Lose 5 Pounds A Month- May 2010 Challenge

happy_heather121

Hi everyone! I FINALLY hit the 30 pound mark! I've been creeping up on it and having motivational problems, but I lost a pound this last week and am now at a total of 30.1 down. If only I didn't have another 30 to go . . . I know, I need to focus on the positive, but since my losing has slowed down, the next 30 seems very daunting!

SW: 197.4
5/1/10: 171.7
5/10/10: 168.5
5/17/10: 168.3
5/24/10: 167.3
GW for 5/31/10: 166
Ultimate goal weight: 138

You can do this! Nice job so far! You will be there before you know it. You go girl!!!

fivefatcats

Hello everyone!

Phyllis - easy on the knee - glad to hear you are excited to get back to it - praying it will be soon for you!

Terri - hang in there! Thank you so much for the topic & inspiration!!!

Robin - Jeans for $5 - gotta get me some of that!! Thanks for the shopping tip!

Jennplus - thank you for your words of encouragement!!! It means soooo much!

Bru - U hang in there too!!!

Miranda - U GO GIRL with your baaad 7!!

Tralalara - NINE!!?! Outstanding!

Kelly - 10 yogurts for $1!?! I stick with the Great Value light at Walmart - 80 cals and they are adding more flavors all the time.


The good the bad and the ugly:

Vowed this morning that yesterday was my last 'I give up day". Weighed in at 190. Wow.

So . . . I ate clean all day, ran my 30 minutes on the treadmill and stayed positive.

New goals: I'd like to get back down to 180 before my 10K on 6/12. I have a mini triathlon on 6/6 which should help with the calorie burn - if I can just control my eating for three more weeks.

New Plan: My sis just did a round of HCG weight loss (hcgweightloss.com) - she lost 23 lbs in 30 days and is doing her maintenance right now. I am going to try a round of HCG weight loss after the 10K. The diet is very restrictive both with eating and exercising. Very low calorie intake so no extra exercise. I am okay with that since I have been fighting a sore muscle in my right ankle for a few weeks now. If it can hold out til mid-june it can have a rest.

New inspiration - new equipment at work = mandatory training in California!!! I'd love to see California with my husband and be in/below the 160s.

So that's whats up with me!!! Now if I can just keep the right attitude!!!!!

Traci:happy:

caropowell

Hi everyone! I FINALLY hit the 30 pound mark! I've been creeping up on it and having motivational problems, but I lost a pound this last week and am now at a total of 30.1 down. If only I didn't have another 30 to go . . . I know, I need to focus on the positive, but since my losing has slowed down, the next 30 seems very daunting!

SW: 197.4
5/1/10: 171.7
5/10/10: 168.5
5/17/10: 168.3
5/24/10: 167.3
GW for 5/31/10: 166
Ultimate goal weight: 138

You can do this! Nice job so far! You will be there before you know it. You go girl!!!

Thanks, Heather!

tres1967

Hi all, I intended to do the May challenge and then spent the first 2 weeks of May at the hospital with my mother. We're home and getting back to "normal" and want to get back on track, hopefully complete the June challenge.

TCASMEY

Good morning all! Thanks for sharing your ups and downs.

Wouldn't it be nice if losing was as easy as the gaining? From some of the reading I have been doing we are hard wired to put on weight...(feast when things are good) and then our bodies cling to it for when things are bad. (could not catch that animal for dinner). That is what makes losing so hard. So it is not because you are weak that you have a hard time avoiding those high calorie foods but your body trying to put on fat for when things get tough. Problem is in our world today things do not ever seem to get that tough. Just something for you to think about. Weight loss is not impossible; it is just really hard!

Hope everyone has a great day!

Remember if you make a mistake with healthy eating don't wait til tomorrow to get back on track....DO IT RIGHT AWAY!

Terri

rcatr

man, yesterday was horrible. got sick from a bad batch of oatmeal (who knew that was possible?) prepared by someone else and thankfully recovered by late afternoon. tried to do some running but it ended up being a lame walk/run endeavor.

back to the drawing board today...

maybe i will fare better when tcasmey posts a june 2010 challenge

maddybb

Hi

I'll join in on this too! I have been trying so hard and was doing really well... and then i got on the scales to discover I had gained 5lbs in one week?? :noway:

TCASMEY

man, yesterday was horrible. got sick from a bad batch of oatmeal (who knew that was possible?) prepared by someone else and thankfully recovered by late afternoon. tried to do some running but it ended up being a lame walk/run endeavor.

back to the drawing board today...

maybe i will fare better when tcasmey posts a june 2010 challenge

Maybe I should post now so we get a weeks head start on the month!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Have a good one!

Terri

rjadams

good morning all.

I started two new exercise regimes yesterday. 30 day shred and ChaLean extreme. I am not sore today at all and I thought I would be. Plus I am already down a pound for the week. Its all good.

I hope you are all doing well on your week so far.

Jennplus2

Hello everyone,

Had a bad weekend but got back on track yesterday. I think I will just try to be good this week when I can but not be so up tight with myself. Today a parent of one of my students made me a coffee cake to say thanks for a great year. I had one slice and put the rest in the staff lounge. If I can not gain any more this week I'll be happy but I still want to be able to enjoy all the fun of my birthday and the end of year parties. After Graduation the whole staff is going out to eat and drink and party, this is the last time I will see the teachers until the end of August (and some are not coming back) and so I am just going to let myself enjoy this time with my friends. I have all summer to lose and be healthy. Plus with summer hours I will have much more time to walk and exercise. I am kinda in a weird place right now. Not sure if it is good or bad but I am in a whatever kind of mood. I realize that I am at a point that I feel good about how I look, sure I should still lose 25 more to be at what the Dr calls healthy, but I don't need to be in a rush to lose and feel like crap if I want to eat something that I "shouldn't" (like a slice of coffee cake) I still need to live my life. I think over the summer I can drop a few more pounds and I know that once the holidays come I will pack a few more on. I will try to eat healthy when I can but I am going to try really hard to stop feeling like it is all or nothing. Like Terri said, if I eat something bad I can stop with that and not feel like the whole day is a wash. This is really hard for me, the moving past one slip up part, but I think my next mini goal should be getting my head in the right place. If I want to be healthy my head needs to be in a healthy place, and going from super strict to loose as a goose is not healthy. So now I am working on figuring out the emotional side of healthy living, and trying to find the balance it takes to enjoy life but stay on track at the same time. I know how to lose weight I just need to figure out why I am having trouble with my weight in the first place. Why I overeat and what I can do to break this cycle. This is going to be the hardest part yet I think.
:drinker:
Think healthy thoughts!

AmandaB4588

It seems like a lot of us are slipping a bit lately. That includes me. Time to make that U-TURN Terri was talking about!

katieann2

Good morning all! Thanks for sharing your ups and downs.

Wouldn't it be nice if losing was as easy as the gaining? From some of the reading I have been doing we are hard wired to put on weight...(feast when things are good) and then our bodies cling to it for when things are bad. (could not catch that animal for dinner). That is what makes losing so hard. So it is not because you are weak that you have a hard time avoiding those high calorie foods but your body trying to put on fat for when things get tough. Problem is in our world today things do not ever seem to get that tough. Just something for you to think about. Weight loss is not impossible; it is just really hard!

Hope everyone has a great day!

Remember if you make a mistake with healthy eating don't wait til tomorrow to get back on track....DO IT RIGHT AWAY!

Terri

That's so true, we turn to food for everything, and you know what; food doesn't help! When will we realize that?
After a slip, get right back to eating right! One slip won't hurt, its the constant slip-ups!
Remember why we want to lose weight.
weight.

kintegra

Busy busy day today & I actually forgot to weigh in this morning! I have stuck to it though, so hopefully tomorrow will show good on the scale!

To everyone else that is having a bad week, don't worry about that! Just get back on it tomorrow. Sometimes it is good to "fall off the wagon" it helps keep your metabolism going! When you constantly eat healthy your metabolism needs a boost once in awhile to wake it up. So just have that treat once in awhile, as long as you get right back on it you should be ok!

So put on your happy face & tennis shoes & get your hot body on!

Kelly

shawnae2

I have been so bad. I haven't even logged on to MFP for a week. I did use my phone for a couple of days to log my calories but I really slipped this past week. Well I weighed in on Sunday. Two days later but at least I got it done. As bad as I ate the past week I can say I am suprised at what the scale had to say!

Starting Weight: 300lbs
Challange Starting Weight: 272.6
05072010 Weight: 268
05142010 Weight: 269.2
05232010 Weight: 267.3

Goal Weight: 267.6

Now this week's goal is to keep this weight off and hoepfully a little more!! Congrats to everyone else on their weight loss!!
On Friday I started C25K. I run outside and boy oh boy do my legs hurt!! Finished week 1 but I think I am going to do it again! I have really bad asthma (and the weight does not help it) so I have a hard time with getting winded quickly!! I know I can finish C25K though! I have been bad though and have not started my power 90. I just haven't had the motivation! But on the days I haven't been doing C25k I have been walking which is better then nothing.
I am going to start this program next week called YOR! It is a enzyme, probiotic thing my mother asked me to do with her. I am not sure if you can google it to find out about it. It seems like it is a healthy lifestyle choice and weight loss is a side effect which heck I won't mind one bit!!

Amanda6980

I'm up for the challenge. I would love to loose five or more pound by the end of May. I'm in I would love to find more friends new and old on mhere to help motivate with this hard journey.

tres1967

i got on the scales to discover I had gained 5lbs in one week?? :noway:

Hey maddy, I know how you feel. I can just about guarantee an increase of 3 to 5 pounds PMS. Other times certain foods seem to increase water retention (I now know how a water balloon feels). Maybe keep track on a calendar and see if there's a pattern? Just stick with it!!

T.

kintegra

Good morning all! Well I weighed in today & I'm down 0.2 lbs at least its in the right direction, even though it isn't much.

Here's my monthly tally:
5-11-10 244
5-15-10 243.6
5-20-10 241.4
5-26-10 241.2

Starting my Zumba class tonight! I'm really excited for it!

Its a birthday here at work today & I splurged & had 2 homemade chocolate chip peanut butter cookies! :devil: So I better get my groove on today & work them off!

Happy Wednesday all! Kelly

BbNuke

I'm still 1/2 pound shy of losing 5 this month... still have 6 days though!!

TCASMEY

Good morning all!

The importance of breakfast. We had a hectic morning and realized when I started snacking on left-over pizza that I never ate breakfast No wonder I was so hungry. So now that cold pizza has become my not so healthy breakfast. NOTE TO SELF REMEMBER TO EAT A HEALTHY BREAKFAST EVERY DAY!

For those of you who remember a few weeks ago I had a sinus infection. It took 2 doses of antibiotics to clear up. Now I am dealing with the female effects of antibiotics (a vaginal yeast infection) I am a bit sore so I may take a day off from exercise. If I feel better this afternoon I may walk or ride bike after work. Maybe move bike and watch baseball this evening. I feel like it is always something with me this year!


A great big welcome to all the newcomers. This is a great and inspiring group.


Hope everyone is having a great day!

Have a healthy day!

Terri

Patti909

Congrats on the great work.

As for me, not doing so well. I am just having difficulty finding time to get in all of the exercise. I do walk my dogs for about 2 hours a day (in 3 walks) but I need to find time to do some other exercises.

TCASMEY

I am sitting here having a pity party. I am again at home taking care of the kids....feeding them, helping with homework, getting their baths done. I am watching the Twins game on tv and where is my wonderful husband? He is downtown at the game sitting there having a good time with his brothers. He was gone all last week and has been here on a limited basis this wee because his brother is in town. I can't remember the last time I did something like that for just me! I think I will have another glass of wine!:drinker:

Have a good night!

Terri

rjadams

Terri drink up and enjoy! :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: You deserve it.

kintegra

Well I took 2 walks at work today during my breaks & then I had quite a good workout at my first Zumba class tonight! I even did some dancing in front of the tv after dinner! Got my sweat on again! I burned off those 2 cookies I had this morning & still ended yup under my calories for the day! Yay ME! :bigsmile:

circusmom

I am not looking forward to getting on the scale tomorrow! "Aunt Flow" showed up for her visit early, just in time for a holiday week-end that would involve beach and water activities, and I'm feeling super bloated, Damn it "Flow"!!

TCASMEY

Good morning all!

Thanks RJ!

I am back on track this morning. I got a 36 minute walk in on the treadmill and burned 255 calories. Wish I could have gone another 30 minutes but when the first daycare kid arrives I have to get off.

My weigh in tomorrow. Hopefully no gain. I have had good days and bad days this month so it has not been a great month to lose weight!

Circusmom, I hate the bloated fat feeling that comes with that time of the month. The belly feels hard and like it is sticking out further than usual

Have a great day.

Terri

BbNuke

I met my May goal this morning! yay, me!!

May 1st: 164.5
May 27: 159.5

RushinBruisette

I too have my TOM right now, or still, I should say.. I was always on time every month until about 19yrs old and then it would be every other month then eventually almost non-existant. Since I lost weight, I started 'spotting' again and since May 21st it's been non-stop... grrr, I weigh in this Sunday ( unless I'm out of town, which is possible now that I don't have a job) and I am to measurements.. I wonder if I should ake them and not record them since it's just TOM puffy/bloatiness.... good luck to all on your weigh in's, I know they are soon for you all. *hugs* On that note, I'm headed to my Home Depot to pay a bill, walking, and before the heat really gets here though, 2miles here I come!! xoxox Bru

rcatr

I'm sure your weigh in will go great, Terry! putting out good thoughts for you! :flowerforyou:

as for me, I jumped on the scaled for a mid week weigh in and i've lost 0.4 from monday's 0.2 gain...so net i've lost 0.2 hell, i'll take it.

rjadams

Happy Birthday Jenn. :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: I hope you have a great day.

Okay so its here. The Big FIVE OH. Half a freakin century. Yes I am completely wierded out by the fact that I am that old. It just can't be me. I am young, crazy, adventurous ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh:noway:

So I have been busting my butt. I have discovered that I am almost always just a tad sore but in a good way. I love the new strength training I am doing and my cardio is just getting stronger and stronger. My day starts with ChaLean extreme, then I do the shred and then I do my EA Active challenge. Then I am on the treadmill either on or two hours. I may have a Zumba or other cardio on the days I only do one hour. then right before dinner I walk one more hour. all of this just to burn 1000-1300 Monday thru Friday. I love it. Of course when and if I am employed again that will all change. I hope you all have a great day and make great choices. :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:


PS. Jenn and I have the same birthday.

Elokyn

I've lost 3 lbs as of this morning. IDK if I can lose 2 more by the end of the month cause my birthday is Tuesday, pretty sure there will be drinking this weekend :O. I'll try to make it as light as possible!