Sixers Holiday Challenge-Week 3

amy i feel your pain....i have been struggling for the last few weeks too. i eat and gain these 3#s. than lose them, and gain them back. i have been just playing with them. now again they are coming off. well, today DH and i were talking and he said maybe i am affraid to go below 210/200. which i could. i don't think i am but, never know. so now that it is in the front of my mind, i am trying to get past those two weights and see what happens. i haven't been below 200 in over 27 yrs. i too hadn't said anything about it, i too have been just lurking, poking in every once in awhile.
well, time to get things ready for gym tomorrow, been working on the eliptical lately. wanting to get away from the treadmill for the gym workout. i am up to 20 mins now. i am doing the c25k at home three days a week and the gym 3 days a week.
later

Pedal, BIG CONGRATS on getting to the "normal" range. What a great feeling that must be. Glad you're feeling better.:flowerforyou:
Cathy, You WILL make it to under 200. Everyone struggles now and then. It could be your body readjusting to the lower weight and different metabolism. You should focus on all that is positive that you have done.:flowerforyou:
Robin; Good job on the nice loss.:flowerforyou:
Amy: I have set goals and not attained them in the past too, but now we have this wonderful group to help us be successful this time.:flowerforyou:

I need to focus on meal planning & drinking my water again. It's so easy to let this go when I'm tired and/or busy.

Good night ladies:yawn:

That recipe sounds good rlh!!! Do you put the chicken in frozen or thawed? Thanks!!

Ladies I have a question. The last few days I just haven't had much of an appetite (i think it's because of the stress from papers and finals) and I've been having trouble making my 1200 calories. I know I've been trying so hard to add extra cals but I'm just not hungry so its hard to do. Any ideas as to how i can figure this out? Like I said, it's because I'm stressed so in less than a week it will be better.

It's weird, I don't remember the last time I didn't want to eat constantly during finals week. haha. I guess I'm just worried, even though I'm not hungry, that not making the 1200 cals will force my body into survival mode.

Thanks for reading/listening!

Good evening everyone. I'm glad so many of you are doing wonderful. I did something wonderful tonight. I was catching up on the Biggest Loser and really wanted a peice of cake after dinner. Well, watching this I ended up choosing popcorn instead. I really want to be under 200 by New Years and eating cake is not going to get me there. I also did alot of walking around at work today.

Amy, I was the same as you. My 30 was last week and I wanted to be under 200 for my 30th birthday and I started the same time as you. But, you know what? Life happens. And just think that if you didn't start when you did you wouldn't be where you are today and possibly could be higher. That's the little pep talk I've been giving myself.:flowerforyou:

And Mom, we can cross that 200 line together. Let's get there for New Year's and pull in New Year's being healthier and fabulously smaller. I mean look how far you've come! Your doing wonderful. I love you and I am so proud of what you've accomplished so far.:flowerforyou:

Pedal, I'm glad you are feeling better. Don't worry about eating healthy, just eat a little bit of something to keep you going. Hope you and the kids feel better tomorrow. Congrats on being normal again.:flowerforyou:

AmyLou, I remember the first time when I had alot of calories left and went into a convient store and told myself, just get a candy bar to help with calories. You know what I got? A Diet Dr. Pepper and that was it. I wasn't hungry and didn't want anything to eat and was giving myself permission to eat. Just fill up on healthier fuller foods. You'll get through this time.:flowerforyou:

rlh, you are so right. These chicks are wonderful and so insperational. I mean check out their numbers. They're great!!!:flowerforyou:

Kristen, I'm trying your chicken recipe tomorrow. I'm going to put it in the crock pot all day tomorrow while I'm at work. Hopefully everyone else will like it.:flowerforyou:

Here's what my menu had held for me.

B- Cream of Wheat with brown sugar and spenda
S- Newtons thin crisp, berries
L- Banquet fried rice and egg roll
S- Banana
D- Sour Cream Chicken Burritos (I'll have to post this one. It is good and hubby raves to his friends)
S- Popcorn

Later and good night everyone, and remember WE ARE WORTH IT!!!!!!!!!

I make something similar to that with fat free cream cheese and Verde enchilada sauce! Yummy!

Thanks Becky, I can't wait to try that recipe!

And thanks for the advice Amy and Shanell! I had one of my favorite snacks last night before bed, a bowl of almonds and raisins, and I think that did the trick!!

Not in the best of moods today :frown: Not really sure why, I suppose just everything getting to me at once, but the end is in sight!!

On a happier note, some of you may remember during the last challenge I had to go to a wedding and took a dress with me that I absolutely love only to discover it didn't fit. Well, I tried it on the other day, and its still not perfect but it looks sooooo much better!! We have our department holiday party on Friday and they decided to make it a Black and White Cocktail Party so I'm so happy my pretty black dress doesn't look ridiculous on me anymore!! Next step, getting to where those pesky suits fit again!!!

Have a good day ladies, keep your heads up, you're all doing an amazing job!!

Thanks for the support everyone. I've decided that I'm angry about something. I'm not sure what, but I'm taking it out on myself. I've eaten poorly, substituting cake (and I'm talking big slabs here) and ice cream for meals. Or eating when I am not even hungry, and eating when I wake up in the middle of the night. I ate half of a 6 inch round double layer cake yesterday in 3 different sessions.

Today, at the gym, I added extra weight to most of the machines I normally do, and I pushed myself through 3 sets on each (normally I only do 2). I mean, I was shaking when I was done with each one. I even pushed myself through some serious shoulder pain on a couple of the machines. Now that I'm done, I'm hoping I didn't hurt myself with that. But while I was doing it, I realized that I wanted to hurt myself... I don't know what is going on with me, with the anger and directing it at myself, but I'm hoping now that I have figured this much out, I can get past it.