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 2007-10-19 2:19 PM in reply to: #1015865 |
Expert  851    Oceanside, CA |  Subject: RE: We're Winning Together - WW and Friends of WW :-) 10/14-10/20 (formerly known as Winning with Wlastcall2003 - 2007-10-19 11:01 AM we all go through those tough times! I'm sure it's not helping that DH has attitude as well - you'll have to tell him to 'suck it up buttercup' as well - LOL way to hang in there and not give up! I just found out that DH got his stitches removed (again), so hopefully his attitude will improve now that he might be able to get out and run/cycle again. No swimming for awhile tho. |
| 2007-10-19 2:34 PM in reply to: #1016085 |
TinkerBeth 23096   Liverpool, New York | Subject: RE: We're Winning Together - WW and Friends of WW :-) 10/14-10/20 (formerly known as Winning with W MrsUSMC - 2007-10-19 2:19 PM lastcall2003 - 2007-10-19 11:01 AM we all go through those tough times! I'm sure it's not helping that DH has attitude as well - you'll have to tell him to 'suck it up buttercup' as well - LOL I just found out that DH got his stitches removed (again), so hopefully his attitude will improve now that he might be able to get out and run/cycle again. No swimming for awhile tho.
way to hang in there and not give up! here's hopin'!! I'm sure it will help - it can't hurt, right? |
| 2007-10-19 2:53 PM in reply to: #1007235 |
Expert 851 Oceanside, CA | Subject: RE: We're Winning Together - WW and Friends of WW :-) 10/14-10/20 (formerly known as Winning with W Let's hope. I am going to tell him tonight that his funk has been giving me funk. I think I already used "buttercup" on him  |
| 2007-10-19 3:06 PM in reply to: #1016163 |
TinkerBeth 23096 Liverpool, New York | Subject: RE: We're Winning Together - WW and Friends of WW :-) 10/14-10/20 (formerly known as Winning with W MrsUSMC - 2007-10-19 2:53 PM Let's hope. I am going to tell him tonight that his funk has been giving me funk. I think I already used "buttercup" on him good call! ps, it made me giggle to think about you calling him buttercup! LOL |
| 2007-10-20 10:10 AM in reply to: #1007235 |
| New user 39 | Subject: a crazy-making plateau! So I went to WI this morning, and I weighed EXACTLY the same that I have weighed at every WI since mid-September. This is so incredibly annoying. And yes, that last month included my first tri (and the celebratory week 'off'), a vacation in Portland (and the penitential week of clean eating), and another 5K. But still. Really. This is just so frustrating to see that long row of -- 130.6, 130.6, 130.6, 130.6 -- in my little booklet. What the *@!%#? I know I need to get back to the gym. Plan my meals for the week. Schedule my workouts at a time that I'm less likely to skip them. Maybe I need to start training for something again, as motivation. But I also want to give myself a break from the slightly slightly obsessive training mode I was in before the triathlon. Does that makes sense? Ugh. Seriously -- next week I do not want to be at the same weight! Here's to a new week! letitia |
| 2007-10-20 10:24 AM in reply to: #1007235 |
Expert 1112 I'm a Tennessee girl living in SoCal. | Subject: RE: We're Winning Together - WW and Friends of WW :-) 10/14-10/20 (formerly known as Winning with W LOL! I can just imagine the look on Kahuna's face when you called him buttercup, Terri! LOL I arrived safely in Modesto yesterday. It too me about an hour longer to get here than I was expecting and I was pooped when I got here. Given I was so tired, I made sure to be extra careful when we had the opening mixer last night ... which had TWO large flowing chocolate fountains of goodness. One was milk chocolate and the other was white chocolate. I, however, did not indulge.  I stuck with the veggies, a plain pretzel stick, and some fruit. My only indulgences were a mini springroll and a mini spinach quiche. Overall, I was pleased with my choices. Breakfast this morning was complimentary at the hotel. I had some Cheerios with skim milk and a banana. The only real temptation food to me was the biscuits, but since I've not had a really good biscuit since I left Tennessee 11 years ago, I convinced myself those were probably just frozen ones and weren't any good anyway probably. LOL Hey, whatever works, right?! Hope everyone is having a great weekend! |
| 2007-10-20 10:30 AM in reply to: #1007235 |
Expert 851 Oceanside, CA | Subject: RE: We're Winning Together - WW and Friends of WW :-) 10/14-10/20 (formerly known as Winning with W Many years ago (maybe 12?) I weighed 180 pounds. I'm 5 feet 6 1/2 inches tall. I did step aerobics 6 days a week, and lifted weights (heavy) 3 days a week. I looked good! I was the office manager for the recreation department on the Marine Corps Base husband had been stationed at and got to be very good friends with the manager of the gym that was across the street from where I worked. He would come to my office every day for business purposes but it never failed that by the time he left he was practically calling me a liar (jokingly) when I told him how much I weighed. This went on for a couple of months before I finally let him talk me into weighing myself in front of him. He was shocked. He said I had to be solid muscle in order to weigh that much but not look it. My husband was in Japan when this was going on and hadn't seen me in a loooong time. He was a bit shocked, to say the least. My goal is not to really lose to a certain # on a scale (even though I have that listed in my blog), but to look like I did back then. Excuse me, but I was H.O.T. I don't know what your goal is or what your height is, but maybe what you're weighing now is what you should weigh for your body. It is just a number on a scale. How do you look? How do you feel? How are your clothes fitting? Talk to your group leader. If you're faithfully logging in all your food, take your journal with you so he/she can look at it. And I know you don't want to hear this, but it could be worse. You could have a gain, instead of a maintain. {{{{{Letitia}}}}} DH is out of his funk. He got inked again (twice) yesterday and got his stitches out. He got barbed wire around his left guns (purrrrrrr) and finished off what he started on his ankle last weekend. He is getting back to biking, running and lifting starting today. I am planning on walking 2 miles sometime today - I may split it up into 2 1-mile loops. I turned off my alarm last night and slept until 7 a.m. this morning. I cannot remember the last time I was in bed past 6 a.m. I'm being totally lazy this morning. It's 8:30, I'm still in pj's enjoying a cold cup of coffee because I've been playing with my puppies. We're headed out later to look at a couple of houses and maybe get my car detailed. Edited by MrsUSMC 2007-10-20 10:36 AM |
| 2007-10-20 11:06 AM in reply to: #1016845 |
TinkerBeth 23096 Liverpool, New York | Subject: RE: We're Winning Together - WW and Friends of WW :-) 10/14-10/20 (formerly known as Winning with W Solid advice Terri! When I was doing WW a few years ago, I had a # in mind, which was 135 lbs (I'm 5' 3&1/2" My leader talked to me (on more than one occasion) and finally got through to me that I was focusing on the wrong thing - She asked me to think about those same things, how I look, feel, how my clothes fit - and a very important question - did I think I could maintain a lower weight. I came to the conclusion that when it was all said and done, I really liked the way I look and I felt great and I really didn't want to go through the rest of my life beating my head against the wall trying to maintain a weight that was really just an arbitrary #) I would encourage you to talk to your leader as well :-) Celebrate the success of maintaining! Truly you should feel good about that - (i know, i know - easier to say when it's not you) :-) |
| 2007-10-20 11:10 AM in reply to: #1016845 |
TinkerBeth 23096 Liverpool, New York | Subject: RE: We're Winning Together - WW and Friends of WW :-) 10/14-10/20 (formerly known as Winning with W Melissa - sounds like you've really been making good choices! congrats! Terri - glad DH is out of his funk! sounds like you are having a wonderful morning - it's just nice to relax sometimes isn't it! I went and got my car serviced this morning, am taking my son to the airport in a few minutes and then am headed to the gym. It's been about 2 weeks since 'the incident' with the storm door - the cut is still quite tender, but I think I should be able to put a shoe on ok Have a great saturday everyone! |
| 2007-10-20 12:19 PM in reply to: #1007235 |
| New user 39 | Subject: RE: We're Winning Together - WW and Friends of WW :-) 10/14-10/20 (formerly known as Winning with W Okay -- I know it! You all are totally right!! Thank you so much for the reminder! I could have gained, and that would have been very frustrating (to say the least). I just had that initial post-WI frustration. I completely agree with you about not letting the tyranny of a particular weight goal blow up my fitness plan. In truth, I'm more concerned about body fat content -- but that's not something I can measure regularly with very much convenience. So thank you all for the reminder! I'm going to really get back to the gym this week, and see what happens. Realistically, I think I have a few more pounds to lose to get to a healthy, fit body composition/weight. But I think it's a little hard to know what I'm aiming at since I haven't been in really good shape at any point in my adult life. Terri -- I hope to achieve the state of fitness you were remembering!! That way, I'll always have this state-of-mind/body to look back at as a benchmark! And I haven't been very diligent the last few weeks about staying within my pt range. But if a few more weeks of this doesn't have any effect, I think I will talk to my group leader -- that hadn't occurred to me. Congrats on the new tattoos, all around -- hmm. I keep promising myself a navel piercing when I get my abs in good form |
| 2007-10-20 2:13 PM in reply to: #1016889 |
TinkerBeth 23096 Liverpool, New York | Subject: RE: We're Winning Together - WW and Friends of WW :-) 10/14-10/20 (formerly known as Winning with W springcomes - 2007-10-20 12:19 PM Okay -- I know it! You all are totally right!! Thank you so much for the reminder! I could have gained, and that would have been very frustrating (to say the least). I just had that initial post-WI frustration. I completely agree with you about not letting the tyranny of a particular weight goal blow up my fitness plan. In truth, I'm more concerned about body fat content -- but that's not something I can measure regularly with very much convenience. So thank you all for the reminder! I'm going to really get back to the gym this week, and see what happens. Realistically, I think I have a few more pounds to lose to get to a healthy, fit body composition/weight. But I think it's a little hard to know what I'm aiming at since I haven't been in really good shape at any point in my adult life. Terri -- I hope to achieve the state of fitness you were remembering!! That way, I'll always have this state-of-mind/body to look back at as a benchmark! And I haven't been very diligent the last few weeks about staying within my pt range. But if a few more weeks of this doesn't have any effect, I think I will talk to my group leader -- that hadn't occurred to me. Congrats on the new tattoos, all around -- hmm. I keep promising myself a navel piercing when I get my abs in good form that's what we're here for :-) Oh, and you do have to get a naval piercing! I got mine done 3 years ago as a reward for achieving lifetime and getting into shape - I also think my kids secretly think it's cool that I have a tat and got my naval pierced - LOL |
| 2007-10-20 5:06 PM in reply to: #1016889 |
Expert 851 Oceanside, CA | Subject: RE: We're Winning Together - WW and Friends of WW :-) 10/14-10/20 (formerly known as Winning with W springcomes - 2007-10-20 10:19 AM And I haven't been very diligent the last few weeks about staying within my pt range. But if a few more weeks of this doesn't have any effect, I think I will talk to my group leader -- that hadn't occurred to me. Letitia, I think the above statement says it all. If you're not staying OP, then you probably won't see a loss. Believe it or not I do NOT have a full body picture of me at that weight, but I do have a headshot. I see it everyday since DH has it on his dresser. Hang in there...and buckle down on keeping OP. We're here for you on the good and bad days. |
| 2007-10-20 5:36 PM in reply to: #1007235 |
Expert 715 Twin Cities | Subject: RE: We're Winning Together - WW and Friends of WW :-) 10/14-10/20 (formerly known as Winning with W Terri, great news on your DH, buttercup,... and, gotta love the "guns" and the new tats! I so agree with not being fixated on the number on the scale, but rather the level of fitness, how clothing fits, etc., etc. I have always shocked people when I tell them what I weigh (68" - 199, today). |
| 2007-10-20 5:52 PM in reply to: #1017087 |
TinkerBeth 23096 Liverpool, New York | Subject: RE: We're Winning Together - WW and Friends of WW :-) 10/14-10/20 (formerly known as Winning with W Yoganerd - 2007-10-20 5:36 PM Terri, great news on your DH, buttercup,... and, gotta love the "guns" and the new tats! I so agree with not being fixated on the number on the scale, but rather the level of fitness, how clothing fits, etc., etc. I have always shocked people when I tell them what I weigh (68" - 199, today). WTG Sharon! Not only did you maintain your weight while traveling - you came back to make some awesome choices. Totally cool! I think you are absolutely right about the water retention - I just find it so strange - after two days of being back on the ground and in home territory - I have already shed 3 lbs of water, bringing me almost back to where I was before I left. It will be Monday before I am all the way back down. Oddly enough, it even happens when I am on a road trip driving, I wonder if it has anything to do with being so sedintary? Hmmm, I'll probably never know |
| 2007-10-20 6:22 PM in reply to: #1017087 |
TinkerBeth 23096 Liverpool, New York | Subject: RE: We're Winning Together - WW and Friends of WW :-) 10/14-10/20 (formerly known as Winning with W Yoganerd - 2007-10-20 5:36 PM Oh, and fwiw I think this is one of the most fantastic quotes ever! WTG - I love that you are seeing the changes in yourself AND giving credit - damn girl - you are lookin' good! absolutely! Keep up the great work! |
| 2007-10-21 9:20 AM in reply to: #1007235 |
TinkerBeth 23096 Liverpool, New York | Subject: RE: We're Winning Together - WW and Friends of WW :-) 10/14-10/20 (formerly known as Winning with W Here's the link for the new thread! http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=94225&posts=1#M1017443 |
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