I like the Summer Slam challenge; they used to do similar challenges at the Curves I workout at. I lost more consistently when I was accountable to a group-met my need to help others while also helping myself I guess. Thanks for posting !

I'm really trying to get my food back under control. So I'm just taking it one day at a time. today I had oatmeal and now I made grilled chicken and grilled onions and peppers and for dinner I'm having the same thing because I made a ton lol

Hi! I'm new here, but I'm in! I know its late in the month, but I really started Friday. I've done a stupid cardio video on YouTube the last four days and today I did a ton of yard work - about an hour. I was sweating buckets when I came in! Felt great. My new goal is to exercise at least 4 days per week by turning my backyard into a beautiful oasis for the fall!!

I'm with you Skittles and Unknown!! I need to get my food under control. I have slowly slipped back into some bad habits recently...eating late, eating potato chips, stuff I hadn't done in almost a YEAR!

I need to regroup and refocus!!!

Anybody up for an "Eat Clean" challenge??

BTW, I was holding steady at 315-320 for the longest (over a month) and today I stepped on the scale and was 325!!!!! NO GOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDD!!!!!!

I'm with you Skittles and Unknown!! I need to get my food under control. I have slowly slipped back into some bad habits recently...eating late, eating potato chips, stuff I hadn't done in almost a YEAR!

I need to regroup and refocus!!!

Anybody up for an "Eat Clean" challenge??

BTW, I was holding steady at 315-320 for the longest (over a month) and today I stepped on the scale and was 325!!!!! NO GOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDD!!!!!!

I'm in it with the eating clean, I been stuck at 320-316 and I can't break it. I want to see 300 lol

welcome Carrie

Unknown you can do it. We all can. We were working so good and now we all seem to be sleeping back into old ways. So July we should eat clean and I think i'm going back to the 30ds. I need to up my game some how and break this crap. I have worked to hard to give up on my self, and none of you are giving up. we are doing this

Anybody up for an "Eat Clean" challenge??

That sounds wonderful!!!! I do Paleo and that would help me ALOT!

@Skittles: I LOVE your determination!!!! "WE ARE DOING THIS"!!! YEEESSSSSSS!!!! I mean seriously...this time last year I was almost 400lbs. I couldn't clean myself in the shower properly, I had a hard time wiping, none of my clothes fit, I couldn't even reach around my thighs to dry myself out of the shower...as a matter of fact, I would almost CRY when I looked at my FACE in the mirror!!! I was soooo MAD at myself that I had let myself get this big. I FELT HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I felt like I was going to be single for the rest of my life because WHO ON EARTH would want me looking like that??? But not only "looks" but it was OBVIOUS that I wasn't taking care of myself!! Men can definitely be attracted to larger women but they are NOT attracted to women that don't love themselves and don't take care of themselves (I mean unless they have their own issues! LOL which is not the type of man that I'm trying to attract!).

SOOOOOOOO...I say all of that to say... I AM AT A FORK IN THE ROAD!!! Do I want to choose the road that leads me back there??? Back to being miserable and hating to look at myself in the mirror??? ORRRRR do I want to continue down this path where I LOVVEEE looking at myself in the mirror...I feel FREE and CONFIDENT and can't WAIT to get dressed up and go out to see people--friends. Do I want to continue down this road where I'm doing TRIATHLONS AND COMING IN THIRD PLACE, where I'm JOGGING AND FEELING GREAT ABOUT MYSELF?????

I've come waayyyyyyyyyy too far to let it slip away!!!!

I CAN DO THIS!!! I CAN DO THIS!!! I CAN DO THISS!!!!!


WE CAN DO THIS!!!

BEFORE (THE PIC THAT SLAPPED ME IN MY FACE!!!)



After MONTHS of being good to myself!

Look at you, your doing great. We all fall off. I still am having a hard time with food. but I am slowly getting there. I just need to add more weight training in. I been stuck at this 320-316 **** for to long. we are getting to 300.

today I started week 3 of my c25k and it was 2 mins of jogging and 3 mins of walking for 30 mins. I may have to do this one for another week. it was hard for me lol

Whoa! Haven't been around much lately...didn't realize that there were men in our little group now!!! SORRY FOR TMI!!! LOL.

Thanks everyone for the support...sometimes I have to GO THERE to remind myself of why I'm doing this!!!

So, what I started working on yesterday was: getting my portion sizes back under control. Perfect example, I was eating what I THOUGHT was 1 cup of cereal this morning. At one point I got good at eyeballing it and having it come out to EXACTLY 1 cup. This morning I decided to measure what I was SURE was one cup...and it was a CUP AND A HALF!! When I got it to actually 1 cup it looked like such a tiny amount! LOL. But that's what I was eating before and was satisfied. ahhh. The other thing is cutting out snacks after dinner. That's been ROUGH for me!!! But I know it's sheer boredom! And then no more chips!! I've eating THREE bags of potato chips in the last 2 weeks...BIG BAGS. Those jalapeno kettle chips are KILLING ME! But I'm DONE. The salt, the cholesterol...NO GOOD.

Sooooo...one thing I've learned is that it doesn't have to be "ALL OR NOTHING". Even though I'm officially getting back on track Monday (have some things I need to clear out of my kitchen, go shopping for good food etc.), I'm starting these little things NOW.

Oh yeah, and drinking more water.

Hang in there everybody!!!

I have had a few successful days in a row with keeping my eating in check......I know it is less than a week, but it is a start....

I throw in the towel once in a while, but not forever at least.....

Ok, I am feeling good, July will be a good month for me, I can feel it.....will be looking for the July thread tomorrow with something to report!!