Motivation

EDITED::::   I am changing the post title to reflect our new goal date and thanking all who participated and asked me to keep this awesome post going!!!!!    ( :

xoxoxoxox   love you, girls!


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I was given the ultimate gift for Xmas --- a vacation to LA and Vegas.
I want to lose 10 lbs before we fly out on May 24th.
Weekly weigh ins?
Motivating friends???
Anyone?
: D   I know I am sure going to try hard as my goal is to buy and WEAR a bathing suit in public without a t-shirt or shorts. 

Join Me??   ( ;

hi everyone! apologies for having been gone... work overtook everything, haha.. anyway, might not be here for the weigh in tomorrow so im doing the weigh in one day early.

 

i signed up for CClast week (april 4) at 195 lbs and today i'm ta-dah.... 189 lbs.! so yay for me... of course this is what i call suspicious weight because at 6 lbs. in one week.. it just might be water... still it feels great.

 

oh and i had a job interview yesterday for a new law firm and guess what, i had absolutely nothing to wear because all my clothes are now too big... first time i cheered not having anything to wear EVER... haha cheers all around :)

 

anyway, so there... for my first week it's 6 (dubious) lbs... but hopefully i can reach 180 come may 11 (date of a friend's wedding where i am a *gasp!* a bridesmaid...) and whatever i lose between then and the 24th is just icing on the cake :)

morning ladies,

hopefully my body agrees with me that I'm ready to run again. Tuesdays run went very bad. I had to get my brothe to drive me home. Apparently I was still sick. Oh well, I think I'm good today. I'm gonna try anyway.

Ladies that are feeling blah - I hope you feel better soon and it will get better.

Yay for those of you who have lost!

Today I weighed in. I'm 166! Woot! challenge start weight was 170. I so happy!

Have a few minutes to respond so taking advantage:

Jess -- LOVE the cute poem. :)

Zochia -- That is funny on the water instead of crystal light since today I did the opposite, lol!  I did it since I needed something with flavor so I could stay away from the soda vending machine. 

krrpt -- Picturing your geckos has me laughing out loud. :)  HOpe it works out between the 2 of them, hee hee.  And I am with you about those numbers.  Too me it just seems like I plateau every 5 lbs and it takes forever to get to the next step.  I am just taking it one day at a time and at least realize that over the long term, the scale is 30 lbs lighter than when I first started so something is budging, just really slow.

Amaresmom -- ((((((((((((((())))))))))))  From your posts I have to say you are such a strong woman and I hope that you find a better place with your feelings with your mom.

ka -- Hey in the same boat but don't let it stop you, next weight could be 4 down! (and now I need to listen to my own words, lol!)

Hi everyone - well... so far, so good. Today is day 4 of my "back to being healthy" campaign. My office is doing a huge fundraiser for the march of dimes and I turned down a huge, fattening lunch of hot dogs, chili, frito pies, etc and instead had a turkey pita and sun chips. That is a victory! I haven't actually made it to the gym yet this week and I probably won't get a chance to until Saturday. But I've stayed within my calories each day so that is a huges step for me ;)

I don't have much time, but wanted to pop in and say hello. Will be back to weigh in tomorrow!!! And hopefully have more time to read and comment!!!

xo,

A. Blue

Sheesh - could I use the word "huge" more times maybe in my post?!?! lol

=P   lol, is three times a lot?    anywho good for you, amy blue, for skipping the junk food. 

I made my own butter/Equal/cinnamon dry chex cereal for our faculty meeting this morning, so when I watched everyone else eat fried lard (eerrrrr...  I mean, doughnuts), I could feel good about my choices.   ( :

I got out and jogged today finally.   The rain has been relentless this month.   It is so muddy my shoe literally got caught in the mud and I almost lost it!  

Thanks for all the encouragement this week.  It means a lot to me!    Good luck seems inappropriate, but I will see you for the weigh in tomorrow! 

mmm that chex mix cereal actually sounds really YUMMY ;)

Has anyone heard of Sprinkles cupcakes? It's like a trendy cupcake place that started in Beverly Hills and they have one in Dallas (they are $4 per cupcake!!). Well - they just started selling donuts. I bet they are sooooooo good. They don't use any preservatives or anything in their cupcakes - I wonder if it's the same in their donuts!

I'm kinda looking forward to weigh-in tomorrow. It will have only been 5 days but hopefully 5 good days. The warmer weather is giving me better motiviation - I keep picturing myself wearing shorts or tank tops. And there is no way I am doing that in this condition!! It's already 82 here today so I'm a bit behind the curve... but it's OK I just gotta keep it up!

April 4  2008 163.4 

April 10       & nbsp; 161.8

Not sure if I will be around tomorrow....Hope everyone is doing well

Sorry -haven't been able to keep up with journals or posts on here much lately (I am not too supportive lately huh?)  I will try to do better.....

Well......today was awesome, I feel so good!!!!  THis morning I got up and asked my mom, who is a very sick woman.  she has spine and neck problems.  If she wanted to go with a walk with me.  And whe said YES!!!!!!  She was feeling good today and so she came with me.  And although I had to go a lot slower for her and not walk as far, it still made me feel wonderful.  Hopefull she is able to keep it up.  I will be more than hapy to make that sacrafice.  But that isn't all of it.  Like two months ago I convinced her to go on the diet with me and she, reluctantly, agreed.  Well since then she has lost 17 pounds.  Well I haven't measured her in a while and guess what.  She lost 11 1/2''!!!!  I was so happy for her.  With being chair ridden most the day.  SO after the walk I came home and ate a little snack and went for a bike ride.  And I finally doubled what I have been wanting to!!!  So I got in a very good workoout there.  And the hills killed!!!!!!!  Oh my!!!  SO by the time the bike ride was over it was lunch time.  Which is a good thing because I was very shaky.  Then after lunch and an episode of "what not to wear", I love that show!!!!, I did an hour of pilates.  So today was very productive!!!!  And all week I have staying right at my calorie limit of just under.  SO that is wonderful.  I can't wait to have that ice cream on Sunday!!!!  I think I will have someone stand there and monitor me to make sure I don't go over board.  THere are 4 different kinds in that freezer begging me to come visit them for ever!!!!

So to reward myself I sat down and watched The Phantom of the Opera, without the yummy munchies!!!! yay!!!! 

Oh...I might not be able to post my weight until Saturday morning.  Because I might not see the scale until friday night.  Which means there is going to be snacks everywhere.  oh no.  I will stay away from them.  Because I don't want my ice cream to get jeleous!!!!!  SO I will still weight in on friday but will more that likely post it saturday. 

wickedsis!!!!!  good job on the weight loss!!!!!!!!  Don't worry about it, you lost 6 lbs!!!!  And yeah don't blame you for being happy.  That just means you can go shopping!!!!

immom- sorry you were feeling bad the other day.  And glad yo are feeling well enough.  Hope you were able to get in your run!!!!  And good job with the loss!!

amyblue!!!!!!!  You must have such great will power!!!!  But I bet seeing all those people eating junk made you feel on top of the world!!!!!!!  And good job staying within you calorie range!!!!!!

Olivia- Sounds good.  Good work keeping away from the "lard" lol.  Glad you were able to get out and jog!!!!!  Hope the weather stays clear for you!!!!

zena- great job losing that weight!!!!  Keep it up!!!

Hope everyone's weigh in's goes great!!!!!!!!!!  Can;t wait to see evryones posts!!!!

Hello everyone. Congrats to those who maintained and to those who did not it's okay tomorrow is a whole new chance.  I'm still trying to figure out what my calories should be.  My husband's P90X says I should eat 2580 but that seems like alot. CC says 1440. I did 1528 but got an A on analysis so I feel good.  I managed another hour at Jazzercise today and I think I might add a walk to my routine tomorrow.  It sounds like it's everyone's TOTM.  I think that might by why my weight increased by 1 pound since last week as I started as soon as I got home from class yesterday.  I can't wait to get on the scale and see where I really am tomorrow.  Of course it's really hard to read those lines between 205 and 210. Maybe it'll be on the 205 and I won't have to squint so hard.   I guess I'm fortunate that I don't have an office to go to.  I stay home and I'm able to better monitor my calories by planning a meal online and then adjusting it before I actually go make it. I was planning to have a tuna sandwich with my tossed salad tonight but the calories kind of spiked on me so I decided to forego the sandwich and stick with the salad (of course that left room for the 2 100 calorie snack packs that I really wanted).

 

I have a major sensitivity to citrus and saw the oranges at the farmers market today and bought them. I just ate one and I'm suffering for it. Does anyone else's lips tingle after they eat an orange?

Usually I do a 1/2 hour class on Friday but I might walk for about 1/2-1 mile and do a whole hour class. Wish me luck!!!!!

Well I am opting for weigh in tomorrow as TOTM is still here. I did however measure myself and have 0.75inch loss from my waist and 0.5 from my hips!!! YAY!! I must be doing something right! Really happy about that. I feel confident today about losing weight. TOTM really does b*gger things up though.

Cheermom good luck with your exercise today - it sounds really fun!

Zochia - your so good at messaging, its really hard to keep up with you! Well done to your mum for losing lots of weight. You have done so well all week you deserve a treat of ice cream on Sunday - although watch that portion size.

Wickedsis - Nice one!! Keep going like that and there will be no problem!

Olivia well done! Yesterday I also turned down donuts in the office, I looked at them and thought - that is just sugar and fat and has no goodness in it - there is no point in eating it unless I want to put on weight - and I dont! So I didn't!!

Zena your doing awesome!

Good luck for everyones weigh in!!!

weight this morning.. 138.2.. which is nice b/c lately my weight has been going UP on Friday's but this week, a pound down :)

it sounds like everyone is doing absolutely great!! keep up all the hard work ladies!! :)

starting weight: 184

this morning weight:  172

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hey ladies,

I am so sore today I jumped rope in the park yesterday! My shoulders and back are killing me. But I hear its one of the best exercises so I can't wait until I don't feel like someone ran over me lol.

my starting weight 220

last week 221

this week 217 yeah baby!!!

Good luck everyone!

olivia, immom,wicked sis, krrpt  congrats!!!!!

I want to join!

My current stats:

Gender: Female

Age: 14

Height: 5'2"

Weight on 4/11: 132.6

GW: 120

Ultimate Goal: 110

Good luck! =D

sw 158.8

last week 158.4

today 156.4

WhooHoo only 7.6 pounds to go!

congrats on the weight loss ladies, we are all doing so well!

 

count me in. i need to lose at least 8 lbs. gw 125...i can do it.

I have to make this super quick!!!  I got called away to help an elderly couple he just had surgery.  SO I will be able to weigh in, they have a scale.  ALthoug I have no idea how long I will be there so I don't know when I will be able to post my weight.  SO no matter what I will get it on here sooner or later.  Good job on those who have lost and hope everyone else has a loss too!!!!!!!!!  Keep it up.  Oh and my mom came home with dounuts!!!  And I stayed away from them!!!!!  HURRAY!!!!!  Talk to you guys later!!!!!!!  Wish me luck with the weigh in.  I feel confident!!!!  I just hope I don't gain any weight while over there.  The feel bad for turning down something thing!!!  And no exercize!!!  OHHH NOOO

Hi ladies!!

Congrats on all that have lost!!! Yay!!

Big day tomorrow!!! I am so freaking excited!!! John will be here tomorrow!!!!! Picking him up at Atlanta airport around 4.30!! So if you don't see me around the thread, no worries. I am excersing!! >;-)

I have also opted to weigh in tomorrow. I feel blah and have felt blah for the last few days. Can feel that I am retaining water, so hopefully will be better tomorrow.

SO EXCITED!!!! :-D

Zochia- glad you had such a good day and got to walk with your mom :)

olivia, immom,wicked sis, krrpt  --super!!

Stephiepops...I love losing inches too..great job

Yesterday officially was my free day (Designated after the fact of course)

162.2 today up .4 from yesterday but I will be back on track now!!!

I love to watch cooking shows....

  KPersons have fun!!! sorry you been feeling blah lately