Hi,

I found your diary! Just wanted to stop in and see how you are doing today and move ya up to the first page along with the rest of us!

I'm going to read up on your diary here a little later. Right now I'm getting ready to head downstairs and get on the treadmill!

Welcome to the group!!!!!

Hey Girl! Looks like things may work out after all. I am so glad he agreed to go with you to the gym, and hopefully it will continue since he will start feeling better too.

hey 1day and hippo, thanks so much for the encouragement! it really is great that he's started going to the gym with me. he's such a sweet-natured man, i know he would never do anything to intentionally block my efforts to do something, but it was just frustrating the hell out of me! we talked about it though. . . . . .and i think my working on my weight so much is kinda affecting him as well. he goes through spurts of wanting to lose weight. i think he thinks that he won't be able to do it without playing sports again, which makes me sad because his knees are bad. . . . .i want him to play again, he loves it so much. but i think he's doing more wear and tear on them now being heavy than even playing football or rugby again would do to them. i don't know. . . . .i want him to be happy and healthy, so whatever he wants to do is fine with me. i just want him to be around until we're old greyheads in our 90s.

so the challenge has begun! i'm loving this so far. i've started a food journal, and i've found that it makes me TOTALLY accountable for everything i eat. i've been really really strict so far, and find that i have absolutely no trouble staying in my 1500 calorie range and still eating foods that i like. i might shorten my timespan, and make the 1500 calorie thing a 2 month plan, then take it down by 100 calories for one month at a time until i'm to 1200. i just don't want to shock my system quite yet by dropping to 1200 right away.

gymwise i've been awesome. . . . .unless i'm working a stretch, i'm there every day. the holidays kinda cut into my schedule, but then my mom and brother really like to go to the gym now so that helped me. i took a yoga class on tuesday that i absolutely LOVED. conquered my fear of going to group class at the gym, and got back into something i really enjoy. am hoping to maybe get back to the yoga studio i used to attend in west philly. . . . .not sure if i'll make it just because without a car it's annoying to get up there and back. . . . . .buuut with the boy in class three days a week starting in january, this might be the perfect opportunity. it's yoga inspired by baron baptiste, and it's hot yoga - they heat the room to like 95 degrees while you practice. you sweat so much that you feel absolutely cleansed by the time you leave. i LOVE it. so maybe that will be my february goal. go back to yoga class.

and now i close, because i'm way beyond my bedtime. (worked last night) g'night everyone, and good luck to all of the challengers!

just had a thought. . . . .of just doing my measurements, and checking them every week.

and since you all know my weight already, i figure what the hell, might as well post the measurements on here too! then i'll do the measurements on the same day as the weigh-ins. (mondays) and we'll see how we go!!!

today:

omg i can't believe i'm posting these. . . . .embarassing. . . . .

46-41-44

wow.

all i can keep thinking of is some stupid hip hop song saying 'measurements were 36-25-34'. i have to do about 29837532982379 sit ups before i can get to 25, if i ever do!!!

anyway, so monday is measure day. just another way to see how i'm doing.

LOL Your hillarious!

You're doing great and you'll be to that 25 before you know it!

Just dropped in to check on you, look like your doing great

you are brave, because im too afraid to even venture towards the measuring tape...

I enjoy reading your entries, they are informative, and entertaining!

Hey there! Just stopping in to say hello! I can't wait to see how measurements go tomorrow!! I hope you have a great week this week! We have to really work it so we can WIN this challenge!!

Hey mate your doing awesome.

goodmorning everyone!

thank you all for commenting in my journal, your support is SO awesome and i love it. it really is what helps keep me motivated when i'm feeling tired out. 1_day, i feel like it's going to take FOREVER to get there! but i'm glad you found me amusing hehe
trusylver thanks for stopping by and for the encouraging words! i'm trying.
skinny kate - yeah it was pretty horrifying to actually type out those numbers, but in a way it helped me out because the more i'm horrified by my weight/measurements, the more i want to change them. and i'm glad to entertain!!!
christina - amen girl, this challenge is some HARD work! but wait a little bit for some good news on my front. . . . . thanks for dropping in!
rosered - as usual, thanks for the support chica. you're awesome!

finishing up another 12 hour shift. i truly enjoy my job, it's such a good time. i'm paired up with a nurse for my orientation who also eats 5-6 small meals a day, and we just joke around all the time about how we're 'constantly eating'. she's so damn tiny that she doesn't need to be losing any weight at all, but she just eats a lot. found a wonderful way to politely get rid of the 293857329873 chocolates that a patient gave me (god bless her, she sent them to the hospital addressed to me personally after she was discharged) - bring them in to work!!! the vultures instantly descend upon them, and i left with probably 1/4 of what i had brought in. BEAUTIFUL idea. will remember it for wednesday.

calories for the day are fantastic as well - 1220. YES! . . . . well actually 1330. didn't count the OJ that i'm sipping on right now. water was through the roof - that's one thing i don't have a problem with, as i'm always chugging away at my water. it's just something i do automatically when i'm at work because it's so dry there. plus it's a great appetite suppressant. keeps my mouth busy.

so now for the good news. . . . .did the weight today. . . . .and i dropped a lb! once again, feeling kinda stupid for being so excited over 1 lb, but i'm just gonna be excited anyway. i'm 3 lbs away from losing 20. that's awesome. i gotta really kick some butt this next week for the challenge as well as for maybe those three lbs, and then will take some money from savings and buy a new outfit or something. i'm excited.

i wrote this in the challenge boards, but i've been continuing my little boyfriend saga here with the dieting/him not helping me out thing. . . . . . .it's like the boy suddenly saw the light. i don't know if it's because i talked to him about it or because he met with a personal trainer on friday (and discovered that he's 30 lbs heavier than he thought he was, btw) but he's like a new man. he's watching what he eats. . . . well, relatively, anyway. i'm going to have to work at this one to get him to eat at a semi-respectable level. he just. . . .he doesn't eat breakfast. he barely eats lunch. then he ravages his dinner as like a whole pizza, or 1/2 a bag of chips then a sandwich. it's awful, it's not nutritious (i have no idea how he gets his full allowance of vitamins), and i don't like watching him not take care of himself. the idealistic nuturer in me wants to just move in together already (happening this summer) and cook for him because he obviously can't deal by himself.

men can be morons.

but ANYWAY - so he's been watching what he eats, and he stayed up all night last night to be able to sleep with me during the day (i know, too cute). so he calls me as i'm leaving the hospital and asks if i'm hungry. i tell him yes - i'm always hungry after my shift. i just don't usually eat because i'm going to bed right afterwards. so he says ok, and changes the subject. of course i figure he's making me breakfast, and i try to prepare myself for either a breakfast sandwich from a food cart (absolutely sinfully good but SO BAD FOR YOU), or some eggs, sausage and hash brown breakfast. i start to try and calculate my calories for the day to see how many thousands i'll be over. well i get home and find that he has cooked me everything that i have here in the APARTMENT. he cooked me egg beaters, whole wheat toast with vegetable spread, peeled me a clementine, and poured me a bowl of my kashi cereal. now i couldn't eat the kashi so i gave it to him, because i was too stuffed after the rest. . . . . .but i was so touched! it really showed me that he appreciates the effort i'm putting into this, and i loved that.

dunno, he's pretty spectacular sometimes.

anyway, so past the mushy part. yesterday was well done, ended the day at like 1410. today we're at 1330. things are going well, my dears keeping up the work!

Hey Heather, congrats on your pound lost! That is so awesome!

And also on your new success with your boyfriend! I am so thrilled that he is taking a step to better his health and that he is supporting you. Boy it makes a world of difference!! As for his eating habits, well he'll gradually improve on those I bet with your influence. Oryou could also perhaps encourage him to meet with a nutritionist so he can get a better idea on what and how he should eat! Again congrats... way to go!!

Hey Heather,

Just stopping in to check on ya and bring ya back to page one! Hope your having a good day!

Thats great that your boyfriend is ready for a change himself. If both of you are doing it together it will be alot easier on both of you!


Oh by the way I wasn't laughing at you to be mean I was laughing at how many situps you said you would have to do!

Congrads girl doing great you CAN DO IT!

Hey Girl! Just wanted to post to bring you back to page 1! Where have you been the past few days? I hope you are still doing well!

That was such a sweet story about your boyfriend! I am so happy for you. My hubby has also made me very proud of him lately. He already does almost all of the cooking and cleaning so that I have time to go to school, study, and spend time with him and the kids. Since I got home from the hospital, he has been doing absolutely everything for me. I mean, it is not like I am able to get around, but still. I know plenty of people who wouldn't do that for their spouse.

I miss being on the team with you! I will try to check in sometimes, when I have a moment of sanity in the midst of this loupy drugged up feeling.

Hey mate I hope the boyfriend is still helping and doing lol but don’t set yourself up on his success or failure mate because this is about you.
How are you going with your exercise and the gym?