Summer Challenge! - For a burst of Motviation

Well til any groupies join me, I'll just post doing good! I came back from lunch which was just a small baked potato with some leftover healthy spaghetti sauce on it, it was thick. Kind of like chili on a potato. Anyway I had a sweet tooth and panicked! So I thankfully had a fruit stash: Applesauce Cup, raisins, mandarin cup, pear cup. I went for the raisins they have satisifed. Plus I tried to resist until at least an hour after lunch.

One mini struggle down! Hope to see some ladies join on a journey!

Hello "LosingItNow78"

Oh it's super easy, it's mainly about accountability and if you need weight loss tips or advice or even want to share. I used to for a short period of time lead a nutrition class. That nutrition class helped me to lose the first 65lbs I lost. Then I stopped leading had a baby and gained it all back. You woudl think the Leader would follow what they were leading

Anyway the one thing I can tell you that helped out most is accountability. You definitely want to track your calories, and even better yet if you can do it is do your calories in advance like a budget for the day of what you'll eat. It's like a budget of what you'll spend. When you prebudget your calories you spend those calories wiser. Now we don't always do just this in advance but tracking is a huge portion as well.

So post anything you'd like, struggles, questions or anything, and try and stick to your calorie count and fitness goals. it's an 80/20 rule for weight loss. 80% Nutrition and 20% fitness. So remember those little bites you eat are the majority of where you'll lose the weight.

Good Luck! Thanks so much for joining our challenge.

Awesome! Welcome to the board. Not really sure how to do a group yet. So I figured I'd start here...maybe we can move to a group later.

Happy to lose weight with ya! :happy:

You look awesome in that pic, gosh I think it was Curly. Hope I get the name right.

My daughter, who's 19 says the best way to get toned is Pilates. She said it'll kick your bootie, you'll feel super sore the first few weeks, but then you'll feel so great and super toned. She said she had a great butt afterwards lol. She advises that once I'm down by some weight and I'm really into the fitness and toning this should be one of the number 1 things I should do.

I've heard others say similar things. I also know that oh what is it called Core training is great. Man what a workout! Circuit training that's what I meant. So rotating through many different circuits in the hour of your workout. I have a Jillian Michaels 30 day shred, cost me $10 at Best Buy, it's a REALLY great way to feel your workout. Highly recommend that one as well.

Hope that helps anyone interested! Just remember the 80/20 rule. 80% food will help you lose weight, 20% nutrition.

I think it was Wendy that mentioned motivation to stay away from Junk. I don't know if this will help you but it really helped me. I dislike bad stuff in my body, obviously drugs or other such items I try and stay away from, they destroy brain cells right. Well I learned in my nutrition class these things about our "office treats"

- Sugar takes your immune system down for four hours.
- Sugar eats up all your vitamins in your body due to the immune response to protect your brain from the sugar (which is also what causes the immune system to go down it's being diverted elsewhere.
- White flour has been known to increase your risk of cancer.

So when I really struggled and someone offered me a chocolate bundt cake, YUM, I looked at it as if it were a drug. I'd say no cocaine on the brain (ie. Sugar) and I rather avoid cancer when it was a flour item.

It's REALLY helped with the sugar if I'm feeling under the weather, I wont TOUCH sugar. The white flour I really need to start chanting about again lol. Darn those bagels and bundt cakes!

I wish you all luck...feel free for everyone to share! I love hearing success tips and points etc!

Okay so I'm on day 4, and day 1 was PHENOMENAL, day 2 it was okay because we had a kickoff meal, day 3, I had a vacation day, I MUST plan for my vacation days better, although not horrible, too much cheese! Cheese in the omelet, cheese on the salad, and cheese on my air popped popcorn! lol.

Today starting off right an egg, turkey bacon and in a smidge here I'll have a fruit! I see my 65lb lighter self coming soon!

Hoping you are all having a super awesome Thursday!

I'd love to join you all in this challenge! My sister is getting married in July and I want to feel comfortable and look good in my bridesmaid dress (pictures...so many pictures). My MFP starting weight was 235 (although I know I was around 250 this time last year). My ultimate goal weight is 160. Current weight is 214. I want to be in "onederland" by the wedding. Would love motivation on this journey and to encourage others to meet their goals!

Bridesmaid dresses are the current bane of my existence!! Granted the weddings aren't til 2015 but we have started shopping for them and I am not pleased with the way any of them look.

Oh ladies you must share about the bridesmaid dresses I havne't even started looking at those yet. I just got the wedding dress this week. I hope I'm not too far behind because our tentative date is August 31st!