Losing weight for Mickey

[momof3littlelilos]

If it's not too late, I'd like to be in! I could really use a weight loss buddy as well!
I've been gaining weight for about 13 years, since DS got sick. I'm having a hard time sticking to a plan of any sort and am hoping it doesn't take nearly as long to lose this weight as it did to gain it.

Name: Stacey
Age: 40
Location: MA
Diet: try to avoid high calorie snacks, drink more water, and eat sensible portions.
Hurdles: difficult to get out to walk in the winter with 2 little ones at home. DH who tells me how beautiful I am whenever I think about trying to lose weight or change our eating habits.
Exercise Plan: thighmaster, buttmaster(?), exercise tapes, hoping to walk once the snow melts.
Start date: 03/06/2008
Height: 5'10"
Goal: 175 by April 2009
Weight at start: 260

 

[hvivona]

If it's not too late, I'd like to be in! I could really use a weight loss buddy as well!
I've been gaining weight for about 13 years, since DS got sick. I'm having a hard time sticking to a plan of any sort and am hoping it doesn't take nearly as long to lose this weight as it did to gain it.

Name: Stacey
Age: 40
Location: MA
Diet: try to avoid high calorie snacks, drink more water, and eat sensible portions.
Hurdles: difficult to get out to walk in the winter with 2 little ones at home. DH who tells me how beautiful I am whenever I think about trying to lose weight or change our eating habits.
Exercise Plan: thighmaster, buttmaster(?), exercise tapes, hoping to walk once the snow melts.
Start date: 03/06/2008
Height: 5'10"
Goal: 175 by April 2009
Weight at start: 260

When your stuck indoors you can make up your own routine If you have stairs you can work up to going up and down for 25 min w/o stopping. Once you can do that easily try running up and down. The key is to do it at your pace. Jumping rope is another activity you can do indoors. If you don't have a rope or if you're as uncoordinated as I am just go through the motions w/o the rope (hop and turn arms) Jumping jacks are great too.

 

[NJFabFour]

Well, here I am again! I was totally "off" for awhile (off the DIS and off my diet! ) but I am finally back on track! As we can all tell from reading these boards, it's a process and a journey with peaks and valleys like any road! I had gained back about 4 - 5 pounds of my initial 6 pound loss but finally started to get back in gear and turn things around. Now am back down to 181.5 for a total loss of 7 pounds. I have been back to eating better and getting on the treadmill . . . . soooo proud of myself that I got off work early and made myself do 50 minutes on treadmill before diving into my Saladworks Ceasar salad for lunch!

I'm trying to catch up with the posts but have a few more pages to go!
Welcome to all the new folks . . . too many to list since I've been off so glad you're all aboard!

Twinsformimi - WELCOME ABOARD! If you did it once you CAN and WILL do it again! I too have lost weight to only put it back on PLUS SOME! Why do we do that to ourselves?? I have been walking too but using DVDS to walk (leslie sansone) She is ondemand too. Try it. I find her to be very encouraging in the beginning. Welcome again!!!! HERE'S TO YOU!

tmatthews: I have on demand . . . where do I look for this?? What is it under? Would love to try it!

Its a good thing DH is home today, or I know I would be making a run to Wendys or Burger King! I'm suprised I didn't do it while on my hour lunch break this week! This has not been a good week for me, as you can tell - kids have not slept though the night in weeks, I just started my first job since having DD 3 years ago, and I've been working hour days when I'm really suposed to be working 4 hour days! I need something other than food to reward myself with - any ideas??

Together We Can Do This!
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SharpMomOfTwo: Oh how I can relate! I found it so hard to work out at all when my DisTwins were younger. Getting the treadmill and the kids getting a bit older (and more able to occupy themselves) has been the answer to my prayers! It's still hard with working but I try to get a workout or two (if I'm really motivated) squeezed in on the weekends and one or two during the week as my goal (obviously, not always achieved.) I also found that it has helped to lose by eliminating the fast food. I'll do Subway or Saladworks instead but cutting out all fast food (which I used to hit all the time as I am on the road for my job several times during the day) helps! I love to reward myself too and am hoping to do so when I hit my first 10 pound loss. One of my favorite stores is Ann Taylor Loft and I have only shopped there a few times (to reward myself for previous weight losses a few years ago) since so much of it doesn't fit and most of it is expensive. So shopping is always a nice reward . . . maybe a new outfit for work?


I'll try to do more catching up later! Have to pick up kids! Remember we all have our highs and lows but we are not alone in this and the important thing is to not give up. A bad week is not a failure, just a pitstop along the way!

 

[tmatthews]

tmatthews: I have on demand . . . where do I look for this?? What is it under? Would love to try it!

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Welcome Back NJFAB4!! Congrats on loss and doing so well !!!!
Go to ondemand. You get a screen of choices....chose Sports and Fitness...then chose Exercise TV....then you look around but I always went to WALKING.... Let me know if you got it!

 

[OU1247]

I'm down 14 lbs since Jan.
About 10 more to go!!

 

[NJFabFour]

Welcome Back NJFAB4!! Congrats on loss and doing so well !!!!
Go to ondemand. You get a screen of choices....chose Sports and Fitness...then chose Exercise TV....then you look around but I always went to WALKING.... Let me know if you got it!

Thanks so much! I couldn't find it unfortunately, maybe our ondemands are different? Mine takes me to Videos and there is a list of other options with one being Sports (but no Fitness or Exercise). I tried doing a "search" but no luck! Oh well, I'll have to stick with walking on the treadmill while watching my Sex In The City DVD's . . . not exactly workout watching but distracting nonetheless!!

 

[NJFabFour]

Welcome Back NJFAB4!! Congrats on loss and doing so well !!!!
Go to ondemand. You get a screen of choices....chose Sports and Fitness...then chose Exercise TV....then you look around but I always went to WALKING.... Let me know if you got it!

Thanks so much! I couldn't find it unfortunately, maybe our ondemands are different? Mine takes me to Videos and there is a list of other options (under Browse) with one being Sports (under "All Free") but no Fitness or Exercise. I tried doing a "search" but no luck! Oh well, I'll have to stick with walking on the treadmill while watching my Sex In The City DVD's . . . not exactly workout watching but distracting nonetheless!!

 

[maidenfairy]

I'm down 14 lbs since Jan.
About 10 more to go!!

Way to go! You should be very proud of yourself.

I have found a new workout. Wii boxing. Just imagine you are slugging the person who ticked you off last. It is very effective. Still haven't gotten a scale. the scale frightens me. I just know if it is here I will obsess over it.

 

[SharpMomOfTwo]

Just wanted to say "GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!" for this weekend. I know its harder for most on Sat & Sun because the whole family is home, and DD wants to go to the mall, DH wants to have a bite out, DS has basketball, etc. My DH and I actually work today, so its just like a weekday for us, but he was off yesterday (Fri) so that was out first "weekend day." I really hope to be out of the 200s by this Monday (I'm soooo close!), so I'm really going to try and get myself on the treadmill - good luck to everyone else!!

Together We Can Do This!


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[mom2faith]

I've been all over the place looking for weight loss buddies, should've started here!!

First trip to WDW in Sept '08 (actually first Disney Trip ever!!).

Starting weight : 213.2
Goal weight: 140 - 145
Problem - I eat too much! I am additcted to food (she says as she shoves more donuts in her mouth)
Plan - I have done Low Carb and WW in the past and am looking to do more of a combination. I could be exactly on my points in WW, but would not lose because it was all carbs and I just don't lose weight when I eat refined carbs.
At the same time, I can't low Carb all the way because I miss them and then I BINGE!!!
Excersize - bought an eliptical 2 weeks ago, set it up 1 week ago, plean to use it....tomorrow??? I stare at it and think "gee I should just do it" and then I reach for more food and say "ahh, maybe later"

Can't "weight" to get started!!

Amy

 

[Aliceacc]

I stare at it and think "gee I should just do it" and then I reach for more food and say "ahh, maybe later"


Amy

I like you already Amy! Welcome!

 

[momof3littlelilos]

I'm just checking in to let people know that while I have been exercising, I'm totally losing the battle against the Girl Scout Cookies. How can you fight the power of the Samoas?
I need for March 20th to pass so DD7 won't bring anymore into the house (DH adds some for us each time DD brings her cookie order in.)
I hope everyone else has more strength than I have

 

[Aliceacc]

I let my husband buy the GS cookies this year. He forgot that I LOVE Thin Mints so we didn't get any

But I have NOT been good this week. Time to get back on track!!!

 

[maidenfairy]

I'm so full of GS cookies. If I look at another one I think I'll explode. Why are their cookies so delicious? Why?

 

[rumrunnergirl]

My DD is in Girl Scouts also. My household has gone thru almost 10 boxes. I've had 1/2 of one Thin Mint, and that's it!

When the kids open a box and the smell wafts thru the air, I just tell myself "this too shall pass". LOL

Amy - for lo carb, you don't give them up entirely. You cut them out for a bit and then slowly add them back it. I thought I would really miss bread, and so far so good except for one incident with a loaf of Panera Bread, LOL. I've had small amounts of ravioli, biscuits, danishes, etc., without totally blowing my carb count for the day. I really don't think about my beloved carbs anymore because I am so focused on getting into that new bathing suit I bought!

 

[momof3littlelilos]

My DD is in Girl Scouts also. My household has gone thru almost 10 boxes. I've had 1/2 of one Thin Mint, and that's it!

unbelievable! you are officially my idol

 

[NJFabFour]

Yes, kudos to you rumrunnergirl!! VERY impressive!
We usually buy 2 - 4 boxes of EACH kind of cookie!!
This year I told DD it was only 1 of each! I actually really liked the CinnaSpins (100 calorie packs) and tried to focus on those but confess to half a box each of the PeanutButter Patties/Tagalongs and Samoas! But now those days (and any remaining boxes) are gone and it's bikini days ahead!
While the timing coincided pretty well with my diet and kept my purchasing low, I have to say that here in Jersey, it was a terrible decision for the G.S. to move the sales to January/February! We stood outside a grocery store for 3 hours and I wish I had a dollar for each person that passed us and said "Sorry, I'm on a diet!"

 

[abarnold]

well my dd sells the girls scout cookies- so i have had SEVERAL- but on the bright side I work it off and put it in my alloted calorie intake for the day. On the bright side- I am now fitting into a size smaller jeans!!

 

[rumrunnergirl]

On the bright side- I am now fitting into a size smaller jeans!!

 

[LastLookAtTheCastle]

Is it too late to join in the fun?

I just started WW again. I was very successful on WW before - lost weight before my wedding, and after DD, and now I'm back again after DS. He's 3, so the excuses have to stop now before the "baby" of the so-called baby weight starts shaving.

My main target is to get into great shorts wearing shape and bathing suit shape for WDW in Jan 09. I'm pretty active (I just finished my second 3-Day Walk for Breast Cancer Research in November) but I just eat the wrong things in the wrong portions!

Starting weight: 189.2
Current weight: 185.4
Goal weight: 140