Michelle's Place- A bit wiser this time around...

Shhhh...

Back on track slowly but surely. Doing well and doing it "right". At least for me. Calories between 1200 and 1800. Upped my fruits and veggies and making good choices. Have lost 10lbs since last week and have finally gotten into the teens. From 224 to 215 as of this morning. I am sort of being hush hush about it because being accountable to others with my weight-loss is not something that I am good at. I tend to buckle and give up. Only for me but I like posting here lol.
Happy to be back on track though! One-derland here I come... well in a month or so.
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Congratulations on losing weight Mishi! :hurray: I miss having you around here more often. I understand how busy you are though. You still peek in pretty often I suppose.

Are you still planning any races??
 
WooOoooT WooooOoT!!! :party:!

...:eek2:...Damn, Mishi!!! WOW!!!...10 lbs!?!?! I am SOOO PROUD of you!!! :iagree:...at least with us......There is NOTHING about 10lbs to be HUSH HUSH about!!!...I've been dying for one year already to lose 10 lbs!!..>Good Job SEXY MAMA!!! :Angel_anim: :grouphug:!!...You are doing this, lovely!!...And like you said...The Right way!!! .....High Five!!! Moving right along :auto: Congrats!!!
 
woohooo.. congrats mishi on the 10 lb loss. i wish i could say that. i haven't lost more then 2 lbs in a month. i am gonna start eating more fruits and veggies and stay away from fast food. ugh thats my problem i'm always on the go with 2 boys and school full time.
 
Hi Gorgeous!! :grouphug:...I hope you and the family are doing good!!...I can see why you aren't around with the handful of loved ones at home!! Miss you!!
 
Ok 3rd times the charm....

Not only for my weightloss jouney but for this darn post. I have an 8 month old and a 7 year old and 2 doggies and a husband and just too much stuff pulling me everywhere! So I think if I am going to post here it will have to be quick. I tried to write a life story but after 3 days it just wasn't going to be finished... not that it was that long but just finding the time to write was really hard!
Exercise and family is my priority now so this will have to be short and sweet:
I was on here 3 years ago and lost 40lbs which was 80lbs over a few years. My weight was fairly comfortable about 160lbs.
Was looking and feeling great but stressed over how much time the forum and the calorie counting took.
Got married. Stress of wedding planning took care of my resolve to watch my calories and slowly but surly the weight went up.
Enter pregnancy! About a year later we planned on getting pregnant and did. My weight was about 200lbs then and I had been half heartedly trying to "get back on track". Same old song and dance but I have certainly learned some new steps.
Pregnancy= awful sickness if I don't eat and apparently Kix cereal and rice were the only things that made me feel better. Long story short- gained 65lbs only 20 of which was baby. Hooo Waaaa! lol
So post baby- lost 20lbs of swelling and baby and then eeked out another 10 just not eating like a bottomless hole.
Now staying around 220's and so ready to move on.
Started officially Jan. 3rd with focusing on my eating. Have counted calories for so long that I know generally what I am eating. Focusing on veggies and fruit and sensible meals. Also joined a gym last Monday and getting my 3x a week at least exercise in.
So that's where I was and where I am. I want to post here because it helps. But I can't spend a lot of time here because I want time for exercise and of course housework and raising my chillun'. lol
So my goal is 50lbs in 2010 (I did that pound for pound food thing on the internet...can't remember who that was through??) and my biggest goal is to run a 1/2 marathon in Denver in October. I have a trip to France for a friends wedding in September so looking hot for that too wouldn't hurt ;)
So I have been doing well so far. Two days of eating badly but I am working on not letting that derail me for weeks... only the day. Have lost 10lbs of holiday weight and am now hovering around 224.
200lbs would be my first goal. I will fit into some of my old clothes at that weight. So a new-old wardrobe will be my reward. :D
Ok family's calling. Off to take care of them.
Let's get 'er done!!! :sifone:
 
Hey you gorgeous woman HELLO ! Sounds like you are back on track and already have your habits going to the gym 3 Xs week and eating healthy. And a marathon in October Whoo HOOOO that's awesome. It's funny you lost 40 pounds cuz I did in 2005 also. It's great to know we can do it.

I moved to Ottawa, Ontario for a job. My sons decided to stay in their apartment near their friends and their jobs. But I flew them out to visit me at Christmas and I fly to them couple times/year. Sooo, new chapter in life for Ms. Empty Nester. LOL truth be told, I'm loving it. The kids will likely come stay with me once they go to university, but for now ... it's party time for them (and me?).

Have a great weekend. You are going to look sexy for that wedding :drool5:
 
Hey Mishi, I don't know if you remember me, but I joined a few years ago too! I too got to my lowest since highschool too actually... got to 156. I stopped for one stupid reason or another. I also go married (in Sept). Unfortunately I gained most of my weight back. So here I am to do it all over again once and for all!

So I just wanted to pop in and say you're definitely not alone! Good luck with everything! Especially with having children, that's a time consumer right there, but you can totally do it!
 
It's 6am on Saturday and I am awake

I just couldn't get back to sleep so I figured I would work a little. I have a business that I have been working on. It's an errand service for the Denver area: completeerrands.com . I haven't gotten much business yet but I think that had to do with my pricing (which I changed) and also that I haven't been able to put as much time into it because of my baby boy. He takes up so much time that running out to do someone else's errands just doesn't make sense to me but we need the money so I am going to try to give it a sliver more of my time.
I made a bad decision last night in that I was feeling snacky and instead of reaching for the veggies I have to snack on I reached for the chocolate chips and glass of milk. sigh. So scale this morning stayed the same. I am still a daily weigher but I only count Monday's weight for my official weigh ins.
So today is a new day. One triumph yesterday is that it was my 3rd day at the gym and the 2nd day I felt like I was going to die! Yesterday I was full of energy and even added a minute to my running (6 minutes straight!). That isn't that much and I think I could have gone farther but I am really working on not hurting myself and going overboard. This weight makes it really hard on my joints so I try to hold myself back on exercise until I have lost some of the weight. My right knee feels like it's not even connected and I know just one wrong step will bring it down! Stupid knees :p
Lilli- or should I start calling you "Ms. Empty Nester" :p lol. It is so nice to hear from you and have you lurking around my very dusty diary! It is nice to know we did it once and can do it again! Hope you have a great weekend and don't party too hard!! ;)
Risty- of course I remember you! I also read your posts in Brandy's and Tammy's diaries :) CONGRATULATIONS!! on getting married! How awesome! Thank you for stopping by and of course we don't even need luck because we are going to do this!!:hurray:
Today I have a friend I am going to do some sort of workout with but I am not sure what. I may have my kids with me so that makes it more difficult but if I take them to the gym they have daycare so maybe that's what I will do!
Have a fabulous weekend all!!
 
I know when I start my exercising on Monday it'll definitely be hard not to weight myself everyday. When I was working out before I too weighed myself everyday but had an official weight in day where that would be the day it would count. So I don't know what I'm going to do this time around. I know for the biggest loser challenge tuesdays will be the weight in day, however, I know I'll take peaks at the scale in between!

I agree with you, we don't need luck, we just need to do it :p Hehe
 
There is no gain without struggle...

or something to that effect.
Went to the gym on Monday and did a weight lifting class. No cardio but it was fast reps so my heartrate got up a few times. I feel sore but stronger lol.
Went to the gym today and had to will my legs to move and not fall off lol. I increased my running time by 2 minutes (from 5 minutes to 7) and felt like I could go more but still holding back. The knee also felt better. It was really hurting this weekend and during the class on Monday but no problems today! Yay!
Food was good yesterday and so far today was well. I eat very late in the morning and am starving but baby and gym first or else things just go to shit lol. So I want to overeat because I am hungry. I make myself an Earl Grey tea latte which is very good and helps with the hunger. I think it's about 50 calories per glass as the only thing that has calories is the half and half.
I don't track my calories right now. I might have to in the future but it just takes so much time. I know from my past experience what kinds of calories are in things. I just need to keep to veggies and fruits, don't snack and minimize sweets. Seems simple but this weekend I crashed and burned diet-wise.
BUT IT'S OK!! I am really working on not letting one or two bad days totally derail me and GUESS WHAT!!?? It's actually working!!:hurray: I don't feel bad. I just move on. The weight certainly comes off slower but there isn't all kinds of stress and I feel ready for the next day. I am looking for that healthy mode to live my life in and so far it's going very well. This is comfortable... well except the muscles that are hurting now lol. I can barely make it up and down the stairs!!! lol
I hope you are all having a good day and Risty I hear you about weighing. I think sometimes I should stop every day but then I also use the everyday to see the results of a bad eating day. I get instant results lol. It keeps me focused... but it has the downsides too. Once a week is all I am counting and no matter what that is the weight I have on my ticker and my calender at home. I should change it to Fridays though so if I mess up over a weekend I have 5 days to take it back off!! lol. My lowest weights do tend to be Fridays but Mondays are certainly more "real".
Ok baby hanging on my arm. Hard to type lol. I am off!:waving:
 
Not letting mistakes or bad choices get you down is just awesome! That was my problem before, if I made a bad food choice I'd think, what's the point of even working out, I already messed up! I need to learn to not let my negative thoughts get the better of me. So awesome job of moving on!
 
I'm glad your knee didn't act up. Good for you for exercising and staying focused. And for your good choices today. Holy crap I can't believe you have a business too.

Enjoy baby boy tonight, gurgle, giggle, squish. Awww, "baby boy".
 
My Wednesday check in :D

Risty I tell you to me that seems to be one of the major pitfalls of all this!! Being able to move on with mistakes and all is soooooo valuable!
Lilli- lol my business isn't much. I have been hesitant about jumping into it because of time commitment and David and I were really struggling a few months ago. I was going through some depression stuff (I think it might have been BC related) and David was going through a rough patch. Baby Boy has been thoroughly enjoyed! He makes this funny old man face where he squiches up his face and makes popping noises with his lips. Totally cracks me up.
So today I had delusions of a rest day when I remembered that tomorrow I have my moms group and going to the gym in the morning won't be possible. I was rather sad because I was thinking of trying the yoga class but I will have to save that for an off day. Tomorrow has become my new rest day. So after some dallying I decided that instead of the gym I would go walk on one of our trails here. Cherry Creek trail for those of you who know Denver lol. So I parked the car. Got the baby and all the stuff out. Got his cute little hat on and put him in the stroller and bundled him up (it's 33 degrees today) and took off. I talked to my mom for about 10 minutes and then calibrated my ipod and then I was all set to get down to business lol. Of course I was walking that whole time so I was half business ;) lol . So I walked and then ran a bit (for about 10 minutes straight!!) and then back to walking fast. I figured I didn't have to be so intense with running if I was doing a whole hour. So an hour later I was back at the car. I did well!
Eating has been good. I didn't over indulge. My husband had a craving for chocolate so I went to Wal Mart to get him some peanut m and m's which thank God I don't like! I got myself some dark dark chocolate which I also don't love but it's good for chocolate cravings and I won't eat to much because it's just not my fav. lol So it works.
So things are good so far. I am in a good place and I know there will be challenges but for now I am just happy that so far it's not too bad:)
Hope you all are doing well!!
 
Hey Mishi, just checking in and I see you are having a good day. Multi-tasking Momma getting her exercise and quality time with the funny old man. I'm impressed you can just have a "little" chocolate. I'm a binge eater so I can't go near the stuff. Kind of like an alcoholic. I can't just have a little.

I love your profile pic - your kids look so happy. I'm sorry to hear you had some dp and that David had troubles. You deserve every happiness. Have a great Friday Mishi.
 
2 good things today

So today I went to the gym even though I would have rather stayed home and relaxed! David woke up at 5:30 and then fell back to sleep when I had to get up 2 hours later. Boo. So I was tired. BUT I WENT! I also ran for 10 minutes straight which I realized makes me 1/3 of the way to my March goal of running 30 minutes :) then I walked for 3 then ran 7 more! I was on a roll!
Then I had some personal drama with a friend. It has been going for awhile and because she is my husbands friend I haven't wanted to say anything and he suggested I just ignore it but I could only for a few months. Today was just the last straw and it was for a little thing but it brought it all back so I decided to send her an email. It was a good one and I tried not to be crazy lol. So we shall see. The point of all that though is I was super stressed and of course wanted FOOD! BUT I HELD STRONG AND DIDN'T CAVE!!!!:hurray: I had a healthy dinner (yum Boca! lol) and a handful of goldfish crackers and I am good!!
Lilli- I will binge if it's white chocolate or milk chocolate but dark chocolate is really bitter. I really don't like it but it oddly satisfies my chocolate craving. Just weird. My mom loves the stuff. So it keeps me in check. However, if I bought a bag of m & m's then I would scarf the whole thing!! Unless they are peanut because I just don't like them lol.
So I worked out 5 days this week. I went to a hip hop class last night and was totally lost but loved it so I will go again for sure. My goal was 3 days so I did good!
I am excited for Monday which is my weigh day. If I can hold it together I might be a few pounds down!! That would be nice. Scale has been moving slowly!
Have a good weekend all!!
 
mishi said:
I also ran for 10 minutes straight which I realized makes me 1/3 of the way to my March goal of running 30 minutes :) then I walked for 3 then ran 7 more! I was on a roll!
I worked out 5 days this week. I went to a hip hop class last night and was totally lost but loved it so I will go again for sure.
I am excited for Monday which is my weigh day. If I can hold it together I might be a few pounds down!! That would be nice. Scale has been moving slowly!
Have a good weekend all!!
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Mishi, you are so awesome. A hip hop class? LOL Oh god, that sounds like so much fun. Thanks for making me laugh. Criminy's sake, am I gonna see you on So You Think You Can Dance next time I turn on the telly? ha ha It sounds like it would be a blast. Way to kick ass at the gym. Good luck on weigh day. My weigh day was so non-eventful I'm pretending it didn't happen and that weigh in is actually NEXT Saturday. tee hee

You have a good weekend too :seeya:
 
That's awesome that you didn't eat when you were stressed! That's a great accomplishment! Also, it's awesome you worked out 5x this week. I would love to go to some sort of aerobic dance class like hip hop or zumba. My sis went to zumba and said it's so fun!
 
Risty said:
That's awesome that you didn't eat when you were stressed! That's a great accomplishment! Also, it's awesome you worked out 5x this week. I would love to go to some sort of aerobic dance class like hip hop or zumba. My sis went to zumba and said it's so fun!
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I second Risty! And now I want to look up what Zumba is. I aspire to workout 5Xs week. Way to go Michelle. Hope you had a great weekend.
 
Sunday Sunday

OM Freakin' God!! This has been a hell of a weekend!! So Friday had the drama and didn't stress eat. Thanks for the congrats btw. It's really hard not to go to food but so far so good!
Saturday morning my son took the dogs out to go potty and a neighbor's dog attacked my chihuahua Spaz. When we checked her we realized she had a puncture wound behind her ear! It was bleeding pretty bad so I made a tourniquet out of a sock and we rushed her to the vets. The bite checked out ok but she said that risk of infection is the thing to worry about with bites. She gave us antibiotics and pain meds. About 30 minutes after we got home her neck started to swell! I called the emergency hotline (the vet was closed by then) and they told me it's fluid building and might be an abcess and put to a warm compress on it 3 or 4 times to help the liquid drain. So the rest of the night was spent doing that and we went to bed very late. I didn't sleep well because I was worried something would happen to her so finally at about 4:30am I got up and compressed her and gave her more pain meds and then tried to go back to sleep around 5. Not easy!
Woke up again around 8 and am super tired.
So morning is going and my baby son ends up grabbing the vent on the fireplace (we have a gas fireplace which was on at the time) and got his fingers stuck and burned 3 of his fingers! if you have gotten burned you know how much it just hurts afterwards. Poor baby! Even with baby tylonol it still hurt :(. So now we have a dog with a hole in her neck and swelling that needs compressing, a baby with burnt fingers who needs aloe and can't be comforted and my older boy is grounded so we have to police him and keep him from having any "fun" lol. Needless to say it's been a mad house here! So I have all kinds of good excuses to stress eat and I haven't!:party:
So far so good. My weigh in is tomorrow and if the scale stays around where it was today then I did really well last week! Last Monday I was 226lbs. This time I might be around 220! yay! but I will find out tomorrow.
Both baby and doggie are doing well. The doggie might have an abcess which might need to get lanced but otherwise is eating and drinking and is behaving normally which is good.
So we shall see!
LMAO Lilli! I don't think that show will be in my future! Did I mention I ran into the girl behind me? lol. I was so uncoordinated! It apparently get's easier as you go but OMG it was hard the first time! I love to dance but it's been a long time and I am woefully rusty! lol Also there are different ways to do weigh days. Try measuring. I do it monthly and it helps because my weight loss is stalled when I work out and I can only see the difference in my clothes and the measurements :)
Risty!!! Zumba!!! lol I am excited to try it. There isn't a class at my gym but in March I am going to visit my Dad in Nashville and he and my step-mom apparently go all the time so I am going to go to a few classes with them. They are fitness buffs so luckily I will be able to stay on track that week for exercise. Baby permitting of course lol.
Thank you both for stopping by! I am glad my diary gets so use other than me lol.
Have a great night!!
 
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