Motivation
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Welcome
(Sorry we're closed to new members until the group is less than 30 members)
Welcome to the Wagon Jumpers weekly thread. We are a group of CC members who have identified that one of our main challenges with achieving our weight loss, maintenance or general health goals is consistency.
This thread is designed to encourage long term commitment to our goals by publicly declaring them and asking the other members of this thread to hold us accountable.
Each member on this thread (listed below) has agreed to check into the thread at least once per week. If any member does not check in by the end of the week, we ask all members to politely and positively PM that member and encourage them to make a post and stay on track (or get back on track).
If you would like to be a member of this thread please see the guidelines below and send me a PM if you are still interested (there may be a waiting list).
Why is the participation capped?
The original idea of Wagon Jumpers was to create a close community where participants could get to know each other and hopefully form virtual-life and perhaps even physical-life bonds to create a support network as they attempted long term weight loss.
Over the first few weeks we experimented with an "open to all" concept and found that the thread became too long and confusing and as a result no one got to know each other and it became too much work for many members.
With a mid sized group (30) I am hoping to maintain the community and supportive goals of the original thread, and have enough people that if we are not all daily posters (as the only requirement is a weekly post) that the thread is still motivational and has new content day to day.
Interested in Joining?
General Guidelines for Joining
1. Are you a wagon jumper?
Do you know how to loose weight, you often have success but then you find yourself loosing interest in your plan, or sabotaging your plan. It's not the "how" to loose weight that is the problem, it's the "how" to stay motivated.
2. Do you have a long way to go?
This group is designed so that members can get to know each other and support each other. Ideally you are planning to be a CC member and part of this forum for at least 6 months or more to achieve your goals and hopefully stay in motivation for a further 6 months or more.
Yes. This is, a long term plan.
Still interested? Send Supersized a PM.
Wagon Jumpers Participants
Week 11 Riders:
Supersized (myself)
Karenie - Bad weather may not be able to post
Kaydeefalls - Traveling to July 25th, 2008
Week 10 Riders:
Week 9 Riders:
Healthfirst - Traveling to July 23rd, 2008
Week 8 Riders - Congratulations on 2 Months!:
Rwbsmom - traveling to August 16, 2008
Ld1984 - Traveling to August 1, 2008
Week 7 Riders:
Week 6 Riders:
Week 5 Riders:
Week 4 Riders - Congratulations on one Month!:
Week 2 Riders:
Unlimitedana - Traveling to August 15, 2008
Missing In Action
Missing In Action - 1 Week:
Missing In Action - 2 Weeks:
Current Membership: 39
Current Waiting List: 3
Previous Threads:
Wagon Jumpers July 6 - July 21st, 2008 (another, two week special!)
Wagon Jumpers June 22 - July 5th, 2008 (two week special!)
Wagon Jumpers June 15-21, 2008
Wagon Jumpers May 25 - 31, 2008
Wagon Jumpers May 18 - 24, 2008
Wagon Jumpers Week 1 (May 4 - 10)
Wagon Jumpers - Anyone Need a Lift? (initial thread)
As always all members are encouraged to tag this thread so that it is easy to find.
Hope everyone is doing great on their plans.
It is good to know that i share similar issues with some of you - i am kind of in a food rut also...i don't have enough low calorie foods to get me through the day without getting hungry. someone else said something about peanuts, and cheese - and while i usually don't overindulge, sometimes it's not that satisfying for how many calories it is. i am not big on fruit and am not sure what to do about that - every time i buy it it ends up rotting because i don't eat it...or the stuff i do like is too expensive to eat regularly.
on a happy food note, i recently found chocolate biscotti that are in individual packages, are only 100 calories, and taste really chocolatey!! i highly recommend it to the other chocolate loving people!
i am really frustrated with trying to figure out how many calories i need - i looked it up on like 10 websites, and my bmr ranged from 1950 (on this site) all the way to 2500! i think i feel frustrated because i don't really know how much of a defecit i am really making, and what kind of results i should see compared to what i am doing.
for all of you who want to give up, stick with it! i am really annoyed at myself, because i gave up and stopped counting a month ago because i didn't think it was doing anything. of course, 7 lbs later i now realize that if i would have just stuck with it, even if it was only 1 or 2 lbs less, that would be better than what it is now! we somehow have to figure out how to keep going because it really is long term, and long term is hard!
thin27 - you are so right about long term. I've had so many ups and downs in this journey of mine. And I too have come close to throwing in the towel. But I hung in there with the help of some cc friends. Do you like wraps? I make a low sodium turkey lunch meat, lettuce, and fat free shredded cheese wrap. It's filling and not all that high in calories. Sometimes I even heat up the meat and cheese first. It's good. :)
I love anything chocolate! I've never had biscotti. Where would I find it in the grocery store? I'd like to try it.
I don't pay attention to my bmr anymore. When I eat my bmr, I maintain! So I use my burn meter and I keep 1000 deficit with my walking I do. I've been losing that way, so I'm sticking to it. Just a suggestion.
hopeful - Good luck to your daughter in her competition. I love watching ice skaters! The movements are so graceful!
As for me, I lost 1.2 lbs since Sunday. Can't wait to see what the scale gives me tomorrow. Today I walked 5.3 miles! An all new high for me! I'm gonna stay with 5.3 from now on. I don't think I wanna push myself to do more. Not yet, atleast.
Tomorrow night hubby and I are going to karoake to watch the drinks sing! lol We went last month and I had such a good time. I don't drink much, so I'm not worried about the calories. I'll probably just have a couple lite beers and that'll be the extent of it. They are 100 cals each, so I'll make room for it in my calories.
I'll be back tomorrow! G'Nite!
My schedule right now is chaotic since I'm on a study trip that will last three more weeks but still I'm committed to post here whenever I have enough time.
What area of your plan do you most need to improve to meet your goals? How are you going to do it?
Right now I need to recover my water intake. Back at home I used to drink tons of water and my weight was steadily decreasing. Now is a bit more irregular, and my water intake sucks... The thing that has helped me is to have on hand koolaid and equal. When I have time, I prepare sugar free koolaid to carry along. Sadly, I haven't been able to do that this week so my low water intake has even become lower though I expect to increase by the end of this week.
Greetings and good luck to all of you
I have been walking quite a bit though, so at least that is great. But all this travelling is really beginning to get a bit too much. I mean I love that on Wednesday I was sitting next to a lake in Switzerland and today I am in Oxford looking at Christchurch college dome, but it does wreak havoc with being orgainised and sticking to a plan. It also means I've been less involved with the group which I also apologise for.
Anyway the area of my plan that I most need to improve on, is how to create a plan when every day is different. right now I am really not doing so well on that. I'm good when days are the same, but when soemthing unusual happens (pretty much everyday lately) I tend to over eat.
Anyway hope you are all doing well, and have a good day.
Tiegurl Don't loose you're head in the midst of all the kids. See you next week.
Vicki8seekers Watch Supersize Me, over and over and over. I'm not really big on the propaganda films, but it was funny and relevant. I haven't had fast food since that movie. I still eat too much, but I found letting go of fast food there really was a withdrawl period, and even though I didn't eat it much I still had to get over some big time weird cravings. My system detoxed as well, some ucky bathroom stuff. But really it was worth it. I feel a lot better without it.
Writestuff Exercise is a challenge for me as well. I really am a bookworm. Do you have swimming opportunities near you? That was the one that really got me back to exercise. You don't feel sweat as you swim and there's something very calming about it.
Ciosa Let us know how those Hungry Girl recipes turn out.
Hurley_Mom Glad you enjoyed Canada, I hope it didn't rain too much. We just (this past week) broke an all time record for rain in July. Ugh! The workout physical-life friend is great. I have a friend who has called me a couple of time (at my request) at 6am to kick my butt out of bed. She's also the one I'm doing tennis with. It really is hugely motivating.
Hopeful31 Keep on going, if you can keep the momentum up in the busy times then you are likely well on the way to building some consistency.
Thin27 On food, I don't know what type of diet you eat regularly. One thing that really helped me was picking up a cookbook from a restaurant that I LOVE and knew the food was healthy. That way I have something new to make regularly and using the recipe function on this site it helps me to have to enter it once and get it broken down. If you're into veggie food the Green Cuisine Cookbook is great!
I found the same thing when I looked around. I think the first thing I looked at was the reliability of this sites. Personally I know this site has been around for a long time, has a consistent number of high users and users who are here long term and I personally have had success with it. Also when it's giving me the numbers it asks for the relevant facts, sex, age, height, activity level. So while I think it may be a bit of a generalization I tend to use the tools here because they are close enough. I also always set my activity to sedentary and then add my activity in my activity log. I know setting my activity to sedentary will give me a lower daily burn so I'll end up in the low end of a calorie range, but still a healthy end. Hope that helps.
momof2funykds Congratulations on the 1.2 lbs! And wow 5.3 miles, which seems like a lot more to me because I measure in kilometers so it's 13.25 Km which is a big number! Have a lot of fun at karoake!
unlimitedanaI have so much trouble with water intake, I'm thinking of making that phase IV of my plan, once I have the consistency down try adding water and see if I can maintain it.
Peera Well the vitamin C is supposed to be excellent, great fruit as well. Hoping the morning sickness passes for you soon.
Jane Trying to stick to a plan at all while traveling is remarkable. I'm so out of touch when I'm away from my home base and usually need a couple of weeks to get back on board once I'm home.
I'm in a better mood today. I think I may have just needed the sun to come out. We broke an all time record for rain here on Wednesday, and on Thursday to celebrate... it rained some more! I think I'm going moldy.
Anyways, the sun is out today. I had a great night out with the girls last night. We went to Oyster Boy a local... Oyster (you guessed it) restaurant. Seafood is the one thing that is not veggie that I haven't purged form my diet. I figure the rest was easy since I'm allergic to it and it has negative impacts on my dietary system, but letting go of seafood is hard for me. Anyways... Had raw Oysters, there were 8 of us and we had them bring us one of each type of Oysters. The great thing is they are really low cal, so oysters + beer + some grilled veg in mustard sauce had me well under cal and quite happy.
I've got my four days of exercise in this week for the first time since my July camping / cottaging / white water rafting and some of my determination to succeed is returning.
First I want to thank Sara for taking the time to drag me out of my funk and hounding me through emails. Funny thing, even when I'm feeling lazy and unmotivated I still log in and if anything will read my emails.
Today I went to the gym, took a 45 minute walk on the treadmill at 2.9. It felt pretty lazy compared to a normal workout I used to do. I kept telling myself I haven't been in 5 weeks and to take it easy: I still have internal/external stiches that need to heal.
I went to a conference on mental health yesterday and learned that as you work out with a normal routine your body becomes addicted to the production of endorphines and when you stop your body literally will go through a withdrawl...thus the crabbyness and body stiffness and whatever else you go through. Well I went through this and now 3 weeks later I mentally could not wait to get to the gym but physically was not so hot about the idea until I started on the treadmill then I felt my body want to RUN! Of course I can't yet but I'm working back.
On a side note I weighed in at 145 this morning. My tummy is still swollen/bloated looking...don't know if its the surgery or the fact that my monthly is coming in 2-3 days.
This week's question is:
What area of your plan do you most need to improve to meet your goals? How are you going to do it?
I need a plan in general. I have a vague plan: eat healthy and exercise. But I've slipped so much since my vacation and surgery that its a constant battle to maintain focus. My body justs want to snack and lay around. My brain knows that I am terrified to gain back even 3 pounds and I think about how I am failing everyday. I was going to restock the healthy grub this evening since my hubby is gone for 2 weeks and see if I can't get these last 5 gone by the time he returns but rather than shop I came home and I'm about to pour a glass of vodka and diet 7up. Did I mention I'm home alone: even my babies are gone this weekend.
I am going shopping in San Francisco tomorrow. Got the plan to leave the car at home and doing some series hill climbing shopping and walking. Hoping to get a decent work out there.
Maybe I need help making a modified plan....one that takes into account that physically I cannot workout to the level that I want to. And one that eliminates the guilt and shame I feel for not being able to.
I think I'm going to go on hiatus from the site for a while, while I am trying to lose weight, the end of the summer means busy season at work, and preparing to go back to school, so the site isn't always something I can focus on. I'll try to make it back once I get into the routine of school again in a month or so though.
I had a blast last night! I left calories open for 3 drinks, which I stuck to! lol BUT....we went out to eat afterwards at a restaurant that stays open all night. I only ate 1/2 of my ham,egg and cheese on toast and some hashbrowns. Brought the other half home for my son, he appreciated it!
Now listen to this, I ate over my calories and I STILL LOST WEIGHT!!! lol Can you believe it? Maybe it was the dancing in my chair that burned more calories! hahahaha Yeah, right! lol
Now I have a question for you all. I've had a deficit of around 1000/day and I'm losing a pound a day. How can this be? I'm set on sedentary and my burn is 1810, I use google pedometer to map my walks and it says I burn 500 calories. So then I subtract 1000 and eat about 1350-1400/day. So why am I losing a pound a day and not the 2 pounds a week?
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