Weekly Weigh In Challenge for June
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I got over one of my struggles today! Went and took a 30 min walk alone! My husband is out of town, so that was pretty hard for me. He is motivating me, and keeps me from being so self conscious while out there. I'm just hoping I can keep it up!!!2
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10 facts about me
1. I love the show American Dad
2. I make big babies. My oldest my 12 pounds at birth. Yes, that is 1-2 lol. He is tiny now
3. I am French-Canadian.
4. I love love love coffee and everything coffee flavoured.
5. My number one goal beside losing weight is running a marathon.
6. I'm extremely scared of spiders no matter how tiny they are.
7. Favourite book is Pride and Prejudice. Never get sick of reading it.
8. I have 7 tattoos and a neck piercing.
9. Craziest thing I did was going skydiving and I definitely want to do it again!
10. I love going camping2 -
ElleMcQueen wrote: »I got over one of my struggles today! Went and took a 30 min walk alone! My husband is out of town, so that was pretty hard for me. He is motivating me, and keeps me from being so self conscious while out there. I'm just hoping I can keep it up!!!
Great job!!
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10 Facts About Me:
- I am a Bible believing Christian.
- I LOVE the beach (but I would agree that sand is quite annoying) - though the white sand on the west coast of FL beaches is quite beautiful.
- I enjoy stand up paddleboarding, and I race at an amateur level.
- I probably have an online non-violent gaming addiction (currently Bush Whacker 2 is my game of choice, though I'm also an alpha tester for Eleven Giants (Glitch re-make)).
- I have three cats.
- I tend to write tomes when I post.
- I sometimes have a problem with not eating enough - tracking calories has helped me with this.
- I can be rather lazy and just do not much of anything some days.
- I do love my sleep...naps are awesome!
- Peri-menopausal hormones are currently kicking my butt making it challenging to stay on track with eating and exercising properly.
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ElleMcQueen wrote: »I got over one of my struggles today! Went and took a 30 min walk alone! My husband is out of town, so that was pretty hard for me. He is motivating me, and keeps me from being so self conscious while out there. I'm just hoping I can keep it up!!!
Good job getting out there. I know how you feel. I live in France and they have yet to go through the obesity epidemic here so I really stand out. But I get out there and get moving because in the end I am doing this for me not them. Congratulations getting out there and surpassing your fears. Keep it up!2 -
Name: Michelle
Age:40
Starting Weight May 29th:182.3
Goal Weight July 3rd:170
Weigh In Week
June 5:
June 12:
June 19:
June 26:
July 3:
Total LBS lost this week:
Total LBS lost this month:
Weekly Goals: 2.0/week - I know my goal weight is above that - it's just an ultimate goal to strive for without restricting below 1200 cals.
Struggles: Eating enough (I know, this is horrible, but I struggle at work because I get caught up in things and don't stop to eat lunch).
Successes:1 -
beurredepeanut wrote: »ElleMcQueen wrote: »I got over one of my struggles today! Went and took a 30 min walk alone! My husband is out of town, so that was pretty hard for me. He is motivating me, and keeps me from being so self conscious while out there. I'm just hoping I can keep it up!!!
Great job!!
Thanks!1 -
mariecela_moulin wrote: »ElleMcQueen wrote: »I got over one of my struggles today! Went and took a 30 min walk alone! My husband is out of town, so that was pretty hard for me. He is motivating me, and keeps me from being so self conscious while out there. I'm just hoping I can keep it up!!!
Good job getting out there. I know how you feel. I live in France and they have yet to go through the obesity epidemic here so I really stand out. But I get out there and get moving because in the end I am doing this for me not them. Congratulations getting out there and surpassing your fears. Keep it up!
Thank you so much!!!!1 -
10 Facts about Me:
- All the way from K-12th there was never another Leslie in my class
- I met my husband on MySpace...when it used to be cool
- I work in the medical field as a LabTech and work with doctors all day long, but I am scared to death to go to the doctor myself
- I love love love the city - I don't understand why people care to live anwywehre it takes longer than 5 (10 min tops) to get to a Target!
- I never shot a gun until I was 30, and now I am a better shot than my husband (who taught military arms in the USAF)
- Some folks crave sugar or salt...I crave greasy fried foods or meat
- I am Catholic and attended Catholic school my entire life
- I have two step cats (my husbands) that I love dearly
- I don't sleep much, even as a baby my mom said I would just sit in my crib all night and play
- I love to bake...which is not good for my diet!
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Name:Teresa
Age:54
Starting Weight May 29th:226
Goal Weight July 3rd:216
Weigh In Week
June 5:
June 12:
June 19:
June 26:
July 3:
Total LBS lost this week:
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Weekly Goals: Stay on weight loss plan
Struggles: Love Potato Chips
Successes:2 -
Name: Maria
Age: 18
Starting Weight May 29th: 187 pounds
Goal Weight July 3rd: 179 pounds
Weigh In Week
June 5:
June 12:
June 19:
June 26:
July 3:
Total LBS lost this week:
Total LBS lost this month:
Weekly Goals:
- Workout everyday
- Walk four times a week
- Balance my meals
- Learn more self discipline
Struggles:
- BALANCING. If I give the slightest shock to my system, in terms of food, I see weight gain within 1 day!
- Self control
- Medical problems which means no matter what I do, I'm probably not going to reach my goals.
Successes:
- Lost 2 kgs ^.^
- Increased speed of walking
- Learned a bit to monitor the quantities of food intake
Good luck everyone with your goals!2 -
Name: Ashley
Age: 30
Starting Weight May 29th: 147.2 pounds
Goal Weight July 3rd: 142 pounds
Weigh In Week
June 5:
June 12:
June 19:
June 26:
July 3:
Total LBS lost this week:
Total LBS lost this month:
Weekly Goals:
- Workout everyday
- Increase Daily Activity
- Record Food Data
Struggles:
- I lost 15 pounds before my wedding two years ago and have gained back 20 and am having trouble getting it to budge
- I love wine and champagne
- I work a desk job
Successes:
- I've been getting back into exercising and now I can workout regularly without soreness getting in the way
- I've been tracking my food intake for about a week now
I can't wait to see how well everyone does! 2 -
Name: Malika
Age: 44
Starting Weight May 29th: 216
Goal Weight July 3rd: 201
Weigh In Week
June 5:
June 12:
June 19:
June 26:
July 3:
Total LBS lost this week:
Total LBS lost this month:
Weekly Goals: exercise 3 times
Struggles: sweets
Successes:1 -
Name: Ashley
Age: 21
Starting Weight May 29th: 153
Goal Weight July 3rd: 140
Weigh In Week
June 5:
June 12:
June 19:
June 26:
July 3:
Total LBS lost this week:
Total LBS lost this month:
Weekly Goals: 2 lbs gone each week!
Struggles: sweets
Successes:1 -
10 facts about me :
1 I live in the UK
2 I love reading
3 I lived in Germany for 3 years
4 I love to swim but haven't found the time lately with 5 kids and a full time job (note to self need to make time)
5 I have a dog
6 I am a bit of a technophobe only starting using the computer a few months ago!!
7 due to circumstances no fault of my own I have a few missing teeth at the age of 30 but I am getting partial dentures aJune 23rd I can't wait to be able to smile again Will help with my confidence
8 i love to cook looking forward to finding new family friendly healthy meals to cook
9 I get tired all the time so hoping my new healthy lifestyle will help with this
10 I gave up smoking January the 1st3 -
Woo! Thanks Mari for the questions
10 Facts About Me:
1. I live in Washington state.
2. I am not a devout Buddhist but I try to incorporate mindfulness, meditation and Buddhist principles into everyday life as much as possible.
3. I taught Taekwondo for almost 10 years (hoping to get back into it once more of this weight comes off!)
4. If I could eat any food for the rest of my life it's a tie between pho, pad thai and teriyaki
5. I work graveyard shifts as a caregiver for adults with mental illnesses.
6. My real passion is teaching - I'm a graduate student working to earn my MA in Math Education.
7. I watch a lot of TV - I'm a big fan of The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, and I watch my fair share of anime.
8. I don't really enjoy cooking, so I meal prep and eat a lot of the same foods.
9. I am an introvert and a homebody - it's hard for me to make friends because I enjoy time alone so much.
10. I started my weight loss journey on New Year's Day and so far have lost about 60 pounds. This is the first time a healthy lifestyle has actually stuck with me. I have a long way to go before I reach my goal weight but I'm confident that I'll stay on the right track this time.1 -
10 facts about me:
1. I hate mice and rats
2. I love reading erotic and contemporary romance
3. I dont play any istruments
4. I love to crochet
5. I have a 83 yr old Aunt/Godmother who I look in on every other week. She has no children.
6. My kryptonite is cake and ice cream
7. I hate romance movies
8. I like reality tv Dancing with the Stars and the Voice and So you think you can dance Adult version
9. I love action movie
10. I love a good tv that is cop or fire related. NCIS, NCIS L.A. NCIS New Orleans, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds Beyond Boarders, Chicago Med, Fire, & P.D.3 -
Name:cassandra
Age:26
Starting Weight May 29th:265.8
Goal Weight July 3rd: 250
Weigh In Week
June 5:
June 12:
June 19:
June 26:
July 3:
Total LBS lost this week:
Total LBS lost this month:
Weekly Goals: keep account of the food I ate.
Drink less sugary drinks
Eat more veggie and less carbos
Struggles: the ones above
Successes: finally starting again after pregnancy and putting back all the 80 pounds successfully lost on mfp two years ago.3 -
Joining in....
Name: brenda
Age: 34
Starting Weight May 29th: 267
Goal Weight July 3rd: 257
Weigh In Week
June 5:
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June 26:
July 3:
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Weekly Goals: Workout 5 times a week.
Struggles: Not being motivated to go work out.
Successes: I've lost 13lbs so far by eating better.3 -
I would like to join
Name: Alexis
Age : 23
Starting Weight May 29th : 172
Goal Weight July 3rd : 162
Weigh in week:
June 5th:
June 12th :
June 19th :
June 26th :
July 3rd :
Total LBS lost this week :
Total LBS lost this month:
Weekly goals: monitor and record my food intake, work out 5 times a week, drink more water.
Struggles: I overeat on the wrong foods, I tend to say "I'll start tomorrow" alot, and I'm not very motivated to start working on me physically.
Successes: I have increased my daily activities.3 -
First off welcome everyone. We are still getting participants and that's fantastic. Much more than last month! I hope each of you continue this journey with us until the end of the month. And....maybe continue on to next month. So far we have 80 people here to keep us accountable!! We've got this!!
Thanks to all who participated in yesterdays challenge question/fact. I really enjoyed reading all about you guys. some funny stuff, and interesting stuff as well.
Here is the one for today...
Tell us your fitness story.3 -
My fitness story is quite long as I've been obese my entire life. I was an obese child, teen, and now adult so I will try to shorten it up a bit. To start off I've dieted my whole life. I've done everything, you name it I did it. Nothing ever worked for me. It wasn't until 3 years ago that I had a moment of clarity. It just came to me....I just had to eat right and exercise and above all love myself. So in 2013 I had lost 75 lbs. I was going strong and was feeling so incredible. Then my mom fell ill. It was sudden. My sis called and said mom can't even bathe herself, I need you. So I flew home. She was in the hospital by the time I arrived. She passed 5 days later. She had stage 4 metasised ovarian cancer. She wasn't even officially diagnosed until after her passing. Anyways. That did it for me. I ate through my grief. I became destructive. I hid myself away and ate my feelings. Slowly I started coming back. Very slowly. Then, I got pregnant and with that the rest of the weight I had managed to lose came back......and then some. But with the baby came a whole new meaning to life. I needed to get myself back. I realised I hated myself again. So I decided ok. I have to learn it all over again starting with loving myself. And here I am 5 months later 50 lbs down. I still have another 30 lbs to go to get back to where I was the first time I did this. I'm getting there.
Here is a picture of me 3 years ago after the 75 lbs down.
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Name: Katie
Age: 21
Starting Weight May 29th: 195.0
Goal Weight July 3rd: 188.0
Weigh In Week
June 5:
June 12:
June 19:
June 26:
July 3:
Total LBS lost this week:
Total LBS lost this month:
Weekly Goals:
Workout at least 4 times/week
Eat less processed food
Struggles:
Lack of sleep (due to night shift) gives me no energy to workout and I end up eating more because I'm awake more
Successes:2 -
I will try to keep mine short as well.
I have always been big....since third grade. I dropped a little weight at the beginning of college but that's because I worked out, didn't eat but 500 calories a day and drank most of those calories in alcohol. Once that phase of my college life was over I met a guy....he was verbally abusive and told me no one would love me, I was ugly and I was lucky I found him, which in turn made me hate myself and eat more.
I finally found an amazing man who is now my husband. I slowly lost weight while we were together, but I was still huge. The smallest i was with him was 240. Then after 5 years together he took an amazing job that moved him to Mexico....and not resort living,
He was among the drug cartels and drug wars, so what did I do? I ate my stresses away. He purposed on one of his trips home, I bought my ending dress, a 20 fit perfectly. As the wedding got closer I knew I had gained weight so my best friend came over and we decided to re try my dress on....nothing, could even start the zipper. Thankfully I found a seamstress that fixed it but that wasn't the point...I stress eat!!
Husband came home, we got married and I still was eating. I also realized the job I have been in for 10 years was stressing me out, along with working over night 12 hour shifts. After a long debate, I decided to move on and I took a day job. It has been amazing! The first month or so we stressed about money, but now that we know how to budget with the new job, and I'm used to the day shift, we are making small changes. No fast food, cooking at home, walks, healthier choices in general. I maybe have only lost 8lbs so far, but I'm only just now getting into exercise.
Ok so I didn't keep this short...sorry!!!!5 -
My fitness story:
I've been overweight my entire life. I remember being weighed at school in 3rd grade and I was 136lbs! I've tried dieting and excersizing but I never had to the drive to really put in the effort into it.
I recently turned 25 and I've finally had enough of being overweight and embarrassed by the way I look.
My husband and I have a goal - we want to lose a total of 100lbs together by this time next year. My attitude is completely different and much more positive then ever. I know we can do it!5 -
Name: Mandi
Age: 20
Starting Weight May 29th: 250
Goal Weight July 3rd: 240
Weigh In Week
June 5:
June 12:
June 19:
June 26:
July 3:
Total LBS lost this week:
Total LBS lost this month:
Weekly Goals: Go to the gym at least 5 times a week.
Struggles: Coffee
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My story:
I've always been the "big" kid - my entire family are big eaters - but I had an especially bad relationship with food. I started hiding away food when I was as young as 7 or 8, most likely due to some abuse from a guy my mom married. My parents were separated and hated each other too, so that made things difficult. But with unresolved issues, I was full-on binge eating in high school. My dad and stepmom did their best to help. They would go on diets and encourage me to join, but I would always break and turn to food when I was stressed. I kept gaining and gaining; when I moved out on my own I was at about 270 pounds, and that just exacerbated things - I could eat whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, and no one would be around to criticize me! I was severely depressed. I had tried countless times to start dieting and exercising, but kept binging.
Fast-forward to June 2014, when I met my boyfriend. He loved me (and still does) for who I am, and said nothing about my weight. Even though I was happier and binging less, I was eating very poorly. Plus I was still in college and as stressed as ever. In September 2014 I joined Myfitnesspal, weighing 294 pounds. Still gaining.
Fast-forward to December 2015 - I just finished my Bachelor's Degree and could finally breathe. Then I weighed myself, or tried to; at 350 pounds my scale couldn't weigh me, so I had to go to the doctor to see the number (and receive some not-so-great news about my health at the young age of 22). It really scared me straight - I HAD to start losing weight.
So I started my weight loss journey as a resolutioner on New Year's Day, but with a supportive partner to keep me accountable and lots and lots of planning and research for my diet, I finally found something that works for me. I now weigh less than I did when I joined Myfitnesspal. My ultimate goal weight is 140 pounds, and I know it will take a long time to get there, but I am definitely in this for the long haul.4 -
Here is my fitness story.
All my life I have been active. I started playing softball at 5 and continued to play until I was 15. I cheered for 6 years also. When I went to high school is when I started to really put on weight, I became less active. I joined marching band which didn't seem to change anything. I meet my boyfriend June 2011, he's always told me no matter my size he will always love me. But I've been struggling with that concept. My freshman year of college I went down hill. I went to a university an hour and a half from home. I often found myself eating out of boredom. Now going into my third year of college I have topped the scale at 254 pounds. I've been depressed about my weight for a while. But it wasn't until the May 25 that I decided it was time to lose weight for me. I am currently 5 pounds down!!5 -
Mine
I didn't start having a weight problem until the third year of high school. Then in college I started to become more active and got down to 130lbs. After I moved to Canmore, a city literally in the mountains, I lost another 20 pounds just walking everywhere and hiking. That felt so amazing to go to any store and have everything fit! I even wore a bikini for the first time ever! Unfortunately lots of drama happened with an ex-boyfriend so I moved back to Québec, stopped being active, got 2 kids and a desk job. It also doesn't help that I have a very unhealthy relationship with food. I binge then feel guilty and cry and eat more to make myself feel better, rince and repeat. I'm trying to break that cycle, but it is not easy. Just taking it one day at a time 3 -
Ladies, thanks for sharing your stories, and Mariecela - great pictures!! I'm probably not going to keep this short because of #6 in my list from yesterday
My Fitness Story:
I'm the complete opposite from most of you awesome women, I'm that one who grew up skinny...so skinny, when I look at old pictures and if I didn't know how much I regularly ate, I would have thought I was anorexic. But I played a lot as a kid, and I was a complete tomboy because I hung out with the guys (all the girls in my neighborhood smoked by 4th grade, and I thought it was stupid) and played basketball, kickball, raced bikes, climbed trees, etc. I was never an athlete per se, but I guess I just played hard and can remember eating entire bags of Doritos as a teenager (yes you can think ill of me now) and never gained a pound. When I went into the Army in my 20's, they lied on my form as I was checking in because I only weighed 98 pounds, and the guy put 100 pounds on my form because that was the minimum for my height. By the time I left ROTC/summer camp, I weighed 109 pounds (the only person in my platoon that gained weight; most of the guys lost like 25 pounds) because I had never exercised or ate so much in my entire life.
Since then I've never weighed below 110 lbs. At my first duty station there was lots of beer and ice cream, and I left there at about 120 lbs. I was sort of able to keep things in check due to the mandatory exercise in the military, but after I got out of the Army (26 years ago), I just had sedentary jobs, and rarely exercised. By my 40's I thought I was at my heaviest (135) and managed to lose 20 pounds doing the Six Week Body Makeover (for 13 weeks). However, that program was just too rigid for me to maintain long term. But it did teach me a lot about nutrition, and better eating habits. I eventually (over 7-8 years) put the weight back on, and then some.
Now, I'm in my 50's. When I quit my job last year to start my own business, I weighed over 150, which for me was now the heaviest I've ever been. I was able to get down to 139 using the 6WBMO alternate system - Food Lover's Network; however, still had a challenge maintaining it, and was probably way over estimating the portion sizes. I started racing Stand Up Paddleboards last year, and thought that would be enough to help me lose the weight. But over the winter, I put most of it back on 1) because I was lazy and barely exercised (too cold or windy to paddle), 2) I got depressed / stressed because none of my contracts for my business had worked out yet, 3) I ate like crap or frankly didn't eat at all (I tend to be an under-eater these days), and 4) dealing with peri-menopause hormonal fluctuations (OMG they are crazy). So the weight came back.
I got on a site called Fitocracy to track my workouts in Jan because I was convinced if I just worked out enough, I could lose the weight. They kept talking about tracking your macros and how it's all about the macros. I sort of rolled my eyes, but last month decided to give macro tracking a go, since nothing else was really working. That's when I found MFP, and started educating myself on proper calorie intake, macro ratios, etc. I've been tracking since mid-May and have lost about 4 pounds so far. I really wish I had learned about this stuff when I was much younger.
I want to lose to be faster on my paddleboard for racing (my two primary competitors are both all of a 105 pounds, and they are strong and super fast). I also want to fit back into my skinny jeans - I miss wearing my skinny jeans. I just want to feel better/healthier. I also want to stop thinking of it as exercise, and start to think of it as play time again. I had so much fun playing as a kid, that it never felt like exercise (which just seems like such a chore to me). I want that again too!!
Wishing everyone strength, tenacity, and dedication to see this through to your goals. You are worth it, and you can do it!!2
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