May Day Challenge!

Ktbell626

Thanks so much for the support Chocolickkyss!

Today was a traveling day for me, 8 hours worth. I had to have McDonald's for lunch but it kinda healthy which means I can eat there for under 500 calories. I will be doing to no fast food challenge for this week because I think the no sweets will be too much.

twt1999brd

So, I forgot to log in my weight on Friday. I weighed in at 159.4. Only about a pound but hopefully it is the first of many. My pants are lose today though. I feel good about that. I can't wait to watch Biggest Lose tomorrow. That alwasy keeps me motivated.

msh0530

Start weight: 281.2
Jan. 3: 281.2
Jan. 8:
Jan. 15:
Jan. 22:
Jan. 29:
Feb. 5:
Feb. 12:
Feb. 19:
Feb. 26:
March 5:
March 12:
March 19:
March 26:
April 2:
April 9:
April 16:
April 23:
April 30: Goal 250

OK, true confessions time. Last week, when I got on the scales, I had gained 8 pounds over the holidays. Eight! Can you believe it?? Anyway, I gave myself until today to get it off, or I would have to put it on my ticker. I found that to be very motivating this week, and I worked my tail off. Oops, just looked. That may be an exaggeration - I do still have a tail. Anyway, as of this morning, my ticker is right! I lost them all! Here's to the new year! (But I'm wondering what I use for motivation this week!)

smadag1

Today is the first day of my no fast food challange. I am packing my lunch and not stopping in the morning for breakfast. This is going to be a tought challange for me but I am hoping it will help me lose more weight because I have been at a stand still for a while.

ourgang

I didn't log yesterday, but I still eat what we had planned and stayed under my cal count, So why was I up today?????:huh:

Oh well, I have all week to get below the 220 mark, and I am gonna do it.
I'm in with both challenges Yesterday 0 sweets and 0 fast food... The fast food will be easy, and the sweets won't be too hard. I usually always want something chocolate or sweet after I eat lunch, but I think I can make it happen with gum and mints

I must say this is the first weekend I wasn't up like 5 lbs.... got our basement cleaned out and spent time with the Family!!!!

I'm still shotting for 5 hours of exercise this week. I got 4.5 hours in last week... and I have 1 hours so far this week...

amboardman

I'm in on the no sweets challenge! I am SOO bad about eating a piece of candy here and a piece there...it all adds up! I love love love chocolate (well, anything sweet really) so this will be a tough one, but I'm up for it. I really would like to be under 170 this week!

lisawest

Hello! I'm just stopping in to see how everyone was doing.

Great job Mary!! I know how frustrated you were. Hopefully the weight will continue to come off!

I am at home with a sick kiddo. He has a "bad cold" and pink eye. Uggg. Yesterday AM he woke up with his eye matted closed. When we got it cleaned up, his eye wasn't red, so we figured it was just from his cold. Last night our daycare lady called to say that she was going to be closed today. Apparently another child at daycare had pink all last week, but mom forgot to mention it!:noway: So she needed an extra day to sanitize everything (she has been with her mother who had surgery Friday) and get her own daughter to the Dr since it appeared she also got it. Well, in light of THAT little discovery, I decided it was a good opportunity to take Ray in and get him looked at, too. Doc gave him drops for his eyes, and recommended a humidifier with Vick's in it for the cold. We had already brought up our old humidifier, but apparently it didn't get cleaned out as well as it should have last winter:grumble: , so rather than try to get every bit of mold out of it (and probably miss some, thus giving Ray an allergy attack on top of the cold) I just went and bought a new one. *sigh* Good news is that I wasn't feeling too spiffy myself, so I get a day at home to nap and relax so that I will hopefully feel better tomorrow.

All that has pretty much NOTHING to do with weight loss, but that's my life today. That, and after logging in my breakfast lunch and dinner for today, I'm still about 600 calories shy of my daily alotment without any exercise calories! I may end up having seconds at dinner:laugh: (I really love tonight's dinner. It's enchilada casserole aka Mexican lasagna, but we made it with low fat cheese, low fat tortillas, extra lean beef, fresh tomatoes, and now it's pretty low cal!)

Keep up the good work everyone!

alymarphi

Start weight: 158
Dec. 25: 164
Jan. 1: 160
Jan. 8: 157
Jan. 15:
Jan. 22:
Jan. 29:
Feb. 5:
Feb. 12:
Feb. 19:
Feb. 26:
March 5:
March 12:
March 19:
March 26:
April 2:
April 9:
April 16:
April 23:
April 30: 132

Chocolickkyss

Hello! I'm just stopping in to see how everyone was doing.

Great job Mary!! I know how frustrated you were. Hopefully the weight will continue to come off!

I am at home with a sick kiddo. He has a "bad cold" and pink eye. Uggg. Yesterday AM he woke up with his eye matted closed. When we got it cleaned up, his eye wasn't red, so we figured it was just from his cold. Last night our daycare lady called to say that she was going to be closed today. Apparently another child at daycare had pink all last week, but mom forgot to mention it!:noway: So she needed an extra day to sanitize everything (she has been with her mother who had surgery Friday) and get her own daughter to the Dr since it appeared she also got it. Well, in light of THAT little discovery, I decided it was a good opportunity to take Ray in and get him looked at, too. Doc gave him drops for his eyes, and recommended a humidifier with Vick's in it for the cold. We had already brought up our old humidifier, but apparently it didn't get cleaned out as well as it should have last winter:grumble: , so rather than try to get every bit of mold out of it (and probably miss some, thus giving Ray an allergy attack on top of the cold) I just went and bought a new one. *sigh* Good news is that I wasn't feeling too spiffy myself, so I get a day at home to nap and relax so that I will hopefully feel better tomorrow.

All that has pretty much NOTHING to do with weight loss, but that's my life today. That, and after logging in my breakfast lunch and dinner for today, I'm still about 600 calories shy of my daily alotment without any exercise calories! I may end up having seconds at dinner:laugh: (I really love tonight's dinner. It's enchilada casserole aka Mexican lasagna, but we made it with low fat cheese, low fat tortillas, extra lean beef, fresh tomatoes, and now it's pretty low cal!)

Keep up the good work everyone!

I sure would like to know how you're able to log food for breakfast, lunch and dinner and be 600 calories shy of your daily allottment (not including exercise) b/c 600 seems like a pretty big number. Please share your secret :flowerforyou:


I'm late logging in today b/c I actually had to leave my house to head in to the office for a little bit BUT today's workout is complete. I did 50 minutes of Jillian's "No More Trouble Zones" dvd and will probably tackle it again on Friday. I was able to burn close to 400 calories, so, I'm satisfied.

Since I made it to the house successfully w/o eating any sweets or fast food I'm feeling pretty good that today will also be a success w/this week's challenge.

lisawest

I sure would like to know how you're able to log food for breakfast, lunch and dinner and be 600 calories shy of your daily allottment (not including exercise) b/c 600 seems like a pretty big number. Please share your secret :flowerforyou:

Not a good secret I'm afraid. Since I was dealing with trying to get BOTH kids out the door this morning (usually I get one and DH gets one, MUCH easier), and one of those children was cranky because he was up half the night coughing, I kinda forgot to get myself breakfast:grumble: I keep a few granola bars in the car in case I'm out and one of the kids or I get hungry. So I had one of those for breakfast (100 cal). A LOT less than what I usually eat! Then I was at the dr office when I usually have my AM snack, so THAT got skipped also.:ohwell: Don't worry, I am well on my way to making up those calories:bigsmile: I think I've snacked my way to about 300 left over. Lately I've found myself in a place I NEVER thought I'd be, struggling to hit my calorie number! Mostly it can be chalked up to crazy life and I forget to eat until I'm starving, but because we've done such a good job shopping, all my snack options are light on the calories! Although I'm pretty sure that eating almost an entire pound of baby carrots per day isn't QUITE what I had in mind for snacks!:laugh: Well, I'm off to preheat the oven for our casserole (which I prepared yesterday while Ray was sleeping and DH and Ruth were at a friend's house:bigsmile: ).

I'll check in later! (I have discovered that I'm slightly addicted to MFP:blushing: but it's more fun that FB for me!)

Chocolickkyss

I just told my cousin that I'm on MFP alot more than i'm on FB. I check in w/them every so often but I can't even think of the last time I actually posted a status update on there. I like being able to talk about weight (success and setbacks) w/o worrying whether the other person wants to hear it. At least here, everyone is struggling witht he same things so I don't feel like i'm being a burden.

ourgang

So I think my hunger from yesterday as passed. I did listen to my body and went a little over on the Cal count, I haven't weighted myself in a few days so hopefully I am on the right track for our weigh in Friday.

Last night I had to give in to the sweet monster, I had 2 van. cream filled cookiees and they were goood!!!!

So 1 day no sweets, 1 day just a taste:ohwell:
No fast food 2 days!!!!
I am currently up to 1 hour 40 min of exercise and have my Jillian wii 2010 challenge tonight:bigsmile:

got to work early and have an auditor here for the day, :noway: :noway:

God Bless everyone on your journey today:flowerforyou:

Chocolickkyss

2day is a special day, it is a day that everything will go my way, 2day is the day that I was born, Its my birthday yall, I GOT IT GOING ON, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, IT'S BIRTHDAY!!! From January to December everyone has a day they wanna remember, whether turning 21 or 95, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, come on and get live, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!. I turned 37 today and I'm feeling and looking good.

I began my day w/many text messages and phone calls with birthday wishes from friends and family. I went to the gym and ROCKED IT. I was able to burn 361 calories on the treadmill and 284 on the elliptical for a total 645 calories. After that I spent about 10-15 minutes in the sauna (pure bliss) and topped it off w/a banana & strawberry protein shake. I'm feeling real good.

Have a great day ladies!

yharmon

Happy Birthday!! I hope this is a great day for you!!

Ktbell626

2day is a special day, it is a day that everything will go my way, 2day is the day that I was born, Its my birthday yall, I GOT IT GOING ON, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, IT'S BIRTHDAY!!! From January to December everyone has a day they wanna remember, whether turning 21 or 95, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, come on and get live, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!. I turned 37 today and I'm feeling and looking good.

I began my day w/many text messages and phone calls with birthday wishes from friends and family. I went to the gym and ROCKED IT. I was able to burn 361 calories on the treadmill and 284 on the elliptical for a total 645 calories. After that I spent about 10-15 minutes in the sauna (pure bliss) and topped it off w/a banana & strawberry protein shake. I'm feeling real good.

Have a great day ladies!

Happy Birthday!!!

You are such a inspiration!

Checking in for the week, I have made it 4 & 1/2 days without pop, and I say 1/2 because any thing could happen this evening. 1 day fast food but other than that I have been really good. Classes are already starting to pile on the work and its only the second day. I'm right on track for this week, so it should be a good weigh in!

Have a good day everyone!

Chocolickkyss

2day is a special day, it is a day that everything will go my way, 2day is the day that I was born, Its my birthday yall, I GOT IT GOING ON, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, IT'S BIRTHDAY!!! From January to December everyone has a day they wanna remember, whether turning 21 or 95, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, come on and get live, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!. I turned 37 today and I'm feeling and looking good.

I began my day w/many text messages and phone calls with birthday wishes from friends and family. I went to the gym and ROCKED IT. I was able to burn 361 calories on the treadmill and 284 on the elliptical for a total 645 calories. After that I spent about 10-15 minutes in the sauna (pure bliss) and topped it off w/a banana & strawberry protein shake. I'm feeling real good.

Have a great day ladies!

Happy Birthday!!!

You are such a inspiration!

Checking in for the week, I have made it 4 & 1/2 days without pop, and I say 1/2 because any thing could happen this evening. 1 day fast food but other than that I have been really good. Classes are already starting to pile on the work and its only the second day. I'm right on track for this week, so it should be a good weigh in!

Have a good day everyone!

Ktbell, thank you for the birthday wishes and congratulations on being soda free for 4 days and working out. My hat goes off to all you college students b/c I know when I was in undergraduate and graduate school watching what I ate was the last thing on my mind. I know I gained the freshman 15 b/c of the late night snacking and eating whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. I'm proud of you along w/the other college students on this site for trying to make changes early in life.

Keep up the good work.

annerssju

Hey all,
Confession time. I didn't do TERRIBLY on Sat. night at my inlaws party, but I didn't stick to the plan either. I was better on Sunday though, went a little over calories, but not too bad. But then YESTERDAY I was STARVING and I went to visit my best friend who just got engaged and we ordered pizza and I ate 2 pieces of pizza with ricotta cheese!! SOOOO bad but SOOOO good!! I'm really trying to be better today. I also forgot about the sweets challenge yesterday and ate one mini sncker bar. But I'm going to cut them out for the rest of the week so hopefully I will meet that challenge!
GOOD LUCK this week everyone!!!!!!!!!!!
Anne

amboardman

I FAILED the sweets challenge. Had a tootsie pop sucker...why, why, why do I sabotage myself????? :grumble: On a good note, I got in a really good workout (50 m inutes worth which NEVER happens) so maybe that cancels out the sucker?:ohwell:

amboardman

I FAILED the sweets challenge. Had a tootsie pop sucker...why, why, why do I sabotage myself????? :grumble: On a good note, I got in a really good workout (50 m inutes worth which NEVER happens) so maybe that cancels out the sucker?:ohwell:

annerssju

2day is a special day, it is a day that everything will go my way, 2day is the day that I was born, Its my birthday yall, I GOT IT GOING ON, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, IT'S BIRTHDAY!!! From January to December everyone has a day they wanna remember, whether turning 21 or 95, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, come on and get live, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!. I turned 37 today and I'm feeling and looking good.

I began my day w/many text messages and phone calls with birthday wishes from friends and family. I went to the gym and ROCKED IT. I was able to burn 361 calories on the treadmill and 284 on the elliptical for a total 645 calories. After that I spent about 10-15 minutes in the sauna (pure bliss) and topped it off w/a banana & strawberry protein shake. I'm feeling real good.

Have a great day ladies!

Happy birthday!! Sounds like you are celebrating it in a FANTASTIC and HEALTHY way! GO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chocolickkyss

I really want to thank everyone for the birthday wishes. I had an absolutely wonderful day and athough I'm a bit sore from my intense workout today I feel good overall in body and spirit. 37 is feeling real good right now, I just hope it stays like this the entire year (smile).


By the way, I went to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner and because I checked out the nutrional informations prior to going I was able to eat a nice hearty meal AND remain well w/in my allotted calories. I ate the Black peppered shrimp dish which consists of spicy shrimp, white rice (I asked for brown but that don't make it), black beans, plantains and a mango salsa. There was a total of 1100 calories for the entire meal (and they give you ALOT) so before I even took my first bite I asked for a to go box and placed half of eat in the box and placed it to the side. :happy: :happy: I only drank water and I didn't even have a desire for cheesecake.

Chocolickkyss: 3 Sweets: 0

Chocolickkyss 3 Fast Food: 0 (hope the cheesecake factory doesn't count as fast food)

lisawest

Happy Birthday Chocolickkyss!

I feel like it hasn't been a good day. When I look over everything, I'm under my calories, and the family and I went on walk OUTSIDE, sounds like a pretty good day. So why do I feel like it's been a bad day? Today was the warmest it's been in quite awhile, so we took advantage and went for a walk. I'm just down, I guess. Don't really have a good idea of why. Tomorrow I get to stay home with my baby boy, since daycare is closed until Thursday:ohwell: Hopefully that will pep me back up.

Chocolickkyss

Lisa sorry to learn that your spirits are a little down. Please remember that "this too shall pass" but in the interim don't let it get you side tracked. Look at all the positives: under calories, exercised and spent quality time with the family sounds like a VERY GOOD day!

Keep logging your food, exercising and checkin in w/your MFP friends. Hope tomorrow is a better day!

aisser

Happy Birthday Chocolickkyss

Today I logged in all my food
stayed under my limit
went to linedance class that is 1& a half hour class
drank my water all 8 glasses
went to see my brother he had a bad fall about 7 months ago fell 2 stories onto concrete he was at work
my daughter took care of the horses today so I could spend time with my brother

msh0530

Hey, all! Just wanted to say hi - it's been a very busy day, and the rest of the week looks the same. Got my exercise in and ate well under my calories. Hope all are hanging in there!

kath711

Happy Birthday Chocolickkyss. I will also be turing 37 this year (still considered the "mid 30's").:laugh:


Played soccer tonight and stayed within 100 of my calories so pretty good.

January can be a hard month to get motivated with short days, bad weather and getting back to routine after holidays so hang in there lisawest!!

January can also be frustrating when you have to wait for a treadmill with all the New Year's resolutions in effect as I had to do Monday. Good to see people getting out there trying though!

ourgang

Meet my Jillian challenge last night, and I eat WELL!!!! under my cal count after all my exercise for the day Is that really good though?????

Worked out this morning again, Have breakfast and lunch planned, not sure about dinner, I have a very busy night...

Looking forward to seeing the scale move down Friday...

God Bless everyone and enjoy your day:flowerforyou:

Chocolickkyss

Yesterday I started the day w/so much energy but today not as much. I didn't sleep well at all which has been a constant problem over the last year or so but for some reason I thought it was improving, Hah, the joke was on me. I went to bed by 11 pm but was up by 3:30 and tossed and turned until about 6:30 til I finally said forget it and turned on the morning news. I knew if I didn't get the workout in w/in the next hour I would try to talk myself out of it so I threw in my Biggest Loser "Power Sculpt" dvd and did the best I could do. While I really didn't want to work out I did put much intensity in and when I was tired of doing squats and lunges (I have a bum right knee and those exercises kill sometimes) I jogged in place or did jumping jacks while holding 5 lb weights. Fifty minutes later (5 minute warm up, 40 minute workout, 5 minute cool down) I was done and glad I sucked it up.

Chocolickkyss

Today is marks the midway point of two of this week's challenges (No sweets and No fast food) and I was wondering how everyone is fairing? If you have been successful this week what have you done to stay focus or curb the urge to splurge?

Also, I was wondering if anyone have any ideas for next week's challenge? Just to recap what we've done thus far: 5 days of 30 minutes or more of exercise, posting weekend meals early and reporting whether we stuck w/the pre-planned meals, no sweets and no fast food.

While I've not had any sweets I can't really offer any suggestions b/c I don't keep sweets in the house (most of the time) and I haven't really had the urge to eat sweets (YET)!

ourgang

So far I have done great with no fast food, 3 days down and 3 to go.. no problem there
Sweets I have had 2 van cream filled cookies, and the last 2 in the house are CALLING MY NAME!!!! I almost throw them away last night just so I won't eat them, then I said I could have them after Friday so I didn't :bigsmile: :bigsmile: Maybe my hubby will eat them and then they will stop calling me!!!!

For next week maybe everyone can choice one or 2 food choices they just can't stop eating and forbid them for the week. My down falls are BBQ potatoe chips.. Now I won't even buy them, but hubby likes them and they show up every so often and let just say I will eat the entire bag:noway: :noway: Other things I have been able to change on a slow pace is no white breads, only wheat or grain now, and just switched to brown rice, have only done wheat pasta for a while now,

I know maybe a min of 5 veggies a day!!! yea I like that one better. I am good with 1-2 fruits a day, but only get about 2 veggies, sometimes more when I do salads.... Just some ideas....

Pizza hut is calling me today.....How do I forget about the craving????? Their salads are good and if I get a personal I will eat half for lunch and half for dinner since I am running so much tonght. But then I guess I would have had fast food this week, can't do that:grumble: I'll stick to my lunch and hopefully hubby makes extra dinner I can grab and run with tonight:indifferent: