Weighed 36.5 pounds less today than I did on January 7th.
Feeling good - feeling strong.

Hola. Long time no post. To update I havent lost much since my initial two pound loss which is to say I've only lost 2 pounds total since January. On the bright side I've found a new love for working out and hopefully over time this will pay off- whatever!

Anyways I found this very interesting article on someone's blog called "False Advertising"about women who are slim when they get married and gain weight subsequently. This woman defends the men who complain by saying the wife "falsely advertised". Interesting and thought you all would have some strong views one way or the other on it.

Long time no post. But I do have my awesome treadmill now and I am proud to say that I have been on it EVERY STINKIN DAY except yesterday when I was barfing. I couldn't do it without my ipod. I really have to focus on the music and not the fact that my legs are burning.
Weight loss wise, I am kind of at a stand still since I started exercising, which sounds weird. I look like I've lost more and I can tell a major difference with my clothes but the scale doesn't show it. So right now I'm stuck at around -30 which always happens when I'm trying to lose weight.

-k8

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i'm still trying to be healthy (except for my burger king indiscretions on tuesday night).

I went to the gym monday night after work and did weights and cardio, was kind of sick tuesday, ate BK on tuesday night b/c i wanted hot salty fries, sick still on wednesday but went to the gym and did 3.96 miles in 45 minutes on the eliptical (at level 4). I was feeling pretty good last night, ate homemade mac and cheese, hoping it would settle my tummy (and it did). I woke up feeling pretty good this morning, then got sick when I got to work. I'm holding out as long as I can today. I'm sipping regular pepsi (the machine was out of coke classic) and nibbling on pnut butter crackers, and it seems to be helping.

I would much rather have a stomach flu than the regular flu anyday (I can't afford to take time off work for being sick, even with my sick days). Refer to Tee to read about how the flu really is. She's recovering from it now.

Anyways, I have a trainer appt. on the 29th. I don't anticipate seeing any loss, but as long as there's no gain, I'll be happy.

Hope everyone out there is hanging in there and being healthy.

Well the weekend has been filled with rain,

fun, rain, a Duke game Friday which they won,


rain, a Duke game Saturday, which they won, church, family, friends, Wesley's 7th birthday party, a Duke game Sunday, which they won for the ACC championship,


rain, and did I mention..... rain?

I think we have hit the 6 inches of rain mark in the last 48 hours. Wesley had the birthday presents of his dreams today. Everything he got was Nascar and Jeff Gordon. He LOVES Jeff Gordon. He has never even watched 5 minutes of a Nascar race.

It was a great weekend, culminating with Ryan biting into a glow bracelet after he was in bed tonight and having all the glowing stuff squirt into his mouth. Jacob - thinking quickly - yelled at him to spit it out - so Ryan did. All over the bedroom, himself, the floor. I checked the package while Andi searched the internet, and we quickly determined it was non-toxic. And I will say, it was fairly simple to clean up. It's not as if you can't see the stuff. Just wipe up the glowing spots. Finish up the weekend by establishing the "no glow bracelets in bed" rule.

I have made a point to not weigh myself since the first of the year. I indulged a little too much on certain peanut butter balls and other goodies I made.

I have been working out hard, but still felt like a big fat sow. Well today I decided I better get over my fear of the scale so I know exactly what I am dealing with...

Well I figured I gained a good ten pounds since January. Well I weighed 20 pounds less than I thought I would weigh and ten pounds less than when I weighed myself last. How did that happen?

I am so glad I got on the scale, because now I see my workouts are truly paying off...

Why are we so afraid of a scale?...They don't bite...Well, I think some might.

But I was so relieved to see I had not gained anything , but had lost...

Ok..I had to tell someone...Sorry:)

Bossy

I'm a people pleaser by nature so it's difficult for me to post this.

I already posted on my blog about a week ago saying that I was going to post when I wanted and read what/when I wanted and that I hope everyone understood. That was me taking care of myself. I have to take care of myself again.

I feel an immense amount of obligation to do my best at getting healthy for all of you, but have been unable to do so. If that isn't the greatest example of what a strong hold food has on me, I don't know what is.

Despite my Mom's being diagnosed with diabetes, and as a result losing nearly 50 lbs (and still going), despite my little sister being diagnosed as pre-diabetes, despite how much I want do this not only for myself, my husband, my children, and all of you - I have been failing - and it's discouraging.

I feel like a hypocrite telling all of you "Great job! Keep it up!", when I am still in the vicious cycle of:

Day 1: Excite/Determination
Day 2: Depression
Day 3: Binge
Day 4: Guilt/Self-Loathing
Day 5: I need to get back on the wagon

And this repeats itself weekly. Obviously something isn't working right.

I wish I had fantastic results for you all. Ruthie (my partner) and I Email every single day and we try so hard. Over the years I have made so many positive and healthy changes.

Switching from white bread to wheat bread to whole grain.
Switching from whole milk to 2% to 1%
Switching from regular soda to diet
Switching from dark meat to white meat
Switching from butter to butter spray
Switching from full fat mayo to light, (same with salad dressing)
Switching from vegetable oil to canola or "spray"
Buying more organic, whole grain, low sugar foods in nearly every food I buy from ice cream to pasta and cereal
Buying and eating more fruits and vegetables (that accounts for nearly half my grocery purchases and used to be like 10%)

... I'm proud of those changes and maybe they have kept me from becomming any bigger than I am - but it's still not enough.

I hope I can get it together one of these days - but I really am so proud of you who have finally broken through.

I've been doing the Walk Away the Pounds 4 mile video. This is a great video - not too intense, but in an hours time, you've walked 4 miles, and got in some upper body toning too. You can get it at Wal Mart for about 10 bucks. There are one mile, 2, 3 and 4, but they are all the same price, so get the 4 and it tells you at each mile marker, so you can quit if you want.

Highly recommend it.

Its been a while since I posted here..shame on me..

ok I have been working out like mad...40 minutes a day on the treadmill 6 days a week, then when the baby is nappping I do one of my dvd work out videos...then my free weights daily..I have had to up my weight, becuase it was getting too easy, so I am hoping I get better resluts..

I have not weighed myslef for a while..I am way too scared too...isnt that so stupid..

I hope everyone is doing well...keep up all your good work;)

Bossy

down 28 pounds
Hang in there everybody!

I've been exercising consistently now for three weeks 30-60 minutes 5-6 days a week.

I've been eating between 1200-1550 calories everyday for three weeks with only two times going over my limit.

I've lost absolutely no weight.

Do you think 1200-1550 is too high a range to lose anything? The diet also allows any food so long as you stay in your range though ofcourse they encourage healthy food.

I'm just confused. I guess on the bright side I can't gain weight doing all this.

I have gotten on my treadmill everyday and am finding it to be easier and easier. I have four pre-programmed runs on my treadmill. They get harder from 1 to 4. I usually do 2 because it varies running and walking but sometimes for variety I will do 1 or 3. I tried 4 the other day and made it halfway through and thought for sure I was going to die so I walked te remaining 15 minutes at a high speed. I will try that one again in the future.

I have not lost any weight yet, not that I really expect to because I never do, but I have seen much improvement in my flabby tummy and hips. I will keep it up so I can have that sexy behind and tummy I can see so clearly in my imagination.

I went to the gym is what is surely 3 weeks. I am proud of myself for sucking up my fear/doubt/insecurity (which oddly enough, has just developed in the past 3 weeks or so).

I lifted weights, and I ran on the eliptical. Because of not going, I reduced my weights by 2.5 lbs on each arm, and by 5lbs on each leg. On the elipitical, I began conversing with the woman on the machine next to me. For the entire 30 mins I was on there, I didn't look at my display. When the 2 minute cool down beep occured, I checked my progress--I had done 3.06 miles in 28 minutes. by the end of the cooldown, I had hit 3.11 miles in 30 minutes. I think that this is my BEST TIME EVER on the machine for distance in 30 minutes. For not having worked out for 3 weeks, I think it rocked.

I was feeling pretty good last night, I ate healthy, took a nice long shower, slept good. Today started okay--no residual effects, woke up, work on time, had a bagel (okay, that was bad). As the morning has progressed, I've noticed that my arms are slowly beginning to stiffen. By the end of the day, will I be frozen into an immobile lump?

Anyways, I do feel better today than I have felt in a while. I made an appointment for a physical, but the earliest I could get in was May 5! At least I have two months to get back into reasonable health before I see her. I only wish it could have been earlier.

I hope that everyone has a terrific weekend. Aisha, Perri, Tee, and everyone else--you guys are doing GREAT JOBS! I think I'm back on the wagon today, and I plan to stay there. Thanks again for all of your support!

~ruthie

I was beginning to trust sparkspeople as I've gained weight instead of lost so checked to see if their calorie counter was right and came across this: http://www.caloriecontrol.org/calcalcs.html you can type in your current weight and see how many calories you are eating to maintain that and then type in your goal weight and see how much that requires.

I'm craving cookies and chocolate. I'm hoping that It's that time of the month which would explain all of this.