Lose 5lb Challenge .... 43#

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  • Alright ladies and gents ---- time for a new challenge!!! It was a tight race in the last one, so let's get started and shed those pounds!!

    This challenge is just as much, even more so, about encouraging one another and dropping those pounds. No matter what - we are all winners! Half a pound or 5 - you still weigh less than you did before!

    Let's go! Who's our next winner??
  • SW 324.0
    GW 319.0 (Whoa - that's 1lb away from meeting my July 4th challenge!!!)

    06/19 324.0
  • oh goody I'm getting in on the start of this one....

    SW 264.6
    GW 190


    6/19 264.6
  • Woo Hoo Jessie!

    Let's do it!
  • I coulda sworn I had posted here yesterday... I know I saw it... hhmmmm Disappearing posts I say!

    I AM IN IN IN IN IN IN! LOL Lets go all! Race to the WIN!

    SW 217.2
    6/20 216.8 (-.4)

    GW 212.2 WOOHOO!
  • SW 324.0
    GW 319.0 (Whoa - that's 1lb away from meeting my July 4th challenge!!!)

    06/19 324.0
    06/20 322.8
  • SW 324.0
    GW 319.0 (Whoa - that's 1lb away from meeting my July 4th challenge!!!)

    06/19 324.0
    06/20 322.8
    06/21 322.8

    Well yesterday sucked lol. 1956 calories and 28 carbs....issue? Lack of planning and impulse blueberries... lol A friend sent them to us and I have a weakness for blueberries and strawberries.

    I still have a hard time calling that a cheat lol Even though it was. But oh well, no gain, and out of my system now lol
  • Ali... it must be in the air as I am up too... For no reason yesterday and today....well I had a Bad way with my taste buds and ate something I SHOULD Not have! boo! LOL Today WILL BE GOOD!

    SW 217.2
    6/20 216.8 (-.4)
    6/21 217.8 (+1.0 )
    6/22 217.8 Same sigh

    GW 212.2 WOOHOO!
  • I was just a pig Sue!! lol

    Normally I struggle to hit 1200 calories for the day and I blew past that and my total carbs.

    Today I had like 900 lol


    SW 324.0
    GW 319.0 (Whoa - that's 1lb away from meeting my July 4th challenge!!!)

    06/19 324.0
    06/20 322.8
    06/21 322.8
    06/22 321.4
  • Hello Ladies! I'm afraid to weigh in after the weekend, but will try to muster the courage to do so tomorrow.

    WTG Ali!!! Keep going girl!

    Sue I see that 216! You will be back there tomorrow I can feel it!
  • I will be having a cheat today.....first time since I started. A very sweet older lady we know who just lost her husband asked if she could make us some sour dough bread.

    I wanted to say no, but here in southern USA that's an insult lol And bless the poor sweet ladies heart she is trying to find things to fill her time.

    So we accepted and will be eating it in all of its delciousness tonight with steak. I'm trying very hard to have as few carbs as possible today so I don't 100% wreck things.

    But hubby and I will have a slice and then pass the loaf on to some friends so I don't eat the whole thing for breakfast lol

    I have been so good for almost 2 months so I plan to enjoy this to its fullest and then move on. lol

    Mara, its Ok. It happens All you can do is change going forward.
  • I could not do it.....could. not. lol

    It is not worth what the scale will reflect tomorrow. I can't wat the bread....I want it....like severely bad....but then I know its like literally 3 days worth of carbs for a single.....scrumptious...buttery delicious piece....and I just can't sabbatoge my efforts so far. Darn it.
  • SW 324.0
    GW 319.0 (Whoa - that's 1lb away from meeting my July 4th challenge!!!)

    06/19 324.0
    06/20 322.8
    06/21 322.8
    06/22 321.4
    06/23 320.6
    06/24 321.0

    I still want that bread, and I'm still batteling myself over it lmao - geez.. ok, so apparently I still don't have full handle on my food addiction!

    I literally opened the fridge (she said it needed to stay in the fridge or it will mold in a day or two) and stared at it --- I may have even drooled!!! HA!

    But when I take it out to slice it and eat a piece, I can't bring myself to it - it's gotta get outta my house ASAP --- I have tunnel vision on this bread!



    *** Also, I'm noticing participation is getting pretty low on this 5lb loss challengs --- after this one is over, do you guys think we should wait a bit before starting a new one?
  • Ali06 that is awesome!!! way to be super strong... I am suffering a comeback from weakness and wish I had listened to my little voice instead of sabotaging a weeks worth of progress... oh well i'm back up an the wagon and again CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
  • Jessie - it happens - we all fall off the wagon sometimes. But the important thing is you're back! And even better - it wasn't a month, or 6 months, or a year you fell off the wagon



    I've had several people ask me how I've had so much will power and I honestly can't answer that lol It's not like this is the first time I've dieted and I had plenty of cheats and wagon falling then - if not I wouldn't be where I am now -- I just got to such an awful place in April and after a month of mental torture wondering if I could fit in a seat on a charter bus for my daughter's filed trip I just decided I've had enough. I'm sick of my life being negativley impacted because I can't get a handle on what I stuff in my face.

    Maybe it's because I had got so disgusted I dunno --- and I'm not under any illusion that I'll always overcome the temptation --- but I am also the type person when I really make up my mind on something, that's pretty much it. I was just fed up with it all - with feeling and looking miserable, with not being able to sit down in my pants or tie my shoes -- being too out of shape to go on my favorite hunting trips, and having to drop my defensive shooter classes b/c I couldn't physically keep up. I hated everything I had become and was so angry at myself for allowing it.

    So everytime I'm faced with a cheat, all those thoughts and feelings come to the forefront of my mind and no matter how much I even want the cheat, I can't bring myself to do it because I know how horrible I felt prior to starting Atkins and I swore to myself I'd never feel that way again.

    Once I get under 300 I just hope I don't forget that! lol