*closed group* Flab to Fab 3, Part 2!

My weekend went very well. I had a few unhealthy meals, but countered it with quite a bit of exercise and managed to stay under calories all weekend! Well okay, I was like 64 calories over on Saturday, but close enough

I have set a mini-goal for myself. Until now I couldn't come up with a good one. I want to be 155lbs by June 29th. Which is when my son will be 6 months old. It's also my pre-pregnancy weight!! Then I will just have 20lbs to go! My goal is to also reach 135 by my Birthday, September 21st. I feel that's really doable. That's 1.5lbs a week.

I haven't come up with what I will do to reward myself if I reach my mini-goal of 155lbs. But when I reach my goal weight in September I plan on getting my tattoo I've wanted for quite some time!!

This week I want to reach 20lbs lost, I'm 1.2lbs away! Eeee!! Dani we need to push each other this week!! My goals are:
-Drink at least 80oz of water
-Burn 3000 calories
-Eat as whole as possible
-For the challenge I want to get out my bike one day and take my dog Roxy out for a run. She loves it! I haven't done it in over 2 years now.
-Stay under on Sodium for the challenge too

I've been thinking all day about what we could do to get everybody back on track. I've definitely slacked with the intense exercising myself. I want to do 2-3 days a week of more intense workouts, but I seem to only be doing maybe twice a week. I'm heading off to dog obedience classes, I will see if I can think of anything to light a fire under our butts :bigsmile:

Hi girls~!!! I have to admit I have fallen off the wagon a bit the last week or two. I had a very hectic couple weeks; which resulted in poor eating choices and lack of exercise. I also did not log!! This was my worst mistake of all!!!! I AM BACK IN THE GAME!!! I have one month until the beach and I must rock my bathing suit.

~~Today was my last day of work (until August) and I am really going to be able to focus on eating healthy and getting my exercise in FIRST thing in the AM.~~~

We are going camping Thursday and Friday evening and I am a little nervouse about this!! I am going to take a lot of fruit and instead of having hamburgers and hot dogs... I am taken chicken breasts and turkey burgers I will get my exercise in on Thursday morning and there are some really nice trails to walk or run with my doggies on Friday. I will not be defeated anymore!

Every one KEEP your heads up!! We have all come a LONG way and we are all better than the results from last week!! We can do this ladies!! You are all AMAZING women...do not forget that!

Ok my turn, sorry it would have been sooner but my internet died and I didn't want to type it on my phone! hah.

First and foremost, I am on this journey to get healthy and to strive to live a healthy lifestyle to set a good example for Lukas and future children Zack and I have. I also want to be at a healthy weight to start out my next pregnancy (not planning for a while yet!) I just feel better about myself when I make good choices and I am a better Mom when I make time to focus on ME for a bit.

But I am not in it only for the health, I want to look good too! My husband and I fell in love with me when I was skinny and he was heavier. He lost a lot of weight, but I gained it all. He loves me no matter what and tells me so all the time, but I can't help but feel disappointed in myself for letting go of myself. I want to look in the mirror and not see the chub everywhere!!

I think I will try to paraphrase some of these reasons and post them on my fridge so I have a constant reminder to make good choices :bigsmile:

I'm a little nervous of weighing in this week because I feel like TOM should be here soon (still haven't figured out my schedule after being pregnant) I really hope it doesn't ruin my goal of hitting 20lbs lost this week!!!

Hey all! I think writing down our reasons why we want to lose weight is a great idea. I haven't had a chance to read everyones yet, as i've been very busy lately, but i will do later tonight.
First off, i just wanted to tell you guys some things and i'm going to be completely honest. So here goes. The past two days for me have been terrible food wise and i havent logged anything because 1) dont remember everything i've eaten and 2) I'm ashamed. I finally realised that this is purely an emotional battle for me. I am doing so much better than i used to be, but i still slip up, and when i do i have an 'all or nothing' destructive attitude.
I do feel like i'm yo yoing back and forth, and i'm dealing with a lot of emotional things right now. So i've upped my calories to 1,500, and i'm happy with maintaining for the nxt couple of weeks while i work some things out. I have set up a meeting with a counsellor to discuss some things, mainly the issues i have with eating and body image and i'm really hoping to find some balance in my life.
I'm off to work out and i hope you all are having a lovely day!

My reasons are mostly to get healthy, which seems sort of weird since I've had more colds since I started this journey than I did in the 6 months previous to January, both mentally and physically. I was not happy with what I looked like, as much as I love my parents, I don't want to look like them. I don't remember my mom being skinny, but I know she was for a few years after I was born, and I don't know what happened, but I don't want to go there.

so that is that part. As for this week's challenge to get outside. I went with DH and DD last night to the park, I had to sit on a bench, but I got outside, which I really haven't in the last 3 weeks, besides the weather being sort of crappy, it isn't that easy right now, I don't even go out for lunch at work, so I haven't seen a ton of sunlight in the last 3 weeks.

I failed the sodium challenge yesterday by a bit since I ran out of time to eat breakfast at home. I was also short on the water by a couple of glasses.

Oh, and how weird is this, I did my fancy move to get on the scale this morning and it said I was 145.x, last week I was 150.x. I either lost a ton of muscle weight, or one of those readings was not correct. I figured that the 150 was closer to being correct since that is about where I was the last time I weighed in and the cast weight...

This week's challenges:

Yesterday I was over on sodium. I haven't been concious about my sodium intake at all and WOW do I take in a LOT of sodium. I'm guilty of the easy boxed items for dinner like rice and potatoes. I also had no idea how much sodium I was eating at lunch alone...4 slices of turkey breast, 1 Laughing cow cheese wedge, and 12 pretzel snaps = 1,000+ sodium!!! And the calories are under 200! I definitely need to start eating more fruits and veggies and using the recipes I have to make my rices or potatoes or whatnot from scratch rather than from a box!

Outside challenge--I did it! I went for a walk in Portland (MI) last night on the river trail they have and didn't realize it at the time but it was a new place and i was out walking so that fits as my physical challenge That was easy! On a really good note...I LOVED being out there...I intend to drive to Portland for my Saturday long runs and also once school's out I might run on the trail for a weekday run as well

Why did I begin this journey of weight loss?! Mostly because I found myself getting lazy and of course gaining weight! It started about 4 years ago when I met my fiance'. I am definitely someone who gets "comfortable" in a relationship and I just didn't care enough about how I looked b/c I had an amazing man in my life and that's all that mattered. I had watched myself do this in another relationship so before it got too bad...I wanted to take control! Now that I've seen results and I know I can do it...i want to keep working harder! I love the way I feel now b/c I"m so much healthier. I know I can be healthy and look good on the outside...so I've told myself I am NOT going to let myself gain back what I've lost! Too much yo yoing for me! I'm done with that!

Another reason to continue this journey is that I'm getting married in June 2012 and I want to look as good as I can in my dress

***What else was I supposed to be writing about? I don't know if I'm missing something or not...but i'm done for now!***

Well, I would like to lose weight because I am unhappy with the way I look. Until about 5-6 years ago, I was always "chunky" or "fluffy" or, as my one-time French boyfriend put it, "voluptuous," but I never felt the need to do anything about it. Then after my son was born, I spent the better part of a year with (I'm now convinced) some moderate PPD, walking around in a sleep-deprived funk, eating anything I could get my hands on. My son was colicky, never napped, and, in general, a lot to handle. To say that I was overwhelmed would be an understatement. I turned to food for comfort, and boy was I comforted! At that point, my unhappiness turned into flat-out self-loathing at the way I had "let myself go." My husband and I went through some marital strife, which has resolved itself, but that certainly didn't help in the eating for comfort scenario. And to top things off, I had a second miscarriage last fall, after an unplanned pregnancy (since my husband had had a vasectomy 4 months before, we thought we were in the clear!) What a roller-coaster ride THAT was! More consolation needed, more food eaten.

The final straw came when I went on a cruise in December with my sisters and my mom. Man, I knew the pictures would be bad, but I looked way worse than I ever anticipated. Wake-up call! I made a pact that after the New Year, I would make a change that would stick. I have done it! I lost 29 lbs the first 3 months of this challenge, and I am so proud of myself. I went on vacation at the end of March, and seem to have started down a slippery slope since then.

So, after being stuck at 217 for 3 weeks, this week I tried something new. I stopped exercising last week because of the cut on my leg, so I made an effort to stay below my calories. It would appear that I was unable to use sheer willpower to make healthy choices when faced with a huge number of calories at the end of my day, so I cut out the huge calorie burn for a few days, forcing me to stay below my calories, and make healthier choices. FINALLY, I broke the plateau when I stepped on the scale this morning. I exercised yesteray, but didn't eat back my exercise calories. I truly believe that you need to eat more to weigh less, but I was giving into a bad habit of eating crap because I had extra calories at the end of the day. I'm retraining myself again, and hopefully when I go back to exercising regularly, I'll be able to make healthier choices to finish up my calories.

Anyway, I hope all you lovely ladies are doing well. I'm finally looking forward to the weigh-in this Friday! Looking for a loss for the first time in too long!

Take care everyone!

Bridget

Hey Ladies! I am going to be skipping out of town for the weekend. So here are my measurements and Kasia's (kladyga) measurements.

Kasia's Measurements --- (first #s are from 3/30/11.....second set of #s are from 4/27/11….third set from 5/25/11)

L/R arm flex
Right arm - 12.5.....12….12
Left arm - 13.5.....12.5….13

Neck
14.....13….13

Chest/Nipple Line
40.5.....40.5….40

Waist/Belly Button
37.....40….39

Pooch
43.....42…44

Butt
45.5.....44….44.25

Hips
45.5.....44….44.25

L/R Thigh
Right Thigh - 26.....24….24.5
Left Thigh - 25.....24….25

L/R Calf
Right Calf - 17.....17.5…16.5
Left Calf - 18.5.....17.75….17



Jen's Measurements --- (first #s are from 3/30/11.....second set of #s are from 4/27/11….third set from 5/25/11)

L/R arm flex
Right arm - 11.....9.5….10
Left arm - 10.5.....9.75….9.25

Neck
11.5.....11.5…11

Chest/Nipple Line
34....33…33

Waist/Belly Button
35.5.....31.5….31.5

Pooch
37.....35.5….34

Butt
39.....38.75…36

Hips
39.....38.75…36

L/R Thigh
Right Thigh - 19.....18….19
Left Thigh - 19.5.....18.5….19

L/R Calf
Right Calf - 13.5.....13….13
Left Calf - 14.....13.5….14

***KERRI*** I would like to let you know my weigh in for the week too please.

It's 128.6. Woo-hoooooo!

I am going to miss you girlies. My hubby has a new toy so I might be able to get on and check in...but if not - everyone have a great and safe holiday weekend. xoxo I have tons of healthy alternative foods....so here's hoping I can be good! Sometimes going camping can be hard when there are 30 people cooking! LOL.