SBF2 Reboot Boogaloo! week of Nov 9

Hi pebbs,

I'm still debating on what/how much exercise to do today. I have a walk scheduled to the office supply store, and then I'll re-assess to see if I want to work out more. Still feel a bit under par, in a bad way.

I'm really soul-searching on what my exercise/dietary goals should be. Part of me wants to continue with my current goals, but I'm not reaching them. I looked back over last month and I only had one week that I checked everything off of my list. And, currently, I feel like it's a slacker list. Four times a week seems like not much working out. I've even toyed with aiming for every day, and just gauging each day as it comes to see what I want to do. . .or having some weird "random exercise/activity of the day" system (like a jar I pull something out of every morning). I feel in a very discouraged rut right now, and being sick every third week or so isn't helping. :sad: OK, whining over. . .anyone have any ideas for me?

In a rut boogaloo.:flowerforyou:

:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: Hi everyone,
I have officially started again. Oh how I hate to have to say that, but I've gone from 160 to 196 in the space of a year and I feel like crap. Oh yeah the blood pressure is up too. My chiropractor said no high impact exercises so I went out and bought a dvd for walking inside, it is Leslie Sanson's Walk at Home and you can just walk in place to music which is just fine to start with. I just need to get going and I know I will be able to get back into the swing of it. But I wanted to say hi and hope to be able to post more than I used to.

Hi Mechanicmom, I had to pull my dryer apart last night as the liquid soap got spilled down the lint trap, oh what a mess that was but I had my daughters home and they did most of the work. At least it still works.

Hi Vivia, maybe I need a list to help with the food part of my diet. I used one once and it was a good motivator but mostly just finding someone to be accountable to was the biggest help. There was a thread where I used to go post every week and I so wanted to see the numbers go down and they did. It was more of a challenge to me that way.

Hi Mary, how are you doing? How are the kitties? I had to have the meds upped on my hperthyroid kitty and he gets checked again soon. I bought a corrugated scratching box for them yesterday and they are all having great fun with it.

I just wanted to say hi while I was online today! Boogaloo girls!

OK, so I had more time to ponder.

Keeping with Arianne's brilliant statement that I am "working in overdrive to get healthy" (thanks for that. . .I'm so good at telling myself I'm lazy when what I am is sick) I came up with three goals for the week, none of them exercise related. I think one of my big problems lately is I only give myself credit for reaching exercise goals, and I ignore other health-related accomplishments:

So, my super-healthy goals for the week are:

1. To have a fruit or vegetable at every meal. (I've been having way too many bread and cheese moments )

2. No sweets until Sunday. (the term "addicted" may apply here. . .once I have a taste. . .I want more)

3. Set my alarm one half hour earlier than I wake up without it, in the hopes of gradually re-setting to morning exercise.

Melissa, I am joining you & Viv on the veggies & fruits. I realized I haven't eaten a salad in over a week (There are always sides of veggies at meals, but no fresh salads lately) and we just bought a big bag yesterday..... I know what I'm having for dinner! Thanks for the motivation/challenge.

I agree. We initially would set goals or challenges for the week, month, challenge period and now we've forgotten them.

So!
By end of this week- 3 water bottles/day, lose 5lbs (binged this weekend so there's plenty there), eat at least 1 salad/day and 1 apple/day (my snack food lately)

What are yours!?!?!?! Winner's (everyone who achieves their goals by ?friday?) gets a star. Most stars by Thanksgiving gets to treat themselves to a forbidden item on Thanksgiving! The rest of us have to salivate in jealousy :laugh:

Hi all! It's nice to see more people posting. MM, glad you had fun camping. V, glad you are feeling better - but I agree that you shouldn't push it. The fruit/veggie challenge is a good idea.

I've still been setting goals most weeks - although I think I forgot to post them last week. Anyway, I did really well with having only one dessert last week. I saved up and had a cupcake on Friday night - it was really good. It even had cream filling. Unfortunately, I ended up going to a friend's get-together on Saturday, and what did they have? TONS of mini cupcakes!! But I held off and stuck with my one dessert for the week. I was really proud of myself (and my husband helped by assuring me that the cupcakes we had Friday night were better - what a guy! :happy:)

I have to decide what to do about tomorrow, though... my co-worker is bringing donuts and I know he is going to expect me to have one. But I think I would rather have something else for my dessert this week... if I skip breakfast, does the donut still count? Ugh. I'll just have to say no, or not do anything else this week - I wanted to get through at least 4 weeks of just one dessert. I think this is week 3 (though the first week didn't quite go as planned).

Anyway, here are my goals for the week:
Pushups 3x
Water (my big bottle 2x/day)
Running 1x
Other Cardio 2x
Belly dance 1x
Dessert 1x only!

I am also going to try and get to bed earlier, but I won't make a goal until next week - this week, I will work on starting to get ready for bed before 11. So - pushups and then getting ready for bed!

Goodnight novella, boogaloo!

Hi I realized I didn't state a weight loss goal in my entry so I will try for 2 lbs in one week but would be happy with 1 lb.

CP I envy your willpower with desserts since I crave sugar lately. Your weight loss has been amazing.

I know it will take time to lose what I want to but I have my daughters wedding next September that I would like to look awesome at so I have something to keep me upbeat about losing.

Everyone have a nice day, I am going to go do my walking dvd.:bigsmile:

Donuts successfully avoided! MM, thanks for the encouragement - I saw it before I left for work, so I was thinking of it this morning on the way to my meeting. And thanks to everybody else - this thread is really the only reason I come to MFP anymore. :smooched: You all rock.

I did a bunch of raking yesterday in lieu of a workout (along with pushups), but just realized that it doesn't really count as cardio - so I will have to make sure I get a weekend (Fri-Sun) workout in order to meet my goals for the week. But that's a good idea in any case.

Good job with the fruit/veg, V - I hope you feel better again soon. Mary, your goals are impressive! Though I disagree that after dinner automatically makes it dessert. Karen, congrats on your daughter's engagement.

Donuts aren't that great, boogaloo!

I'm not sure if this is bragging or a confession. . .I just did a JM DVD (shape up front, ftr)

I figured I could be sick and depressed because I wasn't exercising, or just sick. I chose just sick. It was really hard, and I had to take a lot of breaks.

I also did it as an experiment to see if I was ready for the gym. There was so much coughing/hacking that I discovered I'm not. In the city right now, you can practically start a riot if you cough or sneeze.:laugh:

V- have you ever gone through allergy testing?

Yep, I'm allergic to darn near everything. Except: cockroaches (old buildings have carcasses in the walls), dogs and cats. But, this time of year is usually when all of that calms down for me. Also, I tried an allergy med the other day to no avail.

I'm very seriously considering a doctor's appointment, but every time I go I get a bunch of tests and "nothing" is wrong. I think I just might be "sickly". I would have made a fantastic Victorian lady.

The exercise did seem to perk me up today. Also, it made me do a lot of coughing, that was. . .um "productive" I think is the word (sorry. . .that may be TMI) and I felt better for it. My big goal now is to try for Bikram on Thursday.

V, I'm sorry you are feeling sick so much. :brokenheart: I hope you start getting on the mend soon and stay healthy awhile! :flowerforyou:

Good morning to everyone else as well! I'm so glad to see so many faces checking in again!

Another busy day for me! Horse therapy, shopping, visiting with a friend, cleaning house, and going to church. I am going to try to squeeze a workout in there somewhere. I felt so guilty about the junk I ate yesterday. It wasn't ALL bad but all of it together wasn't good. I'm going to try harder today. I am logging again.
Our dryer took up most of the evening and caused us to get in a "fight" (DH says we never fight. lol). Turns out the vent pipe (to the roof) is plugged and we don't have a way to get it cleaned out. We are hoping the landlord will pay for someone to clean it out. That's why our dryer quit working. I have to do laundry so I am trying to get by on the minimum and it has to vent into the house. :grumble: The dryer works great if it's not hooked up to the pipe! It dried a load of clothes last night in 20 minutes!
We're both a little stressed this week so I definitely need to work out today.
Toying with the idea of not turning on the computer at all until my other stuff is done. I may have to do that for awhile.
Getting off the computer boogaloo!
MM

Hi pebbs,

Feeling (maybe?) better today. . .have to run up to campus (trying to minimize this. . .it's an hour each way) and drop off graded papers to my boss so that he can approve my grades. I hate this. Feels like he doesn't think I can grade my own papers. Cranky. I have a problem with authority.

In order to put something positive into the trip, I'm also dropping off my finished project to my committee! Hooray, hooray, hooray! (that's three cheers, pebbs ). Now, on to the next massive project (um. . .hooray?)

I'm planning on exercising when I get home from campus. Probably the "backside" dvd, since I did the front yesterday. I didn't think I got a very good workout in, but I'm a bit sore in my "front" muscles. . .so that validates the workout yesterday.

I'll buy some tussin today, Arianne. When I went to the doc last week, she promised me my lungs sounded clear. I was shocked, as I have this weird burning sensation in my chest when I cough. . .maybe it's just sore from so much coughing? I have a naturopath acquaintance, and she urged my to increase my vitamin D dosage if my immune system is such a mess. My other theory: doctoral candidacy is killing me.:laugh: Or, at least, the constant stress is putting undue strain on my body.

Novel boogaloo!:flowerforyou:

V, sounds like a great walk. I barely got in my veggies for lunch too. Green beans.
I just did Shred, so I got my work out in. Now I need to find motivation to clean. You'd think having company would be mojo enough. :huh: My goal is to clean the living room. I've also got to get a grocery list together before tomorrow morning. I have no idea what to eat next week. After a weekend of junk I'm going to need healthy food. I'll be ready for a cleansing I'm sure.
It's getting hot in here since the dryer is venting into the house right now. :grumble: No word from the landlord. Guess I'll deal with it. At least it's a little cooler today so outside air helps.
Gotta get busy!
Making progress boogaloo!
MM