Posts by peera

I think I'm going to have to pass on this week's topic as well, I don't anticipate being on the computer much this week. Boyfriend's birthday is Friday and then I'm heading to my mother's for the holidays. She lives in the dark ages without internet, so I'll be on hiatus here till the 1st. Packing the baby and myself in the next 3 days sounds about as tempting as cooking dinner for a small country at the moment. And doing all the cleanup since I know nothing will get touched while we're gone and the last thing I need to come home to is a mold colony in the sink!

Why do I fall off the wagon? The results thing is a downfall for me as well, although getting results sometimes trips me up to, since "I did so good last week, this week I can cheat a little". I also have issues with keeping track of time, so even though I "just" worked out, it's been 4-5 days.

Hmmm.... 5 servings of veggies. I can try, but I suspect it won't happen. Unless I drink more V8, but I'm trying to drink less of that & more water.

Let's see, when we got out... Usually I get a 6 inch turkey on honey oat from Subway. Burger King, tendergrille chicken salad. It helps that I don't really like dressing. I'm really super happy that chain restaurants in Seattle & most of the rest of WA are now required to show the calories right there on the menu. Made me sick when I realized that a lot of the "healthy" choices were just as bad/worse than the other junk!

Slowly building back up. Maintaining, so I don't feel to horrible about the last 2 weeks, but I just haven't had a lot of time on my hands to get on CC. I'm afraid I skipped nearly all the posts above me since I'm running late once again, but I did want to check in.

Goal for myself I think is just going to be working out 3x a week (should be easier now that winter's here and M will be home more to watch Tristan so I can work out before 10 pm!).

Congrats on the big baby defrog! I had a long hard delivery myself and very narrowly avoided the c-section, they were going to start prepping me if I took just 20 more minutes!

austiemg- It is amazing how such a small amount of weight can impact you so much, isn't it? I'm 12 pounds above my pre-pregnancy weight, and I feel so much heavier and it's so depressing.

cawilder- good luck, I hope they find out what's wrong with you soon!

I'm still around, kind of... Fell on my ass off the wagon hard this week. Not sharing my weight, don't even want to think about it. It's always that third week that trips me up after 2 weeks of doing great, and then I end up back where I started. Anyhow. Water. Exercise. Calorie counting. I'm back on top of things. really.

I honestly can't remember if I drank 30 oz or 50 oz of water yesterday. I think it was 50, but  I can't remember filling my water bottle twice.

CW: 201.5 Excellent! Much more like what I want to see. I actually dipped under 200 at once point this week.

60 oz of water for me yesterday! I did a Wii fit body test yesterday, and for the first time ever he told me I was well on the way to meeting my goal! Yay! I also ran all the way around the Active "track" twice without her telling me I was going to slow even once (I really need a treadmill).

Nicci, that's really cute. I have that feeling a lot when I watch my son ignore the pile of toys he owns in favor of a flat priority mail box or a sock. :P

Tammy- Me too! I've got a really bad nighttime snacking problem between being a night owl & the fact I often don't see my boyfriend until after 10pm, so if I wait to eat with him I'm usually having a full meal around midnight. This week I sat myself down and made simple commitments- logging calories religiously, before they even actually go in my mouth usually; drinking more water; and NO MORE EATING after 9 pm! Since I don't get to bed until after 1:30 most nights, I figure that's late enough. And this morning I was down to 200 on the dot! I'm so excited, if I keep it off (or have lost more!) by Thursday, I get my first reward!

MMM- 50 oz for Monday. 6 8oz glasses. Not bad, but I know I can do better!

Not much a fan of the dark greens myself. They're always in the house since collards & mustard are about the best thing I can feed the dragons (veggie-wise... you probably don't want to know how many bugs I share this house with for love of dragons!) but I seldom share them. I like raw spinach when I do eat them, but the "curves quiche" isn't bad (although once I entered it here I started wondering if curves really wanted me to lose weight.) calorie-wise, it's not awful, but it is rather fatty. http://caloriecount.about.com/curves-quiche-r ecipe-r102455

merimeriqcontrary- oh goodness, chocolate almonds got you too? My boyfriend doesn't eat real meals, so he's always dragging home lovely (HORRIBLE!) snacks and then leaving them lieing around after his narcolepsy meds knock him out. And then I nosh on them uncontrollably in the morning when my son won't let me get in 5 minutes to make real food. :P

As for me: plugging along. No real progress, but I'm not really backsliding either. Actually, I'm going to go get dressed and find some pants for the baby now, and go for a walk to return my library books.

Weigh-In: 204.7. UGH! I don't get it! I'll see the # getting lower through the week, and then along comes weigh-in day and I'm back up again.

Hope there's still room for me! I was in the process of losing weight last year, and that was brought to a screeching halt by getting preggo, so now I have even farther to go and need all the support I can get!

Name(or nickname if you'd rather): Morgan
Height/weight: 5'4"/ 202
Goal: 140
Age: 24
Location: Washington, USA
Biggest Motivation: Being healthy enough to play with my son! He's only 5 months old now, so that gives me a little time.

So I've been back on the wagon for a month now! I'm still not doing wonderful with the food and exercise, but I'm plugging away at it. As of this morning I've passed down into numbers I haven't been since I was preggers, and that gives me hope and motivation. If I can do that without a set and stuck to exercise & diet regime, how much more am I going to be able to do once that switch flips, that this isn't just about not being fat, but about being healthy, not hurting, not gasping for breath at the top of a flight of stairs, and most importantly, being there for my son and being able to do things with him? Intellectually, I get all that, but it just hasn't clicked with that part of my brain that motivates me yet. I'm only 2 pounds off my first "mini-goal" now, and I can't wait to show off the piece of jewelry I'm giving myself as a reward!

As far as getting out to excercise... Well, I'm very guilty of this! I really am not someone who likes to do things alone, and I don't have any local girlfriends and really haven't a clue how to even go about getting them at this point, since my work keeps me inside and only in contact with out-of-towners. I have ordered several books at the library though (one thing I LOVE about WA as opposed to CA is the library system. I can get a book from any library in Western WA for free, in CA I could only get books from libraries inside the county or I'd have to pay a dollar or two), so once those come in I'll have to walk down to get them since I don't have a car of my own, so that's injecting about a mile into my normal routine. Not much, but anything's a start, right? 

MMM, I love hummus! Haven't had any in a while, should have picked some up at Safeway today but the baby got his first round of immunizations today and was very fussy, so I only picked up essentials. My poor little man's got his first fever because of the stupid DTap.

CW: 205

Bah. Next week will be better. I've been having trouble getting around since Monday/Tuesday (we walked FOREVER, we did the Jim Henson/Scifi museum at the Music Experience Project and then a huge asian market Monday, and then Tuesday we hit 2 Costcos, Target & Toys'R'Us on my already screaming knees. I'm trying to stay off them now because my best friend's coming up Saturday and wants to  do all the touristy stuff around Seattle, and I'm just got to try and keep up! Although I do have the "secret weapon" that she's 3 months pregnant and still tired, so hopefully we'll be on the same page, lol.

My mission for this week is that when I'm hungry, I'm going to drink 20 oz of water and then reconsider. I've been seriously slacking on my water recently, so I'm hoping to kill 2 birds there. With any luck, by the time we check in next week I'll be 202! 

Nicci- I am in awe of your weight loss! I wish I could leech off some of your motivation!

Oh, and I did the Gold's Gym one too... I honestly have absolutly no memory of doing it AT ALL... I think I may have liked it, it was just to hard for me at my current ability level.

5 words- All you can eat buffet. UGH.

Nicci- I've tried out nearly all the Wii fitness games that are on the market right now (Yay gamefly!), I didn't care for Jillian's. It was really boring & repetitive, and the controllers just didn't seem to respond properly. Wii Active I'm loving, I also like that certain things I can't do right now (Squats & Squat Jumps in particular, my knees are SHOT after being preggers) I can remove from the workout entirely, and I can control the music. I'm not so into all the running in place, but I can deal with that. My Fitness Coach I would have liked better if it was responsive at all... It was just like using a regular workout video that happened to know my measurements. :PI think I've used something else too, but can't think of it.

I'm down to my lowest weight since having my son, yay! And I'm slowwwwllllyy losing that "4 months pregnant" gut that's been plauging me for the last 5 months. One thing that's driving me crazy is that it's my boobs preventing me from getting in half my shirts that fit till I was over 6 months pregnant. I was expecting them to get bigger, but 3 whole sizes? They better shrink after I lose weight/ween him, The thought of being an HH after the next one does NOT make me happy!

Oh, and I'm ok with Morgan or Peera. I respond to both IRL.