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Teresa avatar
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okay my little fitness wannabees... here it is. and thanks for deciding on this thread name. After sharing our goals and strategies for fitness and weight reduction, we'll all be sowell on sowal!!!

Cork and I are doing at least one yoga/pilates class per week now. plus we bicycled the other day (almost killed me). and plan to do exercise on our own at home as well.

as far as diet and weight reduction, we haven't really gotten very far. I'm reading two current resources for motivation and just general info: Body for Life for Women (A Woman's plan for Physical and Mental Transformation) - Pamela Peeke, MD, and The Reality Diet (fight fat with fiber) - Schnur, MD. They are both really straightforward, no nonsense approaches to weight loss - and include a lot of info on weekly menus, exercise, etc.

I know that I will need a menu plan to follow in the first 3 months of my "transformation". If I have a reasonable menu to follow, then I don't mind shopping and cooking. Having it all planned out makes it easier for me, and it makes me eat things that I would otherwise avoid or not think about eating (it expands the culinary experience)...

What are your goals? I need to finish up some of my reading and then I plan to put my goals on paper, along with my plan to achieve them. I have also already started a food and exercise journal.

I'll be sharing some of this with you. I hope we can all share successes, questions, recipes, exercise tips, etc... hope to see you on here every day looking for motivation and at the same time giving support to all of us.. :D

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Beachmom avatar
Beach Fanatic
#802
:lolabove: be afraid, be very afraid...I need to go for a walk now!
Mango avatar
SoWal Insider
#803
BM: oh, just go jump right up on it and let it know who's boss!!! :rolling: do not show your fear!!!

(sorry for calling you BM, but I knda like it)

:lolabove: be afraid, be very afraid...I need to go for a walk now!

All this BM talk :eek: , I am sure you will now have a little spring in your step.:funn:

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Sheila avatar
SoWal Insider
#804
:lolabove: be afraid, be very afraid...I need to go for a walk now!


Beachmom,

I just know we've met before! Now you even sound like someone I know. :floor: Great to meet you last night! :clap_1: You'll feel better after that walk. ;-)
picky
#805
well, I went to visit my doctor today about this nasty cold, and they made me weigh. as always, those scales had me weighing about 5 pounds more than I thought. of course, I had on my BF MBT shoes, jeans, a belt, a shirt, underwear, bra, a bracelet and a necklace... I am going to ignore that reading.

I weighed on my own scales yesterday by the way Ms DD. and as suspected, I had not gained or lost.


When that happened to me the last time, I went straight home, stripped, and weighed my BF MBT shoes, jeans, a belt, a shirt, underwear, bra, a bbracelet and a necklace...and concluded that the doctor's scale was wrong. :roll:
kathydwells avatar
Darlene is my middle name, not my nickname
#806
Today we are having our annual potluck, cookout at work today. Our bosses all buy all these fabulous hamburgers and grill them. The rest of us all bring something. You should see the food in our breakroom. So, confession time. I am going to eat with gusto today, and not feel the least bit guilty about it. It only happens once a year so I am going to indulge!!! I will let you know what all we had when it is over!!!!
Teresa avatar
SoWal GuideAuthor
#807
When that happened to me the last time, I went straight home, stripped, and weighed my BF MBT shoes, jeans, a belt, a shirt, underwear, bra, a bbracelet and a necklace...and concluded that the doctor's scale was wrong. :roll:

thank you.


Today we are having our annual potluck, cookout at work today. Our bosses all buy all these fabulous hamburgers and grill them. The rest of us all bring something. You should see the food in our breakroom. So, confession time. I am going to eat with gusto today, and not feel the least bit guilty about it. It only happens once a year so I am going to indulge!!! I will let you know what all we had when it is over!!!!

:clap_1: good for you my friend.
Beachmom avatar
Beach Fanatic
#808
Beachmom,

I just know we've met before! Now you even sound like someone I know. :floor: Great to meet you last night! :clap_1: You'll feel better after that walk. ;-)
GTBM- I'm with you on that thought- driving me crazy, but I can't remember. Still haven't gone for that walk...
InletBchDweller avatar
SoWal Insider
#809
ok I was pretty good all day until I cam to the camp for the night.
I made red beans and rice, with sausage. I could not resist....I am in a cooking mood(usually am at the camp) I also plan on making jambalaya, smoked chicken salad, and who knows what else. I do need a sweet in there.:rolling:
Jdarg avatar
SoWal Expert
#810
ok I was pretty good all day until I cam to the camp for the night.
I made red beans and rice, with sausage. I could not resist....I am in a cooking mood(usually am at the camp) I also plan on making jambalaya, smoked chicken salad, and who knows what else. I do need a sweet in there.:rolling:

Man this sounds like one nice camp! Sounds like you have a gourmet kitchen there!:clap_1:
DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#811
ok I was pretty good all day until I cam to the camp for the night.
I made red beans and rice, with sausage. I could not resist....I am in a cooking mood(usually am at the camp) I also plan on making jambalaya, smoked chicken salad, and who knows what else. I do need a sweet in there.:rolling:

I can be there in 12 hours. YUM!
InletBchDweller avatar
SoWal Insider
#812
Well little IBD is asleep and I have a liquor cabinet full!!!:rolling:
DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#813
Well little IBD is asleep and I have a liquor cabinet full!!!:rolling:


Can ya send a car for me?;-)
InletBchDweller avatar
SoWal Insider
#814
darn, sorry my limo is out tonight, if you had just wanted it last night....:lolabove:
DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#815
darn, sorry my limo is out tonight, if you had just wanted it last night....:lolabove:

dammit!:bang:
Teresa avatar
SoWal GuideAuthor
#816
this thread has gone to hell in a handbasket. maybe it was all the cheeseburger and fry tars.

we're going to have to appoint someone to really crack the whip after the soiree. who wants to be the whip cracker? anyone? volunteers? nominations?
DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#817
this thread has gone to hell in a handbasket. maybe it was all the cheeseburger and fry tars.

we're going to have to appoint someone to really crack the whip after the soiree. who wants to be the whip cracker? anyone? volunteers? nominations?

I nominate Miss Kitty. She seems to keep us all in line pretty well. We just gotta get her over here...
I am bad...I didn't even remember that this WAS the SoWell thread. What has happened to me? I need professional help!:bang:
InletBchDweller avatar
SoWal Insider
#818
Teresa avatar
SoWal GuideAuthor
#819
I nominate Miss Kitty. She seems to keep us all in line pretty well. We just gotta get her over here...
I am bad...I didn't even remember that this WAS the SoWell thread. What has happened to me? I need professional help!:bang:

no, I think you are the best sowell whip cracker. you just need & deserve a sowal vacation. hey, tangents are liberating. go for it....
DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#820
no, I think you are the best sowell whip cracker. you just need & deserve a sowal vacation. hey, tangents are liberating. go for it....

ok...but it won't be pretty. btw, is that blue cheese on your burger? :biggrin:
Teresa avatar
SoWal GuideAuthor
#821
ok...but it won't be pretty. btw, is that blue cheese on your burger? :biggrin:

frankly my dear, I have no idea.

DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#822
frankly my dear, I have no idea.


Is that me?
and yes, I believe it is b.c.
at least i want it to be!
Teresa avatar
SoWal GuideAuthor
#823
Is that me?
and yes, I believe it is b.c.
at least i want it to be!



Destindreamin cracking the whip on Sowell come Monday week
DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#824

Destindreamin cracking the whip on Sowell come Monday week

looks just like me!!!:floor:
DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#825
Don't forget, girls....Next Monday (night--I'll be on the road all day) will be your worst nightmare. You've got one week of pleasure before it's time to shape up. Enjoy your tasty little morsels for now, life as you know it may never be the same. As SJ says, "this is your warning."

Signed,
Whip Cracker
Miss Kitty avatar
Meow
#826
:eek: ...I have been avoiding this particular thread and see that y'all have been as well. But, I just burned up some calories laughing at you goof balls!!! :floor:

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