200+ Pushin' For Less Cushion!
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I'm still around. I have today off work for no reason. I do have an appointment with my lawyer at 4:30, but that was scheduled after I already had the day off. My sister gave me Animaniacs for my birthday so I watched the first dvd last night and am working on the 2nd one now. I think after breakfast I will take my camera out and take more pictures. I was happy about that yesterday.
Amy- thanks :bigsmile:
Kristina- I emailed my online dating advice to you :-) hope it helps. Don't settle...think of dates as test runs...just because it doesn't work out with a guy doesn't mean there is anything wrong with you (or necessarily him), it just means the two of you aren't compatible.
Ronnie- I hope your baby gets better! I know that has to be stressful!
and thats as far back as I can see right now....sorry!0 -
Remember to get your weights in by later today, as I'd like to post this week's chart this evening!
Lacey- thanks for the advice. I set up a profile on match (but haven't paid yet) as well as okcupid, cause it was free, and I have a friend who met her current bf through there. Have already spoken with a couple of people briefly. It's just a bit daunting as it's a new experience, but thanks for the feedback.
Amy- sometimes you just need a lazy weekend!
Ronnie- nice weight loss this week! Sorry to hear about the baby!
Victoria- glad the kitties are starting to adjust. You had the weekend to veg and get to know them, now get your booty back in gear!
Kendal- thanks for your advice. I haven't gotten any email though
You sent it to what address?
So, this weekend was not a terribly great eating weekend for me, as I mentioned before. I'm going to take my Friday weight as my weigh-in, as I'm sure it was much more ugly this morning (I didn't step on the scale). Back to the grind. I definitely need to get back into the habit of being good on the weekends. I tell you, when my routine gets disrupted, it's so hard to get back into it! Damn you sickness! I think I'm going to hold off on INSANITY... or at least committing to the schedule. I'm supposed to do the recovery week and then start up in month 2, which I hear, as Amy said, is even more insane than month one. And with my running mileage continuing to up, I know I'll get burned out. I think I'll use the first month dvds on my off-run days as well as some other exercises, but won't start the program fully again until after my half at this point.
Hope everyone has a great start to their week! Work is a bit crazy this morning. Our email got changed over to Outlookover the weekend, which I think will be helpful in the long run, but it's a bit of a clusterBLEEP at the moment, as some things have migrated, and others haven't. I still don't have my address book, which is making me weep. They said it'll take up to 96 hours for everything to have migrated. Argh!0 -
Ronnie-hope the baby gets better! Nothing worse that sick little ones!
Kristina-not much help myself, I'm like Amy, I met my hubby at work. But I wish you the best of luck!
OK, I know there's more I should answer, but I'm at work with the boss at the next desk, so keeping it short! Friday night's tornado warning was the 1st! One hit Saturday afternoon while I was driving home, got to stop in a gas station w/3 kids for that one. And now my road is flooded, so we're all piled into my mother's 1 bedroom apt til the water goes down! And it's supposed to rain til Thursday, with more severe weather tonite! *sigh* Good thing mom & I get a long well & the hubby too!
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Weight is the same as on Thursday, so 234.8 is what I'm going with!) 0 -
Hi there Ladies
I hope to be able to catch up on all your posts this week. My husband is taking a class out of town so my evenings should be available for me time.
I was a my partents house the weekend and I did pretty good on Saturday but was over on Sunday. I'm conditioned to eat at there house. It was really difficult to not eat the whole time I was there.
Back on track today. Just trying to figure out what's for lunch.
more a little later0 -
Suzie- thanks for the recipe, I can't wait to make it.
Miss Woods- welcome, i'm a newbie too.
Sunday:
1275 CC/ 2765 CB/ -1490
worked in the yard for 8 hours yesterday, lovin it.
hope to post pics soon.
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Kristina- I emailed you here on mfp. Not sure why you didn't get it, but I sent it again, so hopefully you'll get it this time. I use okcupid to find guys cause like you said, its free.
I've been stuck on "month 2" of p90x for at least 2 months. I haven't been able to finish the 3rd week completely so I haven't moved on to the recovery week. I can get Monday thru Wednesday but then Thursday hits and things come up. My goal is to stick to it this week. I'm going to get at least 5 days of it done this time.
I'm passing on the weigh in again. I will check in at the end of my recovery week (so 2 weeks from now).0 -
Well the effing scale said 209 this morning, so I'm not counting it. I know I had a bad food incident but there is no possible way I gained almost 5 lbs over a week. It is frustrating to lose lose lose and then TOM hits and it starts all over. I don't know how to get past that...but I did put two reminders to ping at me on my phone telling me my tom is coming and to be careful. Maybe that will help.
Back to the grind today with food and exercise. I've got to figure something out for Thursday and Fridays since Jeff and I have afterwork activities both nights that prevents me from going to the gym. Maybe I need to think of those to days as my weekend and start pushing to either run/walk or get to the gym Saturday and Sunday. I think I will try that and see how it goes. Also I've got the major urge to get outside and get some exercise in..but the weather turned again.
I want to order the kettleworx but won't do it until after we get back from our vacation. Yesterday I didn't track calories but I am pretty sure it was an even stevens sort ogf day. I grazed while I cooked for hours on end yesterday, some of which were cookies, but I didn't eat big meals so I'm pretty sure it was okay...although I didn't track.
Goals for this week are to watch my food intake, get to the gym Mon, Tues, Wed, Sat & Sun or do some sort of exercise at home etc.0 -
Kendal: My exercise always gets screwed up n the weekends too. Stuff comes up or I get too lazy. I normally have to force myself to get it done but the last 2 weekends have gone by exercise-free. You can stick to it and get it done, I know u can!!
Eve: Wow! 8 hours of yard work - that's hard-core!
Noelle: I tend to over eat at my in-laws house. They always have yummy stuff around. Thankfully, they are several thousand miles away, so I don't have to worry about it for a while.
Karen: I hope your flooding goes down soon, your situation sounds really awful!
Kristina: OMG! The 2nd month of Insanity is freaking INSANE (I had forgotten that as I did this program about a year ago)! I did the Fit Test and The Max Interval workout today (on top of my jog with the dog this morning) and I am wiped out! I didn't realize that the workouts had gotten longer as well as harder. The Max Interval workout was 59 minutes long. I think cutting back on it while you up your running mileage is a very good idea.
Victoria: Sometimes weekend sluggishness is just what we need to kick-start our week. (At least that's the excuse I'm using)
I upped my calories today to a bit over 2400. I'm kind of unsure where my calorie burn will be due to the increased time/intensity of the Insanity workouts. I was averaging 2700-2800 calories burned on a typical day with exercise. I'm hoping that the calorie increase will kick-start the weight loss again and help fuel my workouts. We'll see how it goes. It's soooo hard to eat above 2000 calories when a donut or pastry isn't involved.0 -
Amy I realized today that I brought in healthy food for my breafkast and lunch today and was so happy with myself considering last week. And then I realized that no way in hell was my smoothie, the stuffed tomato I made and the meatloaf going to be enough cals...FML. I have cookies and cheesecake at home. FML FML FML FML lol.0
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Lacey: It's really hard to get enough of the "right" calories. It's gotta be even harder for you as you are at work all day and can't just run to the ridge to grab some string cheese or an apple when you realize you didn't eat enough. Bummer.
Side note: I ADORE cheesecake.0 -
Luckily I overcooked the cookie portion of the cheesecake bars (sugar cookie dough with lemon zest, cheese cake on top with the zest and a raspberry gelee stuff on top) Or I wold wolf it down.
I feel like my meals last forever sometimes and its annoying. I guess I need to eat more grains or something..but I am not all that much into couscous, rice, etc. I only like it a little bit. I did put rainbow lentils in my meatloaf last night, that was tasty texture, but yeah. It is HARD. I have a drawer at work full of ricechips, chocolate, protein bars, etc..but I rarely ever get into it. I'm not one for chocolate all that much anymore and yeah. It is what it is I guess. Gotta keep trying.
I just want to be DOWN DOWN by next Monday...no matter what. Under 205.6 damnit!0 -
Lacey: Me too!! Seriously, your 5 pounds and my 5 pounds MUST be junk-punched off a cliff. (I like the visual of that) LOL0
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Hello All.
Has been a while since my last post but have kept up with you all in the interim - will not try to reply as way too many.
Thanks for the words of encouragement - has been of real use and feeling as if back 'in control'. The comments have really made me think about why I sabotage and while I do not have the solutions as yet, at least I have some pointers to develop.
Have managed to 'run' three times (very exciting - that's 9 miles!!!) and for breakfast this morning, while I wanted cheese on toast, after the mega' head debate' settled on cereal with milk and enjoyed it - hurrah. This was later followed up with a visit to the parents house who very kinly informed me that 'if only I would realise how much slimmer I looked in dresses, I would stop wearing trousers/skirts and tops because I look so awful' - to be topped off by dad commenting on how very large my backside looks in shorts. Have been working hard on wearig clothes comfortable and suitable' to the activity being undertaken as opposed to how much of myself I can hide, perhaps I am just fooling myself? Why can't the answers be simple?
Enough of that. Three day week this week for family - school and work - with Easter and THE wedding so looking forward to nuclear family weekend in a very short time - hurrah.
Kristina - will not be going near scales until I feel a bit better but did post weight for last week......
Love to all
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I'm so glad I'm not the only one that has issues with eating enough calories! I only had 987 yesterday! Barely got in half of what I'm supposed to! And I had soup & sandwich for lunch, and ravioli for dinner, and coffee cake at church for breakfast! Seriously?! I just don't snack on weekends, so I have SO much left to eat b/c I'm "being careful" GRRR. Today I have 1200 left after eating lunch...but we're taking hubby to Red Lobster for late birthday dinner, so...I'm making sure I have room!) 0
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Hey everyone just wanted to check in and let you know I'm alive and kicking. Weekend could have been much much worse than it was, but it still wasn't great. Still did p90x both days, so I'm happy about that.
Chris and I have been in a massive money fight since yesterday morning. I'm pretty much exhausted from it. He's hilarious and adorable but my god, he's the worst to fight with. He's so bad at just bottling up stuff and then heaving it at me all at once. And also throwing out the "If you ever do that again, I'm gone" line. He doesn't mean it, its just his temper and inability to express himself. Men. Grr. He had every right to be pissed, since I basically just bought whatever I wanted last week (when we share a bank account), and then on Saturday told him he couldn't buy something. Yeah... not cool on my part. Anyway, that's pretty much all that has been on my mind and I really just want to get home from work so we can talk through it some more and freaking MOVE ON. Fighting is so exhausting.:frown: Thank god we hardly ever do it.
I did get up and do Yoga x this morning, which I swapped with stretching yesterday, so I am officially through month 1 of p90x. Feels good to have done it without skipping a day. I'd like to think I will be able to do it for the next 2 months too, but I'm not sure since we have some out of town trips planned. I'm going to try my hardest. We'll see.
I have read everyone's posts, and I'm sorry I'm not taking the time to catch up with all of you. I'll be back on track tomorrow hopefully!
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Last call for weigh ins...
I'm missing:
Eunice
Angela
Eve
Amber
Forgive me if you posted and I missed the weight!0 -
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I'm going to do the upper and lower body work outs...need something new at the gym!0 -
is it bad that some guy IM'ed me, and I was looking at his profile, liking what I saw until I saw that his favorite band was linkin park? Totally lost my girl boner.
Oh dear... this online thing is going to be interesting...0 -
Ronnie - Sorry to hear about the sick baby! It's definitely no fun and I hope you get some rest and that little one is better soon!!
Kerry - I hate fighting, it really truly is completely draining. I'm sure things will work themselves out with a nice good chat but I feel for ya!
Karen - Unless I eat out (which is few and far between) it's almost IMPOSSIBLE for me to reach my goal calories. I'm always short even on days I can't make it to the gym!
Kristina - ROFLMAO! I know what you mean... Sometimes it's the little things. Definitely wish I had some pointers for you, alas I always pick the not-so-great men so I am in no position to be giving advice.
To all that posted about "lazy weekends". I kinda wish I COULD do more on weekends but with the recent chilly weather, sick baby, and the fact that the gym's daycare is only open til 2 on Saturdays and closed on Sundays, I'm pretty much SOL, lol. I suppose I could do some of the DVDs I have at home but.......... I always find a reason not to... :laugh:0 -
I am skipping the weigh in this week. We had a long weekend visiting with family and friends and I ate WAY too much!0
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I posted some before/after pics today to celebrate the first 29 lbs lost: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/225970-29-lbs-gone-one-quarter-of-the-way-to-my-goal (linking because the pics are huuuge).
I ended up eating too much cursed chocolate eggs at work... I think I'm going to have to move the container tomorrow. I brought them in, so it's my own fault. I guessed at calories and I think I'm doing okay... I know my exercise program underestimates so I've always got about 10-25% leeway on days I workout.
Work is still crazy and I'm pulling some pretty long hours. But stuff is getting accomplished which makes it kind of worth it, and I do get paid OT and this week is my husband's last week of work (TAing) until September (though he's looking for something mindless to do over the summer) so the extra money is handy.
Crystal: Yikes! I hope your baby is feeling better soon--earaches are no fun. I know what you mean about the posts just flying some days. I have trouble keeping up too!
Kristina: Way to go jumping back in to the dating pool. I did meet my husband online, but not on a dating site. We met on a book series fansite.
Amy: Good luck on the next phase of Insanity! I'm thinking I might try that program in the fall.
Ronnie: Oh dear! I hope your little one is doing better as well. Congrats on the loss, though.
Victoria: Kitties make everything better, even being lazy on the weekend. That's my philosophy. Now, if only I had a cat or three...
Kendal: Random days off are always good. Hope you enjoyed it!
Kristina: I remember when we switched over to Outlook at work. It was pretty crazy. I couldn't manage without it now, though!
Karen: Sounds like you've got some insane weather going on! Yikes! I hope storm season passes soon and leaves you and yours unscathed!
Noelle: I eat like crazy when I visit my parents too. It's the one good thing about living 12 hours away from them... fewer opportunities to overeat.
evening99: 8 hours of yardwork? Awesome! Not to mention inspiring!
Lacey: I'm sure a good bit of that weight is water retention/bloat from TOM. With luck it will melt off in a few days, especially if you up your water for a bit.
Annette: Ugh, it sucks that your parents were being such downers *hugs*. How rude of them.
Kerry: Fighting about money is never fun. Hope you and your guy managed to talk things through.0 -
Check in for Monday: 3124 Calories burned/ 2559 Calories consumed/ 565 calorie deficit. I'm hoping to keep my deficit around 500 calories this week so this was a good day. Hopefully the scale will start moving in the right direction.
Sarah: I posted on your thread with the pics but wanted to tell you here that you are doing awesome! Those pics really show a BIG difference. Keep at it, you are rocking it!
Kristina: LOL. Lost your girl boner!!
Lacey: That workout looks really good! It's good to change things up so you don't get bored.
Kerry: I'm sorry you and Chris are having a money argument. I'm sure that a conversation can straighten things out. Me & The Hubbs don't fight very often but when we do, I have a horrible feeling until we get the issue resolved.
Annette: I'm sorry about you parents' hurtful comments about how you look in your clothes. That's really mean.
Well, I'm off to run the dog. Have a good day ladies!0 -
A new day. A new week. A new attitude.......
Amy: Love the fact that you are running dog each morning - trying to work out if there is some way of adapting time with my fluffy hooligan - it will come.
Kristina: Hurrah for on line dating. I know a number of people who are really settled with partners met through the net so you go for it and have some fun.
Sarah: Congrats on the weight loss. Love your 'before and afters'. There is such a difference, no wonder you are feeling good. Keep it up!!!!
Kerry: Sorry aboutt he fight. Me and mine don't argue too often but it is soooooo horrid when it is happening. Money is such a pain. Big hugs to you.
Kendal: It seems impossible that so many negative things are popping into your life at present. There is a saying about the worries of yesterday being gone; the troubles of tomorrow are not yet here, so in reality we should concentrate on today because that is the only thing we can actively address - might help get you through this time as although it is Bible based feel it does apply to all.
Keep smiling ladies
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A new day. A new week. A new attitude.......
There is a saying about the worries of yesterday being gone; the troubles of tomorrow are not yet here, so in reality we should concentrate on today because that is the only thing we can actively address
I love this Annette! I'm using it to motivate my week. Thanks!!0 -
A new day. A new week. A new attitude.......
There is a saying about the worries of yesterday being gone; the troubles of tomorrow are not yet here, so in reality we should concentrate on today because that is the only thing we can actively address
I love this Annette! I'm using it to motivate my week. Thanks!!
Me too!!!!0 -
CPR training today... Yuck. Check-in for yesterday 2372 burned and 1852 consumed. The kittens are getting more adventurous. I've discovered the secret to Marty's heart - sliced roast beef. He purrs and follows me everywhere as long as I feed him - MEN...
Kerry - I hope your things are better with Chris and that you enjoyed "making up"...
Kristina - not sure what that group is but Bryan and I have total opposite tastes in music. He prefers Rap and I love country. We've agreed not to listen to our favorite in the others company. We compromise on 80s hits and current pop hits. It works for us.
Gotta run since training starts at 8 and it's an hour away. I'll catch up tonight.0 -
PS since this is post is in the 470s. It may flip soon. Remember that the thread will lock at 500 posts and a part 2 will be created...0
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Victoria: I'm so glad your kitties are getting more comfortable. The secret to ALL men's hearts IS good food, no matter what species of man we're talking about. My cat is particularly fond of Nacho Cheese Doritos for some reason. I started reading Outlander (isn't that a book you recommended?). It's fabulous!
Ok, I have a question for you all. I think I'm getting the hang of eating enough calories to create a 500 calorie deficit but how on Earth am I supposed to keep my sodium intake down? Please don't tell me not to eat processed foods as the only "processed foods" I eat is cheese. Seriously, I even make my own tortillas. I don't do processed foods and I don't add salt to anything. Some foods (cheese, milk, etc) has sodium and I can't avoid it. When my calories are around 1700-1800 a day, I'm able to keep to my sodium limit but when I increase it to 2200, I go over every time. What do you suggest and do you think it's a big deal?0 -
"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34
I know this verse very well
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I've discovered the secret to Marty's heart - sliced roast beef. He purrs and follows me everywhere as long as I feed him - MEN...
ROFLMAO! That was epic... :laugh:A new day. A new week. A new attitude.......
There is a saying about the worries of yesterday being gone; the troubles of tomorrow are not yet here, so in reality we should concentrate on today because that is the only thing we can actively address"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34
I LOVE it too, it will be my new motto as well... Could definitely use it today.0
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