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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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DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#1227
You do know that you will find me in a padded room?

Do they have double accomodations?
Beachbummette avatar
SoWal Insider
#1228
Do they have double accomodations?

Yes DD...I will make them for you two!:clap_1: Now...step away from the ciggie's! You need to check out that link to Chantix too! I want you to quit .:wub: I will help with that....you crack that whip on the dieting and working out!:clap_1: :clap_1: We are all going to be smoking hot for the next SoWal Soiree:clap_1: I am thinking spring maybe:idontno:

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DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#1229
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Yes DD...I will make them for you two!:clap_1: Now...step away from the ciggie's! You need to check out that link to Chantix too! I want you to quit .:wub: I will help with that....you crack that whip on the dieting and working out!:clap_1: :clap_1: We are all going to be smoking hot for the next SoWal Soiree:clap_1: I am thinking spring maybe:idontno:

Thank you, BB. You're a doll!
Oh, I AM gonna quit.......I refuse to pay $5 a pack. I figure I can use the extra $$ to help pay for the padded room! Can you make sure it has hgtv, the food channel and bravo, please. Thank you! :wub:
Mango avatar
SoWal Insider
#1230
Thank you, BB. You're a doll!
Oh, I AM gonna quit.......I refuse to pay $5 a pack. I figure I can use the extra $$ to help pay for the padded room! Can you make sure it has hgtv, the food channel and bravo, please. Thank you! :wub:

and we're gonna need some pay per view to stimulate the receptors that
produce dopamine. :lol: :razz:
DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#1231
and we're gonna need some pay per view to stimulate the receptors that
produce dopamine. :lol: :razz:

:floor:
Teresa avatar
SoWal GuideAuthor
#1232
Sweetie...keep up. Are you talking to Beachmom...wiggles mom or.....Gotothebeachmom...Camden's grandmom?(but if he was trying to buy Camdon I will go for that:clap_1: ):idontno: I know you are just a guy and all but....try to keep up!

:lol:
Teresa avatar
SoWal GuideAuthor
#1233
mango and DD: when are you gals quitting smoking? I need to join in this effort. especially before surgery jan 8... :roll: :eek: :twisted:
DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#1234
mango and DD: when are you gals quitting smoking? I need to join in this effort. especially before surgery jan 8... :roll: :eek: :twisted:

Mango?
Beachbummette avatar
SoWal Insider
#1235
Thank you, BB. You're a doll!
Oh, I AM gonna quit.......I refuse to pay $5 a pack. I figure I can use the extra $$ to help pay for the padded room! Can you make sure it has hgtv, the food channel and bravo, please. Thank you! :wub:

For you two...anything! Oh and I will send by a massage therapist and all kinds of other goods to help you out!

$5.00 a pack!!!!:eek: WTF?! You could take more trips to SoWal with all that money!:shock:

and we're gonna need some pay per view to stimulate the receptors that produce dopamine. :lol: :razz:

Hmmmmmmm...we could do that....let's just do it like my mothership....a spa...I don't smoke but I will come too!:biggrin:

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DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#1236
For you two...anything! Oh and I will send by a massage therapist and all kinds of other goods to help you out!

$5.00 a pack!!!!:eek: WTF?! You could take more trips to SoWal with all that money!:shock:



Hmmmmmmm...we could do that....let's just do it like my mothership....a spa...I don't smoke but I will come too!:biggrin:

That's just what I said!! $5!!:confused: :bang: :shock: Jeez!
I can maybe BUY a place in SoWal with all that $$.....that is, of course, after I am released from the padded room. :biggrin:
SoWal Insider
#1237
Thank you, BB. You're a doll!
Oh, I AM gonna quit.......I refuse to pay $5 a pack. I figure I can use the extra $$ to help pay for the padded room! Can you make sure it has hgtv, the food channel and bravo, please. Thank you! :wub:
I missed some of this thread lately and the cig smoking. I quit about 5 years ago. It was, without a doubt, the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. Someone (maybe Jdarg?) said they still miss it. So do I. I still think about it every day. I even DREAM that I'm smoking (those are some of my more funn dreams). I'm glad I finally beat it but unfortunately, I did gain about 40 lbs. So, in reality, I switched one addiction for another.
But, it CAN be done! I was tired of being a slave to my cigs. Not to mention, they were so $$$. I heard they are up to $7.50/pack here. :eek:
Mango avatar
SoWal Insider
#1238
mango and DD: when are you gals quitting smoking? I need to join in this effort. especially before surgery jan 8... :roll: :eek: :twisted:

I am going to discuss the blue pills BB suggested with my docman first. I tried cold turkey and it didn't work, so maybe the pills will. :idontno: I would like to start early to mid January.
DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#1239
I missed some of this thread lately and the cig smoking. I quit about 5 years ago. It was, without a doubt, the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. Someone (maybe Jdarg?) said they still miss it. So do I. I still think about it every day. I even DREAM that I'm smoking (those are some of my more funn dreams). I'm glad I finally beat it but unfortunately, I did gain about 40 lbs. So, in reality, I switched one addiction for another.
But, it CAN be done! I was tired of being a slave to my cigs. Not to mention, they were so $$$. I heard they are up to $7.50/pack here. :eek:

:eek: 40 lbs. This is gonna be tough. Like I said earlier, No smokie, no eatie...:eek: :eek: :eek:
Miss Kitty avatar
Meow
#1240
:eek: 40 lbs. This is gonna be tough. Like I said earlier, No smokie, no eatie...:eek: :eek: :eek:

Just hand me a gun. :roll:
DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#1241
Just hand me a gun. :roll:

No kiddin!
Jdarg avatar
SoWal Expert
#1242
Girls, girls, girls...get thee off this thread until after the New Year!!!! Let's enjoy and embrace our last days of freedom and sinful living.

Amen.
Beach Runner avatar
beats on hood
#1243
Girls, girls, girls...get thee off this thread until after the New Year!!!! Let's enjoy and embrace our last days of freedom and sinful living.

Amen.
I agree 100%. Do you know how many years that the stress of not having to deal with this right now has added to my life?:biggrin:

And I'm also embarrassed because these concerns are trivial relative to what IBD is experiencing.:(

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DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#1244
Girls, girls, girls...get thee off this thread until after the New Year!!!! Let's enjoy and embrace our last days of freedom and sinful living.

Amen.

You are SO right, dear!! Done!

I agree 100%. Do you know how many years that the stress of not having to deal with this right now has added to my life?:biggrin:

And I'm also embarrassed because these concerns are trivial relative to what IBD is experiencing.:(

BR, You are even more right.
Teresa avatar
SoWal GuideAuthor
#1245
I'm going against my buddy jdarg's wishes, just this once, and visiting sowell this NYE.

I'm ready to start thinking about some healthy goals.. Let's think of these resolutions as things we would like to achieve this year to become more healthy and take better care of ourselves. If you think of it as too stressful to contemplate, don't look at this thread! But, if you are ready to be good to yourself, then join in with us...

I would like to take care of me, and live healthier and happier. I'm thinking of ways to achieve this... quitting smoking is number one priority and will go a long way in achieving my health goals (I know once I quit for good, I'll be happier and healthier. also, it would make many loved ones happy for me as well)... I think I need to just think about this one biggie for now. today is a good day for contemplation. (of course I'm not throwing a NYE party like some...)...
DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#1246
I'm going against my buddy jdarg's wishes, just this once, and visiting sowell this NYE.

I'm ready to start thinking about some healthy goals.. Let's think of these resolutions as things we would like to achieve this year to become more healthy and take better care of ourselves. If you think of it as too stressful to contemplate, don't look at this thread! But, if you are ready to be good to yourself, then join in with us...

I would like to take care of me, and live healthier and happier. I'm thinking of ways to achieve this... quitting smoking is number one priority and will go a long way in achieving my health goals (I know once I quit for good, I'll be happier and healthier. also, it would make many loved ones happy for me as well)... I think I need to just think about this one biggie for now. today is a good day for contemplation. (of course I'm not throwing a NYE party like some...)...

:clap_1: :clap_1: :clap_1:
"No thanks, I don't smoke".
Teresa avatar
SoWal GuideAuthor
#1247
:clap_1: :clap_1: :clap_1:
"No thanks, I don't smoke".

what? really?
DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#1248
what? really?

That's going to be my new mantra....
DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#1249
'Twas the Month After Christmas

Author Unknown


'Twas the month after Christmas, and all through the house,
Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse.
The cookies I'd nibbled, the eggnog I'd taste,
At the holiday parties had gone to my waist.
When I got on the scales there arose such a number!
When I walked to the store (less a walk than a lumber).
I'd remember the marvelous meals I'd prepared,
The gravies and sauces and beef nicely rared.
The wine and the rum balls, the bread and the cheese,
And the way I'd never said, "No thank you, please."
As I dressed myself in my husband's old shirt,
And prepared once again to do battle with dirt.
I said to myself, as I only can,
"You can't spend a winter disguised as a man!"
So -- away with the last of the sour cream dip,
Get rid of the fruit cake, every cracker and chip.
Every last bit of food that I like must be banished,
'Till all the additional ounces have vanished.
I won't have a cookie -- not even a lick,
I'll want only to chew on a long celery stick.
I won't have hot biscuits, or corn bread, or pie,
I'll munch on a carrot and quietly cry.
I'm hungry, I'm lonesome, and life is a bore, But isn't that what January is for?
Unable to giggle, no longer a riot,
Happy New Year to all and to all a good diet!
Teresa avatar
SoWal GuideAuthor
#1250
That's going to be my new mantra....

good one! :clap_1:

dd, would you like a piece of chocolate pie?

no thanks, I don't smoke..

:lolabove:
Teresa avatar
SoWal GuideAuthor
#1251
'Twas the Month After Christmas

Author Unknown


'Twas the month after Christmas, and all through the house,
Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse.
The cookies I'd nibbled, the eggnog I'd taste,
At the holiday parties had gone to my waist.
When I got on the scales there arose such a number!
When I walked to the store (less a walk than a lumber).
I'd remember the marvelous meals I'd prepared,
The gravies and sauces and beef nicely rared.
The wine and the rum balls, the bread and the cheese,
And the way I'd never said, "No thank you, please."
As I dressed myself in my husband's old shirt,
And prepared once again to do battle with dirt.
I said to myself, as I only can,
"You can't spend a winter disguised as a man!"
So -- away with the last of the sour cream dip,
Get rid of the fruit cake, every cracker and chip.
Every last bit of food that I like must be banished,
'Till all the additional ounces have vanished.
I won't have a cookie -- not even a lick,
I'll want only to chew on a long celery stick.
I won't have hot biscuits, or corn bread, or pie,
I'll munch on a carrot and quietly cry.
I'm hungry, I'm lonesome, and life is a bore, But isn't that what January is for?
Unable to giggle, no longer a riot,
Happy New Year to all and to all a good diet!

did you have to say "cornbread"??? I'm getting me some of this tomorrow!!

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