Gotta Move it to Lose It (Closed Group)

Hi everyone! I'm Dawn and I'm very excited to be part of this challenge. I look forward to getting to know everyone and working toward our goals together!

Hi everyone ! I am excited to be apart of this also ! My name is Kristen user name is kris1085!

I've been off the wagon so long that I forgot how it is that first week of a reduced calorie diet... my stomach feels so empty!

I know that if I can stick with it for a couple days more, my stomach will shrink down and it will get a lot easier, but man, these first couple days are hard. Gotta keep drinking a ton of water and telling myself it will get easier soon!

Hey guys. My name is Leah. I am a 33 yr old mother of 3. They are 12, 10, and 3. I go to school full time and work over night shifts, which is my downfall really. In 2007 I weighed 300 lbs. I lost 120! YAY ME! Well then we moved, I started school, we stay so busy, blah, blah, blah, I am now back up to 259. I, too, am having a hard time getting back on track.

I know how to do it. I know how unhappy I am, so why can't I? Most weekends due to my schedule, I am awake anywhere from 24 to 40 hours with no sleep. You know what that does to your diet?? Horrible horrible things. I am trying so hard to get this off and keep it off. I have spent the last year watching the scale climb ever higher and saying oh I won't let myself get above 190, 200, 210, and so forth. To know sitting at 259 AGAIN!!!

I hope to get some serious motivation from all of you guys as well as give it in return. Oh, and any advise on how to count my calories over the weekends when I am up forever hours would be gratefully appreciated! Good luck to everyone!!

Alicia....Those are some fantastic results already!!! Please share with us what you are doing!

I hope everyone is having a great and healthy day

hey
You asked me to share what I am doing. Nothing special in my opinion, but I am usually an all or nothing kind of gal so who knows!

I go to bed on weeknights at roughly 10 or 11 and wake up at 630am. I run a homedaycare with 3 boys (though I am not overly busy as they are all 4 and tend to think I am uncool at playing with them) I do drive 2 of them back and forth to preschool (they are in different classes), prep all meals, crafts, go on outings and such. I logged that I am lightly active.

I have a really good friend who is a trainer and she has given me some great advice (in my opinion).
I eat anywhere from 1200-1500 cal a day, averaging around 1300 ish.. MFP suggests I have 1600ish, though I just really do not feel that i need it. I also do not eat my exercise calories, yet. I have done some research and have made a personal decision not to until I am closer to my goal weight. I have a lot to lose and I am not playing that game yet. So I guess I net anywhere from 700-1100 a day depending on what exercise I do.

She broke it down to me like this, I eat 6 meals a day, give or take the calories

Breakfast -7am ish -- 300-400 cal
AM Snack - 930am -- 150cal
Lunch - 12pm -- 300-400 cal
PM Snack -- 2:30pm -- 150cal
Supper - 5pm -- 300-400 cal
Night Snack -- 730-830pm -- 150 cal

That's 1350-1650 cal a day, regardless of what I burn. I was starving the first week, but now I am never hungry and usually am shocked that it is time to eat again. Feel free to take a look at my food journal, it is far from perfect though.

For exercise I go to boxercise 3 evenings a week tuesday and thursday evenings and sat mornings. It is a 1.5 hour class where you do a 15 min warm up of jumping jacks, burpees, sit ups, squats, shadow boxing and pushups ( over and over again) (longest 15 mins of my life, lol) 30 mins of circuit training, 30 mins of punching on the bags and jogging while waiting your turn, and the last 15 mins are an ab workout and stretching. Amazing class, very high intensity and fun. I am pouring sweat by the time it is over!

I then go to the gym roughly 3 days a week and have been doing an hour of cardio. Right now I start with 15 mins moderately biking, 20 mins on the stepper and 25 on the elliptical trainer. I stretch after I am finished working out as it has been proven to have no positive effect on cold muscles! I also take my son swimming at least 2-3 nights a week, and will threat water for 1 minute stretches every few minutes while we swim, he does not notice and it burns a few extra cal!

I have been taking one day off a week to relax and not be busy. I hate how I miss tucking my son into bed 2 nights a week as it is, so I try my hardest to go to the gym before supper on those 3 days a week, it does not always happen though as I have to wait for hubby to get home!

I just joined the Biggest Loser Challenge here in town and am excited to start that on monday!

You will LOVE and hate the gym! I love popping onto one of the elliptical machines and just going (i am not a runner, but with the arm movements it is as close as I will ever get) I find group fitness classes are great too, though i do get intimidated (or used to, now a days nothing is going to stop me from having my babies and the weight i should be) except those all dressed chips i ate today... and the 2 cream eggs that are staring at me, that I am about to eat!!!! lol

Alicia, thanks for sharing your plan! I'm so happy that you are seeing such great results. I'm going to check out your food diary (hopefully I won't see those cream eggs on there....LOL). Counting calories is a new concept for me, and I am continually going over my allowance. I need to learn proper portion sizes...and of course find a cure for my sweet tooth

Have a good night all....weigh in tomorrow morning for me

I am weighing in at 205.5 this week ! I believe that i lost a pound this week !

Good morning! I weighed in at 181 this morning, so .5 loss. Not great, but I'll take it!

233lbs as of first thing this morning (yay!) That's 2.5 lbs since last Friday (yay again!!) Sorry I have been so quiet but I have got so much work on at the mo. Well done everyone, great to meet you all...

I think I might reduce my cal intake a bit from Monday (still having a ponder). I would like to try and creep up to an average loss of 3lbs per week but not at the expense of feeling hungry. I reckon a simple adjustment might be to keep on doing what I'm doing but quit my omnipresent dry roasted peanuts (yum). This way I will instantly be around 500 cals per day better off.

A bit of experimentation is in order methinks...

;-)