Over 200 New Year New Me Part 35

Lauren: I finally found the 5k I'm going to sign up for (probably today) for our 5k weekend. There are only two that I can find for the Twin Cities metro area; one is in St. Paul, which would be crazy and the other is just south of the metro. The only down side is that the south metro one says the course has "gently rolling hills." Yikes! It think it's on the path at a golf course. It's the Dakotah Fitness Turkey Trot.

Allison: Great job on the C25k. It's amazing how well the program works! You're doing fantastic. I didn't start running until I was right around 200 lbs. so I'm super impressed!

Random FYI: All the folic acid I've been taking (in my women's multivitamin) is making my hair and nails grow like crazy. Seriously. I have shaved my underarms more often in the last 2 months than I ever have in the rest of my entire life (like... combined). :laugh: So, not that anyone cares, but I used to waffle back and forth on my opinion about multiviatmins and now I'm officially convinced that, yes, multivitamins are a good thing (even if taking them means I have to shave everything more often :grumble:).

Heather & Jess -- I used to be really independent, too. I lived by myself for years. I once stubbornly stood and held a door open for a guy for FOUR HOURS because I was holding it for him first yet he claimed (claims - he brought it up when I saw him this May for the first time in several years) he was holding it for me first. The only reason we stopped holding the door for each other is because the business closed for the night. :laugh:
But oh boy I'm spoiled now. I think I can actually feel my muscles withering every time dh insists on carrying heavy bags of groceries into the house or opens my car door.

Julie - As soon as I read your post about folic acid I had an "ah ha!" moment. I've been trying to figure out why hair/nails have been crazy the last week or so. TADA! I started taking vitamins from the girly doctor two weeks ago.

Hey Girls, Ryan had a fantastic day. Things went very well. I am happy now if we can keep it going. IT is going to work out.

Heather I am not sure if anyone knows my name, it is Sherry

Momma - I am soo glad ryan had a great day today.

I am soo peeved...i wanted to hear on the prequal today...it is 3:30 and still nothing :sad:

HI IM HERE!!!!!

Momma- YAY FOR RYAN HAVING A GREAT DAY!

Julie/Tstout- yup, pregnant ladies tend to grow hair really fast (thanks to the vitamins) which usually leads to a massive haircut during the 3rd trimseter. I thought it was funny when I was told this, but sure enough right around my 3rd trimester I chopped about 8 inches off! lol

Jess- GREAT JOB ON YOUR 210!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOORAY!!!!!!!!!! I love that u are a country girl, uhm Im "colored" lol sorry I had to say it...and people still consider me a country girl cause I listen to country music, pick up trucks, and country bars.

Purple- way to plan things out! you'll be out of the 250s in no time

I was at 204.2 this monring so I had a 4lbs loss this week. Hoping to see something closer to onederland next week. Tomorrow Is the first weigh in for BL at the gym! Im nervous because I really need to buckle down and get a move on!

PS- This time next year I will be a MARRIED woman! Today is the official 1 year countdown to my wedding! YAY!

Deb- you're doing amazing!

hey girls,

Jess, congrats on your weight loss!! I am so happy for you girl:flowerforyou:

Momma, I am so glad Ryan had a great day:drinker: ..hopefully, more will soon come

Allison, Great job on your running! you'r doing awesome!!!

Cris, Yay, on being 204.2...that means you and me are the same exact weight today. Hopefully we will both see ONEderland soon..We can do this!!! And good luck with the biggest loser thing tomorrow..I know you will do great :bigsmile:

Danielle, glad to see you around wiht your busy week:flowerforyou:

my family came over this afternoon, unexpectedly, and I made dinner and dessert for us and we enjoyed a nice evening chatting and laughing about good ol time and playing Wii resort


Check in
calories, over by 200 ( even wiht the exercise I did) I was @ my maintenance calories 1900ish
exercise, 30 day shred + Just dance ( with my 4 year old son) He wanted to dance to "who let the dogs out" while I wanted to dance to "eye of the tiger" or "fame" so I played/danced with him for about 25 minutes, before my family came over..I was all sweating (with the A.C. on) then I played the Wii resort for a while...
water, not really sure how much but I know it was more than 64 oz
challenge, 125% done!
proud, I went over my calories, a little, but not as much as before (3000) so overall a pretty great day!


Have a great evening/weekend!!!

Total win Julie, Hooray for self-control and foresight!!

Hello gals...soo excited..after beeing totally bummed last night cause no call on the prequal...we got an email this morning !!!!

We went picked out our lot and signed the contract...now the contract has to go to corporate and waiting on a response.

I am hoping they approve it !!! THe lot we got is awesome, it is a corner lot and one of the best looking ones.!!! We will actuazlly have somewhat of a yard (alot of the houses don't)

HOpefully we will hear in the next few days if they accepted.

We also got where they will pay up to 3 months rent of our house here...So when it is done we can move and not have to worry about the 3 months we have left here !!!

09.25.10
Cals: 2259 (goal 2321). 562 deficit. With3 beers and 2 big cookies. :embarassed:
Exercise: Ran 2 miles. Ellipticalled 2 miles. 15 mins strength
Water: I have 7 cups logged. It'll be higher before bed.
Proud: I damaged controlled with the best of them at the gym this evening. I seriously wanted beer tonight because I nearly panicked at the thought of the possibility of not drinking any for 9 months.
Edit: Challenge COMPLETE!

Hey ladies!!! *waves*

I had a great weekend - some work, a LOT of relaxing, and an awesome "family" dinner tonight with lasagna, salad, desserts, plus some veggies and wine. :drinker: Ran 25 minutes with C25K week 7 day 2 and realized that both the machine AND MFP were underestimating my cals burned - bought a Polar F6 on Friday night and put it to good use today, banking exercise cals against dinner. I'm still under for the day and am only a little over on sodium.

I am heading out of town tomorrow for 4 days, so I think access to the internet (except on the iPhone) will be limited. I'm bringing lots and lots of snacks with me on the trip so I have some healthy options as well as my resistance band, workout clothes, and sneakers so I can work in some gym time in the mornings. Wish me luck - between airports and bus rides and fast food....there's a lot out of my control this week!

Blue -- I did go outside (on my porch) and enjoy the weather (80* and pouring rain) yesterday. But no exercise happened (well, maybe rocking chair action is exercise ). I was busy stuffing my face.

Purple -- Have fun on your trip!

Deb -- Yay on the house!! I'm so excited for you!

So yesterday I stuffed my face like a big fat pig. But I held myself accountable and logged it all and I was about 350 over what I think is maintenance for me. I plan to pay that back at the gym tonight but of course I'm annoyed that I didn't have more self control, especially since I weighed 192.2 after breakfast and coffee yesterday so I'm pretty sure I would've showed a loss today if I had eaten healthy foods instead of crap. I didn't weigh myself this morning but I could barely get my rings on (and they have been really loose lately) I'm so bloated from all the sodium.

Today will be good so I'm not really worried about it. I just wish after nearly 13 months I wouldn't want to pig out like that. I guess instead of focusing on that, I should recognize the fact that my pig out days now are better/more healthy than a regular day 13 months ago.

Good to see you Blue!!! I hope you got some rest yesterday.

Deb, YAY on the house how exciting........

Well, I won't be going out to enjoy the weather today. 101* today in our area. That is a common temp in July and August but not too common at the the end of Sept. I think the record for today is like 102*. Our averages this time of year are in the low 80's. So I will be staying in today. Good thing I have my Leslie Sansone Walk yourself slim dvd.

I am off to a good start so we will see how this week goes.

Nice to see you girls ( Colorado and Blue) miss you around

Deb, so happy for you! We were planning on building a home too, a while back, but that would cost us 400+ and, well, that is not in our budget. We also planned on selling our home, this past summer, however, my family didn't find a house as big as our townhouse. I love the townhome we are in. It;s a straigh through ( 3 bedroom and 2 1/2 bath) style ( which means walk in the front door and you walk into the living room, then the dinning room, then the kitchen, and last is the family room...when I stand in the living room I could see *straight thought* the family room) people alway assume, by looking outside, it's a small home. But it's pretty big and nice size rooms. So we are staying here until maybe we can find something we like in the future. Congrats to building your dream home

Julie, you are not alone...I ate way too much Sunday...even over my maintenance calories..those darn philly pretzels took a hold on me...I ate 5 by the end of the evening. So I feel so guilty to say I ate 3000+ calories, but I am going to work my *kitten* off to see 200 this week....We are back on track, right!

Momma, it was so unexpectedly hot here Wednesday, Thurday, and Friday.. and today is rainy and cool..go figure. No wonder people are getting sick around here.... Stay cool girl! and WTG on doing a walking dvd instead of walking in the heat :flowerforyou:

**SIGH** Back up to 208.6 this morning.

Bleh!

Anyway, my weekend was pretty good. My son went pee pee in the pottty 2 times! Hes not even 2yrs old yet and we are not actively trying to train him but since he has shown some interest in it I have offered to put him on the potty every once in awhile and he went! I was so surprised, happy and impressed! Woohoo! Hope to be done with diapers within the year! Bobby also surpised me by cleaning the house and doing laundry..oh and cooking dinner! Then he bought me lunch Sunday..which he never does! I usually pay for all our outtings because I make significantly more...so even though it was taco bell, lol and it was like $10 he made a point of paying for it and said he wanted to treat me, lol so it made me really happy that he took the little money he had and used it on me

Eating wise- Not so great...obviously! I gained 5lbs booo. At the biggest loser weigh in at the gym on Saturday their scale read 205.8. So my goal for next weigh in is 200lbs. A little ambitious yes...put Im shooting for the stars :laugh: :laugh: My goal for the entire program is to end up at 185. (Also quite ambitious)

So I better get my butt into gear...like now!

Today Im doing Day 2 of WK 1- going to try to run at 5.5 again through the whole thing.
Tomorrow the plan is to do WK1D3
Wed and Thurs- Spin class
Frid- WK2D1
Weekend- RECOVER!

I am going to be tweaking my diet a little. Going back to my 1200 not eating excercise cals...and changing up some of my food choices. I am commiting to this 8 week BL program. I have several "parties" within these 8 weeks but I going to come up with a game plan prior to going to them. Tomorrow is my BFF's birthday and she wants to go out to dinner. So I better come up with a plan for that today!

Be back later to chat

Cris