OVER 200 CLUB PUMP IT UP (OPEN GROUP) WEEK 12

Momma2four

Okay everyone after several weeks of a plateau I have finally broke through and I lost 4lbs. I am so pleased. I have never lost more than 29 pounds so hitting 30 was so important to me and I did even better than that I am at 32 ! Wow I am so excited.

Oh my gosh!!! Congrats, great job. What did you do to burn these pounds? This totally motivates me...im trying to reach 20 mark..just 5 lbs

I just kept staying within my cals and exercising hoping that it would come around. I have a feeling that part of it is the new med I am on. That I was actually loosing weight the last few weeks and I was retaining water. Not sure though. All I know is I kept chugging along even when there was no change. I can't be this fat any more. I am so tired of it.

Momma2four

That is awesome that you broke your plateau!

My weigh-in - down 3.7 pounds
last week - 267.6
this week - 263.9

Wow Jenn you do great every week. Tell us your secret

andreasoulcastle

Drank all my water, stayed within my cals and I am proud that me and my bf challenged each other to burn at least 500 calories today at the gym and I burned 540!!

lstpaul

Wow ... you guys that had such good weight losses this past week motivate me! :drinker:
I didn't do so well ... I'm up 1.6 - but I'm hopeful that some of it is water retention and will come off this week.
I had a couple of really high calorie days this past week - so I need to work on that this week - too much fried food for sure! :explode: and I don't feel very well today, and I'm guessing eating poorly last night has a lot to do with that.
... but I also worked really, really hard last week on getting a lot of exercise in even though my schedule was goofy all week :happy: - so I'm proud of that.
Water is still a challenge for me. I need to start drinking water earlier in the day instead of my usual diet pepsi. It's very hard to break that habit though.

Momma2four

♦lstpaul, you know you can do this too. You have the tools. Let yesterday go, it is today. Let us move forward. I must confess I did terrible this weekend. Today I am back on track. Let's do it together. By the way I am proud of you for making time for exercise. Bob Greene always promotes exercise first.. Because the exercise leads you to wanting to eat better

♦Andrea, great job, keep it up and you will have great success.


Just wanted to wish everyone a wonderful Monday:flowerforyou:

andreasoulcastle

♦lstpaul, you know you can do this too. You have the tools. Let yesterday go, it is today. Let us move forward. I must confess I did terrible this weekend. Today I am back on track. Let's do it together. By the way I am proud of you for making time for exercise. Bob Greene always promotes exercise first.. Because the exercise leads you to wanting to eat better

♦Andrea, great job, keep it up and you will have great success.


Just wanted to wish everyone a wonderful Monday:flowerforyou:

Happy Monday to you too hun!

lstpaul

♦lstpaul, you know you can do this too. You have the tools. Let yesterday go, it is today. Let us move forward. I must confess I did terrible this weekend. Today I am back on track. Let's do it together. By the way I am proud of you for making time for exercise. Bob Greene always promotes exercise first.. Because the exercise leads you to wanting to eat better

♦Andrea, great job, keep it up and you will have great success.


Just wanted to wish everyone a wonderful Monday:flowerforyou:

Thanks :happy: It's hard sometimes to keep that 'I can do it' attitude ... because to be honest I've never been able to do it in the past! But I'm having more success this time than ever before ... I just have to keep it going! Thanks for the positive support ... I know WE CAN DO THIS!

jennbarrette

LOL, no secret here. I mix up my exercises (don't do the same stuff every week, I do walking/running, exercise videos, Wii Active, Wii Fit), I use a heartrate monitor so I am confident I am not over-eating my exercise cals, drink my water everyday, I am still tackling the eating right part. I stay within my calories, but I don't always eat the best foods, but I am trying.

I have been over-weight my whole life, and I am tired of it. I have 2 little girls that are my motivation. I don't want them to grow up thinking that being unhealthy is ok. If I lose the weight in the next few years, they wont even remember me this way. I want them to be healthy, and I have to set the example for them.

jamiesgotagun

LOL, no secret here. I mix up my exercises (don't do the same stuff every week, I do walking/running, exercise videos, Wii Active, Wii Fit), I use a heartrate monitor so I am confident I am not over-eating my exercise cals, drink my water everyday, I am still tackling the eating right part. I stay within my calories, but I don't always eat the best foods, but I am trying.

I have been over-weight my whole life, and I am tired of it. I have 2 little girls that are my motivation. I don't want them to grow up thinking that being unhealthy is ok. If I lose the weight in the next few years, they wont even remember me this way. I want them to be healthy, and I have to set the example for them.

I am right there with you, I have got to do this for me but also for my kids. I want to be able to run around and play or go on roller coasters with out having to wonder if I will fit or not.

**That is a really great idea to mix up the exercise, probably helps to not get bored too.

jamiesgotagun

Sorry wasn't on all weekend, our computer at home is acting up and doesn't work really well, got to get it fixed. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!!

Friday:
Calories: Went a little over but not bad
Water: Probably only got 3/4
Proud: Went to dinner with friends, only ate small portions of everything and stopped when I was full.

Saturday:
Calories: Just can't seem to keep it at 1500, I am usually getting like 1800, better during the week at work though.
Water: Not good at all, I really need to work on this on the weekends too.
Proud: Instead of sitting around I got my butt up and did a bunch of stuff around the house and cleaned the car really good!!

Sunday:
Calories: Again hitting about 1800, a little over
Water: Did pretty good Sunday but still not the full amount
Proud: Went out to eat and made a good food choice

My goal this week is to get my exercise started!!!!

lstpaul

ready2BFF: It seems like just adding a little exercise to your days will help with staying under your calorie goals ... you are so close. It's so much easier if you have those exercise calories to subtract off. I really struggle with the days I don't get any exercise.

jennbarrette

Same here, I usually go for a walk on my off days, just so I can eat a little more.

laurajoyk

Hey there everyone. I'm new to this group, but am interested in joining you guys. I currently weigh 218.0 lbs and have lost 4.5 lbs so far. It would be nice to talk to people on here who weigh over 200 like I do.

Momma2four

Welcome laurajoyw :flowerforyou:

trikstar

I would like to join you all. I just got out of a really negative, nasty relationship and the break-up was horrible... I gained back 10 pounds from all the stress and pressure his lying and cheating put me through. But I'm here to get those 10 back off and then some. :brokenheart:

My eating has been great today.
I'm only at 2 glasses of water for the day, though. I am so bad about drinking my water.
Going to start Shaun T's Rockin' Body tonight for my cardio.
My current weight is 223.

I keep a hand-written food diary, so in case they block this website at work, I will still be able to log my food intake.

I'll try to remember to weigh in on Fridays. :happy:

Pleasure to meet you all, and keep up the great work guys!

Momma2four

Nice to meet you trikstar! Congrats on getting rid of the loser.

jennbarrette

Welcome ladies!

traleen

Hi can i join ?
just lemme know what to do :drinker:

laurajoyk

Thanks

Momma2four

Hi can i join ?
just lemme know what to do :drinker:

Sure you can join, we weigh in on Fridays. Right now our challenge is to set a cardio goal and add minutes to that goal each week. We also check in periodically and encourage each other. I read some where the people who have the most "posts" are averaging more weight loss. So there is something to this whole encouragement part of it all.

I was also hoping we could have another challenge, just waiting on some of the ladies to make some suggestions. Last week we were answering 3 questions. If you have any suggestions please feel free.

Momma2four

Thanks

Your welcome, we would love any input and encouragement you may have. Feel free to share ideas about challenges that we could do. As I mentioned above we weigh in on friday's and we are setting cardio goals and adding minutes each week to that. That is what my little train is all about. On mondays I put it back to 0 and add a couple of mins to my total. It is kind of a fun way to make sure I am reaching my goals.

andreasoulcastle

LOL, no secret here. I mix up my exercises (don't do the same stuff every week, I do walking/running, exercise videos, Wii Active, Wii Fit), I use a heartrate monitor so I am confident I am not over-eating my exercise cals, drink my water everyday, I am still tackling the eating right part. I stay within my calories, but I don't always eat the best foods, but I am trying.

I have been over-weight my whole life, and I am tired of it. I have 2 little girls that are my motivation. I don't want them to grow up thinking that being unhealthy is ok. If I lose the weight in the next few years, they wont even remember me this way. I want them to be healthy, and I have to set the example for them.

what Heart rate monitor do you use, haven't looked into these yet, do you suggest it?

andreasoulcastle

Hi Trickstar Laurajoyw and Traleen, thx for joining!

Andrea

jennbarrette

I have a Polar F7, I believe it has the same features as an F6, but this one was pretty LOL, and since I wear the watch part all the time, I wanted one I would like. I think as long as you get one with the chest band there is not a big difference, but a lot of people seem to like the Polar brand. You can get them for a good price on e-bay.

lstpaul

I have a Polar F7, I believe it has the same features as an F6, but this one was pretty LOL, and since I wear the watch part all the time, I wanted one I would like. I think as long as you get one with the chest band there is not a big difference, but a lot of people seem to like the Polar brand. You can get them for a good price on e-bay.

I have the Polar F11 - which I really like, I don't know that there is all that much difference from the F7 - but there are some extra features, but it also costs quite a bit more unless you find a good sale.
I would definitely recommend getting a heart rate monitor. It has really jump started my exercise. I like knowing how many calories I've burned. I like that mine sets a weekly goal and I get a 'trophy' on the watch if I meet the goal ... I haven't missed the goal since I got the monitor in March. I found out that when I was walking (treadmill or outside) I was never pushing myself enough to get my heartrate up into the 'fat burning zone', so that has been a motivator to push myself. You can set it up so it beeps at you if you go under or over your fat burning zone range (in step class I have to turn the beeping off because I go over the range a lot).

Shuutnstar

Hey everybody! Great thread! So... I'm Jenifer. I'm new to MFP. Have been doing it for about 2 weeks now and I am down 5 pounds! Yay me! But I am struggling with the things you address here, so I think this will be a nice fit!

I weigh in on Mondays... so my last weigh in was 214.

So... Yesterday...

Did I drink my water? No... grrr... I am so BAD about water, comes from being raised on really sulphuric well water that smelled and tasted like rotten eggs. I have to FORCE it down my throat. But that being said, I drank 6 oz... maybe a bit more. Cuz I had 2 cups of water at Duffy's.

Did I stay within my calories? No... BUT I came very close. I splurged a bit on a publix sub, and FORCED myself not to eat the whole, and only ate half! But that only left me with 248 cals and we were going OUT for dinner at Duffy's. So I had the grilled salmon and grilled zucchini.

What am I proud of? I did the smart thing and ordered fish even though I wanted chicken tenders and even though I ordered the fries, I didn't even TOUCH one fry. I gave them all away!

lstpaul

Welcome Shuutnstar! Good job on your dinner decisions last night ... I think making those decisions consistently is half the battle ... I'm still working on it!
I have trouble with water too, but I know it's really important for weight loss. There has been some discussion about how much more water you need to drink if you also drink pop or coffee ... so today I'm trying to be double fisted - I've got both a water bottle and diet pepsi bottle at my desk and if I take a sip of one - I try to take a sip of the other too. I bet I spend the day in the bathroom! :laugh:

trikstar

Was short on my water yesterday - only had 6 glasses. I'll do better today.
My eating was right on target.
And I did my first exercise. It was a little messy - since I didn't really know the moves. I tried... but sometimes I have two left feet. :laugh:

Hope everyone's having a great day so far.

Momma2four

Hey everyone, and welcome to the new faces. Glad to see everyone is trying to drink their water today.

C'mon ladies lets think of a new challenge for this week. Of course we need to keep drinking our water, and of course stay within our calories and add minutes to our cardio but let us try something new. any suggestions???????????????????????????????/// I have to take one of my little ones to the dentist so I will check back later and see if anyone has any ideas

laurajoyk

Yesterday was a good day, I was about 150 or so under my calories for the day, and didn't really work out, but I helped clean a bunch at my family's house so I did get some exercise there LOL

I started counting calories on August 1st and so far I have already lost 5lbs YAY. I always lose weight really quickly in the beginning though. So it won't last forever Soon I'll be back to losing 1 or 2 pounds a week.

Well I hope everyone's day is going well.