200+ (Week 44) Getting Fit For Fall!
akasullengal
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Time for another week to end and another to begin!
Hope all of you did well over this week and I'm looking forward to reading how y'all did.
Hope all of you did well over this week and I'm looking forward to reading how y'all did.
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Kendal - Lake Junaluska is only about 90 minutes from my new house. We're inbetween Spartanburg and Greenville, SC. Enjoy your camping trip!0
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Mr. Scale and I are talking again. I'm down .25 of a pound to 182.5.
Kendal - have a great time!!!!
I've gotta run for an early client. I'll catch up and post more tonight. Good luck on your weigh-ins...0 -
so....one of my big weaknesses is chips and dip....especially when the chips are huge and unbroken. I'm way up this morning because of it. And I know tomorrow won't be much better because I had to buy breakfast and I'm going to have to buy lunch too. I've basically stopped drinking water though so I'll force some of that down today. ugh. I guess I will log my bad weight anyways. 220.6 :grumble: :frown:0
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Mr. Scale and I are on the outs. I was back down to 183 yesterday, but I ate a bit more and later last night, so it was back up to 184.0 this morning. I'll take it... not pleased, as I've done well overall with eating and exercise this workweek. But then again, 3/7 of the days this week, I ate horribly and didn't get much exercise, so what can you expect?
Need to keep on task this weekend so the scale comes back down.
Victoria- nice work! Glad the scale and you are back on.
Kendal- it'll come back down again. I know that I really wanted to go with th 183 from yesterday and not the higher weight today, but gotta fess up to it. Step away from the chips/dip and you'll do fine this next week.0 -
bump...don't want to loose u guys, I'm having some family issues and I have been a bit in the dumps this week....trying to stay focused....
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Down 1.2 lbs since last week. Slow & steady. I'm learning to be patient.
Kendal - I like big, unbroken chips too. Esp homemade tortilla chips, still warm and lightly salted. Yum, yum, yum. Once you get back on track the scale will go down again. Hang in there!
Victoria - a loss is a loss no matter how small. Nice work!
Kristina - Hopefully this wkend goes smoothly for you so you can stay on task.0 -
I am down 0.2 this week. It would have been much better if I hadn't had that late night stress eating binge! Bah!
Today is a new day!0 -
Sarah- thats great that you lost 2 pounds this week!! :drinker: :flowerforyou: I wouldn't blame you for taking the bus in a heavy downpour. Sometimes we have to adjust our exercise to the weather. It happens. Let it slide off your back and keep moving forward. You are doing wonderful!0
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Hey guys! I am so happy that this week is showing a loss. Last friday I was 224.5 and by monday after eating out all weekend and not controlling myself at all I was up to 229! I knew a lot of it had to be water but none the less I panicked. So on Tuesday I started logging everything again and drank as much water as I possibly could. I am now down to 221.0. OMG I am so happy! The last month I have up and down with depression and pulling through. I hope the depression part is gone for a while I was really really having trouble getting out of bed and even talking to people. I think I'm learning something that I probably knew in the back of my mind my entire life but it has become pretty evident recently. I thrive on accomplishment. When I don't have it I do a nose dive very quickly. I have to find things that make me feel accomplished especially after I am at goal or else I will shoot right back up again.
I have reached a couple mile stones this past week. I have lost a 40.5 lbs since starting and I am now over the hump as far as what I have left to lose, I need to lose 96 more lbs to be at goal. When I started it was 137 it seemed like such a huge number, now that it is under 100 lbs to go I feel it is attainable. I entered this weight loss challenge at my gym that ends at the end of October. I hope to win it of course but if not it will still keep me more focused than having nothing to work for since I am a very competitive person. My next goals are to be 210 by my 10th anniversary (this is what I weighed when I met my husband so anything under that is new territory for him). Then I would like to be 200 by the end of the year and into onederland! It's 3 months until my anniversary so that should be doable, and perhaps I can even hit 200 and be in wonderland by the end of the year, reach for the stars I say!
Anyways I'm babbling, I just feel really good right now and am going to try to have a full week this week of total focus and dedication.
Chacha - 0.2 is a loss I'd take it any day over all the weeks I have not moved an inch. Keep it up!
Kendal - Your weekness is my weekness, chips and dip and doritos I'd eat those any day over sweets. I can't have them in the house or things will not go well. Drink drink drink water. It will level out as it did for me this week.
Deb - Ugh family issues are hard when it comes to keeping on task, I hope this next week is better for you. Keep you chin up.
Kristina - I'm confident Mr. Scale will decide it was wrong this weekend and reward you for it's mistake.
Trace - 1.2 lbs is excellent! Keep up the good work. Slow and steady does win the race.
Victoria - A moving scale is always good as long as it moves down for you 0 -
Congrats Kim! That's fabulous!
Glad the weekend had begun. Did not do fantastic on the eating front today- we ordered mexican at work (yum!- haven't had in ages), and dinner wasn't good either. Friday is a hard day for me- I'm getting low and not very creative with my food at home by this point in the week and am more inclined to not plan well and eat worse or go out (got a salad tonight, but then also got stuff from the hot bar AND a dessert *facepalm*). Makes it worse cause today is my rest day of training. Definitely need to either go to my walking group tomorrow or the gym and running on Sunday. And no nasties either day this weekend.
Damn it Kristina- this is why you can't seem to get over the 180 hump. UGH.0 -
So apparently lost 2 more pounds in the last day or so despite the non-exercising for a total of 4.8 this last week. Was a bit shocked to get on the scale this morning and see a 2 leading the numbers. I am now below 300 pounds for the first time in more than a year. Yeahh!! What a good end to the week and motivation to keep going. I don't ever want to see a 3 leading the scale numbers again!0
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Happy Friday everyone!0
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welp ladies, the car is 97% packed and I'm about to head out! I'm hoping to burn enough cals in the next 5 days to get me back on track for next week's weigh in. I'll still try to log in every day but I might just be lurking. :bigsmile:0
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Sarah - Flips, Twirls and a little Booty Shake!!!! YEAH!!!! That's wonderful. Keep at it and before you know it, you be even lighter.
Kristina - I'm still chuckling over the "Damn It" post because I'm the same way... the mountain (it's to big to be a hump) to the 170s is huge. Good luck this weekend. I need to get out the door and run to make up for the frozen pizza last night (can I have a face palm?)
Kim - Congrats on the lose!!! It's nice to have you back. Depression is hard. Your goals are great and very attainable...
Lacey - happy Sat back at you. 40 pounds gone - YEAH!!!
Trace - congrats on your loss too!!! You're right that slow and steady wins and stays off!!! I'm glad that your family is back together. Moving sucks.
chacha - great job on the .2 loss... Any loss is a good loss... Every day is a new day
Kendal - hope your having fun!!! Drink that water... Salty chips are my weakness too - I had some Pringles Wed night:blushing:
Well I need to get my tush out of this bed and on the road. I'm scheduled for a 4 mile run but may go 8 to make up for skipping the run on Wed. Who knows what I'll do - I guess it depends on the weather and temp outside. It looks like rain. Enjoy your weekends...0 -
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Good morning everyone! Today is a good day, my good set of In laws will be here for almost three weeks. They are always fun and willing to help us with projects in the house which we need. The bad thing is the food. Ive got a menu thru the end of september planned and that will help but it will be a challenge to get any exercise in.
I did however buy the golds gym card workout for my wii and from the reviews it looks pretty good. Mostly boxing. So my plan Is to get up in the morning to do it before I get ready for work.
I have a tradeshow in march and I want to lose at least 20 lbs by then so its time to get going again. And be serious about It this gimp. I'm going to get a ticker that shows what I need to lose and delete the ticker with the 11 lbs lost thing so I see what I need to work on.
Not many of ud have posted this weekend do we all must be pretty busy!0 -
WOW! I have had a weekend of eating cr@p, but it appears my activities have curved me to have a weight loss. Down another pound for a TWL of 45lbs and now I am 193.
I have 3 more pounds to lose before Labor Day. I am not sure if I will make it, but I really don't care because my weight keeps going down every week!0 -
Mish- I know from experience, the bad eating will catch up with you- keep it on track in order to hopefully hit your weight loss goal for Labor Day.
Lacey- way to go with developing a meal plan. Exercise is hard to fit in, I understand. Just do what you can!
Victoria- still proud of you for turning that 4 miler into an 8 miler. way to go chickypoo!
I was going to get up early this morning to do my long run, but when I checked the temperature and found that the humidity was actually supposed to go DOWN as the morning progressed, I told myself I could get up when I felt up to it. It was a idea, because I only ended up sleeping about an hour later than I would have, and felt more rested. Weather was nice- cloudy- threatening to rain, but never did- sort of humid, but not horribly so, and i nice breeze.
I made it through an entire week of training without wussing out on anything!! This morning's long run: 7.01 miles in 1hr34min (13:28 pace). Woo! It definitely was a bit of a struggle for me. I think part of it is that last week's long run didn't pan out with the humidity and so it had been 2 weeks since my 6 miler. Body wasn't used to it, I guess. So yeah, it was a bit painful, but I'm glad I did it. I really still can't imagine running ANOTHER 6 miles to reach a half-marathon. This amount just takes so long to run, I just don't know. I'm going to continue training for now, but I'm sort of thinking it might make more sense for me to continue to work on my pacing a bit and have my long runs not be too much longer than this, so when I start getting up at the higher distances, it doesn't take forever. But, I'm committed at least for now to continue training for the Oct. half. It's just such a long time to be running! Do like that I burned so many calories though!
Eating was better yesterday. I finally baked some kale to make chips. Very yummy! And I made a not-tuna salad recipe I found here.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/75452-best-not-tuna-salad-i-ve-ever-had-vegan
Delicious. I never like tuna salad, because the smell of canned tuna always made me nauseous, but the garbanzo beans are amazing and who knew vegan mayonnaise could be so amazing!
Anywho, I did my grocery shopping yesterday, so now major plans for the day. Might clean around the place a bit. Might go out and get some coffee and read at a shop or something. We'll see.
I'm needing to keep it in gear this upcoming week. The rec center is closed for it's annual 2-week renovations, so I'm going to have to find other ways to get my crosstraining in. DVDs galore! Sunday is a co-worker's wedding and about a month ago I got a cute black dress at Target that fit, but was a little tight. I'm hoping it'll be fititng me a bit better, otherwise I'll need to find another option, and don't really want to spend the money on another dress. Hope everyone's weekend is going well!0 -
Good afternoon super pals!!! I got up at 4:30 this morning and watched 2 crappy movies. I should have stayed in bed to catch up on sleep. Oh well - at least I got in a 5 mile walk with mom. Next week we jump to 6 miles and the week after is the bridge walk. I dumped even more clothes from my closet - some stuff that was more comfort clothes but now is way too big. I am wearing 2 sexy shirts that used to be tight. At least the clothes are fitting better and I'm feeling comfortable wearing form fitting clothes. I've worked hard to get this body and I'm going to show it off!!!
Great job on your run Kristina!!!
Lacey - good luck with the in-laws and eating. Wine is what does me in with the in-laws... It just seems to flow. Then I make bad eating decisions (*sighs*) but it tastes sooo good.
Mish - today is a new day. At least you are losing weight slowly so it should stay off despite your "Cr@ppy" eating.
Kendal - hope you're having fun...0 -
okay, even though my weekend was relaxing, i am NOT down with tomorrow being Monday already. Boo. Hiss. :grumble:0
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Happy Monday Morning to all my Super Pals!!! Yah, I'm on an exercise high from my great bike ride. Nothing beats an hour of exercise that seems so easy it shouldn't be classified as ex - the biking partner and I talked non-stop about our weekends. If it wasn't for the darn work thing, we could have gone on for another hour. Topic of discussion - how hilly the area we live in is. Her son and husband are also training for the Detroit 1/2 Marathon. Her son was visiting from Detroit and they planned a 6 mile run but had to stop after 4 since the "hills" were too much for him. I guess living here, I forget how hilly it is. I guess I'm getting more bang for my buck on my rides and runs...
Gotta run - I agree this should be a holiday weekend - I could so use another day off!!!0 -
Mish- I know from experience, the bad eating will catch up with you- keep it on track in order to hopefully hit your weight loss goal for Labor Day.
Yes, it will. I have been there too many times. It was a weekend of birthdays, but bad eating I am not talking about going over calories, more of eating something I usually don't eat. Back on my normal scheduled eating habits. Yesterday was not a bad day, just not as schedule as I have myself during the week. I am very happy to say when I ate my portion, I stopped. I did not over do it which is a huge battle for me. I feel as though I have to look my enemy in the eye and confront it. Only then will I feel I have defeated my overeating.
I should be able to go to an event and not over do it. It may sound harsh and in a way set me up to fail, but this is working. I feel great that even though I could have had a weekend of overeating, instead I ate those treat, but kept it to one serving and counted my calories.
Going to hit up the Wii tonight after the kid goes to bed.0 -
Sorry I never posted yesterday guys...busy weekend for the family. Weigh in was the same for me...no change what so ever...to the dot, no weight loss...but my stomach area...I lost inches again??? I keep thinking one day I will jump on and then it will finally drop..I have been getting smaller , has me totally baffeled..... I'm into week 8 of insanity...shew.....really feel that I am getting stronger, the 3rd fit test I did better on some and stayed the same on a few...but really felt better at the end...not so.."he just kicked my *kitten*" :laugh: :laugh:
2nd place for us with a local baseball tourney this weekend, but now on to football with our first game tomorrow night.
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Deb- bummer about not seeing the numbers drop on the scale. Uber frustrating. The good news is that you are losing- just not necessarily in the poundage. Losing inches is fabulous, cause in the end, it's about how your clothes fit and such, not the number on the scale, and you're obviously getting super fit. Way to go!
Mish- weekends are always really hard for me as well to keep my eating under control. Way to go for keeping things under control!
I hope everyone had a great weekend. It was quiet here... no surprise with people out and about doing things. Kendal is off on her camping trip and Amy's jetsetting through Europe (stinkers).
This week should be okay at work. Final week of my current group, so I should have at least a few weeks off before my next cohort begins. I love not having to work late! Today should be pretty busy, but pleasantly so.
The rec center is closed for the next 2 weeks, which blows. I'll need to find other ways to get my crosstraining in. Might see if any local gyms have guest passes.
Eating was pretty much under control this weekend. Friday night was a bit of a disaster, but compared to the last two weekends, it was much better. And when I stepped on the scale this morning, I hadn't lost really any weight from Friday (down .2), but considering the past few weeks I've been UP a few POUNDs on Monday morning, I will so take this and it bodes well for a weight loss this week. Unfortunately, the end of this week is when I'm due for TOM. Dang it- just when I have a good week, that needs to throw a wrench in the weight loss. *grumbles*
*deep breath* Should be a decent week though. Hope everyone is doing well.0 -
Hiya ladies! I got back from England today and I am super-tired (had to get up at 4 am to get to the airport in time for my flight). We had the BEST time! I saw an old friend & his wife & he took us punting in Cambridge (that's riding down the river in a gondola-type thing) & then out to a sushi restaurant (I hadn't had sushi since I left Monterey in April, so that was nice). We did all the touristy things in London (the double-decker bus tour, British Museum, National Museum, Picadilly, Trafalgar square, Harrods, the Underground, Big Ben, etc.) It was awesome. It ruined me for store-bought tea bags forever. I have always preferred loose-leaf tea, but the stuff I got in London was hands-down amazing. My eating was not too out of control, actually. I DID have fish & chips (fried...fried...fried) but it was soooo good. We walked all over Cambridge, London and a couple of other places during the week as well as swimming with the munchkin every single day so I am sure I burned at least some calories. I haven't stepped on a scale yet as I KNOW I'm dehydrated & retaining water from the travel. We'll see how it goes.0
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Deb-Just a reminder that muscle weighs more than fat. It sounds like you've been working out a lot, so probably that is the reason you are getting slimmer, but not seeing the pounds drop on the scale. Sooner or later the scale numbers will catch up, but if I were you I'd focus on the positive side effects you're seeing and not agonize over the pounds. Obviously you're doing something right if you're losing inches.0
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Amy- WELCOME BACK! We missed you around here. Sounds like you had a blast on your trip, and way to go with the decent eating. You were on vacation, so you can't expect to be fantastic all the time, and you certainly should splurge on fish and chips if you're going to be in London!! Sounds like you did a lot of walking, so I'm sure the damage will be minimal. Just pound that water over the next few days, pump up the exercise, and eat lots of fruits/veggies!
Hope everyone's day is going well. Today has been pretty busy, and I think the rest of the week will be as well, which is okay- as long as it isn't too stressful, it should help the day go by faster!
Unexpected date with pub trivia tonight. I ate well today. I'm at the other clinic today, which usually involves me eating out for lunch, but I had a good breakfast and lunch (steel cut oatmeal w/ fresh blueberries, a yogurt for snack, and my chickpea "not tuna" salad on a slimwich with carrots and an apple for lunch), so the damage tonight shouldn't be horrible (minus the sodium content). Just can't allow a beer, but will still have my favorite sandwich and fries. As it's a light exercise day, I'll be over, but not in a completely horrid way, so I should be able to make up over the next few days.0 -
So sorry I haven't been around much the past week. Had an awfully irritable week and then my anniversary was on Sunday. I did weigh in on Friday and was down 1.2 lbs from my lowest so I lost the 5.9 lbs I'd put on the week before.
I didn't log at all the last 3 days and am sure I went over my maintenance even, but I'm not upset about this because I'm sure I can correct everything by friday and see a loss!
Friday we had a joint birthday party for my daughter and my hubby's niece, so it was homemade food, hot dogs, cheese ball (which is a HUGE weakness of mine!!) I'd have eaten more but they ran out of crackers Then that night when we came home hubby and I were starved. Neither of us had the energy to cook anything plus that it was like 80% humidity in our house. We went to Taco Bell.
Saturday we went to the Museum walked around for a couple hours and caught the planetarium show, which was so cool since I've never been to one before. We were going to go to get Chinese but hubby decided he wanted to try out the brewery. So we went to the brewery and we were really bad....we had potato nachos. Yup potato "fries" with nacho goodness on top! They were SOOO good and SOOO bad!! Then I ordered a steak but only ate half which was about 4.5 oz so not bad for that. But I ate my potatoes and vege's. I also had 2 beers! Which is so not like me, I'm not much of a beer gal, but this was super yummy and my hubby seemed to be pleased that I was "having a beer with him" Then we went home had a couple glasses of wine some bed pilates and watched a movie....it was a great day.
Sunday we went to church THEN went to Chinese.... I had every intention of getting back on track but that didn't happen. So we went to Chinese and I was SO looking forward to it, because I'm not gonna treat myself there very often right now. So I let hubby order because he is a huge asian food eater. Well we got Crab Rangoons, YUMMY!! fried tofu with peanut sauce, blecht!! and he ordered me cashew chicken. I normally get Sesame Chicken. And I REALLY didn't like the cashew chicken. I had 1 bite and then picked out maybe 6 tiny pieces of chicken and was done. I ended up eating the rest of my steak from the night before and having some fruit salad. Then we went to the jewelry store to "look at" wedding bands. We hadn't gotten ours yet because we couldn't afford them last year when we got married. So we walk in and the lady smiles at my husband and says "how can I help you?" so we start looking at rings, I wanted to look for him first, so we pick out one we really like for him and she looks up and says, with a HUGE grin on her face, "so can we look at yours now?" I was a little perplexed. So we walk over and she pulls out this ring and it matches my engagement ring PERFECTLY! (we had my engagement ring specially made, like we designed it) SO I was so stoked....and I put it on and it fit and my husband says "well I guess it's meant to be!" I just turned and kind of GAWKED at him. and he just smiled..... ANYWAY so I got my wedding ring yesterday...if we are friends on fb I took a picture and uploaded it there. Hubby still won't admit that he planned it, or maybe had looked before hand, but it's all very conincidental! He just smiles and says, 'it was meant to be' whenever I ask him if it was planned!! Then we had our cake and a bottle of champagne saved from our wedding. I did have TINY piece of cake because I was scared it would be freezer burnt, but it wasn't, it was yummy!
So that was my weekend.....sorry to give micro details but I had such a wonderful, fun weekend I wanted to share it all!!!0 -
I am finally down 2 pounds this week after staying at 210.5 for a few weeks with no weight loss. It feels good to start losing again.0
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I was gone 12 hours today between work and Walmart... (*sighs*) eating would have been on point but DH decided to cook oven fries for me - who eats dinner at 9:30 pm - what was he thinking??? Silly me are them anyways. At least I burned extra xal shopping and putting groceries away.
Welcome back Amy!!!! Your trip sounds fantastic!!!
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