I knew when I got on the scale that there would be no loss this week. I told myself that there would be if anything a gain of a pound or two. Well there was not a gain but a stay the same. And it is ok.

Last week was a very hard week. I had two days of eatting things that were prepared not by me. One was a office pot luck and the other was my fathers birthday dinner. And I did have cake (ice cream cake) it was a very small piece. And I did not get a chance to walk much.

I will not use any of this as an excuse. I did not lose because I did not stick to the plan. But I am also not going to beat myself up over it. I will just try really hard this week. The weather is going to be good and I will be able to walk and spend more time outside. But I am not going to let myself off the hook that easily either. We went bowling Sat night and had a blast and I had a few deers. Well that is not good for weight loss at all. I need to really watch it. I did however switch to an ulta lite beer. It may help a little but it is empty calories.

I have done really well with drinking beer. It would be nothing to come home and have a couple each night in the summer. But I have not done that for awhile only one day will I drink now. I feel that I need to watch my drinking due to the fact that it runs in my family. So I really do try hard not to go to far. It is really hard when Maine activities revolve around it.

But the great part is Sat night was the first time people have noticed my weight loss. The girls were saying that they loved my new jeans and I was so proud to say they now are a size 12! It feels so good to be down to a 12 again. The only bad part is I really want those size 12 pants to fit as baggy as the 14s do. With time they will because my new goal is a size 10!!!!! Wow I think I can do it.

Well I better get off this computer and start walking!

Talk to ya soon!

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That is really amazing ... in such a short time you can have done so well. Discipline really has its rewards! Keep it up, and keep the beer down and light. I guess knowing that it might get out of hand is good so that you always keep yourself from falling in.

I also had a terrible weekend, just ate all sorts of things that didn't have any business in my mouth - but oh well, it has passed.

So what is a US size 12, here it is a size 36 I guess it is around 97cm (I have just checked an old blouse, that I have now put in my wardrobe to wear before long).

Similarly my initial goal was to wear size 35 jeans, and now my goal-post has shifted to 34 - I will be a hot mamma then ...

Let me go now

Keep good!

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hoping you are still on track ...

Be good

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Thanks so much for looking in on me. I feel I am doing well so far this week. I went for a four mile walk on Monday! I really enjoyed it the sun was out and it was warm. I have walked each day after work also. I feel really great this week. I hope that your week is going well also!
Talk to you soon
Tina

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This week I feel like I have been good. But I stepped onto the scale yesterday (which is 3 days earlier) and no change. I guess I really should stay off the scale until Monday when I usually get on it.

I am torn about how I feel about the no change. I know that I will hit a point where it will come off slower. But I was just hoping that would be with the last 5 pounds not the last 15.

I had to work at my second job all day thinking of what I can do to make the scale work again. That is another problem my second job is a lot of standing around not a lot of work. I hate it. Well anyway back on subject. I was thinking about it all day. And I came up with increase my ankle weight amounts and really track my food better. I have been really bad about not keeping track of the food. I buy only food that I can eat so it is healthy. So there for I figure it is ok. Well in fact it may all be good for my but if I go past the calories it sets me up for failure.

Another problem is I have really never set a calorie intake limit. I have lost what I have on making better choices and exercise. So now I really need to set a limit and stick to it. I really would like to get advise on a healthy limit so when I have the day off tomorrow I will search around and see if I can find out more about it.

This weekend will not be hard for me I have to work. So when I get out I will just want to go home. But last night I got home and had a burger (made at home) but my husband had smoked ribs leftover from his lunch. I LOVE RIBS!!! So I had to try one. That is all I had was one and after I ate it I was really really really mad at myself. I want to get to a place in my lifestyle change when one rib is not going to make me feel like crap. I know that day will come when maybe I reach my goal. I hate the guilt.

So I am sure I will write more by the end of the weekend. This is what I like about this place I can work things out. You can say I feel like crap and this is why. And then you read around and find out that you are not the only one. I love every part of this great place of suport.

Tina

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I wish I could start the last 4 days all over again. I was thinking that my actions this weekend would not be all that bad. Boy I was wrong. It is taking allot for me to write this but I need to hold myself accountable.

I was so sure that this weekend was going to be a good one. Well I went to work and did fine with my eating. I got out of work and back home and 8:30 pm and my husband says he would like to take me out to eat. My first thought was great I don't want to cook. And in the back of my mind I was saying you fool look what time it is. So we went and I had 2 glasses of wine. We decided to share a couple of apps. So we got a spicy mussel dish it was made with heavy cream. And they gave us toasted dipping bread for all of the sauce. With every bite I knew I was messing up big time. So after that I chose to order a steamed dumpling dish made with pork, ginger and it had a soy dipping sauce with that. I felt really good about those they were the better of all the choices on the late menu. Oh don't let me forget to tell you all the snacks they had out that I could not stay out of.

And then on the way out my husband ordered a grilled Penni to go. Somebody just shoot me. So my husband suggested we swing into a local bar for a night cap. Well that was three beers later.

Sunday we got up and shard the Penni.(we can eat anything in the morning) I just could not keep the bad choices to one day no I had to continue on into the next. We did go for a long hike and I really better about the bad mistakes. But last night I did not control my portions.

I cannot tell you how angry at myself I am. Where is my will power? I now have to live with the scale and my decisions. I really need to get it together. For the last two weeks the scale had not moved and now it did. But in the wrong direction. I am today going to do more research on eating well. I feel that I am not eating enough during the day and when I eat supper I overeat. And that was the way of the old Tina. I get so mad when I fail.

I hope that this week I can stay on track.
Tina

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So after waking up Monday and facing the bad decisions I have turned this week around. I went for a three and a half mile walk on Monday, a three mile walk Tuesday and a FOUR mile walk today.

I am feeling much better about things now. I also have been making better food choices.

I was thinking today that it really is great hearing all the good comments on my weight loss. But in away now there is a bit of a down side to it. I somehow think it makes you feel like you really have to work harder. I guess what I mean is I am not at my goal and I want to hear the great comments then when I reach them. And will it go unnoticed when I do reach them. I don't know if any of this makes any since. I am going to work just as hard as I have been and the praise is really nice to help get me to my goals. I enjoy every much to hear that I am looking good but I still feel fat.

And if anyone understands what I think I am trying to say I would love to hear from you.

I have set my goals and I hope I will be happy with them. I sometimes feel that I can do better than 150 lbs. But if I had set the goal of say 130 I don't know if that could be reached. So I guess I will set another goal when I reach the lbs. lost mark. Baby steps I feel is the way to go. So help if you can shed some light on these crazy thoughts.

Thanks for listening
Tina

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Thank you for the kind words 4everSome1else. That is the greatest part about this family (if you will) everybody wants you to win this battle.

I really feel like this week I have done well. I actually tried running it was not all that bad. But to tell the truth speed walking helps more I feel. For two days after speed walking my legs are still feeling it. I was talking with the PA that works in our office and he did say it is more natural to run. So speed walking is a bit harder. I got thinking about how I run and I don't really move my arms but in speed walking I am moving my arms my butt and my legs. And it all hurts today. And I am loving every minute of it! he he So I feel like I really had a good workout

Although on Monday when I step on the scale and there is no loss I may be a bit upset. But I know there will be the next week!

Well bye for now I hope everyone has a safe and fun healthy weekend!
Tina

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Hey Tina, isnt it amazing that your body is now where it wants to do what comes naturally... you are almost running, there will be a time when you wont even think about it, you will realise along the FOUR MILES that you are actually running - FANTASTIC indeed.

I know what you mean, but guess what, you are going to push through that 150 and 130 will be so easy. Sometimes my own low goal (at the lowest I should be 53 - 56 is the highest mark of my weight range) makes me feel despondent. It looks so far away and so unreachable ... but if others have been able to do it, so shall we!


Look, if you haven't lost anything, then check your centimetres. One of the things that nevers stops to amaze me is to see the centimetres just dropping off, at least even when you are stagnant on the scale because your whole body is refiguring things and balancing where necessary, the fat is melting and it just cannot hide anywhere.

I am glad you have been really good, at least one of us had to be at the rate that I was going.

Keep up the good work and have a wondeful weekend.

Remember KEEP IT LIGHT!

Ta da,

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This weeks post is so full of excitement! I finally see a change in my scale!!!! I lost two lbs. this week!!! I cannot tell you how happy that makes me. I have been really good about getting my exercise in. I walk/jogged 5 days this week. The weather has gotten really nice here and there is not one reason why I should not be outside.

Just a little side note my new pictures are only 3 weeks difference in time. One week we are snowshoeing and 3 weeks later the tank tops are out and we are hiking.

My husband and I went for a long hike on Sunday. We hiked two mountains in one day. I found it not all that hard due to the fact that I have been walking for a while. I found that if I got winded it did not take me long to recover so I could go on. I mean like a minute or two. The first mountain was 1069 ft and the second one was over 1200 not sure on that one. But I felt so good about what I was able to do. I really want to get in better shape for when my sister visits this summer. She wants to go for a hike in our beautiful Acadia Park. My sister is very fit and I want to show her that I can do this. It may not be so easy for her she is from Florida and runs on flat ground. In Maine there is really nothing flat about the area I live in.

So like I said I am feeling really great right now. I feel like I am finally in control. I still need help with my portion size. I have a hard time when something really taste good I have to have more of it. But last night my husband grilled a rib eye steak and we shared it. And the piece I took was smaller and I left half of that piece as well. Something very hard for me because that steak was great! But I knew I would hate myself if I had eaten the whole thing. So I am very proud of that.

And I am also very excited to have joined in a support group of lovely people. I feel that we are going to have such success. There is so much positive words spoken so far and it really brings it home that we all are not alone in this fight.

Thanks
Tina

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Thank you so much. I for some reason have slipped from my morning high and really needed to hear what you have said. I feel really blessed to have found this great place. And even more blessed at the friends I have made along the way.

The hardest part I think is not so much the food that my friends eat its that I am the different one. I have not seen them for going on 3 weeks now and I hope that they see a different Tina the next time I see them. The old one would have looked at the mountain and ask can't we drive it? But not now I want to hike it. I am really lucky that my husband has been such a great source of positive support. I am very lucky! If we all could just surround ourselves with positive people 24/7 this would be a walk in the park. But we can't do that and for that reason I love being able to log on and have such great people to give you that push you need.

I felt earlier that I am to tired to go for my walk today but now after reading your post I am headed out and doing it. I am even going to drag my dog who has been just sleeping today. I think the hike did her in from yesterday.

Thank you and have a great week. I am sure that I will be back on before the end of the day.

Thanks I really needed that!
Tina

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