[Tuesday Cool]

Heather, did you specify which year the date was? You could tell him you ment 2008! Just a thought.
Stacy, congratulations!
On the Valentines goal front I did not stay on plan this weekend but as of this morning I am the same weight as Friday. I will be down soon!

[honey55bun]

way to go girls!!!

[amylou7777]

Keep it up everyone!

Wohoo Kimberly that sounds like a great idea....maybe I'll have to suggest that as my prize as well!

[Tuesday Cool]

Well, I couldn't believe it when I saw it so I made myself weigh in three days in a row. I am down! only 1# to my valentines goal! It feels so good to see some progress and remember I am doing this without my COD. I basically held steady all December as I did not want to fuss around the holidays. But I have been trying to be really good and now I see progress! I am so happy I could stand on my head.

[cecil]

Oh this challenge is becoming a lot tougher than I thought it would be, I am still only down 2 lbs for this challenge and I have less then a month to lose 10 lbs. Like that's going to happen. Well I am doing TO today and tomorrow and then going back to the white book LA Express for a week. So hopefully that helps.
Tuesday! Awesome job! You are almost there! Way to stick it out!
Keep up all the good work Ladies!

[krjpy]

OK, I am down 6 lbs from the start of the Challange and have 5.2 more to go until V-Day (now, is that Valentines or Victory ... I guess that depends on my scale the day before Valentine's Day)

[ChefsGirl]

I hear ya Cecilia! I was not planning on my weight loss to come to a screeching halt when I set my goal of 15 lbs! I highly, doubt that I'll lose 14 pounds in 4 weeks but I'm not giving up!!

[Tuesday Cool]

BTW - 1-2# per week is considered healthy. More is not healthy, good for your body or maintainable. You will start to burn muscle mass at that rate and because muscle burns more calories then fat you set yourself up for stalling later. It takes time to do this right. See my motto, In for the long haul, and remember that loosing is just the start after that you have to stay in your new body.
You know I was so excited about being down, I forgot I actually put in for 10# so I still have 5# to go. No problem, I can do that. Right?

[Katy66]

Official COD weigh in had me down 3lbs.... Only 7 more to go to reach my goal. YEAH ME!

[ChefsGirl]

Yeah Katy!

I will celebrate with you as I was down 2.6 lbs today! Finally broke through my weeklong plateau. Maybe being sick did have something to do w/ me hanging on to that weight.

It is soooooooooooooo good to see my ticker move!

Here's what I did to try and jump start the loss.

1. Drank an extra 32 ounces of water - that makes 96 ounces total
2. Ate ALL of my food
3. Exercised an extra minute - I'm up to 14 minutes on the treadmill now. Doesn't seem like much but I started only being able to do 10.
4. Did not TOUCH the salt shaker

I'm so happy and very motivated going into the weekend! Hope everyone is doing well! Maybe I will actually make that Valentine's Day goal.....

I feel very empowered right now. Like I might actually have some control over this weight thing. I think that the small changes I made the last couple of days really made a difference!

[Katy66]

That's great Jill! and I love the tips on getting jump started again.

[chiquita623]

Ladies we have something like 3 weeks left in this challenge. I guess it's time I got serious - jk - I've been trying. My goal was to get back down to 170 and so far I'm down to 174. 4 pounds in 3 weeks should be doable. Gotta be POP until V-Day. Anyone care to join me?

[Katy66]

I'm certainly trying to be POP....One to reach my VDay goal and two, just to get my head back into this thing. A bite here and a bite there I end up just slipping back into old habits.

[chiquita623]

I'm with you Katy on the bites here and there. Seems my brain thinks if I have one bite I'm supposed to have 6 or more. I guess I need to be more conscientious about what I'm putting in my mouth instead of mindlessly eating and not realizing what it is I'm eating until later!! I was POP yesterday and so far today. Maybe I can do this all week. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!!

[ferrarimomof2]

Okay, I am down to 181. I am trying to stick to this challenge. I have not been POP for a little over a week now. But, since I am starting to recover from surgery then I have not excuse for not being POP. Although, I do have to admit that doing a mainly liquid diet makes it hard.