T.H.E (Trying Hard Everyday) TEAM ~~> Week 15!

Dwray – thinking of you and those test results. I too had a “Flat Stanley” experience. My friend’s daughter must have been about 8 when she brought me the suitcase with Flat Heidi. I forget what we did but I think it’s a great idea to get kids excited about language.

Jaime- welcome back

Indianagranny – we all want to run and hide when things aren’t going well. The important thing is to keep coming back. Good luck with the family gathering – I find those stressful and challenging to stay on track with food because there is always too much unhealthy stuff!!!

Adopt4 – wow you keep moving all day! Travelling Pants 1 was good, you may want to get it after watching Pants2 (I haven’t seen that one). I love watermelon too and its mostly water! Great for the calorie count :drinker:

Li4g- good job on getting back on track! Keep it up. I too cannot leave the baked goods until it’s all gone. I made healthy banana bread but still ate ½ the loaf in 2 days! Now I say the baking is for my hubby to eat.

I was under my calories again today. I feel really full now – my challenge is 3 or 4:00pm. I think the blood sugar dips because I feel so tired and start counting the minutes until supper. I have to remind myself – do I want food now or be lighter on the scale on Friday? That usually works.

My exercise for today was taking my daughter to the park to slide, run and play. Then I walked to the grocery store for cottage cheese. I had spaghetti and veggies (gr. pepper/mushrooms/onion) with it. Tasted awesome.

Catch everyone tomorrow!

Good morning...

First thing, I come in here and read what everyone has wrote. I find it's my inspiration for the day. It's funny, but the fact that it feels like a "team effort" is what helps keep me on track.

A few months ago, when I was trying to lose weight without tracking my calories, I could have dropped to 132 in a week (from 136), and I'd say "Woohoo!" But then, sure enough, I'd be back at 136 within a day or two. I think it must have been because I'd lose a pound or two...and then reward myself with salty foods the next day.
Whatever it is...it's working this time. I am down to 132, but I got there over the course of a month...and I'm very happy with it. The reason why is because I've been at this number for a few days. And no rewarding myself...:laugh:

So thank you, ladies, for inspiring me, and for keeping me on the right track.

Morning, everyone. Cyndee, good for you! And nita, you still need to eat, woman!

Today is body fat day at the gym... I'm anxious. I've checked it over the past few days myself to make sure that (1) it's gone down, not up again and (2) to see how water affects that number. So I'm trying not to drink hardly anything until after the reading. :happy: I know the pounds won't go down, they are up a little, TOM crap. But that's ok... as long as my body fat goes down for the contest!

Today hubby goes in for his shoulder, we think he ripped his rotator cuff. He went in for xrays last night (insurance required, even though it's not going to show anything) and the tech about ripped his arm off for the xrays. Um, there's an injury there, moron, could you be a bit more careful? He literally couldn't move his arm when he got home. I swear some people are mean.

I go back to the sports nutritionist today, and although I'm not technically following their diet, I have added more foods that I can eat, thanks to them. LIke bagels, which I'm munching on now. Since it's morning of a big workout day, I get a bagel and cream cheese and cheese and lunch meat. Mmm! It's a lot of cals but for a day when I work with a trainer it helps me thru and I work it off anyway.

My arms are still pretty sore from working them out myself on Sunday, but I worked my legs out yesterday and they are not sore at all. So guess I could have done a lot more. Although I did irritate my bad knee jumping over hurdles at the boot camp, and then made it worse yesterday by doing squats incorrectly... have to pay so close attention to where your knees are bent! They have to be straight in line with your ankle, not over!! Mirrors at the gym are beginning to be useful rather than something to be avoided at all costs.

Like Cyndee, every morning I get the kids breakfast and then grab mine and sit here and read thru all the posts. It's like having a morning cup of coffee with ya'll every day. I LOVE it! Especially this group of people ya'll are SO AWESOME!

And the next person who skips out because they were off target, rather than coming here for support, will get flogged with a wet noodle! We ALL screw up, lose motivation, get tempted and can't resist, get depressed, fall back to old habits - that's the whole point of having a group with you. We can sympathize, lift you up, encourage you, point out how far you've come, and kick you in the butt - but we NEVER judge.

And remember, each and every one of you (that means you too, adopt4) - falling back into an old habit briefly is not something to get upset about - because it was brief. That used to be how we were ALL THE TIME and now it's once in a while we slip back - but a majority of the time we do it RIGHT and HEALTHY. If we were using batting averages, we'd all be SUPERSTARS.

LI4G...
I only discovered this the other day - and by accident - but my fish oil capsules said I should be taking 3 a day. I was taking just one.
(Ditto for the calcium/magnesium I was taking. I took one...supposed to take 3...duh...:embarassed: )

Hope that inventory goes quickly for you, indianagranny...

li4g,

You can stop smoking. You are the healthiest you have been in how long? I stopped 15 years ago, after a few failed attempts.

It was like the food addiction thing. For a couple weeks, I did fine, then some drama happens, and I got all panicky. It was my way of coping (food, cigarettes, alcohol, blah blah blah, right?) Cigarettes are great for boredom, frustration, anger, habit, habit, habit. And as my childhood friend said (when she stopped at age 18 - I still hate her for that - "Cigarettes after a meal just take away that nice full feeling and you lose the great taste of the food". ) She was very wise at age 18.

I came looking for ....more off-topic stuff from me.....ooops. You guys read Kristi's topic didn't you? It's awesome...

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/53384-exercise-food-and-the-brain-chemical-connection

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Kristi, what'dya do today for exercise? Haven't seen you post today....

Today I met with a trainer, so 30 mins on elliptical, 30 mins of torture, then he said do another 10 mins so I first chose the escalator from hell but it hurt my knee so after a few mins I switched to the treadmill and walked fast... He did abs today and kept making me run in between exercises. Dude's trying to kill me, I swear.

Came home and was really beat, tried eating a protein bar, didn't help, ate my lunch, still tired - so I took a dang nap. So I didn't get anything done around the house that I wanted to, like finishing the painting in my dining room (only a few days till the surprise party, I need to get it done!!!)

I asked my trainer about being sore after exercise, and what's too much, not enough, etc. He said that if you're too sore to do your daily life, you've done too much. If you dont' feel anything, if you're not energized the next day, if you don't feel like you worked your muscles, then you didn't do enough. (He's not one of those "if you're not dying the next day writhing in pain then you're not really exercising" kind of guys.) I did my arms/shoulders/upper back on Sunday, was sore but not incredibly so, and was still sore today, so I wasn't sure if I should exercise if I was still a bit sore. He said that doesn't matter (if I'm sore or not) but if I"m really sore 48-72 hours later then it was too much. He said my soreness would go away after we did those areas again today - and he was right. I just needed to get it all moving again.

I am frustrated, I have to say, that as hard as I've been working the past few weeks, that I'm not seeing an incredible drop in the scale is disappointing. I know I am certainly smaller, because I swear I've dropped a pant size without losing any weight in the past week, so I'm seeing results - I just wanted to see them on the scale! I also worry because I'm doing the Max Muscle numbers - 50% carbs - that maybe I'm eating too many carbs and maybe that's why... but I know in my head not enough time has gone by for me to make any sort of determination or decision about changing anything, but my heart is saying, it must be wrong! Truth be told - I'm pretty damn fit now and so it's going to take a lot more work to get those pounds off. When go start at nothing, as far as exercise is concerned, the pounds come off fast as you start to move around. But after a few weeks, it's harder and harder to get those pounds to come off as your body is used to the new activity level. I know all this in my head - but my heart ain't listening! :grumble:

No time like the present, Li4g. I'm just sayin.

Waiting for kitties :happy: