Looking to Lose Ladies

[Lisa]

Forgive me Looking to Lose Ladies, for I was BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAd. I ate GS Thin Mint Cookies. I deserve to gain the three pounds I gained this week. Back to get back to the healthy track.

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

I ate a 250 calorie biscuit last night. And that was JUST the biscuit. The red beans and rice and chicken strip helped me go right to the edge of high side of my calorie allowance. I had a whole 100 calories left after dinner for my snack.

Need to go see what the scale says. I haven't been able to walk this past week. The wind has been ferocious and then the rain.

 

[joyah]

Lisa at least I'm in good company when I too fell off the wagon. I just can't seem to pull it together for the last couple of weeks. the scale is all over the place so I have no real good idea where I'm at. I'm trying hard to get all the way on the wagon this week and watching the scale all week to see where I'm really at.

Oh well it wouldn't be a journey with our a few bumps in the road.

 

[PinballFamily]

New last number 5.0. That puts me five pounds away from my goal - the last and toughest part!!!

Lisa, don't begrudge yourself the GS cookies. We all know that Thin Mint calories aren't REAL calories...

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

They are imaginary calories and your imaginary friends say so.


I am 0.2 today. Right in my goal weight. As long it doesn't hit a 2, I will feel like I am maintaining.

 

[MazdaUK]

My scales are still stuck but its "retaining" week so maybe one day....

 

[morgansmom2000]

GS cookies are so not countable. The $ goes to a good cause, so the calories don't count

 

[Lisa]

Ah, thank you my friends for releasing me from my sins. LOL This morning the scale said 9, a wee bit better.

 

[LindaBabe]

Lisa, I hope you ENJOYED your girl scout cookies and didn't just eat them mindlessly

I'm still on the wagon, but NOT happy. It seems like with all this healthy eating I *should* be rewarded more on the scales. And then there's the clothes problem - still tight around the waist, but flapping around the legs. Oh well. 215.5

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

I have that problem with my bras now. A little too loose where I don't want it and still a little to tight around the rib cage. I need the rib cage to shrink a little bit more before I invest in new bras.

Are you taking measurements Linda?

 

[MazdaUK]

My DSis just broke it to me that if one is perimenopausal (i.e not quite "d'un certain age" yet)n one should not aim to lose weight - because its REALLY difficult - but rather to eat foods which have a positive effect on health (like grains, oily fish etc.) She's lending me a book when she can find it.... But I still think losing 1/2 a stone or so should be possible

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

I weighed today 0.0.

Shocked that the number didn't go up. I haven't exercised in days. But I haven't eaten a lot either. Not much tastes good when you are sick. Hoping to start exercising again today.

 

[morgansmom2000]

I weighed in last night.

I don't think I posted my last number. It was 2.2 but it is now 0.8, so I lost 1.4, for a total of 11 pounds.

 

[PinballFamily]

Wowzers! MM, AWM, and Linda - you guys are doing so great! You're really motivating the rest of us to keep plugging away!

My "weighday" is tomorrow - should be interesting, since I haven't walked the dog in days, since he's unable to go out for the next week or so with his hip/back injury. I've lost my training buddy! But, I did walk around NYC all day on Sat - and I've been (mostly!) resisting "eating for comfort" with all the crap swirling around here lately. We'll see where I end up this week...

But thanks for all the continued inspiration, ladies! I need it!!!!

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

Having a goal seems easier then the maintain part to me. I have to resist the "oh, it won't hurt" to have one more cookie, one more piece of cheese, not walk that extra mile. My strength exercise routine went out the window when I caught this cold. Don't think I'm going to get that goal completed this month.

PBF, hearing about everyone's triumphs and struggles helps tremendously. It is so nice to not be in this alone.

 

[morgansmom2000]

I have a long long long way to go, but my next goal is one more pound to hit a milestone After that I will make another smaller goal and keep trying to hit those, rather than thinking of the "big picture" which seems so far off.

 

[Lisa]

You all are doing great. I need to stink with the thought of healthy eating. Too much stress going on. Either I am eating right and not exercising, or eating poorly but exercising. I need to focus on doing both at the same time.

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

O my gosh Lisa. Is that just a slip of thought? I think doing both stinks too.

 

[Lisa]

 

[morgansmom2000]

Little Freudian slip there? It does stink!