July Weight Loss Group

Welcome to all the newbies!! I am happy to see so many of us returning from the last challenge! Thanks to everyone who helped to keep the list updated! I think we have everyone so far

Man oh man.... My final weigh in for June was this morning. I started eating back all of my exercise cals this week in hopes of really boosting my metabolism. I was still 750- 1000 calories under maint most days. It was actually pretty much fun to see all of the calories still left at the end of the day and eat them, but most of the time I was eating them when I wasn't even slightly hungry. Then Wednesday we took our kids to a chocolate factory tour, and I totally sabotaged my day with chocolate, but it was oh so good.

Then yesterday was my b-day, and my hubby surprised me with a carrot cake (oh dear) and grilled burgers on the grill for lunch. THEN took me to Texas Roadhouse (a steakhouse) for my bday dinner. OMG did I eat.... by the time we left, I was so sick.

Laying on the couch 4 hours later, I was DYING of thirst. I felt like I had been through a sandstorm and eaten mouthfuls of sand. But I was still so full, that I could barely sip water without feeling like I was going to be sick. I couldn't even lay down horizontally, because doing so made my throat burn from the stomach acid! I laid there thinking about what I had done to myself. Had I enjoyed it? NO, not really. Actually not even a little bit. It didn't feel good to be stuffing that garbage into my mouth. I had wanted to order a dinner salad, but ordered an entree figuring I would catch h*ll from my hubby for ordering a salad for dinner on my b-day. The dinner didn't even taste good. I could feel the effect the food had on my body both times where I filled it with crap. I had no energy, and was sluggish and grumpy and sick to my stomach. I didn't want to exercise.

All of this is a positive change. I no longer CHOOSE to be destructive to myself. Eating good foods that fuel my body and give me energy feels so much better than what I used to get out of stuffing myself.

Anyway, long story short, all of this, coupled with TOM being due tomorrow, resulted in a +4 pound gain. LOL, oh dear me. I knew this morning it was going to be bad, but I chose to take responsibility for it. I do believe it to be mostly water weight.

So, this has me reassessing my goals for the month of July. I am changing my number from 6 pounds to 10. That 4 pounds of (hopefully) water is going to make it look like I hit my goal when I really haven't. I hope it will be gone and then some next week. I am going to work more on just listening to what my body needs rather than some arbitrary idea of "needing to eat all of my exercise calories" or some random number of calories.

Cnbethea- I am with you in having problems with losing my focus on the weekends lately. I am considering changing my weigh in day to Monday. I am hoping that this may help me avoid the weekend temptations, but I fear that the reality will be that I will just have bad weigh ins every week! LOL.

I haven't logged my gain yet. I am deciding if I want to drink water like crazy today, and reweigh tomorrow to see what happens.

tattoodfreek - to lose 10 pounds
cnbethea- to lose 12 pounds
tiarapants - to lose 7 pounds
wendytobin
ebonia - to lose 4 pounds
ifychudy - to lose 10 pounds
JoJo_69
MFPfriend- to lose 8 pounds
Breathe_Glamour - to lose 5 pounds
russ1220- to lose 5 pounds
yentess- to lose 10 pounds
Stewie316- to lose 5 pounds
sbarham-to lose 4 pounds total (something each week)
MelodieRN- to lose 10 pounds
mamahutson- to lose 5 pounds
GiGi76- to lose 6 pounds
Trusunshine-to lose 5 pounds
nabramson- to lose 5 pounds