Skinny Dippers! (Closed Group)

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I finally broke my 145lb sticky spot!! I am so excited! I honestly started to think I wasn't going to loss any more!! Official weigh in isn't till Monday but 138lb today!

That's so great! I'm glad you've made progress

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Love it!

Really bad day.. My dog is really sick. We are trying last ditch effort with IV fluids and renal diet but won't know for a couple days if the fluids will work. I definitely drank too much tonite and then made bad food choices. Hope to be under better control tomorrow. Wasn't hungry til I got drunk. Wasn't hungry at all, really. Just fell back on old habits. Also did some retail therapy I 'shouldn't' have. Off to have a hot bath and bed.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend! It's Thanksgiving this weekend up here in Canada, which as we all know traditionally means a TON of food, and potentially unhealthy food! I didn't want to go overboard, but I didn't want to spend my dinner calorie counting and picking at my meal. So, I didn't eat much throughout the course of the day (pretty easy when you sleep in til noon, hehe), and then I allowed myself ONE plate for dinner. I had a little serving of each of the following: turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, brussel sprouts, broccoli/mushroom/carrot/cheese casserole, hashbrown casserole, my Mum's amazing stuffing recipe that has been passed down for 70 years, and some root veggie medley that I brought (sweet potato, parsnip, onion, beet, rutabaga, acorn squash tossed in olive oil). Overall, I don't think this was too bad! I had two small glasses of red wine. ANNNNNND two small slices of pumpkin pie as its my ABSOLUTELY favorite! Complete with REAL whipped cream I feel pretty good!

I'm going to an early 90 minute yoga class with a girlfriend tomorrow, and hope to do a run later on in the afternoon - it'd be nice to break my mile, but we'll see. Regardless, I feel like I was able to practice the whole "moderation" mantra today, and that makes me happy. I don't have a weigh in until next Friday, and it will be the first time I've weighed myself since September 1st, so any kind of loss would be fantastic although I'm not hoping for huge numbers since my life for the past month 1/2 has been very stressful and busy. But I'll get there, and so will all of you! Keep it up. Cheers

Guys! Where are you! I miss you! :frown:

Well, today marks the end of the mile challenge week, and my mile didn't really get any better.. Still about 10 mins or so. But, I can tell my long distance running is getting SO much better. My stamina is truly surprising me. It took me 38 and a half mins to run 3.31 miles, and that includes some hills. It's hard for me to imagine myself a runner, but I'm loving it! I'm HOPING to start Insanity today (I tried to start yesterday, but my disks wouldn't work!! :mad: ). If I can't, I might just do a little circuit with the bf, maybe jump rope, push ups, etc., and to top it all off, yoga this evening. I wasn't happy with what I saw in the mirror or on the scale this morning, so I'm really trying to step it up.

As for this coming week's challenge, I'm going to take a different route. Weight loss is not all about working our *kitten* off and sweating until we die, there also needs to be a balance of sanity in our minds! So for this week I'm proposing to just take 20 minutes of your day to center yourself (but that doesn't mean a nap). Meditate, do yoga, go on a walk, write in a journal, etc. Try and stay a little bit active, but you don't need to break a sweat. Try and think of how you're feeling before and then how you're feeling after. I know that I've been super stressed lately and just need to prioritize my feelings, so I hope this helps all of you as well.

I hope you all haven't disappeared!

You know I'm here

I like this new challenge. I never give myself time to just... BE. So, looking forward to it.

I'm still here!! I haven't posted a lot but I've been reading everyone's posts and its been keeping me motivated!! This challenge is going to be great for me! I feel like life is constantly, go go go! and there's never a moment to stop and just soak it in

I'm sorry about my silence, as well. I couldn't run at the beginning of the week because of a weird muscle I pulled in my hip in tae-kwon-do Monday night, and then when I felt good enough to run on Thursday, I couldn't get a babysitter to watch my three kids. With my husband being deployed, I'm pretty much a single mom. I hate how my hip and babysitter issues sound like such EXCUSES! This week's challenge will be easier for me to do since my kids have to sleep at some point! I really have enjoyed reading about everyone's successes. And you know what? Even your failures! Because watching you ladies talk about a bad day, but then not giving up... that is great for me. You don't quit after a bad day or two. I love this group.

Hey everyone!

Thanksgiving weekend and eating healthy is a struggle!!!

I was good on Friday. But on Saturday and I Sunday I was way over. I went home for the weekend to see my parents and brother. Lots of turkey, mashed potatoes, perogies, gravy, vegetables, salad, pumpkin pie. I had been good Monday-Friday and thought that holidays are exceptions for going over. Do you all agree? I am planning on staying strong this week to make up for it. And I am looking forward to this week's challenge. I think I will take a bubble bath tonight and get rid of some stress from midterms (they start on wednesday).

Heyyy everyone!!! I'm still here, don't think I left you all! My Internet is down at my house (Verizon says our router is broken or something), so I have to do EVERYTHING from my phone, which suuuucks. I did pretty terrible this weekend, but when I weighed myself on Sunday it looked like I still lost weight, but I'm probably going to wait until weds to weigh in just to make sure it's consistent. I did run this week a bit, but didn't get to time it because everytime I went to the track, it was being used to sports so I just ran around the neighborhood. This challenge should be interesting because I've been studying Buddhism in my theology class and we've been doing a lot of meditation (sooo much harder to sit still then I'd thought it'd be), so I think I'm going to give that a try this week. Hope everyone is doing well!!!! Hopefully I'll figure out my computer/Internet situation soon! Deuces, dippers

Bit of a whine, ignore if you like!

This past w/e was *kitten*. I only exercised once last week and don't seem to have the energy for more. Teaching my 1 month class is exhausting and I don't seem to have anything left. I didn't get turkey this w/e with most of my family gone so I am somewhat sad about that.

My dog is very sick. I got to bring her home Sunday as I am a nurse and can give her needles for nausea and fluids. We had hoped she would perk up but she's in really bad renal failure. We have made the hard decision to take her in on Sat (so we can both be with her) and have her put down. This is literally breaking my heart. I am crying a lot and don't want to do it but she's sick and there is no real quality of life for her.


I have managed to make up for Friday's calorie fiasco when we got the diagnosis and,of course, will be staying with things but I know things are going to be incredibly hard the next week or 2.

Sorry for being so depressing but I really just have to get that out. My "puppy" (she still looks Ike a puppy though she is a month shy of 13 years) is my fur baby since we don't have kids. This is going to be brutal.