Over 200 Club New Year New Body-Part 7

Ya, we are doing great thus far! Well wishes to you and all on our journeys to weight loss and better health!!!

Good morning! I'm justbumping/tagging for later.

My calves are FINALLY starting to forgive me for last TUESDAY! You keep on rockin' that incredible amount of stairs, mstahl. You put me to shame.

Checking in for the weekend:
Friday:
Calories: over
Water: Over
Exercise: walking

Saturday:
Calories: over
Water: over
Exercise: more walking

Sunday:
Calories: right at it
Water: Over
Exercise: mental - we went to Home Depot and planned our raised bed garden

I went in to my profile and did some thoughtful editing, including updating my weight to reflect the 3 bounds that have been bouncing around and not staying off. I've got a new calorie goal, so here's hoping.

I didn't track my food yesterday or Saturday night - but think I did ok in that department. I did great with exercise - at the Y both days for an hour of step and some weight lifting too on Saturday. AND I added an extra riser for my step on Saturday for part of the time which was really hard and I wore of an additional 300 calories because of it. :happy:

I'm very proud of myself this morning for getting up at 5:10 (which is almost an hour early for me), and going to a new Y to try a new step class - I added the riser again for the whole class because the class was quite a bit easier than the one I'm used to, AND I walked/ran a mile on the treadmill after class because I was worried about it being an easier class - so I actually ended up burning 1300 calories wich is 200-300 more than normal. Woo hoo ... yea for me! :drinker:
I have a goal now of 420 minutes of exercise - which averages to an hour a day. I was meeting my 300 minute goal most weeks but not losing any weight. So hopefully this will kick my metabolism into gear again. I need to work on what I'm eating too ... but not this week - one thing at a time.

wow you all have some awesome goals. You inspire me!!!

lstpaul, your exercise always amazes me. Keep it up....

I HOPE to lose weight this week. It is my own fault that I haven't lost anything in 2 weeks. I go back to bad habits on the weekends so the week I am doing good it all averages out and I maintain. I just have to quit making excuses and get serious. I am deciding today that I want to lose weight more than I want my instant gratification (cheese cake this weekend for starters) I am back on track. NO MORE EXCUSES!!!!! Like nike says "Just Do IT" I am. I know that I can do this, I have been making excuses since Thanksgiving and that is why my weight is pretty much where it was then. I am NOT discouraged, I am motivated and I am going to move forward and do this.

Go Momma, I can hear the determination in your voice!!! You can do it!!!

Ok, so I am border line freaking out here about the c25k I have to run today. I keep looking online for tips and advice on how to make it through the week but nothing is making me feel any better about it. I still cant find a podcast that I like so I have gone back to timing it myself which is a pain in the *kitten*. It makes it seem much longer too. Sorry just venting, I'll let you guys know how I do tonight

PS- there is a sit up challenge or something too and I was thinking about doing that on T-Th with the bf...checking into it:bigsmile:

~Cris

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Chris you can do it!

Heather - 7 different state parks? HOW FUN!

Lisa - nice to see you again!!!

Momma you'll do fine this week

At lunch today MDH and I scouted a new walking route for me; it's 1.2 miles, no crazy looking places that look scary for walking after dark or in the early morning hours. I'm going to try that one on for size tonight or in the morning.

Congrats Mari!
Cris -- Definitely try not to freak yourself out about running. I found I *never* thought I was going to be okay moving on to the next week but I did anyway and I *ALWAYS* suprised myself. Not that it wasn't hard -- it was. I wasn't always able to complete the 1st workout of the next week, but I just stuck with it and pushed myself as hard as possible (I think the first time I tried week 3, I had to run 1.5 minutes, walk 30 sec, and run the last minute of that last 3 minute interval). "They" say that "running is 90% mental and the other half is physicial" (It's a joke -- get it?). Anyway, I don't think the joke is far off. Although I was very challenged physicially the first 5 weeks of C25k, the majority of the time I wanted to quit was for mental reasons. Now, 100% of the time my reason for wanting to quit early is mental. My reason for not always pushing past whatever time I set as my running goal 100% mental. I *could* pretty much always run longer than I actually do. Tonight's a run time for me and I'm going to go faster and longer than ever before. It's totally a mind game for me now and when I feel like I want to quit I start to think about all the reasons I'm doing it and how much I want it and then I kind of mentally kick my butt for a while after that before cycling back through to thinking about how much I want it again. :laugh:

I tried on a pair of size 16 jeans at the store and to my amazement, they fit. :noway: I've been in a size 16 pants for like a month now but for some reason denim is always a different ballgame for me. The fun part of the story is that I didn't buy the jeans because I didn't want to spend money on a pair of pants that would be way too big for me in a couple months.

Also, I feel like my digital scale is reading high. Especially now that I went to Walmart & put down a dial scale & stepped on it with my clothes, purse, winter coat, breakfast, lunch, and full bladder and I weighed the same as I did in the buff this morning with an empty bladder. :laugh: Oh well, maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised next time I go to the doctor (wouldn't it be nice to find out you weigh 5-10 pounds LESS when you go to the doctor instead of the usual opposite?).