Over 200 new Year New Me Part 50

Allison, I either run at the gym on the treadmill or outside around Marcus Garvey Park. The park is 0.8 miles around and the OCD in my likes to know how far I'm running/walking, so I like to keep track there. I've run in Central Park a few times, but it's about a mile from my place and the getting to/from can be a bit of a pain.

I've done the Shred and I like it. I sweat like crazy and I definitely feel it. Make sure you add some stretching at the end of the workout because I don't think she does enough to counter all the work you've done.

Just wanted to let everyone know that I am not going to be here for a couple of days. I hope that this will not affect my 2 pound goal for the week. We are headed for the coast and we will be eating fresh bread, creamy clam chowder and sea food.:explode: That is how I feel about it. But we will be walking for hours and hours so that will be good. This is the first time that my husband and I are getting away ALONE in 13 years.

Have a WONDERFUL time!

Oh momma, that sounds lovely!! :smooched:
(or, it would if I didn't hate seafood )

Enjoy!!

Sherry, that sounds wonderful! Enjoy the time....and the pilates! :blushing:
Allison, I love that you're kicking it into high gear again and that you had a great time last night. Good choices!!
Deb, DRINK WATER!
Teresa, keep on the water and the weight will go down!

Checking in for Monday
Cals - Over by 86 w/exercise - not too shabby!
Water - 96 oz - CHECK!
Exercise - Walked my usual mile commute
Proud - Made good choices last night at dinner - stayed away from the potato salad, didn't have seconds on this amazing cheesy leek gratin...so good!

Hmm, looks like I forgot to check in here yesterday! Wonder how that happened.

Sweetie: Welcome to the group!

Sherry: Thanks for re-posting the goals. Have a great time with the hubby!

Jess: I hope everything goes well with the new guy! Last night I had a dream that I was running a half marathon and had to wait for them to post a check-in time to continue the second half (weird, I know), but I was looking around asking "where's Jess. She was supposed to be here." I have no idea where that dream came from, but apparently we're supposed to do a half marathon together after Warrior Dash! haha.

Julie: Love the website link!

Allison: I've done 30 Day Shred workouts, but didn't stick with it the whole time. Personally I like Level 2 better than Level 1 because I hate push-ups. They're good workouts, but I agree about having to add a lot more stretching at the end. I think it was Laila that stuck to the program the longest and would have the best input. Cris also did some 30DS.

Checking in for the weekend.
Calories: OVER
Water: UNDER
Exercise: CHECK
Proud: That my horse loaded and did awesome on the trail ride!

Monday:
Calories: Over
Water: 9 glasses
Exercise: None
Proud: Spent time with friends instead of going home to do laundry.

Good morning!

Jess: You can totally do a 5k! We should train for a half marathon and meet Julie somewhere (and anyone else who wants to!) next year. Just something to think about...

Allison: Thanks for the tip on Skinnytaste. I'm going to check it out and see if I can find something fun for the holiday weekend. My boyfriend would be thrilled if I did some cooking for him. Being domestic is truly the fastest way to his heart. He doesn't expect it, but he appreciates it more than anything else I could for him. He's adorable like that.

Lauren: Thanks for the tip on the spinach dip...it would be perfect to take for a 4th of July party! You ladies are super helpful!

Checking in for yesterday:
Calories: Over...couldn't resist the DQ ice cream! I'm seriously addicted to ice cream.
Water: 8 glasses
Exercise: None
Proud: Got the medium strawberry sundae (9 WW points) instead of one of the delicious blizzards (16+ WW points). Small win, but I'm counting it!

Thanks for the tip on skinnytaste, it looks good - I'm going to share with friends.

checking in for yesterday:
calories: over - I find it hard to stay under when I have no exercise calories to use
exercise: none - was a much deserved day off
water: short
proud: made pretty good choices

Had a successful shopping trip for clothes - first time in a very long time that I was actually somewhat happy looking in the fitting room mirror. I've been wearing size 24 for a long time but bought all size 20 today! (we won't mention the size 22 pants that wouldn't zip up ... that brand must be wrong!!).

Well that was annoying. I had a whole post typed out and got kicked out of the MFP...I'm guessing the server reset at work.

lstpaul: Congrats on the shopping success! Those size 22s were obviously mislabeled. As for me, if I fit into a 10 in one brand, I consider myself a size 10. No one needs to know differently.

Allison: I'm glad you'd like to join for a half marathon. Do you like how I volunteered Julie and Jess?

Speaking of Julie...we're waiting for a baby update!

Checking in for yesterday:
Calories: On target!
Water: 8 glasses
Exercise: 3 hours volunteering
Proud: I had two beef sticks instead of ice cream as a post volunteering evening snack. The boyfriend and I snacked on watermelon while watching the episodes of The Voice that we missed earlier this week.

If I go MIA, it's because I'm off work tomorrow through Monday and don't know how much computer access I'll have. I will weigh myself tomorrow morning and check in as soon as I can get on a computer. If I don't see you this weekend, have a wonderful 4th of July holiday!

Hey ladies, I am back!!! We had a really great time. We mostly walked on the beach, walked to the lighthouse, walked to watch the surfers, walked to lunch...are you getting my theme walk walk walk.. So fun and romantic. We got there really early and could not check into our hotel until 3 so we were just some walking fools. We were getting tired and wanted to check into our hotel but we could not, we felt like we were homeless with no where to go. At one point I thought maybe we would join a group of drunk locals and harass tourist but since I don't drink we decided against it.:laugh: Any way we had a wonderful time. We got up Wednesday morning and had breakfast then walked on the beach. I told my husband I could take a morning stroll in the sand everyday. Also as we walked down the pier (during our morning beach walk) We saw a pod of dolphins go by. Here I am a CA girl who has spent a ton of time at the ocean, even lived on the coast briefly as a small child and I had never seen dolphins in the wild. It was so exciting. Also, had a very large Pelican just sitting about 3 feet from me lazily staring at me. He was as large as a 3 yo I think. I know blah blah blah...Just saying I had so much fun. I hope that I meet my goal of 2 pounds for this week. Make sure we all remember to post our goal for the week tomorrow morning and if we met it.

Also, in wonderful news my son told his teacher a story about something he did at home with his sister and the dog across the street. She was soooo excited as was I. Heather, as a person who works with children who have autism I know that you would understand how huge that is.:flowerforyou:

Hey ladies, I am back!!! We had a really great time. We mostly walked on the beach, walked to the lighthouse, walked to watch the surfers, walked to lunch...are you getting my theme walk walk walk.. So fun and romantic. We got there really early and could not check into our hotel until 3 so we were just some walking fools. We were getting tired and wanted to check into our hotel but we could not, we felt like we were homeless with no where to go. At one point I thought maybe we would join a group of drunk locals and harass tourist but since I don't drink we decided against it.:laugh: Any way we had a wonderful time. We got up Wednesday morning and had breakfast then walked on the beach. I told my husband I could take a morning stroll in the sand everyday. Also as we walked down the pier (during our morning beach walk) We saw a pod of dolphins go by. Here I am a CA girl who has spent a ton of time at the ocean, even lived on the coast briefly as a small child and I had never seen dolphins in the wild. It was so exciting. Also, had a very large Pelican just sitting about 3 feet from me lazily staring at me. He was as large as a 3 yo I think. I know blah blah blah...Just saying I had so much fun. I hope that I meet my goal of 2 pounds for this week. Make sure we all remember to post our goal for the week tomorrow morning and if we met it.

Also, in wonderful news my son told his teacher a story about something he did at home with his sister and the dog across the street. She was soooo excited as was I. Heather, as a person who works with children who have autism I know that you would understand how huge that is.:flowerforyou:

Sounds like you had a great time, and did great with exercise too with all your walking! That is fantastic about Ryan!

Momma -- I'm so glad you had a wonderful time!! And how fantastic about Ryan telling the story to his teacher!

Heather -- Yes, I'm in on the half-marathon. Um, though I'm pretty sure it's gonna be a while since I was only up to 4 miles before I got pregnant and now I can hardly walk up 2 flights of stairs without getting winded. :laugh:

lstpaul -- YAY for smaller clothes!! I can't wait to start going in that direction again.

No baby yet. But way TMI warning, I am having bloody show (and wow, I really wasn't prepared for the level of grossness that entails)! Like pretty much everything else with pregnancy, that may or may not mean anything. :laugh: I was just a little more than a centimeter dilated & still about 75% effaced at my appointment yesterday. So we're still just sitting here waiting in baby-could-come-at-any-time mode. I kind of have my fingers crossed for this weekend but I know it's likely not to happen. I'm planning to get up early on Saturday to take the pit pup for a long walk before it gets too hot to even be outside. Maybe that'll get things rolling. Probably not.

It sounds like you will have a baby soon! How exciting! I just realized that I may miss the event as I'm on vacation all of next week and may have limited access to the internet, I hate to miss the event! I'll be thinking of you!

Julie-How exciting that she could be here any day now!! I hope you get your wish and she comes this weekend. I can't imagine being pregnant in this heat!

Momma-It sounds like you had a fabulous vacation!! And what a great accomplishment for Ryan! :flowerforyou:

lstpau-What are your vacation plans?

What's everybodies plans for the 4th? I'm going to the lake for the weekend with some friends. Don't have to worry about eating out this weekend. Everything will be cooked on the grill! It's portion control for this girl this weekend.