BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!

Subject: BS: Accountability -Yes we can - Yes we did!
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 12:21 AM

As Maggie said in the new de-clutter thread, we've done this for almost a year and it seems like an anniversary. We've all survived 2008 with all of the turbulent times it brought and the Hope we have all pinned our own stars to coming up with the new year and new leadership. We've learned to be kind to ourselves, that we each have different abilities and we can support one another in beautiful friendship. I am really proud of us all and i hope you are, too.

With that in mind, please feel free to post your goals here for the new month of January in the NEW YEAR!

Goals - qi gong every other day
free weights = ditto
walking - ditto

not all on the same days:-)

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From: CamiSu
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 02:36 AM

Not staying up til 3 am.

Oops!

CamiSu

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 02:43 AM

I'm headed to bed after a few more chores and after several trips to the attic. No way to quantify the exercise (minimal), but the result will be noteworthy around here--solid Internet connectivity. I managed to fish a line through the wall (no mean feat!) for the wiring to my son's computer.

I am happy to say that nothing collapsed beneath me and I was able to climb (several times) over the ducts that run through the attic trussed space, so I suppose there was some agility training (of sorts!) this evening.

Have a good New Year, and let's hope that we all can visualise the shape we want to be in, and can simply default to the diet and lifestyle that will take us there before the next 12 months is out.

Maggie (SRS)

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From: mouldy
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 04:20 AM

I'm going to get my very expensive bike out of the garage and actually RIDE it...when it warms up a little bit!

First weigh-in of the year on Monday night, so we will see what the seasonal excesses have done.
I think visualising the shape we want is a good idea. I want to be down a clothes size by this time next year. Properly down a size - not just shoe horning myself into stuff. There's a small but determined garden that needs a good overhauling, so no excuses!

Andrea

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From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 05:56 AM

Choosing 3 from 12

To change my bath taps for a shower mixer tap and retile the kitchen floor.
To cook something new each month.
To keep my home accounts on a spreadsheet to the same level I do for my clients.


Im off to make a carrot and banana cake for the new year (doesn't count as new as I've made it before).

Happy new year.

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From: LilyFestre
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 08:08 AM

My goals are

1. To enjoy the journey as I intend to pass this way only once
2. To focus on small goals
3. To stop & think about what my body needs instead of wants
4. To join a new exercise class this month (Lookout Butts and Guts! Here I come!!!)
5. To improve my health as much as possible so I can be a strong, fit, energized Mommy.

Michelle

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From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 10:47 AM

To continue helping others reach their highest potential in whatever way I can contribute.

To be less wasteful of time, money, health and other things in short supply.



Two small goals...that should be enough for now.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 12:38 PM

This last week has had a fair number of sugary foods and candy around the house. I've given away or frozen most of it now, and I find the easiest way to go cold turkey from that easy sugar addiction is to go a few days on the Scarsdale Diet. The diet itself doesn't work really well for me, but a few days on it helps to kick the sugar cravings out of my brain.

Breakfast this morning was a toasted slice of whole wheat bread (baked last night before bed, so it was beautifully fresh!), apple slices, and a pot of Yorkshire Gold tea (Micca got us hooked on that, he sent some as Moonglow's Secret Santa a few years back).

This is the first day I have birds at the kitchen garden feeder (I put it up earlier in the week) and today I will get some exercise on behalf of birds--I'm going to dig a hole, mix some concrete, and put up my martin house.

SRS

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From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 01:08 PM

Not much in new goals-- the old ones are fine, and I don't trust the NY Res phenomenon. But I will note that I have, for some time now, been officially looking for ways to fund getting rid of some skin.

The "new" thing is that I am cleared to run a big-ass snowblower, so we went and got a good one yesterday. I ahve taken charge of its deployment and have advised Hardi that we will not go look for his ab bench toimorrw and plow today-- we will make the long drive to go look today, in chilly sunlight. We'll plow tomorrow when it will be a few degrees warmer.

And I just found the great hat my son apparently left here, which I need to wear when we clear snow. !~!~!

I'm cleared now to drive, too, so it's back to daylight pool time.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 04:39 PM

Good for you, Susan!

Slow starting here. Did get some walking done today. Forgot to weigh myself in first thing; with clothes on and fresh food and water on board, I went up another pound. I will wait and weigh in tomorrow morning to see how accurate that is.

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From: maire-aine
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 06:36 PM

Today's my second day without a cigarette. It's not exactly a resolution, but I suppose it's good for something.

If I could lose 30 pounds this year, that would be great.

I hope to start walking more, once it warms up.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 07:31 PM

That's major, Maryanne! Congratulations. My Rog has been without smoking for almost a year now and his colour is much better.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!
From: LilyFestre
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 07:47 PM

Happy Hour Yoga for me today, 60 minutes. This class is usually a very relaxing, end of the week, take care of your body kind of class...not today. Noooo...not today. We got our asses kicked today! Lots of hip openers and thigh builders (and man you should see my thighs..WOO HOO!....now if I could only get my abs and arms so toned!

Namaste!

Michelle

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 04:59 AM

So far this year, on my journey to work I have walked to and from the station every day.

I'd be proud of that but I've only been at work for one day!

It's vacuuming this morning, and by the smell of it we had a visiting cat last night so that's the carpet cleaner coming out as well....

Ho hum... that should do for a couple of ounces... which would be fantastic as my scales here tell me I'm very close to that elusive 'under 15 stones' mark.... be still, my beating heart!

LTS

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 06:23 PM

Had a really long walk today... around London, during a Demo against the bombing of Gaza in Trafalgar Square today. Been years since I was on a political rally of any kind. It was a lovely day for walking, if the reason was not so lovely. Never got round to the housework so I suspect that's tomorrow's task.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 06:38 PM

Good for you for going to that, LtS! I haven't done much of anything today. It's strange. I can *feel* my body wanting to be worked and I mean to, but it passes and I don't. I think partly because they have spooked me about being careful because of certain diagnoses. I think going to a PT will help with that. So, I'll stick to the qi gong and see what happens after that. My feet DO feel much better!!

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From: Hawker
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 07:54 PM

Well... Yes I did lose over 2 stone last year ;0), yes I did put most of it back on too :0( Yes I am going to lose it again... and more!!!!!
I have targets set and it all begins on Monday with the weigh in!
Will keep you posted!
The wii sports says I have the fitness of a 67 year old.......considering it was the first time I had used it and I am 47 I wasnt too disheartened!
Cheers all, go for it!
Lucy

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 02:05 AM

This week I have switched to a few days of the Scarsdale Diet. I didn't explain much earlier, but it is a simple plan with toasted whole wheat bread and fresh fruit for breakfast, a simple lunch (lunch meat, veggies or fruit) and a simple dinner (usually meat, veggie, bread). The book has variations for vegetarians, etc.

Yesterday I took the dogs for a nice long walk. Today I spent a fair amount of time climbing in and out of the beams in my attic. It was kind of like Yoga--moving carefully through a precarious place, holding positions while I worked, moving back out again. Several repetitions.

:)

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!
From: GUEST,pattyClink
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 02:19 PM

My goals, before they get any more numerous.

1 - get some more weight off, shooting for 30 pounds by this time next year; and help the big guy come down in weight too

2 - get organized and de-cluttered enough to get to at least some of my 'someday' projects

3 - do at least a few desperately needed home maintenance/improvement projects

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!
From: fat B****rd
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 03:47 PM

I only managed to re-gain 6 lbs over the holidays! (:( BUT I went out into the garden to-day to fill several poly bags with leaves for mulch. Ha! Frozen weren't they. Did a load of raking and tidying, not to be outdone.
Ann is back at the Salsacise and recipes class on Wednesday so it's "Get thee behind me, calories" Sounds like I want a fat arse, don't it!.
I'll be back to a bit of brisk walking as well. The gyms here have blasting music and televisions so I may do some weight training stuff at home. I WILL be back to 15st10 soon and then it's all systems go to get into my optimistic jeans.
Am I the only male here?
Keep it up everybody
Aiming for leaner B****rd

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From: fat B****rd
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 03:51 PM

'Scuse me, Rap. I should have looked. Which one of your Mudcat Photos is the real you?

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 08:12 PM

My hard day in the garden is scheduled for Tuesday week, when I'm taking a couple of days off work and replacing the back fence. That should be fun. There'll be a few trips to the tip if I can't get a cheap skip for less than a week.

LTS

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 08:14 PM

Oops... meant to put that I don't appear to have put on a great deal over Christmas which is a major miracle considering the amount of time I've spent on the sofa snoozing and eating chocolate. If my scales are to be believed, I may even have lost a pound or two!!

LTS

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From: bavis
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 04:13 AM

Hi all can anyone join? I had a very good Christmas and now I need to pay up!

My goals are to get back on track with weight and to get walking again.

Happy New Year to one and all.

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From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 08:40 AM

I only put on 2lbs over the holidays which is pretty good considering what I ate!

I've done 50 sit ups, 50 leg raises on each leg. Run up and down the stairs 10 times (that was a killer!) today. Dance aerobics starts next week

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From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 10:36 AM

Just lift each child several times a day and you'll get quite a workout. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!
From: LilyFestre
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 12:12 PM

Accountability to me means not only shedding the extra weight but also tending to other medical issues to keep my body healthy. In that light, I took myself to the Dr. this morning because I have an inkling that my medication level is off. She listened to me and acted on what I had told her. She said, "You know your body best!" (I love my new doc, can you tell?) She asked if she could take some blood and so I had some blood work done and left the office with a free 30 day sample of the upped dosage that I think is going to do the trick.

I hate needles. I hate being unhealthy more. I'm all proud of myself.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 05:59 PM

Good for you Michelle - especially in finding a doc that will listen to you!

Bavis - new faces are always welcome!

We got Limpit a Wii for Christmas, it came with the sports package (no balance board yet, that's probably the birthday present sorted), but I've been doing the training - apparently I'm up this week, from 80 to 60. I know it looks like those scores are going the wrong way, but those figures represent years. I've gone from being as fit as an octagenerian to being as fit as a sexegenerian. A lot of it is because I read the manual and now know where I went wrong with me nunchucks.

LTS

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From: mouldy
Date: 06 Jan 09 - 05:13 AM

I only put on 2lbs as well - it felt like more!
Just finished my brekkie of bran flakes and blueberries. Going to start going up and down stairs sorting stuff out now.

Andrea

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From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 06 Jan 09 - 10:18 AM

Baby weight lifting..good idea!!

60 sit ups this morning with toddler sat on tummy. 50 leg raises each leg. 50 leg squots/crunches. Ran up and down stairs 10 times.

Ham salad for lunch which makes a nice change after all the festive food.

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From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 07 Jan 09 - 09:44 AM

Official weigh in tonight.. we'll see what I put on over Christmas, even though I'm convinced her scales lie.

Been walking a lot this week though, through the house several times with armloads of garden trash, up and down at the tip to unload and dispose, and to and from the station. They've put the rail fares up again so I may pretty soon be walking to work - it's the only way I'll be able to afford to soon!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Jan 09 - 06:48 PM

I'm convinced her scales are wrong.. they say I didn't put on anything at all! Either that or my all chocolate diet works better than they think it does.

LTS

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From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Jan 09 - 10:41 PM

Good for you, LtS!

May I have a drum roll, please?

Walked on the treadmill for the first time since July!!!! Only four minutes, but I pay attention, now, when the feet start talkin'!

Also did 30 minutes of qi gong.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 08:24 AM

Good for you Kat, big cheers here! Those treadmills are buggers for feet, most models don't have enough 'give' so take care.

LTS

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From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 08:27 AM

100 sit ups this morning, leg squots and running up the stairs but only 5 times today.

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From: GUEST,MAG at work
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 11:07 AM

In spite of a two day potato binge I am back to 206, after shooting up to 210 temporarily.

Back to workout yesterday. I sure am addicted to that hot tub. Didn't make it this morning, but at least I got some sleep.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 11:10 AM

Yes, MAG!!

Thanks, LtS. I didn't know that about treadmills.I wondered why it seems to hurt more to walk on it than elsewhere.

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From: LilyFestre
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 02:04 PM

Moving furniture (piano/cupboards) to prime walls in the living room. Soon to check out a new exercise DVD that I (requested by me) received for Christmas.

I am now currently an expectant mom (adopting and expecting 2 children!) and am no longer working. I'm almost afraid of being at home and how easily it would be to fall back to old habits and end up over 300 pounds again. I've shared my concern with a few friends and am happily surprised at how supportive everyone is. A built is support system....one of real friends, not just those I see once a week at weigh in. I was driving one of those friends to the Dr. this morning and we were talking about weight loss and I shared my concern with her. She tapped my shoulder hard, several times and said, "I'm right here, always with you." Kinda sweet, no?

Anyway, it feels good to know others are willing to be a part of my journey. A new routine is always hard but I CAN DO THIS!!! :) I refuse to be a couch potato or a slug that just lingers around the house. I have a life to live and babies to prepare for!!!!!!!!! :)

Michelle

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From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 03:20 PM

You just wait, Michelle...those two will have you up and off your feet so much you'll wonder how in the world you ever thought you might be a couch potato, again! Kids keep ya busy!

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From: maire-aine
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 03:30 PM

I made it through one week without a cigarette. But if I live to be 72, I'm starting again.

Maryanne

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From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 04:17 PM

Well done maire-aine!

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 05:32 PM

Had a good workout session with the Wii and Limpit this afternoon.

Now I'm not into computer games as such, but I bought the 'Ravin Rabbids' game... and boy does it get you moving!

You earn points by shooting rampaging chickens - which is always good for stress relief (unless you're the chicken), "playing" along with various tunes (waving the remote/nunchuck around to make the instrument sound - impossible to do it with small movements and they have such classics as 'Born to be wild' and 'I'm no good', "dance" to the Jackson's 'ABC' or 'Le Freak', which is a definate get up and move around one, or just generally bounce up and down. Lots of movement, a good cardiac workout but murder on the elbows. The points are only a way of keeping score - Limpit is thrashing me, but it's all good fun and gets us moving around! It also provides a good laugh for anyone passing along the road outside - must remember to pull the curtains next time.

Oh, and I got my Wii Sport training age down from 54 to 45 - not bad seeing as how I was 80 on Boxing Day!

LTS

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From: MAG
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 11:53 PM

Retirement party: no wine, no bread, no cookies (for me). I also left after half an hour so I wouldn't be tempted.

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From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 08:55 AM

Sounds a fun way to get fit Liz!

80 sit up this morning and about 50 legs raises with weights. Harry wanted to dance to the radio so we did that for 15 minutes.

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 05:34 PM

I think I must have lost another 5lbs today... major tummy upset.... still, it all counts! :D

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 07:55 PM

I've lost more, plus did 300 bendovers and pick ups (cleaning up!), 100 flexes and rotations of ankles, knees, hips, and shoulders, plus Morgan and I bopped around a good thirty minutes inside, then out in the snow.

qi gong - 30 minutes and free weights, 8 reps twice of 4 moves

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 08:13 PM

qi gong????
Is that legal?

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 11:17 PM

Last I knew, it was, Sins! If not This Fellah is in a lot of trouble!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability -Yes we did - Yes we can!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 06:02 PM

Did about an hour of brisk walking today - it had to be brisk it was too chuffing cold to loiter!

LTS

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From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 08:38 PM

Yesterday I took a great long walk with the dogs, it was 70 degrees and beautiful. Today it was about 40, is going down to 20 tonight, so my exercise will be minimal. Weather like this makes it difficult to plan regular walks, but we'll take what we can get.

SRS