only 3 weeks and a bit left guys!!!!!!! I am changing my goal...seems I do this alot lol. But since I gained last weekend I am gonna change my goal to 168 :)

FB, congrats on the 2 lbs this week! :celebrate: :carrot:

Daffy, your dog is handsome...love those eyes! The smart ones are the hardest to live with, for sure...much more creative about getting into trouble, lol.

Babysteps, welcome! :hug: Your goal sounds very doable...good luck to you! :cb:

Irish, good luck with your adjusted goal!

My report: another pound down, 5 to go!

Trying a spinning class at the gym tonight for the first time. Wish me luck! Hopefully I'll be able to walk tomorrow. I'm trying to mix up my workouts because I got in a rut doing the same things over and over. I need to mix it up to keep things interesting and keep my body changing!
Will have an weight update tomorrow, not sure if there will be a change. I ate out a lot this week but made healthy choices and stayed within calories. Just worried the extra salt in all the food will keep me from losing.

Hey Switzie!!
I didn't realize we are the same height/weight!! Have fun in your spin class tonight..
me? I'm still trying to get a grip on things...auughhhh

Di

Well, I don't think there's any way I'm going to make my original Mother's Day goal of 168. :( I hit a big plateau and it took me over three weeks to lose two pounds. To make my goal now, I'd have to lose eight pounds in the next three weeks. That'd be an average over two pounds per week! I seriously don't think that's going to happen! When I first started, I had an occasional week like that, but, even then, not three in a row!

I'm not giving up on losing weight and I'm still planning to get my exercise in. But, I've adjusted my Mother's Day goal to 171. I'll still have to average over one pound per week, but that's at least possible! :)

I'm definetly in on this,
I was going to start this thread but
i didnt know if i could. Im really glad you stared this
I'm excited, my goal is 10lbs....This is my 1st challenge too.
~~~GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE~~~

Hi everyone!

Despite plateauing (is that a verb?) this week, I am going to stick to my original goal. 4 lbs is do-able in 3+ weeks. Besides, I looked back over my records for the past few days and found more refined white starchy carbs than there should be, so that may well be the reason. I had found these great low-cal cookies (Peek Frean's Cranberry Orange Oat Lifestyles) and was having a couple for dessert every night, but I think I will limit their consumption to once or twice a week.

Duster says thanks for the compliments and sends big slurpy kisses everyone's way.
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well I lost another lb of my gained so only one left til I am back where I was :)

Hello, everyone. as you probably already know i had got my ear stapled
on Wednesday and before i went to the doctor i waighed 164
Well, I waighed myself this morning for the Just beachy challange
and i waighed in at 160. I am just in shock, I am just so
excited to see what happens from now until next Saturday.
I wanted to share that witheveryone..

~~~ GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL~~

Congratulations, Southern Mama! :congrat:

Cheryl, congrats on another pound down! :bravo:

As for me, I'm still working at it. Counting cals and exercising everyday! I gained a few pounds after Easter, so now it's taking me forever to take those off, but I will. How is it that it is easy to gain and hard to lose? Last night we went out to dinner and I only ate protein and veggies. Yay! :yay:
Hugs, Dena :cool:

last night for supper we went out for chinese and a buffet at that i at way to much ladies and felt like crap afterwords, bur it supposed to be nice here for a couple of days hopefully i'll walk it off. I probably gained a pound or two but the good thing about chinese it dont stick to you very long.

~~ word of advise "stay away from buffet's~~


hope everyone has a great day.

Switzie, how'd your spinning class go? Did you like it? Are you crippled? ;) I liked the Crossfit workout, but man, my abs were killing me yesterday. Still feeling them today, but I think I'll be able to workout again...yeesh! I might have to hit the Crossfit Kids website and start there, lol!

Southern Momma, you are off to a great start! Congratulations, and good luck with your goal! I'm sure, just starting out, that you can hit 10 lbs by then. Watch your sodium, drink lots of water, and that will help get that initial water weight off. It's the sodium in the asian food that makes you gain like that, otherwise it's not bad for you, except it's so good that I always just want to keep eating past the point of reason, lol!

Daffy, I think you can make that goal in 3 weeks. I've gotten way too hooked on my homemade protein smoothies, which have way too many calories, but are so good! I need to lay off, though, because I don't think I'm working out THAT hard.

Irish, WTG on another pound down...you're a machine, baby! :flame:

Dena, I did not realize how close you are to your goal weight! Holy cow, you are doing awesome! :celebrate:

FB, I just realized that you changed your username. Lucky for me, you didn't change your avatar at the same time, or I would have been, "oh great, there's an 'FB' now...what am I going to call Fatbaby?" I'm a little slow on the uptake, but I get there eventually. Hmm...just like my jogging pace... ;)

Nothing to report on the scale here today, except that I was so sore yesterday, I took the day off, then forgot to drink ANY water, so I'm bloated up like a jellyfish with the water weight. It'll be four bottles of water for me today, and some kind of workout.

The skating rink session on Sunday nights has been kinda lame as far as the music goes, the last two weeks. They've got a new kid in the DJ booth, so I'm debating whether to (a) go to the rink and hope for better music this time (not likely), (b) get my skate workout at home, or (c) make up the lifting and running workouts I had to skip yesterday. Decisions, decisions...

I also need to do something with my dogs today. The past 2 days have been snow, rain and hail all day, but the sun is shining this morning, so they're due for a walk at least, or maybe something that will tire them out a little better.

Ha, yep- I changed the username. Because firstly, I'm 31 and so not a baby, secondly I'm less fat and thirdly it was pretty negative. When I picked the name I more had my chubby little guy (who's now 4 and not so baby chubby anymore) in mind and all of my 'baby fat' from having him... but it seemed to translate to something different on screen, you know?

Thank you JAMSK8R, for the pointers.
i'm soo glad i found you all :hug: I'll try
doing my part in helping everyone as much as i can

~~HOPE EVERYONE DOES GREAT ON LOSING~~
haa haa sounds funny saying that:D

:Morning, everyone!:wave:

I got lost in a (Canadian) genealogy website for most of the weekend, but made a lot of headway on my family tree, so it was worth it. We did some yardwork, collecting the 'spring harvest' courtesy of the resident canine. On the plus side, it's been sunny and dry here for a week (sorry, Cheryl, don't mean to rub it in!) so the clean-up was easy and odor-free! :carrot:

With one exception, I was very much OP this weekend...but the exception was Red Lobster, and very much OFF-programme! If the data I found is accurate, that one meal was just over 3,000 calories :dizzy: Won't be doing that again any time soon. So what happens Tuesday morning at the scales is a toss-up. I expected that meal to make it difficult to stay OP afterwards, but quite the reverse. I was barely hungry yesterday, so ate at the bottom end of my scale.

Once this Challenge is done, we should tally how much we lost in total. I will do my share from now 'til Mother's Day, it's just not right for me to leave the bulk of the heavy losing to the rest of you! I gotta say, though, everyone seems to be doing quite well! :D