Lose 5 Pounds A Month- May 2010 Challenge

I'm in! Current weight 128, Goal weight 115. I am just a small person and had my second baby, I would like to lose the belly fat!

Jenn--my heart was hurting just reading your post--I feel so terrible for you!! If I were closer--you could come cry on my shoulder--I hope that your week is going in the right direction today!! We are all here for you!!

I'm in..since I am a newbie here I would like to know how do we do this? :blushing:

Think I figured this out:
My numbers for May (so far)

Starting 148
May 5th 147.3
May goal is 143...today this goal feels hard as I have had such a sugar craving!!!

I'm doing much better today! Got my workout in first thing this morning, only went over my calories by 54, and drank a lot of water. I ALREADY feel better! I didn't get a walk in after dinner last night like i wanted to, because it was raining. Tomorrow, my plan is to continue eating healthy, exercise for at least 45 min, and get in 96 ozs. of water.

Terri - you continually amaze me! :happy:

For everyone who lost weight this past week, woo hoo! :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

And for everyone who is making those small steps and incremental steps, you inspire me. I am beginning to learn that it is in doing the little things that we make the biggest leaps - thank you! :flowerforyou:

Had a good day, today. Am hoping to see a change at the end of the week.

In the meantime, good news! I have a set of fibroids that together measured 20x16 cm four months ago and are still growing - the more weight I lose, the more I look like I am 4-5 months pregnant. Plus am experiencing more and more bladder and constipation problems and pain. I refuse to have a hysterectomy and an abdominal myomectomy (they are embedded deep in the uterus) scares the heck out of me. :noway: I emailed my OB/GYN and there is a clinician at my Kaiser who is experienced in a relatively new procedure where they cut off the blood supply and the fibroids eventually shrink. So my GYN gave me a referral for a consultation. Yea! :bigsmile:

Terri--- GREAT JOB with all of those steps!! I am going to buy a pedometer ASAP. Did you ever find that article about guilt and dieting? At this point in the game, I feel like that is my biggest obstacle.

I went looking for it yesterday and cannot find it. I know it is in one of the diet books I have read. Anyway....the jest of the article is that overweight people tend to feel like failures already. They are overweight because they fail. Then when they go on a diet eat something they have put on the forbidden list it reinforces this failure attitude because they say to themselves see I am such a failure I could not even make myself not eat this "bad" food. Instead a success eater tries to look at their mistakes and figure out why they ate that..stress, emotional eating, boredom, or hunger.

If you look at this journey as a strict you can eat this but never eat that you are probably setting yourself up for failure. Because when you do eat that candy bar or whatever your downfall is you perpetuate thy cycle of I feel bad so I am going to eat now i feel worse because I ate something I shouldn't have. You have to learn to not feel guilty or beat yourself you have to get right back on track. Don't wait until the future get back on track right away!

Remember in this journey no food should be forbidden. If it is forbidden and then you eat it you feel guilty. This is about learning to eat healthy most the time and giving into those treats we love once in a while.

I will look for this part of the book again today but thought I would give you the Reader's Digest version of what I remembered!

Terri

Great, thanks!! This makes perfect sense. I have a hard time with this for diet and exercise as well. I feel great when I am on the right track but I let the smallest slip up get me down. I have to put an end to that!

Jenn, I know its not much, but I think you are a great mother and I think your kids would have love to tell you that all day. So Here's to an awesome mommy. Happy mothers day :drinker:


PS. I think you should give him the plant back as a gift on father's day. especially if you have killed it or it is all buggy by then :laugh:

:laugh: I really should! He said last night on the phone "I forgot she hates house plants" I am guessing he was talking to his mom who he didn't call even though I told him 2!

Thank you to everyone who wrote to me with heartfelt encouragement and sympathy. I don't point it out to him because it is not worth the fight it would cause. I know that I wont give him the plant for fathers day even if it would serve him right, I am just not like that. I did really enjoy thinking of his face getting a bug filled dead plant tho. :laugh:


I fell so far off track that I didn't even log yesterday! But I feel like crud when I eat like crud so I am going to stop doing that to myself right now. Today I will eat right and walk after work. I know that this week is most likely going to be a wash because not only have I been eating badly but I have not been exercising. But like I always say every pound gained can be lost!

Thanks again and I hope you all have a healthy day!

Good morning all! I'm down another pound today. Yay. I seem to be lowest for the week at the end of the week. I always post Mondays weigh in as my legitimate weight. I hope I can lose another pound by then because I really want to be losing 2 lbs a week if at all possible. I'm really struggling with my sodium levels. I'm not eating out but do use some prepared foods like lunch meat and canned tomatoes and beans and tuna. Boy, do they pour that salt in that stuff. I use very little added salt though. I can always tell I'm retaining water in my hands. My ring (which is usually about to fall off nowadays) will be tighter and my hands just feel kind of stiff. I always used to blame arthritis but I realize now that it is partially swelling from sodium. I just keep drinking the water to hopefully flush it out. It's amazing what trends you can see from posting all your intake on MFP. Things I never really noticed. Now I've got to get serious with exercising. I think I need a workout video or something to help. I'm hoping to at least do the treadmill today.

Hello everyone,
I was good yesterday, eat healthy and stayed under my calories. I had some vegetable shopping I needed to do on my lunch break so I didn't make it to the gym but I walked for an hour after work and chased my kiddos around the park a bit which was really fun. I feel back to normal today, back in control which is such a great feeling. But I am a little scared to face the scale after my little relapse into bad eating. I know that I have gone up a bit by how my pants are fitting but I just hope I don't go up too much. I also work on Saturday, hosting a picnic to welcome the new incoming families for next school year, so I am worried I might not be able to exercise that day and the picnic food is always hard to pass on. Maybe I can just stay so busy I wont have time to eat?!? I will eat a healthy lunch before I go so at least I wont be hungry but it will still be hard. I hope my school will serve watermelon.


Phyljen where are you? I miss your happy, funny posts. And how is your knee doing? I hope you check in soon and I hope your doing well. :flowerforyou:

HI PALS;
I have been silent for a few days. WORK is CRAZY. My class did a class play for several classes and the parents and we were working hard on the lines and our ACTIONS! It turned out great. Then we had the music concert and rehearsals and well you get the picture... lots going on at the end of the year. I supposed tomorrow I will be starting to work on report cards. seems like we just did them. The year has zoomed past and I am so glad that in Jan I decided to start a healthy journey and turn my eating habits into healthy eating habits. I feel so much more energy. The day of the play some of the mom said HAVE YOU LOST WEIGHT? Yip 20 pounds I said. I was so glad that they noticed and that I have been faithful in sticking on this plan. WITHOUT all YOUR posts it never would have been possible. THANKS!:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

I read them all! Just most days this week I didn't have time to comment. But I did want to say HOW WONDERFUL it is that we have this group to share things with that happen in our lives. We are such a supporting group of people. I loved how every one rallied around Jenn when she was discouraged on Mother's Day or with Shivaun and Beth when they had healthy issues. and me too. This darn knee. Some days are good others it swells up. Yesterday I was in pain ALL DAY but today it feels much better. ICE and pills do help. I have yet to try the number one doctor order to STAY OFF YOU KNEE! O.K. I think,,, I'll do that in JUNE!
(:laugh: When school is out)

Today after church we are having a "LINGER LONGER" That means everyone brings food and we sit and eat and visit together. Many families and young adults that have been living here studying and working are finished with assignments and will return to the states. So this is kind of a farewell to them and a nice way to enjoy one last time together. I am making potato salad to take. It is one of my favorites to make but I doubt that I will eat much of it. EVEN THOUGH it is YUMMY.:bigsmile:
I lost a pound this week. so here are my stats for the month of MAY
STARTING WEIGHT in JAN. 159
Starting weight in May- 141
MAY 7 - 139
May 14 - 138

So far this month down three pounds. I hope to keep this up and then by the end I will have made the goal of 5 for the month of May. I am doing just 30 to 60 minutes of exercise every day because of the knee. When I swim it is for an hour and I love that hour. and I am getting stronger with pilates and weights too so it is all paying off. BUT I DO MISS RUNNING!!!!!!!!!! PHYLJEN Looking forward to seeing your Friday weigh ins!!! GOOD luck this week end. Now I better go chop up boiled eggs and potatoes and start mixing them up or I'll be late for church.:blushing: