Thanks for the welcome Robot.

I guess I should weigh in.

SW: 186lbs
CW: 181.5lbs
GW: 154lbs

Plan: Watch what I eat and the size of my meals and exercise my butt off.

Welcome Riayn :)

I don't really know how I'm getting on this week. There are alot of family difficulties surrounding my boyfriends family and its taking its toll on both of us. I did have take away on Thursday night but I hope i've worked that off now. I also haven't been keeping track of my calorie intake as I usually do with my little notebook and I think I'm suffering from that. I am trying to make a concious effort to eat healthily though, even if I am ignoring calories for a bit.

Must try again!!

It's me! It's me! It's Earnest T!

Sorry for the MIA-ness. I've been sick as a daaaawg! and The Spawn had to have ear tube surgery again. And my parents came for a few days visit, hadn't seen them in a year. And still unpacking. Mostly I was just sick lol

I have been eating whatever. Plenty of processed wheat products.:eek: Yeah, I gotz a case of the bread bloat sooo bad, I look preggers. :moo: :p LOL But upward and onward once more, we shall go!!

I got on the scale this morning to assess damage, I am 3 lbs up from 3 weeks ago. I was relieved. It could have been awful especially based on the size of my bloat. LOL

Everybody's doing so great! And Hello to the new folks who came in!

B: Flax meal cheese danish w/ tsp PB, coffee w/ milk

Wormwood Doll- Your new Avi is the Hotness! :) I like how you have made a mini-challenge for yourself for Valentine's day. I am gonna play the mimic and make one for myself, too!

I challenge myself to drink 64 oz of water a day, everyday until V-day. At that point it should be worked into a habit and I can do another mini-challenge. What's crazy is I used to easily drink over 100 oz a day, now look at me, all lizard-skinned and dehydrated! lol

Robot- Hey! Hang in there! I totally have days exactly as you described. Like you wake up feeling almost anti-progress motivated. Tell me more about the bean and oat crust pizza. (yes, I came back and read all 9 pages I had missed lol)

Lookee! I have been here long enough for a ticker and siggie! I chose YOU! angry little chicken ticker!

fell off the wagon over the last week, back up to 197. gack. back to the start i go! but i'm visiting my boyfriend for his birthday this weekend - we are a food-and-drink based couple :P
i'll let you know how that goes...

edit: weighed myself this morning on my new more accurate (i hope) scales and it says i'm 192.5. the old cheap scales says 195-196 (it likes to cover a range of possible weights over the course of a couple of minutes..). i only got the new one last week and when i checked it against the old one they were both the same. hmmm. well, at least things aren't as bad as i thought.

Just a quickie from me:
Yesterday's menu:
L: blackened london broil and shrimp on a caesar salad
S: 5-6 olives, too many peanuts
D: Homemade black beans and wheat free corn cakes, sausage, pan-roasted okra

I ate 3 don't-say-its yesterday afternoon, just to stay honest with ya. But I drank all my water and stayed wheat free. I was higher in carbies than originally planned but not wheat ones and feel much less "fluffy" this morning lol of course 1 1/2lb of water fell off in the last 24 hours. LOL

DH has agreed to go wheat free for 2 weeks to see if that will clear up some issues he has. This should be an interesting 2 weeks. though, he said he had to start next week. LOL But he agreed so I know he will stick to it.

Now to figure out what I will pack in his lunch everyday to keep it interesting enough. :dizzy:

I am unpacking the stinking Glass Room today. I have to get to work LOL I have sucked at the unpacking. Have a good-un.

So...I went off for 4 days...But 23/27 days isn't too bad right? I'm working the next 11 days and won't have time to go back home so I'll be perfectly okay for the next 2 weeks. And hopefully I'll have my head straight when I DO go up there. No more crazy social eating!

The pizza was pretty decent. The crust was more like a thick cracker, but it was filling. I topped it with lots of veggies.

new mini-goal: limit myself to one cringeworthy pun a week

Fell off the wagon a bit this week but still lost 1lb! So quite happy about that. Of course the diet is now off over the weekend too as it's my birthday (21st too!) and Diets and Birthdays do not mix. So will have to work my butt off to get anywhere next Thursday!

ROFL!!

I am not eatin' nooo chicken tickers! But you know, if I HAD to... Chicken Tickers Masala would probably be the way to go! lol

I snacked most of the day yesterday, a little salad, some peanuts, a bite or two of this and that. No wheat. and alas, no water either. But I did lots of trips up and down the stairs. Dinner was a real meal, though- blackened chicken with Frank's Red Hot and Blue Cheese dressing, some black beans and green beans. lotta beans, I know LOL

I am back to the grindstone. Have a gewt day!:devil:

I am itching to weigh myself. :lol: But it would be such a bad time! I have my TOM!

I am going in the wrong direction, UGH... 181 this week...

Time to step up the workouts!

Great Job on the loss

Wabe I hear ya on the b-day stuff, I ate almost 1/2 my cake by myself! Eeep!

Back to 159... Maybe this week will be better.

I just want to thank everyone here for your motivation, inspiration, and support. Without you guys I don't know if I would be pushing myself to get that exercise in and stay within my calories.

I hope it's okay, but I've decided not to weigh myself until near the end of the challenge. It's just a psychological thing with me that I get frustrated and give up if the scale isn't going down fast enough for my perfectionist brain.

I'll continue to post here though, and I'm hoping to get to know some of you better soon, too!

I've been doing great on exercise and eating, so I feel like I'm on a roll. It can be hard at times, but I know we can all be strong and accomplish anything! :cheer3: Go us!!! :cheer2:

Hello everyone! Just quickly dropping by to say I stayed the same with my weight. That's better than a gain. I'm also feeling crummy and bloated. I'm having the worst phantom TOM! (I only get real TOMs 2 or 3 times a year).

OK, I'll come back later to read the thread.

Some month I WILL get all my goal cardio in!!! Febuary may just be that month...

robot- re: phantom TOMs-you are the first person i heard who also gets them..i only "really" ovulate 2-3x as well cuz i got too much gosh-durned testosterone. weird.do you still git nasty pms, tho? i sure do. bleargh.

another first: "bread bloat"--> i TOTALLY get that but had never connected the dots..now see a huge shiny lightbulb above my head AHA! thanx merc girl.

jandaman - Yeah I get it too. I hate it and it confuses me because I didn't know people can PMS without actually having a TOM.

yeah, i know! i thought i was goin outta my gourd:)- my ob-gyn calls it "silent menstruation" and explained that all the usual crazy hormonal stuff is going on but the egg is not hangin around. of course he used very intelligent doctor-speak terms. i am actually considering some kind of hormonal boost so'z i kin have a "natural" cycle. i do kinda feel out of it...out of whack, ya know? crave that female cyclical moon-time thang! how boutchoo?

I'm actually mixed about it. I do want to have a "normal" cycle, but I'm so used to not having to worry about it too much.

Lost 1 lb this week which I am sooo surprised by. I won't even tell you what I ate because it will make you weep.

12st 7lb now though :) or 176lb for those who work only in lbs

I thought I'd just check in since I haven't in a while. I said I wasn't going to weigh myself, but I did anyway. I was at 228.4 this morning, which is only .4 down from last week, but 4 pounds since January 1. I know that any loss is good, but I definitely want to step it up. I really don't mind the weight loss going slowly, but at the same time I know I can do a lot better.

My goal is to be more consistent in my eating and exercising. It seems like every three days or so, I eat something I shouldn't. This time I want to go a whole week before I have one "treat" meal for my birthday. I also want to exercise even when I'm "not in the mood." I really want to make my goal of being in the teens by the end of this challenge!

Thank you all for being here! Hope you are all having a great weekend! :)

Its been a rough week, for me I didn't gain, but I didn't lose. So grand total 159 again.

I feel as if I'm stressing myself out with my goal this time around.

88.7 kilos this morning. bleargh!!! hoping it's water retention and /or the müsli i had eaten before....i know better than to weigh in after brekky fully clothed. wah wah wah.

Where's Faerie? I haven't seen her around. :(

Anyways, how are you ladies doing?

2lb this week bringing me to my first goal...

I have officially lost 1stone/14lb :D Reeeeeallly happy!!! No idea what I've lost on this Challenge so far. WIll need to check!!!

:coffee2: I am 157... This is a very important number because it means that I have lost 50 lbs!!!!! Don't mind if I add some WOO!

:woo: :woo: :woo: :woo: :woo: :woo: :woo: :woo: :woo: :woo: :woo: :woo:

Yay congrats skullarix!

:celebrate: Way to go, Sullarix! :congrat: You have done an awesome job! I know that these milestones are very important in our journeys! Just think of all the hard work you have put in to get to this point! :cheer: You go!

Well, yesterday I weighed in and was surprised to be 226.2, which is just over two pounds lost from last week! I am happy with that because I haven't been at 226 in years, like since 2001! So I guess I had a small milestone of my own. And I just realized when thinking about Sullarix's awesome accomplishment that I will have lost a total of 50 pounds once I lose only six more pounds! I've just done it really slowly with a lot of ups and downs along the way.

I am getting through my birthday/Valentine's Day weekend okay. I did not go too far overboard last night even though I had more calories than I would have liked to. Today I am going to exercise before I leave to my parents' house for my birthday party, and I plan on sticking with my calories today and just working a piece of birthday cake into my plan. These situations are where my real test comes in because this is where I always eat way too much and get down on myself then give up on everything. Well, it's not happening this time. Things are so different this time - in my mind! And that's where it all happens, I am realizing. I am going to accomplish my goal no matter what, and that's all there is to it. I just wonder why it was so hard to get to this point in my mind, to believe in myself enough. But I guess that's the big question for everyone.

Hope you are all having a great weekend and :val1: Happy Valentine's Day! :val2:

throwing some serious woo your way-skullarix! fiddy poundz..damn!!
same same but different kudos to wabe for droppin that stone :)
aaaand here's to sunrose shedding those next 6 and creating a different positive mindset to live in..and with. you are so right it all boils down to this.

feel v much setback as my back injuries prevent me from doing much at all..and i tend to eat it up when i am frustrated, in denial, bored, unhappy..(could go on and on but you catch my drift)
new goal is
1. get healthy (will be admitted into back injury rehabilation clinic end of march)
2. not to gain any more

toodle pip y'all

Start 1/14 228.4
Today 2/24 218
Goal 3/20: 208

:) Things are coming alone nicely.

niiiice, kelly! v. hot pic as well (if ya don' mind me sayin' :) )

Down to 172lb! Happy!! Nearly geting to the 160's!

I'm at 216. I don't think I'll be able to get to my Onderland goal due to a lot of set backs for a month and a half, but eh! I'm happy with any loses.

I've been slacking off badly. Not cool. I'm too afraid to weigh myself. I would not be surprised if I'm in the 200s again. Uggg.

That and an evangelist just called my brother a dago and said he was going to ****. I hate people sometimes.

Last week I was down to 225, but I didn't even weight myself this week because I know it's either the same or worse. Bleh! :(

Today is a new month and I am renewing my commitment! Anyone care to join me? I went for a 50 minute walk today with my hubby and am going to stick to my calories for the day! I plan on making March even better than February, and even though I might not make my goal of being in the teens at the end of this challenge, at least I lost something! I really need to focus on that fact so I don't freak out and give up.

hehe..thanks. :hug: I think I would still be about 10 pounds heavier if it wasn't for metformin. It seems to have really balanced out my system.

metformin???

I am getting so close to my original goal for this challenge.

I am at 209lbs. IF I WOULD OF STAYED OP PLAN MOST OF DECEMBER AND JANUARY, I PROBABLY WOULD OF BEEN IN ONDERLAND. Argh! :fr: