Lose 10 pounds in February? You bet we can!!!!

A great piece from Tyler over at 344pounds.com just after he pigged out for superbowl sunday, that I thought I would share:

"One meal doesn’t derail a weight loss journey and neither does a Super Bowl. You don’t want to look for excuses to pig out and to eat whatever you want, but again, this is a lifestyle, not a diet. The free birthday cake at your office for the co-worker you’ve never liked isn’t an excuse to pig out, but the Super Bowl can be, if you’d like. So can the 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and out on the lake on Memorial Day.

There are over 52 weeks in a year and Super Bowl Sunday is one day out of those 52 weeks. Even if you stop counting calories on every post office holiday throughout the year (what I mentioned above, plus some), plus 30 more random days (a whole month!) throughout the year, you’d be “cheating” 41 days a year.

That still means by any standards you’d be eating and living “well,” healthy, whatever you want to call it, most of the time — about 325 days a year. If you could manage to do this, you’d slowly lose weight and improve your health. And, if you could manage to count our calories even more days, you’d lose even more weight.

Unfortunately, most people don’t try to be healthy 325 days. Instead, we all try to make a commitment to be healthy and lose weight 365 days a year by being perfect boys and girls with our grilled chicken and salads, then when the Super Bowl comes around we think we failed when we have some hot wings.

Super Bowl Sunday isn’t a failure. It’s just the first day out of 41. Just make sure that you don’t make today day number two and you’ll be just fine."

A great piece from Tyler over at 344pounds.com just after he pigged out for superbowl sunday, that I thought I would share:

"One meal doesn’t derail a weight loss journey and neither does a Super Bowl. You don’t want to look for excuses to pig out and to eat whatever you want, but again, this is a lifestyle, not a diet. The free birthday cake at your office for the co-worker you’ve never liked isn’t an excuse to pig out, but the Super Bowl can be, if you’d like. So can the 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and out on the lake on Memorial Day.

There are over 52 weeks in a year and Super Bowl Sunday is one day out of those 52 weeks. Even if you stop counting calories on every post office holiday throughout the year (what I mentioned above, plus some), plus 30 more random days (a whole month!) throughout the year, you’d be “cheating” 41 days a year.

That still means by any standards you’d be eating and living “well,” healthy, whatever you want to call it, most of the time — about 325 days a year. If you could manage to do this, you’d slowly lose weight and improve your health. And, if you could manage to count our calories even more days, you’d lose even more weight.

Unfortunately, most people don’t try to be healthy 325 days. Instead, we all try to make a commitment to be healthy and lose weight 365 days a year by being perfect boys and girls with our grilled chicken and salads, then when the Super Bowl comes around we think we failed when we have some hot wings.

Super Bowl Sunday isn’t a failure. It’s just the first day out of 41. Just make sure that you don’t make today day number two and you’ll be just fine."

Thanks for sharing Mollie1037! That guy has a very positive way of looking at things. We can't be perfect every day. We aren't doing this for temporary loss, we're changing our lifestyles for the long term and have to be realistic.

So far this challenge I'm only down 1.7 pounds which I'm finding a little disheartening. I'm just trying to remind myself to be patient and that I can't expect results overnight. My new personal goal is to double that by the end of February... so 1.7 more pounds in the next 11 days. That's no where near where I wanted to be at the end of the month, but at least it's an improvement over where I was at the start and that's all I can really ask of myself.

Ok fellow losers, the moment of truth...
THE TABLE!!!



WE HAVE A NET LOSS OF 108 POUNDS!!! KEEP GOING ON THIS - 11 DAYS TO MAKE A CHANGE!

Please note, if you weren't on the original table then you won't be on it now - sorry guys.

If I have got any of the info wrong please MAIL me.

2Y4T x

Hey ya'all.

Haven't done any of the challenge this week...gotta get my butt moving.

But yesterday in my workout program, we did these oblique plank moves where you are in low plank and bring your leg up to your shoulder. Oh my goodness. I can barely bend! I NEVER feel my obliques, but definitely worked them hard yesterday.

we did a lot, but I'm not gonna count it for the challenge, as I want the challenge to be ON TOP of what I already do.

Now just to find the motivation today to workout. My 2 year old woke up at 10 last night and didn't sleep again until 3. so I'm exhausted.