Time to stick with it!!

chubbygirl said:
Ok I think because I haven't been going to the gym after work and eating dinner earlier than normal it is extra hard for me not to snack. I would like to just have 1 100 cal snack after dinner and before bed so that will be my mission tonight!
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I was desperate for a sweet snack last night that I microwaved and apple with brown sugar, butter and cinnamon :p I think you're right though about the timing of supper. When we were eating at 6:30 I had a much easier time not snacking... but when we eat at 5:30 I am hungry by 8:30/9 and then I start going through the cupboards!! Lets try this... tonight when we want to snack we'll think of eachother... AND NOT DO IT!!! It'll be like a competition... I know I can do it... can you?!?!? ;););)

Marie
 
thelast20 said:
I was desperate for a sweet snack last night that I microwaved and apple with brown sugar, butter and cinnamon :p I think you're right though about the timing of supper. When we were eating at 6:30 I had a much easier time not snacking... but when we eat at 5:30 I am hungry by 8:30/9 and then I start going through the cupboards!! Lets try this... tonight when we want to snack we'll think of eachother... AND NOT DO IT!!! It'll be like a competition... I know I can do it... can you?!?!? ;););)

Marie
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That snack sounds sooo good! OK I'll take the competition! I can do it too - I think :smash: Wish me luck!
 
Ok Marie I was the best I have been this week - thank you but you win!! After dinner I had two home made dill pickles for a snack and then I went to bed at 8:30 pm or else I would have had chips and dip that my hunnie brought home from the store!
Here's how it looked:
B- ff yogurt & all bran buds
Snack - 2 cups mint green tea, apple
L - regular instant oatmeal w 1 cup mixed frozen berries
D - flaxseed tortilla pizza with left over spagetti sauce, pork chop, green olives, red onions and a little bit of shredded cheddar cheese.
Exercise - 30 min treadmill 2.6 miles, 320 cals burned. (I really didn't feel like working out at all and decided I was going to do at least 1 mile so I could say I've stuck to at least one of my goals this week and when I got on I felt good and kept going - although when I got to 30 min I just gave up instead of trying to get to 3.2 miles)
Snacks - 2 home made dill pickles
Bed by 8:30 pm! I had to force myself to go up to my room and then I realized I was tired anyway and enjoyed the extra sleep - I set my alarm everyday this week to get up early to get on the treadmill and didn't make it happen once.
I am really extra lazy this week and even though I know I can do this I don't feel like I can or I'm just not doing it - this morning I was getting ready for work and all my new clothes are tight and uncomfortable feeling and it just makes me feel crappy and that should make me try harder but it's doing the opposite.
I decided this morning I am going back to counting WW points because it's what I know and what I am used to and starting tomorrow morning I am going back to the gym! I can't go again tonight because I got a ride to work again and will be getting picked up. I will do the treadmill tonight and not let loose on the weekend like I used to. In one week it will be 6 months till the wedding and I really want to look stunning - I know I can do it and I have to really set my mind to that because right now I am not believing in myself or trying very hard. Like on my way to work today I couldn't stop thinking about an everything bagel with cream cheese even though I had my yogurt & bran buds packed to eat. Thankfully my hunnie wouldn't stop and told me to get over it- I enjoyed my yogurt but not as much as I know I would have enjoyed that bagel. Then last night after work I couldn't stop thinking about a cheese burger from McDonalds but luckily I missed it on my way by. These thoughts need to leave my head! I wish I could go to the store I ordered my dress from and try it on for motivation but it's 4 hours away over the border so the chances of that happening anytime soon are slim!
I'm getting my mojo back this weekend and getting my butt back to the gym - it worked before so I just have to keep it up! once and for all!
So happy it's Friday!! Hope everyone has a good weekend! :seeya:
 
I think it is a good idea to go back to counting WW points for you. It's what you know, and you know that it worked for you! I can't believe HOW HARD IT HAS BEEN to get back on track since the holiday's. It's funny... I was watching this girl on YouTube... she has a channel on there and had a weight loss journey though Weight Watchers that she would record an update every week. She went from like 170 pounds to 110! There was a video where she mentioned "everyone keeps asking me what to do when the holiday's arrive... but first of all.... you need to think of it this way. there not holiday's... there is just a holiday. thanksgiving is a holiday. christmas is a holiday. not every week before that and in between!" Which is so true!!!

I'm right with you this week in that I did NOT follow my goals like I wanted to. And I didn't even care or feel bad when I gave in! UGH! We need to really push each other this week - we HAVE to! This has been a vicious cycle for far too long now - we have to get SERIOUS again! We should set a different goal each day for ourselves. For example:

Monday - Drink 100 oz. of water.
Tuesday - Take a class at the gym.
Wednesday - Run 5K.

Or whatever! Something like that :) Let me know what you think. I think that setting 4-5 goals that we are trying to achieve DAILY is a little overwhelming! Maybe just taking things one at a time is the way to go!

Have a great day!
~ Sarah
 
:iagree: daily goals is totally more doable! I will think of some this weekend and write out a plan!
Ok I just got really pumped and wanted to share. I was talking to the girl I meet up with at the gym sometimes and she has been asking me all week about starting up again and I keep saying maybe tomorrow - well she was just telling me that she is 16 pounds away from her goal and really motivated to keep at it - and it made me jealous that she has been keeping it up and doing so good so it got me motivated and the thoughts I had of cheese burgers went right out the door!
I called me hunnie to see if he could find something to do while I go to the gym tonight and he said sure and that he will pick up my gym bag from home! Then I decided I need someone to weigh me once a week because that was so motivating before! So I asked my friend if she would mind and she said no - just tell her when so I have decided to get weighed tonight by her and then every Friday going forward - I am very competitive and like a good challenge so I think this will really help. She is a gossip friend so I know she will be telling other people about it so there is no way I will not lose this way! I am so excited to finally have the motivation back and a good plan in place! I want to be really good and right now actually feel like that WILL happen!
We even made plans to go to the Kettle Bell class tomorrow morning! I'm getting my mojo back!! Come on Sarah - you can do it too - so do it!!
 
Goals for the weekend:
Friday - get back to the gym
Saturday - go to Kettle Bell class 10am
Sunday - stay within 20 WW points!
I'll be back Monday to share my success!! No need to wish me luck because I will do it!
 
I'm so happy to see that you've picked yourself back up and are in the right mind set again! It's definitely rubbing off on me :D Great goals for yourself... I'm going to make some too now :D Chat with ya Monday! Have a great weekend! :)
 
Hey Lisa,

I am struggling so much too to get back on track and having constant cravings. Its making me crazy and my clothes have been snug too, But I am so glad to hear you got some motivation because very often you are mine so I am hoping it will rub off on me! You are going to do great this weekend and I can't wait to hear the update on Monday. I am going to be trying as well! Have a great weekend!
 
Don't forget the title to your diary..."Time to stick with it!!"

If you keep stalling, pretty soon you won't be sticking with it, will you? ;)

I can tell from your last post that your fire is lit again so I'm just trying to throw wood on your fire. ;) Now go out and kick some fat! :D
 
Sounds like you are getting more inspired lady!!! :D!!! You have a real ass kicking motivating reason there with the wedding and the dress!!! I actually want to look great too for September's graduation ceremony!!! ...Technically I graduate in May, but the ceremony is until then, and I want to look MY GOAL weight by then!!! :beating:!!! 8 months for me!!! :D!!! 6 months for you!!!!.:D!..We can do this!!!...I'm gonna try harder too!!!! :blush5:!!
 
I reached my goals this weekend!!
Friday I went to the gym after work and did 28 min on the eliptical and a half an hour core class! It felt great and really got me motivated! I ate well that night and stayed within my daily points limit.
Saturday I woke up early and my lower back and abs were sore from the core class but I went to Kettle Bell anyway!! It was nuts! The instructor had us get into groups of three which worked out perfect because my friend and her friend both showed up also. He had us form a line with three different size Kettle Bells in front of each of us - 8 kg, 12 kg & 18 kg (I usually use the 8kg - thought it was lbs before today). We had to do 15 reps on the 8 kg, 10 reps on 12 kg and 5 reps on the 18kg and keep rotating for 4 min and then we got a 1 min break. I almost died trying to lift the 18 kg Kettle Bell over my head! My friend couldn't do it and he told her to do burpees instead. We did that for 30 min and then a bunch of other exercises with the Kettle Bell's while incorporating Bronco kicks & burpees and things like that - it was intense!! So intense that I could barely walk yesterday and today is still painful! Especially sitting on the toilet because we did sooooo many squats!
We ended up eating pretty bad on Saturday night and having lots of snacks :reddevil:
Sunday was ok except I could barely walk - we went grocery shopping and my hunnie was so annoyed at how slow I was walking around the grocery store. I planned on doing the treadmill but really couldn't. I didn't eat great food but I was at my points limit at the end of the night so that was good.
Today I am still so sore and wondering what I am going to be able to do at the gym tonight - I don't think I could do step class but maybe cycle - I miss my old spinning instructor and wish I could afford to go back to her. Oh well I will get used to a new instructor at my gym if I go regularly so maybe tonight - not sure what my friend has in mind - haven't talked to her since Saturday and I am imagining she is just as sore.
Today's goal is to drink at least 100 oz of water - I really slacked on that yesterday!
 
Great job this weekend! Those damn kettle bells will get ya ;) I wish the gym on campus here had a kettle bell class! I can't imagine that I would last very long if I went to one though! lol :) Do good with the water today! I made my goal the same as yours except for tomorrow :D So you better do it and set an example for me! lol jk but really... :p

Have a great day... February is already here.... JEEZ! Where did January go? Time to step things up.... we got this!

~ Sarah
 
Lookin good :coolgleamA: I love having that muscle soreness the next day, but not so bad that I can't workout for 3 days... I find that frustrating :ack2: Water will help so that's a good goal for today :)

Have a good one,
Marie
 
thelast20 said:
Lookin good :coolgleamA: I love having that muscle soreness the next day, but not so bad that I can't workout for 3 days... I find that frustrating :ack2: Water will help so that's a good goal for today :)

Have a good one,
Marie
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I totally agree and that's why I was hesitant to go to the class because I had a feeling that was going to happen but I also remembered someone saying the best way to kick start a weight loss is to shock the body - well mine was shocked! Once I started exercising yesterday it felt so much better!
 
Ok I had to really force myself to drink that water but I did it and accomplished another goal yesterday!
Today's goal is to only have 1 snack after dinner. This is going to be a hard one but my hunnie is out of town and I sometimes go crazy snacking when I'm alone so I thought this would be a good one for today!
i'm really getting my mojo back at the gym. Yesterday I did 30 min treadmill (2 miles) I wasn't able to run because my legs were still really sore but I increased the incline and walked at 4.1 mph. Then I did 30 min eliptical (3 miles) with resistance 10. I finished up with 15 min of arms - about 6 different machines (3 reps of 15) and my arms were shaking when I left.
My eating was ok yesterday but around lunch I got a chocolate attack and had 4 pieces dove dark chocolate. Then after dinner I found some old chocolate chip cookies in the freezer and ate 4!! They even tasted like freezer burn and after 4 I was like "what the hell I am doing" and took the rest of the package and threw them in the garbage.
I didn't want those damn cookies to ruin my workout for the day so I got back on the treadmill and did another 30 min (2 miles). I bet I only burned half the calories of the cookies but I didn't feel as guilty going to bed.
I didn't track my points yesterday because of the dove chocolates in the afternoon - I realize I should have tracked anyway - oh well today is a new day and I will track all my points!
I have a confession to make. Last winter my hunnie and me were living at my parents while they were in Arizona for the winter and once again my hunnie was laid off and during the day he would sit on the computer and at night he would sit on the computer. Well I found out later he was involved in a forum (hockey fights.com) and I signed on one day to see what it was all about and I didnt' really like it - it wasn't just conversations about hockey fights - anyone could post anything for people to write about and I found some posts about favourite porn stars and favourite make out scenes in movies that my hunnie was responding to and it just didn't seem like him and really I made too big of a deal about it and told him I would like him to stop. He would chat on the site all night and wake up and go straight to the computer to see if anyone responded. I felt like he was spending more time on the site than with me and I was getting jealous. I asked him if he would stop responding to the other discussions and just stick with the stuff about hockey fights and he did. I felt silly even asking. Ok so now I haven't told him about this site because of that and I feel like I'm keeping something from him and don't know what to do. I don't really want to tell him because I know he will look for it and find me and even though I haven't said anything bad it will cause a fight and I don't think it's necessary - what do you think? i'm horrible eh?
Anyway i have to get some work done and wanted to get that off my chest. I think today is going to be a good day! I'll report back tomorrow about my snacking tonight - goal is for only 1 snack under 100 cal! I can do it!
 
Great workouts yesterday :) I'm glad that you had to power to throw the rest of the cookies away and even get on the treadmill again! I would have just kept eating the cookies and then felt bad for myself and probably KEEP eating crappy because I would feel that I already ruined it! So GOOD FOR YOU to turn that around!

I was sort of embarrassed for anyone to know about me using this site. But it IS such a big part of my success that I have recently admitted to some people that I come here to talk to other people and that it is one of the biggest reasons I have kept up this far. I even told my boyfriend how I wrote about him last week and how I was so confused and what people older than me with more life experience had to say! It may be uncomfortable to talk about with your man, but obviously it has been a great part of your success so far - it hasn't taken time away from you as a couple... there is no negative affect whereas his blogging was a little out of line. You should tell him if you want him to know but if it's not that important then just keep it to yourself! I guess whatever you feel is right. But I don't think you should be embarrassed :)

I like your goal for today... I will have to use that one sometime this week! Good luck today and keep up the good work! I'm looking forward to this week's weigh in!

~ Sarah
 
skkroll said:
Great workouts yesterday :) I'm glad that you had to power to throw the rest of the cookies away and even get on the treadmill again! I would have just kept eating the cookies and then felt bad for myself and probably KEEP eating crappy because I would feel that I already ruined it! So GOOD FOR YOU to turn that around!
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I didn't tell my husband right away either... I thought he would laugh at me and wouldn't understand. He did the exact opposite and told me that if it was helping he was all for it. He doesn't like the idea of me talking about him, so I don't give him details and he's never tried to read it. My thoughts would be to tell him b/c it's still a secret and there is always going to be that guilt factor which you don't need... but you're the one who know him. I'm only speaking from my experience with my man, and my thoughts :)
 
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