What have ya done this week end?? I made it to the gym this week every day that i planed it!! Even with out my work out buddy... that is hard for me to do.. I really need that person that will push me so it was great that I felt this week I could push myself and I did!! Come on J lets get you going!!!! MOVE IT MOVE IT MOVE IT!!! LOL
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Dea

Well... im not that far if youre still in West. Lets get ya going!!!!
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Dea

Well, I'm having a bit of a problem keeping up with my program. For one thing, it's cold! It's dark when I get out of bed, and it's dark when I leave work. Winter is one of the worst times of the year for me. My body just doesn't want to wake up when it's this cold and dark. I reall need to get back on track though. I actually want to thank you Dea, for writing on my profile and bringing me back on. I think I've been needing a push.

Im also from TC. Would love to see another post from you to see your progress.
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Well I had a good day at WW on Friday. I'm down to 149.2. Don't get too excited though, I ALWAYS have a backlash when I lose that much weight in one week. I just have to stay sane this week and if all goes well I will at least be the same on Friday. I of course would LOVE to lose again this week, but I've been at this way too long to be that unrealistic. I'm still going to work towards a loss but I don't want to lose momentum by being unrealistic and then being disappointed. I didn't walk this morning, gave myself the day off but that means I will definitely walk every other day this week. I might even do something on Saturday since Steve has to work. We'll see though. :-D I'm glad that we are back to commenting on this. We have to be here to support each other and I NEED to get down to 145 for this dress to look great. I hope you had a good weekend.

OK, Back on track this week. I've been jogging every day. I can only do 30 minutes in the mornings unless I wanted to get up even earlier than 5:00 AM (I don't think so). So I'm working on intensity rather than time. This week, I've made it up to 5 min. warm up, 7 minutes running, 3 minutes walking, 7 minutes running, 3 minutes walking and 5 minute cool down. I'm actually thinking that when I get to the point that I can run the whole time, I'll do my warm up, but then I'll just run for 25 minutes and then my cool down will be walking around the house before I get in the shower. I did have ice cream last night, but my diet was pretty good today otherwise.

Well, vacation came and went and I gained. I think the graphs are a bit weird. I wish it would show last month's progress too, but it only shows this month's. I did work out one day during vacation... Monday. I had such great intentions to keep up with my workouts, but it was so much easier to let them lapse. I must say, though, that once I got home, I got right back into the swing of things and now I'm almost back down to where I was before vacation, which is cool. I'm always sooooo hungry, though. I guess that's because my metabolism has increased, which is good. I just hate being hungry. But I'm concerned that if I let myself veer off the diet I'm on, I'll just start gaining again. Or at least not lose as fast. I am sooooo excited that the diet plus exercise is making a difference and I can't let anything stop that now!

OK, so I did gain some this weekend. I'm not entirely sure though if I gained because of the fair or if it is because it's that time of the month. I guess we'll see when I weigh in tomorrow.

It's been a crazy week this week. Last night I was up until almost 11:00, so I didn't end up exercising this morning. I've definitely figured out that 10:00 is the latest I can stay up and still be able to get up the next morning. Even then it's difficult. 9:00 gives me 8 hours, so I try to do that as much as possible. I'm going to try to get to bed early tonight, but that's only if I get all my flowers done for my cake decorating class. I also need to bake cakes tonight and ice them and cover with fondant. There's so much to do, so little time!

I'm going to try to workout next week while on vacation in Nebraska. I'll make sure to bring my running shoes so that I can walk or run around Scott's parents' neighborhood, since I won't have a treadmill. I have a feeling that my diet isn't going to be really good this next week, so I definitely need to work out to compensate.

Well, I guess the best thing is to have a plan. So I've got a plan and hopefully I'll stick to it! I am seeing a slight difference in how my clothes fit. Yay!

Well, the last two mornings I had allergy problems. I thought I was coming down with something. The last thing I wanted to do was work out. Once I figured out it was just allergies, I started taking my meds and I feel great now. So I worked out this morning when I wouldn't normally have (I've been taking the weekends off). Today is the fair, though. I'm sure my diet today will be exceedingly bad. So I'll work out tomorrow also.

I think I'm finally getting to the point where working out isn't as hard as it was at the beginning. I'm intermixing jogging with my walking on the treadmill, and I really don't have any problems getting through my two minutes of jogging every interval. I stepped up the speed this morning, but it might almost be time to step up the duration. I think I'll keep the same timing right now, but with the faster speed. Then next week I'll see about lengthening the time I spend jogging versus walking. I'd really like to get to the point where I'm just jogging all the time. That would be great!

I'm wondering if I got rewarded for my patience today. I'm down two pounds from yesterday. I hope that's the case. I did have a cookie from Starbucks yesterday though, and today when I was looking at what I ate yesterday I looked at the nutritional content... OUCH! Those are very high in calories and fat. But I noticed that the Butterhorns they have there are only 160 calories and 6 grams of fat. Much better than the 460 and 22 that my Monster cookie had. I think in the future if I feel the need to indulge in something there, I'll get the butterhorn. My drink had basically nothing in it. Just coffee and nonfat milk (sugar free flavoring). You can do Starbucks on a diet!!! Yay!!!

I could have written what you did word for word today. I'm feeling the same frustration! I just want to run screaming through the streets sometimes! But check out my horoscope for today:

Virgo
You may feel a bit frustrated about your lack of progress, but if you take the long view, you'll see that it's all part of your natural cycle of energy ebbing and flowing. Resist the temptation to rush ahead!

I guess I'd better just take it one day at a time huh?

The fluctuations in weight are getting frustrating, but I guess overall I have lost. And that's what I need to focus on. I keep telling myself that I shouldn't weigh myself every day. That I should just do like once a week or maybe two or three times a week. But every morning, I still end up getting on that scale, with the hope that today I'll have made a huge jump. I just need to keep in mind that there are fluctuations in the body and I need to just look at that average line, which is going down.

Wow! I lost a pound and a half this morning! I'm down below 160, which feels really good! I'm even wearing a cute little crop top today and it looks good. My shorts aren't too tight anymore. I'm really starting to see a difference. I guess I just needed to persevere and it would all come out all right in the end.

Well, I've been doing all right. Last night wasn't perfect. I had my cake decorating class and so we ended up ordering pizza because I just didn't have time to cook. I did make sure that it had some veggies on it, so it wasn't all bad. And I'll just be extra good this weekend to make up for it.

What they have taught us at WW is that it's the cumulative effect. You might have been down a lb today because of what you did last week. Sometimes it just takes awhile for your body to catch up. Or even if you see something happen really fast you still can't get too excited because there is always a backlash if you lose to quickly too. Losing weight sucks.

Well, I was down a pound today from yesterday. I'm not sure why I keep flip flopping like this. It doesn't seem like there's a rhyme or reason to it. I weigh at the same time every morning and I wear almost the same clothes. It's very strange. But I'm going to keep at it. I refuse to give up.

Well, I am getting very frustrated. I was up quite a bit today, 162, which is almost where I started. I know that I didn't do very well this weekend, and I know that my eating habits are probably the culprit here, but as they say frequently. If you can't sustain something long term, what's the point? I need to be able to indulge every once in a while and not have it affect my weight like this. I'm working out every week day. Granted, this morning, I upped the intensity of my workout, so I guess I'll see what that does. Maybe that's my problem, I'm just not burning enough calories with my workout.

I think that your comment about focusing on eating is a very good point. I am very tired of my food and my weight being the focus of my life. There have been several times lately that I've been tempted to just say screw it all. But I know that's not a good thing. I'm going to try to keep the intensity up on my workouts all this week and see if that helps things at all.

Good Morning! Well I was up over 2 lbs on Friday at WW but I'll blame some of that on my period. I'm just on such a roller coaster ride! I did make a decision to try and concentrate on some of the other aspects of my life and not stress so much on the eating to see if that would help. No result so far of course but this morning was an example. I ate something that did not sit well with me and I had a horrible stomach ache last night. I had a lot of trouble sleeping and when my alarm went off at 5 am for my walk, I felt like there was a truck driving over my head and my stomach was killing me! Normally I would get up anyway and go for my walk because I don't want to be a wimp. But you know what? That's not healthy. I didn't get anywhere near enough sleep and I didn't feel good so realistically my walk wouldn't have been all that great; so a couple more hours of sleep would be better for my health than the walk. That's the kind of thing I'm going to concentrate on. Of course I need to do my walking but concentrating on my sleep, my vitamins, my fruits and vegetables, my exercise AND the food. The food should be just a part of it. If this is going to be our life, we've got to concentrate on the whole picture. Does that make sense?

Well, I went up a half pound today... Maybe that's payback for being naughty earlier in the week. I upped my exercising today. Pushed the speed up a bit and burned more calories. We'll see if that has the hoped for result. Tomorrow is going to be a tough day. We're going to be eating badly and probably drinking a lot of wine. I just need to make sure I don't overdo the food. I really can't overdo the wine anymore. It starts to make me sick, so it's the food that I really have to worry about. Luckily it is a weekend, so I can enjoy myself a bit more.

OK, so now that I'm back online, I'll confess to some bad diet behavior this week. Tuesday started out really well. We did end up going to dinner at Applebee's, but they have those Weight Watchers meals, so I actually did really good for dinner. Unfortunately they're a really small meal. Scott, Mom and I all got one and we walked out of there almost as hungry as we came in. So we ended up over at Dairy Queen and had Ice Cream. I did have a small blizzard, and it had strawberries in it (of course, it also had cheesecake and ice cream!).

Then yesterday, Scott and I were out at lunch and just happened to be near this fantastic bakery near work. We went in and got treats for lunch. Not very good, especially since I didn't exercise yesterday morning due to being out late Tuesday night. Well, I'm back on track today I hope. I exercised this morning. Hopefully with all the exercising the few times I drift from the diet won't be as devastating as they were when I wasn't exercising.

I've decided that trying to do "well" on the weekend sometimes sets you up for failure. I would assume you are like me that the weekend is fun time. To try and stay within a certain amount of calories like you do on a Tuesday just isn't realistic. Of course you are right that not eating isn't good so just try and eat regularly and when you do have "fun" stuff just try and not eat ALL of it. That way the weekends are still fun and then you are less likely to overdo it during the week.

It's also nice that your dogs are being supportive! :-D

Thanks Kellie!

I didn't do wonderful diet wise this weekend, but I also didn't do horribly. I had a couple of major splurges, but the rest of the weekend I did really good, almost to the point of not eating. I know it's better to have a more consistant diet, but at least I didn't completely blow the whole weekend.

My exercising has been going all right. This morning it was more difficult to get up and on the treadmill. I'm always amazed that it seems to be dark overnight. Last week, I was getting up and the sun was already up. This morning it was almost pitch dark when the alarm went off. The thing that helped is that Lobo got up when the alarm did. It's kind of hard to ignore his tail thwapping against everything trying to get me out of bed. I hope he keeps that up!

Jenn:

I want you to know that because you've invited me to, I'm going to be looking at your profile on a daily basis when I get to work in the morning. I've bookmarked your page and will do this to help you stay accountable. You are doing a great job just by committing to do this. Losing weight is hard and you will struggle but please remember that you can always count on my to be your cheerleader.

I love you!!

Kellie

Well, I did fairly good today. I congratulated myself on not getting a Starbucks coffee today. But Scott gave me an ice cream sundae cone, so I'm not really ahead any. Plus I had cereal this morning plus a sandwich today at lunch. So either I have no starch tonight for dinner, or I've overdone it on the starch. Actually, I've already overdone it on the starch, because the ice cream counts as a starch, not to mention the chocolate and cone.

It was very hard to walk out of Starbucks without getting anything. Scott really helped me make the decision. I'm not sure I would have been able to do it on my own. But that not only saved me calories, but it saved us money as well. I keep having to tell myself that I made the right decision, but I love Starbucks soooooooo much!

Well, it's been a while since I logged anything. I'm a bit frustrated to see how much weight I have to go now, but I've made a new commitment to healthy eating and living. I've been thinking about trying the Sonoma Diet. It seems more like a lifestyle than a "diet" and considering that you get to have wine every day, it sounds like a good plan for me! I'm also very impressed with the food and recipes they offer.

The other thing I'm really trying to figure out is something to do while I'm on the treadmill. Although I said originally that I was going to be working out with my Wii, there just isn't a good workout for that yet. So I'm trying to get on the treadmill every morning. I've tried reading, and although that does work quite well to keep my mind off the workout, it's not very easy. I'm thinking about going back to one of my original ideas and looking into downloading books on tape for my ipod.

Anyway, things are progressing. I did gain a pound and a half between Monday and today, but supposedly that may just be water weight because of beginning to work out. Let's hope so. Hopefully on my next weigh in on Friday, I'll be able to report a loss.

Hi Neighbor,
Im in Richland.
Looking forward to keeping track of your progress!!
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Dea