Hi Everyone!

I am still staying with my friend on the east coast. She made a lot of emotional progress since I got out here. We are now at the stage where she is more looking forward to getting her ex-fiancees possessions out of the house. I figure that is a good sign that she is moving from shock and sadness to anger and a desire for control. She cancelled all the wedding related things. Looks like she will lose about 8k on all that but I suppose it could have been much worse. Now she has to move on to getting their house in her name only. So much to deal with when you have just had your heart broken, but she is being really strong and I am super proud of her.

I am headed back to California on Wednesday. Just in time to clean up for a week of visitors. The timing could be better but it will be ok. I would have loved a week to get things back to normal but oh well.

I did manage to get more exercise this week. I am still loving my Fitbit. It is great to see just how much exercise I am getting daily. It really encourages me to get out and do more even on days when I can't make it to the gym.

I haven't weighed in since I got here. I am a little nervous about finding out the damage but I am just going to hold out and deal with that when I get home.

My friend has a rowing machine in her living room. So far the best I have managed is sitting on it and sliding back and forth while talking on the phone... Maybe today I should actually take it for a spin. I also need to finish mowing the lawn so that will get me some more exercise.

Have we reached a summer slow down on our 30 Something board? Probably is pretty standard. Hopefully we will see people come back in the fall!

Cheers,
Sara Grace

Hi girls,
I joined this board over the weekend and am really looking forward to be part of your challenges. A little bit about me - I am a mom of an almost 6 year old and a full time software engineer. I am on my butt all day and stress levels are also super high. I gained close to 50 lbs in my pregnancy but managed to lose it all when I did a biggest loser challenge at work after I had my son. I work out 5-6 days a week (only way to reduce my stress and not be yelling at my husband or kid) but my eating has gone to dogs of late and I gained 15lbs back. I am here to lose this and also to change my lifestyle a bit so I won't find myself in this situation couple of years down the line.

I started logging my food since this morning. I hope to keep it up. I am still waiting to finish my exercise for today (I either go to a jazzercise class or walk on the treadmill).

Cheers
Sri

You can do it, Sara!!! Go for it! I just got off the treadmill - 60 minutes of walking with some random intervals on the incline and speed.

Morning everyone! I've been really off track for the last couple weeks and despite my best intentions have just struggled to get back with it. I've come to the conclusion that I've fallen back into that make sure everyone else is happy type behavior so I need to refocus on what's important to me and work on making it happen! I've been doing good with my exercise but my eating habits have just been off the charts. So as of today no more accommodating everyone else at the sacrifice of my own goals!

Totally agree Ellie, you need to be the one to put the hammer down and say "this is about me and my goals. The rest of you work on your own goals and let me deal with my own". Because in the end, they are not gonna reach them for you! Go kick some more *kitten*! You can do it

Welcome Becky!

I couldn't sleep last night so I'm up early perusing the boards. Been an odd week. I seem to have suffered yet another overuse injury on tuesday night so I'm letting my body rest up for a few days. This is the second one in the last few weeks! I really don't know what the cause of all this is as I have not changed up anything in my routine so all I can think is that its a long term issue with not warming up and cooling down properly. I've been doing warm ups but probably not enough and like most of us I've got a busy schedule and usually just run out of the gym once I finish my workout instead of taking the time for a cool down. Going to slow down and take the time from now on and hopefully that will solve the issue.

Going to be a tough weekend with food and alcohol. Agreed to join the work crew for happy hour tonight and I'm going to a beer fest tomorrow. I'm going to try and just stay long enough at happy hour to be polite and then head off without having any food (its quite the deep fried bar food type joint). Tomorrow I just don't think I will even bother trying to log. I'm sure my calories will be off the charts.

On the up side my weight does seem to be slowly creeping back down since I reset my calories and all that a couple weeks ago, yay!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

I'm sorry I've been MIA this past week. I had two funerals to go to out of town - one was my grandmother and one was not a family member but someone I knew in a professional capacity and also had a special place in my heart. So I was in MA and then NY.

The good news is I had been exercising a bit more, especially walking around NYC and going to the hotel gym, so I was feeling like I was on a roll, having started running the week before that.

Then I was back ONE DAY and yesterday morning tumbled down the stairs head first and hit my head really hard. Spent the day at the ER and I have a concussion and mild sprained ankle.

I'm doing better today, but still dizzy and I hurt all over - stiff/sore neck, back, etc. My ankle feels a lot better though, so I'm not wearing the air cast since it makes it almost impossible to go down the stairs safely.

This time it was my inner thigh muscle, last time it was my quad. I'm doing NROL4W and I'm in stage 5 so I'm thinking that as the program gets more intense (lower reps, higher weights) that perhaps the need for more warm up/cool down is necessary.