Morning Everyone!

Had another good day yesterday, ate within my calorie range, tried something new to eat and got 60 mins of exercise in. Today is going to be a rest/yoga day. My body is telling me that I need the stretch. I hope everyone else is doing well. I have 2 birthday parties this weekend. My goal would be to get through the days within my calorie range even if I have to eat some of my excercise calories. I'm going to eat before I go to both.

Have a great day.

Natasha

The scale was down a little bit again this morning. I really want to get below 235 and then never see that number again. I have some more work to do before that happens. Anyway, despite the scale showing me a pretty number I find myself in a bit of a funk today. I absolutely refused to do my workout this morning the thought of doing it brought tears to my eyes. I was so upset for a reason I don't know that I felt my option was to smoke a cigarette. I quit 21 days ago with the exception of 3 cigarettes including todays.

I need to find a way out of this before it leads to Ice cream, Macaroni and Cheese, Brownies and the like.

Deanna,

I can feel your pain. I struggle with depression, which seems to sabotage every good intention and goal that I have. However, the only advice I can give is to just keep doing it, even though you feel like crying. The longer you keep working on your goals, the better and better you will feel. It doesn't mean that you won't trip over your own feet every now and then (like me binging on Monday night), but you just have to pick yourself back up and get back in the race. I also find that making sure I get my spiritual time in every day is extremely beneficial as well. It truly is mind, body and spirit, and you are worth it, my friend! Feel free to friend me if you'd like. I can use more friends, too. We weigh about the same and probably have similar goals, so we can go all the way to our goal together!

As for me yesterday, I walked for 50 mins and did not overeat. I am so happy and propelled to do more of the same. I also weighed myself this morning, and I weighed 227.6, which is 1.4 pounds less than yesterday. Someone on this site mentioned that people who have a tendency to binge should weigh themselves everyday to see how much that binge effects your day to day weight. Well, I noticed, and I am going to keep weighing myself every day to stay on track. I know water weight and other things can effect your weight each day, but as long as I am exercising and not overeating, I will feel good about my progress.

Have a great Day 9 everyone!

Amy

ick day yesterday and having the 5yo sleep over was exhausting and we had to be on the early bus which was at a time I'm usually curled up sleeping but on the positive side we are way ahead of schedule all day and I got 2 and a half hour walk in bonus

diet not bad although there is safe carrot cake in the house i have been good at not nibbling and devouring it every time I'm in the kitchen got to fit my run in didn't do it yesterday as it was crazy

Weekend is super busy as we also have birthday parties to go too a kid one easy to not cheat at and an adult one which will be hard but I'm going to eat before and be as good as possible and I'm taking tonic or seltzer to dilute the drink as i don't want to drink my calories and I'm hoping to only have one drink too

hope you are all doing well and keep moving it helps