Any More Chubby Twenties?

Happy Monday everyone! I hope you're all doing well! Sorry I haven't been online much. Weekends are usually really busy for me as it is- but weekends during the holidays are flat-out HECTIC!!!! During the week I have a lot more time to come online and chat with you lovely people.

dporter1183 - CONGRATS on the fantastic weight loss! Wow, that's incredible! Good for you. :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

jb_sweet_99 - I forgot you were in Canada, too! I'm out west in BC. We had snow over the weekend but it rained last night and today so it's all slushy and grey and gross today. NOT walking weather!!!!! I agree with you, the next week is going to be rough! On the plus side, New Years is coming right after it and there will be a lot of people making the resolution to lose weight. So there should be a lot less temptation everywhere!

pattitricia85 - Great job, congrats! I love this group so much. I get so dorkishly excited when any of us loses, lol. I admire your resolve at getting your workouts in! Last week was OK for me diet-wise but work-out wise I get a big, fat 'F'!


kerimcdonald- :noway: AWESOME weight loss this week! I'm very proud of you!!!! You're getting SO CLOSE to your goal! You can do it, I know it! :flowerforyou:

kaytbognar- I agree, it seems the scale's been good to a lot of people this morning! I'm so stoked, definitely feeding off the positive energy. I'm flat-out exhausted this morning (was up way too early) and to be honest, felt a little 'bleh' before coming here. Now I'm re-motivated! You guys are the best. :bigsmile: No big deal on eating too much flan! Don't beat yourself up, just shake it off and move forward, right?




Today was my weekly weigh-in. I don't know whether or not to be disappointed, lol! I only lost 0.6 pounds this week, which kind of sucks because I really wanted to hit 10 pounds by my birthday and as it stands I still have 3 pounds to go in a week and a half. It's still doable but.... ah. I was hoping to see another pound or half-pound down!

That being said, I'm not overly upset because this seems to be a trend for me. Big loss one week, little loss the next. Then a big loss the week after that, followed by another little loss. If this trend continues, by next Monday I should be showing a huge loss! Haha. Yes, I'm working on that optimism!!!!!

But you know what, even though my weight loss was a bit of a disappointment this week, my measuring tape really seems to like me! I lost 2.25 inches. Which is more than I've lost so far in any one week. So I'm down a total of 3.75 inches and 7 pounds in four weeks, which is- I think- a respectable loss.

I also have a theory about why I didn't lose as much as I'd hoped. See, on Friday I went grocery shopping and bought a new kind of cereal. It's President's Choice Strawberry and Vanilla cereal. I got it because it was a good deal- but when I got home I noticed that it was a rice/wheat cereal. Usually I eat All-Bran Strawberry Medley in the mornings. Now, while the PC brand cereal is tasty and low-cal, it just doesn't have the fibre the All Bran does. And since I've been eating it, I've noticed I'm already a lot less... regular (excuse me for the TMI, guys!) than I was before. The All-Bran is REALLY cleansing, whereas the PC-brand cereal is NOT. All the gluten, maybe? Since I ate quite well last week (comparatively, with the exception of one day, better than I have so far, calorie-wise), I can't think of any other reason for the somewhat disappointing loss. Needless to say, during my next grocery trip I won't be trying to save my pennies! I'm going to spend the extra couple of dollars and get the cereal that seems to agree with my system better.


So, overall successes of the week? I lost some, god rid of a few inches of flabby flabber, and kept within a good calorie-range during the week. Challenges.... well, I ate too many chocolates (I counted the calories at about 200 or fewer calories per day worth of chocolate. So I was GOOD.... but not great! Lol), didn't drink as much water as I could have (which I've been doing well up until this point) and sort of flaked out on my exercise. So those are all things I'm aiming at improving on this coming week! Wish me luck! :smokin:

Hello there! I hope everyone's had a great holidays!

I haven't been online until now for obvious reasons. To be completely honest, I decided to take a three-day break and just focus on enjoying the holidays. Didn't restrict myself, didn't count calories- just had fun! So, ugh, I'm sure the scale will punish me for THAT. But as of today, I'm back on track!

I got lots of great fitness-related stuff fo Christmas! My dad got me a Wii Fit Plus, and my hubby got me the Biggest Loser Wii game. I also got the Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2010 Wii game. I have played a bit of the TBL game and love it! Haven't done the JM one yet, but will later on tonight! Hubby and I have been playing Wii Fit all day and are having a blast!

I also got an exercise ball, an ab wheel, a magic bullet (hello smoothies, scrambled eggs, homemade salsa,etc!), a kitchen scale (been looking for one everywhere!) and an ear radio for listening to tunes while I go walking. Overall, I really felt my family was supportive of my new lifestyle! And, thankfully, nobody bought me any chocolates so I will have no trouble avoiding them from here on out.

I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend! I'll be back to actively posting starting tomorrow, when life goes back to normal.

Good morning all! How nice to see your 'smiling faces' after such a long break. Erm, wait. Smiling... profiles? Hahaha. Whatever.

Anyhow, glad to see the weight gain was minimal. jb_sweet_99 - I agree. We will all push ourselves EXTRA hard this week, right?

I'm only minimally concerned about New Year's Eve. I don't really drink so those are calories I don't have to worry about. And I have no plans to go out, so I don't really have to worry about heavy snacks, either. Hubby and I were planning on doing a quiet night at home with the kids. Get some Chinese food, watch a movie. Only, to be honest, eating all that crap over the holidays has not agreed with my digestive system AT ALL. It was delicious, don't get me wrong, but I've been feeling 'off' the past couple days. I was actually sick on Saturday night and yesterday had to leave work early due to stomach pains and nausea. Don't know if it's a stomach bug, or if my body is punishing me for eating poorly- but I've got the message! I'm thinking I'll just get a sandwich from Subway or something instead of Chinese food to celebrate the New Year.

carpediem13 - I hear you about your concern with New Years Resolutions! The gym WILL probably be packed, lol. Fortunately for me, I don't have a gym membership and do all my working out at or around home. So I am actually looking forward to all those New Years resolutions because I think it will make it easier to eat healthy. People in general won't be surrounding me with so much temptation! They'll be onboard with me, I think. Also, sorry to hear about your ball, that DOES stink. I got one from hubby for Xmas, too- and my 13 month old is completely in love with it. He's claimed it for his own, and pushes it all over the house. The trouble is, he gets sort of mad at me when I use it. Like, "Mom, that's MY toy!" Haha.

kerimcdonald - Congratulations on your anniversary- I'm glad you enjoyed yourself.

Also, I'm glad you're feeling more positive! I agree, it happens. It's once a year, we're tough, we can handle it, right? I've been doing my best to work off the extra weight by doing a lot of work on the Wii Fit. I weighed myself this morning (Yeah, whenever I use Wii Fit it weighs me) and it says I'm back down to 159.0 so that means I'm only 0.2 pounds away from where I was at this time last week. So, yay, the Christmas weight is already almost gone! I'm still not going to make my goal of 10 pounds down by New Years Day, but I SHOULD probably be hovering around the 8 pounds lost (while at MFP) range. Which is pretty respectable, I think.

Actually, you know what? I picked up two 2-pound weights yesterday and thought to myself, I've nearly lost double this amount of weight. That's a LOT of weight. It doesn't seem like a lot in the grand scheme of things, where I want to be in the long term, etc. But I think we honestly need to give ourselves a pat on the back and appreciate how far we've all come in such a short while! carpediem13 - I know what you mean when you say you can't believe you've been here for 8 weeks now. I'm just starting up my sixth week, and it has FLOWN! Which is saying a lot. Before, whenever I tried to change my lifestyle, I felt I was constantly staring at the clock. I OBSESSED with food. Like, "Okay, when can I eat next? What am I going to eat? How much can I eat?" The days DRAGGED. But it's not like that any more, which is such a relief!

I think I should join this group...if you all are willing to have me! :happy:

Absolutely! We love adding to our ranks.

Welcome!

And why are there so many cookies around?? It's like people think of Christmas and then get in the baking mood (myself included) :laugh:

I know, hey? My mother, who I have decided is an evil woman, sent me home with a PLATTER of all of my favorite treats for Christmas. I had more than a couple nibbles. Brownies, butter tarts.... oooooh, brother! Well, I told myself, "I can eat this until 11:59 pm on Boxing day. As of the 27th, I'm NOT ALLOWED ANY MORE!" So far, so good, lol!

00Angela00 - Welcome! Glad to have you aboard.


You know, I was talking earlier about how much time has flied since being here. It wasn't until you posted that I remembered my thirty day goal, lol!

Anyhow, my 30-day mark was on December 24/09. On that day, I weighed 158.4 pounds. My goal was 155. So I missed that by about 3.4 pounds. Darn it! Hahaha. I think I need to re-evaluate my goals. I think I set my sights a little high by aiming for a two pound per week loss. I don't know if, at my size, that's realistic. I think I'll aim for 1.3 pounds per week instead..... that's what I need to lose in order to hit my target date of July 1/09.

So.....

Current Weight: 159
60-Day Goal (January 23rd): 153
90-Day Goal (April 23rd): 147

If I can beat that, great! But honestly I think those targets are more realistic overall given my current size and the fact that I'm not overweight anymore.... I think that, when I first joined here, I had this idea of, "Oh, yeah, I can totally lose two pounds per week every week!" but now I'm finding that's not necessarily the case.