Good morning ladies. I'm down a little from last week, but up from two weeks ago still. :( I've made my goal for next week to get to a total percentage lost of over 5%. I'm at 4 something now, but I'm going to do it darn it.

While I was looking at the chart I noticed there are a few people who haven't weighed in for over a month. I was thinking about removing them, but wanted to check with everyone to see how they feel about it before I do. While their numbers do increase our total pounds lost, since they aren't checking in they do kind of bring down our percentages since they're not losing anything every week. How does everyone feel about removing them?

Sarah, you have nothing to be ashamed of. You've lost over 20 pounds and have kept it off! And that's only since January! That's something to be pretty darn proud of chickie!

Kay7jay, I know what you mean, I've heard & read so much different advice that I don't know what to think. All I know is what I'm doing is working for me, slowly, but it is working & I don't feel deprived. However, I've noticed through tracking my information that the calories I'm eating is creeping up a little bit every week. I don't really set a limit, but I am aiming for about 1,700 per day, but noticed last month I was averaging 1,800 & so far this month over 1,850. That may be why my weight loss this month is down. While I do maintain a defict every day (almost) it's taking longer to get to that 3,500 calorie deficit & see a pound lost.

So if I want to hit my goal by the 4th I better start buckling down & eating a little less than I am now.

Tontus, great job! They say that changing it up is good for you & keeps you from getting too used to a routine. Keep up the great work.

Have a great OP week everyone.
Kim

Hi all .. forgot to update my weigh in on Sunday so grabbed my notebook to check what it was and updated it :)
Today TOM has arrived for a visit so I dont expect to lose anything this week ... but will see in a couple of days .. I usually go up about 3-4 pounds ... so this will be interesting lol ..

Hope everyone else has a good rest of week :)

Kim,

I updated the sheet. I have been removing people if they haven´t weighed in here for a month, but I´ve been lazy lately.

Keep going everyday. Maybe you aren´t losing a lot, but you are changing your habbits and thats better in the long run. It´s so hard I know.

stlrsgrl 43, is currently our high leaser with 38.2lbs loss for a % of 14.2% that is just awesome!! Not far behind in second place is Momof3preemies with 25.2lbs lost in this challenge for a percentage of 11.7% awesome job ladies, and for the rest of us lets keep up the great work. We can do it!!

I updated the spreadsheet with my wi. I sure haven't done very good on this challenge.

Thank you Sarah for the update and for the encouragement.

I have been losing about 1/2 pound every week, on average.
At least I am losing and my clothes are getting looser. :)

Best of luck to everyone this summer.
Keep up the good work!

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"New Life; New Direction.... Not Stopping!"

Marla, great job. Slow and steady wins the race so they say. At least that's what I keep telling myself. You're doing great.

Let's keep going ladies. We can do this.

I'm dreading WI this week. This mini-vacation I did horrible at tracking my food & I didn't get any exercise at all. Ugh. But I'm back OP today & will be working out tonight no matter what.

I WI tomorrow. How can it be Tuesday already?

Kim

Good morning ladies.

WI today & I was up like I knew I would be from my vacation. But only .2 of a pound. Woohoo! I can so deal with that. I'm back on plan & even got my work out in yesterday. Of course after taking a week off from the TaeBo I was super tired after only 20 minutes of it. But I'm going to get in 30 at least today.

I'm looking forward to June when I'm going to go back to my Ripped in 30 dvd. I'm going to try to workout 5x per week & chart my progress in weight loss & inches. I didn't quite make the 5x per week with the TaeBo, so my progress this month wasn't the greatest. I think I lost less than a pound. :( But I know that's my fault & not the workout.

Hope everyone has a great day & remember 5 more weeks in this challenge, let's make the most of it!

Kim

I have been bouncing with the same 2/3 pounds and haven't lost much this past month but I can tell I am getting smaller by the way my clothes are fitting so I will take inches even if wieght is being difficult.

Down 1lb this week. Only 6.6lbs more to hit my 4th of July goal.....:carrot:

Good Luck Everyone! 4th of July is 5 weeks from today :dizzy:

Thank you, I'm so sorry I don't check in!! I will start promise! I have been stuck at 190 I noticed a changed in the mirror today so I will weigh in tomorrow hopefully I broke through to the 180's! :) Great job ladies our total percentage loss is amazing!!!!:carrot:

I'm In!!!
 

Why not?! Maybe a challenge is what I need to get me to loose these last 20 lbs! :) I would LOVE to reach my goal by then! I have my brothers wedding July 13th! My 20 by then would be AMAZING!!!!

Starting weight 315lbs Current weight 170 Goal weight 150
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momof3preemies, are you finding it difficult to get out of the 190's?? I have been stuck here for almost 2 months and have to fight to lose every pound.

Actually getting out of the 200's was rough then i flew down to 193 then it has been hard and 190-192 is where I have been stuck for probably a month or more! ugh!...We can and WILL do it though! keep pushing!!!!!