Healthy for the Holidays Challenge - 9/06 - 11/22

I'm doing Jillian's 30 Day Shred again. Yesterday was L1D2. My muscles are sore but it's just another reason why I need to stick with it. It feels good to be bonding with Jillian again. :laugh:

Happy Wednesday!! :flowerforyou:

I'm glad for you, Leslie! Hope I can follow in your footsteps and start seeing the right numbers on the scale! Forgot yesterday to do mesurements- did them this morning and its a big NSV!!! 1 inch lost on both my hips and just below bellybutton (where all my fat tends to hang out!:laugh: )!! What a great way to start the day because I was really blue bout the numbers on the scale!

Pssst....(said in a whisper)...I think I found my Mojo, again....heeheehee

Not weighing this week, on purpose. Going to get my body back used to what it should be doing/receiving...looking forward to next week's weigh in.

Man it great to see so many people doing so good this week! I'm having a pretty good week overall and if I can make through the weekend I think I'll have another good loss this week too, yay!

So I had a bit of an odd experience at work this week. As many of you know since I'm always complaining about it my work has been buying us food all the time recently and this week was no exception. On thursday we had pizza brought for us and for some reason a different manager also got us bagels for breakfast. Well if I had to pick two ulitmate weaknesses that would be both of them. I ate a ton, I didn't feel good afterwards, and I went hugely over my calories for the day. On Friday yet a different manager was buying us lunch as well which turned out to be boxed lunches from Jimmy John's. So I thought that was great becuase I could get the 200 calorie unwich (sandwich made as a lettuce wrap) and wouldn't have to be all stressed out about going over calories yet again. So the lunch came with a cookie which I said I didn't want and asked if they would just order me two pickles instead. The person ordering the lunches refused to do it and said I had to get the cookie. This was not a matter of they don't substitute or anything like that, she wouldn't even just not order a cookie for me when I asked her to do that. Then her and another girl started giving me a really hard time about ordering the unwich and then about my eating in general. What the heck? I've never encountered this before, but it was almost like intentional sabotage. Why would they order me food I said I don't want that would just go to waste? And earlier in the week they were actually making fun of me for how much I eat (I have 3-4 low cal snacks spaced out over the day). Why would you make fun of someone eating healthy, what is wrong with these two girls? I just don't get why you would act like that, I never say anything to them about how they eat. Well, at any rate I gave the cookie away so I guess I'll at least call that my NSV for the week for resisting temptation

Hope everyone is having a great weekend and enjoying their Halloween festivities!

Man it great to see so many people doing so good this week! I'm having a pretty good week overall and if I can make through the weekend I think I'll have another good loss this week too, yay!

So I had a bit of an odd experience at work this week. As many of you know since I'm always complaining about it my work has been buying us food all the time recently and this week was no exception. On thursday we had pizza brought for us and for some reason a different manager also got us bagels for breakfast. Well if I had to pick two ulitmate weaknesses that would be both of them. I ate a ton, I didn't feel good afterwards, and I went hugely over my calories for the day. On Friday yet a different manager was buying us lunch as well which turned out to be boxed lunches from Jimmy John's. So I thought that was great becuase I could get the 200 calorie unwich (sandwich made as a lettuce wrap) and wouldn't have to be all stressed out about going over calories yet again. So the lunch came with a cookie which I said I didn't want and asked if they would just order me two pickles instead. The person ordering the lunches refused to do it and said I had to get the cookie. This was not a matter of they don't substitute or anything like that, she wouldn't even just not order a cookie for me when I asked her to do that. Then her and another girl started giving me a really hard time about ordering the unwich and then about my eating in general. What the heck? I've never encountered this before, but it was almost like intentional sabotage. Why would they order me food I said I don't want that would just go to waste? And earlier in the week they were actually making fun of me for how much I eat (I have 3-4 low cal snacks spaced out over the day). Why would you make fun of someone eating healthy, what is wrong with these two girls? I just don't get why you would act like that, I never say anything to them about how they eat. Well, at any rate I gave the cookie away so I guess I'll at least call that my NSV for the week for resisting temptation

Hope everyone is having a great weekend and enjoying their Halloween festivities!
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Women can be so rude. I'm glad you stood up for yourself. You are the better person. Take care of yourself.

Ugh! That's how I feel. I'm beating myself up because I can't seem to get any motivation to exercise. I've fallen into eating way to many sweets! With Halloween around the corner, it's everywhere! I try not to even bring it in the house, but my daughters talked me into getting some nutty bars while we were on vacation. They came back home with us and now they are yelling at me to eat them...Oh the pressure!

So, I'm going to get into my weight loss story and remind myself of why I'm doing this and how far I've come. The weight loss part came around in June of this year when I started Insanity. My decisions up until that point is what led me there. I've always viewed myself as being bigger than other girls my age, especially in high school. Looking back now I can't believe how wrong I was! I got married while I was in college and pregnant. This is where the weight gain started. Living a healthy lifestyle was not part of our lives. I completed college, started grad school, had another daughter, got a full time job as a park ranger, and got a divorce (all within the span of two years). No my life wasn't busy at all...:noway: Anyway, since I was pretty active as a park ranger, I didn't gain much more weight, leveling off somewhere in the 170s (where I am now). Unfortunately, the salary of a park ranger does not support a single mom and her two girls. So, I started a profession I always said I would never get into, teaching. This is when I started packing on the pounds, between struggles with depression, exhaustion, and girl scout cookies, I reached 210 pounds this past spring. I knew I had to do something. I didn't like me. I didn't have energy. I didn't want to do anything. A friend of mine was doing Insanity, so her enthusiasm spilled over to me, enough so that I purchased the outrageously expensive workout set on ebay. I've never invested money so wisely. It took about 2 months to arrive, but I was able to start right as school was getting out for the summer. I spent the whole summer developing healthy eating and workout habits, so that when school started back I could continue my new healthy lifestyle. It's been difficult, between girl scout meetings, soccer practice and games, dance practice, and church suppers. I'm exhausted when I get home and struggle to get a workout in. I'm also taking courses for my PhD online, so that's one more wrench thrown in my schedule. That brings me to the struggles I have now. I'm still dropping pounds, but my habits are wavering. I grab too many bad foods because they are convenient. I fall into bed at the end of the day instead of putting on my workout clothes. I'm burning myself out and I know it, but I don't know how to fix it. I keep saying to myself that I just have to make it through to summer. Then my PhD courses will be over, and I'll hopefully be at my goal weight.
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Hang in there! You will get through this stressfull time. Can you get up earlier to get your work out in before you start your day? Good for you on taking PhD classes online.