RED TEAM WEEK 8

ok, so, today didn't go as great as i had planned...i got up and today is the only day this week i am not going to be working all day so after my fiance got off work he came over and we spent some time together and then he took me out to eat and then we piddled at walmart, then i tried to walk tonight, and even though my knees were fine, my right foot was not :grumble: i think it is the one i fractured in fourth grade...because it's hurting in the exact spot where i had fractured my foot, but i can't remember for sure if that's the foot it was. soooo i don't know how tomorrow or any other day will be. i feel like i'm starting all the way back at square one, except i did a lot better job the first time, lol but i will get through this. i gotta start saying NO again to the sweets...!!! and thanks, mel, for the encouraging words! and I'm sooo glad you're feeling better! so now it is pouring down rain.. the perfect time to fall asleep

Good luck tomorrow, everyone!
and congratulations to everyone!

You will be fine, once you get back into your mode, you will get back on track. I hear you one the sweets end, I LOVE sweets and it is tough to not anything sugary, especially when it surrounds me all day :grumble: We just have to learn to eat it in moderation, which I have not been able to do as of yet, but I'll get there!

Buffjess, you can certainly join. Just post your starting weight and I'll add you to my master spreadsheet.

We weigh in on MONDAYS, fyi.

I weigh 249, but its TOM for me, so I haven't had the ability to exercise like I want too

K, this week I'm down to 142.2 - that's .2 pounds down. Talk about a slow process!!

But I'm keeping to the calories pretty well and exercising like a fiend, so I don't mind if it takes awhile to lose the weight I guess...

Good morning, everyone.

I am ridiculously tired this morning (it's 7am here... not all that early), but it's been a long night. I'm running on about 90 minutes of sleep, unfortunately. I cannot fall asleep again, so I think I might try to go for a short walk to try to wake up before work 11-7 (I work retail, in addition to tutoring math & science(s) & writing & sometimes spanish or italian or sign language). But it's definitely going to be short because I am so tired... but I need something (no coffee) to help wake me up a bit.

So I hope you all have a great Wednesday!

Sorry guys no weight for me yet this week have been having a really stressful week. doin good on my calories but not my logging so I should be ok. Well when I can get to the gym I will get the weight pray its good.

HI all! So, I finished my first spinning class and that was what I call a work out! I'vedone one before, but it really bored me...this girl was fun, upbeat , had great music and kept me going! whew! I sweat...A LOT! Anyways, I'm feeling good today, still have to take the pup for our usual 2 mile walk, though :sick: oh well, you guys have a great evening and keep working hard.

OH, and I wanted to mention we had a cookie cake today at work and I managed to stay away!! :glasses: I hovered over the cake a few times and thought about it :embarassed: , but then I realized taht it wasnt' worth it! yay...I hope it's gone tomorrow, I dont' know if I can do that again :grumble:

Well I am having one of those stressful weeks..! tonight i had a big sales presentation...i'm so glad it's over with! yesterday mom and i went to the closest gym around. i was doing a bike, but it was sooooooooooooooo boring, so i finished 20 minutes, and then got on the elliptical. i wasn't expecting to be able to do much, since i hadn't done it in a long time and i have been bad about exercising but i did 20 minutes! and i was SWEATING!!! then i did a little bit of strength training. anyway today i have been bad :embarassed: but i at least got that presentation over with so tomorrow will be a bit easier, until this weekend i am working fri, sat, sun so we'll see...

hope yall have had a good day!

GOOD JOB!:flowerforyou:

It is so hard to get back into the groove of working after vacation...
All else is going good here. I really surprised myself with the self control I have had lately. :noway: Dont know where that came from...but will keep going with it. :happy:
Hope everyone has a fantastic Thursday!

Good job w/ the self control! It's been tough here at work and at home w/ everyone eating bad things and when I go home my bf is always eating bad (yet good :embarassed: ) things...

Well, today I had a terrible day, food-wise. I thought I was making progress on conquering my emotional eating, but I am definitely back to square one. :sad: I am terrified to log all the bad stuff I have shoveled in my mouth because I know it's going to be like 2500+ calories... well, I guess I better go do that now.:grumble:

I'm at 2,200 right now. :explode: And I could not exercise today because I'm so unbelievably weak today. If I can prevent myself from eating more this evening (it's like 6:30 here), then I will forgive myself. But I'm still upset and angry, so keeping myself out of the kitchen is going to be a tough one.

It is so hard to get back into the groove of working after vacation...
All else is going good here. I really surprised myself with the self control I have had lately. :noway: Dont know where that came from...but will keep going with it. :happy:
Hope everyone has a fantastic Thursday!

Good job w/ the self control! It's been tough here at work and at home w/ everyone eating bad things and when I go home my bf is always eating bad (yet good :embarassed: ) things...

Thanks! With my husband gone out of town this week I have not had the usual bad (yet good) things around the house. It is very hard when other people are eating differently than you are...I find that the most difficult here. I just want to eat what they eat and not have it stick to my rear!

:laugh: I know. The other day after I just left the gym after I did a 6 mile run, my bf asks me to get him CHINESE Are you kidding?! So, as he ate that, I ate my salmon and veggies :grumble: ...

don't beat yourself up, mel! i did awful today too! i probably ate as many if not more calories than you did! i am having a VERY hard time getting back on track..! but we can do this

Hi everyone!!
I cannot believe that it is Friday already!!:bigsmile: This week really went by fast!! to make things even better next week is a 3 day weekend!!:drinker: :drinker: Well things have been good here, I have been running and it is going good. Last night though I had the worst run ever:grumble: I felt like I could not keep going, but hopefully today will be better. I think it had something to do with not having anything to eat an hour or so before my run. (I usually try to eat at least a banana or something to fuel me up.)

Mel- We all fall off the wagon...it is nothing to stress over. It is going to happen to all of us. The only thing we can do is make sure that those eating choices do not roll over into the next day or even the next meal. We all know how these choices from one day can snowball into these types of choices everyday. Just stick with it and remember all the weight that you have lost already.....you will get there!!!:flowerforyou:

Jess- YAY for the 20 minutes on the ellipitcal!! Soon enough you will be double or even tripling that time!!! :happy:

Vani- Wow, you did not give into the chinese food!! Awesome! Great will power on your part. I would hope that if I am ever in the situation I can do what you did!! Keep up the great work!! :drinker:

Well, I hope that everyone has a great weekend and is ready for weigh-ins on Monday!! I cannot wait to see the progress everyone is making!!! If I do not speak to you this weekend, I will be here on Monday!!

-Mack

Yesterday was another not so good day for me. Not as bad as Thursday, but still awful. And I won't be exercising today [again] because... guess what - I am leaving to go to the hospital (Just for the day, this time... for tests and stuff) in like 5 minutes. And I finally fell asleep at 5am this morning so I didn't want to wake up at like 6 to exercise. It just wasn't going to happen. So, the scale is most likely going to be very mean on Monday, but I can take it. Because next week, I'm going to be back 150%.

Hi all, just checking in to confess..it seems to be a bad week for everyone :sad:
Yesterday, I made sure to work out a lot, but still ate ALOT at this party we went to. Let's see, I had 1 hamburger w/ cheese and hot dog w/ buns, side of corn, pork and beans and chili. 1 hamburger w/out bun or cheese. A mike's hard lemonade along w/ another wine drink. AND a fabulous fresh berry pie w/ a bit of ice cream :sad: :sick: :sad: :sick: DANGIT! I told myself, don't eat too much, but I over did it. oh and some chips too. I guess at least I didn't over do it on the sides or anything, but gosh, a lot of empty calories. And now today...because of yesterday...I feel like over eating again. We ended up going to sams club and I ended up eating every sample I could find...so I logged that in to be about 750 calories, so who knows how that turned out. I guess that's the only bad thing I ate today, but I'm struggling not to eat any chocolate Oh, and my bf went to dinner w/ his friends, but I chose not too, since I over ate yesterday and I ate a lot at Sam's :ohwell: PHEW, glad I got that off of my chest.

Insaneness: i hope you're all right!

You, too Mel, take it easy. :flowerforyou: Today I am finally taking a break from working out, I need it, so oh well.