Just checking in! It's been a CRAZY week for me and we don't get a breather till Sunday... when we need to catch up with housework because next week is JUST as busy! Staying OP so far though, and doing alright. I'm nervous because we are going to a 2-day marriage seminar and meals will be provided. No trusty protein shakes will be served, I'm pretty sure, so I have to manage myself in the "real world." I can do this!
Staying OP when I'm out of my routine is a challenge for me too. My go-to: plain grilled chicken and salad, both of which are usually given as choices. It may be boring, but I figure it's pretty safe. I still can't control things like sodium contact and I have to estimate the weight, but it usually works.
Good luck and congrats on staying OP during such a busy time!
It's been a while since I've checked in. You all are doing an awesome job! By labor day, you all are going to be knock outs!! I'm still plugging along and still hoping to reach onederland by Labor day. I've had to re adjust my eating plan and now I'm eating less sugar & junk food, so there is hope of reaching my goal for Labor day.
Oops, I have been forgetting to post on here! I hope you guys don't mind, but for me it would be better visually to just post my weights right in my threads. This looks good right now, but I will be posting a gain tomorrow, eek!
Morning everyone! Looks like we're all still working away at it. I'm down 2.8 lbs this week, which puts me 5.6 lbs from my goal of 30 lbs. I know things are going to slow up soon, but I'm just going to keep whittling away at the pounds. Summer bbqs are here and that is a challenge!
Ok so temptation GOT ME yesterday. They had donuts and pastries for breakfast (we were at an all-day marriage seminar/retreat on post), so I had a grande carmel light frappucino without any carmel sauce, then 2 sprinkly cake donuts. Then I did okay at lunch- took 2 slices of the Subway sandwich and dumped the middle onto just one "set" of bread (twice the protein, half the bread), but then I saw the cookies. And had two thinking they were similar in calories to the ones I make at home, about 75 cals per cookie. Uh no, Subway's cookies are 220 calories EACH!!! And they aren't even abnormally huge or anything, that's just very deceiving!
Then they brought out of a tray of Oreos, and I kept snacking on them... had 6 in total. They brought out the leftover donuts and I did resist having any of those.
So then when we went home I eventually wanted dinner. Already was over my calorie limit and decided that this dinner is my "cheat" meal this week. I snacked on wheat thins, then had half a grilled cheese and about 1/4 Annie's mac and cheese (which wasn't all that good so I stopped eating it.) So in all, it's not that I ate a LOT, it's that I chose to eat mostly higher fat, HIGH carb empty calories and felt hungry all day. Where my daily percentage of protein is usually at about 30%, yesterday it was at 7%... no wonder I was feeling so hungry!!
However, I'm still down to 209.4 today! Broke into the 210's and I'm going to be trying very hard to get out of them quickly! Sorry for the essay- hope everyone is doing well!
Wow its been 2 weeks since I checked in? What the h-e double hockey sticks? I dont know how time escaped me so...im at 272.8 this am which means im almost out of the 270's YAY!!! knda bittersweet after the 267 I saw on the scale 3 wees ago, which I now am putting down to being severely dehydrated after a night of major drinking.
It's getting quiet around here... how is everyone doing? On track? Going again? At the start of a new month, there are lots of people jumping on the challenge boat, so I'm bumping this!
I am starting July at 206, I lost 10.8 pounds in the month of June!! I will update my WI on here on Sunday, I changed my day from Wednesday a couple weeks ago. Almost to my goal now. I'm going to hit it long before this challenge is over, so I'm going to need to create a new goal!!
It's so quiet in here. I hope we can keep this thread going until Labor Day!
I'm down 1.6 lbs this week and have finally made it out of the 190s.
I've definitely slowed down the pace I'm losing though; it was bound to happen. Just have to keep as motivated as I was at the beginning when the lbs were dropping fairly quickly.
Have a great week everyone! Only 64 days until Labor Day so get moving!
Sorry I haven't been checking in the thread for a while. However, I kept the spreadsheet updated.
I am doing good with my progress for this challenge. This morning I had a nice 3 lbs loss and hit another goal of 50 lbs total lost! Woohooo!
Anyways, I have 11 lbs to go for Labour Day and I think I can do it!
Life is what life is! I havnt had the chance to keep this thread alive I think we will be able to make it to labor day though! I personally lost 2 lbs last week howd yall do? what were your ups and downs? what part was the hardest?
i weighed in today at 259.3, putting me at 2.6lbs down for the week, 16.7lbs down for the challenge, and 9.3lbs to go to reach my goal of 250 by labor day. i may have to revise my goal to 245
I hope I can do half as good in June.
