What did you conquer today!
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that is difficult to do! you not only resisted the temptation, you hopped on the elliptical!Great job everyone!
Today's challenge: Did the right thing when my treat (mini candy bar) called I hopped on the elliptical and worked out for 20 minutes. Also drank plenty of water!0 -
Nice job!0
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I also made a decision to cut out my nightly cocktail/ glass of wine. I am allowing myself Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. At least until I get my food consumption under better control. Sometimes that one glass leads to some indiscriminate snacking late in the evening.
I've done this too - although mine tends to be Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And I went to a friend's house last weekend for a barbecue and they were serving ice-cold pink Lambrusco partly as a joke. Well, I discovered that a large glass very well chilled was actually a nice treat - low in alcohol and not too bad for calories too. They had managed to find a dry-ish one so it wasn't the sugary drink I remember from the 80s. I have now ordered a case.0 -
First week back is now behind me. I stuck to it and logged every bite. This week I will work on increasing my exercise minutes/miles. Started off with hitting the treadmill this morning.
@josparkle - I need to google pink Lambrusco. Never heard of it but it sounds yummy. I stayed away from alcohol all weekend but it would be nice to have a lite go to beverage this summer.0 -
I lost a pound my last weigh in - BAM!!! happy with myself
**cocktails - I sooo found too that wine was a "bad carb" - lol. I am not a beer drinker, but lately if I want a "cocktail" during the week I have a Corona Light Beer and it does the trick. And I definitely will only drink ONE beer - lol (belch :blushing: )0 -
I lost a pound my last weigh in - BAM!!! happy with myself
Awesome!! ... just Awesome!!0 -
NSV - On Sunday morning I had cereal for breakfast. When I was half way finished I had a full feeling, so instead of eating the rest, I threw it away. In the past I would make myself eat it just so it wouldn't go to waste - tossing it so it wouldn't go to MY WASTE felt so much better:laugh:0
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Thanks for the tip about Lambrusco. I will give it a try sometime.0
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I lost a pound my last weigh in - BAM!!! happy with myself
**cocktails - I sooo found too that wine was a "bad carb" - lol. I am not a beer drinker, but lately if I want a "cocktail" during the week I have a Corona Light Beer and it does the trick. And I definitely will only drink ONE beer - lol (belch :blushing: )
Awesome!0 -
NSV - On Sunday morning I had cereal for breakfast. When I was half way finished I had a full feeling, so instead of eating the rest, I threw it away. In the past I would make myself eat it just so it wouldn't go to waste - tossing it so it wouldn't go to MY WASTE felt so much better:laugh:
Good job! I have a difficult time not being a member of the clean plate club. It is getting easier to resist.0 -
Hello ladies
I've not been very vocal in this group, but have been lurking! Anyway today, after six weeks of struggling, finally another kilo gone. Hopefully forever. Many still to go, but needed to share this small but huge victory with someone! Very proud of myself for sticking with it despite the lack of results for what seems like forever.
Have a great day!0 -
bought a skirt in size large! This means I went from 3x to large. When hubby found out he asked me if I would try on a pair of pants... they were his! also size large!0
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Love to see all the posts about resisting temptation, clean eating and weight loss! My challenge this morning was getting out of bed, weedeated for 4 hours yesterday and all my muscles are sore! The up side is I burned over 1000 calories!!!!!!. Have a terrific day everyone.0
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Anyway today, after six weeks of struggling, finally another kilo gone. Hopefully forever. Many still to go, but needed to share this small but huge victory with someone! Very proud of myself for sticking with it despite the lack of results for what seems like forever.
Awesome! Every bit adds up to one huge success!0 -
The up side is I burned over 1000 calories!!!!!!. Have a terrific day everyone.
I bet it's worth every bit of the pain! :laugh:0 -
Hello ladies
I've not been very vocal in this group, but have been lurking! Anyway today, after six weeks of struggling, finally another kilo gone. Hopefully forever. Many still to go, but needed to share this small but huge victory with someone! Very proud of myself for sticking with it despite the lack of results for what seems like forever.
Have a great day!
Congrats Jenny!!! Glad you're here! :bigsmile:0 -
Going to a fun fencing tournament tonight in a venue I have never been to, with people I don't know. I hate the unknown but I also know I will have fun and meet some new fencing friends. I am going to go and kick some butt.0
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OK, I know this isn't a weight related conquer but since you ladies are an obliging, encouraging group I feel that I can share.
I went out to the chest freezer in the garage and sorted it out. I pulled out everything, binned the white bowl-shaped bag of could-be stock, could be washing up water, and the brown stick like thing in two plastic bags, and the shards of pizza base. Tidied it all up, put it all back in logically and went and wrote the contents down on a sheet of paper.
And I feel so much better....except for just one thing; I have no idea what I went out to the garage to do and all I'm certain of is that I didn't do it.0 -
OK, I know this isn't a weight related conquer but since you ladies are an obliging, encouraging group I feel that I can share.
I went out to the chest freezer in the garage and sorted it out. I pulled out everything, binned the white bowl-shaped bag of could-be stock, could be washing up water, and the brown stick like thing in two plastic bags, and the shards of pizza base. Tidied it all up, put it all back in logically and went and wrote the contents down on a sheet of paper.
And I feel so much better....except for just one thing; I have no idea what I went out to the garage to do and all I'm certain of is that I didn't do it.
ROFLMAO! can so relate!! :laugh: you did conquer something though - you tamed the "stuff" in that bad boy
freezer chest!:bigsmile:0 -
Today was my day off and I battled half the day with myself - alternatively trying to convince myself to move my b*tt or to just “relaaax”. It went something like this…:
“Get up and get going – it’s your day off and you have a lot to do!”
- (“But it’s my day off and I love to sleep in!”)
“Go do your morning walk –that will get your blood moving”
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“Get out the vacuum – your floors are disgusting. “
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Ultimately, even I got tired of my little whiny inner voice and although I did not sleep in, I did have a nice relaxing breakfast. I did my walk, cleaned the kitchen AND all the floors, AND did some grocery shopping. I even turned up my music and cha-cha’d around with a dust rag…. So - this evening I get to relax, have a yummy dinner, a glass of wine, putter around in my garden and enjoy my clean floors. (”Don’t you DARE track dirt into this kitchen!”) … Me, myself, and I feel better! Hope you all had a great day!0 -
Today I made 15,302 steps! That's 10.42 kms., That's 6.47 miles! Yahooo!0
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Great job guys, keep em coming!
Today, Friday is usually a "rest" day for me, but as my trainer suggested I started the day with 10 burpees!! Here in my office at 8:00 am! I actually remembered to do it today.
Yesterday we had some severe weather, heavy rain/thunder storms. Class was cancelled, but I made myself pull out a DVD & did the Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred at 9:00 pm. I was after all dressed & with my gym shoes on! Got me sweat on & burned a few cals to help me keep within goal.
Wishing y'all a great wknd!
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Today, Friday is usually a "rest" day for me, but as my trainer suggested I started the day with 10 burpees!! Here in my office at 8:00 am! I actually remembered to do it today.
WTG Karen! I absolutely HATE burpees! lol "jumping" isn't something that is conducive to having had a couple kids :noway: and being 54 - lol0 -
Today I made it through my gym workout, although a bit low on energy. Could it have been too much sake last night? Oops. Probably. 0
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So today I conquered that Monday morning feeling by simply 'getting on with it', like an annoying chore that had to be done I got up and put my walking trainers on and grabbed the dogs lead so that I had to walk him. Really I wanted to stay home and potter round the house again because the end of last week was physically and mentally tiring, and I felt I deserved a day off, but I didn't succumb.
Can I say that I feel better for getting on and doing it? Well, no not really but I am rather proud of myself for doing it anyway. Tomorrow will leave no time for exercise so Wednesday will be the next thing to conquer as I need to do one of my longer walks to make up for tomorrow; I think I can do it, wish I had some of you lot to come and chat to me and we could do it together.0 -
So today I conquered that Monday morning feeling by simply 'getting on with it', like an annoying chore that had to be done I got up and put my walking trainers on and grabbed the dogs lead so that I had to walk him. Really I wanted to stay home and potter round the house again because the end of last week was physically and mentally tiring, and I felt I deserved a day off, but I didn't succumb.
Can I say that I feel better for getting on and doing it? Well, no not really but I am rather proud of myself for doing it anyway. Tomorrow will leave no time for exercise so Wednesday will be the next thing to conquer as I need to do one of my longer walks to make up for tomorrow; I think I can do it, wish I had some of you lot to come and chat to me and we could do it together.
awesome! Just gettin it done is the most difficult part sometimes.0 -
Nothing too exciting, so far. While waiting for a break in the thunderstorms for a walk, I am doing those crappy jobs around the house like plant housekeeping and cleaning the china cabinets. I think a mani/pedi are in the works too. The old me would have sat around on a rainy day off, and battled with eating all day. I know now that I just need to keep my hands busy and they stay out of the fridge. I actually forget to eat sometimes because my stomach doesn't always remind me.0
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Yay. Smoothies and cereal bars done. Today I conquered my urge to be exceptionally rude to some rather spoilt and pretentious 11 year olds and just carry on, even when they declaimed their smoothie to be absolutely disgusting and 'I'm going to be sick now'. I have decided to be stronger next year and just say no when they ask me to do it again, its something I don't enjoy, they don't appreciate and one of us can walk away - so I will.
Now, tennis, dry laundry, a single glass of pink wine left from Sunday for just this moment, ooh and some left over strawberries from the smoothies.0 -
I conquered dried mangos today - there is a 2 lb bag 'hiding' in my cold storage pantry and I came across it looking for something else and managed not to dive into it!!! Yay! Too many carbs if I get started in that.0
