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Two Gals headed for marriage bliss...congrats to you both! I've been with my best friend for 23 years now, married for the last 20 of those years, we did the "Courthouse" on a Saturday afternoon, I sometimes wish we would of went a little bigger, we thought we'd put the money towards our first home instead. I bet dress shopping will be a blast!
Everyone's goals look great, week 1 coming on! Good luck everyone!

Stormchaser, good to hear your feeling a little better!

Jessica, hope you get your run in, I wanted to get out today for a run, but the cold brought me back in to my elliptical. I wish I had a treadmill, but we really don't have the room, I'm just wishing for Spring to get here!:bigsmile:

I congratulate thee engaged too! It brought back memories. We too did the courthouse on a Saturday afternoon, because his father did NOT think I would make a good wife for his son. Needless to say I have been a good , hard working farm wife who helps and supports her husband even today. We will be married 30 yrs in Feb. his dad died a year after we were married and our son his first grandson was born on his birthday. Ironic!!! Anyway life is good and we are still maried!!! I have not put down my goals yet. I am sorta scared to for some reason. It is not the goal setting that scares me, I set my fitness goal in Jan of 09 to be more than it was in 08 which was 252 days, I surpassed it with 305 days, it just for some reason feels off to me, I do not know why! My one goal for ninety days is P90X with Insanity cardio workouts.Then I guess Eat MORE protien and eliminate SUGAR from my diet. The sugar issue IS my biggest hindrance!! I am VERY addicted sugar, I did pretty good until Halloween,then Thanksgiving then Christmas! I am sooooo afraid of using that as a goal because I have NEVER been able to resist cookies, bars, pies etc;;; I will accept any suggestion on this issue!!! I will tell you all now that I really am NOT a runner but I do go run 2-3 miles four times per week in the summer but once it gets cold I move into fitness classes and elliptical and sometimes the treadmill ( I have built up a pretty darn good gym in my basement but will hit the gym cuz it is only $2 and has people and other equipment) well today we had a high of 28* no wind and very bright sunshine so I layered up and took the dogs out, we ran through snow and over snow drifts for 4.25 miles and I burned 486 calories. My base layer was ringing wet when I got home. I was proud that I did it even when it was not real fast!! I loved it and so did the pooches!!
Verda

Verda you have been doing great, Im sure you'll come up with some realistic goals for yourself. I'm not a sugar addict so cant help you there. Maybe one goal could be to just cut back (instead of out) on the sweets would be better for you.

2miles yesterday, Saturday, but slow. Going again today for a real run.

I got to the gym late last night it was very late (10pm) and just wasnt mentally into it, so I decided to at least get 2miles in. I wanted to go to the gym but once I was there and got on the treadmill it just seemed hard for some reason. So I ran the 1st mile then did a slow walk on the 2nd mile. I got off the treadmill once it hit 200 cals burned and that was at 2.14miles. I plan on going again today for a real run. But much more earlier this time.

I have been running on the treadmill since I feel Im not ready for outside yet, wanted to work on my breathing and endurance and I was really hoping to drop some pounds before running outdoors. Well, my weight is not dropping quite like I hoped, but my run time& breathing has shown improvement so I will start training on my run outdoors the middle of January, 2 weeks before my first 5k.

I tried running outside once and it wasn't easy like the treadmill. It was different on my legs (harder) and I had other obstacles in the way such as dogs then having to run at times on the grass due to cars coming etc. But looks like my outside time is fast approaching! PS. I think a big part of my outside fear is all mental because most folks LOVE outside vs the treadmill.

Debra, I'm desperately waiting for spring, too. I HATE treadmills. I wouldn't take one even if it was free. I just cannot run on them for some reason. So, I run when I can, and workout inside when I can't run. Hopefully it will be a quick winter and spring will be here soon! :flowerforyou:

To be honest, I have never ever even tried to run on a treadmill.....I wonder if I could do it? I might have to give the YMCA a try to see:laugh:

Verda and Debra- I live on a farm too. Well, we are trying to make it a farm. ALOT of hard work! I commend you both!

I am a farm animal, so guess I fit right in :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Call me wimpy, but I did the treadmill for about 8 miles today. I looked at the -5 F mid afternoon and my treadmill was an easy choice. I rented a good movie and got it done. Then my project list got longer as the dryer vent got clogged, DVD player stopped working, and my kids toy helicopter broke.

Anyway... back to work in the morning and happy about that too.

I will be making a new board posting soon, but just did not get to it this weekend. I think I'll make sure we've got everyones initial posts in first.

Raymond

It is called life Raymond! Way to hang in there! I have NEVER ran 8 miles. 6 but not 8!!! I start P90x tomorrow, chest and back with the ab ripper x! I am not looking forward to Tuesday or Wednesday when the muscles are screaming WTH???? But this is my goal!!!
Verda

Hello All! Welcome back to a new week of eating right and taking care of ourselves like we should. Nice to see everyone getting back safely from traveling and getting into the grove of things.

As for me, Im fairly new to MFP and am getting familiar with the tools it offers, one of them is the food diary and daily calorie plan. I had set my own daily calorie count but am now going to just use what MFP suggest, so when I report in the days under my calories its going to be based on MFP's plan. Just an FYI!

Oh..and the scale is very evil! thanks Raymond for pointing that out, my scale is doing the bounce thing and nearly had me very dissappointed until I remembered your remarks about the evil scale. So Im going to try not to take it too seriously since its probably the types of foods I ate and water rentention. And I do have a habit of weighing daily so I need to chill.

Happy Monday!
Eat right today and drink your water!

Hey all HAL members, hope you are all starting your week the way you have planned!:bigsmile:
I rocked my workout today and I am feeling pretty good right now.
I am with you Verda, I completed P90X Chest and Back, Ab RipperX and then I jumped on the elliptical for 31 minutes (I really need the addtional cardio )
Boy, I don't know if I could do without the scale,:ohwell: I mean it did make me happy when the scale didn't move and the clothes fit better, but I tend to jump on the scale a lot and when it goes down...my motivation spikes...guess it goes both ways. I am using the scale to get my fat percent under control, I'm at 44% now. I was at 52% a year ago.
Best of luck on your goals....off to grab some lunch and do a little snow shoveling:bigsmile:

Hello everyone. I did my 30 day shred for today and my yoga along with a few more exercises. Now all I have to do is my hour on the treadmill. I am so glad to see everyone sticking to their exercises. I know we can do this!!

Keep up the great work everyone!!:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

Way to go, Sherry!

I ran on Friday, did the 30 Day Shred on Saturday and Sunday and ran again today.

I'm anxious already to weigh-in and report back. I started on Jan. 1st so it's been 4 days already, but I realized that we're not weighing in unitl Saturday or Sunday I think Raymond said... can't wait! :bigsmile:

Well here is some good news one my front, I went to the Dr today and he said that the movement looked really good and the fact that I have had no pain and sleeping at night is a very good sign. I still have to wait to see what the Neosurgen has to say next week but I'm feeling better than I have in a long time. I still have a little numbness in my left hand but he told me that should be going away. so my thinking is give it til the end of the week and maybe this weekend I can try and get to the gym and see what I can do and Not do!

I was happy about this news and wanted to share it with you! There is hope for me yet! LOL
I got off track with my food today but its so cold and I wanted something warm so I chose the pasta route but tomorrow I'll probably have soup since its suppose to be colder yet, Man I hate winters! I knew I should have moved to the islands and opened a bar on the beach, LOL.

I'll keep you all posted!

Tracy :laugh: :flowerforyou:

Good job bigtest! I was thinking we wouldn't hear from you since you were out of town, but sounds like you managed to get some work outs in anyways. Good job!

And I hope we don't need to start up an injured list!

Correction:

From my understanding, Its going to be once a week, we can post our totals then. Some folks want to get an avg of their weight over FRI SAT & SUN, but thats an idividual choice. Looks like we are to weigh in on Saturdays and post our weekly progress. Quote "Each Saturday post the data in a simple layout and I will update the charts."

He's been busy but will get our charts together soon and he also wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to post what their goals would be.

The photos we took are going to be used 30days from now for our before photo or start, and then we'll take a 30 & 90 day photo to "see" our progress. Just didn't want anyone to forget to take a "before" photo.

But in the meantime we can all post things to share on our daily progress so we can get and give encouragement. Plus it also helps us to get to know one another better.

So keep track of your progess as you are going along, and on Sat or Sunday we all post our entire weeks progress which should match with the goals we each wanted to track. And Rainman will be updating our charts.

Correct me anyone if I have this wrong.

Well here is some good news one my front, I went to the Dr today and he said that the movement looked really good and the fact that I have had no pain and sleeping at night is a very good sign. I still have to wait to see what the Neosurgen has to say next week but I'm feeling better than I have in a long time. I still have a little numbness in my left hand but he told me that should be going away. so my thinking is give it til the end of the week and maybe this weekend I can try and get to the gym and see what I can do and Not do!

I was happy about this news and wanted to share it with you! There is hope for me yet! LOL
I got off track with my food today but its so cold and I wanted something warm so I chose the pasta route but tomorrow I'll probably have soup since its suppose to be colder yet, Man I hate winters! I knew I should have moved to the islands and opened a bar on the beach, LOL.

I'll keep you all posted!

Tracy :laugh: :flowerforyou:

Oh, Tracy..just read one of your first post and where it was a neck pain and bulging dics, and I've heard how this effect the arms too. Just be careful and only do as the Doctor instructs. My husband is down and not able to work due to a ruptured disc so I understand. I'm so glad you are experiencing some relief at night now and finally getting some better sleep! Poor thing! Hope you get great news from the Neurologist.