I am proud of myself today because........

Despite my chronic illness, I can see small improvements everyday. I will be strong and healthy once again!

I took a 45 minute walk in the sweltering, oppressive heat and humidity. I wanted to turn back and get into the ac at home. LOL.

I'm eating clean, staying on track, and walked for 60 mins today!

I rule.

You might need more cals if you are working that hard. Try upping them a bit and see what happens.

I worked hard today and I ate great. Best day in the last two weeks, go me :)
I also made a delicious new dish, Sundried Tomato and Feta Turkey meatloaf. I want to eat what I put aside for lunch tomorrow right now! But I won't!

I'm slowly but surely beating my running time, each time. hit my Plateau though, have been keeping the calories down and busting my hump running and working out, but no weight loss. Must be all muscle now

Artnanrky- Congrats!! That's great news!! Good luck!

Polkadot- At first I wasn't sure about the whole personal trainer thing. It seemed silly, but in the reality of things, I'm not the best at being disciplined and structured. So, with this whole new, "I can really do this" outlook, a trainer has been the best gift I could give myself.

Sure, I don't get to have the random trips to Target as much, but it's really been way worth it, and I've learned so much not just about my body, but how to eat better too. In the end, I do think that I'm going to stick with her until I reach my goal weight!

I am proud and hopeful because..... I made some eggs!

DH and I have been TTC for about 8 years now. We are now nearing the end of our final attempt: IVF with ICSI.
here is the general update:
Egg retrival on Thursday = 4 eggs
Friday we found out that 3 egg were mature and ICSI was performed on those 3.
Of the 3, 2 eggs became fertilized!

This is good news, but we are cautious to be happy about it as they still need to live to Sunday at which time they will be transfered back into me which will also be yet another hurdle.

Here is what I am hoping you can all do to help:
Please send love, luck and warm thoughts to our fertilized eggs!
Thank you so much!

I will post back here later today once I hear back from the Hospital how our eggs are doing.

@1031: Great job for getting the extra workout in. How do you like having a personal trainer?

@OFFDREA: Stopping a binge from coming on is a huge accomplishment. Good job :)


Let's just say I will be proud of myself for running today. It's been a while, but I'll do it!

Way to stop the evil binge!!

Today I added an extra workout with my trainer and was able to run without stopping! Hooray for progress!

I stopped myself from a full on binge last night. I had two cookies and a peice of bread. Instead of my usual mentality of "oh well I already went over may as well stuff as much food into myself as possible" I ate those cookies super slow, and then just stopped. I told myself I may have gone over my calories but an extra 500 is not a big deal, an extra 1500 will be.

Yay swimming and biking, polkadot! Nice job getting up to workout! It's a battle I find myself facing everyday! We both know it's soooo worth it!!

I am proud of myself today, because I found myself really craving an evening treat... instead of going out for calorie and sugar packed ice cream, I stopped for an iced green tea lemonade unsweetened from Starbucks! It was really what I was craving!

I got out of bed to workout when I reeeeeeally didn't want to!

I got up and did something.
Swimming and bicycle riding.

I am a half marathoner :)

Great job with your running!!!!!

I ran today. I am sticking with the program. I am back!

:D

I made myself quit my workout yesterday because my legs were in severe pain. 4 days till race day, I am NOT injuring myself

A good workout room will make you want to do it!!!

I did 6k before work :)

@ Aletheafit- Way to get your ducks in a row! Awesome!

@Offdrea- mad running skills my friend... way to fight off bar food! It's so hard!

@Offdrea... That is an accomplishment! Drinks make it hard to resist late night snacks!

I am proud because I finally set up the workout room! It took a lot of cleaning but its up and running with some new curtains and a mirror- I actually WANT to work out in there! And I have!

I didn't stuff my face with burritos, cheese and chips when I got home after some beers last night!

Wahoo! Nicely done!!

I rocked hot yoga last night and ran 6k before work today!

I ran 10k before work :)

Hell Yes for loose pants and saying no to comfort eating!!! (although what you did eat sounds super delicious!!!!)

Today I kicked some serious ass with my s/t. 20lbs chest presses and 25lbs rows!

So, tomorrow is 16k, cross your fingers for me it doesn't rain, I do not want to do it on the treadmill!!!!

Ok here's mine!

I'm proud of myself because my trousers are a tiny bit looser than they were two weeks ago. Yay!

Well done Ten! If you can get through exams without comfort-eating, you're doing really well!

Good god, I can't imagine being able to run 10 km in one go! You kick ass girl!

Cheers to Offdrea!! That is AMAZING! I can only hope that some day I can do the same as you! That is something to be proud of!


I'm proud of myself today, that even though finals this semester have been extremely stressful, I chose not to give into eating crap, and could find no reason to justify it! I had chicken in a wheat wrap with some spicy sauce instead. One step into defeating that annoying habit of comfort eating!

Yesterday I did 10k on the treadmill (stupid rain) in 60:52 even though my legs felt like they were filled with lead.

This is a good thread!

I am proud of myself today because I'm not using the fact that I'm way overtired as an excuse to eat crap. Bananas are my friends today!

Im back on the damn wagon!

I have not want to run all week, but I did!
m-5k
t-8k
w-5k
thur-break from running day :)

I ran 12k on Sat

I pushed past my fears and added more calories to my diet, my early sneek peek weigh in showed posotive results!

Ive been on track eating all week and got in all my workouts so far this week

I ran 10k on Sat, I f*cking rock

Yoga Thursday was a success!

Im going to have run 24k this week by tomorrow afternoon!!!!! @ 15 now and have 9 to do tomorrow!

I killed my 5k time last night AND killed my 3k time this morning!!! You know you pushed when you wanna puke afterwards!

4k and yoga this morning!
Bootcamp after work :)

That's what it take, eh! Getting out of bed is KEY! hehehehe!
I'm proud today because I did our laundry FINALLY! And I'm focussing on the positive: today, when a guy opened the door for me while I was trying to get the mountain of dirty clothes in the bundle buggy into the laundry mat, I said thanks.
I automatically thought: People are so nice to me!
I think I used to think things like: you must think I can't do this myself or something like that...
seriously.
it's another key starting point: the way you look at things.

I made it out of bed to run this morning!

Thats pretty damn close! Great job!!!! I don't know if Ive mentioned this to you before but I saw it somewhere on the site:
If you run a red light are you going to run all the red lights in your day?
Same with your eating, just because you eat one bad thing doesn't mean you need to continue the rest of your day/week/month like that.

I indulged way too much on Sat but did burn almost 1000 calories beforehand, balanced out in my opinion.
Sunday I did nothing and didn't eat the best but I know I kept it way under so Ill take it. Veggies aren't appealing when you are hung over lol!

I'm not going to get hung up on the following:
yesterday, for the first time since the 11th, I went over my calories.
I was out from 7:30 am to 11pm with meetings and appointments and school.
I came home and did my inputting of my food and found I was over by less than 200 calories.
I didn't freak out and give up. I'm still ok.
Often I get hung up on 'prefuction' and it just doesn't work.
I think I did great. It's not the messing up once in a while that ruins things for me, it's letting that turn into a huge guilt fueled disaster I think.
So to sum up: I am proud because I remained proud.
:)

5 miles in 50:32 on the treadmill yesterday. I pigged out Thurs but have kept it good the rest of the week. Saw a little scale movement on my mid week so fingers crossed for tomorrow!!!

Good job! I made homemade cleaning products this weekend, now I just need to use them lol!

I burned almost 1500 cals this weekend, 855 on Sat before beers!
I didn't eat a burrito on Sat even though I drunkenly really wanted one
I did not go over on my cals on Sun!
My scale barely moved on Sat morning and the reason I wasn't drinking beer or eating sugar was to see if it made a difference. It obviously doesn't so screw it, if I want beer Im drinking beer (sat only). Marathon training is back on and Sat are my long runs so I deserve it!

I'm gettin' stuff done!
Fixing things that I didn't have the energy to do before... Fixing an end table with glue, sweeping behind the cat box, general all around tidying...
I even dusted! And I can see the top of my desk now!
I feel awesome!
!!!

Great job!!!!

On day 3 of 100 pushups and crunches, feeling it in my chest and back!!!!

I stayed on track all day and even fit in a hard workout.

Im still on track and the bf is asking if he can workout with me!!! YAY it only took a year :)