SoWell on Sowal

SoWal Guide

Jul 24, '06 · 1:04 PM75,473

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..

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SoWal Expert

Aug 7, '06 · 6:08 AM#302

Goals for today:

Healthy breakfast
Weigh
Pick up bike
Look at bike--no helmet/lawn chair yet.
Long walk
Water

over & out...

SoWal Expert

Aug 7, '06 · 6:13 AM#303

Good morning DD!!

Get me back on track! What is for breakfast today?

SoWal Expert

Aug 7, '06 · 6:23 AM#304

Good morning DD!!

Get me back on track! What is for breakfast today?

MORNIN!!
I'm thinkin' yogurt with cereal mixed in. I love the thick and creamy yougurt. it has more fat grams, but to me is more satisfying.

How's your day shaping up? Is it school time yet? I can't remember when it starts where....

SoWal Expert

Aug 7, '06 · 6:37 AM#305

MORNIN!!
I'm thinkin' yogurt with cereal mixed in. I love the thick and creamy yougurt. it has more fat grams, but to me is more satisfying.

How's your day shaping up? Is it school time yet? I can't remember when it starts where....

School starts here one week from tomorrow. I need to start practicing the 6 am PB&J making....

this summer flew by.

SoWal Expert

Aug 7, '06 · 6:40 AM#306

School starts here one week from tomorrow. I need to start practicing the 6 am PB&J making.... this summer flew by.

Didn't it though? I don't have school kids, but I hate that they have to start so early. In a short time, we will be talking about Halloween and then the "C" word. Seems like once school starts, the days really fly by!

little sugar

Aug 7, '06 · 9:32 AM#307

School starts here one week from tomorrow. I need to start practicing the 6 am PB&J making.... this summer flew by.

I feel the same way.......back to the early lunch making, get out the door by 7:25, "where's my shoes?","I don't want to get up", "I get the front seat" school year of 2007 :roll:

SoWal GuideAuthor

Aug 7, '06 · 10:26 AM#308

Good morning DD!!

Get me back on track! What is for breakfast today?

hey you biotches:

I'm having vanilla yogurt with fruit and slivered almonds for breakfast as I type. pretty yummy.

DD - you are doing just great - and continue to inspire me. I'm doing well on eating and water, but not in an exercise routine yet. we're planning yoga/pilates tomorrow morning at 8:30. Allifunn and Corky-baby are coming with me.

and jen-ay - I am going to just DIE when school starts next week and I have to get in an early morning routine, but it will help me get in a morning exercise routine. drop the kid off and then off to yoga or biking or gym (if I decide to join) or a work out at home...

SoWal Expert

Aug 7, '06 · 10:39 AM#309

hey you biotches:

I'm having vanilla yogurt with fruit and slivered almonds for breakfast as I type. pretty yummy.

DD - you are doing just great - and continue to inspire me. I'm doing well on eating and water, but not in an exercise routine yet. we're planning yoga/pilates tomorrow morning at 8:30. Allifunn and Corky-baby are coming with me.

and jen-ay - I am going to just DIE when school starts next week and I have to get in an early morning routine, but it will help me get in a morning exercise routine. drop the kid off and then off to yoga or biking or gym (if I decide to join) or a work out at home...

Is there a pilates class for the feeble (and feeble minded) around town? That is what I need!

SoWal GuideAuthor

Aug 7, '06 · 1:06 PM#310

Is there a pilates class for the feeble (and feeble minded) around town? That is what I need!

well, of course there is!!! what did you think Cork and I were attending???

quirty

Aug 7, '06 · 3:03 PM#311

Thanks for thinking of me DD and JR - feeling a lot better today now that the antibiotics have kicked in and I got some rest. Wish I'd realized sooner that there was more going on than just allergies and asthma (always my first inclination JR - but it had been getting steadily worse since the beginning of last week.)

Been catching up on my reading here on Sowal.com - I see Cork made an appearance after a long absence! Keep up the good work Gulls. I'm so out of it, gotta get back to 100% and and back into my routine!

Meow

Aug 7, '06 · 3:08 PM#312

Get well soon lindabobhat! Summer sick is really no funn!

SoWal Expert

Aug 7, '06 · 3:30 PM#313

well, of course there is!!! what did you think Cork and I were attending???

Y'all didn't look too feeble in the yoga pics!

quirty

Aug 7, '06 · 4:01 PM#314

Get well soon lindabobhat! Summer sick is really no funn!

Thanks Ms. Kitty. Thank goodness I had a refill available on antibiotics at Walgreen's yesterday - didn't even have to wait and call the doctor. I'm feeling better already.

SoWal Expert

Aug 7, '06 · 7:15 PM#315

hey you biotches:

I'm having vanilla yogurt with fruit and slivered almonds for breakfast as I type. pretty yummy.

DD - you are doing just great - and continue to inspire me. I'm doing well on eating and water, but not in an exercise routine yet. we're planning yoga/pilates tomorrow morning at 8:30. Allifunn and Corky-baby are coming with me.

and jen-ay - I am going to just DIE when school starts next week and I have to get in an early morning routine, but it will help me get in a morning exercise routine. drop the kid off and then off to yoga or biking or gym (if I decide to join) or a work out at home...

ok...i posted an answer earlier, but lost it somehow? :bang:

Anyhoo, glad to see you back here toots! I know you've been busy with allifunn, but thanks for your kind support!! Will see ya in a couple of weeks and maybe we can take a nice long walk!! With wine to follow, of course. ;-)

SoWal GuideAuthor

Aug 7, '06 · 8:54 PM#316

ok...i posted an answer earlier, but lost it somehow?
Anyhoo, glad to see you back here toots! I know you've been busy with allifunn, but thanks for your kind support!! Will see ya in a couple of weeks and maybe we can take a nice long walk!! With wine to follow, of course. ;-)

hey DD. keep me posted on your arrival, etc.

sounds like you are really commited. awesome! now, who is looking forward to Sat evening??? :lol:

SoWal Expert

Aug 7, '06 · 9:03 PM#317

Daily report:

Breakfast: Yogurt smoothie
Snack: Ruby red grapefruit sections---omg, delish! thanks, linda!
Lunch: three leftover low fat meatballs, small salad with fat free french.
snack: granola bar
dinner: grilled by mr. dd chicken breast, salad with spray balsamic dressing, 1/2 baked sweet potato with spray fake butter.
water: ehh....still workin' on it.
didn't pick up the bike. another day.
weighed: now 7 lbs. not feelin' it so much yet, but I do think my shorts legs are bigger. :idontno:

maybe just my imagination. :idontno:

walked. beautiful night. a strange phenomenon happened today--this weird wet stuff came out of the sky and suddenly it was much cooler here..:clap_1: smells after the rain were great...cedar, grass, etc. big full moon(no, not that kind of moon

)...bet it looks beautiful over sowal tonight.

directionally challenged

Aug 7, '06 · 11:05 PM#318

DD, I cannot even believe how good you're doing. Congrats :clap_1:

I totally blew it by eating all of my leftovers from Kurt and Tootsie's last night. The pasta really did me in. Had to eat it all. Couldn't stop -it was sooo delish.
And then was busy all day so no exercise

But will get back on track in AM. Hope we're still on for pilates, Toots and Alli

Lindabob, so sorry you're under the weather sweetie. Hope you get better real soon! My best wishes for a quick recovery.

SoWal Insider

Aug 7, '06 · 11:18 PM#319

DD, I cannot even believe how good you're doing. Congrats :clap_1:

I totally blew it by eating all of my leftovers from Kurt and Tootsie's last night. The pasta really did me in. Had to eat it all. Couldn't stop -it was sooo delish.
And then was busy all day so no exercise

But will get back on track in AM. Hope we're still on for pilates, Toots and Alli

Lindabob, so sorry you're under the weather sweetie. Hope you get better real soon! My best wishes for a quick recovery.

With all the exercise you get Cork, it doesn't sound like you blew it at all.
Gotta indulge now and then. Life is short

Looks like Lindabob and I are in the antibiotic club.
My goals: less trips to the bathroom due to al lthe water intake ;-)

directionally challenged

Aug 7, '06 · 11:34 PM#320

My goals: less trips to the bathroom due to al lthe water intake ;-)

quirty

Aug 8, '06 · 3:59 AM#321

Wow DD - keep it up girl - did you get a new bathing suit yet to show off in Sowal? (My favorite beach fashion accessory - sarongs in lots of pretty colors and patterns to camouflage the thighs that are a work in progress!)

Cork - thanks for the get well wishes. Thought I was doing better til I hacked up half a lung and woke myself up a little while ago. I am just going to have to get down to Sowal in October and join you gulls for Pilates!

Mango - hope you're feeling better too. And for the record, even if I drank less water, I'd still be peeing far more than should be humanly possibly - I think it has more to do with age than fluid intake!

SoWal Expert

Aug 8, '06 · 9:23 AM#322

Wow DD - keep it up girl - did you get a new bathing suit yet to show off in Sowal? (My favorite beach fashion accessory - sarongs in lots of pretty colors and patterns to camouflage the thighs that are a work in progress!)

Cork - thanks for the get well wishes. Thought I was doing better til I hacked up half a lung and woke myself up a little while ago. I am just going to have to get down to Sowal in October and join you gulls for Pilates!

Mango - hope you're feeling better too. And for the record, even if I drank less water, I'd still be peeing far more than should be humanly possibly - I think it has more to do with age than fluid intake!

Thanks, linda. The answer to your question would be...uh, no.

SoWal Expert

Aug 8, '06 · 9:25 AM#323

Goals for today:

Host a marketing thing with ICE CREAM SUNDAES and not cave.
Period--the end.

SoWal GuideAuthor

Aug 8, '06 · 5:12 PM#324

Goals for today:

Host a marketing thing with ICE CREAM SUNDAES and not cave.
Period--the end.

SoWal GuideAuthor

Aug 8, '06 · 5:13 PM#325

finally got in some exercise this morning!!! a great pilates class. kicked our butts. glad we went (I almost stayed in bed)... Cork and Allifunn joined in the funn.