Reboot Boogaloo, September - open group

I'd like to join in. I'm down 75 lbs since last October, and will be at goal in about 20-25 lbs (Haven't decided exactly what my goal is.) I did the gym this morning: 2 miles run/walk, 45 minutes weights, pushups, situps, stretching. Tonight I'll be doing karate for an hour additionally. I'd like to get my last twenty pounds or so off in the next three months. The weight loss has slowed as I've gotten closer to goal.

Hi friends, I'm Sarah J. I've been on this boogaloo thing before but under a different name. I'm a friend of Vivia's. I started with MFP last October and had success for about 3 months then crashed and burned. I'm back now, and have decided to try the Weight Watchers method. I've had some success in the past 2.5 weeks.

I like this group...not judgy and very welcoming. I hope you don't mind me sharing my trials and triumphs. I find most of my downfall is more about self sabotage than lack of knowledge about food and excercise. Ahhh those lovely demons...let's squash them together shall we?

with love
Sarah J.

TGIF!

Welcome Scarlett! Congrats on your weight loss! :flowerforyou:

V, did you make it to the beginners class?

Sarah, good to see you again! I also struggle with self-sabotage.

CP, yay you checked in! And good for you leaving work early today!

I did not work out as planned yesterday. My back is still hurting. I can't believe one small movement and my back is out of commission. Seriously? I did, however, log all my food. I went a bit over because I was hungry before bed so I had a very light snack.
Goals for today: Bible study this morning, try to get school room set up (homeschooling my son, starting in a couple of weeks), log my food, and some general cleaning. If my back feels okay I may try to do the P90X stretch DVD.
I was really hoping to get news yesterday about going to pick up "Miss I", but nothing. :ohwell: (For the new people, my husband and I have been working on a Russian adoption for nearly 3 years. Looong story short, we finally adopted a 5 year old girl in June, but she has been at an intensive therapy camp all summer and didn't arrive back in Moscow until yesterday. So now we are waiting for a date to go get her and bring her home. )

Thankful for another day boogaloo!

I ended up going for a super long walk yesterday. I am all nervous/wired up due to university craziness, and I was trying to get some of that energy out of my system. I still haven't heard, and now think that they may be trying to mess with my funding (my union contract says I get six years of funding, the department is trying to cut it down to five without reason or warning for some students, so I may be in for a fight I don't have energy or time for. . . hooray?)

Anyways, today is: placing calls to the department to try to talk to a human (total calls/messages left so far: 2, trying to get lucky and get some answers before the holiday weekend starts.)

Trying the beginning yoga DVD today.

Trying to clean up the draft today, so that I can send it off before the weekend is out.

Eating sensibly, despite the urge to stress eat.

And, that's enough. Mostly, my main goal is avoiding the urge to stress eat, which is very strong right now. I think this is the main reason that I hate September. It's not the going back to work, it's the stupid red tape that comes with it.

Red tape, boogaloo.:flowerforyou:

Hi everyone! Glad to see new and returning faces alike!

Welcome Sherry! Congrats on your weight loss! That's awesome!

Livi, glad you weren't abducted! I was beginning to wonder. Hope all the house work goes smoothly for you!

Mary, enjoy your family visit. You should have waited till Tuesday to come. It will be cooler then.

V, I hear you on the stress eating. That's been a problem for me lately too.

I logged my food yesterday even though I went 250 over when I went out to eat. Had I been able to work out it wouldn't have been a problem. My back still feels sore so I am still taking it easy. I didn't get to do the X Stretch yesterday so I may try to do that today. I already watered the lawn this morning, and I made a healthy breakfast (gluten free). I also have a few boxes to unpack that were left in the garage. And Alex needs a haircut, which I do myself because he likes it better than having someone else do it. I am also wanting to start a project, so I have plenty to keep me busy.
My project is that I have been considering writing a book about our Russian adoption. Three or so people have told me that we should write a book. I am really thinking about it and I may start on it today. It's not because our story is so extraordinary from other people's. It's because some amazing things happened and I want to share them. Also because I don't think people understand what the process is like or what it is like for these kids in orphanages all over the world. I have already decided that any proceeds would go to helping an orphan find his/her forever family.
We should be going in about 10-14 days to get our daughter from Russia. She is back from summer camp but they have to get her passport done and that takes that many days or something. We should hear on Monday (they don't celebrate Labor Day when we do) or Tuesday about when we are going! I'm getting impatient again. Hurry up!

Three day weekend whoo hoo boogaloo!

hi, i hope nobody minds me joing in your little group? its seems fun im lee, 24, from scotland.

trying to get fit and healthy as I seem to have piled on quite a bit over the last couple of years. Not really a newbie here as started a few months ago but hit a brick wall and began "stress eating" due to work stress (i feel your pain vivia). Aiming to be sexy for christmas so i can buy a new dress for the christmas night out and not hate every photograph im in next to all my thin friends!

Mechanic mom, I am very interested in your adoption. My mum and sister have just been over to romania to help in an orphanage and my mum now sponsers two little girls over there. they are hoping to raise money to build a new house for them. so proud of them both!! how old is your daughter?

Excercise-wise playing tennis tomorrow... tho the weather over heres been awful for this time of year so I think it will be with jackets in the rain oh well, have to move more to keep warm!!

Lee xxx

Morning, all.

First up, confession time: too much ice cream for dessert last night. So, fell victim to stress eating. Feel sort of gross this a.m.

Second up, may have solved a slight mystery. I think I am actually so stressed out I'm not eating during the day, thereby being starving at dinner time, thereby overeating then.

So, today's plan is to eat three meals (duh/derp) of actual good for me food. My slightly bizarre breakfast of half an avocado and a larabar is already down. To do the gorilla workout of the day (an iPhone app workout I'm doing, for the newbies to the group) and then to work, and go buy fruit and veg for dinnertime/lunch as said half avocado was only food in house.

CP, I really, really hope this is a case of the flakes, but I fear otherwise. I disaster think. It's a problem I'm working on.:laugh:

Still learning how to eat, boogaloo.:flowerforyou:

I didn't have time to post this morning! We are out at the in laws right now and will be leaving soon. Got a walk in. Windy and 82! Love it!
No news from Russia today. Hope it comes tomorrow. Getting antsy!

Quick check in boogaloo!

weird day. weighed in for Weight Watchers online and have lost 4lbs this week. And so what happens...I get completely and utterly depressed for the rest of the day and end up eating a big honkin piece of rich carrot cake. I did walk about 2 km today which is ok I guess. SO confused.

boogaloo bleh.
sj.

Why depressed? not enough? sometimes I get depressed over success, like it's a letdown, or I need to "celebrate" it in a weird way. Yesterday was a mopey day. Over now, and keep going. Today is a new, less depressed day, or something.

Today I have to go up to campus, and probably there isn't a fight. I have to go check a bulletin board for my assignment. Really? a bulletin board? is this 1897? Sorry, totally a first-world problem but it's a two hour commute to look at a bulletin board when someone could/should call or email me and tell me what I need to know. I could put it off until later in the week, but best to get it done. Blergh.

Off to positivity: today I will eat real food (went out and had pub food, including, interestingly a shared piece of carrot cake (maybe it was the fall T.O. air yesterday?) and drink lots of water and move to combat my own mopeyness. I think most of mine is uncertainty/change of seasons. I also have to get packing/preparing as I leave Sunday, which will be here soon. Yikes.

Real food, no more stress eating, and remembering to be gentle with myself because I am stressed.

That's enough for anybody, boogaloo.:flowerforyou:

WOW MM!!!! I am so excited for you. It's been so long in coming that it's hard to believe it's real and it isn't even happening to me. . .I can't imagine what ya'll are going through.

Here's hoping everything moves forward perfectly!

thanks for your encouragement! today was a better day, I walked over 3 km and did about 3 hours work prepping for my choir and other projects. I feel it has been a pretty productive day. Let's hope I can keep some consistency.

blessings to you all!
sj