Operation: 4th of July Challenge... Anyone feeling up to it?

Since I just joined today, I will tell you a little about me. :blushing:

My name is Debbi and I am 49 years old. I live in Washington State and I am a Domestic Engineer. LOL I have a wonderful husband who treats me so well. I am so blessed to have a man like that as my husband. He is amazing!! I have 3 children, 2 daughters and 1 son. I have 3 wonderful grandchildren, 1 boy and 2 girls. I love being a mama and a grandma!!

Over the last year I have put on 40 pounds. I've been struggling with a major depression and of course I turned to food. Over the last 10 years I had been able to stay at my ideal weight or pretty close to it. Then the depression hit and those 40 pounds showed up. I'm ready to get them off and I hope my body is ready to let go of them as well. I've been trying to eat right and within my calorie limit since January but the weight will not budge. Someone told me that because I was severely depressed for so long, my body might not be ready to lose the weight as it was in "crisis mode" for so long.

I currently weigh 168 and my goal weight is 125. My goal for next week is to work out at least 3 times, to eat more vegetables, and to drink my allotment of water.

I look forward to getting to know you as we do this challenge together. Thank you for allowing me to join!

My name is Laura and I am laylamichella on this site simply because my named had already been used. Layla Michella is my little dog I am holding in my profile pic from last halloween. i am so excited to have the accountability of this group and hope to be very successfull. I have over 100 lbs I would like to lose and I plan on doing it one pound at a time. I am a wife and mother of 3 children, 25, 19 and 16, I have been married 30 fabulous years to the man of my dreams. Thanks for having me.

Today Monday June 6, my first week on the program and my first weigh in I LOST 4.6.

I am in on this too!! I had lapband done March 30th and seem to be getting "lazy", so this will hep to motivate me!

Weight Monday 30 May - 75 kg
Weight Monday 6 June - 74kg
% weight lost - 1.33%

Please count me in! July 4 is my second goal date I had set, to be down to 127 by then. What day are we weighing in??

Cathy

I would like to try for 5lbs by Canada Day!!! count me in

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I missed the weigh in date, but i try to weigh in only once or twice every 1 or 2 weeks (doing a lot of strength training and cardio so I don't trust the scale totally for progress and well, motivation- rather I continue to try on my old wardrobe) I am down 1 pound since my last weigh in and I didn't join this group too much later than that- so I guess I'm starting at an awesome 1lb down.
More to come- feel free to friend me if you want/need a boost like: 'wheeeew!' and a 'you rock!'. I pepper in others too

Not much progress this week. Lost only .5kg but maybe that had something to do with a bad eating day yesterday - went to my sisters for dinner. Hard to stay on track when you go out! And then I ate chocolate afterwards - and I didn't even enjoy it (dark chocolate with a sickly sweet filling - yech) Oh well - you live and learn.
So - only a .67% loss this week, and I'm not even sure that happened because it would be well within the margin of error of the scales!

Jennie

Weight lost- .02
Percentage- .012%

GOOD GRIEF!!!!!! Could this be any slower?

Donna
last week: 130.8
This week: 132.0

Boo

Goals this week: Still not tracking fluid intake well so I'll keep working on that.

Hi All! Amazed at the scale today! Since working out last week did not happen! My girl was sick then she got me sick!

SW 139
CW 138
Percentage Loss: .72%

My goal this week is the same as last week WORK OUT at least 3 times this week!

Weight 5/31 - 208
Weight 6/6 - 206
Weight 6/13 - 203
Loss - 3 lbs
Percentage - 1.47%

I met my goal this week and then some. Next week my goal weight is 200 but I still need to work on drinking more water.

5/31 258 lbs
6/6 255lbs
6/13 254lbs

1 lb lost 4 lbs total 1.5%

Hi! I forgot to post earlier today but I lost 2.8 pounds from last Monday:)

I'm in!!!! I could lose 25 pounds by the end of August....

Someone would have to remind me to weight myself