Sisterhood HCP Week 7

I was 195 last week and am down 3 lbs to 192 this week! I also went to my personal trainer today. It had been 6 months since she did her initial evaluation. The scary thing is I had gained 10 lbs since she did that eval. Anyway I had improved in all areas. I lost weight, my body fat percentage went down 10 %, I was able to do more push ups and sit ups, I was more flexable and even was not breathing super heavy after a 3 min step test! I was just so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello hello!

Down two pounds to 165 :happy: Now i just have to keep it up this week,even though I am done writing my paper, I still have a research test thursday night and I take the first part of the bar on Sat morning :noway: . So my 24 hr days are packed this wk, I am hoping I will be able to keep up my workouts

Thompsons You are amazing! and the pics look fabulous, I can def see a difference! I am goin to have to measure this wk.

Kacee- have fun with the cows this morning, just think of it as a little extra workout before your weigh in :bigsmile:

Hope everyone has a great day :drinker:

Oh, and Pepamint - was going to say yesterday.... LOVE your pics of your walk in the snow with your mom!

I'm down to 198, so 1lb lost. ^^

Only 3 more till I reach my end of March goal. :bigsmile:

- And I'm sorry I don't post much everyone, I'm gonna work on that. :flowerforyou:

Goodmorning, everyone!!! It sounds like everybody is doing soooo great!!!
Christine-Your stats are awesome!!! I'm so happy for you.

I'm at my parent's house this morning... I had to stay the night because my mom had to drive to Anchorage for a doctor's appointment, and I watched after my grandfather. When I weighed myself on their scale, it's a 6 pound difference. I find that impossible to believe, so I am waiting until I get home to post how much I actually weigh... I have a feeling it's only going to be a pound or 2...:grumble:

I'll check back with you all later!!!

P.S. I played volleyball last night, and I burned over 1,000 calories in 2 hours!!!

Pep- GREAT job! I too cannot cut out cheese, but I am slowly working on cutting out bread (i already cut out pasta). It's difficult for me to eat a salad or cooked veggies without cheese :ohwell: Hopefully I will able to follow your lead with the six wks and ten pounds, I cant wait to be in the 150's!

Great job so far everyone :flowerforyou:

it as definetly hard to cut cheese out im not gonna lie but i had fish and chicken and chicken pattied from morning star farm and this week im gonna have tofu which i love...if you need recipe helps im really good and so is my mother. as for the bread im on low carb so thats not an issue i only eat brown rice low carb tortillas and this low carb bread and buns my mother found (you need any help just ask thats what i am here for :bigsmile: ) you can do it its baby steps thats what im learning.

thanks for the support im sooo happy :bigsmile:

Ugh... It's my TOM, to... I have to force myself to do exercise when it happens... Hey, do you think we're all going to be on the same schedule, like women who live together? I feel sorry for Mister Sister, if that's the case:noway:

If you don't care for really strong fish, try halibut. I don't know how spendy it is where you live... In Alaska, we get it during the fishing season, but it isn't fishy at all and is super easy to cook. Pretty much any white fish is good...

Oooo Ill have to try it. How do you prepare it?>

I am doing the couch to 5 k on the tredmil. I am on week 4 this week. It is kicking my butt. I am not sure if I will be able to run the whole 5 k because it is the end of this month. I think I will cut my time though. I plan on running then walking just like in the program. I walked one in October and finnished in 50 min. I hope to cut at least 5 min off that, maybe more. Then we have a 5 k in July and I want to run that one!

Also I eat Haddock(SP?). It is also a white fish and I love it! I hate fishy taste and smell. I probably don't cook it the heathiest way but I bake it in the over with a little bit of butter on top and it is so good and flakey.

I am down 2.6 pounds thats more than 2 and a half pounds this week im soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited im on cloud nine :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: i think it was cutting the cheese out completly this week (i will slowly let myself have maybe twice a week cheese but i am gonna try at least one more week with out cheese my goal was one month but i love it too much)

there are no words ive lost 2.6 pounds in a week and i am officially at 10 pounds lost (i could cry im so happy) ten pounds in less then two months i couldnt have imagines anything better im so happy but remember everyone slow and steady wins the race so no matter how we do dont give up just pick yourself up dust yourself off and start a new week with fresh eyes.


this week - 2.6 pounds
in 6 weeks - 10 pounds

xoxo
(ari)
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Yay Congrats! I know how much it means to see the scale move. So did you weigh before your cardio or earlier? Just curious if that is the difference. Also looks like you and your Mom had fun walking in the snow!

Deep breath..I know I"ve been bad about posting so I promised Ariella I would post at least once a week. First of all..I'm so proud of her..she's really motivated and is doing something that I think she can stick to for the rest of her life. :smooched:

OK..I weighed myself..last week I lost 1/2 a pound..this week another 1/2 pound.....for a total of 9 lbs lost...ta...da...

I am not upset because I know my pattern is to lose bits at a time..my metabolism is corpselike..I went through a whole barrage of tests a few years ago at Jacobi Hospital which is affiliated with Albert Einstein Medical school. I was sent there by an endocrinologist because she also couldn't figure out why I couldn't lose weight..so as long as I am not GAINING weight I'm happy. My clothes are fitting better though.:bigsmile:


I still can't believe we walked in this weather..I still like outdoors walking better than the treadmill but sheesh..it was about 15 degrees today..and yesterday...well..since I am a bit older than DD I had to cover my face while I walked. But we did it. We had so much fun walking yesterday...even though my drippy nose was freezing...and we almost broke our necks a few times...and had to high step through snow drifts..it was exhilirating...and my Goretex "ducks" weigh more than 1 lbs each..it was like walking with legweights through the sand..so it helped tone too..not to mention how accomplished it made us feel.

Ariella will verify this..and don't throw things at me..I have to force myself to eat three meals a day...but this morning right before the end of our walk I began to get lightheaded. I had eaten 3/4 cup of multigrain cheerios with 20 raisins and a total of 1 cup of 1% milk for breakfast, which was about 3 hours before we walked. So when I came home, I ate an orange..and felt better. I usually don't have a problem like this when I walk..so I wonder why this happened..why did my blood sugar drop so fast?

BTW...I think that when a woman gets to a certain age (like mois)....she has to chose between her butt and her face...if I lose too much weight I look like cruella deville...from the neck up only.....so I decided that my butt will be a little bit more substantial..(but well toned..doing squats and lunges and leg presses..etc).....but my face will be easier to look at..

Thanks for supporting me.:happy: .but even more so...thanks for supported my wondeful, beautiful daughter. I've never seen her so encouraged and so motivated..

Oooo Ill have to try it. How do you prepare it?>

There are so many ways to do it... You can bake it, grill it, cook it in a skillet with some olive oil... It really is versatile, because it tastes so mild that you can cook it with anything. I really like to make it on a grill with some rosemary; I would drizzle chunks with olive oil, sprinkle with garlic pepper seasoning, and then use rosemary to skewer it like shish-kababs(sp?). Then I'd grill it for a couple of minutes on each side. The only problem with that is that I can't find rosemary long enough to do it in Alaska. When we lived in Hawaii I grew my own, and the plants looked like hedges, they were so tall...:sad:

Pep- What type of fish do you cook. I got some grilled talapia the other day but I havent tried it yet. I am not the biggest fan of the fishy flavor so I have a hard time eating fish.

omg fish i live on it. you can do it with just salt pepper and garlic oh do it this way my fav


teriaki style

soy sauce and ginger


first add a little salt and pepper to the fish and put it in the pan to grill
when its done i do some fresh ginger in a pan (you can add some garlic as well) and when that is done i put in soy sauce and some water to make the soy sauce more than i need and then when its a little hot (youll see steam) i add the fish back in

oh my god i have so many but i havent made fresh fish in forever cosco has these fish packets salmon with spices and another one with paprika omg so good.


let me think and i will get you some great fish recipes (which you can also use on chicken)

Pep- What type of fish do you cook. I got some grilled talapia the other day but I havent tried it yet. I am not the biggest fan of the fishy flavor so I have a hard time eating fish.

Talapia is wonderful!! You can google talapia for a recipe...but I have blackened it, baked it...even grilled it (laying a couple of thick sliced onions down first)...YUMMY!! It has a really mild flavor. It's good with a mango salsa on top!! ;o) Enjoy experimenting!!

Ooooo thanks for all the suggestions! I am not the greatest cook so every little bit helps :blushing:
I have mango salsa in the fridge so i will def have to try that soon :happy:

I'm happy to see everyone is doing so well!

I'm not much of a fish eater--I hate the fishy taste and smell, but I love talapia! I like it Vera Cruz style. I'll have to try halibut. I've also heard swordfish is not too fishy.

Anyways, I was sick yesterday, so when I weighed in this morning I had lost 2 lbs! I'm still feeling a bit under the weather, but the good news is that my appetite is noticeably down.

Anybody ever take belly dance before? I took a class yesterday and man o man I am sore today! It's fun!!