Motivation, Success and Frustration Sharing!

My wife told me that I shoud not bother with planning the week and working the plan, because the first oportunity I get, I will eat out and throw away all of my efforts. This actually used to make me feel very unwilling to move foward with my health goals. Turns out that she is right, and it hurts me to have lost her confidence in me, and to have lost my confidence in myself. So I am "getting up again" and eventhough I may fall off the wagon again, as it is expected of me. I will not stop getting up. Even if I drink, and don'tgo to the gym, even if I brake my diet...I will start again and again...until I can achieve what I want. Like I said in the "about me"section, I see that the major deseases happens between the ages of 40 and 50...I am now 42....and nothing has happenend yet. It's bound to happen, and I want to stop it before it does. I wish myself luck, and let's go for it.

Well, we had a nice weekend but the weather still sucks. I sometimes hate the loopback on Facebook as this morning all my pictures are so sunny and nice, today is raining and cold - AGAIN.

We had a fund raiser on Saturday so I got to get all dressed up which does not happen often and actually had a glass of wine, totally off plan, but oh well I figured it was for a good cause as it costed $9.00. Other than the wine I am still going strong on the cleanse. I did fail on my goal to stay off the scale until Thursday morning and hopped on this morning. I am down about 6 pounds so I will take it!!

Have a great and cheerful day. Hopefully someone is enjoying the sunshine.

@health_guard - thanks for asking, the shoulders are getting better everyday. I am still working out, just modifying some stuff but spend the rest of the day just sitting. It is crazy how EVERYTHING we do involves out shoulders.

@Will2029 - you have the attitude you need to make this work. Don't get yourself down, you can do this!! Goodluck and when you feel yourself falling come back here, these boards are great.

Gillian - do you belong to a gym? They normally have the tools needed to measure your body fat if you don't want to purchase a scale. I also have the Fitbit Aria Scale...I love it...just not what is says

@47Jacqueline - how was the ride?

Good morning everyone! It's Monday! Officially time to get back on track! I didn't have a terrible weekend, and it was incredibly active. We unloaded one trailer full of rock, 4 trailers full of dirt and two trailer loads of sod. We worked out butt's off all weekend! Over 15000 steps both Friday and Saturday. (Close to 20,000) But-we are done with the house! I am so excited to stay home for a couple of weekends! My inlaws are coming to visit this Wednesday and I have no idea how long they are staying. But-I am back on track today! I lowered my calories again and I am going to do my best with sticking with it. I am GOING to make it to onederland! Have a great Monday everyone! Are y'all with me?

Happy Monday, lovely ladies!

Karen! 6 lbs!?!? That is awesome!! Yup, definitely take that! Congrats, that cleanse is working!

Dana - nice that you are finally finished the house! All that hard work paid off, and now you can step back and be proud of all that you've accomplished. That was a lot of travel and a lot of sweat equity, but you can relax now! Yay!

Rachel, glad you had a good time on the weekend. HA! Foodapolooza! I think I had that at my own house this weekend. Man, I am glad it's Monday (not really, but you know what I mean - get back to a routine). I'm ready to really get back at it now. It's been two weeks of being away, and being exhausted, and not following my diet and exercise plan like I want to. So it's now No Excuse Monday. I biked to work, brought a healthy lunch and have dinner planned. So I'm off to a good start. Plus, my coworker asked me to go for a walk at lunch! Sun is shining and it's a good day today.

Gill, I don't know how to figure out how fat I am... just have to look in the mirror and estimate! LOL. Today I'm estimating I'm 40% fat! hahah!!! No, but really, I wish I knew what my % was, would be nice to know and then check it again in a month or so. And your numbers are probably right, because you have been working out so much!!

@ChangeIsADecision Welcome back! Nope, we aren't starting a new page for sexy beasts who are killing it... just going to keep posting in our awesome thread.

My son moved home this weekend.... wow, what a lot of work! I actually went to the house and cleaned the kitchen for them. If you can imagine 3 dudes living together for the last 9 months and what that fridge would look like??? It took me over an hour to clean it, and it didn't even have food in it! YIKES!!! I think I get the mom of the year award for that! LOL!

Have a great day today - Make Monday Count!!!

Have you guys read the thread What's your most recent NSV under Success Stories. It is one of my favorites.

@bluepoppies777 i wish it was true but i have only just got to the "normal" weight range and the calculations say im 14% body fat and i just know that isnt right lol

Weekend with hubby away was great up until I had to work on Sunday. We had inventory and they asked me to help out. The only thing good about that experience is that I got 11400 steps in 8 hours. They feed us donuts which I had 2 of and then Jimmy Johns. That was a little healthier as it had roast beef, lettuce and tomato on it. Then Monday they feed us donuts again. Stop with the freaking donuts. I made tacos for dinner last night. And then went to Timbucktoo with hubby to pick up a bow (apparently you can never have to many bows) so that was a 3 hour round trip. needless to say I didn't make it to the gym. With the tacos and the donuts I was over my calorie intake for the first time in forever. Oh well today starts my killing it portion of the week. I just snuck in 5 pushups and I have 7 more to do. I will get them done before anyone else gets here. Im at work working har incase you were wondering. LOL

@jwagner1204 & @Tweaking_Time I sent you both friend request. Welcome to the group it is the best around.

@ShyCush6 I agree. why is it always nice while you are a work and when the weekend finally gets here the weather sucks. It was cold and raining again in Akron.

Hi ladies (and will! Our honorary man!) Sorry I've been MIA for a while! Read through 2 pages of posts, I'll try get to the others later!
I went back to weight watchers last week, started as a new member with a new leader so hopefully that'll help me get back on track! The class was Monday and I was having a great week....even prelogged some boldness for the weekend because I knew I was going out Saturday and Sunday nights (holiday weekend in Ireland!) but unfortunately I let my hair down way more than planned or expected and was extremely bold with food and alcohol! I had a great time though!!! I got up and punished myself with a fat blast class in the gym at 9.30 this morning so I'm back on the wagon!!!! I've a week to undo the damage anyway because of the holiday there was no class last night so not weighing til nxt Monday!

Hope you are all doing well, I promise I'll be better for checking in with you all this week!!