awww meowkat, chin up! why are you having such a hard time? anything we can help you with? how about just changing your goal to a coupla pounds? i changed mine midway through the challenge by 5 pounds. i've posted it before but i'll write again: i've lost 25 pounds and it's taken me over a year! so i know about hard times and being pissed off at the whole deal, but just don't give up. even if it means maintaining what you've lost so far (what i did for a year) and trying again whenever you're ready to boost it back up (what i've been doing lately).

hang in there, chica.

ghost - so it was all in your head, huh?

Hey, thanks for the encouragement...I didn't mean for my last post to sound so negative, I'm just frustrated! And I think the change in the weather is affecting my depression. It's getting more intense, as it does from time to time.....I'll get over it. I guess I just have to let it run its course. I'm usually fine, I swear! :D

I'm going to keep my goal, even if I don't achieve it, mainly because I guess I'd feel like I was "cheating" if I moved my goal up just because I couldn't do it (I don't think it was a terribly difficult goal to achieve, if I'd stayed on course to begin with). I haven't been checking in here as often as I should, because I just don't have a ton of time anymore...anyway, it's good to know I have support here. I think I just kind of needed to vent a little because I'm mad at myself :p

Keep going Meowkat! You can do it! :hug:

So I went to the Irish Festival yesterday, and worked my a$$ off vounteering and when I stepped on the scale this morning it said I was 174... I was so excited to be one pound from my goal... then I realized it was probably water LOL.

Ah well, back to the :tread:

i weighed in at 144. still....

4 weeks til samhain. and 5 pounds. i can do this right?

ooohh, skullarix, irish festival. sounds fun.

I think you can do it.

I weighed myself last night, I have two pounds to go! Woohoo!

But I was also bad yesterday and ate a Snickers bar. My husband got it for me because it was the kind with almonds and he knows how much I like those.

No biggie though. It was one Snickers. And I was good yesterday up until that point and ran 1/2 hour after work.

hmmm....well, now it's 6 pounds.

Hello my fine alternachick friends. I thought I'd post an update, since I have not in a while. I encourage yall to follow suit. K?

I'm sick, and tired and I feel bloated but the scale has said 169.75 two days in a row now. Nice. I've been watching my food very carefully. Have the scale out on the counter and everything. I've also been making it to cardio this week I went mon, wed, thur and friday. Tomorrow I'm tearing the whole house apart, cleaning everything, and then putting it back together. Well, it'll probaby take all weekend actually, but I'll fit in a workout somewhere in there if I can.

sick. tired. bloated. check, check and check. hey ghost! wow, you're doing so well, chica! the big san fran date's coming up, huh? excited?

still hangin in at 144. my body is really starting to get comfy with that number. i'm not complaining though seeing as how much i've been sitting down reading for school and how many pb and j sandwiches i've had on the go. i need to kick it up a notch, gals.

Well, I've been bouncing back and forth between 174 and 176. I've only got one pound to go to hit the Samhain goal, so I think I'll make it.

I've not been staying on plan that well, so that's why I'm bouncing around.

i saw 142 yesterday and saw 141.6 this morning! it's a first! dare i move the scale down even a notch? i'll give it another day. point is, if i stick with it, i know i can meet my goal of 139 by samhain.

skullarix - i hear ya. i spent the entire end of september bouncing between 144 and 145.

meanwhile back at the ranch i'm still trying to decide how me and the hubs will celebrate samhain being in a new town and all the usual jaunts are not an option....

hmmm....

I finished the "Race for the Cure" today. It was really fun! So after doing a 5k I don't have to work to today right? RIGHT?

I'm loving the cooler weather. It's such a refreshing feeling.

The past two weeks, my diet and exercise was on the back burner, but I think it's time to focus on it again. I haven't weighed myself in a while, but with my lack of eating a lot the past two weeks, I doubt I gained. I know I won't make the goal I had originally planned, but even a few pounds lost by Samhain will be a good thing. I'm just a few pounds shy of being under 200. Perhaps I will aim for that.

Robot~ Onderland would be so cool! You should go for it! :hug:

Thanks Skullarix! I really think getting under 200 will help me feel a little bit better about life.

Congrats on the race skullarix! What a great thing to do! :bravo:

The diet has been on the backburner of late as we just had Thanksgiving in Canada this past weekend - too much turkey, wine and pie! I did get out for some exercise by cleaning up the front and backyard, raking leaves and cutting back the plants to prepare for winter. We had a gorgeous weekend - it was so warm I was outside in my summer gear in mid October!

I am trying to walk after work this week starting this evening by going on foot to the polling station to vote and then for a quick walk round the neighborhood.

Good luck this week everyone! :lucky:

That's awesome. In my fun fantasy world, you'd get the week off for doing that. If only my world were real.

I weighed in this am at 167.5...but I do not dare move that ticker till I've seen it twice, as usual.
I've been having a tough go of it this week. I'm still sick, and I broke up with my boyfriend and changed my travel plans. Not going to SFO. I'm sad of course, and I still love him dearly. Its just not working out. I scared to death I'm going to die a lonely old hag though. I'm 29 and all I want is to be in love, get married and grow old with someone.

oh ghost. i am sorry. sending you lotsa love thru the ether!!!

awww. hang in there, ghost :hug:

break ups are hard. and sometimes a "congratulations" is in order and sometimes an empathetic "i'm sorry" so i'll throw out both for you. it's saturday and your crappy schmappy week is at an end and i can only say i hope the next one is better.

Ghost~ I'm sorry to hear about your break up! :hug: hang in there though, it'll get better

I'm stuck at 174! So close yet so far... I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing wrong. I've got to get off this plateau... :(

Think I can lose two pounds in 11 days?

Of course I don't have regular access to a scale... Kind of sucks at times. But I made a purposeful decision not to have one in my house.

If you don't have access to a scale you can have non scale goals, like, run a mile in x amount of minutes, lose x amount of inches from waist, drink a certain amount of water a day, stay within a certain number of calories a day...you get the idea. Its not always about what the scale says. and welcome to the challenge!

I got on the scale this morning and guess what? I was 172!!!! Samhain goal achieved!

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:bravo:

hey, that's kick arse, skullarix!

as for me, my goal keeps toying with me. i've bouncing betweem 139.7 or so and 140.3 for almost two weeks now. totally doable in the next week, but i gotta step it up.

hope everyone else is fine and dandy. happy friday.

well a whopping YEE-HAW skullarix..how awesome are you????

I was below goal on saturday morning, but today...not below goal. But I have like 4 days to get my arse in gear. My last goal was 169 but I changed it when I saw it for two days in a row down to 164, but if I'm between the two I will still feel like a winner.

Sooo, we are going to be wrapping up this challenge this week! Its been a LONG 11 weeks for me. But I feel great and I look great too so I'm glad we did this thing. It was definatly on my mind everytime I considered binging, that I have a goal and I want to reach it. So, we should def think of a new challenge...maybe a Yule/Winter Solstice kinda thing.

So, don't forget to post your final weight on Friday the 31st! I'll post mine early in the day (my time) because I'll be flying the friendly Hallow Eve's sky that night. I wonder if ppl will be dressed up?

awesome achievement ghost! i think a yuletide kinda challenge would be great....i donno what i was thinking when i put myself down for 8.5 kilos (that's 18.7 lbs) but here i am with 1 kilo loss but lots a roomy jeans :)

i celebrate every solstice and i would love to have another challenge and celebrate this next one by being a bit healthier than i am this autumn!

ghost - you've done so well! i'm so proud of you. safe travels mon ami

jan - kudos on the room in the jeans and less junk in da trunk!

Okay, a quicky online search has given us several more days to lose. Technically samhain this year is November 7th, according to the stars. So, we can keep this going beyond the 31st, or start a new challenge for Yule...what say ye all?

I do like the sound of a Yule challenge, but this technical extension for this challenge will help me get to my goal of under 200. Either way, it doesn't matter to me.

I think the technical extension is a good thing, these kinds of moments are good for procrastinators, of which I am one IRL. I focus better when the deadline is closest...lol!

ghost - where did you get your info? Samhain, or the Witches' New Year when the veil between the worlds is the thinnest, traditionally is celebrated on the evening of October 31st and ends Novemeber 1st (at least in our neck of the woods). is your source doing it by equinox or what? just curious.

i'm all for extension, i just want to know more about this november 7th thang.

It's the astrological date, when the sun is at 15 degrees scorpio, which this year falls on November 7th. But celebrating it on the 31st or Nov 1st is not wrong, its just convenient for planning purposes and such. But, if your doing spellwork and rituals based on when the veil is going to be at its thinnest, Nov 7th is the day you want to be working with. I'm hopeing that by nov 7th I'm at my thinnest. Sorry, bad pun but I couldn't help myself.

wery wery interwesting...thanks for the 411.

so today is the 2nd day that i've seen 138.7:) i'm calling it.

safe flying ghost.

Today I am 165.25. I am almost *almost* in the low 160's...lol! Of course, that is going to change the second I touch down in Anchorage and see a Chili's (which is in the airport...) but, 23.75 lbs in 11 weeks, I deserve something tasty and fatty!

I went to a creepy haunted house in an abandoned undergroung hospital last night, sooooo freaking good! My sister organized it, she is a great haunted house organizer. So proud, she does our family horror reputation well.

I'll be at work all day, so I'll be online and hope to see some samhain challege updates! Then, at 4pm Alaska standard time I'm officially on vacay!

Today, I'm at 200. So close to 199, that I can taste it.

well, i went ahead and changed my ticker. i met my goal and i think i'll do better if i get in mind a new one instead of being lax until the 7th. good job everyone! robot, you'll be there before you know it.

Hi Chicks,

I'm down with a Yule challenge! Hopefuly I haven't missed a new thread if one has been started.

I suppose since most have reached goal or were close to goal, we can go ahead with a winter solstice challenge.