Summer 2009 WILL Be Different Challenge!
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This weekend wasn't the best because I got some visit at home and they brought the meal which is super nice of them but then I couldn't choose what I was gonna eat. It was lasagna, brocolli salad with bacon and mayo, and a triffle which I now know that I don't like. I just feel too bad to let people know that what they made wasn't to my taste I feel like I would be hurting their feelings. And also I din't get to workout. And now on top of it all this morning my motivation is running low. Hope the rest of the week will be better cause I really need to see the numbers go down.
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Hello all! Sorry to hear about those crazy comments! I honestly don't understand what goes through some peoples heads sometimes. It's like they don't know how to think before they open their mouths! Keep your chin up! Today is a new day and the weekend is long gone! You have accomplished so much all ready!
This weekend was pretty good for me. Went to the gym both Saturday and Sunday. Sticked to my food plan and tried hard to eat all my fruits and veggies. Going to the gym after work today. I really need to see the scale drop this week. My motivation is kinda running a little low too....
. Thankfully I have a very wonderful bf who gave me a great pep talk on Sunday and I am going to focus hard on exercising and eating right this week! Not to mention getting in all my water! :drinker:
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I've gone to the gym... thursday.. saturday.. and today! yay!
even without my partner... Been doing well with food.. except yesterday... went to buffet.. 
but it was so yummy... haven't been to one in ages.. and after yesterday.. probably won't go for ages again.
I jumped on the scale at the gym.. and I don't think I'm going to base everything strictly on numbers... but it said I was 5 pounds heavier than my wii fit board... and 3 pounds heavier than our home scale... so I'm going to go off of it from now on... probably more accurate. But it put me back in the 160's! 0 -
People can be so rude! Dont let them get to you. Your making sucess just by commiting to a healthier life style. And dont worry about the little upset binge as long as you realized you did and it didnt happen for as long as the last one Just get and smile and know you look great and your doing your best and as for him he can stick it where the sun dont shine!
And a great week to everyone!0 -
Thanks for the support everyone! :flowerforyou:
I really needed the kind words!
Some people just put their foot in their mouths sometimes and just don't realize the impact of their words. Oh well. Moving forward!
Today I am back on track. Ate very well and exercised today.
I'm considering ordering ChaLean by beachbody..has anyone ever tried the program?
Summer 2009 WILL Be Different!
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Hello all! Sorry to hear about those crazy comments! I honestly don't understand what goes through some peoples heads sometimes. It's like they don't know how to think before they open their mouths! Keep your chin up! Today is a new day and the weekend is long gone! You have accomplished so much all ready!
This weekend was pretty good for me. Went to the gym both Saturday and Sunday. Sticked to my food plan and tried hard to eat all my fruits and veggies. Going to the gym after work today. I really need to see the scale drop this week. My motivation is kinda running a little low too.... . Thankfully I have a very wonderful bf who gave me a great pep talk on Sunday and I am going to focus hard on exercising and eating right this week! Not to mention getting in all my water! :drinker:
Check in later!
Great job sticking to your healthy lifestyle this weekend! Are you keeping track of your measurements as well? I know for me I lose inches before I lose pounds....its nice to see some inches down even though the scale is being stubborn.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who hit a motivation low this weekend. :sad: I missed my kickboxing class on Saturday, and I missed being able to balance my eating with those 700 exercise calories! I kept meaning to do Jillian Michael's shred workout routine, because it's free on my cable tv service, but never did .:ohwell:
So today I went to the gym at lunchtime, and did circuit training with my arms, shoulders, and back, lots of crunches, a couple of push ups, and 20 minutes of walking on the treadmill, with four 1 minute intervals of jogging. I REALLY, REALLY JOGGING! But I got some good advice about putting the treadmill at an incline so that it won't hurt the front of my shins so much - and it worked! MFP rocks.
The rest of my week is set with my favorite classes at the gym: Step Aerobics tomorrow, Yoga Wednesday, Spinning Thursday - got to buy a seat pad - ouchy on the tush. So I'm still hopeful for progress on Thursday's weigh in.
Anyway - motivation doldrums completely stomped by working out today. :bigsmile: Take that stupid little inner voices that are so paranoid about finally making serious weight loss progress!
And I can't believe how non-supportive people can be, just from not really thinking about what they are saying. I was reading another post about a woman who eats 5 small meals a day, instead of 3, and her coworkers say to her - "you're eating again? I thought you were trying to lose weight?". Can you imagine?
Anyway, Chin Up, and Keep on Truckin' - THIS SUMMER WILL BE DIFFERENT!0 -
hello everyone!
i did OK this weekend. i stayed within my calories just fine, but i didn't exercise AT ALL.
As for this weeks challenges:
# 1. sounds good!
# 2. hmmmm. . . i teach dance until varying hours of the evening-i get home at 9:00pm at the earliest and i usually need to eat afterwards so i may just gracefully bow out of this one.
# 3. i will do my best!!! especially at work, where i tend to sit down when there's nothing to do. maybe i'll reorganize the supply closet.
Here's to our best week yet, everyone!!!0 -
Hi guys
New to the site and hoping i can take part in this challenge;
every summer i tell myself that i'll get myself slimmer for the next year and this is the year i'm finally going to keep to my promise! I want to get the confidence back that i used to have when i was slimmer and fitter.
i'm a 27 year old male from Liverpool, England
my starting weight is 182 lbs (my target to lose 2lbs a week for the next 8 wks if possible)
i'm especially looking forward to showing off my newly toned body off to you in a bikini shot when i lose the weight 0 -
Hi guys
New to the site and hoping i can take part in this challenge;
every summer i tell myself that i'll get myself slimmer for the next year and this is the year i'm finally going to keep to my promise! I want to get the confidence back that i used to have when i was slimmer and fitter.
i'm a 27 year old male from Liverpool, England
my starting weight is 182 lbs (my target to lose 2lbs a week for the next 8 wks if possible)
i'm especially looking forward to showing off my newly toned body off to you in a bikini shot when i lose the weight
welcome to the site, and welcome to the challenge! :flowerforyou:
our weigh in day is every thursday, and we post challenges to keep each other motivated and any tips too
good luck on your weight loss journey
:drinker:
ps big liverpool fan! lol0 -
I havent done Chalean Extreme yet, but my daughter has and she absolutely loves it... she just gave me my first grandson just about a year ago now... and she has gone from a little bit over 200 to now being 145 with that program... My wife and I do p90x ... Im a Team BeachBody Coach, so ask any questions you would like... Jason0
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Hey guys, hope everyone is having a good week. I'm having some serious motivation issues the last couple of days. Sunday we went to the gym and I half-heartedly did my cardio. Yesterday I completely skipped the gym for no good reason except that I was being lazy. Today forced myself to go. I felt great once I started working out but it was a struggle.
The gym is replacing some old machines with new ones, which is nice, but they didn't have one of my favorite arm machines out. And it was insanely busy this morning for some reason, so I didn't get a chance to use the butterfly chest press. Sad day. I did all of my arm strength training minus those two machines and I went to get on MY bike. Some meanie had broken the foot straps off of it, so I couldn't use it and had to move down a few bikes. Don't you hate that? And the dog got a hold of my earbuds last night for my ipod (completely my fault; I left them on the floor and my bedroom door was left open) so I used an extra pair out of our "junk drawer" but they wouldn't stay in my ears at all and one side didn't work.
Anyhow. Sorry about all of the griping. Just getting it out of my system! Today is going to be good and I'm gonna kick my own butt at the gym tomorrow morning! Good luck to everyone. It's almost weigh-in time again!0 -
Jason - could you please explain what p90x is? I saw all the threads - and most of the comments about it are scary - "brutally difficult", "my body hurts all over, but man it is effective", and "I sound like a commercial". Is it a machine, program, video, what?
Thanks,
Kathryn0 -
I havent done Chalean Extreme yet, but my daughter has and she absolutely loves it... she just gave me my first grandson just about a year ago now... and she has gone from a little bit over 200 to now being 145 with that program... My wife and I do p90x ... Im a Team BeachBody Coach, so ask any questions you would like... Jason
I'm with Kathryn on this too Jason.
I've been seeing all the postings about p90x, could you give us the readers digest version of what it's all about??? :bigsmile:0 -
Yesterday I completely skipped the gym for no good reason except that I was being lazy.
Ugh-- i skipped yoga this morning too! (Phetzgetfit is amazing and goes every single day!) My bed was just so darn comfy. :yawn: :blushing:
And now my bf is making a big steak dinner (yum) but I won't have enough exercise calories to really enjoy it :sad: because i'll either (a) eat it anyway and then be blue. . . or (b) skip it, and still be blue.
I'm going to start calculating how long a walk i need to take the dogs on to make up for this morning (and eat my steak!). And then tomorrow morning YOGA for SURE! (If I tell you guys I'm going I'm more likely to go, right?) :ohwell:0 -
I haven't been doing so will all week with challenge #1, I have been eating over my calorie intake and I haven't been able to go the gym to exercise. I have been having a pain in my right side of my neck...I'm thinking its from video taping my childrens Ice Show this weekend. Hopefully the pain goes away soon, so that I can get back at the gym again.0
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doing so bad this week, im home visiting and whenever i come home to visit i do not exercise and just eat digusting amounts. im happy to get back in the city tomorrow. starting completly new in the morning so maybe before my weigh in i can unbloat to a small extent, i kno it was a gain this week but i think i need it to kick me back in healthy mode.0
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I have been moving for going on 2 weeks now so I'm not really getting any exercise in as far as my elliptical machine or anything but I have been doing tons of walking and lifting and cleaning and all that. Plus now I live downstairs so I am running the stairs all day long! Especially a lot until I get everything situated here. I hope you are all doing great!!0
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hi everyone.
went to bikram yoga early today so i'd be home to watch biggest loser tonight. i LOVE that show.
we had a kid (well someone around 20 who is a kid to me) in class today who is relatively new and was having a reeeealllllly hard time with the heat. They had to take him outside the class and have him lay down because he got so sick. I was talking to him after class, while he was recovering, and he waswondering why he was having such a hard time in class.
I mentioned I have to make sure I eat enough a few hours before class and not right before class in order to make it through and not get sick. He said, oh..maybe that it's....i haven't eaten since last night. (???!!!! that was about 18 hours without food and then trying to do a 90 minute torture chamber class in 105 degree temp and wondering why you're not feeling so great! crazyyyyyy!)
I think i've reached a plateau in weight loss....it goes up a lb. then i lose that lb. then i get it back. etc. you all know what i'm talking about. This has gone on for almost a month, since i lost the first 9 lbs.
I'd be more bummed about it but I was looking at my reflection in the mirror in the yoga class and wow, i can see the changes!!! There's less of a roll around my waist, my arms are starting to look toned (maybe for the first time in my life) and I'm getting stronger and stronger and able to do more and more of the poses. I'm so happy about that I'm just going to trust the weight will come down again when it's time for it to do so.
good luck to everyone this week.0 -
Hey guys, hope everyone is having a good week. I'm having some serious motivation issues the last couple of days. Sunday we went to the gym and I half-heartedly did my cardio. Yesterday I completely skipped the gym for no good reason except that I was being lazy. Today forced myself to go. I felt great once I started working out but it was a struggle.
The gym is replacing some old machines with new ones, which is nice, but they didn't have one of my favorite arm machines out. And it was insanely busy this morning for some reason, so I didn't get a chance to use the butterfly chest press. Sad day. I did all of my arm strength training minus those two machines and I went to get on MY bike. Some meanie had broken the foot straps off of it, so I couldn't use it and had to move down a few bikes. Don't you hate that? And the dog got a hold of my earbuds last night for my ipod (completely my fault; I left them on the floor and my bedroom door was left open) so I used an extra pair out of our "junk drawer" but they wouldn't stay in my ears at all and one side didn't work.
Anyhow. Sorry about all of the griping. Just getting it out of my system! Today is going to be good and I'm gonna kick my own butt at the gym tomorrow morning! Good luck to everyone. It's almost weigh-in time again!
That's why we're here!! Plus...then we know we aren't the only ones :bigsmile: Look at all you have accomplished so far. We all have set backs but we have to move foward. Good luck and I hope you have a better week :flowerforyou:0 -
Good Morning!
I do wish MFP had the capability to log more than neck, waist and hip measurements, because I see the changes in my body too, but don't have the willpower to create yet ANOTHER log :noway: to keep track of the changes in my arms, my thighs, bust, ribcage, etc.
So, I take a lot of different classes at the gym, and the yoga class has some poses that you are supposed to look in the mirror to check your alignment on. I dislike intensely that part of the class, because the only thing I see is a girl with a pooch belly, sweating profusely, which is not what I look like in my head. In my head I look more like Angelina Jolie. So I'm in step class yesterday, I glance over - and I just see a girl. No gianormous pooch belly, just a girl. Still sweating profusely, but the red face kinda went with the pink shirt - and blended right in.
It was a good day.
Keep on doing the best you can, and know that some weeks are going to be better than others.
Kathryn
ps - where did Jason go? random commercial posting?0 -
ps - where did Jason go? random commercial posting?
I know!!!
Jason, Kathryn & I want to know what p90x is.
Please don't keep us in suspense :laugh:0 -
Hey guys, hope everyone is having a good week. I'm having some serious motivation issues the last couple of days. Sunday we went to the gym and I half-heartedly did my cardio. Yesterday I completely skipped the gym for no good reason except that I was being lazy. Today forced myself to go. I felt great once I started working out but it was a struggle.
The gym is replacing some old machines with new ones, which is nice, but they didn't have one of my favorite arm machines out. And it was insanely busy this morning for some reason, so I didn't get a chance to use the butterfly chest press. Sad day. I did all of my arm strength training minus those two machines and I went to get on MY bike. Some meanie had broken the foot straps off of it, so I couldn't use it and had to move down a few bikes. Don't you hate that? And the dog got a hold of my earbuds last night for my ipod (completely my fault; I left them on the floor and my bedroom door was left open) so I used an extra pair out of our "junk drawer" but they wouldn't stay in my ears at all and one side didn't work.
Anyhow. Sorry about all of the griping. Just getting it out of my system! Today is going to be good and I'm gonna kick my own butt at the gym tomorrow morning! Good luck to everyone. It's almost weigh-in time again!
That's why we're here!! Plus...then we know we aren't the only ones :bigsmile: Look at all you have accomplished so far. We all have set backs but we have to move foward. Good luck and I hope you have a better week :flowerforyou:
Thank you! It does help a lot to come on this site and see that I'm not the only one who struggles sometimes!0 -
Just have to say it...I'm dreading the weigh-in.
Now off to work my butt off today :bigsmile:0 -
i was good with food, but wasnt great with exericse, just did yesterday and today, had assignments due in all week, totally abandoned the exercise, feel SO much better today after exercising :flowerforyou:0
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Feeling great! Didn't workout yesterday, but I did on Monday and the bf and I are going again this evening! I'm hopeful about tomorrow! :bigsmile:0
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So I'm not quite sure what's happening but all of a sudden - I'm not hungry anymore. Now this is not a good thing I don't think. It's 5:30 in the evening and I still have 1000 calories to eat - I'm pretty sure i don't want to do this! I ate lunch today - a grilled chicken breast in a whole wheat wrap with Fat free honey dijon and tomatoes and onions along with a little one serving bag of Baked Lays and I was so full I wanted to die! Usually I have 1-2 snacks in the afternoon - today I wanted nothing. i am really not even real hungy now - but I'm going to run five miles later and I'm pretty sure that's not a good thing.
So do i just force myself to eat - fuel for the car - so to speak? What's up????
And let me tell you - I love food - that's what got me on here to begin with - yikes!!!!
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today was an okay day.....
not sure what to expect tomorrow for weigh-in.....the scale could go either way :ohwell:
guess we'll see.........
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Weigh in day - I stayed the same...at least it's not a gain.
I know I have to up my cardio. My knee is feeling better so I did an aerobic workout yesterday and today.
I want to see the scale move next week! :bigsmile:0 -
my weigh in: At least the lb that showed up last week is now gone, which puts me back where i've been for a month wiithout it. 158. I feel good that I've at least maintained my 9 lb weight loss (since joining in january) but it's time to move that scale down a tad. I think i need to change something up.
Doing good:
• making it to 90=minute yoga workout everyday
• eating mostly healthy
need improvement:
• need to double my water intake...i do good for a day and then I just forget...or something...once again that's my challenge this next week...to drink it all!
•I still need to prepare food ahead more so I don't make a poor decision when i get hungry.
it's been rainy and cold here. I KNOW my exercise level will increase if and when the sun ever comes out again.
challenge:
• take the bike to the shop NOW and get the tire fixed so i'm ready to roll when it quits being so darn cold.
good luck to everyone.0
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