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Well, a visit from the in-laws thwarted my plans to go to bootcamp on Tues, but I will definitely be going tomorrow night. In the heat. BLAAH! Today I did a really long and sweaty workout on the mill. Evenings I have also been trying to use my yoga ball, remembering the evil bootcamp exercises and doing them the best I can. I have to remember to buy a good resistance band! Yeesh my memory sure ain't what it used to be...perhaps I can blame the heat! Or nearly being 40. Or having two kids. Or ____________. hee hee
Enjoying my last hour or so before heading off to evil/wonderful bootcamp. We will actually be using our yoga balls tonight, and I am determined not to roll off of mine and give everyone such a laugh as I did last time! LOL Tomorrow is weigh-in day at WW, and I have no idea how I will do. I haven't looked at my scale in a couple of days. I have been consciously trying to get in more protein, and have started using my protein shakes again.
today I did my usual time on the mill and with the juice jugs, and tonight bootcamp for an hour. It has to be paying off!
Hey ABBA! You sure have been kicking it up! I'm definitely impressed. You have inspired me to try out some of the fitness classes at my apartment complex. I think I might start out simple with water aerobics and work my way up. . . .I'd love to do kickboxing or something but I'm afraid of looking like an overweight, uncoordinated moron! I'm sure you'll see a loss this week. And even if you don't, you've certainly been kicking butt!!!
Good luck at the WW scales! I am sure that you will see a loss.
You are still doing great with all the exercise. It really is paying off for you. Trust your in-laws to thwart your exercise plans! I laughed when I read that you rolled off your ball! I thought that I was the only one that did things like that (not that I do gruelling exercise classes with big balls!)
Well, the WW scales showed NO loss - but also no gain, so I guess that is okay. I have lately just been learning how much of a role sodium can play in thwarting my WL efforts, so am being more aware of how much is in the things that I am eating.
I did some retail therapy yesterday and is it ever nice to fit into nice clothes right off the rack! when I bought a belt, I had to search until I found a SMALL! Now that was a treat. I also bought a new dress for my reunion next week, in case the first one is now too big (and too formal). I don't feel too badly about spending the $ as the majority of my purchases through the years have definitely come from thrifting! To have some "brand new" is all right. I may get DH to take yet another pic of me in this dress for show and tell ;P though you are probably getting sick of all my pics! LOL
We finally found a new drummer, so hope to get the ball rolling with our band for next week again. It is so frustrating working with musicians!!! They are notoriously unreliable!
My girls are gone for the afternoon and ALL NIGHT to a friend's! However shall I make use of all this time (she asks, trying to ignore the mountain of laundry, piles of craft supplies, and large yoga ball occupying the living room)? I think I will start by watching the rest of Elizabeth (great show staring Cate Blanchett), then get on the 'mill, have a loooooong bubble bath, phone people, and ...?
Bootcamp rocks! Just 3 more sessions and then we are done. I will miss it! I still love/hate it, but feel that I get SUCH a good workout from it!
My 20th reunion is this Saturday, and I feel GREAT! I bought a new little (and I mean little) dress and I think it looks simply stunning on me I will take a pic and show you. It is pretty stretching for me, shorter in the leg and lower cut in the bosom (great word, eh) than I usually wear, but hey! I actually look better 20 yrs later than I did at my own grad! so I am going to live it up and enjoy every minute.
Yay for me! Another successful boot camp. And does my gut ever feel it! Wow, she worked our abs tonight. Tomorrow morning is my WW weigh in. I have not weighed myself this week, but can feel that Aunt flow is getting ready to make her appearance again, meaning that I may be up rather than down As much as I don't want to go and get THAT news, I will go anyway. As my mother would say, "It builds character!"
WW scale said down to 153, so I am still moving...
Today is crazy. Already took mumsy out for her b-day brkfst & then looked at 2 properties. Next off to hairdresser. Then drop off kids at sitter and off to band practice. Then finally my big reunion! no wonder i am so tired...
It is great that the scales were down - despite Aunt Flo. How low would they have been if you werent carrying that water-weight!!!?
I hope that you have had a brilliant reunion. It is great that you know that you look better than you did 20 years ago. That is a brilliant way to know that things are when you go to something like that.
I for one am looking forward to seeing the photos - so dont be shy about posting them - especially with the legs and bosom on show (in a nice respectable way of course).
My reunion was AMAZING!!! Talk about good for the self esteem - every single person commented on my weight loss and how good I was looking! It was crazy! It was almost embarrassing - but not quite I felt absolutely stunning in my dress, and when I saw my reflection in a window I asked DH "Is that really ME? Where did I go?" to which he laughed and gave me a hug. He was a good sport to come to a reunion where he knew virtually no one - and had to sit at a table beside my former longterm boyfriend!
And the best part - the very best, most wonderful part actually occurred the morning after, when I GOT ON MY SCALE AND IT READ 150 LBS!!! Fantastic!! I don't know if it will stay that way, but it sure did feel tremendous! That means that I can apply to work at WW very soon, which will be a good help in launching my public speaking career! I feel like my life has changed so much over the past year. I CAN DO ANYTHING!
Here I am in my ooh-la-la reunion dress, down from 211 lbs last July to 150 lbs this July! I have lost over 60 lbs so far, and have no intention of stopping yet!!! I have included my original "fat pic" for comparison.
Thanks for all of your encouragement. XXXX Janice
Last edited by ABBAgirl; July 14th, 2008 at 11:59 AM.
A big THUMBS DOWN to that unwelcome monthly visitor, just before weigh-in. Also tonight I am supposed to get measured for my end-of-bootcamp success story! My instructor will surely wonder how I am now pudgier than when I started! LOL Well, whatchugonnado? Can't fight TOM and her nasty water retention ways.
BLAAH! Today I did a really long and sweaty workout on the mill. Evenings I have also been trying to use my 
LOL Tomorrow is weigh-in day at WW, and I have no idea how I will do. I haven't looked at my scale in a couple of days. I have been consciously trying to get in more protein, and have started using my protein shakes again. 
HOT. SWEATY. TIGHT 
I think I might start out simple with water 
I'm sure you'll see a loss this week. And even if you don't, you've certainly been kicking butt!!! 
Well, the WW scales showed NO loss - but also no gain, so I guess that is okay. I have lately just been learning how much of a role sodium can play in thwarting my WL efforts, so am being more aware of how much is in the things that I am eating.
Bootcamp rocks! Just 3 more sessions and then we are done. I will miss it! I still love/hate it, but feel that I get SUCH a good workout from it! 
I will take a pic and show you. It is pretty stretching for me, shorter in the leg and lower cut in the bosom (great word, eh) than I usually wear, but hey! I actually look better 20 yrs later than I did at my own grad! so I am going to live it up and enjoy every minute.
Yay for me! Another successful boot camp. And does my gut ever feel it! Wow, she worked our 
As much as I don't want to go and get THAT news, I will go anyway. As my mother would say, "It builds character!"
I felt absolutely stunning in my dress, and when I saw my reflection in a window I asked DH "Is that really ME? Where did I go?" to which he laughed and gave me a hug. He was a good 
A big THUMBS DOWN to that unwelcome monthly visitor, just before weigh-in. Also tonight I am supposed to get measured for my end-of-bootcamp success story! 
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