The A2K (virtual) Weight Loss Club !!

I'm fiendislhy delighted to know other people have fallen off the wagon lately.

I'm working up to a wonderful new start on Monday. New charts. A few new exercises. A new exercise mat if I can find one.

Hope springs eternal....and winter is so long.

That parking issue is just crazy, soz. What do other people do? Spend the bucks?

I'll pay to park at the movies, theater, even a hospital, but I wouldn't pay to park at a gym. It would add up too fast!

Still on track with my new exercise plan...

Since I'm almost definitely not going anymore (I'm going to decide between two smaller and closer gyms) and it doesn't make sense otherwise I'll go ahead and say -- it was the OSU gym. Parking is insane. Basically, the people who exercise there are students or faculty. So they're already paying to be on campus or live in the immediate vicinity, and then just walk over to the gym facilities (which are huge and plush).

I started my serious workout last summer, when there were far fewer restrictions on parking and when it was WAY less crowded. I understood that it would be more crowded when the school year started, I just didn't understand what a huge difference it would be.

It's hard to give it up because the facilities are gorgeous, cheap and cool childcare is provided, and it's a very decent monthly fee with no contracts (can be canceled any time). I just can't afford to pay for monthly garage parking (it's something like $45/ month), and anything else is a crapshoot, especially during the hours I want to go (when sozlet's at school). Place is jam-packed (including garage parking, so even that is not a guarantee). Last time I went I spent about half an hour just trying to find someplace to park (before giving up). Really don't have time for that.

Anyway, going to check out the first local gym in just a bit, hope I like what I see.

Yeah, paying to park to work out sounds like a counter-incentive.

You're doing great, mac -- keep on keepin' on!

I was very excited this morning when I stepped on the scale. Not that I was particularly thrilled with the exact number, but that it was less than yesterday's. I was at a 'chili and bingo' fund raiser at church last night and I sampled more than one of the 15 different pots of chili and had more than I should have of the hotdogs, chips, and treats. My contribution to the event was a salad and I tried to eat more salad than other goodies.

Two more days to get through (weekends are my nemesis) and no specific social obligations that revolve around food. Getting through last night's food fest without derailing has given me additional motivation to get through the rest of the weekend on a good note. Saturday is my longest workout day. If I get a good workout in this morning, and pay attention the rest of the day, I should be a-ok on Monday.

Come Monday, I should be raring to go to get to 170 next week and below 170 the following week.

There are five extra pounds of winter padding I am ready to shed. Actually, I'm not too hung up on the little extra somethin'-somethin' (especially in the tooch!) , but I do find it uncomfortable to be softer than I am accustomed to.

I admit I am getting over the top frustrated by my slight health problems lately, and that has been a contributing factor. There is the dizziness and also there has been a slew of one-after-another minor blows. Like a One-Two-Three all at once, just leaving me so worn out and exhausted.

But that is boring and whiney. Point is: I MISS MY WORKOUTS!! I WANT BACK IN THE GAME.

Will have to take it easy for this bit even though my heart's desire right now is to be working some seriously intensive exercise.

So....decided finally to focus all this insane internal energy into building my practice from the beginning again.

Stroke, stroke. Breathe, breathe. Stretch, stretch.

(One day soon I will be kicking ass triple time because of this. Right? Right! )

Anybody else up for bathing suit shopping? I'm buying 2 or three new ones. Just try and get me out of them this year.
And some nice dancing and kickin' ass wear. (comfy and flattering lol).

Flushd, if swimsuits make you happy you don't have much to lose.

That's one of my goals, since if sozlet had her way we'd spend the whole summer at the pool -- feel GOOD in a swimsuit.

Good for you for getting back into it though especially if you've been under a lot of stress lately. Bet it'll help.

Just got back from the first gym, I'm impressed. Ample free parking, and probably close enough to walk to if I really wanted to. (It'd be a long walk, but hey, the point is to exercise...) If I drive, it's no time at all, and since I've REALLY been feeling the time crunch since I started this latest job, that's quite appealing.

Feeling optimistic as of now.

i've been good all week. no sweets or snacks, only plain toast for breakfast - and that only to prevent me from getting so hungry that i would let go of everything and eat all in sight, and what i'd have for lunch i now divide in two and have the other half for dinner. feel much better already and hope to follow soz's example and venture to the gym. lot of work first though. ugh.

So what is your weight now, dagma? We were about the same in September then you lost lots - I'm about 163 which is on track but slow...

Soz--

Good news about the parking situation at the new place--and more good news about walking distance. Sometimes every family is a one-car family and the One Car is elsewhere.

Flushd--

You can do it. Unfortunately you've been living in Loose Cannon Alley, but you can--and will--control your own diet and exercise.

Good job everyone - lots of good efforts here!

JPB, 15 kinds of chili might not actually show up until tomorrow on the scale. If I were you I'd drink a LOT of water today to try to flush some of that out (literally). But it sounds like you have lots of resolve and will get through the weekend easily. I'm so happy for you!

that is strictly classified, clary. let me just tell ya that i'm where i started. i hate the two weeks each time i come back from india. uncontrolable cravings, mostly for sugar and fat.... all lost bounces right back. next time (may) i have to have much greater resolve upon return.

This morning the scales said 117.

Today is the last day of preparation for my sprint to perfection. Goal 112.

I don't need "luck"--I need grit and resolve.

Wow, Noddy! Homestretch.

Go Noddy. Go Noddy. You can do it.

Soz, good deal with that gym. Sounds very promising. Those parking fees on campus blow my mind.

I'm feeling good today. Having something fun for me to plan for myself, working up to some big adventure - that is my end goal, to be fit enough to do something I have always wanted to do but dared not think even to myself these last years - it may be just what I need.

Found myself dancing a girlish skip on my way home from work this morning. And giggled out loud.

Man, that felt good. Time to have fun fun fun ...

I had one vodka and coke last night, pushing my starting weight up to 119.5.

Off to the Rehab Center (with free parking).

"Resolve jacket in Grit brown"

173.5

Two down (plus the four from the weekend before that I didn't count last Monday), four to go, eleven days to do it.

I thought I'd skipped a week, nearly two, at the Rehab Center. My progress chart shows three weeks.

Granted they are 5 day weeks (and two of those days each week are half days).

Also 5 absences were because of weather.

Still, I've been wasting money, feeding the alley cat goldfish after goldfish.

I highly resolve...

Dance classes continue.

I sweat.

I glow.

I bind.

I shimmy.

I sit-kick, back-drop, kick.

I'm learning to smile occasionally.

Now to work some more on my doum takka doums.

My new Moroccan bongos should help with my rhythm.
If not, they're just fun.

EhBeth--

You're exhausting--also inspirational.

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