Tone Up Tuesday

I've had a bit of a hard week with regards to SS6. Ok scratch that. A *really* hard week.

Sometimes I feel I'd like to ask other STalkers for advice, but a) I feel silly as, in comparison to other skid problems on here, mine are quite small, and b) I'm struggling to find the time to write a blog that covers it all. I might try soon.

Anyway. Back to today. Coping with SS's bullshit has inevitably meant.. Wine.

Yep, I totally fell off the no carb/low carb wagon when it came to wine this week.

Apart from that, food wise I haven't been too bad. (Especially considering the wine, which usually means I'd want junk food like chips and dip etc. I haven't been doing that. Only the wine, lol)

DH and I haven't tried any new recipes this week but I came across this article which looks pretty good! Hoping to try some this week and I'll let you guys know!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/shannonrosenberg/low-carb-can-be-delicious-people

Also no aerobic exercise this week, (gah) but I've been doing a lot of walking.

NoWire, did you try the recipe for those snack bars? I hope you're doin ok hun x

I hope everyone else is doing well! Xx

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I haven't actually looked up

I haven't actually looked up which alcohol is low carb or whatever :/ I was just trying not to drink any at all as I was being an angel LOL

Back on it now though. Stressful period over and back on it. It really does make you feel better huh, with the healthy eating thing. I'm glad to be back on track, and glad to hear you are too!

I'm not sure which meal from the link to try this week, if you have any of them let me know

Wow your meals this week

Wow your meals this week sound amazing!!!

I haven't made the bars yet.

I haven't made the bars yet. I didn't do so hot this week. I didn't binge and do really bad either though. I stress eat and I had a horrible day Sunday. It wasn't a perfect week but I'm back on the wagon and I feel pretty skinnier today. I'm wearing a dress i couldn't fit in to before. I'm being kinder to myself when I slip and it's a journey and I just try again the next day instead of just completely giving up. I do need to get my emotional eating under control though.

and I do stop myself and say, "I have to report on Tone Up Tuesday. Do you really want to cheat and eat those cupcakes?!" So thank you for this. I really find it helps me keep me accountable to myself.. and to you guys

I am relieved to hear you're

I am relieved to hear you're being kinder on yourself when you slip up NoWire x I was a bit concerned you were being too tough on yourself x

It's so great you feel that way about Tuesday's! I think the same throughout the week lol! Well maybe not *every* week. But like you said, we have to allow ourselves mess up weeks sometimes lol

here's my tone up tuesday

here's my tone up tuesday contribution

hubby is all swollen and puffy, but underneath that, even tho' he barely eats, he has put on 35 pounds or so. he is physically unable to exercise, although he's gotten better at just getting up and moving around, albeit with pain, but moving nonetheless.

we went on vacation a few weeks ago (a very sedentary vacation, which was sooo relaxing), and the bed we slept in gave us both the best night's sleep we've ever had. it was a rather firm mattress, but with a memory foam topper. my brother and his ex had a full-out memory foam mattress, and dh and i didnt find that comfortable at ALL, we tossed/turned and woke up sore. but the support of the firm mattress, with the comfort of a smaller layer of memory foam - it was AH-MAY-ZING.

hubby was up at 4:30 this morning hurting. i talked to him at lunch and his right side that he was laying on was still achy. and we decided to go ahead and order us a mattress topper - YAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!!! i'm SOOOO excited.

so, my tone up tuesday contribution is this : regardless of any weight you may need to lose or if you cheat on your meal-plans/snacks or dont do so great with exercise - MAKE SURE YOU GET GOOD SOLID SLEEP. if you do get quality sleep, it will trickle down into other aspects - you wont stress so much, your cravings will lessen for high-sugar, high-fat foods, you will also feel better physically so exercising might take less emotional/mental effort. i'm certainly looking forward to dh being able to do even better with his self-motivation

Tuff, you are right. I wish I

Tuff, you are right. I wish I could sleep, I haven't had a decent nights sleep in about 3 years

DD2 generally sleeps through the night, but sometimes wakes up off and on. Well, even when she has a night where she sleeps all night, it's ME who wakes up all night!!! Maybe because my body clock is set to DD's wakings, and I'm on high alert listening out for her.

It sounds like you are like my DH Tuff. He can sleep the second he lays his head down! Sometimes it makes me really angry as I'm just lying next to him sleeping soundly and I'm like AAAH I'm still awake lol! It takes me absolute minimum 1hour. And that's when I'm really exhausted. Usually it's 2/3 sometimes 4hours to sleep.

Then when I wake up in the night it takes me just that long to get back to sleep, so when I wake in the night I just give an audible (quiet) sigh of pain and frustration as I know it will take me so long to get back to sleep.

Gimmy your DH sounds like me! I would try anything to sleep!

Ugh, I share your anger! My

Ugh, I share your anger! My DH falls asleep right away and IT PISSES ME OFF!!

My sleep has improved, in general, once I stopped trying to 'do' anything once I was in bed. No reading, no looking things up, no thinking about problems or things I have to do or forgot to do or ran out of time to do or might have to do.... You know.

Haha it made me laugh when

Haha it made me laugh when Tuff called it the brain hamster (see my signature line.. I bet StepTococis' BM doesn't have trouble sleeping LOL) but it's totally true.

My brain refuses to stop turning thoughts over and over. Almost like picking up lots of little pieces of paper with notes on them. Turning the paper over, just to double check what it says on the other side.

Then thinking Ah ok I'll remember that *puts paper back on the floor* Then doubting myself and having to go back through all the little pieces of paper laying round in my brain. Gah. That sounds weird, but that's what it feels like.

Maybe if I hire a tiiiny man to live in my brain, to organise all the scraps of paper and file them neatly I'd be ok LOL

Things have been going well

Things have been going well for me for about a month now. Maybe 6 weeks, although there was a dip for about 8 days. I was feeling so good then CRASH. I was so discouraged. But I decided to keep on going, just take it easy. I did skip most of my workouts that week, but I did some and if I did them I kept it light.

Food - well, I'm just working at cutting back on unhealthy snacks at night. I love them, but they don't love me back.

Current schedule:

Monday - Run (doing the couch-to-5K app program, on week 2 as I spent a month building up to start due to my fibromyalgia); then Yin yoga.
Tuesday - Weights (Legs and shoulders, I keep it light - I don't have much time and those are areas that I have a lot of pain in, so I do more of a 'rehab' workout.)
Wednesday - Run again (with DD in her stroller, she's getting too big!), then Yin yoga.
Thursday - Weights (Arms & Core or Chest & Back), then BodyBalance (do you have that in US/Canada?)
Friday - Circuit training (basically HIIT) - awesome group class.
Saturday - Run and Yin yoga
Sunday - Weights and BodyBalance at the location with FREE LATTES with no deadline to come home!!

Omigosh Moe! Good job for

Omigosh Moe! Good job for getting back on track it sounded like you really had to work hard to do that and talk yourself into it again! You're amazing!!!

Speaking of amazing.. WOW your workout schedule is AWESOME I am so very very very impressed!!!!

Do you realise how great it is that you're exercising every day?!! *high five* You are my role model with regards to exercise right now! Xxx

It's so great, this time

It's so great, this time around I am really keeping my goals low level and attainable. I don't have to push myself to exhaustion, I don't have to do it if I'm not up to it... but I LIKE to be active. I feel good. So it's working.

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