I hit my goal weight this week! I look at these pictures and I see how far I have come. I can look at pictures of me and not cringe. I am so excited about it and it keeps me motivated to continue my health journey. My next phase is strength and conditioning.
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
erbear I have lost 62lb since January. All I really did was ensure I was in a calorie deficate. I started walking daily. I walk about 12k steps a day now. Played around with intermittent fasting, but decided that it was leading me to binge and that wasn't healthy
That kicked off the weight loss now I am focusing on strength training with some cardio thrown in.
mae0111 I do feel a lot better, I feel physically better and mentally better. I didn't realize how much my weight had been affecting me until recently.
Post by mommyatty on Sept 19, 2020 15:43:57 GMT -5
Congratulations!! That’s awesome!
After my weird blood pressure scare where I had to go to the ER a couple of weeks ago, I’ve started blood pressure medicine and I’ve started walking every evening with my BFF. I can already feel the exercise and the social time helping me physically and emotionally. This morning my blood pressure was approaching normal for the first time since the event (125/89), and that felt really exciting.
Another one... DD learned to ride without training wheels today! This is huge because she’s been too scared to try until now. I’m so proud of her!
DH and I conned my mom into watching the kids for 2 nights. We are in a city about 1.5 hours away. Honestly the virus is more prevalent here, and it makes me nervous. I am wearing my mask a lot, and we are doing nothing indoors at all unless you count the market. We are having a good time. I'm just hoping I don't bring a virus back with me. DH has allergies, so that doesn't help.
We did a brewery outdoors last night. This morning was a fancy breakfast outdoors again, and then market fish sandwiches for lunch. Long walks on the river and waterfront, and lots of talking actually uninterrupted by children!
Celebration - The fundraiser went much better than I anticipated. Everyone had their mask on and that made me feel wonderful and very surprised. I managed to help outside and not in a large group of people and we sold out. It was nice to see people that we went to church with again, since we have not been to church in person since March.
Celebration: We had a full blown, "family of 5" weekend and everyone had a great time! Beau and son stayed at our house all weekend. The only kid fighting we had was between my two and very minor. We went to his son's soccer game altogether on Saturday, played at the park, and got to just relax around the house together. Beau and I were both commenting on how it felt good to do things "like a normal family" and not be the odd man out/single parent around all the other families on Saturday.
Post by soccermama on Sept 22, 2020 10:13:22 GMT -5
Congratulations, xctsclrx!!! You look amazing and it must feel amazing too!!
My weight has crept up so much over the last couple of years, and I want to blame turning 40 but.... I do think getting older is maybe part of it, but I'm pretty sure its my bad habits too. I used to want to lose 20 lbs but now its like 45 lbs. :-( I signed up for Beachbody on demand back in May and I've only worked out twice with it. I'm frustrated with myself but yet I'm not making any real changes to make progress. Ugh.