Welcome, georgiad!

I'm still aiming for Wednesday to do Shred. It'll probably do me good and knock the congestion out of me.

I did great food wise today

Breakfast - Banana
Lunch - warm cannellini and carrot herb salad
Snack - brown rice mixed with salsa
Dinner - lentil soup with a side salad and corn
Snack - Banana

Ima start tomorrow.
I fly into the desert tonight.
Fresh start FTW!
Good luck girls!
See you ladies when I get connected!

Goodness! How is it that I missed this up until now? If you chicks don't mind, I'm jumping in.

Now, I'm not going to have a weight goal per say (if that's okay, that is), but rather a water/food/exercise goal for each day. I normally weigh-in on Thursdays (at my WW meetings) but I can just post it each Friday as a note

I might as well be more specific about my goals so you all know what to hold me accountable for:

#1) Exercising for 30 minutes EVERY DAY. This is number one because I have done a horrible job the last few months getting any form of activity in, and I'm tired of being a flabby-patty. 30 minutes at least. It's not that much time. I (now) live close to a gym. And I have a few workout DVDs. There's no excuse.

#2) Follow my food plan. I'm on WW and that means eating 29 points a day (and then the extra 35 a week). And this is sort of a #2A, but making sure that those foods are mostly healthier (fruits, lean proteins, veg, lighter dairy products etc.)

#3) Water. Plain & simple. This is probably my easiest goal, as I love drinking water, but we should all do something we know we can achieve, right?

So, a sticker for me each day that I pass. (Literally, I have stickers on my calendar that I put on a day that I did well.)

Best of luck, all! Can't wait to keep up with everyone's progress.

Starting Weight: 228.8 (was my last weigh-in, and yes my ticker is off )

Welcome to the challenge, Faerie!

Hey-ho *yawn*

Today, I am playing the parts of Grumpy, Sleepy and Crampy dwarf. Tom is rearing his fugly head. No exercise but I am eating well.

On a funny note , I was the weight of the beast Sunday, clockin' in at 166.6 Muhahahaha lol

I pretty much slept all day to prepare myself for exercise tomorrow. Maybe doing the shred will knock the sickness out of me.

merc girl x-

Well so far so good this week.

My plan:

Drink at least 6 glasses of water
Limit myself to 1 coffee a day
No alcohol for 1 month -(detoxing from the holidays)
Eat breakfast everyday (at home, no takeout!)
Bring a healthy lunch to work everyday

I can't exercise until I see the physiotherapist later this month. Well no leg related stuff anyway . . . I guess I could do some hand weights and work on upper body stuff. . .

Merc Girl - That's rockin.

Robot - Tell us how the exercisin' goes

Mauvaisroux - Sounds like a solid plan!

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About Yesterday:

Exercise: Yessir! Got 35 minutes on the tread.

Food: 29 points on the dot. Tried a new marinade that I made myself... uh, didn't turn out quite right , but I really enjoyed the experimenting. I'll have to try it again!

Water: Drinky drinky! Got it all in.

Made some good choices yesterday.

Mornin' Equinoxers!

Yesterday:

Exercise: 35 minutes on the tread. I upped the speed a tiny bit & gave it a little incline.

Food: Came in 3 points under, yesterday, but I wasn't hungry so I wasn't going to push it. Not going to consider that a bad thing.

Water: Sluuuurp! Had to drink 2 glasses last night before going to bed, but I was determined to get it all in, so I did.

All-in-all, a good day.

hi equinoxers<---thought this was cute, faerie.

yesterday i did well. had popcorn a little too late, but i blame that on my husband. made a yummy split pea soup for din-din and started the shred.

today has been good so far. cereal and soymilk, an orange, and about to eat a boca burger on two pieces of whole wheat toast for lunch. leftover soup for dinner. haven't decided which though, i have carrot soup and split pea soup. probably the carrot.

i'm excited b/c today starts my first delivery of produce from Boston Organics!

note to self: i need to up my water intake!!!!

Hey, i'm gonna join you guys. My bday is on March 17 so the equinox is a few days later. My goal is to be as near 199 as possible! So the equinox is 10 wks away tomorrow. I weighed myself on Jan 5th and I was at 224.5lbs. Oh man if I stuck to a diet and went to gym 5-7days a week I could definitely lose 2.5lbs a week! And make it to 199. But to be realistic, I'm going to set a range of 199-209 for my Spring Time Equinox Goal! I've been doing pretty good on the calorie intake this week, so I'll reweigh myself tomorrow and start the Friday weekly weigh in! I've been looking for a challenge like this!

I need to start going to the gym and doing cardio again. I've been such a slacker since before christmas. My boyfriend is bringing his Bowflex Revolution to our house (it's been sittin in his parents basement) this week and I'm super excited to start using it! I love strength training, I was doing really good july-oct at the gym and could start to see the changes but then I slacked off again and now I want to feel strong and start feeling them muscles underneath all my fat! So My goal is to Strength Train 4 days aweek 20-40mins and do cardio 5-7days a week for 30-45mins. And to log my food intake over at TDP and control my intake so I can lose weight!!!!!!!! Oh and cut back on eating out and the alcohol! So many empty calories, I don't need em!

Good morning Alternachicks!

I was 161 this morning... How about you?

Hey guys, this is my "first official" WI of the new year (last WI was 12/22 @265.8, and then the gorging began)...I was up to 272, but after 1 wk on "fake" Phase 1 of South Beach, I'm back down to 266.3!!!!

21.3 lbs to go!

Heyo Equinoxers!

Weigh-in at meeting was 229.6, so I'm actually up on the scale. Once again, I'm not concerned about that. My goal is just to continue to focus on the day to day goals. And so far with that so good!

Yesterday:

Exercizzle: 35 minutes on the tread.

Food: Ate well. Was a little snacky late at night so I had some snap peas which took away a few extra Flex Points, but that's what they're there for. So On Plan

Water: Glug glug! Drank a glass right before bedtime to make sure I got it all in. I was debating going back to get the glass, because I was tired, but then I thought of having to write down that I missed my water intake, and that got me moving.

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Ollie - That Boston Organics thing sounds awesome!

Sun Flower - Sounds like you've got some good goals. Keep us updated.

Halloween - WTG on a great first week. Even if it was "fake" it's an awesome start.

Skullarix -

in! goal is needing three notches on my belt to hold up fat pants!!--so first step:get into pants (have been wearing nuthin but skirts) and then upward and onward