**!!** TEAM WITHERING A WEIGH -- AUGUST CHALLENGE WK 1 **!!

I wear two bras during insanity I can do it just hate them lmao and I I will wipe them out with my workout
my starting weight 225.6
my goal I am going to change to 5
I sent you my email chicka ~~

Good Morning girls and Gary :happy:

My name is Louisa... I'm from Durban (Hillcrest), South Africa... I'm always sort of behind (feels that way) with the posts, due to the time differences.. but promise I read them all..

It is really great "meeting" all of you awesome peeps.. Looking forward to kicking *kitten* (my own big *kitten* that is) in this August Challenge..

OK.. about me.. I'm 34 (35, September 12th), have a daughter, 9 year old.. married (2nd try) to my best friend Clayton.. (2 years come September 7th).. we knew each other 9 months when we got married.. and we just knew from day one that this was it..

When I met Clayton I was around 115kg (253lbs / 18stone) and today Monday (SW) I am on 122kg (268lbs / 19stone) .. I've tried just about everything and have been yo-yo-ing for the last ten years (more so the last two years) between 110kg (242lbs / 17stone) and 133kg (293lbs / 20stone).. 133kg being my biggest January 2011. I've gone down to 116kg just before the start of the winter, just to gain 6kg again. My hubby and use to do some kickboxing together (he trained me), but since the winter we have really been slack.

I joined MFP a while back, but have only used it consistently for the last 20 days.. I had a very bad week last week (gained a bit again) was down to 120.4kg and this morning I weighed in at 122kg ... :explode: very angry at myself.. I've had days where I either ate too much, or too little, and not enough water or none at all...

So instead of dwelling on this, I've decided to just put it behind me and focus on today, on August and succeeding in my weight loss..

My ideal weight for my height (1.63m / 5ft 3") is around 60-65kg (132-143lbs / 9-10stone). I'm big boned so going to far under 60kg will not look healthy..

I've always been a big girl, high school I just ballooned, and at the end of it I was 82kg (180lbs / 13stone), which looking back now, and comparing to how big I am today, was not all that bad. I lost a bit of the weight after school went down to around 68kg (149lbs / 11stone) and I felt great.. When I got married, we battled to fall pregnant, and I had to under go fertility treatment, hormone injections etc. Had my beautiful baby and then my ex left us, just after her fist birthday. I gained weight during the treatment, pregnancy and when he left I was at 110kg. In the last almost 10 years I've just not been able to get down under the 100kg mark... being an emotional eater, hating exercise has just not helped much. When I'm doing the exercise I am happy doing it, feel great, but it is the getting to do it that I battle with.

Wow, I've been rambling on for long enough now I think... :blushing:

I've send friend request to all of you here.. :flowerforyou: and promise to be supportive all the way.. here for anyone anytime..

STARTING WEIGHT: 122KG
GOAL FOR AUGUST CHALLENGE: 5KG (11lbs) (I hope this is realistic)
MY E-MAIL ADDRESS: dames.louisa@gmail.com (feel free to pop me a mail anytime any of you need urgent support)

I will take a "before" pic tonight to compare with "after" pic at end of August..

PS: I started the Wii Julian Michaels exercise challenge and will do that in addition to the weekly / daily challenges...

Here's to good health :drinker: (that will be a cup of coffee... love coffee)

All right party people. I decided to get my challenge out of the way first thing. I did my 100 jumping jacks right after completing my normal workout! Anyone else finished theirs yet?

My starting weight is 182.

I'm curious as to what ups/downs are!

We can do this, team!! :happy:

Had to change my lovely starting weight thanks to mother nature good news it was only one pound and not two like it normally is ugh

I wear two bras during insanity I can do it just hate them lmao and I I will wipe them out with my workout
my starting weight 226.6
my goal I am going to change to 5
I sent you my email chicka ~~

Hi all,

My name is Yvonne, I am a 46 year old wife of a minister and mother of 1 and a grandmother as well. I have attempted to loose weight trying every thing from weight watchers to Nutrisystem and every other diet in between. Instead of loosing weight I have gained about 40lbs and I am very uncomfortable with my weight, I don't feel actractive and this weight makes me very unhappy which is not a good thing for my family.

I want to be in not only good health but great health, I have been told by my Dr. that I need to loose weight, my cholesterol is too high and that I am a pre-diabetic all due to being overweight. I want to learn to eat right, loose weight and keep it off.

I am currently a nursing instructor and I do not have much time but I believe if I planned my meals and had them ready I could do a lot better.

I look forward to sticking it out with the team and withering a weigh.

My current weight is 187 lbs
Goal by the end of August is to at least loose 10 lbs.
My long term goal is to get down to 135 lbs.

Jumping jacks - done
Water - over 64oz

Cal challenge - Can we be more than 100 below? I don't eat back all of my exercise cals...

jumping jacks complted & 80oz of water consumed. Good luck team.!

Oh and down a bit in weight. Had 9 mo appointment with surgeon group nutritionist. all is good.
Totals 1,163 77 41 56 1,031 130
Your Daily Goal 1,838 69 60 100 3,500 253
Remaining 675 -8 19 44 2,469 123
Calories Protein Fat Calcium Potass Carbs

Jumping jacks completed (early this morning)
9 glasses (72oz.) of water consumed (could go up as the night is not over and I still have to walk the dogs)
Was way under my calories for the day.
I think that's is everything I was supposed to post.

I'll email you a picture tonight or in the morning Julie. I don't like taking pics of myself and I'm putting it off until the last minute tonight.

Hi Jules-
Jumping jacks = done
Under calorie goal

I think that was all I was supposed to tell you. Pls correct me if I am wrong.
Have a good night!:happy:

100 Jumping jacks DONE
Jogged 4.2 miles
LOTS OF WATER!!!!
YES!!!!!