20 pounds by Easter challenge

Marie, Glad to hear the good report from your doctor.
Take care!!
Nancy

Hi everyone.

Marie. Glad to hear it is only temporary weight gain. At least it's just your bladder. Me, I've just lost my mind.

And for the second day in a row I am going to pass 10000 steps!!!!!! My legs are still trashed from yesterday but we had so much fun. But now it is up to me to walk the pups since my hubby just left town for 14 days. I'm surprised they don't have walking pushing a stroller as a cardio exercise on this app. Because I know darned good and well I burned more than 371 calories with 2 dogs on a leash and pushing a 20 pound stroller with a 32 pound girl in it. But that's ok. In my mind I know I worked harder.

Esther

Marie, I'm glad things went well at the doctor's, and they gave you a plan.

Esther, those "secret" calories burned will add up. If I do an activity that some might consider exercise, but isn't my workout, I don't count the calories burned for it, I just relish knowing I've burned extra.

So I'm really considering after this upcoming weekend, upping my calories by 200 each day. I'm starting to wonder if I'm doing my body a disservice with the 1,200 calories I give it. Since starting these calories at the end of January, my period has arrived a day later than normal each month. As in, normally on a 28-day cycle, and then after the first month of 1,200 calories it came on the 29th day, and then the next month on the 29th day, then last month on the 30th day, and now I've just completed the 31st day without it arriving yet for this month. If it shows up tomorrow it will be day 32, 4 days off from normal. The only time I've ever had it arrive this late is if I'm under a great deal of stress, which I haven't been lately. The only thing I can relate to the irregularity is the low calories and weight loss. I'm going to maintain my current calories until Saturday, when I know I'll be eating a lot at a wedding that night. I'll reassess how I'm feeling calories-wise the next day. I guess it's a wait-and-see, but it sounds like the healthy thing to do, I think?

-Rachel

Good morning, losers! Happy Tuesday!

Esther..you are doing it! Keep up the great effort!
Ray.. if you are working out, you need to fuel your body.
Faye..I am not seeing any progress either. It is discouraging, but quitting is not an option; we must keep on keeping on.
Marie..I hope you are on the mend and we see more of you today..miss you!

I am going to a body pump class this morning at the gym. Not sure if I will observe or participate. I've been wanting to try it, so I decided to pull up my big girl panties and check it out!

Make it a great day, losers!
Stay Strong!
Connie

Morning Ladies,

I hear ya about the scale being evil and not budging. Mine did budge this morning but have a long way yet to go
for my goal. My goal is 160 with any luck this summer.

Yesterday was a lot of running around it was my sister's birthday so lunch with her and we met Joe her new boyfriend.
A nice visit and she liked her gift.

After that a lot of running around and I did buy a new pair of runners. I have been getting New Balance with success but
I went with Brooks this time and a larger size. Now to test them out with a walk. Today I will get on my bike, I still have it
on the turbo trainer and hope to have it off that and on the road this week.

Our boat will be in the water this week and then I can clean the inside and get it ready for the sailing season. It has been
a slow start this year due to the weather. We have had a great week so far with weather with many people wearing
shorts around here so I hope it continues.

Well better get going to I can get on that bike. I am also planning on an evening Yoga class tonight.

Have a splendid day!!!

Shirley
Ontario, Canada

Thanks for the encouragement! For vanity purposes I'll wait til Sunday or Monday to start my calorie increase, but I'm looking forward to it. It will be interesting to see how my body responds, and that also means I can start incorporating some peanut butter in! Haha.

Enjoy your new shoes, Shirley! I got Mizuno shoes for the first time a few months ago, after a friend of mine raved about them. I like them, they seem to be holding up better through use than any others I've gotten before. I usually wears holes in the heels of my athletic shoes. I'll have to look into Brooks shoes too next time. I've seen commercials for the Brooks memory foam insoles shoes, they sound so comfy.

Becky I'm really curious to see how your 5/2 plans works out. If it works maybe I'll experiment with it at some point.

Connie I hope you enjoyed your class! It sounds like a good one.

-Rachel

Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE). It's basically the total amount of calories your body burns while simply existing, or while existing + exercise. Here is a link to a TDEE calculator if you want to play around with it: http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/tdee-calculator.html

Happy Tuesday Misfits Maybe we should rename ourselves the non losing losers LOL......

I'm right there with you on the frustration level. It's funny we are all looking to change things up this week to power through I was just looking back to try to see where I am going wrong. It appears the weeks I have a loss my protein macro is in the 39-43% range, and the weeks it is around 35% I get the big zeros. Sooooo, I am going to try going back to my original macros to tackle these last 6 pounds.... Up the protein and slightly reduce the carbs again. On the up side at least I know my maintenance macros are going to work

So glad your doctor gave you good news Marie

Hope your new shoes are going to be great

So proud of you with your steps and determination Esther! You are going to get those new knees before you know it

Good luck this week with your changes everyone.... Maybe just shaking things up will be the golden ticket for us

Tami

Hello everyone!

Well I'm back from my trip to Disney World. It was really nice to be with so many family members and friends at Disney. There was probably 20-25 people with the majority being kids. All in one big mini-mansion(8 bedroom house).

I returned on Sunday to an upset stomach that lasted 2 days. I guess it's from eating junk food and not as many fruit and veggies that I generally get from my green smoothies.

I felt much better today and got on the scale and surprising I was down 3 lbs from when I weighed in on Thursday!! I am SOOOO thrilled because that brought me to the 150's!! I now weigh 158.2! In December I weighed 186, I'm just amazed!

But for the last 2 months I had been hovering between 161 and 164. I'm not sure what happened to make it move since I ate horribly. I wasn't expecting a loss even though I walked over 10,000 steps a day at the parks.

So for the challenge I'm down a total of 2.8 lbs, my first loss!

Getting closer to my goal of 145 lbs.

I have a new goal to drink 3 L of water a day. Today's my first day and so far I've only gotten 2 L down. I hope to finish the last one before I fall asleep tonight.

I hope everyone had a great night!