"Big Girls (You are Beautiful" <-- Mika's song: Nataliejo's Diary.

[nataliejo]

Hello girlies and guys,
Well yesterday I was knocked about on the hike. And I think I am going to take today and do some sprints in the back yard. I am also going to invest in an adult jump rope. It might break the routine up. BUT I Absolutely love walking. But I have been reading someone elses journal and I thought maybe jogging might be something I would like to try once I get down about twenty five more pounds. Will be easier on my knees and legs. Alot of my weight is top heavy.

Anyway today is about relaxation...for the past five days I have been walking like a mad woman. I have lost count of how many chapter I was SUPPOSED to read. So today is cleaning house, reading for the midterm and what not.

Today is just a day of zen. Drank one cup of Coka Cola. Not going to drink anymore. Just wanted to taste it ..lmao ...it tastes so damn good ...but I have my water with lemon slices in front of me...so no worries gals ..

anyway I have lost another one or two pounds... I am happy .. I am weight till the end of the week to see if the weight stays that way than I will update my ticker ..

ttylater girls ...and guys if there are any lol

natalie jo

 

[nataliejo]

Ok girls, so I have a problem

I am unhappy because I didnt take a walk today. I am rather depressed about it.. I feel like I have failed you all and myself. But I took that incredible hike yesterday and jammed my knee. It has a little fluid in it. But I could have gone walking. But do think you guys won't kick my butt for not going today? lmao
I will go tomorrow for at least and hour..
thanks girls
love yas
natalie jo

 

[MsGhettoBooty]

NJ NJ NJ.... if not walking for one day is going to make you depressed, I can just imagine what a few days from being sick can do to you. Get rid of that "mindset." So you didn't get to walk today.... fuck it. You've been busting your ass of (literally), so one day of rest is just fine. Think of everything positive you have achieved as of late... negativity? Bah... fuck that noise. Love yas, dolly....

-Sheryl

 

[nataliejo]

NJ NJ NJ.... if not walking for one day is going to make you depressed, I can just imagine what a few days from being sick can do to you. Get rid of that "mindset." So you didn't get to walk today.... fuck it. You've been busting your ass of (literally), so one day of rest is just fine. Think of everything positive you have achieved as of late... negativity? Bah... fuck that noise. Love yas, dolly....

-Sheryl

Thanks Sheryl,
Your post really helped me. But the "mindset" happens to do with my mother telling me I am doing nothing during the day and I have bipolar disorder and borderline. So the "mindset" is pretty hard to get clear. lol
but thanks
love yas
natalie jo

 

[nataliejo]

Hello everyone,
The "mindset" did not clear. Unfortunately it is very hard to get the "mindset" clear. I "suffer" from bipolar disorder and borderline and severe anxiety. I took my meds on time and thought today would be a perfect day to take a break. But I live and breathe the outdoors. I love going on my walks and it was such a beautiful day! And I should have gone out knowing that I would have accomplished something, made the depression less. The Vitamin D from the sun and the radiation makes my endorphins go and I feel better the more I walk. I have been feeling so awesome, but did not feel good this morning, especially when I slept in until eleven thirty am. So tomorrow I am waking up at nine... cleaning the livingroom... and I am going to go for a walk around elven thirty am ...
I will, because it is detrimental to my lively hood and makes a good time. Walking is everything to me. The sun means everything to me. Thats why I am getting a sunlamp in november. I need it to survive during the fall and winter. Its an indian summer, so it will be nice this week and next week .. I plan to go out and walk everyday I can, because I feel so damn good when I walk. And bike riding is optional, if I at least get an hour of walking in and some cleaning done .. I feel good ..
I have reading to do for my class .. my goal is to read two chapters tomorrow ..highlight in the book and take notes on the sides...that helps me keep it in my mind more... I need to start studying hard or I will lose the money they give me for tuition and I will lose my education...so
Tomorrow I have goals and I will achieve them.

love yas
always
natalie jo

 

[nataliejo]

Hello peeps,

I didn't go walking today, but tomorrow will be another day and I will be walking! An hour hopefully, but it is supposed to reach eighty nine degrees, but I am going to have a VERY cold bottle of water and walk my wears out...

ttylater girls
and I am eating very well
my sugar level has been low, because not eating badly ..

best wishes to all
love yas
always
natalie jo

 

[MsGhettoBooty]

Hey Ms Thang,

just wanted to send you lots of hugs. I'm sure you'll get out there and get your walk on, girl. You're doing very well. As for being bipolar... that I do understand and believe me, some of my dearest friends are bipolar.... however, they don't allow it to control their lives. Keep it up with taking your meds and enjoying life. Proud of you. Sleep tight, angel.

-Sheryl

 

[lungsfortherace]

Hi, Natalie Jo. After reading through your diary, I just wanted to tell you I think you've been doing an awesome job so far. Don't get down on yourself about not walking today. It's one day. Everyone needs a break at some point. I even had to learn this when I was running 7 days a week. Now I'm down to 6 days a week. My point is, your body needs to recover. Besides, the next time you walk, you may very likely discover that you are able to walk a bit faster or a bit longer than usual because you've had time to recover. Besides, if you're having knee problems, you certainly don't want to make things worse!

Be proud of what you've accomplished so far!!!

By the way, what are you studying?

-Tamara

 

[nataliejo]

Hi, Natalie Jo. After reading through your diary, I just wanted to tell you I think you've been doing an awesome job so far. Don't get down on yourself about not walking today. It's one day. Everyone needs a break at some point. I even had to learn this when I was running 7 days a week. Now I'm down to 6 days a week. My point is, your body needs to recover. Besides, the next time you walk, you may very likely discover that you are able to walk a bit faster or a bit longer than usual because you've had time to recover. Besides, if you're having knee problems, you certainly don't want to make things worse!

Be proud of what you've accomplished so far!!!

By the way, what are you studying?

-Tamara

Hey you!
Always nice to see a new face in the diary. I love making new friends on here!
Well My majoy is English literature, but this term I am taking a gen ed, which would be Microeconomics (Very interesting stuff I have to add)
Next term I am taking Soc 112 (Intro to Sociology) and Macroeconomics (that should be interesting too)
and the next term after that. I get to finally take a lit course!

But anyway So I am taking nine classes total by the end of June!

Anyway,
I have actually gained three pounds over boredom eating. I am going for an hour or so walk today, and the bad food is out. Because after seeing the scale jump, I AM VERY UPSET....

but such is life, now I need to go walking again and stop with the boredom eating ...oy vey lol

well ttylater hun
Always
natalie jo

 

[nataliejo]

Hey Ms Thang,

just wanted to send you lots of hugs. I'm sure you'll get out there and get your walk on, girl. You're doing very well. As for being bipolar... that I do understand and believe me, some of my dearest friends are bipolar.... however, they don't allow it to control their lives. Keep it up with taking your meds and enjoying life. Proud of you. Sleep tight, angel.

-Sheryl

Yo Sheryl,
whats up? lol jk
Anyway thanks for stopping in hun!
I hope your day will go well... its five am here right now.
I am getting a work out today. Unloading a truck today and taking an hour or more walk! yessa!

Anyway Thanks for your words ...you are right .. I should not allow the disorder to control me...and u are so right on that subject ...thanks hun for reminding me ...sometimes I need that

thanks
love yas
always
natalie jo

 

[MsGhettoBooty]

Yo Sheryl,
whats up? lol jk


Anyway Thanks for your words ...you are right .. I should not allow the disorder to control me...and u are so right on that subject ...thanks hun for reminding me ...sometimes I need that

Whoah.... look at you getting all gangsta on me. hahaaa! Morning, dollface... good luck with the unloading the truck.. don't forget, don't go straining your back lifting/ moving shite.

As for the disorder... bah, you know me, girl... if I can be that extra slap on the bottom, then by all means... I'll get the job done. Hmmm... now if there were only more men who needed that type of reminding. HA! Alright, honey... enjoy your day. Talk to you soon.

-Sheryl

 

[sunnydee]

Hi Natalie Jo! I've missed you girl. I'm glad to see you've become more active! It must be hard for you, going through this period of discouragement. But we're all gonna get on your case and kick your ass into gear! In the nicest way possible. I hope your long walk today will make you feel wonderful. Make sure you get out there and enjoy the outdoors.

 

[nataliejo]

Hello... I have decided to wear myself out with aerobics inside the house. Its more than ninety degrees out lol ...and I have felt like I have been suffocating from the heat. Took two and a half hours unloading the truck... girls ... I was puffing and the strength I needed to jack up in my arms ...holy meow ....most of the boxes weight forty two . something pounds ... and Teresa ..even though I don't get paid, let me do all the lifting ..lmao
so I was ready to kick some Teresa Butt! lol
but it was a good work out...

so I am going to go take a shower now lol and I am going to than sweat my way to slimness by doing aerobics... toning with pilates and floor exercises and using the bench, which has a leg lift area for weight. So I will be doing leg lifts ..it makes it easier hiking...because I will be strengthning the legs completely .. my mom told me that since she has been using this bench, simlar to a universal ..that she just runs up the hikes ..its so easy to hike ...so I am going to do what she does ...
mom has one up on me!

anyway ttylater troops
love yas always

natalie jo

 

[nataliejo]

Ok folks ..us women here..

I put out my back, not lifting fifty pound boxes off of a truck and putting them on pallets, but doing aerobics ... lol oy vey ..
MY WHOLE back barely can move.. I was really grooving and I was ...my heart was pumping ... you would think my heart was going to pump out of my chest ... it was pumping harder than it does ..triple beating than when I walk ..dont know what that means .. AND I am sweating so horribly ..in front of a fan right now ..
YOU might wonder how I could be typing this... well I was playing with the free weights on the floor ..just dilly dallying ..and I kept moving up and down my front and that my friends is when I did it ..but I didnt know quite how hard I had worked those muscles ..guess they are really out of shape ...because when I went to push up onto my butt .. I couldnt do it ..I half turned ..kind of leaned on my elbow and rigidly moved on to my BAD KNEE ... oy vey ..it gets better ..and grab the chair in front of me ..movable chair ..computer chair .. I am in the livingroom ..did I mention that ..just moved everything out of the way

and I pulled myself up by my arms only and was a stick ...tried to put one foot in front of the other ..and I felt a nitch in my back ...so everytime I step .. I move the body together ..in a swift but barely moving motion ..and I swing myself around ..so not to disturb the back ..

I did do belly or stomach exercises ... and bottom exercises on the floor ..thats about it... it all totalled out to a thirty minute work out ..

I am rather happy ..because originally I was thinking .."Ive worked enough today, I am just going to chill in front of the fan and lye down" but instead I jumped all over the livingroom and am sweating incredibly harshly ..and my back didnt approve of my unethical way of lifting ..lmao jk

This all did happen .. and I am trying to sit up straight lol
just thought I would input you all on what a triumphantly accomplished today!

well ttylater guys
love yas
natalie jo always

 

[nataliejo]

Whoah.... look at you getting all gangsta on me. hahaaa! Morning, dollface... good luck with the unloading the truck.. don't forget, don't go straining your back lifting/ moving shite.

As for the disorder... bah, you know me, girl... if I can be that extra slap on the bottom, then by all means... I'll get the job done. Hmmm... now if there were only more men who needed that type of reminding. HA! Alright, honey... enjoy your day. Talk to you soon.

-Sheryl

I did not put out my back ...by lifting boxes ...
instead by lifting weights and doing bottom and stomach exercises ..lmao

I am such an ass!

ttylater Sheryl

 

[nataliejo]

Hi Natalie Jo! I've missed you girl. I'm glad to see you've become more active! It must be hard for you, going through this period of discouragement. But we're all gonna get on your case and kick your ass into gear! In the nicest way possible. I hope your long walk today will make you feel wonderful. Make sure you get out there and enjoy the outdoors.

Hey SunnyDee! How are you girl?
I shall stop into your diary and give a shout out to you!

Thanks for stopping in ..been missing you .. Sunny=HealthyHabbit... has been gone for a long time and I wrote something in her diary ..she still hasn't returned ...but from what I heard she was going through a period of discouragement ..so ... I hope she comes back soon ...

its nice to see you!

Happy Autumn

always
natalie jo

 

[nataliejo]

Caloric intake and deficit today as well ..

I should break even if I ate 3564 calories.

This is according to my weight, etc ... I need to obviously eat less

Well I just found out what I will have taken in
today and tonight
and it comes to ... ..........3858 calories! oy vey!

I am on fitday.com and decided to see just how much I am screwing myself over ..anyway I did do aerobics for thirty minutes

which equated to 266 many calories burned!

I NEED TO DO something about THIS!

Does anyone have any ideas...
I wonder how much you burn over a one hour walk ..
lemme go check = I burn 566 with general walking for an hour!

Wonder who the winner is...walking!
So this is what I am going to do from now on .. I am going to put my school book into my bag ..with notebook ..and all supplies that I usually carry and pack it around town just for exercise ..so that will score me 566 for one hour!
Eventually I want to extend my walking time to two hours ...
which would be = to 1132 calories burned!
so tomorrow is going to be in the seventies ..
so I am going to try to cut my caloric intake by six hundred calories!

wish me luck!
I will need it ..
at least it will be nice and cool out tomorrow ...


ttylater peeps
love yas all
always
natalie jo

ps to edit
I am going to walk two hours tomorrow ... in the morning ..when it is cooler ..around eleven thirty am ...
yea!!! that will be a little over 1000 calories burned .. I will put the exact amout tomorrow!
love ya guys
what a wake up call!

gnight

 

[sunnydee]

Oh shit! That sucks about your back. You better take it easy on the weights and aerobics. If your back isn't feeling any better in a day or two, definitely go see a health professional. Poor NatJo!
You are doing well with the exercise. Walking is always excellent exercise as long as it gets your heart rate up, so don't ever let anyone tell you any differently. Some people are of the mindset that exercise has to be about cardio machines, workout videos and weight lifting. But walking is wonderful! It's great that you're keeping in mind that the calories need to come down along with the exercise going up. Cutting back by 600 cals sounds like a good idea. It's a lot of calories, but not too much.
Good luck with your walking and your calorie-cutting tomorrow!

 

[misty22]

Man I never liked walking with my school bag on my back....it was always so heavy!! Be careful Nat, make sure you don't strain your back too much. If anything, try walking a longer distance.

Good work though Nat, you're doing faaaabbbbuuulllooouuuuuss!!

 

[nataliejo]

Man I never liked walking with my school bag on my back....it was always so heavy!! Be careful Nat, make sure you don't strain your back too much. If anything, try walking a longer distance.

Good work though Nat, you're doing faaaabbbbuuulllooouuuuuss!!

Thanks Misty,
I won't strain my back ..although I am having a hard time lying down ..my side is pinching me and when I move on the couch ..it like pinches more and my back is killing me .. I did a job today! At least now I know that walking serves a better purpose than killing my back while doing high impact aerobics ..who knew? not me ..thats for sure ... oy vey ..what a day

BUT now I know what I need to do ..how I need to eat .. I have been using my calculator and using fitday.com ..so now I am armed with some of the knowledge of planned mealing more so ..like for tomorrow ...
starting with a small cup of cheerios... the whole wheat ... ones and one cup of skim milk .... later eat a yogurt ..and than a half hour later go for my walk ..and I have a huge gatorade bottle that I filled with my tea ..English Breakfast ice tea! and a packet of sweet n low ... no sugar! lol at least I am doing something right! lol the blood sugar is wayyyyyyyyyy down! incredible ...

but anyway . ..so I have a good idea of caloric intake and caloric burn... and outake ...so now I know ... and now I am going to lose weight properly and not put pounds back on!

thanks all of you
love yas
natalie jo