30 Day Challenge Part 2

That is so awesome Olivia. I think before the challenge, a lot of time I just ate out of boredom, while I was watching tv or on the computer. Not so much because I was hungry! It's great that you recognized this.Now that you mention it Olivia, I realize also that I just eat until I'm comfortably full and not miserable. Wow! I think our eating habits have drastically changed over the last 2 weeks of this challenge. Eating the 3 meals and 2 snacks really keeps you from ever starving and allows you to eat much smaller meals at mealtime. I used to have second helpings and now it doesn't take much to full me up. I had a birthday party AGAIN at my house tonight. I served cupcakes and ice cream for dessert and guess what.....it was temping but I didn't really want any. I just cleaned up dishes while they were enjoying their dessert. Things are definitely changing for the better! This is so exciting:)

I weighed naked this time, lol...every little bit helps and the scale said 171.5, I'll take it!

Lol I know this is prob going to be too much information but I always weigh myself first thing in the morning, naked and after going to the loo hehe!

oh no I agree, always first thing in the am and naked!!! It amazes me how much clothes weigh! If I want to get my bum motivated I do it at night fully clothed then the next day I work out even harder!


Olivia~ CONGRATS! That is such a big deal!! I know I eat when I am bored and it is so hard to listen to my body saying "ok im good". I am really excited for you!

Well luckily I have a very supportive hubby. Plus all my friends really want to join me to do the princess half marathon so they check in on me all the time to make sure everything is going as planned!

I like todays challenge though, people never seem to realize how a little negative comment can have an effect on someone. I personally am a dweller I can never seem to drop things it always stays in the back of my mind where I continue to analyze it. Very bad and annoying habbit!

My biggest support network are my new buddies on MFP and this message board in particular and all the friends I made from it. I find it really supportive to see the progress of others. Also, I tend to do better when I feel like I need to "model" in order to support others (guess that's the educator in me!).

My hubby is also very supportive, but not in a way that one might think. He's so great to me in all ways, and when I told him about my plan, he was supportive of me that the weight I am at, and told me that I'm beautiful no matter what and so on, but that he is fully in support of me getting healthy for myself and my daughter. And he pointed out how much more rational, reasonable and fun I am when I'm healthy. I forget that I'm just a crabby appleton when I let junkfood and lethargy rule my life!

My mom is a bit of a support, but unfortunately in a not-so-healthy-way. She focuses on how large or small I am, and not about the health aspect of it. Sure I want to look good, but more importantly, I want to be HEALTHY, and overweight is just not healthy. But it was very motivating to connect with her on skype yesterday and hear her say that I look slimmer and she can tell I've lost weight (and I didn't even tell her I was trying)!

Thanks MFP buddies and specifically Jess and Angela for putting together this challenge. This has been the biggest change in my getting-back-to-healthy life. I'm already thinking about what the next motivator will be after this challenge (ah-hem, a follow up challenge!)

The reason I joined MFP was because I was looking for a support system. My family moved to Alaska shortly after I started college and most of my college friends are leaving to follow their next steps. Honestly, I felt a little like I was being left behind, but I am working toward my next career step (hopefully grad school). I needed something that would push me everyday and this site, especially you guys, do that. I may not by losing pound wise but I my lifestyle is changing and I know the rest will fall into place eventually. My boyfriend isn't as supportive as I wish, but part of that has to do with him being in a different state at the moment. He also has a huge sweet tooth and isn't a big fan of veggies. It's kinda funny that our eating habits are so different but I don't care because I don't have a very big sweet tooth unless its ice cream (that's why I don't keep it in the house).

I agree Jessica that taking turns with the challenge sounds great! I'm sure others have great challenge ideas also. I would like to continue this somehow and this is a terrific group:):)

The people on this challenge have been my most motivating supporters. My daughter is also on MFP, so we keep tabs on each other. At work, a young woman I mentor has been particularly supportive of my efforts to change my eating habits. She was the first one to say that she could tell I had lost weight.

I agree that we should keep this group together. If coming up with the daily challenges is too much, we can just recycle the great ideas that Angela and Jessica have used this time--they're good reminders for current members and excellent challenges for new ones. The weekly weigh-ins are very motivating.

I like the idea of continuing this group/challenge in some form. I'd definitely be willing to come up with a challenge every once in a while if we all wanted to rotate. Anyway, however it pans out, I'll be there .

I def would live to keep this group going! It is such an inspiration to hear other achieving their goals and it keeps me accountable. I am much more likely to follow through on something if I have someone there telling me hey its ok!

I've thought it over today and honestly, my biggest supporter is my husband. Not only does he support my desire to lose weight, he also supports me in other undertakings as well.

Tomorrows challenge: Try and reach your calorie goal! For the past few days off and on, I have been under...I think I should watch it better and strive to get all my calories, getting too few is not good for anyone because it might slow your weight loss down, ironic right? They just need to be the right kind of calories.Make sure you're getting in the healthy snacks, they are an important part. I was looking at someones food diary and they eat 6-7 small meals a day...I think that's a great way to not feel deprived!

I call that the "hobbit approach to eating", as (as some of you may recall from the books/movies) they eat 7 meals a day: breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner and (later in the evening) supper [had to get the complete list of wikipedia, couldn't remember them all. Kinda considering changing my tracker to fit some of these fun names like second breakfast and elevensies :laugh:

Thanks so much Olivia for keeping up with everyone's weight. Not too shabby for a few weeks I don't think especially since our group has dwindled down but that's ok because those of us left are warriors. We are going to conquer our weight situation! I like the idea of 6 or 7 meals and elevensies that is cute. I've watched that movie but it's been a long time.
I have no objection Singer in having our challenge go to a religious holiday. Let's continue to put some ideas out there and we will figure out how to continue this. Sounds great to me to have the next one go on until St. Patricks Day. Excellant idea too Singer about taking 2 turns each. I think everyone can handle posting a couple of topics/challenges:) Then after the St Patty's Day challenge, we can have one that goes until Easter:) Being part of a group keeps myself such more accountable!! I just did day 2 of Leslie Sansone's walk at home boot camp. Wow she is kicking my butt! Goodnight everyone~

P.S. Had to share this quote: The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!

I am loving all these great ideas and enthusiasm about the next challenge., and we still have 2 weeks to go on this one. I think when we get to the last week of this one, we ask everyone who want to add to challenges to post on the board. I can put together another spreadsheet, and we can make it easy by rotating days alphabetically. Someone said (I think) that they like weekly and daily challenges, and I have to agree with that. I really liked that format our first week where there were 2 challenges that we worked on all week, then have the sort of supplemental daily ones. We can figure that into the new challenge/structure too. And I can maintain the spreadsheet for the next challenge, as well (unless someone else is DYING to do it...). This so fun!

Hmmmm, I just had a thought.... maybe we want to do a theme for the next challenge, like "Spring into fitness" or "Going green in your weight-loss" or "Healthy Habits for Healthy bodies", IDK those are some things that just came to mind.

I'm ok with whatever dates for challenges so run, religious holidays or not, so long as we avoid religiously-themed challenges.