This challenge is helping me as well. I gained a few pounds, but looks like I'm a bit more focused now. One day at a time.:love::love:

You're killing it, Gemini, nice work! :cp:
:lol: at being sick of chicken.
I've been roasting and eating more turkey breast than usual.

I'm still here too!!

Hey guys!

So sorry I've been absent from this challenge! I'm a terrible challenge host this year. Just when I think I'm ready to get back into the weight loss game and be active on 3FC again, something comes up and smacks me right around the head as if to say "JUST KIDDING! TIME TO STRESS!" My weight is slowly but surely creeping back up though, which is terrifying/disappointing/upsetting all rolled into one. This is the heaviest I've been since 2012 and I'm actually heading towards the weight I was when I first joined 3FC all those years ago. Arggghhh. I just can't seem to get the ball rolling on anything these days, both in weight loss and in life. If we had more money I'd actually go and see a professional about my issues, but alas, we're poor so I have to deal with this by myself. I definitely feel like my depression/anxiety issues has started to get in the way of me living to my true potential. It's like there's this version of me in my heart that's super productive, determined, ambitious, driven, has all these dreams but then there's this steel wall wrapped around it that stops any of that coming out. Sorry for the dramatics, but it's the best way I can describe it! It feels good just to vent it out sometimes.

ANYWAY. ENOUGH RAMBLING. Here's Week 6's chart!!

https://s25.postimg.org/lo0e48kzj/week_6.jpg

Ries - :hug:

Thanks!! A hug was very much needed!!

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I've started counting calories again. I'm sure this will be a short term thing, but for now I need SOMETHING to focus on to keep my weight in check. I'm not a huge fan of counting calories personally, just because I get really lazy with it, but fingers crossed this will put me on the right track. I'm just mindlessly eating these days, or not realising just how much damage I'm doing with my day to day meals.

Thanks for posting the Chart, Rie! A nice, long challenge like this I find very helpful: I have such a switchback record in weightloss, that in the last year I've managed to lose enough to get down to only 10lbs more than I was this time last May ..... So to remind myself I've had a 10lb loss so far is a much needed fillip.

Have another :hug: on the anxiety/depression, little beasts. I think you're doing just right to focus on calorie counting for the time being; I know that when the a&d are biting me, having a defined plan really helps me feel more in control. :hug:

Week 7 Chart!

https://s25.postimg.org/5jab00q4f/week_7.jpg

Thanks, Ries!

Success!!!
 

Thanks to this summer challenge I lost 19 lbs so far! It's my reminder to not give up and seeing others do this challenge too helps me not give up. If there's another challenge let me know! <3 :hug:

Week 8 Chart everyone! Sorry it's a few days late!

https://s25.postimg.org/4zxwy948v/week_8.jpg

Thanks, Ries!

I did my official weekly WI today. I've lost 8.4 pounds during this challenge! That's a really good rate for me, so I'm pleased even though I'm ending a couple pounds above my goal. I'll check my weight this weekend too, just to see if I drop any more, but that would be unlikely for me.

Thanks again Riestrella for your fun challenges, colorful charts, and those cute badges you make. :) :hug:

Final Chart everyone!

https://s25.postimg.org/kvs9i1i2n/week_final.jpg

Thanks, Gemini. :) Congrats on how well you did!

Thanks so much for the challenge and chart, Riestrella!

I'm pretty psyched to place 3rd. :D I've never placed in the top 3 overall before. :carrot: :carrot: :carrot: