Are you with me?

skinnydip · 08-07-2006, 09:22 AM

OK, if I'm going to suffer through getting back into my routine I want company.

I will commit online to the bare minimum I am willing to do each and every M-F and build on that. Better to start small and ramp up, than try to set unsustainable goals and bail. This is a lifetime habit here, not a crash diet. 5+ years of steady exercise and I felt great. 2 1/2 months no exercise and I feel like dog poop.

I am disgusted to report that since "going on a diet" two weeks ago, I have gained 4 pounds. I do not do well with the counting thing. I get compulsive, start to panic when I am "running out of food". The only way I can do this thin (Freudian slip! I meant thing)is to exercise and give myself some slack. When I exercise, I crave healthy, juicy, crisp, fresh food. When I don't, it's oatmeal cookies, pasta, all the carb junk. I don't have to monitor what I eat; I have to allow my body to crave what it needs.

So I've done my stretches. I have to do crunches now, which you know is going to hurt tomorrow, but not as much as going bathing suit shopping yesterday and finding I couldn't fit into my usual size 10.

BTW, what's up with that? Granted, I am now a 12 until I drop 10-15, but I tried on 12s that didn't fit, and I bought a size 6 pants which did. Shopping one of a kind sales like yesterday's tax free sale is no fun. Zoe and I shopped 6 hours and only made Pennys, Foleys and Kohls, most of it the latter.

OK, I want to hear what everyone else is doing. We can't really use the heat as an excuse...I think that one's been beaten to death.

Anyway, M-F, stretches, crunches, 30 min. bike. That's a start. And I can do that easy once I get my tush out the door. That's the hardest part.

Why, oh why do I resist? I love the feeling of exercising. I have NEVER finished working out and said to myself, "geez, I wish I hadn't done that".

Vicki

xsmith95 · 08-07-2006, 09:51 AM

Vicki ~
I'm with you. I have fallen off the exercise wagon for the past couple of months. I am ready to get back up and get going. I find that I have so much more energy and much more productive when I do work out in the morning before work.

I had started back a couple weeks ago but then we had severe storms knock out the power for a week and now our A/C has gone out and DAMN! it's too hot to work out right now. The A/C guy is supposed to be there today to get the new one installed so hopefully as of tomorrow morning, I can get back to the exercise routine.

I will do my 100 sit ups a day and my Walking Away the Pounds DVD alternating with the Walk and Kick DVD during the week and in the evening I try to get in the pool for at least an hour a night. So that is my goal.

Shelley

08-07-2006, 09:22 AM	#1 (permalink)
skinnydip Big Loser Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 159 Please Enter Height:	Are you with me? OK, if I'm going to suffer through getting back into my routine I want company. I will commit online to the bare minimum I am willing to do each and every M-F and build on that. Better to start small and ramp up, than try to set unsustainable goals and bail. This is a lifetime habit here, not a crash diet. 5+ years of steady exercise and I felt great. 2 1/2 months no exercise and I feel like dog poop. I am disgusted to report that since "going on a diet" two weeks ago, I have gained 4 pounds. I do not do well with the counting thing. I get compulsive, start to panic when I am "running out of food". The only way I can do this thin (Freudian slip! I meant thing)is to exercise and give myself some slack. When I exercise, I crave healthy, juicy, crisp, fresh food. When I don't, it's oatmeal cookies, pasta, all the carb junk. I don't have to monitor what I eat; I have to allow my body to crave what it needs. So I've done my stretches. I have to do crunches now, which you know is going to hurt tomorrow, but not as much as going bathing suit shopping yesterday and finding I couldn't fit into my usual size 10. BTW, what's up with that? Granted, I am now a 12 until I drop 10-15, but I tried on 12s that didn't fit, and I bought a size 6 pants which did. Shopping one of a kind sales like yesterday's tax free sale is no fun. Zoe and I shopped 6 hours and only made Pennys, Foleys and Kohls, most of it the latter. OK, I want to hear what everyone else is doing. We can't really use the heat as an excuse...I think that one's been beaten to death. Anyway, M-F, stretches, crunches, 30 min. bike. That's a start. And I can do that easy once I get my tush out the door. That's the hardest part. Why, oh why do I resist? I love the feeling of exercising. I have NEVER finished working out and said to myself, "geez, I wish I hadn't done that". Vicki

08-07-2006, 09:51 AM	#2 (permalink)
xsmith95 WLS Master Guru Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Near St. Louis, MO Posts: 633 Weight Statistics June 17, 2005 Start Date: June 17, 2005 Surgery Date: 5' 2" Height: 313 lb Start Weight: 173 lb Current Weight: 140 lb Goal Weight: 140 lb Weight Loss: 33 lb Lb Left to Lose: 44.7284345048 % % Lost: don't have a set goal date, I take it day by day that way I don't get discouraged Goal Date: Body Mass Index 57.2421956296 BMI Start: 31.6386576483 BMI Current: 25.6035379813 BMI Goal: Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass	Vicki ~ I'm with you. I have fallen off the exercise wagon for the past couple of months. I am ready to get back up and get going. I find that I have so much more energy and much more productive when I do work out in the morning before work. I had started back a couple weeks ago but then we had severe storms knock out the power for a week and now our A/C has gone out and DAMN! it's too hot to work out right now. The A/C guy is supposed to be there today to get the new one installed so hopefully as of tomorrow morning, I can get back to the exercise routine. I will do my 100 sit ups a day and my Walking Away the Pounds DVD alternating with the Walk and Kick DVD during the week and in the evening I try to get in the pool for at least an hour a night. So that is my goal. Shelley __________________ Shelley He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made.

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