The Countdown to Summer Challenge!
 

Here we go Ladies..my last ditch attempt to kick some fat cells outta my life :) i promise to post every week :crossed:

Starting weight 164.5lbs :(

April 25th 160.5lbs :) -4lbs

May 2nd 157.5lbs :cp: -3lbs

May 9th 157lbs :shrug: -.5lb

May 16th 158.5lbs :( + 1.5lbs Depressed and off plan this week :cry:

May 23rd 157.5lbs ;) - 1lb

May 30th 155.0lbs :bravo: ;)

June 6th 157.5lbs :(

June 13th 157.5lbs :shrug: i know..i can do better :lol:

June 20th 158.5lbs this morning :( 1lb GAIN!!

Total loss 6lbs in 9 weeks :rolleyes: PATHETIC :lol:
I'm into exercising again now and once i get my diet under control i plan to make some great progress..are you still with me?

Yay Cathy :cp: :bravo: We'll spend this summer all svelte and looking good :cool:

I challenge myself to lose 3 pounds to weigh in at 150 fully clothed instead of ... well you know :o

Starting Weight 152.8

April 19 - 150.6

April 26 - 150.4

May 3 - 151.0

May 10 - 150.4

May 17 - 151.5 (TOM)

May 24 - 150.6

May 31 - 153.0 (Holy that's the wrong way!!!)

June 7 - 152.6

June 14 - missed wigh in

June 21 -150.2

Oooh Cathy...great loss. Awesome! :)

Thanks Pam :) good luck for tomorrow :lucky:

Since I got my new scale I'll just start my countdown at May 9th

May 9th - 166.5

May 16th - 165.0

May 23rd - 164.2 (Woo hoo! -.8 of a lb.)

May 30th - 166.0 (I pigged out on the weekend :( )

June 6th - 167.0 :mad:

June 13th - 164.6 :cp: TOM's gone!!!

June 20th

June 27th

July 4th

Hi Jess,

Jump on in and welcome aboard. The more the merrier is our attitude. Focus on small steps and take one day at a time.

Hi Jess...its great to have you with us :) Good Luck :lucky:

Thanks
 

Thank you for the warm welcome. I look forward to being apart of the countdown to summer. Just waiting for the rain to go away and the sun to come out and stay out for a longggg time. :flow2:

Girl, don't even talk to me about rain :) We just got dumped with about a half foot of SNOW yesterday here in Alberta. Yuck. At least the sun is out today so it should be nice and sloppy today and tomorrow and then dry up again. I'm looking forward to getting outside to walk, walk, walk. Have a great week!

Pam

Just checking in! Hope everyone is doing well! :cb:

Hi Jess :wave: well at least you did'nt GAIN ;) :lol: btw..you don't need to type out all the dates again you can go in to a previous post and edit it if you want to save some time :D Good Luck for next week :lucky:

Thanks for the tip Cathy ;) I just copied and pasted it so luckily I didn't waste too much time retyping it LOL. Congrats on the weight loss Cathy :bravo: !

Hi its me again.
Sorry I bailed on the Easter Challenge.
I went on vacation to LasVegas for 2 weeks. I thought I would be able to post from there, but the RV park we stayed at had no internet connection. Plus with 2 weeks of buffets, I let counting points, exercise (although we did walk A LOT) and posting just go by the wayside. I have been home now, and conveniently forgot to go back on program.
But, my pants were so tight today, that it gave me the kick in the butt reminder I needed.
SOOOOOOO
If I go off and stop posting, please reel me back in!!!
Email me, instant message me, anything!
My goal is to get to 170,,,13lbs........ 169 sounds even better!
[email protected]

Thanks for the support, and great job so far to all!

Barb

May 5 - 183

May 12

May 19

May 26

June 2

June 9

June 16

June 23

Hiya Barb..be careful what you wish for :genie: :s: seriously tho' glad to have you back on the challenge :D

New Scale = More Weight
 

Okay so I got my Tanita scale and it seems I'm not as skinny as I thought I was hee hee :D But also, TOM came a week early so I don't know what my real weight is :?: So I guess next week will be a more accurate reading.

Hope all is well with everyone! :twirly:

Oh Dear :( can you take it back Jess? :s: :lol: he-he

Hee Hee, I wish that everytime the scale said that I gained weight that I could take it back and make them give me a new one that would read my goal weight when I stood on it :D That would be pretty cool. I can just imagine how the convo would go:

Walking into Costco and approaching returns line~

Me: Excuse me but I would like to return this scale.

Costco Employee: Why?

Me: It say's that I weigh 166 pounds!

Costco Employee: So?

Me: Well I don't weigh 166 pounds. I would like a scale that reads 145 pounds when I stand on it.

Costco employee: Sure no problem. We'll get you your new scale right away.

Hee hee :lol: Yeah right!!!! It was fun to fantisize though :smug:

I did OK this week, thanks to the flu. I'll take it anyway I can get it! Hope all is well, keep on losing!

May 5 - 183

May 12 - 178.5

May 19

May 26

June 2

June 9

June 16

June 23


Barb :)
Highest 194
Current 178 :)
Goal 130??

Hi Barb,

Welcome back. Glad to see you posting again. Hope you"re feeling better.

Pam

:lol: @ Jess..failing that you could always take the battery out and paint 145lbs on it :s: :lol:

Hi Barb..great loss :cp: hope you're feeling better too :D

Hey Cat90 what happened to our ten pounds at a time #169 thread... I can't find it.. ?

Dahlia

"Ahhh that's much better (With paint brush in hand)" :lol:

Everyone is doing so great!

:bravo: Barb!

Don't worry Cathy today is a new day so you can start being OP as of today! I also was off plan this week. I only exercised once :( but hoping to go hiking this weekend so I can burn some calories.

Keep up the good work everyone :jig:

Congrats on losing the 1.5lbs Jess :bravo: i only just spotted that this morning :dizzy: i've got to get back at the exercising too, strangely enough i miss it :spin:

I didn't do too well this week either Cat, better from the flu, and TOM. But, this is a new week. Just got done walking for 30, and actually JOURNALED for the first time in a while.
Great Job this week Mocha, your posts crack me up!
Sammy, you're an inspiration!

May 5 - 183

May 12 - 178.5 (Flu)

May 19 - 179 (Better, lol) (TOM)

May 26

June 2

June 9

June 16

June 23


Barb

Hi Girls..i'm all gung-ho again :lol: walked/jogged 1 mile yesterday ;) would have been more but i forget my water then i worked in the garden for 5 hours. I'm determined to be good for the remainder of the week :D

Thanks for the congrats Cat. Hopefully I will lose more this week :) Good job on getting back on the wagon :cp:

Barb - I'm glad I can provide some laughter for you :lol: Sometimes I'm a little too sarcastic but hey I gues that's just how I am.

Don't worry about the half a pound. You're still doing really great. Look at the difference between the 5th and the 19th. That's an awesome loss :cp:

I bought a new pedometer off Ebay about a week ago and it is wayyyy off so I bought a new one from Kmart. Hopefully this one works well. I will test it when I do my 3 mile Walk Away the pounds video today.

Hope everyone is hanging in there and meeting there May goals!!!

:lol: how many miles was the pedometer you got from Ebay clocking up? Jess :lol: so, you are another WATP's user are you? two ladies on TPAAT are doing that too :D i have a treadmill so can't really justify buying the tapes :) plus i've got a batch of Pilates ones that i've got to break in :lol:

Well the walk around the park that I go to is is about 2.8 Miles. When I went walking with my crappy Ebay pedometer it read .113 of a mile :yikes:. At first I thought I put it on the wrong part of my pants or something, but then I did my WATP 3-mile walk and when the tape said that I had completed .5 mile of a walk I checked my pedometer and it read .012 of a mile. Then I put my mom's pedometer on for the rest of the tape and it was close because it said 2.7 instead of the 2.5 miles, which is about right because I alway's work at a higher intensity then the tape. So I tried my new KMART pedometer that is a lot cooler then the :censored: Ebay one because I program my weight and age in it and it tells you how many calories you burn, steps you've taken, and miles you've walked. It also has the time of day and a stop watch. NEWAY's I tried that one with the WATP and it was pretty much on target.

I like the WATP tapes, but they get kind of annoying after awhile. Usually I'll just have the tape running and do the steps to the music without watching it. There are only 4 steps so its not hard at all. I have the one with the 2 pound weights. Overall I think they are great tapes to lose weight to no matter what size you are. Especially since it has a 1, 2, and 3 mile tape and uses weights. I only use the 3 mile tape because the other ones don't feel like I'm doing anything. I recommend them to anyone who needs a push to lose weight. I'm thinking of buying the WATP with the resistance bands. I may check them out on EBAY, Half.com, or Craigslist.org (hopefully I won't get screwed over like my pedometer :lol: Actually I've alway's had good luck with Ebay until now :( ) .

I've never tried Pilates. Let me know what you think of the tapes and then maybe I will incorporate Pilates into my workout.

Hope everyone is doing well. I will weigh-in tomorrow!!! Hope there is a loss from last week.

Hi Ladies :wave:
Good Luck with the weigh-in Jess :) if i were to use the WATP's tapes it would be the one with the resistance bands too..i need to push myself a little harder to see results..a brisk walk won't do it :( i keep meaning to try the pilates tapes but i'm a TVholic :lol: when i'm working out i like to watch tv and i feel like the tapes are taking my tv time away from me :lol:

Congrats on the weightloss Jess :cp: i did the Pilates 20 minute tape yesterday and i really like it..the first time i was "hmm..don't know if i like this" because i could'nt keep up but yesterday i kept up and was able to do everything except the last exercise where i lost my balance :lol: i'm going to do it again this morning :wave:

Woo hoo Cat :cb: Congrats to you as well :cp: I think I will buy the Pilates for Dummies tape next week. I hear lots of good things about it. Thanks for the info.

I'm not sure how well I'm going to do on my diet because my graduation is tomorrow and we are having chinese food and of course cake (Yummy)!!! Hopefully I will only have a little bit. Also I think my mom is BBQing on Monday :yikes: Ahhhh the temptation already!

Hope everyone has a great Memorial Day weekend!

Congratulations on your Graduation Jess :bravo: be careful which Pilates tape you buy because i bought Pilates Plus at first and sat there with my mouth open :lol: it is much too difficult for a beginner then i bought Winsor Pilates and it is excellent she shows you all the moves and you don't have to be a rabid dog to keep up :lol: i've just done the 20 minute tape now i think i'll stick with that one for a while before i go on to the accelerated tape.
Sounds like you have a lovely weekend planned..ENJOY IT :D

Hi ladies,

Hello Jess, nice to meet you.. and congratulations both on your graduation and on your great weight loss..

I am joining the summer challenge.. I have lost 9.5 pounds this past month with a hectic work schedule and I hope it has given me a jump start into new way of eating. I feel so good about it.. and I just plain feel good.. so I am going to do it this time.. and just change my life... for good..

Dahlia

Congrats Mocha!
What kind of school are you finished with?
Gosh, must be a great relief.

You are all doing so well. I guess my problem is I need to get moving. They have just opened a Curves for Women less than 1 mile from my house. Do any of you have any experience with that? It sounds good so far, no men allowed, no skinny girls in spandex, no mirrors. And a 30min total body workout, I can sure fit that in. Plus it looks like fun.

May 5 - 183

May 12 - 178.5 (Flu)

May 19 - 179 (Better, lol) (TOM)

May 26 - 178 Yeah!!!!!

June 2

June 9

June 16

June 23


Barb


Good luck this week! Keep on losin!

:cp: well done Barbmarie :)
Jess i love your new pic..you look lovely not the least bit fat and you appear to be tall..how tall are you? I'm down 2.5lbs this week :cb: hope you are doing well and did'nt eat too much cake.
Congratulations again :cp:

:cp: Cat and Barb congrats on the loss!!! And mucho congrats to Dahlia for your success!

I ate wayyyy too much this past graduation weekend so I'm up 1.8 pounds :eek: to 166. I ate Chinese food, cake, bbq, icecream, etc. :( Actually I weighed myself Tuesday and I was at 166.8 so I've lost .8 lbs since Monday, which is good. I've been doing good as far as eating and drinking water but haven't gotten any exercise in because I'm wayyy too busy. I'm not going out with the bf tonight so I will get some exercise in after I get home from work :D

Thanks for the info on the pilates tapes. Maybe I will get the Windsor one. I'm still debating though.

Thanks everyone for the congratulations! To answer Barb's question I graduated from San Jose State University w/a BS in Business Administration emphasis in human resources :) I'm just glad it's over.

Cat - Thanks for the compliment. I'm 5'6.5" but everyone alway's thinks I'm a lot taller then that because I usually have platforms on :lol: In that picture my shoes are about 3 inches. hee hee!

Well it's almost June and my June goal is to get to 159.5 That is 6.5 lbs. I think the goal is very much doable and I hope I can make it.

Have a great weekend everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:mad: Aaaahhhh up one pound! But the weird thing is that my clothes are looser and my stomach looks a little flatter. I have even been getting compliments from people saying that it looks like I'm losing weight. Then why the heck is my scale going up rather then down?!?!?! I don't do very many weights so I don't think I'm gaining much muscle. Unless I'm gaining muscles in my legs from walking. That could be a possibility. I guess I shouldn't be so dependent on the numbers, but I just can't help it. I really want to accomplish my goal of losing 5 pounds this month. I should be happy that my body fat percentage did go down .5 % so I guess my analogy of gaining muscle is right. Its just frustrating to have the scale numbers be so high.

Hi Jess,
Accept the compliments :) something is working! Have you taken your measurements? some people find that that is a better indication of their loss than that infernal scale :lol: you've probably guessed from my tone that i've gained too..2.5lbs!!
My Fault..no exercise for a week..and not really worrying about what i've been eating either..i have'nt gone overboard but i could have done a lot better..we are currently having a heatwave here should reach 32 degrees today and i'm moving really slow :lol: from my bed to the deck to sunbathe :s: i think i'll visit some websites and decide on a plan and stick to it..i want to lower those numbers too :D HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND! :wave:

May 5 - 183

May 12 - 178.5 (Flu)

May 19 - 179 (Better, lol) (TOM)

May 26 - 178 Yeah!!!!!

June 2 - 176

June 9 - 178 ????????? Geesh I feel like a yo-yo

June 16

June 23


I was doing better, but had 3 birthdays this week, hubbys on the 1st, daughters on the 4th and sons yesterday. Lots of cake, ice cream, and a huge BBQ yesterday. Back to the drawing board I guess. *Sigh* :o


Hey Cat, if you find anything that works, let me know!

TOM came last week on Saturday :mad:! A week earlier then it was supposed to. I think that explains my unexpected gain.

Cat - did you find a plan?

Barb - Its those stupid weekends and celebrations that always get me too