Hello everyone, I'm new to this Dis biggest loser and so happy to have found it. My current goal is to lose 30 to 40 pounds before our WDW trip on May 15th. I started my current weight loss journey Jan 1st and was 210LBS and I am now at 201 so not to bad but need to step it up some. So here's to us and all of our weight loss journeys!!
Almost to Onederland!!! So exciting! Can't wait to celebrate with you!
I weighed in this morning and was down .4, yay! Any loss is good with me. Only 1.2 down so far for this challenge, but I really think that has something to do with building muscle again after the holiday break. I noticed today my pants feel like more than 1.2 is gone!
Hope you all have a great weekend!
Karen
Are you doing WIN? And just to repeat...a loss is a loss is a loss
Sorry Team Mickey, I let you down. NO weight loss this week! Boo-hoo. I did everything I was supposed to so it's a little disappointing. TOM really caught up with me----I could give Dolly Parton a run for her money with how much water I'm retaining. Will carry on though and hope for the best by next Friday.
You didn't let anyone down. Sometimes that's just the "weigh" it goes.
Just keep swimming.
Thanks for the info! I think I really will have to mix it up more with the exercise. It just floored me because I didn't think I was doing that much, yet 40 minutes is apparently week 12 on the chart on that SP page!
I could do either of those weeks. Work is insane right now, it but should be calmer through most of February and March, which would give me a little more time to be on here and be a good coach.
Nicole
I'm glad the article helped. I think that chart was uber conservative, BUT if you are just getting started with exercise, it really helps to start slow. And mixing it up is a great way to get some extra workouts in. Thank you for volunteering to coach. I signed you up for 3/4--3/10.
I love the feel of the sun. However, I'm strange in that I always cover up in the sun. Even when I was lifeguarding for two weeks straight sitting on the dock for 10 hour days, I wore so much sunscreen and cover ups that you could barely tell I had a "tan". I also suffer from SAD during the fall and winter months due to the lack of sun so get as much of it as I can when it is out.
I do SAD as well. I take Vitamin D (when I remember) a couple of times a week in the winter and it really seems to help. I do love the sunshine.
I have not been doing so great in the challenge to date. I live in an apartment during the week and spend 14 hours round trip in the car going home every other week-end. Since I'm here without my family, I don't always eat right and I work too many hours. The only type of exercise that I enjoy is walking/jogging and my treadmill is at home. DH & I have discussed it and have decided I really need to buy a treadmill for the apartment. I've been pricing them this week and we will decide tomorrow which one I should buy by researching them online. This will allow me to get my exercise either place. I'm hoping that will help jumpstart me doing better on this challenge. I'm also going to bring my daughter's small fridge for my office so that I can have healthy snacks at the office.
Good luck with finding a treadmill. Are you going to be permanently in the apartment? Would it make more sense to join the Y or a gym on a temporary basis? We paid a lot of money for our treadmill at home and it's still not even comparable to the treadmills at the Y. Hang in there.
CC--woohoo for a loss this week.
And you will succeed--just hang in there.
Disneywedding2010--
While I have not had to deal with anything like what you have, I have learned in my old, wise years
--there are somedays you just have to get through. And not worry about how you got through them or what you ate or weather you exerercised or even what you did that day. You just have to get through them and come out the other side.
I'll be thinking of you this week.
I admit I haven't read through the thread yet to see if someone has answered - still here goes: Chromium is useful to even out insulin production and blood sugar balance. The one I take from Herbs of Gold is called "GI Balance"
here is their blurb: "Chromium is particularly important for normal carbohydrate metabolism and assists in maintaining healthy blood glucose levels, by aiding the transport of glucose from the blood into the cells. Indeed, chromium is well known for the important role it plays in the regulation of fluctuating blood sugar levels.
Diets high in simple sugars or refined carbohydrates may have increased chromium requirements."
My nutricianist recommended it for helping to control sugar cravings.
Thanks! That's interesting.
Quote- Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
I love this quote!
Just a thought, are you stretching before and after? I am pretty good about a few stretches before and after a run, but if I'm going to do a video or wii, I forget. You are wearing tennis shoes, right? Doing cardio barefooted can lead to a lot of pain for me because of the lack of impact cushioning...
I love pink, too, and with 2 little girls, that's a good think. Ak's favorite was pink, then purple, then pink and black, then zebra and pink, now it's zebra pink AND lime green. Sophie's used to be orange
but now she's pink and purple. My little princesses! I love pink, but don't have a lot of winter pinks, I think it makes me look washed out without a little tan. Rose, I don't know how often you weigh, but the more into "maintenance" I am, and the less into "losing", my weight can fluctuate 1-2 pounds daily, dependent on cycles
(mid cycle can cause a gain for me??) sodium, workout, digestion, all sorts of TMI things. I bet if you weigh again today, it would be gone. Hope you enjoyed your day off! We're supposed to get some snow Tues/Wed next week, I think.
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And not to add more to the mix, but stretching a cold muscle can cause injury too. For instance in strength class we always do a 5 minute cardio warmup and then stretch before lifting. You will see some runners go for a little jog, then stretch before a race. Just another thought....
I have pink and black zebra-y looking long socks that I wear with my running skirts when it's cool outside. I think they are from reebok. I also have white ones with neon colored peace signs, and another pair, but I can't remember what's on them!
As for the weight fluctuations--I'm contemplating going gluten free. I'm going to talk to my doctor about whether that could be causing my stomach issues and a lot of the other weird symptoms I've been having--pac's, horribly irregular tom, etc. I spent a lot time researching it all yesterday, and while I'm not sick I have so many mild symptoms, it's getting hard to ignore. And I can honestly say, I am at my wits end here. But can you imagine--gluten free and vegetarian. That won't make eating out difficult at all!
Normally when I bring stuff up like this to Mike he looks at me like I'm crazy and a hypochondriac, but he said a couple years ago I would have said you have a crappy diet, but you eat well now, so it sounds like gluten really could be a problem. Anyhow, we'll see what she says. My weight was actually down later in the day yesterday, go figure!
Lindsay--hope you get a run in today! Be careful in the cold! Have a great day.
for a run!
Sat. and Sun. are usually perfect, so hopefully that will be some good motivation for Monday and beyond.
!!!!! Team Mickey is LOSING Big time this week! We're down by 20 pounds so far! Get me those weigh ins!
I'll PM you right now.
BTW what brand of candle do you use for lilac sent?
). I can feel the muscle aches already so at least I know I worked out enough and didn't cheat, which I've been known to do in the past.
