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Rascal Avoidance Club check-in (wellness thread, not a no-kids thread)
A surprising number of people think this is a no-kids club so figured I'd quit using the # symbol and add the description to the thread title.
Sorry for no thread last week, I was away. I would have ended up in a rascal during vacation had we not done so much walking around Montreal and Quebec City, including a walk to the very top of Mont Royal (a verrrrrrry big hill, OMG). I also kept up with my running while on vacation. But my eating was horrendous - poutine every day, sometimes twice a day! But I honestly didn't care. I knew that once I got home and fell back into my usual routine, I'd lose the excess weight without dwelling on it and I definitely feel back to normal now already.
A week and a half until my half marathon, oh boy. I was doing so well with training for a sub-2:00 time but when I got sick for a week a few weeks ago, it completely threw me off my game. Speedwork has been non-existent this month so I'm scared I will miss my goal. I have a strategy for how to pace myself during the race, and I'm at least ready for the distance itself after a good 11.5 mile run on Saturday. This Saturday I think I will do 8 miles using my pacing strategy to see how it feels. Then next Saturday is the race. I am a perfectionist and I know I'm going to be very down on myself if I finish slower than my goal, but I have to just tell myself this is only my first half marathon and I will take whatever experiences I have during the race and learn from them to pursue my goal next time.
Hope everyone had a great week (or 2 weeks!).
Re: Rascal Avoidance Club check-in (wellness thread, not a no-kids thread)
When I went to the top of Mont Royal there were psychotic squirrels that chased me and the dude I was with. To be fair it was the end of winter so they were probably punchy from hunger having used up all their stored up nuts or whatever, haha!
Ooh, Marie. Montreal and Quebec City, I'm jealousE!
I think that I have been lying to myself until now, saying that I just wanted to get into better shape, blah blah blah, but after a few days with my pants being too tight (6 months ago they were loose), I've realized I need to get serious and have at least 10 pounds of fat that has no business being there.
I've been doing OK with the gym, averaging 3 times a week, but I had a wedding this weekend and in general have not been doing so well with the food. I need to find a way to organize and cook better even with work. It sounds stupid, but I've never had to do this since the only other time I really tried to lose weight we were in Turkmenistan, and thus had very little of a social life and few restaurants that we could eat in without getting sick, which made it easier to stick to healthy food.
Day three of my 10000+ steps a day campaign and I'm realizing just how lazy I really am. But this is the reason for doing it, to focus on moving more so onward and upward!
I'm also trying to increase my protein intake because when my daily protein consumption is more than my carb consumption I always lose. Always. Just trying to balance out getting enough fiber is what gives me trouble.
I'm still going to claim membership, even though I'm not really trying to lose weight anymore. That is mostly frowned upon for ladies in my condition (i can't update my siggy to include a ticker, and i like to make random announcements like this) I am still watching my food and trying to eat as well as possible. My last couple of workouts have left me sore for days, when prior they wouldn't have bothered me at all, so I'm cutting back but not cutting it out completely. I did 40 minutes of Zumba and some light strength training last night and feel like a truck hit me.
I don't usually participate in the check-ins, but I had a really good WW weigh in last Saturday.
I have lost 21.4 pounds and am officially below my pre-pregnancy weight from being PG with DD. Yay!
I still have a long way to go until I reach my ultimate goal of a healthy-for-me weight, but I had to celebrate this milestone.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DAfter a 1 month plateau, the scale is moving ever so slightly. However inches are falling off fast! A coworker noticed my weight loss and said I looked great. It was awesome to say that I hadn't actually lost much weight, but instead a lot of inches. My clothes are getting baggy on me and I need to go buy new workout clothes. Feels great!
I'm struggling with some exhaustion though. Not sure what it is since I'm getting enough sleep, and I recently increased my calories. I did start HIIT this week, so that might be it...just a new workout routine.
I'm amazed at how well I've done truly changing me eating habits. My son's birthday was last Saturday and there was delicious chocolate cake with bavarian cream middle. I had one piece, only enjoyed half of it and despite the entire cake sitting on my counter all week it hasn't once sounded good. I would rather eat carrots and hummus. When did that happen???
Keep up the hard work ladies. I enjoy reading about your experiences.
And congrats on the weight loss MrsAJL! Good work everyone too so far. LM, good luck!
You don't need to want to lose weight to participate - I haven't been trying to lose weight for a few weeks but I'm still here.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DKCB!! Are you having Damon Salvatores baby?
For reals though, congratulations!!!!
I ran on Monday. That's my big accomplishment for the week.
I was going to run today, but groomy comes home late on Tuesdays. I need to cut my anxiety pills in half because I can't get out of bed after I take a whole one.
My stomach hates me, so I've come to dread eating everything but breakfast.
It's hard to eat healthy when pizza doesn't bother your stomach but salad does.
HARUMPH.
Indeed. Congratulations!
Hehe, congratulations!!
Yay KCB!!!!!!! congratulations!!
Although I did think that marie was about to announce a new Giants fan lol.
KCB!! You are out of the closet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*squeeee*
I just danced in my office to Take Me Out. That is my contribution to my work out today, although I am going to mow so there is that
I am frustrated beyond all belief. I've really been working on cleaning up my diet and upping my exercise and, although I'm definitely losing inches, the scale will.not budge. Well, that's not true, I finally dropped 3 pounds after about 6 weeks. I'm happy to see the difference in my clothes and to be losing inches, but damnit I want to drop some weight!
I'm rollerblading or doing zumba 4 days/week and doing yoga 2-3x/week, plus whatever mountain biking or hiking we do on the weekend. How TF can I be so fat????? Oh yeah, all those years of starvation dieting followed by years of eating and drinking like there's no tomorrow. Don't mess around with your metabolism, girls, it's a real mother!
ETA: congratulations, KCB!
5 weeks tomorrow, so it is super early. We found out "maybe" Good Friday (is that a line? i don't know) and then followed up with daily positive tests through Monday following. No dr. appt until 8 weeks (and i don't actually see my ob until 12 weeks, man!) Thanks so much for the good wishes! I'm cautiously optimistic, but a little bummed about no yummy beverages on savannah vacay next week. oh well. i'm not getting any younger.
ETA: Not Damon Salvatore's baby, as that is impossible since he is a vampire. :)Possibly Alaric's baby. Possibly. Of course Kat refers to an Edward (Twilight) barbie someone got me as a gag gift as her "Daddy Doll" so possibly I could have two children fathered by vampires. Or as DH is also possessing dark hair and insanely blue eyes we shall pretend.
I'm sorry, I just had to!!!
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DCongrats KCB!! That's so exciting!
Things have been going fairly well for me. I'm heading home today after being on the road for a week, and I was petrified about that. I didn't want to undo all the hard work I did by being at the mercy of restaurants and limited gyms. I think despite those factors, I still made good choices and worked out as hard as I could. Yesterday my friend and I got lost in Vegas and walked about 5 miles (and that was on top of my hitting the hotel gym in the morning). So I'm pleased with all of that, but ready to be back home. I want a salad.
I'm doing a huge health screening tomorrow that includes body fat, bone density screening, and cholesterol. This will be my first cholesterol test since I started making all these changes, so I'm really keeping my fingers crossed it has gone down.
My H and I are also doing a century ride this weekend (100 miles!) which will be awesome, considering I've trained, oh, not at all for it.
Congrats!
Congratulations, KCB!
I'm finally fully 100% "back" from my round with the stomach bug last weekend, and am desperately trying to avoid more germs since J got the same bug on Monday. My half is on Sunday (eep!) and I'm as ready as I'll ever be. The weather is, as of right now, supposed to be lovely but a little cold...aka perfect racing weather. So as long as I can keep the mental wheels from falling off, game on. I've decided that if I PR on Sunday I'm buying myself something fun-either a Longchamp bag or something from Lululemon probably. The rest of this week's mission involves not stuffing my face with crap, hydrating a ton, and not getting hurt/sick.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DCongrats KCB! I went to Savannah during my 1st trimester last year, and was so excited to eat at the Lady & Sons. Instead I was so nauseous that I spent the entire dinner trying not to puke all over the table (and didn't get to eat anything).
I just got back from vacation, and ate a lot. I also walked around a lot, so I have no idea if I maintained. The good news was that my milk supply didn't tank, so that was a victory.
I felt super sad yesterday when I ate so many pistachios I got a blister on my thumb from cracking the shells ::embarrassed face::
I've meal planned for the week and hope to get out and do some good walking this week.
This has been week two of cutting 95% of sugar. (I still allow two raw sugars in my coffee in the morning, and fruit and natural smoothies).
I've been fluctuating between a pound up and down. Other than that, my workout game is kind of slacking due to weather and my schedule. I am excited that it is getting lighter earlier out, because I plan to do some early morning jogs coming up here soon.
ETA: KCB! Congrats. I read this whole thread intending to add that in there, and totally forgot. But, yay!
Zuma Zoom
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DDammit. I didn't realize I never logged out from AE day!! :-) I doubt Rick Santorum is doing anything with his husband this weekend.
Congrats KCB and AJL!
I'm up a pound but I can't be too sad about it since I'm a huge slacker anyway. I thought it would come down a TINY bit by today but nope. Though I could be starting my bloated phase (as is customary for me about now) so yet another reason to not beat myself up.
DH is making a new effort in weight loss which includes lots of veggies for dinner yet lots of snacks in the PM and only yogurt for breakfast. I wouldn't mind this as much if it weren't for the constant legitimizing of these actions as if they'll actually balance out and result in losing weight, OR if it weren't his magical alternative to not doing WW with me.
I give this week a: