Over 200 Club New Year New Me Part 45

:huh: I know EXACTLY what you are going through! My kids had the flu last week...ALL WEEK LONG! I started experiencing symptoms as well along with NO sleep due to washing sheets, cleaning, taking temps constantly, giving cool baths to bring down HI temps, and putting cool compresses on my daughter, alternating motrin and tylenol to try to get the HI temps down, and worrying about them being sick. The doc prescribed Tamiflu for me since I'm about to have surgery on Monday next week. I'm feeling a little better. My advice to you is rest when you can and take care of you and the kids. Wipe things down with Lysol and disinfect surfaces. I hope your household gets better soon!! . The virus takes time to go away, unfortunately, but... There is light and rest at the end of the week !!


Sincerely,
Me

Ann-Thanks for the thread. Hope your family gets better soon. I can imagine how much you are in need of a vacation!!

Okay ladies....I'm re focused and ready to go. I have a game play and I'm here to tell you my plan.
205 by March 18th
199-April 16th
My goal is to not eat out for lunch during the week. This is something I have gotten really bad about. I haven't been planning and I've been eating out for too many meals a day. I will allow myself 1 lunch a week and that's if and only if it's with the boy. Workout 5 days a week. If I want to indluge in something I have to earn it at the gym. I'm going out to dinner tonight for my sisters birthday so I have commited to goign to the gym on my way home. No if's ands or butts. I MUST go! Drinking at least 8 glasses of water a day minimum! I need to be checking in daily. If you don't see me checking in please hunt me down! :bigsmile:


Anything anybody things I should add or change please feel free. I'm open to suggestions!

Ann, so sorry you're dealing with all that illness. 3 trips to urgent care sounds awful!
Jess, think it sounds like a good plan. I think you'll also be excited to see how much money you save! I've been making large pot meals and then portioning for the week. I know what's going in the food and it's so much cheaper! This week I haven't had time to make food, so I think today is going to be a buy some curry and stretch it for 3 days kind of day!
Teresa, sounds like good news on the interview front!

saving for later

I did go dress shopping and it wasnt the horrific expreience I imagined. I was pretty ok with how I looked for the most part. Def still need to lose some lbs but def not get to 160 right away. So I re-evaluated my wedding goals

My goal is now 175...150/160 will still be my ULTIMATE goal bt 175 would be perfect for the wedding.

So here is my new monthly goals:
February 28th- 205lbs
March 31st- 200lbs
April 30th- 195lbs
May 31st- 190lbs
June 30th – 185lbs
July 31st- 180lbs
August 30th- 175lbs


5LBS a month..we will see!

I have my NY dress shopping trip planned for 20 days from now so back to doing the shred and gym workouts until then to see if I can get a few more inches off....

bbl

hi there,
I'm back from Ca and I'll tell you it was hard coming back to the cold weather......

Hope all are well and be back later to catch up.

xoxo

Thanks, Cris. I'm here. Sorry the only thing I've contributed to the group this week is a post about an enormous Hershey's Kiss. :laugh:

I'm still struggling with exercise (rather, the lack of it). Posting now to hold myself accountable for at least a 30 minute brisk walk at lunch. Other than that, I'm just up to my eyeballs in baby decisions & purchases. I ended up buying a new crib this weekend because it turned out the one my mom was trying to give me is a drop sided crib. She doesn't understand that I don't feel like risking it. She also doesn't understand that she and I have completely different taste in furniture, clothing, baby names, etc. Yep, driving me nuts (though I love how supportive she is!).

Also, thanks to the group again for all the well-wishes & thoughts & prayers for my grandmother. She is doing better. She spent a day in the ER and 2 nights in the hospital last week and ultimately the docs couldn't figure out exactly what was wrong (or what caused what was wrong, at least). She apparently had some kind of virus that attacked her liver but she tested negative for any form of Hep so they pretty much left it at that. Once her blood values started a trend toward improvement, they released her. She's still super weak but seems to be improving so I'm happy about that. I need her to be able meet her first great grandchild. She's made it too long and is too excited about it not to make it. I was right to worry and freak out, though. My aunt was helping her stand up Sunday night (Sunday before last) and my gramma fainted & wouldn't come around. She couldn't feel her pulse & my aunt thought she was dead. She was so panicked she called my mom (an RN) for advice & while my mom was on the phone with her my gramma regained consciousness.

Once she's feeling a lot better I'm going to visit her. I'm worried she'll try to do too much and harm herself if I go when she's weak & recovering. She likes to pretend she feels like a million bucks when I'm around even if she feels terrible. Also, I want to give those stomach virus germs a while to get out of that house. My mom ended up with it for 3 days last week. She said she thought she was going to die & proceeded to go into WAY too much detail about it. :laugh: Blech.

Not feeling too well. Just wanted to make sure I knew where to find you all when I feel better.

Hey everyone! It has been a very long time since I have been on this thread or myfitnesspal for that matter... I made a decision last week that I was going to start logging on everyday again. So far so good. I hope you dont mind me joining back in the group.

Im currently back at 213 I really dont know what happened... I guess all the stressors I have right now isnt helping either. Ive set my goal weight at 190... I know its not alot but Im hoping once I hit that mark then I will be motivated to work off even more. I still do not have much time to exercise since i work all day and then go home to clean house and take care of my kids but I enrolled my oldest son in Tball so Im excited for his practices so I can talk around the park while he is there.

I hope everyone is doing well and I hope yall dont mind me joining back in this group.

I am a bit frustrated because I have been workout every single day and sorta watching what I am eating. I eat much better and healthier but I am (somedays) over on calories, carbs, and fat...

I have noticed my body changing every day. My stomach is getting tighter, the baby pouch is less noticable, and my collor bone is much more noticable too. my arms are getting tighter too. however, the scale is not showing me my hard work. I am trying not ot focus on the scale and just motivate myself by how I feel...and I feel amazing..but it is so frustrating to see the same number for the past couple of weeks. I even added or changed my workouts to trick my body but the weight is at a stand still. WHY?

I am not going to let this get me down...my daughter ( workout buddy) has said I look thiner but not really showing on the scale...oh well

I got ot go my son is bugging me..be back later ;-)

Positively - if you find that recipe - let me know where! Also, sounds like you are gaining muscle - which weighs more than fat. I know it is hard now, but that additional muscle will burn more calories for you in the long run. You will see the scale move again soon! Don't let that darn scale beat you up!

Julie, good for you for actually "biting the bullet". You're still logging and now you just have to be more cognizant of what you're putting in your mouth. You can do this!
Pos, focus on what you see in the mirror not on a number on a scale.
Tiger, welcome back!

Checking in from yesterday:
Cals - Just a little bit over - 1,248
Water - 72 oz
Exercise - None. I was supposed to go to a kick-boxing class but work got in the way. Then when I got home at 9:15 p.m. I was exhausted. So nothing happened there.
Proud - Even though work went crazy and I really wanted to just pick up fast food on the way home, I made dinner when I got home.

Heather,

I would go with whichever method is going to keep you going (IE I'm really tempted to go trade scales with my mom since her's put me at 215 hahaha)

checking in for yesterday:
calories: over by about 275 :grumble: ... I struggle when I have no exercise cals to use
exercise: just a very short walk - it was a planned 'no-exercise' day
water: ok but not great - probably around 80oz
proud: I was hungry and having some cravings, so I could have done worse

My nutrition class last night was all about how important eating healthy fats (olive oil, nuts, butter, cream) are for your metabolism, and avoiding low-fat or non-fat items. I definitely don't have a problem with eating healthy fats ... my problem is making sure that I pay attention to serving sizes of them because I like to eat too much of them!