And, boy... is it going to be a big one, right? The blizzard of holiday goodies are around.
Spreadsheet Link! We're at the End of Week 7, and we're moving into Week 8!
Give us all your Updates and Plans for this week!
We've got two full weeks left of this challenge. Let's stay strong through the end-of-year Holidays and start off the New Year with a huge, healthy bang!
Going to step on the scale tomorrow morning and give the update.
The last couple of weeks have been less than stellar... far... far less than stellar. I don't want to be a downer, but I made some terrible decisions.
I made one amazing decision, though. To get on 3FC and take in the consequences of my actions.
So, here I am
Okay, so I ate a bunch that I didn't need, and I didn't get in the activity that I know my body so desperately craves for health.
I got on the scale Friday and nearly fainted at what I saw. Saturday and Sunday were better. I tracked my food for both days. And Sunday I was out buying the last of the holiday things I needed for this year, and so forced to walk around a lot. My thighs burned. And while a little sore for the wear, I am happy I got out and moved.
Some people around me think it a little odd that I'm choosing this week to focus on tracking my food and getting back up on the treadmill. After all, I can hear them say "Why not wait until New Year's?"
But... I know that everyone here (all of 3FC) understands why I say "No! No! I'm not waiting!" Waiting would defeat the whole purpose of changing the way I used to do things in the past. Waiting would mean putting on another 10 pounds. Waiting until the New Year is the equivalent of saying "I'll do it tomorrow."
And, everyone here knows... tomorrow never comes.
So. Here I am.
I've got two glorious weeks of work to do in this Challenge. Two glorious, productive weeks where I will bit by bit build my better habits up.
And by January 1st I won't be thinking "Gee, I guess I better start now. ...Or maybe tomorrow or next week..." I will be thinking. "Man, I'm glad I'm back to normal and healthier. This year is already brighter."
The last two weekends have killed me!!!! I was doing so good last week....lowest numbers I've seen in a while and all that great stuff. Then we had our family Christmas party last weekend and I overdid it. I was up like 5 pounds overnight. Worked hard throughout the whole week to get back down and pretty much made it (was up about .5 this week). Yesterday was the Patriots game and my mom always puts out a spread and am back up to 185 this morning.
SO FRUSTRATING!!!! I have worked so hard these past couple of months and I can feel it all slipping away a bit, little by little. The unstructure of the weekends are killing me and I worry even more with next weekend being Christmas and all the craziness that comes with that.
But I have a plan for the week. I am going to try to lower my points to the 26 minimum for the week so that I can hopefully have a good week before weigh in next week and hopefully that will help set me up for a stable Christmas dinner.
I'm unsure how accurate my weight in this week and will be next week as well. I think I've mentioned that my weighins are always at work. We had a 10 week biggest loser competition (I came in 4th out of 20) and now are on Christmas break. My scale at home is sometimes accurate....sometimes not. I'm sure there is a loss of some sort because both scales are lower than I've ever seen them, so I'm going with it. I'll weigh in again on the same scale on Jan. 3 so we'll see how accurate mine has been. I can check on my mom's scale wednesday too, she said her's is usually right around the same as the Dr office.
Going with that....I'm down .6 this week. Not bad...even good considering some of the choices I've made. I really was bad and did the whole "well, there's no one to hold me accountable for the next two weeks, so I can eat that..." a lot. In the long run....I realize I need to be accountable for myself....I'm really looking to get below 200 before I go back to school and it won't happen making those choices!
I made a few bad choices (but overall it was okay) but TOM kicked in soooo bad friday (after being 1 week late... a lot of ''omg am I pregnant!!!!'' stress too)
So friday I was up 1 lbs (omg) and saturday up 2 lbs!! After those scaring numbers, I have to admit that I underate the whole weekend. I guess that explain the loss that I have this morning.
Lovely, congrats for being back on track. And as you said, in the weight loss word, tomorrow never comes. Yay for you
Chele, december has been a rough month overall. Good luck for this week, sens some news oever here of how it's going with your 26 points!
Katrat, congrats for the loss! You're soooo close from the onederland! Keep going
Last edited by TurboMammoth; 12-19-2011 at 08:06 AM.
This past week I have done pretty good but you would never know it by the scale This is week four of this plateau! I am sooo frustrated. I have looked over my journal and I am staying within my points I have on some days felt the need to eat my activity points but I am working out 6-7 days a week for 65 min on the elliptifcal a few days I add some strength training too and I am only down .5. GRRRRRR
Any advice would be great. btw tried this great molasses cookie recipe this weekend yummy...only 2pp per cookie and I had a total of 4 all weekend
I cut back on the amount of bread/pasta type stuff I'm eating, back to a rare thing. (I had the bottom half of a bun with one dinner, and a half serving of veggie lasagna w/rice pasta for with one lunch, that was it for the week.) I had noticed I've been having some slight gains from it where otherwise I ought to be nutritionally fine - within my calories, etc. The WI before last I lost 1.0 and within 2 days I had regained 0.6 and just had to look hard at what I was eating and think of something new to try. I had a day where I ate bread or pasta (whole grain) in some form with breakfast, lunch dinner, but as far as points/calories I was fine, but I gained the next day. I'm not low carbing it or anything though.
I've been snacking on nuts more too - Blue Diamond's butter toffee almonds are yummmm btw. It's like 4 pp for 24 nuts but SO good and for me anyway works when I have a bit of a sweet tooth or in the mood for something crunchy.
I also changed my strength training 30 min 3x a week to 45 min 4x a week, split into 2x upper body, 2x lower body.
I ended up losing 6.8 for the week! I was expecting some movement but not quite that much. But the exciting part was hitting ONEDERLAND this week! That was my goal for New Years (and this challenge!) I've only been this weight twice before - when I first got out of high school, and then another point in my early 20s (I'm mid 30s now). Never lower than that and usually higher. Often MUCH higher!
So it's all new territory from here. Very exciting.
Hope everyone has a great plan for the holidays. Whatever choices we make, I think the best thing we can do is not be too hard on ourselves. It's just a lot of energy over something we can't change, that could be spent on moving forward.
nancy : a loss is still a loss, but I understand that at a point, we expect more than 0.5 or something.
To help get through my plateau, usually I changed my food a bit. I get in some very repetitive food pattern (eating the same thing for breakfast and lunch all the time) so at my last plateau, I changed my english muffin banana for some cereal, my salad for a healthy wrap, etc. Don't know if it makes a lot of sense but at least it gave me the impression of really changing something!
Somni : OMG what a LOSS! I saw that this morning and I was WOOOOOW! Congrats to you
Turbo I took your words to heart. I have been tracking my food on mfp since oct 17. and when I would look at the totals for the day I always seemed to be eating around 1100-1400 calories a day. What I wasn't paying attention to was the fat and fiber! So I plugged in my numbers with my actual ww calculator and discovered before the plataeu I was eating on avg 25 pts (flex plan), and the past 4 weeks 29 pts! Big difference! So I am revisiting my food journal to look for meals that will put me back on track and reduce my acutal pts to 22. I hope to see a drop next Monday
While I was way up the past couple weeks, I got on the scale and it seems over the weekend I dropped the water weight that had been hanging on due to the bad food choices. Over 7 pounds of water weight... (Yeah, it was that bad.)
I'm still up on the scale overall, but it's a little more manageable in my head.
Going food shopping for all the right things tonight.
I missed my last weeks Friday weigh- in so I went today AND had a 4 lb loss!
I am ecstatic!
In the last 2 and half weeks I have lost 7.4 lbs! I'm feeling good..hopefully will stay this way for the next few weeks with Christmas and all.
I am 2 lbs away from my first major goal of getting out of morbid obesity. It felt so far away a couple of months ago, but here I am. Its an amazing feeling to get to the goals.
Have a great week everyone. Happy Christmas!
Last edited by SLIMplicity; 12-19-2011 at 08:08 PM.
Just checkin in to say that I'm going to my dad's place for the holiday, leaving tomorrow, and dad has no internet connection... so I won't be able to post my last 2 WI for the challenge.
Good luck for those last WI to all of you, and all the best wishes for the new year to come
You guys know that I've been having a couple rough weeks....showing good results one day and then rocketing back up like 5 pounds overnight. Then I work all week to kick butt and get back down to the same range just to repeat the cycle all over again.
Frustrating beyond belief because I was doing so well beforehand and just want to get out of the 180's sooner rather than later. But it seemed like for every two steps forward, I would take 4 back! But, I think I may have hit a whoosh because this afternoon I weighed myself after coming home from the gym (at like 4pm) and I was like 2 pounds lighter than I was this morning!!!! Hopefully it stays down for tomorrow morning!!! (I weigh myself every day.....even though it might not necessarily be the best idea)
WW MM CHALLENGE! Nov/Dec Week 8!
Good luck for this week, sens some news oever here of how it's going with your 26 points! 
