Posts by nycbride

I never really thought about my ritual

1. usually I go to sleep after finishing watching TV, close to 11pm.  I fix the sheets on my bed, put on my pjs, check the front door lock, do bathroom stuff then turn off the lights before walking back to bed.  Once in bed I check my alarm and turn on the fan for white noise (I live in the city - it's noisy outside my window).  My alarm is set for 6:30am, I hit snooze until 7:30, which is when my husbands alarm goes off.  Sometimes I'll get out of bed around 7:15 and turn off the rest of the alarm snoozes.

2.  When I can't sleep, I get up and get a pen and paper and write a list of all the things I have to remember to do tomorrow for work and personal.  Usually once I have everything written down I can stop my brain and go to sleep.

SW:     226.4

Week 1: 225.0

Week 2: 226.8

I gained.  But I am chalking it up to a couple of days before TTOM.  Or maybe it was those 4 slices of pizza I ate on tuesday?  Nah!  It's my TTOM :)  Just being silly... I ate like a pig this week.  I am actually surprised it didn't go up more.

I have been doing 10-15min of yoga every morning before my hubby wakes up.  It's been nice to start my day that way :)

Okay - journaling, huh?  I am terrible at it, but it wouldn't be a challenge if it wasn't hard.  I'll start today.  Yesterday was the last Week 1 run for the C25K (that's the 'lingo' on the web for Couch 2 5K) and tomorrow will be the first run of week two.  I kinda am already off since I took 4 days off from it, so I am either going to try and catch up or just ignore the 'week' thing and just run each podcast 3 times.

If anyone wants the link to the podcasts, they are great.  It's techno music with a guy with a very soothing voice say 'okay, 60 seconds have passed, so bring it back down to a brisk walk'.  It's nice to not have to concentrate on the time, since someone else is doing it for you.

Looking forward to the friday weigh-in to see if there is any progress.  Slow and steady wins the race!

Hi all!  I would love to join this challenge!

I'm 5'6" and approx 225 (but I'll do the official weigh in on Friday).

Looking to lose 15 lbs by St. Patty's Day.  I just started the Couch to 5K challenge and am working on getting my eating right.  I started CC last year and tried to lose a bunch of weight for my wedding last july.  I lost about 20 pounds and then found 25 pounds again, so I am working to get this current weight gain spree (25lbs in 6 months!) under control!

I'll check in on Friday.  Thanks!

So the zen weekend was great - although the moment I walked back into the apartment door, i started stressing again.  And this past week I have been eating like a pig - totally sabatoging myself.  It's less than 2 weeks away and I just cant get it together.  I am realizing that my friends and family love me as I am and that they will only see the 25 lbs I did lose, not the 60 lbs I didn't lose, which is what I should stop beating myself up about.

My fiance and I have decided that we are going to try and get some goals together for the end of the year - if I lose 30lbs and he loses 50lbs, then we'll wait to have kids for another year so we can enjoy our bodies and be active and adventurous.  If not - we get to start trying for kids.  Which we need to be thinner for anyway, so we can chase em around without gasping for breath! (Gibs - I am sure you know all about running after kids!).

So the next few days are packed with last minute details.  This leaves a lot of gym time on the back burner... but I am still getting my training sessions in, so that is something.

One thing that sucks is that I haven't still be sleeping so great, so I hope that doesn't continue - I need my rest - I am pooping myself out!

Noka - how's the new job/apt?

I am up for the 5lbs in 4 weeks challenge - and hopefully I'll lose it all by my ribcage so I can actually stand to be in this dress... which by the way is turning out beautifully!

I have been doing great with getting my cardio in.  My snacks lately have been trail mix, which I know is very calorie dense but at least it is filling and natural.

I've been walking around with a knot in my stomach and I know it is my subconsious getting nervous about the wedding.

My fiance and I have promised to keep working on losing weight after the wedding - which is great, since it will be a little less stressful and not do-or-die weightloss.

I really want it to work for both of us - our lives would be so much better and so much free-er.  Too bad we couldn't do it for the wedding.  It would have been even nicer to document our great day with photos I can be proud of.

Is it bad to wish your fiance wasn't so fat, too? I feel bad admiting it, but i'm just being honest.  I ofcourse love him to death, but I keep on thinking people are looking at us like "auuugghhhh... isn't it nice when fat people find love?".

Noka - great news, sounds like everything is coming together - between the job and apartment and the fab bathing suit.

Gibson - I hope you are getting all your comissions completed - the murals sound like fun!  Keep getting outside with your kids - its a great way to burns come cals!

hi ladies - sorry i have been so out of the loop.  i've been busy and overwhelmed and just plain lazy with posting my calories and staying in touch.  To be honest - I haven't weighed myself in a couple of weeks now and I'm a little afraid of the outcome. 

I did the dress fitting yesterday and it wasn't anywhere near  where i'd hoped it would be but I think it will turn out alright.  I have a pretty amazing seamstress so that helps.  with all the stress I have been under I have stopped dreaming about the wedding and started fantasizing about the honeymoon, just so I can be on vacation!

I'm going to try and be really good the next month with food and exercise like someone is paying me to do it.

Gibson - I hope you had a wonderful mommys day.

Hey all - busy weekend.  busy week.  still walking around like I sat on something and I wake up with lots of cricks and creaks.  I'm like 'i'm not old, what the problem here!?!?!'.  Some of the blisters popped and I peeled a little too much skin away so parts of my feets are raw.  I bought a new pair of sneakers because the ones I used during the walk defintely need to be retired.  They have had enough mileage put on them at this point.  I hope the ones I bought work out - I have had my fair share of sneaker dissappointment (4 pairs in the last 4 months - and only one that I acutually liked).

Anyway - hopeing for a good food week and workout week.  I've got a business dinner tomorrow (which I would love to try and skip out on the dinner part and just be there to schmooze during cocktails, but that would proabably look pretty bad.).  i plan on working out at lunch to make up for it.

Other than that, I tried on my wedding dress again yesterday and I wasn't too dissappointed.  At least that is a bonus!

I survived the Avon Walk this past weekend - 39.3 miles - although I must admit, at times I didn't think I was going to make it.  My feet and blisters were so painful and my hips and joints had just had enough towards the end of both days.  But I chugged through and made it.

I did eat like crap the entire weekend - cookies and salty carby snacks while walking, bagels for breakfast, burgers and pasta for dinner.  But I fugured I burned an extra 2000 cals on Saturday (walking for almost 12 hours) and 1000 calories on Sunday (walking 6 hours) that it probably evened out.  I'll let you know if I see any loss this week - most people say you retain water for a few days after, so I won't weigh myself until Friday.

I took the day off from work and from essentially moving yesterday - I went out for a little walk to rent movies from the library and I ended up cramping and having charly horses in my arches so I went back home and sat on my ass for the rest of the day.

Tonight I will swim - tomorrow morning I will go back to training and I am not going to try and run again until Friday. 

Wednesday is the food tasting for my reception, so I'll plan on eating light during the day as I have no idea how a food tasting goes and how much I'll be eating/tasting.

Hope everyone is doing great!

My guess is period bloat.  Right when I finish mine, I see a 3-4 lb drop right away.  maybe it hit you harder this month then usual and maybe you lost a real lb or 2 during the cycle, which resulted in the 5lb loss.  I don't think there is anything in particular you did to make it happen...  Did you see a gain right before you started your period?  I usually see 2lbs.

Be happy about the overall loss - and hope the scale keeps going down!

I'm in - my wedding is July 19th so the timing of this challenge is perfect

• Name: nycbride
• Height: 5'5"
• SW and date on CC: 208 in January 2008
• SW as of May 2:
• July 4th goal: 180

Looking forward to losing weight with everyone... any maybe even winning a challenge one week along the way!

ceclark77 - thanks for organizing!

xzcandizx - I'm actually doing the walk in D.C. this weekend - so it's not the Revlon one (which I know is funny that's it's this weekend in Times Square :).  Yeah - there is one in NYC in October, but I was hoping that doing the walk now would help with the weighloss since it would be before the wedding, not after like the October one is.

I hope I feel like a tourist in D.C. - the walk goes through all the monuments and the Mall and Capitol Hill and then outside the city, so that should be fun to have something new to look at.  After all the walking I have done in NYC, Bronx, Brooklyn, Westchester and Long Island (to keep it interesting), it will be nice to have some new scenery.

Happy Monday - I didn't weigh myself this morning... but I woke up at 6 and couldn't go back to sleep so I decided to get up and go to the gym and I got in a great workout, so I can't complain.  had a nice weekend - went for a long walk with the fiance that was great and then yesterday did some cleaning and laundry and picked up the wedding invites (yay!) so it was a pretty great weekend (except for the 1/2 pizza I ate on Saturday night).  The thing that sucks about the weekend is that I eat out almost every meal.  Which means more calories than I would normally take in if I was cooking for myself.  Anyway - gotta get the but in gear!

This weekend is the big Avon walk so I am looking forward to a long walk and getting that done.

How's everyone else doing???

Everyone is welcome!  and considering our starting numbers have dwindled, it will be nice to get some more people involved in posting.

I completed my 22 mile walk on saturday and then did 7.5 and 2.5 (had to break it up) to walk the 10 miles on Sunday.  And I feel pretty good!  I must say I got home on Saturday around 5:30 - walked around like a zombie whenever I got up from the couch and fell asleep by 9:30.  I guess I needed it.  The weather was gorgeous - high 60s and sunny, but I did get a wicked sunburn on the back of my neck.  Anyway - it took approx 8 hours (9 with stops) and that's a lot of walking.

This week calms down and this weekend calms down too before the big walk in 2 weekends.

One thing that is bad about the walks is that I have been allowing myself to eat terribly when I get home because I think, well, I just burned 2000 extra calories today, I should be able to eat whatever.  And then I just eat crap.  So I need to work on that.

Looking forward to a good week.  We are exactly 3 months from July 19th!

Hi ladies -

I have a blister on my second toe that is killing me... yesterday was a 19 mile walk (was supposed to be 20 miles, but we just couldn't take it anymore!) but it was great.  Calorie count says I burned 2000 calories.  Too bad I probably negated that with the chinese food dinner I ate!  I feel terrible about that.

Anyway, back on track with food (although I am starving all day today) and going to try to lose another pound or two this week.  Hopefully the 2lb gain I saw this morning has to do with retaining water since I didn't drink enough on the trail and I ate the chinese food. 

Stressing about July 19th and not looking amazing, but trying hard to get my head in the game.  I hope this blister will not be an excuse to not exercise hard this week... last week was a great week for working out.  it's five weeks until dress alterations start.  here's hoping for a miracle!