May 22nd Check in
tishtash77
Posts: 430 Member
GOOOOOOOOOOD morning people!
How is everyone doing?
I am feeling good today, the last few days I have been able to 'run' with my son a little. Not a lot and I have to stop and then go again, but I litereally physically could not run with him before. THe weight obviously and a knee that was agony. It was actually one of my ultimate reasons for doing this. One day I will run with my son. Well this week I have. The yoga really helps my knee, I notice the difference when I have my lazy months of not doing it how my knee slowly gets worse again. Well if anything is a motivator to keep tracking and doing that yoga it was the short run bursts with Dean. Time to build up how long mummy can run for!
Did we do this yet? Maybe we could each choose something to focus on, either short term or long term, one thing that stands out for you. 'One day I will......' What is yours?
How is everyone doing?
I am feeling good today, the last few days I have been able to 'run' with my son a little. Not a lot and I have to stop and then go again, but I litereally physically could not run with him before. THe weight obviously and a knee that was agony. It was actually one of my ultimate reasons for doing this. One day I will run with my son. Well this week I have. The yoga really helps my knee, I notice the difference when I have my lazy months of not doing it how my knee slowly gets worse again. Well if anything is a motivator to keep tracking and doing that yoga it was the short run bursts with Dean. Time to build up how long mummy can run for!
Did we do this yet? Maybe we could each choose something to focus on, either short term or long term, one thing that stands out for you. 'One day I will......' What is yours?
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Good morning! How am I? I feel really good actually. It seems I have finally turned a corner with my sleep apnea treatment. It takes quite a while, (it has been about 8 months or so now I have been on treatment), to catch up with all the sleep deficit but once you do the difference is amazing. I am so sad my Dad went undiagnosed and untreated, he was such an intelligent and amazing man it would have made all the difference to his health. Anyway, I now get a good nights sleep and get up at 5:00 feeling good, not tired. And that is worth celebrating.
I took Remy (my 1 yr old German Shepherd) to her best friends for a play day this morning, she was SO happy to be there. And today is the 1.25 mile employee walk at lunchtime and I am doing it for the first time since it started 2 years ago.
As for the One Day I will... I don't have one thing I have several..
1. I will be at 180lbs again.
2. I will swim with the US Masters Team again and be able to keep up with the Beginners group this time.
3. I will be back at ballet class.
4. I will ride 14 miles on my bike again.
And I think my biggie is:
One Day I will ride the RAGBRAI!0 -
One day I will be able to jog a mile without stopping.
Last summer, my mom and I started that couch to 5k program, but we stopped after week 3 - well, week 3.5, as we created our own week because we thought theirs increased too soon. I could jog for 3 minutes without stopping, which was definite progress. Now I've stopped. A month or two ago, I tried jogging a mile, and I managed to do a quarter of a mile before I had to stop. Problem is now it's just so freaking hot outside most days that I don't want to go outside at all, let alone exercise outside.
Also, I can't do much of anything today because my knee hurts. I think I did something wrong exercising yesterday. I'm still going to exercise somehow, but I'm not really sure what I can do that won't hurt it more. We're going to the beach this weekend - I don't want to have to hobble over there!0 -
Good morning!
I had a good day yesterday as far as my food goes. I ate under my calories and kept to my diet. I'm disappointed in myself that I didn't get to any exercise, so I've only done two light workouts this week, but hopefully I can make up for that. I'm on a fast day so I'm just drinking my green tea with a tiny bit of coconut oil this morning before I get going. I'm hoping to mow the lawn today and get in a decent rebounding workout for some exercise.
I was a bit disappointed and almost had a panic attack this morning when I got on the scale. Yesterday I weighed in at 244.6 and have been steadily losing for a couple weeks. Today I weighed 246 :-/ I'm hoping the fluctuation is normal since I haven't cheated on my diet at all. Do you guys record when those fluctuations up happen, or do you just wait until you are back into a pattern of losing?
As for a goal.. I can't wait until exercise becomes something I like to do and feels good while I'm doing it, and not a painful chore lol
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Hmm...I don't really have "one day I will..." statements in my head right now. I managed to pinch a nerve in my neck about 36-48 hours ago, so I'm in agony. I work a desk job where I answer the phones, and the phone is on the pinched side, so yeah, lots of fun! Not. Other than that and the normal stresses of being broke (fiance is struggling to find decent work in our ridiculously small town), I'm pretty good. Well on track to hit 250 by my birthday (July 13), as I checked in at 251.2 yesterday am. I may have to lower it again, depending on how the rest of this week goes.
Foodwise, I'm basically ignoring sodium on a trial basis... I had been trying to reign it in, due primarily to water weight, but due to my new endo's recommendation to get between 30-50% protein, 25% carbs (max), and the balance in fats, I'm really working on macros this week... I've done pretty good since Monday, I think. Really focusing on making my fruit choices good ones (low GI/low sugar/high fiber content), and trying not to have excess sugar...
Still waiting on blood test results to see if I'm insulin resistant or what else might be going on. Hopefully this new doctor can help me unravel and solve this mystery! Have a great one, y'all!0 -
Nice to see all the movers and shakers in here this morning. Other than a late afternoon appt with my chiro and dinner/crafting with a friend, my day is still unplanned. Somewhere in there needs to be a workout. I took three days off this week because of joint and back pain, but I need to get back now.
My One thing is definitely to lose the crutches!!!0 -
EJ, you might consider just weighing yourself weekly or monthly. Our bodies naturally fluctuate, and if the scale goes up temporarily, it's probably water and hormones. I find it too easy to let the evil scale spiral me into some very unhealthy eating disorder behaviors, so I try to just weigh in at doctor's office every few weeks.0
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EJ - I'm with Karen. Our bodies fluctuate, and you don't want to get too upset and find out that it's gone again tomorrow.
I have an Excel spreadsheet where I'm trying to remember to record my weight daily (just so I can try to see if there's a pattern between what I eat and how much I weigh), but I only record it on the site twice a week - on Mondays, because that's the day I started, and I like to be consistent, and Friday, because I'm part of another group, and that's when they update their spreadsheet.0 -
Good morning all!
It's great to read your "One Day I will" statements!
I'm feeling very well today. Yesterday I got in a LOT of steps. I couldn't walk home due to a thunderstorm, but I went to the gym and did Couch to 5k week 2 day 1, then walked to get my hair cut, walked home, and went for another walk/jog after dinner. I was able to jog *outside* *on pavement* for two full minutes three times and I still felt okay. I'm starting to think that if I stick with it, I might actually be able to do a 5k without walking by the fall.
One day, I will do a 5k without walking.
One day, I will do a 10k without walking.
One day, I will do a half marathon without walking.0 -
Morning all! I'm a bit grumpasarus today. No reason. May be PMS, not sure. I am horrible at tracking that so the best I can do is go through old posts where I was complaining about it last time and see if that is the culprit. I'm at work and I can honestly say I want to move. Like walk. Far Far away. It's humid but not too hot yet and I just want to get out of here.
One day I would like to...hmmm...I really don't know. I have never run a mile in my life. I am still traumatized from when they used to make us do it in school and I always ended up being the fat kid who had to stop and walk. The closet I got was in big school I was able to run a half mile.0 -
In high school. Not big school. My phone is tripping0
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:flowerforyou: Good morning all you fantastic people! I am finally off work WooHoo! Man, I can feel I overdid it this week. I climbed the steps at work this week well over a hundred times. Bye the end of the day last night I was having to hold the hand rail and pull myself up! I had to inventory and pack up the stuff of my fella that passed away last week, that was both physically and emotionally hard on me:ohwell: Then another one of my guys bought a new recliner chair, I had to carry it into the home all bye myself :grumble: This morning every muscle in my body is screaming!:laugh: even my butt hurts:laugh: I've gained 9 1/2 lbs over the last 36 hrs. My legs are so swollen the skin is shiny and looks like it could split :noway:
Sorry I wasn't able to be to involved the last few day, but I plan on going back and reading all the new topics! I cant wait to get caught back up with y'all.
one day I will be able to zipline!!!!! I will be flying through the woods over the canapy in ecstatic delight!!!
one day I will be in a healthy weight range while looking fit and athletic!
One day I will have my husband pick me up and carry me across the threshold!! :smooched:
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I have never run a mile in my life. I am still traumatized from when they used to make us do it in school and I always ended up being the fat kid who had to stop and walk. The closet I got was in big school I was able to run a half mile.
This is meeee. Although I don't know if I ever even ran half a mile, to be honest. I also remember when I was in karate in third grade and we had to run, and the instructor ended up picking me up and carrying me because I was so slow. How frustrating is it that these memories still haunt us?0 -
In high school. Not big school. My phone is tripping
Your phone may be tripping Heather, but you are cracking me up this morning! Bwahahaahaa!!! You called Rat a crazy Pony! You track your cycle by when you last complained about it! Bwahahahahahaaaaaa!
Oh, ladies and gents, you all need to come to my house this summer for a MorBese Retreat on the lake!0 -
Oh, Sandy, I hope you get some rest and get some of the fluid out of your legs!
I don't know why, but I am a bread *kitten* today. Hubby brought two kinds of (gasp! ) white bread into the house and I am doing it like crack. I need to nip this in the bud and stick to veggies and protein.
Off to the gym shortly--my focus is on getting things done!0 -
One day I would like to...hmmm...I really don't know. I have never run a mile in my life. I am still traumatized from when they used to make us do it in school and I always ended up being the fat kid who had to stop and walk. The closet I got was in big school I was able to run a half mile.
OMG I was so traumatized in high school over the running. I was the only fat kid in my PE class one year and I was always last when we had to run. I remember the coaches were really hard on me and some of my classmates would snicker or make snide comments about me. The worst was when we had to do something called the "Granny Lap" which was a run that took us around the property of the school and was a mile and a half. I would almost always end up crying by the end of it. I honestly don't think I was ever able to run more than 1 lap (a quarter of a mile) without stopping. I would usually try to run the straights and walk the curves, but couldn't even keep that up for a mile
And thanks for the advice on weighing. I probably do need to back off of doing it every day before I drive myself nuts lol0 -
Haven't really started my day yet. I slept through my first fitbit alarm and decided to let myself have another hour or two of sleep (I have to occasionally enjoy the perks of being self employed). My legs and back are sore from my walk yesterday, i'll have tog et out the foam roller and go over everything. Yoga today should help, but I may have to put off walking tonight to get work done. Lots of deadlines for work today and i haven't planed out any of my meals so we will see how it goes.
One day I will be able to maintain a health weight for the rest of my life.
One day I will be able to hike to the top of Yosemite upper falls.
One day I will swim again.
One day I will be able to hop on a bike and ride it so far their's not enough time in the day to turn around and return home.0 -
I was a bit disappointed and almost had a panic attack this morning when I got on the scale. Yesterday I weighed in at 244.6 and have been steadily losing for a couple weeks. Today I weighed 246 :-/ I'm hoping the fluctuation is normal since I haven't cheated on my diet at all. Do you guys record when those fluctuations up happen, or do you just wait until you are back into a pattern of losing?
We did a post with an article about how to weigh. But I would say if you weigh regularly, keep a spreadsheet of the weights and then average it out, or do a point plot graph and draw an average line between them. That should give you a better idea of what your weight progress is between all the fluctuation.0 -
Good morning all!
It's great to read your "One Day I will" statements!
I'm feeling very well today. Yesterday I got in a LOT of steps. I couldn't walk home due to a thunderstorm, but I went to the gym and did Couch to 5k week 2 day 1, then walked to get my hair cut, walked home, and went for another walk/jog after dinner. I was able to jog *outside* *on pavement* for two full minutes three times and I still felt okay. I'm starting to think that if I stick with it, I might actually be able to do a 5k without walking by the fall.
One day, I will do a 5k without walking.
One day, I will do a 10k without walking.
One day, I will do a half marathon without walking.
How are you liking the couch-to-5k app. I've seen it before and was considering it to change up the walking and have something to try and achieve.0 -
I like it -- I have the Couch-to-5k app on my iPhone. I like it because I can play my own music with it. One annoyance is that I have to change my settings so that the phone never goes into lock mode because if the phone locks/goes dark, the little messages telling you what to do stop.
At this point, it seems quite ambitious to finish the program in the suggested 9 weeks. I'm planning to take it slower than the app suggests. I'm on week 2 now and we'll see how that goes. It seems like things get quite a bit harder after week 3. I'm debating going back to week 1 after finishing week 2 and just bumping up my running speed from 4.5mph to 5 or 5.5 and seeing how that goes. If I do that, then I'll do week 2 at that speed, and then do week 3 back at 4.5 mph and repeat that kind of cycle. Depending on how I feel, I might just try bumping up to 5mph for the last day of week 2. We'll seeeee.0 -
Hmm One day I will Do a 5K race. Not sure if I will walk it or run but I WILL do one
Heather there is an app called Pink Pad that is wonderful to keep up with that lol. Not sure if you have an android or Iphone but it is on the google play store for free. LOL I plan vacations around that thing!! You literally just tap it and it puts it in for you and then you dont worry about it until it comes around the next month. But it will show you how many more days until it comes.0 -
Nice to see all the movers and shakers in here this morning. Other than a late afternoon appt with my chiro and dinner/crafting with a friend, my day is still unplanned. Somewhere in there needs to be a workout. I took three days off this week because of joint and back pain, but I need to get back now.
My One thing is definitely to lose the crutches!!!
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Hey gang, a while ago I started a discussion about post-weight loss skin surgery in Thailand, and I haven't pulled anything together yet. This prednisone taper is really knocking me off my feet--terrible pain that just leaves me completely exhausted and unfocused.
That said, here's my plan and what YOU can do. If you are interested, I'd like to submit some of our bios and posts to a few reality show producers to see if they are interested in following this group of strangers-turned-friends on their journeys to health and doing things they've only dreamed of doing (like zip lining!). My hope is that we'll get paid a little money for this and that the show will pay for our eventual skin removal surgery.
What can you do? If you're interested, let me know that it's okay to use your bio and posts. I will definitely edit for punctuation and grammar but not content. Once I have a packet, if you message me your email, Ill send you a PDF of what I 'm using. If you need names changed or content removed, you can let me know then.
If you're VERY interested, you should record a video of yourself telling your bio story. Post it to youtube a n d send me the link. I think that's the best way to handle video. I'm not computer savvy... maybe Rat or Heather can help out here?
Anyway, I'm setting a June 15 deadline,for myself to get this done. Are you in?0 -
Today is my day 21 and rather than "Checking in".....I will be "Checking out" and leaving the group....or you can remove me, either way. This apparently isnt the group for me for whatever reason Im not quite clear on or privy too. I do wish y'all much luck and success with whatever you do and wherever you land. Be good0
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Hmm One day I will Do a 5K race. Not sure if I will walk it or run but I WILL do one
Heather there is an app called Pink Pad that is wonderful to keep up with that lol. Not sure if you have an android or Iphone but it is on the google play store for free. LOL I plan vacations around that thing!! You literally just tap it and it puts it in for you and then you dont worry about it until it comes around the next month. But it will show you how many more days until it comes.
I wasn't tracking because I seemed to be like clockwork every 3 weeks. Yes. 3. Weeks. Sucks for me. Now I remember I was just getting over it April 26th so I'm back to normal. I just want to go ahead and start already so this murderous rage will go away and I won't have the killer pain on my trio but that is not looking good. Sorry gentlemen for the lady bidness talk. Murderous rage.0 -
Restbaby, sorry you feel that way. I know I don't say too much, I chime in when I feel I have something to add, but I have never felt like I didn't belong here. Good luck to you!!0
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Restbaby, sorry you feel that way. I know I don't say too much, I chime in when I feel I have something to add, but I have never felt like I didn't belong here. Good luck to you!!
Thanks, Artelyn, for writing that. I hope everyone feels welcome. And if anyone needs some special attention or extra support, just wave your arms, start a thread, ask for help!0 -
Looks like a bit of over sensitivity. It's okay.. can't please everyone. Yes there are frequent posters here. Then there are the ones who have joined and don't say anything.. I don't press it. I figure if they want to jump in they will and I just hope they are getting something out of us chattering.
From my bright start this morning it kind of went downhill for me. The walk at lunchtime was torture. Everything hurt. I did a reasonable walk, probably a little under a mile in about 30 minutes. I felt like I was crawling, I hurt and felt miserable, when I finished I didn't have any sense of achievement, I just hurt. My shins were killing me and I was moving like a cripple.
This afternoon a woman hurled verbal abuse at me on the phone twice and I was only trying to help her.
So tonight I go to Weight Watchers and our leader Pat who has known me for years, at the end she says, what is wrong with you? So I told her how my weight isn't shifting, how walking makes me hurt. She says it sounds like I need new shoes. She also told me to log everything really tight this whole week and she will look at it and my weight next week.
It was good that at the end of the day I got some support.0 -
Oh and on top of the woman screaming at me.. Restybaby leaving hurt.. I valued her being here. I sent an email and left the door open. But let's not discuss why's and wherefore's we don't even know.0
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I feel like I must have missed a post or something as her leaving comment doesn't make sense to me but I hope she does well wherever she goes.0
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Sorry you day didn't end as well as it started julie, hopefully you will get some help from your WW leader, do not get discouraged x You could open your dairy so that friends could see it if you want some help on what you are eating, but you do not have to if you don't feel comfortable with us looking.0
