Blue Team WEEK 2

lorro-old jeans rule don't they....I am at the point where I have no more smaller clothes and about ready to go down a size - I can zip just a tiny smidge tight so I am waiting about 3 or 4 more pounds before I go buy more....cool to need new clothes but so expensive.

hmo4 - if you've survived all you've been thru, you've got motivation - let it out - let it roar baby!

Oh I'm so jealous :laugh: I worked it out - I will be shopping in September at this rate! :glasses:

way more important!!! way to go!!

Cheers, LostinCali! :drinker:

this whole process is pretty scary for me. I haven't been single for longer than a month at a time since I was 15. Mostly due to my reliance on others to provide me the love that I don't give myself. So I'm preparing myself to do a lot of soul searching and self discovery over the next few months

It's the way we overcome stuff like this that makes us who we are. One of life's great ironies: sometimes you have to accept being alone in order to get to a place where you can have a healthy relationship. Good luck :flowerforyou:

Hey, y'all. I know I haven't been around much lately, but we have been wicked busy @ work. So busy in fact, that I rode my bicycle in to work today and I'll be riding home this evening. 22 miles 'round trip. Should equal about 1200-1300 calories all told. I hope y'all have a great evening.

Bryce

I flaked today and almost forgot my daughter's Dr. appointment (and therefore ended up eating crap for dinner since I was on the run). She's still in the 99th percentile for weight and 98th percentile for her height. Sometimes I feel guilty; like her size is my fault for not being healthier while I was pregnant. Then I look at my 6'3", 230 pound husband and his whole gigantic family and feel a slight bit of comfort.

Rach - Your life sounds a lot like mine when I was your age. It's kind of freaky! The longest period of time I have been single since I was 14 is 6 months and a grand total of 8 months of being single. Though, your split sounds much more amicable than mine was with my ex. You ever need to vent, I'm here for ya!

Bryce - I've been wondering where you were! Glad to see you back and quite impressed by your dedication to riding your bike. Have fun in San Antonio and do some swimming for me! No one is getting me in a bathing suit this year so I have to live vicariously through others.

See the rest of you in the morning with our weigh in! :flowerforyou:

I am just taking it easy. My fiance gave me his terrible cold that he had. I have been laying on the couch for two days blowing my nose. :grumble:

Hope everyone is well.

J

Wow we are all sick huh? I went to the dr's yesterday and I have a massive sinus infection. meds for me and am hoping to be feeling better soon. It is one heck of an energy zapper! I have stayed within my calories though even though I wasnt up to working out.

I am glad we have started the new challenge and am sorry I didn't check in on week one. This has motivated me though to get going agian. It is so easy to slack off. It is also so easy to blame it all on the stress. I have a son graduating in a couple of weeks and that creates a huge amount of stress even though it is a good thing. Company is coming from out of town so I have to get the house all ready on top of everything else. It is also an extremely busy time of year at my job. Lots of meetings thrown in too so its hard to get my "regular" work done.
The good news is I am down a pound.
Looking forward to the rest of the results.
Go Blue!!:drinker:

She's still in the 99th percentile for weight and 98th percentile for her height. Sometimes I feel guilty; like her size is my fault for not being healthier while I was pregnant. Then I look at my 6'3", 230 pound husband and his whole gigantic family and feel a slight bit of comfort.

I would not worry about this. My son was off the charts for both his height and weight until he was about 4 yo. Then he shot up and slimmed down. Now he looks lie one little muscle. If your family was like mine, 25-30 years ago, we never worried about what we ate. We cleaned our plates because dad said so and we had desert every night and tried to have as many snacks as possible. We didn't know any better. The difference is that NOW we know better, and we can teach our children better. Of course our parents taught us that fruits and veggies were good for us and that candy rots your teeth. Then we proceeded to go out for virtually every dinner and hit as many buffets as possible. I didn't know any better. I just knew that I loved to eat. this has been the hardest habbit to break...overeating. I still struggle with it and I probably always will. It's ok, but I know that as many things as I will potentially teach him, overeating is not one of them.

You will do the same with your daughter. Teach her how to eat healthy and to enjoy the healthy foods, and that sweets are a special treat, but don't STRESS about it. The last thing you need is a teenager with a weight complex... Remember, too that much of our body build is genetics and some our bodies are more comfortable being at a little higher body fat content, but that doesn't mean that we have to accept it. That's why we are here working so hard. The fact that you are aready watching yourself will only provide a better example for your daughter. This makes you a good mommy.

My weight today is 206.8.

Checking in with my weigh in today, down 1 lb!!! at 142 lb now.

Bryce - Thanks for your reply! It really did make me feel better!

Yeah, my family was a lot of the same way. One thing I was thinking about last night was that we didn't keep junk food in the house. Not because my parents didn't eat it. But because if they bought it, it was gone! I never understood self control. I've noticed the carton of ice cream I bought when I started this is still in the freezer. I've had lots of bowls of ice cream but they've been an actual portion size and therefore I have been able to enjoy it much more often. That is one thing I want to teach my daughter. That treats and junk food are OK if they are truly treats. Her pediatrician LOVES her and isn't concerned about her weight at all since she's also so tall. I'm not sure why I beat myself up over it sometimes but I guess that's how Mommy's can be! At least she has a lot of padding for all the falling she's been doing learning to pull up and figuring out how this walking thing works! :laugh: I think that if I can set a good example for my daughter on making exercise a part of my lifestyle and showing her by doing the right way to eat that the rest will fall into place.

I guess I am going to go weigh here in a bit. I still wake up like the stay puff marshmallow man and have to drink a bottle of water and then give it time to *ahem* work it's way out before I weigh. It makes a 3-4 pound difference! (Yes, I wake up to tinkle in the middle of the night and yes, I've been watching my sodium intake. It's a lot warmer here and I tend to blow up when it gets hot.)

An arm water bottle attachment would be awesome!!! I think I need to stop participating in mini challenges. We did the water one and I started drinking less. With the fitness one, I did half as many workouts as I said I would. I guess I'm just too rebellious! :laugh:

Down one pound!

I can't find absolutely nothing to eat for breakfast. I tried oatmeal, but when it finished cooking...yeah, it didn't look good at all.

Any idea of what I can eat for breakfast?