Hi girls. You all are so YOUNG! Listen, you CAN do this. You CAN live the life you are dreaming of. Don't waste some of the best years of your life! For 20 yrs I procrastinated and let myself get up to my heaviest ever 275 lbs at 52. The wasted yrs of disappointment, frustration ...I saw a news bit interviewing the world's top surfer's wife (model/volleyball champ). She said she hated exercise (like me!) but she said something that has really helped me about 'brain change" and how she daily makes it a task she cannot get out of (like going to work each day)...you can't just say "oh...I don't think I will go to work today" HA! She just made it NOT an option to not work out 5d/wk.
Look, I just got released from the hospital last week after a 20min episode of inability to speak or understand what was being said to me...couldn't walk right or lift my rt arm...TIA (pre stroke/heart attack symptom). While I laid in a hosp.l bed getting blood thinner shots in my stomach/MRI/CTscan/echocardiogram/EKG, my longtime HS friend was dying of a heart attack several states away. I lived and he died. This challenge is a blessing and the timing perfect. Don't get to this point where you are fighting for your life.
start wt : 274.5
3mo goal : 15lbs
Plan : break out the WII and walk (just got a fitbit) 5 to 6d/wk

Thank you for letting me "listen in" / praying for success for ALL of us!

Hello Everyone!

I am a new mom (little Corbin is 6 months old on Saturday!). I have lost all but 15-20 lbs of the baby weight. My first goal is to get back to my pre-baby weight. After that, I'll tackle the other 50+ lbs I need to lose.

My husband and I are training for a triathlon (9/23). Swim 1/4 mile, bike 12 miles, run a 5k. I'm aiming for a completion grade! Goal is to not die!!! :laugh: What freaks me out the most: putting my face in the Gulf of Mexico to swim. Ewww. That and sharks.

Starting weight (optional) TBA Monday September 3.
Favorite workouts and/or activities: Cycling, Spin Class, running (although my "run" is technically a slow jog), Zumba
Phase 1 goal- 15lbs.

I have a wedding to attend mid-November. I want to be back to my pre-baby weight by then!

Hello everyone, my name is Stef

I am looking forward to being part of this group. I have been on MFP since June of this year and I have a challenge set for myself. It is a 1 year goal to be down to 185 pounds. I started out at 314 and I am looking forward to being HEALTHY, SLIM AND SEXY. LOL

HA HA I MADE YOU ALL SMILE. :laugh:

Starting weight Monday September 3. TBD
Favorite workouts and/or activities: Walking out doors, Long walks on the treadmill, Wii Fit. and Water Aerobics.
Phase 1 goal- 15lbs at least.

Feel free to add me as a friend or just support. I have a fit bit also.

Thanks

Hi I am Tammy, I am almost 51 years old and have struggled with weight issues since age 9. I have high blood pressure, I am a diabetic, I have had one (FOR SURE) TIA (mini stroke), suffer from simple partial seizures. On November 4, 2011 my 3rd husband and I separated and on July 23, 2012 the divorce I filed was final. My top weight was 282#, I am 5'2. On that fateful day in November I did not start out to loose weight but God had a different plan for my life, I thank Him. God has brought many new, encouraging ladies into my life and I have now lost down to 248.9#, my goal is to reach a HEALTHY weight. I have abused my "temple" God gave me for the last 50+ years. I have fallen off the "wagon" since I tried to handle it within myself. I too HATE, repeat HATE to excerse. I am taking this one tiny step at a time and thanking God for each microsopic pound, inch, whatever He helps me to loose. Thank you MFP for all the friends & help you are supplying.

Tammy

Hi Suzanne and everyone,

I'm BJ and I'd love to be at my goal weight this time next year. I have 51 pounds to lose. I've set my goals for each quarter to be 10 pounds, but hopefully each quarter will be at least 13 pounds. Then I will reach my goal.

It's extremely hard for me to lose weight, probably because I've ruined my metabolism. Who knows? My highest weight was 300 pounds in 2002. I got extremely ill and lost 135 pounds but then after being properly diagnosed and put on medication, I gained back 92 of those pounds. I've lost about 40 since March of 2011, and plug away everyday to try to lose more.

I belong to a gym and workout every chance I get. I work about 50 hours a week between two part-time jobs, so finding the time to exercise is hard.

I will weight tomorrow morning to get my starting weight.

My favorite workouts and/or activities: working out at the gym, water exercises there, walking
Phase 1 goal- 10lbs., and hopefully more

Best wishes to everyone in this challenge!

Hi everyone, my name is Jessica and I'm 23 years old. For the longest time that I could remember I was always overweight since childhood. So I've always been made fun of and called all the names in the book from Elementary to High School (possibly college too, but I didn't care). My highest weight was in 2009 when I had a horrible anxiety attack and thought I was dying. The next day I went to the doctors office for a follow-up appointment after the ER and found out I was at 371lbs. I could not believe it when I saw that number, since I was roughly around 330 when I graduated from High School. I think one of the main reasons I had gained so much was because I was upset and stressed since my grandpa had passed away in December '08, so I didn't care about what I was eating or my education.

But I managed to get back down after working at a warehouse in 2010 which I went back down to about 330 or so. But I had gained it back a year later, only going to 350. So my weight loss has been up and down and it was almost creeping back up on me again, but not this time! I'm currently down to 322.4lbs, and hoping to keep going down since this is where I was always stuck at since February this year. My mom is also trying to lose weight with me, but we can't do the same things together since she has arthritis and I like doing fast paced things while she can only do slow/mild paced things.

I wish everyone luck with all of their journeys and if you'd like to friend me go right ahead! I'm try to log onto this site everyday that I can to keep track with everyone and log all of my stuff!

-Jess

Hi all!

Glad that this group was started! I have to say that I love the extreme makeover weight loss edition! I acutally am reading Chris Powell's 7 day carb cycling solution. I have tried many different diets before and did well on the low carbs but i missed my fruits and veggies. Love this plan. I am planning on walking everyday as I have issues with my back and cannot do many dfferent workouts. Walking 20 min to start and then i will add on from there.
Good luck with the challenge! I know that we will all succeed!!

If you can find a way to do water aerobics or exercises in the water, it is easier on the joints and body. Just a thought to help you get started!

OK...re fitbit...my first day wearing it I was pretty sedentary....sitting around online trying to figure it all out and just logged a few hundred steps. So yesterday, I was excited to see how many steps I would ramp up at work, where for 10 to 11 hrs I walk from exam room to exam room all day . Surely, I thought I will be CLOSE to the recommended 10,000 steps. I dragged my tired body home and to my shock...I had only walked about 2,000 steps :noway: .... not even CLOSE!! Is 10,000 possible??? And daily at that? Just wondering how and if you do it! GOOD LUCK on the challenge

Hello everyone, my name is Stef

I am looking forward to being part of this group. I have been on MFP since June of this year and I have a challenge set for myself. It is a 1 year goal to be down to 185 pounds. I started out at 314 and I am looking forward to being HEALTHY, SLIM AND SEXY. LOL

HA HA I MADE YOU ALL SMILE. :laugh:

Starting weight Monday September 3. TBD
Favorite workouts and/or activities: Walking out doors, Long walks on the treadmill, Wii Fit. and Water Aerobics.
Phase 1 goal- 15lbs at least.

Feel free to add me as a friend or just support. I have a fit bit also.

Thanks

Hello
Im Lottie, im 23, and live in Worcestershire (England). Iv nev:er really "tried" to loose weight before, i lost a lot of weight my first year of uni purely through a change in diet (i dont like raw meat so went veggie) and walking everywhere, unfortunately i then put it all back on and more in the following years.Now finished uni and living back at home too far from anywhere to get walking again and eating meat again now my mum cooks it 0:) lol

Im actually starting 2 challenges right now this one and the Sept - Dec (1st-31st) challenge. Im really excited to get going and feeling really motivated right now. I wasnt sure what to set my goals as so a visit to google whats a safe rate to loose at what goals to set going mid range of their suggestion (4-8 lbs a month iv gone for 6 but hopefully more months will be 8 rather than 4 ) and i can be in sight of the light at the end of the tunnel in a year...i never imagined it was doable !safely! in that kind of time frame... so lets do this!!

start weight 244
goal 1 -1st Dec- 220
mini goal - 31st Dec - 214 - september - december challenge goal
goal 2 - 1st March - 202
mini goal - 1st May - 190 - my bday's 4th so want to be able to eat and drink without worrying too much
goal 3 - 1st June - 182
end goal - 1st Sept - 155

Im hoping to do the c25k but will have to see about getting some better trainers mine murder my ankles wii fit and just dance and zumba are my current exercise plans and such fun too

Good luck everyone
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Hi everyone! Getting a late start but I think my sis Motivated/Melissa has kinda introduced me. I have been stuck in a rut for months! I'm ready to kick this weight out the door!! I'm going to aim for 15lbs every time we weigh in...we'll see how it goes!! I'm ready!

Hi, my name is Peeso and I am determined to change my life and get healthy. I have lost and gain in the past but I want this to be different. I want it to be a life long change. When I saw this challenge on here I was so excited. This is exactly what I need. I am aiming for 15-20 lbs at each interval. Feel free to add me. Lets do this !!!!!!