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chipgal

Thanks Jaymie. Have a new stationary bicycle and am up to 15 minutes every other day. Is helping my thighs look better. Glad you posted a note. Have a safe 4th of July.

Chipgal

Keltinator

Hey everybody

Where's Myth? She hasn't logged on for a while... Well anyhow, Hope everybody had a good weekend! I went on vacation to Osoyoos with my family and enjoyed the sun (and ice cream... oops. lol).

Today was the first day of my new job! Spent four and a half hours on my bicycle! I only logged an hour and forty minutes though. I really doubted that I had burned over a thousand calories, which is what MFP calculated. I think they're a bit generous with the whole calories burned thing. The weather wasn't too warm which was good... no heat stroke lol.

As for the oral surgery I healed pretty well. It did make eating hard for a while, and of course I wasn't very hungry for a couple days after anyways. I think I consumed almost a whole can of ginger ale on the first day. Not exactly 1200 calories... haha. But I'm back to normal now.

Have a good week everybody! :flowerforyou:

chipgal

I sent mail to Myth and she is busy with children and parents this summer. Says she is doing alright will get back to us when things settle down.

Glad to see you back from vacation Eek.

Chipgal

Keltinator

Oh, thanks for getting in contact with Myth, chipgal. Glad she's still somewhat with us

Jaymie

Trying to get back into the routine I was in last year.... ie exercising and eating well... its HARD!!!

I am definately a morning exercise person.

Are you guys mainly AM or PM exercisers????

Myth

Eek, congrats on the new Job! Glad surgery healing is going good and fast.

Jaymie, hope your fiance is doing better, as far as exercise in the am or pm during the school year am... during the summer as soon as I find out ill let you know lol

Chip have fun on that bike!

Thalia how are you doin?

Amanda what about U?

ok now for my story... I AM LOSING MY HAIR! Literally falling out! Hubby says stress....I say it has been falling out since I had kids and has not stopped although latley even more has been comming out. SO I went to dr cause I also have some shoulder injury in my rotater cuff and some thing with my hamstring ugh!!! :sad: any way went to dr did bunch of blood work.. what do you know NORMAL!! I say NOT!!! SO now I have to go to dermatologist. I do have my sister and my father living with us.... but dad leaves on TUesday to move to Florida, we will miss him, while it has been great haveing a extra hand and someone to watch the kids there is other family stress. But he will be gone and it will only be my sister in whom I worry about her like I do my own kids and she is only a year and a half younger then me lol. But who knows ... Any way in order to remotivate myself I will might be joining weight watchers with some friends. Ill let you all know how that goes.
Ladies it ment alot to see you all asking about me! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

Myth

Keltinator

Glad to see you back, Myth! Definitely let us know how the weight watchers thing goes

I'm so tired, I don't know what to say... lol. But, tomorrow's Friday! Yay!

And Jaymie, I'm an evening exerciser... I'm just way too lazy in the morning :P

Jaymie

Hi Guys
When I use to exercise I was a morning person, so I am trying to get back into that routine as it worked for me before (and Im hoping it will work again). However I read an article last night about eating before exercising. Apparently its a 'no no' to exercise on an empty stomache. But I just find eating at 6am then exercising will make me feel sick and I really dont have time to wake up an hour extra early just to eat and let my stomache rest before I exercise.
So now I am thinking maybe I should start jogging or doing my strength training in the evening... hmmmm what to do???

Jaymie

Myth..
When I lost weight last year... my hair started falling out (ALOT!). But then I was overly stressed last year as well. I did a few blood test to rule out hormones vs stress and it did turn out my thyroids were under active.
How are your thyroid levels??

Stress is such a shocker!!! can cause every part of us to brake down!

I hope you feel better soon! :flowerforyou:

Myth

Jaymie,


All my blood work came back fine SO stress is causeing some latley I cant believe its cause the before now hair loss SO my dr has me going to a dermatologist although my nurse friend said I need to call them and say no schedule me for an endocronologist cause she just had to do that for a patient for the same thing. SO we will see. One thing I can say for weight watchers is there etools site for tracking is very user friendly! SO far I am counting the points but it is so fricken wierd lol.
I have even exercised for 3 days in a row now and plan to do it tmrw as well. I feel like I am getting back in to it, I have even been drinking more water!

LAdies I hope you are all doing well.


Myth

Keltinator

Hope everybody's weekend is going well

My friend's having a party and we're going to a restaurant for dinner, so I decided to go to their website to plan out my meal (because we all know that eating in restuarants means unpredictable calorie counts...), and man, am I glad I ever did! Most of the food was over 1000 calories for the meal... oh lord. The only ones that weren't were the Garden Burger and the some of the kid's meals. Yes, some. Some of the kid's options were 900 calories or more! Holy crap! Anyways, I've never had a Garden Burger. I wonder if they're good... lol.

Myth

Eek, holy cow! I did the same thing going out this morning, mainly cause it was to say by to my dad he is moving to florida.well has moved to florida. Im sad andhappy about it. But for the day I did pretty good considering all my emotions. Upset stressed and had a self realization. Somthing I realized I hated abotu myself. Nothing really bad just something I want to work on. Any way hope dinner went well, my day was ok.


Myth

NewBeginning2010

Hi everyone. So sorry it has been so long since I have checked in. Cant even begin to tell you what my life has been like these past few weeks. iv managed to be around my low of 197 plus or minus an additional 5 pounds but nothing drastic. Hopefully with this new bid i will be able to work out more. How is everyone doing? how is everyones progress? I read up on the posts i missed but would love for everyone to post how they are doing. Miss everyone

Jaymie

Hey Thalia
Good to hear from you!! Sounds like everyone has a bit of a rough time lately.. myself included.
Ive finally made myself log food again and I have rejoined the gym! started making myself do just half an hour of exercise (maybe a few times a week)... its a while so Im planning on getting back into it slowly,.

Maybe that should be our aim guys... to try and get back into exercising (thats if any of you ladies did fall off the exercise bandwagon, like I have)..

SO what do you say... make exercise a priority again????

Myth

Jaymie,

I am up for the exercise CHALLANGE!!!!!

Lets say 30 mintues 3 times a week.

Ladies?

Myth

Myth

Thalia,

I am here. Getting back ont he wagon so to speak. I joined weight watchers hopeing to boost myself and so far so good. It has me eating better and exercising. Today is my first weigh in since last week I will post abbout that tongiht or tomorrow and say how it goes. Other then that Im hanging in there. Dad left yestrday. So some stress gone.

What abotu you ladies... talk to us we are here..

Off to the gym now

chipgal

Hello everyone,

I'm up for the excersice challenge. I'm up to 30 minutes on bike will do it 3 times this week at least.

Chipgal

Keltinator

Hey Thalia, glad to see you back

Myth, Jaymie - I'm totally up for the challenge!! It's not going to affect me right now because of my job, but when the job ends after July I will definitely keep up.

Since I had so many calories from all the biking I've been doing, I let my eating habits go last week, and payed dearly for it on Monday, when my stomach hurt literally all day and there was nothing I could do about it, except... bike more, all day. Not helpful. All day, I could feel my insides complaining. It sucked. So, I learned my lesson. Never again. I've started this, and I'm gonna finish this journey strong. Extra calories are not an excuse for an extra bowl of ice cream. They're for more HEALTHY food, if you find yourself hungry. That was my little epiphany.

Oh, and another thing happened to me this week, and it's made me feel a little wierd, almost uncomfortable. I was playing piano the other day... it was a piece I really like and I can play it from memory, with my eyes shut. I wasn't really focusing on it. And then, I had this wierd little picture come into my head, kind of like a flashback, except it wasn't. It was me, older. It couldn't have been anyone but me, but I could tell I was ten or fifteen years older than I am now. I couldn't see all of me, just until a little below my shoulders. And I was skinny. It was the wierdest thing. I've never tried to imagine myself thin... it just happened. It's bugged me for days! I really feel like that's going to be me in the future. Like there's no doubt... and I think, but I'm not sure, that it's a good thing. It makes me feel like I'm not going to fail. Even if it takes me a long time, I'm going to get there. I think it was just me, trying to give myself some motiviation, or something, I don't know. Anyways, I needed to write about that somewhere. I haven't told anyone about it...

So, anyways. That's my little piece of news/insight for the week so far. Hopefully I'll get a chance to weigh myself this Friday. I'm interested to see if I've lost/gained weight... or lost fat percentage/gained muscle mass... we'll see!

Jaymie

Alright Ladies!! The challenge is ON!!!

This week 30mins of exercise 3x this week!!

I went to the gym this morning and did a 30min session on the cross trainer! I struggled to get out of bed to go to the Gym at 6am this morning.. BUT I MADE MYSELF DO IT!!! and when I finally got to the gym.. just seeing other people there made me feel better!! Ive decided before I can talk myself out of exercising I have to quickly grab my gym gear and just get there!!

So when the little voices start telling you maybe you can do it another day, maybe later... Just grab your exercise gear and jump in before you talk yourself out of it!!!

Set a day, a time and hold yourself to it!! its your time! its what your body really really needs - so put yourself FIRST and DO IT!!!

Jaymie

EEK

That is spooky! But I have heard some people get insights or visions when they zone out.. maybe thats what happened? I have quite a scientific mind but I do believe in stuff like that...

I also believe mind over matter!!! Think positive think you can do it and I bet you will get there!!!!

chipgal

Jaymie,

Bicycled 30 minutes last night. So I started the challenge early:bigsmile:

Will try to add distance every night I do the bicycling.

Chipgal

Jaymie

Well done Chipgal!!! 1 down 2 to go

I try to exercise in the evenings but coz I work on my feet all day I just want to blob out at night. So I was up early exercising this morning. I did 30minutes on the cross trainer!

What is everyone else doing for exercise this week???

Myth

CHallange........ok Monday I did 30 on the treadmill,........ Tuesday I did the same thing...... Wednesday I did 1 hour spinning and ......Thursday treadmill and.......... 1 hr today spinning again.

Eeek that sounds cool to me. Inspiration is found in the strangest places! Ourselves! WTG!

Jaymie

CHallange........ok Monday I did 30 on the treadmill,........ Tuesday I did the same thing...... Wednesday I did 1 hour spinning and ......Thursday treadmill and.......... 1 hr today spinning again.

THATS GREAT MYTH!!

Well done ladies on keeping the challenge!

Jaymie

This is going to be a tough week for me calorie counting wise - We have a mid winter christmas dinner on Saturday, 60th birthday dinner Sunday. Work function tomorrow night!!!

ARGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! I feel all my self-control is draining away already !!

How can I enjoy these events and still stay under my calorie allowance?????

Myth

Jaymie,

Dont necessarily aim for calories aim for portion control! I had that this weekend as well. I went out with hubby twice this weekend and had a cook out at a friends house. If I can do it so can you. I did portion control at the cook out I did not deny (sp) my self anything I just got very small portions and it worked! You can do it woman!

Jaymie

Thanks Myth! Im going to try portion control this weekend. I will think of you and everyone on MFP thats holding me accountable!!! I can do it!

Im also going to hit the Gym tomorrow morning.

Lets run the exercise challenge again but this week lets challenge ourselves to exercise 4 times... So break a sweat for minimum 30mins 4x this week!!! Whos in?????

Myth

ME ME ME Im up for tha challange! Ok people 4x's a week! 30 minutes!
DRINK THAT WATER! I drank a liter today!

NewBeginning2010

I am going to try...my new work schedule is kicking my butt

Jaymie

Thalia

Good to see you! Glad to hear that your going to try - sometimes thats the best we can do during tough times! I slacked off for a while and put almost all my weight back on! Now I feel like Im starting from the bottom again! Its going to be a long hard climb back up. But I want this so bad im going to try again!!

Dont forget to also put things in perspective and see how far you have come or how much you have learnt! I know you will make it Thalia!

:flowerforyou: