Healthy Accountability

Euphrasie · Senior Bucketkeeper

RE: Healthy Accountability

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

Got into size 14's today. Yeehaw. (I started in 22's, so DANG, I'm grinning

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I'm throwing a party when I hit the 50 pound loss mark. You are all invited!

Euphrasie · Senior Bucketkeeper

You rock.

I just got back from the gym. I rock too.

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

I've started jogging again. I had to stop running and I switched back to just walking and hiking for a bit. The issues with my shins just kept getting worse and the stretching wasn't helping. But this week I started jogging again and it's working. I think I'll just pace myself carefully and slowly and see if I can just keep this up.

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

Last Saturday I hit a big milestone. I have now lost 50 pounds!

So, to celebrate I'm throwing a party in this thread. Feel free to or whichever is your style.

:doing-the-happy-so-happy-to-not-have-to-shop-in-plus-sizes-anymore-dance:

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

Way to go girl!

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

Here is crossing my fingers for you that you don't rebound back.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

Wow. I haven't updated here in a while. I'm down 68 pounds now. 11 more and I'll be at my ultimate goal. The holidays and the little vacation we just took weren't super productive, but I'm back at it. Mostly, I was slacking off at the gym. (As in not actually going because it's too danged cold and dark in the mornings.) Anyone else using the new year as an excuse to refocus their health goals?

Smaug · Senior Member

I've actually been going to the gym 4 times per week since about September---but with all the sno we've had in Salt Lake over the last two months, and with my job as a walking mailman--that has really worn me down and I've needed to take substantial breaks from my working out in order to not collapse from exhaustion.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

I'm trying to eat more healthily again - wasn't so much with the New Year's, I guess.

Just last week I got motivated again and I've been good. It's amazing - when I've been eating healthy food even if it hasn't been that long and then, say, take one of the kids' fries or something it's just GROSS. It doesn't take long for my tastebuds or whatever to really get turned off by things, especially fast food.

And just so you know, the kids only get fast food about once every two weeks.

Thanks for the reminder, hic!

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

Cocobeem wrote:

It's amazing - when I've been eating healthy food even if it hasn't been that long and then, say, take one of the kids' fries or something it's just GROSS. It doesn't take long for my tastebuds or whatever to really get turned off by things, especially fast food.

Yes! And on the flipside, the healthier I eat, the better certain healthy foods taste to me. I can always tell how healthy I'm eating by whether I will eat raw tomatoes. When I'm eating junk, I can't stand em. But when I'm eating healthy, all I have to do is salt them a bit and I can eat a half a large tomato in a sitting. (Usually chopped up and with other food, but still, I'm eating em.)

Jen · Senior Bucketkeeper

I'm eating much better. Not seeing lots of difference in size and I don't own a scale so I don't know about my weight, but I do feel pretty good. :)

glumirk · Senior Member

I lost about 10 pounds over the holidays (well, the first week of the new year. yay right?), but the stomach flu and about 12 other sicknesses hitting you in 2 weeks will do that to you. The good news is that my stomach shrunk, so now as long as I only eat until I'm full, I'll be hungry earlier, but eating the smaller meals helps out the metabolism. Matt and I are trying to stay healthy. I get to ride my bike everyday to school, and we've made it a goal to play raquetball every Friday night before we watch Moonlight. I still average to about 4-5 pounds under where I was before the holidays, and I can definitely feel that I have more muscle in some places that used to not have so much, so I'm a-ok staying about the same. Our goal is to at least be about where we were when we married and not let ourselves gain too much weight. We figure as long as we watch ourselves and not eat food just because it's good we'll be all right.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

Not eat food... just because it's good...

Hmm.. I gotta think about that a while...

glumirk · Senior Member

Yeah...it's hard, but we've learned when we are full, and also that it can be fun to have leftovers of a really good meal instead of eating until we are moaning on the floor just because it tastes good.

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

BREAKING NEWS: Seventeen year old prom dress zips up on original owner.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

What the freak! You still have your prom dress? Yikes. I got rid of mine a long time ago - never really liked it in the first place.

I was just going to go find this thread as a matter of fact, so I'm glad you did!

I've started exercising. I've decided that I'm not losing the way I want to without it. Then I remembered that the only times I've really lost weight was when I was exercising. Took me a year to remember that.

So Wednesday it began. I went on a 2 mile brisk walk with the stroller (single stroller) - felt my hams and butt pretty good. Thursday and Friday I did 50 flights of stairs. (Not all at once - I'm weak, give me a chance, okay?) I can do that at home and at work so stairs is going to be a major part of the deal. I just don't see myself getting to the gym. I don't like to leave the family for that.

So I'll do a combination of walking and stairs and hey! My canyon's open now so we'll go hiking up the canyon now, too. Yay!

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

Hey, I'm not planning on wearing the dress again, it's the only thing I saved from that era, though. My mom made it and I just can't bring myself to give it away. It was a bit more snug than it was back in the day, but just getting it zipped is monumental.

More power to ya if working out at home works for you. I work about twice as hard and about 17 times more often if I can get away from the distractions of home to do it. I missed all of the last week and a half as the virus thingie swept through the house. I'm starting to crave a good workout. And I only have another week to get workouts in before, well, more stuff gets in the way again.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

So what's your big brag workout feat now? Can you bench 250 pounds or anything? Run a 4 minute mile? What...?

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

This spring has been awful for getting in regular exercise. We've had three big trips, at least as many illnesses and my foot is acting up. I get to have surgery on said foot next week. I will not being doing anything impressive for awhile. But this should clear the way for me to be able to take up jogging in the long term.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

It's just too hard for me to leave and do my own thing by myself. I don't want to take the kids to a babysitter to workout during the day. After school time is taken up with dinner preps, soccer and softball practices and games. It's either "with" the kids somehow or not at all at this point in time.

So this jogging of which you speak... do you go around a track, around your neighborhood, what?

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

Treadmill at the gym. Though I could do the neighborhood if I decided to give up the gym membership at some point. I'd miss the weights, though. And that getting out of the house fix. I go in the morning when MrHic is getting ready for work. Then I come back and he leaves and I get the kids going.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

Yeah, going in the morning doesn't work for me. MrCoco leaves for work at 6:15. Unless he's swimming - then it's 5:15. I just can't do that.

Treadmill, huh? Do you watch TV? iPod?

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

IPod. (Well, mp3 player.) I've pretty much found a good selection of music that makes me move.

palmon · Senior Member

My husband and I are trying the "No S Diet" - and it seems to work pretty well.
Rules:
On the days that do not begin with S
1. No between meal snacks
2. No sugar
3. No seconds. Put what you want on the first plateful but no seconds.

On the days that begin with S
All rules are off.

The idea is that by allowing the forbidden on weekends, your body is stopped from going into starvation mode. Plus, if you really crave that cookie - you get to eat it on the weekend.

And yes, we have lost weight.

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

That's great.

Part of me wishes that would work for me. Alas, I am a compulsive overeater (food addict) and if I had free weekends, I'd be throwing myself back into active addiction every five days. Not wise for me. I do relax calorie restrictions a bit here and there when I crave a splurge, but sugar is a never thing. (Ok, I shouldn't say never... if the you-know-what hits the fan, I'll use the sugar from food storage, I think.)

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

The no S diet. Hmm....

I heard that the Weight Watchers Diet was the only "proven" diet by some FDA or something. Basic calorie restriction. Nothing more.

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

Cocobeem wrote:

The no S diet. Hmm....

I'm surprised at you, Coco. You missed a perfectly good chance to use your favorite word.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

Yes, but you're all trained well enough now that you can read my mind.

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

What I'm getting now is that you need to do more stairs.

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

Just popping in to express my excitement about the following: In the month since I had foot surgery and the accompanying inactivity, I have only gained 2 pounds. That is a major victory for me. Two pounds is very reasonable and not at all bothersome. Just getting back to a normal activity level should take care of them.

Oh, and I got back to the gym today. Did a nice slow hike.

Jen · Senior Bucketkeeper

Family living here = Jennifer gaining weight. Must do something (hence my search for a good elliptical machine. That's always been the best exercise for me).

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

Well, now that I've outed myself about being pregnant, obviously my weight goals have changed. Ironically enough, now I'll be trying to gain weight. Though, realistically for the first trimester I'll be trying to not lose too much. As far as exercising goes, I'm trying to work up to a nice brisk hike on the treadmill at the pace my foot will allow. I'm also throwing in some walking around the neighborhood and gardening. Maybe some light weight-lifting at the gym, too. Does anyone here have a good pregnancy workout dvd they could recommend?

Euphrasie · Senior Bucketkeeper

I'm 3 for 3 for 3. Three weeks getting to the gym 3 times each week. Go me! Of course, the scales haven't budged. And the composition percentages haven't changed.

But I don't really care right now... I'm hoping this next week's trip doesn't mess me up. I think the hotel has a fitness center...

Congrats hiccups.

I used a Prenatal Pilates DVD that was pretty good if you like that kind of thing.

Jen · Senior Bucketkeeper

I ordered a cool elliptical last week. I'm excited. I wish it would hurry up and get here!

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

Very cool. Hope it works well for you.