Calling All Non-Moms Again!

Yes, I'm still alive although I have asked to be put out of my misery a few times the past few days. I have pneumonia and a bad sinus infection. Last week when I was feeling so down I had been really tired for a few days and had some sinus headaches. When I woke up Wednesday and it felt like someone was sitting on my chest and I couldn't catch my breath I decided to go to the doctor. So, 5 days after that visit I still feel like I'm being stabbed in the chest when I take a deep breath. Needless to say I haven't been to the gym. I had been kicking myself last week for not going but I had not had the energy, now I know why. I'm going back to the doc tomorrow to make sure the meds are working and my lungs are clearing up. I'm tired of being tired. I haven't been on a scale either, unlike the flu pneumonia does nothing to your appetite so I'm not expecting my next step on the scale to be a good one. I hope everyone is doing good!!

Down 1/2 pound this week, which is pretty amazing considering the week i've had. Lets just say its been so crazy there has been no time for exercise and have been grabbing food as I go...I know, I know...not good. This week will be better. Hope everyone is well and keep up the good work

Goal Check In

I did it! I met my goal weight (still working on that weekend water intake). Down another 3 lbs - 163 lbs

Have a Blessed Yule (winter solstice today). I know I will!!

Great Job!!

My weigh in isn't until Thursday but I can report that my fitness goals are going well, I've been adding circuit training to my cardio as well as an ab workout and boy are my muscles sore! I just hope all this extra exercise doesn't tip the scales in the wrong direction while I'm still trying to lose! I know it will reflect in the muscle mass gained and fat mass lost when I get the whole work up but still I like to see that little ticker going down, it's something tangible. But I suppose as long as the smaller clothes in my closet keep fitting then I'm ok with whatever number the scale says.

CHECK IN

130.6 today and I have no idea how since I haven't worked out in over a week or tracked my food... But it was a nice surprise.

CHECK IN

No weight loss this week, despite exercising every day and meeting or being just under my calorie goal every day. I have hit my first plateau 2/3 of the way to my weight loss goal. It's a bit disappointing because I'm just 1 pound away from a healthy BMI and I was hoping to hit that for my personal x-mas gift... but instead, I will give myself the gift of motivation and persistence. I'm NOT going to let this get me down or ruin the success I have had this far. I just need to figure out how to kick my body out of this plateau and back into losing weight.

Any suggestions by people who have been through this before? Help! :frown:

Check in

So today is the first time I weighed in in 2 weeks. Yesterday I felt as though I had gain 10 pounds. Well I'm happy to report that I have lost 0.6 pounds which isn't much at all for 2 weeks but it is not a gain. I haven't been to the gym in about that long because of illness. I have a follow up with my doctor Monday for my pneumonia and hope to start back to the gym that day. As far as the other goals I had set for this month I haven't really met them. Before getting ill I was doing good with the gym but wasn't going often enough. I graduated this past Saturday with my masters so I have no reason to feel rushed at the gym because of homework. I have free time back so I can stay at the gym til 7 after work if I want to. I haven't done horrible with my eating but there is room for improvement along with increasing my water intake. I'm meeting with a trainer next week and getting a workout routine together for the month of January. I plan to hit the gym Sun to Thurs weekly. I'm not tracking food this weekend, game on Monday!!

Merry Christmas all!!!

Merry Christmas! I fell off the wagon last night...but I knew I would...I missed supper and had a house full of people and snacks so I overindulged. I even drank 4 glasses of water, but then had pop:( so I'm eating healthy today so far! Lots of water, no chocolate lol. I'm hoping that supper will be cooked when i get home, or else i KNOW they're going to order pizza...I'm just trying to keep it together, get through the holidays and then work my butt off!...Good luck nom noms, and enjoy your holiday more than calorie counting!

Ok, CHECK IN #2 (sorry, next time I'll just do it all on weigh-in day)

I have finally weighed in and am down 3 more pounds, which puts me at 159! I was so excited to see the 150s and watch my Wii Mii jump for joy because she thinks she's at a healthy weight. I'm not really, two pounds til that. I just have the Wii set to 5'7" and I'm really 5'6.5" but anyway that's all the excitement I need for Christmas! Am rewarding myself with a workout-free day, even though I had a break on Sunday, I think. I'm taking a break today because I plan on burning 1000 calories tomorrow and it ain't easy, lol. I figure I'll need to be very well rested to even consider all that working out. I will see everyone in a few days. Have a great time, and, remember, it's only Christmas, and thank goodness it only happens once a year.

Well, ladies, I had an awful Christmas! I'm talking in every sense of it. I don't want to go into detail, but it was the worst Christmas I've ever had and I've been walking around here like a zombie for two days, not sure if my marriage was going to survive this! And yeah, we've only been married a few months. What a week. Anyway, we are fine now, and at least that part of my life has gone back to normal. Can't say much about the rest of it, and I still feel a little dazed, but I'm working on it. Got new running shoes for Christmas, been continuing with c25k as well, and plan on starting marathon training as soon as it is over, skipping all the middlemen and just going balls-out, if you can excuse the expression. I also got p90x yesterday as a late present and I am excited, though with half marathon training, I'll only be able to do it 2-3 days a week. Still, it should help me with my strength. Not quite sure if I'll ever be able to do any number of push-ups because I have some very loose ligaments in my elbows and it is a real struggle. I am always worried I'll pop something out of place if I lock them in that position, and my husband watched me doing some push-ups last night and said he wouldn't do them at all if he had to deal with that. Anyway, I'm rambling.

Thought I'd share a really easy recipe I found with all of you. It's just for the main dish. Goes well with a salad and some steamed veggies. 2 chicken breast halves, 2 tsp olive oil, 2 tsp balsamic vinegar, 1 lemon. Mix the oil and vinegar and pour or brush over the chicken. Make sure all the chicken is coated. I used a pastry brush. Put it in the fridge for a half hour. When it's almost time to take it out, heat a non-stick pan on medium. Add chicken and cook about 10 minutes on first side. While that's cooking, steam some veggies, cut up some lettuce and salad stuff, and slice the lemon. Flip the chicken, add lemon slices to pan, cook 7-ish more minutes. I'm sure some of you have had this before, but I hadn't. Silly that I've never tried it, because I always have those ingredients. Anyway, it's really easy and really yummy. My husband kept trying to steal my chicken. Got the recipe from goodtoknow.co.uk. Also, mine turned a little black on the outside, but that was from the vinegar and the darker parts tasted really good.

I hope everyone had a good Christmas and that, no matter how off track we went, we got back. I had a serious emotional binge AFTER Christmas dinner and, though the scale is hidden and I don't know what kind of damage it did, I am back on track. I even ate fruit cake and I don't even like that crap. Merry get-back-to-it, ladies! How did we do, and what presents did we get?

Good morning all! So I went back to the doctor yesterday and was given an inhaler for two weeks. I'm still winded so gonna give the inhaler a few days to work its magic. I plan to start back to the gym Sunday as my gym days will be Sunday through Thursday. I hope everyone is having a good week so far.

Hang in there!!

No. Huh? Wait! There was another week in there somewhere, right?

Riiiight.

HELLO TO ALL NON-MOMS! Yeah, sorry about the falling-off-face-of-earth thing, but here we all are now, nearing the end of another year. The holidays were good to me, and I'm glad I've been able to stick to my exercising. That has helped immensely with the treat-eating remorse.

The hubby and I have been working on strategies to reduce our eating, and one of those is eating off of a smaller plate. Actually, we gave up eating on dinner plates years ago, but that's mostly because I'm one of those people who doesn't like (certain) foods to touch. Most things go into individual containers, like (juicy) fruit goes into a bowl that we share, while the chicken breast goes on a small separate plate, etc. Anyhow, so for Christmas dinner (which was on Sunday for us for a variety of reasons) we made steak and spanikopita and steamed snow peas and a sweet potato/apple/cranberry/walnut/maple fruity casserole bake (which I clearly haven't named yet).

We've been using the Waechtersbach Christmas Tree plates over the holiday season, and those salad plates are very small! I suspect this is due to the fact that those dishes are made in Germany and not the US. So I plunked my steak onto my salad plate, determined to EAT IT ALL BECAUSE IT'S CHRISTMAS, DARNIT but then I couldn't fit anything else onto the plate (without touching, of course). So half of my steak got put in the fridge for later, and I ate a much more reasonable amount of food for dinner. The sweet potato casserole thing was deemed impossible to fit onto the plates, though, so we had that for dessert. I skipped the Cool Whip - not because of any sense of calorie reduction but just because I don't really care for it anyway.

Anyhow, so here's what I have for check-ins for the month so far. Some things may have gotten misfiled, so to speak, because of skipping a week. That's what I get for slacking off.

We're in the home stretch, and everyone is doing really well! (Barring sudden personal issues, illness, what have you.) Let's all make sure to be proud of our achievements, not dwell too much on shortcomings, and give ourselves and each other pats on the back.

CHECK IN

I gained back the weight I lost last week (131.6). :laugh: I'm maintaining around my low weight... so any change in hydration and it just makes the scale change. I haven't measured yet today, but last week, I'd lost nearly a quarter of an inch from just about everywhere, so I'm definitely getting more toned.

This is why P90x scares me. Well that and I tried to do one of the workouts once and nearly died during the warm-up. :laugh:

I managed to do my short pilates routine yesterday and couldn't believe how sore I was when I woke up. Too long of a break, I'm afraid!