Low Carb Archive - Step Into Spring Challenge!

Well, we've finished our last challenges and so here's the latest one--goes to March 31st--our 6 week intensive spring challenge!

Starting Weight this morning: 214

End of week 1:213

Just remember to be OP, exercise regularly and drink drink drink your water! Now who's with me?

OK - I'm in! This means that I will have to weigh, I guess. Got the scale out this morning and am up one pound - roast beef last night. So much for giving up weighing for Lent!

So here goes:
Feb 15 - 208
Feb 22
Mar 1 - 212 - How the heck did that happen!
Mar 8
Mar 15
Mar 22
Mar 31 202 - ROFLOLPIMP! Maybe 206?

I can not state a weight loss i just gaine d4 this week from the water with salt and ham so I just want to be OP. and exercise and to be in my size 12"s solidly!!! 6 weeks???

I'm with you Pooky!
I haven't weighed for awhile, but will tomorrow.
My goal is to lose at least ten pounds. That seems reasonable in six weeks I think. I'm going to Arizona for spring break, so I have all kinds of incentive. Gotta be more comfortable in those shorts!

Thanks for starting this Pooky.
Chickadee

HI all...I have been around almost daily but have not logged in. I have to get in on one of these challenges because my weight has been going the wrong way the past several weeks...I am so out of routine in everyway. I want to be down 10-15 lbs in 6 weeks...Liz

Well Pooky, I think this was a successful challenge for me!

Feb 15 - 212.5
Feb 22 - 211.0
Mar 1 - 211.0 (still)
Mar 8 - 208 :)
Mar 15 - 205.5!
Mar 22 - 203.5
Mar 31 - 202 - Oh Yeah!

MINUS 10.5 Thanks for the challenge Pooky, you really helped me with a great jumpstart to my program!

Looking forward to the Mother's Day challenge!

I thought I saw on a sign in front of a church yesterday

Jesus was in the desert for 40 days and did not fall.........

Kind of puts a new thought on this lent season....

I'm in! My goal is to stay OP & exercise at least 6 days a week. I know the pounds and inches will fall off if I stick to it.

Good luck! :)

Jennifer

Glad to see we've got a great membership i the new challenge! Today's goal for me is to fight off the popcorn urges and get back OP. I have been drinking my water like a good girl, but I know that the exercise was a bust for me last week due to illness.

To be really honest, I felt like a fool last week at the gym and it's been on my mind since then. I was with my pt and she wanted me to do some exercises that I know I can't do yet without hurting myself. Since this was the first session in practice, we were gauging what would work and wahat wouldn't for me. In the midst of one of my protestations, some lady 2 machines over pipes in and says that she thought the same way 8 weeks ago and if I just listen to my tp then I would be able to do it! Then she proceeded to tell me that she also couldn't do it when she started and now she can. Then a lady in the machine next to us also chimed in and said the exact same thing. Worse yet--my pt agreed with them and I felt completely alienated and like such an idiot. First off, both women speaking to me were at least 80-90 pounds lighter than me, and wrose yet--the one woman that spoke first I found out later was my doctor's wife! Needless to say, I feel really embarrassed and angry and I don't know if I want to rush back in the gym too quick without drawing some unwanted criticism. Has this ever happened to you and how did you handle it?

I HATE those well-intentioned SKINNY people! But, in this case, they may be right. You may not think you can do this particular exercise, but maybe you can. They wanted you to know that they felt the same way the first time they were confronted with it. It is embarrassing, especially to me, who will not go ANYWHERE in public unless I bring a friend. I don't want people watching me exercise because I feel like a fool. Even at home, when my mom or DD see me, I blush. But, I feel like you should have snapped off some sarcastic comment about her having 8 weeks to practice. See, sometimes I'm so mean!:devil:

OH gosh Pooky. I can feel for you. I would hold my head up high and march right back in there (but at a different time) when doing the exercises I can understand where you are coming from. I wish that i knew what exercises that you were trying to do. Your PT should not be pushing you to do something that you are not able to do. . You may be able to do that exercise but if you feel that it is to much for you then a modified version may be what you need to do you should be worked into it. like knee bends or doing something with weights, if you are unsteady then you may fall and get hurt, so i would try what she is saying but tell her that you really want to stick to the basics and not try to over strain your knees, or joints at this time, they have not been worked that hard in many years so for a while just stick to the very basic, you are a very beginner and should be tgreated like one. if she does not like that then i would report her to the manager and tell them you need antoher trainer

Good luck with that



I did lower body weights today and I think i did a great job!!! tomorow is my PT day hopefully upperbody as i did the lower today!!!

Hi Sue, no it wasn't the trainer that was the problem, she knew what my limitations were, it was the budinski's who knew my body better than me! :lol: I'm sure I'll get over it but I still have a case of injured pride...

I just read your post about those asinine people who stuck their noses into your exercise program and I'm so angry! You know your body better than they do! I have had that trouble with physical therapists and some doctors. How the H*## do they know what hurts and what doesn't when they haven't lived in your body! With my body, cold packs just tighten my muscles, but try to tell them that! Heat helps so much more, probably cause those muscles were injured by polio.

I can only tell you what I would do now. I would speak with your personal trainer privately. Quietly tell her your limitations and, yes, your fears too. If she or he cannot respect them, tell her to look me up and I'll beat the facts into 'em with my cane! Seriously, tell he or she that you'll submit a complaint to the gym.

Hey Pooky: I am with goodforme...don't listen to any of the skinny people...what the heck do they know!

Listen to yourself and the heck with the rest of them...I spend a good part of my life feeling like I am on the outside looking in...feel like I am from another planet and all that jazz...

Have a great day and let us know how things go at the gym! Liz

Hi!

I hope it's not too late to join you all. I check in with the Inspiration Angels (under "Buddy Up!"), but I do need to focus on a mid-range goal. In the wake of Valentine's Day I haven't been horrible, but I have been sloppy, and I don't want to lose momentum. This morning I was 229, I want see 220 by March 31. I'm high-protein, "conscious" carbs. I was doing pretty good all year, but lately I've been succumbing to the urge to snarf down the cookies and chocolate that's always in my office! Help! I'm working out most days, which feels great.

Tomorrow will be a good day for me, and I hope for you too! Bye! jaelynn



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Thanks for your advice guys, I will speak to my pt (thanks Tip!) and talk to her about it. I am more calm now but I still feel self-conscious going to the gym. I promise I will go today and speak to her and perhaps I will feel better about the whole thing after I do.

jaelynn--welcome and by all means join our spring challenge! Weigh yourself today, post it and in a week you (hopefully!) can post your loss!

Hi--

I wanted to check in again, but couldn't remember the name of the thread or where I'd found it :o . I'm stuck on 229, but feeling a bit firmer and more muscular, which is great! Alas, I'm down with the flu, so my idea of a workout is shuffling from the bed to the couch. The biggest challenge is not snacking all day. I hope the other Spring Steppers are doing well and feeling better than I am! jaelynn

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But I need a challenge! I did a challenge on the mailing list and I lost 5 pounds in Jan, then Feb came along and I haven't lost a darn thing. All because I didn't exercise. I have only excuses, and while they were good at the time they don't hold water looking back. I'd be sitting a few pounds less right now if only...

So for double inspiration I am doing this and the mailing list challenge.

I would like to be 5 pounds (actually 6, then I will be out of the 220's) less by March 31st. I will exercise 5 days a week and will stay on my eating plan for the next 5 weeks, (5-5-5!!) except for my husband's birthday cake. However I plan on having a few cans of Somersweet by then so I won't eat much of his cake!

I really didn't want to do low carb and struggled with it for ages, but I finally realized I like it, and NEED it.

Hey all i have to say that i saw a new decade in my weight i have not seen in 15 years!!! i saw 169!! but then i ate hot dogs (salty) and then pizza (carbs) TOM (fluid) and then frenchfires (carbs and salt) so i am battleing with around 5 lbs of fluid waiting to pee it all out!!! so i can see the wonderful sight again!!!

exercise is again a full go for me!!

I do love to exercise. I have a friend who is going to do a BFL challnege with me again!!! WHOOOO!!!!

So we have afficially just a few more weeks for this bunny challenge iis almost March!! so that leaves only 31 more days for this bunny challenge lets all give it our all out effort

Jennifer i like the 5-5-5 great goals!!!

POOKY how are you doing???

Jaelynn?

Tippy?

Liz?

GFM?

Jen?

All our others????

Hey Sue, I was getting ready to send you a PM when I read this...I said I'd be here for a challlenge in November...eek, I am about 4 holidays too late! That is another reason I need this challenge. I have to have supervision around the Easter basket this year. I made Rob an Easter basket last year. He is from Holland and they don't do that really, so it was his first. He asked if I wanted him to make me one this year instead and I said NO, what are you gonna put in it, Splenda and veggies? We still are making Cody's so I need to refrain from ANY. Wow, I sure home my Somersweet comes in soon!

Hi--

I'm here, just struggling to get over the flu. Haven't been working out, and have been fighting these cravings for pizza (and winning, mostly). I'll have to get on the good foot to meet the challenge, but I'm looking forward to getting physical again. Hmmm, about 8 pounds to lose in 31 days....I'm still going for it!

Congrats, nasus40, on your new figures!

Pooky, I'm going to talk with my dh this weekend about checking out the gym, I'd like to learn to swim, and the membership is a good deal, what with all the amenities...except the place is probably lousy with skinny people....

Hope everyone else out there is doing well!

jaelynn :wave:

Hi,

I'm still hanging in. Not doing great with exercise, but this is day 53 back eating OP. My every 2 week weigh-in & measure is Monday, so wish me luck!

Hope everyone is doing well.

Jennifer

Bringing this up so we can see where we started from! :)

Thanks for bringing the thread back up, but I don't want to see where I started from! I did terrible last month. I wasn't a great exerciser but I thought I was doing really well with my eating plan. I tried to do my own low carb thing and I mixed and matched the wrong way. I am getting the best of different plans. Now as I read SB I see a lot of things I was doing wrong for the last few weeks. Now I am doing it by the book so at the end of this month I should be a happy camper!