Baby Steps 1
 

Okay here we go! My name is Dale and I am 32 years old with a fiance, 10 year old daughter, three cats (Bear, Tippy, Logan) a rabbit (Fang), a full time job and 30 more pounds to loose.

I have just completed a challenge called the "Father's Day Challenge" This was started at the end of February by wonderful, motivational and inspirational lady. I made a goal on that challenge and while I did not make it I did lose 30 pounds. Alot of the ladies agreed that the challenge was a little long and staying motived was harder towards the end. The posting slowed down and I missed it. So my thoughts on how we can stay motivated and complete goals is to make smaller ones that we feel will not only challenge us but once completed, will motivated us to continue.

So if you have something in your life that you wish you could either do or not do for the next six weeks....join in! It can be excerise, eating right, making your bed everyday, learning how to say no when needed. learning to swim or truly anything that you want to tackle.

My Challenge for baby steps 1 is as follows;

1. Loose ten pounds, by sticking to my food program and getting in some exercise and drinking more of the dreaded water.

2. I am moving at the end of this month and I am going to include in my challenge to get this house and the new apartment in order by the end of these six weeks.

Another aspect of this challenge would be rewarding yourself when you've made you goal. My reward at the end of these six weeks will be to pamper myself with a mini makeover. I will get my hair done, buy a new outfit and have a great dinner in my favorite restuarant (its seafood, so even then I will try to stay OP)

I hope you will join in my challegne. It's start Monday June 21 and the final day will be Sunday August 1. Even if you're are late in starting please join me in the journey and we can motivate each other, create new friends and have a great time while we work our butts off!!!

Dale

Dale, I'm here too!
 

34yr old stay at home mom of 2 girls with work from home husband desires thinner better looking ( and feeling) body.

Continued weight loss plan is low carb with perhaps some emphasis on exercise, tho I have yet to be able to iron out an undeniable exercise routine.I would also like to continue to try and get in my 100oz of water, which has dropped of significantly over the last weeks.

Would like to drop 10 lbs over the next 6 weeks. Sounds do able since the Christenings, Birthdays, Graduations, ect, are over for the summer!

Lissa

Lissandy,

It's great that you are here! I am excited about this one and I hope there will be more of us! I feel kindrid with you because I too, do the low carb thing and I feel that it works when I do it without the exercise and I have to convince myself that I need to exercide to be healthy but then I think,,,shoot if I am loosing why should i sweat?

Maybe the exercise thing should be in my my next 6 weeks? Baby steps......thats what I am taking!

Dale

Okay its day one and I am excited. Feel motivated and haven't for quite some time now. I am currently at work but I will be back this evening for more....


Dale

Hi there
My goal is to loose 15 lbs in this challenge. I plan to o keep my food diary, get in 8 glasses of water a day, to journal faithfully and to write down all that I eat and to add 4 days of excersize a week in.
I joined fitday so that should help with the journalling and the water intake. I have enlisted hubby to do the exercise - since he teaches and is off for the summer I am hoping he can help me out

Deenie I was usuing fitday for awhile to. But I found it alot of work. If you eat the same things and can store your food in the log then its great but everytime you eat something different than you got to find it again. It was taking me longer to log than to actually eat the food! But if it works for you that great. I was journaling my own food in a dairy and I fould that better vecause I journaled ahead of time and that way I knew what I was eating everyday and found that I did not deter from the schedule. It's wonderful that your hubby is going to do it with you. Having someone there is always helpful. You can go through it together.

Today was really rotten. Last night I found out that my best friend (who is also my boss) came onto my fiance awhile ago and he said that he "thinks" nothing happened because he was so drunk. I feel like a total fool for trusting her and I have to not say anything because of work. I love my job and don't want to have to leave so all day I kept telling myself that it was the "friend" that did me wrong not the "boss" She knows nothing about me knowing and I can't confront her either. I do not know what to do about my relationship because I feel he's not telling me everything just so that I don't get hurt anymore! All day she was asking me if I was okay and could she do anything to help. God I wanted to just tell her off. And the fiance is being an idiot by saying he should not have said anything (on the off chance I just asked out of the blue) because he doesn't want me to loose my best friend! I have one thing about my friends. You pretty much can do anything you want and I will forgive you but, don't betray my trust for a guy. I don't think thats so much to ask do you? Well, I got alot of thinking to do about this and I hope to get the entire truth of HIM before I make any decisions.

Okay than.....enough depressing thoughts about my life. I hope anyone lurking will join in and make this a great group (that's already begun with you Lissandy and Deenie) Even with everything going on right now I am still focused and determined to do this challenge and the next one and the next one....

Have a wonderful night and talk more tomorrow.

Dale

well, I've lost the 2lbs I found on vacation!
 

Which makes me pretty happy! I think TOM had a lot to do with it tho. Don't care, I'm still rolling! An aunt in law saw me on Sunday and asked me how much I had lost- she could really see the difference across my midsection- she owns a workout studio, so it's nice to be noticed!
There is a wedding on the 16th of July- maybe by then I can be at my original FDC goal plus a few more pounds- I wouldn't mind a bit!


What kind of a jerk is going to come on to her best friends' fiance? That's the kind of thing soap opera's are made of! You need to set the record straight with your 'friend'..drunk or no it was low down crappy thing to do. If you forgive her, that's great, but don't keep hiding it from her, it will drill a hole in your heart. You can at least get her side of the story anyway...

Dale - what a thing for a friend to do. I guess I would probably confront her because knowing me I would blurt it out some time if I was angry! Never could close my mouth sometimes.
Lissandy - how great to have your aunt notice. When someone can tell, it really can give you a boost to keep going.

I"ll keep in mind what you said about fitday - I had heard rave reviews from people, but today I was getting pretty frustrated trying to input something I ate out of a box and it wanted every detail about it.

Today I was really consious about what I ate - but didn't get in any exercise and have a baby shower to attend tonight. So no munchies for me at the shower

Hi there,

I think I'll try the challenge and start with a 10 lb loss for the 6 weeks.
I have a personal challenge and a 20 year class reunion to deal with in about 5 weeks, I'm very nervous about it, but do want to go and see some old friends.

I've never done a challenge before but I am not short on words when it comes to writing.

Great to meet you!!!

Hope you all have a good day!!!
Julie

Okay, so maybe you thought I fell off the face of the earth. Well, I didn't. But boy did I have a terrible three weeks! First of all, we had a death in the family. My uncle died after his tractor rolled over on top of him while he was trying to mow a hill that he shouldn't have. So I spent 3 days up north with lots of family and way too much food to even think about. Then after I came home our computer was totally screwed up. Come to find out my adoring husband spent his time with me and our daughter gone looking at porn and downloading a virus onto our computer. Men are soooooo stupid sometimes. I could go on about how furious this made me.....but there is only so much you gals need to hear and I can't type all of the profanity that would express my deeper inner emotions! For about 10 days we couldn't do anything. We had to have the local computer geek come and fix it. In the end there were over 6000 pieces of junk on our computer!!!!! Now it runs like a champ. And then we come to the lack of motivation portion of my whining. I am back to 181 lbs. After all of the hard work in April and getting down to 174, I went straight back to where I was. So, here I am begging for forgiveness and looking to get back on track. I like the idea of a mini goal better than such a long thread. I am going to lose eight pounds this challenge! I AM DAMNIT!!! No matter how bad that evil will power tries to stab me in the back and sabbotage my happiness!!!

And speaking of stabbing in the back...Trixi, you deffinitly need to find out the whole truth from you fiance and then go to your friend and say that you need to talk about "friend stuff" after work, and then confront her. Keeping in mind that alcohol had something to do with it, maybe not much really did happen. BUT, that does not excuse the behavior. Hopefully you two can work it out because good friends are hard to find, especially later in life.

Lissandy, great that the aunt noticed! That had to feel great!

Deenie, glad to hear you are hanging in there too! Keep up the positive vibes!

To everyone else, sorry to be so long winded. Your turn to talk!

I am going to try this challenge, I usully post on BUddy UP, but I like the idea of a short challenge of 10 pounds in 6 weeks. Boatingmommy, I would NEVER forgive my husband for looking at porn on the computer or anywhere's else, I would see it as a lack of respect for me and his way of telling me that I am no longer attractive to him and that he is looking else where. Trixi, girl, you need to find out the truth, if a man really loves you then drunk or not, he would know and not "think" nothing happened because no other woman would tempt him. Anyway I hope you ladies don't mind me dropping in and I would like to wish all of you good luck with this challenge.

Thanks for all your thoughts....at work right now but I will post more tonight...boatingmommy WELCOME BACK!!!!

Morning all - I did lousy Monday and Tuesday. I was OK until dinnertime then went to a picnic on Monday and a baby shower Tuesday and both days gave into the temptation to drink sugared beverages and eat dessert. I could just kick myself. But here I am and today I will do better. Welcome Boating Mommy, Praytherosary and Partschik glad to have you!

Welcome to new friends and old!!!
 

Well, Dale, it sounds like the majority of us feel you need to confront the girlfriend..


Mommy-What a terrible experience for your family! Gotta wonder sometimes 'why' folks do what they do..

ARRGHHHHHH! You sure it was hubby? My 10yr old is starting to 'experiment' with websites as well-things she thought would be 'innocent' (i.e bigbutts.com or something 'cutsie' like that) turned out to be MUCH more than she bargained for..and now her computer is down because yep, it got hit with a virus from one of those 'innocent' sites. I think the computer being down this long will teach her a lesson because I told her flat out how it probably got the virus and she says 'well, I didn't know".. Now she does!

However, if it wasn't innocently discovered and in fact was due to hubby- I'd let him have it with both barrels.

to the 'newbies'- post more 'stuff' so we can get to know you better!! Deenie, Mommy, Trixie and I just finished a 16week challenge entitled 'Fathers Day Challenge', so we're old timers now-

Hello everyone. Thanks for letting me in on this group A little about me. I am 45 years old and married for 27 years and have one son who is 26 and married. I went to TOPS a few years back and went from 215.5 down to 130 and very foolishly gained almost all of it back. I had gotten burned out with the TOPS meetins, for many reasons, one was that after working all day I would go to the meetings and have to work some more and it was just overwhelming, but the saddest part was that when I quit the meetings I quit my eating plan. I have no one to blame but me so I am the only one who can take it off again. My husband and I are in this together and we are trying to get to goal in a year from now. So here I am with all you wonderful people looking for support and encouragement and hopefully giving it back. I just want you to know that I pray daily for everyone on this site. Have a blessed evening.