Oh, my dear DISer's. I have missed you. You may all want to check your fridge's to make sure you still have food because I have ate every bite of food I have come across! I have spent the last week and a half eating every meal like its my last!
I started the diet to go plan for a few weeks. Its all fresh food with no perservatives delivered to your house weekly. Its expensive, but I am only going to do it for a few weeks to get my butt in gear. Its my Mothers day gift to myself. I kept trying to come up with reasons to justify spending that much on myself and you know what? I am not justiying it! I spend money on toys and restaurants and junk for everyone else and you know what!?!? Now I am spending a ton of money on me and I am not going to feel guilty about it!
Well, not to guilty!
Sorry about the long post, but I have missed you guys and your support. I hope you are all doing well and are having a great productive day. Tuesdays I always do well, because if I don't, I feel guilty while watching Biggest Loser! lol
Definitely NO GUILT! You would do it for your kids if they needed a special diet, so why not for yourself! Maintaining good health is MORE important than many other things we spend money on.
Stopping home for a few minutes before taking DD2 to an appt. Been feeling like crap most of the day! Had a migraine while cleaning my massage room at work. My boss said I looked like I'd had the crap beat out of me. I went into one of the pedicure rooms and dozed for about 30 minutes. Headache is still there but not as bad. Really wish DH was available for this appt this afternoon but I'll survive. I hope it's gone later so I can work out tonight!
Send me pixie dust that this headache goes away soon! It's draining every ounce of energy from me!
Sending prayers and PD your way to send your headache off to Neverland (as in "never to return").
Tomorrow is back to work for me. With no caffeine. I don't usually have much, but some afternoons I get really sleepy. My echocardiogram was read and everything is normal.
So now I need to work on the stress. I started doing the "8 minute meditations." Can't say that I am enjoying it, but I'm willing to stick it out. Supposedly if you give it 8 minutes a day for 8 weeks you can learn to meditate. I have planned out our meals for today, tomorrow and Thursday. Friday we will probably eat at the baseball game. They have grilled cheese this year and I add tomato to mine.
Hope everyone is having a great day--making good choices and getting that exercise in.
Glad your echo was fine and normal. You can tackle the stress issue, I'm sure.
Question for everyone- I'm sure this has been asked b4 but has anyone used P90X or Insanity??? Is it worth it? or you feel like you want to die? Thanks...
I've tried a tiny bit of the P90x in the past and thought I would DIE!!! Just couldn't keep up with it at all. It was actually very defeating. I felt like a failure because I thought I was in decent enough shape to at least START it. I suppose if I had kept up with it and kept trying every day, I might have gotten to the point where I could actually keep up with a full workout.... but it was just SO overwhelmingly hard, I didn't feel any desire to continue.
I want to see
Disneyland's 100th birthday. Even if it's on tv or online, I want to be there for it.
I LOVE this idea... but I will be a very old lady if I make it that far. I was there for the 50th anniversary (we actually visited that week, but avoided the crazy crowds on the actual anniversary date). If I make it to age 91 with all of my faculties intact, I will DEFINITELY be watching for the 100th festivities!
Well my little scare earlier this week where I was at my goal weight instead of below it put me 6 pounds under my goal weight today. I'm at 129 today-- I know last night I was losing a lot of water weight--draining from auntie flo so I was curious today and sure 'nuff. I don't think I'll be able to hold at this weight until Disneyland--but it'd be nice.
WOW... a "two" in the tens place is so exciting... although I know you are below your goal. This will give you some wiggle room to enjoy an extra treat at DL!!
So I had my weigh in tonight and lost 2.4 lbs for a total loss of.....99.8 lbs. Yup, as close as I can get to 100 gone without actually being there. Oh well, next week is my 1 year anniversary on ww so I will work on making that goal!
SarahMay
May I just way.... WOW!! Close enough to 100 to start the celebrating!! And here is the BL Chorus Line to help you celebrate!
Be ready for some cheers and applause next weigh-in, cause you will definitely get it!
Pjlla- hope your dd is doing ok, and I can imagine you're on quite a disney high getting ready for your trip. So excited for you.
Like the disney dreams questions, and think I need to up my dreaming as well.
I want to go on a cruise, and will go for my 50th bday in2014, I'd love to stay deluxe, and I'd love to do an adventures by disney trip out west.
Have a great day.
Yup... two more sleeps! The bags are mostly packed, but of course, I am spending every extra minute perseverating on what I might be forgetting. DS doesn't want to carry a fanny pack in the parks, so I am forced to carry a bigger one to fit the camera, ponchos, autograph book, and incidentals (Advil, hand wipes, sunscreen, park tix, money, phones). Other than that all is good. He even agreed to bring back his autograph book from 2008 and finish "filling it up". We stamped all of the already signed pages with a date stamp of April-2008, so we will know which autographs are from which trip. But I love that he said "I guess we could save a little money and just reuse this book." He totally gets me!!
There is rain predicted for Friday and Saturday in Orlando, but hopefully it will just be those quick pop-up afternoon thundershowers and not all-day rain. Sunday and Monday look beautiful.
Wednesday's QOTD: What is ONE thing you could not live without for this challenge? It could be a food, it could be a workout video, a piece of equipment, whatever....just share what is the most important.
I guess my number one thing would be my electronic food scale. I asked for it for my b.day last year and have used it virtually every day since then. Well worth the $50. I lived with a cheapo WW scale for many, many years, but I was bothered by how inaccurate it was. There is NO cheating with this electronic one... it does ounces and grams and I can easily weigh out a half serving of nuts and KNOW that I have it right. Love, love, love it.
Second item (if I can be so bold as to share a second thing) would be my exercise shoes. I own runners, walkers, and cross-trainers (as of last week). I primarily go with the cross-trainers. I have been wearing them for running since January without any problem, but decided to splurge on a pair of runners... and found a perfect pair of Ryka runners for $19.95 (regularly about $65)!!! I also recently bought a pair of the Payless Champion toning walkers (knock-off of the Reeboks). Comfy and light. Not sure that they are doing much for my behind, but I figured they were worth a try. They will be my primary shoes for Disney (I've been breaking them in for about a week now), but I have brought along my cross-trainers as back-ups. I figure as long as I have adequate exercise shoes, I can exercise almost anywhere. No excuses.
Well... I have managed to get through this morning without yet hitting the TM. I am running out of time. I have to be at the middle school for Robotics team meeting at 2:00 and I will need to shower, so I guess I had better get my butt moving! The exercise might have to wait until tonight.
We are having a beautiful day here today. Maybe we can get the team outside for part of the meeting. Seems like a shame to waste a day like today inside a windowless room.
Congrats to Tracy and all of this weeks Biggest Losers! We are definitely going to finish this challenge STRONG!!....................P
Great job!! And thanks for sharing your struggles...although I know it was frustrating for you it is motivational for me.
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So I don't give up, just keep swimming (really walking lol)
Thanks to all who are volunteering to coach for the summer challenge -- I will PM you with dates when I have the schedule here tomorrow. 
We find other things to do together that don't involve walking or biking. If I grumble about setting an example of how a gentlemen slows his pace to match the lady's he will slow down for awhile but old habits die hard. 
We had snow flurries this week so it is hard to get in that summer clothes mode. 
--couldn't go to the neighbors house
...but still doing good!
How could I have gained 4 lbs in 1 day 
