Vegetarian Chicks - Veg ladies i think it is time

for a new challenge, im not sure how this works so give some ideas and lets challenge ourselves! what do you say???:carrot::D

Oh I'm in! Don't know what the challenge should be but I'm in anyways lol! I love a good challenge! So are we talking exercise, weight loss, or veggie related? Or maybe some combination? Maybe a Halloween challenge or is that to far away? I keep hoping that I'll be able to drop another 20 by then so I can look a little good in a costume and not have to where something tent shaped again this year lol! :)

im not sure lol. i love a challenge as well so i thought it was time, it can be a combo i need to get motivated a little more and i thought a challenge can do it, what is the basic one they use on the veggie challenges? maybe we can go from there! lol. its so random it might work! =)

Well looking at the last 2 or 3 challenges it seems like the weigh in days were on Fridays and there wasn't a specific goal named so I guess you can just try and lose what you can in the challenge. I've never tried to make a challenge before I've only joined in so I'm not sure how to best do it either. Maybe we should just pick a start date and end date and see if others want to do it too?

lol ok start monday the 17 til.... maybe labor day? its about 3 weeks, we can try for whatever you want to lose by then lol. my goal is to lose about 10 lbs i am 200 right now! and id love to be 190 in a month, does that seem realistic? i hope so.

no love in the challenge world, its alright, just wanted to try to lift some veggies out from under, but i guess next time i should put a little more thought into a challenge lol.

yea true, maybe things will pick up here soon and more people may be interested. I guess it needs to be planned out a little farther ahead of time. Oh well next time hopefully! :)

Hii girls!

I would love to be a part of this challenge...i am soo up in my weight..been slacking big time this summer! Labor day sounds good! i was a frequent member of the last veggie challenges and they really helped motivate me!:carrot: I guess i wont post my start weight until monday then. I'm excited! Thanks for starting!

good then we have three girls hear that gypsylove, dont go on me now lol, weigh in monday and maybe we will have some things to go by, but lets just keep each other motivated, post goals, the way you felt that day, we dont have much people so it shouldnt be hard to post back and forth, since summer is almost over lets get some of that summer weight off and try for the small 3ish week, im still in let me know thanks=)

Hey girls,
I'd like to join this. I'm in a couple of other challenges, but it would be nice to talk to other veggies about the struggles/successes!

I'll weigh in Monday!

I'm not sure I understand the structure, and I'm aiming for really slow losses right now (faster would be cool, but I'll be perfectly happy to go from 140 now to 130 by New Year, unless I decide 135 is a better place to maintain). So I'm in depending how it works. I won't be racing though!

I'm in! I think I'll make my goal 125lbs (131 right now).. I never lose very fast, so I'll be pushing myself.

Mrsvegan00 I'm still in as long as others want to be too! :) Juliej08 I don't think we have a structure at the moment lol!

Lately I've been losing around 2 lbs. a week when I actually stick to my workouts and of course going vegan about 5 weeks ago has been helping me sooooo much! so 2 lbs. a week for 3 weeks I'll make my goal a nice safe 6 lbs. for now. If I lose more great but I'm trying to lose at a healthy pace. Yay for the new challenge!!!! :D

thanks girls weigh in tomorrow good luck, basically just put your goals youd like to accomplish is a short time and see if you can do it for that long it is 22 days. Just try to hold yourself to a challenge youve set for yourself and then maybe you will know you can keep going and keep up the challenges, maybe be vegetarian for this many days or try cutting out that soy ice cream, any little thing thats been bugging you try and cut it out for 22 days and then see how you feel once this is done, see if you have lost any weight, see if you feel better about the choice. Good luck and ill be here tomorrow morning to weigh in! muah girls!

This Morning i am 197.5 excited about my weight loss already but ready for some more, my goal to keep is to keep my vegan consumptions healthy, drink a lot of water, keep up with my running, days i cant run then i want to do some kind of exercise, just keep myself active, i work in a bakery and it is hard on some weekends not to want to come home and eat so i need to try and work on myself with that one as well. k ladies i will be back later after work. ta ta

I'm up this morning, due to an out of control weekend. When will I learn?

Anyway, I'm starting at 192. I'd like to lose 5 lbs. in the next 3 weeks, putting me at 187.

My goals for this challenge are to keep up with my current work out, and add two more days of strength training.

I do Weight Watchers, so I'd like to be sure to stay within my points every day (including weekends!!). When I do, I lose weight consistently.

Good luck everyone.

hello everyone!

Well my weigh in is 149. I'm hoping to lose atleast two pounds by next week:carrot: i decided that I'm not going to eat in between my main meals because thats where i do most of my damage:nono: Also i have to excersise starting today! ive been very lax this entire summer... I'm ready now!

Today I'm 129.5, and I want to get down to 125.

good luck ladies I'm very happy to have poeple partake in this hope everyone stays strong!

MrsVegan00 it looks like we have the same starting weight lol! As of this morning I'm at 197 and I've decided my goal by Labor Day is 190. I have been really bad lately with weighing myself EVERY day! I'm going to try and only weight myself on Mondays just for this challenge which is great since I just had my first binge in over 2 months EEK! Oh well, I just gotta keep truckin along. Good luck everyone! :)

yay then u being the same will help me keep it up.I got
up this morning at 330 and went to the
track and ran 2 miles straight! for the first time ever! but since I have been so hungry! I am at like870 on my cals already ugggghh well that's day two

OMG 3:30 am??? Wow good job! I could never get up that early unless I was sleep walking to the fridge LOL! It's been to hot for me to run outside at the moment so I've been hittng the treadmill 4 times a week. I take yoga classes 3 times a week which is my favorite but I was a bit bummed out that our instructor was out sick yesterday. I of course hope she feels better I just needed my yoga fix for the day. I go again tomorrow so hopefully she'll be back! :)

ya i was tired after work got out! today i didnt exercise i think wednesday will be my day off i have been working hard at this, but i guess the point of a challenge is to keep it up even when you think you cant! but i have to get up again tomorrow morning for running, then i think ill do some crunches before i go back to sleep, i have time to sleep in tomorrow it will be nice. it is already almost time to weigh again lol. well today is going good. hope everyone is staying strong!! have funnn!!!

hey everyone, i just saw this topic, i've been out of state visiting family in nj so hopefully i can still join....i'll be happy with 5 lbs by labor day but i'll aim for 10 anyway, starting weight is 297
my other goals are to stay in my calories and keep to my weights schedule and my running schedule when school starts

hey Haleysgirl82! its never to late good luck!

today was a sad day in diet world for me, i have no idea how many cals i ate because i just gave up midday. hoping for a better day today!!

today was a sad day in diet world for me, i have no idea how many cals i ate because i just gave up midday. hoping for a better day today!!

Me too! We must be on the same schedule or something. :p (Hope my mom isn't the only person who says that.) Let's do better!

Bad day for me calorie wise also. It was mom's b-day though so we went out to dinner and I splurged. I don't feel to bad about it even if I did eat a whole lot of fat since it was the first time I've eaten out since I think May. I expect to weigh in monday the same weight to be honest just because of all the salt and fat. Me and my mom both retain more water then average when exposed to a lot of salt. I'm going to try drowning myself in water between now and monday morning to see if I can speed the salt out of my system a bit faster. We'll see what happens!

Me too! We must be on the same schedule or something. :p (Hope my mom isn't the only person who says that.) Let's do better!

i did a little better today, and plus i did 42 min of cardio and my weights how about u

Bad day for me calorie wise also. It was mom's b-day though so we went out to dinner and I splurged. I don't feel to bad about it even if I did eat a whole lot of fat since it was the first time I've eaten out since I think May. I expect to weigh in monday the same weight to be honest just because of all the salt and fat. Me and my mom both retain more water then average when exposed to a lot of salt. I'm going to try drowning myself in water between now and monday morning to see if I can speed the salt out of my system a bit faster. We'll see what happens!

happy birthday to ur mom!

well yesterday didnt go so well after all after i added up the calories *sigh* maybe i'm more nervous about school starting than i think lol

happy birthday to ur mom!

Thanks! :D

Well it's weigh in day and so far I've lost, drum roll please.......ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! :cry: :?: I guess even though I'm eating much healthier I'm still eating to much but still I'm burning insane amounts of calories when I run. I really thought that would make up the difference. I guess the only choice I have is to cut down more. Hope everyone else did better!

im up 2lbs but i'm not surprised from all the crap ive eaten...gonna do better this week....i hope lol

i am up 1 pound! what the heck lol. well i went camping this weekend and i tried not to eat everything, but on the way up there this 4 hour drive my husband and i finish all the snacks before we even got to the camp site! so i am not surprised plus we didnt run sat or sunday but we went rock climbing for an hour then took an hour high paced walk so i hope next week will be better. i am gonna do better.... this week, i have too! i keep watching dance your *** off and the girl shayla two weeks ago was 197 now she is 177! we can do that too. i need a gym membership!!! lol.. good luck ladies we can do this!!!!!!!!!!! i must stick to calories when i go on trips and must!!! run even when i dont want to! it was doing great!

hey all, today i did 30 min of cardio kickboxing and my weights routine so it's off to a good week!

Good Job haleygirl! i didnt exercise today, i will get up before work and run tomorrow, today i can relax but i am making sure i dont get to many calories in to make up for not exercising@ ugh ugh ugh.

I overdid it again this weekend, so I didn't weigh in. The way I eat when I overdo it now isn't even half as bad as my daily diet used to be, but it still doesn't help with weightloss.

I did walk 3 miles this morning and I did my volunteer job which was probably another 4 hours of walking. I say hours because the classes go by the hour and I have no idea what the mileage might be. And I did do a 19 mile bike ride on Sunday.

So at least I'm exercising, right? I will stay on track this week and not weigh in until Thursday or Friday. I know the scale will be up and I don't want to mess with my head until I know I'm back down.

Oh, and I went to a bbq on Saturday and brought two vegan side dishes. Only my husband and one other person knew that I'm vegan. My husband is vegetarian and so is the other person. As it turns out, in this sort of small group of maybe 15, 6 of us were vegetarian/vegan! And we didn't even know it! So there were lots of veggie sides for us to eat. It was great.

GypsyLove- ya that's frustrating

MrsVegan00- good luck with exercising tomorrow, sounds like you had fun camping!

Darby1- good job exercising!

I've been very good about not missing my workouts. I just started weight training saturday but I've been running and doing yoga for a few months now. I think I've just been getting overly excited about all the new yummy recipes I have been finding recently lol. I have to keep a better eye on my portions. Today I brought a big bowl of stir fried veggies and tempeh over brown rice and if I didn't stop myself I would have eaten the whole thing it was so good! I've been trying to lose this weight for a while now and it's going away very slowly but still at least it's going. I'm used to the pace of it and I've started making some good healthy habits to stick to so I'm not worried about giving up. It's just annoying to work so hard and not see immediate results, guess I gotta work on my patience next lol!

Blah. I dieted really good for about half of the week, then really dropped the ball. I weighed this morning with my clothes on and it looked like I lost nothing, but I'm waiting for a new scale to come because the one I have is always inaccurate. Once that comes I'll weigh every day and hopefully stay on track.

Good luck everyone. :hug: We can do better this week.

Ok so I know I said I would try not to weigh myself everyday but I slipped today lol! I weighed myself first thing this morning and somewhere between Monday and today I've magically lost another 2 pounds! Whenever somthing happens in life that I can't explain I blame it on the magic gnomes lmao! The magic gnomes stole 2 pounds from me, yaaaaaay!!! :D

Gypsy can you send those gnomes to mee!!?? please lol. i have been up on my running and everything i went 56 over my calories yesterday but i worked my butt...almost off so i hope it was alright, i cant wait til monday lol i hope this is paying off!!!

If I see any of the little guys I'll catch one and fedex him over to you lol! ;)

thanks! i need it, i weighted myself today since this week ive ran 8.2 miles! and i am still at 198! this is awful!! i cant go to the bathroom! and it is makin me crazyyyyyyy!!!!!!! its like i am trying so hard to loose but noting is lost.... it is aggravating.... i hope everyone is doing better then me!

MrsVegan00- that is so frustrating!!

GypsyLove-:) I'll take a gnome too please

yesterday was alright, went over my cals but i did my weights and 30 min of cardio kickboxing and today i'm on track with cals, walked 5 miles doing a walk at home dvd and 30 min of kickboxing

Blah! I missed yesterday's and today's workout just because I was all bummed out over a tiny fender bender I got into yesterday. Don't worry, everyone is fine! It was so tiny that all that was on my car was some scuff marks and some of the other guys paint. I was more bummed out over the $500 deductable that I have to pay my insurance even though the damage was like $100 and that's really just labor cost to buff it out. I got the guys license plate before he called me an idiot and sped away and I really hope they find him. so yea....I'm feeling a bit blaaaaaaaah!

HaleyGirl- Good jod girl! keep up the work!

Gypsy- wow what is goin on over there! i think you should stay in side for a day lol jk jk! i hope things go a little better for you in the future, hehe keep your head up chickadee!

as for me, no exercise yesterday it was my day off, im not sure if ill do anything today either... i stayed way under may calories yesterday so i feel alright about not exercising but i will try for something when i get off work. i will be standing walking back and forth for 8 hours thats something right lol. well have fun today ladies. o and gypsy i see your ticker is down to 193! good job

GypsyLove- Sorry to hear that, glad you weren't hurt. hopefully they find that insert expletive here

hey all. today i'm ok with my calories, i'll be a little over but oh well not too bad and i did my weights and walked 5 miles doing the walk at home dvd. nervous about monday lol (weigh in and first day back to school)

i have a feeling TOM is going to interfere with my weigh in because i weighed this morning and i was up 5lbs but that also could be i've done more exercise than usual this week so a mix of my body adjusting and TOM is not gonna be a pretty picture lol oh well....good luck everyone

haleygirl, same here, Tom's payin a visit tomorrow or tuesday so I won't have a good weigh in until next week. Oh well I'll weigh in first thing in the morning anyways good luck!

it's the same as yesterday 5 lbs up

Haleygirl- Keep it up! that was so hard for me to work through "tom" but you can do it, dont worry about the 5 it will come and go just like tom lol. i love it!

i was over here trying to figure out what TOM what lol... im guessing it is time of the month??? not to sure, anyways today i weighed in at 195.5 whoop finally went to the bathroom lol. i have been doing alright with the counting and exersicing, i didnt count my calories yesterday, i dont think i eat to much just to late... i need to get that under control.

Mrsvegan~ Yup! TOM stands for time of month. That darn Tom! lol! Yay for the weight loss! :)

I weighed in this morning like I said I would and luckily I was only up 1/2 a pound so I'm not even going to worry about it. It'll be gone in a few days. Keep up the good work everyone!

ok so i havent counted my calories in two days!!! ugh! but i got a gym membership and my husband and i are going everyday until we have lost a million pounds together hahaha my master plan lol. i hope everyone is doing great! monday is the last day!!!!!!!!! NNNNOOOOO lol.

Congrats on your new gym membership mrsvegan! I love my gym very much, but I've been in a down kind of mood this past week so I havn't worked out since last Thursday or Friday I think. No worries though I'm breaking out of it. I get the blahs from time to time but it always clears up. :) I don't think I'll be making my goal for Monday but I'm still happy that I lost some weight since we started! Keep up the good work everyone!

MrsVegan00- that's great about the gym. there's a gym at my school but since starting back my exercise has really suffered part of the reason is cause we've been able to go to the beach and then i don't have time for exercise lol but there's probably only another week and then it will start to feel like fall is coming and no more beach :(

i'm back to 300, really gonna try harder this week!!!

Well today is the end of the challenge and last weigh in. I weighed in at 193 again so no loss for me this past week. I started at 197 though so I did lose 4 pounds the past 3 weeks so I guess I'm not totally disappointed. How'd everyone else do?

Not to rush into anything to fast but I'm really hoping for a Halloween challenge! It's my favorite time of the year! :)

Edit: Found a halloween challenge on the "chicks up for a challenge board!" :)

ooo sounds like fun! well for me, a not so great week, ive been working out like crazy and i havent went to the bathroom in 3 days so im up 4 pounds... kinda gross... o well i did what i set out to do and my main goal was to keep up with my exercise so thats what i did and am going to continue to do. good luck everyone else!!! and great job Gypsy!!! YOU GO GIRL! hehe!!!!!

Thanks so much! :) Just keep going with the exercise, you're doing great! I just keep telling myself, if I'm doing all the right things then eventually something's gotta give! Meaning the numbers on the scale of course. Take care! :)