nah not much, Jaime and I are back from our vacations, kanye west is well being himself, no sex talk yet that I know of...ummm

Jo will be leaving for her vaca in few days

umm...what else?

i marked a lot read too cuz i had like 200 some unread

How are you doing?

I'm good. A little on the low side...I've gotta lose weight. DH & I talked about it yesterday. Got me all blue.

aww...

we're all here

I know. I'm going for my walk again today at lunch...eating light...etc. Just bummed, that's all.

know the feeling...

but don't feel bad...just try to think of it as a healthy life rather than a weight loss thing

good point. It is. I'll feel better once the weight starts coming off.

yeah and take small steps you have to do everything in 1 day

it will take time

have a plan and follow. I know easier said than done...look at me

but i'm training myself to just take 1 step at a time

ah sorry to hear you're feeling down

but being down on yourself is the worst thing to do!

i know. i'll perk up. i just need to eat better...and exercise. both of which i can do.

but apparently i can't use capital letters!

bah capitalization is overrated

are you going to count calories or just try to listen to your hunger/body/whatever?

i'm going to do sorta whatever...walk at lunch and not eat so much.

I had toast this a.m. (80 cal), a cheese stick before my walk, gonna have a Slim Fast shake...then I'll eat a normal, but smaller dinner

i always cook for the family..it's hard to eat differently so I'll just eat less, and cook better.

the whole family can eat healthy, that's the way it should be anyway!

yep it's not going to hurt the kids or hubby to eat better either!

snacking on fruit during the day helps me stay full also

absolutely! DH said he needs to do better too...we all do.

but I don't cook crazy fat stuff all the time anyway...normally we eat pretty well. Just too much of it!

i hear ya

portion control is my personal demon

I bought a digital kitchen scale and I weigh everything

if it's good I usually get a 2nd helping. I'm going to try to avoid that.

its crazy and cliched but I use smaller plates and it really does trick me

we've tried that too, and it does work. I thought I'd do that tonight...and toss in a salad on the side.

the smaller plate really helps

the other thing is making the food "pretty"

since I'm normally cooking for just myself I didn't care if i just dumped it on the plate

DH will go along with it...we'll do this together.

but now I make it look a bit nicer, enjoy it and I'm satisfied

that's awesome that he's going to help out

support is important

another problem is I eat too fast..then don't get full on what I have. I need to slloowww down.

you sound like my twin

I had every single one of those habits (if you add 3rds and 4ths in there that is)

what eating in under 5 minutes is bad?

does anyone take a diet pill or supplement or anything? Or do you just watch what you eat & exercise?

I totally just count calories, eat very healthy 95% of the time and workout

I really feel taht's the only way - if there was a magic pill we'd all be skinny!

where again did you decide the calorie amount you can have?

walking.about.com/cs/cal...

this will calculate your calories needed to maintain, obviously to lose you need to do less

I find this is a bit high as are most online calculators but it's a good starting point

ok. I'll look at it.

I'd put in sedentary to get a more accurate count just in my experience even though I've always done at least 30min of exercise a day

it says the ideal weight for me is 120lbs. Are you kidding?? Yikes!

the ideal weight calculator?

yeah mine is 135 but I'm willing to be at 150-160 which is still in the healthy range

yeah. Ideal weight. I'd be happy (happier) at 140-150. That's where I was when DH & I met.

I need to lose 30-40 lbs I guess...at least 25. Not sure what I was the last time I weighed.

It's doable just takes some time to adjust and making time for yourself to get exercise

I think if I can get in the habit of walking at lunch it will help - definitely. It's easier to do here instead of when I get home.

where in the site is the ideal weight calc?

walking.about.com/cs/cal...

interesting

woman you're at the "ideal weight"

I think lunch is a great time to workout

I sweat like a 500lb man though so I stick to before/after work and just take a short lunch

luckily I work alone. and the walk around southpark is almost 2 miles.

I'm a sweater too. And I get the serious red face.

I'm not ideal, yet. But I will get there!

oh the red face is the worst

there's one gym attendant that always asks me if i'm okay

i don't know how many times I have to tell her it's genetic and trust me while I look like I'm dying I'm okay