200+ Summer Meltdown!

Hailie: Hiya, girl!! How you doing??

Kendal: THAT IS SOOOO COOL!!!!! U gonna take him up on the offer? (U better take him up on the offer!!!)

I just got done doing Zumba on the XBox Kinect and it. was. freaking. hard. I burned 256 calories in 20 minutes. WOW.

hey girlies, hope you all having a good weekend, eh im taking a pass on this weeks weigh in:embarassed: , but back on the band wagon tomorrow, im debating walking to the gym to have a swim, will probably die of exhaustion but hey ho itll be me out of the house lol

It took me almost three hours to clean the office up and get it ready for P90x. I have four huge things of trash, three bags of books, a printer, some pic frames, about $2k in scrapbook stuff and some more stuff to put in the yard sale next weekend. If I am feeling ambitious next week I might make some themed scrapbook packets and try to sell them on etsy to make a bit more money. Thats a bad hobby to lose interest in. I did a lot of it for a good four years and now I don't have the time or patience.
After I got that done the fam was hungry so I hopped in the shower and we went to a new to us restaurant in town in this little house. Its like my perfect restaurant with great drinks and foods..I had a crepe filled with chevre, chicken, mushrooms and spinach. I could have totally lived without the chicken. And I had a lavendar infused lemon drop. It was awesome.
Jeff and I made a deal that that was the last meal we were going to eat out until we go on our trip in a month. It will be easy for him, hard for me. Yikes!
Then I went to Trader Joes and got some groceries and now we are home. I watched the P90x intro video, attempted a pull up - ha. Ha. Ahhahahahhahahahahhaaaa yeah. right. LOL. I might have to start off using a chair or the res bands I got, but thats cool. The rest of the fit test I can do no problem. I might have to do some of the push ups from my knees but I can do a couple regular style which is cool, I will get there.
Anyways, thought today would be the day but we are out of time and gonna watch Diary of a Whimpy Kid now with G before I pass out for the night.


Amy YEAY for completing Insanity!

Kendal - enjoy your boy!

I've let myself become super dehydrated the past few days, mainly drinking diet mountain dew. Headaches, dry eyes, constantly tired and constantly thirsty.....I just chugged a bottle of water and I already feel slightly better. Didn't get any grocery shopping done today so that (and cooking) will be tomorrow. I'm going to cook (and freeze) some breakfast omletes and breakfast quesadillas so I can just take them in to work and heat them. More protein and something different. I'm going to up my cals to at least 2000 while I'm doing c25k and p90x. Part of me wonders if I've gone into starvation mode. Oh well. I will change stuff up and see what works. I also will probably get some protein shakes to add in to my day.

Hello All. Remember me? Have finally had chance to catch up with thread. Will obviously not be able to respond to all but a couple of things stood out:

Victoria: Thanks fort he advice re running. We decided to aim for the endorphins - and a slower pace - and it was like a switch turned - we jogged continuously for the two and half miles which we usually break into sections. Hurrah. Only issue is, now we want to do something different as we feel we have met that goal.....With regards to your hair - looking forward to photies - I wish I could find a hairdresser who would take control - they are the ones trained and working with hair all day yet they want me - imaginations worse nightmare - to come up with the plan re what to do. Hence - same hair style as when I was a teen - only difference, I need to add a selection of colours as for some reason my natural colour is fading.........

Tae: enjoyed the thoughts of getting out of good/bad thinking with need to just 'be'. that sits much more easily with my general life philosophy, weight and food intake just seems to bring out the worst in me. Really sorry to hear about your mum and the fact that you can not share the concerns and worries withthose close to you. To re-iterate what others have said - we are all here for you and for a survivor story, my sister in law left her lump to grow to the size of a tennis ball before seeking medical advice. Several operations, reconstructive surgery, varying amounts of chemo, radiotherapy and drug intake later, she is due for her five year check this year, following which she is back with the rest of us, same %age chance of occurence. It is nott he horrendous diagnosis it used to be many years ago. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

Kendal: way to go on the wieght losses you have had - obviously much is to be said for pre-planning and pre-cooking - keep it up. You also made some comment re exercise - it is so so important not to get bored with the exercises chosen - make sure you find something that is fun - it will keep you going. And, good luck with the chap you met at reunion - if nothing else, enjoy the comments - gorgeous is good!!!!!

Kerry: really enjoyed the roller blading. Need to get cofidence to go by myself. The seafront is only about 40mins away so not too bad. need to find a free day, when it is not raining and there are no chores to do......

Crystal: so sad to read your commetns er your fella. May sound twee but person you need to love is yourself - not in a selfish, not interested in anyone esle kind of way, but in a way that means it is okay to live with your daughter and be happy with your own company and interests. This will lead to you not needed to be grounded by someone else and if you meet people who treat youlike trash, you can move past as you will know that this is not what/who you are. Prayers are with you to find the strength to move on.

Hailie: so pleased prom went well - looking forward to the photos.

Suzie: some time back you made a comment on the number of pages ebing overwhelming- I am with you on that one although it is lovely to have so many new people and to read/hear about how everyone is doing. I really need to get into a routine of reading and posting daily - actually, as this was one of my goals for this thread, must get it sorted.

Mrs Marvellous: (sorry have missed you name somehow) - many congratulations on the grades - you must be very happy.

Amy: really did laugh audibly when reading the story about uphill running with your dog- my 11 year old was not impressed!!!! Am in awe of the number of house moves you have undertaken. I think I will have to resign myself to being in this house for the rest of my days. Some financial issues but mainly, Hubby can not bear change and sees no reason to move - what we have fulfills all our needs and there is no real argument with that.

Lacey: have sent yo ua friends request as would love to see the photos. Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family re baby diagnosis.

Karen: this house was obviously not meant to be. There will be a reason - just not obvious yet, and may not be for some time. Do not give up hope, there is a house out there with your name on it.

As for me. Weight this week 183 - think that is the same as last. However, since then I have been an eating machine - even making cheese scones and eating all but one of them - why oh why???? Decisoon already made that I will take a pass next week and aim to go no-where near the scales until this erggh, has passed. I must take control. I must take control.

Has taken several hours to read and respond and I have no energy lef tto re-read my post to correct any typos, so apols for all that are there.

Pleased to be back with you.

Annette

this always happens. Any time I weigh in, I weigh less sometime over the weekend. (214.2 today). Doesn't count though. Hopefully I can maintain or drop more by next weekend. This will be my first week of c25k+p90x so hopefully SOMETHING will happen.

So, woo! Lots to read, lots to read!

Thanks everyone for the kind words on the weight loss! You're all awesome and this thread is super inspiring to keep going!

That being said, this weekend has been a total disaster, eating wise. It's been a lovely weekend otherwise, but I can't even begin to think about how log what I ate yesterday. YEEEEESH. Needless to say, the BF and I woke up yesterday morning and decided to eat like crap for no good reason. I blame the rapture!

Oh well, moving right along... Back to logging the calories today!

whose got 2 thumbs and is a raging biznatch???
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this girl.

Amy-you're allowed to have the raving days! Casey has Gabe's issue...only in reverse...he can play forward, but chooses not to...by not running! If he does run & stretches out those impossibly long legs (5ft tall 9yr old) he's GONE & the others are in the dust! LOL! So the coach lets him be happy at goalie, where he gets 90% of what's aimed his direction, except for the REALLY high ones...that NO kid ever gets, or the other side of the net ones! LOL! I know 2200 cals is a lot, but if the defecit is over 500, maybe your body just really doesn't like that? Or....stay away from evil scale & use the tape measure!! :bigsmile: You're working so hard, I'm sure you're building lots of muscle, & lowering body fat %!! Esp since lean muscle burns more fat!! So if the scale sits there, doesn't mean you're not having results! There...off the soapbox now. :OD

WTG Jenn!! 2lbs is awesome!

Kendall-I do the same thing!! Loss during the week/weekend...come weigh-in time...nuffin! :-P I should be cooking myself stuff for lunches at work right now, but I'm enjoying the fact that the 2yr old is asleep & the boys are with Papa!! It's QUIET here!! LOL!!

Nava-I'm with you on bad eating weekend! But I'm weirded out that the stomach isn't hurting? Maybe was a fluke? I sure hope so! LOL! Let's hope we're still close enough come weigh in!

Victoria-I'm sure you did just fine being under! )

OK, gonna get off here & be LAZY & enjoy my quiet! Maybe a nap....I'd go outside & walk, but if baby girl wakes up, I need to be in here. And Zumba shakes the whole place...so *sigh* have to wait.

Ok, will someone PLEASE find the magic words to KICK MY @SS! I don't know what my deal is but I do great all morning but by the afternoon/evening I just give up. My "I don't care anymore" attitude is coming back with a vengeance and I don't know what to do to get rid of it. And to think, last week I was so proud of myself and the last 3 days I'm all like "whatever, I'll eat everything I can get my hands on because I'm sick of all this trying nonsense." So not only have I ingested at least double (if not triple) my daily calories the last three days in a row, but I also have not gotten off my butt and done any sort of exercise. I just don't feel like it. *sigh*

Even though I can sometimes see the progress (it's hard when you see yourself everyday), and I've seen the lbs drop off, I just feel fat lately. Like this isn't going to get me anywhere anyways. I know it's a bad mentality to have, especially before I've even reached a plateau yet, but BLAH. Someone beat me, kick me, tell me something to get me goin' again... :grumble:

Unfortunately, I have proven to be a bad @ss kicker when I can't even kick my own... And I have no one and nothing to blame aside from my own negative attitude. But hey, at least you got that far! I wish I had even made it out the door today... You're ahead of the game!

I weighed in at 204 on Saturday morning- a loss of 2.5 lbs after a month of losing nothing- woo hoo!

~Jenn

It is now Monday. A new day. A new attitude. Long may it last.

Have got my head round there is no need to get wrapped up in good/bad, the important thing is to be. Goes back to think of today, yesterday has gone, tomorrow has worries of it's own, today is all we can deal with. Long may this last too.

Kritsitna: weigh in fof this week - 183 and am going to take a pass on next week. I know I posted this earlier but decided did not want you to have to search for it.

Enjoy your day all

Annette

Amy - Thank you. *Hugs* I hope the icing and stretching makes you feel better really soon!

I'm trying to just find the oomph and motivation to keep going. Obviously the 20 lbs I've lost since April proves that I can do it, I think it's more of my attitude than anything. And given I've always been an emotional and boredom eater - well there's the answer. I'm trying to make this lifestyle change for the sake of my daughter so she can learn better habits than I did, but when I lose focus on all the reasons that I'm doing this, it just doesn't seem to matter anymore. Hopefully my personal trainer can knock some sense into me, but lately it's just been a session with her and I go right back to the mindset I was at before as soon as I step foot outside that gym. Maybe some better weather would help too...

:bigsmile: it went VERY well with the boy yesterday. He spent about 2-3 hours chopping up the cantelope and sweet potatos for me. I was sick of being in the kitchen by that point so we hung out and watched some tv after that. I ran out of containers for all the food I made so he took me to walmart. It was kinda late so he went by taco bell and got him some food. Apparently he's one of those skinny dudes who can eat as much fast food as he wants and yet he stays skinny. I decided to have a "Sloppy Jane" that I made from a Hungry Girl recipe and MAN was it GOOD! I didn't get around to making any omlettes but figured I could do that tonight or tomorrow.

I realized yesterday that I am SUPER CLOSE to my lowest weight back in December (it was 213.8). That made me do a little dance.

So the recipes I made yesterday: sloppy janes, crock pot chicken marsala, turkey chili mac, mexican chili and chicken pot pie (another hungry girl recipe)