BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape

Subject: BS: Accountability - End of year in good sha
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Nov 08 - 11:25 PM

Here we are at the last month of 2008! Extra cleaning, shopping, mailing, baking, etc. it all counts, right?:-)

Whatever you do, please post your fitness/letting go of weight goals, as you meet them by the day/week/monthly. Also, feel free to post your goals in your first posting. Encouragement/chatting is okay, as long as it is kept to a minimum.
Have fun and good luck!

Feel free to make suggestions!

Merry December to all!

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: LilyFestre
Date: 30 Nov 08 - 11:35 PM

Intentions for the month include:

1. Be Open to Joy
2. Be patient with myself. It's about persistance, not perfection.
3. Yoga, Yoga, Yoga
4. New activity being added this week.
5. Journal Journal Journal
6. Tossing all Christmas goodies that teachers get in the trash or passing them on to other staff members. I don't need that stuff nor do I want it.

Michelle who rearranged all kinds of furniture today

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Dec 08 - 12:01 AM

If I get any more accountable I'll be blamed for the sinking of the Maine, Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, Pearl Harbor, and the election of GW Bush.

On the other hand, I've lost 15 pounds and my blood sugar keeps getting better.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Dec 08 - 03:45 AM

More walking today, even though I'm not at work. Promised to shop for some friends (that is, do some shopping for the ones I have, not stop off at 'Chums R Us' and get some new ones....) which means a jolly walk up the high street.

My own personal goal of 2 stones off before Christmas is only going to happen if I lose 5lbs a week now... but at least I'm a stone lighter than 4 months ago.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: mouldy
Date: 01 Dec 08 - 04:07 AM

Try and get a bit more active: the garden needs a lot of work, small though it may be.
Really watch the points intake (although I was well within allowance last week.)
Do more Tai Chi.
Not get upset if I don't get into the blue Droopy & Brown dress that was my end of year target...bit ambitious, considering I have only been on the diet for a month, and had gone back up to my start weight after that stay in the convent. (Weigh-in is tonight).

Stay positive!

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: GUEST,Eye Lander (not logged in) cos of SS.
Date: 01 Dec 08 - 08:04 AM

Thanks Kat for keeping this going and I do hope you'll set it up for next year, although I have lost the plot along the way, I always look in to see how others are doing. I am still renovating and decorating like fury so not totally idle. Merry Christmas to one and all and good luck with goals and aspirations.

Jillie

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 Dec 08 - 11:04 AM

Hurt the lower back a little with cinderblock moving, so yesterday I volunteered for a few extra land-based-walking things to keep it from seizing up in my recliner, and avoided the pool where I would only have overdone things and delayed the back recovery. Today, VERY brief pool visit for hot/cold alternate water, and NO jogging, etc.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: MAG
Date: 01 Dec 08 - 01:44 PM

My goal is to get to the point where I no longer need to do shots for my diabetes. I weighed at the Y SAturday: down to 213. Forty down; sixty to go. Getting off the wrong drugs has helped tremendously.

My job continues to be major stress, but then I remember to be thankful I've got one; if it weren't for the health plan I would have chucked it and gotten out of here a long time ago.

I also want to finish paying off my house sooner rather than later, like, next year, so if I'm out of a job in 2010 at least I'll have a roof over my head.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: JennieG
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 01:22 AM

My plan is to get more active next year. I am retiring from work next week (yippee!) so will have more energy - at present, by the time I get home I am so dragged down and tired that it is a real effort to walk. And I will no longer have a house cleaner so I will be doing my own housework, which is always a good workout.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: MAG
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 10:37 AM

I'm jealous, Jennie. If I had planned my life better may be I could retire early, but it isn't so. Life is what happens while ...

214 at the Y yesterday. I have to quit weighing every time I go; it gets obsessive, and the fluctuations make me crazy.

I have been seeing a physical therapist (not covered by health insurance, natch) and it is making a world of difference.

My band plays 3 hours at a monthly contra dance, and by the end of the dance my shoulder was screaming. Not it doesn't, and I can turn my neck like I should be able to. It's worth the money.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: mouldy
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 03:45 PM

5lbs off from last week's nun-induced weight gain, so I am now back on track, and we have all moved onto the new WW programme. Back's somewhat stiff, but had a good tai chi class this morning


Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: LilyFestre
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 09:42 PM

Binds, Bandhas and Balances Yoga (10 Sun Salutations too, both A & B)

60 minutes, probably a bit longer.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 10:03 PM

Good for you, Andrea!

Qi Gong - 30 minutes
Walking - 10 briskish

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: LilyFestre
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 07:55 PM

Yoga: 60 Minutes

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 07:56 PM

Stairs, several times today, and a lot of upstairs walking.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 08:44 PM

About 45 minutes walking while following Morgan around in a giant hobby store and another store.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: MAG
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 10:42 PM

Did my Y workout again this morning (and didn't weigh). Makes for a long day but worth it.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: Sleepy Rosie
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 04:54 AM

"Get my shit together"
Pretty much sums up my current life plan...

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: GUEST,pattyClink
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 12:22 PM

Doing good on the weights-and-back workouts, doing badly on frequency of walks. Need to do better.

Working on the better food angle, made a few veggie soups to help that along. Lost a coupla pounds.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 12:29 PM

MRE on the go, size per your program. A fruit, a carb, and a protein:

Put "cooked" ramen noodles (plain, toss the flavor pak), coupla slices of jerky, 1/2 c juicy frozen or dried fruit, in a Ziploc-type bag. Squeeze out all the air. Later, add hot tap water. Cut off a corner of the Ziploc, and suck it out like space food. (Rinse off the outside of the bag before opening.) Not bad!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 04:17 PM

45 miunutes slow pool puttering for back. BOHrrrrinnnnggg!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 05:22 PM

I was mostly good all week and lost a pathetic half a pound. Did lots of walking, eating mostly right things... but nope. Half a pound. Humph.

I'm not a happy bunny.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 07:25 PM

Muscles, Liz, muscles. Do NOT use the scale as a real measure of progress-- use clothing fit.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 07:36 PM

More walking with Morgan. About 35-40 minutes, again. Lots of fun!

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: MAG
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 08:51 PM

Successfully sold a size 24 suit to a colleague.

Maybe I should save all my now-too-larges for a spring yard sale?

The consignment shop doesn't leave you much.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: LilyFestre
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 09:10 PM

Yoga: 60 Minutes

Liz, the scale is going the direction you want, no? It takes time and you ARE moving in the right direction! Suggestion: Take a piece of yarn and wrap it around your waist, hips, upper arms, etc. I use a different string for each measurement. Ok...so measure your hips, put a piece of masking tape at the spot where the yarn meets itself. Make this piece of tape like a little flag and write the date on it. NO NUMBERS regarding inches or weight. Measure again in a month and note your new measurements with another flag. It's fun to watch after a few months, ESPECIALLY when the scale is moving too slow for your taste.

Michelle :)

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: mouldy
Date: 05 Dec 08 - 06:13 AM

Confession time

As it was my now defunct dance side's final get together/Christmas party last night, I went along armed with a 13 points to use .... ended up +/- 6 points over, and I blame it on the 2 bite-sized spring rolls! And the 3 whiskies. And the 3 mini Yorkshire puds (but with only one spoonful of beef stew and gravy)... a couple of small open sandwiches...
But there are NO points in picked onions! Trouble is, it's making me a bit anti-social!

However, having been to the doc this morning, apart from cholesterol at 5.5, everything else checks out, and they are leaving my BP medication alone for now.

Being VERY good today.

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: GUEST,MAG at work
Date: 05 Dec 08 - 12:18 PM

212 at the Y this morning. Also I went up one notch on my Nautilus weights.

I still seem to need my shots no matter how I eat; probably the stress.

Gald I kept a lot of old clothes; I don't have torun out and buy new.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: LilyFestre
Date: 06 Dec 08 - 07:05 AM

Yesterday: Taught all day, waited and bussed tables afterwards at a fundraiser.

Today: Photographer at a Breakfast with Father Christmas and later walking all around town for a local festival, perhaps a secret getaway trip to pick up a Christmas gift. Smart wool socks are my friend and should be yours too!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: fat B****rd
Date: 06 Dec 08 - 07:16 AM

Well done everybody. Since joining in with my Wife's Salsa class diet I've lost 16 lbs and thrown out some big jeans.
Feeling a bit viral right now but better for weight loss.
Carry on the good work
Charlie
Presently 15st12lbs

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Dec 08 - 07:25 AM

Is that the dancing Salsa or the eating Salsa?

Well done Not Quite so Fat B****rd!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: fat B****rd
Date: 06 Dec 08 - 10:18 AM

Hello, Liz and well done yourself. Ann -Mrs. fB - does the once a week dancing and all the week cooking and I lose the weight.
Gimme a few months and I may be plumb B****rd, who knows? one day - skinny.....naaaaaaaah!

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: maeve
Date: 07 Dec 08 - 10:23 AM

Hurrah, fB! That's great!

I have found some new sources of low-cost, nutritious food this week- one is a local food co-op; the other is restaurant surplus sold locally for pennies on the dollar (organic mushrooms, various vegetables, bulk goods, etc.) My focus has to be making sure we have enough good quality food for winter. We eat soups a lot. The only non-vital foods left to give up are small amounts of sugar, coffee, and tea and the rare box of ice cream. This year we've dried lots of fruits and veggies. It looks like we'll need to add a used freezer in the cellar too. It will be a hard winter, and neighbors are likely to need help.

Exercise continues in the form of hauling wood and coal, doing the wash (for a little while longer), hauling supplies, outside farm work, cleaning house, and nowadays, shovelling snow. I can't walk much due to overworking my feet during harvest. I'll start potting a couple thousand spring bulbs for forcing for farm stand sales in April through June. They will provide the first income since October. Lots of heavy and frequent lifting, twisting, and reaching involved there.

It's a discouraging to work so hard and eat so simply yet not lose the few inches I need to lose. My portions are small and well-balanced. I'm strong in muscle but still really need to slim down for best health.

Keep up the good work, folks. You're all doing well.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Dec 08 - 01:27 PM

maeve, I know you know this, but sometimes we lose sight that we may be eating too little for our bodies to let go of some weight. That and it sounds as though a lot of your weight is muscle which you do not want to lose!*smile* (Wish I could say the same.)

rant on: I reinjured my hurt ankle and spent all of yesterday on the bed. Getting really tired of this bs. It seems to have a lot to do with the rat poison they say I have to take to keep my blood thin enough to not clog up in the artificial valve; apparently it causes internal bruising as much as external, swelling and voila...one kat limping and cursing, but glad to be alive to do so! Please don't mind me...just a little grumpy!

rant off:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: fat B****rd
Date: 07 Dec 08 - 02:51 PM

Plumb B****rd ??? PLUMP !!
Kat - I'm sorry to read you're hurting. Garn, be grumpy. You're right about eating too little on weight loss diets, mind. Any success we've had (Annhas lost a stone) is due to a not too rigid adherence to eating less and avoiding excess calories.
Maeve expect PM soon
Charlie.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Dec 08 - 05:25 PM

Thanks, Svelte B****rd!:-) It is feeling better today. I expect I just have to be more careful and less carefree with my bod.:-) Drat!

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 08 Dec 08 - 07:34 AM

Yesterday all five of us went for a 4 mile walk, although our 3 little angels had a warm and comfortable ride in their buggies. A brisk walk pushing a buggy seems to be really doing the trick for Paul and I.

The doctor has finally passed me ok to exercise after the birth of our twins as I had serious problems with my pelvis, but all is ok now! I have got the time table for the local sports centre and have signed myself up for a few classes. I can't wait to get back exercising....and it gives me some me time too!! *G*

My goal is to drop another dress size my Imbolc, but won't be too disappointed if it takes a bit longer.

Liz, don't get down about only losing a lb. You looked great the other week when I saw you. You'll reach your goal. See you soon!

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: LilyFestre
Date: 08 Dec 08 - 09:51 PM

Saturday: 4 Miles

Monday: Yoga, more specifically, Chalasana....long holds, breathing into the pose, finding new edges....really intense and savasana was oh so sweet!!!!! (90 Minutes)

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Dec 08 - 03:28 AM

I have found the answer! The answer is prawns!!!

Low in fat, high in yummy, when combined (overall, not in one meal) with omelettes, mushrooms, courgettes (well, alright, that was one meal), plums and grapes, they work!

My scales here tell me that 4lbs went this weekend thanks to the magic of Prawns!

I'm not getting officially weighed tomorrow as I have a singing gig, but I'll let you know next week how I got on.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: fat B****rd
Date: 09 Dec 08 - 03:31 AM

Outstanding, Liz, outstanding.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 09 Dec 08 - 07:30 AM

Fantastic Liz! Well done

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: LilyFestre
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 04:01 PM

Tuesday: 60 Minutes of Bandhas, Balances and Binds.

Michelle the Bendy

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 04:30 PM

Another 30 mins walking today... I've been off for a few days so I'm behind with my walking.. wearing heels doesn't help.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 04:50 PM

Not getting much in as my foot is still very painful...the coumadin is still up, so we've adjusted it more which will help. I keep telling them I'm not really a rat, but they keep wanting me to take the poison!:-)

A revelation for me...I do not like being forced to be inactive! It depresses me which leads to slip-ups in eating which leads to...weigh in isn't until Friday so I hope I've at least stayed where I was!

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 02:59 PM

Last night, 30 min slow AJ and 10 min BackHab.

Today, lots of stair climbs and upstairs walkies continuing the Great Linen Sort and Curtain UpPut. Changing the king bed and 24 pillows is a workout all by itself!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 04:59 PM

Yesterday was a 3 mile walk pushing twin buggy and a 2 hour playgroup party. Today was only a mile walk but pushing twin buggy with buggy board and toddler!

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 09:35 AM

That amounts to weight training CJ!

I did a whole hour of walking yesterday but only 15 mins today.. the bus was at the stop as I got there this morning and it seemed churlish to ignore it after it had waited for me. :D

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 10:02 AM

indeed Liz!! I don't need to buy any equipment!!

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 10:15 AM

Well, the '2 stones by Christmas' isn't going to happen unless I lose a leg in the next 2 weeks.... but I have lost almost 1 stone.. and hopefully that last reluctant pound or two will have gone by next Wednesday...

Still.. half a target reached is better than nothing, and I have noticed the difference!

So I'm going to concentrate on eating well and sensibly for 10 days and then not beat myself up about the amount of chocolate I'm going to ingest over the festive period.

It's our Christmas meal at work next Friday and I said I'd take fruit and veggies, so that should encourage me to eat them and not the biscuits and pastries I know everyone else will bring! Trouble is, there is always a fair bit left over which then goes to feed us diligent workers through the following week (it was such a shock when I left school and found that people actually have to work during Christmas week!) and it's always the fat-riddled stuff that is left.. the biscuits, the crisps, the chocolates...... ho hum! I feel more walking coming on!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - End of year in good shape
From: GUEST,MAG at work
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 01:17 PM

Got up and made it to the Y for workout this a.m. in spite of only 4 hours sleep.

Back into my size 20's: 45 pounds down, 60 to go.