*Snowflakes to Sunshine Challenge* Discussion: Week #9 2/25/

Krys_T

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Ok everyone! What a week, what a week...Well at least it has been for me

For those who loss: What did you do this week as far as eating and exercise. Share your successes in order to give others ideas going into next week.

For those who gained: Where do you feel you could have done better? Was it bad food choices or lack of exercise. Or was it things out of your control: sick, TOM, stress, etc?

For those who maintained; Did you feel like with what you did do this week with eating and exercise that you should have lost or do you feel like with the amount of work you put in...this was a reasonable result.

For Everyone: What's the plan for next week? How are you going to improve, whether you lost, gained or maintained...what area(s) do you feel like you can improve in. As sometimes, even when we are losing, there are areas in which we feel we should improve in order to reach optimal weight loss.


So let's chat it up and see if we can help our fellow Snowflakes with ideas, suggestions and support. Cheers to a new week and Congrats to everyone for sticking It out another week :drinker:

Krys_T

For me, plain and simple I just was NOT myself this week! TOM coming unexpectedly really messed me up and took me for a ride. However, I am ok with that. I know where I went wrong and I know how to fix it. I know that I have hit a plateau and I have been doing some research about what to do when your weight loss stalls...so I will be zig-zagging calories this week and switching up my workout routine.

I will still be doing C25K 3x a week, Zumba 4x a week, strength training 3x a week and incorporating my Jackie Warner circuit training DVD. Food wise...no more candy binges LOL but I am going to keep everything else pretty much the same. There are just days where I will be doubling up on portions or adding a few more calories in the day for purposes of zig-zagging.

I am hoping this helps with my plateau and I AM going to stick with whatever schedule I decide to put together. 3 more weeks until halfway pics and measurements and I HAVE to be ready and rock it out for these 3 weeks!

TeresaSavage

Good Morning Snowflakes !! :flowerforyou:



Im just dropping in to say Hi!!! Hope you all have a GREAT Week!!

Lost 4 pounds this week, My weigh in today is 168.2. YAY!!!!! :drinker:


Im sticking to my same game plan And thats WALKING Every Morning 1 & 1/2 to 2 hours a day and eating the same healthy 1200 calories a day.

I Definitely need to ADD weights to my routine, my arms are very lose UGH!!!!

Come on Girls You can DO THIS!!!! LUV YA!!!!!

Sheila_KI

This has been a good week!!! Made it to the 10lb mark and had several people told me I looked thinner.....most of all I am learning how to eat and exercise without taking it to the extremes. I am noting my weaknesses and how I want to make them into strengths. Had a conversation with my husband on the way home from work last night...I have always known that I stress eat and that I want my comfort foods....Now it is dealing with stress differently (hopefully exercising) and not eating because I am full of anxiety and frustration. That is one of my major goals.

punkrawkcutie

Not gonna be happy about the scale this week
'However, I also know what happend... brutal cold, no motivation and WAY too much partying last weekend... all together not a receipe for sucess. But no excuses, i made bad choices and I know it's not going to be good on the scale... Just gotta stick with it and drink H2O!
I also need to do a MAJOR grocery order this weekend cause having nothing in the house leads to me picking junk EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.

...

However, I must move on!!!
So for this week:
Ifound an AWESOME 6 week yoga plan that requires 30 mins 3 times a week so I want to start that
I hear ya Teresa, I need to add weights too - so I am thinking some resistance band work this week..
Of course getting back on the C25K wagon (since i am doing it Monday-Monday as my week I could even get 6 runs in by the time i post next week... note that said COULD! :laugh: )

My goal was 155 by March 1.... so we will see how it all goes... No matter what, 145 by April 1!!!

WOOT WOOT!!!

Keep it up ladies!!!
Hope everyone had better weeks then me so I can steal your plans

xoxo -S

ChantalC1969

4.2 lbs loss this week... not much credit goes to extra effort from my part because I was sick all week but I helped my mother with renovations and managed to be under calorie goal everyday so I will take that 4.2 lbs loss...

Reached my halfway mark with this week loss... less than 20 lbs to go for June 1st!!!

Keep it up Snowflakes... Spring is just around the corner...

We can do this!

Daughter is gone for school... heading back to bed... sore throat and headache are hitting full force this morning... gggrrrrrrr.....

Chantal:flowerforyou:

barefootbeauty

Good morning, ladies!

This week was terrible for me - as a matter of fact, I haven't even weighed in and just posted my weight from last week because I am in the midst of PMS and woke up so bloated I could barely make a fist.

Food was very carb-loaded and I went over my calories nearly every day. My eating was bad because of my stress over work and my stress over wanting to be under 180. My son was sick and the weather has been terrible.

Exercise is still "pending". Hopefully I can get the green light from my doctor this week to start exercising. I bought the 30 Day Shred and as soon as the ice is off the sidewalks I want to start the C25K. On Sunday I begin my Thai Yoga training, so at least I'll be getting some exercise and I'm trying to save enough to start my yoga teacher training this summer.

I realized a few days ago that I lost my original measurements, so I'm going to measure myself either today or tomorrow and use those as my starting numbers.

Overall, I'm working to shake the "blahs" that I have had for the past two weeks and use that stress energy to be productive and not crawl under a blanket and never come out.

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK!!!!!!!

PS. Feel free to 'friend' me if you haven't already!!

kimmiebear70

I'm down 1.4 last week. My strategy this week was to exercise more consistently, watch my sodium, and drink plenty of water. I managed to exercise every day, although some days weren't much. The sodium, well... I'm still working on that. I'm going to try to reduce the amount of processed foods I eat. The last couple of weeks were really bad for eating fast food. This week, I plan on planning better! The water, I'm still doing well with.

I did start C25K this week. Today is w1d2. I'm hoping it's nice so I can go walking/running outside.

Have a great week everyone. Keep on keeping on and you will get to your goals!

healthydoseofglitter

bumping for later :flowerforyou:

yellowfairy

Down one pound and totally excited-finally hit that long awaited 10 pound mark! It has taken me a while to hit it. I started this in November, so it has been quite the journey to get there! But-I feel like I am finally beginning to understand my body more, what I need, etc. I am getting more water and more exercise-so that always helps. Focusing on what I eat-not just calories, but the content of fiber and sodium and protein-that is helping also. TOTALLY EXCITED!! ( A little scared that I am going on a mini-vacation next week-but I already bought my own snacks to hopefully stay on track)

whittrusty

Bump

netter43

Well I did gain 1 pound this week. I know my routine was way off this week, stress over bad weather, too much sodium and actually below my calories a couple of days. For some reason I really seem to do better when I eat at least 1200+ calories after my exercise calories are figured in...I did not have enough water intake either this week. My exercise was pretty much what I have been doing, definitely time to bump that up and get some weights added in. I look forward to a very successful week next week (fingers crossed) - :drinker: :drinker: - Best of luck to everyone!!! :bigsmile:

mkingraham

Lost 4 lbs this week and I really think its from eating clean. I got Clean Eating Magazine from Barnes and Noble and it has a ton of delicious recipes in it! I would highly suggest it! I think that along with keeping up my exercise routine of 6 days a week has really pushed me over the edge! Keep up the great work everyone!

yellowfairy

Lost 4 lbs this week and I really think its from eating clean. I got Clean Eating Magazine from Barnes and Noble and it has a ton of delicious recipes in it! I would highly suggest it! I think that along with keeping up my exercise routine of 6 days a week has really pushed me over the edge! Keep up the great work everyone!

Wow-that is an impressive loss! Good job!!!

yellowfairy

I'm down 1.4 last week. My strategy this week was to exercise more consistently, watch my sodium, and drink plenty of water. I managed to exercise every day, although some days weren't much. The sodium, well... I'm still working on that. I'm going to try to reduce the amount of processed foods I eat. The last couple of weeks were really bad for eating fast food. This week, I plan on planning better! The water, I'm still doing well with.

I did start C25K this week. Today is w1d2. I'm hoping it's nice so I can go walking/running outside.

Have a great week everyone. Keep on keeping on and you will get to your goals!

When I stopped eating as much processed foods-my sodium went way down. It still goes up every now and again-but I can say, watching that number has helped.

Dhathri

Its TOM and I am now 188.4 instead of 187.It sucks. I just posted my weight. I hope it reflects well next time. My strategy for this week to continue my C25K and elliptical.

forgiven4life

Well hello Snowflakes!!

This past week was just horrible for me. I pretty much ate what I wanted and I am surprised I even maintained. I guess because I did have some exercise in there. My plan for this week it to try to get in at least 95 oz of water a day. That is half my body weight in oz. That's about 6 bottles of water. To me that sounds impossible!! I am just not a drinker. It's very hard for me to drink anything if I am not eating. It's almost 10 am where I am and I am only just starting on my first bottle!
I'm going to continue with my exercise and make sure I log everything, trying to log ahead of time. I also plan to try to eat cleaner this week and see how I feel. I've got the food to do it, but just have to prepare ahead of time.

I see a lot of us on here are doing/starting C25K. I've been doing it as well and am on Week 3. I had to do my day 2 of this week on the treadmill last night and by the time I finished I thought I was going to die! It was hot in the room I had to run and I think if I would have had to run one more circuit last night I would have passed out. :noway: I'm only on the run 90 seconds, walk 2 minutes circuit, but it's getting very difficult. I will push through though. This is one thing I want to be successful at and finish.

Good luck to everyone this week! WE can do it!

whittrusty

I'm down 0.8 lbs this week. Considering my poor decisions earlier in the week, I'll take it! I'm don't think I'm going to hit my goal of under 190 by my 25th Birthday (Tuesday), BUT I'm wearing a size 12 and I think that's more important than what the scale says!!

Hope everyone had a good week, let's make this one even better!

bhonniered

Hi All! :flowerforyou:

Well down .2 lbs - a little, but I will take it! For this week:

Water!
Watch the sodium - it can get out of control quick for me!
Better food choices - I get to go grocery shopping today!
Be more consistant with my exercises.

Saturday - 2 classes (Turbo & a class called 24 SET)
Sunday - Tae Bo
Monday - 30 DS & Pilates or a class called 24 Lift
Tuesday - Tae Bo
Wednesday - Rest
Thursday- Yoga
Friday- 30 DS & Pilates

miss_amy

wow! everyone is doing so great already!

Krys_T

Lost 4 lbs this week and I really think its from eating clean. I got Clean Eating Magazine from Barnes and Noble and it has a ton of delicious recipes in it! I would highly suggest it! I think that along with keeping up my exercise routine of 6 days a week has really pushed me over the edge! Keep up the great work everyone!

Eating clean is HUGE especially if you were the type of person that ate a lot of processed foods. Good for you and wonderful loss!

Krys_T

Good Morning Snowflakes !! :flowerforyou:



Im just dropping in to say Hi!!! Hope you all have a GREAT Week!!

Lost 4 pounds this week, My weigh in today is 168.2. YAY!!!!! :drinker:


Im sticking to my same game plan And thats WALKING Every Morning 1 & 1/2 to 2 hours a day and eating the same healthy 1200 calories a day.

I Definitely need to ADD weights to my routine, my arms are very lose UGH!!!!

Come on Girls You can DO THIS!!!! LUV YA!!!!!

Look at you! Halfway to the 40 already! You are absolutely awesome! Keep up the great work...and please share your success.

Kkmama

Good day Snowflakes!

I am down 1 lb this week. I'll take it! :happy:

This week I took some advice from Krys and took a day off from working out. I think it is pretty funny that I found it difficult considering I used to hate "working out"! But now my day does not feel complete unless I have done something physical. I had noticed that I was in pain this week so I did a lot more stretching which relieved it. And drinking lots of water I think helped.

I am adding two new things to make my way through March... I signed up for a 10 session pass at a Yoga place near my house and am going to attend a Hatha Yoga class once a week and a Yin Yoga (stretching) once a week. And I am going to try the 30 Day Shred. I am going to look great in our halfway pictures!

We can do this! Keep up the good work.

:bigsmile:

crystal_sapphire

1.9 pound loss

i'm surprised since i havent been working out much but i did note decrease in snacking this week. i haven't been feeling that good either.

i'm starting night shift 1 of 6 tonight and tend to eat less (I just don't want food at night). I'm going to try and get in a good hearty meal before my shift

TeamLeela

Unbelievable, I didn't gain an ounce!! How is that possible? I used to leave my heart in the gym 2 hours a day 5 to 6 days a week. I haven't stepped foot in the gym in a week and I maintain. This is the third week that I have been at this weight though, so it is still a little frustrating. But I noticed that I was forced to keep my eating in order because I knew I couldn't exercise. So once I can exercise again and keep my eating in order, I know I will start losing again.
I have been able to do some exercises though. I have been trying to concentrate on upper body exercises. I still do push ups and abs. I have tested teh waters with pilates.

I feel so much better about this whole injury now. I have been trying to do walking laps from the front door to the back door in 5 minute intervals just to keep my knee lucid. Once I meet with the specialist on Tuesday, I am going to ask him if I can (slowly) walk around the track at the gym. My trainer has offered to continue to work with me on my upper body. We usually meet on Wednesdays. If I get the thumbs up from the doc, I will continue that as well.

Congrats to everyone who saw a loss this week. We will get there one pound at a time!

jamaka1

Hi every1, congrats to all the losers & better luck to those who did not lose. I had a gr8 week of workout, I did start the slimfast 2x a day and I was lucky to see results so I'm hoping to do this for another month and see what happens.
my weight this week is 192.6. lost 1.8 and a total of 16lbs. Its a struggle and one just have to work continously to keep a balance. Enjoy ur coming week and keep tracking.:flowerforyou:

leandread

Good Morning Snowflakes...

Well it seems that we've all had some serious challenges this week and I am definitely part of that group. This was my first week opening my food diary and I have been absolutely overwhelmed by the amount of positive feedback, encouragement and good ideas that have poured in. I lost *whispers* 2.5 pounds this week. I can scarcely believe it since I've been gaining and losing the same 3-4 pounds since this challenge started. 266.5 is a new number for me. I hope we don't date as long as I've been with 269!

This week I am doing something new. I found my old food diary---a little composition book that I carried around the last time I lost a lot of weight and I noticed the weeks when the weight came off quickly where because of a combination of things--I was eating less carbs and more protein and fats and I was doing high impact cardio 3xs a week. I know Dr Oz, Dr. Weil and the rest are the new gurus on moderate fats, but 5-6 years ago, it was all about the Zone by Dr. Barry Sears. And I forgot how successful that was. Anyhow (I'm long winded. Sorry), I've got the cardio nailed down, but I've adjusted what I'm tracking in my diary. Rather than be concerned about sugar, which is always over anyway because of the amount of fruit I eat, I am going to track carbs. And I'm going to experiment with the Zone's 40-30-30 ratio again. 40% carbs, 30% fat 30% protein. It makes perfect sense with the clean eating that I am striving toward and my past success. So that's new for this week.

The exercise plan for this coming week is to continue working it out 5 days a week. This week I really mixed it up with 30DS, walking, zumba and yoga. I'm not going to worry about what I'm going to do, rather I want to have good cardio workouts at least 4 days of the 5 that I exercise. I have to keep Sunday with by beloved yoga. It rejuvenates me for the upcoming work week.

I am so pumped and motivated for this coming week--Earlier this week, I wore a pair of pants that didn't button up over Christmas! I took my measurements and the changes were small, but small enough to count

Have an awesome weekend everyone. Don't do like I sometimes do and celebrate your losses with eating all the wrong stuff this weekend. I should come back and read that sentence when I feel like "over-treating" myself during this weekend.

taletreader

Well, this was a crazy week. Losing 4 pounds without doing anything special, while eating out several days and only getting one real strength training session and one nice cardio workout in was a surprise. A nice one, sure, and as my period is coming up, not one I expect to repeat itself.

On the side of what I did right was staying under my calories (some days by a lot, some days just barely), getting a water bottle for work, and being generally active (walking around campus in the snow, shovelling snow -- we had an 18 inch snowfall event & winter storm this week).

Also, I think one aspect is that my partner is also working on getting off 10 pounds or so right now. She's been thin all her life, but in recent years crept up to the higher ranges of the normal weight range, which she isn't comfortable with given her frame. So she's perfectly happy with smallish meals, crispbread, Greek Yogurt and the like.

Oh, and a good recipe: Yesterday I made this: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/5939/tomato-and-thyme-cod . With potatoes, as we were out of the right kind of pasta, but it was very yummy. I threw in some garlic-stuffed olives.

glittersoul

Good luck to everyone this week.

My goals are to actually stick with it throughout the entire week. I'm gonna give working out in the morning a try. I think I will have better results that way if I know I at least started the day right. I'm not really that much of a morning person but at least exercising doesn't require deep thought lol

Positively_Me

bump...

givprayz

Well, I lost 2.2, but if you subtract last weeks gain of 0.4, then it's only 1.8 pounds for 2 weeks, not what I'm shooting for. I am tracking weights and behaviors (like exercise, calories, sodium, BM's and general health) daily to try to find what works and what doesn't. It appears that daily heavy exercise does NOT work for me, so I am going to only do something rigorous 3-4 times a week, and either strength training or nothing the other days for a few weeks. I'm also going to get back to a stricter calorie limit. I am not going to allow more than 400 calories for my work-outs, because I have doubts about my HRM measurements. The days without exercise will be the hardest because I still find it hard to stick to 1200-1300 calories unless I have a lot of produce cooked and ready to snack on.
My successes have been: keeping my sodium under 2300mg most days, almost eliminating trans fats, cholesterol is generally very low, and I have started drinking some green tea (flavored) several days a week. I hate tea.


Congratulations to everyone losing this week, and it's good that most people know what they did wrong if they gained or maintained and have a plan for the next week. It's hardest when you do everything right and still the scale misbehaves. That's why I'm tracking things almost daily, to see what behaviors help, and what hurts. Maybe I can get to my goal of 1.5-2 pounds per week loss if I know what really works for me. So far it has been hit-or-miss, mostly miss.

Good luck this week snowflakes, and I for one am praying for some sunshine!