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I’ve been going to the gym about every other day, and focusing on cardio workouts.  plus i’ve been going to a zumba class and i LOVE it!  I am having so much fun!

And I am already finding a difference, like when I bend down to get things out of the dryer, my knees don’t ache.  When I climb the stairs to my 3rd floor apartment, I not as winded.  I have more energy to play with my two year old.

And I’ve only been working out for 2.5 weeks!  This is great!

My biggest obstacle has been food and eating appropriate portions.  I have not banned anything from my diet, just regulated consumption, if you will.  But when I come home from class at 10pm and the babysitter says there is supper in the fridge it is so hard not eat it - even though I am not hungry!  It is just the notion that there is food that I can eat.  So I want to eat!

I’ve been indulging in small, healthy snacks 2-3 times a day, but to a lady who habitually eats out of boredom and frustration, it doesn’t seem enough!

I hope going to the gym and having energy will help alleviate the boredom so I’m not tempted so much!

I’ll weigh in on Friday!  Here’s hoping for another 2 lbs!

Here’s to Today!  A day which the Lord has made for you and me to improve our Bodies, the very Temples of our Spirits!

As you saw in my post yesterday, I was not in a particularily good mood.  Thanks to those of you who responded to encourage me.

I ended up not following my diet yesterday because of the fasting for the blood test.  I had class right after I got out of work and didn’t get home until 10:00pm and was HUNGRY!

So today is a new day.  Started off right with a nice bowl of cereal and a banana, snack time is soon (some raisins today, I think) and who knows what I’ll have for lunch.

Wish me luck!  God Bless!

B

i have had a very long day.  i am sore from working out.

and my two year old wakes up every freaking two hours to cry if he doesn’t have his binky, or if he can’t see me.  right now, he’s been up since three, because he thinks it’s time to play.

i am so angry.  i am so tired.  i am so incredibly hungry - and i even splurged last night and ate right before bed BECAUSE i was hungry when i got out of class at 930!

to make it worse, i am going to have to fast nine hours today before i take a blood test because the doctors think i may have a heart condition.

i am so frustrated and my husband is no help, he just gets mad when i ask him to check on the baby when he cries.  and my mother watches him while i go to work and loads my house full of chocolate and chips and other junk she knows SHE shouldn’t have and that i don’t want. (she’s over 300lbs and is II Diabetic with a pacemaker)

so i could really use some cheerful encouragement and support…any help?

My first week with the Fall River Fitness Challenge has had some pretty good results!  I joined a Zumba class at the YMCA and a discounted membership at the Community Recreational Development Center.

And as my title implies, I lost TWO POUNDS in one week!  I am really motivated to be healthy.  I want to be able to reach my third floor appartment without being winded.  To dance with my two year old and not ache afterwards.  To run with him at the park.

Speaking of my toddler, he gave me a big “yea!” and high fives when I weighed in at the Diabetes Association.

Yesterday I attended the first of their “Fitness Challenges.”  Two of the guest motivational speakers where a couple of the guys from “The Biggest Loser.”  It really was useful and well, motivational. 

What I could use is some inspiration and ideas on combating hunger in between meals.  I have been snacking twice a day on things like nuts and croutons, but those don’t seem to cut it.

With Peace,

Becky O.

It’s another (ug) new year and I have still not got off this weight and infact have got myself into evenworse shape then before.  I love to tell people the problem started when, in August, my son’s stroller broke and it took me two months to replace it.

And now it’s to darn cold to go for walks with him….

It’s a good thingthe Spindle City is sponsoring their own version of “The Biggest Loser” with discounted and free diet and excercise programs!

I enrolled today and hopefully (and prayerfully) I can recognize my body as a temple of the Holy Spirit and do some long overdue renovations!

Anyone in Fall River should join!  wwww.fallriverfitnesschallenge.com

Shoot me a line if you do!

Peace,

Becky

so i scrounged for some change and went and bought some milk so i could cook dinner for my hubby and myself.  (hamburger helper usually requires a cup or two of milk).  i made mine with morningstar ground ‘burger, of course, and OOOOOHHHHH!

neither of us have had an actually meal in days, so this was especially sweet

i must say it is not as easy as one may imagine to diet when you have no or little food.  you become even more tempted to eat those things which are bad for you because you can’t have the things that are good for you.  and yes, i know hh is not the best meal choice, but i take what i can get. 

btw, support you local food pantry

peace all!  thanks for the help!

becky

ug. i am so hungry. i seriously have nothing to eat in this place but baby food or peanut butter…and i think there is some dry cereal. and i know there is a candy bar in the freezer…PLEASE don’t let me eat it!!!!!

i haven’t had a restaurant grade veggie burger since before my eightmonthold was born…

hubby and baby and i went out for lunch at ruby tuesdays and i had my first veggie burger of the year - and it was nasty.  i buy morningstar and boca burgers all the time, so i’m used to things that are actually tasty, and this was most certainly not it.

so, not a great way to motivate my resolution, but i will keep to it.   i mean it, no chicken, no turkey, and that’s no bologna!

a few extra glasses of water too.  thinking about giving up soda also.  mmm…perhaps best not to get too far ahead if myself here…:)

peace all, pray for Darfur, Iraq, and Pakistan, and especially for the U. S. troops serving overseas

well, i had been a vegetarian for 8 years.  i quit that in late ‘06 with my pregnancy, and never went back.  I had my son in april and have continued to pack on weight.  no time like the present, i suppose.

so i’m going to return to my old ways, and hopefully be better off for it.  don’t know what i’m going to do with all that chicken in my fridge, though…

greetings all.  i’m just posting to tell you all that i am off my diet for an undetermined amount of time.  as some of you know, i’ve been coping with depression since my son was born in april.  i visited my ob-gyn friday and she advised that i do not burden myself with calorie counting and any sort of serious exercise routine.  she doesn’t feel i am emotionally well enough for it.

so maybe i’ll see you guys in a few months, but for now, i just need to focus on eating healthy and on time.  no more skipping meals.  i’ll try to get my walks in, but i’ve just not had the motivation for it lately.  i’m sorry all, i’m a quitter.  always have been.  and look where’s it got me…

peace everyone.  good luck with your goals.

becky o