Calling All Non-Moms Again!

I'm glad you got your girl back ok. Have more faith in yourself on the test tomorrow, I bet you do better than you expect!!!

Haha well the faith I had in myself turned out to be just about right... I just posted this on another topic so I am just going to paste it here:

Today I had a test for nursing school. I didn't study one bit for it. Which is so VERY unlike me. We have a test every two weeks, and I am just so fed up with studying. Every day my life is surrounded by studying. So for the last two weeks, I just didn't study. Which of course my grade is now reflecting. I made a 74% on my test today. (Which in nursing school is a D -- aka, I failed the test ). AWESOME! (note sarcasm) Thankfully, my last test I made a 96% (see where studying gets you kids!). My final is one week from today, and from my low grade on this test I pretty much blew my chances of getting an A in the course. I have to make above a 55 on my final in order to pass the class, and above a 77 to get a B in the class. In order to get an A in the class I would have to make a 100% exactly on the exam. HA yeah right! Oh well, it was nice having those two weeks off from studying. Oh and I also skipped about half the lectures, whoopsie. haha

Hopefully, my weightloss is going better then school is. I did go to the gym today and did the elliptical for 67 minutes. Which burned 758 calories! Whoo hoo... still waiting on my HRM to get here, so I can know a more realistic number of calories burned (instead of basing it off the machines & this site).

Congrats on everybodys hard work! You are all doing wonderful, keep it up!

Had a bad day yesterday. I need to figure out how to get out of my own way. I have come so far and have been at a solid maintain since July. Ummm... that's great but i don't want to be maintaining right now. It's frustrating and I know that some of this is my own fault. I can't seem to get interested in doing cardio on my non-gym days, and i can't seem to get interested in ignoring the cookies when they are in front of my face. I need to not bring stuff into the house that i find tasty that is bad. That has to be the solution at this point. I can ignore it when I am out in the world, but when I am home with nothing in particular to do, it's game on. What I really need to do is break the sweets habit. I know that i am totally addicted to them right now and need to just go cold turkey. I don't mind sugar added things (hello... don't ask me to give up my chocolate cheerios...lol!) but it is the cookies and the cakes and all that... they need to go for at least 30 days, if not longer, so I can try to just break the constant craving.

What's weird is that I have done it so easily with other things. Diet coke... quit it cold turkey never really looked back (tried it once after not having it for about 6 months and found out i didn't like it anymore. done!) sweets i can't seem to do, though. I did it for a week and lost a good chunk of weight that week. Former diet dude told me to treat myself... I gave in and did it, and haven't stopped. I can do it... i just need to figure out where i set down my will power. *sigh*

I am obsessing about my lost elliptical today. I had a proform trainer for 8 years or so. I loved that thing. I didn't use it as often as I should have, but I did enjoy when I did use it. I had to sell it when I moved because my boyfriend (husband now) didn't think there was enough room in the house. I regret that immensely. That also seemed to coincide with my 10 pound gain (which I lost before our wedding) and now my 15 pound gain (which I've lost most of). I have a Gazelle, but it makes my hips and feet hurt. I found one on Craigslist for $150 but it looks huge... so I was searching online and found one on Walmart for $277 that looks perfect and relatively small. I WANT IT!!!!!! It wouldn't take up anymore room than the drumset my husband got for Christmas last year.... :grumble:

I am obsessing about my lost elliptical today. I had a proform trainer for 8 years or so. I loved that thing. I didn't use it as often as I should have, but I did enjoy when I did use it. I had to sell it when I moved because my boyfriend (husband now) didn't think there was enough room in the house. I regret that immensely. That also seemed to coincide with my 10 pound gain (which I lost before our wedding) and now my 15 pound gain (which I've lost most of). I have a Gazelle, but it makes my hips and feet hurt. I found one on Craigslist for $150 but it looks huge... so I was searching online and found one on Walmart for $277 that looks perfect and relatively small. I WANT IT!!!!!! It wouldn't take up anymore room than the drumset my husband got for Christmas last year.... :grumble:

lost exercise to music... im sorry. tell him that since he thought your elliptical wouldnt fit and his drum set will, that he will have to drum out a beat for you to work on the new one with lol

hope your day gets better

I am obsessing about my lost elliptical today. I had a proform trainer for 8 years or so. I loved that thing. I didn't use it as often as I should have, but I did enjoy when I did use it. I had to sell it when I moved because my boyfriend (husband now) didn't think there was enough room in the house. I regret that immensely. That also seemed to coincide with my 10 pound gain (which I lost before our wedding) and now my 15 pound gain (which I've lost most of). I have a Gazelle, but it makes my hips and feet hurt. I found one on Craigslist for $150 but it looks huge... so I was searching online and found one on Walmart for $277 that looks perfect and relatively small. I WANT IT!!!!!! It wouldn't take up anymore room than the drumset my husband got for Christmas last year.... :grumble:

I have been looking all over the freecycle boards for an elliptical. There's a smaller one on amazon that is a bike and an elliptical and I have asked everyone I know to give me gift certificates to amazon for Christmas. I don't even know how much I'd use it now because of c25k, but I think I'd still like one. I hope you get one!

I hope you get your gift cards, ickybella!

hello all! I need to get better at checking this thread. I wish I could save it in a favorite somewhere. Still getting used to having to search for it...unless anyone knows a better way

I just changed my daily caloric goal to 1200 calories. I'm just not really losing any weight. I've been doing p90x for technically 7 weeks now (but i'm considering this week week 6) and and down barely 6 pounds. I mean...that's better than nothing and my body is changing a little but I just thought that by now I would have at least dropped a pant size but I'm still rockin the size 13s. I've been touch and go with the calories so it's time to shape up. Ive been putting in to eat 1500 a day and sometimes I go over. Sometimes I go over but i worked out and don't log it. Sometimes I do log the exercise calories and eat them or stay under. There's no consistancy and I need to focus on that. So my new goal is to lose 2 pounds a week (8 by new years). So I'm sticking to 1200 calories and will vow to log my exercise and eat the exercise calories so that my intake doesn't drop below 1200.

I'm not not up to date on everyone else's postings yet, sorry I'll check this more often. I hope everyone is having a good day!

I'm down 2 pounds this week even over the holiday! I'm proud of that but I haven't gotten started on my december goal of adding strength training to my exercise routine. As of now I'm just doing cardio (walking/running) but I need to increase my muscle mass. I think my solution will be to get a YMCA membership where I can do water aerobics, zumba and pilates. I did that combo over the summer and gained some muscle but I wasn't watching what I was eating and also gained fat. I'm asking for the membership for Christmas but maybe I can ask Santa to come a little early this year!

Morning, nom noms. Boy, am I tired this week. Yesterday, I went back to sleep after making coffee for my husband and pushing him out the door. Need more carbs. I always feel better when I have more carbs. On the bright side, I found a recipe for sourdough rye bread and I am so making that this weekend. I also have to make our Christmas fruit cake, but that's ok because I like making it but I hate how it tastes. Mixed peel and glace cherries just ain't my thang. Anyway, today is my weigh-in day, and after a bit of hard work during a rough week, I'm down 2 pounds. Inching ever closer to that healthy BMI.

We are not going out to eat this weekend because next weekend, we are going out with the girls who were my bridesmaids, because it's someone's birthday, and the place we are going has no nutritional info and no chance for a healthy meal. Why do they have to put butter and cream on EVERYTHING? So I promised my husband I'd make enchiladas this Saturday and we could go out to the pub afterward, or I'll just make some mulled wine or something. I would rather just stay in, really. It's cold out there! Still have to go out for c25k though.

Hope everyone's doing well! Have a good weekend, all.

:flowerforyou: Hi Non-Moms!

Happy Friday Eve aka Thursday :-) This has been a good week. I recently had a medical procedure done so I had to take some time off from working out. This week I've found both the time and a way to start easing back into my normal exercise routine. The bad new was with my local non-moms group we had a weekly Friday Eve celebration and I had Fish and Chips. :embarassed:

Have a great Friday Ladies

Way to go on getting back in the groove. It really can take some time and effort after a break, so you go. And fish and chips can't be ALL bad, right? ;-)

I have no idea how many calories I had last night out for dinner with the hubby. There's no way to log "a lot" into my diary. We did really well, though, sharing most everything. I had a few bites of his carrot cake, but he ate the majority of it [in part because I'm rather indifferent to carrot cake]. He reported feeling "stuffed" after dinner, and this after we cut the burger and fries in half. He had some coleslaw, I had some pasta salad, and we shared water and a piece of cake. I was fairly full, too. We used to eat this little before, too, but then it just starts creeping up on a person over time, yes? Next thing you know, you're eating an entire burger and fries by yourself, and feeling just a little overly full, not "stuffed."

I do ramble. Rather bored this morning, proctoring a test, and with a computer that has no software on it except for Internet Explorer. So there is little I can do except surf the internet. I'm also really hungry because I wasn't able to stop at my office on the way to the test, so I haven't had anything to drink all morning, and my pbj can only go so far. I can't wait until I can get to my office in about 30 minutes and have some more food and something to drink. Will post updated info on the December goals later today, and we're off and running!

Good luck at your interview!

How was that group interview? Was it totally weird?

I will post my enchiladas recipe! It's just for the filling and the topping; you have to find your own tortillas, and good luck finding corn tortillas that are actually worth it (calorie-wise)! I am THIS close to making my own tortillas. It's not the lowest-calorie dinner you'll ever have, that is for sure. Also, it's pretty generic, but my husband is really easily pleased, and pretty spicy, so you'll have to adjust the heat to your liking. Right now, I am attempting to sort out the grocery chaos in the kitchen. I just bought more spinach, because I was out, (seriously, I go through a big bag of spinach leaves twice a week. If it's possible to have too much of it, I do) and I NEED it for everything I eat. I even put it in the enchiladas! Any way to sneak veggies into my husband's diet, you know. So, I bought spinach and of course I had to buy some avocados because it's been a billion years since I had one and we were almost out of soy sauce, so I figured while I was there...and then I got some more yogurt because we were a little low and I was starting to go into dairy panic and I bought some cranberry juice and it's never ending. Sheesh. I should not be allowed to enter Tesco. At least I walk there, I guess. Anyway, when I get the chance I will post the recipe.

And this is me without coffee....lord, help us.

Okay, it's my weigh-in day and I didn't gain or lose anything :ohwell: . Thanksgiving didn't hurt me, Yeah!! but still a little sad (just a little) that I didn't lose anything. Oh, well - next week :bigsmile:

NON-MOM... not sure if I'm down any lbs yet, just weighed in yesterday, but am definitely liking all the success posts fellow non-moms Can't wait for the next weigh in so I can share my loss as well!!

KEEP IT UP!

1 more lbs off! For the first time since 2007 I am below 150.. well, I'm 149, but still, I'm under 150 I fit in old size 9's that I NEVER thought I'd see again on me (well looking decent on me!) If I can do this, I KNOW you other Non Moms can do this :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

P.S. To all the Non Moms that are Moms to the 4-legged furry varieties, congrats :happy: I am proud NonMom of 4 4-legged furry kids who are tearing up my house thanx to fiance putting down fresh catnip for them tonite:laugh: I'm working my ab muscles laughing at them :laugh: