Sixers Valentine Vixens Week 3

Amyls, you are kicking butt! Good for you :bigsmile:

Cathy, that's so frustrating. I'm sorry to hear it was a bad appointment.

Moon, feeling any better?

Tamm & Tiff, the busiest sisters I know!!

Kristin, I so wish I had a treadmill at home. We have no space for it though A family of 4 living in 620 sq ft... HAH! Treadmill... lol

Well, that's it for personals for now. I'll get better. I've had a s#!tty week as far as making the best choices. Not as bad as it could be, but certainly not where I need to be in order to see the changes I want! ugh. It has been SO HARD to get to the gym because my kiddos - my little guy in particular - have been so so mumish. I have to find a groove that works for me because right now, it ISN'T! I'm not getting exercise and that's just not acceptable. I started a marathon walking clinic on Wednesday and I'm going to give it a couple of weeks of feeling it out with my knee to know whether I'll train for a full or a half marathon. I'm so keen on getting back to the distance running but I have to be patient. So, I figure I can WALK quickly through my patience and still have the fun of participating in some distance events while I heal up well enough to run again :bigsmile: So at least that is twice a week. I'm also thinking of switching gyms. My kids no longer are willing to go to the gym playcare and although we've had a family membership for 2 years, Kyle has only gone 3 times. So really, I'm paying $69 a month for a family pass for ME and the occasional swimming lesson or swimming excursion with my kiddos, but even then we prefer other pools. The gym I belonged to in Ontario has opened up here and they offer BodyStep and BodyPump which I LOVE (btw, Kristin a friend of mine burned her instructor dvd... :blushing: ) but the membership is almost double what a single membership is at the YMCA. I could pay about $35 if I drop down to a single Y membership or I could pay about $63 for one at the club that has the classes I REALLY want to go to. What burns me is that I paid $35 a month in Ontario at this gym and was SO SAD to move here and lose my gym. I would have kept my membership and still paid the original fee if they'd had a gym here but now I have to pay almost twice that. Seems so unfair. Argh. As you can tell, I'm frustrated. I need to make the time and find a way to make it work for my children too. When I really started to succeed last time with losing the fat, was when I started demanding my hour a day to exercise!
BUT, to be proactive and to go along with my great new cooler and glass containers for keeping healthy foods with me, I bought a new food scale today (my old one died) which I know also helped a lot. I HAVE to tackle this. Thanks for listening!!

Hello sixers,

I am just dropping in quick to say hello. I am feeling so much better thanx to all you wonderful people :flowerforyou: I am doing much better with my eating & today I am going to start working out. I will check back in later with personals, but now I have to go hang out with my kids
See you later............

Tamm- love the ides a writing something we love about ourselves... I love that i am really taking care of this weight and staying steady.
Amy- I used to call my sons the energy vampires. I love them but when they were little... whew!

Chipper- I think I would get another opinion. That is alot of cals to burn in a day! I get 1550 cals a day. I hope you find something that works for you. To be honest ... when i was eating 1200 cals a day and working out 5 days a week I lost nothing! That was frustrating. Now I am eating more, more conscious of what i am eating, work out less partially because of a foot injury. NOW I am loosing weight.

Moonq- glad you are feeling better! One day at a time.

Today is rootfest with my gf's. There is a group of us that get together every 4-5 weeks and dye each others hair. It might just be a good excuse to get together. We all bring something to eat/drink and have fun. The girls are really great about trying to use fat friendly foods. We all can use a little weight loss! They are being really supportive. Well off to take care of some stuff at the house before heading to rootfest!
Sandy

omg this is actually my second time writing this out... i feel retarded. I Xed out of the other one by accident! haha

So anyways today is not going very well so far, same bs as yesterday. I slept through zumba again, so next week I am going to kick my own butt around and make sure I am working out harder and more consistantly. I loved my run last night, it was awesome, even if my lungs were on fire. So I am looking forward to doing the last day of WEek 2 tonight... ( I didnt work out enough this week due to all the crazyness) anyways, I am SUPER excited for tomorrow.,

Tomorrow my friends, myself, and maybe my mother are all going to an asian market called One World. Aparently it is amazing. Anyways I am hoping to get a Bento Box, a Rice cooker, and some ingrediants so that I can make bento boxes all week! For those of you who don't know what a Bento Box is, it is a traditional Japanese lunch box. They are super adorable. Anyways people make them super filling (even though they are traditionally small and made for a single person). MY goal is to start simple and then work my way up to such cute lunches as these:

http://www.ecollo.com/image.axd?picture=BentoHelloKitty.jpg

http://www.boingboing.net/dannychoo_bento.jpg

http://blog.modes4u.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/cute-bento-box-3.jpg

http://www.carmenyuen.com/blog/blogpics/080611_bento1.jpg

And there are sooo many things you can do with them! and so many cute and delicious recipes.. so that is my goal sixers, IF everything is to go according to plan tomorrow I will hopefully be posting a picture of my first bento box on monday!!! Wish me luck!

B

hope everyone is having a great weekend....mine is going.

getting my $$$$ together and a couple of plans together to try. DH and i are going to try to figure this out ourselfs. since we don't think anyone gets whats going on. i just keep plugging away at it. eating right and exercising.

we are having a potato bar family get together tomorrow. got lots of veggies and meats to put on them. should be fun.

well, going to play a game on the computer.

what i love.....is my DH sticking by my side. through tears and smiles.

later

Amyls- Glad TOM came to visit you!!! LOL.

B!- Good idea!!!!!!

Sandy- You are definitely making me MISS my girlfriends. When I was in memphis I had several different groups of friends that I would do things with. I truly hope you ladies have a great time!!!

As for me (Amy... I just realized what your AFM stood for LOL)

I am resting after I went shopping in the snow. I bought three pairs of shoes off the clearance rack in TJMAxx and I bought a new yoga mat w/ a dvd included for 7.99. I just love love STEALS. I didn't eat much today so I need to get my calories up for today! Off to do a workout soon, A DVD or the elliptical!

Glad you ladies are doing great!

Cathy- You do have a great husband!!

What I love about myself today: My ability to find a BARGAIN anytime I shop. Though it can lead to a house full of everything, I love finding something for 1/20th of the original price.

Take care ladies,

Tamm

Oh..... Tiff is doing snowed in ..... LOL.

Back from rootfest, we did great! My friends are great and our hair looks fab now! I did go over my cals today but not by much. We had stk fajita instead of chicken tacos. Well nite everyone!
Sandy

I spent almost my whole day today cleaning out my entire kitchen, purging unnecessary things, streamlining and re-organizing the cupboards. (Kyle was mountain biking all day - WOW do I have amazing kiddos to have played near by all day and let me work on it!! Ava even "organized" her play kitchen ) I'm trying to build an environment as well as planning schedules that will help me work this up-hill battle to get back in the game. I'm looking forward to the coming week as I've accomplished a lot in the last couple of days to get things organized and set myself up for success. I'm not sure how the numbers will look on Tuesday - I may be up a lb sadly - but I'm working hard. I know I've said it before, but I can't believe how easy this was when I first started. Honestly, it seems like I dropped 53lbs with almost no effort. I know as soon as I really commit to being back in that groove I'll find it just as easy. It's this grey area... oy!

Amyls, I spent ages on bbc a few years back. Went on there when I lost my first pregnancy and met a bunch of women who had also lost their first. It has been SEVEN years and the core group that met in 2003 are still all such good friends. Many of us have met up and now everyone has at least 2 babies. One woman is 1/2 way through her fourth pregnancy :bigsmile: What an interesting world we live in eh? Making these connections like the ones we do here too, with total strangers.

Well, I have a 10k training session tomorrow. I wish it was running. Wonder when I'll be able to let that go. I am feeling really snobby about it if I'm honest... like, "Are you kidding me? I was running 50km a week!" and now I feel like I'm just a walker. I wonder how it will feel to walk a marathon - whether I'll feel like I accomplished something or whether I'll feel like a fraud. See? I'm a bit competitive with myself, can you tell?? :laugh:

G'night my Sixers!

Hi sixers,

I am so sorry I didn't check back in yesterday, things have been crazy & getting worse. Remember I told you all that my daughter has hand, foot & mouth disease & my son has an infected throat?? Well my daughter now also developed a bad cold, runny nose, bad cough & infected throat as well as hand, foot & mouth disease. My son on the other hand just this afternoon got hand, foot & mouth disease in addition to his infected throat. OMG, I am going insane, I have not left the house in days. So I now have 2 kids who can hardly eat cuz of the pain in their mouths, I have boggers shooting out of 2 little noses, we have sneezing, coughing & all the germs flying all over the place. The only thing the kids can eat now is icecream, jello, yogurt & anything that's cool & soft.

I may not be able to check in for a while, I have to take care of the kids & get them better. I will try to read & post as often as I can, but if I go MIA for a while, know that I am super busy with the kids. I hope you all have a great Sunday & a great week, good luck ladies. I will miss you

good morning....

well, today is potato bar day with the kids. have peppers, onions roasting in the oven now. mushrooms sliced, green onions chopped, avocado chopped. pork, chicken, roast beef ready to go. need to make a beef gravy and cheese sauce. have lots of different low fat cheeses too. wanted to be able to top with good food. have chili and other no so good food for the men who can eat that stuff. mine is already planned.

need to tend to the oven.

ps....i got a mini trampoline at walmart this morning on clearance for $10. with bands

later