Monday, January 11th

Scale at 125.2 today. I'm here bright and early before work. Did boot camp and yoga yesterday and I'm not really feeling that sore yet....maybe it didn't take long to get used to it!

Trampoline park tonight - gonna get my hops in! May not have time to stop in again today. Bod Pod testing tomorrow morning!

Have a great day losers (said with much affection)!

Paula

Good Morning !

     Did another mile yesterday. I'll look into some of the other options now available to me, such as water Zumba and deep water aerobics.  I want to check them out first, as I want to get the maximum workout for the time invested, and often these activities are not high intensity. I work better when the bar/challenge is constantly raising.

     Paula... I'm really eager to hear about your Bod Pod experience. The medical center where I had my VSG does offer this method of body composition measurement.  I would like to have a baseline as well as  hard data to share with anyone ("medical professionals") who try to refute the target range I have established.

     Downward trend continues... 141.6.  I am grateful that my "window of opportunity" was not lost after two weeks of adding food back in prior to Christmas.  I did gain valuable insight reinforcing the fact that it takes 3500 calories to gain a pound.  I was able to work through a three pound gain that was a result of increased carbs and sugar, not calories.  This is one of the first times I can remember that I reset and successfully got back on track, with no damage done.

     Have a great day stepping, bouncing, running, walking....and living !

Diane

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Good morning all,

No scale for me today not until Saturday. Yesterday was a higher carb day for me, but I needed the fibre, I was 21 calories over my calorie range of 1000 calories a day. But I needed it and it worked (say no more) LOL. Now I need to fight the carb monster that I turned back on. Crazy how that works. All in my head I know, but it is there and it is real for me. Recognizing it and not giving into it have been quite the journey and sometimes I win and sometimes I don't; for today I will win!!!!!

I am going to try and go to boot camp today at lunch, I will have to see, I woke up with a sore and slightly swollen ankle today but it is -32 here and it may be just the cold making it act up (old injuries). I didn't do anything to injure it and it was fine when I went to bed and since I had a rest day yesterday I can't see it being from anything I did. Mind you I think I have a bit of arthritis in that ankle, I know I have it in both of my feet in the big toe joint, a side affect of gout and weight loss and my Dr not listening to me when I told her that I think I have gout. She listened several months later and by then the damage had been done. OH well! It is what it is! So I will have to see whether or not I go today. It just may be another rest day from working out for me. Some days I feel my age, or should I say my years of an abused body age. Smoking, eating, drinking just basically all the indulgences. I quite often marvel at how my body has come back and I can do the things I do; and I do not take credit for any of it. It is like an out of body experience to me, it is like it is someone else's body and I get to use it. Not sure how to explain it.

I think it is kind of like one day, one minute, one hour, one second at a time because my real self is just sitting there waiting to rear its ugly head; so this borrowed for me, does that make any sense? So when someone says you rock or you are good at this, it really isn't me and I take no credit, it is all or can be fleeting if I don't protect it with my very life.

Anyway, thanks for letting me ramble on. I guess I just needed to leave here! 

Have a great day everyone!  Happy Monday!!!

Lorna

Lorna-

     You've got this !  That carb monster is not "all in your head".  Some bodies react to carbs even more significantly than others. There is a physical response happening.  Breathe... one challenge accomplished and on to the next !!!   Stay warm !

Diane

Completely agree about the carbs!  There is a physiological piece to this that most of us have to keep in check. 

126 this today which keeps me on my toes. 

I see lots of good thoughts in previous posts, so motivating to see people actively engaging to change body and mind. 

Vinyasa yoga on tap after work. 

Enjoy the day!

Shel

Morning peeps - scale is sticking with 116 this morning. I'm a little jealous of the poop that was produced by all of you this past week but I'll get over it ;-). My facilities were low yesterday because I was busy and chose low cal stuff. Wjen those factors are both in play, I'm reminded again of how little food we actually require.

Better weather here now with daily highs just above freezing. Sorry Lorna! Speaking of bad weather, booked a Canadian east coast trip for February.  Very excited about that because it's where I grew up and it's been more than 10 years since I've been back there. (Newfoundland). But feeling a little guilty because money is tight.  I had been longing for some connection to my family roots and the land itself, so off we go, credit card be damned. 

Lorna, your post gets me thinking about who I 'really' am in terms of weight/food. Is it the old me or the new me? No final answer but when I was heavy I often thought 'this really isn't me'. At my core, I think of myself as a thin person - one who got very off track with behaviors that didn't support being thin.  Maybe that comes from having been normal weight through childhood and adolescence (even though some abnormal eating behaviors began around puberty). I do think that colors how we see ourselves.  

Just so you aren't alone, I am a member of no/low poop club currently!