Losers! Challenge 2 (28/03-20/06)

So my beginning weight for this challenge is 340.4 (1/8 of a pound heavier than my weight on Wed at the end of our last challenge). My goal for this 12 week challenge is to be down to 298 (42.4 pounds). I will give it my best shot. I know I can do it if I get past this plateau that I am on. Hopefully the pounds get moving again soon!!

Hi Jenni ~ hcg is a hormone based weight loss program. It is taken 3 times a day with a very restricted 500 calorie diet. It is said that women average a loss of 1 pound a week and men 2 pounds a week. I love it, but after losing 3o pounds on my own prior to starting the hcg I seem to have reached a plateau and I thought this would kick it back into gear, but so far it hasn't. I am at a standstill (fluctuating between 2 pounds). Once it gets moving the scale downward again I know I will drop quickly. My husband is doing the hcg with me and has lost 28 pounds in 17 days.

Wow! that is an enormous amount of weight lost! Hope you'll get off that plateau soon.. sucks to be stuck!!

As i weigh on Friday that can be my starting weight. My goal for this week is to burn 3500 calories. Determined to do it this time!

Started my new job today, it went well! Decent kitchen facilities so can take my own lunches, yay!

CherylYMerritt... Congrats on all that you've done so far! 8 weeks of clean eating! Wow!

oooh, I really like everyone having their own challenges, it's helping me to think of what I could/ need to change! Love the move more than 70km challenge Steph, that's about what I'm going for too!

Great! Let's do it!!

I am EXACTLY the same!! I freak out whenever i have to get a needle at the Dr, but i like the pain from getting a tattoo! Mind you, i only have 2, but i definitely want more. I have one on my ribs and one on my foot, and i have been told they are the most painful places to get one, so i figure if i survived those 2 then i should be right with any more that i get haha!

How many do you have?

Currently I have 3, but will DEFINITELY be getting more. I have one on my lower back, one on my ankle and one at the base of my neck.

I really want to get a tattoo (or several), but my sister tells me I'll just wuss out. :laugh: I love the way they look though. I have so many ideas for them.

Interesting fact: I collected snails as a kid lol... Never tried to eat them though

Me too. One time a friend and I brought tons of them into our porch in a bucket, and they all climbed out and went all over the place! :happy:

Hi Jenni ~ hcg is a hormone based weight loss program. It is taken 3 times a day with a very restricted 500 calorie diet. It is said that women average a loss of 1 pound a week and men 2 pounds a week. I love it, but after losing 3o pounds on my own prior to starting the hcg I seem to have reached a plateau and I thought this would kick it back into gear, but so far it hasn't. I am at a standstill (fluctuating between 2 pounds). Once it gets moving the scale downward again I know I will drop quickly. My husband is doing the hcg with me and has lost 28 pounds in 17 days.

Good luck! I've read a lot about it, and was considering the program until I heard there are shots involved (which is ironic if you read my tattoo post above). It's pretty extreme.

Hello fellow friends

So my challenge this week was to exercise for an hour each day!
Yesterday i did my hour, and i have already completed my hour today, but have been asked to go for a walk with a friend this afternoon which will be great! So hopefully i might be able to log around 2 hours today

I spoke to my friend who i am going to Sydney with this weekend and he mentioned we will be walking EVERYWHERE cause their apartment is right in the city, so that is awesome! I won't feel so guilty about all the food and alcohol i will be consuming and should definitely be able to ace the challenge this week!!

Very excited
Hope you are all having a great day!!

Great JOb So far! Keep up teh good work

Keep up teh good work everyone.

No exercise for me yeaterday for my 300 min challenge. I was filling out financial aid forms with my step son. Have a double work out planned today. 45 min yoga and 45 min aqua aerobics

Courtney - Yoga and aquarobics, love it. Some days I love exercise and wish I had more time and energy to do all the different types.

Verity - Moving ugh.. I have lost count how many places I have lived in. Its about 19. Raised by a single mum, can you imagine how outrageous that was 35 years ago and she was like a gypsy. And then I married a soldier, and we were moved every 2 or 3 years.

Claire - the joys of mother hood.

How is everyone going with their personnal goals? I have managed 3 1/2 hours of exercise so far. But its a bit uneven as I do a lot on the days I can and then none on some.

Got doctors report today, and my diabeties is under control. No medication and if I keep going the way I am should delay that happening for at least 3 to 5 years.

V- Good luck with the house hunt. It can be super taxing. (I'm waiting on closing day)

Jenni - I can't ive w/o my yoga. You are dojg a great job exercising and I'm so happy to hear your doctors apt went well.

Rach - Great job gettign that body moving and good luck gettign to that 10K. Antd teh hot air baloons sound like so much fun

I did my planned exercise last night 45 min yoga nad 45 min aqua class. 90 MIn down 210 to go. I have 45 min zumba class planned tonight. I hope to get to teh gym early and do 15 min on teh readmill for an even 60 tonight.

Have a great day everyone.

Happy Thursday!!!

So far this week, i have managed 4 hours of exercise, only 3 more to go and hopefully i can manage that with my weekend away. I am pretty sure all the walking and (hopefully) dancing we will do will be more than enough...
Although all the eating and drinking we will also be doing makes me a bit nervous! Hopefully i don't put on too much come Monday...
I was hoping to be 5kgs down by today, but managed 4.9kgs! So frustrating!! Why couldn't the scales just have given me that last 100grams haha!!
Oh well

I am just soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy to be going home tonight to see my bestie Haley and then road tripping tomorrow with Haley and my old house mate DJ!! Two of my favourites!! You do not know how happy they make me!! And i cannot wait to spend a WHOLE weekend with them!
Makes me wonder why the hell i moved over 3 hours away from them last year haha!!

Hope everyone is having an amazing week!

Well done Katie with your 4 hours of exercise. I'm 10 mins short of 4 hours. Just did Day 3 or 4 of 30 day shred. 4 days if I count yesterday as 2 days when I did 2 sessions of it.
Interesting numbers I aim to improve on. I just worked out that for the month of March I had 9 days of no exercise, but I burnt 12,392 calories for the month. Will improve on that for the month of April, less days off and more calories burnt.

You are going so well Jen, you are truely motivating!!! I don't think i would have survived on this site without you!

Am almost ready to leave work for the week, i cannot wait to head to Sydney tomorrow!!!
You have a super weekend, and i look forward to seeing if we have all managed to stick with our challenges!
I will try and check in on my phone over the weekend, but sometimes when i do it on weekends it doesn't work, so i will see what happens haha!

I think I'm doing well so far, but I haven't had a chance to add up my mileage yet. :blushing: I'll have to do it later today.

AFM- 60 min or treadmill incline intervals last night. 150 min down down and 150 min to go. Plan on 30 min of treadmill and 45 min of sculpt class tonight.

Wow great exercise....enjoy...

well i'm crap at posting, that's for sure. my week has been very busy and today was a craptastic day so i figured i should hop on MFP for support i weighed in at 295 this morning (YAY) so already 2 lbs lost. some of it may be water though. if i'm 295 or under on Sunday, weigh-in day, i get new workout clothes!

doing well with my water goal. i've had quite a bit today.

glad to see you're all doing well!

Ok so after having a few low hours, with the support and love from my fellow MFPers's. I worked hard physically and mentally. I have now done 20 mins on Jillian Michals DVD, 40 mins on the treadmill and 30 mins on the stationary bike. If nothing else too exhausted now to feel low. :laugh: I am determined to better my calories burned for the month of March by at least 10% I am aiming for that nice figure of 15,000 calories. (13,631 would do it but hey lets go way out).