3kg (7lbs) loss in July!

breezad

Hi girls! I'm a little late but I was wondering if I could join this group? I would LOVE to lose 3kg in July, that would put me pretty much at my goal weight! I've been maintaining at about 61kg for months, after starting out at 70kg last year - now I'm really ready to kick things into high gear and get these last few kilos off! Even if I don't make the full 3kg I would at least like to break out of the 60s and into the 50s.

I work an active part time job (on my feet 3-4 hours a day) and usually workout for 30mins - 1hr on top of that. I try and take a brisk walk for at least 30 mins each day and I've just started the 30 Day Shred. For the past few months I haven't really worried about my calories too much as I've recently been diagnosed with fructose malabsorption and it's taken me a while to get my head around what I can and can't eat. My calories are usually around 1500-1700 per day but I'm thinking for the next couple of weeks I'm going to drop them to around 1300 just to kickstart my loss, and I'll see how I go from there.

Congrats on all the great work so far girls!

hey amy (i assumed)
of course you can join!!! we are abit into the month but feel free to give it your all!!!!
breaking out of 60s into 50s sounds like the best goal yet!!!!
not 3kg but it doesnt matter it will give you the motivation to see 50 something.
are you doing thr smae as me, walk and 30day hred its a great boost ontop of your already activy day which is great!!!!!

goodluck for the next few weeks experiment and see wat works for you and gets you into those 50s!

amysambora

Thanks! This thread is really motivational! I've done really well today - still getting over a cold but I got a 45min workout DVD done (Leslie Sansone Walk Away The Pounds) and have stayed within my cals. Feeling good!

annied16

I know it's a bit late but can I join? I had a really good weight loss with mfp at the beginning of the year then went off it and put it all back on but now I'm back and ready to do it properly this time! I'm currently 89kg and want to be 86kg by next month it's going to be hard to keep exercising with this serious coldness so it will really help to be in a group and have a challenge to be held accountable to!

breezad

welcome annied!
of course you can join, altthough you need to work HARD if you want to get those 3kg off before the end of the month!!!!

LISTEN UP LADIES!!!!!!
WE HAVE 19 DAYS LEFT OF THIS MONTH..... YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS IF YOU HAVE NOT LOST ANY WEIGHT YET, YOU NEED TO LOOSE A TOTAL OF 1.1KG (2.4LBS) A WEEK!!!!!

GET MOVING!!!!!!
if your diet is pretty good, make it better!!!!
cut out those' but its only a small bit of cake' or 'just 5 squares of chocolate wont hurt'
cut them out!!!!

just for 19days and see how you feel, see how ou act, see how things change!
another thing that we must ALL step up is exercise!!! i know its cold and early, trust me your reading it from a girl who sleeps til 2pm and is the laziest person EVER!
hahaha so get those butts out of bed put on a jumper if your cold and get moving, tyou wont be cold for long!

reporting in:
ive lost 1.5kg so far half way, and ive been doing 30min walk in the mornings and now have added on my 30day shred for an extra 30min in the mornings, so about 60mins of exercise totalling 500calories! and its all before i go to work, knowing that anytyhing i do exercise wise after i get home is a bonus!!!

Leanne3552000

I have no idea how I gained so much last week. I did have a few days where I didn't eat that well but I wouldn't have thought it would be enough to gain especially not that much!

Congrats on the 1.5kg loss Bree! only a third of the way through the month and you're half way there. That's fantastic! You've really motivated me to get my butt moving. Since my last weigh in I havn't done any exercise. I'm going to start the 30DS tomorrow and go to the gym before class.

breezad

I have no idea how I gained so much last week. I did have a few days where I didn't eat that well but I wouldn't have thought it would be enough to gain especially not that much!

Congrats on the 1.5kg loss Bree! only a third of the way through the month and you're half way there. That's fantastic! You've really motivated me to get my butt moving. Since my last weigh in I havn't done any exercise. I'm going to start the 30DS tomorrow and go to the gym before class.

thats awesome!!! get moving sweets and you'll notice a difference especially if you do have those bad eating days!
no reason why you cant just make sure you counteract it with exercise and hard cardio exercise not a stroll around the block!
everyone of us can do this is just comes down to how badly do we really want it???

can i ask you, how did you feel before, during and after you ate the bad foods???

amysambora

You're doing so well, Bree! Definitely on track to get those 3kg off!

I don't know WHAT the hell my body is doing. I've been exercising 30-60mins a day (walking, exercise bike, 30DS, various other fitness DVDs), eating 1200-1500 calories (all good ones too!) and today the scale was UP a whopping 1.5kg!!! I don't feel any heavier, my clothes are still fitting the same. It must be water retention from my workouts, but it's so damn annoying!

481471

I havent got the exact amount but have lost around about the 1kg mark!
it was a bit more than 1kg yesterday and then jumped up around a lb today so gone back to near the 1kg mark - d'oh!
Dunno why, been veeery good this weekend and done lots of walking and 30DS!!

kaylah_x

Did u guys measure aswell?..when i do the shred i lose HEAPS of inches and next to nothing in weight...I havent weighed myself yet, ill do it at the end but i can feel so much difference already...fingers crossed some of it shows on the scales atleast

Leanne3552000

Started the 30DS today and spent an hour and a half at the gym. Exactly what I needed to regain my motivation. Forgot how great I feel after a good workout!

Kaylah- Congrats on losing inches! Personally I would rather use inches than weight shows you're on your way to that fit, tined body . I measured myself this morning before starting 30DS.

Bree- I was at home last week for the uni break so was eating out quite a bit catching up with friends and couldn't resist mums baking. I didn't feel guilty about eating bad food or anything at the time because i thought I had done enough exercise to counteract and had the 'ah well I'm on holiday' attitude. I'm going to be very careful with my calories from now on though.

breezad

You're doing so well, Bree! Definitely on track to get those 3kg off!

I don't know WHAT the hell my body is doing. I've been exercising 30-60mins a day (walking, exercise bike, 30DS, various other fitness DVDs), eating 1200-1500 calories (all good ones too!) and today the scale was UP a whopping 1.5kg!!! I don't feel any heavier, my clothes are still fitting the same. It must be water retention from my workouts, but it's so damn annoying!

OMG im the EXACT same!!!!!!
i worked out sooooooo much the last few days and i have GAINED!!!!! wat the hell!!!????

im doing boxing, 30day shred, walking and eatring 1300-1450 cals a day and still gained!!! i burned off 1400cals on monday and 850cal yesterday?????
BOOOOO our bodies!:mad:

breezad

Started the 30DS today and spent an hour and a half at the gym. Exactly what I needed to regain my motivation. Forgot how great I feel after a good workout!

Kaylah- Congrats on losing inches! Personally I would rather use inches than weight shows you're on your way to that fit, tined body . I measured myself this morning before starting 30DS.

Bree- I was at home last week for the uni break so was eating out quite a bit catching up with friends and couldn't resist mums baking. I didn't feel guilty about eating bad food or anything at the time because i thought I had done enough exercise to counteract and had the 'ah well I'm on holiday' attitude. I'm going to be very careful with my calories from now on though.

welldone with your workout hun!!!!
thats awesome work!!!!
and welldone for starting 30day shred! its really good you'll learnt to love it and its quick and satisfying!!!!
sooo glad your feeling motivated again!!!! get moving girl!!!

breezad

Did u guys measure aswell?..when i do the shred i lose HEAPS of inches and next to nothing in weight...I havent weighed myself yet, ill do it at the end but i can feel so much difference already...fingers crossed some of it shows on the scales atleast

nah didnt measure, but i actually think my pooch at the bottom of my tummy is bigger
i feel bigger which is crap cause im been trying soo hard!
im still under 78kg which is good but i dont like being closer to that end than 76s end! being good today, no exercise and hopefully see a result from the last few days!

kaylah_x

I reckon its just your body holding onto water weight after ur big workouts hun...Should definatley come offwithin a wk or so! And u'll have a big drop!

breezad

:bigsmile: stupid huh!!!!
i worked out hard i wanna see it come off the next day like it should!!!!
crapola! haahha

but rest day today...

how is everyone else going????

anyone having good losses???
keep it up team!!!

AmeChops

OK, one week in to this and I've gone from 179 lbs to 177 lbs...which means I've got 5 lbs to shed in 19 days. I reckon this is doable :-))

Well done everyone on your losses and to the people who haven't lost...keep it up, you WILL get there!!

Laura x

annied16

2 days in and 1kg down already! BOOM! Absolutely died in my circuit training but was so worth it and then to do a bit of straight cardio afterwards...feels so good to be able to exercise properly again!
Keep up the good work guys! Oh and I'm studying exercise and sports science and nutrition and so I can answer your questions about being heavier after intense exercises - so there are 2 reasons; muscle gain (as you know muscle weighs more than fat) and fluid retention. You will minimise your fluid retention if you are well hydrated with water before and after your exercise. Also don't drink carbohydrate drinks (sports drinks, flavoured waters etc) during exercise as they contain a lot of sodium which causes the water retention. Of course if you are doing hard cardio work for more than 1.5 hours straight you should be drinking some carbohydrate drinks just to give your body that little bit of energy though!
Hope that helps
Annie

breezad

Laura- GREAT RESULT!!! well done hun!!! you are going great guns, keep it up!!! its very doable so keep going and get there!!

annie- thanks for the info and what a fantastic result for you too!!!! thats awesome!!!!
i thoguht though if i drink 2L during the day then do a workout, no drink much, that menas im sweating out the water and therefore not get water rentention??? im not eating too much sodium probs keeping it around the 900mg mark per day!??
so any other reasons why my weight loss isnt showing up?

annied16

Hey Bree,

So my guess would be that you aren't drinking enough water to maintain what you are losing through sweating at the gym. This makes your blood more concentrated in sodium (and other electrolytes) and causes fluid retention which is why it's so important to be really well hydrated. A bit ironic but the more water you drink - the less water your body holds onto! The 2L a day guideline is for the 'average' person - a 70kg person who does little to no exercise. You should weigh yourself pre and post exercise to see that the weights match up - that's the only way to know that you have drank enough water.

Otherwise you've just gained muscle and are on your way to being soooo much hotter....yay!

breezad

hahah ok cool thanks!
ill make sure i chug ALOT more water!!!
thanks hun!

see everyone learns a little bit everyday

amysambora

Thanks for the advice Annie! My scale has gone from 61kg to 63kg in three days!!! I already feel like I drink a lot of water but I'm just gonna keep chugging it down. I'm doing half hour brisk walks or bike rides then Level 2 of the 30 day shred which is a killer. Plus I work part time on my feet for 15hrs a week. Maybe I need to be drinking more. There's just over two weeks left of July and I really want my scale to go DOWN in that time!!!

amandac72

Hi everyone, sorry I have not been around much, School Holidays arghhh!!! Only 2 days left, only 2 days left :bigsmile:

Anyway...I have managed to get a few days exercise in, not as much as I would like but its better than nothing. This morning I got on the scales and YAY!!! finally under 66kg - 65.8 :happy: I seem to have been hanging around 66 for ages, going up anywhere to 68 after the weekend :blushing: . I am determined this weekend not to fall into the same pattern of crappy eating and no exercise, am going to be really good and hopefully I will see a better loss next week.

Hey do you guys take your measurements, sometimes even if the scales don't show the losses, the tapemeasure sure does!! I went to my gym for my 6 week re-measure and had lost almost 10cm from waist, and hips. About 4kg lost on the scales but the centimeters lost were huge!! I have been doing much more weight training with my P/T and I think that has made a big difference.

Bree I have to thank you for your advise on running. I have been trying to do C25K for so long but just can't seem to do it consistantly. So last weekend I just thought I would go out for a run and see how I went. I was amazed that I managed to run just over 5km and it did'nt even kill me :laugh: It is amazing how much of it is in your mind, I think because I had nothing telling me I had to run for so long it just seemed so much better. Yesterday I ran on the treadmill at the gym for 30mins and then did the hill program for another 30 minutes, Ouchies my legs are a bit sore today

Hope you all have a great weekend, keep up the great work eveyone and remember all your hard work WILL pay off!!

Seajolly

Hey everyone! Just checking in. Today I'm headed home from my vacation and very sad about it! But I'm excited to get back into my normal eating routine again. Eating while on vacation is TOUGH! It wasn't even that there were all sorts of "bad" things tempting me... it was that with my limited diet (I'm a pescetarian - a vegetarian that eats fish, but I try not to have fish more than 1-2 times a week) there wasn't a huge variety of things I could eat. The salad options on the island I am at were not great for me as most contained chicken or had heavy blue cheese dressing (that is a BIG thing here). So I had fish a couple of nights, grilled cheese one night, enchiladas another... Too much cheese and sodium! :grumble: But I did get plenty of exercise so hopefully that'll counteract some of the bad stuff!

Going to not weigh myself for a couple of days so my water retention can go away, and hopefully I will have lost or at least stayed the same!

breezad

Hi everyone, sorry I have not been around much, School Holidays arghhh!!! Only 2 days left, only 2 days left :bigsmile:

Anyway...I have managed to get a few days exercise in, not as much as I would like but its better than nothing. This morning I got on the scales and YAY!!! finally under 66kg - 65.8 :happy: I seem to have been hanging around 66 for ages, going up anywhere to 68 after the weekend :blushing: . I am determined this weekend not to fall into the same pattern of crappy eating and no exercise, am going to be really good and hopefully I will see a better loss next week.

Hey do you guys take your measurements, sometimes even if the scales don't show the losses, the tapemeasure sure does!! I went to my gym for my 6 week re-measure and had lost almost 10cm from waist, and hips. About 4kg lost on the scales but the centimeters lost were huge!! I have been doing much more weight training with my P/T and I think that has made a big difference.

Bree I have to thank you for your advise on running. I have been trying to do C25K for so long but just can't seem to do it consistantly. So last weekend I just thought I would go out for a run and see how I went. I was amazed that I managed to run just over 5km and it did'nt even kill me :laugh: It is amazing how much of it is in your mind, I think because I had nothing telling me I had to run for so long it just seemed so much better. Yesterday I ran on the treadmill at the gym for 30mins and then did the hill program for another 30 minutes, Ouchies my legs are a bit sore today

Hope you all have a great weekend, keep up the great work eveyone and remember all your hard work WILL pay off!!

AMANDA that is AWESOME!!!!!!!!
im soooooooo proud of you!!!!!!
welldone! 5km is an amazing distance! what a great goal mark now to improve on!
congrats im sooo pleased you got over the mental part and kept going its fantastic!!!!!!

how you feeling today??
and a BIG congrats for being under 66kg! how did you go over the weekend not too much self sabotage i hope ???

xx

breezad

Hey everyone! Just checking in. Today I'm headed home from my vacation and very sad about it! But I'm excited to get back into my normal eating routine again. Eating while on vacation is TOUGH! It wasn't even that there were all sorts of "bad" things tempting me... it was that with my limited diet (I'm a pescetarian - a vegetarian that eats fish, but I try not to have fish more than 1-2 times a week) there wasn't a huge variety of things I could eat. The salad options on the island I am at were not great for me as most contained chicken or had heavy blue cheese dressing (that is a BIG thing here). So I had fish a couple of nights, grilled cheese one night, enchiladas another... Too much cheese and sodium! :grumble: But I did get plenty of exercise so hopefully that'll counteract some of the bad stuff!

Going to not weigh myself for a couple of days so my water retention can go away, and hopefully I will have lost or at least stayed the same!

WELCOME HOME!!!!!!!!:flowerforyou:

How was thew vacation??
i saw you logging everyday and your exercise was phneomonal!!!!!
welldone!!! yeah it must have been hard, but you sound like you got through it really welkl!!!
copngrats! you've done a great job and like you said let the fluid go away and jump on those scales im sure your fine!

481471

Hey everyone!
You're all doing really well!! Congrats!

I been busy putting my all into 30DS and invested in Zumba for my wii too so been doing 45 mins of that a day!! All is good and best Wii game ive had for getting up a sweat, love it!!
So hoping i'll see a good loss by check in before the weekend* fingers crossed!!!*

breezad

Hey everyone!
You're all doing really well!! Congrats!

I been busy putting my all into 30DS and invested in Zumba for my wii too so been doing 45 mins of that a day!! All is good and best Wii game ive had for getting up a sweat, love it!!
So hoping i'll see a good loss by check in before the weekend* fingers crossed!!!*

great adivce thanks
i might have to invest i hate doing it at the gym cause i feell ike such a nuffy!
thanks for that!!!
keep up the great work!!!

sarahq21

Hey everyone!
You're all doing really well!! Congrats!

I been busy putting my all into 30DS and invested in Zumba for my wii too so been doing 45 mins of that a day!! All is good and best Wii game ive had for getting up a sweat, love it!!
So hoping i'll see a good loss by check in before the weekend* fingers crossed!!!*

great adivce thanks
i might have to invest i hate doing it at the gym cause i feell ike such a nuffy!
thanks for that!!!
keep up the great work!!!

You don't need to feel like a nuffy! lol
I go to zumba classes and they are amazing... Love it! No one really cares how good you are... Probably the same attitude I have to running on the treadmill at the gym... lol

sarahq21

Hey everyone!
You're all doing really well!! Congrats!

I been busy putting my all into 30DS and invested in Zumba for my wii too so been doing 45 mins of that a day!! All is good and best Wii game ive had for getting up a sweat, love it!!
So hoping i'll see a good loss by check in before the weekend* fingers crossed!!!*

great adivce thanks
i might have to invest i hate doing it at the gym cause i feell ike such a nuffy!
thanks for that!!!
keep up the great work!!!

You don't need to feel like a nuffy! lol
I go to zumba classes and they are amazing... Love it! No one really cares how good you are... Probably the same attitude I have to running on the treadmill at the gym... lol

481471

Hey everyone!
You're all doing really well!! Congrats!

I been busy putting my all into 30DS and invested in Zumba for my wii too so been doing 45 mins of that a day!! All is good and best Wii game ive had for getting up a sweat, love it!!
So hoping i'll see a good loss by check in before the weekend* fingers crossed!!!*

great adivce thanks
i might have to invest i hate doing it at the gym cause i feell ike such a nuffy!
thanks for that!!!
keep up the great work!!!

You don't need to feel like a nuffy! lol
I go to zumba classes and they are amazing... Love it! No one really cares how good you are... Probably the same attitude I have to running on the treadmill at the gym... lol

You're right , we are all there for the same thing,but im naturally quite shy and was never good at things like Drama at school, so anything like that makes me quite uncomfortable. I like the wii cos i can really let myself go