Hello and welcome to a new month ladies!

I'm finally doing it - I'm joining WW next Friday. Well, I'm signing up today and starting meetings next Friday. I find that I really need the group setting and accountability to be successful losing weight. A friend of mine and I are going together. I'm actually excited about it, I hope I do as well this time as I have in the past with a similar program.

I hope you are all having a wonderful day!

Good luck Gale! I can't afford anything like that, so I have to keep the determination to do it on my own. It's much eaiser now since hubby gained 20 pounds with this last pregnancy (no, that isn't a joke!!) and is very deterimed to get back to where he was when we got married... I want to get back to where I was in highschool.

Welcome badhorse!

Good job Kim for getting on that scale... let's go, we can knock those pounds off together!

I'm doing good. Just had my first TOM since he was born.. what a nightmare.

A friend of mine & I have started an accountability thing between the two of us. We have similar goals & the daily e-mails are really motivating.

I'm realllllly struggling to find the right time to go to the gym. Between not feeling particularly motivated for the hard work & dh working long hours I haven't been all week. I'm actually considering going after ds is settled for the night which with his sleep schedule as of late that would mean after 10:00pm. I'm a night owl so it just might work but it still seems like a crazy idea.

Ok today is my birthday and I've done horribly. hehe

I'm doing an experiment. I only lost 3 lbs in August, dieting every day and exercising/running 4 to 5 times a week. I decided to start zig zagging my calories again and my sister and I decided to do the more extreme alternate day fasting. I'm not doing it completely...I'm doing 400/2000 ish. lol I say "ish" because I've worked it where I only do 400 on three days per week...and my average is 1400-1600 calories.

I've lost 2 lbs so far. Almost better than the whole month of August. I know it's extreme, but I'm kinda liking it right now. I'll let you know. I'm going to do an official weigh in on the 14th (although I weigh everyday). If I can stand it--and it works...then i'll keep on doing it.

ETA: Lifeguard---I routinely exercise after 10pm. No other time! Last time I lost 80 lbs I exercised at like 2 and 3am (pre-baby).

I acutally have upped my calories and am losing quite well. I'm now between 1,800 and 2,000 a day, closer to the 2,000 end. I have also been doing a half hour of cardio all week, every morning (while my spoiled errr well loved baby lays on the floor to watch me and cry ). I have to do this for me and he can cry for a few minutes. He spends pretty much every second he is awake in someones arms, he can give me this time, it's only a half hour while I do a video (Walk Away the Pounds 2 mile videos, I have the high cal burn and the high cal burn for abs that I'm rotating right now , I also have most of her others). This morning the scale said I am down to 233, the lowest I can remember being in a really really long time!

Hey guys! These past couple weeks I haven't been exercising, still dieting, and I haven't gained any back but haven't really lost any either. Today I finally got off my arse and started 30DS! It totally kicked my butt! I plan on doing it Sun, Mon, Wed, Thurs and Fri.

I have to do it in the morning while the boys are up, because if I wait until they go down for a nap I'm so relieved to get a break that I really just don't feel like working out. It worked out fine! Despite Isaac climbing all over me, but I guess that's good too, makes it harder, ya know?

OMG Kayla, I'm terrified of the 30DS!!! I think that may be one of my treats to myself when I get to Onederland, by then I should be more than used to working out. I have TurboJam that I want to start when I hit 225 (my little rewards to myself are new workouts as I go down..lol). I'm also looking at the Zumba videos... they look fun

I went to my first WW meeting yesterday. It was really good, I think this is going to work for me. I've found that I'm one who really needs the group accountability and support, so this should be perfect! It's hard to get back into the counting and recording again, but it won't take me long to make it a habit.

I'm excited!

i am struggling with being soooo hungry while nursing and also the stress of 2 children. I am a stress eater. I am trying to figure out a way to deal that isn't eating. I would love any suggestions. I really love having this group. I can relate to so much of what each of you post. You all rock.

Tara

Tara, I tend to eat over stress too. I have been filling my water cup (32oz) and drinking the whole thing every time that I start to feel the need to eat something over the kids screaming and fighting and what not. I do still find myself in the peanutbutter jar over it at times.. so I take 1 spoon, not heaping like I normally would, and shove the jar to the back of the cupboard to get it less accessable, then I eat the PB and log it in my fitday and TRY to move on.

Hi everyone. I'm nursing, too, and glad to find this group.

I too have been having a hard time with hunger issues lately, too. I've actually upped my calories a little and am having more success, both in avoiding slip-ups and in weight loss. It's hard to know how many calories I should be consuming to account for nursing because my little nursling is completely unpredictable. One day he'll nurse only twice and the next he nurses constantly. I'm sort of doing my best to follow hunger cues. I figure if I am hungry it's better to go off track with healthy snack than allowing myself to self-sabotage.

Hi there! I joined the Jingle Away the Jiggle weight loss challenge so I def need to start posting more. I'm nursing my 10 month old dd with no plans of weaning until she is ready but as you can see I have a CHUNK of weight to lose!

We just had Cameron's 4 month appointment... he is up to 16.9 pounds! I was beginning to worry about how my calorie consciousness was affecting him, but obviously it's not! I started counting calories right after his 2 month check up, he weighed 13 then.

I'm still doing good, I have to update my ticker, but I'm down to 230.. that's 21 pounds since July 20th when I started this!! I am down 28 pounds from my prepregnancy weight... and I have finally been able to go down a size in jeans (the belly doesn't seem to want to lose weight at the same rate as the rest of me).

Welcome saysumthing and justaloser. Oh there is also a Valentines Day challenge in the 100 pound support thread. I can't wait to be a Vixen for Valentines day!!!!

Well I'm doing something a little goofy. My sister and I are trying something a little different. We've been counting calories and zig zagging. Works, but I only lost 3 lbs the entire month of August.

So here's my new schedule.
M/W/F--- I eat 400-500 calories per day (I space it out so I get a little bit for breakfast, lunch and supper).

T/Th/S/Sun---I eat "normally" but don't measure every little thing. I don't go totally berserk and try to stick to 2000 to 2500 per day. I still count these calories. I may use one day to go nuts. lol

So far I've lost 4 lbs in about 2 weeks. I've been getting compliments all week about losing weight. Totally worth it to be hungry 3 days to have the bliss of just eating a dang salad like a normal human being. I just wanna eat a freaking SALAD and add a tiny bit of cheese...tiny bit of walnuts...good dressing...and not care that it adds up to 400 or more calories!!! I wanna eat as many GRAPES as I want. I wanna eat as much watermelon as I want. Sure I want cookies, but I am really just missing out on fruit and veggies. I want garden fresh peas my dad picked and not freak out over measuring them and/or not having a label to tell me *exactly* how many calories.

I will say it gets nuts on the "fasting" days. I made a crockpot roast and tasted a carrot. I nearly spit it out--worried that it was going to ruin my diet. Lol, a carrot! It was just bc it was a low calorie day though--the next day I a nice bowl of roast, potatoes, and carrots with no guilt!

When I get tired of this, I'll just go back to regular and less severe zig zagging.

Saikin, it sounds like what you are doing is rather dangerous, especially if you're nursing. You should never go below 1200 calories in a day, 1700-1800 if you're nursing is the bottom. 400 calories isn't enough to sustain life, much less milk production. Just my 2 cents, but I wouldn't do anything I couldn't sustain long term (especially because not eating makes me a raging maniac, I am MEAN when I'm hungry.) Have you tried leveling out those calories and seeing how it goes?