Beautiful Blue Team WEEK 4

I'm not a big meat eater myself and I have found that I eat more peanut butter, and drink lots of milk. Also if you are a cereal eater like I am check for protein in that. I always thought I was low on my protein so for about a week I made sure to record and I wasn't as low as I thought. :flowerforyou: I was also thinking about taking protein shakes. I LOVE eggs but I love the whole thing but I never knew it was only 20 calories for just the whites that is good information for me to know.

Im in with the veggies. I have been using those steamers for my freash veggies instead of the cans and my whole family loves them so maybe the next time I'm at the store I will try and see if they have little bag for just one or two people that way I can eat them for lunch.

The kids last day of school is tomorrow and we are debating on what to do for supper. Ugh. I want to treat them but the other part of me wants to be at home and not run around today. I could personally just eat cereal for supper or have a sandwhich of some sort. Im just lazy today.

I shall be working out tonight however.

First off, i apologise for not sending in my weigh ins - I have been MIA for 2 weeks! I have been poorly but getting back into things again slowly. I have what is called thalasaemia trait and get very low haemoglobin sometimes. The most worrying thing now is I've got the 5k run coming up saturday and I have not done any exercise in 10 days! I just hope I don't let anyone down come saturday. A lot of people have supported me in pledging money for this very good cause (am doing a a 5k in aid of breast cancer). I have said to my family I'll do it even if I have to crawl the whole 5k! Please wish me all the best - it's all for a good cause.

I'm sooo bagged but I'm lagging in my squats challenge. :yawn:
j has got me motivated a tad....I'm going down to admire my cleaning job.:drinker:

Nice to see our drifters back! Sometimes, there's just not time.

hgam-You'll be able to run it! Mind over muscle-Once you start-go with a slow pace, and just keep telling yourself you can do it. Walk if you need to, it's not a race. Let your adrenaline flow and you'll be cruisin'!:bigsmile:

Hey Leigh, I've had 3 hernia's repaired. You'll be fine, hang in there-hope there's no twins lerking around.:laugh:

I don't think I'm going to do too well this week. I haven't exercised in 3 days. I'm worried that I keep getting off track on my exercising/cardio and I cant stick to it!! It's so frusturating!

I don't think I'm going to do too well this week. I haven't exercised in 3 days. I'm worried that I keep getting off track on my exercising/cardio and I cant stick to it!! It's so frusturating!

I'm having the same problem. I feel a little bored of my routine, so I stop altogether. Maybe you should try something new? There are a lot of exercise programs and DVDs out there!

My weight today is 202.2. Yeah me.

I finally made it into the 150's again (159). I haven't seen that in over 6 years. It is so good to be in this community of "beautiful blues". Not only is everyone willing to share their successes but also their stresses and sorrows. It all helps me personally. I can relate to so much of what all of you are going through and your successes keeps motivating me to stay on track. Other stories help me to know I am not alone. I think all of us can relate to the stress eating and how many of those life events contributed to what our weight is today. It is nice to not be judged as weak because you are overweight but we had a lot to deal with in our lives and probably diet and excercise were the last things on our mind.
I know I started gaining weight when in the same year, I changed jobs, moved to a new house (even though these were good things they were still stressful). Then my mom became really ill and passed away a few years later. So...5 to 10 pounds a year and next thing you know I am thinking, "how did I get here."

It is nice to be on the way down now. I've lost 30 pounds since I started last year. As we know, it is so much incredibly harder to lose than gain!! But I can't say enough how joining this group and logging in calories on this site has helped in the struggle. The beautiful blues are awesome. Even if I just read the posts and don't get around to posting myself I am here and I appreciate the help of all of you.
GO BLUE!! Have a great rest of the week.

And by the way, my oldest graduates tomorrow from High School. Very mixed emotions there. It' s a combination of "Finally, he made it" :flowerforyou: :drinker: and sadness to see your baby graduate.

I did awesome this week - didn't realize it til I checked in today - WOO HOO can't wait to see our chart........:happy: :bigsmile:

Heya Blues! Sounds like everyone is doing pretty good! My goal from now until June 17th is to maintain. My husband is coming home and since we're broke, I've planned out menus for the whole time he is here. I'll actually be cooking instead of going out to eat every night so it shouldn't be too bad for my plan. I am stressed about him being here and trying to deal with his deployment so I figured if my goal was maintenance that if I lost anything at all, it would be like a bonus! We're going to a cabin for two nights (it was a gift from my boss/friend!) and I'll be able to cook there, too. I think we might be able to go out one or two nights while he's here. I was really hoping for the Cheesecake Factory (it was where we went the night before we got hitched) but maybe it's for the best that we can't afford it! :laugh:

I only lost half a pound this week. I kind of expected it because I did so well last week and I've slacked off on packing in fruits/veggies and drinking water. Exercise has been decent but could be better. I want to try to hike at Amicalola Falls while we're up at our cabin and hopefully we can get my treadmill out of the garage and back into the spare bedroom while he's here! :happy: