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Having a crappy week *sigh* trouble at my sons school, mad at my boss & looking for a new job. I'm tried and cranky and TOM paid me a visit this morning. I've been so busy a forgot to check my weight this week so I'm not sure where I am, but I'm really hoping I'll be under 200 by the end of TOM.

@Jasonlea Sorry your still in a crappy place:( I work with staff in Walmart (I'm a sales rep) not many people seem very happy, it's really a lot more stressful then one would think! :hug: Have you tried searching the threads for others in your situation? It might help to chat with others in your "shoes" so to speak. Try to hang in there :hug:

@Ferumbras Great job on the 3lbs:D:D

Hope everyone's having a happy Wednesday!

:wave: girls.

I've been out and naughty (and not in the oh-so-good way I would like to be ;)). Monday, I woke up to chest pains and numbness in my right arm. I ended up in the hospital and was diagnosed with a pinched nerve. :dz: So they drugged me up and sent me home with orders to take the rest of the week off. I go back to work on Sat. My eating has been just shyt. There will definitely be a gain on Friday. I start my new shift Sat (overnight: 10 pm to 7 am) and I'm hoping both my eating and sleep will get back on track now that I will be having steady hours instead of the insane hours they were giving me. Since it's almost a given that I will not be able to go home for a visit this summer, I'm looking into taking summer courses at school. The only problem would be that I would have to pay out of pocket since I'm getting my summer financial aid request in late. We'll see what happens. Hope you all are doing great!

Gwen - Thank you. :hug: I'm really trying.

CarvedMarmalade - It is very stressful. Rather ridiculous actually. This is definitely not career material. And I'm sorry it's been such a crappy week for you! :hug:

:grouphug:

Going ok here. Had a few twinkies yesterday...YUM! Otherwise all is well. Time is short, gotta enjoy my weekend.

@JasonsLea: How are you holding up? Is your pinched nerve any better?

JasonsLea, hope you're feeling better! A pinched nerve is not fun. Glad to hear that your hours at work will be more reasonable.

Carved, hope your week got better as well. How old is your son? We were lucky in that we had very few problems with the kids' schools when they were younger, but man, did I get fired up when we did. You do NOT mess with my kids! :)

Ms Perception, I can honestly say, during my entire lifetime love affair with junk food, I have NEVER craved a Twinkie. They just do not appeal to me whatsoever! (And the list of foods that don't appeal to me is pretty short.)

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rmc: Thanks! My vote is to keep your goal where it is. You may or may not meet it, but it doesn't hurt to shoot for it! It's true that the weight comes off quickest at the start, but I still have weeks where I lose 3+ lbs (and weeks where I lose < 1 lb! It's hormonal for me). Give it your best, and wherever you end up be super pleased with all you've done this month - because you've done really well!

Thanks for the encouragement. I did wind up keeping my goal where it was and used it as motivation to really work hard this week - I made it to the gym everyday and pushed myself once there. Another 3.4lbs gone (some due to a whoosh after TOM) and I'm within 4 lbs of my goal for the month. Only 10 or so days left, so I may not make it, but I'll be damn close and I'm feeling good. Thank you all so much for the inspiration!

Enjoy what's left of the weekend!

Hi Ladies! Sorry I've been absent for a few days again - I had family in town Thursday-Sunday, and the days were long and hectic. Despite eating every meal out for three days in a row though, the scale is down and as of Sunday evening I seem to have met my May goal! I hope it wasn't just some weird scale fluke, lol.

Ferumbras: Congratulations on all the work you've put in so far, and the success you've seen! That's fantastic! And LOL, I love that kind of cuisine too. I'll be in Croatia for just a week, so hopefully not enough time to do too much damage! Now that onederland seems like something I might actually be able to achieve, I am feeling very motivated to stay on track as much as possible.

carved: I'm sorry it was such a crummy week for you. :hug: I hope this week will be an easier/less stressful one for you!

JasonsLea: Ouch, sorry about the pinched nerve! I hope the new hours (and less stressful scheduling!) will help things to go more smoothly for you this week.

MsP: *lalalala* I will not fall prey to the twinkie temptation! :D Hope you had a great weekend!

rmc: Awesome loss this week!! :carrot: What a fantastic month this has been for you... you're going to be in onderland anyday! I can't wait to find out what that feels like. :)

It's our last full week of the month... let's push toward those goals and finish the month off right! Have a great week all. :)

Updated May Weight Loss Challenge Goal List
Let me know when you reach a goal, so we can turn you Red

sweck08: Lose 10 lbs
DrivenByAmbition: Lose 5 lbs
ish: Lose 8 lbs
Ferumbas: Lose 12 lbs; stick to SB; record intake; calorie count
Focused Lani: Lose 8 lbs
opheliaphoenix: Lose 10 lbs
rmc9142: Lose 12 lbs
laceymarie: Drink water w/ every meal/snack; count calories only 2x/week; eat healthy after-school snack only if hungry
blinkworks: Lose 12 lbs; record intake daily; eat low carb and count calories
ready4skinny: Record intake; drink 8 glasses water daily; no fast food
I am worth it: Stay on plan
Laynee: Reach 165 lbs
carvedmarmelade: Lose 5 lbs
freethetoys: Lose 4 lbs; stay on plan; be more positive
chickadee32: Lose 10 lbs
Kheva74: Lose 15 lbs
WestieGirl: Lose 6 lbs
brooksider09: Lose 10 lbs; drink water daily
TERAPET: Lose 5 lbs
surrendertolis: Lose 5 lbs
cheerios: Lose 10 lbs
CaitLA: Lose 20 lbs
takingcontrol: Get back to ticker weight
CarlaVeg: Lose 3 lbs; eat less sugar
JasonsLea: Lose 10 lbs
Ms Perception: Plan/track food 5 days/wk; eat on plan 5 days/wk; get back to ticker weight
Tahnee: Lose 10 lbs; stay binge free
Beila: Be binge free for 1 month; reach 140s; count calories; stay under 1200 cals/day; drink more water
ms23: Lose 10 lbs; no fast food/junk food; track food; stay under 1600 cals/day
susiemartin: Lose 12 lbs; check in to 3FC daily
Gwen: Lose 8 lbs
kristian130: Reach 155

@chickadee: Unfortunately, I've been stalled since Wednesday. Pissing me off, to be honest. I suppose I can't complain about my success earlier in the month, but this current plateau is really eating at me. I'm amazed you managed to get the scale to behave while you had so many distractions with your family visiting! Well done!

Ferumbras: Thank you! I can totally understand your frustration, but try not to let it get to you too much. You've done an AMAZING job this month, and if you are expending more calories each day than you are eating, then you are definitely still losing - the scale just hasn't reflected your loss yet. Hormones, sodium intake, lack of sufficient sleep, stress, workouts that really tear up your muscles, etc. can all cause your body to hold on to water, and that will impact what you see on the scale. If you're on plan, then keep doing what you're doing, and you will see your work reflected on the scale eventually. Keep at it, you will see the drop soon! :hug:

So, I looked at the updated May goal list that @chickadee posted and realized that I'd set my goal at 12 lbs. I'd been on the fence between 12 and 15 lbs and thought I'd decided on 15. But, since I went with 12 and since, as of this morning, I'm down another 1.7 lbs, I've somehow met my May goal.

I'll be very honest and tell you that this is usually where the wheels come off the wagon for me. The novelty of the "new" me wears off, the weight loss slows down, boredom sets in, etc. I also have a problem with an "all or nothing" mentality. This past month, I spent A LOT of time immersing myself in my new lifestyle - cruising the boards, reading articles, cooking, going to the gym. While I know it's all important, worthwhile stuff I was doing, I have neglected other things - like the business I'm in the process of launching. :dizzy: So, as I think of setting a June goal, I really want to learn to make all this just another part of my life. I know I'm always going to have to think about every single thing I eat if I want to maintain, but I need to learn to incorporate it into my life, rather than making it my entire life. That make sense? Any advise from you wise women? (We are all women, aren't we?)

4/03: 195
4/10: 195
4/17: 195
4/24: 193
5/01: 193 slow and steady wins the race????
5/08: 194
5/15: 192
5/24: 192 - I've seen every lb up to 197 this week!
5/29:

I have such muscles it's amazing! Well, that's what I'd like to attribute this lack of loss to, but I have to admit to not watching calories like a hawk. So, I'm back to logging in every bite (1400 yesterday). I'm also cutting back on weight training this week and upping hiit cardio. We'll see it that gets the scale moving down! (When I finally weigh 135 I'll have one rock hard body!)

rmc: you'll spend less and less time focusing on weight loss soon. When you have all this knowledge under your belt, and you start making healthy choices without a second thought it's simply amazing! Soon you'll be eating healthy, craving the gym, and have an abundance of energy for work! I PROMISE!:D

Thank you, chickadee!

Congratulations, rmc, on hitting your goal. :cheer: And what you say does makes sense, but I think you'll have learned from the work you've done so far how to make those wiser choices without having to agonize like in the past (at least, I agonize!).

rmc: Congratulations on meeting your May goal!! :carrot: :carrot: :carrot: That's fantastic! I, too, understand what you're saying, but I think that if you keep at eating well and exercising, your weight loss can still happen at a nice pace, and you can continue to lose weight without it being all-consuming. I tend to be an all or nothing person myself, and to be honest I'm surprised this weight loss stuff "stuck" for me past the first month or so. But at this point, the changes I feel and see in my body are so substantial that I don't think there's much of a danger of me giving this up... it just feels too damn good, and I want MORE! I think if you can push past this "hump" where the newness of focusing on weight loss wears off, you'll end up entering a phase where there is "newness" every day in how you feel and how you look. More and more now, I find small motivators everywhere, and they really add up. And, as Ferumbras and Gwen mentioned, in time you won't feel a need to have the weight loss-related work take up as much of your time or mental energy. While weight loss is still central in my daily thoughts, it's not a constant thought anymore. I don't plan to stop counting calories, but this month I've had some days where I was simply unable to count them (when my husband was in the hospital, this weekend when my family was in town and we ate every meal out at restaurants)... and I found that on all of those days I was able to keep my intake reasonable (most of the days I ate too little rather than too much), and I kept losing even without the counting. It won't always be absolutely necessary for you to pay strict attention to every single item you eat; you'll be able to make food decisions more intuitively as time goes on, and that will take some of the pressure off. Anyway, that's my two cents. :)

Gwen: I want your muscles! :) I'm definitely finding it hard to gain additional strength at this point; I think I'm just maintaining my muscle now. :( Good luck with the renewed calorie counting... I hope it gets you back to the losses you want to see!

Updated May Weight Loss Challenge Goal List
Let me know when you reach a goal, so we can turn you Red

@rmc & Chickadee: Congrats on meeting your goals! That's so awesome/definitely inspiring for those of us still trudging forward!

I am uh, struggling on this goal, but trying to let it roll off my back.

I've been working out consistently, drinking lots of water and eating roughly 1100/1200 cals each day, and have somehow gotten stuck at around 4 lbs down. At one point during this challenge, I was at 7 lbs.

Chalking it up to stress, water weight and I can only *hope* some muscle.

That said, I'm also headed out of town for the rest of the month to go camping with my boyfriend, so tomorrow will be my last weigh-in until June 1. It'll be nice to not stare at my scale every day and to relax. Camping probably won't be great for my waistline - everyone tends to eat junk food and drink way too much beer - but I could seriously use the break. (:

Happy Memorial Day weekend, guys!

Congrats rmc and chickadee on hitting your goal!! and to everyone else who is losing and maintaining!

I weighed in today at 181.4, down a pound from last week. At this point, I don't know if I'll be able to make my goal of 10lbs but I'm happy with the progress so far. It's just going a lot slower than I had anticipated :)