # pounds lost.

Good luck on the weigh-in tomorrow morning.

How do you turn it off? I completely agree with you!!

akasullengal

NEW THREAD GALS!!!

Look for 200+ (Week 18) Fling into Spring!

MelsaEstel

melsa - it sounds like you are on the right track. Did you jump the whole 5 min? I'm impressed. My knees and calves would protest.

Believe me! My calves were screaming at me towards the end. And they are still pretty tight. When I would sit down, they would tighten up so much, I would hobble around for a few steps before I could walk somewhat normal again. I won't be doing that for 5 straight minutes again, at least not right away. That needs to be eased into!

I am bouncing around with weight. I lost 1.2, gained 0.8, and am down 0.2 this morning. I am used to the fluctuation, so I am not letting it bother me. Yes, I would prefer to see only smaller numbers everyday, but I am still down 0.6 lbs.

Busy weekend coming up around here. I am helping my husband with work tomorrow, so we will be going non-stop tomorrow from 10 to at least 10. It's just the food that will be interesting. We will make it work.

So...206.8 today.

Onward!