good morning everyone!

Hope you all had a spooktacular Halloween!
We actually had some trick or treaters this year which made DH very happy -he handed out all the candies and carved an awesome pumpkin - he is such a big kid

Acckk! I just realized that we are only 8 weeks away from Christmas!
Guess I better get my tush in gear if I want to make my goal!

I had a great weekend. The wedding was wonderful and I cried through out the entire thing. The party was fabulous. I ate too much and drank too much. We rented a hotel room close to the location of the wedding and in the morning I went out to breakfast and ate a huge meal. 3 eggs, ham, bacon, sausage, toast, potatoes and gravy! Then continued eating allllll day long. This morning I was shocked to realized I had only gained three pounds...I thought for sure it would have been between 5-7. I guess it was all the dancing I did at the wedding.

My daughter went out trick or treating for just over an hour and wanted to go home cause it was a little rainy. So it was an early night for me..Was fun seeing all the children in their costumes.

Have a great day....got go drink tons of water and try to get rid of those 3 pounds..

Dale

I am still hovering around 185.5/186. At least it is down from 188 since this challenge started.

Glad you had fun at the wedding Trixi!

At least you are going down Squeak!

I can't seem to remember what my goal was...but considering that for the last few weeks I have been up and down and now I am pretty much where I started, maybe I need to make a new goal that would be doable. So, My goal for Christmas is 10 pounds. It's going to be alot of work but I have nothing scheduled to sabotage it until the holidays so I have no excuses.

Dale

You can review your goals in the main Christmas challenge thread which is one of the stickies at the top of the page

In fact I think I will go check mine out right now!

Checked it out and my original goal was from 150 down to 135, think I'll stick to that than!

Dale

Hope that everyone is well have had a crazy couple of weeks, spent all of my off day's last week helping DH redo my MIL bathroom. I was off today, cleaned house really well - got some exercise. I am down a couple of pounds but not too great. I am TOM and that is like pushing like every three weeks now. So now it is like I am PMS'ing ever 2 weeks.... and gaining fluid weight every 2 weeks so grrr it is driving me crazy.


This AM I was at 162.5 I am pleased, due to Halloween candy.

I don't care to discuss my weight at this present time.

Moi non plus! I do know that I will not be wearing my mink to Christmas Eve Service. It's been a stressful fall.

Way to go Amyjo!

Ellis and Ruth I hear ya! I haven't been on plan for 2 months due to stress and I have gained back 5 lbs I would like to lose 10 lbs for xmas but will settle for 5.

I really doubt I will make my christmas goal. I have changed shifts though and these guys actually don't buy candy and donuts every day or cook fattening foods multiple times a week. It is almost like I have some dieting buddies at work now so it isn't so hard. When I had gotten back down around 150 my other crew was saying I was relapsing into my EDO. Just because I was losing weight doesn't mean I am binging or purging... which I actually did yesterday. but it was the first time in a long time and it was only once and what I ate made me nauseaous so I felt compelled to puke- so I did... well it happens every once in a while.

I fell off the wagon for a couple of days, but I managed to refocus again, which is good. I am finding that I can fall into a streak of bad behaviour very easily and that it builds upon itself if I do not make a titanic effort to get back OP.

I can really relate to the workplace food issue: that is kind of how I gained a bunch of weight to begin with, when I got my first desk job and there were treats every day. In my current job there is no food except what I bring in for myself, so I can bring in pears rather than cookies.

Hi everyone. I've been reading the posts but I haven't been posting myself. I went to my doctors office and got a definate weight number to post. 186. I'm thrilled. I've been weighing in at 189 at home about 2 weeks ago. I don't know that I will make my actual goal for Christmas but I'm just thrilled to be losing anything at this point. My doctor stressed that I really need to be doing 4 days of exercise instead of the measly 2 I have been doing lately (I added measly, she didn't). So I'm really going to try harder to that. I've done well with cutting out sugary treats and sugary sodas. I just don't eat vegetables or fruit and don't know how to fit them into my schedule. Hope you're all doing well.

I am working on day 5 of clean eats. yay! Major accomplishment considering I had to toss all of my kids halloweek goodies to keep from eating them all myself.

Tiki.