*closed group* Flab to Fab 3 Month Challenge!
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So my new personal mini challenge goals for next week (Fri 4/8 through Th 4/14)
1) 3200 cals burned
2) 14 miles run/walk
3) Under on sodium
4) Consume 72 + oz of water
Results for 4/8 through 4/14
1) ~3300 cals burned/3200 cals
2) 12 miles/14 miles
3) Under on sodium 3/7 days
4) 72 oz water consumed 4/7 days
Not a horrible week on my personal goals. I am impressed that I hit the cals burned goal. I am not suprise that I didn't meet my mile goal since Wednesday was disgusting and cold out and Thursday I was visiting my parents and there aren't really any great running courses for distance in the area.
My personal mini challenge for next week
1) 3400 cals burn
2) Run/walk 14 miles
3) Under on sodium
4) 72 oz of water
I really need to start focusing on the weekend. Weekends are horrible for me. I have planned Saturday dinner at home which will help. I am going out to dinner tonight but have already looked at the menu and picked out a few things that are reasonable in calories/fat. The weather is supposed to be crappy this weekend so I plan on running on the treadmill at least on Sunday. I am hoping to squeak out a run outside on Sat before the rain comes. Just hoping I can stay strong and not sabotage myself on the weekend.0 -
4/1- 137
4/8- 136.6
4/15- 136.5
Maintained this week, I'll take it!
3:33 on my challenge.
5K race tomorrow morning with ellis_rn!! YAY! Goal time of 29 minutes (9:21 min/mile).0 -
Finally a loss to report! I am down 3.8 pounds this week! Hooray!!! Can't wait for my weigh in/ticker moving day tomorrow! Great job ladies!!0
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Both of my boys are sick. I just got back from the doc. I didn't get a chance to weigh myself.
I'll make tomorrow my official weigh in. I also haven't had a chance to do the weekly challenge. I hope to do that tomorrow as well.
I do know that last weeks weigh in of 128 was a farce. LOL. I have no clue how that happened...but I know I was up a couple lbs by Sunday. So....we shall see what I actually weigh in as.0 -
Weight Loss of 2.8 lbs this week! :-) Which is great, because I've been floating around the same numbers for a few weeks.... Also, ran 2.5 miles last night! Farthest ever, in my life! :-) And, did it again this morning just to remind myself I could! Happy Friday all!!
Lurayne, you with me on the weekend challenge!?!?! :-)0 -
Weekend challenge will be to stay on track no matter what. This is quite a challenge for me because we usually participate in our church's potluck on Saturdays. Sunday is not helping either, I will be attending a get together: reason for the get together, to eat ... can you believe that none sense? Anyways the fam is going and we've invited a few friends to take along so it should be fun. I will need to squeeze in at least a walk today and exercise my behind off Sunday morning.
Good news is, I've logged in everything I've eaten thus far today. That's progress. I usually start falling off the wagon on Fridays. 1/2 day down ... 2 1/2 to go.
I will be reporting back so that I can motivate myself to keep it up
Deep breaths, deep breaths ... I know I can, I know I can ...0 -
I busted my butt this week, including a ton of walking I didn't log. My hard work has paid off! Back down to my lowest weight in almost 4 years. Yay! All that vacation weight is gone!
Last week: 221.4
This week: 217.8
I haven't done this week's challenge yet, but I hope to get to it today. I went to a foot/ankle specialist this morning, and he gave me steroids for a week, then a prescription nsaid to take for a month. Hopefully that will help with this ridiculous pain so I won't need surgery.0 -
@ Shamrock: Yikes, your injury doesn't sound like fun at all! Hugs and well wishes sent your way! Hope the steroids help, surgery sounds horribly painful thinking of that recovery. Ohh, the simple things we take for granted. Congrats on your weight loss, and your lowest weight in 4+ years! Woo hoo!!
@Lucy: Yes, deep breaths, and take the weekend in stride. WE CAN DO IT! I too will be logging everything, including the adult beverages and appetizers I consume at my father in laws (to-be) retirement party. I need to get in lots of walks myself, I'm hoping for another great loss next friday!!0 -
I busted my butt this week, including a ton of walking I didn't log. My hard work has paid off! Back down to my lowest weight in almost 4 years. Yay! All that vacation weight is gone!
Last week: 221.4
This week: 217.8
I haven't done this week's challenge yet, but I hope to get to it today. I went to a foot/ankle specialist this morning, and he gave me steroids for a week, then a prescription nsaid to take for a month. Hopefully that will help with this ridiculous pain so I won't need surgery.
Yeeeeeee haaaaaaa!!!! (I think I have a cowgirl complex
Congrats! Well wishes on your recovery and great job staying on track!0 -
@Lucy: Yes, deep breaths, and take the weekend in stride. WE CAN DO IT! I too will be logging everything, including the adult beverages and appetizers I consume at my father in laws (to-be) retirement party. I need to get in lots of walks myself, I'm hoping for another great loss next friday!!
I'm preparing myself psychologically ... pumping myself up ... Yes we can!!! 0 -
Down 1 more pound this week, officially out of the 150s. I actually weighed less earlier in the week, after my vertigo/upset stomach days, but I'm happy to still have a loss over the week.
Great job everyone!!0 -
@ Shamrock: Yikes, your injury doesn't sound like fun at all! Hugs and well wishes sent your way! Hope the steroids help, surgery sounds horribly painful thinking of that recovery. Ohh, the simple things we take for granted. Congrats on your weight loss, and your lowest weight in 4+ years! Woo hoo!!
@Lucy: Yes, deep breaths, and take the weekend in stride. WE CAN DO IT! I too will be logging everything, including the adult beverages and appetizers I consume at my father in laws (to-be) retirement party. I need to get in lots of walks myself, I'm hoping for another great loss next friday!!
Yes sorry to hear about your injury Shamrock, hope it heals soon and in the meantime you can congratulate yourself on your amazing loss! Great news!
@Lucy and Dezil, yes I am 100% with you guys in spirit this weekend! We WILL make the right choices and stay on track for the next 3 days. It will be tough and we may not like it but we'll be soooo happy when we come out the other end with smiles on our faces and NO GAINS to report! Woohooooooo!
@Lori congrats on reaching the 140's! That must be an awesome felling, can't wait to get there myself! Hope you're feeling better now aswell
@kms that is some amazing loss for this week! You must be so proud of yourself! It's always a great feeling to see that ticker moving in the right direction! Keep it up! :flowerforyou:
@janana hope your boys are feeling better soon. Its never nice to see them sick. Good luck with your weigh-in tomorrow morning aswell.
Here comes the weekend everyone! Buckle up! x0 -
This week has been very off for me, I haven't eaten much at all and only worked out once. My entire schedule is in shambles. I'm hoping to get it all back together next week but I do have some super surprising news to report, I lost 4.6 lbs this week!!! I know I will probably gain some back next week when I get my eating back to normal though and I'm totally prepared for it.
I've got a 5k tomorrow with DianaM so hopefully we'll have good times to report back (I know she will, I just have to try to keep up :laugh: ). I haven't gotten the chance to go through all the posts but I hope everyone has had a great week! :flowerforyou:
Challenge GW: 150
4/1: 162.6
4/8: 162.2
4/15: 157.60 -
4/1 177
4/8 177
4/15 176.8 ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh i feel like I'm barely moving the scale and its frustrating. i'm see up and down up and down throughout the week. i'm going 176.8 but I just really really want to see 175. that would put me at my lowest MFP weight and my next mini goal.
A non scale victory though this week - my old fav pair of jeans (during the time I was 160-170ish) now fits again!! It's not a perfect fit but I can wear them comfortably (especially after working them in a little bit lol you know what I'm talking about, stretching them through the day) so that's great. I also tried on my suits for work that were too tight and i can wear 2 that were running tight before so thats good too. I need to FIX whatever is broken so i can lose some more.
my thoughts: I had upped my water to 13+ glasses a day and was seeing a consistent loss - last couple of weeks I've been between 8-10 so that could be part of it
-when i take my vitamins daily seems to help, haven't been as consistent last couple of weeks.
-if my weekends aren't out of control that usually helps. last 2 weekends have been bad. this last weekend i ate ALOT friday and ALOT sunday. even though my weight came back down after a couple good days i know its not good to do that.
-and finally, i need to work on continuing to improve the QUALITY of the food i'm eating.
That said - I'm going to try even harder~0 -
ahh...you all are amazing! After reading all of your posts and encouragement, I feel so, so blessed to be a part of this phenomenal group of women!!
p.s., I am totally on for this Weekend Pact, and I am already doing better than usual...(!) Knowing I have to report back here on Sunday night is keeping me in check!
Have a wonderful week...!!!0 -
Survived Friday! Under on overall calories and have consumed my 72 oz of water. Now to get through Sat and Sun.
Sat might be tough, I am going to be running around all morning. Saturday morning family breakfast kills me. I have in my mind what I am going to get. Now I just have to stick to it. I always go in there with one idea and end up seeing the specials and change my mind. At least tomorrow night I am cooking dinner and dessert so I know exactly what I am having.
Good luck everyone! Have a great weekend!0 -
Happy to report a 1lb loss this week, so i'm down from 142 to 141
Confession time though, last night i had the worst binge i have had in a very long time. I ate to the point of feeling sick, and i don't know why... I wasn't stressed or nothing happened to push me to do it. It just happened and then i couldn't stop. I haven't had one like that in a long time though, but it did still scare me and i don't know why i did it to myself, and i definetly don't want to do it again. I have no idea how many calories i ate, but i'm guessing it was over 2,000 in one sitting, which i know is just crazy.
But today is a new day, and i know i will be okay. I'm not going to give up and i'm about to hit the gym and go to spinning class. Lets make this a good weekend!0 -
Thanks for the support and kind words, ladies. I have a huge heel spur on my left heel that goes up to my achilles tendon and is causing mad pain. I'm hoping the prescriptions help.
@Cupcake lover - You have the right attitude. Put it behind you and move on, and try to avoid it in the future. At least you are getting out to exercise and still had a loss! Keep it up.
@Dani, you're doing great!
I'm getting ready to feed my little ones, and then I have to figure out what to eat tonight for dinner - no meat since it's Friday. I ate sparsely this morning and exercised, so I have over 900 calories left! Oh dear!0 -
Just got back from my run - Its about 50 degrees and REALLY windy but I planned to go so i stuck to it!
I ran what I aproximated to be 5k (1.4 mile track, so 2.21 times around would be 3.1 miles - had to estimate the .21 part - hopefully can get exact later somehow) did it in 31min 26sec. If I calculated correctly (fingers crossed!) that puts me Under a 10 minute mile I feel good about. I paced myself and ENJOYED it (:::
I'm totally down for the weekend challenge. 2 weekends in a row I have not done so hot, want to make this one a great one!
For the weekend I will:
Drink at LEAST 13 glasses of water a day
Stay Under on cals (and watch my fat/sugar/sodium)
kick butt working out on Saturday
Bonus:
would like to do something active with my BF on Sunday, will try to convince him even if the weather stinks
- I'm hitting the shower. Thanks for the encouragement everybody I'm going to try and read back through posts this weekend. its hard to keep up with so many fabulous ladies 0 -
I've got a 5k tomorrow with DianaM so hopefully we'll have good times to report back (I know she will, I just have to try to keep up :laugh: ). I haven't gotten the chance to go through all the posts but I hope everyone has had a great week! :flowerforyou:
Good luck! Great way to spend your Saturday 0 -
I busted my butt this week, including a ton of walking I didn't log. My hard work has paid off! Back down to my lowest weight in almost 4 years. Yay! All that vacation weight is gone!
Last week: 221.4
This week: 217.8
I haven't done this week's challenge yet, but I hope to get to it today. I went to a foot/ankle specialist this morning, and he gave me steroids for a week, then a prescription nsaid to take for a month. Hopefully that will help with this ridiculous pain so I won't need surgery.
Congratulations !! Super exciting to be down to your lowest weight in 4 years . Must feel Amazing!!! 0 -
BLAH. My weigh in. I was even very good yesterday.
4/1 135.5
4/8 128
4/16 132.6
I wish that stupid 128 wasn't there! ARGH. It's definitely a weird not so good factor! LOL.
My challenge was 3:020 -
Hi Ladies, I'm checking in!!!!
I didn't do so well yesterday afternoon ... Will work on addressing that today. I weighed myself today and was down by .2 ounces ... I know, I know ... it's just .2 ounces but I'm glad I didn't do tooo much damage ... I'll let you know how it goes today ... deep breaths, deep breaths 0 -
Sorry girls that I haven't been as supportive this week! I just had a really mental, stressful, and emotional week. I am ready to tackle everything this weekend and stick to the weekend pack of NOT destroying my diet! I am actually starting a new workout plan today, I found the program at www.bodybuilding.com. It is awesome! I am also going to try to do the daily workout at bodyrocktv in the Am before work.
Again, I am so sorry. I feel like I let you all down and myself this week. I did lose -.4 lb this week! I was shocked, but I'll take it!
This weekend I plan on staying UNDER calories and sticking with my workout plan that I found.
Here is my schedule:
Saturday: Upper Body weight training
Sunday: Cardio
MOnday: off
Tuesday: Lower Body weight training
Wednesday: Cardio
Thursday: Total Body Weight Training
Friday: Off
Saturday: Upper Body
ALSO, I have been having some PREGNANCY symptoms
I am waiting to take a test on our anniversary, which is next week!!! Keeping our fingers crossed.
You all are amazing, congrats on your accomplishments for the week! Have a great week 0 -
Sorry girls that I haven't been as supportive this week! I just had a really mental, stressful, and emotional week. I am ready to tackle everything this weekend and stick to the weekend pack of NOT destroying my diet! I am actually starting a new workout plan today, I found the program at www.bodybuilding.com. It is awesome! I am also going to try to do the daily workout at bodyrocktv in the Am before work.
Again, I am so sorry. I feel like I let you all down and myself this week. I did lose -.4 lb this week! I was shocked, but I'll take it!
This weekend I plan on staying UNDER calories and sticking with my workout plan that I found.
Here is my schedule:
Saturday: Upper Body weight training
Sunday: Cardio
MOnday: off
Tuesday: Lower Body weight training
Wednesday: Cardio
Thursday: Total Body Weight Training
Friday: Off
Saturday: Upper Body
ALSO, I have been having some PREGNANCY symptoms I am waiting to take a test on our anniversary, which is next week!!! Keeping our fingers crossed.
You all are amazing, congrats on your accomplishments for the week! Have a great week
I am crossing my fingers for you! I hope you are preggo and of course you know we all can't wait to hear some good news! 0 -
ALSO, I have been having some PREGNANCY symptoms I am waiting to take a test on our anniversary, which is next week!!! Keeping our fingers crossed.
You all are amazing, congrats on your accomplishments for the week! Have a great week
Good luck! crossing my fingers and toes!0 -
Hi Ladies,
Just checking in and reading up on how everyone is doing. Looks like for the most part you are all doing great! The challenge this week was hard, I really did not enjoy that exercise, but I do enjoy having a variety of stuff to do as part of my workout. I only did it once, just because it was so hard! lol
Can't wait to see what this week has for us! Have a great weekend ladies!
P.S. GO SHARKS!!!!!
Barb0 -
Sorry girls that I haven't been as supportive this week! I just had a really mental, stressful, and emotional week. I am ready to tackle everything this weekend and stick to the weekend pack of NOT destroying my diet! I am actually starting a new workout plan today, I found the program at www.bodybuilding.com. It is awesome! I am also going to try to do the daily workout at bodyrocktv in the Am before work.
Again, I am so sorry. I feel like I let you all down and myself this week. I did lose -.4 lb this week! I was shocked, but I'll take it!
This weekend I plan on staying UNDER calories and sticking with my workout plan that I found.
Here is my schedule:
Saturday: Upper Body weight training
Sunday: Cardio
MOnday: off
Tuesday: Lower Body weight training
Wednesday: Cardio
Thursday: Total Body Weight Training
Friday: Off
Saturday: Upper Body
ALSO, I have been having some PREGNANCY symptoms I am waiting to take a test on our anniversary, which is next week!!! Keeping our fingers crossed.
You all are amazing, congrats on your accomplishments for the week! Have a great week
SO exciting!!! ; )0 -
ALSO, I have been having some PREGNANCY symptoms I am waiting to take a test on our anniversary, which is next week!!! Keeping our fingers crossed.
You all are amazing, congrats on your accomplishments for the week! Have a great week
Good luck! crossing my fingers and toes!
Wow! I really hope your dreams come true when it comes to testing time. Fingers crossed for you most definitely! x0 -
Weekend No.2 = SUCCESS!
Yay! Im soooo proud of myself pulling through 2 weekends in a row. This weekend was another toughy. Its mostly just Saturday and Sunday I have to worry about, Monday to Friday are pretty much under control.
So yesterday I was working on set from midday. So I had my breakfast and made my lunch & a snack to bring on set with me for the day because film sets are notorious for bad catering ans junk food and low and behold this one was no different!
So I arrive on set and the first thing I come to is the kitchen where there are 5 packets of chocolate chip cookies, 3 packets of custard cream biscuits, 3 bags of fun-size chocolate bars, 2 cases of full fat yogurts, 2 packets of chocolate filled croissants, a big tub of jellies and enough tea and coffee to swim in with full fat milk and lots of sugar!
Even though I had eaten my breakfast before arriving on set, once I saw all that food I was hungry! I made a cup of coffee (tried to go easy on the full fat milk and sugar) and snuck 1 cookie in because I was in a good mood and felt I deserved a cookie! Note to self: FOOD IS NOT A REWARD!!!!!
The problem with working on film sets is that there is ALOT of waiting around in between takes which leads to boredom and ultimately binging on all the junk food that's in the kitchen! I ended up having 4 biscuits in total, plus 3 cups of coffee before we broke for lunch at 6.30pm. I considered this an exceptional achievement on my part given the situation and all the food that was there!!!
For lunch the producers decided to order food from Domino's Pizza for all the cast and crew. NOOOOOOOOO! While they were taking the orders for what pizza everyone wanted, I was thinking of my pre-made tuna salad in the car....I was so hungry that I was trying to convince myself that I could just forget about the tuna salad and order a juicy pepperoni and extra cheese pizza with some yummy spicy potato wedges and some cola....I haven't had pizza in weeks.... and I was working really hard all day... I deserved it right?! NOOOO!
I let them pass me by when they asked for my order and I said to myself, If you do this you are going to end up crying on Monday morning. We're not talking 200-300 calories here, we were talking close to 2,000 calories with pizza, wedges and cola combined. Sooooo not worth it. So I made do with my tuna salad and snack while they all sat around munching on yummy pizza! It was really tough to do it but I just put my head down and got on with it. I was fine again once everyone had finished eating and I was thinking to myself "what was all the fuss about? I dont need pizza?!"
Once 'lunch' was over the rest of the cast and crew had demolished all of the other snacks that were lying around! No biscuits, no chocolate, no sweets, no croissants, no yogurt...everything was gone! So the rest of the evening was fine for me because I had no more temptation left! We ended up working until 1am and I was quite hungry by the time we finished because we didn't have any dinner so when I got home a thought crossed my mind to get some chinese takeaway before hitting the bed......NOOOOOO! I quickly banished that idea to the back of my mind and choose sleep over food!
I wasn't working today so everything was fine food wise, I just used up whatever was left in my fridge before I go shopping tomorrow. However my boyfriend called over at 5pm and said that he had to deliver a present out to his aunts house who lives nearby so I went with him for the drive....and here comes the unexpected temptation of the day!! The whole family was having a huge BBQ in their back yard and we arrive just as they're serving up! They had everything at the BBQ, massive burgers, roast chicken, sausages, chicken burgers, salad, coleslaw, potato salad, ribs...so much stuff. They offered us a big plate of food with a mix of everything and of course my bf took his but I had to politely refuse even though it was the only thing I wanted in the whole world! It looked and smelled amazing! And to top it off they had a fruit pastry desert thingy with heaps of vanilla ice-cream! I almost cried with the cravings but I told them I had just eaten before I arrived so I couldn't fit anymore in. I know it was probably a bit rude to refush the wonderful food they cooked but I just couldn't bring myself to face tomorrow morning thinking that I had survived the whole weekend only to fall at the final hurdle which I didn't even expect to encounter!!
So all in all, I made it through. I still haven't managed to curb the cravings for insanely yummy food that isn't good for me but at least I managing to control it as much as possible and not giving in to temptations left, right and center.
I usually associate my food binges with a good mood. If Im really happy or if I've achieved something and Im in a great mood then I only see my reward as food. I haven't found anything else (besides maybe shopping) that I see as rewarding. I really need to change this mindset and treat myself to other rewards that don't involve food. This will be tough!
I remember in January I weighed in after the first week of starting at my new gym, I had lost 5lbs! And how did I treat myself for such a great success? I came home from the gym and bought a lamb kebab with fries and cola because I thought I had earned it. What I actually earned was 4lbs back on the scale the next morning! And that is the terrible cycle Ive been stuck in for the last 2 years. Only in the last month (since joining MFP) am I starting to sort out this problem and trying to get to the root of it. It's slowly working (as I can tell from my success these past 2 weekends)
I hope all the other 'Weekend Pact' girls are fighting through all the temptations that come their way this weekend. Its not going to be easy but it is very possible. I hope you all stayed strong!
Looking forward to another kick *kitten* week this week! My big goal is coming up in 2 weeks, a big family wedding in Malaga, Spain and I want to get as close to 150lbs as possible. So full steam ahead for the next 2 weeks, no slacking! Im so excited!!
xxx:flowerforyou:0
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