The Awful Truth

I love DDR too!! At the moment I'm a bit too big to play it ... I can't jump around like that at this weight. But I have faith that in another 30-40lbs I'll be able to play it and it will be awesome!!!!
 
Addie, you could always do the easier songs so that you get used to the basic movement, plus it will get you moving a little bit :) Then as you lose weight you can up the intensity.

I should really try mine with my tv on game mode to see if it helps. I'll be so mad if it doesn't because that means I won't be able to do any of my PS2 DDR games and I have like 6 of them, one brand new that I haven't even tried. And I know there's songs on there that I love. I think that's why I haven't tried it yet, because I'm too scared to find out it won't work and I can't play them anymore. Also that will mean I'll need to spend more money buying it on the XBox 360.
 
Veronica said:
Day 21:

Good morning rainy day and oh so sore muscles! Wanted to sleep in this morning but hubby reassured me that it will all be worth it so I need to get my arse outta bed and get to work. Already had breakfast (225 calories) and bottle of water (16oz) and am ready for first workout of the day. Problem is, I'm not sure what I'm in the mood for?

Haven't done my Wii Fit or Active in a while but that, to me, is a great 'filler' for the middle of the day, not some serious cardio burning! I did some DDR last night as well as an hour on the bike so maybe a kickboxing video would be good. The one thing I know about myself and cardio workout DVDs...if I don't get them out of the way in the AM then I won't get to them at all! Hmph. Guess a video it is!
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Hey Veronica.. sounds like you had a good day!! I will check on your diary later today to see if you have written ..

your doing awesome
keep trecking :driving:
always
natalie jo :):seeya:
 
Verobc - Thanks fro stopping by. I went and caught up on your journal as well and you are right, we are a lot alike. I'll be sure to keep tabs on ya! Oh and thanks for the compliments!

Addiecakes & Risty - DDR kicks my butt when I play on higher advanced settings that require hopping a lot. I get done with an hour and just want to collapse. I didn't realize it was such an issue with a plasma?

Natsky - Thanks for the kind words and encouragement. It's always good to know people care about how I'm doing.
 
Day 22

Didn't get enough sleep last night because I had to wake up early to do this videotaping thing with my best friend for The Food Network. As usual, it took 4 hours to film a 15 minutes segment. Geez. I took an apple bar, oatmeal, and decaf coffee with me to eat beforehand but then my BF made some cinnamon rolls and sticky buns that smelled just as good as they were. Yep, that's right folks. I caved! By noon, I was hungry, we weren't done, and those suckers were sitting right there calling out to me...'Eat me'....'EAT ME"...I mean, how could I say no? So I cut each one in half and ate two halves for lunch. Not horrible but definitely not the right choice by far.

When I got home, I had every intention of immediately changing into my workout clothes and hitting the treadmill to burn off my gluttonous morning. Instead my husband comes home with a pizza for lunch. WTF? Are all those close and dear to my heart out to get me today? I managed to say no to the pizza and carefully place it out of view inside the fridge and go back to lacing up my sneakers.

Now, husband leaves to go back to work, I stretch, grab my water, hop on the treadmill, press start and the phone rings. It's the hubby saying he forgot some things on his desk that he needs and can I bring them to his office. Yes dear, of course. Turn treadmill off (don't think the 27 seconds I actually walked counted for anything), grab keys and paperwork, and go. :auto:

Return 1 hour later (because I got busy talking to some of the girls at the office) and now I'm starving! Make turkey sandwich and sit down to read magazine while I eat. Have nice relaxing meal, go outside to play with pups for a few minutes while food is digesting, and poof, I'm back inside on a mission.

Go back into exercise room, hop on treadmill, press start, walk entire 4 minutes and 12 seconds and RING! RING! One of my good girlfriends calls and she has locked her keys out of her car and needs me to pick her up, take her to her husband's work to get his keys. Ugh. Off I go!:driving:

So now I'm back home. It's 6:00 and I still have not gotten a workout in. Hubby just called and needs help at office tonight so I need to feed the pets, bring them in for the night, get dressed, pick up something pseudo healthy for dinner, and meet him there. How did this happen?

Basically it comes down to being a day of rest that was unplanned and a food diary day that is mediocre at best. Ahhh...don't you just love when life gets in the way of your goals?:cuss:
 
Veronica said:
Basically it comes down to being a day of rest that was unplanned and a food diary day that is mediocre at best. Ahhh...don't you just love when life gets in the way of your goals?:cuss:
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Oh yes. I have this happen more often than I'd like to admit :rolleyes: I work a couple of days a week at an all ages pool hall- which horrifically(sp?) sells candy and chips. I ALMOST caved today and had a candy bar, but I wouldn't let myself. Wheew. I'm gonna go into chocolate withdrawals soon, I think... uggh.
Anyway, don't let one day getcha down :) tomorrow will bring the all mighty redemption, lol.
 
Veronica said:
Day 22

Didn't get enough sleep last night because I had to wake up early to do this videotaping thing with my best friend for The Food Network. As usual, it took 4 hours to film a 15 minutes segment. Geez. I took an apple bar, oatmeal, and decaf coffee with me to eat beforehand but then my BF made some cinnamon rolls and sticky buns that smelled just as good as they were. Yep, that's right folks. I caved! By noon, I was hungry, we weren't done, and those suckers were sitting right there calling out to me...'Eat me'....'EAT ME"...I mean, how could I say no? So I cut each one in half and ate two halves for lunch. Not horrible but definitely not the right choice by far.

When I got home, I had every intention of immediately changing into my workout clothes and hitting the treadmill to burn off my gluttonous morning. Instead my husband comes home with a pizza for lunch. WTF? Are all those close and dear to my heart out to get me today? I managed to say no to the pizza and carefully place it out of view inside the fridge and go back to lacing up my sneakers.

Now, husband leaves to go back to work, I stretch, grab my water, hop on the treadmill, press start and the phone rings. It's the hubby saying he forgot some things on his desk that he needs and can I bring them to his office. Yes dear, of course. Turn treadmill off (don't think the 27 seconds I actually walked counted for anything), grab keys and paperwork, and go. :auto:

Return 1 hour later (because I got busy talking to some of the girls at the office) and now I'm starving! Make turkey sandwich and sit down to read magazine while I eat. Have nice relaxing meal, go outside to play with pups for a few minutes while food is digesting, and poof, I'm back inside on a mission.

Go back into exercise room, hop on treadmill, press start, walk entire 4 minutes and 12 seconds and RING! RING! One of my good girlfriends calls and she has locked her keys out of her car and needs me to pick her up, take her to her husband's work to get his keys. Ugh. Off I go!:driving:

So now I'm back home. It's 6:00 and I still have not gotten a workout in. Hubby just called and needs help at office tonight so I need to feed the pets, bring them in for the night, get dressed, pick up something pseudo healthy for dinner, and meet him there. How did this happen?

Basically it comes down to being a day of rest that was unplanned and a food diary day that is mediocre at best. Ahhh...don't you just love when life gets in the way of your goals?:cuss:
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Wow, they were really in for you today, huh.. Wow. I have, I think we all have had days similar, but wow.

Well maybe you just needed a rest day. Dont get too down on the buns, I mean, it only happens once in a while and you handled it well..

and great about the pizza, I hide things on myself too, but I find at night its better to set out the fruit, because I know I am going to eat .. now anyway ...

but you sound like you were on a mission and you will get on that mission another day, so dont feel down. And its not a mediocre post ... its very eye opening, dont beat on yourself because you missed a day...

I used to do that, and still find myself sometimes doing it. There will be days like the one you had... :) You should charge your husband for the help, tell him he has to buy you flowers, of course he could be a wonderful man already and brings flowers home all the time, which would be something special in itself ..

but anyway, than you have it made .. lol

but anyway .. just get back on track and realize "hey, its not all bad, there are gonna be days like this..."

ttylater
always
natalie jo :):grouphug:
 
That's quite the day you had there! Hopefully you'll have better luck next time trying to get your workout in :)
 
That sounds like the sort of luck I have...!! Never mind, you know you didn't have a great day so you can make up for it over the next few.

Stay positive :) x
 
Day 25

Busy weekend! Spent all day Saturday cleaning the house and cooking for a dinner party that evening. Everyone stayed pretty late so we slept in on Sunday and went to a late service at church before attending a church barbecue in the afternoon. Came home and decided to tackle an outdoor project with hubby, which took another 5 hours until nightfall. Once we took the time to run a few errands, make dinner, and get settled, it was 10PM. So no workout for the day but trust me, the outdoor physical labor should have made up for it. I was so sore last night that I went upstairs to take a long hot bath before bed.

So, it's Monday and our weigh in is tomorrow. Not sure how well I'm gonna do considering the weekend and all but we'll see. I have to get back outside to finish a few things that couldn't get done last night in the dark. Once I complete said project, I plan on getting in the workout room and doing at least 4 miles on the treadmill before dinner. Hopefully, all will go as planned.
 
Good luck on the weight in! I had 2 nights of crappy eating so I hope it doesn't affect me too much. But I exercised 6/7 days and the eating was good the rest of the time.

See ya tomorrow for the big day!
 
Day 25

Busy weekend! Spent all day Saturday cleaning the house and cooking for a dinner party that evening. Everyone stayed pretty late so we slept in on Sunday and went to a late service at church before attending a church barbecue in the afternoon. Came home and decided to tackle an outdoor project with hubby, which took another 5 hours until nightfall. Once we took the time to run a few errands, make dinner, and get settled, it was 10PM. So no workout for the day but trust me, the outdoor physical labor should have made up for it. I was so sore last night that I went upstairs to take a long hot bath before bed.

So, it's Monday and our weigh in is tomorrow. Not sure how well I'm gonna do considering the weekend and all but we'll see. I have to get back outside to finish a few things that couldn't get done last night in the dark. Once I complete said project, I plan on getting in the workout room and doing at least 4 miles on the treadmill before dinner. Hopefully, all will go as planned.[/QUOTE]

Hello Veronica,
Just thought I would pop by. Sounds like you ended up getting a HUGE workout, no worries about a loss, you probably worked off everything you could possibly consume. Keep up the good work hun. Youll see good results...

keep trecking.. :smash:
always
natalie jo :seeya:
 
Day 26

Weigh in this morning was a sad, puny 1 lb loss. I was expecting more since I worked out 6 days last week and ate well all week. I'm blaming minimum loss on my TOM which came just two days ago. Perhaps all the water weight will vanish this week and aid in next week's losses.

Things have been stressful around here. My hubby's employer has offered him a promotion. Sounds good at first but there's a catch. We have to move back to the city we lived in before here to get it. We still own our house back there (3.5 hours away) so we would have a place to go but we have fallen in love with our new town. Plus our new house is very close to our dream home. Everyone that comes here asks if they can move in and surely, we don't want to move out. So the proposition from his boss is accept the promotion (leave dream home, good friends, great church, cool hockey crowd) and move back to average home in small town with minimal friends for more pay. OR stay put, lose job, and hope to find decent employment that pays enough to sustain dream home. It sucks. This ALL or NOTHING offer pisses me off. So my husband and I talked about it at length this weekend and we have come to the conclusion that we are going to stay here, hope to some extent that he is bluffing, and if not, find work wherever we can get it. For us, the home and family of friends we have made here far outweigh the potential loss of a job.

So with all of that mess going on, it has been hard to focus on diet and exercise when I need to hit up my clients for work. But I'm not going to lose focus. Just gonna keep my head down and keep working at it and all will turn out well. I've got my fingers crossed.
 
Veronica, I'm sooo sorry to hear that. I think it would be horrible for him to lose his job because he didn't want to take the promotion. I can't even put into words how angry that makes me. I can't imagining having the home I love, the community I love and someone trying to make me leave it. I don't own a home yet and I want one soooo bad, and if I finally got it and then had to move... that would just be horrible. I really really hope that with him not taking the promotion that he won't lose his job! I'll pray for you guys!

On the note of maybe retaining liquid, are you drinking enough water? Because if you don't drink enough then your body holds on to the water. So if you drink enough water your body will not try and hold on to it and so you won't retain.

Again, I hope all goes well for you and your family!
 
Hey Veronica, I hate to hear about your hubby's employment situation. But yall keep your heads up and pray for guidance and everything will work out just fine. I did some catching up on your dairy and you have been kicking some serious butt. Keep up the good work!
 
Veronica said:
Day 26

Weigh in this morning was a sad, puny 1 lb loss. I was expecting more since I worked out 6 days last week and ate well all week. I'm blaming minimum loss on my TOM which came just two days ago. Perhaps all the water weight will vanish this week and aid in next week's losses.

Things have been stressful around here. My hubby's employer has offered him a promotion. Sounds good at first but there's a catch. We have to move back to the city we lived in before here to get it. We still own our house back there (3.5 hours away) so we would have a place to go but we have fallen in love with our new town. Plus our new house is very close to our dream home. Everyone that comes here asks if they can move in and surely, we don't want to move out. So the proposition from his boss is accept the promotion (leave dream home, good friends, great church, cool hockey crowd) and move back to average home in small town with minimal friends for more pay. OR stay put, lose job, and hope to find decent employment that pays enough to sustain dream home. It sucks. This ALL or NOTHING offer pisses me off. So my husband and I talked about it at length this weekend and we have come to the conclusion that we are going to stay here, hope to some extent that he is bluffing, and if not, find work wherever we can get it. For us, the home and family of friends we have made here far outweigh the potential loss of a job.

So with all of that mess going on, it has been hard to focus on diet and exercise when I need to hit up my clients for work. But I'm not going to lose focus. Just gonna keep my head down and keep working at it and all will turn out well. I've got my fingers crossed.
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Veronica
a one pound loss is still good. And if you are on the rag, take advantage. You burn more calories while you are on the rag, or have your monthly.. I did and I went down five pounds, works great ...

keep trecking
and it sounds like a smart decision, dont give up your dreams ... if that is where you belong, than that is where you do ..

keep trecking

Natsky:party:
 
As other people have pointed out, 1lb is still a 1lb :) I know you were hoping for more but at least those numbers are moving, and in the right direction. :)

Think positive and keep at it! x
 
You know as well as I do; the scale is a lousy measurement of weight loss. The fact that you still dropped weight while your body is in major fluid retention mode is awesome! And yea, all this means is the next weigh in will be that much more exaggerated :D

Doing great Veronica!
 
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