So...I've been working out every day, and taking walks in the evening. Bad thing is, I've been eating a bit too much. I'm going to try and fix that this weekend.

<sigh>

I feel like I have completely lost momentum....but seeing this thread on Pixies at least makes me feel guilty for not being better. :(

I've still been being bad and it's not going to get any better today at least .. however, I figure tomorrow is 7/1 ... the beginning of the new 1/2 year and so I'm psyching myself into starting hard core at it again tomorrow! Hope you all are doing better than I've been doing!!!! :)

I've been doing good this week... haven't made all the best food choices, but managed to lose the 3 lbs I gained out of town last week and a little bit more. Unfortunately, this extremely long weekend will be hard for me. I just swung in the grocery and stocked up on fruits and veggies, so hopefully if I'm overeating at least it won't be completely horrible things.

Bad, bad, bad. This weekend sucks for me food-wise.

<sigh>

Next week I *must* be better

Hi Ladies - keep that determination.

I recently lost 12 lbs (5 kgs) in six days just by having some different foods in my diet and I wasn't even intending to loose the weight. Apparently the food acts like a natural detox and very mild laxative - well it worked for me. I am just trying to see if I can make it at home and if I can, I will give you the recipe if you wish.

Hook me up with the recipe! If I can lose 12 lbs I would be a very, VERY happy woman

Well I blew it this weekend. It was one big fat pity party and boredom at my house which involved excessive eating. I'll be getting back on track tomorrow.

maddy.... you have done so well. Don't make me come kick you in the ass to get you going again. I can't lift my foot that far up :D Seriously, I am worried because we all seem to be at that self sabotaging point.

We all came into this deciding we were goddesses and needed to start treating our bodies like temples. My body does not run best off Mudslide Icecream and Swiss Cake rolls no matter how much my emotions are trying to convince me otherwise.

Veggies and fruit...I am gonna suggest we clean the cupboards and make sure all the shit is out of the house again. Go back to basics, what was working in the beginning.

Water, water, water, water, water, water, water!

The pleasant reality is that even when I "blow it", it's not nearly as bad as I was living on a daily basis before. I took some pork chops out of the freezer today and will be grilling them this evening (or broiling if it's raining at the time) for the week. I also have plenty of frozen veggies in the freezer to nuke each night for dinners.

I'm lacking in the fruit department for daytime snacking at work. I do have a plethora of apple sauce type snacks (pear mango sauce, strawberry sauce, and granny smith sauce) that are no sugar added so in a pinch they will do this week.

I'll be faithful to the gym again this week too. Lastly I will go back to tracking every bite I take tomorrow.

I have no valid excuses for riding the slippery slope to sabotage this weekend, but I am prepared to get back on track tomorrow, and I'm starting the prep for that today.

*whew* I was worried you were really gonna make me try to move :p

*sigh* I think I need a vacation to feel a bit more positive about the whole "my body is a temple" things again. I filled my temple with butter-topped toast and a half piece of gouda cheese for breakfast. :p

When I am bad, it's mostly in the form of eating too much...not of eating the wrong stuff. Although I will admit I could eat a bit less carbs and a bit more veggies.

What I need to do is exercise and control my portions. I am tracking my calories and am landing at 2050 average for the week, and 250 birned per day on exercise. At that level I avoid gaining weight, but I am not losing.

So...back to the gym for longer workouts, and back to portion control. And a daily post to Pixies Power to keep myself honest.

So far today I ate 1/2 a bagel which is a no no for me. My digestive system is a trainwreck due to the abdominal surgery but that is just an excuse. I'm going to do a salad in a minute here for lunch and then am doing the burger thing for dinner. I've been snacking less this week but cravings for sweets are high. Particularly cookies of the chocolate chip persuasion. They whisper to me "resistance is futile" :sad:

If you have the energy, or if oyu can convince Mr. Lil...bake some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Sub half the butter for applesauce, and use Splenda. They're actually *good* for you cause of the fiber (and I am guessing you need fiber right now) and have low sugar/fat...but they feel decadent.

Do NOT -- I repeat, do NOT -- skimp on the chocolate chips though. I use Ghirardhelli chips an dI put LOTS of them in. I figure that way I get my antioxidants. :p

Quick aside to Lil...

While plugging my calories into FitDay I realized that they had 3 activity classes for sex....passive, active, and vigorous :D

Vigorous only nets you 38 calories an hour! :spin:

Obviously those guys don't have sex like *we* do on Pixies! :hot:

I have to admit that fitday has been my failure. I just can't force myself to enter stuff again. I must get back to it.

psssssssssst* I won't be participating in that form of excercise for like 4 more weeks :yikes:

Alright, pixies, I did my occassional laundry day closet cleaning. I just filled up two large lawn bags of clothes and my closet is starting to look sparse again. It is now starting to make me sick how much I've spent on clothes in the past six months. Granted, I will not buy anything that is not on sale or clearance anymore, but evenso I've gone through three sizes of pants. I now only have one pair of pants, and the rest are all capri length. I'm going to try to get through the next month in this size. I also have come to realize I will need a full new wardrobe come cold weather season, as all those clothes are gone now.

I am *this* close to being out of the plus sized section of the store - I won't know how to shop again. I will have a whole new world of options opening up to me. It's exciting, scary, motivating all at the same time. I don't like the plus sized stores, but rather the better named brands that make plus size too.... so I at least I know designers that fit my body better than others and hopefully that will guide me when I move to new sections of the store.

There you have it, my motivation for tomorrow is to get out of the last set of plus sized pants and into "normal" clothes again.

Superb! That is one hell of an accomplishment.

I've been following this thread for awhile and I think you all are doing great!!!!

I knew I needed to lose weight but I kept putting it off for a long time. I have started eating breakfast again and am back to 3 meals a day. I've cut out alot of junk food but not all. The thought of exercise made me depressed. I found my scale a couple of weeks ago in a box I got from my storage stuff, so I got on and was suprised to see I had lost 14 lbs. Cool I thought, guess doing a lot of walking at work as paid off since I started working at the new store last Oct. I got on again today and I had lost another 6 lbs. :)
I keep forgetting to take the little meter thingy I have to work and see how much walking I actually do there. Our store is just over 8000 sq. foot and I seem to make a lot of laps around it. So I figured that's my exercise. :) I'm going to keep eating breakfast and keep snacks to a min. (well junk food snacks anyway, I have been eating healthier stuff). I hope to lose another 40 lbs and I think I would be happy with that. Someday I'll even quit smoking. :) I have cut down on that too.

I hope you all continue to lose weight and feel good about yourselves. I know that I feel a bit better about myself. :)

Hugs!!!!!

Congrats maddy!!!!!!!! WTG!!!!!!!! Sorry about the spendy money on clothes thou. I hate shopping for clothes.

Thanks Lilith and sdls. I still have my fattest pants laying in the bottom of my closet, when I really need motivation I pull them out and model them in the mirror to see how far I've come. I recently saw myself in pictures and don't see a difference, but the scale says I'm down 36 lbs and my clothes definitely agree.

I've developed a desire to run, I burst into a run on the treadmill now and can't last long (probably because of the speed I have it on), but I'd like to run in a charity run next year - I haven't picked one, but I'd like to be able to run a full 5K. That's something to work for, right? Did I mention I've never liked running? Or that I've never been able to run a full mile, not even in high school?

sdls, I'm glad you peek in on us... and great progress you are making!

I'll be grateful just to walk upright at this point but running maddy is fabulous!

Way to go SDLS!!!! You must be starting to feel the difference! Congratulations!

Thanks Maddy and Lilith. Yes I can feel it in my pant waist a bit. :)

alright, I'm owning up to my day. I made it to the gym, but was simply exhausted. I didn't do as much as I normally would, but I went, I sweated and I can write it down.

I didn't eat enough today. I haven't actually calculated yet, but am very certain I didn't hit my allowance. I'm not over, which is a positive, but I think I'm quite a bit under, which is equally not good.

I learned while watching tv this weekend that you can use coinstar machines to count your coins and not pay the fee if you get a gift card to certain stores instead of the cash. I'm totally excited, I have a huge collection of change and itunes is one of the options. I'm taking my change in this weekend and going to give it a try. Just thought I'd pass that info along.

Great news!^^^

I ate horrible yesterday. I went out with friends, ate the Applebees chicken apple walnut salad but then ate that chocolate lava stuff :tongue:

Today for a giggle I tried on a pair of pre-surgery shorts. They fit. It's great news because it means that even though I am swollen up like a blowfish, with the tumor gone and when the swelling goes down I will indeed be a smaller person :D

Congrats, Lil!

I had a bad day yesterday too. I ate too much, was stressed over work and my final, was at work until after 8 pm...and I didn't work out. :(

I hope today will be a better day, but it's already screaming *STRESS*

<sigh> I know I must prioritize my health more.

Just checking in after a few days. I've been doing well but am really lacking in the energy department. I feel like I can't sleep enough, and small workouts are leaving me exhausted. If I don't shake this soon, I suppose I'll have to see my doctor, but I'm not ready for another set of tests to figure out what my problem is... I'm not done with the previous two sets yet *sigh*.

I know Lilith was asking about the Quizno's flatbread salads... I'm changing my previous review. I think the Classic Cobb is my favorite "fast food" salad. I just had one for dinner tonight. I like that they throw it together while you wait, unlike other fast food places that pull it out and hand it to you pre-made and the salad is crammed in the small container rather than all "fluffed" up.

I plan on reporting good news in the morning, when I do my official weigh-in.

How's everyone else? I miss hearing everyone's daily update.

Forgive me sisters for I have sinned... you know about the Dibs,





and the fried chicken, and the laffy taffy. Oh and the oatmeal raisin cookie.

But here is what I am doing right. I am managing to drink no less than 72oz. of water daily. Of course I can't sleep cause, well you can imagine but I keep telling myself I am flushing all the chemicals and nasty stuff out of the swollen tissues.

I am officially a dress size smaller than I was prior to the surgery despite still being swollen like a puffer fish and weighing about 10 pounds less than when I went in to surgery but still 10 up from my lowest since we started supporting eachother here.

I was pretty good the past two days, including good cardio workouts (I need to do more weights, though). Well, good except for a small pre-Hut encounter with a 1/2 bag of Tostito's Lime chips.

Maddy, good luck with your weigh in!

Woohoo, I lost 1.8 lbs this week.

Lilith, I'm glad to hear you are getting your water in, that is something I am struggling with greatly. I don't drink any other liquids, so one would think I'd be thirsty, but I'm just not.

osuche, glad to hear you are getting the workouts back into your schedule. I probably could use more weights too.

(((((maddy)))))) ~~~ congrats!

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Awesome loss maddy. I think I found your pounds ;)

I know you all thought I'd dropped off the face of the earth ... kind of have ... but here's my report from where I'm dangling! (LOL) ... Still haven't managed to get my eating back under control ... but am also grateful to say that I'm still a long way from being as "bad" as I was before this year 's decisions. This morning I put on a new bra ... another size down and that feels wonderful to me ... some progress anyway ... wish I were making more in the area between my waist and my knees, but progress is still good. So proud of the rest of you and how you are hanging on as well ....

Oh I'm dangling too but trying.

A size smaller is superb fzzy! waist----knees grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Me too. Just keep doing it to feel better. Let weightloss just be the bonus ;)

Glad to see you checking in fzzy, I was wondering about about you and I'm glad you're still hanging on ... even if it's barely.

I've found a replacement for my daily ice cream craving, I've been eating a big bowl of sliced strawberries sprinkled with just a teaspoon of sugar. It's got the sweet bit and it's just damn good.

I also find I'm adverse to vegetables lately, I'd much rather have fruit. As a matter of fact, other than the salads I had last week, I didn't touch the veggies. But I've been eating the strawberries, cherries, bananas, apples and watermelon.

I've been working out, and eating marginally better. These things are good.

However, I still don't feel that great. I've been running random fevers, I still hurt often, and my mouth surgery didn't solve the problem. :( There are other things, too. So many complaints my belief that a Dr is going to solve my problems is very small. <sigh>

I'm hoping that a vacation and some stress reduction may help.

SInce I scared everyone away with my negativity.... :(

I went to the gym yesterday but was lured by my hunger and some frustration over work to burgers and french fries for dinner.

Still down for the week, and I will be better today!

I'm still here... i've been on a salad kick lately. But I don't want to make them, I want them prepared for me, which can add up quickly. I need to work out at home tonight, which means the treadmill.

The scale has me up about .5 lb and I'm not sure why, I think it's a water thing - like I'm not getting enough of it, so I'm desperately trying to be better with the water.

Alright, a few days back I shared this bizzare urge I have to run. On the WW message boards a lot of people talk about the couch to 5K running program. So tonight I get the brainy idea to google it and give it a shot. I managed the first day of the program which is a brisk 5 minute warm up walk followed by 60 seconds of jogging and then 90 seconds of walking until you repeat this pattern for 20 minutes (25 minute total workout). As I was doing it, I decided if I made it to 20 minutes total I could quit and call it a great first effort. In that walking interval at 20 minutes I figured I'd only have to run two more times and I could do that, right?

I DID IT! I've not been this sweaty in a long time, but it feels good to know I could do it. I'm thanking my heavenly stars I decided to just workout in my sports bra and capris tonight as a shirt would have done me in I'm sure.

I'm going to start sticking to a weights and stretching workout at the gym and see how far I can go with this running thing at home.

Also, have any of you done pilates or yoga? I'm thinking of giving them a try to increase my flexibility and core strength.

I am awesomely impressed maddy. I can remember once when I lost a massive amount of weight finally feeling so free my walks turned into me breaking out in a jog then even running. Feels liberating.

I still walk like a dork but I am trying to move around more and more. I see the Dr. Thursday and will hopefully get the ok to drive. It's been hard to be at the whim of others and my diet has sufferred due to not being able to go secure the right foods.

BTW I too want salads and I don't want to make them.

Lilith I hope you get the driving approval. That is the one thing that I know I would struggle with ever having taken away from me. My car equals my freedom.

And walking like a dork? Why do you think I need to do this running thing at home rather than the gym ... I run like an idiot.