I have belonged to a gym for several years and have skipped going more than I have gone. I am in my “get healthy” phase right now and have been going regularly. Friday, I went several hours later than I normally do. While riding the elliptical, this very frail lady, probably in her 60s or 70‘s, rode up behind the elliptical next to me on a motorized three wheeled scooter. With great difficulty, she moved her legs off the scooter with both hands, grabbed onto the elliptical and scooter and lifted herself from then seat. At this time, a gym employee came up to her and asked if he could be any assistance, whereupon she replied “No thanks, I can do it myself.” She shuffled over to the side of the elliptical and then over to the seat where she sat down. She lifted one leg to place her foot on the foot pad with her hands, then the other foot. She grabbed ahold of the arm bars and started pushing with her legs and pulling with her arms and got that thing going about 40 revolutions per minute. She exercised for about ten minutes before she stopped and, tediously, reversed her movements to sit back on her scooter. I wanted to stand and applaud her but I felt that this would probably embarrass her.

My feeble excuses for not wanting to work out now seem very pathetic to me.

Chuck

@Holly - One step closer right? Everything will work out for her to move out on time. Good planning on moving her stuff into the living room for ready access.

@Chuck - There is also a video of a guy on Facebook of an old man coming into the gym toting his oxygen tank behind him.

@Holly - I am kinda the same with school. I know what I want to do, but not where to focus. I want to be a biologist. It will be awhile yet before I can convince Voc Rehab to help me pay for it, but I'm going to kill it when I finally get back to it. One thing I've been doing is checking MSU's catalog for requirements and making out a class schedule to get me through until graduation. Looking at the class descriptions, and then daydreaming about the material or going to the library and researching those topics. I don't believe in waiting for a class in order to keep learning. You will figure out what you want in time. You already have some idea as you are making choices for your career right now to keep you in a place where you can enjoy what you are doing.

A biologist is a great goal to strive for especially if you enjoy research! Science is a very rewarding field I think, lots of challenges!

Batman75/Andrew, it's nice to meet you and I hope you find inspiration amongst us! It's always nice to meet someone new! If you didn't find it yet there is a let me introduce myself post that talks a bit about some of us I look forward to hearing your wisdom and seeing your success


So my daughter had her appointment yesterday with the psychiatrist, she actually didn't say she hated me at the end! For now they are going to let her go on with growing up, and they don't believe they can be helpful at the moment, but the doctor is going to keep her file open for a year and we can go anytime we want to.

I told my husband this weekend that he needed to get a new job or a new wife that I no longer wanted to be a single mom with a married woman's problems and none of the perks! So he is going to look for a new job and I am going to look for some part time courses to take on top of work! I am also going to look for a part time job for the summer, just to pay off some debt quickly!

And I gotta get my butt working oops

This guy is super, we dealt with him before, he has no time for bull**** and you can tell from the questions he asks that he listens to the answers both the parent and child give him, and he has terrible reviews online, which I find just means he is honest!


So a few weeks ago my scale was nuts and was up and down and I changed the batteries and it seemed okay, today it told me I gained 10 lbs in 2 days!! Since that is not very realistic, since I was actually well behaved I am not going to buy into that and I threw the scale out and will buy one at the end of the month... So I am back to skipping weigh in this week, but I am certain it was a little change as I am still just trying to hold on for another 11 days till everyone is gone from my house! And my treadmill is finally coming this weekend, yay

This is completely non-scale and non-weight loss related. My phone is on life support. It only permits itself to be turned on and off. That's it. Monday/Tuesday I will receive my new phone, for free, with a non-contract company. It will be refurbished, but 'eh, don't care. I am very amused at my friends and family as well. For a week everyone has known I cannot send or receive text messages, can receive calls, but cannot check voice mail or make calls. I have 7 voice mail messages, and 19 text messages. :laugh: At least I know I'm not the craziest one in the bunch!

Hey all! Just popping in to say hi and see what's up with everyone.

Holly I am so glad you are about to get your house to yourself. I've been there and it's not easy to share your house, no matter how much you like them. And it sounds like your family has a plan to make things better as well.

Andrew, it's nice to meet you. I've been active here since October, and I've lost (altogether) about 60 of the 70 pounds I regained. I always get close to getting back in the 100s and seem to derail myself. But I'm aware of that this time and more determined than ever to get this weight problem resolved.

The crap I log 50/50, when I don't log it I feel that if it's not on MFP it's not going to affect my weight loss. And that is probably the stupidest thing I could be writing, and sadly it's true. This is a mindset I need to get over.

Starting today I will eat clean and exercise!

:happy:

You MUST log the crap. At this stage it is more important to log the crap than the good food. Especially if you are struggling with choices.

Close your diary. Make it private if you are concerned about being judged or ridiculed for any indiscretions. But you must be HONEST with yourself. (Just use the quick calories tool if you are too embarrassed about the whole cherry pound cake and vodka binge. :huh: )

You need to accumulate accurate data so you can SEE the graphing trends.

And as for how many more times you are going to say "starting today I will eat clean and exercise", well, the answer there is simple. You are going to say it to yourself EVERYDAY and then you are going to eat sensibly and take a walk.

Forever Change takes Every Day Re-commitment.

You CAN do this.

Mark/Leanna, thanks for the advice. It is so true. tonight I made tacos. logged every bit of it. I'm definitely struggling with eating too much at times and tonight was no exception. I had 3 tacos instead of the 2 I had planned. Now I feel like crap because I ate too much. This is the cycle that I'm breaking. It's not that the tacos are bad, all of the ingredient's are low carb, low sodium, lite, and FF. just the 2 would have been perfect.

I did think about locking my diary, but I think that would do the opposite. I would log less because no one would see it. And really, I enjoy and learn from feedback, so I'm going to keep it open for now.

Hey Crystal!!! Nice to see you popping in! I have to say I agree with what Mark and Leanna said. I also know it's hard to cut out the crap. I think just work on logging everything. Once you get used to that you can start to tweak it until you get where you want. However remember to make every change you make doable. If you can't maintain that change don't do it. You want 3 tacos... fine. Eat a really filling salad or whatever for lunch or work it off with exercise. I'm a queen at getting fast food in when I WANT it!:noway: LOL! Never get down on yourself. Change takes time and some habits are hard to break. This is about loving yourself enough to get healthy and that is not the way to do it. :happy: I started with small changes in my eating and incrementally increased my exercise. Keep at it... you only fail if you quit trying! :flowerforyou:

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend!