[MaineEMT2RN]

Originally Posted by tullosrn2010

i absolutely want to lose some weight before i have ppl practicing sponge baths on me!!!! lol

That's too funny. We actually DID practice sponge baths on each other yesterday in my CNA class! I was all too aware of my 'fluffiness'. Here's the deal - I HATE being 'fluffy'!! I'm absolutely disgusted about my weight gain, and have been telling myself for months that it's time to do something about it.

I lost about 60 pounds years ago when my baby was 3 (someone asked when I was due - that will jolt you into reality!). I had kept it off well for 17 years.....until I went back to school. I just couldn't figure out when/how to fit in exercise. I've been a runner for many years, but I just couldn't manage to do that, and work and go to school and have meaningful relationships with my family. You all know! Anyway, I gained about 16 pounds last winter because I felt that my chemistry course required the application of cookies. I lost it all in the spring, but still wasn't exercising, so while I was thinner, I wasn't the kind of strong and healthy I want to be. This past November, my Dad fell and was in ICU in SC. I was with him for weeks until he passed away which was important, but also created a situation where I ate whatever whenever. Since then, I've dealt with a lot of my grief with the application of cookies. (There seems to be a theme here!) AND STILL NO EXERCISE!

Just last night, driving home from class, I was thinking that I really have to get my priorities back in line before I become one of the patients at the hospital. We see so much evidence of the effect of poor lifestyle choices. How can we do this to ourselves? Time to find my way out of denial and back to strength.

I'm in and I'm bringing pompoms! This is a great idea! What's the game plan? Can we all agree to post our efforts on a particular day of the week? Monday or Friday or something like that? Personally, I like Monday. It will keep me honest on the weekends if I have to report in to all of you on Monday! I'll volunteer to compile the stats and post once a week with our totals of pounds or inches lost that week and also our grand total. Should we do a countdown to September, so we're all lean and mean in time for clinicals?? That would be SO awesome!!

I'm particularly motivated to lose as close to 20 pounds as possible by the end of May when I finish my CNA clinicals and have to buy new scrubs on whichever floor I end up working on. That's my mission - skinny scrubs on June 1!! (I could still stand to lose another 15 beyond that, this is just my immediate need).

I have the Body for Life For Women book. Has anyone else read it? Is anyone else interested in following the program?

[Piglet68]

Hi All,

I am cool with getting the status to MaineEMT2RN on Monday and then having her post them after she gets everyone's stats.

Do you want us to give you the goal amount of weight we plan to lose from here and then what we lose every week and how about a fitness goal?

Thoughts anyone?

[wishNhopeNdreamN]

Maine,

That is pretty much what I was thinking too.


We could start a new thread each week with the new stats. For those that don't need to lose weight, I'm not one of them LOL, I thought we could do exercise minutes.

If you want to take care of the weight losses Maine that would be fine with me. I have an excel sheet that you could modify to track the losses if you would like. I used it on another board a few years ago.

pm if you'd like it.

[wishNhopeNdreamN]

Well...my plan is to go back to doing weight watchers, this is what worked for me last time. I did it on my own and lost about 45 lbs. I am also going to start walking that will lead hopefully into running.

I didn't go to the meetings. I just compliled all the info off the the internet and went it alone.

I have a pda program and some excel sheets that figure your points and tracks it weekly, If anyone is interested I would be happy to share.

As far as WW, Dotties Weight Loss Zone is a great site; it has tons of info.

I talked my dh into taking a walk with me last night. We walked about a mile in a half hour. He needs to lose quite a bit of weight, too.

I felt so accomplished when we finished our walk.

Maine, I forgot to say that Monday's seem like a good time to post the losses.

[wishNhopeNdreamN]

Oh...and on getting our stats to Maine, Do you want them posted by themselves in the thread or do you want us to pm you.

Whatever is easiest, I don't want anyone getting overwhelmed, we all know how hectic our lives already are , we dont want to add to it.

[fuuchan]

Monday, ugh after a weekend full of cheating. I'm ok with it. How about we start with everyone's goal weight by....when did we say? September? Then we're giving a weekly weight loss total, right?

Wow, I'm actually excited to get to the gym tonight. Hurray for the fluffies

[wishNhopeNdreamN]

I know Fuuchan, I'm getting inspired too!

I would like to lose 30 lbs by September. I certainly have more than that to lose but, I'll say this is my short-term goal

I also would like to start out with at least 90 minutes a week of exercise.

I can keep track of the exericise minutes if you all want. Then Maine and I can get together to post both numbers for the week.


You can just post your work out minutes in the thread and I will compile the numbers.

For me, it would be easier to compile the info if everyone would make a separate post with your numbers in the thread, from any conversation. That way it will be easier for me to find.

Does this sound okay?

[fuuchan]

Ok, I'll say 30lbs too by, now is this Sept 1 or Sept 30? 90 minutes of exercise is doable right now, Lord help me when NS starts up. Can we count clinicals as exercise? Actually, you burn calories studying and sitting in class, can we count this too? Ok, I know I'm stretching it, just thought I'd ask. So do we offically start this Monday?

[Piglet68]

Wish, Maine and Fuuchan,

Just to recap, we can PM Maine with the weight loss goal and weight loss for the weekend on Monday and Wish you want us to send you our minutes for excerise in a thread? We can go from Fluffy to Firm!

Wish,

I am doing WW right now and it is actually working. I weigh in on Saturday mornings. It's looking like this Saturday I should hit 9 pounds total since starting on March 1. I have to say WW is the first diet plan/lifestyle change that I have not felt deprived on. As I said in one of my post the first week I had a sandwich everyday and said, "WOW, this is what bread taste like after all these years."

Recipe swap would be nice too!

[tullosrn2010]

So sept. is 6 months away...i would say that my short term goal would be 30 lbs...also...thats completely doable and i would rather go over than under...the sad thing is that i have actually paid for a membership at the gym until may and i havent been in a least a month....but im really goin to start back...i had planned on goin before school which would be at 630 and i find it very hard to make myself....i really have to get motivated...i need to find a pic of the biggest person i can find and put it on the frig....oh yeah my sister in law is getting married in aug and of course she wants me to be a bridesmaid....just another thing to push me to doing this..