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- Floss more (more than once a week – stolen from Leah)
- Keep my side of the closet organized
- Keep up with the laundry (my least favorite thing ever)
- Scoop the dog doo out of the backyard regularly (Donkeys make big poop)
- Have lunch with Michael at least once a week
- Spend more time reading with Kenza
- Be more gracious, thank those more often who mean a lot to me
- Become Runner Susan again (if you haven’t noticed, I’ve been unRS for about 2 weeks)
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Update:
I joined WW today and I want to run 5 miles a day for the next 7 days. It’s a start.
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Keep the closet organized is sooo hard. But keeping up with the laundry will help you keep it organized.
I still haven’t set my resolutions for 2007…the 1st one should be stop procrastinating dammit! BTW, hooray for you joining WW. I am going to my 1st meeting of the new year tonight…I’m skeered!
There you go RS. Some solid building blocks. Let us know how both go!
Perfect solutions.
I’m proud of you Susan. Congrats on joining WW. You’ll always be Runner Susan.
Great job, just take small steps and be encouraged with the small victories. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
Try keeping after 4 dogs: 2 – over 100 lbs each, 1 – over 80 lbs, and one Try keeping after 4 dogs: 2 – over 100 lbs each, 1 – over 80 lbs, and one < 10 lbs. SO NOT FUN.
You mean I’m supposed to pick up the dog poop? I’ve been wondering what that smell is in the back yard. How much do you charge for pooper scooping and do you make housecalls to the Denver area?
I also started WW, AGAIN. Ugh, but I’ve done it before & it does work. Best of luck… sounds much better than master cleanse ordeal!
I did the master cleanse once and lasted 5 hours. How is that for failure? WW worked best for me and I have kept the weight off for almost 2 years.
Regarding your former post please read (or google) “One Spoonful at a Time” by Harriet Brown published in the NYTimes Magazine on November 26, 2006. I urge you to read this for yourself and your daughter.
way to go, RS is BACK!
Susan,
Good luck on all your struggles and obsessions and dealing and coming to terms with them. Weight is not an easy issue to deal with. I struggle with my weight, but do not let it control my life. I let running do that.
I am fairly fit and thin at 165, but then think about getting down to 155. I am currently 185 and have been ever since I got injured in November of 2005. I was previously down to 170 and in the best shape of my life. I have chosen to conceed my desire to be thinner and give myself room to breathe in order to get through the masters program and remain sane at the same time.
Anyway, hang in there and thanks for keeping us in the loop.
I could easily add some of your resolutions to my list — specifically picking up dog poop more regularly & keeping up with laundry. Since the 1st I’ve been doing better on the laundry. The poop is still piling up:)
would it be too tacky to ask you to come out to oz to scoop poop? i still can’t bend and rise well enough to play catch up. there’s a lot.
no…
that is tacky.
good resolutions. wish one would be “love my badself.”
Those are some great resolutions. Keep up the runs this week!!
I’m doing the W.W. thing agin too but I’m not going to meetings, just counting the stupid piddley points. Where I live I don’t have to scoop poop (except maybe in the barn):)
WW really does work. As long as I DO THE PROGRAM
You go girl!
Don’t forget date night with Michael.
Take Donkey for walks twice daily and he can poop in other people’s yards!! (Ooh; that’s bad neighbor etiquette) Well walk him when it’s dark.
Food-wise, isn’t it all about portion control and being juducious on the bad stuff?
And, again, I second IHateToast – love your badself!
Crap…I was catching up on yesterday’s post and wrote a big long profound comment and lost it all. Anyway…thank you for sharing your struggles. So many of us can relate, and I am sooo happy to know I’m not the only one.
Susan,
I am so proud of you for joining WW or as I fondly call it “My Chubby Girl Meetings!” I will be right there with you. You go girl!
YES!!!
Hugs and Happy New Year!
Goodluck, RR! Sounds like a wonderful goal! Should be attainable! For you…probably not for me! hehehe.
Great resolutions, Susan. I lost over 45 lbs on WW and still have it off for 4 years now.
5 x 7′s a pretty killer schedule! Anything x 7 is a killer schedule! Good luck RS.
It’s a good start Susan. Becoming RS again is my favourite.
Run on Susan! That’s a healthy goal! I’d like to give up sugar for 7 days. What’s 7 days of going with out sugar? It couldn’t possibly be that hard!!! I’m with you in the good fight. Regarding Donkey…if you had a Labrador Retriever, it would eat the donkey poop, solving one problem, but then you’d have the issue of the massive Lab poops.
glad rs is back. i agree with the flatman that you have taken some posative steps.
KICK ASS!!!
What no more video blog entries describing the master shits, forget it, I going to read Jon’s chocolate runners blog, he always has some strange tidbit to share!
Nothing about the cat litter?
Planning is a start
Intentions focused now!
yeah for getting your RS back. WW is great! we all now you can do it!! later.
Run, run, run!
I don’t know why, but exercising always seems to make healthier eating an easier choice. Which does not mean that it’s “easy.” Oh nonono.
Cheering and rooting for you over here….!
Susan,
Just don’t floss while scooping poop out of the back yard. Multi-tasking can mess you up.
Bad Ben
good luck Susan with you all the way
I read your Jan. 3rd post. My heart goes out to you. I was happy to read that you joined WW. That’s how I lost 80 pounds. I like WW because there are no foods that are off limits, it’s a matter of how much (although that doesn’t make it easy, but depriving myself wasn’t an option). If a leader ever says in a meeting you shouldn’t eat certain foods, I’d say find a new leader. It wasn’t easy breaking the habit of eating whatever I wanted when I wanted, but it did get easier as time went on and food is not as important as it use to be. I’m celebrating 3 years of keeping the 80 pounds off. (I did gain about 10 pounds, but I am currently back on track).
I started my blog last May with the goal of losing about 25 pounds, I haven’t reached it, I lost 6 pounds. I realized just recently what I think is behind my not reaching my goal – I lost sight of the “why”. My goal when I first started WW was to eat healthier, be healthier and in doing the things that I needed to be healthier it just followed that I lost weight. My current goal to lose about 25 pounds has been to look better and to fit into my “little red dress”. I don’t think that’s a healthy reason and obviously it hasn’t been motivating enough. So I decided I needed to focus on eating healthier and to get serious about exercising. (Exercising consistently has been my struggle all along, I wish there was an exercise support group like WW, I sure could use the support).
Some things that helped me with Weight Watchers – I never missed a meeting (well…one meeting I was having surgery, but I went to the following weeks meeting), I got on the scale every week (never weighed myself at home, I didn’t own a scale), I bought a scale to weigh my food, weighed and measured everything (and hated it every time I did for the first 3 months, I still weigh and measure my food, especially pasta). Even after I hit my goal I went to meetings weekly for almost a year. I watched too many people get to their goal and then stopped coming to meetings, most of them gained their weight back (I had WW meetings where I worked so I saw these people everyday). Support! Can’t say enough about that, I had a group of people in the meetings and in my personal life that were unbelievably supportive…i.e. listened to my whining. You obviously have a great cheerleader section here. I think that is the most important part to the process.
Anyway, I do wish you well, I enjoy your blog.
i’m with you. if i get lectured one more time by my dentist about not flossing enough….
run, run, run, run, run, run, run.
Happy New Year.