Sabbath: The Day of Rest

Today, no challenge. just rest. that is the challenge.

an update on me.

my life is crazy topsy turvy right now. a board i sit on is going through some tumultous times and it is very tough for me right now. my part time job seems bizarre to say the least and at my real job i am all of a sudden doing the work of 2.2 people. good times. the husbands new job is also seeming quite bizarre and i am worried about all that.

needless to say things are not going well and while i haven't totally fallen off the bandwagon, it sure has taken a detour.

i'm still down about 10 pounds since january 1st so i am concentrating on that success

Day 5 -- Daily Challenge

Today the challenge is to get up and get moving! Walk in place for 2 minutes. Do it while the commercials are on.

GET UP AND DO IT!

Day 4 - Daily Challenge

tell me what inspires you to lose weight and be healthy.

Continuing progress

I can't title my posts by weeks anymore, since I had those few weeks off the wagon. I get confused - should I count it as weeks on the wagon, or weeks since I started? I have no idea, and really, it doesn't matter. It just means I need to come up with more intersting post titles.

I was down another 2.4 this week. I really hate how WW online bitches at me for losing more than 2lbs in one week. It doesn't happen every week. It's not like I'm losing 5lbs a week. An extra .4 in a week isn't really that big of a deal, IMO. When you add in the fact that some weeks I lose under 2lbs, I think that on average, I'm still losing at a healthy rate.

Here's the exciting news! By next week, I should be at (1) 20lbs lost total and (2) under 220 lbs. I really hope to make it this week.

On another note, it's 10 weeks until my parents' anniversary and our family photos. By my calculations, I should be able to be under 200 by then. Wish me luck!

Day 3 - Daily Challenge

i thought about this one for a while...and i hope you enjoy it.

find five weight loss/healthy eating/or the like blogs and leave comments. support our peers on the journey! when reporting back here make sure you include the links so the rest of us can take a look!

Day 2 -- Daily Challenge

today i want you to write 5 things you like about yourself.

that's it. that's all.

Daily Challenge - Day 1

Today, the challenge is simple. All you have to do is point & click.

Check out the Health Canada: Food & Nutrition website.

Check out the Canada Food Guide & see out it has changed since we were young'uns. There's even an interactive tool to create your own Food Guide. Are you following guidelines?

There's also an FAQ about Bottled Water and a closer look at Food Labels.

Point & click now!

a daily challenge?

i was thinking about how it might be neat to have some kind of daily challenge. nothing big. just something keep us focused. something like walk in place for 2 minutes or to remember to drink water or to say i love you to our s/o's...something like that?

are you gals interested? it won't take up more then 5 minutes of your day. i promise.

Under Construction

How do you like the color scheme so far? I'm working on the orange parts - those are images, and I have to switch to the ancient craptop to get those colors changed.

In other news, I was down 2.9 lbs this week, according to the Wii Fit this morning. When I weighed myself last week, it was after work, so that will account for a bit, but still. WOO! I have only 6.4ish lbs to go to hit my goal of 15 lbs in 2 months. Stoked, man. Stoked. I still have a long way to go, but hey. it's something, right?

Hope everyone is having a good weekend!

ETA: And uh, didn't there used to be a navbar??? It's showing on the editor as an added feature. Weird.

Week. . . . I'm not even sure anymore

I'm down 1.2 this week! Considering I had a brownie/cheesecake concoction on the weekend, and more cream puffs on Monday, I'm surprised. Hey! It's the cream puffs again! Maybe I need to make these a staple in my diet?

On the good news front, I am now officially at my lowest that I've been since I hopped of the wagon. Woohoo! I told you I was strapping Mr. SB and I to this damn thing!

And lastly, further good news is that my reunion was cancelled because of lack of interest. Perhaps I wasn't the only one worried about what people would say?

Sorry for the short post, but I'm not feeling particularly witty tonight.

Ahhh, that feels better.

Hope y'all like the new look here at POSO. SB & I were chatting and I mentioned changing it, so she found a template, and I went to work and put it in place. Let me know what you think!

I can change the color scheme fairly easily - let me know what you think of these (standard) colors, or if there's a scheme you'd like to see.

Feedback please! We lurve comments!

I'm like a snail...

(In my head, that is to the same tune as "I'm like a bird" by Nelly Furtado. God, I'll turn anything into a song.) Ahem. Like I was saying - I'm like a snail. Slow & Steady. The Wii Fit challenge started July 5 for me, and in the 6 weeks, I have lost approx. 5.5 lbs. Not too bad, especially considering I was working out after work yesterday, and I had a weekend full of delicious food & drink at our friend's cottage. My Wii fit is flaking out a bit during selected episodes of Advanced Step (wah!), but I still heart it. If I spent half the time 'playing' wii fit that I do playing Mario Kart, I'd be thin in no time.

How's everyone else doing? Time for a check in!

As promised, a mini rant.

..and a dilemma I need feedback on waaaaaaaaay at the bottom.

I'm on a quest for a 'nicer' pair of jeans. I've got 2 pairs of jeans currently in rotation - one's missing the buttons off the back-pocket flaps (so I end up with a lumpier-than-usual behind), and the other is just kinda of blah. I picked 'em up in the States earlier this year, and they're comfy, but not "nice going out" kind of jeans, y'know? I had picked up a 2nd pair in the States, which fit all my criteria (did I mention I'm uber picky about jeans?) This pair stretched out of recognition after an evening of wear. Drove me nuts. So, I gave 'em to my coworker. I thought she'd pay me back for them, but ah well. Not quite. ANYWAY.

So I've been checking the fat stores here, and there were a few pairs I liked. Ok, 2. Two whole pairs of jeans that I liked. And you know what the problem is? Same thing that happened with the ones I gave away. The ones that fit perfectly in the store will stretch to all-hell. The size below that? Oh they fit, technically. They're just totally too tight in the butt to wear in public. Theoretically they'd stretch out to an acceptable level within probably a half hour, but I'd also not be able to breathe for that half hour. Not. Cool.

So that's my rant. I hate being an in-between size. It's hard enough to find clothes for fat people, let alone ones who are uh, 'special' like me, and don't fit the pre-determined sizes that are available. Boooo-urns.

Dilemma: Now, the jeans that I like that I couldn't breathe in are currently on clearance for $35 (from A-E! That's almost unheard of!). Do I: A) pick up the ones that are currently too small, and literally work my butt off to get them to fit or B) Keep looking?

(and uh, I'm watching very late-night TV, and I am almost motivated to buy an exercise DVD that's being advertised. I'm losing my mind...)

I'm alive.. a quick update

well, according to my good friend the Wii Fit, I have lost 4.2 lbs in a month, and a portion of a BMI point. That's something, right? Especially when I haven't been as good at getting on the ol' Wii board lately as I should have been. BUT, I have been on the last two days (gotta love vacation - I can exercise before my shower without getting up at an ungodly hour), and am going to try and keep up the momentum.

I have another post that I've been meaning to write for about a week or so, but eh. Never get to it. I'll try and do so later this week... or maybe next :P It's not really time sensitive, more of an ongoing mini-rant.

Hope all's well!!

MIA or AWOL or some other military term

Not sure which I would use to describe my serious lack of WW journalling, exercising, or posting here.

We had Mr. SB's nephew here for 2 weeks, which means I wasn't on plan. For some reason, I have a very difficult time admitting to people that I'm "on a diet". Like if I tell them, they'll all of a sudden realize that I'm fat? Like they were clueless about it before? GAH.

So, I'm dragging Mr. SB and I back onto the wagon, kicking and screaming. I will strap us to this damn thing if I have to. But damn, it's so hard. I think about all the things I could be eating, and about not having to portion out my food, etc. I had been back on the wagon for about 2 weeks before G came, and lost 3 pounds over those 2 weeks. The result of the 2 weeks off was a gain of about 2.2. Not terrible I guess.

What I keep beating myself up over is the fact that my reunion is 3 weeks away, and I'm nowhere near where I wanted to be. It honestly makes me want to cry. I think of everyone judging me, and I don't want to go, even though I spearheaded the whole thing. But I just fear that they won't see anything else I've accomplished in the last 10 years; instead, they'll judge me by what I look like, just like they always did. Mr. SB keeps trying to talk me out of the funk, but it doesn't really work.

However, I have a new timeline goal to work towards. It's my parents' 40th anniversary the first weekend in November, and we're going to get family pictures done. I want to be significantly smaller than I am now, for posterity's sake.

So, there you go. That's what I've been doing (or not, I guess).