Lets start a group for Mom's needing to lose 50+ pounds!!!!

I just realized that I really need to challenge myself to drink more water too.

I just realized that I really need to challenge myself to drink more water too.

Hi Autumn - hopefully these ideas can help you with drinking more water because I almost always have at least 10 glasses a day.

The key is to keep water with you at all times - and if I get at least 4 to 6 glasses in before 12 then I'm golden the rest is easy.

Here are a few other tips I use:

-if you are going to be out all day - I pull out at least 4 bottles (16 oz each) of water and either take them with me to drink OR put them on the counter for me to pick up and drink until they are finished

-I always drink 16 oz after breakfast, before lunch and before dinner (so that's 6 glasses done for the day)

-when I work out - I drink 16 oz while working out and then another 16 oz after I finish working out

-I use 16 oz which is two glasses because that's the size glasses we use for drinking... I prefer this to a small juice glass (8 oz) because then I have to keep remembering to refill

-IF I need a flavor boost from water (which honestly I usually don't) here are my two favorite:
- freshly squeezed lime - YUMMY. Especially with dinner - so refreshing almost feels like a vodka tonic!
- A splash (about 1 tablespoon or 2) of Pom (I love Pom-Blueberry) which is super healthy and super delicious. IF I want something festive - I carbonate my water (you can buy a carbonator to do your own water for pennies verses bottled plus no sodium) and then add Pom - then its like a mocktail!!!

Cheers!

I caught myself eating my sons leftovers this past weekend. Couldn't help it when he offers me his fries. I just make sure to write it down and count the calories so it doesn't make me go over. Even after having the kids over for the weekend and grilling out I managed to lose 3 lbs since I started last Thursday.

Thanks for the water advice!

Im Robyn and I am a wife and have 2 kids. I was wanting to start a support group for Moms an their weight loss journey. Who's in?

is it too late to join??.. i had previously lost the 50lbs 3 yrs ago. i quit smoking and it creeped up on me again. would love to join. all my info is in my profile page. how does this work anyway??

Too late to join??
I'm a SAHM of 3 kids and would like to lose 50 lbs. I just started MFP last week. I have good days and bad days. Today was aweful... ate crap and ran around all day with no time for excersize. I hate to miss a day, seems to go downhill after that.

Here's to tomorrow! (heck, it's already tomorrow, lol. Off to bed now).

Hi everyone!! I havent been posting , I ve been battleling a little.. last monday's weighing was awful. No weight loss. Luckily someone posted some recomendations and i've been following then, now, it's only thursday and i've already lost 1 pound. yay!
So here it goes , i hope it helps some of you:

Check your nutrients chart for

*Keep it 1000 sodium a day
*Keep it to 100 carbs a day (Im making and effort so, its been like 150 which is good to me i think)
*Make your Protein Goal
*Drink all your water
*Use your calories in non-processed food -that means no sugars, simple carbs, flours and LEAN MEAT.

i know! it sound like a diet to me too! But its not. It s a new life style. A healthy one. So i am eating fresh veggies and fruit. Salads with my foods are a must have and my carbs are whole grain.
I love brown rice, and Natures Own 100% whole grain bread.
I also love yogurt and tea (chai tea, green tea and ginger tea w/ almond milk **all of them)

And last but not least, DON'T STARVE YOURSELF!! that doesnt work!
Eat every 2 to 3 hours a day!!! Plus excersise.

I'll tell you how Im doing with this *mAGIc PoTiOn** lol jaja
HAVE A GREAT HEALTHY ACTIVE DAY!!

I'd love to join also! I've still got 25 lbs to lose, but when I started I had 80 lbs to lose. I'm a mother of 5 children ages 14, 12, 10, 6, and 4. Would love the support and to be supportive of other mothers needing to get healthy!

Not very good at posting.... I have lost almost 6 lbs over the past couple of weeks. I find it hard to fit in exercise. I am a high school cook and after work I am usually going to one of my 5 kids' sporting events. I have dropped pop from my diet completely, even though I usually drank diet. Maybe if it would warm up a bit in Minnesota I could actually get outside and walk!!! Gotta love our weather -- 70 degrees two days ago and today it is 43 and even snowed a bit! Sheesh!

I'd like to be a part of this group too. I'm almost 45 and a single mom to a 10 year old boy. Someone earlier mentioned that they have trouble finding time to fit everything in and boy, do I feel your pain. It seems that every night there is a different "mandatory performance" of some sort, from my son's activities to homework to family birthdays, etc...

I'm trying to make this a true lifestyle change though, so no slacking is allowed. On the plus side, I've lost 12lbs in 3.5 weeks! Only 58 more to go to reach my goal!

Good morning

So lost 2 lbs this week but it doesn't really feel like a win since I gained 2 lbs last week!!! So frustrating but I feel like I've hit a plateau ... I can't seem to get under that 212 mark. I haven't been the best with my eating nor my exercising so I know why - just need to renew my determination!!!

I have a desk job so I think that a pedometer might be a great idea for me... I have already started walking around my house while on the phone but I can't be huffing and puffing because obviously they're work calls!!!

How are other moms handling things when they sit all day at work? Trust me = when work is over I don't sit at all but it just doesn't seem to be enough.

@sherriewilliams: I am so in on that pedometer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got a pedometer at lunch, and I burned 60.5 calories from lunch until I took it off at about 8pm. So it's not a lot, but to me, it's motivation to take more steps, like stairs maybe (yuck!). Anyway, I had a pretty good week. Three more days to go until weigh in, and a super busy day tomorrow. I'm taking my super punkin to get her Easter pictures at the mall, and I intend to get a really early start. I will have to pack snacks for both of us, if I intend to stay good! Ya'll have a good weekend

I am glad to hear they sell those pedometers at walmart, because i really have been curious as to how much calories I actually burn walking the 1/4 mile to my office from the parking garage at work...well it seems like a 1/4 mile anyway. I needed to get to walmart today to get a kitchen scale anyway, so I will definitely look for that while I am there!

What is a pedometer? Is it like a heart rate monitor? Where do you find the food scales? I'm looking to buy one of those also.

Also does anyone know what kind of strength exercise videos are good? I can do cardio all day long but I'd like to switch it up. I don't exercise much though, should I buy weights? How heavy? I need exercise ideas and motivation... I can stay under calories all day long but I never feel like exercising.