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

Count me in. I'm a SAHM to 3 months baby girl and i need to loose 35 pound.

ME! ME! ME! I need to lose 50 Big ones and I am a mommy of two !

I'm in! I am a mother of 4 and need to lose so I can be a better role model to my kids. I want them to understand how important it is to eat right while their young, so that they don't have to go through the same struggles that I have gone through my entire life!

I disagree with my pedometer's calculation of how many calories I burned today. It told me that the hour I spent walking around a two level mall was only 100 calories. I don't meander, I was just in a mall that I wasn't very familiar with. But I also spent an hour at the grocery store, also one that wasn't my regular store, so I estimated about 200 hundred calories for the two hours of walking around. I don't know. what do you guys think?

I'm in!

I need all the help I can get!

I'm a WAHM of a almost 3yr old boy. I also go to school at night.

Just checking back in...
My scale is broke, lol. It said that I lost 20 pounds last week haha! I know I didn't so~blah.
I guess I'll have to buy a new one... I have always had a love/hate relationship with my scale, so it'll be hard to go out and spend money on one

I didn't do my elliptical excersize today (supposed to do an hour every day). But I spent a couple hours outside, working on our duck pen. We have 3 ducklings that need their own home so I pushed, pulled, dragged, lifted and yanked a huge wooden pen (250 lbs?) in place for the ducks. I raked, shoveled, and trimmed branches too... I am sore and sunburned lol. I have no idea how to find out how many calories I burned though. ? I added 2 hours of 'general gardening' hehe. Good enough.

Happy Monday... so I was pretty much absent this weekend. I feel like I've lost my umph and I need to get back in the rhythm. I'm not sure why - we have been outside gardening, the diet hasn't been horrible but it hasn't been great either.

I need to become more consistent with everything - exercise, food, etc. I thnk that is the big problem - again, needs to be a lifestyle.

So today - I will exercise (even though I've messed up my shoulder and neck) - I will do something! And back to eating right and putting it all in my diary!

My best friend's wedding is on October 1 and I'm determined to be 50 lbs lighter by then so I can look AWESOME in a dress!!!

I'm in .....

working mom of 4 kiddos (23-19-15-13) .... I could stand to lose between 70-80+ pounds (working on that one!)
I have a very supportive husband that i love with all my heart ....

Now, I am having problems finishing my morning oatmeal..... (what i really want is a nice breakfast taco)

Now, I am having problems finishing my morning oatmeal..... (what i really want is a nice breakfast taco)

I also had trouble with oatmeal, but one day I tried quick oats instead of instant oatmeal, and it tastes better to me. You can add whatever you want to it, but a banana is a good start or some PB2 (which is powdered peanut butter that I can explain if you want). I don't know if you tried quick oats yet, but that really resolved alot of the texture issues I had with instant oatmeal. Believe me, I still have to convince myself to eat it sometimes, but then I remember that #1 the cafe downstairs at work does not support a healthy diet and #2 I dont' want to spend $5 for a breakfast taco there anyway.

oh yea and #3 I am living a healthy lifestyle too!

Wow that is phenomenal! :flowerforyou:

I'm ready to get back on board!

I was on and off again, until about 2 weeks ago. Got motivated, started losing. But then life caught up with me, and I had a CRAZY week starting April 16 with a 1st aid/CRP course and ending with 2 Easter dinners this weekend. I wasn't home much, so there was a lot on eating out. And quite a few drinks to go along with that.

But here I am. Ready to get back at this. I gained all the weight back that I had lost since New Year's (198 - had lost 10lbs in less than a month), and I can REALLY tell! Yuck! It's going to be hard, with all this Waster candy in the house. I didn't buy my kids much candy this year, but somehow they have managed to accumulate over-flowing baskets on candy! (Thanks Grandma!).

I really want to try running, but I am afraid of embrassing myself right now or seriously hurting myself. Sitting at 196 this morning. Would really like to see 190 by April 30th. Should be possible, as I haven't been drinking my water either.

So right here - right now - I'm going to set a few goals. Hope you guys don't mind. You can help me to be accountable for my actions (or lack there of).

April 30th - 190 (-6)
May 31st - 185 (-5)
June 30th - 180 (-5)
July 31st - 175 (-5)
Aug 31st - 170 (-5)
Sept 30th - 165 (-5)
Oct 31st - 160 (-5)
Nov 30th - 155 (-5)
Dec 31st - 150 (-5)
Jan 31st - 145 (-5)
Feb 28th - 140 (-5)
March 31st - 135 (-5)

That would be a total 61lbs. I'm 5'2", so 135 I think is the high end for my height. However, I have VERY muscular legs from years of figure skating and downhill skiing. So I think 135 is a realistic number for me. Can't even remember when I weighed that much - mid-highschool?

I need all the support I can get!

Hi you can count me in. I'm a mother of five and I need to lose at least 55lbs and I need all the help I can get.


sw: 189
cw: 185.6
gw: 130

I'm in my name is nikki I am a wife and mother of three plus I help my mom raise my 11 yr old nephew, I have 1 boy7yrs,2 girls 1yr and 2yrs and I have 75+ lbs to lose I have lost 12 lbs so far and I have been on a three week stand still. I was 238 and I am now 226 my goal is 150lbs and I have a mini goal to weigh 220 by may 1st but I don't think I'm gonna make it.

I would love to be part of this group. I'm Rebecca married with 6 grown children. My goal is 130 lbs (182.2 right now). I have a wonderful husband and children, but they don't understand my need to loose...they all love me just as I am. I think they are worried all stop cooking massive meals lol.

As I read through everyone's post I was so impressed with all the wonderful mothers in this group.

Hi everyone!!!
I'm here to tell u how excited I am. I've been faithful to my loggin and i've lost 14lbs already in 39 days. I always see people with more than 20 lbs loss and say to myself "Oh my' I need to talk to them, how did they do it"? But you know what? It's a step at a time and believe me' Ive fallen this weeks so many times,and felt so discouraged, but it adds up and it takes time but it gets the job done, so dont feel bad if you had a bad week or " month". Be realistic, falling is not that bad if you stand up as fast as u fell. Keep it up, cause our goal is nearer than when we started.