Un-Tangled-Getting My Life Back....PTR!! TR Started! 5/30

[MEK]

I LOVE it and I never thought about the poster idea before. Brilliant!

 

[Millie12591]

Are you suggesting you might be able to spare a couple for me???

How many would you like?


You don't say 'splash out' in the US? Nope! Never heard it before you said it, I like it! We say splurge. "I'm going to splurge on a new wardrobe." Although when I look up the definition it says to spend freely and that is soooo not how I use that word. For me, I'll say something like...."I'm going to splurge on a new pair of jeans or shoes." I don't spend freely or extravagantly.

It is funny the different sayings and way of pronouncing things too. When I moved from Perth (west coast) to Melbourne (east coast), there were so many different names for things, and different pronunciations, it was almost like I'd moved countries

It certainly can be like that here too. Sometimes there are places in the south where I wonder if they are even speaking english?!? Holy smokes! A show called, Here comes Honey Boo-boo, comes to mind. Awful!

Glad to hear your wardrobe is under control.

Not yet! But I'll keep y'all posted on that as it goes along. I only have a few pairs of capri's and that's it so far. I have to wait until the spring clothes are in the stores. I just didn't know what size I'd be for sure to start buying too many things last year, so I'm left with the next few months to decide where I'll be with sizes and wing it from there.



I think being only 1 pound away from your goal at this time of year is something to be proud of I'm sure you'll make it there in no time! Hope you haven't done anything too serious to your arm

Thank you Lana, I actually hit it yesterday. But I still have 25 more to go! I'm in the home stretch now! Oh, and as for my arm (so sweet of you to mention it), I read online it's a pretty common injury for people lifting weights. I found if I don't do the curl motion with my arm I'm okay. Who knew! I think if I give it a rest it will be fine, if not I'll just get the doc to write a scrip for physcial therapy. I love my PT! She's amazing.

I LOVE it and I never thought about the poster idea before. Brilliant!

I can't take credit, but either way I'm happy with the outcome of what I accomplished. Are you up early and have gone running already? I woke up at 3:47 and couldn't go back to sleep. My bed is killing my ribs, it's not been long enough to have to buy a new bed, but I dont' think I can take it any more. I actually put myself at the foot of the bed this morning because it's the only part that hasn't been ground into the springs yet. It was comfy, weird but comfy. Wish I hadn't bought this firm bed, I need something that gives a little when you sleep on it. I've done the mattress toppers but the springs are just too firm no matter what you have on the bed. Wish they would make the mattresses to be flippable again. OKAY! Waaay too much information about nothing really.

 

[eandesmom]

Ow on the arm! Are you icing at all? Ice can really really help! I've developed tennis elbow and it's put a huge frustrating cramp in any lifting at all, drives me nuts. Finally broke down and got a shot, was doing ok, lifted a couple of times baby baby weights and it came right back. Stopped and now it's ok again and I'm dying to try but...ugh! Of course I'm allergic to the band that would help, as well as any kind of wrist support. It may well be the wrist motion that is causing the issue so watch positioning.

CONGRATS on hitting your mark and starting into the home stretch. Your mattress sounds like a real problem, how old is it? We had the opposite issue, too soft and bought time with new pillows and a topper but eventually had to cave and went for one of the sleep number kinds. It was a painful purchase but with the 20 year warranty, I'm hoping worth it. We were desperate and it really changed everything.

I LOVE your countdown calendar, how fun is that! Jeff is so anti countdown calendars it's not even funny, he's convinced it makes the trip seem to take longer to get here that it's best to not think about it and then whole weeks go by and it will seem that it's here faster but I think they are fun.

You may find you want to work out at least once on your trip, but you may not. Either is ok!!! Smart to wait still on the shopping but I can imagine it's getting a bit old and frustrating as well.

 

[Millie12591]

Ow on the arm! Are you icing at all?

I haven't actually. I've thought about it and probably should, but I'm not actually seeing any swelling. Probably still a good idea to ice it any way.

Ice can really really help! I've developed tennis elbow and it's put a huge frustrating cramp in any lifting at all, drives me nuts. Finally broke down and got a shot, was doing ok, lifted a couple of times baby baby weights and it came right back. Stopped and now it's ok again and I'm dying to try but...ugh! Of course I'm allergic to the band that would help, as well as any kind of wrist support. It may well be the wrist motion that is causing the issue so watch positioning.

Hope your arm heals quickly, I've thought about the wrist support too, not really sure what to do. Allergic to the band? What are they made of that you are alleric to, latex?

CONGRATS on hitting your mark and starting into the home stretch.

Thank you. Slowly but surely I'm getting there!!

Your mattress sounds like a real problem, how old is it?

About four years old. And it's had a three inch mattress topper on it up until about three months ago, so there isn't any reason for there to be this much wear on it other than it was a really bad one to start.
Hope your new bed lasts a long time for you, those stinkers are pricey, but hopefully worth it.

I LOVE your countdown calendar, how fun is that! Jeff is so anti countdown calendars it's not even funny, he's convinced it makes the trip seem to take longer to get here that it's best to not think about it and then whole weeks go by and it will seem that it's here faster but I think they are fun.

Thank you! We like it, it's fun to reveal the pics as the Mickey heads come off.

You may find you want to work out at least once on your trip, but you may not. Either is ok!!! Smart to wait still on the shopping but I can imagine it's getting a bit old and frustrating as well.

Your right, I just might. I'm just going to play it by ear and see how I feel at the time, and as you said....either is okay. Thank you for the support about the shopping, I'm kinda glad I'm forced to wait out until the spring line comes into the stores (so I can better know what size I'll be in), but at the same time a bit of a nervous Nelly having to put it all together in the short amount of time. But as I said before, I've prayed about this, so every time I start to worry in the slightest I give it back up to the Lord and know He's taking care of it.

 

[zanzibar138]

Thank you Lana, I actually hit it yesterday. But I still have 25 more to go! I'm in the home stretch now! Oh, and as for my arm (so sweet of you to mention it), I read online it's a pretty common injury for people lifting weights. I found if I don't do the curl motion with my arm I'm okay. Who knew! I think if I give it a rest it will be fine, if not I'll just get the doc to write a scrip for physcial therapy. I love my PT! She's amazing.

I knew you would! Congrats Hope your arm gets better quick so you can keep at it! Sounds like you're doing a great job anyway switching to different exercises.

I'm sure your wardrobe will come together when it's time. I also find it very difficult buying clothes - usually just pick up a piece here or there as I need it. I don't think I'd know what to do with myself if I needed a whole new wardrobe!

I forgot to say as well how awesome your posters look! And what a great idea to make one from each trip for your upstairs room - it will soon become your favourite place in the house

 

[Millie12591]

I knew you would! Congrats

Thank you, Lana! Your cheering me on means more than I can say. Everyone has been so amazing with their support, I don't think I could have made it this far had it not been for the Lord and my team of Dis supporters and a small support group I'm apart of.

The small suport group is actually a few of the people left over from my friend's (the one I spoke of at the start of the PTR who went on the show) group she started after her show on HEAVY, there was such a demand for it she went ahead and started one. There were over 20-30 some people who joined and were motivated to lose weight from watching her show (in town, even more who joined the FB support group). A lot of us would meet every week and cheer one another on and talk about our journey, the up's and the down's.
I'm sad to say I'm one of five that are left out of the 20-30 some and I'm one of two out of the five in the group that is actually losing and working towards the weight loss. To say it's been hard to express my excitement in the small group is an understatement, my fellow Dis sisters and brothers have been a huge life line for me.
As much as I want to share all my falls and triumphs with my small group (which I did for a while), it's really hard when I know how much they are struggling, but at the same time it's hard to be one of a few left and not feel like I was doing it on my own. Which I know isn't true, I have the Lord totally backing me and my family has been my biggest, most amazing cheerleaders, and of course I can't forget y'all.

I admit, I let it get to me for a short time, but I had to put it out of my head and keep pushing forward!!

90% of this is mental, okay, okay 80% of this is mental and the rest is physical, the mental is what get's us all when it comes to weight, I knew this going into it and I knew it when I sat down and made plans to lose this weight once and for all. I can't tell you how many times I would doubt myself, or think about what would happen when or if I stopped working out, but one thing was for sure....I was determined to see this through no matter what came my way. The workouts did stop at one point, so I knew what that felt like and that I could over come it. Thank you Lord!!
I picked up after a 4-5 month pause (physical therapy and my mom was diagnosed with breast and lung cancer) and I went back to doing what I knew I had to do, that was almost exactly this time last year. It was hard, but it was also a good lesson for me to see there may be times when I won't be able to exercise and it will be okay, it doesn't mean you can't pick up where you left off (with a few minor adjustments in the exercises so as not to hurt myself) and eventually get back to where you were when you stopped.
Oh boy am I rambling! So sorry!

Hope your arm gets better quick so you can keep at it! Sounds like you're doing a great job anyway switching to different exercises.

Thank you, I'm hoping too. I think it will be fine so long as I lay off of the exercise that bothered it and do some strength exercises for the forearm for a while before I ressume the curl pose again. We'll see, so long as I don't lose the muscle in my biceps I'm happy with what ever form I can do the exercise in.

I'm sure your wardrobe will come together when it's time. I also find it very difficult buying clothes - usually just pick up a piece here or there as I need it. I don't think I'd know what to do with myself if I needed a whole new wardrobe!

It's funny you bring this up.....I just started (literally in Dec.) allowing myself to shop in shops besides the very few places I could shop in from before. When you are as over weight as I was you can only shop in the big girls dept., and there aren't very many stores I would actually buy clothes in, mostly one or two dept. stores and one big girls store. But when I started losing the weight I started shopping in pretty much one store since they had pretty good discounts on clothes (didn't want to spend a lot of money on clothes). That one or two shop mentality had to be broken! (a lot of mental blocks have had to be broken in this journey-there are still more I'm sure ) And I had such a hard time doing that!! I finally realized what was holding me back....I was afraid of going into just any random store (stores I've been longing to go into for two decades now) and finding out I still couldn't fit into their clothes, and that all my hard work would be for nothing AND that I was still stuck in just a few places to shop.
Now how silly is that?!? 80% mental I tell ya!!
I hope I never grow tired of realizing all the new things yet to be discovered about my new body and new way of living my life!!

I forgot to say as well how awesome your posters look! And what a great idea to make one from each trip for your upstairs room - it will soon become your favourite place in the house

Why thank you!!
I'm pretty happy with it, I didn't think it would come out as nice as it did since I didn't send off for it to be made into an actual poster....I think I surprised even myself with the outcome! And yes, I think it will grow into being my favorite room in the house. Which is really good, since it's the workout room.

 

[reelmom]

I love the countdown calender! We are planning on making our countdown calender this weekend. Not sure how we are going to do it since we are just doing Universal and SeaWorld. I may have to copy your idea.

 

[zanzibar138]

Thank you, Lana! Your cheering me on means more than I can say. Everyone has been so amazing with their support, I don't think I could have made it this far had it not been for the Lord and my team of Dis supporters and a small support group I'm apart of.

The small suport group is actually a few of the people left over from my friend's (the one I spoke of at the start of the PTR who went on the show) group she started after her show on HEAVY, there was such a demand for it she went ahead and started one. There were over 20-30 some people who joined and were motivated to lose weight from watching her show (in town, even more who joined the FB support group). A lot of us would meet every week and cheer one another on and talk about our journey, the up's and the down's.
I'm sad to say I'm one of five that are left out of the 20-30 some and I'm one of two out of the five in the group that is actually losing and working towards the weight loss. To say it's been hard to express my excitement in the small group is an understatement, my fellow Dis sisters and brothers have been a huge life line for me.
As much as I want to share all my falls and triumphs with my small group (which I did for a while), it's really hard when I know how much they are struggling, but at the same time it's hard to be one of a few left and not feel like I was doing it on my own. Which I know isn't true, I have the Lord totally backing me and my family has been my biggest, most amazing cheerleaders, and of course I can't forget y'all.

I admit, I let it get to me for a short time, but I had to put it out of my head and keep pushing forward!!

90% of this is mental, okay, okay 80% of this is mental and the rest is physical, the mental is what get's us all when it comes to weight, I knew this going into it and I knew it when I sat down and made plans to lose this weight once and for all. I can't tell you how many times I would doubt myself, or think about what would happen when or if I stopped working out, but one thing was for sure....I was determined to see this through no matter what came my way. The workouts did stop at one point, so I knew what that felt like and that I could over come it. Thank you Lord!!
I picked up after a 4-5 month pause (physical therapy and my mom was diagnosed with breast and lung cancer) and I went back to doing what I knew I had to do, that was almost exactly this time last year. It was hard, but it was also a good lesson for me to see there may be times when I won't be able to exercise and it will be okay, it doesn't mean you can't pick up where you left off (with a few minor adjustments in the exercises so as not to hurt myself) and eventually get back to where you were when you stopped.
Oh boy am I rambling! So sorry!

My mum always tells me it's 90% mental too. When I was doing the C25K before I got injured, there was one day when I'd had a terrible night's sleep the night before and I thought there was NO WAY I'd be able to run for 20 minutes straight. It took a lot to actually get out there, but once I did, I found it was much easier than I'd imagined and did it easily!

I know it really helps my motivation when I can share my achievements with others and get enthusiastic responses, so I'm more than happy to return the favour

 

[Millie12591]

I love the countdown calender! We are planning on making our countdown calender this weekend. Not sure how we are going to do it since we are just doing Universal and SeaWorld. I may have to copy your idea.

By all means!! I wish I could take credit for the idea, it's actually a spin off of Lady Lallies.

My mum always tells me it's 90% mental too. When I was doing the C25K before I got injured, there was one day when I'd had a terrible night's sleep the night before and I thought there was NO WAY I'd be able to run for 20 minutes straight. It took a lot to actually get out there, but once I did, I found it was much easier than I'd imagined and did it easily!

I know it really helps my motivation when I can share my achievements with others and get enthusiastic responses, so I'm more than happy to return the favour

Oh boy do I understand those days of little sleep and still having to push through the workouts. At first I had a hard time getting myself to sleep the full eight hours one needs to properly train or lose weight, I'm suuuuch a night owl. Pushing through you do seem to find a strength you didn't know you had, determination!! I manage to get the sleep I need now, but still have those nights where you can't sleep every once and a while.
I'm sorry, I didn't realize you had injured yourself. Is everything okay?

 

[zanzibar138]

Oh boy do I understand those days of little sleep and still having to push through the workouts. At first I had a hard time getting myself to sleep the full eight hours one needs to properly train or lose weight, I'm suuuuch a night owl. Pushing through you do seem to find a strength you didn't know you had, determination!! I manage to get the sleep I need now, but still have those nights where you can't sleep every once and a while.
I'm sorry, I didn't realize you had injured yourself. Is everything okay?

After my 4km run I had sore shins and ankles. Went to the physio, doctor, personal trainer, got new shoes, nothing really seems to help. I haven't been able to run for more than 60 seconds since, and I can't walk fast or up steep hills without getting a similar pain I'm going to a podiatrist tomorrow so hopefully they'll be able to suggest something... no one can really figure out what the problem is so far It's very frustrating because I was doing ok aerobically, but my legs just can't keep up!

 

[blessedmom4]

I hope your arm is MUCH better and way to go on sticking with the healthy you...Now if Only I would make the time...I LOVE your inspiration pics for the exercise room, you can go to your happy place and make it better if the workouts are too hard. I can't believe how close your trip is!

Don't faint it really IS me.

 

[KatMark]

Camille, I know I told you on FB, but I just had to tell you here too...I LOVE the countdown calendar. What an awesome idea.

 

[Millie12591]

After my 4km run I had sore shins and ankles. Went to the physio, doctor, personal trainer, got new shoes, nothing really seems to help. I haven't been able to run for more than 60 seconds since, and I can't walk fast or up steep hills without getting a similar pain I'm going to a podiatrist tomorrow so hopefully they'll be able to suggest something... no one can really figure out what the problem is so far It's very frustrating because I was doing ok aerobically, but my legs just can't keep up!

Oooh Lana, I'm so sorry. I hate that! I hate it when docs can't figure it out. It's time to break out the big guns and find someone who specializes in sports injuries and knows what to do to get you back on your feet. Literally! I'll be praying for you, please keep me posted on what you find out. There are ways around this, there are always ways around the issues, this arm thing is one of a few different things I've dealt with along this journey. I've had to go to p.t. for my knees which de-railed my workouts for a few months, my mom being diagnosed with cancer which de-railed the work outs even longer (four-five months total), a dancers injury in the ball of my foot (seriously painful) along with a fractured toe, which didn't hurt one single bit-, the only reason I knew was due to the x-ray they took for the ball of my foot, it was a hair line fracture-or so they say. Didn't stop my workouts though, just made me change up how I did them.
All I know is that it was enough of a pain in the pa-toot to make workouts a bit more challenging for several weeks.
Various back issues (nothing too bad-but enough to make me adjust things around a bit).
Like I said, there are always ways around the things that limit us. Just hold out and have faith, sweetie girl.

I hope your arm is MUCH better and way to go on sticking with the healthy you...Now if Only I would make the time...I LOVE your inspiration pics for the exercise room, you can go to your happy place and make it better if the workouts are too hard. I can't believe how close your trip is!

Don't faint it really IS me.

JUDY!! Oh my goodness, I'm so happy to see you on here! And no worries about not getting over here, you have a crazy, busy life, I know that and would never hold it against you for not getting over to my PTR. And thank you, your kind words of encouragement means so much. I've been trying to catch up on your reports too, I've been pushing myself to go to bed much earlier than I'm use to, so by the time I read through someone's reports I'm usually whooped! Like right now! And this is my own report! Thank you for your words about my arm, I'm not allowing it to be an issue, I just changed up how I do certain exercises and counting on the Lord for the rest. I just keep putting my trust and faith in Him to get through this journey, He's not let me down so far!

Camille, I know I told you on FB, but I just had to tell you here too...I LOVE the countdown calendar. What an awesome idea.

Thank you so much, Ms. Kat. I can take full credit, it's a spin off from one of Lady Lallies countdown calendars. She inspired it.
It was a lot of fun to make, going through the pics and printing them off and then laying out the way you want to put the board together, I had a lot of fun doing it. You get to re-live the memories all over again.
It's crazy to think about how different things are from just a few short years ago, use to be you'd have to have your film developed, now I can scan through pics on my computer and make changes if need be and decide which one's I want to print and which one's can stay on the computer so I don't have to fill my closet up with them. Pretty neat when you think about it!

Okay, I'm so tired I'm falling asleep while on the computer. So please forgive any errors in spelling or if anything isn't making sense! I'll come back and correct tomorrow. Night y'all....

 

[kaoden39]

 

[Millie12591]

Hey girlie, how are you?!?

Did you have a good Christmas?

 

[kaoden39]

Hey girlie, how are you?!?

Did you have a good Christmas?

Meh, I am okay. How are you?


Our Christmas was quiet. I rather enjoyed that.

 

[Millie12591]

Heidi Ho good Dis'ers!

Just wanted to stop by and show you....my new, cute, tank tops!!

Yes, I realize buying tank tops might not be a big deal to most, but for me it's really big deal!!

I haven't bought anything sleeveless to wear on it's own in....over two decades! Wow!
Now. That being said. I'm not so sure I should be wearing them with the very, very white arms I have. But dang it! I'm showin off these arms I've worked on for so long!! The fact I actually like my arms now is sayin something!

Oh, and did I mention I got them for free? Mmmm hmmm, you heard me right, I got them for F R E E.
I took the suggestion of TarzanKat and went to Kohl's to see if there was anything left of the summer clothes and found these!
When I went to the register to pay for them, I realized I had $30 dollars in Kohl's Cash left over from Christmas and voila! Free tank tops! The manager was really sweet to honor the kohls' cash, seeing how they were expired.
Oh well!
I feel so blessed to have started out my shopping this way, it really helps me to see that the Lord really is taking care of it all.....very humbling.

 

[zanzibar138]

I love your new tank tops! Very cute and sparkly And what a great bonus that you got them for free!

Just a quick update about my legs since you were interested. I went to the podiatrist during the week and he prescribed me some custom orthotics. Apparently they will help enough that with a lot of patience and determination I should be able to do the 10k run Unfortunately though he did confirm that I'm just not built for running and it will always be a struggle for me to do any sort of distance, so no Goofy challenge for me

 

[eandesmom]

Very fun tank tops! And free is a beautiful thing how exciting to go sleeveless, what a milestone. YAY!

You will look like the princess you are in your sparkly tops.

 

[Millie12591]

I love your new tank tops! Very cute and sparkly And what a great bonus that you got them for free!

Thank you, I really like them. Hoping they won't be too big when I go to WDW.

Just a quick update about my legs since you were interested. I went to the podiatrist during the week and he prescribed me some custom orthotics. Apparently they will help enough that with a lot of patience and determination I should be able to do the 10k run Unfortunately though he did confirm that I'm just not built for running and it will always be a struggle for me to do any sort of distance, so no Goofy challenge for me

So happy to hear you found out what the issue is. Sorry to hear about not being a "runner type," I'm inclined to go stubborn on someone when they tell me things like that and push past it, just to prove them wrong.

Meh, I am okay. How are you?


Our Christmas was quiet. I rather enjoyed that.

We had one of those on Thanksgiving, it was pretty nice. But we had a few over for Christmas, that was nice too.

I'm doing pretty good actually, the weather has been amazing here, 60's and 70's, doesn't help with the desire for spring to get here that much sooner. I have a feeling we'll have at least another cold snap or two before spring finally settles in.

Very fun tank tops! And free is a beautiful thing how exciting to go sleeveless, what a milestone. YAY!

Thank you, Cynthia. Yes, free is a truly beautiful thing.

You will look like the princess you are in your sparkly tops.

Sure hope so! My arms may not look like anything to anyone else, but I'm pretty happy with them looking as good as they do, at least compared to what they use to look like.