Molly's Thursday

Ok, so I weighed myself like a good girl this morning - 171.0. Up one pound, but that's ok because I did cardio last night after work. And for the last 2 days I've actually been sticking to the eating plan. If feel better (healthier) than I have in months. Seriously, why is it so hard to do the things that make you feel good?

Anyway, the gym weigh in, went ok, too. I was down 1.5 from last Thursday, so that was good. And I lost a 1/2 on my hips and waist. So yay! It's working! Slowly, but surely. :)

Molly's Tuesday

I weighed myself this morning when I got up and I'm basically back to where I was before Brewfest. 170.0. So, that's down about 5 pounds from last Thursday, which is good. :)

I went to our first official group training this morning. Thursday are going to be our official weigh-in days, so I'm going to weigh myself in the morning on Thursdays like usual and then have the gym scale weigh-in, shoes and all, post breakfast. I'm curious what the difference will be. I'll post both weights when I get home.

Goals for the rest of today:
drink 4 bottles of water
track calories

Molly's Friday

My weigh in was not so great this morning. 172.6. But, it's lower than it was a few days ago, so that's good. I had some emotions mixed with some hormones yesterday and in the end I decided white cheddar cheez-its were the only thing that could make it better. Oddly enough, they helped and I don't regret it. And today I still want to be healthy.

Goals for today:
drink 4 bottles of water (1 down, 3 to go)
track calories

Friday Weigh In

This mornings weigh in was not great. I did have a weekend last weekend of fondue alcohol and cake so I am not worried. It will come off. Yesterday I didn't eat very well, I had lots of stuff I shouldn't and I am not done tracking dinner. I also didn't have any soda, so I think I eat worse when I don't have that "sweet" to fall back on.

Today's goals

Track, have under 1300 cal
3 bottles water
go for a walk

Group Training

We started the 8 week challenge last Wednesday. We're officially on week two now and I have officially GAINED five pounds. Oops. But, I knew that was going to happen and I wouldn't change it.

Today a group of us that work together met with a personal trainer. We only did half an hour and thank god for that! I seriously thought I was going to throw up. Out of the five of us girls, I am in the worst shape. I am not the biggest, in fact with the exception of Amanda, I am the smallest. But I am the only one that hasn't at least been doing cardio on a regular basis. So it was pretty rough, but that's ok.

The gym has a deal going where you can do group training for $199 per person for 12 sessions. The five of us have decided to do that. I had money left over that I had been planning to spend while in Denver and didn't. So, happy birthday to me!

I'm going to weigh in tomorrow. And my goals for today are to drink 4 bottles of water (working on number 2 right now.) and track my calories.

Todays goals

Last night as I was watching the biggest loser I was so sad that I am lighter than all of the women and in 12 weeks or whatever, I will be heavier than them by 60 - 80 pounds. Unless I take control and do something about it. So here we go:

Today's goals:

Track calories, have 1300 or less, have under 100 g of carbs
Drink 4 bottles of water
Walk with the kids!

8 Week Challenge

I signed up for the Gold's Gym 8 week challenge this morning. What this entails:

Measurements:

1. Weight: 171.2
2. BMI (according to their hand-held doohickie): 34.8
3. Waist in inches (not sure)
4. Right thigh in inches (not sure)
5. Hips in inches (not sure)

I was only half awake when I went to sign up, so I totally failed to ask what the measurements were. Doh. But, I have a free session with a trainer on Tuesday, so I'll get the info from her then. If anyone wants to join in the challenge, you totally should, whether or not you belong to Golds. :)

Molly's Monday

I was attacked by carbs this weekend. Funeral carbs in particular. Those are the worst. Especially when you've been eating a lot of veggies and lean meats and you see cheesy potatoes and homemade rolls and chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. And you're all sad because they played Amazing Grace on the bagpipes. And so you stuff your face with so many carbs you can't even count that high.

So here I am again, start over after a bad-eating weekend. But whatever. Today will be good. I will drink 4 bottles of water and track my calories. Hope everyone had a nice weekend!

Oh, and I forgot to weigh myself, so I'm going to weigh in tomorrow. :)

Molly's Friday Weigh In

168.2, down 2 lbs. from Tuesday. So, that's good. It could have been a lot better, but I made some really poor food choices the last few days, so whatever. It is what it is. Todays goals are to drink 4 bottles of water. yep, that's it.

Mallory's Friday

So, I weighed myself this morning and my weight was 228.8. Whooo hoooo! That's down 6.2 pounds from Monday. Weight loss is weird. I know that is all water, but really how can one lose 6 pounds in 4 days? It just doesn't seem right. I am not questioning it though. I weighed myself twice and that was good enough for me. Right now I am about a quarter down on water bottle number 4 but I haven't tracked everything for today yet. I have worked on this post 4 times and not gotten it posted yet so I am going to post this, drink my water bottle plus one more, and hopefully get the clothes in my bedroom hung up today. The kids are crazy, demanding attention but it's better than yesterday. I am going to weigh in in the morning, because I either am crazy about weight loss or I gain weight. So I would rather be crazy about it. Here are my goals:

I WILL BE UNDER 200 lbs. I am not sure when, but I will do it. I have 28.8 pounds to lose.

I will drink my water in my bottle plus one more today.
I will weigh in the morning and blog.
I will track my food.

Thursday.

Whoo hoooo! Today is thursday and I am doing good today. I think I might be back on the right track. Yesterday didn't go bad, but I did eat some things I shouldn't but today has been great so far. here's to two days of tracking. YAY

mallory's wednesday

So yesterday was crappy. Today I am tracking. Seriously I AM TRACKING. So far today I have had a cookie and a diet soda. go me! so it's hours later and I am doing better. I am getting some water right now. I am eating chicken tacos now and have tracked.

Molly's Tuesday Weigh-In

Yesterday was a good day. I drank almost 3 bottles of water and my calories were right at 1300. I'm so glad I didn't get on the scale yesterday because it was bad enough today after a good day. 170.2. I once again had an out of control eating weekend (seriously, I can't be trusted around cheese. Or ice cream.) But what's done is done. So, here's the plan for today:

Drink 4 bottles of water
exercise after work
track calories

Deez Nutz

I'm just keeping it classy, you guys. :-) The cherries were getting on my nerves, so I'm trying out this more fall-ish themed background. I can't decide if I like it or if it's ugly. And also, does anyone besides squirrels actually eat acorns?

The Plan

Ok so here is the new plan. Make that the new, new plan. We got back late last night and the drive was long and we have eaten out a lot. I weighed this am and I was 235.0 ug. So my plan today is to drink 4 bottles of water and Track. Yay! I am going to weigh again tomorrow.

Molly's Thursday

I didn't weigh myself today. Thought about it, but didn't just in case the result was disappointing. Yes, I live in the lovely land of denial. But tomorrow is Friday, which means I will get on the scale. So, today I will drink 4 bottles of water and I will track my calories. I also plan to do at least 30 minutes of cardio at the gym after work. Hopefully we all have a good day!

OMG SERIOUSLY

What is wrong with me? Seriously. I weighed myself this am and it was 233.0. Really. That is up about a zillion pounds from Friday. Or 5 five in 5 days. So here we are. I am up 18 pounds from my lowest weight.

So here is my plan:

1. Drink 4 bottles of water a day. (I even have a water bottle filled already)

2. Eat NO added sugar.

3. Stay away from carbs unless it is small amounts of the fruit we bought or corn tortillas.

4. Eat 100 g of protein.

5. Track

Today is the first day of my period and we had a very salty dinner last night (restaurant chips and salsa, and a burrito) so I am hoping for a relatively easy drop of those 5 pounds. Then I will stay on track until Molly comes to denver for her birthday. We can do this ladies!

Molly's Tuesday

I drank almost 4 bottles of water yesterday and kept my eating pretty much in check (there were some M&Ms that somehow made it into my mouth - not sure what happened there...) So, I decided to go ahead and weigh myself again this morning: 168.8, down 1.4 from yesterday. It's nice to get some of that water weight off and not feel quite so bloaty.

I didn't exercise yesterday, but I did find my yoga mat out in the garage. I'm going to go do yard work now. Woo hoo! And then go to work.

Goals for today:
drink 4 bottles of water
track calories

Molly's Monday Weigh-In

170.2. Yep up 2.2 from last week. That's just sad. It could be worse though. If you had seen everything I ate over this past week, you'd probably be surprised it's not higher. Anyway, I'm glad I have plan. I woke up this morning with a renewed sense of purpose. I have things I want to do and thing I'm working toward - at least for the next 2 months.

So today I will drink my water, track my calories and do my exercise video. I also am going to Hobby Lobby to get some watercolors and paper. For the first time in my life I'm feeling a strong pull toward art. It's sort of scary and sort of exciting. Hard to explain. And I have my class today, so all in all it should be a good day! Hope you all have a good day, too!

I Have A Plan..... B

Plan A didn't really pan out. I just can't seem to get excited about the gym. So here's plan B:

1) Do my pilates/cardio exercise tape M/W/F while my dad is at Cardio rehab.

2) Track calories - for the next three weeks I will be keeping a strict 1300 calories per day diet.

3) drink 3-4 bottles of water every day. Three is the minimum, 4 is the goal, anything above is just a bonus.

4) T/TH I would like to start hiking up Mt. Garfield. Not all the way every day or anything crazy like that, but just as far as I feel I can go. Eventually I'll get to the top and not be worried about having a heart attack. :)

Now I have to go out to the garage and find my pilates tape in one of my boxes. I think I know where it is. My yoga mat is a whole different story...

I am back and ready to go

Wait, isn't this the same post from a week ago? Why yes, yes it is. *sigh*

Ok here it goes, I am weighing myself tomorrow am so I have a "bad weight" and then I am gonna do something. My most successful times have been when I really wanted to be on the plan and it seemed easy. Not sure how to get that back but I am going to think on it overnight.

Ok, seriously.

168.0 I am now getting on the horse or the wagon or what ever. I just need to do it. I just need to make myself go to the gym a few times in a row and I know it will get easier after that. Why is it so difficult to take those first few strides?? I'll tell you why: because staying the same, even if you're not happy, is easier. Ugh. I'm done staying the same. I want to change. I want to like what I see in the mirror!

Goals for today:
Drink 3 bottles of water

I Have A Plan

Here's my plan: tomorrow and next Saturday I'm going to do the body flow class at the gym at 9:35. I have to work at 10:30, so it'll work out quite well. The next two weeks I will do cardio Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the gym in the late mornings when it's not busy, but I still have time to go home and shower and eat before heading back for work. I know that if I can stick with this I can get my workouts back on track. I just need to get started again.

I haven't weighed myself this week because I forgot and then I decided I didn't give a crap (I love PMS, especially when I haven't taken my anti-depressants for a few days. So fun.) So tomorrow morning before I go to body flow I will weigh myself and post it here. Hope everyone has a lovely Friday!

I'm here too

I'm around too, just apparently too lazy to blog. I have been weighing myself this week though. Last week was really hard with Aaron being home, but I still wasn't eating whatever I want (which is EVERYTHING at this point) or sweets.... and I still gained a ton. Arg. According to my scale, I have gained 4 lbs in 4 weeks, which is so not good. I was hoping for half of that.  Even when we ate out, we had subway and sushi... and that night when Aaron brought home burger king :( oops.

My apt is tomorrow (WOOT! WOOT!) but unfortunately it's at 11:30 instead of in the early morning, which is normal, so my weight will be crazy up, I'm sure. Boo. Ah well.

I wasn't great on water last week, so I am really making/made a commitment this week to get all of it in (it's amazing how going in and having someone weigh you will motivate you) and from this Monday to today, I have "lost" 1.6 lbs. I'm sure it's not actually "lost" but just water weight. It does however make me feel a little better.

I'm trying to keep my eating/weight in check b/c my dr says that it's really hard for women with PCOS to not gain a ton of weight during pregnancy, so I have to be on top of it. Also, I think it'll be best for my back if I can keep my weight gain towards to low end of normal instead of the high end, lol.

Sorry, I know this post is kinda rambly. Ok, gotta go get ready for preschool again.

~Lori

Mallory's weigh in

So, yesterday not a very good day, I only tracked for part of the day. boo. but I drank a bunch of water. I weighed this morning 228.8. ug.

Goals for today:
Track
Drink water
stay within 2000mg of sodium

I am back and ready to go

So it was super hard to be motivated on the night shift. I don't know if anyone knows this but eating seems to keep you awake. so especially during the day, when I had to be awake eating was there. So I have been eating really bad foods for me and now I am ready to be back on the plan. Today my goal is to drink 100 oz of water, track and stay under 2000 mg of sodium. Then we will see about tomorrow's weight.

Weighing In

I will probably only be weighing in on Saturday or Sunday because of my work schedule and the fact that the only scale I have access to right now is in my mom's room and I can't really go in there at 2:45 in the morning when I get up. So, yesterday I weighed 141.6 which is great. I haven't been eating that good but I also haven't been over eating. I also haven't been exercising (except for last week) but I am on my feet for 8-10 hours a day and in constant motion. I did join the gym today!! (So now I really have no excuse not to exercise)

Molly's Monday weigh in

165.8, up 1.8 from the last time that I weighed. I'm not terribly surprised. I haven't been eating all that healthy. And while I the food I ate over the weekend was healthy and delicious, I ate entirely too much of it. So today I track. And drink at least 3 bottles of water.

Mallory's Monday Weigh In

This morning's weight was 227.8 up .6 pounds from yesterday. I am tracking today yesterday I did really good until Justin got home and he went and got chicken nuggets from mcdonald's which of course i ate. doh.

Mallory's Sunday Weigh in

This morning my weight was 227.2. Totally could have been better, but could have been worse too. My last weight on the blog was 222.4 so it could be worse. Considering I have pretty much eaten whatever I want and have not exercised I was positively pleased. I will be drinking water today and weigh in in the morning. I hope you all join me!!

Blogging to myself...

...It's like talking to yourself, only different. I've been kinda bummed that no one is on the blog lately, but I haven't been either. And I know Lori and Carrie are both pregnant and Mallory is working nights and Tammi works crazy hours and Peggy is probably getting ready for school to start. I'm busy, too, believe it or not... Anyway, I just definitely do better when I'm accountable to someone else. I suppose I should try to be accountable to myself and most of the time I guess I am. But days like today when I'm stressed and I've got a lot to do and I'm screwing around on Facebook and eating 1/3 of a box of graham crackers in about two minutes flat without really comprehending what I'm doing and then chewing my nails. These are the days I could use the support. So, I'm going to pretend that you're all out there reading this and you want to respond but you can't because terrorists have kidnapped you all and if you even touch a keyboard to type a response, the world will end. No, I don't like that idea - I don't want to think about terrorists holding my peeps hostage. It's just not a pleasant idea. I'm going to choose to believe that you all are with me in spirit. And I'm going to continue blogging just in case anyone wants to actually join me. And I just remembered I ate some cheese, too. Great. That puts me over a 1,000 calories for the day already and it's not quite noon. Awesome. and yes I tracked my calories. Go me.

Molly's Long Lost Weigh-In

I weighed myself this morning and I'm at 164.0. I can't remember what my goals were or even what my last weigh in weight was, but that's where I'm at right now. My new goal is to lose 10 pounds by my birthday. That's just under seven weeks. That should be more than doable. I've been trying to recruit my friend Elysia from work to exercise with me, but she's in the talking-about-losing-weight-place, not the doing-something-about-losing-weight-place. And I need to be in the doing-something-about-it-place. This weekend we're cleaning out the garage, so that will be good exercise. Monday morning I'm starting back at the gym. You would think it would be easy because I work there, but actually in this instance it has made it more difficult. But it's time to just do it like those old Nike commercials say. My eating has been good on and off. Because of my dad's heart surgery meals at home have been very healthy. It's all that other stuff out there. But that's life. I'm going to try to start tracking my calories again, although my head isn't totally in it. I guess we'll see.

Background note

I logged on here and the background was missing and it said it had been deleted. So, I changed it to Cherries. I found the lemons and limes again, but I thought this was cute. :) Feel free to change it!

Molly's Friday Weigh-In

169.6, which is down not quite a pound from Monday. But I'm extremely optimistic. I didn't work out at all and have really only gotten my eating kind of under control the last two days. I haven't been tracking becauses my computer is having major problems. In fact I'm really hoping to make it through this post without it crashing. This weekend is 4th of July, which I love! And next week starts the regular working out. Tuesday night tennis with the girls is on (sorry again, Tammi!) Plus now I'm over my extreme nerves that had about teaching my citizenship class. The people are lovely and bright and want to learn. So, Mondays after my class I am going to hit the gym. Wednesday I have an evening class, so I will skip working out. Thursdays I hope to either set up morning tennis and/or hit the gym. I'm not sure. I am going to get the computer fixed after I get payed next week, so I may or may not be tracking. I think I will try to at least write down what I'm eating because I know that will help keep the mindless snacking at bay. I hope you all had a great week! And have a very fun and safe 4th!!!

Friday Weigh In

I just got home from work and weighed myself and my weight was 222.4, which is not after sleeping so it's probably high. Things are going well I hope everyone had a good week!

Mallory's Tuesday

I was really hoping my weight would be down, but it was 224 so IDK it is more when I get less sleep. I am from now on only going to weigh after full nights of sleep. I have been eating pretty well and I have tracked everything I have eaten. Yay!

Molly's Tuesday

The eating didn't go so well yesterday, but it's going to be awesome today! I'm already started on my water - 1/2 of a water bottle so far! Woo hoo! So exciting. I'm going to the grocery store in just a bit to get healthy snacks to take with me to work. What do you guys eat for healthy snacks? I'm thinking about almonds, but I don't like them unless they're salted. And of course fruit. I'm just stuck in a rut and need some new healthy ideas. Maybe I'll do some searching on the interweb and see what I can find.

Goals for today:
drink at least 4 bottles of water
track calories
play tennis

Molly's Monday Weight and Goals

Well, the house didn't burn down, so that's good. Unfortunately I was completely right about having gained weight. I've gained back just about half of what I had lost. Totally awesome. :-/ My weight is 170.4. That means I have to drop 20 pounds by September 17, approx. 10.5 weeks from now. So, instead of it being a little over 1 pound per week it's now a solid 2 pounds per week. Still, it should be doable. Check that - it IS doable. I can do it. WE can do this, people!!

So, here's my plan:
Friday July 2: lose 2 lounds (168.4)
July 15: be down 5 more pound (163.4)
Aug 1: be down 5 more pounds (158.4)
Aug. 15: be below 155 (154.9)
Sept. 1: 151
Sept. 17: 149.9

I know it's going to get harder to lose the lower I get, which is why I've tried to top load my goals if that makes sense. It's going to be super important that I drink my water and track my calories. Not only track but eat things that are healthy and will help me reach my goal. And of course there's always exercise. I need to work out an exercise plan. I work at a gym, so coming up with a plan and sticking to it shouldn't be so hard. I'll report back with my exercise goals maybe tonight, but probably tomorrow.

Goals for today:
Drink 4 bottles of water
track calories
exercise

Good luck everyone!

Mallory's Monday Weigh In

Hi Guys, it's been going pretty good here, I hope all is well in your worlds! I weighed myself this AM which is right after work and my weight was 224.4. I am getting ready to go to bed and then when I get up I will weigh again and I am hoping it's at least 222 or lower. My first goal was to be at 220 by July 1st, which is Thursday so I am hoping I will be able to make that. At 222 it's totally doable, at 224 it will be a little more difficult! I am looking forward to hearing from the rest of you ladies!

Tammi - we haven't heard anything from you in awhile, I hope your job is going ok.
Lori - I know you are pregnant, but where are you at with stuff?
Molly - I am looking forward to hearing your goals!
Cassa - What days do you weigh in with Weight Watchers?
Peggy - How is your diet situation going?
And the rest of you ladies: Maureen, Carrie, Leasa, if you read this how are you all doing?

Starting Weight - 249.2
Goal Weight - 160
Pounds lost - 25
Pounds to get to lowest weight - 9

Next small goal - July 1st weigh 220 or less
Big goal - 200 lbs

Sunday thoughts

After chatting with Mallory about somethings I realized that I should set some short term weightloss goals if I'm even going to come close to reaching my long term goal. Tomorrow morning I will weigh myself and post my weight no matter what. No "oh, I forgot," or "oh, the house was on fire and the scale melted to the bathroom floor." No excuses!! And if that fire thing happens I will get in my car (presuming it didn't all melt down to the ground) and drive over to Lori's and use her scale.

Then after I weigh myself I will know what my goals are. Right now I'm thinking that I want to lose 5 lbs. by July 15. That's 2 1/2 weeks from today. I know I can do it if I just try hard enough. Then I'm thinking if I might set goals for Aug. 1 and Aug. 15 and Sep. 1. My long term goal for now is to be under 150 by Sep. 17. I've pretty much wasted the last 2 weeks and in fact, I think I've gained weight. So, seriously you guys, it's time to stop messing around.

And, starting tomorrow I will track everyday this week. No matter how annoying I think it seems or how tired I am. I will do it!

I've been around . . .

So I haven't posted in awhile, which usually means I have been doing poorly. But not this time, I am doing good, but I am pretty sleepy. I have been sleeping in the day and then getting up, going for a bike ride, then going to work. Today my mom kept the kids and I slept until 6. It felt really good and I feel totally energized. When I woke up I weighed myself and my weight was 223.0. I am so grateful that it's down. I have been eating a meal when I get up between 3 and 6 Then maybe something b4 work and something at my work lunch. I have been trying really hard to not eat when I get home in the morning because I am just going to sleep with a full stomach.

In other news, I am trying to drink 1 bottle of water when I get home and 3 at work.

I was talking to my cousin Candice about her weight loss plan and she eats 30 g of carbs a day when she is actively losing weight. That is totally crazy to me that's like 1/3 of what I eat. Anyway, I am probably not going to do that but I thought it was interesting.

Cassa's Tuesday night check in

Holy cow it was a really hard day today.  My husband decided last minute that he wanted our 1 year old to do swimming lessons so that was a huge whirl wind.  Then we came home and had a healthy lunch and that same 1 year old biffed it and fell on his top teeth.  He had a mouthful of blood.  Gratefully he just had some gum damage which will heal and no teeth damage.  That was so hard for me especially because I have gone my whole life with dental issues.  Afterwards I slipped and got a 32 oz pepsi and a jr roast beef sandwich from Arbys.  Other than that I didn't snack at all.  I also wasn't lazy and either which is a plus.

Molly's Tues. Goals

I had big plans to get up early and either hike around in the Bookcliffs or go to the gym. Well, I woke up at 10:30. So, my new plan is to workout after work. I haven't worked out at Gold's before and for some reason I'm anxious about it. Of course, I'm anxious about everything, so it really shouldn't be that surprising... ;-)

Goals for today:
Drink 4 bottles of water
exercise
take healthy snacks to work that will keep me energized
track calories
check back in

Cassa's Day

I'm not feeling like being good today so I thought I should write about it before I sabotage everything.  I went to Zumba this morning and it was so hard.  I left 15 minutes early because I couldn't move my body anymore.  Now I'm so tired and don't have any energy to do anything.  My usual behavior would to be lazy all day and eat whatever I want.  But, that's how I got to this point.  I can't do it.  So, I need to pull myself out and stay on track.  I'll check back in at the end of my day and report how I did.

Ugh Molly's Monday Weigh-In

So, I gained almost 2 pounds over the weekend. My weight this morning is 169.6. I guess that's what happens when you eat and eat and eat and eat. And it's not like it was veggies and fruit. It was mostly cake and salty stuff. And very little water.

So, it's time to stop messing around. No more free passes. I am committed to this. I want to be healthy and feel good about myself.

Goals for today:
Drink 4 bottles of water
track calories
check back in

Weird Weigh Ins/ Trying to figure it all out

So I started this post last night then I hit a weird button and posted it then I didn't have the energy to get it back. I weighed myself this morning and I was 227.o which is down from my weigh in on Friday or Thursday or something that was 228.3 (and down from my weight at Lori's house 231.something, yikes) After looking at my food log I am going back to 5 small meals a day, then if I work out I will add in a snack so I can get through it.

I am also going to weigh in every day a couple times a day to see if I can figure out what's going on with my weigh ins.

Cassa's "I have a plan"

Today is a day where I look at what's happening in a week. I want to overcome my problem with food. Here's my problem....are you ready for this....if I don't plan I eat bad!!!! I know, I know I'm a genius! During my search I found this and this week I plan on following it. Almost all of the foods I already eat and buy. I felt the need for a project and here it is. Eat better!!! I know if I eat better I will shed the pounds. Here's the link. Let me know if you want to do it as well.


www.self.com/health/2009/07/seven-days-to-slim?currentPage=1


Cassa

Molly's Friday Weigh-In

I'm down .6 from Wednesday to 167.4. I didn't do very well with my eating yesterday. I did however drink 4.5 bottles of water, so that's something.

Goals for today:
Drink 4 bottles of water
Take healthy snacks with me to work

After the massage

I am really exhausted. The massage, and detox was great!! I was rubbed with honey and "flogged" with oak leaves . . . all this happened while I was in a sauna. Then a bucket of freezing cold water was "thrown" across my body. After that, I had one of the best hour massages I've had in a long time. There must have been a lot of bad toxins in my body because it took 3 bottles of water to get me to feeling half way human.

The friends that went with me really enjoyed the treatment. We are planning on going once a month.
I'm off to bed.

Goal for tomorrow: not eat fast food while traveling

Mallory's Goals

So after my negative/whiny post this morning (sorry about that) I feel like I need to re-post. I tracked my food and (as always) was surprised by how fast things add up. My 1/2 a biscuit with peanut butter and jelly that Samantha didn't eat was 200 calories. So, what it boils down to is when I am not tracking my food, I am always underestimating the number of calories/sodium.

I was thinking about what was working for me when I was losing successfully and here are the things I came up with:

1. I had clear, written short and long term goals.

2. I was fully committed to my weight loss, I didn't put anything in my mouth that I didn't plan for and track.

3. I ate very little processed foods.

4. I ate 5 small meals a day.

5. I tracked immediately after I ate, every time and sometimes before I ate so I could plan.

6. I really spent time thinking about what was going on emotionally that was causing me to eat.

7. I was not making justifications for myself.

8. I was rewarding myself for my small goals with non-food items.

9. I had the threat of asking everyone to buy me a membership to a weight loss club instead of Christmas presents.

10. I wanted to lose weight more than I wanted to eat.

So now it's time to fix it. I can attain anything I put my mind to. I am going to print out this list and make notes about how I plan to handle my personal challenges and how I am going to make this work. I am SO tired of being fat and I can do this. Now is the perfect time for me, I am burning tons of calories per day, if I can get my sodium/cal under control, I CAN DO IT.

I took a few minutes to think about my goals and here they are:

Long Term: 200 lbs by Molly's Birthday, that's just under 2 pounds per week which is doable!

160 pounds by my 30th Birthday (April 1, 2010), which is 1.5 pounds per week.

My first short term goal is to be under 220 by July 1st. I weighed myself this morning and I was up to 226, but it HAS to be mostly salt, exercise etc.

I am thinking about the rest of it but I have a plan now, so I can do this!!

Cassa's weight

I went to Weight Watchers and I was up to 191. That is one pound more than when I started. I've got to get this under control.

Molly's 3 Month Goals

In exactly 3 months I will turn 30 years old. Crazy. So, I've been thinking a lot about the future and where I want to be health/weight wise when this occurs.

Yesterday I weighed 168.4. I'm up almost 5 pounds from my lowest point of 162.8 on April 12. It doesn't sound like much, but my BMI (28.02 according to Livestrong.com) is at the high end of the "overweight" range for my height.

So, here is my weight loss goal. By September 17 I want to weight 149.9. I haven't been under 150 in years. And I think that with 13 weeks, I can get there. This will be my birthday present to myself and I'm not going to let myself down!

My goals for today:
Drink 4 bottles of water
track calories
report back tonight

Mallory's Weigh In

I weighed myself this morning because we are going to grand junction this weekend and I wanted to see how I was doing. My weight was 226.3 which is up 4 pounds. Seriously. FOUR pounds. I have been doing GOOD too. Drinking water and eating healthy. Exercise. I thought I would be at 220 or below because I have been burning a ton of calories. Maybe working nights has affected how my weigh in times are. That's all I can think of and it's what I keep telling myself. Otherwise, I just feel like what's the point of all this.

Cassa about eating

I am really great about exercising. Today I did chisel at Crossroads and it was sooo hard. I enjoy it and it makes a huge difference in my mood. But....food....well that's another story. I know it all. I know what I need to eat, I know I need to measure, I know I need to track, I KNOW! Then why don't I do it??? Why can't I have self control and not eat that second helping or that cookie. I wish I had more control. I know what I want to look like and I know how I want to feel. I just can't get there. I'm so tired of making excuses, but I'm not willing to stop. I feel like I'm living an oxymoron. I do so much better when my husband isn't home. But now it's summer time and he's home (he's a teacher) and my 8 year old step son is here too. So my eating takes a back seat.

Is this happening to anyone else?

challenge, once again

So, tomorrow I go with 3 friends to Izba Spa for a massage/detox. I am so excited and I've decided to challenge myself . . . once again.
I counted my gout pills, have 37 left and my challenge is that I start an anti-inflamitory eating life style, politically correct wording, and at the end of the 37 days I have my uric acid tested and then see if I am able to keep the levels down without the pills.

Wish me strength to make the right choices.

Today a friend that I am going to see on Saturday, in an email, told me that she had gained back all of the weight that she had lost and wanted to know if I would be embarrassed to go to dinner with her on Saturday evening. She told me she knew I wouldn't be embarrassed; however, she wanted to warn me that she had gained weight. I wasn't sure how to answer this because I don't choose people to do things with that are beautiful, or thin or wealthy, I would like to "choose" a wealthy man :-). Anyway, I told my friend how much I weighed and asked her if she had a problem going out with me. I felt like telling her I was really insulted by her question; however, I didn't want to make her feel bad. What do you think about her asking me this question?

Goals for tomorrow:
drink WATER
enjoy my friends and massage

What day is today?

I feel so upside down. I started to post yesterday and I got about three sentences written and then had to sleep. I started my new job and it's kicking my butt. Yesterday I burned 3500 calories because there is sooooo much walking involved. Anyway, I am going to post and weigh. I am also going to try hard to track my food. So far that's not going well.

Molly's Wed. Weigh In

168.4. Up 4.4 from the last time I weighed myself. Awesome. I'm hoping that with a little self-control and a lot of water I'll be able to shed at least a few of those pounds pretty quickly.

Goals for today:
exercise
drink 4 bottles of water
track calories
check back in tonight

Tomorrow is the New Beginning (again)

Tomorrow I'm going to weigh myself for the first time in weeks. It should be kind of horrible. I mean... great. Power of positive thinking, right? Last week was a DISASTER in the diet and exercise area, but I got my Gold's membership set up finally, so I'm going to start working out again. Tomorrow I'm playing tennis with April at the butt crack of dawn. So, that should be some fun times. Anyway, I'm going to post my weight in the morning and we'll go from there.

Cassa's Goal

Yes only 1 goal!  Last week was so hard.  Trying to adjust to my step son being with us, my husband home, and a new schedule.  My plan is to go to the gym from 7:45-8:45, except for Mondays because I have piano lessons in the morning.  So I will go sometime in the afternoon.  That's my only goal.  I know if I can at least do that I will feel so much better about myself.  I weighed myself on Thursday and I was at 187.

Molly's Friday

I didn't weigh today because I can't find a scale and I didn't bring mine over. But Monday I am fulling back on the weigh-in train or wagon or whatever. I'm still pondering my long term goals. I will try to solidify those and do a post about them over the weekend.

Today's goals:
drink at least 3 bottles of water
be positive

Mallory's Friday Weigh In

Today my weight was 224.2 which is down .4 from Monday. It is down 25.4 pounds overall and I have 9.2 pounds to go to my next goal which is to get to my lowest weight. At .4 pounds per week it will take me 23 weeks or until November 20th. that's just to get to my next goal. I guess I better step it up. This week is going to be interesting because I start working on Sunday and I am not sure how it's going to be.

My goal for today:

No ice cream
Track and stay within grams of sugar, mg of sodium, and calories
Drink 5 waters
try to keep foot up so it doesn't hurt Sunday

Magic Water Thursday

I AM GOING TO DRINK 4 BOTTLES OF WATER. Because maybe if I put it in all caps I'll actually do it.

I know tomorrow is weigh-in day. I'm not sure if there's a bathroom scale around here or not. I may bring my scale over from home. I don't know. I think knowing my weight would help motivate me, cuz I know it's not a number I'm going to like. And I've eaten pretty much nothing but crap this week, so it'll definitely not be a friendly number.

I'm going to think about some long term goals. I don't really have an exact weight or plan for reaching it and I think that would be a helpful thing to have in mind. Plus I'll be 30 in 3 months and I'd like to start my 30s off healthfully.

I am blogging!

Once again, my blog wasn't posted. Can't figure out what I am doing wrong. Darn! I got up this a.m. (5:55) and did yoga with this woman on channel 6 that I usually just sit and watch instead of doing yoga. It was hard!

I tracked my breakfast.

goals: track all day
4 bottles H20
ride bike 30 minutes

Mallory, I'll bring melon and veggies for music in the park. Kabobs sounds good!!

Yea! I'm blogging

I set my alarm for 5:55 a.m. (duh for the a.m. part) and got up to do yoga with this "older" woman on channel 6. I thought it started at six unfortunately it was already on. I did do yoga with her, then after a couple of stretches there was a commercial like it was over . . . so I started do my stretches and it came back on again. All that counts is I did do yoga.
I tracked . . . yea!
I'm going outside to work in yard.

goals: ride bide 30 min.
drink 4 water bottles of H20
track all day long!

Mallory, I'll bring some melon and veggies to the park. The kabobs sound good.

It's Thursday . . .

Which means tomorrow is weigh in day.

I have a concert in the park that we are going to which I am trying to figure out what to take to eat. We are meeting Ann-Erika there and so I am trying to think of something yummy that is portable. Maybe shish-kabobs and then grill them just before we go.


Todays goal

drink 5 waters
track
check back in tomorrow
get some exercise

Wednesday hotness

It's so hot. And I can't get the swamp cooler to work. The cold water isn't making it all the way to the pads. Luckily it's on the side of the house and not the top of the house and I can just go out and spray it with a hose, but I have to do that about once an hour for it to stay coolish. The good thing about the heat is that it makes it easier to drink water and eat less. I've already finished my first bottle of water and am moving on to number two. I AM going to get through 4 bottles of water today. My other goal for the day is to take something nutricous to work with me so I'm not starving to death and will to eat anything in sight by the time I get off. I know, so overdramatic. The heat is making me whiny. I blame Mr. Ross, lol. My last goal is check back in tonight. Good luck today everyone!

Wednesday madness.

So today I weighed myself and I was down to 223.4 which is 1.2 pounds lower than yesterday. I was very surprised because of my sonic incident but I will take it. My next goal is to get down to my lowest weight which was 215.4 so we'll just say 215. That's 8.4 pounds which if I make some good choices I can totally do!

Todays goals:

Drink 4 waters
Track my food AND stay in my calorie goal of 1340
Burn 2400 calories according to my bodybugg
Bike for 15 min
Stay under control for dinner ( I am going to sushi with Bridget)

Lori's check in

Yay Mallory for getting everyone started back into the blogging world. I've personally been hiding but I guess I'm ready to come out now.

So, my weight is about a lb up from last time I blogged (from what I remember anyway), but I'm hoping that it's partly water. However, I am off the diet wagon... because I'm pregnant.

I'm just eight weeks now, so I'm trying to maintain my weight now and not gain too much throughout my pregnancy. I'm a little worried since I've been restricting my calories for so long and not eating what I want, that now I'm going to go buck wild. lol So far I've been pretty good... well, there was that week of Dos three different times, but I'm over that and Mallory is gone.

Anyway, today I found babyfit.com or something like that, where they have a pregnancy calorie tracker and recommend the different values for you based on your gestation, weight, and height. I tried to use it today but it's sooo not user friendly. I'm going to try to log stuff tomorrow and see how it goes, but if it's not good (and I actually track), I might just use livestrong. I know that I'll stay on track better if I'm tracking.

So anyway, YAY! And now you all know :)

Cassa's check in

Hi ladies!  On May 27 when I weighed in at WW I was down 1.4 lbs.  The cool thing about that was my last way in was only 5 days before that.  Then we went to my Grandma's for memorial day and I gained the 1.4 back!  I was just glad it wasn't more.  My routine has changed and it's really hard.  My husband is home for the summer since he is a school teacher and my 8 year old step son is here for 6 weeks.  AHHH!!!  The stress gets really overwhelming.  Yesterday was a really bad day and so I started today out with a pepsi!!!!!  It's gone better (I know it was my attitude and not the pepsi!).  I have been swimming a lot lately and have been good with my water.  But, not good at tracking my food.  Today will be just enough to get to the gym this evening and continue to drink 2 more things of water.

good job girls!

Good job to Molly and Mallory for making the commitment to blog every day and get back on the wagon. I, too, need to get back on the wagon. I have not weighed myself in weeks and I have not even come close to drinking my water lately. I'm trying to get in to a routine with the new job and the crazy early morning hours. When I get off work I feel too tired to do anything but sit. Hopefully once I get used to the schedule I won't feel quite so tired.

Goals for today:
drink 2 more bottles of water
take a nap

Molly's Tuesday Weight Loss (or lack thereof) Update

Um, so, yeah. I have no idea what I weigh because I haven't weighed myself in over a week. What I do know is that my shorts that fit me and were on the way to being too loose in April are now tight. My motivation is lacking. It's not that I don't want it. It's just that I want pasta and cheese and to sit on the couch more. What I think I need is routine. I changed jobs and gyms and have yet to work out at Gold's. I'm feeling intimidated, which I know is silly, because it doesn't matter what other people think. It matters how I feel. And I should just push through it go work out. I'm also house-sitting which has messed up my routine. So, I think for today my goals will be simple: drink 4 bottles of water and take a run/walk around the outside of the property and back with the dogs. The young dog is driving me a little crazy and I kind of want to lock her outside and sit on the couch and eat. It's not good. So, I will check back in and let you know how today goes. I know that daily blogging and checking in helps me SO much. Mallory has made the commitment to blog everyday this month, so I will do it too. We are in this together and we can do it.

Mallory's Tuesday

This morning when I weighed myself I was 224.6 exactly the same as yesterday I was a little disappointed because I drank lots of water and had a good day but that's ok! I know that's why they say you shouldn't weigh daily. I think since I hurt my foot and I can't really bike or run yet I am going to try to do some other exercise. Maybe sit ups. Using the crutches is good exercise too. I was burning in the range of 6 cal/minute while I was using them at the store.

Today's Goals:
To track my food
To drink 4 waters
To check back in tonight

Mallory's Monday Weigh In

Well this morning I weighed myself at 224.6. So that's down 25 pounds from my starting weight. I am right in the range that I have been for months. I am still up 9 pounds from my lowest weight.

Here is my goal for today:

To not eat bread or candy (I have been eating lots of the stuff)
To drink 4 bottles of water
To track on livestrong
To check back in tonight.

I am back on track ladies and ready to kick some butt! Who's with me?

Happy Memorial day today!

I haven't tracked all weekend so today is the day to get back on it! Other goals: bake a pan of chicken, drink 4 waters. We are going to the zoo so it would be good to take a lunch. I hope everyone has a great day today!!

Disappointment

I disappointed my daughter today and I am really sad. She told me she was disappointed. At first I had anger, then excuses and finally I got real and was disappointed in myself. I'm sorry Mallory!
This is what happened, we went to lunch today and I drank two Pepsi's. The part that disappointed her is that soda is very bad for my gout because of the high fructose corn syrup. I know that is something I should stay away from for the rest of my life. And who needs it. I don't know why I drank it today. Yesterday, I limped all over and had to take an anti-inflamatory it was so bad. So, I am walking fine today and what did I do? Something that is so sure to have my foot inflamed again. What a sickness this is.

Goals: four bottles of water
exercise

Molly's Challenge Update

Wow you guys. I started writing this post and it was really negative - all about what I didn't right this week. So I deleted that crap because half the battle is attitude. I am going to positive. I weighed myself this morning (didn't have time yesterday - woke up late). I'm at 164.0 today, down 2.8 from Monday.

Here's what I did right this week:
- went to yoga twice and pilates twice
- drank 4 bottles of water yesterday

Here's what was out of my control:
- my job ended
- my aunt flo came to visit (lol, "aunt flo" who comes up with stuff?)
- and I have some sort of stomach bug thing happening which has mad the last day and a half a little unpleasant.

Goals for today:
- Drink 4 bottles of water
- track calories

Ok People, How'd We Do Today??

Tuesday's successes

It is 8:16 pm and i have been off work for 20 minutes. Did excellent with my water today. My calories were right on. No exercise and spent from 4:00 until a little bit ago on the computer. Now, got to get some exercise. I am am anxious for summer . . .

just checking

Monday

I really didn't want to cook dinner tonight and Subways was sounded appealing, but I knew if I got off today then I wouldn't get through the week.  So...I cooked a dinner which turned out pretty good.  I did have ice cream today though.  I went to the gym and did body flow and did good on my water.

Orange Sweat

Well, I gave into my cheetoes craving and it was disgusting. I ate almost an entire bag of cheetos in a bout an hour and a half last night. It was in total secrecy of course - I hid them under my bed until everyone was asleep. Cuz that's healthy. I ate them while I was watching tv and then reading my book. I got about half way through the bag and started feeling gross, but I kept on going. It wasn't until I fell asleep while reading that I quit eating them. So, this morning in yoga I was sweating pretty good because yoga is hard and I'm still really new to it. And all I could picture was bright orange goo coming out all of my pores. Nice, eh?

So, goals for the remainder of today:
drink at least 3 bottles of water (I'm about finished with the first one)
do cardio after work

Oh yeah, and at least partially due to the cheetoes incident my weight was up 1.8 from Friday to 166.8. Awesome.

Day 4 of my challenge

Today is the fourth day of my challenge and I have exercised on three of the days. I have also not eaten any ice cream (I don't remember the last time I went four days without eating ice cream)! Things are looking good for me. I do need to drink some more water though. I usually don't have a problem at all drinking water but since I've been in Denver my water drinking is pretty much non existent. Today it will get better.

No weigh in again for me, but I think I'm up a couple pounds. It's just the way I feel. Happy Monday to everyone!

Sunday

I have been thinking  A LOT about what I would do for this challenge.  Meanwhile as I was thinking and pondering about this sacrifice...I went to my WW meeting.  I was .4 lbs lighter than the previous 1 1/2 week earlier.  That puts me at 188.8 lbs.  This is why...we went to Denny's one night and Old Chicago's another night when we celebrated that we got our condo.  I made good choices at Denny's(well besides the sausage).  But, Old Chicago's was not a good choice AT ALL.  I did exercise really well last week though.  I went to the gym 4 days!  The other thing I didn't do was track my food like I should.  Geesh, I didn't want to know the damage Old Chicago's did to me.  Therefore, my challenge is going to be tracking everything I eat and only dining out once a week.  When we do eat out it is only Subway.

I really don't want to switch to diet soda.  So I limit myself to 2 small pepsi's a week.  That works pretty good for me.

I am going to have to post everyday how I did because dining out is going to be a tough one for me.
Cassa

Challenge Day Two - Sunday

How did you do today?

Challenge Awesomeness - Day 1

I didn't wanna do it, however, I did it and it wasn't as bad as I expected! Whooo hooo Day One of tracking completed. I also tracked my water and I have only had 8 cups so I am going to drink up another water bottle and feel good about my day. I also did my exercise as today is exercise day.

My Challenge

Hi girls! Things have been crazy and busy here, but I'll post about that stuff at a later time.

Anyway, I am in for the challenge! Mine is going to be to drink at least 3 bottles of water every day, give up Diet Coke (or at most have 12 oz a day), and to exercise 2-3 times per week. If I can, I'm also going to try to track, but it's not part of my official challenge b/c since Aaron is out of town, I'm eating with parents a lot more and it's so hard to track when you're not the one cooking or you're eating out (from restaurants that don't offer nutrition facts).

So I've already started giving up soda (which, Cassa, I would totally switch to diet if I were you, the calories and sugar in regular are off the charts. Mallory - you should post that email you sent me about the sugar cubes!). Wednesday I had a 20 oz diet coke, yesterday 10 oz, and today I haven't had any. Yahoo! This is a major accomplishment for me since I was practically bathing in it before ;)

And my MIL is going to come over and watch the kids twice a week so I can go to the gym - yahoo! So I did that this week and went for a walk with Molly today as well. So, even though Aaron is gone, I'm hoping that I'll be able to keep up my gym time at least twice a week.

I hope you guys are doing well!

Struggling

So, I have been in Denver since Tuesday and the whole being healthy thing is not going well. I didn't weigh myself this morning because there is no scale in my hotel room. The hotel has a "fitness room" which includes exactly one stationary bike. There is a nice trail right outside the hotel that I have jogged/walked on a couple times.

For my challenge I am not going to eat ice cream for the next three weeks (this is my main challenge goal). I like Molly's challenge so I'm am going to exercise (cardio) 5 days a week. Normally I can find time to exercise but this next three weeks is going to be pretty busy for me so it will definitely be a challenge. I am participating in the challenge but don't think I will be able to get together with everyone. The weekend of the 12th is the first weekend I will be working (baking at Einstein Bros. Bagels and we are scheduled to open on June 8). I'll probably be working Saturday because I have to ask for Sunday off to get a wedding cake done and deliver it to Aspen. So, whatever you do, have fun and I wish I could join you!

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

Let the Challenge Begin!!!

Ok party people, the challenge (whatever that is for you) begins today. Obviously, you don't have to participate, but the more people doing it the more fun it is!! So here's the deal:

Three weeks of doing whatever it is you've challenged yourself to do, whether that's weight loss, tracking calories, exercising, drinking water or anything you want to work on.

The weekend of June 12 we'll get together and do something fun as a reward for making it through our challenges. Right now we're thinking hiking, but any suggestions are welcome. Mallory is in Denver, so it'll probably need to be something where we meet her half way.

My personal challenge is to exercise 5 days a week: 3 cardio workouts and 2 pilates workouts. I'll do cardio Mon. and Wed. at the gym since I'm already there for work and Saturday I'll do something else if I don't feel like going out there. Hopefully we'll start playing tennis again on Wednesdays and I can do that. Pilates I have to do at the gym. So, that's my challenge - what's yours?

Molly's Friday

Well, this week I've been sort of half-heartedly trying to eat healthy. And I guess most of my choices have been healthy choices, it's just the serving sizes I'm having trouble with. I know that if I start tracking my calories again on Livestrong it will help. The problem is, I'm feeling very unmotivated to track. I know that once I get into the swing of it again it'll be fine, it's just getting started. Same with the exercise. Anyway, I did manage to lose a bit of weight. I'm down .8 from Monday to 165.2

My goals today:

drink 4 bottles of water

wooo hooo it's Finally Friday!

So I am pretty excited. I weighed myself this morning and my weight was down from 231.something on monday to 225.2 today. That's a 6 pound loss! I have been really having a hard time when Justin is home, we have had several discussions in the past about how I need him to support me and he has days where he is really good about it but other days where he isn't. So we're having a hard time. Another thing is I think I need to plan what we are going to eat at nights if I am going to do better. So today's goals:

Track,
Drink 4 bottles of water
Plan some healthy meals and go to the grocery store.

Thanks for the invitation

Hi. Goodness I don't even know where to begin. My name is Cassa Fox. I've been married for 2 years and have a 19 month old boy and an 8 year old step son. We've lived in Grand Junction for a year and we love it here. So...how I got here. Lori is such an intuitive person that one day she asked how I was doing and I couldn't control the tears. It was a really bad day. First, I had a conversation with my mom about my weight the night before and it wasn't great. She was trying to be supportive, but she can be very overbearing about it. I was feeling very obese (I hate that word) and discouraged about how I got here. Second, my husband and I would like to have another baby and I found out I had to go back on birth control for 3 months to regulate my cycles. After getting over all of that anxiety I looked at the 3 months as a great time to get my body back on track. I joined weight watchers and the journey started...again. I've always had problems with my weight. I feel like I have to exercise every day and when I eat junk it takes forever to get it off. But, sometimes I like junk. Sometimes I like a Blizzard and other treats. I exercise regularly at Crossroads so I got that one down. It's just the eating for me. I'm an emotional eater. Weight Watchers is helping. When I started there 3 weeks ago I weighed 190 lbs. The following week I lost 1.4 lbs. I am supposed to weigh in today but I can't get there so I will go on Saturday. My other weakness is that I really like Pepsi. I used to drink a 32 oz. every day. Now I've cut it down to 2 small ones during the week.

I'm really excited about this blog and to have a place to talk about my weight woes. I'm up for a challenge too! My goals today: I am sitting around waiting for Fedex because we bought a condo and we have to fill out all the paperwork today so I won't make it to the gym. But, I want to make sure I drink my water today.

Wednesday!!!!!

It's really not that exciting, but you know, whatever.

My goals for today are to drink 3 bottles of water and make healthy choices all day long.

And the challenge: My challenge is to work out 5 days a week: 3 cardio workouts: Monday, Wednesday and Saturday and two pilates workouts Tuesday and Thursday. And I'm going to start tracking my calories again, although that's not really part of the challenge. But it's something I know is helpful and if I'm going to do all this exercising I really need to keep my eating under control. When should we start the challenge? Today? Tomorrow? Friday? If we go through June 11 (that's a friday) that'll be at least 3 solid weeks of challenge. Then we can have our hiking trip or whatever we decide to do the weekend of June 12 so that Mallory doesn't have to worry about her new work schedule. What do you guys think?

Molly's Tuesday

I didn't make it to the gym this morning. Boring story about not sleeping well and anxiety. And I think the birds of the neighborhood were having a sing-off at the crack of dawn. Obnoxious! Anyway, I dealt with some stuff this morning and I'm actually excited to go workout after I'm done with work. I plan to do at least 30 minutes of cardio, maybe some weights. I'm still intimidated by the weight machines, which I should really just get over. I'm just finishing my second bottle of water for the day and am going to try to get through 2 more. And I'm still pondering the challenge.

Mallory's Tuesday

I just can't seem to get back in the swing of things. I weighed myself this morning and I was up 9 pounds from last friday. I have done pretty good so far today. One water down and three to go! Today is also my exercise day so I need to go get that done soon. I hope everyone has a great day.

Unbalanced

This is how I've felt lately - unbalanced. I feel like I"m stretched so thin that if I'm doing good eating/exercising, my house is a wreck. If I'm taking the kids to do lots of fun summery, enriching things, my house is dirty, I'm getting all the stuff done for work that I need to, and I don't have time to do all my food prep/cleanup and exercising. Sigh. There just isn't enough time during the day.

Anyway, I haven't been tracking consistently and Fri and Sat both weren't great eating days. Aaron left on Sun for 3 weeks so we went out a lot. Yesterday wasn't great either. I always have the hardest time when I'm at my parents' house, even if for a little bit.

I think a challenge is a good idea - I also need motivation, as well as more hours in the day. Think that'll happen? A friend of mine is doing a "biggest Loser" style competition where they each put in $10 bucks, weigh in at the beginning and end of the month, and whoever loses the most, wins all the money. I'm not saying to do something exactly like that, but it's an option.

My friend Cassa is going to be joining us on the blog but I'll let her introduce herself. Maybe if we can do a quick introduction of ourselves, that'd be nice.

I am trying to be positive about Aaron being gone for 3 weeks, but it's hard. It makes working out a lot harder, eating well harder (since my parents want us to come over), and I'm an emotional eater, especially at night :( I'm working on that. So, I'm going to try to get some workouts in in other ways - I'm going to get Brielle a special bike helmet today so I can take them out more in the bike trailer.

Tammi's Monday

So, I weighed 145 this morning. It's up since the last time I weighed in. It wasn't a good weekend all around for me and being healthy. I didn't get my water in. I ate whatever I wanted. And I didn't really exercise (although I was pretty active).

It's not looking like my next two weeks are going to be very promising either. I'm going over to Denver for training. I will be living out of a hotel and eating restaurant food for almost two weeks straight. I know I need to make the right choices, it's just sometimes so hard when you are eating out. I also know I need to get my exercise in. I'm hoping the hotel I'm at has a fitness room and I will make time to exercise.

It's all about choices and I can choose to be unhealthy or I can choose to be healthy. It's my decision.

Mallory's Monday

Ok so here's what happened. I went to bed late last night. At 3:30 I woke up to Samantha having a huge fever. I am totally paranoid about her having another seizure, so I gave her ibuprofen and stayed awake with her until her fever went down. So I was up until 4:45 then my alarm went off at 5:30 and I hit snooze until 5:45 then I got up and waited for Marcus to bring Audrey. At 6:45 I called and sent them a text to see if they were bringing her. While waiting for an answer I became rediculously angry and began eating potato chips. I knew while I was doing it I would regret it. I told myself to stop but I couldn't seem to make myself. Then after a bad weekend of eating and the chips I just couldn't weigh myself. Sigh.

Molly's Monday Weigh-In

166.0, down 1.8 from Friday. I was actually down below 166 a little on Sunday morning, but that's life. The weekend as ok as far as eating goes. Saturday was a little rough, but I drank a ton of water. Yesterday I did pretty good with the eating, but didn't drink much water.

I was thinking maybe we need a challenge. Maybe everyone could set a goal for a certain date and then we could all get together and do something together if we reach that goal? I just know that I need some motivation. Any ideas?

And as far as the background goes I think I'll put it back on the lemons and limes. I'm already sick of the ivy (it's starting to remind me of the cupcakes) and it's not really relevant to what we're doing here.

Ha ha ha ha

Sorry about the background. This is especially for you MOLLY AND LORI

Please feel free to change it!!

Mallory's Friday

Today's weight was 222.8 the same. Ok so I have decided I am officially stuck. I need to exercise more and eat better to get me over my plateau. It would also help if I drank my water every day. I really would like to start moving down again so I have been reading a few tips for beating a plateau. Ug, now I have to go deal with a crying baby.

Molly's Friday

It's been a weird week. But, as of Wednesday, I'm officially back on the weightloss bandwagon. My weight today is 167.8, which is up 3 pounds from a few weeks ago. I know I put on weight the last few weeks - I'm actually really surprised it's not more. But, it is what it is and now it's time to do what I have to do to get rid of it and take care of myself. I did pilates yesterday and went for a nice walk. I'm going to yoga in about 10 minutes. My other goals for today are to drink 3 bottles of water and make smart choices. Hope everyone is having a great day!

a little sad

Today's weigh in is good. It's 143.6 which is the same as it was a week ago. Like Mallory said, I'm okay with my weight staying the same for a little bit, I just don't want to see it go up. I've been super good about drinking my water and pretty good about exercising.

Eating is going alright. I haven't been eating the cookies or candy (can't seem to give up the ice cream yet) that are lying around until today. I found out today that we are putting my dog down tomorrow which of course makes me very sad. Just after I found this out I turned and had a cookie. The good thing is that I did realize what I was doing and I only had one. I had some M & M's too though. It's not big a deal to eat just one cookie and I'm proud of myself that I kept it in check.

Hope everyone has a nice Mother's Day!

Friday again

Well, it's Friday again :) I'm hoping that means I'll see my hubby tomorrow! lol He's been working A LOT.

This morning I was 151.8 which is exactly 5 lbs down from Monday, but I'm sure that was a lot of water weight. Still, I'm super happy with it. Tonight I'm going out with some friends for dinner, so I hope that I can keep my calories in check but also cleanse the sodium out of my system before Monday... we'll see.

Goals today:

track

4 bottles of water

low on calories throughout the day so that dinner won't be too bad, hopefully

I'm back/Friday Weigh In

So, here I am. It's been a couple of weeks since I have posted anything. I haven't been eating horrible or great but I have been overeating some and I haven't been drinking my water very well. So I was really worried about this morning's weigh in. It wasn't too bad. 222.8 which is exactly what I was April 13th. So overall I am up 7.8 pounds from my lowest weight, and down 27 from my starting weight. I feel like I am spinning my wheels but at least I haven't gained more. I am ok with staying the same for awhile as long as I keep going and don't gain.

I hate roosters

Thanks, Lori, for asking us to say what's helpful and important to us in our weightloss journey. I needed to remind myself. The single most important thing for me is remembering that this is a lifestyle change. It's a DECISION that I make everyday to be healthy. (Some days that's harder than others)

Here are some things that have helped me be successful:

- tracking my calories. I use livestrong.com and it works pretty well, particulary if I track everything that goes into my mouth throughout the day and not just at the end of the day. It's really easy to forget stuff and it's amazing how quickly the forgotten calories can add up.

- drinking water. I try to drink three 32 oz. bottles of water a day. Seriously drinking water is huge.

- Also for me, staying positive is really important. Part of this is exercise. My attitude toward life is sooo much better when I'm exercising regularly. Endorphins are *awesome*! And part of it is knowing that even if I don't do everything exactly right (and when does everything go exactly right?) there's always tomorrow. I get to start over everyday. There's no sense is kicking myself for eating something I maybe shouldn't have if I've already done it. What's done is done. And if you keep trying everyday and tracking your calories and realizing what you're putting into your body you're going to want to make healthy choices.

- Lastly, planning ahead. I don't really cook much ahead of time like Lori does, but knowing what I'm going to cook and making sure I have the stuff on hand ahead of time is very helpful. Stops me from changing the plan from homemade chicken tostadas to Wendy's because I'm missing an ingredient.

What I eat:

- Fruit. I generally eat about 3 servings of fruit a day. I also eat veggies, but I'm not as good at getting a lot of servings of those. I try for at least 1-2 a day.

- Low-fat cottage cheese. Love this stuff, especially with fresh fruit.

- Eggs. Great source of protein and they are delicious with salsa and cheese. I know egg whites are the better choice, but I usually just eat the yoke because egg whites gross me out.

- half of a whole wheat english muffin with 2 tablespoons of crunchy peanut butter. Sure peanut butter isn't the best thing for you, but if you just have the 1 serving, it's also not the worst. And I am unwilling to give it up, so that's that.

- lots of chicken and lean hamburger. And fish. prepared in all different ways. cookinglight.com is a great resource for low-cal, healthy recipes.

So my goals for today are:

-go to pilates (check)
-drink 3 bottles of water
-make healthy choices

I will not be doing our Friday weigh in, but I will do the Monday weigh-in. Hope to see you all there!

Hi!

Hey girls! This post has a few different reasons.

1. I invited someone else to the blog. I am sending her the web address and she's gonna see if she wants to do it or not. Hopefully she will :)

2. I think it'd be helpful for my friend, plus all of us, if we would each take a minute to post two things - the things that have helped us be successful, and the foods that we normally eat.

3. I thought I'd do a mid-week weigh in/goals for today.

Ok, so here's what helps me be successful:

- tracking my calories! It's sooo easy for me to overeat if I don't keep track of them throughout the day.

- drinking lots of water

- eating a lot of fiber. I know that if I eat something with a lot of fiber, then drink a bottle of water, then I'm a lot more full and fuller for longer as well.

- making stuff ahead of time. Having a pot of green chili that I can warm up and put over egg whites, or chicken made ahead of time, etc. I try to cook a lot of stuff all at once and then I don't have as much prep throughout the day.

- talking about it - my weight, my workouts, how I'm eating, etc. Mallory and I do this a lot and I know that I do better when I'm able to talk about it. Weird, maybe. But I'm ok with being weird.

- MEASURE EVERYTHING. Everything. Everything. I had my mom buy me a food scale for Christmas, and I use it ALL the time.

Here's what I eat - a LOT!

- egg whites. I normally eat these for breakfast and most the time for lunch too, if I don't have chicken cooked already. They're super easy and pretty cheap. Right now I'm into putting green chile on them (scrambled) and sometimes eating them with a corn tortilla (which has a TON fewer calories than flour tortillas!).

- parmesan chicken. That is a loose term for my chicken, but I use a thin chicken breast (or fillet it or pound it), coat it in egg whites, then in PLAIN breadcrumbs and cook in the oven at 350 for 45 mins or so. I normally put pizza sauce on top (spicier than normal tomato sauce, but I do both).

- chicken tacos. Cook the chicken however you like (w/o adding more calories anyway) and add into a corn tortilla, no-fat sour cream, and green chile. Yum! And you don't even need cheese, which is a huge calorie hog and also expensive.

That's what I eat like 75% of the time. Maybe I'll do another post soon with the other stuff.

Ok, onto my mid-week update.

I was at 152 this morning, which is great. I must be getting some salt out of my system b/c it's 4.8 lbs from Monday. Yeeeaaah, I only wish that happened every week.

My goals today:

track my calories

4 bottles of water

try either to not eat much at the church thing tonight or not eat at all... I haven't decided yet.

I wish I could exercise tonight but not only do I have a church thing, but I managed to re-hurt my back yesterday. Wooo - I'm awesome, I know. You don't have to tell me.... ok, I'm retarded. And my back sucks. And now I feel old. :( boo.

Ok, your turn!

~Lori

Time to Get Moving Again

I had a interesting conversation with my mom a little bit ago. She's been in Florida for the past week visiting her sister and she called to see how things are going. This is how the interesting part of the conversation went:

Mom: how are doing?
Me: Ok expect I'm eating a lot.
mom: Why are you eating a lot?
Me: because I like to eat when I'm sad.
Mom: oh.
Me: and then I get fat. And then I'm sad that I'm fat. And then I'm sad and fat. So I eat some more.

And while I was aware of this pattern and had actually thought about it quite a bit, saying it out loud sort of woke me up. So, I'm going to try to get back on the wagon. The next few days will be tricky. My Gram's funeral is Friday morning, so we have family and stress and family stress. But I'm going to at least focus on drinking all of my water (don't remember the last time I actually did that) and get a couple of workouts in. Besides I know that nothing helps me more when I'm down than exercise. So tonightt after work I'm going to do some cardio and tomorrow morning is pilates, which I haven't been to in weeks. My friend Kara saves me a spot on Thursdays, which is good motivation to get up and go.

Chirp... chirp

It's been awhile quiet around here lately! I'm definitely at fault too, so I thought I'd post.

I did really well yesterday, drank a lot of water, exercised, even told my parents I wasn't feeling good and just ate an orange while everyone else was eating pizza last night for dinner. Then I came home and made a healthy one for me. Anyway, this morning I was 153.6 which is much better than yesterday and hopefully I'm off to a good start again. I don't mind this weight - I'm actually on the low side of my bmi, although I would prefer to be lower- but I just hate bouncing back and forth within 10 lbs! Arrr. Anyway, I feel better about the whole thing, and that's really the point, right? Ok, I'm rambling.

Goals:

4 bottles of water

lots of protein

track calories

exercise

get the stuff done that I need to for our church activity on Wed - you guys can come if you want - we're having a taco bar, yummm

Tammi

It's been awhile since I posted and usually that means I've been doing pretty bad but not this time. I didn't get a chance to weight myself this morning but when I got on the scale on Wednesday it said 143.6 which is my lowest weight in about 3 years. I've been so good about drinking water (except today, I've just been too cold to drink lots of water), I've been exercising regularly, and I've been eating less. I haven't really been trying to eat less, it just seems like I'm busier so I don't think about eating and therefore I don't snack and do the whole boredom eating thing. Anyway, I could always be better but I feel like I'm on the right track right now.

Molly's Friday

I weighed myself yesterday and I was only up about half a pound from my last weigh-in before my vacation. I thought that was awesome and some kind miracle. Then my grandma died. Last night around 11 I should have gone to bed. But instead, I stayed up and ate chips and american cheese. This morning I was up 2 pounds from yesterday to 166.8!! Ugh. My stomach was not happy this morning. And knew it would be like that. I thought about it long and hard last night and still decided to eat all that crap. Emotional eating sucks. And what's worse is I'm not feeling very motivated to go to the gym. It's not that I don't want to exercise, it's just I don't want to go there. I was thinking of hiking around in the Bookcliffs a little bit, but the weather is crappy. So, I don't know. What I really need to do is drink some freaking water and get some of the sodium out of my system. And maybe take a nap. Maybe then I will want to go to the gym.

Ooooofff

After my extended weekend of fun and glorious food, I am up to 155.6. Of course, the glorious food category didn't contain much water, so I'm hoping that a lot of that weight will be gone in the next couple of days, but we'll see.

Yup, I'm up. And it's not such a little up (3.6 lbs from Thursday and 4.6 from a couple weeks ago), but I am just grateful that I have such great friends and things to go and do and live my life. My weight will come down (eventually) but whether it's up or down, I feel blessed to have the people in my life that support and love me either way. ... Yup, apparently I'm also feeling gushy this morning. lol

Goals for today:

4 bottles of water

Track my calories (yeeeaaahhh, four days of not doing that...)

Exercise tonight after the girls go to bed.

Other than eating/exercising goals, I neeeed to get some stuff done around here - like grocery shopping and trying to find the ever elusive clean house -then we have preschool registration today starting at 4:30. I hope we get in! (The only thing that would get us into the district program is that Aaron travels a lot for work)

Lori

I have been weighing every day and exercising and whatnot - I've just been so busy that I haven't blogged so I thought I would do it right now before I get wrapped up in other stuff. This morning I was at 152, which is a lb up from Friday of last week :( But after Aaron's birthday and dinner with my parents, I was up to 153.6 on Tuesday, so I'm glad that it's coming back down. I've been working my tail off at the gym every day, going at night if I don't go during the day. I'm doing good with my food and tracking everything and whatnot. I am getting a little frustrated that one day of eating out (and still not going too overboard with that) and I gain 2.6 and then it takes me all week long to get it off and then it's the weekend again and I feel like I'm in this cycle of just losing what I put on, not more.

Anyway, gotta get ready for the gym, preschool at my house (gotta clean and go to the store -eik), a shopping trip, lawn work, and packing for our trip. I just hope I can get it all done today.

Today's goals:

track and keep calories under 1400

Have at least a 1000 deficit (I've been maintaining a 1300-1600 deficit lately)

4 bottles of water

get lots of stuff done

Have a great day!

Mallory's Wonderful Wednesday

I had a good but busy day today I went for a long bike ride, to the children's museum, laundry I ate really well hopefully tomorrow's weight is a good one!

Motivation

So, I have been thinking about what I was doing differently at the end of last year compared to what I am doing now. I am tracking, drinking water, getting some exercise but I think the main difference is my attitude. I am not sure how to really change it all but I think that one of the things is that I need to make sure I am not being overly upset when I don't lose weight. I also think I need to celebrate my loss over time. I have been looking at the weeks or two week timeframe and not focusing on my big picture. So from now on I am going to start posting my overall weighloss, my lowest weight and my loss from the last week.

Also I read an article that I liked this morning so I thought I would share it:
http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/motivation_articles.asp?id=346

I hope everyone had a great day!

It was a rough weekend

I pretty much had zero self control this weekend, ate a million donuts, and drank no water. So I am back on the bandwagon. I was up 2 pounds this morning. Sigh

Drink water
Calorie Deficit
Exercise

Happy with my Friday

I weighed 145.2 this morning which is down about 2.5 pounds from Monday. I'm pretty proud of myself because I haven't touched any of the candy lying around at all this week. I also did some sort of workout everyday and drank tons of water everyday. Now, if I can just stay on this track then I will be good. But it is the weekend and that usually spells disaster for me.

So, my goals for this weekend:
don't eat any candy
do some sort of exercise both Saturday and Sunday
drink my water


P.S.
If anyone needs a cake baked and decorated in the Grand Junction area I would love it if you would pass along my name. I can even send pictures of what I've done.

Molly's Friday

Well, I was up today: 164.6. My calories were fine yesterday, but I think I only drank 1.5 bottles of water and my dinner pretty damn salty, so that's what I'm chalking it up to. I'm going on vacation, so I won't be weighing in or even posting for awhile. But I'm going to try to make smart choices about food and drink my water and even get in a workout or two.

My goals for today:

Make smart choices
drink 3 bottles of water

Mallory and Lori, I'll see you next week in Denver for the March for Babies! Tammi, good luck with your walk in GJ!

Lori's Friday

Hey all. This morning I was 151.0. Yay! Which is 4.6 down from last friday and 3.4 down from Monday. I'm glad to see a loss, especially such a good one, b/c I have been SUPER good about my food and I've exercised every day at the gym in addition to doing stuff at home. It feels nice to be down a little lower now. I'm still 3 lbs from my lowest, but honestly I think I was only at my lowest for a couple of days.

Goals today:

4 bottles of water

track calories and keep them good

exercise somehow. I won't be able to get to the gym probably, so it won't be as good of a burn but I still need something. How's that for rambling during goals?

I've also been keeping my protein over 94 grams, which is what my bodybugg recommends for exercising regularly. I think that helps, so that's one of my goals too.

Molly's Thursday

Holy crap I have so much to do before I leave town and 24 hours to do it in. So what am I doing? Screwing around on the internet. Brilliant! I'm hoping that posting will help me get focused. I went to pilates this morning, which was hard/awesome as usual. I'm not doing zumba today because I have to much to do... My goals for today:

Drink 4 bottles of water
go see Gram
track calories
pack
make a list of everything that has to happen before I leave and then do that stuff.

Molly's Wednesday

I'm holding strong at 162.8. My cough is coming back and I'm a little congested which irritates the hell out of me. So, I can't decide if I should do cardio tonight or take the night off. Tomorrow I'm doing pilates and zumba. Maybe I'll do a five mile walk. There's enough good stuff on tv tonight that I should be able to do it after work and not be bored to death on the treadmill. I'd like to do it outside, but I don't see that happening before I have to go to work.

Goals for today:

Drink 4 bottles of water
track calories
walk 5 miles

Lori's Wednesday

This morning I was at 152.8 which I was super happy about :)

Yesterday was a good day - eating wise and exercising. I think my calorie deficit was like 1400 or something. I even went to the gym after the kids were in bed and also I bought a Biggest Loser DVD that has a series of 10 min workouts and did a couple while Brielle was napping yesterday.

Today's goals:

track food

exercise

4 bottles of water

Molly's Tuesday Goals

I'm headed to pilates this morning. Yay! I'm trying to channel Jerry McGuire mentor guy - "Today is going to be a great day!" I need to be productive today. I have a lot to do. And it shouldn't be a problem if I can just get myself to do it.

Goals for today:

drink 4 bottles of water
track calories
pilates
check off 5 things from my to do list

Mallory's Tuesday

Arg. I was expecting a great weigh in today. And instead it was not so great. It was 222.8. That is down .2 from yesterday but I drank so much water I thought I was floating away.

Today's goals

Drink 5 water
keep sodium under 1500
Have a 1200 calorie Deficit

Mallory's Monday Weigh In

So today I weighed this morning but then I went immediately to a job interview (wal-mart on the weekends it's for the garden center which I am actually pretty excited about) then it was just a crazy busy day. So I was up a pound to 223 from 222 on friday. It's fine. It has to be salt and stuff, I have been doing so good on my eating and exercise so it has to fall on something else. Water drinking was good today, I need to drink one more bottle before bed time but that's nothing!

I hope everyone else had a good day

I am going to try to do goals every morning and then post the day's results every day!

Molly's Monday: It's Gonna Be a Great Week

My weight today: 162.8, down .8 from last Monday (yay!) and down 2.2 from Friday. This week I'm going to try to be really good because next week I'll be on vacation! I am so excited for San Diego and then Denver and the March for Babies!!! So, in order to be really good this week, I'm going to try to post goals every day and check in at the end of each day.

Goals for today:
Drink 4 bottles of water
cardio workout
track calories
start laundry
mail thank you cards

a new start

So, I made it to Colorado and I'm going to start being healthy today. I weighed in this morning at 148.2. I think that's up about half a pound since I last weighed myself in March so I'm pretty happy about that considering eating out for almost two weeks and I haven't been drinking nearly enough water.

I'm going to have some real challenges living at my mom and dad's house. First, they have candy all over the house. It just sits out and it is so easy to not even realize that I've grabbed a handful of M&M's and popped them in my mouth. And my parents don't eat as many veggies as my family does. It will be an adjustment to try to cook for everyone and make everyone happy. I know I just have to be committed to being healthy.

Goals for today:
drink water
try to go for a run (still trying to get acclimated to the altitude)
not eat any of the candy lying around

Monday Monday MONDAY!

Ok, so typing an announcer voice proves difficult.
Anyway, this morning I was at 154.4. Which is down from Friday. I haven't been keeping real good track, and I suppose I could go back and look, but I'm pretty sure it's down .8 or something like that. I'm pretty happy with it. The weekends are my hardest times and I really made an effort to be good. Now if this CANDY would be gone, it'd help! lol

So, my goals today are:
track
work out
have at least a 800 to 1000 calorie burn.
4 bottles of water

We're having dinner at my parents' house so we can help them with some stuff that my dad's knee won't let him do anymore... so dinner will be hard. However, I cooked extra chicken yesterday so I'll have a good option for lunch and hopefully I can keep it in control for dinner.

Molly's Friday

Well, I'm up 1.4 from Monday to 165.0. But, I think it's just one of those things. I ended up getting called into work right before dinner and I was starving by the time I was done. There were cupcakes there, so I had one. And some chips. Oh well. My legs are super tired from yesterday and my arms are sore from doing push ups in pilates - I did 5, which I haven't been able to do in years! And this morning I put on some old crappy jeans because we're burning the ditch and they actually fit. Last time I put them on, it was a struggle to get them buttoned and they caused a serious muffin top.

Goals for today:

Track calories
drink 4 bottles of water

Lori's Friday

This morning I was at 155.6, which isn't down much from Wednesday, but down some, so that's good. Right now I'm just trying to get better and get ready for our yard sale this weekend too.

Goals for today:
track - under 1500 calories
4 bottles of water

Mallory's Friday :)

I weighed 222.0 this morning which is down three pounds from Wednesday. I have been so good about my calories and exercise, but I haven't been very good about sodium. I got my bodybugg up and working. The last two days I have had calorie deficits of 1600, which my goal is to have a calorie deficit of 1000 so I can lose two pounds per week. It's pretty fun. I wore it while I was sleeping and it's funny to see how you burn more calories at different times during the night. So this weekend is the yard sale and going to dinner with Heather and Bridget on Sunday. That should be fun.

Today's goals:
1000 calorie deficit
Drink 4 bottles of water

Last Chance Thursday

Can you tell I've been watching the Biggest Loser? Anyway, it's our last chance to kick our own butts and drink lots of water before Friday weigh-in. I did pilates this morning, went to Target to get some new sandals, (they have a knock off of my favoritest Teva flip-flops that are nearly as comfortable and half the price. Yay!) and then I went back to the gym to do zumba! And it was hard, but not as hard as the first time. Turns out I'm slightly more coordinated at noon than I was at 9:15 in the morning - but only slightly. :-) And now I'm super tired, but trying to chug down some water. And maybe I'll take a nap....

Hey there

So hi! I've been super sick lately... like the last three weeks. Everytime I think that I'm almost over it, it hits me again. Ugh. I went to kickboxing on Monday and then took the kids for a bike ride in the trailer, and felt almost totally well except for the hacking. Then Tues I felt bad and by last night I was ready to die. Ugh again. Anyway, my weight today was 156.2. I've been trying to eat good the last couple of days but I know that I need to drink more water than I have been (a sore throat makes that hard). I also will be extra happy when the Easter candy is out of my house.

So the gym situation - since Brielle bit that little girl awhile ago, I can't take her back :( So I'm not working, paying half membership dues, and either going when the girls are asleep or trying to arrange a time when Aaron can watch them. It's a little harder, but at least I'm able to keep going some:)

I finished off the chocolate egg

So, I finished off the chocolate from Samantha's easter basket. My weight was 224.0 which is better than yesterday. I didn't drink as much water as I should have and I have been drinking diet soda, and not tracking it. I am sure the sodium plus the dehydrating effect of caffeine means I should be drinking more water.

No weigh in

It's Monday and I didn't weigh in. I'm having a hard time being healthy on the road but I will get back on track when I get to Colorado. I really just wanted to say that it sounds like you, Molly and Mallory, are both doing very well and are on the right track. Keep up the good work!

Molly's Monday Weigh-In

163.6!! Maybe I have a tape worm. That's down 3.2 from Friday and 2.6 from Monday. That's crazy! I haven't had a loss that big in months! I'm pretty sure it was the water. No matter how much we talk about how important water is for weight loss, I'm always surprised how true it is. Yesterday I drank 5 bottles of water just because I was super thirsty. So weird, but awesome.

Goals for today:
exercise
track calories
drink at least 3 bottles of water

Mallory's Monday Weigh In

This morning my weight was 224.2 which is up 1.8 pounds from yesterday. It was a pretty bad sodium day yesterday. We had homemade Eggs Benedict (yum) and then Justin went to McDonalds and got dinner. It was one of those times when you are running late and just want the kids to go to bed. I ate a salad but my sodium for the day was still over 3000mg. Ah well there is always tomorrow. Until I am firmly back on track, I am going to weigh myself every day or every other day so I can make sure I am focused.

SO WIERD - Easter Sunday

So, I wrote this whole post this morning and apparantly it didn't post. Happy Easter everyone!

I weighed myself this morning and I was 222.4 which is down 4.6 pounds from Friday. Ha ha salt is so funny.

Today's goals:
drink 4 waters
track calories
get some exercise

Mallory's Saturday Goals

ok, so I have had a really good morning so far. 170 cal so far and two waters. I just need to hold it together for the rest of the day and tomorrow. I would really like to be down instead of up.

Molly's Friday: At least I'm not a Dead Prairie Dog

I mean, things could be worse. My weight was up .6 to 166.8 today. Whatever. I had a salty dinner and I started my period, so I'm not too worried. I was hoping that it would be 165.something, but considering the amount of chocolate I ate yesterday, it should probably be a lot higher than it is. :-) I might go lift weights this afternoon, or I might take a nap. Maybe I'll do both. The world is full of possibilities...

Mallory's Friday Weigh In

So today's weigh in was 227.0, I weighed myself yesterday and I was 225.something so that's pretty much two pounds of salt or whatever. We also didn't get to eat bday cake last night so I am going to have a piece of birthday cake today and I am not counting it in my calories. I hope to order my bodybugg today. whooo hooooo!

Molly's Tuesday Weigh-In

166.2, down 1.6 from the previous Monday. I was surprised, but I'm pretty happy about it!!! I think I might be able to hit 165.0 by Friday. I'll have to be really good, but I think I can do it.

Last weigh in for a couple weeks

I did weigh in this morning and it was 147.6 which is down from Friday. Only reason it would be down is because I've been super busy not because I've been good with eating or exercising. My scale is getting packed up tomorrow so I won't be weighing in for a couple weeks. I'm a little nervous to see the scale again because I know it's probably not going to be a very "healthy" couple weeks. I will try to keep it in check though.

Molly's Monday: Getting Going Again

I'm finally feeling better, which I feel like I say every other week. But it's true. I went and did some cardio this morning. I was pretty excited about that. I've been feeling like a lump on a log. I didn't weigh myself this morning because it honestly didn't occur to me until well after breakfast. But, since it's 1:00 in the afternoon and the rest of you haven't posted, I guess I'm not the only one. I plan to weigh in tomorrow.

Goals for this week:
Track calories everyday
drink at least 3 bottles of water everyday
pilates Tues. and Thurs.
Cardio at least 3 times

Side Bar: I had a dream the other night about the March for Babies. In my dream it was super hard - we weren't sure we were going to make it even though it's only a 5 mile walk. Don't get me wrong, a 5 mile walk can be tough if you're not in shape for it. But this was really hard - so hard we weren't sure we were going to make it. Apparently I'm having some anxiety about something, although I'm pretty sure it's not the march for babies.

Molly's Friday: I'm sensing a theme...

I just read everyone's posts and I too am up a pound from Monday. Personally, I blame Chic-Fil-A. My friend Christine's son's DECA club was doing a fundraiser there so I had to go be supportive. They have the saltiest chicken! I had the grilled chicken, which wasn't as bad. I can barely gag down their breaded chicken because it tastes (to me) like I'm biting into a salt lick. But I did really enjoy the fries and the ice cream cone... Doh.

The good news is I'm feeling better. I still have my cold, but it's getting better. I have a feeling the cough might linger, but we'll see. I went for a walk with April last night. We were going to play tennis, but there were high school games going on. We were at Lincoln Park, so went and walked around the track. I really think that was for the best. I was tired after walking only a mile and a half. A game of tennis probably would have done me in.

My goal for today is to actually drink my 3 bottles of water.

Friday, not so hot

I was 1.6 up from yesterday, but I'm sure that it's the sodium in our dinner (we went out) last night and my lack of drinking water yesterday. Overall, I'm pretty happy with everything this week. We went rock climbing yesterday and that was a lot of fun. After about two hours my arms were pretty weak :) Then we went out to dinner, but I tried not to overeat. I probably did, but not as much as normal, lol. And if something wasn't that good, I actually just left it on my plate instead of eating it anyway.

So, yeah, overall I'm happy with the decisions that I've made this week. I do wish I could stop popping the m&ms every once in awhile (they're for when I take SOphie potty in the night).

Today, we're all getting sore throats. Ahh, the joys. So my goal is to drink lots of tea today and water and get my water consumption back up to 4 btls a day.

We're going to try to do the new garden spot tomorrow, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed we get most of it done tomorrow! Plus we have a birthday party that we're doing for Vanessa's little girl Abigail - a safari theme, so I'm excited :) Tammi - when is Haley's bday?

I'm addicted...to food

I really think I am addicted to food. I'm not one of those people that sometimes forgets to eat because they get too busy or what not. I eat every meal and sometimes eat just because it's good but not because I'm hungry. This is why I am about 10 pounds overweight. Because I do exercise and I do drink my water. So, my weight today is up a pound from Monday to 149.2.

The next two weeks aren't looking too good in the eating department. I already know I will be going out to dinner tonight and out to lunch tomorrow. Then I'll quit cooking on Tuesday to get everything clean and packed up and will be eating out for the next week. I am going to try to be sensible and not overeat when I eat out and I'm really going to try to exercise when we are travelling.

Hope everyone has a good weekend!