I had that problem too until I put in the hours I sleep and other activities... brought my job down to 11 hours - which when taking into consideration the calories burned doing dishes, playing with kids and all the other "house jobs," that is probably more accurate.

Hey ladies, I love you guys. I posted this morning but it's gone somehow. Spent the day out at mom & dad's trying to get that garden planted. It's a big bear, but I keep poking away at it.

montanacricket, I think it's okay to give yourself the occasional day off, I usually make it Sunday, because I lift weights on Saturday (which always hurts the next day)and then on Monday morning I'm right back at it because the week is starting over. But I've taken other days off here and there too. That is sooo strange that your periods are worse with the dieting, mine are almost a non-event, but then again I'm older than you and have gotten a lot less regular than I used to be.

patti, glad to hear your back on track and smiling again. We all have those days, believe me we do.

egmdobbs, I've given away all my biggest pants, but I have a pair of sweats and a couple of shirts left. The one shirt is for the kid's school, so I can't really get rid of it. But the last time I wore it at least 3 people accused me of wearing my pj's in public. Geez, I wore that thing every other week before and nobody said "boo" about it. But it's absolutely HUGE now. I wouldn't worry too much about a scale flip flopping. I have fluctuations all the time, mostly from constipation or lack thereof. The other thing that gives me scale yoyoing is water retention, which I can get from barametric pressure changes. I consider this an act of God and don't let it get me down. You can also get water retention from too much sodium or not drinking enough water, so drink your water, watch the weather channel and pray. That usually helps me get through it. How did your lunch thing go? You didn't Daris, did you?

No, I really didn't! It went ok in general. There were alot of egg casserole-type dishes, so I had probably about a cup of that when all was said and done with samples (~350 cals according to Fitday). Then I had 1/4 of a large bagel, some fresh strawberries and blueberries, and a heap of my sugar free jello with mandarin oranges that I brought. All in all when I add in the dinner I have planned for the night, I'm at about 1,650 calories for the day. A little higher than normal, but not too shabby for a potluck day! I was so proud that I did not touch one single piece of chocolate (basket of mini Snickers be damned!), one cinnamon roll or other sweet bread-y items, and not one sweet thing at all - just jello! And that's quite a feat considering that all the leftovers are still sitting in the breakroom. I will have no trouble avoiding them tomorrow because I'm out of the office at meetings, so in 10 minutes when I leave the office, I consider myself home free of the potential potluck sabotage! :cool:

Got a little misty eyed here emgdobbs, you go girl, very very proud of you.

I went overboard today too. But seriously when I put in my activities I'm at like 3,700+ calories of burn today, so if I ate 1,670 I'm still in the clear right? That's the kind of burn you get with 2 hours of workout and an hour and a half pushing/pulling/grunting the rototiller.

Almeeker - You didn't Daris!? Bwahahahahahaha! I love it! I am so stealing that! Promise to pay you royalties. And I am so blamming my weight fluctuations on Acts of God!

oh I never thought about putting sleep and dishes etc. in lol. Is there a way to enter it once for everyday the things I do all the time? INstead of having to enter it everyday such as walking to bus and work. I do this 5 days a week so can i enter it once for the whole week?

Sooo where's my check? Just kidding, no I didn't really "Daris" I just ate more than normal yesterday, all healthy stuff, just a little too much of it. I try and stay at 1,300-1,500 calories during the week and yesterday I was at nearly 1,700. Well if you're out working in the sun all freaking afternoon and you put in 2 solid hours of working out, then you can eat a little more and it should be okay right? Well this morning I was up a half pound, so there goes that theory... But we have a high pressure system moving in and I hurt all over, so it's an Act of God, and Aunt Flo is visiting so there's some water retention going on as well. So today I'm not going to feel bad about a half a dropped egg, I'm gonna pray for low pressure and bitch cause I have PMS, drink all my water and then some and I'm not going to Daris! And hopefully tomorrow or the day after that egg will be back in the box.

I put in the bits I can remember, since it feels like it's more accurate that way. I have "seated some movement" as my base, but if I clean house for 2 hours I put that in, since it's more action than my base. I don't really worry about putting in the time I sit here reading and typing since that is the same as my base amount. If you want it to take less time to enter your activities you can scroll down through "recent activities", all yesterday's stuff is there and you can just pick and choose from it and it automatically puts the same minutes there as the last time you entered it. Should only take a minute or two to download all of yesterday's stuff, unless it's really different. As far as I know there isn't a way to enter it for the week, but I suppose you could take a minute to do it in advance, on a day where you had more time.

Thanks almeeker. It's good to have license for a day off now and then! ;)

I'm struggling with my attitude at this point. I'm on week 6 and will complete week 6 tomorrow morning with my workout. I think that my family are getting tired of me obsessing with this, but obsessing is what I am going to have to do in order to succeed I think. Especially to take off as much as I want to.

I DID have a good workout today. I didn't go to dd's softball game last night, was in bed with the light off by 9:15 and only woke up to listen to updates from the game (they lost, but she caught a pop fly and got a good run to first--apparently they played a smokin' team!). But I got my butt up out of bed at 4:30 and got my 3.04 miles in in 60 minutes today. Speed is gradually increasing and I am altering the incline on the treadmill in order to work up my heartrate--which is getting harder to get in the target range!

A first! I actually jogged for over 2 minutes (didn't really keep track) this morning. I'm gradually going to ease into interval walking/jogging, with an eye toward jogging for most of the hour as I lose more. I couldn't believe how much easier it was than the last time I tried jogging!!!!!

Raising my latte (double shot, skinny soy thanks to my lovely Mother's Day gift from my family) to all you beautiful women out there who are working so hard to get healthy again! My hat is off to all of you!

Lol
 

Yesterday was a rough day for me as well... I found that if I put myself out there and told folks that I was having a bad day that SOMEONE SOMEWHERE would lift me up... and they did. My bestiest best friend texted me the following: "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France.
My family is getting sick of me too... but, I was MORE sick of myself at my biggest - so they can just friggin' deal as far as I am concerned. I'm tired of their constant obsession with having groceries in the house and me in the kitchen cooking... but I put up with THAT! Lol

Oh thanks, you made me laugh and I needed that! I have an 11 year old who acts like she's the center of the universe, she needs to lose 30 pounds and refuses to listen to it. Throws an absolute fit when I talk about my efforts because she thinks I'm telling her how she needs to be--which I'm not, just trying to keep my journey uppermost in my mind.

It's hard have a teen and pre-teen in the house and finally taking time/effort for ME for a change. DH is incredibly supportive and always has been, and so is my oldest, but that 11 year old...There are days that I'd like to pay someone to take her.

Kids... arg. You give them life, you give them your body, your blood, sweat tears and your best years. They can't even give us the time of day. My mom was extremely obese, she was over 500 pounds as I was growing up. Weight was NEVER spoken about... so as I creeped up to 200, 300 and 400 myself, it was never mentioned... no one showed any concern. I often wonder how my weight would have been if I had a great role model who was working on her health as I was growing up. Your daughter will come around. As an over weight kid, she probably gets a lot of grief at school - so it's important for her to feel safe and accepted at home. I know you are absolutely doing that! It's just that she's got to feel really defensive at the end of the day. Just keep providing her that excellent role model and when she is ready (may take her years!) she will come around. But the food changes are already benefiting your family! Stay strong sister!

You just defined her whole personality with that statement!

Thanks so much to you and to everyone for all the encouragement. I know that you ladies are the one's who are going to help me get there!:o

Morning everyone
This is a long weekend here in Canada this weekend and dh will be home after being away for 2 weeks...so i may not be around much.
Was supposed to go for an extra walk last night outside but it ended up storming here so we had to bail..but will try again soon.

Erinn thats what good friends are for...thats great you reached out instead of eating your stress! good going...
Montana I can obsess and talk and talk about this healthy way of living as well...my walking partner is right on board with me as well so we often talk as we walk, I like that as much as the walking.
Almeeker and Christine on the food journal if I have somthing over and over again I make up a custom food and enter the calories for it...(such as my spag squash.).I figured out the calories per serving and saved it..so now when I eat it I dont have to figure out the calories for each item in the dish..I just look under the custom food. and enter it,,,,can you do something like that in the activities tab??
Egm looks like you did well with the buffet..great going

Ok ladies Im going to post a new challenge thread for the weekend now so I dont forget...lets make this weekend count!

Almeeker - Holy Calorie Burn, Batman! I take it you got more of your veggie garden done? I have to say I'm very jealous (despite the hard work I know it takes) - I wish I could have one but we don't have enough sun in our yard with all our large trees.

Montana - Jogging! That's awesome! Keep pushing yourself, girl!

Erinn - You're very lucky you have such supportive friends. Hopefully that makes up (not totally, but at least a little) for the lack of support you got from your family. And do I now see that you only have to lose 10 pounds 11 times?? Way to go!

Patti - Thanks for starting the weekend thread - that helped alot last weekend!

As for me, that goofy 2 pounds was gone today (back down to 227) and Aunt Flo unpacked her stuff to stay for the next 4 days or so. Sometimes it does feel really good to blame something/one else entirely for the number on the scale! Today is just an average day, although I am spending some time in the car. Going to stop at a gas station on the way home and grab a big iced tea - but no candy!

hey everyone
 

justgetting caught up on all the posts- great job everyone on working through some tough days and staying on track.

cc1158 - I know how you feel I started this journey at 305lbs and didn't want to exercise much, but as I have lost the weight - now down to 245 I feel so much better and actually look forward to walking and doing some exercise videos now. It helps to start small, do what you can, and build on that day by day. find something you like to do or get a walking buddy if you can. I "drafted" two other girls in my office and we walk 20 minutes on our lunch hour now - that way we push each other to go and not make an excuse.

montanacricket- rest is very important to dieting, it has something to do with the body chemistry and if we do not get enough rest it can slow weight loss.

patti- so glad you are feeling better, everyone has off days, but you are certainly one that has inspired me and I'm glad you posted and shared your struggle and your triumph !

looking forward to the end of the work week, tired tonight and can't wait to have some time to relax and hopefully enjoy the outdoors this weekend.

Yup yup - three pounds this week... just keep swimming, just keep swimming.

Morning ladies. I tried to post last night but I was soooo tired that everything I wrote sounded really bitchy. So I gave up and went to bed. Feeling much better this morning. Great job everybody on dealing with different issues and staying on track.

montanacricket, sorry to hear that your 11 year old DD is sometimes a handful. I have 3 girls and they are all difficult in their own ways. Our oldest is also a little heavy, maybe 12-15 pounds more than she should be. At Christmas she weighed 94 pounds, which for her height was overweight. I've not put her on a diet, but we discuss healthy options vs. unhealthy options all the time. She's also playing sports and I've gotten rid of all the really unhealthy snacks in this house. Since doing that she's lost 5 pounds and her waist is 4" smaller. I only measured her waist to order her team swimming suit, but this swim season her suit is 2 sizes smaller than the one I ordered for her in December. And none of her pants stay up either. So my suggestion would be to make changes in your house that she either can live with or doesn't notice and to get her involved in something fun that also happens to burn calories. I've been very subtle with my daughter and so far it's working really well. Of course my DD isn't the defensive sort, she's more of the bossy know-it-all sort, gotta love her for it though, she got all that from her mother....

patti, thanks for the weekend thread, I'm going to try and post, but I'll be camping all weekend, so who knows how that will go diet-wise. Have fun with honey home at last. Do I see some sugar in your weekend?

egmdobbs, Aunt Flo unpacked all her stuff at my house too!!! And get this, I have to take her camping with me as well. Argh!!!

erinn, you are doing so well girl. I've sort of stalled out this week and I'm jealous as all get out. "Just keep swimming" is totally cracking me up, maybe you should change your screen name to "Doryfish". Sorry to hear that your love life is rocky. From your descriptions it almost sounds like your SO is passive aggressive? If it doesn't make you happy though, you need to consider a change. You have to live your life for you, not someone else. Okay end of rant.

speedy, way to go getting the ladies at work up and moving. How inspirational are you? Wow, very good.

I would love, love, love it if one time I broke up with her, she actually took it serious. I gave her an ultra-tomato yesterday when I discovered some important documents I told her to sign and mail off 2 weeks ago were still on my desk - with her note to sign and mail it off.
This is kindof typical stuff - she has no head whatsoever for the business side of the family. We don't have the pink slip to her car because she "gave it to her mom" for safekeeping... and it was lost immediately (since her mother is HOMELESS, it's understandable). Her condo got foreclosed on because she couldn't get her act together enough just to sign in and send the refi paperwork. When I suggested we let go of our rental and move into a place we could actually OWN (Mortgage was only $500!) she said she just couldn't handle it, so her credit has a foreclosure on it due to sheer laziness. Now, her student loans are in danger of defaulting... and I am over it. She has no idea what a routing number is! :eek:
If she defaults on her student loans, thus affecting MY ability to purchase a house, I am leaving. Kaput. That is the one last dream I haven't abandoned since meeting her.
I don't know what to do... how does one end a relationship with someone who won't go away? It feels most of the time that I have an extra kid.
Sorry for the rant - I know it's not fitness related - but it's a huge emotional barrier! I just wish we could get it over with and part ways already, I've begged her to change for 4 years. Then again, if we were really meant to be together, neither of us would have to change for the other. :(

Actually, I think your post is TOTALLY fitness-related. I think "healthy" encompasses a much larger realm than just physically healthy. So much of our physical health depends on our emotional, mental, and even financial health. It becomes extremely difficult to take care of yourself when you have children, and compound that problem exponentially when you have a "child" who is supposed to be an adult. You're left holding the bag for the entire family, plus trying desperately to do what's right for yourself. I 100% agree that you need to stick to your guns about her student loan debt and you desire to purchase a house. Think of the satisfaction you'll have when you purchase a house all by yourself, no emotional or financial baggage but your own.

And I disagree that "if we were really meant to be together, neither of us would have to change". I think all partnerships assume a moderate amount of change on both parties, but it's when the amount or severity of the change is completely unequal that creates a disconnect (i.e. one person feeling that they have overhauled their entire life to accomodate the other's unwillingness to adapt to the partnership). You have to decide for yourself, not anyone else, just how much inequality in your relationships you are willing to put up with. And it kind of sounds like you already have. I encourage you to follow you gut - you have no idea how becoming healthy mentally and emotionally will positively impact your physical health!

ugh... someone else post so I have something else to read besides my jacked up love life! :rolleyes: Hahahaha. Happy Friday everyone! :D

evening everyone...
Erinn I tried to post this afternoon but the site wouldnt let me...
I agree with Egms advice...you also have to remember *what is good for you*
Almeeker have fun with the brownies...Im jealous!
Speedyfair I want to be where you are now..I started at the same weight as you did...
Ok off to spend some time with Dh..... ;););)

weekend thankfully
 

skinnyerrin- I agree healthy encompasses the emotional as well- it is I of the reasons I got to this weight. I have had a roller coaster relationship with someone I was with for five years and I thought was my best friend. For the past six months we have been on/off and also don't know and not sure if I want off the ride lol. Sometimes I'm so strong and say I won't let him back in my life, but then he calls and my willpower seems to go out the window. I have been concentrating on getting myself healthy and then I think I'll have more self-confidence and the ability to handle ending the relationship for good. It's a big step and I'm not sure I'm at that place yet, but I know I can get there as can you whatever you decide.

Taking the dog to the park- at least I have found that walking can be a great stress reliever and helps me feel better about myself

everyone have a great & healthy weekend.

I think you ladies are exactly what I’ve been looking for…
 

Hello Ladies!

I just joined FitDay on Monday AND I just started reading your thread today (I’m not going to lie I felt a little weird doing so – voyeuristic or stalker like LOL). I really feel like you all can understand me in a way none of my friends and family can... and I’m feeling extra inspired right about now having read what you all have had to say :)

I’m 31 years old and I’ve been overweight (if not obese- morbidly obese) since I was a child. Thursday when I was weighed at the doctors’ office I was 264 lbs. I know I should loose more then 100 lbs but right now my goal is to get rid of the “2’s” . I want to be 199 lbs (or less) and I want out of my size 22-24 clothes (although that makes me a little sad because I have some GREAT clothes LOL).

I’m just starting my journey (not really sure what I'm doing) and I’d love to have you all along for the ride...

Not sure why, but I am up 2 pounds... thankfully I don't count my weight until Thursdays... but this is alarming. Off to work out.

Member for the Second Time
 

Hello,

I typed out an introduction that was probably too long and it went into net space and never posted and I was, after awhile, thankful for it. Similarly to the previous post, I feel like an intruder because you all seen to have such close bonds already formed. I didn't read all the posts. I have been messing around on here all day--reading different threads--and paired it down to this one and a new disability one that I hope gets some response.

This is my second time being a member. I lost down to where I am now for my son's wedding in this month of '07. Of course I went up again by forty pounds. I can't remember what my high was prior to the event. I have had four of them since I was disabled.

I am retired army and when I was in a wheelchair for three years, I put on the equivalent of 93lbs. I thought when I learned how to walk (bilateral bka), I would burn off more calories, but my knew found freedom with driving hand controls only allowed me access to more things and more eating and quite frankly after awhile, I was no longer embarrassed by my disability as I was with my weight. It has been an up and down road. I'm hoping this time, that I will succeed. Today, I found, after years of searching, a site that can compute the BMI of an amputee, no matter how many she or he has. I found out that for each leg amputation, the energy expended is 40-100% greater when walking. I also am trying to quit smoking, yet again and found that for each pack smoked per day, the heart works as if it is carrying an extra 90 lbs in addition. That gave me a lot to think about. Although for that pack, an extra 200 cals per day are burned, is it really worth it? It isn't to me and the price of them is terrible. At the commissary the last time they had gone up to 194 dollars four four cartons. I couldn't believe it. I don't smoke that much for the time that I have smoked--a pack a day--but I am frugal and I am just not going to pay a forty dollar mark up since the last time I purchased them.

So I think I digressed even more than the first post. I am 52, Christian, divorced (I know it almost seems like an oxymoron, but I became a Christian after my divorce, not that Christians don't get divorced.), three grown children, two grandchildren, one dog and three cats. I am back in school to become a math teacher but don't know that I will. My main reasons for returning were to break up the boredom of retirement and teaching math or science was all the VA would pay for; although, that was my major back in the day. Also, I want to show my daughter, who thinks she hasn't accomplished much that if Mom can go back to school at this age, she certainly can also too. She has taken her core classes but hesitates because she says that she doesn't know what she wants to major in. She's floundered some compared to the other two but she has been a consistent worker and is the asst manager at the dept store where she works. Can you tell I am proud of my kids and my four-legged ones.

I've been on here all day. I will read through your comments another day. Right now I have to log in my computer time at activity. With the amount of movement I do, I need all the burned calories I can get.

Jaynie

Jaybrodz and EEB - Welcome! I joined this group about 4 weeks ago and they have all been so supportive, both with victories and stumbles.

I am beginning to wonder about the relationship between our weight struggles and our love lives! Things have been difficult for DH and I as well since I gained weight after our son and my ensuing unemployment. I think maybe when we are unhappy with ourselves, that unhappiness is like a toxin that seeps into every area of our lives. When we begin to get healthy, we crave happiness and healthiness in other areas as well. Just an interesting observation, is all!

Weekend going ok for me so far. Overate on healthy stuff (chicken and veggies on the grill) on Friday night, but because it was all healthy, I don't feel quite as bad going over calories. Got in a ton of walking while volunteering at an event for DH's work today and sweat out my fair share! Plus calories have been right at 1,300 today. Yay for a Saturday staying on plan!

great saturday
 

hi all- just had to post and welcome the new friends, please feel free to read our posts the are meant to be shared and at least I find it inspiring to know I can help someone else as these posts have certainly helped me.

yesterday was out shopping with my girlfriend and she has been commenting on my weight loss and wants to try herself. we decided to have dinner together with her family and cook out, then watch a dvd. We got brats for the grill and I suggested we get a pack of chicken/apple sausage (half the fat of the other brats) and make a vegetable as well. We roasted asparagus with some olive oil and garlic. I skipped the bun and had one link of the chicken sausage with asparagus - was delicious and under 400 calories even with a few chips I splurged on lol. It was still early so after we cleaned up, I suggested a walk- and she agreed. We went for a mile walk and it was so nice to walk and talk and do something healthy- so proud of myself yesterday, such a change from the person I was six months ago. lol

so motivated from yesterday off now to take the dog to the park - hope everyone else is having a fabulous weekend.

Thanks for the Welcome
 

I am lamenting feeling sorry for my son. The last time he was here which was shortly after Mom's Day, for it since he had to work on it, he commented on how good I looked and the weight I had lost. I had only been maintaining the weight loss for about six months, but he hadn't seem me since I had lost some of it. He is also tall and about the same height that I am, but he outweighs me about a hundred and twenty pounds and he is only 29. He had taken off sixty pounds within my maintenance period, but when he went to AZ to visit his brother, he started to put it back on and needless to say the rest did.

He was an average child but I had to monitor him with desserts; I would sometimes be missing icing. He is my step, but he is my son and I have had him mostly from the time he was about eleven or so but poor eating habits were ingrained by then. His brother and sister ate what was put in front of them and tha always included vegetables and not always desserts. Now that he is grown, I think he is trying and he has made some changes, but to be so young. When he diets, he eats a 3,000 cal diet and I told him at some point in his eating program he would have to drop that or exercise more and that led to a debate.

My other two children are of healthy weight and eat healthy foods. I have known my daughter to make a meal of sauteed green beans. My other son cooks all the time (I started him at age 8 making hot dogs in a pot.) and he loves coming up with knew recipes. He does the cooking and his wife does the dishes and his whole family is average in size; although, he uses real food, i.e. butter in his cooking and it is very tasty, but it grows on me in a bad way I found, too, when I visited a couple years ago.

My son told me a couple years ago that if I showed him it could be done, he would do it too. Well just like I am going back to school to show my duaghter, who is hesitant about it, that it can be done, I guess I will have to show him and fall back on an old army quote, "Lead by example."

Other than that the eating program is going well. I woke up last night around four and wanted two of my special about 100 cal muffins, but I staved off the craving. I have two real days under my belt. I didn't fair so well on the first day, but I still lost a tiny bit of weight and my weight loss to goal weight chart report has my weight loss dipping ever so slightly lower than the goal weight progress.

Have a nice day and be blessed. I am going to cut out coupons--a passion of mine.

Welcome welcome welcome to all the newcomers! This is the best group of women anyone could ask for!
I am off to Bootcamp, 90 minutes of pure pummeling before I get to church. Good luck ladies, I will post more later - my weekend was only so-so, and some emotional baggage got held to the light for me to examine and I realized I needed to end the self-sabbotage... I always knew that the emotional part to dieting (if done right) was going to be harder than getting the food and exercise components settled. But, on the other hand, this is the first time I've dieted that I've allowed emotional barriers to arise and acknowledged what they were! Every other time I just walked to the fridge. I'm excited about this new path - and even more excited about who I am going to be when I walk out the other side. Anyways - have a fantastic Sunday everyone! I'm off to Bootcamp!

Small Steps
 

Just checking in, I've missed you guys the last 2 days. GS Camp was a lot of fun, and grit and bad food. I did okay food wise, was over a little yesterday, but considering the trash they fed the kids, I did very well. It was really funny because many of the moms in our group are overweight, so I knew they were watching what I ate. One even read quite a few of the labels on the things I brought. The kids had fun and will most certainly want to go again next year, and I got a little closer to some of the moms in the group, so all in all a very good weekend.

Well it was good until I got home, my grandma died this morning. She broke her hip a month ago, and that was just an awful lot to expect an 88 year old women to recover from. Although I half expected her to, just because she's always been such a tough little bird. Well I gotta go, there is not a single thing in my closet that I can wear to a funeral. I was thinking about a week ago that I should maybe get myself a new black dress, but I didn't want to because it seemed like that would be admitting that she wasn't going to make it.

Oh Almeeker,

My thoughts are with you and your family. How are you dealing with the emotional eating?

Almeeker - So sorry to hear about your grandma. I hope you can spend some quality time with your family and friends this week as you deal with the loss. And I'm glad camp went well - I think we can inspire others when we don't even mean to, and it sounds like you made an impression on the other moms there!

Sorry to hear of your loss almeeker. My thoughts are with you from all these miles away

Thanks ladies. You guys are the BEST!!! I went out today and bought a new black skirt and a top that I'm not sure is really appropriate for a funeral, but the ladies at the store assured me it was very fashionable and perfectly fine. It's sort of zebra print, but very flattering. I also got a couple of new bras and a pair of shoes. Get this, the skirt is a size 10/12!!!! And the top is a medium!!! I thought for sure I would need the large or extra large, but both were too big, so I had to go back out and get the medium! I can't even tell you when I last bought a medium anything for myself.

After shopping I went out to the garden and planted this and that and watered some of it with tears. It was very peaceful and a nice break from all the giggling and screaming of camp. I got quite a bit done, and sort of figured out what else I still need to do. I'm such an idiot sometimes, I actually bought pole lima beans instead of bush! Good grief, I only have 2 sets of teepee poles and I already ear marked those for the green beans, now I'm going to have to make a third for those silly lima beans! DH loves lima beans, so I don't really want to skip it, and the garden center is all sold out of the bush seeds. Oh well, my bad.

So I guess my answer to the emotional eating issue is that I've been shopping and gardening, and trying very hard to stay out of the fridge. Although I will admit that I'm over my calorie budget today, and many of them happened in the first hour after I got the news. But I am looking forward to tomorrow's workout already...

I forgot in my earlier post to say hello and welcome to the new posters. Sorry about that I was a little distracted. You don't need to apologize for reading here, we're all in the same boat and it's a great place to come for a little boost or pep talk. eeb_79, I'm very impressed with your weight confession in public!!! That's a big step.

I am sorry to hear about your loss.

I remember I was one of the chaperones on my daughter's weeklong camping trip. Even though I had been in the army for years and had been to the field, I had never been to what I call just camping. I must admit I had fun and if I hadn't have been there, the fire would never have been lit. I enjoyed all the children (and the mothers) except when one group decided to tag our area and the other mothers that were with my group took our girls on a vendetta to return the favor. I refused to participate. I can't recall if I let my daughter, but the experience is something we both have fond memories of.

That was back in the early nineties; she is my youngest and she is 26 now. BTW is anybody else in this group in their 50's.

Jaynie

So sorry to hear of your loss. I've often found that greif comes in waves...here's hopeing and praying with each day the waves become smaller and more managable. I greatly incourage the retail therapy :) but then again I'm a bit of a shopaholic LOL... Along those lines I bought my first scale yesterday. I've never had a scale in my home for my entire adult life-yet another sign I'm serious this time.

Welcome! Don't feel like a stalker, we're all on the same journey and having these ladies has made a HUGE attitude difference for me!

Welcome Jaynie!!!



:( almeeker, I'm so sorry for your loss.



Monday, monday. My 4:30 walk sucked this morning, I am SO tired, and my arthritis is kicking in (osteoarthritis--starts young in our family. I started with in in my late 20's) and my whole body hurts. I thought I was going to throw up I hurt so bad. But I made the full hour on the treadmill and survived and while I'm still not feeling well, I do feel better for going.

It was a busy weekend, doing yardwork, dodging rain drops. We got the rest of my greenhouse space dug out and are almost ready to put the forms in to pour footings. I'm SO excited about that. We also got raspberries moved and some sugar maple trees planted. I love renting excavators, you get so much work done!

I also got peonies planted.

Unfortunately I didn't really track my weekend food. :( But Today is a clean slate and I am moving on!

I did get into some jeans I haven't been able to wear for a while on Saturday! :) And shorts too! It was great!

Wth!?
 

Ok, so.... this weekend wasn't very good. Let me start with the positives:
1. I stuck to my appropriate foods, stayed within my calorie budget (even when there was ALL sorts of junk food to be had).
2. I exercised everyday - rode at least 6.5 miles each day, weight lifted, did core strengthening. At Bootcamp I walked/jogged 2.6 miles, did 100 pushups, 100 grave diggers, weights... the whole shebang.
3. I took my vitamins.

The negatives:
1. I didn't get all my water in on Sunday, and I only drank the minimum on Saturday.
2. Friday night I had 2 glasses of red wine, I had another 2 glasses on Saturday... but I figured with ramping up my workout, and keeping to my allowable food, a little wine was forgiveable. The last time I had a glass of wine was Easter, and I wasn't even working out like I am now and I LOST 4 pounds that week.

:mad:
When I weighed in on Thursday I was 263, now I am 268!?!?!??!?!? FOUR glasses of wine gained me FIVE friggin' pounds!?!?!?! I am very upset about this, I vow I will never have fun again, never act like a normal 29 year old again and think I can have the occasional glass of wine with friends. We all went out to brunch after church on Sunday, everyone was drinking mimosas and having REALLY fatty foods. I drank water and had a breakfast burrito with veggies and egg ONLY (no fatty breakfast meat like everyone else) and I didn't even eatthe tortilla - just opened it up and ate the insides! :eek: But I gained 5 pounds!? Someone help me here... was it the fact that I didn't drink more water?