Thurs 2/15

[Outback Jess]

Check in, how we doing STACers....How is it going with water, are you drinking it. 64oz to start with and then some. How about exercise, it's non-negotiable according to DANDR. How about your vitamins. Getting those in.
Are you involved in a ADBB challenge or opened a journal in journal chats. Are you making friends and visiting other forums and making use of this awesome place.
ARe you focused and slowly started to achieve your weightloss goals, water goals and exercise goals....

Today I am very focused on the basics. I return to them over and over usually as I visit here first thing each day. I am almost finished with my first 24oz of water. I jogged 2miles and died.... I just finished breakfast, made lunch and am focusing on the day, getting my Mom more settled back in at home. Not loosing sight of things.

I don't want to be who I was, I want to be a positive, healthy active person. I want to be that person NOT SOMEDAY, BUT TO-DAY. Literally today is all I have...every day adds up and I become more and more of who I wanted to be all along! It's all in those basics

[julirama723]

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Well today is a good day--it's a running day. I'm going for distance tonight, and I'm shooting for 4 miles. I'm not concerned about my time, I'm just concerned about enduring the 4 miles of running! I've got a day of healthy foods planned, got my water, and I'm right on track.

I had students bringing me candies, cookies, cupcakes, and chocolate all day long yesterday. I wasn't even tempted. They looked beautiful--everything was fluffy and pink and white--but they didn't even look like real food. I smiled politely, thanked them, wished them Happy Valentine's Day, and then promptly threw most of the stuff in the trash. I saved the wrapped candies to give away to other students. I had thought about "treating" myself to some sugar-free chocolate or some carb smart ice cream, but then I thought, that's just an excuse to eat junk food, albeit low-carb junk food. I'd have to count all the sugar alcohols ANYWAY, so why not eat something my body likes, and not something that will put me in the bathroom for three hours? So I made some fruit dip (cream cheese, heavy cream, SF vanilla syrup) and cut up strawberries, kiwi, and 1/2 a small banana--now THAT was a treat! I ate legal foods, no frankenfoods, felt great, and had a wonderful night with my sweetheart.

So I am proud that I didn't eat junk, and happy that today is a new day!

Have a great day, STACers!

[PigsInSpace]

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Yay, Julie. I totally understand what you said about things not looking like "real food". I go through that as well almost every day! We regularly have donuts, ice cream, cakes, fluffy cupcake creations, etc. at work to feed to people we care for. Especially around any Holiday! People brought in fudge and cakes and those fluffy white and pink things and I looked at it all laid out on the table and thought "they look so pretty", but in my mind, everything looked like a botique or some strange dream. I'm not easily tempted by sweets and sugar--bread is my thing, but I remember thinking how sick I'd feel if I ate any one of those things. Ugh, I'd get a headache, I'd feel tired and annoyed the rest of the day and I'd have to eat them all day just to keep from crashing! It feels good to take all of those things and just throw them into the trash, doesn't it?

So to answer the questions posed by Jess.....no, I'm not exercising enough or drinking enough water! I have a real problem here....I mentioned before that I have this pinched/enlarged nerve between my toes called a morton's neuroma. Well, I finally got a cortisone shot in it a couple of weeks ago, and it was wonderful...but it's not working anymore! Tremendous pain when I do any form of cardio, even just bicycle, and often just walking. So, i'm going to sign up to do the cryo-surgery which is a new treatment for this common problem, but it's rather pricey so I have to wait a couple of weeks. So, I'm bummed out that I can't get any cardio in until I have the procedure done. There just is no way, it literally feels like someone is jamming a hot poker in between your toes when I'm running or walking. And I love it so much!

But, on the bright side, I can do weight training and just focus on that, which is something I really need to work on. Annnnnd, my BF got me a MP3 player for V-Day so that i can listen to my tunes while I work out! I am sooo excited about this that I just can't believe it! Also, once that 24 huor fitness FINALLY opens up (Who knows when!) you can tune in your MP3 player to whatever TV/News station is playing and hear it in your ear! Wow, that's going to be awesome and i bet it will make work outs fly by!

So, I made a pact with myself for the rest of the month that no liquid will pass my lips unless it's water! I know that the more water you drink, the more water you want/need/crave. So I figure if I make it my only legal drink, that will help me get into the water drinking groove. Time to focus on being a water drinker!

Have a good day y'all!

[Outback Jess]

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Sounds like an awesome experience to re-gift your candies....and the fruit and dip sounds amazing...GOod luck on the 4 miles, I did it in 56 mins once....on the treadmill....got in a zone, and made it about surviving the distance, just like you not TIME...time comes when we've been running and have achieved a body weight that can deal with a clock

[julirama723]

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I'm going to try to shift my focus each week, alternating between distance and time. Last week I ran a 5K in 33:14 and I was so proud of myself! So this week, I'm going for distance, and I'll have to take it easy and pace myself.

[PigsInSpace]

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I can barely run a mile! GOOD JOB!

[Outback Jess]

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I can barely run a mile too! Juli you are the bomb, you are so motivated and day by day you are creating a lifestyle to be proud of. Felcia, girlfriend after you get your foot fixed you will be back at the cardio and having made it thru that "wall"....weight training is a great alternative because building strong lean muscle is very important. More muscle means more buring power, u use more calories up if you have more muscles...
You go girl...and oh yeah drink that water, it will do wonders for you...I have rarely met anyone who likes it! Make it your focus, something to win over!

[zencyn]

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Hi All, Doing good today. I've worked out everyday this week, also plan to work out tomorrow and Saturday. I'm also working away on my goal of 1 gallon of water/day. Food is going good, but I need to grab a snack in a few - lateafternoon through bedtime is the worse for me.

Jess, I have to say you are a very good motivator!!!

Julie, good luck on the 4 miles - I admire you, jogging is not my thing at all!!! I hate it!!!

Felicia, that sounds awfully painful, good luck with the new treatment.

[LuckyD]

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Hi Everyone,
I have had a great day so far. I went to the gym for my 'work-up' for the 'Lose-to-Win' contest. It was an interview about my lifestyle and then a working out plan. I was so afraid when she asked me about what I ate because I kept imagining these scenarios where I would get 'lectured" on how bad Atkins is. I was rehearsing for days what I would say in its defense when she started in. Well, she didn't say anything. She said great! I was so relieved! She asked if I thought that I had good eating habits and I said they are 'excellent!' She was pleased that I was so committed to my lifestyle. After it was all said and done and taking my personal history she said my health-age was 44! My husbands health age was 58 and he is 46....I tried not to gloat! Anyway this board and the contest at my gym have just been such wonderful motivations for me.

[kylie]

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So far so good today. Water about 3/4 done. Food - check. I had the best dinner - you all might think it's a gross combo...a little hamburger steak w/ fried eggs and turnip hashbrowns. Took a walk but my hands and ankles were aching from the cold, so I cut it short. Will hit the bike miles in a bit...but still have to skip the arm part. I am getting pretty good at doing it that way, but it feels a little strange.

Hope everyone else is having a great evening!

[cincywbbw]

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Vitamins yes, water yea, cheat free yes, excersise, well that aint going so good, The ice storm knocked out my power, had to leave the house. Caught a cold, got the sniffles. I am feeling rotten.

[Outback Jess]

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ahhh cincy, sounds like NO FUN! Glad you have all the other things happening!

[knicknack]

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Hi folks...

Haven't been around much, i'm absolutely crazy stressed with work. I'm not sleeping well (last night I thought that my dresser was a man walking into my bedroom, for example) and not able to eat. I'm hungry but then when I get in front of food I have no desire to eat it. I think I've lost 5 pounds in the last week. It's pretty bad.

Then, to top it off, on valentine's day my boyfriend told me that he was furious because I wasn't any 'fun' anymore because i'm stressed out. He knows about what is going on, knows i'm not eating and sleeping, can see how tired I am and worried, and he knows why I'm so anxious, so it's not like some kind of big secret that he can't figure out. So, even though he knows all of this, he's still mad at me, because he 'only sees me twice a week' and i'm 'no fun' anymore. So yeah, JUST what I needed on top of everything else. I'm pretty darned mad, let me tell you. I havne't heard from him since then either, which makes me even madder, because he acts like a selfish jerk and yet somehow still thinks that he's the one being slighted. So, now my stomach is tied up in knots over THIS too.

Gah. Sorry for the rant. Just really sad and upset and mad about this. I can't believe he is acting like this, you'd think he'd try to be there for me instead of getting mad at me for being stressed over work.

*sigh* I mean really, if there were anything I could do about it, don't you think I would?

Anyway, that's my story. That's why i haven't been around. I'm half tempted to go buy junk food to see if I'll be able to eat that but the thought doens't even appeal to me. That's how bad it is. :P Usually I'd drown relationship angst in a bag of chips but I don't even want to do that. Odd, no?

So, here's hoping he doesn't know about this place and isn't reading about it as we speak. :P

Water: check
food: well, it's all legal but there isn't much of it
exercise: ha!

[Outback Jess]

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oh Knicky I am so sorry, I'd give ya a big hug if you were here. I hope what ever is troubling you so deeply right now can be worked out and that you will find some rest this weekend. You know I think you have posted about getting plain flat out sick when you ate badly, now I don't think you need that on top of the stresses you are going thru with work and your BF....I wish there was something I could say past the generic statements, tho deeply true, I am sure you've said them all to yourself already, cause you are a pretty smart gal. Hang in there, whatever it is, will eventually come to pass or move on past, and this will be a momentary bad memory!
Glad you came and ranted and raved....

[knicknack]

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Yeah, you're right Jess... Adding a bunch of junk into my diet won't help anything. Although I'm not sure the junk sick is any worse than the feeble from lack of food sick. :P

I just hope *something* resolves itself with work or the bf, cuz honestly, I don't know how much more I can take. I was teetering on the edge of an all out freak out already, but this...this is like adding a bunch of gasoline to an already raging fire.

*sigh*