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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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Beach Runner avatar
beats on hood
#1127
my stomach needs its own wardrobe, bed, car, etc. In fact, my stomach is my new car. it has certainly grown into its own entity... :clap_1: or should I say :eek: or :welcome: ... my stomach needs its own sowal board name for sure...
I hear ya. I had been doing "SoWell," and then I did a lot of stress eating and drinking after the scary mammogram and from being stressed about getting everything ready for Thanksgiving.
:floor: ...and zip code???
You're hilarious. My butt needs its own zip code.:rolling:
Teresa avatar
SoWal GuideAuthor
#1128
I hear ya. I had been doing "SoWell," and then I did a lot of stress eating and drinking after the scary mammogram and from being stressed about getting everything ready for Thanksgiving.

You're hilarious. My butt needs its own zip code.:rolling:

my butt was born with its own zip code.
Beach Runner avatar
beats on hood
#1129
my butt was born with its own zip code.
I can so relate to that.:rolling:
Teresa avatar
SoWal GuideAuthor
#1130
my girlfriend Jo Jo always goes on a diet at the first of the year and proclaims her goal... "I'm getting down to my birth weight...!!!" :roll: and then after a week or two of salads and skipped meals, gives up, and probably gains her birth weight... sound familiar?
Teresa avatar
SoWal GuideAuthor
#1131
okay, it's almost Monday. anyone ready to do a weigh in? I have no working scales, but need to get some asap...
Jdarg avatar
SoWal Expert
#1132
okay, it's almost Monday. anyone ready to do a weigh in? I have no working scales, but need to get some asap...

No scale needed. I just have a closet full of clothes that don't fit.:pissed:

Monday morning 5 am. Pilates at home, 40 minute walk before Bdarg goes to work. NO FOOD. NO WINE. :( :( :( (Hard core, I know, but necessary.) The T-givng leftovers went in the freezer or garbage today. Goal? Back in my clothes in 3 weeks. The thought of buying bigger clothes is just too much to bear. :bang:

Maybe we need to start a before Christmas boot camp thread.:(
InletBchDweller avatar
SoWal Insider
#1133
Boot camp!!!!:clap_1: :clap_1: I tried to walk every morning on vaca but it did not work....:idontno:
CAN we just staple my mouth shut???
No food and Mr. IBD would not have to hear it :rolling: :rolling:
Jdarg avatar
SoWal Expert
#1134
Boot camp!!!!:clap_1: :clap_1: I tried to walk every morning on vaca but it did not work....:idontno:
CAN we just staple my mouth shut???
No food and Mr. IBD would not have to hear it :rolling: :rolling:

Stapling my mouth shut would be Bdarg's choice of gift.:roll:
InletBchDweller avatar
SoWal Insider
#1135
maybe we can figure out how to do it????:biggrin: now over margaritas but over celery.....:roll:
Stapling my mouth shut would be Bdarg's choice of gift.:roll:
Jdarg avatar
SoWal Expert
#1136
maybe we can figure out how to do it????:biggrin: now over margaritas but over celery.....:roll:


I wonder what margs are like made with Splenda?:idontno:
InletBchDweller avatar
SoWal Insider
#1137
pure genius i tell ya!!!!:clap_1: :clap_1: quote=jdarg;178332]I wonder what margs are like made with Splenda?:idontno:[/quote]
DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#1138
I'll weigh, but I'm afraid. :eek:
Kimmifunn avatar
Funnkalicious
#1139
I wonder what margs are like made with Splenda?:idontno:

STOP!
I have a marg recipe with grapefruit juice, tequila and Splenda. I'm going to get the recipe and post it.
dbuck avatar
Beach Fanatic
#1140
maybe we can figure out how to do it????:biggrin: now over margaritas but over celery.....:roll:

Virgin Bloody Marys might work. :bang:
Teresa avatar
SoWal GuideAuthor
#1141
No scale needed. I just have a closet full of clothes that don't fit.:pissed:

Monday morning 5 am. Pilates at home, 40 minute walk before Bdarg goes to work. NO FOOD. NO WINE. :( :( :( (Hard core, I know, but necessary.) The T-givng leftovers went in the freezer or garbage today. Goal? Back in my clothes in 3 weeks. The thought of buying bigger clothes is just too much to bear. :bang:

Maybe we need to start a before Christmas boot camp thread.:(

:biggrin: great idea! I would rather go to boot camp than pull out all the boxes of decorations, wrap presents, and finish shopping...
Beach Runner avatar
beats on hood
#1142
I'll weigh, but I'm afraid. :eek:
I'm not weighing until Friday AM. I'm scared to do it today.
Paula avatar
Beach Fanatic
#1143
OK, I'm up 2.5 pounds, back to where I started when I started SoWell on SoWal. Oh well....

But, I feel I've made some good healthy changes due to SoWell so I'm fine anyway... I don't drink much soda at all any more (I used to drink diet soda) and drink water instead, I'm eating more fruits and vegetables, I'm sleeping very well, and I'm generally calmer. I'm back to walking to work (just a little, though I want to increase it) and I'm hoping to increase the walking to a little bit every day (including today). Some of these changes (e.g., the "being calmer" one) have to do with that reading I posted in late October about personal change. It really did have an impact on me, especially since I know the guy and he must have lost over 100 pounds in two years.

If I lost 10 lbs altogether I'd be in the "normal range" based on one of the earlier links someone posted (thanks!), so I figure that is certainly do-able. I need to cut out eating 100 calories a day and increase activity to burn off an extra 100 calories a day and those would be enough lifestyle changes to take off those 10 lbs this year. You wouldn't think it would be that hard, but it seems to be!
Smiling JOe avatar
SoWal Expert
#1144
?

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Jdarg avatar
SoWal Expert
#1145
How much?

Nice motivation.

That cake looked really yummy.:bang:
Teresa avatar
SoWal GuideAuthor
#1147
OK, I'm up 2.5 pounds, back to where I started when I started SoWell on SoWal. Oh well....

paula: not bad. not bad atall! :clap_1: I can tell by the way my clothes fit that I've gained at least that much, if not more. my guess is 5 pounds. not good for a five footer... :(

but back to yoga tomorrow morning and hopefully some motivation following that class...
DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#1148
I never got around to weighing today--imagine that! I know my clothes fit a little tighter too....:bang:
lindatat avatar
quirty
#1149
paula: not bad. not bad atall! :clap_1: I can tell by the way my clothes fit that I've gained at least that much, if not more. my guess is 5 pounds. not good for a five footer... :(

but back to yoga tomorrow morning and hopefully some motivation following that class...

I never got around to weighing today--imagine that! I know my clothes fit a little tighter too....:bang:

I'm not weighing until Friday AM. I'm scared to do it today.

OK, I'm up 2.5 pounds, back to where I started when I started SoWell on SoWal. Oh well....

I'm with you. Decided to eat whatever I wanted this past weekend and now I need to be good this week. I'll weigh myself once I feel like my clothes are fitting normally again. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving - guess we all had enough to eat!
Paula avatar
Beach Fanatic
#1150
Wow, thanks, Toots and Lindabobhat, for making my 2.5 weight gain feel like a success! I'm definitely feeling good about it now!

Ate well today, though. A whole wheat english muffin and capuccino with skim milk and splenda for breakfast, a healthy choice pizza for lunch, and home-made ministrone and grapes for dinner. That's all I ate today. Now I'll go watch the bachelor with the kids and I'll try to eat well the rest of the week.

And, though I didn't walk, I puttered around the house big-time today so I'm exhausted and must have burned off that extra 100 calories.

Those of you who are actually exercising regulary are definitely an inspiration (but I guess we live too far apart for the exercise but to rub off on me)!

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lindatat avatar
quirty
#1151
Wow, thanks, Toots and Lindabobhat, for making my 2.5 weight gain feel like a success! I'm definitely feeling good about it now!

Ate well today, though. A whole wheat english muffin and capuccino with skim milk and splenda for breakfast, a healthy choice pizza for lunch, and home-made ministrone and grapes for dinner. That's all I ate today. Now I'll go watch the bachelor with the kids and I'll try to eat well the rest of the week.

And, though I didn't walk, I puttered around the house big-time today so I'm exhausted and must have burned off that extra 100 calories.

Those of you who are actually exercising regulary are definitely an inspiration (but I guess we live too far apart for the exercise but to rub off on me)!

Well I continued my unhealthy eating through today Paula, so you are one up on me. And I haven't exercised vigorously since my surgery almost 3 weeks ago - I've been having really bad dizzy spells and I'm using that as my excuse. Need to get back into my exemplary behavior!

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