Weigh In June 3
Lastchancelj
Posts: 1,488 Member
SW: 238
LW: 187.2
TW 186.6
Headed in the right direction, but not enough.
So my trainer is going to be out of town for a couple of weeks and instead of wandering the streets (too hot to be in the mountains) I have signed up for a 21 day fat loss challenge at my friends gym and it starts on Monday. Oh Lordy - if this doesn't work, I'm just going to throw in the dang towel!!!
Still uber stressed but I think everyone is with all sorts of stuff..just seems to be in everyone's life right now. So....that's my current game plan.
So yep...that's what I've got.
LW: 187.2
TW 186.6
Headed in the right direction, but not enough.
So my trainer is going to be out of town for a couple of weeks and instead of wandering the streets (too hot to be in the mountains) I have signed up for a 21 day fat loss challenge at my friends gym and it starts on Monday. Oh Lordy - if this doesn't work, I'm just going to throw in the dang towel!!!
Still uber stressed but I think everyone is with all sorts of stuff..just seems to be in everyone's life right now. So....that's my current game plan.
So yep...that's what I've got.
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Hi, Lois,
It seems that everyone has vanished, and I didn't want you to think that I have, too! Like you, I forgot to weigh on my weigh-in morning (yesterday). I started work early and meant to take a break, and next thing you know, the day was almost gone. The same thing almost happened today. I didn't think to weigh before I ate, but I did weigh around lunchtime and it was 146.4.
Also, thanks for answering my question about Fitbit.
Your game sounds good to me. It's so easy to say, "Oh, well--he's gone so what can I do?" Instead you found something to do, and doing something different may be just shake things up.
It does seem that folks have been dealing with a lot lately. I know that I have been further off my game for the past three weeks than I have been in the past 5 years. I was sooo grateful that my walking partner was able to meet me at the mall on Tuesday night. We got in a great walk with more than 10,000 steps. She's having some health problems, though. Once or twice a week is all I can count on her for at this point, so I also need to look for something else/something new.
We're back to cool, rainy weather here for a few days. It feels more like early April than early June. The rain stopped for short time last night and I did my outside trek. It has been several weeks, and I'm here to tell you--slack off a little and boy can you feel it. "Killer hill" really felt like "killer hill" again.
Well, I took a short break but have some work that I have to get out before I call it a day. Sheesh, Kelly, Light, Cheryl--I miss you guys!!0 -
I'm still here, but just barely. We've been out of town a lot, and then had (still have) computer issues. I weigh the same
and I'm feeling unmotivated. My daughter in Boise is moving to Portland, Oregon. They're having trouble getting the deal to go through on the house they want to buy. They may have to bail on it, and find another one. They're dealing with an attorney representing several heirs, and he's impossible! He's 80 years old, and just ignores deadlines and doesn't respond. It's a really frustrating situation for them. And, I'm blue because they will be farther away. She had a moving away party last weekend, and I realized that I'm also mourning the loss of all the friends I've made through them in Boise. Sometimes it feels like life is just one loss after another, except when it comes to the scale!!
I was trying a new approach by doing more HIIT and weight lifting. I think it was working, but it's so hard and makes me sore! It's really a challenge for me to get motivated to do it. I was thinking it would be good for me to find some way to get motivated, like a class or a trainer. I thought hubby would join me more since he's retired, but it seems his idea of a workout is to go play golf . . fun, but not much of a workout for me. My friends here are all still working, and few even workout at all. I also think it's 90% diet and 10% working out. . so I don't know why I focus so much on that.
Anyway, it sounds like we're all seeking lately. And maybe that's a constant thing. Lois, I love that you were bold and signed up for the 21 day fat loss challenge!! And, Sarah, a new FitBit is probably just what you need to get you interested and having fun!! Let's all shake things up and see what happens
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Hey Sheesh. Glad to log in and see your post. Wow. An 80-year-old still practicing law! I don't know whether to be impressed or depressed. All I could think is that he must know the family well or be part of the family, or else he charges what he did when he was 50!
Change is hard, isn't it? A young friend recently told me to just keep thinking that change is constant, and change is good. So I'm trying to make that my mantra. I do think that my resistance to change is one thing that holds me back in a lot of ways.
I can't get my other half motivated to work out with me either, but his reason is hard to combat, as it's usually that his neck is acting up. It has only been a month or so since the last pain shot, and he's already having to get massages to manage the pain again.
I had to chuckle a bit at your comment about your working friends. I have the opposite problem. Many of my friends are retired, so they walk or workout during the hours that I'm stuck at my desk. No one seems to want to do anything at 7 o'clock at night!
Tonight we're doing volunteer work again to get a dose of gratitude, and then tomorrow, we're taking my friend who lives downtown on the Duckboat Tour of DC. She has always wanted to do that. So three almost natives--we've been in the DC area for 30 years--are going to join a bunch of tourists and hopefully have some fun!
Hopefully, I can walk before I leave out tonight. Last night, hubby said he'd have dinner ready at 6:30 so I could walk from 7-8 and still make an 8:30 commitment. When I got downstairs at 6:30, he was just starting dinner, so I ended up in the kitchen and didn't get to move hardly at all, all day. I had hardware/software issues all day and spent most of the day stuck in front of my monitor talking to the IT people. I think I walked less than 1000 steps. So got to run.
Have a good weekend, everyone. Laura?? Kelly?? Cheryl??
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Sheesh - Great to hear from you. I totally understand your comment and feeling of loss of the friends in your daughter's area. I feel the same way about my daughters friends in Honolulu. They become a part of your life through extension and it is sad. It's ok to have those feelings. With regard to the 90/10 ... i'm with you. I realize it is 90% diet, and yet I focus more on the workout part. It's harder to work on the food portion. And same with my friends....NONE of them like to work out. I swear I don't know how they maintain themselves. My trainer was my trainer BEFORE she was my friend...so she doesn't count. My hiking partner took me 12 YEARS to get her to hike with me. So I'm used to going places solo, which is probably why I prefer personal trainers over group class. Ah well.
This week has been a TOUGH week. Started with feeling cruddy and migraine on Monday. Hubby's car broke down and caused disruption to my flow and my chi on Tuesday-Thursday. And while I was cleaning my office last Friday, I lightly tweaked my back, but it decided to go full blown owie on Wed...so off to the chiro I went...and again yesterday. Today it seems to be holding, but I'm also wearing and icy hot patch that helps keep it calm. And, I'm stretching every hour to keep it loose. So I've not been hiking and was limited to walking around the park, which I still believe the trail is safer...between the cracks and the beetles and crickets I SEE on the sidewalk, it's enough to trip me. We've had unseasonable rain the past couple of days (weather channel says 0% and we get 1/4" overnight - today is 50% and we've got nothing so far after 8am). Go figure.
Tonight is weigh and measure for my challenge so I'm not looking forward to that AT ALL!!! Who likes to weigh and measure on a Friday NIGHT?!
Sarah - have fun on the Duck Tour. Sometimes being a tourist in your home area is fun. So many people from AZ have never been to the Grand Canyon...so.... (yes I have - three times and I hiked it ONCE).
OK ladies - get out there and keep moving!!
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still hanging in here too, though my weight has been so up and down that it was demoralizing. I'll have to admit that my absence was due to being in a funk and not wanting to share it... not to mention needing to do a LOT of things off computer and not having time to do it all (have not finished painting the house or redoing the popcorn ceiling on the porch but the lighting fixtures have been changed out, I've done some yardwork and the front porch was cleaned before I painted it). Been trying to stop for exercise on the way home, whether it be to add some steps to my day or stopping at the gym to swim (have missed a few planned swims). Decided to go back on the South Beach meal plan since that and exercise was what did it for me a few years ago and I am finally seeing the scale drop again. YEAH! Been trying to read some of my fitness books that I bought, started and then had to set aside due to time restraints a few years ago. Celebrated my 40th anniversary of the year I graduated from nursing school and was reconnected (online) with several people I haven't seen or talked to in all those years! Spent too much time online that weekend but it was all good.
So, that is my focus for this coming week- second week on South Beach with increased intentional activity/exercise and a bit more reading. One thing that stuck with me from yesterday's reading is how so many people want something for nothing. I guess I was taking that attitude with my weight loss. I wanted it but not bad enough to do what it takes to make it happen. I hadn't realized it in those terms...
SW 198
LW 182.6 (but I was up and down between 183-189 for the last several weeks)
TW 182.0
Forgive me for not responding to everyone but I am going to be late leaving for church if I don't get off of here now and get dressed... and since I am presenting the special music today, I can't be late
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Hey Light! Good to see you posting here. I've enjoyed your Facebook posts . . really enjoyed the pictures of your nursing graduation. . 40 years . . Congratulations! Good job on the weight loss too, and that you're back on plan with South Beach. I read that book a while back . . maybe I'll look at it again.
Sarah, we did a duck tour in Boston, but never did the one in DC. We want to get back there again someday soon. Have fun! Since retirement, hubby and I have done several "touristy" things here for our Tuesday dates. It really is fun! It's so interesting that it's your hubby's neck . . same as my hubby. He's had two surgeries, many shots, etc. It gives him fits. He had a massage in Boise (a great person there for him . . another loss for us) and he muddles along day to day trying his best to not let it affect him. Bless his heart. But, I always kid him that it doesn't seem to keep him from golf or fishing in Alaska every year with his buddies, LOL!!
Lois, you inspire me with your positivity in the face of setbacks! I don't know how you do it. It seems like things set me in a negative mindset too easily these days. I'm very grateful for many things in my life . . I just need to keep my blessings in the front of my mind. My goal for the week is to get my mind right.
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Light, I wish I had your home improvement skills. You're amazing. I remember the bathroom tiling a few years ago. I find that days when I do yard work or heavy housework that I burn a lot of calories--although perhaps those days are high in burn because they tend to be non-desk days, so I burn more all day long.
The conversation on the thread about activity versus diet has been helpful for me. I was aware but was trying not to acknowledge that my eating habits were deteriorating a little bit more and a little bit more. I started out my Bodybugg journey really paying attention to what I ate and how much I ate and when. Little by little, I started not doing the little things (e.g., taking my vegetables out before hubby adds the butter he loves), slacked on measuring food, allowed myself food that should be an occasional treat more often, etc. So Sheesh's comment about it's 90% intake and Light's question to herself about "why am I not doing what it takes to get what I say I want" really hit a cord with me.
So for the past 3 days, I have kept calories down and have eaten foods that are better for me (fewer sugars and fats). I need and plan to get the calories down a little further and continue with the focus on what I'm eating and when. I've gotten out the measuring cups and spoons and I'm turning on the scale more often. I don't know if it will show by Wednesday, but I know that it will show.
I think with all that has gone on this spring that I was allowing myself to think that the comfort and enjoyment of a bowl of ice cream or a bag of pistachios was somehow "needed" or "deserved." But what I've realized is that I'm back to dreading deciding what to wear. I'm also back to hoping that no one will take my picture because one of the first places that I gain weight is in my face. I don't want to waste energy feeling like that.
Well, ladies, it's back to work for me. Thanks again for your posts. They really help. Lois, I'm looking forward to hearing about your new challenge--and take care of that back!0 -
there should be a "like" button on here... "like" Sarah's new focus
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Thanks, Light. Now to just stick to it!!0
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