WANTED: A few friends for daily motivation!

prettypooks

I have had some pretty good success with my weight loss so far... 43lbs, that came off slowly but surely. Now, I've found this site, and I think I've found a place where I can get (and provide!) the motivation and support needed to really succeed.

My problem is, that I need to be accountable to be successful. This much I know for sure about myself.

I would love to build a tighly-knit group of about 6 or 8 ladies. We could provide that support to each other through regular contact and check-ins. Although I think that the timed-challenges that seem to dominate this section are an excellent idea and a huge motivator, what I would really love to have is a group of friends I can really rely on, and who can rely on me back!

What do you think?

Lisa
aka prettypooks

kristie_cla

Hi Lisa! This sounds like a great idea and I'm in! This has worked really well for me in the past - my friend and I worked together and obsessed about weight loss. Unfortunately, she took a new job a few years ago and I lost that support.

Birch113

Hi Lisa! I would love to join the group! My best friend and I have started this wieghtloss journey together (unfortunately she lives a couple hours away), and it would be awesome to have some more girls cheering each other on! Congrats on your weightloss!

Liss416

Hi Lisa! I would love to join this group. I have been dieting/exercising for a smidge and have hit a plateau. I'm not giving up, nor am I cheating... but I have about 5-7 pounds left to reach my goal and would love to motivate and be motivated!

MissKittyrina

Hi, this sounds like what I have been looking for too. I am relatively new to this site and looking for friends to help keep me motivated. I almost gave up when I found your post because when I looked in this section it seemed like all the doors to motivation were "closed" or had some time or weight requirements and I'm not sure I can deal with the pressure of that. I started my weight loss journey almost a week ago, so I have a ways to go to hit my 60 pound goal. So far I have lost 6

prettypooks

Good morning ladies!

I have a hard time getting online on the weekends sometimes, but I like to come on during the week (gives me a nice break from work!).

Did you all have a good weekend?

Mine was pretty good! I went to my second kickboxing class with my 14 year old stepson, and it really kicked my butt! I've had the hardest time finding a sport that I really enjoy and that motivates me, until I walked in to my first kickboxing class.

How do you guys want to do this? I can open up a closed thread that we can talk on, or we can support each other through messages on each other's profile pages. What do you think?

Ciao!

Lisa
aka Prettypooks

StephieWillcox

Hi Ladies!

I would love to join you all in your journeys - I find that people checking my diary and my exercise is a real motivator (I guess I get shamed into eating/exercising right?!) - and I am having a minor struggle with motivation at the moment!

Feel free to add me - I have MFP on my phone so am always around to comment on status updates and exercise/food records.

I am getting married in 4 months and would love to lose as much weight as I can before then (original aim was to lose 40lbs (so I'd be down to 140lbs), but that is smaller than I have ever been in my adult life, and I'm not sure it's realistic!

A few digs at me when I don't post a big cardo exercise number each day would work wonders - ideally I need to be burning around 600 cals from exercise each day to meet my (rather high) expectations - and at the moment I'm nowhere near it.

Lisa - you sound like you've done incredibly so far - that's AWESOME! Congrats!

I'm sure with a few of us supporting each other (and shouting at me) we can drop the extra weight

Steph x

prettypooks

We could always have a little friendly cardio / workout challenge, if that's motivating...

I've been working hard to get the weight off, but the last week or so I've been seriously getting down to business. I want to be in the 100's by Christmas... I can't wait to have a "1" in front of my number again!

What exercise do you guys have planned for today?

L.

kailey_watson

Can I join your group? I am in a couple of challenges, but I would really like a support group to to keep me going even when i'm not as succesful as I want to be.

abjedi

I would lie to join....

SWilland

Hi Everyone! I would love to join the support group to keep me and you motivated! I am just starting out not only with my weight loss expedition but also with MyFitnessPal. I love the site so far.

Highest Weight: 217.2 (Feb 2011)
Current Weight: 205.4
Goal Weight: 160

Feel free to friend me! I do work full time so sometimes I get busy but I do have the app on my iPod

Liss416

Hi everyone! Just finished a workout... and am exhausted... I stayed up too late last night watching football and paid for it today... Didn't gain weight - but had no energy... I'm so excited about our little motivation/support group... Lisa, I'm in for whatever method... I think it will be fun to workout and be healthy with you all. Have a great afternoon! Lissa (can you believe it? we'll have a Lissa and a Lisa in our group...)

MissKittyrina

We could always have a little friendly cardio / workout challenge, if that's motivating...

I've been working hard to get the weight off, but the last week or so I've been seriously getting down to business. I want to be in the 100's by Christmas... I can't wait to have a "1" in front of my number again!

What exercise do you guys have planned for today?

L.

Sounds like fun. I am having major cardio issues lately because I haven't worked out in years. I put in a video (Ministry of Sound Pump It Up Ultimate Dance Workout) which I thought should be pretty easy and well, it has taken me 3 times to actually be able to do the segments without stopping in the middle of them. I still have to take a 5 to 10 minute walking break in between segments though I am so out of shape.

My hubby wanted us to do PX90 and we've had it sitting on the shelf for almost a year. We keep hearing horror stories about not being able to move enough to do simple things like use the restroom after the workouts, so there it sits. He is doing nothing, I'm doing the dance workout. I'm hoping to build myself up to PX90 without having a coronary. It's really hard to keep motivated while he sits on his butt watching Nascar and Football, eating nachos, hot dogs and drinking beer while I try to get healthy. Oh, and he likes to watch me work out to my video and comments about the girls in the video and makes fun of them... sigh

StephieWillcox

@MissKittyrina I haven't tried P90X (because OUCH expensive) but I am a big fan of Jillian Michaels, and her 30 day shred (or her new one, ripped in 30) might be a good place to start? You can pick them up for WAY cheap, and although they hurt the first few days, you get over it, and then they start feeling good!

I've also heard of quite a few people starting on 30DS before trying P90X just to get back in the routine of doing something each day - and with the two DVD's I mentioned being half an hour including warm up and warm down it's more manageable - especially when you're getting back into it!

@Lisa I'd be all in for a workout challenge, I get motivated briefly, workout hard, and then that's all my motivation used up for the next few days!!! I am quite lucky as I can walk to work, so that gets me 40 mins of exercise in without even thinking about it, but really I need to push myself MUCH harder to get things moving in the right direction!

Saying that I did just do my workout for the day - Jillian's No More Trouble Zones - it runs at an hour, although only 45 minutes of actual circuit training, but is a pretty serious workout! No need to shout at me today

What exercise do you have planned?

Steph

prettypooks

What's everyone's weigh in day? It would be nice to start the exercise challenge around that so that it fits a little more naturally in to our schedules. I like to weigh in on Friday.

Today was a heavy weights, elliptical day at the gym. How's everyone else doing for exercise?

Thoughts on moving to a closed thread? Should we get a group name?? Any suggestions???

Terri813

If its not too late- I would love to join your group. I just restarted using MFP this week.
Terri

MissKittyrina

What's everyone's weigh in day? It would be nice to start the exercise challenge around that so that it fits a little more naturally in to our schedules. I like to weigh in on Friday.

Today was a heavy weights, elliptical day at the gym. How's everyone else doing for exercise?

Thoughts on moving to a closed thread? Should we get a group name?? Any suggestions???

I've been weighing in every day but I think I'm going to stop that habit,it's too obsessive. I'm up for any day, Friday sounds good to me

StephieWillcox

At the moment I'm also weighing in everyday (although only recording on a Friday!) I did try to stop this habit, but I'd rather know so it doesn't come as a surprise on a Friday

Today I'm not sure I'm going to get a serious workout in - almost finished work and then I have to take my lovely new stray cat to the vets, make dinner for hubby-to-be and me, and then eat.

I may have a go at couch-to-5k later on if I'm in the mood as it's only half an hour, and I could really do with learning how to run!!!

I'm easy with however you want to move the group forwards - I guess a closed thread makes the most sense?!

Hope you're all having awesome days!

Steph

tans087

Hi everyone. This is just exactly what i needed and would love to be a part of. I really do need all the motivation to step out and go for a run or exercise a bit. I have just joined in yesterday and really want to push myself hard to lose weight and keep myself fit physically and mentally.

SherriH69

Feel free to add me. I'm new to MFP and just starting.

smileyav

I would love to join too! I've been on MFP on and off, but would love a reason to come on daily and be reminded of what I need to do. I am having a hard time with staying motivated. When I don't see results right away, I want to quit HELP!

prettypooks

Hi and welcome to the new folks!

Alright, it's settled. We'll go to a closed thread, and I'll suggest some fun names for us.

"Smallest Winners" (who wants to be a "Biggest Loser", right?)
Along the same lines... "The Sore Losers" (from too much exercise!)
"The Going, Going, Goners"
"The Quarter Pounders"
"The Anti-Chub Club"
"Skinny Cows"
"Bootie Busters"

My creativity just isn't flowing today...

Submit an option, or vote for your favourite by noon EST tomorrow, and I'll start the new closed thread wtih our new group name!

Lisa
aka Prettypooks

prettypooks

Steph & MissKittyrina - I'm actually an every day weigher too, but I only track on Fridays. It's a habit I'm trying to break, too!

StephieWillcox

Haha, I liked your suggestions Lisa!!! I think my favourite was skinny cows though made me chuckle!!

In fairness I don't see what's so wrong with weighing everyday - assuming you don't freak out at the odd reading here or there!

Steph

MissKittyrina

@prettypooks

I was reading your names and I tried to come up with some myself but the only name I could think of was the name that my cousin always called me and my daughter. She and the rest of our family have always been very overweight and look down on anyone who isn't, which may be part of my issue. Anyway, the name she used to call us (in a derogatory tone) was "Skinny blonde twits." I even remember her saying about my daughter when she was only two years old, "looks like we have another dang skinny blonde twit in the family."

For some reason your name list made me think of that ha ha. I'll try to think of some more names though.

prettypooks

Skinny Blonde Twits would be funny! Maybe we should try and convince the rest of the group to dye their hair blonde... LOL

abjedi

I like skinny cows for a name...

alphasigalum

I would love to join you as well! I would love a daily support group

kristie_cla

Lol...I like Skinny Blonde Twits!

Uggg...I can really tell that I've skipped exercise for too long! Videos that used to be in the 'easy' pile are now kicking my heiny. Shouldn't it be the other way around??? Sigh...long road ahead!

In the last week since I started, I've been an obsessive scale watcher. I don't think it is completely bad, as long as it doesn't cause a bummer day...like I'm having. On the upside, I forced myself to exercise harder tonite.

Can't wait to get to know you all and I welcome any suggestions you might have for me!

Later, tators! :-)

mugwump71

Hi,
I would also love to meet some people for daily motivation. I use the site on a daily basis and finding and talking to "diet buddies" is supposed to be part of my daily routine. In general, I'm really trying to change the way I think about food, hunger, and feeling satisfied into something that's more healthy. (I've always been pretty good about working out, but pretty bad about eating healthy, or having healthy attitudes about food).

As for weighing yourself every day... I think its good for people who need that little push to feel accountable every day (like me). It also taught me that weight is something that fluctuates for all kinds of random reasons, and that as long as I'm a general downward trend, "gaining" a pound compared to yesterday is nothing to get too upset about.

good night all, I'm off to walk the dog.

Gemmap77

I would love to join too! I am new here and trying to find a group to help keep me motivated. I have a 5 mth old baby & 3 other kids, so daily motivation would be great! It's so easy to slip with the daily chaos. I have about 50 more lbs to go. My goal is to be at my goal weight by my baby's 1st birthday in March.

I would love a cardio challenge. I am trying to go to the gym 5 days/week and I weigh in on Mondays.

Good luck everyone!