Modern Day Pin-up Girls - WEEK 3

Big ol' NSV for me today!! Bought a WHITE skirt in a size 14 (been in 16s for a few months now) and it is the shortest skirt I have purchased in more than a decade!! It's too cold here in PA to actually wear it yet, but you can bet I have it on right now in my apartment!!

Love reading all of your NSVs and goals! Such a great group - Keep up the great work Pin-Ups!!!!!

Focus
Discipline
Patience.

I think these are the three key steps for me on my journey. As long as I stay focused and have the discipline to prepare my meals and plan my exercise then all it takes is patience to see the results. It takes a little longer to make everything from scratch but the reward of feeding my body good food is very fulfilling.

I posted this on my page and I wanted to share it with all of you.

We all have off days or even weeks but as long as we never give up we are on the right track.

Karen

Sorry I've been MIA this week, my dear sweet Great-Grandfather passed away at 100 on Monday. Yep, a whole century young and he was still as fiesty as ever. He was absolutely the best man alive and I will fight to prove it. He was gentle, godly, and intensely giving man. In my mother's 47 years he never raised his voice or said a mean word and in my 23 I've never heard a bad or even so-so word said about him. He and my great-grandmother were married 64 years when she passed away in 2000 and they were as in love as ever. How often do you see people married that long still flirting, holding hands, and calling each other handsome and beautiful? They broke the mold with him and the poor men I try to date, I can't help but compare them!

Slight rant, skip ahead:
Back to work after the funeral (1000 mile round trip and close to zero sleep later)... and if I wasn't travelling for work all next week I sure as heck wouldn't be here today. I need to "say" it somewhere cause I really can't ***** at work about it.... Seems the guy I left in charge of my program, well didn't do anything. AT ALL. Zero. Nada. And its a slow week!! What the heck was he doing?? All he had to do was one thing and its not like it isn't his program too! GAHHHH. He's lucky he's on leave... Ima freak out.

Dietness:
Yeahhhh... Eating My Emotions 101 with a seminar in Traveling wtih Family Kills P90X. Next week, still traveling but I should be able to reign the crazy in better...

I've been in one hell of a rut the last 2 weeks. Not sure why. One bad week threw me off and I haven't managed to get back in the groove.


I know what you mean...I have been in one too so I don't know how I managed to lose last week...I'm hoping I lose come Monday, but not sure...so ate over my calorie count too many times this week without enough exercise :-(

I've had a rough week and I continue to struggle with healthy ways to deal with stress. Right now, my job is very stressful and it is showing up on the scale and in how I feel. I have not made it a priority to exercise or eat well for the past week. My body is craving those healthy foods, and the exercise, but the rest of me wants the comfort of what I have always done...curled on a couch, napping, eating food that is not high in nutritional content, and lots of convenience foods and eating out. I am a firm believer in this not being a diet, but a lifestyle change and I feel like there has to be a place for eating out and convenience foods to make it work for me.

That being said, the scale showed an increase of 3.1 pounds this morning. My official weigh-in is on Monday mornings, so I have some time to try to negate the damage as much as possible. My question to all of you is suggestions on how you deal with stress. I could use some encouragement and new ideas to try, and I am open to most anything!

Thanks for listening!
Dorothy

My NSV: I jogged almost 2 miles ( 1.8 ) in around 22 minutes.

I think this is AMAZING. Great job, you should be bursting with pride!

I did NOT make my goal of putting 30 miles on the treadmill this week (and certainly won't before weigh in tomorrow!) but I made a decent effort... got 15 miles in, and probably could have hit 20-25 but life got in the way the past few days. Oh well, I'll try again this coming week!

How did everybody else do on their weekly goals?

Good morning everyone, it's great to hear all the victories this week - lots of fantastic running happening - it's empowering, isn't it, to run when you always convinced yourself that it just isn't something you could do?
It's Monday morning here, so my weigh in for this week is another kg down! 83.5 kg this week, that's 184lb in the old money
I'm 1.5 kg from the first 10kg down, I'm going to buy a charm for my charm bracelet when I reach that goal - I'm trying to decide between a butterfly and a running shoe

Hey - Interesting goal!! I never ever thought of running a certain amount of miles per week, I always set myself burned calorie goals, or minutes. I love this new way of looking at it though. For next week, beginning tomorrow, my goal will be to do 20 miles. I think that's challenge enough for me - thanks for idea Bloodbank!