August/September Disneyers...let's get in shape for our trip!!

[Riverhill]

I am so upset that I have stayed at the same weight for the past week. I went to the clinic today and they said it is normal while my body adjusts to the new calorie intake etc.... Still frustrating.

I have only met my new boss once so far. He seems nice. They are giving him a month of training with my current boss to get the swing of things. In the meantime I get to run the branch.( I work at a bank) The worst part is I have to help my new boss learn his new role while my career is put on hold until he is comfortable. The company will not consider me for a promotion or lateral move because they are counting on me to help him adjust to his new position. I suppose I should be flattered that the head of the company told him that I was the best supervisor in the company but I am just plain frustrated. I wish I could move to Florida and work for Disney.

 

[NewlyDisneyCrazed]

Thanks for the support Kaiti! I totally know what you mean about chunking into smaller goals. Yay for the swimming and walking. Keep it up!

Cathy, my husband and his dad both worked for banks in the past so I've heard about the crazy politics! I can't believe they want you to run things, but don't make you the boss! So frustrating! About the weight loss, I know that you'll have a great week this coming week. You can do it!!

For my weigh in today I was 181.4 lbs. That means that my short term goal is to see a "7" as the second digit next Friday for the first time in about 2 years!!! I really like hitting new decades. Just as before, I'll say "I'm never going to see the 180's again!" (But this time it will BE TRUE!!!)

I also realized that I told you all that I'd keep you posted about DH's progress (I reread my opening post for the first time in awhile.) He's down about 8 lbs too. That's less of a percentage for him but at least it's the right direction. Every little bit counts!

Once again, HAPPY WEEKEND! (Do these weeks fly by or what???)

 

[Riverhill]

For my weigh in today I was 181.4 lbs. That means that my short term goal is to see a "7" as the second digit next Friday for the first time in about 2 years!!! I really like hitting new decades. Just as before, I'll say "I'm never going to see the 180's again!" (But this time it will BE TRUE!!!)

I also realized that I told you all that I'd keep you posted about DH's progress (I reread my opening post for the first time in awhile.) He's down about 8 lbs too. That's less of a percentage for him but at least it's the right direction. Every little bit counts!

Once again, HAPPY WEEKEND! (Do these weeks fly by or what???)

I am sure you will be in the 170's in no time. Tell you DH great job on 8lbs too!!


I still hope to reach 175 by next week. Only 2 lbs to go. I have lost the same 10lbs so much over the past few years that getting to the 170's made it seem REAL. I plan on giving away all my size 16 and 14 clothes to another supervisor at work, that way I can't gain the weight back because I have no
back up clothes to fit into.


Have a great weekend everyone and Happy Fathers Day to all the Disney Dad's

 

[JacksLilWench]

Another 1.25lbs down! It's not too much, but I'll take it and run with it! I amo hoping to lose more this week, and to do that I'll have to jump up my workouts. But I have time this week, so that should be easy

I posted about this on the Biggest Loser thread, but I wanted to share this with you ladies as well. Last night I went to go see the movie Green Lantern. And if you get the chance, go see this movie! It's a pretty good movie anyway, even if you're not a comic book nerd (because I'm certainly not ). In one of the scenes, the head-man of the Green Lanterns is giving a speech to Ryan Reynolds' character, and he talks about having no fear and using that to accomplish all his goals. I can't find any of the quote online yet, but as soon as I do, I'll post it for you guys. It really spoke to me about how to live your life without being afraid to fail and without expectation of failure, but being able to use all your strength to do the absolute best you can do. It was really striking to me.

Plus....Ryan Reynolds takes his shirt off. What more do you need in a movie?!

 

[Riverhill]

Kaiti--- I noticed on your ticker you are almost at 50% to goal.. Great job, and 1.25 lbs is awesome. Looking forward to the quote, i am a sucker for a good motivational quote.

Well, I broke down and weighed myself today. The scale read 175 I am sooooo happy. After being at a stand still for almost 2 weeks. I have high hope for my WDW vacation photos this year.

My DD and I got our pool ready today so next week I will be adding swimming to my workouts.

 

[JacksLilWench]

Kaiti--- I noticed on your ticker you are almost at 50% to goal.. Great job, and 1.25 lbs is awesome. Looking forward to the quote, i am a sucker for a good motivational quote.

Thanks Cathy! I did change it a little bit (okay, a lot, lol) I re-did it with my starting weight at where I was before I got sick, and then I changed it to my "Before Disney" goal weight. It makes it seem like I've lost a TON, but it's a tad deceiving, lol. But thanks again for the super-kind words!

And yay for your loss as well!! I can't wait til my scale reads 175!

 

[SDSorority]

Wellllllll...I'm refusing to weigh myself today because....

1-today is my birthday
2- this weekend we CELEBRATED my birthday, which means.... ehhhhh.... I may or may have eaten a little bit too much.

....Soo..... I'm going to try to get back to healthy eating today (except for a piece of cake ) and throw in a bit of exercise. Back on the ball....

 

[JacksLilWench]

Wellllllll...I'm refusing to weigh myself today because....

1-today is my birthday
2- this weekend we CELEBRATED my birthday, which means.... ehhhhh.... I may or may have eaten a little bit too much.

....Soo..... I'm going to try to get back to healthy eating today (except for a piece of cake ) and throw in a bit of exercise. Back on the ball....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

You're totally right, I wouldn't weigh myself on my birthday either, lol!! I hope you have an awesome day!!!

 

[ZweetiePie]

I would like to join. I am a 26 yo mother of a two month old baby boy. I have been as high as 275 (January of 2005) to as low as 151 (sometime 2007). When I met my hubby(August 2007) I was about 170 and my weight slowly crept up until we got married (191 lbs in May 2009). I was 199 when I got pregnant (August 2010), 237 when I delivered (April 18, 2011), 221 at two weeks postpartum, and now I am 229 at 9 weeks postpartum. I am going to mainly focus on exercise 3 days a week (30-60 minutes), saying no to sweets and high fat/high calorie convenience foods, portion control, and drinking enough water. We are going to Disney around the week of my birthday (September 13th). We are planning to eat at California Grill for the first time because I have a $200 gift card for signing up for a Disney visa. I am shooting for 2 pounds a week so that should put me at 26 lbs lost.

 

[NewlyDisneyCrazed]

Welcome ZweetiePie! Congratulations on the birth of your baby boy! Post regularly with your progress because we'll be here to motivate and cheer!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SDSorority!!!! A little celebrating is definitely in order...back on the wagon tomorrow!

Kaiti - you are doing great! I'm glad you changed your goal, now you can watch that ticker zoom!

Cathy - I'm so jealous you have a pool! I love swimming. My sister has a pool but lives about 2 hours away. The kids and I are still going to spend a lot of time there this summer!

So I had a bit of a set-back this weekend with a bachelorette party Saturday night and Father's Day celebrations Sunday. My Friday weigh-in was so exciting because I was 1.4 lbs away from being back in the 170's but then I went in the wrong direction!!! Ooops. This is when I would have let myself slip for weeks (or months) before but with my new attitude I'm just going to make up for my indulgences this week. Today was a great eating day and I walked to the park with my kids. I'm hoping some of the weight I saw on the scale this morning was water retention too (salty potato chips yesterday!) It is still possible that I could be out of the 180's by this Friday I hope. We'll see!

I was just looking at my list (below) and we haven't heard from many of you ladies in awhile! Are you still out there? How's it going? We'd love to hear from you no matter what!

Updated list of joiners for quick reference:
Tara (NewlyDisneyCrazed): Goal: lose 20 lbs by Aug.24 (50 total to lose)
Krista (Brownsfan): Goal: down 20 more lbs by Sept. trip
Cathy (Riverhill): Goal: to lose weight before Aug. 22 trip.
Jennifer (QueenCityDiva): getting ready for Sept. romantic vacation!
Kaiti (JacksLilWench): Goal: to exercise 20 min/day...great idea!
Nyc (B's Marie): Goal: lose 20 lbs and exercise 5x/week
Jen (shaylyn): Goal: 30 lbs by Sept. 1
Pam (peaceluv&mickeymouse): Goal: lose 20 lbs by Aug. 20th trip
NickNElliesMom: Goal: 20 lbs by Aug. 21st trip (50 total to lose)
BlackPearl: Goal: to be fit! (60 total to lose)
Dystopia: Goal: lose 15 more pounds by Aug. 20th trip
disneycrazi: Goal: 30 lbs by end of Sept. (70 total to lose)
Amandancrx: Goal: to lose 30 lbs.
Stephanie (honeymo78): Goal: 20 lbs before end of Sept. trip (80 total to lose)
Sarah (thegreggersmom): Goal: at least 30 lbs by Sept. 16th trip (about 80 total to lose)
fitgirl36: Goal: to lose 18 lbs before Oct. 16th trip
jen42002: Goal: to lose at least 14 lbs by Aug. 20th trip
TJsMommy: Goal: to lose as much as possible by Aug. 17th trip
cormmac3: Goal: size 18/16 by trip
alliesmommy: Goal: size 16 or 14 by September anniversary trip
SDSorority: Goal: 13 lbs by Sept parasailing trip
ZweetiePie: Goal: 26 lbs by Sept 13th trip

 

[SDSorority]

Thanks for the birthday wishes!!!!

Back on the wagon today- I have a salad, apple, and power bar (a raw organic fruit and nuts bar) to get me through my day. Oh and my refillable tin of water. My goal is to drink all of my water by lunch time, then refill it and drink it all by the time I get home. Then refill it at home, and drink it before dinner. I think I can do it!!!!!

 

[JacksLilWench]

Welcome ZweetiePie! Congratulations on the birth of your baby boy! Post regularly with your progress because we'll be here to motivate and cheer!


So I had a bit of a set-back this weekend with a bachelorette party Saturday night and Father's Day celebrations Sunday. My Friday weigh-in was so exciting because I was 1.4 lbs away from being back in the 170's but then I went in the wrong direction!!! Ooops. This is when I would have let myself slip for weeks (or months) before but with my new attitude I'm just going to make up for my indulgences this week. Today was a great eating day and I walked to the park with my kids. I'm hoping some of the weight I saw on the scale this morning was water retention too (salty potato chips yesterday!) It is still possible that I could be out of the 180's by this Friday I hope. We'll see!

I totally second that, Zweetie Pie! The ladies here are some of the most supportive and positive ladies out there- so happy to have you on board with us, and can't WAIT to hear about your soon-to-come success!

Tara, I'm gonna be in the 180's myself next week!! It'll be the high 180's, but the 180's none the less! I am so excited about it, I'm almost intolerable! I actually went to make a payment on my Disney trip yesterday and my travel agent said I looked like I was losing weight Just one of the many reasons we keep going back to her, lol!!

Thanks for the birthday wishes!!!!

Back on the wagon today- I have a salad, apple, and power bar (a raw organic fruit and nuts bar) to get me through my day. Oh and my refillable tin of water. My goal is to drink all of my water by lunch time, then refill it and drink it all by the time I get home. Then refill it at home, and drink it before dinner. I think I can do it!!!!!

You totally can!! I'm doing the Biggest Loser Challenge this summer, and one of the weekly challenges the first week was 48oz of water a day, and the next week it jumped to 64oz a day It seemed like I would be swimming for a dang week from all that water, but now it's so easy to get in a ton of water daily. Plus I'm about 99% off soda now too!!

 

[Riverhill]

I would like to join. I am a 26 yo mother of a two month old baby boy. I have been as high as 275 (January of 2005) to as low as 151 (sometime 2007). When I met my hubby(August 2007) I was about 170 and my weight slowly crept up until we got married (191 lbs in May 2009). I was 199 when I got pregnant (August 2010), 237 when I delivered (April 18, 2011), 221 at two weeks postpartum, and now I am 229 at 9 weeks postpartum. I am going to mainly focus on exercise 3 days a week (30-60 minutes), saying no to sweets and high fat/high calorie convenience foods, portion control, and drinking enough water. We are going to Disney around the week of my birthday (September 13th). We are planning to eat at California Grill for the first time because I have a $200 gift card for signing up for a Disney visa. I am shooting for 2 pounds a week so that should put me at 26 lbs lost.

You have a 9 week old and still are willing to workout 3 day a week... this make you a SUPER MOM in my book. I swear I slept most of the first 6 months when my kids were little. I reward of a great meal at the California Grill will feel great 26 lbs from now. We are all here to help you meet your goal

Thanks for the birthday wishes!!!!

Back on the wagon today- I have a salad, apple, and power bar (a raw organic fruit and nuts bar) to get me through my day. Oh and my refillable tin of water. My goal is to drink all of my water by lunch time, then refill it and drink it all by the time I get home. Then refill it at home, and drink it before dinner. I think I can do it!!!!!

Happy be-lated birthday.. On your birthday, diets and scales should be non-existant. Way to get back on plan with all the water.


My DD asked me to go for a walk tonight. I agreed because I really want to get to 173 this week and I needed more Bran Flakes ( I am totally addicted to this things now) so we walked to the store and back. I never thought I would crave cottage cheese but here I am anxious for tomorrow when I can have more!

 

[ZweetiePie]

I didn't do the best on food yesterday, but I didn't overeat......and that has been a problem for me lately.

I started my first day of Couch to 5k yesterday (hubby watched the baby). I wasn't the fastest but I feel like I kicked butt. I did 1.33 miles in 25 minutes....which is about 18:45 per mile. Not my best time ever, but I am pleased with it.....considering the fact that I haven't trained for a race in over a year.

 

[Riverhill]

I didn't do the best on food yesterday, but I didn't overeat......and that has been a problem for me lately.

I started my first day of Couch to 5k yesterday (hubby watched the baby). I wasn't the fastest but I feel like I kicked butt. I did 1.33 miles in 25 minutes....which is about 18:45 per mile. Not my best time ever, but I am pleased with it.....considering the fact that I haven't trained for a race in over a year.

1.33 in 25 mins. is awesome!!! It takes me 43 minutes to do 1.5. Sounds to me like you are off to a great start. Keep up the great work

 

[NewlyDisneyCrazed]

Wow! Great job with the running ZweetiePie and Cathy! I'm impressed with those times! I couldn't do it!

This week has been tough. My back's been acting up so exercise is minimal but the overeating from the weekend stopped (except for popcorn at the movies for my anniversary date). I'm being so good today to make up for it. Maybe that means I'm in for a big drop tomorrow???? (Posting day!) If so, yay! If not, there's always next week! I'm gonna keep on chuggin'!

~Tara

 

[JacksLilWench]

Okay, I've reached the point in my journey where I'm frustrated. And this always happens and I usually quit around now and I REFUSE to do that. So instead I'm gonna rant to you guys instead.

Disclaimer: I am not about to say nice things about Weight Watchers. It's nothing personal and I have absolutely nothing against the program- I've done it before and had success with it. If you are on WW, then that's awesome and I wish you even MORE success. What I'm about to say is specific to my situation. Please don't take this personally. If what I say offends you, I'm truly sorry and I will do what I can to make it up to you.

My mom and sister (who needed to do this) just joined Weight Watchers. And that's awesome and think it's great. But really? Two, three months ago I wanted to go on the Med diet like we've done before, I was told "No, it's too expensive" and now you've just agreed to give someone $40 a month to sit in a meeting to listen to someone give you a speech and step on a scale. REALLY?! That's in addition to all the food you have to buy now that's fresh and healthy. When three months ago I told you I wanted to start eating better and walking every night so I don't die of a heart attack at 50, you heard "I'm gonna go to the store and buy cupcakes and Dorito's because they're on sale buy one get 5 free and eat them right in front of you to break your willpower." Does it mean nothing when I say that? I don't want to end up like so much of my extended family who dies of things like stroke and heart attack and heart disease or lung cancer because they smoked like fricking chimneys half their life. It means nothing that I am concerned with my health, but pull out all the stops when it's my mother and sister. It's so irritating to feel so ignored for so long and then to feel like they've just slapped it in my face now. I feel like my life is a slow-motion episode of "Hoarders" right now. The stuff is there to cover up something that happened or some kind of issue. You take the stuff away and you are left with the issue. Except I'm losing the weight and it's slowly bringing up all the issues as to why I got to that size in the first place.

*Deep breath* It feels good to get that out. I don't want to bring down the energy of this thread because you guys have done a lot for me in making me feel better and more successful in what I'm doing right now, but I couldn't hold that in, or it would just get worse. But I do know some of you ladies are on Weight Watchers, and I really do think that's awesome if that works for you, and you should stick with it. I'm just faced with something that defies logic in my mind.

Thank you for letting me vent this out. And I'm sure that will be the last one!

 

[NewlyDisneyCrazed]

*Deep breath* It feels good to get that out. I don't want to bring down the energy of this thread because you guys have done a lot for me in making me feel better and more successful in what I'm doing right now, are but I couldn't hold that in, or it would just get worse. But I do know some of you ladies n Weight Watchers, and I really do think that's awesome if that works for you, and you should stick with it. I'm just faced with something that defies logic in my mind.

Thank you for letting me vent this out. And I'm sure that will be the last one!

Thanks for sharing that Kaiti! You are right that holding in those kinds of feelings is not productive. I'm glad we were here so you could vent! It's awesome that you are trying to be healthy. We have to do it for us no matter what our families do/think/say!

How was your weigh in today?

Mine wasn't great. I didn't make my goal of being in the 170's. I was 180.8. Only .6 down from last Friday. Better than going up, I guess! I'm going to have a better week this week and blast by 180! Here I go!

 

[ZweetiePie]

Two, three months ago I wanted to go on the Med diet like we've done before, I was told "No, it's too expensive" and now you've just agreed to give someone $40 a month to sit in a meeting to listen to someone give you a speech and step on a scale. REALLY?! That's in addition to all the food you have to buy now that's fresh and healthy.

I feel the same way about weight watchers. I have had success with it in the past but it is a lot of money once you have done the program before and you know what to do.....it is just a matter of doing it I guess. Hope you feel better since you got all that out.

I did my 2nd day of Couch to 5K yesterday. Finished 1.36 miles in 25 minutes.

I had to run some errands today and realized that I forgot to eat breakfast trying to get the baby ready to go. I need to get something that can be stashed in the diaper bag so I will have something to eat when I forget. Any suggestions?

When we got to the mall I ate a Chicken Salad Sandwich from Chic Fil A. We walked for about 30 minutes at the mall. We also made a stop by Twist Cupcakes (one of my favorite places). They have really great cupcakes and an awesome variety of flavors. There regular cupcakes are normal size with probably 5-6 Tablespoons of icing on them. I decided to get two mini size cupcakes (about the size of a quarter, 3/4 of an inch high, with about 1 Tablespoon of icing each). I probably shouldn't have gotten them at all.....but I feel like I made a wise decision considering the fact that I wasn't leaving there empty-handed.

 

[Riverhill]

Kaiti, thanks for sharing... gettting it out is the best thing for you to keep going.

I have a mother that will never support my weight loss. She will tell me all the time that I need to lose weight or about how I need to eat healthy but after losing 20 lbs. The other day she looked at me and asked " so how is that diet going" I could have exploded. What do you mean how is it going. Look at my a*s it is smaller that is how it going!!!!! On the other hand when I was 120lbs with a 36-22-36 figure she still told me I was fat. Thank goodness my father always told me how pretty I was and still am. He saved my sanity and self confidence.

Today I weighed in at 174.5 lbs