Hi fellow challengers. By the way, where are we in our challenge I am lost in terms of dates.

Not a bad day for me; calories and workouts all on target, but fats . It was that cherry cheese danish at Tim Horton's that killled it. Oh well. I knew I had the calories for it, so I went for it.

Anyway, tomorrow I have blood work done to see how the cholesterol is doing. Should be just fine. You probably won't hear from me until Sunday or Monday. I am taking my daughter to Montreal for a long weekend. It is her 18th birthday and graduation present. Looking forward to a great time.

Talk to y'all then.

Hi gang!

I think we are on week five. We started about the first week of May. I remember it was right after my SFIL passed away and that was on 4/25. We might need to regroup with our timeline and our goals.

For Tuesday, I was able to do 30 minutes on the spinner and then walked the dog for another 30 mintues. Food was good - my homemade pizza was great. But not enough veggies for the first part of the week. Yesterday, we ended up with fast food for lunch (this is what happens when you don't eat breakfast and get too hungry). Exercise was weedeating the yard and installing landscape edging to finish off my landscape area. My body hurt too much to do any spinner or dog walking.

Today's plan is to get DH to take me on an adventure day-trip since this is "vacation". If its not raining when we get back. I will get my bike out for a spin. I've actually moved it to the part of garage where I can access it but I need to change the pedals and air up the tires.

Have a great OP day ladies!

could have done much better yesterday...I also could have done worse...I need to learn to NOT let myself get so hungry and then I won't have the kind of evening I had.

Today I'm back on track, brought good healthy food to eat during the day, I'll do my cardio at lunch, and of course drink tons of water.

Here's to a getter Thursday!

psm

Again, water is the magical tool...

I'm heading for the 220's at warp speed. Matter of fact, I'm 2 pounds from my lowest weight in 5 years and my missing waistline is starting to come out of hiding...

I'm trying to find out where our fearless leader dissappeared to. Amarantha doesn't normally go AWOL without giving a heads up.

Amarantha, report for duty!!!!

Have a great day everyone!

Terri

Way to go Terri!

Snuck a peek at the scale again today (gotta get off that scale!) and I'm at 230.5... 220's here I come!!!!!!!

Still no word from the General Amarantha...

Today - water to counteract the pizza I had for dinner last night.

Glug, glug,

Terri

I'm fighting the plateau battle. My lifting is going well, did a very nice upper body yesterday, and I reached one goal I'd set for myself with the aerobics. I can now run for 1/4 mile at around 5mph. I achieved the 2 miles in 30 minutes I'd wanted to hit. I can now also run at 6mph for 1 minute without dropping dead. My wind is improving slightly, and my muscle stamina is starting to improve. Tomorrow is lower body, and of course, that will completely wreck me for the couple days afterwards. I will be living dead girl personified.

Eating has been pretty much on track. Water consumption is good.

Now if that $&#*@!& scale would just move DOWN I'd be a happy camper. *grumble*

Hope everyone else is rocking right along!

Excellent Terri!

I've been pretty much following through on my workout plans - so that's good. Bad news is my eating is getting bad again. So I'm trying to snap myself out of that! Water's good.

I plan to work out this weekend (both days), and I just came back from my lunchtime cardio, so if I make sure I work out this weekend and try to stay on my food plan, I'm hoping Monday will show at least a 2 pound loss! That will keep me where I want to be for my ulitmate goal.

Hope everyone has a great Friday and a wonderful weekend (snow is forecasted here in Denver!).

psm

Where is Amarantha????? I'm going to do the BFL Challenge!! OH, AMARANTHA, WHERE ARE YOU HIDING????

Didn't she mention problems with either her computer or her computer and this website a while back? Hopefully its computer problems and nothing worse.

I went to WI this morning and down four pounds. Since I had gained two pounds at last WI that I blamed on PMS, I think I'm four pounds towards my goal of 20. Oops, better get more focused. As I've gotten my exercise up to 60 minutes a day now, it should go faster. That is big progress on one of my goals.

I'm reposting my goals from the beginning of this challenge (4/30/03).

That puts us at five full weeks done and ready to start week six. That puts us almost at half-way in our challenge. Time to regroup or batten down the focus! Let's GO!


Food Plan: Weight Watchers

Exercise Plan: Walking, Spinner or outdoor bike riding; WATPs, and conditioning exercises. If you don't mind, I'll post the details of what I plan for the week.

Overall Goal: Lose 20 pounds and have my endurance built up to doing an hour of cardio type exercise a day without being wiped out.

Support Needed: Staying focused!

Hey folks.. I hope Amarantha is ok, and just experiencing technical difficulties temporarily.

My daughter and I both officially registered a half pound loss this week. Finally. After three weeks of gains, it was nice to see those disappear, as well as the half pound. LB yesterday was a good one. Lunges still kill me. Went up to 40 lbs on the dumbell calf raises and finally hit a 10 on those suckers. Heck of a workout for my grip, too.

Today is free day, and so far it's been homemade berry pancakes. The kids want pizza hut pizza for dinner, and the BF and I are going out to see The Italian Job and then to Chilis for dinner. *burp* So much for that half pound.

Wildfire - Welcome to BFL!! I'm doing a modified one, but very much using the pyramid sets and aerobic interval training. I don't know that I'll ever be a purist on the food, though.

Hope everyone is having a good and relaxing weekend!

Well, I was hoping for a 2 pound loss last week, didn't make that, but I am down 1.6 pounds and I'm happy about that!

Did pretty well this weekend - didn't make it to the gym, but did well with my food at least - and for me on a weekend that's a huge accomplishment!

Plan for today - the usual for food/water, and I'm working with the evil trainer tonight.

I am hoping that this will FINALLY be the week when I drop below 300 - keep your fingers crossed for me!

Hope everyone has a good monday!

psm

Congrats to all the losers and those who are just staying the course. I had a great time in "La Belle Provence" ie Montreal, Quebec. Actually, the eating was pretty much on track and I got alot of exercise with walking around alot.

I can totally relate to the dreaded plateau. Usually I try and change what I am eating a bit, or change my exercise routine. Sometimes nothing works and you just have to ride it out. It does pass eventually, but it is no fun while you wait to get there Hang in there Raven. Believe it or not, the scale cannot stay there forever (it just feels like it).

Congrats on the bike, Terri. Way to go! I do official weigh in tomorrow at the gym, so will report then. Cheers.

Quick report for Monday:

Food was good. I got lax on the water so I'm seeing it this morning in the scale. I did walk the dog for 40 minutes last night. I even did several jog then walk cycles - not that I jogged far or fast but I figure it had to help with the intensity of the walk. Got to start somewhere!

Just reread my goals so I'm focused for the day! Have a great one!

Report for Monday -

Did really well on food, water and exercising!

Plan for today - do the same as Monday. I'm aiming to break 300 on my next "official" weigh-in next monday.

Here's to a great Tuesday for all of us!

psm