New Year, New Me!

Hey, friends!
Last Friday's weight: 128.5
This Friday's weight: 127.0 (still 2 lbs up from my lowest a few weeks ago)
Strolled my boys 4.0 miles this morning, did 90 minutes of yoga. I am with you, Dave - I need to STOP over-eating just because I worked out!!!!

Working on our spreadsheet - still need today's weights for Sandy, Stephanie, Mimi, and Kelly. I will post it tonight (along with a note on the forum with the URL).

And one question - anybody up for a push-up daily challenge again? I haven't done them consistently in almost two months and I need a reason to get with it! I am setting a personal goal to be able to do 20 push-ups by the end of this week. Anybody else want to join me?

12/2 Weigh-in = 227.8

Scale was really acting up today. Normally when I weigh in I get the same thing over and over again. Today it was jumping around from 227 to 228.4. I got the most at the weight posted above. We will see next week depending on where I am at that point.
Note to self - stop eating like crap just because you work out!

Dave

My name is Mimi. I'm 46 and an engineering manager at a semiconductor company. I'm pretty good about exercising -- I do 45 min (~6.6 miles) on the Stairmaster every day, and if I have time I try to get in 2 full body weight training sessions each week as well as some calisthenics. But work gets in the way a lot of the time, and a lot of the time I end up having to cut back on the weight training and calisthenics. But my Stairmaster workout is sacred!

My big problem is stress related binge eating, and earlier this year I gained back ~20 of the 24 lbs that I had lost last year because of all the stress. I was doing really well on getting the binge eating under control after I joined the Thanksgiving Challenge (which Mandy also organized) because Mandy did a great job of keeping everyone motivated, and because it was really motivating to work on the challenge with such a great group of people. I started the challenge at 136.8 lbs, and my goal was to lose 7 lbs and be 129.8 lbs by the end of the 7 week challenge. I did much better than I had expected, and by the end of week 6 I had lost 8.8 lbs and was 128 lbs!

But the day after the week 6 weigh-in (which was ~2 weeks ago), my boyfriend and I decided to break up. We've been together for 9+ years (we've been living together for the past ~8 years). We've tried for a long time to work out various problems, so it wasn't a surprise, but making this final decision was emotionally devastating and my eating went completely out of control. Since then I've been struggling with stress related binge eating, and have had bad binges on many days during the past 2 weeks. The only good thing is that I managed to keep up with my exercise routine on most days.

Earlier last week I had started to get the binging under control, but a few days ago some stressful things came up and I ended up having bad binges every day for the past few days. As of this morning I was 136.8 lbs -- which was my exact weight at the beginning of the Thanksgiving Challenge! Though my weight is probably 4 - 5 lbs higher than actual due to water retention from the binges during the past few days, I suspect that I did regain ~4 lbs from all of the binging during the past ~2 weeks.

So my starting weight is 136.8 lbs, and my goal is to be at 129.8 lbs by the end of the challenge (this is the same goal weight that I had for the Thanksgiving Challenge). Right now I'm struggling with getting my eating stabilized, and I'm hoping that focusing on this challenge will help me do that.

SO glad to see you back with us for this challenge, Mimi! You can do this....just seeing you back for a challenge shows your determination. I know we're going to seeing great success for you this month! Hope things are getting easier for you as the days go by.

Hey, friends!
Last Friday's weight: 128.5
This Friday's weight: 127.0 (still 2 lbs up from my lowest a few weeks ago)
Strolled my boys 4.0 miles this morning, did 90 minutes of yoga. I am with you, Dave - I need to STOP over-eating just because I worked out!!!!

And one question - anybody up for a push-up daily challenge again? I haven't done them consistently in almost two months and I need a reason to get with it! I am setting a personal goal to be able to do 20 push-ups by the end of this week. Anybody else want to join me?

Maria - that sounds good! I'd like to try the apple pie gum -- who makes it?

My favorites so far are the Trident Layers Wild Strawberry and Trident Layers Green Apple gum.

The mint chocolate chip ice cream gum is AWESOME!!!

Joe - I agree! Is your gum made by Wrigley's?

It's made by Extra (Wrigley's) the same brand that the mint chocolate chip ice cream gum. It's kind of hard to find the apple pie flavor...brown packaging. I hope that helps!

Maria -- thanks! I'll look for it next time I'm at the store. By the way, the Key Lime Pie gum (also by Wrigley's Extra) is also really good.

First week weigh in at 148.2.
Only a .2 loss but glad to finally see a loss after two weeks of losing/gaining the same pound! I'm thinking I might actually have lost more, but the sodium I had over the past few days have me retaining water. =o/ Gonna work hard this next week, watch my sodium , drink more water, and get back to my daily workout schedule.
Hope you are all doing great this week! Looking forward to seeing all your successes! =o)