My October goals are:

1. Get through week 8 of C25K
2. No pop
3. Branch out with meal choices to find a healthy variety of recipes
4. Lose 5-10 lbs

My October Goals:

1. Lose a pound a week.
2. Start trying to eat clean.
3. Cook a clean dinner for the family 4 nights of the week.
4. Keep with Jamie Eason's Livefit schedule.

October goals:
1) I have joined a local women runners group. I will run with them on Saturdays whenever I'm not working, and will run the same route without them at some point on the weekend if I am working at the official time.
2) I want to weigh 156 by Halloween
3) Home bake my daughter's birthday cake, and bring appropriate snacks to potluck Halloween parties
4) Drink my protein powder every single day I am low on protein, even if I have to shuffle my calories to do so! (I often come in low on protein and end up skipping my drink due to not having the calories at end of day--I'll just have to drink it early then, I suppose)

I will weigh in tomorrow for my starting weight, and every Friday will be "official" weigh-ins.

October goals:
1. Run 5K every Sunday
2. Cardio 5X week
3. Strength training 3X week
4. Yoga 3X week
5. Drink 8+ glasses of water daily
6. Eat smaller meals more often

CW 9/27: 145lbs
GW 10/31: 140lbs

My goals are:
1. Run 3 races to keep on track for my 30 by 30th bday (in January)
1)Whistlestop Half Marathon 10/12
2)Downtown Dash 5K 10/20
3)Pumpkin Run 10k 10/27

2. More Strength training (I am so bad at this : / 3xper week

3. Less Sugar, I keep going over, mostly from fruit though

Not a great week. My husband's depression has been acting up for a month now, it came to a head and I had to practically force him to the doctor's office to get his meds adjusted. He still managed to put up a fuss and make the whole trip difficult, I know it's not on purpose but it's still hard to deal with.

When he gets depressed, I have to handle all the housework after work, cook dinner (and sort out leftovers for the next day), and I try to juggle the kids away for a bit so he gets a quiet time break (he's a SAHD so doesn't get much of a break during the week, unless we have family "kidnap" the kids for an afternoon here and there); packing in a day of work after my day of paying work results in stress on me, which often results in eating.

I managed to maintain at 159 until this morning, I ate some very salty chicken and potatoes last night (didn't even taste good but I could NOT stop myself--I hate that lack of control feeling, followed by stomach pain feeling) and skimped my water yesterday and so weighed in at 162 today.

I am hoping his med adjustment kicks in over the weekend, and we can go back to our regularly scheduled program in which we take turns cooking and I have a half hour to an hour to work out most evenings.

I hope you don't catch anything, I know that something as simple as a cough or just fatigue can really affect a person's race time. I did my first half marathon last month, and it was amazing! Best of luck on yours this Saturday!

I am proud to say that I got up this morning and went for a 2 mile run, and 1 mile walk. There were kids all over the place waiting for their busses, I am sure they had a good laugh about my jiggly jog but whatevers.

KGerm you can do it! My weakness is eating at night in front of the tv too. It seems to be my only me time and a time I can just veg out. I'm still trying to control it, but I enjoy having cheeze its or a snack like that after dinner. I also went up a pound and I'm not quite sure why. I feel stuck. We just have to keep going in the right direction

10/10- 129 ( I was 128 yesterday! Maybe because I did weights yesterday and I'm pretty sore today?)

-Stay within my calorie goals
-Run 4 days/ week
-Start doing something for strength- kettlebell, maybe? 2-3 days/ week
-Hopefully I can see numbers in the 170's by the end of the month... I need to lose 1.25 pounds per week to get to goal.

I'll weigh in on Tuesdays...
10/1: 185.6 (TOM)
10/8: 186.2
10/15:
10/22:
10/29:

Ouch. Okay, maybe this will be my wake up call. Because I clearly NEED something to help me get my butt back in gear. It's apparent that I will not see my goal of 175 by November 13th.

I am going back to limiting my starchy carbs. I WILL GET UP ON THE DAYS I DON'T RUN TO DO 15 MINUTES OF KETTLEBELL. I will STOP eating junk while watching TV at night. I will do it even though I am discouraged and feeling like my motivation and determination is on a permanent vacation.

You got this! Looks like you got a great plan!

Checking in on my month so far as of 10/14

My Goals for October are
1) Run at least 40 miles- 11.9/40
2) Lose 4 lbs (which will get me back to my pre-preg weight)
9/30/13- 159.8
10/4/13-159.4
10/11/13-159.4
3) Drink 64 oz water or more per day -3/14 days
4) Cook a clean/healthy dinner at least 6 days a week (with the exception of 10/25-10/28 which is a trip for my anniversary) - cooked all but 2 days so far but some of the meals were not so clean,t

This week I am focusing on water consumption, cooking cleaner. My goal is to run at least 3 times (Tues, THurs, Sat (race)) to get me more on track with my miles. Eventhough I am not quite meeting my goals, I feel I am moving in the right direction.

OK I am putting my starting weight 9/27 as 159.
10/4: 159
10/11: 159
10/18: 159
10/25:

Haha! I can laugh about this. I have been maintaining my weight at 159-160, however I have also been using a tape measure and have lost some quarter and half inches here and there. If I don't weigh 156 by Halloween, well at least I'll still be a bit firmer and smaller.

My women's running group is on hiatus due to people being sick and injured. I've still been running where I can fit it in, a mile here, three miles there.

Yesterday was my daughter's birthday, I homemade some cupcakes so they were a bit healthier than store-bought, and she doesn't care for tons of icing so they were light on that too. Yay! However, the potluck Halloween party will involve baked goods (either cupcakes or a small cake on my part) so we will see how the "bring a healthy snack" thing goes. Maybe I'll just bring two...

As for my protein goals...well, let's just say I blame my protein as the reason I am not losing weight, lol; it puts me over on calories when I try to get my 100 grams a day.
BUT--and this is big--I actually FEEL healthier. And that's the whole point of all of this.

I'm a new member and i wanted to say "Hello Everyone".

-My first goal is to lose 4 lbs and get down to 125. I am still yo yoing between a couple lbs.
-Stick to one coke zero a day. I am currently drinking 2-3.
-Try not to eat after dinner. I usually eat too many snacks after dinner and put myself over for the day.

SW-129
GW-125

10/10-129
10/21-130

I'm going in the wrong direction! I did do more weights last week and maybe it's water weight but who knows. I wish I had taken measurements in the beginning.
I have been good with not overeating after dinner but the cokes are still at 2 a day.