Lose 5 pounds a month SEPTEMBER 2010 CHALLENGE

Evening all, busy day between work and my son's homework (why don't they get more done at school??) Don't mean to complain....anyhow...got a nice workout in at the YMCA...FINALLY my sodium was under ....for the first time in FOREVER it seems. Hope you all had a great day....:flowerforyou:

Oh, got my jj, plank, pushups (GRRR!!!) done (and added my calve lifts and squats)...THANKS BMK challange

All right, lets do this thing! So afraid of failing AGAIN!!!:sad:

Beky x~ Congrats on making it to circuit 2! I know what you mean about hard to make your self get up!!! I cant believe I made it either!!!

Bru~ Glad to here they think they fixed it been praying it was nothing major! I see he had to have surgery but glad all it well now! I know yall have a long road with him and therapy and he is prolly going to fight tooth and nail when he gets a little bit more movement back that he shouldnt have to go but from experience try everything you can to keep him going tell they think he is good. Hope your workouts havent suffered to much with all your running lately! Will be thinking about you in your family's time of need!

sippy01~ dont worrie to much about failing! Just do what you can and try your hardest and please dont over do it that is why people get burned out! Do something you love to do for exercise Swim, walk, run, Dance, Jumping around like an idiot just to get your heart going and working up a good sweat! Hope you do well!

MayLan~ I agree and this is the attitude everyone needs when going at this!!!

Ok So my week so far has been very uneventful Yesterday I had one of those dont wanna get up and do anything... I slept tell 9am got up got me and kids breakfast but I just couldnt get motivation at all by lunch time I just wanted to go back to bed,,, I finally yelled at my self (not out loud lol) to get up and do something about 4pm I managed to get in 40 min of zumba in and I felt lots better! I managed to stay under calories but just barely! Today I am hopein for better results but I am tired again today I been taking my Vitamins and eating right! Well today is weigh in and I hope I lost something I didnt last week and Its put me off all week! I felt like a failure!!! Hope everyone else's week as started off better!! Will edit later to let yall know what my weigh in reveled....

Hey, everyone! My thoughts and best wishes are with all of y'all.

This has been a frustrating week so far, but I'm maintaining.

I'd like to get another pound or two down (or an inch or so) before I go to my ten-year high school reunion on Saturday. At this point in the week, I don't think it's gonna happen. I'm 20+ lbs heavier than I was the last time most of those folks saw me. But I'm willing to bet I'm not the only one.

Eight days left in September! Time is flying.

Keep up the good work, everyone!

i cant find this weeks challenge can some one re post it please

Just go back to page 15 of this topic (Kelly, Kintegra) posted it there and I think Bru posted it somewhere also...anyway you just reminded me to get my little workout in....thanks!!...Good evening all!!

Weigh In:

Sept 1: 159
Sept 7: 155.25
Sept 11: 153.75
Sept 17: 153.5
Sept 18: 153
Sept 23: 151.5

Woohoo! I'm almost out of the 150's! I would love to finish September at 149. Maybe if I work extra hard...
Looks like today I'll start the jumping jacks and push ups. Oh how I loathe push ups!

Thank for the great quote, Terri.
I'm praying for everyone who mentioned family needs.
Congrats to everyone who lost weight this week. There's still a few more days to go!
Watch out for the allergy monster. It's starting to rear its ugly head.

I'm still here, I'm still in the challenge; but, I am noticing that focusing on the scale is actually discouraging me from keeping up good habits. If I don’t lose in a given week, I start to think that it was all for not – why deprive myself of chips/fries, chocolate and cheese if I don’t get immediate results???

I’ve decided that I want to instead focus on getting in all my workouts every week – every day that I log 25-30 minutes on the Elliptical is a victory. I’m going to keep up with my food diary, because left to my own devices I am apt to go completely out of control, but I won’t be beating myself up when I go over the daily limit. I’ll still weigh myself twice a month, on the first of the month to log my progress and mid-month to check up on whether I need to start pushing myself harder and/or decrease my daily calorie goal.

Hello, All! Happy first day of Fall! I just got back from the doctor's for a 2-month follow up visit. She is very happy with the progress that I have made so far. My blood pressure is under control (though I am still on meds for it). It actually did not spike in the doctor's office like it usually does. I even had a print out of all of my blood pressure readings for the last month ready to prove that I didn't need to increase my dosage. As it turns out, I didn't even need it. My doctor has a great outlook on weight loss. She promotes the "non-American" approach of slow loss. She gave me her holiday speech, which is basically don't try to lose weight on the major holidays....just try to maintain. That way when everyone is trying to lose the typical 10-15 lbs gain, you are ahead of the game and actually losing weight you want to lose--not trying to lose weight that you gained. Sounds good to me. I'm in this for the long haul. I also got my flu shot today, so I guess I'll be doing my 30-day shred later to work the vaccine into that muscle.

I peeked at the scale this morning and it was 190.8. I hope this keeps going by Sunday. I just might get out of the 190's by the end of the month! Have a great day everyone!

Not sure if it is the change in weather or what but the kids have been crazy...babies not napping and then being crabby.

KEEP YOU EYES ON THE GOAL!

Terri

More likely it's the full moon. I taught for 28 years and the kids would definitely get buggy at the full moon -- you could tell the difference by the noise level in the lunch room! I thought I was imagining it until a friend who was a city emergency room nurse told me about the increase in stabbings on Friday and Saturday nights when there was a full moon. It's especially significant because the Harvest Moon occured at the same time as the Autumnal Equinox last night.

Happy first day of Fall!

Been busy with my husband working so much...can't wait til they get their offices and storeroom all moved....hopefully will be done by mid October...he is taking tomorrow completely off though so we can spend the day together while the kids are in school (and preshool) ...he is taking me out for a much late birthday lunch date...so I will make sure I wear something cute and sexy to let him see what he has been missing, HA!!!!...sounds like some of us are struggling while others are full steam ahead..whichever...hang in there everyone....tomorrow is TGIF....:bigsmile:

Oh, got my jj, plank, pushups (can do about 7 good ones at a time instead of 5), and my added squats and calve lifts....day 4 of them ....and I think I am going to keep going with this little routine on a daily basis....

Hello, my challenge is to stay at 119 pounds for all of September ( I reached goal weight of 119 pounds the middle of August) and i am struggling to stay there!!!!! This week I made it back to 119 pounds and it feels GREAT !!!!!!!!!

9/3/10..........119.....pounds
9/10/10........119.5 pounds
9/17/10........120.5 pounds
9/24/10........119...YEHHHHH


Good Luck to you all .

Barty...your weight is always going to fluctuate just a little so don't be so hard on yourself....look how much you have lost...now that is something to be proud of (and I know maintenance is the hardest) so hang in there...you are doing AWESOME!!

Amanda great job on aceing the test..

Bella--awesome job so far and still a few days in Sept to go....don't think I will be as good as you..my food choices have not been so great lately...am going to have to try harder (but after today...lunch with hubby)

Heading out to drop the kids at school (and preschool) then spending the day with my husband so probably won't check in til later...probably won't get to much exercise in today but willl get my BMK challange routine in when I get back, Have a GREAT day everyone!!........:flowerforyou:

I did not do good with this chanange:explode:
sept. 1= 139.4
sept. 8= 136.7
sept 15= 138.6
sept 22= 137.8

I'm totally in!! That is right on target with what I want to lose - one pound a week. It's going to be hard to get through the weekends without totally blowing it, but I'm all in. I'll give it all I've got!