Wagon Jumpers - May 17 - 23rd, 2009 (Closed, Waiting List Available)

Welcome 

(If you are interested in being on the waiting list, please read below and e-mail me. We currently have a waiting list of 0 people.)

Welcome to the Wagon Jumpers weekly thread. We are a group of CC members who have identified that one of our main challenges with achieving our weight loss, maintenance or general health goals is consistency.

This thread is designed to encourage long term commitment to our goals by publicly declaring them and asking the other members of this thread to hold us accountable. The primary focus of wagon jumpers is not how much weight you have lost, or need to loose, but what you need to do on a daily basis to meet your long term goals. 

There are two rules for Wagon Jumpers:

1. All members must post once per week between Sunday and Friday.

2. All members must check the thread for members who have not posted by Saturday (a short list is posted on Thursday) or are on the MIA list on Sunday and send them a polite and positive message to stay involved in the group and on track with their goals. 

If you would like to be a member of this thread please see the guidelines below and send me a PM if you are still interested (there may be a waiting list).

Medium Size Group = Some Time Commitment

The original idea of Wagon Jumpers was to create a close community where participants could get to know each other and hopefully form virtual-life and perhaps even physical-life bonds to create a support network as they attempted long term weight loss.

We quickly discovered that this was impossible with an 'always open' group as there were too many people coming and going. For this reason the group is finding its optimum level is between 20 and 25 participants. 

A medium sized group means that we have an active thread that produces between 40 - 60 posts per week. Members do not need to read / respond to every post every week. I do notice that those who respond regularly do tend to keep their goals top of mind, and have a better chance to achieve them. I estimate the average time spent by an active member on Wagon Jumpers to be between 1-2 hours per week. 

If you are looking for an always open group  on CC there are several that operate by different weight criteria, similar motivational patterns etc... There are also many small groups that cap their numbers between 4-10 people to keep the group more intimate, and easier for members to keep up with. 

Interested in Joining?

General Guidelines for Joining

1. Are you a wagon jumper?

Do you know how to loose weight, you often have success but then you find yourself loosing interest in your plan, or sabotaging your plan. It's not the "how" to loose weight that is the problem, it's the "how" to stay motivated.

2. Do you have a long way to go?

This group is designed so that members can get to know each other and support each other. Ideally you are planning to be a CC member and part of this forum for at least 6 months or more to achieve your goals and hopefully stay in motivation for a further 6 months or more.

Yes. This is, a long term plan.

3. Do you have the time?

This is a medium sized group, the thread does move fairly quickly each week. If you do not have regular internet access this is likely not the group for you. 

Still interested?

Send Supersized a PM. (Please do not reply on the thread)

An overview will be sent to you, you will have a chance to ask questions and an invitation will be sent to you once a spot is open. 

Google Group

We have recently added a google group as an option for members, past members, and members on the waiting list. If you would like access to the google group (and are in one of the above categories) send a message to beaglesmuggler (at) roger.com with your username and e-mail address and I will add you to the google group.

Wagon Jumpers Participants

Year 1 - Week 2 Riders:

Supersized  (myself)

Week 50 Riders:

Msmeg1984

Defrog3

Week 46 Riders:

Wenchie58 - extended sick leave

Week 44 Riders - Congratulations on 11 Months!:

Raven21 

Week 43 Riders:

Tiegurl

Week 40 Riders - Congratulations on 10 Months!:

Kyashiis

Week 37 Riders:

Unlimitedana

Week 34 Riders:

Nannygabber

Week 30 Riders:

Lam7

Week 26 Riders:

Cawilder

Week 25 Riders:

Figurethefat

Week 24 Riders - Congratulations on 6 Months!:

Carryonandon

Week 23 Riders:

Constanza

Week 22 Riders:

Germaica

Week 21 Riders:

Pelkeyjm

Week 20 Riders - Congratulations on 5 Months!:

Jessicaanne2001

Week 7 Riders:

Thesilverstar121

Week 1 Riders:

Dovelette

Missing In Action:

Missing In Action - 1 Week:

The_Vitamin_Dominatrix

Missing In Action - 2 Weeks:

Current Membership: 20

Current Waiting List: 0

Outstanding Wait List Invites: 

Tammyb1995

12 Week CONSISTENCY GOALS

(as set w/o April 5th, 2009)

By June 27th, I will be...

Msmeg1984 - Maintenance: I will continue to eat less than 1800 cals/day on average New: Exercise at least 3x a week at least 9 of the 12 weeks.

Defrog3 - To continue eating healthfully for me and my little fetus, which means I need to stick to 2,000 balanced calories/day. My NEW goal is to start exercising regularly, meaning moving my butt in some fashion for 30 minutes, 3 days a week.

Cawilder - NEW: Attain a 30 / 30 / 40 food combo 80% of the time. MAINTENANCE: Running @ least 5 hours / week and 2X weight lifting. 

Unlimitedana - Maintenance goal: Eat 1550-1650 cals a day. New Goal Achieve the 40-40-20 at least two days per week.

Raven21 - 1. Exercise at least 3 x a week (maintenance) 2. Average daily calorie intake of 1450-1650 (new)

Figurethefat - For maintenance:  I will continue to complete a minimum of 1,500 exercise minutes per month.  New goal:  I will drink at least 1.5 litres of water per day.

Supersized - MAINTENANCE: Continue to eat at or below 2,000 cal/day average for at least 6 of 12 weeks, and never over 2,500 cal/day average. NEW: start going to the gym (again), and achieve at least 4 weeks where I attend the gym 3x/week. 

Lam7 - NEW GOAL:  Participate in our Navan Walking Club 10 Week Program (Tuesdays) starting April 21-June 26; as well as attend 6 "Spring into Spring" Interval Classes which will run on Thursday evenings starting April 9th, 2009. 

Constanza - (new) Eat an average of 1700 calories/day. (maintenance) Exercise at least twice weekly (calculated by average)

Thesilverstar121 - Excercising at least 3x a week.

Kyashiis - Maintenance goal:Exercise for a minimum of 20 minutes a day 5 days a week. New goal: I will zig-zag on my food intake consistently throughout the week and end up with an average daily calorie count of 1,200 cals. 

Nannygabber - Maintenance goal of doing NROLFW 3x per week with an allowance of two weeks slack for this 12-week session.

Pelkeyjm - Maintenance: Exercise a minimum of 30 minutes at least 3x per week. New Goal: Log ALL food on calorie count.

The_Vitamin_Dominatrix - Maintenance goal - I will continue to eat 1400-1500 calories daily with a ratio of 15% fat, 25% protein, 60% carbohydrates. New goal - Gym or no gym, I will workout 3 to 4 times a week.

Previous Threads:

Wagon Jumpers - May 10 - 16th, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - May 3 - 9th, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - April 26 - May 2nd, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - April 19 - 25th, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - April 12 - 18th, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - April 5 - April 11th, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - March 29 - April 4th, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - March 22 - 28th, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - March 15 - 21st, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - March 8 - 14th, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - March 1 - 7th, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - February 22 - 28th, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - February 15 - 21st, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - February 8 - 14th, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - February 1 - 7th, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - January 25 - 31st, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - January 18 - 24th, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - January 11 - 17th, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - January 4 - 10th, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - December 28 - January 3rd, 2009

Wagon Jumpers - December 21 - 27th, 2008

As always all members are encouraged to tag this thread so that it is easy to find.

THIS WEEK'S TOPIC: Half way goal check in

My homework will need to wait until next week. We are now past the 6 week mark in our 12 week goals.

How are you doing with your goal, are you on the road to success? Do you need to get out of the ditch? Have you been re-routed on a detour?

Cheers,

Sara.

Hey everyone!  I hope ya'll had a great week.  Thanks Sara for the email.  I've  been part of this group for 5 months!  Yay!  It hasnt always been easy.  This week I managed to have some great eating days and some not so great eating daysa.  I worked out 4 times.  Since the beginning of my new regimen I have lost 4 pounds and I know I have lost inches.  My clothes fit better and I got into some shorts the other day that have been too tight for quite awhile.  I will do my official messuring with my trainer at the end of the month.

I can say  that I am meeting my goals.    I wanted to work out 3 times a week.  Check. I also wanted to be logging my food 4 days a week(I think thats what I said).  Check again!  I have actually been logging everyday even on days I know I will go over. 

Was anyone else a little down after the release of the new formula?  My understanding of it is that because I like to log my exercises then I should have myself at light activity instead of moderate.  When I did this it told me that I should only have 1300 calories a day.  I freaked out  b/c its hard for to have 1800.   Was anyone else in the same boat?

Have a great week!~Jessica

Jessica Release of what new formula? Great job on the 4 bls!

Check In

This was and was not a good week. I managed to make it to the gym for the first time for a full 3 times, and do NROLFW without not being able to move this weekend. On the other hand I totally overate on Saturday and when I got on the scale on Sunday I found Jessica's 4 lbs. Part of me is so ready to freak out. I've gained about 10 lbs total since I almost 40 lbs last year. I was hoping I had got a grasp of it this week with eating mostly better and exercising. 

I'm trying to tell myself all the usual things, mostly water weight, weight lifting and muscle make you gain weight at first. But the scale going up was harsh. On the other hand I was much stricter with myself than I usually am at the pub today for games night.

Goal

I think I will meet my exercise goal. My food goal is going to be very tough as I will have to hit all of the next six weeks at under 2,000 cal. Maybe with the scale results I will be motivated enough to do that. We'll have to see. 

Sara.

The new formula that I am talking about what in an article on the CC homepage.  They said it was a new,more accurate way of determining your daily caloric needs.

Congrats on working out Sara.  I'm sure those 4 lbs.will even out soon.

Well thanks for telling us where the article is, Jessica, but I still didn't see it.  

Half way through our 12 week goals already!  Hard to believe, but I'm definitely not as proactive about meeting my goals this time around.  I think there have been about 4 days where I have not hit my water target of 1.5 litres, and today is one of them :/  

I've been concentrating on losing weight since the beginning of the year, and while I'm not tired of eating well, I am tired of keeping track of everything!  I'm doing fine on the exercise minutes -- that's the maintenance goal, no problem there, but I'm definitely not as enthusiastic as I was earlier in the year.

My weight is at a very acceptable level, with a BMI of 21.3, almost all of my clothes fit, so I don't have any incentive to lose more weight.  The problem is that complaisance will lead to weight gain, eventually, so I have to stay on it.  

I'll post on topic later this morning, but i wanted to share this new website with you...

Have any of you hear of "WolframAlpha?"  Its a pretty amazing computational search engine... check out www.wolframalpha.com

It can solve complex math problems, tell you the calories in a cheeseburger, show you music notes, give flight length between two cities, it can finish quotes - such as "to be or not to be" etc... Its a really amazing tool. (look through the examples before using it - helps) Its not meant to replace google- It doesn't give you a list of web pages where you may find the answer - it just plain gives you the answer - also it is more useful for math/scientific uses more than anything else.

I put in "calories burned running" and it came up with a calorie calculator... give it a shot! http://www12.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=calori es+burned+running

you can also put in calories burned and get something a little bit different, but both are amazing! 

Just wanted to share - i've been playing with this site since it launched on friday evening :)

PS - if you have time to play with it - ask it some questions like - "What is your name" "How Old Are You" "Can You Help Me" and "What do you do" or even "Are you self aware" - it gives interesting answers... My favorite is "What is the answer to life" - surprisingly, it has the answer. LOL.

Thanks for the link, msmeg.  I've had a quick look and I like it.  The stock comparison!  Amazing.  Will it take become another wikipedia??  

I definitely need to pull myself out of the ditch!! I've been missing for a little bit due to finals week at school and my brother got married this past Saturday so I've been running on EMPTY!! Today however is a new day! With all of that behind me I'm ready to get back in the groove. I've been doing pretty well despite my horribly hectic life these last few weeks. My diet has been ok, that is what I really need to focus on.

Halfway throught the 12 weeks already!! It seems like it's flown by... I have lost 3lbs since then. I have weighed myself consistently and the 3lbs seem to have vanished. I'm excited to see a difference finally.

Now that things are back to normal at home I will be logging in here more! I definitely need the support!! Thanks for everyone who sent me reminders!!!! I really appreciate it!!!

Jen

My weight is up and down, Averaging about 156 right now which is more than i'd like to weigh, but eh thats not my main priority at the moment.  I'm consistently getting in exercise at least 3x a week - so thats great. I'm at about 50% on my eating though. I think if I can pull myself together this week and keep it up for the next 6 weeks, i will call it a success overall :)

I'm torn between weights or running. Its so nice outside, so i enjoy being outside and running on my lunch breaks, but I also really like weights.  So I think I need to find a workable schedule that I can keep up with.

Things are getting busy at work, so I don't want to try to do too much.

Gotta go,

Have a great day!

-Meg

WELCOME BACK JEN!!! I know it's not always easy coming back to a group that you've been away from for awhile. I hope this is a place that members of this group can always come back to knowing that we, of all people, understand the fall off the wagon. It sounds like you are ready to recommit yourself and make sure you don't loose your success to date. 

MsMeg you are such a geek! Don't worry, I'm an even bigger one for suspecting the meaning of life answer and knowing I would be slightly disappointed if that was not it. 

Laura I think you are now at the sage that many of us falter at (if not before). It's one thing to loose the weight, it's another to keep the habits going so that you can keep it off. It may help with the monotony of tracking if you start making plans on how you can withdraw from the tracking. You don't want to have to enter everything you eat for life, so maybe going to a planned few days, then weeks where you write and then log after, and then no writing and just weighing to see how you do when you are not monitoring yourself as closely.

Sara.

Well although I wasn't officially part of the group 6 weeks ago, as a good stalker I made my own goals along with you guys.

My maintainance goal was to continue to drink at least 64, preferably 80oz of water a day.  Now, I personally do not believe in the whole water thing; I don't want to go into it be there are bascailly no studies that say anything about us needing 64oz of pure water a day; the study that is quoted that spurred the trend was actually mis quoted, in which it said that we need 64oz of liquid a day, MOST of which comes from our food.  I also figure if my body is smart enough to extract the liquid from things like steak and pasta, it should be smart enough to extract it from tea and crystal light ;o)  I won't get into my caffeine rant either LOL.

HOWEVER...I live in a very hot climate, I walk everywhere and now I'm working out.  In those circumstances, I do feel I need to replenish water.  And, even though there are no studies that show that water supresses appetite, I personally feel for me that it does.  Hence my goal and I m easily surpassing it, drinking at least 3 ltrs of some calorie free liquid a day. 

New goals: Exercise at least 3x a week.  I was slow on this one but I'm now on my third week of NROLFW PLUS I'm starting a C25k program, though only doing that 2x a week.  So far, so good...

I've noticed something interesting while I've been eating low carb...I'm finding that I'm just not hungry.  Pretty much after breakfast I could go the rest of the day without eating.  I don't, but I'm not hungry.  I know before when I wasn't eating low carb, I was always starving.  Plus, I still log all my calories and I'm never below 1200 and never above 1800 calories.  I sort of naturally carb cycle.  ANd I'm eating way more veggies now that I did before.  Just a weird observation that I've had.

I'll post more later to respond to others...hubby is complaining about no lunch yet lol.

Wow.  I have been slipping and sliding on and off the Wagon Jumpers for ten months.  That is nothing short of amazing.  Amazing that I am still here despite unspectacular results.  But, maybe that is part of the learning curve.  I'm definitely a slow learner at this LOL... But, having said that, I AM still here.  I am still making slow progress towards my goals.  I HAVE learned to get a finer balance between my "ideal" goals versus the "workable" goals. (thanks to Sara's strictness - which I appreciate because I am actually a strict  and cheerful  teacher in real life)

This is a lifestyle change in eating and exercise.  Though I sometimes slip and fall, I KNOW in my heart that there is no alternative than taking each painful step back to being a responsible person for my own health.  The short-term high from a calorie-laden sweet or a too-big helping of food has become less and less appealing over the last ten months.  I think that is real progress.  My weight is nowhere near my goal weight, but my clothes fit better, my double chin is on the brink of disappearing, and my resolve to make my lifestyle healthy as well as full of joy is a fact.  Sometimes I forget this, but my "diet amnesia" is much less in control of my senses than it has been in the past.

       &nb sp;               &nb sp;             ***************

This week's homework

How are you doing with your goal, are you on the road to success?

I am on the road to success.  I have met my goals 90% or more most of the time.

Do you need to get out of the ditch?

I do need to be better with logging my efforts.

Have you been re-routed on a detour?

I am slowing down in my enthusiasm, but basically I'm doing better than I have before in any of my stated goals.

The above is also my checkin for this week.

Hey Everyone!

I am finally into my new place. It is so so very nice! I am excited about it, but still have quite a bit of settling to do. I got an amazing amount of unpacking done yesterday, but there are a couple things holding up the rest of it. I need to have my dining room table repaired, and my washing machine got broken during the unpacking. So while laundry is piling up a bit, and still boxes waiting to be unpacked, the good news is... my new living room furniture will arrive in one week! THIS, is truly exciting to me. I have not had new furniture... wow, I just realized.... my whole life. Its always been second-hand!

CHECKIN:

This will be quick, I have to go to my new gym to get registered.

I can't believe we are at the half-way point. I will go as far as to say, I FEEL successful, given all that I have had to do lately with regard to being physical. However, I will go ahead and qualify last week as my second "slack" week. Even though I worked out three times, I did not manage to get any lifting in. It was all Zumba. YES, I love Zumba. If you haven't, you should. :>)

I will venture to say, the cardio activities are becoming more appealing to me. I really need to drive myself more when it comes to lifting these days. I have been getting it done, but have actually found myself going to Zumba for two hours instead of just one.... that's how much I enjoy it. Yet, when I do that, I find myself a little more tired the next day, and feel like I have to drag myself to lift... I just need to fine tune the lens, and refocus. It's all good I suppose, at least I am still exercising! This time last year, I'd have thought you were crazy if you asked me to get off the couch even one time in a week... let alone three.

SO, that being said, I will know more in the future to be even LESS specific with my goals. Wow, who'd have thought I was too specific? LOL! I should have just said, work out 3 times per week. Instead of requiring NROLFW 3 times. ANYWAY... I am on track, going to the gym this evening, to be successful for the next 6 weeks. I am on pass/fail at this point, and oooohhh how we dislike failing... LOL! I must win, and I will. So there... take that! ....little orange self-doubt personified guy! I just squashed him like a bug.

Ok, time to stop being silly, and get back to work... will check in again soon!

Have a Healthgain Day,
~Julie

Julie - congrats on getting all moved in and on your first new furniture! How exciting! I've never had new furniture either (and currently don't have any of my own as we're long-term housesitting for someone - well, for a few more months at least). In any event, I can just imagine how nice that must feel- yay!

MsMeg - that website looks very cool - thanks for sharing!

As far as a check-in goes, I'm doing pretty well on the diet, but not so great on the exercise. However, this is my first week of officially not having a lot to do on a scheduled basis, so job hunting and exercising will be my full-time gigs. Also, I just received this neat cookbook as a present and will try to make some of recipes from it.

Sara reminded me that I've been on this group for about 6-months now. Wow! Hard to believe it's been that long and with a lot of up and down progress which has left me somewhere near where I started in terms of weight. In terms of learning to be more aware of what I'm eating, though, my intuition has grown phenomenally! It is really helpful to be able to guesstimate the calories in something by visualizing it as a 1/2 cup, 1 cup, 3 oz., etc. Also, I'm surrounding myself with healthier, yet satisfying, food choices.

Also, I'm building up a collection of restaurant nutrition information  that I should be able to share on the google site. I've found these really help a lot when it comes to eating out - something my husband and I love to do. I'm a huge foodie which means that I need to also be a better exerciser! haha. Luckily some of the best meals are the ones prepared with minimal bad things - my husband makes a great pork chop simply by marinating it in lemon juice and oregano while it's being broiled. yummmm

This group has been a tremendous help to me in terms of attitude about exercise - which I have always disliked - partially b/c of clumsiness and partially because my imagination runs away with me. However, Sara's weekly questions have given me a chance to reflect on that part of my life and to build my positive thinking about exercise. It's also helpful to see what others do to motivate themselves in this area.

Well, that's a quick synopsis of how my life has been improving over the past few months in terms of health and eating. Now that school is over, wish me luck at dropping all the weight gained from non-stop studying! :-)

Thanks! - Carrie

Happy new house and congats on the new furniture coming.  You must have gotten in so much "exercise" because of the unpacking. 

Quick reply for now.

Dove Totally agree with you on the water, I read the same myth buster on that as you may have. When I get to water (if I get to water) I generally focus on water intake to keep me hydrated, which I'm terrible at.... i.e. I'm not eating enough of the foods I should be eating for my body to easily get water from them... or to keep me full. Downing a glass of water before I cut into that ice cream often cuts in half any binge I'm about to embark on. 

Kathy I hope I do cheerful a bit too :) I find that at times I'm unhappy with my success over the last year. If I had just done everything perfectly I'd be down another 50 lbs by now. Of course the flip side of that is that I would have completely fallen off the wagon and likely gained another 15 lbs total. So my initial loss of 40 lbs, gain of 10 lbs for a net loss of 30 lbs is a good place to be relatively speaking. I keep having to remind myself of that. Now, of course I'd like to loose another 30 lbs this year. Here's to us slow and steady learners.

Julie Congratulations on getting the move complete, and great job getting the work outs in even in this hectic time. Really if we had said that to you 9 months ago what would have happened? You are an inspiration as always. Who knew you too specific :)

Carrie Cool about the restaurant information. I'm looking for ways to find information on ethnic foods, there are some here on CC but they are not the types of foods we have here in Canada, serious lack of west indian foods to be specific. I'm also not too far from where I started, but considering that I've been a consistent gainer for the last 8 years I keep having to remind myself that it is an achievement not to gain. Of course I'm hoping for the loss to come again as well.

Sara.

Hi all, 

Add my congrats to Julie with everyone else's. I hate moving so my hat is off to you. 

The week in review: 

I finally got on the scale after all the emotional turmoil, multiple visits across country for my mom, etc. Well it has taken it's toll. I am up 10lbs. I knew I was up so this is not a surprise for me. I guess I was ready to see the number. My husband has been kind of bugging me and I have been placating him with the " well, I have gained 5lbs.." 

I have been getting in my exercise - I have been taking a class two nights per week and then running 4 days anywhere from 50 minutes to 90 minutes. But, my eating has tended towards comfort foods. So, honestly it is truly understandable. I am trying to find my way back onto the wagon. I know I will - I think that my mom's death has hit me harder than I thought it would. It is weird when for your whole life that person was a phone call away and now that is no longer possible.  My husband thinks that I am depressed but I am actually quite functional so I don't feel depressed. I have been depressed where you can't get out of bed and I don't feel like that. 

The other weird thing is that as soon as I eat I want to fall asleep - this has been happening more and more.  Not sure what is going on with this.. 

1/2 way check in: 

I am actually about 75% on the money on my exercise and about 30% on my food. 

And so it goes...

Hello all!

Things are getting crazy for me these days.  It's getting down to crunch time for me, in my studying for the LSAT, which I may or may not take on June 8th, depending on what my score looks like in the practices I do the week before.  So I've hardly been spending time on the other things I have going on, but I am trying to keep my goals in mind...

This week's topic:

(new) Eat an average of 1700 calories/day.  Err... I struggle with this one.  I'm really temperamental with planning ahead, and all too often I'm logging calories at the end of the day and going over my target.  As of today my average is 1900, which is maintenance for me (best I can tell).  I've actually been pretty on-target this past week, which means this average is lower than it was some days ago.  A good thing?  I'm plugging away.  At some point I'm going to have to think hard about how to attack this goal better.  If I can miraculously keep my intake low these next weeks I may still meet it, but...

(maintenance) Exercise at least twice weekly (calculated by average)  Super.  I did not do a darned thing last week, but I've been so good before and since that if I keep it up I'll definitely meet and maybe even pass this goal.  Which is nice.  I'm at 2.5 times a week (average), and that should go up after this week.

So I guess I'm hanging out on the shoulder of the road to success? 

Check-in:

With all of that, largely because I haven't been able to get my food intake to where I want it (although it has come down from the weeks prior to the challenge) the scale reading isn't very different.  I'm trying a new strategy for motivation, which is to break things up into small one-week challenges.  So this week my challenge is to exercise every day.  Next week might be to average 1550 calories/day, or something.  Still thinking about it. 

Dove I tried going low-carb at one point, and I have to say the appetite thing was my biggest observation.  I had no appetite at all after day 3.  I eventually dropped it (maxed out on protein.  I never wanted to see meat again!  But I got over that soon enough :) ), but boy, if I could keep my munchies under control now my life would be so much easier!

Julie enjoy your new gym!

Carrie that restaurant list sounds great.

More later (hopefully, unless I'm drowning in logal reasoning!) , happy mid-week to all!

Hi all!

Well since I'm not doing the goals this time around I thought I would still reflect on this 6 week period. I've been very busy so exercise has fallen to the side and so has logging, it's been non existent. Last weekend (3 day weekend) was spent getting the garden started, planting seedlings, spreading cedar chips in the alleyways, watering... And I can feel it in my legs. So some physical activity, but no "real" on purpose exercise. Without the 12 week goals to focus on and report back to all of you, I just loose the focus and time slips by. Without noticing it another week has gone by. I've been very busy, but still time can be found somewhere. Even my husband told me he would do the running program without me, I'm slowing him down. He waits for me but I come home too late from work or I have something else to do. This is very disappointing. *Sigh*

In the last 6 months I have been trying to get focused but everything seems to be slipping away from me. I realise, with all I've learned from WJ, that I must look to the future and not the past. I need a more focused plan with accountability to help me make progress in my goals. Last round of goals I did make it 60% of the way there. So that's a big help. I will participate next time for sure.

Dove, are you on a specific low carb diet? I tried it once, Dr. Phil's quick start program, for about 1 week. I stopped when I thought I would blow my boss's head off with a shotgun. Lol!!! No really I was getting really crazy on that. Not enough sugar to the brain or something.

Julie, I totally strive for what you have accomplished. I'm a couch potato wannabe fit person. Good for you, in 1 year you have turned around your life. At least when it comes to exercise. Hopefully by this time next year I will be successful and have incorporated this in my life.

Have a great week everyone!

WEEKLY CHECK IN

I had a tough week, fell of the wagon constantly.

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I'm doing great with the calorie goal, have problems with the other one. I'm not discouraged but I thought it would be easier to get the hang on handling percentages.