Gwen M.

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9-month Surgiversary! - It’s my 9-month surgiversary!  I don’t have that many milestones to report on.  I’ve been plugging along nicely these last three months.  I’m working on tak...

Thoughts on my ultimate goal weight - I apologize in advance if this is really rambly.   A lot of the apps I use ask for a weight goal, so I figured I should find one.  I also wanted to be able to calculate my excess ...

Am I doing it wrong? - The other day someone told me “If you’re doing 13 hours of exercise a week, you’re doing it wrong.  You should only do a few hours of weight lifting a week.&rdquo...

Am I doing it wrong? - The other day someone told me “If you’re doing 13 hours of exercise a week, you’re doing it wrong.  You should only do a few hours of weight lifting a week.&rdquo...

Weekly Workouts 12/8 - Hi all!  I hope you're ready for a GREAT week.  This is the last week of my training plan so it's tapering even though I'm not actually running a real race this weekend.  I'll stil...

What would you order here? - Assuming I don't feel like crying in a corner after my voice recital tomorrow, I'll be eating here with my parents.  What would you order from this menu?   I'm considering the tun...

December Holiday Menus - Now that Thanksgiving is behind us, I need to start thinking about the December holiday menu.  I'd love to hear what your menu plans are for your winter holiday!   My family does ...

How are you post-Thanksgiving? - How are you all doing?  How'd the holiday treat you?  Any tales of woe or excite?   My holiday was good.  I got to 199 right before (Tuesday) and have managed to maintain there ev...

Post-Op Activities with Friends - Someone posted earlier that she's not hanging out with friends as much because so many things revolve around food and drinking.  Which is so true!  Can we brainstorm ways to hang o...

Shopping and Shoes NSVs - I've got my voice recital (eek!) on Sunday and I have this super adorable dress to wear.  Super Cute Dress I needed to get shoes and a thing for my arms to wear and went shopping ...

Let's Be Friends - Introduce yourself! - Inspired by the earlier post, I thought it might be nice to have an introduction thread.  It might help people to find future friends.  Here's a template.  I'll post my own info in...

Weekly Workouts 12/1 - This is a busy week for me.  It's amazing how I've come to prioritize working out.. Mon - yogaTue - 5k training and yoga stretching, yoga class, physical therapy for shoulderWed -...

Whatcha Eating Today VSGers? -- Sunday - I didn't really deviate too much from my normal way of eating for Thanksgiving, but I did eat "real" food for breakfast with my family instead of my standard shake and, oh my gosh,...

Whatcha Eating Today VSGers? -- Saturday - Thanksgiving is officially over here, all that's left is the abundance of food.  But I made less than I have in the past, and sent a container of leftovers home with my parents, so...

Whatcha Eating Today VSGers? Thursday (do I dare - Happy Thanksgiving!  Today was an awesome day for me.  Probably for the first time ever in my life I exercised on Thanksgiving.  I woke up at 7am to do it, and layered a lot since ...

Thanksgiving in Onederland! - My weight has been bouncing between 202 and 201 for the last two weeks, so I was NOT prepared when I stepped on the scale this morning and I just about had a heart attack!  199.3! ...

Weekly Workouts - This is the big week for Americans - Thanksgiving!  Yay rah!  My plan calls for 12x400 on Thursday morning, so I'm hoping to get out there to run before I start cooking the big mea...

Whatcha Eating Today VSGers? -- Saturday - I see something like 100 movies a year in the theater and today is the first time I felt the NEED for popcorn.  So I ended up getting a small one and eating about 1/3 of that.  It ...

Gallbladder tests - What tests should be done to verify that a gallbladder has gone bad and needs to be removed?

Whatcha Eating Today VSGers? -- Tuesday - Where has MsShell gone?!   I had my first real physical therapy session today for my shoulder - fun times!  And if I ever doubted my dedication, today dispelled that.  I went out ...

Weekly Workouts - What do you all have planned for the week?  I started PT for my shoulder with one session last week, so this week PT is in full swing at twice a week.  I also stopped my bhangra cl...

Rules for eating out - http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2014/11/10/eat-out-level-up I came across this article this morning, and a lot of the "rules" are definitely good advice for us - or easily adaptab...

Whatcha Eating Today VSGers? -- Sunday - Today I ran for an entire mile!  Not very fast, but I was definitely running the whole mile.  I'm super proud of myself!   1: frankenshake2: pastrami and swiss on rye3: chili, ric...

Weekend Workouts - I'm a bit nervous about Sunday's workout.  It's "1 mile fast."  Fast is hard.   Saturday - rest day!  But I'll be walking around the ICE show at National HarborSunday - 5k trainin...

My exercise story - I've had a few people ask me, recently, about how I got into exercise.  So I decided to make a post to my blog about this and figured I'd share it with you all too.  I want to stat...