Fit by Summer - January

I just am doing such a crappy job staying within my calorie range, today I did better only going over by 300 cals. I really need to get my butt to the gym tomorrow, I really want to get down one dress size bad.

do you have your diary open to view? Just stick to it. I know you can do it, what is it that's motivating you? Just keep that in mind and don't loose focus of it. Just stick to it.

I am trying to stay motivated...it just gets hard when people, especially a few women in my family are very hard on me about my weight so I guess that is what is driving me more to get into shape (although I would never tell them that). I am realizing that now as I get older, that I need to work on breaking old habits before it get's to late. I have always been a chubby girl so it would be nice to be on the other end for a change.

I'd love to join and get some motivation and support!

I'm Holly - I'm 24. I have a 4 year old little boy, who is the greatest blessing in my life, but caused me to go from 120 pounds to 172 pounds over the past 4 years. His lifestyle of chicken nuggets, mac and cheese and oreos, along with just the initital pregnancy have put me far above where I want to be!

I've been working out 5-7 days a week since the last week of November. So far, I have lost 18 pounds. We're going on a cruise in 9 days, and my goal was to be 150 at the start of the cruise, so 4 more pounds to go!

By summer, I would like to be 135-140. I don't necessarily care about the number, just how I look and feel. I just started C25K this morning, and I'm hoping to run my first 5K in April.

Good luck to everyone!! I'm looking forward to meeting some friends!

y'all, no lie: my fitness coach on the wii will absolutely kick your *kitten*. 45 minutes of aerobics, 15 minutes of toning, 468 calories GONE. (468-ish, i'll say; it might be less because i don't have a heart rate monitor and i'm going with the program's estimate.)

but it feels good. i'm starting to see changes that i like. kind of excited for weigh-in.

btw, as far as earlier posts that it's hard to stick to the calorie counts: it gets easier. if you miss it one day, pay attention to what threw you off track and just try to avoid that situation, take a smaller portion, etcetera. and pretty soon your body acclimates and it's a lot easier to stick with it. took me a couple of weeks to not be consistently over, but i've been able to stick to 1200-1210 calories a day for a week or so now.

Hi
My name is suzanne.I wanted to say hi and may I please join your group.I love the idea fit by summer.We need are bikini bodies.I am in my 40's.I have 7 children.From older children to younger children.Only 2 children a little boy and a little girl are living at home with me now..I am divorced after 24 years of marriage.I need lots and lots of motvation.But I can do it.I need to lose about 15 to 20 pounds by summer.I'm older so I need to tone up alot.I have been working out stretching and walking and toning.I want to try some of my exercise video's by next week and work my way up slowly.I'm not real good at my diet.But I will try harder.It is very nice to meet everyone.Have a very happy day today.

Hi there! I'm Kelly, and I have to little stubborn miracles myself. My daughter who will be 4 and my son 2. They definitely keep me on my toes. I am giving myself a deadline of June 15 to lose the extra 30 lbs so I can finally look good in a swimsuit when we go on our boating trips, and for the first time we are going to go on a big vacation so I want to look good for that. Instead of the short fat munchkin that I am. lol.

Hi
Ok,I'm checking in I did my toning and stretches today.I will probably start adding aerobics in next week sometime.It's another snow day for my children they did not have to go to school today either.I had to shovel(I call it snovel)snow today.It was hard snow.So it wasn't fun.So I will call that a workout today too..I just ordered and sent off for 3 old workouts I use to have that are some of my favorite workouts.3 workouts on one DVD.Kathy Smith's strong,sleek and slim.So hopefully I'll get them soon.Kathy smith's weight loss loss workout is one of my all time favorites.It also has ultimate workout and I like ultimate stomach and thighs workout alot too.Have a happy day today everyone.

Hey guys,

Hope you're all well.

First weigh in of the challenge tomorrow and I'm not optimstic unfortunately. I had a seriously heavy weekend so I've been playing catch up all week. I'll be good from now on I promise.

If any of you would like to add me as a friend so that you can give me a nudge of I fall off the radar it would be helpful.

Em

OK so I didn't get the scale last night, but I will this weekend I promise, walmart didn't have the one I wanted. So the scaled reading I got yesterday was 259!!!! SCARY!! You guys should have seen my face when I saw that. That is 10 pounds more then the reading I got last week!! So here I am back at the starting line..well 4 pounds still under the starting line...workout today is gonna feel dam good.

Weigh in: 259
Goal: 230 by summer

Don't get discourged. Just keep at it. Increase the intensity of the workouts, and you'll see it'll come right off. Drink more water, and stay under calories. That seems to be working for me. Just keep going!