Over 200 Club Fit for the Holidays (open group)

lildebbie

12.03.09
Calories - way under - 1200 (normal calories is 1640), but I ate all day, had a low cal dinner...guess that is good.
Water - 64 oz today
Exercise - 30 minutes on elliptical
Proud of - I have done so awsome this week..I have worked out awsome this week, got more water this week that i had any other week, and i stayed under cals all week...HOpe i can have many more of weeks like these.

sas202554

Hey, Sorry I have not been posting. I am helping my best friend get ready for her daughters wedding this Saturday and Have not been faithful to the group. I am sorry and hope you all will not kick me out. I read your posts and enjoy hearing how everyone is doing. This Sunday I am going to plan the week and post. I will weigh tomorrow and see how I have done. Keep up the good work. I want to learn about each one of your. Thanks for the comments to me when I joined this last weekend. I will do better.
Way to go lil debbie!!! I hope to have a week like that next week.
Sherry

snowflakes

calories: yes
exercise: yes
water: yes
proud: I made cookies today and only eat two.

ColoradoGirl

Not doing so hot this week. Water intake has been horible.. been a emotional mess and lost 1 lb. :frown: been having a tough time staying motivated. have managed to stay within my calories most days but, have been making bad choices of foods and not getting my water in. Exercise has been hit and miss and I just have been really down. :grumble:

Well I guess this week is a new week.. so, I will start over!

lildebbie

dawn - sorry you were having a down week...but 1lb is a 1lb loss...good job.

I am very excited to report that I lost 4.4 lbs this week that is a loss of 1.49 %.

I also decided to take measurents the 1st friday of the month weigh in, i have lost 1/2 in to 1 inch from every where..I am real excited about that.

I am 1 lb away from 20 lbs loss....go me !!!!

Sorry I am tooting my own horn but I feel soo good about this,

Everybody have a super Friday.

bluenote

Way to go lilD!!! :flowerforyou: I am so happy for you because I know how hard you have been working. It feels GOOD when it pays off, doesn't it? You rock! You have the right to "TOOT" and we all want you to! :laugh:

Dawn - you are right - it's a new week. The past is in the past and you have been doing so so so great that you just need to use this past week as a learning experience and keep on keepin' on. :flowerforyou: And hey, 1 lb. IS 1 lb. Better than the other way!!!

I am proud to report that I lost 4 lbs., with a percentage of .83%. The percentage may not be high because, hey, let's face it, I have over 300 to lose, BUT.... 4 lbs. IS 4lbs.!!! I am pretty excited! Going to a party tonight and I hope my weight loss this past week will inspire and REMIND me to take it easy. :drinker:

bluenote

My ladybug moved over enough that I can FINALLY see the "0" on my ticker! LOL I have been waiting and waiting for that moment!!!! :laugh:

LittleSpy

Mornin' ladies!

Well, after weighing the same yesterday as I did last Friday, you can imagine my relief when the scale budged today.
I lost 1.4 pounds this week weighing in at 236.0.
I really focused on my diet/nutrition since I had to take care of my knees this week (meaning no walking or running which is how I have been getting the majority of my exercise). So, especially considering the only real cardio I got this week after last Saturday was using my stationary bike 30 minutes every morning, and considering I've lost over 3 pounds for the last 2 weeks in a row, I'm pretty happy about 1.4 pounds this week.
The percentage is .59%

Way to go to all you losers!

I'm going out with some ex-coworkers after work tonight. Bar and bar food. I'm just going to do my usual "I'm not hungry" routine and drink 2 light beers and that's how I'll get around that. I'm planning to eat a Special K bar on the drive there and a healthy dinner when I get home.

lildebbie

Way to go Zora!!!

Momma2four

Hey Everyone,

Sherry, you are always welcome to our group. Hope your friends daugter has a wonderful wedding and a long marriage:flowerforyou:

WooHoo lildeb. way to go on that big number you will be hard to beat this week with a percentage like that.

Zora, way to go girl. 4 pounds is a lot. Say goodbye to that 4 cause it is gone for ever.:flowerforyou:

jlb123, great job on the weight loss. You will do fine tonight.



Okay I am happy to report that I lost 0 this week. The reason I am happy about that is because I gained over Thanksgiving Weekend which means I got rid of that booboo I made over the 4 day weekend. The weight I gained is GONE!!!! I did not want to have to work on that for weeks and weeks>


Here are our percentages, those of us who weigh in later please copy and paste to your post and add your percentage to the bottom so we can see at a glance who our biggest loser is.


jlb123 %.59
Zora %.83
lildeb %1.49
momma %0



Here is our percentage calculator
http://menshealth.about.com/library/blpercentage.htm

snowflakes

Good job everyone!

I made the 20 pounds lost goal this week. I am tooting my horn right along with the rest of you. Great week.

The arm challenge has been a bugger. You still have today and tomorrow morning to finish your reps.

jlb123 %.59
Zora %.83
lildeb %1.49
momma %0
snowflakes %.99

lildebbie

quiet afternoon today.

well i think i went over my cals and no exercise today

I went to lunch with my friends. I got a turkey wrap with no mayo...it was good, but i have no idea how many calories, I found a arby's one in the food database so don't know if was close or not. I had a side sald too just lettuce and a few crutons and some lettuce and a basalmic dressing...i AM NOT sure how many cals it had. But I didn't use a whole lot of it. Then dinner we went to whataburger (where i am weak for their french fries ) and did awsome, i had a grilled chicken sandwich and 1 of my daughters chicken strips total like 450 . I think i did great, hubby on the other hand had a a1 thick and hearty and fries for a whopping 1500 calories i about had a heart attack when I saw how many cals...But I did get water and drank 2 big glasses.

I am hoping i do good tomorrow , we are having a bday party for my 3 yr old. I am making a cake now. I want to have a piece , and will have 1 small piece. She picked out strawberry ice cream and i don't like strawberry ice cream so that is good i won't eat it

snowflakes

lidebbie you are doing great. You were surrounded with temptation and choose healthier items for yourself. I would have had to send my hubby to eat by himself. LOL

Where is everyone this evening? Hot dates I guess.

calories: yes
exercise: yes (light day)
water: not quite
proud of: Making it to another goal.

Momma2four

lildeb, pick our challenge girl you appear to be the biggest loser congrats on that one..................snowflakes loved the arm challenge you had for this week. I am going to keep doing it !!!

lildebbie

Thanks i tried...and biggest of all I DID NOT LICK THE SPOONS FROM THE CAKE ...i was tempted but I didn't...

Never been a biggest looser :blushing: :blushing:

I will think tonight and get in the morning for your challenge for this week.

bluenote

I went to a birthday party tonight. I am both elated and disappointed. Disappointed because I ate four fried chicken wings that cost me a whole lotta cals, plus I drank a scotch and that sent me through the Jack In the Box drive-thru for two supreme croissants (had to get two, they were on sale - whatever! LOL). I really had every intention of eating before going, but I ended up staying at work really late again because I still have so much to do before the stupid musical next week. (notice it is "stupid" now LOL) I didn't plan well. :grumble:

I am elated because I passed up the birthday cake at a birthday party!!! :bigsmile:

So when I totaled up my cals for the day, AFTER the JitB BINGE, I went over on cals by 200. :noway:
water: perfect
exercise: really none today - my knee is killing me
proud: I admitted my JitB binge to you guys and faced it head on, plus I passed up the darn cake that looked DELICIOUS!!!

lildebbie

Good morning ladies.

I think since we all worked out our arms last week that this week we needed to concentrate on something else as I am sure our arms are killing us.

I say this week we work on our legs. I say at least 5 days a week we should do 5 sets of 10 of the following:
* standing up (hold on to somtehing if you need to Lift right leg to the side , then right side
*sting up (hold on to something is you need) bring you knee up then kick
*laying down on the floor lift left leg then right leg
* if you fee like it an extra one will be to lay on your back put your legs together and apart.

HOpe this is an okay challenge for this week. I need some workout on my thighs and looked up and these are good.

LittleSpy

12.04.09
Calories: 1,268
Exercise: only 25 minutes on bike - 314 burned
Water:good
Proud: Went to a restaurant with friends and had drinks without going over my calories.

lildebbie

Did not track calories today, but feel like i have done pretty good...I had my normal breakfast, a homemade sub for lunch, Hubby making low cal baked ziti from biggest looser cookbook. We have had it several times and it is pretty good....Did have one small piece of cake , but just 1 small piece....

water and exercise is zippo

I am proud that I only had 1 piece of cake and i didn't lick any icing kinves today.

Today was a busy day...we had my 3 yr old bday party, my inlaws came down and it is always stressful, my mil has a brain injury and sometims she gets very upset and screams and yells, i don't know how my fil does it.

bluenote

lildeb - that has got to be hard on everyone (your mil illness), so sorry. :flowerforyou: I like the challenge. I am ready to start doing something for these big legs! LOL And you're right, my arms are pretty sore! I must admit I could not do ten reps, but I did four or five most of the time.

check in:

cals: good
water: half-way there
exercise: 20 mins bike, plan to do twenty more plus the leg challenge
proud: I am really starting to feel better, gals. I mean it! I am up moving a LOT more than I EVER was! Today I took the grocery cart all the way back to the store instead of putting it in the cart bin next to my car. THAT is a miracle!!! :laugh:

lildebbie

lildeb - that has got to be hard on everyone (your mil illness), so sorry. :flowerforyou: I like the challenge. I am ready to start doing something for these big legs! LOL And you're right, my arms are pretty sore! I must admit I could not do ten reps, but I did four or five most of the time.

check in:

cals: good
water: half-way there
exercise: 20 mins bike, plan to do twenty more plus the leg challenge
proud: I am really starting to feel better, gals. I mean it! I am up moving a LOT more than I EVER was! Today I took the grocery cart all the way back to the store instead of putting it in the cart bin next to my car. THAT is a miracle!!! :laugh:

Thanks...she goes in and out the good is good but the bad is really bad.

My legs need much improvement...(along with everything else)

INlaws are leaving in the morning and DH has to go to a company meeting tomorrow, it will be all day , but he will get 100.00 gift card so that is good...trying to figure out what me and the girls will do tomorrow. GOt his schedule and he has to work all next week and next weekend so that is cruddy..oh well it is ot.

Tomorrow is actually my daughters bday , be nice if they both slept all day but doubt that is happening.

LittleSpy

12.05.09
Calories: 1,369
Exercise: None to speak of, though I did work photographing kids from 9am-2.45pm and that's a pretty physical job.
Water: Oh so bad.
Proud: I'm having a splurge day (why would I be proud about that, you ask? Keep reading! ). I haven't had one in quite some time. Yet look at my calories... haha. Now even my splurge days are good days in the calorie department! (I'm about to eat an entire Oreo Blast from Sonic for dinner!! :laugh:) I'm also proud the scale moved down to 235.4 this morning. I just realized I'm half of the way to being under 200 pounds! I haven't been under 200lbs since probably my Junior year of high school. And even then, I was probably 190-something.


I'm going to get to gulping down some water before bed. I feel a little dehydrated after only drinking about 20oz water today (when normally I drink 80oz+). My knees feel almost 100% so I was going to run today but after I ended up having to work a couple hours longer than planned, and my boyfriend told me I should wait another day until my knees truly felt 100%, I decided to wait to do it tomorrow. It's probably a good idea, I don't want to end up right where I started with them hurting so much again so I think I'm going to try running 2x a week (Sundays & Thursdays) until I think I can comfortably increase to 3x/week.

jennbarrette

Hi girls! I am back. I fell off the wagon again *sigh* but I am back on now. I haven't weighed myself in a few weeks, but I think I gained a little this time.

I started the couch25K program again, and it is so much easier now that I am in better shape! I tried it about 5 months back and it was so hard for me! I did the week 1 workout today and yesterday, and felt fine, only had to push myself the last run interval. My goal is to be able to run a full 5k by my birthday in June. I also want to hit the 100 pounds lost mark my then.

I wish I didn't keep falling off the wagon...this time was bad. It involved homemade cookies and fast food...but I wont give up!

lildebbie

Jenn - glad you are back...

ColoradoGirl

Hello gals.. So... for whatever reason I am having one heck of a time! My will power is really sucking! It just seems I am not excited about this as I have been. Oh the emotional rollercoaster! :noway:

I have not really worked out as much as I should over the past week.. :indifferent:

Today started off ok.. still no motivation.. I am craving crap food aka fast food.. ugg.
ate pretty good today and did well on the water but after shopping all afternoon I caved and took the kids to Taco Bell.
Needless to say I ate more than I should have. When I got home and logged it I was over 340 calories :frown:

So. I got on the treadmill and walked for about 70 minutes

so, I guess I am proud that even though I caved at Taco bell and went over in Calories, I countered it by walking off the extra I ate!

I just hope I make it through these Holidays.. I did not think some of these choices were going to be so hard :grumble:

bluenote

Glad to see you here, Jenn. You named two of my biggest downfalls - cookies and fast food. :grumble: You can do this! A big step is coming back and logging in your day. :flowerforyou:

dawn - Taco Bell is my ultimate enemy. I can totally relate. 350 is not bad at all for a TB outing! Give yourself some credit - my TB outings go for about 800 cals! :huh:

I think this time of year is very difficult for all of us. I know it is for me. I find that coming here and admitting my food intake helps me a LOT. I learn with every mistake. We can survive the holidays with each other as support, can't we?????

patrice27

Hi everyone,
I have been a lurker on your thread for awhile. Your collective stick-to-it attitude has helped me alot!
Thanks,
Patrice

LittleSpy

Wow, I can't believe it. I need to edit my calories for the day. 1,225

Why? Because I got a regular sized Oreo Blast. I couldn't eat it all. :noway: About half way through, I thought I was going to die it was so sweet. :sick: Wow - me? Not being able to finish something because it's too sweet? Insanity. I was the kind of fatty who could easily sit down and eat an entire pint of Ben & Jerry's in one sitting. The girl who could easily finish off a giant candy bar at once.

I used to have zero problems finishing off a large Blast. This is good! :drinker:

bluenote

Hi everyone,
I have been a lurker on your thread for awhile. Your collective stick-to-it attitude has helped me alot!
Thanks,
Patrice

Patrice, you're always welcome here. :flowerforyou: Tell us your story.

jlb - This is VERY good!!! :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

snowflakes

Hey!

It was nice to get on tonight and read from so many of you.:happy:

zorahope: moving more is the right thing and it is great that you have noticed that it is easier for you. Keep it up. You are doing great.

lildebbie: There are days when I haven't seen my husband much because of long days and if I coment to my Mom about it she always reminds me how glad she is the he has a good job. With the economy the way it is, just remember it could be worse. (This is ment to make you feel better, not depress you.:bigsmile: ) When my kids were little we would make homemade playdough, paint, make macaroni necklace, if you kids are big enough you could teach them how to cut out snowflakes. Make Dad a special love note on color paper. The progects helped pass the time for me and the kids were distratced so they weren't asking EVERY five minutes "when is daddy going to be home". Maybe this will help you too.
Good job on being the biggest looser, and regarding the leg challenge, my arms are thanking you, and legs are thanking you that you didn't throw some redidulas number out there. hee hee I am going to keep working on the arms, but makeing it resonable good grief.:laugh:

jlb123: From what I can tell, you seem to be very consistant with you calories and all. Super duper! You will be under 200 lbs.:flowerforyou:

jenn: Good to see you post. Sorry you weren't apart of the arm challenge. :noway: hee hee I challenged a ridiculous amount and it was hard.:sad: You have come so far and you will continue to do well.:flowerforyou:

dawnann: It is really tuff not go back to old habits that aren't that old. And some days are much harder than others and I haven't figured out why. The more I read posts on really hard days, helps distract me and keeps my mind busy. You will make it through the holidays. I have been given two dozen cookies and talk about tempting! I took a bite of sugar cookie and it wasn't at all enjoyable and even my kids didn't eat them so the next day I through them out. This is huge because I would never throw away treats and also it was a gift. I feel guilty but the calories are not worth it. We will make it through the holidays together. You are not alone.

patrice27: Welcome! I joined Sep 2009 as well. Feel free to join in.

Today was the mock disaster for the C.E.R.T. and what an eye opener. We had Boy Scouts and school children in the disaster. I want to live in Mayberry where the biggest diaster is Aunt Bea's bottled dill pickels tasting like caroseen.

Calories: yes 1300
Exercise: the mock disaster
Water: not enough
Proud of: Finally got our Christmas tree up. (I like it up closer to Thanksgiving.)