SAHMU 60 Day Challenge * Week 6* (closed Group)

So I just had the BEST night ever. Went out for a girlfriend's birthday BBQ and it was a lot of people I hadn't seen seen in a good 4-5 years. I was saying hi to everyone and NO one knew who I was, when I said, "Michelle Mann..." everyone was like "NO WAY!! I would never have recognized you, you look so skinny!" Wow talk about a confidence boost! Not 1 person recognized me

Hi girls!

Quiet day on the message boards. Hope everyone is having a great weekend and keeping up with the challenges. Please remember to update your daily calorie burn on the spreadsheet. Here's the link again for those who may have forgotten (cuz I know personally I have to search for it everytime! lol!) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnwPqv9GV3KzdEF1LXBGRGZHMzlvVGNrdk5WTXJKbFE&hl=en_US#gid=0

Have an awesome night and hope to chat with some of you tomorrow
Lynda

A few NSV moments I wanted to share. Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Went shopping with my super toned and fit girlfriend last nite. I've always been too ashamed to go clothing shopping with her b/c she takes such good care of her self and I felt so fat. Not that she ever judged me, she is way too sweet, in fact she has always been very complimentary of me, but still i was ashamed of me. Anyways, my work pants are all size 18 and slipping off my hips, and I have some big meetings coming up in the next few weeks so I had to get something that I wouldn't l have to constantly hike up. I called my friend and we meet at the mall. She hasn't seen me for a month and she was blown away by my progress! She was so proud of me! And even though I'm still way bigger than her, i was eager to have her help me pick new pants. I got a great deal on a few pairs of size 16 dress pants. Still bigger than I wanted to buy, but they were cheap and they fit well. In fact, as I was checking them out in the mirror, my girlfriend and the sales girl (who knew I had lost weight as well) were both raving about how good my butt and thighs looked.

And today I met my sister for coffee. She never gives me compliments. She usually just tears me down. Anyways, even she commented on how much smaller my butt is! yay!

Lynda,

Yeah it was a quiet day... Finally managed to be upto date on strength challenges atleast, but i doubt if I would really meet the calorie burn this week.. I still have three more days, but at the same time I cannot strain my foot... :-(

A goal is something you strive for; what's important is not necessarily whether you make the goal but the fact that you tried! I say way to go for hitting those strength challenges!!

I am really irritated with myself: I went to a friends for a BBQ; things were going well until dessert... ugh! Let the completely unplanned/ mindless snacking begin! Not the day I wanted or planned; gotta really look into that why- feel like I let someone down... I guess it's about refocusing, learning, and moving on; tomorrow's another day (I will keep saying that until I believe it).

I've been there too. I've always been a mindless snacker and a few weeks ago it snuck up on me and I was really mad at myself. I wasn't mad about the calories (actually I was still able to stay under) i as mad about the act of random eating when I wasn't remotely hungry. I beat my self up pretty good about it too. So i understand how you feel. If you don't mind, I'll share the philosophy I told myself when I started this new lifestyle 3 months ago :

Every day is a series of decisions. Each decision has the potential to be a positive or negative influence on my goal. What matters is that I try to make every decision a positive one; and that when I make a negative one, that I don't let it derail the rest of my day, week or goal. Every successful day is a series of successful decisions.

for me, telling myself that helps when I'm tempted. But it also gives me permission to mess up once and awhile and know that I won't derail my entire process.Cuz for me, being that I am an emotional eater, I used to diet really hard and then if I had one bite of something I shouldn't have, Id say, "well my day is ruined now! Might as well eat everything i've been depriving myself of and i'll get back on track tomorrow" except that when I did that, tomorrow never came and I would just gain back everything plus a bit and feel like a failure.

Light at the end of the tunnel? It DOES get easier!! I went to a movie with my fit girlfriend after we shopped the other day and since I had lots of room left in my diary for the day I bought some M&Ms. I figured I'd eat hte whole bag but after a small handful (maybe 10ish) I felt like I'd had enough. Too sugary. So I sat with the open bag beside me for 2 hours and didn't have a single one! The rest of the bag is now frozen in my freezer for the next time I need a little sweet fix. (also on a sidenote: Crazy Stupid Love = AMAZING! Actually laugh out loud funny. Did not expect that from the previews)

My point here is that while I understand being mad at yourself right now, don't lose hope and don't lose faith in yourself because it's really not the end of the world. A little dessert never killed anyone, all that matters is now is how you tackle all those little decisions today. Good luck!:flowerforyou: