Morning Ladies!

I will be praying to the gods of weight watchers this weekend.... my truffles came in for the wedding! (they're lindt truffles in boxes just in case you're wondering.) So I'll have these 3 boxes tempting me from afar. I'll admit, I tried one of each flavor this morning to make sure they were kosher. :D

But no more!

I hope you all have a great Memorial Day weekend. I live smack dab in the middle of a heavy military area so I'm sure traffic is going to be horrible! :dizzy: I'm going to weigh in tomorrow morning, but I'm sure it's going to be off since my Aunt Flow decided to visit just in time for the holiday weekend... Then I'm off to try on my dress Sunday at my parents camper in Urbanna! I'll have pictures up Sunday I promise.

Even though it's a holiday weekend, we are still weighing in! If you forget... there's those freebie weeks but there's only 2 so use them wisely!

Be Safe and stay on plan this weekend! :cheers: :hungry: :beach:

well I toook it easy yesterday after 2 days of being on the go so I only got a little under 4 miles. I weighed 133 this morming but it is not my "official" weight. I have seen this 2 other times but I usually go right back up. It is also time for Aunt Flo to make her scheduled visit this wekend so I was surprised to see the scale go down. We will see come this weekend.

It is awfully quiet around here I hope everyone is out enjoying the weather.

Morning, girls! I went ahead and posted my happy weight of 173 this morning, as I won't be online on Monday to see if I lost any more over the weekend. I'm glad that I've kept at this weight and not gone back up, at least. It's only .5 less than I posted last week, but between the two weights I'd bounced back up to 177, so technically, this is a weekly loss of 4 pounds, hah. ;)

Hope you all have a great weekend!!! Stay strong!!!

I think everyone is on their way to vacation spots already!

If anyone hasn't left yet I will give you a nice bit of advice that may help you out:

Weigh in today!

Weighing in prior to a holiday (especially one that normally involves food) is gonig to be much better than waiting until Monday to see if you've lost or gained. (Cause most people have trouble with holidays and food!)

Lucky me... I get to weigh in tomorrow morning before any damage is done! :devil:

I'm in Canada so last weekend was our holiday weekend.

Hello!
I have not been on in sooooo long!
It just seems like we don't get home until late and then we try to eat and then I go to bed! Not good for the weight loss thing. This week I have not been doing as good as the others. I have only been to the gym 2x. I am getting up in the A.M. and going for my 3rd time this week. I know when I went yesterday I only did 2 miles and my lower body weights and I was beat. I felt like it was hard for me. I usually do 3-4 miles at 3.5-3.7 with an incline of 1-1.5. Yesterday was 3.5 w/ 1 for incline and only 2 miles! I did see lower on the scale one of the days(I weigh everyday) It said 191.5lbs. But... I only saw it once.
I hope it comes back.

Canadian mom,
So close to goal! Lucky you! Congratulations! I am 5'2 and I would give anything to be at your start weight! Ha, Ha.

Chellez,
I love those candies! YUM! I buy 3 for $1.00 and stick them in my pocketbook for emergencies during the week.

Oh. I will be weighing in on Sunday as always. Next week I will be tightening up things a bit. It is time to buckle down and get to work!

Hope everyone has a nice weekend! relax, eat healthy, get some exercise and have fun!

I will be tuning in to the boards over the weekend to chat,
Lisa

Happy Saturday morning ladies. :)

I hope you all have a great, OP weekend. If you eat more b/c of the holiday, try to move more too!

To all my american friends have a great holiday weekend and remember to enjoy yourself but try to make good food choices. And remember the more water you drink the better.

Ok ladies..... it's the moment I've personally been waiting for...

I tried on my dress today after my weigh in this morning (I'm almost down 20 lbs!) :carrot: and mind you I took these pictures with out undergarments so all of my natural "curves" are showing and it looks like the dress doesn't fit in the back. I still have to go to David's bridal and take the dress with me to get the garments, but what do you think?

Someone told me I need to lose another 10 pounds but I'd like your opinion too!

Enjoy! (Beware... they are big and they are in photobucket which may load slow)

Front View
Side View
Back View
Close Up Back View

First of all the dress is beautiful and now my rant/lecture. DO NOT worry about pounds it is inches you want. You could lose 10 pounds and not lose enough in inches that being said the dress looks great. Go to the weights lifting forum seek out Meg or Mel and find out what exercise to do to tone where you want to tone. Meg is a personal trainer I believe. I would stay 133-135 if I couls keep losing inches instead of pounds(even though both is nice)


The dress is beautiful once you get the proper undergarments it will probably be fine but what matters is what YOU think of how it looks.It is your big day and (hopefully) will only happen once...lol

This was my starting weight after baby#4. my highest weight ever I am not 100% sure off I stopped weighing after 198 :( i didn't want to see 200 so I stopped weighing.

Actually, there's no such thing as "spot" reducing. We just have to do our cardio and strength train and it'll all work itself out for us in the end, so long as we are good. :)
Chellez, the dress is beautiful as I am sure you will be too. Stop worrying so much honey. It's going to be a perfect day you'll remember forever. Just keep doing what your doing and I just know you'll be gorgeous, and I hope you can relax enough on that special day to live in the moment and take it all in. I'm happy for you. :hug:

Chellez- I am totally honest here and I think you look GREAT!! I mean it, the dress is very flattering. And Diva gave you some great advice. If you lose more weight is someone going to be able to alter it for you?

Diva- I get what you're saying about spot reducing, but I don't think that's exactly what Jen is saying. There *is* such thing as muscle density and being smaller at a "higher" weight. I just did my t-tapp bootcamp (10 days of pretty intense isometric compound muscle movements blah blah and lost 9 inches!! 1.5" of my hips, 1" off bust, abs and waist and 1/2 each of arms, thighs and calves. I look noticablely smaller (granted just barely, but still), but only lost 1 lb on the scale. So like Jen, I'd take the inches over the lbs. The lbs will come when I have more muscle to burn the fat more efficiently.

I'm done with my bootcamp so now am on an every other day schedule for t-tapp. On my off days I am going to do my treadmill for 40 minutes or so and get some good cardio in. Eating wise I'm doing pretty good- watching portions and trying to stay away from "fake" food.
Hope everyone has a great week!

I never said spot reduce I said tone if you tone the muscle under the fat you will look a bit slimmer in that area. I know you cannot spot reduce. i have been lifting for about a year and you do look better end thinner even when there is still fat there when lifting. I would rather her get the advice from Mel or Meg as to what exercises to tone her areas that she wants to as they are WAY more experienced then me I know what works for me and they know of more exerices she could do.

thanks jelyn I posted befor I read yours. I wanted to clarify what I said