I am sorry to hear that. Please remember to take care of yourself.

Toobig: I'm so sorry to hear about your dad.

Weight loss wise, it looks like everyone is doing pretty well this week, keep up the good work...it's hump day!

I ended up at about 1450 cals yesterday, so that was good. Since I seem to be eating a bit more than usual on weekends this month, I've dropped my weekday calorie range just a bit...my old "redline" was 1600 cals, now I try not to go over 1550 (and I REALLY try to keep it under 1500.) So far, so good this week.

I tried a more advanced yoga video after I did my weight lifting last night, and um...yeah...it might be a little TOO advanced for me right now, lol. Tonight is my last zumba night of the year. It will start back up in about mid-January. I just got my wii zumba back from my SIL last week, so I will probably do that during the "hiatus".

Hope everyone is having another great OP day!!

Hi all! I think I will jump in even though your a few weeks in. I'm gonna do a small goal of 2.5 lbs just to get me started since there are 2.5 weeks left.

Hopefully that will be attainable and get me motivated to lose more!

Good luck all!!!

Welcome back, Elizabeth!

Just checking in...things are going poorly for me. I do what I'm supposed to but the scale doesn't agree. I'm changing my goal weight from 151 to 153 as right now I'm still considerably higher than when I started.

Toobig: I'm very sorry to hear of your loss as well!
Northern: Nice work with changing calories slightly to give you a little more play on the weekends. I tend to do the same thing! As for you -9, that's insane!! We don't get that cold until around the end of January and February. I can imagine why you wouldn't do anything outside! We don't come close to that cold, and I'm doing my runs on a treadmill, in a gym LOL!
Thinkinthin: Awesome work on your exercising! I LOVE that you're taking your journey slowly and allowing yourself time to adjust. I bet you're already seeing some results!
Elizabeth:
Countrybarbie: Awesome work, and it's so exciting when the scale goes down!!
Kat: I hope your wisdom teeth come out good!

Me: I accomplished my 20 minute jog! It felt really good to do it! That is officially then longest I've ran without stopping once! I'm really excited! Friday I start week 6/9. I also think I'm going to switch to mileage rather than time. This will be a bit more difficult since the times compared with mileage have you running a 10min mile. I'm running about a 12min mile. The program breaks it down both in mileage and time, you choose one. When I wasn't doing the program at the gym, I did time since it was easier than tracking mileage. Now that I'm at the gym, I think I will switch. I'll let you know how that goes Friday! I'm really excited because I'm so close and I am noticing some changes in my legs!
Otherwise, I have been sleepy all day! It's a good thing I mostly have off today minus one class tonight. I am NOT a morning person, so it is going to take some time getting used to going to the gym around 5:30 5x a week. My plan is to keep that up until I finish the running program, then I'm going to take a week long break from the gym to let my body catch up a bit. Then back to normal.

Anyway... Exercise is going well this week and for this challenge. Food has been getting much better! I'm keeping it right around 1500 calories during the week. I could probably get away with eating a little more with all my working out, but I really want to get back to where I was before the last challenge!

I hope you chicks are doing well and have a great day! See ya later!

Popspry: I feel your frustration. It's really hard when you know you're doing everything right but the scale doesn't want to move. I'm sure you know all of the explanations (muscle building, water retention, "inches, not pounds", etc. etc.) Knowing those things helps logically, but our darn emotions just can't help but make us feel disappointed. Hang in there, it will come off eventually. Maybe there's a nice "whoosh" in your future??

JM: Hope your TOM goes away soon! It definitely makes things harder

Tdi: Great work on your 20 minutes, that's awesome!! We've been back to more "seasonable" temps the past few days, but I'm actually kind of getting concerned about the lack of snow. Some years back we had a long cold snap and no insulating layer of snow on the ground and our pipes froze. And that's saying something because in MN pipes are buried 6 feet underground.

As for me: Had about a 1400 cal day and an hour of Zumba yesterday. My hammies are kind of sore today. I think it's from doing squats on Tuesday. Haven't done squats for months. Today is my light cardio day and I'm on track for about 1450 cals. Hope I'm not retaining too much water (sore hammies plus last part of TOM) for WI tomorrow. Well, either way, I know I've had a good week!

Thanks for the welcome Northern and tdiprincess!

jmfan- I don't weigh in during my TOM. It is just too depressing.

All you girls are such great exercisers! Very motivational! I need to get my butt in gear and start exercising again too. I was walking the dog alot but now that its cold that has pretty much stopped (i hate cold). I gotta come up with a new exercise.

I did great yesterday. Only 1785 calories and that is only because we had brinner for dinner (breakfast for dinner) and i had a couple pancakes and just couldnt eat them without syrup. lol Had I not had syrup i would have been under! Oh well. I decided anything under 2k is good with me for now.

Meanwhile I think I have an orange addiction. I have had 3 so far today. A vendor brought in this huge fruit tub (not a basket a metal tub). We've been eating from it all day. lol Oh well I guess that's better than cookies or candy.

Seems like things are going well for some so far! Keep it up!!

My wisdom teeth came out well. Homemade broth, sugar free jello/pudding, and protein shakes are on the menu for the next few days. No exercise either I'm hoping I'll be able to get back to the gym next weekend.

172. I'll take it. 2.1 lbs to go to 169.9!!

So busy with the move I forgot to even weigh....

I am not comfortable with my progress. I am getting in the game.

Congrats everyone on the great progress. I cant believe it is like 2 weeks till Christmas that is crazy. I have 6 more pounds to go till I reach my Christmas/NYE goal.

Kat that sucks about the wisdom tooth. Glad it went well. I still have mine they started getting abscessed a couple months ago but ain't got a chance to get them extracted.



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