Stuff....

I don't think hardly anyone updated on May 9th, but that's OK. You can update whenever you feel like it.

The Waites are in China. So, we can hope they'll go sufficiently off their diet for the rest of us to catch up. But, Kathryne (who's been there before) says that it's unlikely as the food isn't all that great.

Speaking of Kathryne, due to some health issues, she is not allowed to exercise at the moment. So, losing for her isn't happening much. They haven't updated because there is nothing to update.

Lysa and Jen are pulling ahead, Lysa's on a doctor supervised diet that seems to be working well. Jen is just working it off like a trooper. It looks like they updated recently.

Kathryne's says that Chad's coworkers are working hard at it and she says she'll get the info and get it posted. I'll remind her.

We're doing terrible. We do good for a few days, then it all shows back up again. I'm not sure what else to do. It doesn't help that for some reason, Sam just isn't very motivated this time around. I've started trying to walk with Lysa and Jen a few days a week and do the exercise bike when I don't walk, but I just keep gaining and losing the same five pounds. Very frustrating. I refuse to do any funky diets because I know I'll just gain it back. To keep it off I have to do it the old fashioned way. Bummer.

OK, that's the latest news.....anyone got anything to say, post it. Cheerleaders are welcome for any of our teams.

Recommitting

I'm getting back on track too... The past few months have been crazy and stressful at my house. Which means I've been waffling around the same 4 lbs. Blech! :p But I've recommitted to working harder and I've started exercising again - already down 2 more pounds. At least I think... my scale broke (darn sticky paint in the bathroom cabinet pulled one of the feet off - the one with the sensor!), so I bought a new one and in the few days I was without a scale I went down two more pounds. But that's also the few days that I started exercising again, so maybe it's possible? Or maybe it's just the difference in scales.... Either way, I'm taking it! I read this neat little insert of an article in the Redbook magazine (I got one issue of it recently... it's a long story, but it was free). I thought I'd post it because it helped my point of view anyway. I even clipped it and stuck it on my fridge. It was an article about the woman who engineered a new CD called Skinny Songs - they are songs about weight loss. She was an executive at Apple and had managed to gain quite a bit just being a wife and mother and executive. One day she got the idea to create music that was motivational for weight loss, just like the music she listened to to pump herself up for meetings and such. She ended up losing 35 lbs at age 50! This was her memo to herself for when she fell off the wagon:

In Case of Emergency:

You've just consume a whole bunch of calories you didn't need. You slipped, you splurged, and you hate yourself for it. What now? Give up? Eat some more? I think you deserve better than that. Here's what I want you to do:

1. FORGIVE YOURSELF. No one is perfect. Stop kicking yourself. Everyone who has succeeded has had moments like this. You can still succeed too, but you must stop yelling at yourself and simply say, "I forgive myself for the mess-up."

2. PUT IT IN PERSPECTIVE. Even if you ate 1,500 calories in a single sitting, it is not a deal-ending moment. You have not permanently ruined your life. You have an extra half a pound to get ride of. Big deal.

3. REAFFIRM YOUR BIGGER GOALS. Remind yourself about the importance of the goal you have set out to reach and recommit yourself to working to achieve it. Look at the dress you ripped out of the magazine, or imagine yourself bounding up a flight of stairs in a black tracksuit. Just because you ate a quart of ice cream doesn't mean you can't meet your overall goal.

4. ELIMINATE THE TEMPTATION. I don't want to waste food, but sometimes the rest of the bag or carton needs to go down the garbage disposal. This is one of those times.

5. WHAT CAN YOU LEARN FROM THIS? Take a step back and see if there is something that will help you overcome future moments like this. Did you deprive yourself so much that you were overwhelmed with hunger? Did you get mad and eat out of emotion? Think about what you can do to avoid this trigger or situation next time.

6. DON'T PUNISH YOURSELF. Don't starve yourself. Don't go on a cabbage-soup fast. Punishment doesn't work; it just perpetuates a bad cycle.

7. RECOMMIT TO LOSE. Say out loud, "I'm over it, and I'm back on my plan." Imagine yourself standing up, dusting yourself off, and getting back on a horse. Hold that visualization for a moment and feel great about that decision. Feel proud that you can recover so quickly. Now forget it and move on! You are back on track.

(This is from Redbook Magazine. March 2009 issue. Turn Up The Tunes and Lose 35 Pounds by Nicole Yorio.)

Hopefully you guys find this inspirational.... Good luck again!

Back on track....

I talked to Kate the Great (Reed) and she said they didn't post a change because there wasn't one. Sounds like us. She's dealing with some other health issues, so if she's maintaining at least, that's good. She said she would talk to Chad's buddies and see what their change was.

Sam and I are finally kind of getting back on track with the calorie counting/exercise thing. Or at least I'm exercising, Sam still mostly exercises his right pointer finger making us a living. He did start taking the stairs to his fourth floor office in the morning. We're down a couple of pounds this week, but I was right about gaining while Danny/Mom were here, so we're back down to our first month weigh in numbers. Hopefully we'll be down a couple of pounds at least this month.

We really did update...sort of.

Our ticker still looks the same becuase we haven't lost any more. Pretty pathetic, since we started this silly contest in the first place. I'm not sure what's up with the Reeds or their friends, but I'll poke Kate and see if there's no update because nothing happened, or no update because they forgot. Jen did update their ticker on the 9th.

We need some serious motivation, I'm not sure what the problem is. But, Liz (Waite) and Jen are looking lovely...

We WISH we were on a plateau...

We actually gained...or rather I did and Sam lost enough to cover for me. We definitely need a kickstart. The Waite's are kicking our butts....but they'll start plateauing before too long.

This weekend Mom Bailey and Sam's brother Danny were here and we ate WAY too much. I don't even wanna know what we weigh. I'll weigh on Wednesday, after I fast for a couple of days, lol.

Weigh-in

We've updated our ticker... Has anyone else weighed in for April? We haven't gone far... kind of at an impasse. Anybody else on a bit of a plateau? Any ideas to kick-start things again?

Jen

Wasting Time

Just thought I'd post to shake things up a bit. Anyone have any good healthy recipes for Easter?

Lysa