...We went last June on our first family trip, had a great time, but my feet were crying by the last night from all of the weight I'm carrying around.
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Also, I turn 50 in one year...I sure would like to run a 5K before I turn 50.
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Anyway, I'm just looking for some motivation, support, etc. It's hard when you don't necessarily have a buddy doing it with you.
Thanks.
Hi!
I had all sorts of excuses for why my feet were dying so bad during our trips. Until February 2012 when the excuses just faded. I knew the problem. I was killing my joints. I felt like someone was hammering my feet the whole trip. Even lying in bed it felt like someone had taken a hammer to my heels. Just awful. I was 41 and felt 91. Since we live next door to an amazing man who actually is older than 91 and is light on his feet and ON his feet every day (he's an artist) I was feeling really really really horrid.
Got home, saw an ad with Jennifer Hudson, went to a meeting the next day.
Since that time, 84.2 lbs gone! And it's AMAZING the difference it makes. Even 10% was amazing. We went to
Disneyland in July and October 2012 and it was already amazing how different I felt. Then WDW this February and it was even better. You have such great times to look forward to!!!
I used a free Couch to 5K program from coolrunnings.com to work myself up to a 5K. I'm still mainly using the Galloway jog/walk method, though I *can* run for longer periods of time. I took the C25K program slowly, repeating weeks as I needed. I'd been off the fitness track for a long time, the weight had brought its buddy asthma with it, and I just needed heart, lungs, blood vessels, and muscles to catch up. So it took a bit of time, and then I did it again.
And now it's getting really good.
So you can do it!!!
This thread is really good for support.
But just so you know, having a spouse doing WW at the same time isn't always as fabulous as it seems. After all, men tend to get more points than women do. When we started, I got 32 points and DH got 71. By the time I lost 40+ I was at 26 points. Now, he's a much slower loser than I am (a few reasons) and I think he's at 66 points now, and it's still such a big difference it hardly feels like we're doing the program together. (on the other hand, the reality is that I eat all Weekly and Activity points, so I'm not eating only 26 points per day at all)
It's great to have someone in the household who is doing it too, or at least not complaining, but on the other hand sometimes it's nicer to have people a bit closer to your points-plus daily value on the journey with you.
I need some advice. I am great at my tracking during the day, but once I get home at night it is a free for all. I forget to track and even when I do I just eat everything in sight and then don't track the extra food. I need some help!
Can you pre-track your food for the evening? Would that help? Especially if you included some sort of good that you generally crave?
Last night's weigh in brought a welcome surprise for me!! 2.6lbs gone!! 2.6!! I was so excited - and surprised! I even asked to get off the scale and get back on to be sure. LOL That's a total of 15.2 gone and that's amazing to me. Today I'm even wearing jeans to work that were too tight a month ago.
Woo!
Thank you for the supportive words! I think I will bring up sabotage this week!!!!
I hope it goes well for you.
PS: I lost 2 lbs at weigh-in
Woo!