SUMMER SLIMDOWN CHALLENGE

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  • dwalden
    dwalden Posts: 77 Member
    This has been a great motivator. Ready for a healthier summer.

    Starting Weight: 233 lbs
    Last Week: 222 lbs
    Current Weight: 219 lbs
    Goal Time: 8/31
    Goal Weight: 195 lbs
  • bheims
    bheims Posts: 3 Member
    I would like to get on board with this.

    Starting weight (1/1/08): 270 lbs
    Current weight: 243
    Goal weight by august 1: 227
    Ultimate goal weight: 200

    I would also just like to thank SWYMAN for your insight into your thought process. I'm going to incorporate that into my thinking. I have a problem with letting food "go to waste". I hope your 3 step process with help me battle that.
  • TNTPete
    TNTPete Posts: 701 Member
    starting weight - 170lbs
    current weight - 162lbs
    goal weight (by August 30th) - 155
    end goal - 150lbs

    So down 1lb, that's a start.... I hope to continue as I have been at a plateau for a while now. Way off on check in date but... better late than never!
  • meme2018
    meme2018 Posts: 241 Member
    starting weight 190
    current weight 190 :sad:
    goal weight( by August 30) 180
    Goal weight 140

    Not a good WI this week, a gain back the 1 pound I lost. I have look back over my journal, I didn't go
    over, I did used some of my extra calories, I WO for an hr to 45 min everyday. I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT I DOING WRONG. :sad: :sad: I just can't get out of the 190's and stay out. :sad: :sad:
  • denisez
    denisez Posts: 8
    I agree, plateaus are hard to get over. Here's my plan, maybe it will work for you. I read that American eat their calories at the wrong end of the day. In other words we tend to eat more in the evening and lighter in the morning. I'm working hard to switch that around by eating more of my calories in the morning an throughout the day and less at night. Hopefully, that will give my body time to burn off more naturally. If anyone else has tried this let me know how it worked for you.

    Have a great weekend everyone!! Stay focused!!

    Denise
  • dancer33
    dancer33 Posts: 114 Member
    Hope everyone has had a great week!! Keep it up throughout the weekend:happy:
  • swyman
    swyman Posts: 10
    End of the week check in:

    Starting weight : 212
    Last check in: 209.5
    Today: 208

    I've done some emotional eating this week. One of my sons has just graduated from college and is off to Chicago for work (we live in CA). He is a wonderful cook and has been cooking at dinner time and it has been very difficult for me to not overeat. There is a mix of good food, joy that he is home, and a sense of impending loss that he is soon to move across the country. All of these emotions add to my impulse to EAT!!!

    I agree with denisez, evening calories are where I have my biggest challenges. If I can go to bed empty (not hungry, but empty) and do that consistently I will loose weight. But evening is when I emotionally eat. I reward myself for a hard day at work, I nurture myself, I enjoy myself and my family WITH AND THROUGH FOOD! These associations with food are not really helpful and keep me eating when actually, I've had enough calories. So I have to be very conscious in the evening.

    What helps for me in this regard is to come home after work, change my clothes, and then sit in my bedroom for about five minutes before going into the kitchen. I connect with what my body is feeling, how hungry I am, how tense my body is, etc. Then I connect with where I'm at emotionally, whether or not I feel stressed, how challenging the day has been etc. Then I just sit with this experience and breathe with it, relaxing the body and feeling through whatever is going on. After about 5 minutes I remind myself about why being fit and lean is important to me and the one's that I love. Then I go out and prepare my food, or eat, if it is prepared already.

    That has been a real help to me at night, WHEN I DO IT! Just as often I just go into the kitchen and grab the first thing that I can put into my mouth, as though I'm a starving man who hasn't eaten all day -- which is never the case! If I start my evening meal like that I'm very likely to overeat and go to bed full: Not a good weight loss strategy.

    Hope everyone has a good weekend!


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  • iftcheiaf
    iftcheiaf Posts: 960 Member
    Starting Weight: 145 lbs
    Current Weight: 138 lbs (finally lost a couple of pounds)
    Intermittent goal: 135 by June 29 (anniversary vacation just me and my hubby)
    End Goal Time: Vacation in August
    Goal Weight: 125 lbs
  • bexita617
    bexita617 Posts: 17 Member
    I'm in on this summer challenge too!

    Starting weight: 228
    Current weight: 221.5
    Goal by 8/30: 201.5
    Final Goal: 178

    Will check back in on thursday. Good luck to all!
  • gabrielled
    gabrielled Posts: 247 Member

    Starting Weight (before mfp, even): 192
    Today's Weight: 175
    Two Months: 165
    Ending Goal: 145


    OKAY!
    Today's weight: 171
    YESSSS!
    Two weeks = 4 pounds.
    The week before I gained one. So really, I had to lose that one as well. Can I count yesterdays' weight? :tongue: I weighed 170!
  • dancer33
    dancer33 Posts: 114 Member
    Starting Weight: 140
    Last Week: 133
    This Week: 131
    Loss/Gain: -2 lbs!!!!
  • TNTPete
    TNTPete Posts: 701 Member
    starting weight - 170lbs
    current weight - 161lbs
    goal weight (by August 30th) - 155
    end goal - 150lbs

    Getting there... turtle approach!!:tongue:
  • gabrielled
    gabrielled Posts: 247 Member
    starting weight - 170lbs
    current weight - 161lbs
    goal weight (by August 30th) - 155
    end goal - 150lbs

    Getting there... turtle approach!!:tongue:

    Me too. And I like it that way. I don't have to be a food Nazi about it. I even have had CAKE (more than once) and still keep losing.
  • meme2018
    meme2018 Posts: 241 Member
    Good morning .... Just checking in. I loss a pound this week. I hoping to stay out of the 190's.:happy:
    Have a Great Week :flowerforyou: :drinker: :drinker:

    starting weight 190
    current weight 189
    goal weight( by August 30) 180
    Goal weight 140
  • gabrielled
    gabrielled Posts: 247 Member
    Begining of the Challenge:
    Starting Weight (before mfp, even): 192
    Today's Weight: 175
    Two Months: 165
    Ending Goal: 145

    Today
    Last Week's Weight: 171
    Today's Weight: 168.5
    Lost 2.5

    Unbelievable! Will you send someone to peel me off the ceiling? I am so happy.

    :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy:

    OH, and I did a bit of math. I have lost approximately 1/3 a pound a day for every day I have been trying. In other words, every three days I am a pound smaller, on average. Wooo hooo!!
  • meme2018
    meme2018 Posts: 241 Member
    CONGRATS !!!!!!!! :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: That's awesome.:happy: :drinker: :drinker:
  • gabrielled
    gabrielled Posts: 247 Member
    Thanks. And i just got my F6 hrm and am playing around with it. Who knew that raising 3 boys (16, 11, 5) would be so taxing!
  • gabrielled
    gabrielled Posts: 247 Member
    Okay. I just got back from a routine check up at the internal doc's, and I had them check my weight the last time I was in there. I forgot to ask how long, but it has been a while. Buuuut. My records had my weight at 4 pounds heavier than I was when I first started paying attention!!! If I count THAT weight as my heavy weight starting point, I have lost 27.5 pounds!!
  • gabrielled
    gabrielled Posts: 247 Member
    Okay. I just got back from a routine check up at the internal doc's, and I had them check my weight the last time I was in there. I forgot to ask how long, but it has been a while. Buuuut. My records had my weight at 4 pounds heavier than I was when I first started paying attention!!! If I count THAT weight as my heavy weight starting point, I have lost 27.5 pounds!!
  • TNTPete
    TNTPete Posts: 701 Member
    starting weight - 170lbs
    current weight - 160lbs
    goal weight (by August 30th) - 155
    end goal - 150lbs

    At this rate may be I should change my first goal weight for July!! That would be nice ;0) But, I like to put in a plateau possibility.
    :happy:
  • dancer33
    dancer33 Posts: 114 Member
    Starting Weight: 140
    Last Week: 131
    This Week: 130
    Goal by Aug. 1: 125

    Hope everyone's seeing some great results and inching closer to their goal! Have a great week everyone:happy:
  • dwalden
    dwalden Posts: 77 Member
    Going on vacation can be a real killer on a diet. Those all-inclusive resorts make it hard to stick to it. I guess I can be thankful it was only 2 pounds.

    Starting Weight: 233 lbs
    Last Week: 219 lbs
    Current Weight: 221 lbs
    Goal Time: 8/31
    Goal Weight: 195 lbs
  • gabrielled
    gabrielled Posts: 247 Member
    Starting Weight (before mfp, even): 192
    Today's Weight: 175
    Two Months: 165
    Ending Goal: 145

    I am changing my goal! I am going for Two Months (7/28) to 160!! I think I can make it.
  • bexita617
    bexita617 Posts: 17 Member
    I'm in on this summer challenge too!

    Starting weight: 228
    Current weight: 221.5
    Goal by 8/30: 201.5
    Final Goal: 178

    Will check back in on thursday. Good luck to all!

    Okay, it's been a couple weeks since I checked in, but I've been doin pretty good:

    Starting Weight: 228
    Current weight: 218.5
    Goal by 8/30 201.5
    Final goal: 178

    I'm on my way!
  • meme2018
    meme2018 Posts: 241 Member
    Good morning...Checking in I'm down 4 lb since I started the challenge.:bigsmile: :bigsmile:

    starting weight 190
    current weight 186
    goal weight( by August 30) 180
    Goal weight 140

    Have a GREAT WEEKEND !!!!!!:smile::drinker: :drinker:
  • dwalden
    dwalden Posts: 77 Member
    Just had to check in today. This new Calorie Shifting and tough workouts is paying off well. I am just so excited and if things continue this well I will shatter my goal.

    Starting Weight: 233 lbs
    Last Week: 221 lbs
    Current Weight: 217 lbs
    Goal Time: 8/31
    Goal Weight: 195 lbs
  • gabrielled
    gabrielled Posts: 247 Member
    Just had to check in today. This new Calorie Shifting and tough workouts is paying off well. I am just so excited and if things continue this well I will shatter my goal.

    Starting Weight: 233 lbs
    Last Week: 221 lbs
    Current Weight: 217 lbs
    Goal Time: 8/31
    Goal Weight: 195 lbs

    Wow! That is really awesome. You should feel great! Congrats!
  • TNTPete
    TNTPete Posts: 701 Member
    starting weight - 170lbs
    current weight - 159lbs
    goal weight (by August 30th) - 155
    end goal - 150lbs

    Slow and steady, I am liking that...:wink:
    But today is a trip with a buffet for lunch.. yikes! :grumble: Oh well, I don't think I'll input the food and then it doesn't count---right?:tongue:
  • dancer33
    dancer33 Posts: 114 Member
    Starting Weight: 140
    Last Week: 130
    This Week: 129
    Goal: 125
  • gabrielled
    gabrielled Posts: 247 Member
    Starting Weight: 192
    Last Week: 170
    This Week: 167
    Goal: 165
    NEW GOAL: 160

    Don't really know if I can do it, but how do we know what we are capable of if we don't try? :wink:
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