Sounds fun!

6 Week Goals (April 9th)
* Avoid non-Atkins foods for all meals except my meal out with hubby (I need a little bit of respite!).
* Hit the gym at least 3 times per week.
* Stop "thinking" about food.

I'm so in!!

6 WEEK GOALS (4/9)

1. Bring lunch to work. Only things I can buy at work are veggies from the salad bar.
2. No pop! I don't know how or why I started drinking diet coke in the last few months, but I'm stopping, as of now.
3. Gym 4-5 times a week. (25-30 min of treadmill 3 of those days.)
4. Start running outdoors when it's nice out.
5. Walk partway home from work whenever possible.
6. Allow more calories on the weekends, but STICK TO IT. None of this crazy weekend splurging.

Reporting for Wednesday.

I ate a little too much, but for the first time in my challenge, I worked and worked out. So that might be OK.

Over 1600 cals, 11 superfoods, my vitamins.
25 minutes of dance type cardio and 20 minutes of abs.

It seems that whenever I sign up for one of these things I blow it . Getting back on the horse today .

Ate way too much yesterday due to expensive phone call from my father. I now have to pay all of the property tax on his house. Too long a story for here. Blog it instead.

Will cut back 100 cals for 3 days (300 total) to make up for yesterday (see I have learned something!).

Dagmar

You'll just have to imagine the bunch of us watching you when you chose something to eat

Wednesday was Ok. We ended up going out to eat on our way to get our elliptical! I got a grilled chicken sandwich and iced tea, but also had tater tots. Oh well. I'd been good the rest of the day.

Didn't get my workout in because we spent 2 hours trying to put together the elliptical, but it's finally done! DH also got a weight bench for him, but I can do lats, leg curls/extensions, arm curls and bench press now, too!

Planning on working out today after work since we have a "treadmill putting togethe party" at a friend's house tonight, so who knows if it'll be a healthy meal.. I sure hope so!

OK- Tuesday was great. No exercise, but I tracked my calories at 1350. Man was I hungry! Yesterday morning the scale *finally* moved- 135.6!

I ran for about 1.5 hours yesterday. However, it was so icy that I did walk for a part of that time. I went out to dinner last night and that kind-of blew my calories for the day . Scale was back up to 137 this morning.

It seems that cutting calories has more of an effect on my weight loss than exercise, which is a bummer because I am very active yet very hungry!

Hopefully I will do better today. Does anyone have any filling, low calorie food suggestions?

Looks like i went alittle over my calories for yesterday. I ate over 1400. Today, i am tracking my calories at about 1250, which will be 50 calories under my goal. But I did work out hard yesterday in gym class. Got that heartrate up there and got them legs good and sore today. lOl!!

Today, my goal will be to eat under 1300 calories, make a broccoli cheese bake for tomorrow, and hopefully meet with a trainer to discuss starting a program. Maybe i'll jog outside after work while waiting on my boyfriend to come pick me up. He's suppose to borrow my car at lunch today to run some errands. Definately working on the 64 ounces of water. Almost got half of it in and it's not even lunch time yet, so that is good.

I am so happy you started this. I guess i need a kick in the butt also. I thought that i was ready to start being healthy but apparently not. I have not been losing at all. Its kinda like people that are in recovery, they think they are but they are not ready. I want to be ready so I am hoping that this challenge works.
my goals.

Eating good on the weekend!
Making better choices when I go out!
Cutting out the unhealthy snacks.
Limiting my soda to one or two a week.

I am sure I will come up with some other goals but here is where i am starting!!! Thanks for getting us started!!!

Oh Susan, thanks for starting this. I'm doing the Easter goal too, but I need this also. The last couple of days have been bad. I've gotten off track with eating whatever is around. Bad. Bad.

My plan:

*STOP buying junk food. Even when I say it's for somebody else, it ends up in my mouth. So I'm not buying it anymore.
*Find a workout DVD that will get me moving. I'm at the beginning of my weight loss and haven't incorporated any exercise yet. That's going to change.
*Take my calories down from 1800 to 1500/day. I was advised to start out a little high and go down as I lose. It's time to cut some calories out.
*I'm ditching the 1 a day Coke or Dr. Pepper I allowed at the outset. This one will be super hard.
*Don't treat the weekends like a free for all. Keep up the calorie counting even on Saturday and Sunday!

Okay. I think those will keep me motivated and busy.

Well....i have blown my day calorie wise. I thought i would get a salad for lunch today. I got a grilled chicken salad but i got honey mustard dressing. Usually not a problem except somehow i ended up eating the whole side of dressing. The dressing alone was 500 calories. So, if the only other thing i eat tonight is one small chicken breast, my calories will be above 1500. And the fat content is like 50 percent. YIKES! So, yeah, I blew today out of the water!!!! Guess i'll just try to salvage as much of today as i can and start over tomorrow. bummer!!

Lumifan, gosh! Don't you hate those little surprises? Like, it's the DRESSING that kills you... Grrrrr...

Jay

Yesterday I had 1354 calories and that included wine and walnuts as a treat in the evening... Plus I was down 2 lbs this morning... When I plan really really hard I CAN do it .... I also weight trained for an hour...

Tonight I will do my bike and yoga, I think... 30 minutes of each... I also walked to and from school, it takes about 5 minutes to get there', so 5x4=20 minutes, so that's a little bonus workout, I walked very fast because I had very little time for lunch...

I just got done with my new elliptical! It's lowest resistance setting is a bit harder than what I'm used to, plus a combination of not working since, oh, November ( !!!!), well, it really kicked my butt today. I also got in 20 minutes of weight lifting...that's going to hurt tomorrow!

But I feel sooooo good! Next challenge: dinner at my friend's house tonight. Good time to practice control!

You guys are very busy posters!!

I did very well today -- even made my 10,000 steps without having to do 30 minutes on the treadmill. I supose, it wouldn't have hurt me to exercise anyway, but it was just too busy today. Stuck with my relaxed eating and did very well -- I have decided soda is bad! I was drinking 2 liters of caff-free diet almost every day but haven't the last two days and I swear I'm not hungry like I had been -- odd -- but lots and lots of water.

Hope everyone has a great Friday and carries that into the weekend.