Stephanie Hehe on the other activity, counts as a workout to me :P I hope you reach your secret goal! As for Halloween...so far I haven't even decided if I'll be doing anything. It's nowhere near as big in New Zealand, so I'm not sure. I love dressing up in costumes, but I guess I'll just see if anything is happening around my area or if my friends are doing anything! I also have a weight goal for Halloween but I'm not sure I'll make it.

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Kind of frustrated today. Scale is the same as it was for last weeks weigh in. Urgh. My birthday goal is seeming pretty unattainable right now, and while I'm not so pissed off that I won't make that goal, I'm more pissed off that my loss has slowed down so much. It's making me wonder if I'm doing something wrong or if I need to change my calorie intake in some way. Bleh. So annoyed. Tempted to eat a whole lot of junk today, but of course it won't make me feel better or make the scale change (at least not in a good way) so I know I won't. I just feel like it haha.

sorry ladies... I don't have time to read all the posts just now. Been super busy with my parents here and throwing my daughter's 2nd bday party. It was fun! Went over my calories with cake and lasagna because I wasn't counting but oh well....off to yoga in the morning to rectify some of the damage
here is a link to see some pics of the party! I will delete it when you guys have taken a look

sun Cute! That cake is so awesome, I wanted one like that when I was a child haha. Looks like a fun party, glad you're having a good time with your parents around - it's good to be busy so no need to apologise to us! Hope the yoga is good - I'm about to force myself to exercise as well.

rainbow and Stephanie, I'm sorry you are not seeing much movement with your scales. I'm glad you're both keeping a good attitude. I always tell myself that if I just keep eating right and exercising, the scale can't not go down! Ha ha I've got my fingers crossed for you both, but you're doing great!

sun, beautiful pictures thank you for sharing!

So this morning was my official WI day and I am back in the 150's thank goodness. Now comes the hard part. We can do this!

Planned a little splurge for lunch today, hopefully it won't mess with the scale too much. I guess we'll see! You ladies have a lovely day!

Stephanie Yeah the birthday is just around the corner! I kind of love and hate birthdays. I like presents (who truly doesn't?) but I'm not good at having so much attention on me. I wanted to have a party or something, and I've organised a small one, but I'm scared of people coming to celebrate my birthday haha, and I'm also terrified of receiving presents because I always think I'm not showing enough gratitude. Yours is pretty soon too! I hope your run happened and was good!

Ashlee Thank you for the encouragement! I mostly try and stay positive, but I have to admit that my boyfriend does hear a bit of whining from me on days like this haha. I was super childish yesterday and said something to him like "I think I'm just meant to be chubby forever" haha. So ridiculous. Yay for the 150's! I hope your splurge lunch is nice.

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Yesterday was fairly good for me...I went on the treadmill for 10 minutes and had planned to do like 1-2 minutes jogging to 1 minute walking for those 10 minutes. I did 1 minute walking and then started jogging...and kept jogging for 8 whole minutes! I was so surprised I could actually do it. The speed was 7.5km an hour, and I know it's easier on a treadmill, but it still felt really good to be able to achieve that!
I ate slightly low during the day on my calories and then my parents came home with gross takeaways - some beef and potato curry, very heavy looking. Of course I could have found something like veges in the freezer, but at this point I'd already cooked a really healthy chicken and vege lunch...so I calculated how many calories I had left and I decided to have McDonald's. I know it's not an amazing choice, and even if it is within my calories it's still a lot of sodium, but it kept me under my fat intake for the day and my calorie allowance, and I think it will prevent me from doing a drive through on another day as I've been craving a cheeseburger for ages. I only had a cheeseburger and small fries. And then had some peaches for dessert. So I don't think it's too terrible.
Going to try and jog on the treadmill again very soon, will see how much I can do! Hope you ladies are going well!

stargzr I know what you mean when you feel like the week is going by and you see no improvement. I am sure if you keep it up you will see something by your weigh in day.

fashin glad you are in the 150s again! Just push through we will be in the 140s together soon.

rainbow great job on the joggin! this week I am suppose to go run/jog for 5 minutes and walk for 5 for about 20 minutes!~ I am scared. Will let you know how I do after tomorrow.

Thank you for the compliments Ladies! I had fun making the cake and my cookie was happy.

I did go for yoga today and surfed with hubby. I even stood on the board all thought not very straight. We ate at Moe's but i was careful and chugged water so hopefully the scale will be kinder then today was. I gained 2 lbs over night from the birthday..lol. Hope you all have a great thrusday!

it's really good (and also really hard!) to stay motivated, good job!!!

sun Woo! Go you on the surfing! That is pretty awesome! Thanks for the encouragement.

Hey shamrockin!

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So I did 36 minutes on the treadmill today! Walked for the first, then jogged for 8, then walked for 2, jogged for another 8 (the second 8 was hardddd) and then did some more walking and 2 more 2minute portions of jogging. Total of 20 minutes jogging! Felt amazing. SOOOOO sweaty as well.
It's my sister's husbands birthday tomorrow so we're going there for dinner. My sister is making ribs and has asked us to contribute a side...I've just made mine (24 hours in advance haha, I won't get a chance tomorrow) - it's green beans with tomato puree, tomatoes, onions, garlic, and some cinnamon and paprika. Might sound weird but it's really good, my mum has made it for ages it's supposedly a Lebanese recipe (I'm part Lebanese).

She just texted me and told me she bought amazing cupcakes and that I should save some calories :S Worrying!

rainbow, wow way to go on the jogging! And I think you did really well with the McDonald's. It's all about moderation and you did it for sure! Good luck at the birthday party, I'm sure you'll do great.

sun, I would love to be in the 140's with you soon! Although I'm sure you'll get there way before me- you're doing great! And I love Moes! What did you get there? Their chips and queso is my weakness! Great job on all the exercise too, surfing sounds so fun!

Stephanie, I just joined your Thanksgiving challenge! I'm with you, I splurged yesterday and had a pretty greasy lunch (although I will say I didn't eat near as much as I would have in the past) and I was miserable for the rest of the afternoon. But, this whole thing is one big learning process and I'd say we're doing pretty good! I hope you get a run in soon!

I hope everyone is having a good week, and it's almost Friday yay!

rainbow way to go on the running. I just started to run 5 minutes in a row yesterday. I thought I was going to die! It felt good to get it done though. be careful of the cupcakes! my daughter's birthday set me back some unfortunetly. ugh not sure i am going to go down a lb this week.

stargzr I hope you get to running soon atleast you are not doing nothing! Hope you have a great friday

fashion I had the instant friend(quesadilla) but my hubby got the nachos and I ate some

I had a good run yesterday and was good until I ate two slices of pizza last night and today my scale is still showing 154 ugh. I think I really need to get going with getting back on track because i am going to start to backslide. Its so not easy with my mom being here and bringing my favorite sweets. we shall see tomorrow. Atleast my exercise is going good. I made a deal with my hubby for my yoga and the next 3 months are going to be my anniversary and xmas presents so i am happy about that.
also I took a photo after 2 months for some encouragement

sun, holy crap! Lol wow you can tell a huge difference in two months!! Do you mind me asking what your weight was in the first pic? Maybe I should take a starting picture too, hmmm....

Having a good OP day so far, hope everyone else is too!

Steph, I know how you feel, it bums me out to think I was down to 156 this time last year and where I would be if I had just kept going. But, I refuse to look back 1 year from now and have the same regrets (especially since I will hopefully be getting married Sept 10)! We can do this girl!
Have fun tonight! I think me and the bf are going to go to the fair this weekend, but get a babysitter for the little one and have some 'us' time, I'm pretty excited!