Calling All Non-Moms Again!

Happy Friday Non-Moms!!!:bigsmile:

We made it through the week and it's time to relax and enjoy the weekend!! Oh wait not me, I have to do report cards this weekend :ohwell: My goal for the weekend is not to fall back into my bad habit of stress eating...wish me luck.

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Hello all! Hope your weekends are going well! So far so good as far as progressing with the weight loss hopefully I'll be able to hit my goal of 155 by the new year. That would be an amazing way to kick off 2011!

Running is going well. The weather here is perfect lately (50's during the day and 30's at night) so I'll be taking advantage of that to push myself further to try and hit that 5K goal.

I'm in! Non mum - happily married for 3 years and will probably be a mum at some point but not yet! I'm a fair way through my weight loss quest and have a further 10lbs or so to get to my weight goal. Had been stuck on a plateau for weeks but my weigh in this weekend showed a 2lb loss - woohoo! I do well during the week but risk undoing the work with good food and deserts with my husband at the weekends. Was hoping to get to my goal weight by christmas but circumstances have conspired against me and I'm happy that I'll get there when I get there.

Love the support of this site - we can all do this!

I'll join in too. I weigh in on Mondays so I'll come back and post then. My only kids are 4 dogs who like to keep me active, but they think 60-90 minutes a day of walking/running just doesn't cut it! If I miss a day, I surely know it!

Hi All!

So I've been trying to think about what my December goal should be and I just keep getting stuck. I am about 7.5 pounds from hitting a "normal/healthy" BMI, so while I think I could get really close, I don't think I will make it before the new year. However, I am only 1.5 pounds from being back in the 150s! So I am hoping to reach that in another week or so... but that doesn't seem to me like much of a goal for the month if I'm so close to it. I am happy to report that I'm finding old clothes in the closet that I can fit into again, but still some that I'm not ready for. I'm in the last 6 months of my graduate school program and am beginning to send out applications for jobs and post-doctoral training. Perhaps I'll make my December goal be to fit back into my business suit (well enough) for potential interviews in the new year. I know I'm not there yet, but another 5-7 pounds ought to do it. Wish me luck!

Well, I was mostly absent this weekend. I logged my calories and exercise and was under both days, but mostly, my husband and I just spent time together. It was nice; we ended up going out to eat on Saturday night and taking a walk afterward, then just kind of lounging around on Sunday. I did day 1 of week 3 of c25k today and the track seems to be off. It ends in a run. Not really sure what to do about that, except just cool down for the last two sections. On the bright side, I can run for four minutes, ten seconds. It's nice to know. I've got a loaf of wholemeal bread rising in the kitchen right now so we can have bread with our soup tonight. How's everyone doing after the weekend?

Chanstriste, that sounds really frustrating. I'm sure if you keep at it, though, you'll see even better results. Besides, you seem to really be getting in shape. I very seriously doubt I could do the hiking you do!

Hello ladies I did really well this week with my 1200 calories a day which makes me happy. Sunday was my designated cheat day...and I ate sesame chicken from First Wok...lots of sodium so I'm actually not weighing myself until tomorrow. I don't want to be dissapointed because I'm just retaining water. I hope December is finding everyone well I'm still sucking at my p90X, definitely losing my motivation. I do it some days but other days I just don't feel like it because by the time I have time to do it it's midnight and I don't want to be working out until 1:30 in the morning...and I go to bed typically at 2 am so I never get up early enough to work out before work...but that's my own fault

I'm a non-mom (except for havnig 4 legged 'kids')... (hard to type non-mom...kept wanting to type nom nom nom nom )

I've been absent from here for a full month, and actually haven't logged anything except one day in November since October 6th. I've no idea what threw me off but since my log in one month ago (the one day I logged) I've gained 2.5 lbs

But I'm trying my best to get back into the habit. I'm back to excersising during lunches and getting in extra time for excersise like horseback riding and such.

But here come the excuses...I'm tired, it's winter(ish) and cold, I want to hibernate...*flop*

Any help anyone can offer and support and motivational sayings...anything to kick me in the *kitten* and keep me coming back to keep logging and keep excersising, especially through the holidays.

Well one motivation to get out and exercise would be for your four legged kids. I am more active in the winter than any other time of year because that's their favorite time of year to run. If you get in the habit of doing it everyday, they will NOT let you get away without walking them, or at least making you feel pretty guilty about not doing it.

Hello, I joined MFP exactly one month ago today, but I just now found this whole support structure online. I had downloaded the app for my iPhone and thought that was it...boy was I wrong!

I'd love to join this group/blog of non-moms, since I too have always been eating for one, but I'm not really sure how to 'join'. And I don't have any 'friends' yet...are friends on here people you actually know? Or people that you find online to build a support team? I don't want to alarm anyone by asking them to be a friend if that's not how it's done on here.

I have three adopted children of the feline persuasion, and one of them has the same problem I do. If he looks at food, he gains weight...we have a special bond. One of the others couldn't gain an ounce if she tried. We've had her almost 13 years, and she has never gone over 7 lbs...I am so envious.

As of today, I have lost 15 pounds, although today's weight is not recorded since I generally do my 'official' weigh-ins on Sunday. Sometimes I wonder how I could have possibly put on so much weight, but I guess it went on slowly...just like it's coming off

Well, I look forward to reading more from the non-moms and wish you all great success through the holidays (the enemy will be plentiful - i need to convince myself to stay away from those darned cookies).

I'm a non mom. Meaning, I have not given birth to my own child. I do live with my BF, and we plan to marry (are engaged) and he has a daughter that lives with us on the weekends. She is almost 6. So, I guess I am a weekend mother figure.

I'm a non-Mom and would love to join this group. I just started back with MFP and have set goals for the next couple of months.

For December my gaol is to lose 8 pounds. I started last week by changing up my food and drinking more water...3.5 pounds lost! Yesterday I started Chalean Extreme Burn Circuit and Couch to 5K. I will do both of these Monday, Wednesday, Friday. On the off days I will do treadmill walking and stationary bike and would like to throw in a little Taebo. Weekends I spend on a farm and will be doing some hiking in the woods.

January and February, my goal is to lose 10 pounds each month to reach my goal weight of 140.

My overall goal is to finish what I started! Chalean Extreme weight training and Couch to 5K! Oh yeah, and lose about 25 to 30 more pounds.

I forgot that the weigh in isn't until Wednesdays when I announced my weight loss. Whoops. Well, I'll remember next week but I already did my weigh in for this week. I'll have no time to exercise at all tonight. I'll barely have enough time to sit down and eat dinner and feed the dogs before I have to rush out for the rest of the evening. ( I guess that just gives me one extra day to recover from the soreness of my last workuot.

I took the weekend off, and now resent myself. But it's ok. I'll be back at it again. I am so gratefull for the Non-Mom thread. I have begun to feel like I'm the only human on the planet without kids and still managed to gain weight.

haha nope you're not, I didn't make babies either...i took 2 weeks off from working out to heal too, but i'm ready to get back at 'er...so are we going to start our "work week" tomorrow Kim? I'm definitely antsy...and weigh in is tomorrow...so what do you think?