Hey Angel Dust if your exercising a ton then maybe your retaining water in your muscles and building big strong muscles that 3 weeks from now if you keep it all up will burn fat 3x as fast eh?!

Plus this journey should be about health too so be proud of all the wonderful changes you making to be healthier and if they are the right changes they will work! Congrats on doing great!

CaliMomma I would say 5 pounds in a week and half is very fast, not slow! Good Job

Calimom- good job on the loss!

Angel's Dust- could it be water retention? I had a gain also and I think it's water gain.

I am on day 2 of very serious workouts. My goal is to lose between 25 & 30 lbs by Halloween, in case I didn't say before.

Are we going to have a specific day for weigh ins? Or just update every once in a while?

Either way I want to update just because I'm very happy with the scale today. First time in years I've been out of the 190's. :carrot:

SW: 194
CW: 189
GW by Halloween: 165

I'm in!

SW: 173.5
CW: 170
GW: 135

updates:

7/31/09: 163.5

I think we can all weigh in on our own terms. I have a stickk.com account where I weigh in for my mini goals/overall goal. It tells me what pace I'm at (like if I'm losing an avg of 2lbs per or less/more) and it sets mini goals every week for me to meet and I can be successful or not. I have three that are for a Monday weigh in - so that will be my official day.

You guys seemed to be right. It may have been water retention! THANKS for the help!!

BTW, I'm going to be gone for a week and a half on vacation. Won't be able to weigh in.

I'm not sure If i'll be around on Monday so I'm just checking in now! I'm at 210 and starting to wonder if 40 lbs in 4 months is realistic?

Hey all! I'm doing my weigh ins on Saturday, so I weigh in tomorrow for the first time, I'll keep you all posted!

Katie

ita!


Lissus- I think I may just weigh in every once & awhile. I retain water during the month and would rather not step on the scale at during during my tom. kwim?


Angel- Enjoy your vacay and we'll see you when you get back.

2Beautiful- I think 10lbs is within reach, but with my experience, when I set a certain goal, I never rarely reach it. Just do your best and it'll come off.

Katie- GL!


Happy 4th everyone! *See* you all when I get back online.

Just weighed in this morning, I lost 6 pounds this week, which was my first week trying :D

How's everyone else doing?

Katie

I want to join in aswell. October 31st is awhile which is really inspiring. I can record the progress I make. I currently weigh 180lbs. My goal weight to loose by October 31st will be to weigh 149lbs (just to put me in the 140s!). With appropriete excerise and continued diet which im on. Which is vegetarian, whole foods (no white anything!).
SW: 180lbs.
GW: 149lbs.
-31lbs!!!!! in 3 n half monthes. :D
July 6- 180
July 13-178
July 20- 180- blah went out to eat.
July 27-
Aug 3-
Aug 10-
Aug 17-
Aug 24-
Aug 31-
Sep 7-
Sep 14-
Sep 21-
Sep 28-
Oct 5-
Oct 12-
Oct 19-
Oct 26-

Goal Date:Oct 31-

Just checking in here, not really a loss this week but with a holiday and all that is fine with me :)

SW:192
CW:189
GW:165

I decided to do like in another challenge and see what my weight loss should look like over the next few weeks.

Checking in....
July 6: 189



July 13: goal 186
July 20: goal 184
July 27: goal 182
Aug 3: goal 180
Aug 10: goal 178
Aug 17: goal 176
Aug 24: goal 174
Aug 31: goal 172
Sept 7 LABOR DAY challenge: goal 170
Sept 14: goal 169
Sept 21: goal 168
Sept 28: goal 167
Oct 5: goal 166
Oct 12: goal 165
Oct 19: past goal?
Oct 26: or makeup time

Well there we go, my goal is doable if I can just try try try! We will get me in some sexy little costume yet!

July 6- 215
July 13- 215
July 20-
July 27-
Aug 3-
Aug 10-
Aug 17-
Aug 24-
Aug 31-
Sep 7-
Sep 14-
Sep 21-
Sep 28-
Oct 5-
Oct 12-
Oct 19-
Oct 26-

Final Weigh in Oct 31-

Well, I didn't budge this week, seemed to have hit a plateau. :(

Katie- 6lbs? that is great. keep up the good work.

HeatherEljohari- Welcome!

Edzard- that goal is is definitely doable! Good luck

Linzluv- that sucks that your're stuck. hoepfully you'll start losing next week.

I didn't see a loss either. I am sure I will this week. Good luck ladies!

can I join? I know I'm a bit late...

We don't really do anything to celebrate halloween, but any goal's a good goal! who knows, could be a good excuse for a party!

I'll aim for 20lbs - totally doable, and totally on plan.

SW - 190
CW - 190
Halloween GW - 170

I'm up about a lb this week :(

I stayed well within my points range, but I think my body is fighting me to stay in the 190's. This had happened before at this weight (I checked back to my old weight watchers records) and I'm not going to let myself get discouraged. My body is fighting to stay fat, but I'm fighting back :lifter:
I will win, but it's gonna be a tough fight.

Thank you candtlove. Good luck!

Saw a very exciting number on the scale this morning! But it is my rule not to record it unless I have been the same for three days in a row :( oh well, soon soon!

I had a small regain this morning after a two day family trip to Niagara Falls, but I'm trying not to let it derail me entirely. Staying in hotels and visiting attractions temporarily sidetracked me, but seeing the small (2 pound) gain is usually where I'd get so dissapointed/angry/sad that I'd quit all together, I'm not doing that this time!!

Katie

WormwoodDoll- I'll keep my fingers crossed for ya!

Merose :welcome3: How often do you weigh?

Lissus- I like your attitude. Kick those 190's out the door!!

Heather- you're very welcome.

Katie- Good for you. I've let small gains totally derail me many times. If I had just stayed on the wagon, I'd be closer to goal now.

I just noticed this challenge and want to join! I want to wear a cute Halloween costume this year. I am so sick of having to go with the "find a semi-flattering dress for a girl over 200 pounds and then stick wings on" costume. :no: I would like to be at 180 by October 31. That's 30 pounds away, that's just over 2 pounds a week, so I had best get to work!

SW 283.6
GW 265

Weigh Ins on Sundays, so I will be back tomorrow to report in. Thank you.

Arg! I have been derailed somewhat :( This always happens, I have a good solid week of doing great, then I lose my steam, I've had a few cheat days, but they're behind me now. I didn't weigh in this morning because I don't want to see how I've gained a few pounds, but I am back on track (I hope, fingers crossed).

This is hard!

Katie

Whoa Paradoxx, you took the words out of my mouth! We have the same goal. 180lbs by the end of October, we can do it!

candtlove - thanks! At the moment I'm weighing everyday - I'm trying to figure out my level of water retention at TOM - I used to think it was extreme, but I think that it was just my normal weight and I didn't want to face it.
I'll go back to weekly weighing after this week. Doing it daily can be a bit too stressy for me.

Down to 187.5 today - at the moment I'm losing so quickly! But I think it's because I've finally begun to take this seriously, I expect it to level out soon. I've just begun putting some effort into excersise, so I'll step it up bit by bit as needed.

So, 18lbs to go!

I'm going to have to start planning a Halloween party!

July 6- 215
July 13- 215
July 20- 208 (-7 lbs)
July 27-
Aug 3-
Aug 10-
Aug 17-
Aug 24-
Aug 31-
Sep 7-
Sep 14-
Sep 21-
Sep 28-
Oct 5-
Oct 12-
Oct 19-
Oct 26-

Final Weigh in Oct 31-

Up a bit due to TOM, working on attitude right now, I am not doing so good and tend to be eating everything in sight in gross amounts or starving and martrying myself. So I am reading a book called the slow down diet and and hoping to do an attitude readjustment.

I'm at a plateau, I've been focused, exercising, eating right, drinking tons of water and the scale just keeps taunting me with the same two pounds over and over again.

I'm trying not to let it get me down, I've read a bunch of threads on plateau's, and know my body has "stalled" at this weight before. On the upside, I'm noticing the subtle changes in my body. Feeling muscles I just know weren't there before, clothes fitting looser in places etc, so I keep telling myself that my body just needs time to adjust to the new lifestyle and eventually the scale will catch up with me.

I'm going to give it another week, and just stay focused and on track. My hormones have been fluctuating drastically since I went off B/c pills, so this is probably just a major water retention, especially since I've increased my water intake dramatically lately (I HATE drinking water. I'm a coffee fiend, but lately I just can't seem to get enough H20, and am downing about 80-100oz a day), my body probably just doesn't know what to do with it.

If this continues much longer though I may change my goal weight to 20lbs instead of my initial 30, because it seems I've really had to struggle for every single pound lost. It's taken me 2 months to drop 10lbs, and if this is the rate my body wants to move at, then 30 might be a little steep.

Hey... I'd rather have 30, but I'd still be thrilled with 20 by October. Every little bit counts.

Hi, everyone!!
I'm back and I managed to get down to 178.6, despite eating fast food for almost every meal AND a huge bag of candy.

i'd like to join this challenge!

i don't have a scale right now so i don't know what my weight is. but i will work out everyday and eat as healthly as i can. i'd like to be 150 by then.

i will post my weight as soon as i get a scale.

hey chicks. i haven't gotten in much "real" activity, we have company visiting. i will try to walk a few miles before the week ends.

my weights all over the charts this week, and I'm sure it's partly hormonal, but I'm sick of seeing the same pounds over and over. :(

We will prevail! :carrot:

SW - 190
CW - 186
Halloween GW - 170

only 16lbs to go!

merose... Congrats on getting out of the obese category. I cant wait to feel that same thrill myself.

Good for you girl!!!

hey, chicks, i'm back. i had a small gain this morning but it's my time of the mointh so i'm not really bothered by it. here's to a new week and many success stories.