5 LB Challenge #381
 

Welcome to a new 5lb challenge!

-- Post your weight at the start of the challenge and your 5lb goal.

-- First one to lose 5lbs wins!!

-- The winner gets the honor of starting the new thread!

GOOD LUCK!

Best of luck, everyone!

SW: 237.1
GW: 232.1

Congrats RunningRedHead. You had a great whoosh the last couple weeks.

SW: 211.2
GW: 206.2

I ended up 4.2 down for the last thread, so not bad. Good luck for this round.

Lacerta: Thank you and great job to you too! You're getting closer and closer to Onederland!!!!! :dancer:

Surprisingly, I lost weight over Thanksgiving. Didn't see that coming. But a good start for this round of the challenge.

SW: 211.2
CW: 210.6 (-0.6)
GW: 206.2

SW: 211.2
CW: 212.6 (+1.4)
GW: 206.2

Totally the wrong direction right now. Hope you guys are doing better than I am.

:wave: Hope everyone who celebrated Thanksgiving last week had a good one!

SW: 237.1
CW: 236.1 (-1.0)
GW: 232.1

Well, I was back down to my low again today, so at least I'm moving in the right direction again.

SW: 211.2
CW: 210.6 (-0.6)
GW: 206.2

Way to go Lacerta & VickieLou! My weigh-in was 236.1 again today. Best of luck, all!

Fairly close right now between all 3 of us. Keep it up girls!

SW: 211.2
CW: 210.0 (-1.2)
GW: 206.2

Perfect! I think I'll jump in on this challenge because I put on 5 after Thanksgiving. Cold weather really makes me hungry and it has been snowing here a lot lately.

Starting weight: 157.2 on 11/29/2018

Welcome Sarah. I just saw your post over in the introductions thread and hoped you'd find your way over to some of these other threads that have a few people posting regularly.

Thanks, Lacerta! I am happy to be here :)

Got my first look at the single digits this morning. Yay

SW: 211.2
CW: 209.6 (-1.6)
GW: 206.2

:wel3fc: Sarah!


:congrat: Lacerta on your new decade!



SW: 237.1
CW: 235.3 (-1.8)
GW: 232.1

I'm going to jump in with you all to get off this birthday weight that I gained.

SW: 248.5
GW: 243.5

Welcome to this challenge, Momtopands , and happy belated birthday!

SW: 237.1
CW: 237.9 (+0.8)
GW: 232.1

Today's weigh-in brought to you by shark week related bloating and going a little over on the carbs yesterday :eek:

Slowly working my way back down from yesterday's gain. Hope everyone had a great weekend!

SW: 237.1
CW: 237.2 (+0.1)
GW: 232.1

Casey: :welcome3: to this challenge :) Best of luck!

SW: 237.1
CW: 237.7 (+0.8)
GW: 232.1

I'm jumping in late too.

SW: 190
GW: 185

Yay, more new and returning faces. I love having more people participating. :welcome:

Thank you Lacerta!

I'm going to lose more than 5 pounds in December because I'm just starting out and you know how it goes when you first start any healthy eating plan .. seems like a whoosh.

So I'd like to adjust my GW.

SW: 190
CW: 187
GW: 182

:welcome3:Follena! Always nice to see new faces. Well done on your whoosh!

Finally got locked in with my tracking and water to get back to where I was running the last week of November. 235 weigh-in this AM.

SW: 237.1
CW: 235.0 (-2.1)
GW: 232.1​​​​​​​

SW: 190
CW: 185.4
GW: 182

Thank you RunningRedHead! Feeling pretty good so far, due to the first week whoosh factor. But darned if a bake tray didn't roll by this morning at the office. I politely declined LOL

Just step back in now if you want...calling this your starting weight. You'll probably still have a good rest of the month and we'll MISS YOU.

Follena: Way to go passing on the sweets tray at work! Mini victories may seem small or insignificant, but after time they definitely add up! Speaking of math, it looks like you're less than half a pound away from being the next challenge starter! Keep up the great work!! :bravo:

Casey: I second Lacerta! ;)

SW: 237.1
CW: 234.3 (-2.8)
GW: 232.1

Ophelia: Oh no, stay! I had water weight loss also, so I just adjusted my 5 pound goal weight :shrug:

Thanks Red! We are so strong in the beginning .. sigh. Hopefully it lasts.

SW: 190
CW: 185
GW: 182

Just a quick pop in today!

SW: 248.5
CW: 247.1(-1.4)
GW: 243.5

Ophelia; glad you are staying.
I'm really not concerned who loses 5 pounds first ... it's just good to have a place where I can stay accountable. This week has been extremely generous on weight loss because my system is saying WHAT??? NO SUGAR??? I'm losing all water weight.
Over the years I've done low-carb for up to six months to prepare for weddings or vacations. But I really want to stick with it in the long term. My plan is probably closest to the Atkins plan, not Keto or Paleo. Keto is too low carb for me and Paleo takes too much work with all the organic stuff. I'm still working full time and Atkins allows me to easily eat out with friends. At the end of the day, we all just find what works for us and that's good. Have a great day OP everyone.

SW: 190
CW: 183.6
GW: 182

Just a quick check-in before work for me today.

SW: 237.1
CW: 233.9 (-3.2)
GW: 232.1

Just a fly by today because I have some errands to do. I'm adjusting my goal weight ... seems I had a tremendous amount of water weight which doesn't surprise me since I was eating everything but the kitchen sink before smartening up and going back to my eating plan. Have a great Saturday everyone.

SW: 190
CW: 184.2
GW: 180

Follena, good luck with your erranding. Will they be fun errands or necessary errands?

SW: 237.1
CW: 233.6 (-3.5)
GW: 232.1

Red: hi there. Nice weight loss so far. The usual errands on a weekend, recycling, laundry, groceries, cleaning, cooking ... blah! Today is rest !

SW: 190
CW: 185
GW: 180