100+ lbs to lose support group

Jen - I'd love to join the challenge with you.

Awwww! Suzy, I thought you would've been up for it! I considered sending you a message, but figured if you wanted to do it, you'd have let me know. I'm sorry - we've got a full team now. But I think there's still one more team that's trying to fill up, if you're interested in joining! Check this thread:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/277932-row-the-world-anyone-want-to-start-a-new-boat

Fair enough re the treat day. Especially if it's hard to control.
I find it works for me. I keep within my calories etc, but am more relaxed.

It's weigh day tomorrow .... dmm dmm dmmmmmm

Happy July ! ! !
What are you all doing for personal challenges this month?

I'm in a few challenges - an ongoing one that lasts until September, with reflection challenges each week. I'm a week ahead of the mini goal that I set for myself, so that's definitely a great feeling! I'm also in another group where we have daily challenges consisting of 2 tasks, like 10 glasses of water and 2 miles of activity or stay under your cals and send an encouraging note to your two teammates. But the girl that was running it has sort of disappeared. I volunteered to help her with the spreadsheet that monitors everyone's weigh ins and since then, she's like off the reservation. I dunno what's going on with that. And the last challenge that I'm doing just started today!!!! We're "rowing" around the world. It's not actually a rowing challenge. It's basically a 'let's see which team can burn x number of calories in the shortest amount of time" challenge. :-) I've got some AWESOME girls on my team and I can't wait for us to KICK BUTT!!! It's definitely inspiring me to work out harder and longer. Yesterday, and the day before, I spent a good 45-60 mins at the gym in preparation for this challenge. And boy!!! If there was any question in my mind before about the correlation between sweating my *kitten* off and dropping the lbs, I think that question has been answered. A total of 90 minutes in the gym over two days has resulted in a 3lb weight loss in the same two days.

I'm SOOO looking forward to this long weekend. We have plans on Sunday, but NOTHING on Saturday or Monday. Which I definitely need. Been so busy lately! A couple days of recovery and relaxing will be fantastic. Thinking about buying the latest Sims3 expansion and spending some time on the computer. Maybe hit the pool on Monday. And probably test driving some used cars. It's going to be fantastic!! Happy Canada Day & Happy 4th of July to the Canadians and Americans in our midst!!! Hope you all have a fantabulous weekend!!!!

These challenges sound awesome!!!!!!!! Keep us posted how they are going

OMG i went to combat for the first time in a few weeks - right now I can feel every muscle in my body LOL. I have been trying to rest my shoulder - but I may aswell have kept going as it just hurts the same as before I took my break. Frustrating. Am just going to suck it up and keep going and modify the left arm punching stuff.

Also - weighed today, lost 1.6kg this week - WOOHOOOOOOOOOO.

Oh AND i just bought a heart rate monitor - just have to wait for it now hehe.

Nice loss, kimmisatch!! It was well worth it.

I'm trying to save for HRM because I'm eyeballing my calories lost.

@RenaeJae

I'm in "lose 5lbs a month July challenge" and its helpful for me to stay motivated.

Count me in as well, I seem to have a hard time finding a support group like this as well. Feel free to add me

Oh man I did 16 mins of Wii Boxing the other day and my back muscles, arms, shoulders and my neck muscles are so sore still. I felt much better after some yoga this morning to stretch out those tight muscles but man what a workout. I burned 235 calories according to my HRM in 16 mins. Not bad I'm thinking!

Hi Everyone! So jealous of you girls with the heart rate monitors! I want one REAL BAD! Question with those - can you wear it in the water? Like while swimming? Just curious.

My first challenge and the one that just started on Friday are going really well. My reflection challenge is awesome. I got real close to being the biggest loser this week, by lingading blew my 3.6lbs out of the water. Good for her though. Just makes me want to work harder this week!!! The "rowing" challenge is a lot of fun so far. We've got a group of all girls (some of whom post here, as well! :bigsmile: ) and we decided on Knotty Girls as our boat/team name. Yesterday, with 11 out of 15 ladies submitting their calories burned for the day, we had a total of 5602 calories, which equates to ~112 miles. Today, we've already surpassed that with 5904 cals and ~118 miles. And that's only half of the team!! I'm so proud of the girls on my team! They're all doing amazing!

The second challenge I mentioned, where we have daily mini goals.........Eh. The girl running the thing was mia for like five days. I sent her an email and offered to help with the spreadsheet, since she was complaining that figuring out the %s would be hard to do. Being the nerdy math geek that I am, I told her she could use a formula and it would figure out the %s for her. I also offered to do it myself, if she would give me access to the spreadsheet, since I was thankful that she was putting this all together for us. So she gave me access and then she disappeared! I was asking for her input and no response. And then people were getting peeved because they had team members that they couldn't reach. So their team averages were being brought down, due to a lack of weight loss. But I maintained that it was her challenge and as soon as I heard back from her, we'd figure out what to do about the missing people. Consistently - no response. So, finally on Friday, I sent her a friend request and told her that I'd made a decision to eliminate the people who hadn't weighed from the team totals. It wasn't fair to the people that WERE weighing. And FINALLY she comes back to life. She accepts the request and shows up in the thread, acting all snotty about things. I feel like saying screw the whole thing. She's clearly not as invested in the challenge as some people are. And that's totally fine. I'm not judging her for that. Believe me! I understand that people have a lot of crap going on and hosting a challenge on MFP may not be her highest priority. But her lack of response to my messages and then the attitude that she had when she came back...Totally rubs me the wrong way. NOT TO MENTION that one of my TWO teammates is totally mia, as well. The whole thing has me a little irritated. So....I'm not going to drop it because I do feel it's important to stick to it and support my two teammates, but I'm not going to go out of my way to check the thread every day and make sure the spreadsheet is updated and be apologetic when she doesn't stick with it this week. Unnecessary stress. /rant

Today, I kicked major *kitten* in my workout. Stuck it to the treadmill, rode the bike, did some minor weight training and then hit the pool for an hour. It was awesome. My arms feel like jello. But I'm super proud of myself for pushing that hard. I think MFP overestimates the calories that I burned, but that's okay. I know that I worked hard and I also know that tomorrow, when I step on the scale, it's going to show!

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend! My husband & I are going to visit my parents for a BBQ tomorrow. Should be a fun time. Probably going to have a repeat of today's workout when we get back tomorrow night. Watch the fireworks from the pool...? Yeah, I think that'll be fun! :-)

You can count me in too

I am always looking for support in my journey....we can all do this :flowerforyou:

Hi everyone. I have almost 150 pounds to lose. I would love to be apart of the group and have some support and motivation as give it. I hope you all have a great 4th weekend!