WWers Last Wk of May/First wk of June

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Cathlete
Happy Sunday, Ladies. Im so tickled to be starting this thread this week. But I realize that Im not so reliable to do this. Normally, Sunday's dont slow down for me until about 6pm. So, I suggest whoever is first to checkin, starts the posts from now on.

I hope we are ready for all the cookouts and holiday treats in terms of celebrating with family and friends. But, lets remember we have goals in mind and lets keep the unhealthy foods at bay. We can celebrate and enjoy loved ones without indulging in food that will make us sorry later. Case in point, Im with family now. Last night I passed up fudge pie and had a ff yogurt. They were shocked, I was pleased - with myself - realizing that I just didn't need to have it. It just wasnt worth it. I'm worth making good decisions for. As long as I give in to over-indulgent food just because it's there will continue to keep me from my goals. I've been doing this all year. And I just sick of it. Giving in to unhealthy foods keeps me from my goals. Again, I say it's just not worth it. When I give in, I tell myself, I can work it off later. But, in reality, I never do.

So, lets be vigilant about making healthy decisions for ourselves.

Who's next up today?
 
Hey shereta..I kept on checkoing the new posts and couldn't find us! i was distressed (kidding)

Kudos on passing up desert. Yesterday I decided to for a week at least not to touch desert of drum roll please....chocolate! Day 1 was a success..i his my stash of hersheys kisses and have refrained from desert and crap!... I am seriously gunning for our fourth of july challange.

I hope the rest of us find our new thread...;)

Keep up the good work... i know how super tough it is with family not to want to dive in and celebrate!
 
I shouldve checked in BEFORE I ate the two hot dogs, two large servings of dessert, the potato chips, etc etc etc etc.

The July Challenge for me will be to hopefully stop pigging out by July!

On another note, I bought 2 new workouts today (like I need anymore workouts!). I bought KCM's Split Sessions and Michelle Dozois' Cardio Interval Burn.

I'm definitely feeling the DOMS from the Jillian workout I did yesterday. Now I'm just feeling the DOMS from too much food :(
 
hey stacy! let me know when you try the interval burn. I bought it 2 weeks ago and still haven't tried it:eek:
Between my not nice back and ccc when it was good I just can't get myself into it yet:confused: I don't even know why...bizarre because i tend to like the hiit and super hard workouts! maybe when i hear how you have rocked it I will give it a try..

Dreading tomorrow AM since it is weigh in day:mad: hopefully some pounds will miraculously melt away tonight..
 
good morning girls

Just wish it was good for me:mad:
got on the evil scale nd i gained 2.5 punds...arghhhhh
i wasn't really that bad since last week at all but not being able to do all my cardio really got to me! i did get my period today as well and do feel all bloated so i hope that it is just water...i guess we'll see as the week goes by.

I am really starting to question the ww plan for me. its been 5 weeks, i NEVER use any of my activity points and only ever used my weekly extras 1 time. the rest of the time i always have a good half of them left over. I have been tracking daily..ALL THE TIME FOR A MONTH!

Maybe i need to be tracking calories instead?? any thoughts?? besides being and feeling bloated and fat all is well.. yesteday i went to the gym and used the bike and eliptical (back friendly) and got my hr up all the way to 150 (not for long..was doingh intervals) so that felt good. I didn't have desert or chocolate all weekend:eek: which is a miracle considering i was pmsing

how are you gals doing today..
 
Steph, sorry about your gain, I'm sure I'll be in the same boat when I weigh in on Wednesday. WW actually works for me when I actually track my points. My problem is I'm always so hungry on it for the most part when I eat at my 29 PP per day. I save some WP for our family Friday night pizza outting. I really dont use AP's at all, right now b/c I havent really earned any and also because my Cathe workouts only get me 3 AP's max, so it's jut not worth it to use them. My bigger issues are with my emotional eating, my living with thin ppl who love to eat and eat whatever they want whenever and are still bean-pole-thin. We also attend alot of sporting events, oftentimes I head there striaight from work so eating at a ballpark, well, enough said there! Then add in my IBS and it limits what healthy fruit/veggies I can eat. It's a struggle for sure, but what's the alternative...following in the footsteps of my family's obesity, "arthritis", hypertension and diabetes. And having my family over recently, just reaffirmed that.

Even following WW though, or any other plan for that matter, I get much better results if I'm eating low carb, as in decreasing the amounts of bread, desserts, cereals, pasta, potatoes, rice etc. I can still lose weight when I do that even if I dont exercise. It's the exercise though that changes my body composition and tightens the mush.

I'll definitely let you know when I try Dozios' new workout. I selected the free shipping option from collage so it'll take an extra few days to get here. (Remind me what CCC stands for again....is that Cardio Core Circuit??)

Ok, hoping for a better day for me and my dreaded eating! I've definitely let life and stress take over again, but I have not given up on the fight!
 
Hey stacy
I guess its still just me and you around today:D

CCC is for the cardio core circuit...love that one...feel very fierce at the end of it.. can hardly wait for the back to calm down

I finish work early today so i'll see what i am going to do. What kind of job do you have that stresses you out so much? (tell me i am being to nosy if it bothers you) I am a physical education teacher (funny..considering my body issues huh?) Love my job..My stress is at home. My son has Duchennes muscular dystrophy and is taking steroids so he is really the cause of 99% of my stress. I actually look forward to mondays sometimes:D

Trying not to go too banananas about the weight gain...i see my goal to be 120 by august 4 my 40th birthday (9 pounds away..) slipping away and i amtrying to stop that train from leaving the station. My ultimate goal of 120 will allow me my menopause 5 pound leeway.. This week i am going to try tracking calories and see if that helps at all..

Hope your day goes well and i wish i had a good answer for the stress. I am taking anti-depressants to help deal with the terminal apsect of my sons condition..its pretty hard knowing that your son is going to deteriorate and there is nothing at all you can do for him and at the same time you have to treat him like a normal kid and discipline etc. I also have 2 other kids so i have to keep it together.

anyways enogh of the depressing stuff...

Try to keep away from the deserts today
steph
 
Hey Steph, my goal is also 120lb too! (It was 115lb but that just seems a bit too hard to maintain). I tried CCC but with my knees issues I just sadly enough cant do the impact anymore, which for me makes diet that much more vital to my success (unfortunately!) I work in the medical field, so long hours and it's hard to leave on-time b/c something always comes up, but that's the nature of the job. It just gets hard sometimes to balance it all out, and ironic that my job "makes" me do such unhealthy things as stress eating. I have a friend whose son has Duchenne's and have encountered some Duchenne patients at the hospital over the years. I cant even imagine what you must go thru with your son. My friend's son is also on steroids. There's a new screen for newborns now to detect Duchenne's early, but not sure how I'd feel about that if I were to have a child now. Is it better to know early or not, tough call either way. Anyway, here's to a good holiday weekend!! Cheers!
 
Hey stacy

I was reading your post and i have to agree with you. I would not want to know either before the child is born. there is no history at all of dmd in my family and the dna testing didn't show conclusively if i was a carrier (apparenty they have to test ever single egg to see that) bu realistically speaking he was a spontaneous mutation. I am not anti anything but i would not liked to have had a decision to make like that when I was prego. As for finding out when the child is a newborn i have to say I am EXTREMELY grateful for my 4 years and 10 months of ignorant bliss:p

So on to the workouts....today....ImaX 3 (mesely 300 calories) ...HIIT 40-20 (mesely 160)

So good news is the back is definately agreeing with me however I respect her fickle nature and a staying away from CCC

Now i am off to do homework with my kiddos...
Hope you had a good day
steph
 
Eating today was horrible, but I think I'm reaching the point that if I see another dessert or item of junk food I'm going to puke. Sad it has to come to that to get my eating under control!!

Shereta...I keep forgetting to mention that I bought the Dukan diet book. I dont know yet if I'll follow it, but I enjoy reading diet-related books.

My workout today, which was negated quickly with junk food, was 60 minutes walking on the treadmill. I did the incline program where it alternated btwn a 4 degree incline and an 8 degree incline every 2 minutes.

Tomorrow, will be weights, definitely upper body and abs, and depending on how my knee feels, I'll do legs, maybe just floor legs.
 
Hey Ladies.

Hope everyone had a great weekend! I know I did! I applied all of my extra points to this weekend, spreading them out over fri/sat/sun cause tracking my intake would be impossible. :eek: I got home this morning and am right back on track with eating. I have 3 more DP's left for today. Can't decide if they will be used for food or my wine today. Usually it's wine. ;)

I got M2 completed before I left! WOOT! So saturday started my active recovery week w/2 rest days on sat/sun. :) Today when we got home I did Imax Extreme. I am due to start M3 on Saturday. Cardio and abs only for the rest of the week though! Can't believe I only have 5 weeks to go to complete my rotation!!!!!:D

Ok, that's all for now. Just wanted to pop in and say howdy. I'll start back up with personals as of tmrw.

Enjoy your evening everyone.:cool:
 
Hey, Ladies. I've decided to leave WWers alone for a while and concentrate on the Dukan Diet and Sparkspeople. I cant keep up with two sites. So, like I said earlier, I think whoever is the first to try to post on Sundays or whatever day yall decide should just go ahead and kick it up. I might pop in from time to time. But, I'm loving my new plan. I dropped 6 pounds my first week andIm moving on to phase 2. I feel great. Dukan is the real diet for me. So, good luck to yall.

Shereta
 
Shereta,

You will be missed but you are wished all the best. Glad the new plan is working for you. Pop in from time to time and update us on your progress!:)
 
Man we are dropping like flies!

How about we call this the ladies who want to lose 10-15 pounds club...

I am, trying this week to tally or log on sparkspeople for my calories becuase i have lost a measely .6 pounds on ww in 5 weeks staying within my points and never touching my aps..

I still have my membership for another 7 weeks so i just want to compare how this week goes calorie instead of point counting...

So i will still be pretty active because you gals are fun!
 
Shereta, we're gonna miss you!! :( But, wow, 6 lbs, that's awesome!! I'm just now finishing up the Attack phase chapter. How long did you stay on it? Mulling over how to incorporate this phase at work! Did you buy your oat bran from the website??

I cant believe how sore my biceps still are from Jillian's NMTZ workout on Saturday!!

Honestly, I'd like to keep the thread going as well, but changing the name would be okay. Or keeping the name the same for "historical" sake (hehe) but loosening up the criteria as I've also been thinking of keeping up WW or maybe combining the WW and Dukan principles.

I only would like to lose about 10 more lbs, gonna have to get my a** in gear!!
 
I totally vote for keeping the name so we know where to find ourselves and loosening our criteria...
Maybe we could be the cool people who want to lose ten pounds ANY LEGAL WAY WE CAN????

that way shereta and all the combo people can still stay (that is if you want to)

we would hate to lose you shereta:(

on a workout note: just finished imax extreme : measely 300 cal for all that sweat..
 
Shereta, no pressure intended. It's hard to have time to post everywhere! Drop in when you can and keep us updated on your progress! You rock!

I just got back from the grocery store and purchased some healthy snacks for work and some bottled water. The past few days when my eating has been extremely horrible I have felt SO fatigued. Talk about a food coma. I really hate that feeling and looking forward to being alert and cleansed!!

Steph...I wish my knees could handle any of the Imax's. I miss alot of my workouts :( I havent worked out yet but plan to sometime btwn lunch and dinner. I need some down time after running a zillion errands this morning.

Check back later...
 
Hi Girls.

I'm up for whatever you want to do regarding the check in name, etc. :)

This morning's work out was 4ds bc and kb cardio. I did bc in full but cut out w/u and arm combos from kb for time and added on the ab work instead. Great sweat!

Stacy:: Good job buying healthier snacks! I know I feel better in so many ways when I eat healthy as opposed to when I don't. Everyone needs to let loose but overall, healthy eating makes me feel sooo much better and is so much more rewarding then eating junk. It really is worth it IMO. Stay strong!!! :)

Steph:: 300 calories for Imax Ex. Really? I did that work out y'day myself. The WM has the approx cal burn up way past 300 IIRC. Oh well, I enjoyed the work out anyway even if didn't burn as many rum n cokes as I thought it would! ;):D
 
Hey wendy..hope you had a great weekend.
I gave in and asked for a POLAR heart rate monitor for valentines day and it was approx 300 for my stats..5'4 3/4, 125 (what i weighed when i programmed it) moderately active (a gym teacher) with a resting heart rate of about 52-60 (if i can remember corectly)...oh and of course a female:p

I am telling you it really helps to know how much you actually burn, i used to be like o that must have been around 450...uh no.. more like 250! no more chocolate bars for treats!
the worst are the machines at the gym...they soooo over-estimate i was on the leiptical one day and the machine said 650 and my heart rate monitor brought me back to reality with a measely 400...:(

I have successfully stayed away from chocolate for 4 whole days now:eek: i would never had thought it possible....If i gain weight this week..i am going to resort to illegal means tpo lose those pounds;)

Stacy: In the Tosca Reno book she says that she carries around a cooler with all her healthy snack everywhere she goes to avoid temptation... It is both encouraging and discouraging...encouraging to know that even she has to work at it and that she is human...discouraging because wouldn't it be great if once you lost everything you wanted you could relax a little? it is really a lifelong challange...man this were better when we led active lives and worked on the farm:p
 
I worked out, was going to do weights but decided on Jillian's Get Ripped in 30 workout from Week 1. It was only 25-ish minutes but hit a bit of everything. I think I'll do some Jillian for awhile, even though they're more circuit and not focused on either cardio or weights, they're a good calorie burn for me and with my busy work schedule they're short and sweet.

I'm definitely cleaning my act up, my diet today isnt perfect but it's a step in the right direction and I feel better already! A big problem for me is again, work. I work in a lab area where no food or drink is allowed and I have to shed lab coats, wash my hands, walk up the hall etc just to get a snack or a drink and oftentimes I have a few things going on a once that are time-sensitive that I cant get away. So, that leaves to my ravenous appetite when I get home which leads to grabbing whatever's in sight. Throw some stress eating in there for good measure and hello weight gain!

But, those are all just excuses, though legitimate obstacles when it comes down to it. I'm focusing on taking even just 15 minutes to eat lunch daily, trying to drink more water and reach for something healthy when the urge to stress eat arises! My workouts I wont stress over b/c I see more results with a clean diet than I do with overdoing my workouts.

I may start the Dukan diet next week when hubby is out of town. It will be easier to jump start with him not around! (He's one of those thin guys who eats whatever he wants, grrr!!)

Even if this checkin remains small, I'm glad it's still up and running!
 
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