20 pounds by Easter challenge

misscaligreen wrote: »

SW 266
Started Challenge at 239
CW 220
GW 219
19 pounds lost.1 pound to go!!!!

Fantastic!!!

You can do it :-)

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eyegirl777va wrote: »

Congratulations to you mega losers. Very impressed with all the good news.

I am in for the next challenge and plan to be here all the way and beyond!!!

Nancy

i am with you on that one Nancy!

Good morning and happy Tuesday! Snowing again in good old Michigan, but the temperature is in the 20's right now and supposed to get to a high of 39 today - woohoo!

Marie, I called you our Angel Mama and you are that - keeping us all headed in the right direction

Congratulations Graybon and everyone else who has hit 20 or are on the doorstep! Ray, your Ninja system sounds like a dream, and making homemade hummus would be a treat for sure. I just recently discovered it and don't know how I missed it all my life, but I have some just about every day in my spinach salad.

Marie, you asked about the Red Wings. They are an NHL hockey team, like the Dallas Stars. The Detroit Red Wings are one of the Original Six teams that made up the league at the very beginning. Our family loves the team, and have had season tickets for more than 20 years. Now that Matt is in AZ, I thought he might like to have a throw to remind him of the home team!

It is my father-in-law's birthday today, and he is turning 93! He still lives by himself and shops, drives, cooks, banks and pays his own bills etc. He's pretty amazing!

Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Belinda

I'm in!

Yay. I have finally made it to the 160's. Today I'm down 1.4 lbs since my last weigh in which I think was 2 Fridays ago. I am excited because now I feel like I am making progress. I lost all this weight 4 years ago and I gain it all back because of emotional turmoil In my marriage. Last week was like going back in time with this relationship of 21 year but I love myself too much to let outside influence take me off this journey. I say all this out loud (in typing) to you all to help myself and someone else who may be struggling emotionally. I have to be accountable to someone because I almost gave in. Saturday was horrible. Those old thoughts that barbiecat posted a while back pulled me back that day."you deserve to eat whatever you want" but like I posted a while back I put everything I eat in no matter what. So looking back at what I ate and how many calories I went over pulled me out of my emotional eating. I love me even if he doesn't. I feel good about me no matter what anyone else thinks or does so I will take care of me. This is what I say to myself now instead of trying to figure what the heck is going on with him.

I hope this helps someone else.

SW 181
CW 169.4
GW 160

beszmytke wrote: »

Ray, your Ninja system sounds like a dream, and making homemade hummus would be a treat for sure. I just recently discovered it and don't know how I missed it all my life, but I have some just about every day in my spinach salad.

It is my father-in-law's birthday today, and he is turning 93! He still lives by himself and shops, drives, cooks, banks and pays his own bills etc. He's pretty amazing!

Belinda

Oh my gosh! I just used my Ninja for the first time with the bullet-style attachment, and I'm in love! No offense to my good old blender(that will be making its way to storage..), but the Ninja blew it out of the water. The individual smoothie attachment is so convenient! Now I don't have to wash a whole blender, just pop this cup in the dishwasher, so great. I made what I'm calling a "Peaches & Cream" smoothie, with frozen peaches, vanilla Muscle Milk powder, vanilla extract and unsweetened almond milk. It's preeetty tasty. I think you're really going to enjoy your Nutribullet.

Thank you for reminding me about hummus in salad! At my last job I used to eat a lot of spinach salads with jalepeno-cilantro hummus as the dressing, and I'd forgotten about this. I'm definitely going to start eating this again now! And I was kind of like you, I used to "not like" hummus, but now I've seen the light and I love it.

Your father-in-law sounds awesome! I hope he still continues to do all those things well into his 100's.

Sunnyfarm-congratulations on reaching 160, so glad you hung in there and didn't let outside influences, take over, great job.

CALIECAT wrote: »

We have a birthday today. like to have forgot it/


Kokomo1950--Rosie--February 28-- San Antonio, Texas
I don't tink she as been posting so I will wend her a PN to wish her a happy birthday.

happy birthday Rosie have a great day.
Marie

I live right outside of San Antonio

Hello all!

Monthly measurements are in, down 4 inches in February! So holding at 173 (10 pound loss) and down a total of 7.5 inches since starting in January. It isn't looking like I will be at the 20 pound marker by Easter, but I would be happy if I was down another 3 inches Not bad for 8 weeks of work!

Mom is coming down tomorrow for my Cedars appointment Thurs, and we get to have a belated bday celebration for her as she is a leap year baby. So I will be making a german chocolate cake for her and we will be going out for dinner. The good news is the cake has eggs in it, so I will not be having any lol! She also has been wanting to see the artifacts at the Fowler museum at UCLA, so I may take her there after my appointment if it isn't too late. Fingers crossed everything runs on time as the museum is open until 8pm and I think it would be a great surprise!


Congrats to all on their losses- @sunnyfarm I am so anxiously awaiting the 160's. I am so happy that you are at a place where you can love yourself and choose to feel good about yourself. Almost giving in doesn't count I am proud of you, and the incredible progress you are making. You are an inspiration