200+ Pushin' For Less Cushion!

Happy Tuesday ya'll. I'm back! Thank you all so much for the kind words and sorry I was so funktified yesterday. Chris and I have talked through everything and moved on to the "making up" stage.... my favorite stage of a fight. :blushing: Some of our closest friends are the type of people who fight pretty regularly, but they're really good at it- listen to each other, see the others side, don't say terrible and mean things to the other person, etc. Chris and I, not so much. We get there eventually, but at first it is UGLY. So I'm happy to say its over, we're better, I feel better. Phew.

Karen, I can't believe all the crazy weather you have been dealing with... sounds pretty stressful, especially since you're not even in your own home to be able to deal with everything.

Kristina, every single one of your posts since you have ventured into online dating has cracked me up. I think it is awesome that you are doing it, and I think you just gotta go with it, and be as selfish and as picky as you want. You literally have a sea of men at your disposal right now. I TOTALLY think you should meet the Dr. for coffee. What if you meet him in person and that spark you're looking for just shows up? You gotta at least try it.

Amy, I seriously have no idea how you are going to keep sodium in check. You do so well with pretty much clean eating, and at that many calories, sodium is gonna come into play no matter what. I haven't looked at your food diary lately, so I don't know where your sodium # is at... are you just over 2500 or is it like 3500? I think if you can keep it under 3000 and then just up your water intake, you'll probably be just fine. Plus at least you know you're not eating anything with salt thrown in just to make it taste better. Its all coming naturally. That's gotta be a good thing.

Victoria, I am super excited for you that the kitties are coming around and hanging out and playing. So fun. And I agree,
food is an all powerful God when it comes to men. It comes in handy.

Sarah, I posted on the progress post you put up, but I just wanted to say again that you look awesome and are doing awesome! Well done!!!

Crystal, I think having some sort of goal really has helped with weekend laziness for me. I REALLY want to make it through P90X without missing a day. I know so many people who started and didn't finish. So when Saturday morning rolls around and I'm inevitably a little hungover, I still manage to get my bootie out of bed and put in that hour or so of working out. Now if I could just teach myself some control over beer and food on a Friday or Saturday night, I'd be all set. We all have our struggles, right?

Today was day 1 of month 2 of P90X, so I got to do chest/shoulders/tris/ab ripper x. CLAP PUSHUPS! ONE HANDED PUSHUPS! Yeah, I might still be on my knees, but I'm totally doing them. One day, I will not have such a giant butt and I will do all of these moves on my toes. And it will be epic. In the meantime, I was still really proud of myself. Its super rainy out here so no cardio this morning, plus I slept for about an hour longer than I normally do. It felt awesome.

My parents are coming into town this weekend, which is awesome because: 1. I love my parents. They are some of my best friends. 2. That means I will get taken out to a fancy birthday dinner. 3. Usually I get my fridge stocked by them, which it is in desparate need of.

Alright, off to do some work... ... ...

Kristina - girl boner, lmfao! My advice to you is to go have coffee dude if you are on the fence about him! Its only coffee..half an hour of your life. At the worst the guy is a total douche and you get to walk away knowing you got free coffee (he'd better pay) and you killed some time, which should by rights make you feel all sorts of awesomesness about yourself because you know you are WAY too good for the guy. It would me. I can admit it. Now I'm not saying all of this and telling you to go uot to be mean to anybody to feel good, even though it kindof sounds like it. I'm saying go have fun. You have to kiss some frogs and all that.
At best, well think of the possibilties half an hour in a cofee shop holds. There are millions.
Honestly I don't know how much of a romantical spark you are going to get from IMing someone. Have you talked to any of them on the phone yet? People can be anybody they want to be on the IM...you have to talk to them and see them to really figure them out. As far as when to go...well I think its when you feel comfortable meeting them.


I'll jump back on here in a bit to reply to everyone else....I have a conference call. Sigh.

Kendall, I have that issue too! I'm trying to take my lunch to work, and "meals" are about it. I'm trying to mix it up with soups, but it's hard to find stuff I like, and keep sodium from being outrageous (as that makes me swell a bit, thus weigh more!). And I'm really picky, so I'm down to smart ones & progresso soup for most of my meals! I read what nutrition stuff I can find in Prevention Magazine & Women's Health. Their websites have a lot of the info if you don't want a subscription.

A year or two ago, I had tried the South Beach diet. I have the cookbook & everything. A lot of their recipes are pretty awesome, and easy to make. Just depends on your grocery budget, as it made mine go up quite a bit, b/c it wasn't stuff my kids really were into, so I fixed them other meals, while hubby & I ate the good stuff. ) I lost 15 lbs, but I found out I was pregnant with my Mellie, so we started saving money where we could...and back to the crappy food I went! But the recipes are worth it!


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This is easier than a new post, as nobody has posted after me in the past 20 minutes. My county is a state of emergency & giving out sandbags! Woo hoo! River is 5 ft above flood stage & expected to rise another 2 feet! My house is up enough that if it goes up pretty bad it shouldn't get in & ruin my stuff! :-P

Decided to change my weigh in from monday mornings to Sunday morning:) 1 lb loss... current weight 180.4 lbs

HAPPY EASTER ALL

Suzie

Kristina... I think you completely dropped me from the weigh ins!!!! I am sure it was just a slip.. but I reported my weigh in on Sunday instead of Monday. The thread is moving too fast.. so no sweat.

Suzie

I'm soooo proud of myself I am officially lost 16lbs since my physical last month. Never thought I would lose weight now I don't want to stop. Heading to the Y in the next hour to push myself a little more!!!!\

I know I haven't started with everyone else but my starting weight last Tuesday was 235 and my weigh in today was 230!!!! My weigh ins with my consultant are on Tuesdays so that's the only time I can give you my weight.

Hey everyone! Pushin for less Cushion woooo!!! This challenge ends May 8th..42 days.

Goals:
1. Log all food and be a bit lofty with cals so I don't underestimate.
2. Get in 63 miles of cardio...treadmill, elliptical, bike, etc. That works out to 1.5 miles per day.
3. Get minimum 500 calorie deficit overall per day.
4. Lose 1 lbs per week.

sweet.. i may need a reminder that the new challenge starts May 9th.. i plan on starting that week for summer since ill be done with finals that week!!