Fitness/Weightloss 2013

[HouseofWool]

My goal is to do a 5K this fall. There are a couple of them for local fall festivals.

[Sheherezade]

Go Kris! I swear the hardest part is figuring out what will fit in to your schedule. Once you do that, it's much easier to make it a habit.

My "tip" of the month: I found that putting a large bowl of cherries on the kitchen counter made them my stress/emotional eating munchie for the entire end of year, family visit period of this month. I must have eaten 3 pounds of cherries, but that was a lot better than 3 pounds of chocolate.

[HouseofWool]

Angie - you are spot on. I've been running for a couple times a week for more than a month now and I find if I skip more than one day I start to feel antsy. My poor pre-arthritic knees (they sound like freaking rice crispies - but until they hurt more, surgery isn't indicated) can't take too much pounding, so running every day is out.

Last night I found that sweet spot again and ran 2 miles straight for the first time in 2 years. I probably could have gone further but it was after 9 by the time I got out there anyway...

So, I think it is time to officially register for the 5k...

[Michele]

I'm back on Diet Coke. . I haven't noticed a change in my weight, but my abdomen is definitely more bloated. And I'm craving sweets like a mofo.

For my LoseIt friends, yes I gained recently when I stopped counting. But I'm back on track and the weight came off. It's unrelated to the soda.

[Sheherezade]

I need to start counting again. It makes a huge difference. I'm not good at just "knowing" what I've eaten -- but I think I'm getting better. I haven't gained but I haven't been losing, either -- unless I write it all down. Boo. It's gotten SO boring since I've been doing it since January. I've been off the counting wagon for weeks now.

*sigh*

Maybe today is the day.

[HouseofWool]

I need to get back on the counting bandwagon because I HAVE to lose at least 10 pounds by the beginning of August so I don't have to buy new dress slacks for an upcoming business trip.

[JDAZ11]

I need to start counting again. It makes a huge difference. I'm not good at just "knowing" what I've eaten -- but I think I'm getting better. I haven't gained but I haven't been losing, either -- unless I write it all down. Boo. It's gotten SO boring since I've been doing it since January. I've been off the counting wagon for weeks now.

*sigh*

Maybe today is the day.

I feel this way too. I haven't counted since before our wedding. For months I didn't actually have to count or measure because I basically just knew, but it's been over a year and I think that is wearing off.

I think part of the problem for me is that I still have an iPhone 4 (it's so old, but I'm trying to hold out for the 5s). Anyway, all the tracking apps are so slow on it, and I find it so frustrating. I keep telling myself I'll count again once I get a new phone. Excuses, excuses! As if I couldn't just write it down, ha!

[Sheherezade]

Well, I'm counting today. I guess I'll just take it one day at a time....

[HouseofWool]

I am too. I have got to get my weight under control.

[JDAZ11]

Nice work both of you! I'm moving today - i'll start tomorrow....

[Sheherezade]

Join us! In our one day of success! You can probably remember what you ate so far today, right?

I've recently started getting comments on my weight loss. That's encouraging --- but I wish they'd started 3 weeks earlier. They seemed to start 3 weeks after I'd given up! LOL Maybe the powers above are trying to send me some encouragement to continue. I still have about 20 lbs I'd like to shed -- 35 if I want to be a middle-aged super model.

[JDAZ11]

Ha! I do remember, that's the part of scared of! I'm sort of ok actually, but a glass of wine or two post move (which I will need), plus dinner out will really put me over. I also missed my usual class this morning, but hoping I'll be able to make it to the evening version! If so, I should be ok. Which isn't so bad for a day when the kitchen is in boxes and we were trying to finish everything in the fridge.

[Sheherezade]

Dinner at the ballpark wasn't helpful for me either....but sometimes you just have to record it and even it up over the next day or two.

[HouseofWool]

I officially hit the 10 pound mark today, well actually yesterday, but my weight fluctuates wildly, so I until it is at least 2 days, I tend to discount it as water weight. I still have 5 pounds to lose before my dress pants will fit reasonably (I haven't tried them on yet - too scared), but I am feeling more optimistic about reaching that goal. I would like to make it another 10 (for a total of 20 pounds) so that I am back to what I weighed when I got pregnant with S.

I have noticed that my current pants are starting to fit better, but I am no where near ready to go down a size yet. And depressingly no one has noticed the changes.

[HouseofWool]

Dinner at the ballpark wasn't helpful for me either....but sometimes you just have to record it and even it up over the next day or two.

I've honestly come to the conclusion that having a splurge night occasionally is helpful because it tricks my metabolism into thinking that there isn't some sort of famine going on.