I am feeling much better today, but I am exhausted. I am just going to straighten the house a bit, and take it easy today.

I ordered a BodyMedia FIT last night. I can not wait until it gets here.

I hope everyone is having a good weekend.

GO STEELERS!

Is it too late to join? I read back through a few pages of posts and it looks like everyone here is very supportive and encouraging!

My first goal was to be 199 or less by February 16th (my Birthday) but I think I can do it by Valentine's Day. I weigh on Wednesday and last week weighed in at 203 so I'm getting close.

Saturday calories: 1160. Exrecise: 35 minutes on elliptical.

It was such a struggle to get my exercise in yesterday. Not sure if it's the change in eating or this cold weather. So I did the bare minimum.

Hope everyone's having a great weekend!

Hey all, lost a little more so I'm pretty happy! Only 2.4 pounds away from my Valentine's day goal, which makes me super excited Doing well with calories, completely back on track after Saturday's slip up. Good stuff. Hope everyone is good

One more pound lost and 1 to go for my goal so I will up it to 14 total pounds by the 14th! Have an awesome day everyone!

Blah weekend. I'm working a lot (it'll be busy through the end of April) and I only really get one day a week to relax as I work Saturdays during this time, and quite frankly I don't want to have to think about food. I find it so much harder to make healthy choices when I'm this busy - I just want to eat whatever I want to eat, but at the same time I really don't want to stay at this weight - can't have both those things! I did plan my food for the week and went to the store so at least I managed to do that. I'm prepping my lunches for the week and dinner is a frozen meal (too much sodium, I know, but it's better than eating out which would be my other choice and that for sure is not such a good option!). My aim for busy season is usually just not to gain weight, so anything that I lose is going to be an added bonus.

I am, however, sticking with my workout plan of every weekday at 5:30am, because I find that helps me get through my day with a much higher energy level - and heaven knows, I need that!

Good evening,

Just a quick check in...been pretty good on calories this weekend, a little over (but I plan for my weekends to be a little higher.) Didn't do any "formal" exercise today, but did clean my house...so I will count it!

Supposed to warm up a bit this week, yep, we're talking ABOVE zero, folks! lol. Is January over yet? Man, this has been the longest month ever.

Groove: Welcome! Never too late to join. Here's hoping for a quick trip to ONEderland for you

Hope everyone is having a relaxing Sunday night!

It's so cold here too, tonight it's going down to 0 degrees as the actual temp, who knows what the wind chill will make it feel like. A big snow storm may be headed out way too, on Tues. night. So, i have been riding the bike for exercise instead of out walking, today I did 60 min. Trying to get this weight off, i am just having real bad cravings for junk food lately, I don't understand it. It's not TOM, just got over it. Had 1175 today, yesterday I got 2 pieces of cake at the Farmer's Market, ate them both in the car, so of course my weight is up again!

Sunday: 1160 calories. 40 minutes on the treadmill, walking/jogging/incline, 2.6 miles total.

Starting Day 3 of Fat Smash Detox. The sugar cravings were not quite as bad yesterday. Eating a lot of oatmeal, salads, beans, and brown rice. Have also been getting in 2 servings of fruit a day, which is something I struggle with.

fruit, it is freezing here too! It was 6 this morning. I saw people running outside yesterday and they looked miserable. I've seen some of your posts and it sounds like you're maintaining on very low calories - is that correct? How many calories were you eating when you were losing?

northern, that cold weather has hit us now - it's so miserable!

jules, maintaining during your busy season is a great goal. it is so hard to stay on any kind of plan when you;re stressed and working such long hours.

k15, great job!

rainbow, you're going to knock that goal into the ground!

Have a great day, everyone!

Hey Ya'll
I hope all of you that are snowed in get lots of sun and heat so it'll melt. It is all gone here in Atlanta but the salt they put down still remains and there is lots of it.

I had a pretty good weekend and now I'm back at work and on my routine!! I actually started lifting weights this past weekend and now I'm a little sore. But I'll count that as progress.

Have a great day!!

Northern, thanks for the welcome!

I went over my cals yesterday by 180 and am not doing so good today. I can still salvage it if I get my head back in the game and get some exercise in. Just feeling a little out of whack today and can't seem to pull myself together.

Congrats to all who are doing so well!

natamars- When dieting i was eating only 800-1050 cal a day. I didn't know anything about how many calories to have. I'm only 5'3 & I'm older(42), so I don't lose on high calories. Now I lose if I eat 1170-1270 calories only if I eat whole clean foods, so at least i can eat more.

Had 1270 cal. today, right on target. Rode the bike for 41 min. & went 9 mi. I was going pretty fast. I've been eating clean for 2 days, I should see a loss again tomorrow.

k15g15 You're totally going to make your goal

jules Hope the busy time passes quickly and that you manage to get enough time to yourself on your day off - and well done for keeping up your 5.30am workouts! That is inspirational!

natamars Thanks! I hope so!

Northern Ouch, so cold! January has seemed pretty long so far but I guess I don't have cold weather making it bad!

jiggle Yay for being back on track and getting in your weightlifting - sore is definitely good unless you injured yourself - which I'm guessing you didn't, so yay!

~Finally got to move my ticker down to 66kg which is 145.5 pounds. Only 2.2 pounds away from my goal for this challenge, I'm thinking now I may surpass it! I'm starting to get kind of apprehensive - I feel like my goal is not set low enough because I can't seriously see that another 11kg / 24 pounds is going to make all that much difference in my body - and I definitely want my stomach, thighs and arms to be a lot smaller than they currently are!

I was able to pull myself together earlier. Once I dumped my soda down the drain and got my head back in the game I was able to exercise and eat healthy the rest of the day. Whew! Crisis averted!

Hi everyone! I know I'm not stopping in as offten as I was at the beginning but things are just busy, crazy, and plus still in alot of pain. Dont know if it from my fall on dec 13 or its the cold weather. Anyway hope everyone has been doing great. I'm hanging in there, keeping calories down, and ive added another day of water arobics. So thats 4 days. We start our zumba gold on monday the 31st and i'm getting really excited just hope my knees will let me do it.