I challenge you to lose 5 Pounds This Month January 2011

OK I finally got the scale moving the right direction for the month. Now to push it the next two weeks to end strong for January:

1/1 - 180.5
1/11 - 181 (opps)
1/18 - 179

I am determined to end strong this month and have upped my exercise. I am actually looking forward to next weeks weigh in already...

This weekend I did great on my walking goal! I walked Saturday, Sunday, and Monday! However, I didn't do so hot on my eating. But not in the way you might expect. I didn't eat enough! My goal is to eat 1500+ exercise calories and on Saturday I only ate 1064 (-608 exercise=456 calories) Sunday I ate 823 (-784exercise=39) 39 calories to fuel my body all day?!?!?! :noway: Plus my burned calories are an under estimate I'm sure because I am chasing young kids around all day and don't account for that. Oh man, not good ladies, not good! I have had a migraine headache for the last 4 days and I read on WebMD today that loss of appetite often occurs with a migraine. Well, today my goal is to eat, eat, eat! I am hoping to go over on calories to make up for my two days of starving my body. I just wasn't feeling hungry but felt like I needed to get my exercise still, weekends are typically hard for me to stay under calories so I think I was in the frame of mind that I should save calories and exercise to not go over, but then I felt like crap and didn't want to eat. I guess that was not the best plan. Well, now I know.

Hope you all have a nice Tuesday! I will be watching Biggest Loser (with Bru) and doing some step aerobics while I cheer on Aqua!

I'm in

Im in!

Just ate 915 calories for lunch! (a Chipotle burrito bol) I'm stuffed! How ever did I use to eat like this everyday?!?! Well now I am set, don't have to worry about being under on calories today! I have my big calorie burn planned for tonight while watching biggest Loser so I know I wont be over on calories, but now I feel much better knowing I will be having at least 1200 calories today. Right now I am at 1,115 and don't think I'll be very hungry for dinner so I might have to hold back and only do my stepper for 60-90 minutes and not the full two hours. We'll see how things go, but I know I don't want to have 500 calories to eat at 10 pm when the show ends.

I highly recommend Whole Foods' site for recipes too. You don't have to buy the recipes from there and a lot of the recipes are very good for you! And it introduces new ingredients that you might not otherwise cook with! I've made 3 recipes from the site already and just printed out 8 more.

I'll have to check that site out.

You don't have to 'buy' recipes from allrecipes.com , just to be clear. :flowerforyou:

Ugh. I meant that the recipes don't have ingredients that you have to buy from Whole Foods. That is what happens when I'm trying to multitask. LOL I also use allrecipes.

Kelly, so glad to hear things went will with the pups surgery....like the new profile pic also...is that one of him??? If so HOW CUTE!! and yes, go out and relax...

Thanks everyone for the cooking sites....will have to look into them maybe tomorrow when I have more time...

Now off to give me and the kids baths...have a GREAT evening all!!

Kelly, I am so glad your bully made it thru surgery. I can't wait to see my Granddog next week. He is a 3 year old English bull named Cronus. He is my little baby boy (aka tank!) My daughter had to have him. He lives in vegas with her so I only see him when I see her

Wed 01/12/11 11:32 AM
Jan 3 SW ...175lbs
Jan 5 ..........169lbs
Jan 12.........168lbs
Jan 19 ........167.5lbs
Jan 26
Jan 31

Total loss - 7.5lbs

I am kicking Januarys *kitten*! Haha and it feels good!

How is everyone else getting on with their challenge?

Hi everyone, hope all is well!!

ceelovejay, congrats! I knew you'd have a loss soon!! Good for you for not giving up!

Drumlinegirl, your loss is just around the corner!!

Dawn, great attitude! Looking forward to seeing your next week's results too!

Bru, smart plan, taking care of yourself before getting injured. Recovery is so much more difficult and painful than prevention! Although sometimes prevention is the harder thing to do!

Jenn, good luck stuffing yourself with (healthy!) foods today! I am struggling with my 1200 cals, because if I don't exercise, and eat even 1 calorie under, then the system tells me I'm not eating enough, but if I eat over, then I get the scary RED numbers. I guess I really need to log even a few minutes of exercise so I have a bit of wiggle room.

Kelly, the problem with kids vs. dogs is you can't leave them home alone for the first 12 years!! :laugh: Glad to hear Walter's surgery went well. Will he be able to come home today?

55tolose, I don't want to jinx myself, but the peek on my home scale was a good one this morning: 155! I'm waiting until Friday to weigh in on my official gym scale. It's keeping me motivated to at least eat well, if not exercise...

Zara, yay for kicking Jan in the butt!!

rj-
Glad you get to see your daughter and your granddog Hope you have a wonderful visit!

55-
Sounds like your MIL's dinner wasn't that bad, at least she made vegetables also. Try to keep the pizza count in control and run around after you little one at Chuckecheese and you'll be fine. Most of all HAVE FUN!

Sapphire-
7.5 lbs :noway: that is awesome!

rcatr-
Welcome back!

dmgaloha-
I had the same issue trying to stay @ 1200 calories. Now that my goal is losing half a pound per week and calories are at 1500 my results are much better. You might think about logging chasing kiddos around as exercise for your extra wiggle room. Bed time routine alone I know I break a sweat. And congrats on 155! I'll be sending good thoughts your way for it to stay thru your weigh in!

ceelovejay-
Great loss! And can I add that I love love love your ticker! Once you get to your goal are you going to reward yourself with a cute new pair of pumps? I really like the brown with pink polka dots, so cute!

Bru-
I'm sure you watched BL last night, what did you think? Who are you hoping will win? I really like Courtney's can do attitude and was glad to see team aqua stay although I never like to see anyone go.

Not much new with me, got on the scale today (even though I don't weigh in until Friday :devil: ) and I was down a bit, so yay! Hope everyone has a great Wednesday! Make good choices. And enjoy this quote I found "Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still." -- Lou Erickso

Hi all - just checking in quick. I will have to catch up on all the posts later.

Jan 01: 204.0 lbs
Jan 03: 203.0 lbs
Jan 10: 201.1 lbs
Jan 12: 198.8 lbs
Jan 18: 199.2 lbs

Up a bit today, but I've been eating a lot of sugar lately. Darn it that I made cookies!:ohwell: I did run another 1.25 miles on the dreadmill last night & also did water aerobics. I was pretty sore still yesterday, but I think getting back on that dreadmill helped out. I feel great today.

Anyway - Walter (the puppy) had surgery this morning for 2 1/2 hours. They ended up doing his palate surgery as well, as doc said if he didn't he feared Walter wouldn't wake up. He has a pretty bad breathing problem (as most bulldogs do). Anyway the surgery went very well, but no one can see the poor baby till at least tomorrow so as not to excite him and damage anything. He is still hooked up to oxygen and some other tubes. (Doc took a picture of him...so nice of him.)

I'm headed to a movie then making dinner for CJ tonight. I'm skipping Zumba at the gym. I just need to relax my mind after the stressful last few days. Sometimes I think its harder to have a dog than it is kids! :laugh:

Sorry for what the poor "guy" had to go through but thank God the surgery was a success. Sending a quick recovery prayer his way

sapphirelazuli-- congrats on the weight loss

dmgaloha--- keeping the fingers crossed for you hopingyou will have some loss on your weigh day

congrats to everyone for working hard

I had my study group course last night, so hubby picked up the girls from daycare, so I wouldn't have to rush home and back. The GREAT news is that I managed to sneak off to the gym between work and study group, and I tried my first BodyPUMP class. I used fairly light weights on my bar, as I wasn't sure what to expect. It was tough, but these are the kinds of workouts I need to build some muscle. I will try to make it part of my Wed routine.

I peeked on the home scale again this morning, and it's still looking good for tomorrow's weigh-in. So, let's see...
Jan 1st - 159
Jan 14th - 158
Jan 21st - ??? - gotta wait and see...

I'm sure I won't catch up with you just yet, Jenn, but I'm trying!! :happy:

Thanks for the support, ifychudy! I've got my fingers crossed too!

I'm still working on better planning my meals and snacks. I'm usually way over on calories (when I'm not logging or trying to be healthy), or when I'm trying to be healthy, I'm not eating enough calories for meals/snacks in the morning/afternoon, so I end up either under my minimum calories, or I get the munchies and overeat at night. Either way makes it tough to lose weight. So I've been focusing eating more healthy foods during the day, and last night, after I added a workout to my day, I had an extra snack at night.

Michelle, you handled your stress very well by logging on to MFP instead of eating! Keep up the great work! You may need to balance your fruit intake by snacking on some veggies. They should still fill you up, but they're not quite so acidic!

Bru - how is Nick doing? I hope his back is feeling better.

ceelovejay-
Great loss! And can I add that I love love love your ticker! Once you get to your goal are you going to reward yourself with a cute new pair of pumps? I really like the brown with pink polka dots, so cute!

Those are actually chocolate shoes!! Go figure! LOL