5 Pounds A Month March 2010 Challenge

Thank you Phyljen! I will definitely keep at it and check again in a few days to see where the scale decides to settle.

I also got my measurements done today and I am so proud to say that I have lost a total of 32.5 inches in the last year! My body fat % was 34.7 (Jan of 2009) and today is at 26.0 %! I am so happy that I am firming up and getting healthy. I can feel that I am in much better shape than last year but to see it on paper really makes me smile. So I am going to share my stats with you. I never would have a year ago so this really shows how far I have come!

Bust: 35 (down from 42)
Abdomen: 32 (down from 39)
Thighs x2: 46.5 (down from 51)
BMI: 26.4 (down from 31.97)
Weight: 147 (down from 181)

Wow. That is awesome. I hope I can say the same thing in a year. What an inspiration.

Hi PALS:

Congratulations Terri and Kelsey! Losing is great isn't it. Feel so much better about everything. Waiting to hear form every one else.
3/1 - 150.5
3/5 - 149!
3/12 - 147
This week Down Two!!:laugh: Amazing. Incredible. :flowerforyou: Wonderful.:happy: I'm stoked!! I am a believer of EAT your Exercise CALORIES! It works! Don't ask me HOW? :glasses: but it does.
I LOVE MFP and all of you! Thanks for the motivation!

WOO HOO! Great work!!!!!:laugh:

Phyljen I love your posts! It is so fun to read about a friend so far away but who feels so close. :flowerforyou:

My kids slept in a bit later than normal today, so I went to the workout room in my building this morning at 6 am. I got on the elliptical and ran for 45 mins! Yay, I feel so great. I told my honey to go and fly his RC plane once I got home so he could have his turn for personal time, he was a little crazy after watching the kids. :laugh:
Then after he comes home we are planning to go on a family bike ride to the park! I love those rides. All four of us smile the whole time we are riding, it is so much fun.
My goal for today is to make healthy choices and really think before I eat anything, asking myself "How will I feel in an hour? Hungry again? Happy with my choice? Guilty? that way I can help myself make the best choices.
:drinker: Keep drinking the water today!

Good Morning all...I. too, really enjoy all your posts of your travels. To me, its like being there. Please keep them up. I also get inspired to exercise more when I read what activities you all do. I'm still reluctant to try running/jogging. I have heard so many pros and cons. The biggest one that bothers me is that it is hard on your knees. What do you all think? I guess it'll prove itself out after years, but my knees are no longer 'young', so I wonder if its too late.
We just 'sprung ahead' on the time today so I'm up earlier than normal and NOT enjoying it! LOL Time for a cup of coffee. Take care,.
Jacque

Well I have been crazy busy this week, finding little time to check in , but i am happy to say that I am another pound and a half down. Yay. I was a little surprised because I didn't have such a great week. Now I have somehow twisted my knee so having to find exercise that won't make it worse.

Bought myself an HRM yesterday, and it looks like I have been burning a 200-300 more calories than I thought. Does this mean I should be eating more? Eeek.

I will have to look back to see what my starting weight was at the beginning of this challenge, but I believe i am at least half way to that 5 lbs.

Hope ya'll are having a great Sunday. I am trying to make mine last!

OK everyone,

Only one more work day....one day seminar on cardiac meds Tuesday from 8 to 4...snore-fest and jab me in the ribs with a sharp stick for excitement:sad: :yawn:

Leaving at 0'dark thirty in the am on Wednesday...destination sunshine, cocktails, no clocks and I don't care what day it is...just me and "the fam" :smokin:

I am tired of preppin' for this trip since I started buying clothes for everyone about a month ago...My boys DO NOT like to shop...might as well poke them in the eye with sharp sticks...Oh, wait, they already do that to each other for enjoyment.

My mom is all excited, she's been asking me if I am excited to be in Mexico...I tell her that "No, I am not excited until I get on the plane and everything is done" (We are meeting my Mom/Dad, my 2 sisters, and all the kids in the family)

Anyway, I did promise myself that I will workout at least 4 to 5 of the days I am there...I won't weigh in this Friday...because, basically, I'm not going to know it's Friday...he, he:bigsmile:

I come back on Wednesday and will weigh-in on that following Friday...should be anticipating a small gain...um, water retention from the flight, I'm sure:blushing:

I love the article about weighing everyday. I do that and it helps me. I know I will go up and down a little. When I go down it is motivating. when I go up I look and see why. (usually too much sodium) I was really able to counter act my two much sodium that I had on Saturday with drinking a ton of water on Sunday and the scale went right back down and then some. It helps me stay focused.

Hey I wish I was going to mexico. I was there last thanksgiving but my husband and I had a really bad cold the whole time we were there (got it before we left) and didn't do anything. I did loose about 5 pounds that week because I didn't eat. And it was the catalyst for me to stop smoking since I couldn't breath (bad cough) Of course I gained the weight right back when I got home.... thats why I am here now. I did stay with the stop smoking part.

good luck to everyone this week. I know you will all do an awesome job.

Hi my name is Tandria. I would love to join this challenge. I will weigh in on Monday 3/22

Welcome Tandria
Hope that you will find this group as motivating as I do. I love all those that are in on this challenge. It's a great group of people from all over the world. Good luck and remember we are all for you! Phyljen

Good afternoon everyone! What a weekend I had...where should I begin? Let's start with Saturday morning.....I woke up to get ready for a short work day and went to feed and let out my 7 month old Lab/Pitt mix puppy. He had thrown up in his kennel over night =( So, I wrote it off as just maybe a little stomach bug and fed him like normal and went to work because he was acting totally normal. Around 1, as I was finishing up my last client of the day (I am a hair stylist) , my hubby called and said that Gator had thrown up his breakfast. So I got home and we immediately took him to the vet. So our vet starts examining him and felt a large mass in his lower abdomen which worried her, so we decided to do some x rays. Nothing showed up in the x ray so she wanted to do barium dye x rays, where he drinks this stuff and they do a series of x rays as the liquid travels through his system and it highlights any foreign bodies that may be inside of him. After doing about 12 x rays the vet came back and said that the barium was moving very slow so she wanted us to take him home and bring him back in the morning for another x ray because by then all of the barium should be through his organs. So, we took him home and woke up Sunday morning to our sweet lil boy covered in his own vomit and all over his kennel =( He was also extremely lethargic and he is usually a very very active puppy! We got him to the vet and she did another x ray and said that the barium was not getting though his intestines and she was positive he had some sort of blockage and immediately wanted to do exploratory surgery! So we had to rush him up to Atlanta because she couldn't do it at her office. After we got to ATL and spoke with the vet there they got him in to surgery, it took about 4 hours, and they ended up finding a nylon leash in him!!!! Can you believe that crazy pup ate an entire 5 foot leash?! We had no idea we even had a leash missing! He also had to have 18 inches of intestines removed because where the blockage was, there was a bacteria build up that started killing his intestines. Gator had to stay in an overnight emergency hospital so he could be monitored, so we got to pick him up this morning and he has been acting better, but we had to drop him off at our vet once we got back from ATL because he has to be on an IV until 7 tonight, then he can come home for the night but will have to go back tmrw morning to repeat the IV fluids. So.....about $3000 later our little muchkin is going to be all better! It's amazing to realize how much you really love your pets once something happens to them! So there was no exercise and lots of fast food over the weekend for me! I am going to have to work 3x as hard this week to get off all this bad food from the weekend. Pray for my puppy! Sorry for the long post, just wanted to share! Hope everyone has a wonderful week!

Kelsey, you're a hero for getting Gator all the help, poor little guy. And those vet bills, Aye, yi, yi. What a horrible ordeal for everyone. Just wanted to say I'm glad he's pulling through.
Karin

Kim, (I need to figure out how to quote)
No, I haven't talked to anybody yet. I have just been trying to do this on my own till I get back to my endrincrinologist at Vanderbilt. I actually think I have an appointment this month, I need to check on that. I do wonder if you can have insulin resistance on top of being type 1, in a sense having both types of diabetes because it sure doesn't seem like I have much of a metabolism. Plus I am hungry all the time. I do need to learn healthier, fast meals for me and my family. I was told by a family member this weekend that I am building muscle and when it catches up or balances out with the fat then the weight will start coming off? I would think that weight should just be gradually coming off each week. I'm going back strong this week, so maybe soon the changes I can feel inside will start showing up on the outside. I do feel like I am holding in some fluid from traveling and bad food. Any ideas how to get that water weight off.
April

Sounds great! I'm in for 170!

I am officially 174.6 lbs!

Kim, (I need to figure out how to quote)
No, I haven't talked to anybody yet. I have just been trying to do this on my own till I get back to my endrincrinologist at Vanderbilt. I actually think I have an appointment this month, I need to check on that. I do wonder if you can have insulin resistance on top of being type 1, in a sense having both types of diabetes because it sure doesn't seem like I have much of a metabolism. Plus I am hungry all the time. I do need to learn healthier, fast meals for me and my family. I was told by a family member this weekend that I am building muscle and when it catches up or balances out with the fat then the weight will start coming off? I would think that weight should just be gradually coming off each week. I'm going back strong this week, so maybe soon the changes I can feel inside will start showing up on the outside. I do feel like I am holding in some fluid from traveling and bad food. Any ideas how to get that water weight off.
April

It's always good to get your docs advice. I was told that about the muscle/fat thing as well. And I waited and waited. It didn't happen. When I joined MFP and started putting in what I was eating I found out 2 things.... 1 -- I was only eating about 900 to 1000 cals a day and 2 --- DRINK WATER!!! I was only drinking about 3 cups a day. DUH!

After 10 weeks 10 lbs. Yes it's slow but it works.

Crock pots and fresh veggies and fruit can make meals quick.

Good luck
Sandy