200+ (Week 24) Shrinking into Summer

I have not been posting much since hubby and I are getting ready for a road trip to NY. We will be gone from 4/10-4/18. Hopefully this trip will not mess up my eating habits. I will just have to have lots of snacks available I guess. The next few days I will be getting laundry done,stuff packed for 3 people. So more then likely the next time I post will be my weight on Friday.

Kristina - how cool it that. Makes me want to come down and work out with you just to see them!!!! Did it make you work a little harder?

Lacey - Marriage is hard work. Good luck getting through the tough time:flowerforyou: Let us know if you want to talk it out in a private messages. Maybe the exercise will make you feel better.

Hi! Hope everyone had a Happy Easter. We had beautiful weather here in the south... and plenty of cupcakes!! While I did not do fabulous with my eating this weekend, I did not totally go overboard either. I tried to make smarter choices and eat smaller portions. I walked the dog on saturday and played some tennis on sunday for exercise. I seriously hope to see a significant drop on friday. My son is on spring break this week, and he had big plans for us today. We swam at the Y this morning, then went to see "How to train your dragon" in 3D this afternoon. That movie is great. He was pretty tired after all that, but even now he's protesting bedtime. Tomorrow is the Zoo.

Christina and Kendal, I too am a lover of the intense yumminess of cupcakes! Kendal, hope your foot heals soon.
Carolyn, I miss you already!! Come back soon!!!
Dixie, I'm sorry. We all have those days. Hope tomorrow is better!


Susan

So which guy from the BL is it?? One of the twins?? I'm trying to remember which people were from Michigan. It IS cool that he is at a rec center instead of a big gym!

I didn't end up going to the gym. Came home (hubs in a good mood, go figure) and I made THE BEST peanut ginger sauice. Noodle dish with salad on top. Yes its high in fat but it might end up in our rotation. YUM! I want to use the sauce for chicken burgers soon. On sandwich thins with shredded cabbage and carrot and stuff. Yummmmmm

It is just one of those things couples go through. When things at work and with other family gets stressful it is easy to have it happen at home too when you're short on tempure anyways! Thanls for the good thoughts

I'm layin on the bed watching toonies with my daughter and have the heating pad on my lower back. That thing does wonders!

:sad: :sad: :sad: Carolyn....I wanted to say good-bye too....but I probably missed you:sad: :sad: , hurry back, stay safe..hugs

Kristina....I hear ya on the BB game....I kinda felt that Duke was getting some breaks with the calls.....I had a waffle cone smack dab in the middle, but I loaded it with fresh fruit and yogurt...but it was still around 10 PM I believe....:ohwell: , my bad!

Took my son visiting and shopp[ing yesterday, he needed new baseball stuff....I wanted to score on some exercise stuff...but there were no clearance racks anywhere and the new stuff, didn't really impress me...I must of just been in a mood! Probably a good thing, cus my daughter is needing new tires on her car, and I think we'll have to help her out some...she just doesn't make a lot of money right now.

Happy Tuesday everyone!

dude, I got home yesterday and opened the door and was about knocked out by the nasty horrible smell. Apparently Lexi had a case of explosive diarrhea while I was at work. :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: I put her outside and spent an hour cleaning it all up. It was even on the WALLS around her crate. :sick: :sick: :sick: Then I gave her a bath with the hose outside (normally her baths are in the bathtub) and she didn't like the cold water that much. And I left her outside till about 10:45. UGH. Her crate is still out in the yard so I had to leave her outside today. That doesn't happen often and I don't like doing it. But she has a dog house and I left 3 bowls of water out for her so she should be good.

But since I was still stressing over her and getting the trash to the curb, I completely forgot to grab my yogurt and my book this morning on the way out the door!! NOT MY BOOK!!! I have like, 80 pages left in the book and I already have the next book in the series here at my desk. So frustrating!! :grumble: :grumble: now I will have to surf the web when I'm bored today lol (Reading the Wicked series...not the one about the Wicked Witch of the West, thats a different book)


I was 232.2 this morning. Yesterday when I got home from work (and before dinner) I was down to 230.6. Of course, I had a couple cupcakes last night too so that probably didn't help me this morning. I think I have like, 3 left.


My foot is starting to feel better. If I keep neosporin on it, it keeps the skin soft and stretchy and it doesn't hurt. I might try to go to the gym tomorrow. I REALLY don't want to go back too soon and hurt myself more. OOHHH!!! I've been so excited about doing c25k that my bff is thinking of doing it too!!! I was able to create a new song for Week 2 and I wrote down all the time changes for the rest of the 9 weeks so thats a big part of the work. Now I need to create the songs. I really have no clue how to jump from jogging 90 seconds one week to jogging 3 minutes the next week. That seems so freaking crazy to me!!

Kendal- I'm sorry to hear about Lexi, and your horrible clean-up experience. I hope she's okay. Wonder if she got into something she wasn't supposed to yesterday and her innards did not like it. Keep on taking care of your foot- don't push it too quickly, as you don't want to exacerbate anything. I'm glad you're enjoying c25k so far. I know the 3 minutes seem daunting, but you can totally do it. You might need to go at a slower speed, but keep moving. There are a few times in the program where there is a big jump in the jogging time and I never thought I would be able to do it, but I was.

Lexi normally eats 1 cup of food in the morning and 1 cup at night. Two days ago, she didn't eat breakfast but went to TOWN on dinner, so I put in an extra half cup and she gobbled that up too. The only thing I can guess is that she didn't poop when I let her out yesterday morning and just couldn't hold it all day long. Or maybe she ate something in the yard when she was outside that morning. Didn't look like that though. Hopefully she learned her lesson and won't just play when she goes outside anymore.



My jog is only at 5.5 and my walking is between 2.5-3.0. And for some reason, I have to jump on the sides when I'm going from jogging to walking. not sure whats up with that lol

Just wanted to pop on and say hi to everyone. Doc appt today with my neurologist. Should be fun, NOT! Doing ok this week with food. Not too worried since I have been more aware of what I am doing. Since I will not be around a computer a lot next week I need to rely on myself to keep at it. This will be a big test, but I am positive I will do just fine.

Yeah - done with work for the day. I just have to go to town (an hour away) and pick my taxes up later this afternoon. I'm glad I did the running this morning because it's raining. I asked DH what he needed and of course his answer was Jimmy Johns for dinner. Not so low cal but it does sound good.

Kendal - sorry to hear about Lexie. It sounds nasty. What we do for our furry loved ones (*sighs*). I came home to mouse guts on the hallway floor. At least it didn't smell. That's what I get for leaving the cat door in this morning. You can so totally do the 3 min run!!!! Remember running is more mental than physical - just slow down and take your time. 5.5 mph is really fast. I did my training at 4.5 for the runs esp as they got longer. Like Kristina I have short legs and am only 5' 5" tall.

Lacey - that's wonderful that your clothes are getting too big. I love that feeling.

Kristina - good luck working out. Remember - no snacks at the meeting!!!!

Mish - have a great trip and good luck with the doctor.

Kendal, that is so weird...I was just measured at the Docs and the nurse said 5'9", then a couple of days my husband was helping me take measurements and he said I was 5 ' 8"....then when we were at the bank, they had a height chart and it said I was 5' 7"...Geez...I like the taller, makes my BMI better

Hey ladies! Long long meeting at work and didn't get out of there till 430 so instead of working out I went and had a Cosmo and spring rolls with coworkers. Yum. NOT good for cals since I haven't worked out since saturday! HAVE to work out the next four days. HAVE to. I'm getting in an ugly habit og barely working out and its going to catch up with me in a bad way here soon.

in less than 2 weeks, we will hit SIX MONTHS for our group!!! That makes me so proud of everything that we've done.



But that said, I'm tired of being stuck at 28-29 pounds lost. I want to solidly hit 30 pounds lost and keep going.

Kristina....boo-hoo, if your TOM is coming...that means mine is too.....no wonder I was wanting sour cream and onion chips yesterday.....:sad: :sad: I did have 5 of them and scolded hubby for having them!:laugh: :laugh:

Kendal...wow, 6 months is fantastic...a lot of groups fall apart...not sure when I nosed in....I think you guys might of been in your second challenge, but I sure do love you guys and glad I found ya....I have been doing interval work ( with walking/jogging or the elliptical) the past month, have you ever tried it? I shouldn't jinx myself, but I have lost every week since I started doing it.

Amber...glad your feeling better...just keep at it, you can recover...push, push the water...and now that you have threatened your scale...it should fall in line for ya...if it doesn't...we'll have to take care of it!!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I need to get off line now...I keep saying that, but this time it's for real....I'm going to do "a Pinbot" and get out for a jog this morning before the rain hits!!! Talk with you soon!!!

Good morning super pals!!! I am being lazy today. My first patient cancelled - which is good for today but bad for tomorrow. Had to reschedule for 7:15 am tomorrow - EEEEKKKK. I am booked solid from 9:30am to 7pm today - add drive time and it's a full day. Tomorrow I am booked 7:15 to 1:30 and then we leave for Chicago at 2 for 10 hour car ride... The next 2 days will be rough. Thank goodness I prepped my food yesterday and started packing.

Enough griping. I've gotta go get ready for work. Just giving you all a heads up that I may not be on much for the next week. I will try to read the posts and make some short replies.

Deb - hope you enjoy that run.