Anyone Starting (or Restarting) A mini goal, 2lbs by Oct. 25

sas16

Good morning ladies! Congrats to all of you on your losses. That's awesome! I'm also happy to report that I reached my goal. I wanted to break out of the 150s (plateaued for a bit)...and I DID!!! FINALLY!! At start of the challenge my weight was 152.8. I weighed in this morning at 148.8!! So happy!! Now...just have to keep it going!! Thanks to all for the motivation!

saimabhaidani

GRRRRREAT WORK Spellbinder, sas16, funnygirl, and selkieghost, you all did awesome :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

As for me, I gained a pound over the weekend, so instead of my so I am at 158.5 lbs now but I will blame it on the my TOM for that one pound and be happy with my "still-not-so-bad" three pound weight loss. (to be honest, I wasnt really expecting to lose even that much). But I am thankful for and happy with what I could accomplish.

Once my TOM is over, I want to participate in another minigoal of 2 more pounds (wishing any of you can start it) because I know for me, baby-steps is the only way to go......

Thank you guys for ALL of your support!

I will do an updated chart once all our members are done posting.

spellbinder25

Congratulations to all of us...we all managed a loss...yayy!!

i'm in for a new mini goal....want to continue on the same thread or create a new one??

spellbinder25

Congratulations to all of us...we all managed a loss...yayy!!

i'm in for a new mini goal....want to continue on the same thread or create a new one??

spellbinder25

Congratulations to all of us...we all managed a loss...yayy!!

i'm in for a new mini goal....want to continue on the same thread or create a new one??

spellbinder25

Congratulations to all of us...we all managed a loss...yayy!!

i'm in for a new mini goal....want to continue on the same thread or create a new one??

sas16

Count me in for a new mini goal as well!

SelkieGhost

I'd be in favor of actually just continuing on this thread - that way none of us get lost and miss out on the updating and accountability :-)

spellbinder25

sure we can continue on this one itself...

so when do we start & what's our goal? my suggestion would be to start on 11/1 and end on 11/15. we can again decide how much each one of us wants to lose in the 2 week duration and how about come up with another goal along with that?

kcurtis05

Well I ended up getting a very nasty flu on Sunday! I haven't been this sick since I was a kid. I'm sure I've reached my mini goal, but this isn't really the way I wanted to do it. :frown:

spellbinder25

hey kcurtis...hope you are feeling better now

sas16

Hi Ladies....hope you are all doing well. I haven't been very good the last couple days. I've done my workouts but my eating hasn't been that great. Oh well....I'll start fresh again tomorrow. I'm determined to reach my goal.

As for continuing on this thread, I agree with selkieghost.

Spellbinder, I think starting on the 1st is a good idea. It'll give me a chance to get back down to my end weight from this challenge. LOL

kcurtis...hope you feel better soon!!

SelkieGhost

The 1st sounds good to me :-) I'll probably go with just 2 pounds again as my goal, seeing as how I didn't quite reach that this time. If I wind up dropping more, than I'll adjust my goal accordingly for the next time :-)

kcurtis05

Thanks for the good thoughts! I am feeling MUCH better now! That was a rough one! I weighed in the past 2 days and have stayed the same so I decided to log it. I know the flu has a lot to do with it, but I guess I will just take it as a jump-start and now try to maintain the loss.

Starting W169<

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January
Last W 147<

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Oct 11
Current W 142.4<

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Oct 29
Mini Goal 145 <

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MET!
Goal W 139 (wanting to reach this by Dec 10 for Hawaii, but hopefully I can meet it by the end of Nov. now!)

3.4 lbs to go!

spellbinder25

kcurtis...good to know that you are well now..

i wasn't good this week...too much dessert & no gym...so i'll weigh myself on monday (my usual weigh-in day) & then depending on that come up with my goal for the 1st 2 weeks of nov...

KarenHapli

Hey guys, can I join you on this thread? I'm Selkie's sister. When's the next weigh-in? I got down to 160 (from just shy of 200), but my will power and discipline failed me and I weighed in at the gym yesterday at 168 (yikes!). Anyway, I want to start small and manageable, to maintain my confidence (or rebuild it). I've got a potential workout-training buddy soon who will keep me on track in person, but it'd be nice to join the support here, too.

SelkieGhost

Wooo! Happy to have you join the party o' mini achievable goal joy that is this thread :-)

sas16

Welcome to the group kostyalya! The mini goal is great. I don't feel overwhelmed by the fact that I'm still roughly 17 lbs from my goal. Baby steps actually work! Who knew! LOL

Anyway....start weight today is 146.2 lbs
Goal for the 15th is to lose 3 lbs

I would love to be down to 140 by Thanksgiving....fingers crossed!

SelkieGhost

Forgot to weigh myself yesterday (Monday) so hit the scale first thing this morning, and I'm down another pound! This is exciting, considering it's that TOM again. Maybe by next week the scale will show a 2 pound weight loss (silly hopefulness, but hey - yay for positive continued results) :-)

Edit: And hey! I just realized I hit my first mini-goal of 145! *happy dance* Now to work on hitting 140! :-)

spellbinder25

Welcome kostyalya!! We all weigh-in on mondays but you can choose to do on any other if you please. Congrats on the loss you've had so far...it's a pretty good accomplishment. Of course, we have our ups & downs, and it's good that you realized soon enough you need to get back on track

Congrats selkieghost on hitting you mini-goal...we'll all do it again!!

My CW is 150.5lbs & my goal for 11/15 is tolose 3lbs & get down to 147.5

Good luck everyone!!

spellbinder25

Oh, and I have another goal for this month....to do squats & crunches 3 times a week..

saimabhaidani

okay guys...... I am in too, once again.

Just weighed myself............ 159.8 (damn it!!!!)

My goal.............. 155lbs by November 14th 2010.

Lets all do it.

spellbinder25

good to see you ontrac...we will all do it!!

kcurtis05

Well, I am in again! I want to see 139 by Thanksgiving!

spellbinder25

good to see you too kcurtis

hope everyone's been having a good week so far!!

kcurtis05

Thanks! I have made a goal to only eat out once a week. The Hubs and I have been really bad lately. It's amazing to me that we don't want to cook (just being lazy) but we have enough energy to get up, get in the car, and drive to get fast food. Things have got to change.
5'5"
SW:169
CW: 142.4
GW:139 or better

sas16

I got on the scale and it said 147.6! UGH!! I believe I'm going in the wrong direction!!!! Tuesday was a bad day for me....just seemed like I couldn't stop snacking. HATE that!! Anyway, I've been doing better the last couple days, but I didn't think it was that detrimental! Just goes to show EVERY LITTLE SINGLE CAL COUNTS!!! Doesn't help that my legs are sore and I've been taking it easy on the high impact workouts I usually do. So I'm not burning as many calories. I guess I'll just have to be super diligent w/my cal intake!

Hope the rest of you are having a good week.

spellbinder25

Thanks! I have made a goal to only eat out once a week. The Hubs and I have been really bad lately. It's amazing to me that we don't want to cook (just being lazy) but we have enough energy to get up, get in the car, and drive to get fast food. Things have got to change.
5'5"
SW:169
CW: 142.4
GW:139 or better

haha...i am the same. In fact, I hate cooking & would rather eat out the whole time. I did lose weight when i used to do that actually. But since I got married, my hubby's ensured that we at home most of the time. We too eat out about once a week only now.

spellbinder25

I got on the scale and it said 147.6! UGH!! I believe I'm going in the wrong direction!!!! Tuesday was a bad day for me....just seemed like I couldn't stop snacking. HATE that!! Anyway, I've been doing better the last couple days, but I didn't think it was that detrimental! Just goes to show EVERY LITTLE SINGLE CAL COUNTS!!! Doesn't help that my legs are sore and I've been taking it easy on the high impact workouts I usually do. So I'm not burning as many calories. I guess I'll just have to be super diligent w/my cal intake!

Hope the rest of you are having a good week.

I'm not having a good week either on this front. Scale showed an increase of 1.5lbs in a span of 2 days. Haven't weighed since then (Wed) but haven't workout either. Wed workout was also horrible...struggled through it all & managed to burn only 1/2 the calories I uaually burn in the same amount of time....aarrggghhhhhhhhh...

And, I've been craving desserts...eating a bit too

SelkieGhost

Down another .5 pounds for a total of 4 pounds lost (solidly at 144 first thing upon waking up in the morning). I'm very happy with this considering that I sorta wrenched my knee when my very excitable dogs accidentally knocked me down the stairs a couple days ago - it kinda put a halt on exercise this past 2 days... and then I consoled myself with peppermint bark chocolate squares. (not the wisest thing to reach for the high calorie fattening junk when exercise is out of reach).
I'm hoping to get back to exercise in a couple more days.. my knee is feeling better now but still a little too twingey for my taste to be putting overmuch pressure on it to perform lol :-) But yay - still very slowly but steadily dropping weight. I'm noticing the visual difference a lot more though - from now to 4 pounds heavier. It really amazes me what just 4 pounds difference looks like, when it seems like not much at all on the scale.