Im up to 166 but i could not control the cravings i had during tom. but hes gone now but today is a lot better . got some serious exercise in and drank lots of water. We'll see how it goes. not going to weigh until monday tho

Bad news - I had 2 1/2 pcs. of pizza and a small slice of chocolate cake.
Good news - I knew it was coming, knew I have very little control when it comes to pizza, so I planned on indulging. I still stayed within my calorie limits!! Also, I could very easily have eaten 2 or 3 more slices of said gooey deliciousness, but I DIDN'T. That's something, right?
I am down a total of 1.8 lbs since starting this challenge, down to 168.8. I can't wait to see what my loss for the week is!

Cakebatter - congrats on the loss!!!
Wormwooddoll - TOM sucks... I'm sure you will see a nice loss when she leaves though.

The important thing is never give up, I am sure you will see a nice loss.

Booski -- that's awesome. You planned for it and stayed OP so it's all legal, IMO. I had peeps today (I <3 easter candy) but I had enough points to cover the little busters. Lol.
I'm expecting to be up but I'm going to WW anyway. Will post WI results tomorrow. Should get to bed soon!

Morning!

I'll have to figure out what I ate yesterday that had salt. My face and hands feel puffy and I've got a mystery pound. However .... that's easily fixed.

The weather here has been pretty nice, are you gals walking?

the weather here has been kind of nasty, but to be expected in the spring.

I reached my 80 pound lost today! This is totally how I feel -->


NO DIET SODA in almost a week, I can't believe it!

Kelly - CONGRATS!!!! Wow, 80 lbs, that's amazing.
SusanB - No, it's rainy and yucky here. It was nice earlier in the week, and I took an outside walk then.
Spooky - Peeps are soooo yummy, especially when they're rock-hard stale.

Well Susuan - it is currently nice out but I am stuck here at work on a Saturday! Anyway if it is still nice I am going to hit the trail for abit. So i went to the JCP sale and bought a new shirt. And guess what it was a >>>MEdium. Woot woot

Booski - That was not bad at all. You planned for it meaning you knew how to prepare for it....Good job!

Kelly - 80 pounds that is my amazing! COngratulations!

Jassica - No worries once TOM is gone you will be back to normal less a little extra

Susan - I can always when I have too much salt because my rings start to turn my finger blue.....lol

well never did my exercising yesterday. will WI tomorrow and let you know how it went tomorrow morning. so far today everything is going good.. the only thing i have eaten today is breakfast at ihop. i am just not hungry i am not avoiding eating. i am hoping now that when i do eat something i will not over do it. that is what has got me nervous right now because that is what normally gets me.

I think the thing that most surprises me now that I am doing so well with my new "lifestyle" - is that I am able to indulge once - and get back to the routine the next day. Leave your mistakes in the past - don't let them takeover.

So you had pizza - big deal - enjoy it - and move on. It doesn't have to control you - YOU ARE IN CONTROL

Well put!

Mrsaugie - I hope ur WI goes well. When r ready to eat maybe and try to drink a glass or water before and then eat slowly so will know when you are full.

Hope I'm not too late, I'm still trying to navigate my way around this place and just found this thread. Man, I really need something like this to motivate me anyway.

SW - 315
GW - 285 by late June

30lbs even is perfect. That's almost halfway to my main goal from where I am now, and I won't have much longer after the summer to complete my main goal anyway.
I know I can do it, I just really need to try. I've been lazily trying to lose weight, saying "I can eat this if I exercise more" or "I don't have to exercise if I just cut my calories"; imagine what damage I could do if I actually diet and exercise all at once. :P

And my other goals are:

1. ELIMINATE all soda. This won't be too hard seeing as I've been working on this for a while, but I'd like to primarily drink water. I've been letting myself drink gatorade too often, and it's not much better than soda.

2. Exercise for 30 mins 3x a week at least.

3. No more than 2000 calories a day.

We did a bit of outside work this morning. It was great ... and it's exercise!

MrsAugie ... just imagine that we are watching you eat.

I wanna play too!

3/20= 194.6
6/20= goal of 174 (my weight when I got married 14 years ago- the ski rental ticket in my scrapbook says so.... I thought I was lighter than that then! I was in a stinkin' size 12.)

Why? So I don't sink my boat this summer. JK, truly tho, I want to be able to successfully flip and re-enter my single.... which means I need less junk in the trunk and more upper body strength. I also want to be a confident rower and not concerned with what my teammates think of my spandex covered bod.

Also, I turn 35 in July and my goal has been to lose 35# total by then. Meeting this challenge will put me about 7-8# out from that goal.

Morning!

How's the weekend going?

I'm going to hobble to church in heels a little later. Do you suppose that uses extra calories