Oh my goodness! So much to catch up on! The past few days have been crazy. Someone told me to explore the field of psychology as a career path and I have been inhaling everything I've read the past few days to find out! Unfortunately, it makes everything 10 times more confusing, but what are you gonna do? LOL
But, I'm about 2 pounds away from a healthy BMI and I feel great about that!!
My Woohoo Wednesday is that I went out several times this week to meet various friends, and each time I ate (mostly) healthy. Turkey burgers instead of burgers, half a baked potato instead of french fries, iced tea instead of a cocktail. It felt great to be able to enjoy meals out and not feel incredibly guilty about it later.
I got Stitch as my sidekick - I do think it has something to do with picking Margaritas...
And my confession today of the hardest thing for me is GETTING OUT OF BED to exercise! Seriously. If I could work out at 3 in the morning and not have it disrupt my life and my sleep habits I would. But, I do various things to help - I put my alarm in another room, sleep in my workout clothes, or set an automatic timer for a light.
I'm in management and having issues with my staff which is taking it's toll as far as my stress level is concerned. That being said I haven't done what I typically do which is reach for the glazed donuts in the pink box that someone brought to the office. I looooovvve glazed donuts, so gooey and sweet...sorry, got distracted there for a minute.
Anyway, I've been a good girl. Now if only I could resolve my staff issues with a wave of my magic wand!
I completely hear you on this. Staff issues is the worst, and can affect your mood all day long. HUGS! And good for you on the donuts!
And this new eating plan (vegetarian type of paleo/primal) is working really, really well. Down another half pound today. The best part--I am still eating some really tasty treats--they just aren't full of sugar and bad carbs.
So happy to hear that!
I saw a wonderful film yesterday: The Grand Budapest Hotel. It was just so lovely, funny (but not a true comedy), creative. I can only recommend it!!
Will definitely put it on my list!
QOTD:
I am doing very well with thinking before eating and not give in to temptations this week. After not eating my own cupcakes on Monday, yesterday before the film we went to an Italian restaurant for dinner. The pizzas smelled so good, but I got a wonderful salad instead with grilled filet of lamb! About every second meal I also manage to remember to slow down. So greta progress with regard to conscious eating for me!
YAY! All sounds like great progress!!
woohoo Wednesday -- I went (Monday) to the gym with my DD 17, after school which is a hard time of the day for me and I really wanted to back out but she cheered me on and so we went!
also yesterday I got the dog out for a much needed walk, both of us needed a walk outside...we miss those!
Anyhow, the point is you are a
success. Even though you might not be where you want to be at this moment, you have been maintaining a healthy weight for
YEARS and that is awesome! This is just a bump in the road, and I have no doubt you will find a way to get back to a place you feel good about.
100% agree with this!
well my Whoo hoo is Monday at work we welcomed our new boss with local donuts, coffee, and fruit and I welcomed her with just coffee.. I did take a donut but brought it back to my desk and as I was looking at it I decided yes it would taste SOOOOOOOO good but I'd beat myself up and give myself an excuse to ruin the WHOLE day so I wraped it up and brought it down to the Hubs in the kitchen for a treat! then when I went to the gym I shared that I jogged for a total of 6 mins and yesterday even though Hubs didn't want to go to the gym I still went to Zumba and gave him an errand list and he just came back and got me!
That's REALLY amazing. Congratulations!!
This morning I am .2 away from my first milestone! I have no clue how and I know at some point the scale will skyrocket because of the last two days of eating, but right now it feels good!
I have an unofficial question for whoever feels like answering:
What do you do, if a gym membership or classes are not within your budget, and the weather is just not being kind to your metal parts? Do you pop in a video, or hit the mall? I need ideas for when I can't walk outside. I used to do BeFit in 90, but I got bored and discouraged. I am thinking of ballet barre in my kitchen as a warm up...
I do Power 90 at home. Once I got the hang of it, I started doing the weight training using a list of exercises in Power 90 I found online, but without actually watching the videos. This way, I can up the weight and go at my own pace. The cardio can get monotonous sometimes, but when it gets warmer, I'll replace it with running if I get bored. Honestly, any exercise is exercise, so find something that you love!
My habit has been to eat lunch at my desk while working because I feel like I need to be available to the staff and physicians at all times. As difficult as it is to do, I need to realize that it's ok to take a breather at some point during the chaos of the day. So with that in mind, I actually left the office for a bit to have lunch at Starbucks with my administrative assistant. It was a beautiful day and felt so good to get some fresh air and sunshine. Don't get me wrong, my boss and I do get out every once in a while but only when we're fully staffed and having a fairly slow day. When things get crazy is when I actually need to take a time out in order to regain some sanity. Baby steps I guess.
That's a great step! Its true- even just walking around for a couple of minutes in the sunshine can completely change your stress level during the day. WTG!
Hope you slept well last night and hope you are staying WARM in these continued winter condition!
I am! Seems that they decided to fix the heat for the last couple of weeks of winter haha
I too have been working on SLOWING DOWN my eating... most especially at breakfast that I often eat alone and I am usually hungry. Yesterday I tried to put down the yogurt bowl and grab a sip of coffee or tea between bites and to take much smaller bites. Baby steps! OOOHhh... that can be my
WOOHOO Wednesday!! PHew!
YAY!!!!
OMG!! You have TOTALLY nailed it! And I hate to even admit it out loud, but you are TOTALLY CORRECT that NOT having DD here and NOT being "forced" to be at the gym daily has been a MASSIVE part of the new struggle. I need to start thinking about my NEW LIFE SCHEDULE. Especially since DD may not even be coming home for the summer!
And thanks for what you said about my members relating to me because the weight loss/exercise challenge is REAL for me. I try SO HARD to keep it real during my meetings. I never want to come off as "cured" or "perfect" or "doing it all right". But at the same time I want to be motivating and encouraging and if I am throwing in the towel in regards to exercise, how can I possibly encourage others? Time to put on my big girl panties! Thanks for being such a great friend and taking the time to give me some great words of advise and encouragement!!
You're a rock star and an inspiration to us all. Glad you took the time to realize it!
I'm just beyond frustration right now! I've been so motivated and had a fabulous 4.5 loss last week! Well this is spring break and I've eaten so many bad things I'm so mad at myself! On a positive I bought a Groupon for a boot camp starting in April but I've now had a stress fracture in my foot and I'm in a boot!!! This has made me more upset which in turn makes me down and turn to food. Yes I know what I'm doing is all wrong and I can still do weights or situps, pushups (on knees) etc and eat well to maintain but I guess I've resorted to old habits. I feel like I've just sabotaged myself and ruined all my hard work.
ugh! pity party
We all need one every once in awhile! Sorry things aren't moving the way you want them too. Hopefully things will change soon!
I got bored with my GarminFit app, so downloaded one called runtastic on the recommendation of a work colleague......it's great. It shows the map of my run with colour coding - green when I was doing well, amber when I was doing OK and red when I was slacking!!!! Used it yesterday morning and I was slacking runnng up the only hill in the area where I live!!! No surprise there.
Sounds like an amazing app! Filing that away from the future! And WTG on the pace! Sorry about the vacation time - hopefully you'll get to make that up soon!
Hmmm, so I got Stitch in the quiz.......really not sure how I feel about that!!! Never really though he was a margarita kinda guy!!!!!!
RIGHT? But I guess, Hawaii, surfing, relaxing, makes sense!
last time he was gone I was able to get into a good mojo, so I want to repeat that next week! I have been back at the gym though this month, so hopefully the change up in my WO will bring lower numbers on the scale in the coming weeks
Sounds like you have two things working for you this week! Hope it shows you some results!
Happy Friday all! I hope you have great weigh ins. I'm feeling discouraged. I lose .8lbs but I worked out all week and ate really well. I know it is a loss and I should be happy but I'm bummed.
I'm sure it will make for an even bigger one next week! You got this!
I'm running the Rock & Roll Half in DC tomorrow...so glad the forecast is nice! I even get a night in a hotel on my own tonight. LUXURY. And I'll get to see some friends who are also running - people from all different areas of my life - so fun!
Sorry you weren't feeling so hot, Liz! But, I hope you are on the road to recovery! Or at least, I hope you made it through the Rock & Roll Half today! Beautiful weather for it! Any only four weeks until WDW - you can definitely make it!
Based on a friday to friday weigh in schedule, I am down 2.6 today.
My official count is monday to monday, but it still feels good to look at that number even though it has no effect on my beads.
Woohoo! I'm sure it will be reflected on Monday, and you'll be able to move those beads!!!
Had a pretty good week, lost two pounds so that makes it a total of five so far for March with a goal of seven. My starting weight this month was 196 and I'm at 191, so seems like I'll reach my goal early, maybe even by next week!
Good for you!!! WTG!
Here is the Pi-ku: Hello Pi / Oh… / Endless digits [/I]
That was so cute!!! A couple years ago, one of my friends realized that 2015 would be the real Pi day - 3.14.15 - so he created this facebook invite for a date 4 YEARS IN THE FUTURE! So funny how I am still attending it and now its only a year away!!
So I weighted in this morning and lost .5 of lb. that was good I was struggling just a bit this week with the low carb stuff and I have only worked out 5 days this whole month.. better get moving!
Hope you enjoy your scrapbooking weekend, and congrats on the loss!
WHEW! All caught up! Happy weekend, everyone!
I know you will 
it! 
Of course he ended up bailing too, but I never did sign up.
I am so glad to hear that you are well! Hopefully the bike is reparable!!!
My advise for this problem is never, ever, ever, ever give up! 
I love Disney and I would relocate from UK. It has been lovely to sit out in the garden,I got the family their lunch ( good thing about the warm weather is I don't want to eat out in the sun, so I cooked for everyone else but just had a cup of tea). We do always try to have a traditional Sunday roast dinner so I am saving my calories for that later ( once the sun has gone down). Could you tell me a bit more about why it is partly due to Disne?
