I just wrote a really long post and lost it. I don't even know what I did to lose it- I wasn't done yet! Whatever! Grr...
Ok. So, I finally stopped bullshitting myself and everyone else- I did my WATP dvd today. I did the 3 Mile Walk with weights which is about 45 minutes. I usually don't find Leslie Sansone's tapes challenging, rather, a great way to get back into organized exercise. Today, I broke a sweat though. I guess I let myself get so out of shape over the last several weeks of no exercise. Needless to say, i am thrilled to have gotten back on the exercise bandwagon!
I was thinking of taking a break from JC for a while. I am bored of the food and the price is a bit much for me right now. Then I read a few blogs and realized that I would be making a really bad choice if I did that. I have to eat anyway, and the ease of JC is what got me there in the first place! I am not a cook and have very little patience, so it would be a no brainer to stay on program!
Therefore, I am not going anywhere. I was supposed to have WI yesterday but could not make it due to a totally booked schedule, and my consultant is off on Thursdays. Instead, I have an appointment at 9:50am tomorrow. I am excited to start my week off right.
I also decided to join the Biggest Loser Club [biggestloserclub.com]. On the BL website, you input your info and then a menu and exercise plan is created on your stats. It costs $5 a week, so I figured I'd give it a try for a month and see how it helps me with my motivation. Even though I have decided to stay on JC, I will use the menu part of the site if I am totally bored to tears.
I also purchased a hypnosis cd online and am waiting for it to arrive, so I can see if it works for me. All in all, I am gathering all of the tools that I think will help me get totally psyched again, about losing weight.
Here's to another week of getting healthy! Keep up the great work guys! We are all taking the right steps- no matter how big or small.
Today is the last day of my Week 12, and I gotta say, I am glad it is almost over. Though this week was not nearly as bad as the last one, in no way was it a model of perfection!
Thank you all of the postings this past week. I needed the encouragement and tough love that I have received from you guys. Needless to say, I am not as motivated as I was 3 months ago when I started this program. But I am not giving up.
After I post this message, I am going to do one of my Leslie Sansone dvd's. It is a small step in the right direction, but as I look at it- as long as it is in the right direction!
So, here is to the end of another week on JC. Hopefully WI will show even a small loss. I am slowly learning that this is more than a diet, but rather, a way of life.
You are all so right: Progress, Not Perfection is the key to reaching one's goals! Thanks again for all of the support!
Sometimes I wonder if I truly want to lose weight at all or if I want to be fat forever. Case in point: Last night went out to dinner with my BF and another couple to a FABULOUS restaurant. I could have eaten a sensible salad, chicken entree and sipped on a diet soda with lemon. What did I do instead? I had a Capt. and ginger ale, and 1 and 1/2 Mango Rum Mojitos, Ceasar friggin' Salad, my all time favorite: filet mignon with mashed potatoes and a few carrots. For dessert, BF and I split an amazing slice of NY cheesecake, and I also had a cup of coffee with full fat milk.
So, I ask myself: "Self, do you really want to be living in capri pants instead of shorts for another summer? Do you want to wear the same 2 one piece bathing suits that you bought like 5 years ago? Do you want to look at all of your thin friends and long to be thin rather than do something about it?" Well, I guess so!
I look at it like this, if I don't get off my ass and start getting back on the wagon sometime soon, all of the work that I have done thus far will be thwarted! Why put myself through the aggrevation and heart ache of gaining all of what I have lost, fall back into the 200's and start all over again?
Absolutely unacceptable. Though I have a serious love affair with good food, I have come to the realization that I have a deeper love affair with myself. It's been a rough week and a half for me, focusing on doing what is necessary for me to be a healthier person. It is time to stop the bullshitting and actually start doing what I have set out to do. It is time to get serious about loving myself and all of my imperfections.
Well, I am a few days late, but Wed. started a new week for me! Thankfully, at WI on Wed. I stayed the same. I am thrilled that I did not gain since all of the shinnanagins that has gone on last week. It really was my first bad week on JC since I started 11 weeks ago.
So, I've recommitted myself to this journey and have decided that a bad week is not the end of the world. There is no reason why I can't just start losing again! I have decided to do more than walk my dog for 30 minutes everyday as a form of exercise. I had wanted to start this up yesterday, but got sidetracked studying. So, today will be the day. I think I will attempt to go for a run this evening. [Really it is more like a slow jog, but you get the idea.]
I am feeling good about getting my act together, as I keep thinking that the weeks are flying by and before we all know it, it will be warm outside again. I really do not want to go thru another summer hiding my thunder thighs. Enough is enough already. The time has come to get serious and get on with losing the weight!
Hello everyone. Happy Tuesday. Yesterday was a good day until I got to the night time. For some unknown reason, actually probably to sabotage myself, I made cookies for my BF. These were no ordinary cookies though... we are talking Smores Chocolate Chunk cookies! At 120 calories and 5 grams of fat PER COOKIE, this was probably not the most intelligent move on my part! Can you guess how many I ate? Let me save you the suspense: 4 fat laden cookies. Went to bed with a stomach ache, feeling ashamed.
So, today is a new day and I have had 3 more cookies as well as following JC plan despite devouring them. Drinking water too. Lets just say that I cannot wait to get to WI tomorrow so that I can find out how much I've gained, get it over with and start a new friggin' week for myself already!
My BF is so supportive of me, bless his heart, and I wish I could stop doing this to myself! If I had the willpower to step away from the cookies, I would be a lot better off!
Anyway, today is the last day of my first horrible week on JC! Let it be my last! I hope that the magic of a new week helps to keep me on track. Wish me luck, you guys!
Hello everyone! Today is a new day and a new week. I am happy to report thanks to all of you, especially to Golferchick, I stuck to plan yesterday and did great. Drank all 8 of my glasses of water [64oz total] and stuck to JC like glue as far as eating. I decided to write everything down that went into my mouth and add the fat grams and the calories. All together I was just shy of 1100 calories and 26 grams of fat. Not sure if the fat grams were within the correct range, but I know the calories were right on target!
Walked Leo yesterday 3 times and am looking at it as my exercise until I am ready to really do exercise! I figure that I keep getting closer and closer to doing the real thing- yesterday I actually felt like going out for a run [more like a slow jog for me] but didn't quite get there. I am still working on this exercise-mental block.
So, I am really happy that today is Monday and the start of a new week, even though my week starts on Wed with WI. I just feel as though things are clearer and that my resolve to finally lose the weight is strong again! Thank you to all who have kept me going on this board as well as on my blog. I really appreciate it all!
Anyway, I must go study. Spent too much time this morning with my BF... at least I got in some fun exercise! ;) Hope everyone is doing great. Happy new week to us all! We can do it people! Drink that water!! :p
Hey Everyone! Sorry that I've been MIA for the past few days. I have been home studying for my upcoming Sergeant's exam which is being given on Jan. 21. For all that don't know it already, I am a police officer with the NYPD.
Anyway... I've been having a rough couple of days. Friday was fine, but Thursday was a horror show! I only ate my JC breakfast and basically ate whatever I pleased for the rest of the day. It was not pretty, girls. I can't remember it all but a sampling: 2 pieces of yummy left over pizza, Mallomars [2], almost a FULL SLEEVE of Lorna Doone cookies, peanut butter, chocolate kisses, and I am sure there was more- I just can't remember! Thank God!
Friday, I was pretty much on program and today, I've been ok. I always eat when I am bored and nervous. I am experiencing both emotions over the past couple of days. So, at least I know where it is coming from...[TOM isn't here for another week, so I can't blame it all on that!] My water consumption has been up though! Drank 6 glasses yesterday and I'm working on my 3rd now. I'll keep you guys posted!
Eating when nervous kicked into full gear in July when I was studying for the NYS Bar Exam. At that time, I was doing my own weight loss thing, just eating healthy and then Whammo! 2 weeks before the Bar, I was eating everything in sight! Needless to say, I gained the 15 or so pounds that I had lost the previous month or two and then never got back on the wagon until I joined JC in October! Ughh! So, I know that this not working, and studying for the next 2 weeks will be a challenge! Wish me luck, people! I need all the help I can get!
Hope everyone is having a great weekend filled with good times and great people! Talk to you all soon!
Well, it is the start of a new year when me and the rest of the chubby world decide it is time to lose the weight once and for all! Actually, I started my weight loss journey at Jenny Craig 11 weeks ago. So far I have lost 17.8 pounds and am glad that I didn't wait until Jan 2006 to begin. Who knows what weight I'd be at now!!
Regardless of my early start, I find myself in a rut. I was exercising everyday at the gym for 60 minutes on the treadmill- sweatin my butt off! Now, I have not been to the gym in 3 weeks and have no motivation to get back there. I am thinking of trying a DVD to kick start my need for movement. Friends have suggested the Biggest Loser DVD. Anyone have any other suggestions? I am thinking of trying pilates, too. Whatever I decide to do will be better than nothing at all! What it all comes down to is this... it is time to refocus! I am worth all of the blood, sweat and tears that goes along with acheiving any goal. I gotta just do it!!
